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That may be true in the USA, in many other countries there are no such things.

The PC industry is in a way better shape. Steam, GOG, ps3 and xbox store. There are way less restrictions based on countries and delays, and almost all games have multilanguage pre-installed so you can play in any language you like.

Downloading/Streaming movies in other countries other than the USA have huge delays, very limited choice, high prices, and most of the time you can't even choose in what language you can see them.

While it means that customer repcan not see the password or that the password is hased, they should have a system to let them acces your account without asking for your password.

Every time I see people start arguing about editors I end up here http://xkcd.com/378/

Actually not in a case like this.

This is not a pool for finding what is the "Best Language" (best language for what ?), but a pool to find what languages programmers like or dislike.

That is a matter of personal taste and opinion and there is not a wrong or a right answer.

Obviously if you have never seen or used or looked at the language you shouldn't vote on what other people say, but you don't really need to know the ins and out to make a personal decision.

Reasons range from:

1) Big corporations don't like to overspend on PC hardware and can have great deals with anyone but Apple.

2) A company that work mostly on Windows platform (.Net, MSSql)

4) As weird as it sound some people might actually not like OSX.

Is not about Apple haters is that the security code is actually more secure than TouchID.

If having TouchID will increase the amount of people that doesn't lock thir phone I'm up for it. But is not this amazing super-secure technology that will revolutionize the world.

In the contact form the name is: Hidden McRedacted

I think it depends on why you are making the API.

If the intent is to publicize your business by letting other programmers integrate their app/website with your service then I agree with designing an "API" that way. Because you don't want people to do with your API things you didn't intend them to do.

If the intent is to give other programmers the ability to work with your data and create their own thing using your service then the API need to be more flexible and be able to give more freedom possible to the users.

I've seen some of the new proposed ad-format for applications, they are a lot more intrusive than the one you will find on a webpage.

And that is for a simple reason. On a webpage you can put more ads per page than on mobile.

Say that on your webpage you have 15 different banners on every impression. That's 15 advertisers, with 15 different costs from the local Grocery Store to Coca Cola.

Now on your app you have 1 or 2 banner. The cost of producing the content is the same, but you have 15 times less advertisers, you have to make the ads cost alot more. And to justify that they will be very very intrusive, so much that old web popups seem nice in comparison.

It might be a joke, but is real.

Adwise, the reason why you have more impression doesn't really matter.

Citogenesis

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png

I think the best advice is not that you should start working right now, but that you should plan that the last 20% of your project is the one that will take most of the time.

That's true if you are building something tangible. You can't simply start building something (like a bridge) and fix the mistakes you make while you are making them.

But for programming ? You don't have those kind of costs.

The "bad" about that is that if "to google" became generic for "doing a websearch" is to stop other search enginge to start saying "Google it with Bing!".

Most professional website that base their income on ad selling will not rely on a Pay Per Click affiliate model, but will have an "Ad Sale Departement" that will sell most advertisment by a cost per Impression model (CPM, Flat Rate).

By professional websites I mean website that will have a team of people working on it that are depending on the ad revenue.

You are correct in saying that those kind of website are a extremly small subset compared to the many small website with a couple of google adsense banners, but are probably the website you read,consume and block the most.

I agree but, as you sayd, is a minority.

Most people that say are not influenced by ads actually are even if they don't even notice.

And I'm confident that most of the people that are using adblock are not in that minority.

If you are not influenced by ADS because advertisement has no effect on you so much that you don't even notice why bother blocking them out ?

I don't think the ad business model is unsustainable for the simple reason that Advertising is too important for most Business to let go.

I do belive that advertising agency have not kept up with the new Technology and are playing catch up (as many other business are) and that the actual ad business model should probably be changed and right now is not what it should or will be.

I can't tell you how many or which in the global market, because I have no idea and would only speculate.

I only have an idea on the numbers in the country I live where I work for an online only news website that makes all the revenue with only advertisement.

I think I'm safe to say that we are talking about websites that are big enough to have a small team with at least one "Ad Sales Rep".

The Sale representitive will go directly to companies and sell ads either by impression (CPM) or a flat rate for a fixed period of time.

