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They happen to everyone at least twice in their life! Some people dozens of times! How common do they need to be for you to believe that messing up nutrition is problematic? It can literally kill people!

If you're going to argue that all the nutritional changes can be accounted for, I won't disagree with you. But to argue that people's dietary needs don't change is just uninformed.
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Like his comment about the presses job to check the government. I don't know if the press still values or even consider this their job. Do we need to have a charity news organization that focused on checking the government.
Even though there are ways to get around the popups on this article it would still be a lot easier to just post a link to another site without an obtrusive modal window.
Nothing about liquidation preference, which can make these options absolutely worthless even in the midst of a seemingly successful acquisition.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/16/beware-the-trappings-of-li...

I was once at a startup that was offered a $100M buyout. This would have netted me maybe $200K except that the liquidation preference obliterated all profit for the founders and employees. So instead, the CEO chose to ride the thing into the ground. He went on to make the big bucks at his next gig though.
Correct. I'm guessing English is not your first language and thus the previous downvote(s). We use "voucher codes" this way - we don't have to educate the customer at all; they get it, which leads to a happier customer experience and less customer service headaches.
Thanks for including a link to this issue... Without it I would have assumed the was just a needless fork of Voyeur.js
FWIW I do my best to completely avoid stores that have loyalty cards. I consider it unfair to expect people to give up their privacy for normal pricing - the rich people get to keep their privacy and the poor people don't have a choice.

And yes I deliberately said normal pricing, the only study that has been done of before and after pricing once loyalty cards were introduced showed that prices are just inflated such that the loyalty card brings them back into line. Best to just shop somewhere without loyalty cards at all.
"CIA fails to understand a damn thing professor talks about"
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If you want to see what irresponsible journalism is like, read Benji Smith's book "Abandoned Ship", especially the part about "Jenna McJournalist". Laura hasn't (to our knowledge) behaved like that.

There's probably enough trust between them now that he isn't going to get upset if a hash of his email doesn't match a hash of her quote of him. She's also likely smart enough to realize that he could drop her at any time and the other news organizations would be lined to up for exclusive access. So she's going to act responsibly towards her source.
The proposal is to use turntables. Since emphasis is made in the paper on maximizing turning radii, it could be that the train is not intended to be able to turn sharply enough to negotiate a feasible "loop".
Do things, write about it. Post the writing on Hacker News. Get your friends to vote for it. Hope it all doesn't happen the same day as the latest national-security disaster. Ad nauseam.
I first tried perl (and programming in general) back in the mid 90's when I got tired of writing HTML via Word macros and wanted something more interesting. This was perl4 (oraperl to be exact since DBI didn't exist). I haven't looked back.
Yup, there are stats here:
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11363/do-promo-codes-o...

"In one usability test, removing the coupon code field increased overall conversion from 3.8% to 5.1% (an increase of 34%)."
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They call it a "Business Plan"? That's rich!
Simple solution: don't call it coupon, call it gift card.
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I disagree. Coupon code forms make some customers second guess themselves at checkout. The fewer steps required to purchase something result in higher completed orders. See Amazon one-click
Just on your point about Podcasts - you could use a short URL (works in print too)? (edit, e.g. tiny.cc/[shortcode])

Or... if you're feeling really adventurous, use an audio hyperlink ;) http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/apple-developing-audio-hype...
Happened to me: I had the code, but forgot to enter it. So afterward I contacted customer service and they just said: sorry there is nothing we can do for you.

Do you think I will be a returning customer? -no
It causes noticeable dropoff in stores. I don't remember the numbers, but we did an A/B test and noticed a difference. We switched to referrer URLs for discounts instead. I wanted to try an experiment of putting a bunch of low value discount codes out there that would have been easy to find, and see how that affects dropoff, but we never did that.
I think this is exactly what Steve Krug refers to as a religious debate in "Don't make me think!". The only way to know for sure is user-testing.
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In France one of the biggest high tech ware reseller use this coupon promotiona codes. These coupon codes are ditributed through it's own promotional mailing list.

Il you subscribe to their special offer mailing lists you get their coupon codes. Of corse ou get a slap in your face when you see the coupn field box. But this is also where you should say how to get coupon codes.

Propose a subscription to your special coupon offering mailing list where you can also ommunicate about your product. This is opt in advertisement.
The train could be just very bottom-heavy.
So are you saying it would be possible to supply "lifepacks" to war / famine / disaster torn areas, of just enough to get by food, but we need to supply nets or flyswatters?
I don't really have a comment one way or another about what you said here, however... comparing UI violations to something that reminds someone that they're not 'one of the cool kids' that knows the 'secret code to saving money' is a bit apples to oranges, I think.

