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I have a bunch of issues with this post, regardless of the feasibility of micropayments.

First off, saying that people didn't go for the $0.xx/kB data plans on cellphones due to 'mental accounting' that people have when the price is <$1 is bogus. People didn't go for it because people don't have a clue how many kB the websites they visit or the email they download are. It would have been too much of a task to keep track of that information. This had nothing to do with the cost, and everything to do with the amount of micromanaging that people would have to do. In addition, people have no gauge on the amount of kB they use in a day, a week, or a month. So they have no way of knowing if this price is a deal or a rip-off. This in no way reflects on people's willingness to make a bunch of <$1 purchases against their credit card.

Second, the proliferation of prepaid credits has less to do with people getting over some mental hurdle to spending money in <$1 increments. It's the hurdle of effort. Whenever I go to a website that is selling something at <$1 prices, I possibly have to sign up, fill out a bunch of forms, pull out my credit card, etc. If this is presented in a way where the purchase is one-click (i.e. I already have credits with this seller or service) then that barrier is broken down and people are more likely to make the purchase.

The mental hurdle that people have isn't some difference between spending $0 and spending $0.01. It's the difference between not getting something and spending 5 minutes going through a process to spend $0.01 on something.
Try http://searchyc.com for old threads on this topic.

I've used godaddy for years. I do not like their cluttered site and constant upselling when all I want to do is a simple renweal. But I do trust them to not screw up or sell/squat-on my domain searches.

A few months ago I had a gripe about some auto-renews that I didn't intent to have happen. They gave me a refund without too much drama.
I'm guessing you did not see the keynote or the talk about wave extensions, gadgets, and robots. Wave is a super aggregator, and I expect it will not be another nuisance to check.

Think of wave as a mashup of iGoogle and Gmail on steroids, with supreme customizability.

The recent explosion of labs in Gmail is a hint of what will be coming as developers sink their teeth into wave.

Disclaimer: I attended Google IO and saw the demo. I may have had some Google koolaid without my knowledge.
I'm sure gzipping will help the download size.
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How so? Is that all you have to say?
I've said it before and I'll it again:

Harvard is a hedge fund whose PR arm has a ~$800 million operating budget to make sure they don't lose their tax exemption, which is the source of most of their competitive advantage over other hedge funds.

I hear the PR arm operates a school or something.
SharePoint is a huge big deal inside enterprises, and it's not just a crappy web interface; it's also a crappy SDK for building crappy applications that fit into that crappy web interface. So without endorsing SharePoint, I can see how blowing it off is arrogant.
"BLASPHEMY! You may be thinking, education is PARAMOUNT to any civilization! We musn't cut spending on education!"

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I suspect that the strongest thing holding all those aspects together is convention. I think the institution is very entrenched in the US. maybe the place for innovation is outside.

In Israel (where I am from), a lot of people do go to war together. So they're sorted for friends. Actually, most don't physically fight, but they still make friends. There is an additional (recent) institution of backpacking/travelling that tackles some of this friends/experiences/growth/leeway territory. University entrance tends to be 20-25 yr olds.
So, the whole dynamic is very different. A lot of no frills courses are offered. Cost effectiveness is a big factor ,though naturally the level of Government intervention messes with this and doesn't allow private colleges to compete with research Unis on equal footing.

Another place change might come from are the places in the world now entering the growing middle income per capita range (not sure what that is exactly. But I think around 2-$10k pa) where people care about education, can afford some of it, but can't afford $100k or even 10k. They also are first generation entrants & don't have too formulated an idea of what schools should be.

