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Internet marketers are panicking right now. I've received a dozen of e-mails to teach me how to bring their "not promotions" e-mails back to my primary inbox...Hate it or love it but I think Microsoft Yahoo Apple are going to follow that trend too... Of course the system is not perfect yet but it is something regular people are going to love...at least my mom love it. I have 5 tabs up and running.I have more control over my inbox now. I can understand why internet marketers are mad because it is a new ball game to be next to Facebook updates versus in a box alone with other promotion e-mails... In the long term your brand your goodwill are your only and best weapons...Open Rates are just one metric because you can have one open and 5 conversions versus 5 opens and 0 conversions... the main difference here could be that one open leads to 10 shares on Facebook....This new UX is a non issue...it is really time to disrupt the e-mail system
Sorry, it is not public yet.
A compelling argument. But it's predicated on the assumption that US corporations are somehow unique in terms of the relationship they have with the local intelligence agencies, and I don't know that that's a reasonable.
It doesn't, but it's a concrete first step. If we can win this fight, we redefine the debate, and the discussion becomes "which part of the NSA's surveillance will be blocked next?"
Firstly, if this still let you attempt to view it on your device after seeing the warning, then I think this is a brilliant warning. Sure, we all get pissed off when we see "Cannot view website on Firefox" et al, but this is not just about rendering, but also data usage warnings.

Of course, my problem is not that I'm on a mobile device at home. It is that I'm on my "truck" at home, but connected via my phone's 3G connection, which is capped at 1.5GiB a month... However the website is not aware of that. It's like opening a page where HD youtube videos start to stream without my knowledge. Pity there's no way to warn me about lots of data (except that I tend to read HN comments before visiting the page :)
Oh man, if there is one comment to which I can donate all my votes to, it would be this.
> In travel, for example, you have the GDS companies (Sabre, Amadeus, etc.), ITA, and Expedia. Everybody else -- literally, everybody else -- layers on top of one these systems.

I thought Southwest was known for having their own system. Under the hood are they actually using a Sabre, Amadeus, etc.?
Let me report a specific example I've witnessed from the sidelines.

Some time ago, Canonical collaborated with others in the desktop space, among them the KDE community, on a specification to make system tray menus work over the D-Bus IPC system. The upshot is that it allows menus to be rendered by the shell implementation you're running instead of by the app backing the icon, improving visual consistency and giving the shell more control to e.g. tune the menu for a particular form factor. This specification was implemented for a number of toolkits, and the Qt implementation, used by KDE, was set up as a Canonical project, with code contributions from both within and outside of Canonical.

Then Canonical decided to require signing a copyright assignment contract before contributing to their projects and decided to retroactively apply this to codebases already in flight, such as the library in question. Copyright assignment is a hotly debated topic in the community and there is a widespread belief that mandatory copyright assignment is a Bad Thing in general, but in this particular case the contract they ran with was very badly crafted and deemed unacceptable by many, including a KDE developer who had contributed to the library. Canonical therefore decided to kick out the bugfixes he had contributed -- and then Ubuntu ended up shipping them anyway in the form of patches to their package, with the packagers exploiting the loophole that Canonical doesn't require holding the copyright for such patches. Other distributions were left duplicating the same work on their end.

A repository on Gitorious.org was set up as a staging area outside of Canonical to have a convenient place to host the fixed version of the library, but making this repository the new canonical (heh, sorry, pun unintended) upstream was deemed not an option because the Canonical-employed developer who had written most of the library would be unable to get approval from his employer. Eventually, if memory serves right, said employee ended up independently rewriting the KDE developer's patches to yield the same bug fixes (which, given knowledge of the original patches, sounds potentially legally sketchy to me, but IANAL) for a second round of needlessly duplicated work.

Episodes like this one are why there's not a whole lot of appetite left for collaborating with Canonical or relying on projects they steward. There's just no trust for Canonical to display any regard for the needs of their partners, or perform well in a governance role.
I have no absolute numbers, but in recent years I have heard far more about attempted burglaries than in the decades before (in Germany). It sounds to me as if the burglars are mostly professionals, driving with trucks into suburbs to find empty houses.

On the other hand I also wonder what is there even left to steal. Apple might singlehandedly sustain burglaries because their gear is the only stuff worth stealing these days?

Then again an acquaintance told me when her flat was burglared the thieves took everything, including photographs and files. I suppose there might be villages somewhere in eastern countries dedicated to scanning those files for bank account information.
Facebook likely used the platform as a way to spam you and all your friends by proxy. Thus, the apps took the heat and Facebook got the boost in growth it needed. Well executed I say.
Some reasons why you shouldn't organize a FedEx day (ie, a 24-hour hackathon. This is different from a company-sanctioned hackathon that occurs during business hours. I think those are great.)