Since the amount you can sell a flat rate for a week/day/month is based on your number of impressions/users is basically another kind of CPM sale.

If you are not talking about subscription I could see that happening but there is not a way to do that right now.

The best way to do this would be a webservice where you can put some money and affiliates website can check if you are logged to that service and charge you trough that while not showing you any ads.

There are alot of thing to check: - The user has to set an amount of money he is willing to pay per Day/Week/Month. - Decide what to do when the cap is reached. Showing the ads, alert the user that they have reached their cap or both. - Different websites can charge a very different sum per impression based on the scope, location,topic and number of ads in one page.

It's not an easy thing to do, with not an easy solution but It might be an interesting startup idea.

On smaller website that use Advertising networks like adsense most ads are pay-per-click.

On bigger website with a dedicated sale team most if not all ads are CPM payd per impression.

Edit: Also I don't really buy the "I've never in my life click on a website".

Because in the ads world more users is equals to more money.

A small fee for hiding ads will not generate a small revenue stream but, at the same time, decrease the value of your adspace.

And selling a consistent and growing userbase is easier that keeping a consistent and growing revenue from ads-free subscriptions.

The point against AdBlock is that it will block ads from website you like and that make most, if not all, their moneys from ads revenue.

You enjoy "free" content from someone and you block the only way they make enough money to stay alive and keep giving you this "free" content.

I'm not trying to discount the value of risk avoidance they are both important and should both be used, but mitigation should always be the priority of the two.

1) When you have neither you should focus on risk mitigation first. 2) Having a great and complex risk avoidance policy in place is a good thing but doesn't mean that you need a lesser mitigation system.

Everyone makes, has made and will make mistakes. Junior/Senior is not important.

You also could set up 20 layers of dev environments and it still doesn't matter, mistakes can still reach the outer layer.

You need to have the ability to recover from any problem quickly and with the data as updated as you need it to be.

I've did a very similar thing after one year working at my company instead of clearing the whole user table I replaced every user information with my account information.

I forgot to copy the WHERE part of the query .....

The only difference is that it was policy to manually do a backup before doing anything on production and the problem was restored in less than 10 minutes. Even if I had forgotten to make a backup manually we had a daily complete backup and an incremental one every couple of hours.

I'm sure it is, it's just that I personally don't like to register to stuff.

I need to have a valid reason to register to a website and usually "to find out what the website does" is not one of them.

I'm just saying that an explanation on what this service does and how it works before the need to register for it would be nice.

>[...] Tracks requests etc. And it alerts you if the page has over X requests in a day.

That's the (for me) interesting part but there are no signs of any of that on the website.

Probably if I register everything will be explained to me, but let me know what I'm registering for before I do it out of blind faith.

Since there are not FAQ/About/Explanation pages can you explain what is the idea behind this ?

Other than an online webpage editor that works in Chrome.

Edit: I'm asking this because I only see a web editor and a save button that ask you to register and two "sign in" "register" buttons.

Other than that i can't relly tell what this is suppose to be other than what I can guess by the Website Title.

I am somone with a very low understanding of Video compression, who (working in a small company) had to create a "simple video compression system" for the dozen of videos we put online everyday.

I'm saying that becaouse I'm probably someone that may be interested in Beamr technology since my "video compression system" is mostly a bad mash up of mencoder and handbrake with a few tweaks that is used for automatically convert all our videos for the different bitrate/devices we stream to.

The problem is that most of what you find in your website or your comment is marketing enhanced technical dumbed down mumbo jumbo.

What someone with a little (very little) understanding of video compression would like to see is an example of Beamr working it's "magic" and see if it's really effective.

A simple test would be to take a random sizable selection (at least 5/600) of different videos from different sources encoded with Beamr or with a vanilla version of x264 or others encoders tools.

Then show us a chart (geeks love charts) of the difference in compression and (some examples of) the difference in quality to let us see how amazing Beamr actually is.

I think the kind of defense you need to use depends on what kind of website you have.

Based on my experience if you have a small/medium website you won't find bots that execute javascript, understand a web page or use human spammers.

Those are reserved for the big ones, for all the others is mostly general-purpose bots that try every form they can find on the internet. Where speed is most important than accuracy spammer won't use the "Heavy" bots.