One might offend your eyes, the other (can be) more personal.
On the topic of networks- anyone know a good affiliate network for startups?
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Same problem here with a couple of separate accounts.

It's easy to work around if you know how. Log in to your account and then hit this link:

http://mail.live.com/mail/CloseAccountConfirmation.aspx

That took me 8 fucking hours on the phone to Microsoft support to get out of them. Asshats.
I could kind of imagine it in a world where the concept of coupons was invented on the web and e-commerce "coupon code" fields were the only place people encountered it.

But of course that's not the world we live in. Our mailboxes get stuffed full of coupons. We get them on our receipts. We get them in our e-mail. We get them in newspapers and magazines and even attached to the very products we're buying.

We're all used to the concept. Roughly nobody is getting upset at the idea that there might be some coupon out there that they don't happen to have at the moment.
The CIA gave up snooping on him because they couldn't understand a damned thing he said... his works are also the reason Watson learned to cry.

But seriously, it's no surprise that titling books like "Hegemony or Survival" (I recommend the audiobook, great commute-musing material) and talking about the US being on borrowed time if it keeps acting like 18th century England, will get you examined a little closer by the spooks.
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We see this happening all the time with new techy things that come out - no surprise here.
2 thoughts of the top of my head:

1 - is there no equivalent for .closest()? Traversal from relative paths is kind of a big deal for a jQuery-like tool

2 - what is the type of `HTML.body.div`? HTMLDivElement or Array? If it depends on your markup, then that's a recipe for easy breakage
Cool - thanks for sharing. I'm interested in A/B testing done by "folks like us", not a college professor who "guided users through a hypothetical web store experience" like the paper talks about. Interesting though - I'm not trying to be snarky or rude BTW - I like it, just not a "definitive source" for this type of work IMO.
It is a known fact that starting a small business is hard. But we still need to be convinced that a start up is hard aswell

Startup == Small business

note that there are only 2 equal signs
Sounds like the founders took some pretty poor funding...
Interestingly, the link from the BBC News main page under the Most Shared and Most Read tabs has the title as "The light inventor who is poor but proud" which seems far more appropriate than the one on the article.
.50c ? that's crazy for that kind of service, especially when Apple is actually doing the delivery.
I disagree with the main part of your sentiment. I think they're already there after they've filled in billing/shipping info, so seeing the blank coupon code field is actually not a deterrent at that point. It's just as easy to skip that field and press the button for Checkout as it is when that field isn't there. The coupon field just adds the possibility of getting a better deal with some Google searches.
From a legal perspective, GMail is operated by one corporation which can have a single warrant issued, and be forced to reveal all of your emails, no matter how many servers your account resides upon.

Even if you do end-to-end encryption, they're still going to see who you're sending email to.

With a more decentralized system that for instance does onion routing it might be possible to radically improve privacy.
> For years, FOIA requests to the CIA garnered the same denial: "We did not locate any records responsive to your request."

...because we thought life would be easier for us if we didn't even try.
Interesting project - just seems like it fell short on follow through.
Since I failed to mention the number of years I was referring to, I meant further back than last year.
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Imagine if a site did that haha.

"We've been tracking you, you're a regular. Here's 5% off for spending ~13min per day on our website from IP 192.168.0.1"
This PayPal/Comscore study found that 27% of potential buyers abandoned their shopping cart because they had to go look for a coupon code.

Another study found that removing the promo code box improved conversion from 3.8% to 5.1%

Source: http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/11365

(There's also some good shopping cart / checkout UX tips in there too)
Sure, I'd grant Oakland. The line is shown ending roughly near Bay Fair station, an 18 minute BART ride from central Oakland, but perhaps that's still a good compromise. And North Valley? People in this comments thread were saying they'd rather take a flight from Burbank airport, but the train ends even further from central LA.

But more to the point, it's costed through the straightest, least dense, cheapest part of a "SF to LA" route. It's shown with 3 km of tunnel west of Dublin and you'd need at least five times more to get to usefully located stations. This isn't how real infrastructure projects are estimated unless you're purposefully trying to arrive at a low cost estimate.
Where are you told to make a purchase? That's the full story, as it will appear in Sunday's NYT Magazine.
>>>Does any country actually have a genuine politician with a CS degree in office?

These two things are not mutually exclusive. Meaning, most tech people distrust politicians and would never enter politics. Likewise, most politicians have no desire to learn about technology, or delve deep into things like cryptology and how to make technology secure from prying eyes.

FYI - the majority of representatives in the US Congress are attorneys:

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/did-you-know-this-abou...

"168 Representatives and 57 Senators have a law degree. Of these, five (Representative and two Senators) also hold a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree."

