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I worked once in company (adv agency) for which it was common tactic. But market was ready for such practice (low availability of service, and large audience of potential clients).

It depends on Your product. If it's innovative give them chance to know You.
I agree with prakash be short, and show them in short why it may become useful. I would add that You will hear "no" plenty of time. Don't discourage. Customer don't pay attention, they have enough their problems.

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Why are you wasting your energy? The person you are arguing simply does not like China/Chinese people and will go to any length to trash it/them.

Anyone with half a brain can tell this is a perfectly legitimate use of an open/shared source platform, with attribution, reciprocal openness, and local modifications.

StackOverflow simply would not have ever made a Chinese version, so some Chinese people took it upon themselves to do it themselves.
I think it's possible to avoid this (or at least delay it) but it takes significant work. I try to keep learning new things to slow it down (I'm in my 40s).

I think it's more than reality no longer matching your mental model. Too many years of disregarding input stunt your imagination. And it isn't just age that does this -- depression can have a similar, but even more powerful, effect.
> I've never saw fit to fill my single spells with the heartless and self-serving debasement of women.

You mean like posting about how, if they've had sex with a number of casual partners, their vaginas are "stretched out"? (Like you wrote above?)

I bet that feels debasing to a lot of women.
Yes. I posted that response this morning, then went sightseeing. Looks like I was completely misinterpreted.

I would not judge people based solely on anything -- race, creed, education, whatever. I would consider hiring another PdD in a minute.

If you put a gun to my head and asked for some kind of sweeping generalization, it would be that people who are very good at spending multiple years diving deep in one technical area are probably also people who are not generalists. And modern software development requires a wide-ranging skillset: negotiation, conflict resolution, interviewing, marketing, man-machine interfaces, graphical development, sales, consensus-building, etc. Oddly enough, I would even venture that most skills required by an agile team are not actually technology-related.

In addition (continuing me to make a generalization) at some point some people feel like they are "done" -- that they have learned enough and can rest on their laurels. Scrappy uneducated people never get this way, nor do hungry entrepreneur-types. People from other fields also see everything as new and for the first time. The guys I worked with seemed to think that their PhD had some kind of street credibility. Maybe it does with some, but in the environments I've been in it's more like "what have you done lately and what can you do for me?" And both of those questions are business questions and not technology ones.
Jesus christ you are on a mission to hate Chinese people.
What the hell kind of fucked-up childhood did you have that rendered you qualified to dispense sex-ed advice at 14? Don't answer this. I really don't want to know.
Pretty cool. Back in 2004 I built about the same thing. It accepted requests from IRC and a web site and streamed MP3s through Icecast (YouTube did not exist).

I remember spending several days to build a smart algorithm to pick songs when the queue was empty. For the 9 months of the site's existence the queue was not empty once and my work was in vain.
Not a start-up, but still a B2B database (then later internet) company. We were an "early adopter" of email marketing when we started. It used to be fantastic - there wasn't much spam in them early days so people were quite receptive to the emails and we would make lots of money from them. Hey - they were free to send and they make you lots of money - what can go wrong with that?

Well, unfortunately that formula is a bit addictive and it gets to the point where if sales are low, the top management start demanding to know how many thousands of emails we have sent that week. What they don't realise is that the days of just email marketing your way to success is over - email marketing is now spamming and people hate it.

Nevertheless, send 10,000 emails and we might make one sale which is still worth a few thousand so how can we resist?!

What isn't appreciated is that this strategy is overall damaging the company. People now associate us with "those people that send spam". It was only relatively recently that we moved to a proper email marketing service with an opt-out option and as a result I managed to get us removed from a significant email filter black list (which, ironically, we subscribe to).

Anyway, do I have any useful advice? Check the legality re: data retention etc. I'm not actually 100% on the rules but I do think they differ between the US and Europe for example, which I think might depend on where you are based, rather than where you are sending to.

Email marketing /should/ be opt-in, not opt-out. However, I guess giving your business card must be considered opting in as I always seem to start getting more marketing emails after a conference. It's ok though as they all do it properly and have an opt-out link in the email...

Just sending marketing is a bit of a fail imho. Nobody thinks to themselves "ooh I can sign up here to receive marketing material!" Have an interesting newsletter talking about your industry, or publish white papers and thought leadership articles. Be subtle and demonstrate your expertise. That is much more powerful than some email saying "buy this!"

Good example: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/home.aspx

If you do just want to talk to someone about a specific product, do as the poster below says, keep it short and specific. In that sense make it personal too.

HTH.
I had good, consexual sex with another teenager.

