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PayPal is by far the most cost-effective way (in terms of % rates) to get up and running - compared to the time and costs involved in setting up a merchant account/payment processor.

As Aaroneous mentioned- Paypal Website Payments Pro allows you to process paypal payments and credit card charges invisibly in the background (there is no redirect to Paypal).

The processing fees/cost economics of establishing a merchant account/processor definitely make sense however once you're processing several $k/month.
Seems the author carefully and intentinally avoid talking about religions.
Why?
Do you know what the monthly minimum for Braintree processing was? The last quote I got from them was $200/month if you're processing under $1mm/year. I've also heard of a couple recent cases in which it was negotiated down to $100 though.
You misread it.

They threatened to deliberately break support.

Yes, on the surface they said "we won't support", but what they actually meant was "we'll break it next version".

If all they wanted was just no support they would just ignore the issue. By mentioning it, it's an implied threat.
Commiting scale errors in the animal world, then boggling at the GIGO results, is lame.
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I seriously doubt they reimplemented GTA4 with raytracing. Raytracing can exploit some of the coherence in camera location in its scene traversal, but its never been faster than rasterising a 'normal' game scene and if it is ever faster it won't be because of a matrix multiplication on the scene data.

The thing that both OTOY and Onlive seem to have done is make fast video compressor - which while impressive most likely is made possible because the hardest step in video compression is detecting interframe motion which is available to the compressor directly from the rendering data.
Keep in mind that "wrong" and "should be outlawed" are not interchangeable either. When someone argues that something is wrong, that doesn't always mean they want to strip people or companies of their right to do it anyway. Don't fight the straw men.
All architectures have opcodes for moving data, addition, multiplication, bit shifting, etc. They also all have a stack and registers. While the details are different (number of registers, for example), in general they all work the same.
And the few people who want free markets aren't willing to pay for them.
This article jumps to some pretty ridiculous conclusions. The support note just says that since Apple never promised to support the Pre (for very good reasons I might add), it might break, and in that scenario, it will be up to Palm to fix it.

They won't support your jailbroken iPhone for that same reason. Jailbroken iPhones can run background processes which can cause apps to crash due to reduced memory availability. In the case of the Pre, if Apple decides to make some technical change to its syncing protocol that the Pre doesn't support, then you really can't blame them.

Remember that if Apple were to implement such a protocol change, they would probably have to update a lot of iPod firmware, resulting in a lot of temporary syncing problems for a lot of users, resulting in an even bigger support nightmare.
I would work on a relationship with a bank, and get a merchant account. There are many providers that offer low enough rates for a startup. One that I heard of was Merchant Plus. Just get someone that supports authorize.net and you can't go wrong. This might take a little time, so I would recommend using Paypal AND Amazon payments WHILE you're getting this setup, since they seem to be easier to implement. I WOULD NOT however start with these initially, and not put any effort into a merchant account. You WILL need a merchant account eventually (if you're successful), so you need to already be working on it.
I really like your idea of the "rogue communication kit". Quite frankly it wouldn't surprise me if we WERE distributing this sort of thing, just very discretely.

If we're not doing anything here, I will be very disappointed. What I would like to see is the United States leading the world in proclaiming that we're not going to tolerate this sort of crap. I do not mean dropping bombs.

I DO mean doing "little" things like encouraging ISPs to set up proxies for Iranian bloggers to use. (The ones set up by individual hackers seem to get shut down just as quickly as they start getting used).

I just feel like there are non-violent things that we could do to show our support for those that do not what Ahmadinejad in power.
Although we have none of the tools those reporters do. We're not on the scene. We're not asking questions of those immediate sources (we don't even know if they are truly eye-witnesses...)

Proper journalism is a complex thing requiring a lot more time, effort, and money than I have for every news story. Looking at the hysteria generated by the 'reporting' on various Social Media networks in Iran.... I'm confident that very few people have those things as well.

There is value in journalism, and we are seeing exactly what that is now. Forming truly informed opinions based on social media is nearly impossible. You're better off reading the national enquirer really.
Sorry, but this article is bullshit. Apple is rightly covering their ass by reminding people that if they're dumb enough to buy non-Apple-supported products because they sync with iTunes, they should be prepared for the very real eventuality that Apple's changes may break that capability in the future. In no way is it threatening Palm Pre owners, just letting them know that Apple won't be responsible when things go south for them.

