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Generally we don't let our cards out of our sight. Indeed most of the time I handle my own card and it's only rarely that a shop assistant will handle it. (So writing down info isn't a big concern).

The portable POS devices allow the customer to tip as well BTW.

"They" don't run cards much any more. It's a case of consumers putting their own cards into chip+pin devices and keying in their PIN.

Sure @ disputes, we have similar, but it's an extra hassle and not fun.
Other curiosity: are you working on it full time or is it a side business?

Please feel free not to answer any of the questions if you think it is personal. I totally understand.
On the contrary. A part of the essay is available online, from the linked page. Tufte is very clear that it is possible to have informative presentations - but slideware does not help towards this goal. He argues that slides have a terrible bandwidth, and do not help anyone but the worst 5% of presenters, where they help by imposing structure - any structure at all - on the presentation. All other presenters, he states, would be better off without slides, and should rather just talk, or, better, give their audience their ideas in written form, as sentences made of words rather than slides made of points, and talk about them once they have been read and understood.
Isn't LINQ, an internal DSL, one of C#'s main selling points?
I don't really get it. Is => not a pair constructor in C#?
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Clothes is one thing that I hardly ever buy online for the very simple reason that I like to try it on first.
Although I don't work directly with the Xbox LIVE security folks, I've got a friend or two over there. They work extremely hard to do the impossible: preserve the perceived value of achievements and leaderboard rankings in the face of an untrusted client. Being the talented folks that they are, they are surprisingly successful.

Let me tell you: if your service garners any success (and I wish you the best of luck!) you will encounter widespread cheating. For friends-only leaderboards or achievement lists, this may be an acceptable victim-less crime, but global leaderboards or stranger achievement comparisons will be a problem.

Xbox addresses this with "secure" hardware, but still faces significant cheating. Constant patrol is needed to fix the broken windows. Do not underestimate then desire of some individuals to ruin the fun for everyone. Just because you don't see why you would want to do it doesn't mean people won't.

Good luck :-)
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TweetMiner has been a side project for the past 3 months - I've been averaging about 2-4 hours work on it per day
Plenty of businesses have multiple ways of billing.

If you order repeat bank statements from your mortgage bank, are they not allowed to charge you for postage??

As far as the article can show, Warner Bros is out $300K on the deal with little prospect of getting it back. That's presuming the digital download sum was actually $92,000 instead of $65.
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The essay you linked is titled "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within". The link from that page is to an excerpt of an essay titled "PowerPoint Does Rocket Science: Assessing the Quality and Credibility of Technical Reports". Given that they have different titles, I suspect they are not the same essay, and the latter essay concludes not with PowerPoint being unable to transmit information, but with a (sensible) recommendation to use technical reports when technical reports are called for.
What's a pair constructor?

"=>" is the C# lambda operator, which makes an anonymous function. Args go on the left of it, the return value on the right. In most cases, the names given to args don't matter.
hey, will you care to share some leads. I am interested in learning this (for fun ofcourse).
LINQ is an internal DSL, and it's a big selling point of the C# 3.5 release. I don't think I'd go as far as to call it " one of C#'s main selling points".

The thing is, c# coders cannot build their own LINQ-style DSLs in c#. Rubyists do build thier own DSLs in Ruby.
I'm not defending them either, just using my knowledge of the music rights industry (involved in legal side of Music Startup FYI)

The rights of each track are tortuous and split. There are many different responsible bodies that need to be consulted as to who owes how much to whom.

* Mechanical Rights

* Production Rights (maybe split say 30% 30% 35% somehow)

* Recording Rights

These are all spread around different collecting bodies. There may be different societies for different artists, countries.

It is a difficult, time-consuming and manual problem to allocate the monies.
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There was a story already about it, about a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=909396
The technology isn't the problem, the finances is the problem. Credit card companies are loaning money. If people don't pay, then they get mad. If sketchy people on the street are using this device and then the consumer says, "I got ripped off" and refuses to pay then the credit card companies are going to put an end to this pretty fast.

Paypal had the same issue. They got around it eventually, but there were still barriers to using paypal. How are these guys going to keep out the riff raff?
The numbers are scary: WB claims to be $300k out but they're not accounting for a sizable revenue stream. The post mentions the band earned $12k in 5 years from albums they control, and they expected the albums WB control to earn 2-5X more. Assume 5x$12, and you'll get closer to $200k.

Do that over quite a few years, and they'll end up owing the band money while the band members are alive. Keep telling them $62 over five years and they'll never ever need to write them a cheque.

How is this not pure and simple theft?
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You explain how the situation is asymmetrical, which would mean the grandparent wouldn't be happy with it. There's no conflict here; I think we understand the impracticality of the suggestion.
Ironically those are the ones currently most full of holes (been finding them for a while)
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I think you're missing Tufte's point. He's not saying PowerPoint is useless- he's saying the way it gets used 95% of the time is useless. Too often they end up putting their outlines directly into their slides, bullet point by bullet point, and insert graphics as a distracting afterthought. PowerPoint makes it really easy to do this, people are lazy, and this is what the audience has come to expect.