And unlike the other young people on the forum, I read a lot of scientific books, so I was able to counter such idiotic, voodoo-type teenaged beliefs such as "stretched out" vaginas.
So, if no man can satisfy her, why are you worried? She'll be back if you turn out to be the best for her, after all.

Just sounds like your whole strategy for winning the beautiful babies is to deny them the information they need to make an informed decision.
Who will use the new feature? Why not directly observe a few users?

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030825.html

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030120.html
and StackOverflow was unabashedly a derivative of Digg or Reddit.

"Derivative", not clone.
> I know a number of wonderful American girls as well. Three-quarters of them, for what it's worth, weren't born here or are second-generation immigrants.

You have a point here. What I found (in general) is that if a generation is poor they will generally be hard-working. That generation and their children will generally have good qualities. But if a few generations are fairly well off they will start getting bad qualities – people start to think that they are entitled to everything and do not have to work for it.

In a few years you get the situation that kids drive to school in their cars, watch Paris Hilton programs and start to have sex at 14.

As an example: my father was fairly poor. I doubt that today there are many of couples who will stick together through thick and (mostly) thin like they did.

As for feminism – it is a good idea, but the pendulum swung too far to the one side.
People are not sex-crazed, ravenous beasts out to rape each other to death the instant the gate drops.

Not all, but I'm just going to say that, if I had kids, I wouldn't let them anywhere near you.

Why would anyone want to control such a joyous thing?

Casual sex does lasting emotional harm to most people who participate. Stop trying to sell it as joyous just because it would suit you better if college freshmen fell more easily to cheesy lines about sakura blossoms.
I'm not so sure Myspace is unhappy about this. There's traffic, and then there's monetizable traffic, and Myspace seems to still be cleaning up as far as the latter goes. They've got much more convincing revenue streams.
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You are conflating quantifiers here. "Pretty much universally" is not a universal quantifier, it implies "there exists people who do Y who are X." So, your example of "there exists people who do Y who are X" doesn't contradict the original statement.

time_management says "in my experience" so unless you can produce a universal quantifier for your claim, or do some sort of analysis to define cardinality, you can't invalidate what he said.
I ran a company some years ago where development of our product was delayed, so our investor got anxious. My co-founder knew a guy that ran a one-person telemarketing shop and suggested we give it a try.

His task seemed insurmountable: Cold-call people in the advertising industry, where people constantly call with new products, and get them to buy ads on a non-existing new network with an unproven hardware technology that he couldn't show to the potential customers because it hadn't been produced yet. All he had was a few powerpoint slides.

Within a month he had contracts for a few months paychecks, and our investor was reassured.

So the morale of the story is "Yes, coldcaling definitely works, but it's a pretty difficult artform". Me or my co-founder would never have been able to pull it off. It's about trust and building a personal relationship.
http://socialpreneur.slinkset.com/
is worth a look
Good thoughts lalaca. I'm part of the over 40 crowd here on HN ;). I was raised with strong conservative and religious values and still hold on to most of them.

My words to the OP were mostly about understanding that his values are personal to him and his needs are about compatibility. I asked him to worry more about "compatibility" than morals.

I agree, I feel pendulum has swung too much the other direction in the last 30 years. Does this mean that all the children growing up now have less an inherit ability to know right from wrong just because they may have had more sexual partners than someone of a prior generation?

For what its worth, I find that most women, regardless of their past, are more likely to not stray when in a committed relationship as opposed to men in a comparable situation. Also, women usually stray for different reasons than men.

I do not agree with the view that "you have to get laid in high school". But the environment, as it is, makes it such that those who do not feel very strongly about other's sexual past. Its a complex set of problems.
> Pop culture certainly has some influence on the real world, but i'm afraid you are either very shallow, or very naive if you're buying your world view from a television show (or in opposition to it).

Pop-culture is basically mainstream culture. I do not even live in the USA - yet you exported your "culture" so effectively. Most places around the world are becoming "little americas" - based on your culture. If you think about it - pop culture has more influence than anything else. Even if a person goes to a church (or other religious institution) he will only spend about an hour a week there. TV? Most people spends 7+ hours a week in front of a TV.

I view the country in which I live as 10 years behind the USA as far as social issues goes. This is mainly because it was a very closed society.
I recommend these guys: http://www.sumac.uk.com/

I used them for a recent project and their design was spot-on, their HTML/css was good, and their pricing was competitive.

If you want something really cheap, then put a request on some kind of freelancer site and get someone in a cheaper market to make it for you. I wouldn't - too risky - but your choice.
Mature love is about learning to accept people for who they are, where they came from, and where they are going.

Otherwise you're just trying to fulfill a shopping list, and it's not going to work out for anyone.
You have a point here. What I found (in general) is that if a generation is poor they will generally be hard-working. That generation and their children will generally have good qualities. But if a few generations are fairly well off they will start getting bad qualities – people start to think that they are entitled to everything and do not have to work for it.