And aside from that, even if Apple is deliberately telling Palm Pre owners that they're going to break support in iTunes, so what? It's their product, they support whatever they want. The tone of this article seems to imply that Apple is doing something wrong here.
You don't know about compass then. Go watch the screencast.

CSS isn't complex, but building websites that work correctly in 8 web browsers most certainly is. Compass frameworks give you re-use without semantic fail.
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Before unite, I thought of opera as an irrelevant company that did good work. now I just see them as irrelevant.

One point that Chris didn't make in his post is that the problem they identified as the reason for building Unite (or so they say), the loss of ownership of one's data to third party services, is the same dilemma that inspired DiSo.

The reason DiSo is relevant, and unite is not, is because the good folks (like Chris) behind DiSo recognized that it's not just about where your data is stored. Just as important is that the format is open and interoperable. Although Unite has this quasi distributed model, it's formats/APIs are (AFAIK) unknown, not based on open formats, and for all intents and purposes, as good as proprietary at at this point.

Pushing the 3rd party into the browser is not a solution to the problem.
It's hard to post TEXT on a WEBSITE. Let's go shopping!
otoy was more open earlier; they've since locked it down a bit, but with some googling you can dig it out (eg: http://raytracey.blogspot.com/2008/08/otoy-transformers-and-... , links-> http://ompf.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=882 ).

In earlier interviews Urbach spoke about a very fast gpu-assisted transform from polygon meshes -> voxels for use in their raytracer (and some hybrid meshes); the use of such a thing for making demo videos should be pretty obvious.

The video compression aspect is also interesting and probably works as you say; the point of raytracing isn't that it's faster per-se but that not having to keep transforming your scene data means you can more-easily share scene data between multiple simultaneous users on the same
box (loosely: you don't need space for N translated copies of the scene data if you have N simultaneous users).
At first glance, this rings very true -- I've seen it myself in open-source work. As long as I'm privately chugging along solving problems, things go well, but as soon as I see the project as an attention-getter, I find myself focusing on the attention instead of the actual project. This has happened to several times over the last decade, and it has always led to me abandoning whatever it was I was working on. (Not that I don't take it up again later, but by then it's a different project.)

But I have a counterexample, too: my house renovation, which I'm blogging. (Cf. http://big-old-house.blogspot.com) Clearly, I'm being public about my plans there, and yet, knowing that people are going to look at what I've gotten done today is a real motivator in getting something done every day, even if it's trivial. So in that instance, the publicity has really helped motivate me (as Maro noted earlier with the Ironman prep).

Perhaps human involvement in big projects isn't necessarily a demotivator; in my house case, I'd say that I assign my social value to each task only as it's done and I can show people what I did -- by breaking the big project down into little tasks, and not talking about the little tasks until they're complete, I can get the best of both worlds (i.e. having the social support and advice of people, without the loss of motivation due to talking about unhatched chickens).
I think an easier way to do this is for a forward-thinking hosting provider, colo, etc. in the bay area to offer discounted or free hosting to YC companies (free during the YC period, maybe not after); a few months of free hosting to have a shot at a successful site as customer would be more than worth it.

(alternatively, convertible debt)

Piggybacking on YC's selection process seems like a good business model in general.
Less looks great for a variety of use cases. Sass is also very simple and usable outside of ruby projects, Compass more so in any situation involving CSS frameworks. The sass and less commands basically do the same thing at their core:

sass -h
Usage: sass [options] [INPUT] [OUTPUT]

lessc -h
usage: lessc source [destination] [--watch]

Less is definitely more lightweight and simpler in some ways (the absence of the .sass-cache), but not in ways that have anything specific to do with web framework integration. Likewise, Compass is not tied to a web framework at all. In fact, its default behavior is clearly agnostic (just images/, src/ and stylesheets/ directories and a config file).