That doesn't mean slideware HAS to be used that way. Steve Jobs tends to do quite well with it. Tufte himself uses PowerPoint for his conferences. I imagine he'd agree with most of what was said in the article. Keep it clean and visual, as a way of cueing the audience with mental images and (extremely sparingly) emphasizing the keyest of key points with text. It should be a springboard for the presentation and not the presentation itself.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water- these programs were created and has become so popular because they do something people want, and they're the best tools people have, even if they are wielded clumsily.
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Sorry, it's not. The iPhone brought major improvements and some really awesome ideas.

SASS brings nothing to the table that hasn't already been done and it fails to even do the standard things better.

SASS was a great idea for writing CSS easier. Now it's just a crappy programming language that works with CSS. CSS needs to be made easier, HTML needs to be made easier. Making it a Turning Certified language is no way to do that.

Sometimes you need a hammer. Most of the time you don't need a hammer with six gauges and a penis pump. CSS is one of those times.
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Don't ever make assumptions about what I do or how I design. You're an ignorant sod for making said assumptions in an attempt to defend SASS.
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Simply because it means physically spending less time at the keyboard and less time with people who just want to code.

Socially mainstream means leaving work at 5pm and going to the pub, that's what "normal" people do.
This email trail disection involves data from around the Hockey Stick time, so I felt okay to list the historical disagreement. Time does not age the fact that shoddy practices were used as recently as 2001.

The book mentioned has quite up-to-date info.
I have no problem with SASS's basic concepts but I'm a supporter of using whatever language you feel comfortable with to write web pages. I think HTML blows donkey shit.

In this case SASS doesn't need that. Every major and most minor languages can do variables and loops. Wouldn't it be more intelligent to focus on getting SASS as a universal way for programming languages to work with styling instead of making SASS a programming language?

At some point you have to stop and think about what's better for the community.

A niche programming language that brings very little to the table much less anything done well is not good for the community.
What are these "points" Albini is talking about in his article?

Like here: "Wasn't it Buffalo Tom that were only getting 12% less 10? Whatever. The old label only wants 50 grand, an no points. Hell, Sub Pop got 3 points when they let Nirvana go."
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The regional networks were pretty useless. Putting the whole of the UK in the "London" group? :/
I'm a little confused by your comment in relation to tungsten's. I think he was just saying "easy money." A way around the need to manually crank.

Between your comment and tungsten's, I think I'm missing something.
I upvoted this because it's a wonderful example of mathematical crankiness. I've always wondered why cranks are attracted to the same things: Cantor's diagonalization proof, squaring the circle, 1=0.999.. Perhaps it's because the problems are easy to understand, but the proofs aren't.
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We are currently working on an idea plattform, a central place to easily share and distribute ideas. A littlebit like halfbakery, but a lot more serious, with a stronger business focus and some advanced features. For us this is mostly a fun project (too many ideas we need a place to share and store them).

We are currently working with the name "crowdconcept" but I would love some feedback.

Especially since we are a german team. Concept has a far broader meaning in german than in english, so their might be a kind of misunderstanding on our side.

If you want to know more just follow @crowdconcept on twitter. Going to have an alpha ready in the next two months (hopefully).
I think you could take the lessons outlined in this post even further. For some people, college itself is an unnecessary step. Nearly everyone I know has been groomed to pass high-school then pass college then get-a-job. I think that skipping any step that isn't necessary to your own goals will help you get where you want to be a lot quicker. The fewer distractions the better.
What does the affiliate bit mean? Affiliates generating income for tweetminer by selling it?
Or tweetminer acting as an affiliate showing people adverts and generating income?
Percentage points on the gross retail revenue. Look at the spreadsheet under the article - the producer gets $90,000 (-$50,000 advance), being 3% of $3,000,000 record sales.
And that is what I do not understand about Super Mario World (SNES). It seems to be the most popular of them all and people love it. To me the controls are very inaccurate and sluggish, especially compared to Super Mario Land 2 (6 golden coins, Gameboy).
So is that the definition of a race condition (in regards to parallel programming)?
FWIW Even if true, I'd rather have a large number of consumers spending money, than 2 customers paying millions.
Thanks for your comment.

It's hard to establish your credentials (account created 7 hours ago, just like your post).

Normally I would have looked through your previous comments/blog and tried to establish veracity of your claims. Freshness of account means thats not possible.

But in my mind there's two options

1) You're claims are not legit, you're a stooge

Shame on you.

2) You are legit, and you are mentioning your personal opinion

Thank you! It's nice to hear someone vouching for someone.

The HN startup community do it all the time. They just happen to be 20 somethings looking (rightly) to fit into the YC community.

I don't think you are appealing to authority as your comment will be judged on its own merits. Fuck those argument technicality Nazis anyway... you're not claiming to be a doctor, or the head of some company. Nor are you claiming to have special information that other people don't have... I'm sure lots of people have met this Craig (not me I'm in London) and could deny your view hiding behind screen_names.

