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How ‘Gamification’ Can Make Your Customer Service Worse(wired.com)
24 points by sunir 14y ago|7 comments
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How to write a business plan (Olark live chat YC S'09)(howtowriteabusinessplan.com)
6 points by sunir 14y ago|1 comments
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by sunir 14y ago
She should next demand a copy of all information Amazon has on her under the Data Protection Act (1998), since that's what the Act is for.
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by sunir 14y ago
How would you envision that working? What is the estimated distance function?
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by sunir 14y ago
All my top priorities are mandatory. All 18 of them. Especially if they are contradictory. That's usually how it goes. No sense feeling angst about it.
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by sunir 14y ago
Depends on the court ruling on the matter. Here's a case where a single comma cost $2 million. http://heideas.blogspot.ca/2006/08/case-of-2000000-comma-and... Here's a choice paragraph: The CRTC lawyers, "armed with the rules of gramm
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by sunir 14y ago
Manufacturing output in the United States generally increases over time, but output is generated through gains in productivity from automation (e.g. robots). Therefore, the absolute number of jobs in the manufacturing sector has been steadi
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by sunir 14y ago
Aw, c'mon! If you worry about getting the elephants to agree, you'll get stuck in committee adding enterprise cruft. You can move forward without them. You can build protocols with your fellow smaller companies that have a pressing need to
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by sunir 14y ago
That is not an answer to his question.
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by sunir 14y ago
I don't get your point, or maybe I do and I disagree. I hate doing my taxes. I hate mopping my floors. I truly hate weeding. These things are the cost of life. Adulthood means doing things because they have to get done, not because they are
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by sunir 14y ago
Wow. I love how they baked Skype right into Outlook.com. A great use of an expensive acquisition.
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by sunir 14y ago
On every microprocessor I have seen, increment has a different assembler instruction (e.g. INC) than add (e.g. ADD), so it is reasonable to say they are different.
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by sunir 14y ago
Increment operator ++
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by sunir 14y ago
You set it up. I spiked it. For what it is worth I like this comment more than your previous because it gets to an actual problem. The problem isn't YouTube's editorial choices since there are good competitors; but rathe that there is a lim
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by sunir 14y ago
That seems like an strangely authoritarian stance? The Internet is a free market. There are two billion people on it in 190+ countries and who knows how many non-sovereign entities. It is incredibly diverse and it is designed to let diversi
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by sunir 14y ago
I do not feel worried that we will miss out on the next revolution because its manifesto can no longer be written in a YouTube comment. As long as free expression is legal and there is a free market, there will be an outlet for free, anonym
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by sunir 14y ago
In my view, the most important goal for OAuth 2 was mandate SSL/TLS. That means it could remove timestamp and nonce, and only use plaintext signatures. Any implementation can do this and be backwards compatible with OAuth 1.0A clients by si
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by sunir 14y ago
I think the obvious next step was / is to make OAuth 1.0A into OAuth 1.1 by mandating TLS/SSL and declare the SSL-mimicking parts like the timestamp, nonce optional (i.e. ignored). Anyone can just do it by fiat, since it will be backwards c
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by sunir 14y ago
My advice, somewhat harsh, but I believe true. If you build an OAuth endpoint, build an OAuth 1.0A endpoint. It's stable, powerful, and effective. There is no effective OAuth 2 "standard" yet.
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by sunir 14y ago
Shopify is not open source. ActiveMerchant benefits Shopify by being open source because it allows third parties to write payment modules which can be folded into Shopify. Since Shopify's main competitors are written on php, asp and other n
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by sunir 14y ago
Give enough coins to do --almost-- three things so players are immediately encouraged to earn a few more coins to do the next thing.
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by sunir 14y ago
If you believe adults don't troll with complicated pieces, you probably don't get Tracy Emin. While I wish I was trolling you right now, I am being serious.
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by sunir 14y ago
True, that's why we must assume good faith when reading what others write. One will be right more than one is wrong and learn more than one would ever otherwise. http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AssumeGoodFaith
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by sunir 14y ago
It's not that straightforward. You are required to have insurance to drive a car by law for a reason. So the question here is whose insurance pays, which depends on the policy terms, not that the car owner is guilty of anything. You can ins
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by sunir 14y ago
Sure. Is the source code the software or the compiled binary? What is copyrightable? One or both? Is an API the source code, the compiled binary, or the running process of the software? What is copyrightable? Computer software is considered
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by sunir 14y ago
That's not correct. Consider this comparable example following your logic: The Oxford English Dictionary has a copyright on the dictionary of every English word, and therefore Oxford Press has a copyright on every English expression.
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by sunir 14y ago
Fixed the typo. APIs should be copyrightable.
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by sunir 14y ago
The register interface of a VGA card was copyright IBM 1989, but that wasn't the question. The question was whether the fundamental operation of a von Neumann machine was copyrightable. No, it isn't. That's just an idea, not a specific expr
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by sunir 14y ago
To assuage your fears or maybe exacerbate them: 2, 3 are already copyrightable. (Rightly so.) 4, 5 are not copyrightable because they aren't fixed expressions in a tangible medium. 1 isn't copyrightable because a phone number is a fact.
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by sunir 14y ago
Look up U.S. Copyright law and the case history on each of the suggestions you made. It looks like you may be surprised. I am tempted to go through them all myself, but it is less fun and may make you feel better about the state of copyrigh

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