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I think this is how Kohls works. Anytime we buy something there the receipt says like "total $30. You saved $83.26!". I know I really didn't save anything because I wouldn't pay $100+ for the things I purchased anyway and they wouldn't sell them for that much, but there is some effect to seeing things like that.
Locked up Aurora, had to force quit.
What is the feasibility to construct one within a metropolitan area, like Greater Boston, Bay area etc. Example: One between South bay and SF in the Bay area?
"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%"

Didn't read the study but I wonder if those numbers take into account the positive benefit of using the coupon box.

In other words you do a promotion offering a discount to increase sales. The result of the promotion is an increase of x but also a decrease of y because of abandonment. It seems (by the way you phrase the summary) that the study only concluded the negative aspect and not the upside to the coupon code. (Once again I didn't read the study so I am just asking.)
I've thought about it a few times, but there are too many people that would take offense, even if I changed names and details, that I might still need to go work with. The longer I'm out of that industry and running my own startup, the more I think about doing it though.
Works fine for me. Try going to chrome://gpu/ to see if you can spot the problem.
There are probably many practical concerns, but another is that hydrogen airships are rather dangerous, and that there is a pending shortage of helium, the main alternative. The U.S. has a National Helium Reserve that holds 30% of the world's helium, and it is expected to run out before 2020 according to Wikipedia.
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I've taken to using http://couponfollow.com/checkout (the chrome extension). It helpfully colors the coupon code box red if it has a suggested coupon code. Eventually, I suppose, everyone will move to one-time coupon codes. But that will probably take years, so in the meantime, I save money.
They could. Accept they won't be buying them from Google since they have ridiculous trademark rules. You can't bid on things like that now.
There are conditions with no cure that make it difficult to go an hour without using the bathroom. I think the people with those conditions are well aware that it's a "serious medical problem" without your advice.

Your post was about as useful as telling someone in a wheelchair to see a doctor to get their legs fixed (hey, it may be an indication of a serious medical problem!)
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I think it would have been wiser to point out that knowing JavaScript means you are pretty much guaranteed a job in 2013. It doesn't make the other languages irrelevant, but it makes you relevant in the workforce. I still come across tons of graphic designers that can barely code HTML and therefore have to push their designs over to a front-end developer of some sorts who does a little bit of jQuery "magic".
Xubuntu works quite well. I recommend you try XFCE for the desktop.
Interesting. Browsing the code it looks like they are using closures[1] in a way I haven't seen other Go code use them. Similar to the "using" keyword in .NET or the "with-" macros (with-open-file) in Common Lisp.

[1] https://github.com/rackspace/gophercloud/blob/master/accepta...
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It doesn't matter if that's how it is. What matters is how consumers perceive it. If they think they are being cheated then who are you to say they are not? I don't care how much it costs for a retailer to nab me as a customer.
I guess my hesitation is that I think it would probably be implemented poorly and then be forced on me by a PHB. You are right in the points you make and if it could be done so that it did not add lots of mental overhead or required boilerplate it could be a useful tool. Worth exploring, but I'll let you do the exploring. :)
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Hell, according to line I was sold, Chomsky would have fit right in with the founding fathers. That's also assuming you can believe history.
Some places like Newegg put the promo code on the item page itself, so it's basically like giving it to everyone who buys the item. In this case, there's no loss on the sale.
TL;DR: It would be great to see GNUstep catch up with Cocoa, the guy who run the campaign IS the project lead, but the only thing that may prevent the campaign to succeed is the very poor marketing level.
Can anyone confirm they do this? Would hate to feel punished for loyalty.
Self driving cars seem plausible, especially for interstates, in 10 years. Technically, in 3-5.
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First there's a huge caveat to calling this multi-cloud, ie. its a library for openstack clouds only from what i gather of the src and documentation. Second, there's already a nice go library for openstack clouds that's seen multiple cloud usage (rackspace, hpcloud, openstack grizzly/folsom) in the form of http://launchpad.net/goose It has significantly more coverage of available openstack services (image, compute, storage) and more realworld usage and better testing afaics.
I think this is the best way to handle coupons. That way you aren't enticing people to leave the check out process once they've committed to buying. You also reward loyal customers with special links. I mean all you have to do is make the coupon field hidden and pass a get var.
I think HEAD is incredibly useful and really critical for things like caching. While you could use GET or POST in place of things like PUT and DELETE, using HTTP headers, you would have to do some work to reap the same benefits you get from HEAD already in retrieving meta data.