Basically, what I am saying is that if you took Universities away and then let something else grow in their place, it probably wouldn't be universities.
This is a dodge. Even TechCrunch was unable to talk about Wave without drawing a direct comparison to FriendFeed, an actual product. Meanwhile, talking about protocols without talking about applications is cart-before-the-horse handwaving.
You're right that I don't know Arrington. But I think you're wrong to suggest that knowing Arrington is germane to the discussion.
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It is disappointing that these service based industries come to a point when making money is becoming so important especially when they are commodities. I hope that some institutions will reduce their price for a greater purpose especially for poor people.
because of the slow economy and less people purchasing new computers, microsoft is gonna have a very hard time pushing this to users, as it is a not default search engine of a default bundled browser.
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I took him to mean all the built in special variables, like $$ and $! and $?. I don't see them too often in Ruby, but I'm pretty sure the language supports pretty close to Perl's full set. Not a great argument though, unless most of the Ruby I've seen isn't really representative of the whole.
how can you tell, may hasnt finished?

besides if you wanted to check the stats it would need to be on a per article basis, theres too much traffic to try and extrapolate trends on a month by month basis.

to be fair it was a guess, but I would still be surprised if they werent among the most popular articles.
It's what I was going to say.

I am intrigued by this, and by the fact that the API documentation is available before the service/product is.
Well, for me, it is a good point. For some reason it's just much easier for me to remember a particular language's way of doing something when there's only one way.

Also, I'm a little obsessive about my code consistency, so I dislike having to remember that I've been using Array#size instead of Array#length, for instance.

Now, these are obviously not necessarily applicable to anyone else. However, I do feel like I can say that having only one way to do simple things is a plus, without being a "religious nutjob". Which is kind of inflammatory of you to say, by the way.
WA had links to Google queries. So I knew they are not against Google.
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Well, I like it. My wife would use it as well. Perhaps they're not targeting the Hacker News demographic?
Five second summary: OMFG a new protocol / communication pattern has potential downsides.

I'm sure you're all shocked.
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Also, don't forget that this is solved problem in Rails 2.3 with the use of engines. So, really this claim is plainly false.
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The basics of both are quite simple and very similar. Once you get into animation, events, etc, things start getting hairy fast.

XAML was developed for WPF, but in reality, it is completely WPF-agnostic. It is a serialization format for declaratively constructing .NET object trees. It also supports several domain specific languages for various shorthands, such as data binding expressions. This is not unlike the style DSL in SVG, but these DSLs instantly break toolability unless you manually handle each one.

However, at the developer level, data binding (aka templating) is where the real complexity explosion is.

You know how there are dozens and dozens of various HTML template engines out there? It's something that initially seems simple, but everyone has a different opinion of how it works. The XML-based templating solutions, such as XSLT, are often considered verbose and cumbersome. Well, all those templating solutions are only tackling a static, one-way transformation!

XAML's data binding is an DSL-ish XML-based template language which supports two-way transformations, animation, event handling, runtime modification, and lots, lots more. It also deeply confuses the structure, and style of the documents in a way that a few extra divs or spans for the sake of your CSS doesn't even come close to.
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It doesn't seem like Harvard was anywhere close to destroying itself. With enough in the bank to fund operations at current levels for another 20 years this headline seems very sensationalistic.
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None of the writers at TweetCrunch seem like creative programmers; they specialize in reporting on actual products, and not underlying protocols, so there isn't anything for them to report. It's not a dodge because there isn't anything to compare; you don't compare a protocol to a product that uses a different one.

I/O is a developer conference; talking about the protocol without an actual product is just fine--the demo was good enough to show developers what basic features they can use for whatever product they can imagine.

That demo just shows what you can do. You can't compare it to any existing product. As terrible as this article is, the author does come to the realization that it will be useful for their actual email and office products, however brushing that question off wasn't arrogant; it was a weak denial--a developer conference isn't the right place to talk about their office products.
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Depends on what you're studying. Subjects like medicine, dentistry and chemistry need extensive lab facilities and highly skilled, often personal tuition. That's going to cost a lot no matter where it's done.

