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by alttag 15y ago
> ... I don't really see how it can play out well for them. > Can the expense of running brick and mortar stores for > customer service possibly be worth the added cost to > the customer? Seems doubtful. Cert
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by alttag 15y ago
You make an interesting point--why is it the technically savvy are partitioning their FB usage, but not necessarily partitioning their secure accounts in the same way?
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by alttag 15y ago
Re #3: Game theory suggests theaters can approach the same higher prices without colluding. Seeing as how price collusion is illegal (in the U.S.), and the results are reachable in another way, the accusation isn't necessary.
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by alttag 15y ago
Your second point is key: the fixed fee plans compensate poor writers as much as excellent ones. With that argument, I think publishers could sell a variable fee. Maybe there's a slightly more middle ground--pay based on the number of peak
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by alttag 15y ago
Right. The downside of underpricing is that it raises less cash for the company. This was the reasoning behind Google's adoption of the "dutch auction" approach to pricing their initial shares, although their value still spiked dramatically
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by alttag 15y ago
@ OP: There's a "view all" link, so that we wouldn't have to suffer the paginated view. Next time, please use that instead! http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/equations-for-geek...
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by alttag 15y ago
Bad behavior and Akismet combine to do the same thing (WP). The trouble is, you've made life more difficult for your users. On blogs, non-image "CAPTCHAs" are trivial. (e.g., "Put 42 in this box -->"), so long as your site is low enough
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by alttag 15y ago
... and also from the consequences of early stupid decisions. We're entering an era when all of our actions will be stored on the Internet. Give kids some time to screw things up in a more risk-free way before setting them loose in a world
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by alttag 15y ago
I concur. My (younger-than-13) children have Gmail accounts (which they don't have the passwords for), partly for use with Khan Academy. With the OS X parental filters, my kids know that mom gets a copy of every email sent to them. When the
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by alttag 15y ago
Are you talking about "Save to disk" icons that include pictures of floppy disks? =:)
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by alttag 15y ago
The trouble with CAPTCHAs is two-fold: First, that even a small success rate (say, 10%) renders them ineffective to someone with enough bandwidth. Second, and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't matter how good recognition algorithms get!
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by alttag 15y ago
I suspect the ability to leave at any time was a requirement of institutional review boards (IRBs) and consent laws (false imprisonment, anyone?). Perhaps a way to do it and remove the ability to leave would be to send them to the Internati
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by alttag 15y ago
It may just depend on how the contracts were structured. For example, in the OP, travel, room and board were billed separately. As you pointed out too, this contract was for 10 years, so there was probably a discount built in as part of a c
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by alttag 15y ago
I think it's a great question. I have an older generation Kindle 2, so do about half of my kindle shopping via a computer. It's too slow otherwise. (More specifically, browsing via a computer, specific purchases sometimes through the kindle
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by alttag 15y ago
... but not more books than I read in a year. The problem with that stat is that it includes the great number of people who read zero books in a year, which skews the average pretty significantly.
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by alttag 15y ago
Even within the U.S., it's been my observation that the sort of embedded undercurrent of racism you seem to be addressing varies widely by geography and generation. For example, I grew up on the Pacific coast and went to high school in the
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes, they have lots of users (and the article doesn't mention how they used network incentives to increase the user count), but more interesting would be the rate of conversion to paying customer, typical time to conversion (also, segment
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by alttag 15y ago
Jive Communications (Orem, UT) http://www.getjive.com/careers/ Senior Software Engineer: "The selected candidate would potentially be working throughout the entire stack of the platform from the Linux kernel to call handling logic and web
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by alttag 15y ago
Yes. My experience with TDD is that it did save time, but not necessarily in initial development. The long-term effect of fewer defects combined with the capability for a higher release velocity is a net savings. As a counter example, I'm w
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by alttag 15y ago
The counter argument is, of course, that you don't have time not to. Many programmers who begin TDD have the same concern as you. Many of them find that over time they're more productive over the long haul with TDD. It takes a little whil
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by alttag 15y ago
Maybe it's because I just spent three hours watching re-runs of "The West Wing". Maybe it's because I used to be an elected official, and had to deal with more than a few crackpots and nut-jobs with paranoid tendencies. What every it was, t
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by alttag 15y ago
But that favors longevity and undermines the "meritocracy" that many geeks seem to cherish. As a newer voice here, I think it odd I might be less valued (by orders of magnitude) because my contributions over six months or a year or whatever
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by alttag 15y ago
... Because lying to your kids is a good idea? From OP, part of the joy was using the key to open the machine and get a drink when others were watching. Removing the tangibility of the project (and the heavy lifting——are you teaching your k
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by alttag 15y ago
There are a couple of factors at play. My mother bought an iPad2 (I was surprised!), and she's never owned a portable gadget more complex than a feature phone. Her reasoning boils down to network effect--she's easily able to Facetime some o
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by alttag 15y ago
Good advice. I particularly liked "[W]hat you should ask is, 'Would you be comfortable writing me a strong letter of recommendation?'" I picked up another trick when I applied for doctoral programs: as the requestor, prepare sample letter
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by alttag 15y ago
Saying "that's just the way things are" is no excuse for tolerating the sort of behavior under discussion here. You're correct that it comes with the territory, but that doesn't absolve organizations (and governments) of writing and enforci
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by alttag 15y ago
Unfortunately, this is not the first time this sort of reprehensible behavior has cost the tech community good talent. Kathy Sierra comes to mind. Other notables (male and female) have recently removed their presence from the internet. Alth
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by alttag 15y ago
I don't see how your post is a response to mine. My point was that OP complains they can't change what users are searching for. I assert they can, but they have to change the way they market and talk about their language. They need to prese
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by alttag 15y ago
I installed Ghostery on the advice from some HN-ers a couple of weeks ago. I'm amused that for an article about Tor and anonymous browsing, the hosting site has more tracking scripts than I've typically seen in my few weeks of use.
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by alttag 15y ago
Part of having a differentiated product is avoiding market confusion. While there is certainly some back-and-forth between Google and Apple, are there those here that don't think Samsung may have gone too far in mimicking so much about the

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