For implementing things like a CDN, HEAD requests are absolutely critical. Also most developers probably use it with some high frequency using curl.
Looks like the integrated GPU in the MacBooks are blacklisted.
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Getting the person to do something in order to get the discount would be an action that has a positive effect and is not passive (and perhaps not even realized). Off the top I can't think of what the concept is called but I've seen other examples of this. (Like when you have to check off checkboxes on a paper form etc.)

Another thing is there are going to be people that aren't going to put the code in and you would make extra money off of them when they forget to use it. I don't know the percentage of that but it's certainly greater than 0, right?
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"woefully uneducated" indeed. why didn't he tell the affiliate network "no coupon sites, no trademark bidding, and approval required for all new affiliates."

Those are three of the most utterly basic things any new affiliate program would do.

His real complaints should be that he lacks knowledge in this area, didn't hire people who have it, and got poor customer service from his affiliate program.
Many websites offer discounts to their regulars. You could mimic this specific behavior by automatically applying a coupon code to checkout baskets of regulars, with some text explaining how much you love them.

Of course, you might want to let users know that you do this, and that means emailing them, and that makes this more of an emailed coupon offer, which is back to being more like a traditional coupon approach, but either way hopefully you can give your regulars some warm fuzzies.
I really like coupling html and webgl, but thus far I've only done it the other way round: adding html on top of webgl. I did this in my last LudumDare game jam [1]. I used html to render nice looking text on top of webgl. Although it's possible to render text within webgl it's messy, especially if you want bold or italic text, different fonts, colors etc.

[1] http://min.psywerx.net/
If I don't find it I get upset. I've actually not purchased because there was a coupon field and I couldn't find an active coupon. I'll just wait until they have an active coupon or buy it somewhere else.
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I'm hosting a developer from London this summer and it's been awesome, and to finish it off we're going to NYC for a few days at the end of the month. On Friday the 23rd we'll have the afternoon and then the weekend. It would be awesome if we could tour some accelerators or startups while we were there. We're coming from Greenville, SC. He's a dev and I'm a designer and we're both 20. If you know of anywhere you can post below or email me, that'd be awesome!
I can't get things to reliably fail, admittedly the connections I am on are flaky. I have been traveling around the world for the last 8 months. From direct experience I know that Chrome handles flakey connections much better than FF. I routinely get downloads that are completely stuck in FF, showing 20KB/S as a download speed but the file hasn't been touched in 5 minutes and nothing gets written to disk and the activity monitor shows 0KB/s of network traffic. I would open a bug, but I would have to write a server that would expose the problem, no decent repro case and it wouldn't get fixed.

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edit, Many times I have to pause a download and then resume to get the dl unstuck.
The original point was to get discount codes that weren't given out willy-nilly by the vendors, so I'd say that makes it less useful/legit, not more.
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I think everyone interested in American politics needs to read some of Chomsky's work. I don't agree with everything he says. It is important to hear and consider all sides of every argument. In general terms, yes, I believe we've made a mess out of foreign relations for a long time. Not sure I'd go as far as calling us terrorists. I can absolutely see how big brother would want to keep him and other under watch.

EDII: My problem with such figures is that universities put them up on pedestals and don't necessarily go out of their way to present contrasting viewpoints on the same stage, at the same time and to the same audience. The young and the impressionable swallow this stuff up without much thought and observation because they are led to idolize such figures. This results in intransigence and extreme positions without thought later in life. In other words, they are handing people fish rather than teaching them to fish.
I got a link at the bottom of the page that said "Continue to fp.com", and it took me to the article.
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Really? So how do they distinguish I am a new user or not, if I am not logged in? From IP address? Maybe I need to reset my router, get a new IP, visit Amazon in private browsing mode and then doing the search so I have the price before logging in...?
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How about moving the coupon code field up front? If I have a coupon code, that's probably why I'm on the site now, I want to apply it, and I only want to see what it applies to.

Let me enter the code right away. Show me what it applies to. Make it easy to use it. Don't make me go thru all the contortions of buying something, unsure of whether the code will apply or not - and pissing me off if it doesn't after all that.
This forum is designed to prevent casual visitors from downvoting other people's posts, so they've set up a threshold of 500 karma points before you're able to downvote. Your present karma is 26, so you have 474 points to go before you can retaliate against all those mean, unfair readers who downvote your posts. :)
I guess it depends on whether the coupon is thought of as an incentive to buy or a cheat code.
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Well damn. I was hoping for bugs being concealed under his desk or something.
Useful, but a far better and more complete guide is here (via dweekly):

http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock-...
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For you they must answer those questions. For some (like myself) these are enough. I don't need or want to load all of jQuery unless I'm using more than just DOM selectors and manipulation. The projects I'm working on now all target the latest browsers so I don't care about IE 6/7 or backwards compatibility.

