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Thanks, I've been looking for something like Barracuda.
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If you have no competitors, are you sure there is a market for it ?

Do your research and since you haven't said much about you will be doing I can only tell you to find out if your are going to need the amazon model or the Ben & jerry model:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html
Agressive acquisitions such as this one are already signaling change at the company. The real question is whether that change is meaningful in terms of acquiring users and maximizing profits.
The fee for me to license a car I bring to denmark is 1/3rd the figure you cited.[1] Do you know why there is such a disparity? Would you mind explaining the rationale for such a high fee?

(I realize its not your personal policy, I am just curious about what the government says about the fee. As an American it sounds strange but I imagine such a low % here in the states is equally as strange to you. Thanks for indulging my curiosity.)

[1] https://www.workindenmark.dk/en/Find_information/Information...
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I've been developing a brand new concept for an interactive digital menu. I have never actually seen one of these anywhere but it seems to me like a no-brainer. The idea is that you would replace the printed menu at the front of the house with an interactive touch screen application. People could browse the menu and learn more about the establishment while they wait to be seated. You can see it here: http://innerfacelabs.com/products/interactive-digital-menu/

I haven't been promoting it too much yet because I am still developing it but so far the feedback I've gotten is "we think our customers prefer the simplicity of printed menus". I find this feedback valuable because it shows me what the market sentiment is but at the same time I believe it is wrong. Yes, there may be some people that are intimidated by this kind of technology but I also think that attitude is fading with older generations. There are so many more advantages of a software vs printed menu like sorting, filtering by ingredients, images, video, nutrition information, etc. Younger generations will grow up expecting this type of interaction that their grandparents are resisting.

So my question is: am I in denial that this type of product is beneficial or am I just so far ahead of the technology curve that the real challenge for this type of product is a general fear of technology?
Got to say I disagree here. You might be in a different space but you're close enough for confusion. "With Friends" is a valuable trademark for them, they spent a lot on building that trademark, and you are piggybacking on it intentionally (I could be wrong about the intentionally part, but I'd be surprised).

I really think you should change the name. If you go on a full out fight with Zynga, you won't find much sympathy I think.

That said, some very nice PR here, and you can probably look forward to some more PR once you acquiesce :)
And when you want something that isn't being built for you? You _can't_ build it yourself at that point because there's no text interface to consume.

My complaint isn't so much against SaaS as a whole as it is against things that violate the Unix philosophy. I'm against things that try to do many complex tasks and don't provide a simple text interface (or RESTful API or whatever).

The tradeoff is you get basic features all at once with little overhead. What you lose is any ability whatsoever to make other things work on top of the service/program/application/whatever you're using.

The reason this is always bad is because you're only a first time user once; you pay the startup/integration/setup/whatever cost once. After that, you're a user and you get to suffer under the poor or non-existent integrations forever. See also: http://xkcd.com/1205/
And GWT and Closure. Google isn't a single entity.
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Racker here and very sorry that you were bounced between groups like this and then still had to try to find the info on your own. It's certainly not the experience that we aim to provide.

If this is still something we can help with, please send details to help@rackspace.com. We'll make sure that this gets to the right Rackers.
I still have a Compac 450 workstation that probably would blow up if I turned it on. Got it from BBN when I worked there. Many of the others back then died this death. The thing is a tank! Which is mostly the reason I still have it.
First of all, you have a cool service and I don't really think any less of you guys for one line on a blog post.

That said, in my view, that's the entire point of your service. Every language has an SMTP library; the hard part - the thing I'm paying you for - is the constant cat and mouse.
I think you are on to something. But how would your idea compete with T1Visions solution? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/t1visions-showcases-intouch-tm...
I used to do desktop support for a University, in which my daily job was reclaiming and sifting through hordes of gx270's and gx260's to find working mobos.

I swear they made the cases on those things out of razor blades. I probably could have replace the electrolytic material in most of the blown caps with my own blood.
To be honest this was not intentional and I was kind of surprised by the initial email--as the search for new product names usually goes, we started by looking at what domain was available.
* And my view is that it's an infringement on my freedom (since I have to factor in a greater risk of getting killed when being in public spaces in the US). Please provide some evidence that those two facts are false.*

So by your logic, any place where you're not locked up in a padded room, protected by armed guards is an infringement on your freedom because you have a greater chance of being killed.

Listen, you can be opposed to supposedly "laissez faire regulation" of guns because of your ideological persuasion, but stop lying about it being an infringement on your freedom.
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How can poor people afford to buy a car? Public transportation isn't available in all places and at all times of day.
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This reads to me like a "just add Internet!" rationale. Zynga is not in the dating game, and it will be their responsiblity to show that users look to Zynga for more than (disposable) games.
sell your body.
you've just described Facebook for me (relative to the services fb wants me to use)
No, "Fuck USPTO"
Well, if you have an accurate enough system, you can send the clear, five-sigma cases to this queue and ban the more borderline customers.