On a broader level you also need to consider the value of networking opportunities. Is the course content of a Harvard MBA really that much better than elsewhere? Of course not. It's the contacts you make while you're there.
some of the best minds in both worlds have nothing better to do other than to take sides in meaningless discussions

That and some unsubtle flirting with language wars and trolly word choice is exploitable for linkbait and HN karma.
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How can you be planning to use it without trying it out?
In order to keep "the education bubble" growing, the article speaks highly of reducing teaching costs by 40% (by relying less on actual PhD professors who know what they are talking about) and instead giving "students ... a choice of learning styles and ways to get help online from ... fellow students". Oh, and paying university presidents huge incentives for using such "cost cutting" measures.

Yeah, right. Take their $50K+ in annual tuition, then plug students into an e-learning social network where they "TEACH THEMSELVES" through "INNOVATIVE LEARNING STYLES".

If these moves are genuinely embraced, it will indeed create a bubble that will grow until these poor disillusioned students realize they are just sheep following other sheep wandering around, going nowhere, ... when they should instead have been following a shepherd who knew where he/she was going.

Why would we want to create a bubble anyway? By definition, it is only a bubble if it will eventually burst.
Why don't search engines incorporate Wikipedia article headings?
Such headings can be used to provide more specific queries that the user can try (e.g., obama => obama presidency, obama political positions, etc.).

Google's related queries are insufficient:

hillary clinton, obama muslim, obama biography, obama video,
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The GigaOm article isn't about what you want it to be about, but that doesn't make it a bad article. They write on their terms, not yours. Those terms are: where does Wave fit in with the Google ecosystem? What's likely to happen to it? Is it worth an investment of time an interest?

The thesis of the article is that the Wave pitch is arrogant. The evidence mustered is that Google has a poor track record of weaponizing innovation, and has little to say right now about what they'd actually do with Wave, but is prepared to say that Wave is more important than SharePoint, and maybe SMTP.

I don't have to agree with this thesis to see that it's worth considering.
Yea, this is classic linkbait sensationalism: Top n list, FUD, overgeneralization and exaggeration.
I presume the $800 billion in new buildings was really $800 million. Still a mind-bogglingly large amount for a single university to spend.
+1 for GoDaddy. They're not particularly interesting, but they (in my experience) get the job done, and don't front-run/pre-register domains you search for.

This is one of those things where I would go for the old/established/boring over new/startup/innovative/WebX.0 services - your chosen provider should be simple, long-lasting, and have a very good and long-established reputation.
I Disagree. I just got back from the Microsoft offices at Boston, and my personal hunch is that Silverlight is being primed for slick one-web device integration. While that may be possible to achieve with numerous languages, the people who seem to be really leading the way are in fact Microsoft:which makes me wonder: was the idea of having "a computer in every home" more a vision of the computer on the Star Ship Enterprise than the idea that everyone would have their own terminal? Judging by Bill Gate's abode, I would think the latter.

I'm not ruling out the possibility of Flash and Silverlight dying to HTML5, I'm just saying that it is unlikely to happen in the near future (even in HTML5) a) because of the people behind them and modern projects they are rolling out and b) because it takes a long time to change from one standard to another unless there is some kind of unforeseen tear in the fabric of hyper-space.

When all is said and done, it always seems come to down to the preference of the developer, which will always remain a diversity.
The author mistook Google being 'arrogant' for Google just doing its thing.

Google is truly an idea farm. They push out their ideas in a subtle manner, releasing rapid-prototypes to see what sticks.

Is that being arrogant or just smart? Have they ever released a product that was over-hyped, over-marketed and have it flop?

Those are the kind of mistakes that kill companies. Apple could certainly lend a story or two.

Admittedly, Google definitely goes overboard with some projects but none of those were mentioned in this article.
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I disagree. This post really resonated with me, although perhaps the title is too much.