Yes, I could write one myself but this way I don't have to maintain the codebase. Nothing is a 'one size fits all' solution but for some this is a good start.

My point being don't dismiss it just because it doesn't fit your needs right now. It's still worth taking a look at.
My drivers (older ATI card) are blacklisted as well, but starting chrome with the ignore-gpu-blacklist flag works fine. WebGL also works fine within Firefox, so I really don't understand why Chrome keeps blacklisting the drivers...
This is my only real worry about Soylent. Most of the argument people make against it make little sense (including this article). The only thing I can imagine being a problem is the fact that our digestive tract is made to extract nutrients from stuff and poop out the remains.

If we only get the nutrients without the crap to poop out, much of our digestive tract has little to do. And physiology tends to revolve around "use it or lose it". Astronauts living weightless for a significant time lose muscle and bone mass because they don't need it. If you eat nothing but Soylent for a year, will you still be able to handle normal food?

That's really the only significant problem I can think of with the Soylent approach to eating. And it could be a serious one, though I suspect it's easy to mitigate by mixing the occasional real meal into the mix.
As much as I love the Virgin trains in the UK, a substantial part of it is not covered. I travelled down from Scotland through Wales and over into London and only a portion was covered by Virgin (sadly).
France is an interessting case. If I remember well, the have a group of people (project managers, politians, you name it) preparing the case well before any actual construction work starts. Yet, as afar as I remember, there actually were some controversies when they started a TGV line somewhere in northern France. But it still works pretty well, one benefit of being highly centralized.

Another factor at play is that TGV lines are purpose built for high-speed traffic (curve radius, climb rate, ...) while for example in Germany they are mostly shared. That makes the single TGV track cheaper, but you still ahve to built another track for lets say freight. If want another track, that is.

But the cool thing ist that TGV don't stop at every single village that happens to be the hometown of some polititian.
No, there is no caveat; we're working on openstack first, then rackspace, then others. It's just started out obviously. We examined goose/juju and preferred to approach this via the Apache 2 license ala all of the other tooling/SDKs out there we (Rackspace) support and assign developers to.

Yes, it is currently focused on openstack clouds, but the goal is to reach parity with Fog (ruby), jclouds (Java), Libcloud (Python), pkgcloud (node.js), and so on.

The focus is a series of clean abstractions for users to be able to build tools and programs which can talk across any cloud provider easily using a common set of names / abstractions.
The most amazing thing about this is that the government asserts that the "constitutional-rights-free-zone" at the border extends 100 miles away.

http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/fact-sheet-us-con...
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I am not sure if you are asking a question, or if you are rhetorically stating your opinion. Either way, I personally feel like facilitating discussion on this site brings more benefit to the world than warning everyone not to visit the site and perhaps stifling discussion.
It annoys me, and if the purchase is for something that I don't need immediately, it always makes me try to find either a coupon code, a cheaper price, or even a cheaper alternative.
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You really ought to log a bug about that.
"thats how the world works"

I love that. In start up land people always seem to ignore things that have been done successfully for years thinking that certainly there is something wrong and legacy business must be making huge mistakes and throwing out their money on things just because "it's the way it's always been done".

The problem of course is understanding which one of those things are wrong and which actually work (to which you really don't need studies) to prove.
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Don't mess w/ coupons, just ask Ron Johnson.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-10/lessons-from...
Inaccurate title. The network still sets the difficulty every 2016 blocks ( i.e. 2 weeks) so that it takes 10 minutes on average to create a block.

Right now, however, people are adding so much computational power in that intervening two weeks, that by the end of those two weeks it takes 6 minutes to create a block, not 10.

This is presumably due to custom hardware mining rigs coming online since they just shipped.
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Not directly relevant: Anybody noticed the dog in the picture there?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/08/18/magazine/18po...
Yeah, I have been toying with how to write a server to automated test cases to repro these bugs. Almost all issues I have with browsers is how they behave on slow connections. On the very fast and reliable connections we have in the states, many of the issues are not present.
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Here's a better phrasing:

In 2013, a software company can choose to become a pure Javascript shop. There are good solutions for app writing in Javascript for web, mobile, desktop and server. They might not always be the best solution, but it's becoming increasing difficult to argue that they aren't good solutions.

