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$100-200 is a great spot for small e-commerce businesses to target in general. No faffing about with tiny margins on a $5 transaction, no chasing overly-general markets to make up the transaction volume you need to stay alive.

For Kickstarter projects, maybe your low-denomination tier is more about expanding your marketing reach than it is about the money it raises directly.

"I rarely find anything suitable for my classes, so I usually do direct searches by subject on Google, sometimes site-restricting to sites of educational institutions, to find suitable materials for my classes."

Can you clarify why they're not suitable? Or are there any patterns in your unmet needs?

Which issues are most frustrating for you, or take up annoyingly large chunks of your time?

There are lots of people here who are interested in working on educational problems, either in a commercial or non-commercial context.

Clever, but maybe not very wise. Doesn't this open Greenpeace up to all sorts of liability?

You can bet Shell's legal team is already going over this in detail, and their response is not going to involve a bunch of retweet whoring on twitter.

The text is a bit mangled, but it's still better than doing CAPTCHAs. There's a table on Wikipedia if you want to make your own chart.

It helps if you understand Gini coefficients. But in short, they attempt to represent wealth distribution as a scalar from 0 to 1, where 0 is a uniform homogeneous distribution.

So to read the chart, you can tell how big the pie is by how long the bar is, and the non-uniformity in the distribution by how toppled the bar is.

The MK802 looks interesting. But in the USA, it's showing as $99 versus the Raspberry Pi's $35.

https://www.miniand.com/

My main interest in the Pi is that it represents a newish class of computing devices which are cheap enough to treat as ad-hoc embedded computers. The MK802 looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to fall into that category. Even the Pi is still towards the high end of what I'm hoping to see.

Here's a cool chart showing Gini coefficient versus GDP.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Gini_coe...

I know we often look down on the mushy stuff in engineering - but most of all, be kind. It's surprisingly easy to crush people without meaning to, particularly when they look up to you.

Given the way Google has been using high-pressure onboarding through several of their existing customer bases, I'm not surprised. And "visitors" likely counts people who got linked to a single post.

Jelly Bean added a bunch of stuff that I'm very happy to see as a developer. But it will take a long while for that to trickle down to the user level, even for people who get on Jelly Bean quickly.

On the other hand, this translates into bucketloads of low-hanging fruit if you're an Android developer.

> It's possible that if ISPs had not agreed to six strikes the MPAA/RIAA would have agitated for new laws which would be even more expensive to lobby against/comply with.

I don't see where "giving in a little bit this time so they'll go away" makes for a good long-term strategy. They'll just be back for more.

The animation of the images sliding goes off the sides of the phone's display area. It would be nice if it were a bit slower as well.

Sounds good, I'll flag it to check out again later.

Reasons I didn't sign up for a trial:

* Got Faceblocked.

* No obvious demo until I looked here.

* Demo profile suggests it's iOS-only.

* Demo profile has flawed animations.

It counts for more than doing nothing.

You could emulate this:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/37signals-campfire/id37740198...

It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above those, which we don't know the pricing of yet.

Bad presentation on their part, but hopefully that answers the question [that people would have when clicking the link].

Negotiation is negotiation. You get what you can convince the other party to agree to.

They probably saw their hit count go through the roof as tens of thousands of HN readers all clicked on the link hoping that Apple was releasing official support for Python-based iOS development.

They'll get more than a few sales out of this, but the submitter still needs to be smacked over the ambiguous headline.

This raises the question of A/B testing fake LinkedIn profiles to optimize for the sort of leads you want.

"I was afraid that Nginx might not hold up"

Seeing articles get nuked by a sudden spike in traffic tends to give one unrealistic assumptions about what servers can handle. Most can take quite a bit if you're serving mostly static content.

"We will suspend your account and you may be liable for civil damages" wasn't severe enough?

I strongly prefer not to deal with Google in a business context. It's great when everything is running smoothly. But if things break down, there's usually not a damn thing you can do about it besides post to your blog and pray.

"they garden to demonstrate that they are better than people who save money on food"

I think you'll find many more people who garden as a hobby or as a social exercise than people who do it for the smug value.

It's very rare that the situation isn't really "develop once, debug everywhere." You might as well promise me a perfect optimizing compiler while we're at it.

And even then, is the GUI actually appropriate for all of your deploy targets? Usually not.

If you're going to allow dozens of Camera* names, why the heck don't you just allow them all to be called Camera and let people sort them out by publisher? It's not like you should be using the name as the GUID anyway, or like Camera is a reasonably defensible trademark for a camera program.

> we haven't had a vaccine for the last 10,000 years of human civilisation, so what's another 10?

Terry Pratchett.

Him and who else? Whose grandmother? It takes time to make sure these things are safe and statistically likely to work, but it can't possibly come too soon.

It looks like this was primarily examining the safety of the drug in human subjects.

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00411580

Trial went from 2005 to 2010, results are just now out. Medical research is so slow, but there is some seriously cool stuff over the horizon nonetheless.

Most places without an HR department playing gatekeeper are unlikely to care, provided that you can communicate well about your skills and if you can back it up by showing prior work (via Github, etc.).

> We'll be charging for it down the line

Implement billing. Now. No excuses.

Not saying you did, just that the journalist has failed to meet minimum standards.

On the other hand, the problem could have been resolved with a phone call - from your lawyer, if necessary. Immediately making a blog post out of it on your end wasn't the most scrupulous thing to do either.

It also sounds like the problem arose from an innocent mistake on their end. Google doesn't warn against this when pushing their keyword insertion feature. It's on the user to be responsible, but Google could do a far better job on documentation.

My first thought on these matters is usually "unscrupulous affiliate."

This is particularly so when the writer hasn't bothered to contact GoToMeeting first. The fast reward loop behind posting sensational and confrontational headlines unfortunately tends to outweigh the backlash from not doing basic research before publishing.

For that matter, it's possible that MeetingBurner took out the ads in attempt to generate press. There's no way to rationally conclude who the bad actor is, if there is one, because the writer didn't bother to do their research before holding their hand out for traffic.