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Dynamically typed languages are automobiles and statically typed are bicyles?? Not exactly a neutral comparison and hypocracy in light of his complaints against the strong vs. weak labels.

Isn't it fair to say statically typed languages are still faster but are generally heavier and less agile. So surely the inverse is a much better analogy. Or is it that dynamic are more modern? In which case may I propose: statically typed languages are automobiles and dynamically typed languages are segways! (I kid).
If you're going to rewrite the headline, at least try and make it a coherent sentence.
>" I think that the czar's quote was telling, and perhaps his feelings about power can be inferred from it. You can judge for yourself:

> “I don’t need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market,” told reporters in Brussels."

When you quote somebody,don't pick sentences out of context. The full quote sounds much more reasonable.

"If goods are dangerous, then we will order a recall. We are checking with labs to see if there is a problem with the phone, with their batteries or if there has been misuse of the device. We need to have 100 percent certainty from one member state that these goods are dangerous."

Sounds more reasonable doesn't it? She is asking her lab people to verify whose claims are accurate and trying to get to the root of the problem. Sounds like a good idea to me.

If It turns out that Apple is lying through its teeth (wouldn't be the first time) it is her job to take the phones off the market.

And of course she doesn't " need (Apple)’s permission to stop goods entering the market."

Sounds like a statement of fact to me.

Edit: Changed "he" to she"(thanks davidw). The original poster used "his feelings of power" and I followed on from that. Fixed.
Understanding the performance difference between dynamic and weak typing
Even without frequent flyer programs, airlines still control markets. Most people prefer non-stop to connecting flights, and not every airline flies between every possible city pair. So people are locked in to the carrier that happens to fly to the destination of their choice. Taking a connecting flight to save money might be as inconvenient as switching phone companies to save money.
This is great, well done. I have one minor suggestion: make it a one page app. Don't make the user go to another page when they click create. Use ajax to show the results just below.
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According to the rules on the website "Items inside must be usable", so I'm guessing the lock still works as intended.
This is very handy. I use it for the domain parsing on http://twi.bz because it allows me to handle the domain trickery that spammers/scammers would use to fool people with twi.bz. This enables me to spot amazon.com and not confuse it with amazon.co.uk or amazon.ru
If you believe you can do it, that's the only thing that matters.

Believing is a necessary but hardly sufficient condition. Ironically, almost everything OP mentions before the missing </sarcasm> flag matters too.
If Craigslist cost $1
Probably also worth mentioning Melbourne Jelly, which is a great regular event:
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Yeah, it was just truly awful to pay $99 to make $1000 from an app that basically took me a day to develop and a couple of weekends to tune.

/sarcasm
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The number of scam artists using the site would go down, because it's more difficult to be anonymous when money changes hands.

Only slightly more difficult. The reality is that stolen credit card numbers are easily available to anyone who really wants to find and buy them (in bulk) and so using "ability to pay money" as a criteria for detecting non-scammers is weak. That's precisely because what scammers are good at is illegal acts, like getting stolen credit card numbers.
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this reminds me of the "if email cost a penny" arguments. I think i agree, but I haven't thought about it enough to see the likely ramifications.
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"As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first," Facebook spokesman Barry
Uh huh. Perfect example.
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Dynamically typed languages are automobiles and statically typed are bicyles??

Not only is that particular comparison hardly relevant, he's not even comparing dynamically and statically typed languages there. It's beyond me how that can be the thing you get out of this article.
Or maybe it would become just like ebay.
Its a real shame the czar doesn't make such noise about apples app approval system. Thats what i was hoping the article was about when I clicked on the link.

But equally, microsoft, intel maybe now apple.

The key to threatening these big players is actually forcing them to comply.

Has microsoft yet paid their fines? or is still being zipped back and forth between appeals and lawyers.
And AI is the red-headed stepchild caught in the crossfire, where any approach that actually produces worthwhile results is promptly excommunicated from the field.

"If I create a program which successfully predicts which humans are trustworthy and which are untrustworthy, would that be AI?"