I don't know how strongly it correlates to being wealthy. There are poor people who feel entitled (consider the subprime debacle and the massively inflated house prices in much of the country ca. 2007) and rich people who don't take anything for granted. It has more to do with culture than wealth.

In a few years you get the situation that kids drive to school in their cars, watch Paris Hilton programs and start to have sex at 14.

The car thing is just the status quo in the US; almost everyone has a car, because so many places lack public transportation. I drove to school in a car, but a used one.

As for feminism – it is a good idea, but the pendulum swung too far to the one side.

I think the nasty elements of "feminism" actually have nothing to do with feminism. For example, Sex and the City is not feminist in the least. Women should be allowed to have careers, should make pay equal to that of men, and shouldn't be looked down upon if they decide not to marry. However, glamorizing a rather crass lifestyle that most normal people would find unfulfilling does nothing for the feminist cause.
although I should add that the website that they designed that made me want to use them is not on their online portfolio. I had found it through one of their designers showing it on a design blog. http://ventlondon.com/
"if I had kids, I wouldn't let them anywhere near you"

Never fear, I don't think there's any danger of your having kids.

Funny you mention children, though. They on your mind a lot, are they? Child molestors often talk about how much they appreciate the little girls' "purity", "innocence", "lack of experience" ...

Just sayin'.

"Casual sex does lasting emotional harm to most people who participate. "

See, you state these things like they're facts, but the funny thing is you're just making them up. I wonder if you even realise that.

"it would suit you better if college freshmen fell more easily to cheesy lines about sakura blossoms"

I'll thank you to not steal my material!
Ask HN: What are good web analytics blogs?
Hi everyone,

Could someone please advice me some web analytics related blogs? I am not really interested in ecommerce analytics - more of general / behaviour / content analytics.

I read kaushik.net/avinash - it's really good. But are there any others? I could not find so far.

And on a related note, blogs on infodesign / data visualization are also appreciated (apart from flowingdata.com and infosthetics.com)

Thank you!
What about Uclue? I haven't used it myself, but it looks like a pretty good replacement for Google Answers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uclue

http://uclue.com/
A friend of mine made a Rails plugin called acts_as_recommendable (a plugin for collaborative filtering):
http://github.com/maccman/acts_as_recommendable/tree/master
A woman who can't be satisfied by one man is not going to "settle" for the best guy out of N available. She's going to date one and fuck the others on the side.

Just sounds like your whole strategy for winning the beautiful babies is to deny them the information they need to make an informed decision.

No. I think women would she able to make informed decisions, but I also think they ought to be ladylike, resolute, and discriminate, rather the enabling the asshole alphas who go on to become rapists. Also, a woman who has had a lot of casual sex is simply not going to be emotionally stable enough for a long-term relationships.
Humm... I always wondered about the biases introduced by using Mechanical Turk for feature testing. I've seen it used a lot in several different contexts (like almost every other talk at WSCD'09 and WSDM'09). Isn't there a risk that we are training "professional beta testers" that can considerably skew the results?

It seems like a clear case of where the different parts have very different incentives. The hackers want to have the best possible sample of users, while the Turks want to get their respective tasks done as quickly as possible so they can move on to the next paying one. I would think this would lead to Turks specializing in very specific (and relatively common and repetitive) tasks do they could maximize their through put.

In your case, I would prefer to "watch" users out in the wild, instead of "professional" turks to truly assess the quality of a feature implementation.
The smaller your niche, the more receptive your potential customers are going to be to your emails.
How do you determine "sexual fitness?" What does that mean anyways? Does it mean someone who has lots of sex? Then all you've said is a tautology. Do you mean someone who has pleasurable sex? Most people who have a lot of promiscuous sex find it loses its appeal, and they have to have more of it to get the same "buzz." Then, you have to consider how you measure pleasure. Are you measuring it by who has a lot of sex? I.e. someone who can get laid with a lot of people must give the other a lot of pleasure? Given my alternate analysis, these people may have a lot of sex because they've lost the real pleasure behind sex.

At any rate, such a criteria is much more subjective and open to a wider variety of interpretations than "morality." Whether you believe morality principles are based on objective reality or not, moral principles are codified in certain behavioral standards that are measurable, unlike something such as "sexual fitness."
You lost your virginity at 14, and you admit this in public? I'm shocked. I honestly don't know what to say to that.

I hope that either you or Biff tipped the overnight guy at the gas station. Cleaning those restrooms is not a fun job.
> Good thoughts lalaca. I'm part of the over 40 crowd here on HN ;).