That might be a good choice for a company to make; but is it a good choice for an individual? Do you want to be limited to pure Javascript shops or stuck in a role in a mixed shop? Do you want to completely miss out on all the benefits that learning new languages bring? For example, you could learn Oberon to make your object-oriented Javascript better and learn Haskell to make your functional Javascript better.
An interesting exposition, one that avoids mentioning that a person who tries to assign a value to "undefined" needs psychological help.
> Does any country actually have a genuine politician with a CS degree in office?

One U.S. Congressman, Pete Olson (R-TX-22), does have a CS degree, from Rice. He later studied law.

Engineers and physicists are slightly more common, though only slightly. And one Congressman, Jerry McNerney (D-CA-9), has a PhD in mathematics.
The privilege of not being catcalled every time they walk down the street (this is very real and very disturbing). The privilege of not being approached by every man who wants to sleep with you. The privilege of men not feeling entitled to your attention whenever they want it. The privilege of not being constantly objectified. The privilege of being able to go to a bar just to hang out with friends and not be approached by every dude in the bar. The privilege of being payed more (I recommended my friend for the exact same position I was in and she ended up being offered 20% less than I was before negotiation). I could go on forever..

You can't choose your sex, but you can absolutely choose your gender.. Please learn about the difference between the two.

There are no laws that favor men in western society? What if I told you that divorce law favors men? What if I told you that when men actively seek custody they are awarded full or joint custody 70% of the time. http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/Massachusetts_Gender_Bias...

And I'm pretty sure feminism is anti-rape culture. Most women are taught that in a rape situation it's better to not fight back, some schools of feminist thought teach the opposite. They teach women to fight back and to not accept the role of victim.
If I pay them $5 less than I was about to pay them, in what world is that not them losing $5?
That was a surprisingly petulant and inaccurate summary of the article.
Great post, Jeff! I must admit, I have been guilty of [publicly] griping about Drupal in the past. I think your post hit the nail on the head; I was frustrated because I didn't understand why things were the way they were. On top of my frustration, Drupal was probably, in all honesty, overkill for the projects that I was considering it for, and I ended up falling back on WordPress or something custom-built (primarily the latter). This was back in the Drupal 5 days, mind you. D7 seems to be a huge improvement over D6, and D8 looks to be even better. Looking back, I think a lot of it had to do with my maturity as a developer (or lack thereof)!

While I've always fancied myself a LAMP dev, I was still very new to development at that point, so the "hack it together" way of doing things made much more sense, because it was easier. Mixing views/templates with business logic (and database access) was easier than learning and implementing good architecture. Separation of concerns? Who needs that? (It was more like "what's that?" back then, but I digress) Thankfully, I've seen the error of my ways and have continued to mature as a developer. I think most seasoned developers would agree that this is an all-too-common pitfall that new developers fall into.
Did the same, said their direct competitor was going to offer me 30% less, they gave me 25% off for the next year. Not bad.
Has anyone tried putting a generic coupon code on the checkout form, right next to the input box?

Or even pre-filling the input box with the generic code?

Seems like that way, everyone can feel good, and some can feel even better.

p.s. Oh wait. I should probably file a B.S. patent for this idea. Unless someone has already has.
"This is a pretty ridiculous complaint."

People are different. I do what he described every single time I see the coupon code when I wouldn't have thought about searching for one. I would have been happily enjoying my purchase instead to cruising junky ad filled sites looking for a discount.

It's simple loss aversion. Instead of people seeing their purchase as a gain, they think about what they're losing by not having a coupon.
But then why have coupons and just offer money off to everyone?

Why would you offer a discount to people when you can make more money by not offering a discount? To me I see the coupon as a reward to the people that know about it. Plus if it's a promotion you are probably increasing the volume and taking away the price comparison for people that like to save. Plus maybe some loyalty knowing those guys always haave coupons.

Take GoDaddy for instance. They always have promotions running. If someone just wanted to purchase a domain they would go on there and pay $12 but if they wanted to save money they could drive the price down to as low as $2.49 (in some cases). They are not losing money at that price and will even make more in the long run since they didn't lose you to namecheap and for the rest of the time you own it with them you will be paying $8-10 with the convenience of auto-renew.
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