"Are you kidding?! That would revolutionize the field! That's harder than winning the Turing Prize! That's so far ahead of anything ever done it is hard to even imagine what it would look like!"

"The algorithm exists. Its output is called a FICO score."

"Bah, that isn't AI."
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The title is misleading. The article gives a very basic overview of stacks, queues, and deques. Nothing "advanced" about it.
If you drive defensively (if you've ever been a motorcyclist you'll know what I mean) then you can avoid accidents which nonetheless would not of been your fault. Thus, any accident is an _indicator_ (but not a perfect one) that you may not be the best of drivers.

An example might be the very common rear-end shunt at a roundabout (or "circle" in South Africa, not sure if you have 'em in the US) - an experienced driver will [usually] pull away confidently without hesitating. A less experienced driver can misjudge more often and set off only to suddenly stop, leaving the car behind to crash into them. Strictly road-lore says the rear driver should have observed better, they are liable as they crashed into a [near] stationary vehicle - but the foremost driver is hardly without blame. Yes, the rear vehicles insurance pays out for all damage; but the insurer of the front vehicle would be right in judging them a greater insurance _risk_.

It doesn't always work (some good drivers will just get unlucky and be hit by cars they can't avoid) but that's a rough version of a rationale.
Unfortunately it's wrong for certain countries such as Thailand (.th) which only allow for 3rd-level (e.g. .*.th) public domain registrations.
How the heck does a stack, queue, deque, and tree make up advanced data structures? Oh the examples are in VB so any data structure with more than one variable is "advanced".
You don't need to enroll in a dev program. You can develop .NET apps with freely available tools if you don't want to spend money on Visual Studio.

And jwz isn't trying to make money--he just wants to make his apps available for others to use.
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From what I've read around the Internet, Craigslist is perfectly happy being one of the worlds largest websites run by 32 people. I don't think they want to grow to a huge marketplace, or want to make billions. They sound like a company that's perfectly happy with their place on the 'Net and thats that.

From their Wikipedia article, "Other factors he [Craig Newmark] cites are consistency of down-to-earth values, customer service and simplicity."

To me, those go away if they start charging for posts.
The only thing that would likely happen in both cases, craigslist and email, is people would set up free alternatives instantly. Everything needed for that is out there for free already, ready to run.
It's really annoying to find out what you cannot do with non-signed midlets.

For example:

1. Your app cannot browse directories without the user being asked for permission on every change of directory. Try deveweloping a file browser with that restriction.

2. You cannot use a SocketConnection to connect to a remote host to port 8080 (only HttpConnection is allowed without beeing signed). Try developing an http-proxy with that restriction, when you want to forward every connection to another proxy on port 8080.

And the Problem with being signed is that you have to have about 5 different certs on your key to be accepted on any phone by any manufacturer on any carrier.

Those certificates are not free. They cost about 300$/year each.

This was really annoying.

I am so glad I do not have to do this on Android.
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I think the point is it would become much less worthwhile to spam the site, at least with 'simple' spam. Stolen credit card numbers are easily available but using them just to spam Craigslist is probably a poor return on investment. Ironically, more complex scams could become more worthwhile if users start to show a higher level of trust in ads because they've been paid for.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=797723

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=101255

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121063
Much discussion already at
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840542
Yes, I agree, you should generally ignore the naysayers, the ones who say "don't do it", "it'll never happen", "this is going nowhere", etc. However, don't immediately write them off. They may actually have some valid points and they should be considered. Sure, you don't have to halt process on your idea, but it can and should force you to re-analyze everything.

If these naysayers completely stop you from continuing your startup, chances are you're not cut out to run one.
Revenge is sweet...

I hope they sort the bank failures from smallest to largest so the fees for the banks are maximized...

http://www.google.com/search?q=bank+overdraft+fees
You are probably right that increased trust because of payments could make the scams work better, but bear in mind that a typical stolen credit card can be bought for a few cents. They are almost free.
Gosh, all that sounds amazing. Let me blow your minds, though: what if CL cost two dollars?