I'm actually in my mid 20ies, but I noticed that I sound a lot like an older person on moral issues (because I tend to be a tad bit more conservative).

> I do not agree with the view that "you have to get laid in high school"

That is unfortunately the view among young people. A virgin is looked upon as someone with a type of disease.

> inherit ability to know right from wrong just because they may have had more sexual partners than someone of a prior generation?

The problem is that stable relationships (that eventually leads to marriage &&/|| children) aren't being formed any more. People like instant gratification (like 2 minute oats, etc...) anything that takes a tad bit commitment is ignored.

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I am also amazed at some morals of younger people (including most of my friends) - but this is a whole other topic.
Casual sex does lasting emotional harm to most people who participate.

Is there any evidence of this not coming from religious propaganda?
Some things are unacceptable, though. Casual sex is one of them.

Would you marry an ex-child molester? Assume he claimed to be reformed, and that he didn't do it anymore, and that it was something he only did when he was intoxicated and "caught up in the moment" (whatever that means).

Obviously, the reasonable answer is no. Nobody wants to marry someone who's done something like that in his or her past. Experiences and past behaviors matter.

Now you understand how normal men feel about casual sex.
There's probably some reason based on objective reality that this has been the predominant belief in most cultures in most times. If you disagree, name such a belief that does not correspond to objective reality.
Seriously, what a creepy sentiment.
time_management:

Find somebody that is your best friend and turns you on both physically and emotionally. This person should also enhance your creativity and productivity. The relationship should make you feel freer, not like a prisoner.

After that, then you can start learning about relationships. It'll be hard work in which you put the other person's interests first and spend the time working to love them. (Yes, sometimes loving somebody requires effort. It's not like in the movies) Getting to a good understanding should take about -- 50 years or so.

Let us know when you've reached some conclusions.

I'm of the opinion that men and women are wired differently and that the struggle to nurture a relationship between these two different worldviews is what causes both sexes to mature as they grow older.
"The fact is that, if a woman's had a lot of casual sex, she's developed a taste for variety and you have no hope of being her ideal man."

No, this is not a fact. Perhaps the real problem here is you don't know a whole lot about women. I'm not trying to be rude to you. Most women, regardless of sexual history, DO NOT marry and stay with a man for the same reasons as a man marries and stays with a woman.

Here is a fact: A woman can have many partners, search what feels to her a lifetime, find a man, fall in love and never, ever in her mind compare you with another man.
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He also said that if someone wants to implement it, they should. He just doesn't want to be that someone, since he can't spend enough time on it to get it right.
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Start here: http://www.crosswalk.com/news/commentary/11601061/

It's the first cite I found, but if that's not religion-neutral enough for you, I can find plenty more.

Sex causes the release of hormones such as oxytocin. Most people aren't capable, especially when young, of having sex with someone, never seeing that person again, and being okay with the experience.
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The difficulty is that such articles are often written by people who don't have a deep understanding, either. For this reason, their characterizations have subtle errors.
if that's not religion-neutral enough for you

crosswalk.com - "Your gateway to the bible and christian resources"
I'm sure I've seen this before, though I'm not sure whether it was on HN.
Spray paint your keyboard black.
I don't want to start a holy war. Of course, there are some arguments in favor of conditional comments. However, it's not an obvious win. As a web developer at Yahoo, I've seen this argument many times over the last 3 years. Here's the cliff notes:

Hacks Proponent With star-property and _property, you can serve a single css file, reducing the number of requests.

CC So, serve ie.css and standards.css. IE doesn't get standards.css.

Hacks But, then you have to maintain two copies of the css. That sucks.

CC Nuh uh! You have a script that concatenates them. You still write ie-hacks.css separately, but your build process tacks it onto the end of ie-production.css.

Hacks With the IE-targeting star-property and _property hacks, you can keep the hacked code close to the "real" code. Even if you concatenate in production, you still have to have two separate files. If something changes, you have to remember to change it in two places.

CC So, have your build script pull out the star-property and _property rules from your single CSS file, and only serve them to IE with conditional comments.

Hacks But, then you're doing exactly the same thing as having these hacks, but also maintaining a script to do what the browser gives you for free. More complexity in your build process = more room for bugs.

And that, generally, is the end of the discussion. Occasionally, you get this:

CC But those hacks can't target a specific version!

Hacks But IE<6 is not supported anyhow. How specific do you really need to be in your CSS? Have you ever actually targeted a browser version other than "ie lte 6" or "ie lte 7"?

CC That's not the point!

These are the reasons that, as a matter of corporate policy, Yahoo generally prefers _property and star-property to conditional comments.
Way to show off those classy moral legs of yours, dude.