1. It can bad for your employees' health.

2. It shows a lack of respect for employees' personal lives.

3. It discriminates against workers with families.

4. You don't compensate workers for it

5. You can't write good software when you are tired.
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No, sadly. This involves a number of private companies, and legal issues.
Let's just say that in private, canonical has taken an interesting view of the rights it has in the open source software that makes up ubuntu, and this view is, IMHO, not particularly in line with what are likely the broader expectations of the open source community.

These views are not simply restricted to trademark issues.
I thought this article was ridiculously good. Well researched and well written.
And what they don't tell you as well, they cannot be turned off, so if your house is on fire, no firefighter can do anything unless he wants to be electrocuted with 10k volts ..
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Facebook Platform, as conceived, was just a bad idea anyway. Zuck nailed it when he said that "today social networks are closed systems" but here's the kicker - Platform didn't really do anything to change that. They wanted people to build apps to run inside of Facebook, not to communicate with Facebook. They weren't ever tearing down the garden walls, they were asking everybody else to move into the garden with them. And most people didn't and the people who did (mostly) realized that it was a mistake.

I think they finally moved on from that a bit, but the "let's run an app inside a social network" thing was always of very limited value.
Sigh. Like others posting here, I checked my other folder. I missed a message from May inviting me to a bachelorette party for a friend getting married in September. It was last month. I know this because I saw the pictures on Facebook and was saddened that I wasn't invited. Now I'm even more sad.

So thanks Facebook. You had one job: to facilitate my connections to people. And you royally screwed up and caused me to miss out on a very special day in a close friend's life that I will never be able to get back.
I think the simple answer a lot of these comments are pointing to is: civilization, wealth, progress, whatever you want to call it, but more and more people are aware of how nice life can be and also see that it doesn't really appear without hard work, course this is merely a hypothesis, but I think it's a pretty common sentiment in the first world that hard work creates an easier life.
Probably because properly air-conditioning huge spaces (that are weather-protected by design; e.g. you can't just keep roof open) eats up tons of electricity.
Go sure is easy to get started with, but it would have to be 20 times better than it is to make me give up the JVM.

I like Rust because it gives you control (like C++) but does so carefully (unlike C++). In ten years, Go should be a great alternative to Java and Python. In ten years, Rust should be a solid alternative to C and C++. (That is, assuming they both succeed.)

A language like Rust, which is reasonably expressive and safe but fast and with little overhead, should become a very desirable language as hardware improvements become more marginal (adding more cores eventually brings diminishing returns), and as battery life becomes more important with mobile devices.

But the portability problem is solved really well by the JVM. I'm hoping Rust will make writing cross-platform, native code easier.
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That's what I said. For a few weeks, there were wild market fluctuations coupled with a lack of dollars to borrow, producing big opportunities for profits, and hence margin traders were willing to pay obscene rates to borrow USD. The only reason it lasted as long as it did is the difficulty of converting from USD to BTC.
It's taken quite awhile but I'm looking forward to getting the board. I hope there are decently mature go binding because that would be incredible to have a goroutine coprocessor.

If not, I've been wanting to take a stab at opencl.
> IMO, releasing the source code that operates people's property is equivalent to putting a list of ingredients on a packaged food product.

No, it's like putting the secret recipe to Coke on the bottle, or the food science process that makes Rice Crispies so crispy.
there are 7 billion people on the planet, and many of them pretend to be multiple people online. Am I supposed to click 10 billion unsubscribe links, most of which I've discovered are actually "subscribe me harder" links? The vast majority of mail I get from "reputable" mailers like mailchimp and constant contact is not something I ever signed up for. And those are the reputable senders that have offices and a phone number you can call. Most senders aren't using a service like that. So, "don't subscribe in the first place" is a complete bullshit solution.

Anything gmail can do to keep all manner of commercial solicitations out of my inbox is welcomed. I actually disabled the visibility of the "promotions/spam" tab, but kept the filter, and will happily never have to look at that crap again.
This post is in most respects excellent, but it suffers from a fundamental problem. It starts from the assumption that the goal of free software is to be as widely used as possible, and that anything that prevents this is therefore Bad. But widest possible use was never the goal of the Free Software Foundation. They have always been about freedom first and software second, and Stallman has many times stated that he'd rather a program be used less if it results in more freedom, than vice versa.

So the goal of the various restrictions imposed by the GPL (in either of the main versions) is to increase freedom. We can usefully have a debate about how well they achieve that goal, and whether the increase in freedom is worth what has to be spent in order to achieve it. But if we do that, let's do it from a position of first having understood why the GPL says the things it does.

