I wonder if the incentive actually is to "produce as good a product for their customers as possible," or if it's to find the optimal place on the "price to produce" vs. sale price*popularity curve.
I would also posit that in spite of the fact that, while perhaps "For profit operations produce most good things in this world" (for some very specific definition of "good"), news media is in fact a niche where not-for-profit organizations do have a history of being superior to for-profit counterparts (e.g. BBC, NPR, AP, etc)
Would you happen to have some suggestions on where to start further reading of radical economics? I'm halfway through "Doughnut Economics" right now, but it's a bit simple -- I was looking for something more challenging.
"page-break-inside: avoid" and "page-break-after" seem to work fairly reliably, as long as you aren't doing too much weird stuff with positioning, floats, etc.
Three major problems I've had with printing from HTML is
1) It seems that the different browsers have different default margins, and the outside margins aren't controllable from CSS
2) The javascript print dialog doesn't give any sort of feedback...it just blocks JS execution. There's no way to no if the user cancelled the print, etc.
3) Different browsers don't reliably resize things to fit on the page. Using percentages for anything (while maybe not recommended anyway) just doesn't work for printed CSS
Ah, at the title I thought this was going to be about WebRTC, something I'm pretty excited about, even though it has a quite a ways to mature yet (http://caniuse.com/rtcpeerconnection).
Interesting that they left out websockets. At this point Websockets seem to be reasonably mature, and with Socket.io/Primus/etc are dead easy to use, and allow for near-real-time 2 way communication. There do appear to be some scaling issues past a certain level with websockets though, a topic I haven't been able to find too much literature about.
As for webhooks, are these more geared towards Server-to-server communication, like consuming an API on the back end? Is there any chance that in the future browsers will begin listening on our ports too?
I don't think it's absurd at all. As other commenters have mentioned, seeing the coupon code box and not having a coupon gives me (personally) a feeling of remorse before I've even bought what I was shopping for. This should concern you, as a merchant, because ideally you'd like your users to associate good feelings with shopping on your site.
Beyond the "feelings" aspect, I suspect that, as is argued in the article, the coupon code box does lead in some cases to cart abandonment. I've certainly seen the box, gone on a hunt for a coupon, and ended up buying the same item at a different vendor during my hunt many times before.
Personally, I think the best solution for this is either special urls (i.e. www.shop.com/summercoupon), or a "Where did you hear about us" box, which could double as a coupon box, and just an interesting way to gather data about your users. Sure, you'd probably get a lot of garbage, and you'd have to put more effort into parsing the values, but, in addition to not alienating users, you might find some valuable insights as well.
Maybe you could make it detect when the device is turned upside down, and display a 180º rotated interface in the conversation partner's language? So the interaction would be input phrase->turn phone upside down->partner enters phrase?
I'm not so sure about the argument that most people would forgo the $4 cup of Starbucks, given a free alternative. Every office that I've ever worked in provided free coffee, and half of the office would still regularly pick up coffee from the nearest Starbucks daily. I think there's something to be said for
1) Crafting the "image" of superiority that people get from purchasing Starbucks (having that nice branded Starbucks cup, rather than the crappy styrofoam one your office provides, allowing people to order ridiculously tailored drinks -- soy half caff with a dollop of creme...etc) and
2) Providing an ecosystem to encourage the purchase over free alternatives (I've noticed that I'll stop at Starbucks for a snack because I'm hungry in the morning, and pick up coffee/tea as well, just because I'm there)
I've always wondered, what happens to the actual programmer[s] responsible for a bug like this? Assuming they find the exact issue, and then go back through the version control logs to the exact commit, how responsible, if at all, is the individual programmer? Or the QA team, for that matter.
Incidents like this make me think that I'd have a panic attack with every commit, if I worked in the financial industry.
But, given that many of the larger ISPs (at least those available to residential customers in my area -- Comcast and Verizon) are owned by companies that also provide cable (and telephone) services, what's to stop them from simply bundling cable service with your internet service and charging a bunch extra? I realize that not everyone has this problem, but in many areas there's almost an "information monopoly" with regards to web service.
How do you strike a fair balance between ridiculous interview questions (such as the example here, write code interfacing with some library from memory) and actually finding out a candidate's chops (assuming they don't have an open source history / github account). I think requiring candidates to have contributed to open source to be an unacceptable solution (although I can certainly see lending some weight to candidates with such credentials)
Anecdotally: We had a guy in for interviews a few months ago. In the phone interview prep by HR, it was mentioned that there would be some written “tests,” and the guy was extremely resistant. We had him in anyway and he did very poorly. The test was pretty simple: some stuff about magic methods in php, a fizzbuzz type question, and a few jquery selector questions (it was for a front- and back-end position), etc. Were we to granular with the questions? Did we fall into the same trap as Ted here?
I disagree. I think the confusion is caused by users not intuitively understanding the context of the android "back". In a web browser, if you click a link to a sub-page on a different domain, you don't expect the back button to take you to the home page of that domain, you expect to go to the previous site you were browsing. Do any android devices have something akin to the right click on the back button in web browsers, that shows the back stack?
Two things:
First, I don't think that huge kinetic weapons would be the ideal choice for this kind of combat. If I'm attacking an asteroid with a huge ass gun on it, I'd first like to have some type of EMP type weapon developed to simply shut down the tracking/aiming/power supply of the asteroid's defenses. Just the threat of an attack like that from orbit would probably be enough, as it would likely shut down life support on the rock as well.
Secondly, assuming that such a weapon isn't developed, depending on what you're mining, it seems likely enough that it won't matter what shape the asteroid is in. For mining solid materials, it would probably be best just to blow these asteroids into manageable pieces and send the whole lot through your enormous space processing plants for extraction and refinement. In this case, you'd need space fleets to protect your "planet crackers" and to protect your processing vessels from other companies, pirates, etc.
The only bit that was surprising to me was the history of computers that you've logged in from, and the history of other users that have logged in on that computer. While I can see the value of identifying public computer, it is rather unnerving to think of the "Eye of Facebook" following me wherever I log in. Although it would be neat to be able to access this data and create a timeline heatmap of where you logged in most over the years.
Does Amazon make no money from AWS and their other ventures, like the Kindle? It seems hard to believe that possible tax reformations could kill such a huge company.
The name "sieve" gave it away for me before I'd even looked at the code, but I decided to make sure I was right. Then i looked at it and my mind was kind of blown but how neat and concise it was. This definitely makes me want to take a look at functional programming (just ordered "The Little Schemer")
This is really strange. At the career fair at my school, the USPTO was there recruiting engineers and CS students. Assuming one single person with even a modicum of programming knowledge looked at this application, I can't see any way that this was issued, let alone after 4 years of sitting in purgatory(?). If this was sold to Lodsys could they sue any company that used a doubly linked list without licensing it? How would they even find out about what data structures you used in your code?
you could also try using the session manager add-on. I find it pretty handy for when FF crashes with 20+ tabs open in the HN tree, another 10 or so in whatever google search tree I have open, and some other miscellaneous tabs.
This seems like making a site like whohatesshoes.me, advocating for banning restaurants requiring shoes. If you disagree with the requirements of a service, you shouldn't use it (assuming the requirements are legal).
That said, the design of this site is pretty slick
I would also posit that in spite of the fact that, while perhaps "For profit operations produce most good things in this world" (for some very specific definition of "good"), news media is in fact a niche where not-for-profit organizations do have a history of being superior to for-profit counterparts (e.g. BBC, NPR, AP, etc)