This is unbelievably weak. Godin's not exactly on a hot streak right now, is he?
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Have a look here as well for forms (the Start-up Toolkit):

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The iPhone is essentially a small format tablet computer so I think the question of whether tablets can succeed has been answered. As to whether large format tablet can succeed, I think they'll be quite successful as a niche product but they really need to be pocket sized for everyone to carry one.
With Symbian code signing can be done with an easily obtained developer certificate. At least it was easy and free when I tried last.

BUT: For a lot of the interesting APIs you need more than that. To send ICMP Packets you need a manufacturer certificate (for NetworkControl capability).

I understand that I need a different level of trust for DRM related stuff. But ICMP? Come on.
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Brushing it off as an isolated incident shouldn't be acceptable in any market, especially when there might be small children in the vicinity.

Come on Apple, don't tarnish your image. Whether intended or not this looks like complacency.
"And Microsoft’s competitors are doing exactly what Microsoft is prohibited from doing – bundling an operating system and a browser."

Yes, and ordinary people are allowed to step within 200 yards of schools. Other people, those tried and found guilty of certain crimes, are not.

I despair that even tech journalists can't grasp the basics of what is one of the biggest tech news stories of the last twenty years.
Yeah, J2ME is not perfect, but at least you can do something with it. The certificate prices are definitely way too high. And yes, Android is by far the best so far.
Wow, as much crap as my slashbot self has given Ballmer over the years, this interview really shows him having his act together.
The company doesn't care about punishing you, it's statistics. The insurance company is taking a gamble, and the odds of being in another accident, given that you've already been in an accident, are much higher than they were before. The odds have tipped against the insurance company, so they charge you more to keep it worth their while.
I agree with you about the "interesting things", but those aren't the majority of things by a good margin. The overwhelming majority of code written today is likely limited primarily by I/O, such as waiting on user input, network speed, disk speed, &c.

Also, most slower languages these days are explicitly designed with the ability to call into code written in a faster language, which means that with some profiling and a few dozen lines of C many applications can get 90+% of the speed of a fast language while still being written almost entirely in the trendy interpreted language of your choice.

Which reminds me, how many people in "the real world" actually profile their programs? I bet a lot of performance gains could be found that way in any language.
He's completely ignoring the fact that some people (a lot of people actually) won't pay any price. Changing the price from free to $1 would probably have more effect than a site changing its price from $1 to $10.
My wife and I lived in Innsbruck, Austria for a couple of years, and got that feeling (and its opposite) going back and forth between there and Padova, which is in the middle of a very wide open plain.
Even worse is that the slant about being able to use that money to do good in the world (e.g. fund journalism, etc) is almost certainly a swipe from Spolsky's recent craigslist rant on stackoverflow. I guess they might have had the same idea at roughly the same time, but I'm disinclined to think that given Godin's shoddy writing/work lately.
Hideous page layout in all browsers I tried, made it very difficult to read. The content isn't bad but the site is slapped together open-source CMS.

At least at the time I tried it, it gave more space to google ads than content. That is between the site failing entirely with MySQL errors.
Can you reproduce it, or describe what you did? In a couple months of using it constantly on three systems, I've never had a single problem with it.
I've always gone for the prescription that Faith and Religion are two separate but entwined beasts. Faith is the emotion that is shaped and controlled by the political/social/cultural construct of Religion. I find it insulting that this is so often disregarded by learned speakers such as Richard Dawkins.

I'm looking forward to giving this a thorough read, I always loved DA and his method of communicating some deeply philosophical and scientific ideas with the right amount of scepticism and curiosity to make something uniquely human of it. As Boris Pasternak would say, DA incorporates his knowledge in Myth - a master storyteller.
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Awesome. I'd be interested to see some links to things people are doing with this data.
Yup, incredibly weak. And it's written like no-one at Craigslist could _possibly_ have thought about this.
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They're established, they can start charging and as far as I know they already are for some categories. They've not got a chicken and egg problem. So I'm not sure what's so 'unbelievably weak'.