I saw this summed up an admirably concise way some years ago, but stupidly forgot to note whose soundbite this is: "Saying that the GPL is less free because it forbids proprietary derivatives is like saying the USA is less free because it forbids slavery". Yes, of course it's hyperbole to hold up freedom of software alongside the freedom of people; but this quote shows by example that more freedom doesn't always get achieved by less regulation but by more.
Big brands do the same thing. Terms like "Diamond Ring" can't be profitable online since the big brands are willing to lose money to make sure they keep brand equity.
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Agreed. There is an awesome project that provides this: https://github.com/deckarep/golang-set
This project is incredible!

What was the talk on? This is the first I've heard of Travis.
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Something about their analysis just doesn't sound right.

"I dug deep into our database and pulled every delivery to Gmail for the past year and half. That amounts to 12.5 billion emails".

Then he says

"As you might suspect, Gmail opens do follow these hourly, weekly, and seasonal trends, but on the whole they remain fairly steady. With that settled, I trimmed my data to a lean 6 weeks around the introduction of tabs. That’s about 1.5 billion emails, which is plenty of records for a good analysis."

So, 1.5 years = 12.5B Gmail emails

But last 6 weeks = 1.5B Gmail emails

That doesn't sound right.

Unless MailChimp is on some type of unbelievable (true) exponential growth rate in the past few months.

Edit: typo
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Having read this I think it is great advice for anyone of any age.

Spending less then you make is a great one though especially when you are young as it will form a habit that will benefit you throughout your life.

Another important one is managing your network and your reputation. I was given conflicting advice on this when I was younger but I definitely am a fan of having a strong network of quality individuals. I prefer to have a smaller network with higher caliber people as opposed to a massive network comprised of people of dubious character. My definition of "higher caliber" is not determined by the status of their job, networth, or family connections but more on the quality of individual they are.
How can the SEC regulate this? BTC is not a real currency but electronic messages being sent back and forth and logged in an electronic ledger. Not a legal tender currency or security registered or traded in a US-based exchange.

So apparently this is an SEC "Investor Alert," but do the legal minds here know if SEC can indict and prosecute this guy? This is important for people who are also running Bitcoin casinos, sports books and prediction markets.
In a post-copyright world, how can you force someone to release their modifications to your code? You couldn't argue that they were violating the terms of your copyright, because there is no copyright (in such a hypothetical world)! The GPL depends on copyright law to provide its teeth.
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... and I find one effect of this (very nice, and seemingly quite accurate) categorization on me is that I actually end up viewing "promotional" emails in a more positive light.

Now they're not being shoved in my face, not obscuring personal email (which used to be a problem with the old single inbox: I'd miss email from my mom amongst a bunch of random low-value emails), and not sending me annoying alerts on my phone. I don't have to skip past reams of "promotions" when I want to open that email from a friend I got a few days ago. I don't think I see, or open, or "open" promotional email any more or less often than before, but now that it's more on my terms, my mood when I do so is better.

For companies that use promotional email in an honest and straight-forward manner, I suspect the net result of this change may be positive... it's not just about "opens", it's also about the impression your email makes and how that effects peoples' attitude towards your company/service.
Pointing out the past and claiming that things are still that way are different things. Clearly, Volkswagen is no longer building vehicles for the Nazis. It is still an interesting historical fact.
http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/03/05/qt-for-ios-preview/

According to the qt blog, only qtquick2 depends on v8.
I found that garden analogy to be quite interesting. It surprises me a bit to see even Poole doesn't get to enjoy his work as much. Even with the simple and anonymous design the site holds,I assumed he still had time to enjoy the post more on that page in between "picking for weeds". I wonder if he would be able to do more for the site if he was able to enjoy it more. Good Read.
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I wonder if that's proportional per capita.

I get the impression that it is not, though I have a small sample size.
I'm confused, tabs has been rolled out slowly across Gmail users. I know people with and without it still. SO how do they define a point of 'release'?
Why do you think this wouldn't be accepted? I know in my field of biology if a person were to disprove an existing theory it would be an important work. My colleague was just scooped in Science on work that disproves the ribosome spacing hypothesis when it comes to translation initiation and codon optimization.
One area of booking flights that always annoys me is that I have to pick ONE airport to fly from.

I live near to 3 good viable airports (within a 2 hour drive). I would like to pick my preferred destination and select all 3 airports as start points, and then let the algorithm find the best prices from all 3 airports.