Less fills a good, important niche by being very close to CSS while adding the core features that most people long for when working with it, and I will certainly use it in some situations. But Sass and Compass are both perfectly usable in non-ruby projects. Currently I'd argue Compass is more portable than Sass, both because of certain features (its --watch option that it shares with less, but, afaik, sass itself doesn't have) and its primary function, which is making CSS frameworks much simpler and more powerful.
I had read about their stuff a while ago, I'm not sure if thats what they are using in this example though. I don't know that I believe that the voxel representation would be a win without a sufficiently large N on a single computer, which I doubt is really doable. N copies of the transformed data is still not that much data compared to rendering it.
Yes, many of the founders are based in Greece (not sure if that is where it is structured though).

I met them during Startup Weekend Athens, very impressive and fun group. They are fighting an uphill battle with cultural vs. entrepreneurship. Will be interesting to see where they go!
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almost purely reputation. i know people who have gotten specifically screwed by paypal. frozen accounts, sized assets. have yet to hear that about amazon.
Most of it can be cacheable, so it's not a problem.
Could you expand on that? :) We've been happily hosted at SoftLayer for a few years. Our negotiated rates were quite a bit better than Rackspace the last time I checked, curious if their pricing has come down.
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Of course the premise of homeopathy is ridiculous, as would be the typical person on the street's explanation of how Advil works.

Also, some percentage of the effectiveness of Advil is also due to the placebo effect.
Mixins! Why has CSS not implemented these brilliant syntax rules? It's so intuitive and fits in with any programmatic workflow.
You say that with a lot of confidence but I can't see how you can possibly be so sure.

Furthermore, Apple has already released one update to iTunes since details about the Pre's USB signifiers were known. Breaking support for the Pre as it is would be trivial, it reports itself as a subtly different device over USB, close enough that the current version of iTunes treats it like an iPod but different enough that it should be very simple indeed to block it.
That is actually not that cheap when you come from europe or japan (doctor + medecine would be about the same)

But yes Bumrungrad is impressive and service is good...
How would you summarize his argument? Why did the title of the article refer to two parties?
Outgrew how?
Huh? Opera Unite is based entirely on open standards, AFAIK. All APIs are public.

http://unite.opera.com/support/#services_tech
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-unite-developer-pri...
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It was more like a database that you could program graphically and that was accessible for newbies.
And actually, Ward Cunningham wrote the first wiki with it.

http://www.jaedworks.com/hypercard/
I've always loved how LOOP incorporates so many common looping idioms into one readable and writable form. It's ugly and hairy if you look at it closely, and certainly Iterate [1] is cleaner and more pleasing, but LOOP is still damn impressive.

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Thanks, yes, I'll release it when it's ready.
No, IE will not support it for many more years, making any real-world deployment impractical.
I have no idea!

However, it doesn't matter what I think, or even who won or lost. A lot of people there obviously don't believe the results of the election, and they are vigorously demanding further proof. That's their right and I see the whole thing as a fairly healthy process. Regardless of who ends up the victor, a large number of people are demonstrating that they deeply care about the matter, and won't be intimidated by the state - this is a good thing, IMO.

Time for the rest of the world to just stand back and let Iran decide its own future.
I think about short urls and twitter this way:

Twitter is supposed to be real time so in reality the url only needs to last say a few weeks to really be viable even for search so if there is a pollution of some dead links over time, who cares its not like it is anything new and you should be able to google it by then.
I can't get the signup process to work... I get a server error when I enter my domain name (older than 2 months) into the secure signup page.

Also link is missing the 'm' in .com
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I believe the extra 20 characters is there to accommodate a username in addition to the tweet.
Distribution means not a single point of failure. So both cloud computing and maybe Opera Unite are advances on that.

But saying cloud computing is not the direction I believe it wrong. The idea of cloud computing is really adding more distribution to your network. So you can have cheaper servers all over rather than just your servers at one data center with a remote data store that never has been checked.

Opera Unite is really just the IRC and a slice of P2P. But there will be huge reliability problems as with any distributed P2P system.
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The HTTP Referer header suffices for all the uses you just described.
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I don't think it matters. More importantly, trust in the system has been lost.
"as you sort of imagine IE users as being less tech savvy, more 'used to' clicking on adverts etc."