And this is obviously something you can't discuss, but I wonder if you guys "seed" various sites with false emails as "markers". It would be a very cheap way to detect indiscriminate scrapers and bulk spammers.
I agree, but mostly because it doesn't sound like there's any focus on security, and it's too "high level" to really bake in enough security. By "high level" I mean you bring your own Ubuntu/webserver/bitcoind/database installation.

I wish there were a project that focused on providing an extremely secure platform (Linux/BSD distro + bitcoind securely configured out of the box, if that's even possible, or maybe a Bitcoin PaaS) for Bitcoin applications, then you could layer stuff like Coinpunk on top of that.
I did this once. I bought $100 worth of scratchers and won $500. It was a great day!
Tumblr is a media company at the core. So it should work out well for Yahoo.
bigger personal/professional deal - instapaper (full ownership and design of product, years w. the product, etc.)

bigger monetary deal - tumblr hands down
The estimate of 2007 being the end of it assumes the devices were plugged in and being used the whole time, right? I still see bad caps happen at some of our clients, but they are old machines that aren't powered on all the time...
Unrelated to the content, but why do sites like this go out of their way to disable pinch zoom for mobile devices?
I just hope they don't do crap like interspersing yahoo news or yahoo sports stuff into timelines following those kinds of themes.

please don't make the product suck by jamming yahoo products that don't match the tumble user ecotone.
I can nly focus when I have a challenging task. My small tasks usually take longer to complete that's why I love interns.
If this goes through, it may be amusing to see Yahoo doing better in the social space than Google (is with G+). Tumblr seems like a very wild, organic community that is its own social network. If Yahoo treats it the way Conde Nast has with reddit, it could turn out to be quite the boon for them.
Nothing against the author at all, this seems like a cool little project, but I would never want to inline that much anything on a large project. Inlining things like that takes the maintainability and throws it out the window.
Pretty sweet. And an interesting implementation: https://github.com/mattinsler/spellbinder/blob/master/src/sp... (although more comments would be lovely). For prior art, see:

http://rivetsjs.com

http://nytimes.github.io/backbone.stickit/

But I have to say, that "example" is a pretty puffed up strawman. Most of the time, the real comparison is this:

<p data-bind="count; [class:high-value] count > 100; [class:low-value] count < 50"></p>

To this:

<p class="<%= count > 100 ? 'high-value' : (count < 50 ? 'low-value' : '') %>"></p>
Please note, I have zero inside information on this.

Wikipedia attributes cofounder status to Marco[1]. Let's assume that he got a raw deal from Karp and had a potential 30% stake in the business. He worked on it for 3 years and 7 months. Let's just assume he fully vested (not quite accurate, but the math is easier). Over the course of five rounds of funding, maybe the final ownership stake of the founders was diluted from 100% to 10%[2]. Marco owns 3% of the company, and walks away with a hair over $30 million pre-tax.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Arment

[2] Handy infographic: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-...
That's one of the most perplexing aspects for me; how much effort some people put into getting "a quick buck." If only they'd put that much energy into something productive, they'd be way ahead.
Start with finishing one very small project. Then buikd a bigger one. And so on.
not only is the integration interesting, is by far the most challenging and critical thing they have to do with tumblr. in fact, they can't afford to mess this up. iirc there are already new blogging startups that are trying to unseat tumble as the social blogging king.
I think since dating sites fall into the entertainment category that it's surprisingly legitimate.
even if he were a "first hire" and only had 1/10 that equity hell still get $3mm pretax; nothing to laugh at.
Big-time integration would be a huge mistake.

Look at how big of a lead on photography Flickr when Yahoo purchased them. After the purchased they were told to focus on integration.

Flickr is a shadow of its former self
Do you think Conde Nast believes reddit has been a boon for them?
With one exception. Spellbinder will add/remove classes as the model value is changed. It does the initial rendering and then will alter the html, style, classes, properties on the fly as you change the values in the model without reloading the page or re-rendering the view.
I've seen a similar banner for years when /. links to wiki pages. It is just a template that someone pastes on to warn editors that traffic (and thus edit velocity) will be up for a day or two.
You're fighting a strawman. I didn't say anything about complete prohibtion. I said that in my view a laissez faire, i.e. no or almost none, regulation of killing devices is an infringement of my freedom.
well, if he doesn't pull out - he will be grateful in a few months to have kids to share his discovery.
The main reason to write it into the HTML was to be more maintainable, by putting the presentation in the HTML presentation layer. Most libraries, such as rivets do very similar things for very similar reasons. When I know there's a data formatting issue in 1 element in the HTML, I can just fix that in the HTML. I don't need to go into the javascript and find which jquery snippet changes that HTML element and does the formatting.
how to do this without wrecking the tumble user experience is a huge challenge. One of the great things about tumblr timelines is information purity (and great curation by its users).