They often have a "+/- 3 days" option. They need a "+/- X hours drive time from LAT/LNG".
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This "good for X, it should be good for me" is something that bothers me, take php for example, if it is good enough for Facebook it should also be good enough for everybody, doesn't it?, sure, Facebook makes it work for them, but they spent a lot of resources to get there (they even made their own vm HipHop), that does not mean your startup has or want to spend that kind of effort and resources with it having now potentially better alternatives under your given use case?
Except that's not the only use for mass e-mail.

I have over 120,000 developers who subscribe to my e-mail newsletters and I suspect most subscribers would not consider them "Promotions." Hopefully those who care to read every week will drag them back into the main inbox but I imagine some will fall by the wayside. (Not that I'm panicking, I'm not noticing much of a/any drop in open rates at all.)
What does "selling jackets" mean in this context?
I'm going to act the fool a bit here and ask why is Apple not a "good" company? What's your definition of that and can you give some examples?
You can, depending on a few factors.
Applications like Titanium Backup should point you in the right direction. :)
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In the video how did he manage to leave that M icon at 79px and not change it to 80!!?

Something I did note was that the pre-used class names weren't auto-suggested; eg on the footer buttons. Sure that'll get fixed. Also perhaps value snapping to avoid values like "29.608938547486037%"?

Everything else looked pretty slick though.

Didn't see the GA code being added in the video. Also it seems like Typekit was integrated to get some of the typographical flexibility.

Generally though I really liked it; seems very promising.
These assumptions are unfounded.

1. One hackathon is not going to be detrimental to an employee's health.

2. It would be a lack of respect if the company made it mandatory, which is borderline illegal considering it's unpaid.

3. Again, hackathons are 99% at-will events. Also, it's not like they're being held every week either.

4. True, which is why they're not mandatory.

5. That is purely your own opinion.
They were answered by people who did an online survery who responded to an email invitation. It was right in the article.
> what Scala should have been (and wanted to be) before it
> was overcome with a desire to prove that a compiler can
> do all sorts of crazy stuff. It's hard for me to
> understand what problem Scala is trying to solve (other
> than the challenge of writing a compiler with lots and
> lots of features), but whatever it is, the language is
> constantly becoming harder to understand, so its
> mysterious goal should better be really good.

This is a bit hard to follow ... I'd love to see some examples.
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Are they? What about in video games? Eve Online had a gigantic ponzi scheme where players stole vast amounts of in-game currency. Is that illegal? I'm not being snarky, I genuinely don't understand when it is and is not illegal.
In total contrast, I once worked for a staid, rural insurance company where the majority of employees were middle-aged with children. "Flexible" hours meant that one could arrive at work anytime between 6AM and 9AM. Clearly, the flexibility was extended to those who wanted to arrive early so that they could be home by the time their children were getting off the school bus. Twenty-somethings who wanted to venture into the city to see a show (easily an hour drive) still ostensibly had to arrive at work just a few hours after getting home. These family-friendly policies sent a distinct message to the young/childless -- the company regards your happiness as secondary to that of those with children.

Edit: I regard such policy biases as companies' choices to make, but I doubt that many consider sufficiently the messages these events/policies/etc send to particular employee segments.
I don't see how it's deceptive. It was a short term promotion. Is it deceptive that Walmart doesn't show last week's price on every product in their store whose price has gone up? Further, it would clutter the sidebar with an unchoosable option and make the correct price harder to find.
I appreciate you not overly pitching - I'll check it out. Separately, why aren't you mentioned on the team page? Are you still involved?

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We use AWS, but it's expensive and have a lot of tricks and hidden issues. I'd like to move towards a PaaS provider, but don't know which one.

Applications are written in php and rails.

I know/have tried Google App Engine and Heroku. Would you advocate for one of these? Would you suggest anything else? Why?
1.5 years is 78 weeks. 12.5B emails / 78 weeks ~ 160 million emails a week.

6 weeks * 160 million ~ 960 million emails.

So the last 6 weeks is 156% of the average. That seems like good growth, not unbelievable growth.
You've got plenty of replies criticizing your "rich" bit, but, well, you deserve at least one more.

Something should probably be done about the use of leaded fuel in general aviation. However, trying to turn it into class warfare (while every single pilot I know, and I know a lot of them, is middle-class) severely hurts your argument.
7% WEEKLY INTEREST and people thought it was legit. You'd be damn lucky to find a reliable place that'll get you 5% annually. I'm not condoning what the fellow did but really people, if you got taken by those kind of numbers without second thought you need to take a look at other areas of investment.
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12500000000 / 547.5 (1.5 years) == roughly 23m e-mails per day over the 1.5 year sample.

1500000000 / (6 * 7) (6 weeks) == roughly 35m e-mails per day over the past six weeks.