IE users don't click on adds because they've been conditioned to think long and hard before clicking on anything in IE.

In fact...evolutionary principles state that IE users who are willing to click on any add they see have computers that are so horribly infested with nasty bits, they are unable to do anything useful on the internet.

They've been effectively removed from the internet gene pool...if such a thing exists.
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That web page has shiny-excellent design. It immediately tells you what Less is, how to install and run it, and then launches into source code examples so you can immediately learn how to use it. Very smooth!

(Someone needs to recognize these things and give praise to the people who so richly deserve it.)
What I can't understand is why Twitter itself hasn't implemented this functionality. They could just have an "add link" button which exposed a text field for a URL, which is then added to the message. They could then charge for metrics on the clicks. Why encourage the use of a middleman?

They could build it such that they could at least keep the proper href, maybe rely on a script or device API to count clicks. Best of both worlds.
Why the url then? Seems a bit tongue and cheek.
British hooligans, best in the world. With a bit of planning they could have been pre-positioned too.
Surely everyone has been using a homegrown version of this since they started with css? We use a build script to generate our css files with things such as:

.header { background: @BACKGROUND }
.maintable { margin-left: 5+@DEFAULT_MARGIN }

I mean, without it you are left writing it all manually!
Good to see something open source though, and I love the hierarchy.
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After suffering through a project with complex css I felt a similar itch
and tried to scratch it by developing http://moonfall.org/

Its very similar to this, differences I see are:

It uses C/Lua, not ruby, so the cool kids probably wont use it.

Its compiled, so no interpreter needs to be installed.

Its very fast so it can be run as a cgi script, either for just
development (avoiding the compile annoyance), or live (as its site
uses now), or run from the command line to avoid the compile overhead
in production.

You can add functions written in lua and compile them into the executable.

The variables are defined in a separate file, so your editor won't freak out
in css mode.

When I introduced it got on smashing magazines best of whatever,
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/14/best-of-july-2007...

I had a lot of css hipsters hating on me... a lot. They despised it.

Their arguments were like "you don't need variables in css, you have
to use the cascade!"

Something like

.my_colored_div, .my_other_colored_div { background-color:red }

... then way further down...

.my_colored_div { width: 100px}
.my_other_colored_div { width: 200px}

So instead of defining something once, (a variable), you should define
something (dom element) in multiple places.

I'm sure its obvious to you guys that defining something in multiple
places like that would end up a big mess. So it didn't bother me so
much being criticised by a group of developers who probably haven't
done more complicated coding than a few pages of php.

Anyway, I'm not promoting moonfall, I honestly don't know if anybody
is even using it, I never did, (although somebody ported it to a perl
module), what I want to say is ever since that project that motivated
me to develop moonfall, I haven't needed it, because the way I
approach css has changed for the better.

I have a few simple rules.

1. Avoid using css, it relatively sucks. Try to let the html do what
it wants. The more css you have, the more you will be fighting the browsers.

2. If you need variables in your css, you are probably making a big
mess that you will regret.

3. If you have a web page that needs a lot of css, its too busy, or
looks too much like a desktop application.

4. Only put global styles in the main css file.

4. My most controversial rule, one that has helped me the most but
will probably bring on the hating... If a style only needs to be used
in one place, or you cannot come up with a good name for it, don't put
it in the css file, put it in the style tag attribute in the html style="blah:blahpx". Trust me,
try it.
My point is that having a public accessible API or docs are no longer enough, you need to adopt open standards whenever possible. Adopting open standards ensures that the end user is free and able to move their data in and out of your service. One of the ways Microsoft torpedoes open standards is by adding creative extensions to them, so while 95% of your data is contained in an open format, it's not portable b/c the extension makes it unusable to services adhering to only the standard.

It's using XMPP vs. rolling your own chat protocol. Supporting oAuth for file access vs. a custom authentication API.

Everything I saw browsing through the docs is about how to develop for the unite platform. I don't see anything about interacting with a unite service outside of an opera browser.

In this sense, unite is a creative extension to an open standard, browsers with common functionality like firefox, ie, safari, etc.
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I was referring to consent on matters of policy.

So was I. ;)
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