The half-assed launch of Wave today struck me as little more than an attempt to steal a few news cycles from Bing. When Google actually develops and releases a mature product based on the Wave concept I'll listen. Until then I'll take Wave about as seriously as I take OpenSocial.
The API is available so that developers who attended Google IO can start tinkering :)
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Hmmm...no ideas?
Why do Chicago VC's lag so far behind others?
Chicago being the 3rd largest city in the country and filled with plenty of wealthy angel investors and VC's, seems to really miss the mark in the internet field. We see much smaller markets from Boston, Austin, Boulder, San Francisco to merge as a growing hub for web entrepreneurs. Why does Chicago seem ages behind the rest of the country? There are very few if no angel funds, start up groups, or incubators. Chicago, whats up?
I'm waiting for the point where Microsoft realizes that by continually playing catch-up in things like "search", they're doing nothing but burning tons of cash and getting no where fast.

Are the ad profits really that lucrative? Because from the outside it sounds like they waste a lot of time/money/effort on projects like this that are always destined to fail.
"The GigaOm article isn't about what you want it to be about. . .Those terms are: where does Wave fit in with the Google ecosystem? What's likely to happen to it? Is it worth an investment of time an interest?"

That's actually exactly what I thought it was about. Your comment, applied to this article, is the perfect explanation of why it is terrible: The presentation isn't about what they want it to be about, but that doesn't make it an arrogant presentation. Google was not doing a product presentation and GigaOm didn't understand it, and got upset when Google dismissed questions irrelevant to what they were presenting.
It is times like these I wish I had enough points to down-vote link bait.
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Use what where? There's no product here.

I don't mean to be rude, but are you comfortable making Wave a big part of your organization's process and culture? What will you do if Google stops developing Wave?
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Reading the implementation of these functions is truly enjoyable. "echo" implements its own XML parser! (I wish I was making that up.)

The writing style the docs use is also nice. The developers are always referred to as "rock stars", and the examples are always in the form "If you write ..., it could return ...". could return? Nice.
Don't most hedge funds return profits to their investors?
Externally, it feels like Arrington is Darth Vader when he makes mistakes like this Last.fm one. He has power. But in person, when you abstract away the manufactured opinions you have created based on his writing, you realize he's just another startup founder. A smart, interesting one. His startup just happens to be TechCrunch. I think lots of people, for some reason, forget that.

I like Arrington a lot. He knows how to play the game in his industry, and that's why he's successful. You can't really blame him for that, from an entrepreneurial point of view (despite the moral implications). Every startup founder needs to know how to play their game. Plenty of YC companies have done questionably moral things to gain traffic/attention.

That doesn't justify TechCrunch's gossip posts, but it provides me with a satisfactory rationalization for the behavior.
You might want to stop saying it, as it really doesn't make much sense, for three reasons:

1. Harvard is hardly alone in having an endowment, nor are they alone in having an internal investment department that funds future operations. By this logic, any organization that operates an investment arm for internal use is an investment fund.

2. Hedge funds exist (ostensibly anyway) to provide a return to their investors. Harvard does not exist to provide a financial return to its investors. Its endowment exists to fund the future operations of the school, not give the donors a good return on their donations.

3. Harvard is known for their educational merits, not their endowment.
Not really. Schools can waste enormous amounts of money on nothing.
Dude, the echo function contains an XML parser. That is truly something only a PHPer would do. It's art, man!
I agree with you. I like the separation. Of course, I'm probably an outlier. I don't use Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, RSS readers, Flickr, etc.
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Yeah they do a lot of stuff. I think the reason people feel they don't is that their coming and goings are largely enveloped behind the green paper curtain. They do put things out there more than people give them credit for, but we are often not aware of them because of a natural schism between the consensus of a world-view and the forays of a dominant corporate machine. Regardless... the two organisms are really different faces of the same entity and should be treated as such if we are to experience the maximum reward from it's cumulative knowledge, which after-all is the primary purpose of the Internet in the first place.
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he was sarcastic in the post
I'm not sure it is destined to fail. Do you think search can't be done better than Google can do it? I am certain it can.
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