Also keep in mind most of the people in congress are also from the baby boomer generation. They grew up long before the internet even happened. I've been told by a few friends most don't even use smartphones and barely use email. Maybe in another ten years this will start to change, but for now, don't expect too many computer science majors to enter politics.
I assume that was the point?
For what it's worth, the new Azure Notification Hubs[1] present a fairly uniform API across devices.

[1] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/services/not...
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Yes, I guess you're right, but the maximum frequency is bounded by vehicle length and speed (you can't have a vehicle pass every thirty seconds if it takes more than thirty seconds for a single vehicle to pass a given point).
"On one occasion, Poitras says, they did seize her computers and cellphones and kept them for weeks. She was also told that her refusal to answer questions was itself a suspicious act. Because the interrogations took place at international boarding crossings, where the government contends that ordinary constitutional rights do not apply, she was not permitted to have a lawyer present."
It ought to be a surprise. It certainly is contrary to all the rhetoric that I swallowed hook, line and sinker in high school about what kind of country the USA is.

I'm willing to bet that Chomsky was not surprised one bit by these revelations.
True. You can get the same thing with referrer URLs that apply a coupon code behind the scenes, e.g. example.com/store/fifty_off. The logic is the same, you're just hiding the troublesome coupon code field.
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Fair enough. Ideally, we could look at multiple A/B tests to avoid the bias a single site's user base might have or other idiosyncratic effects of their UX.
Python is a very strict and comparatively easily parsed language. Python 3 is the clear successor to Python 2, and feels mostly the same for a programmer.

The idea for Perl 6 was the same: Clean up the language, add new features at the expense of compatibility, and create a v5 → v6 transition tool. During the evolution of Perl 6, this original goal became less important. Nowadays, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are seen as two sister languages in the same family, which take inspiration from each other, but are independent. There won't be mass migrations to v6 once it “arrives” (it already did in the form of Rakudo Star). There are, however, efforts to run v5 and v6 code in the same VM.
Initial customer acquisition costs money. A lot of money. Once you have a happy customer for repeat business, you reward and entice them with discounts, usually via email newsletter.

As a first time customer, you are not being "cheated". You are just a lot more expensive.
White rice is a starch, which is a complex carb, and does not have "a nutrition profile closely related to table sugar." Other than that, this is on-target. All of longest-lived populations eat primarily carb-based diets.
When launching new order pages a few years ago, I was bothered by the same thing and asked my e-commerce company to add a checkbox, which you have to click in order to show coupon field:

https://blogjet.cleverbridge.com/9/?scope=checkout&product=1...

It's not an ideal solution, but I believe this additional step helps a bit.
Because they're slow (compared to helicopters and airplanes), sensitive to bad weather, and take up a lot of space compared to the amount of passengers they can carry.
Alternate suggestion: Have a textbox that says, "If you don't mind us asking, where did you hear of us?"

Then the radio ad or whatever can say, "Enter DAN SAVAGE as your referrer to receive a free gift!"
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Chomsky is one of the most important persons in this day in age when it comes to political thought. He's the only one that seems to think.
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>First of all, giving everyone a referral URL works great in a web only world but what if you're advertising on a Podcast (or gasp print or radio), is it easier to tell people to type in www.mysite.com/coupon to their browser or is it easier to tell people to enter COUPON at checkout?

Only lots of the companies that uses this practice never advertise on podcasts or radio.

>Secondly, the amount of people who are going to have this adverse reaction to the mere existence of the coupon code field is vanishingly small.

Citation needed.

>Most customers who don't have a code will just ignore it and move on

Of course, since there is nothing else they can do. The issue is if this leaves a bad taste on their mouth or not.

>Whatever web site had a coupon code field that made you this angry probably had at least 20 much worse UI violations they should prioritize above trying to eliminate the coupon field.

He could not care less about other UI violations compared to feeling a second-rate customer that has to pay more.
"they see a note on the sheet and translate it to motion"

Indeed. I think notes are more 'human' than most programming languages.
If the music goes up, the notes go up. If the notes are short they look short (and more dense).

But I agree that typing "let a be the subtring of b from 1 to the end" is no fun. So I'm glad we have symbolic languages. But I think they could be made more 'human'.
I keep thinking about the Seattle Center Monorail, constructed for the 1962 World's Fair. Like the hyperloop, it's an elevated train, and people predicted that it would be extended to other cities and revolutionize public transportation.

It still runs, and you can ride it for a few dollars. But a bus will take you end-to-end cheaper and faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_monorail
I've abandoned a couple purchases because of that coupon code box. I go search for one and realize that they do regular promotions so I wait for one, usually to never come back and make a purchase.
You can usually copy the link and search for it in Google, and then you can see the post. Or you can use Adblock to manually block the firewall (it sees it as some sort of ad, and removes it as such).