I'll wait to see whether you continue to post to see if its 1) or 2). In case you are 2) please don't be discouraged by ignorant haters.
Definitely. And their weight should be counted towards their baggage allowance.
Ah - still scary, but not nearly as scary as puncturing the eye.
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I stopped doing consulting and lived off my savings whilst building my first SaaS app. It took a few months to get ramen profitable and I had zero income the whole time during development. Looking back, that was actually kinda stupid of me...

But we're not talking about time or opportunity cost, we're talking about hard expenditure right?

In that case, probably about $3000. Got spent on a bunch of things - hosting, buying software licenses, SSL certs, icon sets etc etc.

My biggest expenditure was on hosting. I went with a dedicated Rackspace server and I signed up way too early. 2 months into my contract I still hadn't launched and was, of course, paying a flat fee per month (not cheap!). This is precisely the situation I could avoid by using cloud solutions, but at the time there wasn't a cloud service out there I was comfortable with using. Tried out Rackspace Cloud Servers recently and would like to use that for future projects.

You live and learn.
Yes it was, on the Playchoice system (SMB had a Vs. system release). See the KLOV: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9914
I've seen some previous reviews and highly disagree with 'em. People, if you wanted memory alongside this, you shoulda read the description better. As for me, these people have done nothing but watch my back. I purchased one way back in January and it still runs smooth as silk. I had all my cords and memory and whatnot from my previous and busted 360. and in my opinion, it ran better. When I went to buy another as a gift for a friend, the first thing that happened was they asked me if it was because the last one I bought was busted already. They gave me instructions that were not only beneficial but very kind. These people look out for their customers unlike the rest of of the customer services I dealt with. I for one have never once made a regret of buying this. But for those who just rush shop and not pay attention, then, yeah, let the buyer beware.
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Not the sort of thing one likes to think about, but glad Facebook have (thought of it)...
Seriously who reads more than 5 pages of news from the same source a day? I assume 99.99% will not get affected by this. People who are dumb enough to pay for online news will pay for online news, regardless of the changes.

Advertisement is the only way of revenue for news publishers, subscription is silly and short-sighted.
"Some readers have discovered they can avoid paying subscription fees to newspaper websites by calling up their pages via Google."

This is absurd on so many levels. People find the article with Google, but it's the newspaper who puts it up for free. Yes, there is a question here, but this article is confused. The question is simple: newspapers produce content, Google indexes it, how do they split the ad revenues? I would think that both parties are free to put up ads on their pages, and they do, but newspapers are trying to cut into Google's ad revenue. I'm sure they're also willing to chip in to help pay for Google's cost of maintaining their index, after all, it's driving traffic to them...

If we're talking about a subscription article, then Google shouldn't (can't?) index it anyways?
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"Google users may start seeing registration pages appear when they click for a sixth time on any given day at websites of publishers using the program."

It's not entirely clear to me that this means that it's five pages from the same source - I think it might be five pages, total, from all participating sources.
Ah, then no, it's not a pair constructor.
Here's hoping Google News gets an easy way of ignoring articles behind paywalls...
The converse is should 'small boned' people pay less to fly?
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Your problem is that in their eyes Yahoo Pipes doesn't have any legitimate uses against their feeds -- it's a naked proxy.

They'd never block Google Reader -- they'd sooner just disable RSS entirely.
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The first thing I glanced one this page was the words "crowdconcept" and then read what you guys do.

I personally thought you guys did something else. I don't think "concept" seems to convey the meaning you guys seem to be looking for.

Try playing with the word "idea" or a derivative of it.
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I usually read about 10-20 pages from the BBC and from my local newspapers' sites.

Of course, the latter will change, as the company that owned them has announced plans to make their entire newspaper constellation (several hundred local newspapers across the UK) paywalled, and both local newspapers for me are owned by the same company.
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The problem with idea is, it's an overused term.

What did you expect when you read crowdconcept?
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The blog post just repeats the story.
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Let’s take Twitter as an example then.

The only reason that Twitter is possible, at any kind of scale, is because decades of research have been put into the algorithms that route messages inside big computer systems. Do you remember that first year or two of Twitter when it was the laughing stock of the internet for its constant interruptions and crashes? Well, eventually they had enough money to hire someone who was familiar with the latest CS research, and could actually make the thing keep up with their user base. That's not considering all of the further decades of effort put into all of the implemented infrastructure on which modern computers and networks run, into compilers, kernels, network stacks, security, etc. etc. And of course the computer software prerequisites to Twitter are just the tip of the iceberg, the whole thing built on that marvelous edifice of millennia of scientific and mathematical investigations.

I'm told Twitter is neat (I really have no interest in using it myself).... but it’s both utterly dependent on Science, and also not that scientifically interesting, as an idea. (Topics related to Twitter might be interesting; for instance, the social networks could be interesting for sociologists, the use by dissidents might be interesting for political scientists, the details of the network stack might be interesting to computer scientists, etc.)
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1. It's too long.

2. It's not easy to decipher what you guys actually do, just from the name. Of course, you could pull of a totally non-English, weird-sounding name ("Twitter", "Google" etc), but that would have to be catchy and easily recognizable.
Blogspam, devoid of content. See the original for a much more thorough discussion.

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