On a side note, Joel Spolsky was arguing the same point a couple of weeks back on one of the SO podcasts. He obviously said a lot more, being Joel. I'm paraphrasing poorly but one of his better points was that there's a certain amount of potential money in CL that at the moment is being spent on the very small social good of totally free listings. But he lamented the fact that it used to be spent on the much greater social good of journalism, which is a waste as people don't really need free listings, but they need good journalism for a healthy democracy:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/09/podcast-67/

They went on to conclude charging on all categories in CL was inevitable to stop the spammers and perhaps they could use the extra revenue to start funding digital journalism.
Isn't that exactly the point he's making
The app approval system may piss you off, but it's quite unlikely to do physical harm. I think her focus is correct.
Actually Senseo is a product of Phillips, which is a Dutch company, not Italian.
I find it weird that GitHub doesn't seem to be mentioning Anchor anywhere in its' blog posts? Is Anchor just helping GitHub move or managing its' hosting on Rackspace servers? I also find it weird that Anchor never mentions Rackspace servers.
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I'm fairly certain that any sufficiently powerful type system would need to end up being a Turing-complete programming model in its own right, and since I've already got one of those (I'm writing my program in it) I generally pass on that and just write the unit tests :)

Programming language designers are way ahead of you on that one! If memory serves me, C++ templates and type inference in Haskell and ML are all Turing complete.

Then again, in a world where XML transforms and typesetting are Turing complete, this isn't too shocking, I guess...
He's saying making it a buck will make CL a lot of money.

OP is saying that may not happen. People might move to another classifieds website in mass. CL might end up making a lot less money because less traffic = less price for paid sections of their site(ie. job sections in certain cities).
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Firstly, don't characterize competition as a 8MM gorilla, when they are a startup.

Second, don't worry about competition. Focus on your users. Listen to them. Iterate rapidly. Add features request by your early users.

The other way to think about it is the facebook > twitter status update* as a product. Taking one component of a successful product and making it a product.

* comparisons to fb might not be completely accurate since one of the founders, apparently had the idea for twitter when folks were updating their IM clients.
That is ridiculous. They got punished because they were ahead of the times, not because they were evil. What they did by bundling IE with Windows was the right strategic move. They understood that the browser was an integral piece of the experience before anybody else.
I agree the free alternatives would be set up, but in the case of Craigslist I think it probably has enough critical mass to keep its dominant position.

A free email provider would still let you send and receive messages from anyone. A free classified listings site doesn't give you access to traffic on the paid classified listings site.
Much as I like them, you have to question whether Google are going to be smart/rich enough to flank Microsoft. Or whether they can co-exist in some of these markets in the future.
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You are correct, it's not. In the simply-typed lambda calculus, generally recursive constructs (such as fixed-point combinators like our friend Y) do not have valid types and are not legal.

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Which ones? Three of them involve giving you stuff for free. How can you not like that?
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I think seth is saying a lot less ads will be placed, which will make the site nicer to use.

Combine that added usability with the critical mass it already has and CL stay dominant and will make more money than it does currently.
Hah, Microsoft underestimated the importance of the internet for several years. Netscape was the big browser before IE was bundled with Windows, remember?

Their bundling of IE with Windows, however "strategically right" it was, was also an abuse of monopoly power. And they were convicted of it.
Right. Charging anything at all may kill the entire site.
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By integral piece of the experience, do you mean non-standards-compliant piece of dung?
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I've literally just been considering this same question yesterday. I decided against giving a discount - I'm already pretty cheap though. If you keep discounting your clients you end up doing more work for them to make the same amount of money; if you've cut your cost of doing business and you're seeing some clients leaving for other businesses (and not coming back) then it seems right to reduce your costs to incentivise repeat custom.

Remember that [regular business] customers [with opportunity to go elsewhere] who get things cheaper will always want them at that rate though - we paid you £360 last time, why should we pay £400 now?
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