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
When I was young, I learned to program assembly via machine code on an enhanced //e, with no references. I figured out the instruction set by making a program with all possible opcodes and dumping it out, and would write code by inputting the hex directly after assembling it by hand.

The day I discovered the mini-assembler was absolutely mind-blowing.
I think that will work fine for the most part, but the problem is you can't be sure of what optimizations the browser is making (or will make in future builds of the browser) when using requestAnimationFrame - it's designed to allow browsers to do weird stuff to keep the loop in sync with the monitor, which isn't really what you want when processing game logic.

JS is of course single threaded but requestAnimationFrame can give browsers the option to batch stuff up and do it outside of the regular javascript execution - I don't know if any browsers actually do this but it's possible. The main thing is that if your rendering FPS is low due to a lot of elements/sprites/whatever on the screen, your game logic loop could potentially still be run at full speed while requestAnimationFrame stumbles along at a lower rate. End result being that you could actually increase your FPS, because the game logic isn't sitting around waiting as long between render frames to update.

Of course, setInterval doesn't guarantee a constant speed loop either, but it's at least designed to be as consistent as possible.

Here's a relevant article: http://www.chandlerprall.com/2012/06/requestanimationframe-i...
Some sites present the coupon field slightly differently as a Gift Card/Gift Certificate/Coupon Code field which might help that "slapped in the face" feeling.

I noticed this on Zappos and the first Google result for "zappos coupon" is this: http://www.zappos.com/truth-about-zappos-coupons
Vibration from trains is proportional to the unsprung weight of the vehicle (basically the axle, wheels and traction motors) rather than the vibration of the whole vehicle (which is isolated by the primary and secondary train suspensions). For a heavy rail transit vehicle (NYC transit, MBTA Red Line, CTA vehicle, etc), you're talking about 2,700 kg. I don't have numbers handy for HSR trainsets.
This is called cheating.

I see it all the time. It's a well tested road for the mediocre people to gain short term glory.

But, by cheat, their average work is making the whole community - average.
Why do you think this would need to be viable to use on a daily basis to be viable? There are probably enough people who need to have a meeting once a week or once a month in another city, or who want to visit for a weekend, or who want to get to a medical specialist in the other location, to make it work out.
I am pretty sure it is at the time of the transaction. This is no different than buying or selling stock.
Interesting - I like it. When you say it "helps a bit", what makes you feel that way? If I'm going to change my cart, it needs to be something simple like what you've done.
So you have a customer that's just about to buy your product, and you're sending them away from your site? I mean, as a consumer I like discounts, but as a programmer I really want my customers to just click checkout at that point.
Given the exponential growth in the network hash rate, how much sooner than 2140 can we expect the last bitcoins to be mined?
Yeah, I believe this is the best point in the argument against pod transport. Even taking doctors out of the equation, if someone were to go into cardiac arrest on a plane, pretty much anyone on the plane would be qualified to operate an automatic external defibrillator and all flight attendants are required to be trained in CPR. The opportunity for first aid in this situation is the difference between life and death and it is unavailable in this pod design. 3 minutes without oxygen to the brain and serious brain damage is likely; 15 minutes without oxygen and you're pretty much guaranteed never to recover if you aren't already dead. If you have a cardiac episode on the hyperloop and need to be resuscitated, there's a good chance that the only good that those EMTs will do when the train arrives at its destination is to remove your dead body from the train.
White rice has a GI of 64 and is essentially a pure carbohydrate. Table sugar has a GI of 68 and is a pure carbohydrate. The two have very similar behavior in the body, so while they may be compositionally very different, as an energy source and insulin response source they are almost interchangeable, no?
"You get pages of results: mostly garbage, some scams, and a few legitimate coupon sites. Unfortunately, the codes listed on those sites are a year old: you missed your chance."

It frustrates me when I see a coupon code box and cannot find any working codes. Oftentimes the most recent codes for a retailer on RetaiMeNot haven't been active in months or years. On the flip side, when I find a code that saves me anything, even free shipping, I am ecstatic. I feel like I am responsible, thrifty and savvy and I have a proclivity to purchase more items from that retailer later on.

I think these emotions are worth evoking in customers and banning the coupon code box destroys this ability. A referral link doesn't capture as much of the emotional satisfaction as seeing your cart totals drop after typing in a string of characters and clicking "Apply to Cart." Retailers could just hide the coupon code box when there aren't any active coupons. When a coupon is active, the box reappears.
Or just don't show the box during period where there is no valid coupon code for any of the selected items? Half the complaint, and associated failed transactions, is around there not even being a currently running coupon campaign anyway.

But then why have coupons and just offer money off to everyone?