iirc yahoo's strongest services are sports, news, finance, and mail. these would all seem to disrupt the feel and information purity of tumble if done carelessly.

maybe encouraging sharing/linking and extrapolating on yahoo assets by means of great tumble integration into yahoo services and vice versa could benefit both yahoo and tumblr users?
I do wonder, what number of 7 minute workouts per week is appropriate? I'm clueless, really - I've heard that you should not work out more than once in two days, and to me it does make sense to apply this rule here, since it advertizes itself as full workout. But yeah, I'm not really sure - it would be great if someone could elaborate. PS The site is great - simple but very useful.
The holy grail of this kind of technology is the ability to interact and order directly from every table. That seems to be the approach T1Vision is taking. The problem with that (at this stage) is the huge initial investment required to make that happen. Not only is the hardware cost high but it is also very challenging to integrate with existing POS systems. Not to mention changing the workflow of taking orders and getting food to tables.

Where my approach differs is that it is one screen in the front lobby. It would be used to draw people's attention and provide an informative experience and bypasses the challenge of actual order taking (for now) which makes the software simpler to develop and the hardware requirement much less so the total cost is actually reasonable for smaller/independent restaurants.
Of course. They could sell it tomorrow for a nice multiple. They bought it for like $15 million and could easily sell it for $100+ million.
This is all after a 16% operating / administrative cost,
of course, which amounted to ~$4.83b in California alone
in 2012.

You're reading that completely wrong.

You can see their audited financial statements online.[1]

In 2012, the total lottery expense was $4.4B, into the following categories:

3.6% to operating / administrative, 1.7% to game costs, 6.8% to retailer costs, 58.6% to prizes, and 29.7% went to education.

That 3.6% represents $143mm in total cost (not $4.8B). Of that, $63mm went to salaries, $47mm went to advertising, $6.4mm went to PR and POS, $13mm to 'other professional services', $8mm to depreciation, and $5mm to G&A.

[1] Warning! - 10mb PDF - http://static.www.calottery.com/~/media/Publications/Financi...
It wasn't just computing equipment. I have hand-repaired a dozen sets of amplifiers and powered studio monitor speakers made between '02 and '06 that just needed $2 worth of caps replaced despite the manufacturer quoting $250+ for authorized repairs.

In about half the cases it was a combined failure of the caps being el-cheapo and also the board design placing them far too close to heat-generating components. Fortunately, it is still cents on the dollar to replace with a higher temp-specced part if you know how to wield an iron.
a lot of people have commented that integrating g+ into reader could have worked quite nicely. maybe there's a way to integrate yahoo services with tumble in that kind of symbiotic, natural way without disrupting this existing feel and workflow/user-experience of tumblr.
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The 180% is for private cars. They give breaks for vehicles with special registration (commercial, foreigners etc.), I guess to not stifle business / foreign workers too much.

I think the rationale for the high fee is (a) Denmark likes taxes (around 50% income tax on average) to run our comprehensive welfare state, and progressive taxation that taxes wealthier people more is seen as the best approach (new car buyers sort of fit into this), and (b) "the environment", we have very good public transportation (and, famously, bicycle facilities) which the government wants to encourage.

I don't agree 100% on those points but there it is.
it's becoming a force of its own, influencing other sites to follow it and setting trends and attitudes. 2chan is a massive social force in Japan. and reedit is following in its doorsteps and on a path of bigger things.
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Ah, I see. I thought it was added automatically when a lot of traffic from one referrer was detected.
To be fair the US seizes the domain names that it has access to. You won't see ICE seizing .cn domains. It just happens that the most popular domains (.com, .org, .net) are 'local' to the US. China and North Korea don't have the ability to seize those domain names, so we don't know what they would do if they did.
I think the (possible) acquisition means a lot more for Yahoo's ability to attract talent than it does for the business bottom line. Probably the same thing, but only in the longer term.

If they acquire tumblr and shut it down, or make changes that result in a receding of the user base, then they are unlikely to acquire talent. If they acquire tumblr and improve it, they will improve they position in the talent acquisition market.
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True, but that's limited in scope. They can't do that to just anything, because it's being done via ICE. It's only limited to copyright violations as they cross over with 'counterfeit goods.'
Note that we hardly have poor people (by American standards) because of the welfare state, which is partly funded by these extremely high taxes, but it is difficult for low income people to afford a car (gasoline is heavily taxed too). If they really need it they will buy an old beater and drive it a couple of years until it dies, then repeat (which somewhat nullifies the rationale of car registration fees helping the environment).
Do you have any reference for this? It seems like you're saying the vaporized rock is imparting force to the impacted surface, which is in turn ejected. I had not understood that the vaporized rock played a central role.

I thought the impactor imparted force directly to the surface. Basically there is a shock wave in the underlying rock which pushes ejecta out of a region underneath the impact site.

Best easy source: http://www.impact-structures.com/understanding-the-impact-cr...
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I remember reading about a solution where the ATM would move the card back and forth while pulling it in (maybe even reading it at the same time, but it's not even necessary), preventing the skimmer from successfully reading it. Sounds like a better solution to me. (The problem with chips are, at the moment, is that the magnetic stripe is still used. So if they can read it then the card is stolen.)
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Slide 10 "Take over a subreddit" is interesting. "Lets you include brand messaging, customised layouts and background colors".

I wonder how r/HailCorporate (a subreddit that outs PR companies that spam and manipulate reddit) would feel about their layout being changed.
Personally I would hate large amounts of logic in my attributes like that. I much think that properly formatted and structured JavaScript solves this problem much better. Especially when the same logic applies to two elements and you can create a function for it.
even better would be to keep tumblr a separate entity like slideshare and LinkedIn and really sell that fact to recruits. slide share stresses their small company dynamic +big company resources, and I think that's an attractive proposition for many.
If you really wanted to do pure SKI, you'd have to do more than just a program: you'd have to implement the whole machine and the OS running on it. You could do that, but as you might imagine, it's quite a lot of work.

That said, keep in mind that most likely, you'd want to start implementing levels of abstraction pretty early on. The fact that SKI is Turing-equivalent means that you can implement a Turing machine (or anything else that is Turing-equivalent) in it. Build your favorite abstraction, and then implement your machine and OS the way you would using that abstraction. It's still SKI underneath, so you're golden.
Nice to see they got the job done. I ended up not participating in the original kickstarter (money being tight at the time), so I'm waiting for them to start retailing the devices.
Yep, exactly -- which is a great thing to do for specific necessary cases, but usually a pervasive overuse of granular data-binding can cause large performance problems down the road. When the app has to track and manage each tiny attribute's expression in the eventual UI, there's a lot of overhead, and a lot of potential computation to be performed.

In a perfect world, you're able to bind changes in the data to changes in the view at the level of granularity at which your app needs to update. Most of the time, atomic chunks of HTML will be the most performant. Rarely, but sometimes, attributes.

A long-winded way of saying -- Great stuff! But be wary when starting to do it this way by default.
I'm not quite sure the kitten with lightning coming out of its eyes is going to appeal to the major brand owners...
You could find a way to give just about any government billions more in "revenue" (my, what a polite euphemism for theft) and they'll still find ways to spend more money than they take in.

The problem isn't finding enough "revenue", it's simply spending within their means.
Run a validation test.
Here's a fundamental challenge for you: can you show how this technology would lead to increase in sales? Let me give you one way in which it might lead to a decrease in sales, and it is up to you to give a convincing argument for why I am wrong, and for how there are other ways in which it will increase sales, thus making the investment a no-brainer.

People who walked into a restaurant are looking to eat. It's as simple as that. They look at a printed menu with fairly limited information, decide that an entree sounds good based on the printed ingredients and description, and order it. See, psychologically, they are already predisposed to ordering something, and they need to have a very small push over the edge to order something.

Now, consider what happens when you start showing a lot more information to a potential patron. Will this information make them even more likely to order, considering that they were likely to order already? Probably not. However, there's the potential that it might make them less likely to order - for example, they find out that the dish has a lot more butter than they think is healthy. Or that the meat comes from a farm whose name came up on the news recently as being a place that mistreats its cows. Or they decide that a dish, though it sounds good, doesn't look good in a photo.

And the counterarguments that you give to this would be "well, it's a good thing that customers eat less butter, or they don't patronize restaurants that patronize places that mistreat cows, and those restaurants should really invest in good food photographers". And these things might improve the world in general if everyone did them, but they aren't going to improve the restaurants' bottom line. The "people like paper menus" is just an excuse. The real answer is "You are someone who's a technologist first, and a businessman second (or third, or last), and you really don't understand our business model"

You are definitely not that far ahead of the technology curve. You are just behind on the "selling to a business that cares about making more money" curve.

Edit: more paragraphs.

Edit: removed a "not" that changed meaning
But is it more cost-effective to use Tumblr for signaling for HR purposes, or to just pay the recruits more to get them anyway?