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Some iterations to think about --

I think your site needs some serious design work. It seems almost too minimalist. It looks thrown together by someone just learning html.

The problem in this comes from you offering what a lot people might think of as a sophisticated service (finding all available domains by letter), yet your site looks very basic. How can you have the technical mastery needed to get all available domains but not to have any color other than black and white on your page?

Also, pay someone to design a logo and spruce up your email template. It looks... bad.

This is sickening. 20+ upvotes on posts applauding this guy for scamming someone?

She did agree to buy the tickets in as binding a situation that can arise in an online auction, but to scam her to get the money is wrong.

I'm not rich and $600 is a lot of money to me. But I would rather eat a loss of $600 than scam someone to gain that money because $600, $6000, or any other number, isn't worth it.

Dare I ask ... how is this different from regular gifts on facebook?

Also, it 404ed when I tried to log in.

>My argument is that a private company should be able to offer whatever service they want.

This is not your original argument. The Yellow Cab company does offer the service they want -> A trip to anywhere that cant be discriminated against based on race or destination (it’s on the NYC transportation website). Your argument was that each individual driver should be able to pick and choose who to take based on any factors they deem relevant, which DOES include race, religion, or any other factor you can think of.

>This is not a city service.

I apologize, I began to use “city service” instead of “only service governmentally sanctioned by the city.” But the argument remains, what is the point of allowing subjectivity in the only government sanctioned cab company?

>No, going on strike would decrease supply not demand

Again, I apologize for not being more explicit. I was referring to the demand for cab driver jobs by potential cab drivers. I switched from talking about the market for cab rides to the market for cab driver jobs without explaining. Going on strike would decrease the demand for cab driver jobs. The suppliers would then have to make a more compelling offer to potential cab drivers for them to get back behind the wheels of cabs.

>Do you really think cab drivers have an alternative industry to flock to?

Yes. At any point I’m sure there are thousands of other unskilled-labor jobs in NYC that cab drivers can get in to. Driving is not a field of specialized labor. Anyone with a license and can pass the test can do it.

I built a pretty expansive ecommerce platform. This is what it included (kind of categorized):

Orders, revenue, average order, average revenue

Top search engine search terms, top referring search engines, conversion rates of search phrases

Top pages, top referrers, top user agents, total visits, visit duration

Top products ordered by quantity and revenue

New customers, first time buyers, total number of registered users

Top in-site search terms, conversions of those terms

Visits to order, cart views to order, checkout initiations to orders

I didn't include this overtly, though it can be done by putting two reports together -- Top customers by total expenditure and by order frequency

I am shocked that you're still clinging to this argument. You are suggesting that officially sanctioned NYC cab drivers should be allowed to not give rides to people based on race and destination (extrapolate to any service provider be allowed to discriminate against anyone for any reason). The fact that you're claiming racism (and any other subjective thing about a rider) solves harms caused by inefficiency in the NYC cab industry is morally repugnant.

I don't appreciate how you've bastardized my argument and then really eloquently explained yours. But that doesn't matter because your argument is a wash.

Maybe the system is inefficient, maybe it's not. The law came out of people not offering rides based on race and destination. What is the point of a subjectively offered city service with no viable alternative?

I know you think you understand the system, but why do you claim to know the system is inefficient and does more harm to both consumers and cab drivers? Is it based on this article? The comments? Have you done or read studies on effects of official city taxis and how their destination rules impact the citizens and drivers?

I doubt you have. So this is my argument You're trying to impose what you think (with likely not enough information) on an entire industry and all of its consumers. If the industry was so terrible towards cab drivers, then the industry would change because no one would be a cab driver. But there are still more people willing to drive a cab than there are medallions available so this horrible injustice your claiming doesn't seem to impact drivers as much as you wish it did.

If there was a law that made my industry so inefficient it harmed me and my customers so much and benefited my boss to an outrageous extent then I would show my disapproval by changing industries (either permanently or temporarily via a strike). That is how changes to the status quo are made in a market. Reducing demand so suppliers have to change their offer.

If there were similar laws in my industry then I wouldn't have sympathy for myself.

I knew the risks of my industry before I started the job. I made a decision to take it based on my salary/benefits vs the potential hazards. Cab drivers do the same. The law is in place to prevent people from being exploited by cab drivers. If my industry likewise needed further anti-exploitation rules, I wouldn't be opposed to them.

But not only that, as fun as it is to debate the merits or pitfalls of laws regarding yellow cab drivers in NYC, at some point it is important to recognize that the laws are a certain way and until they are changed or made "blue", they are the system that we have to work within.

If your boss is required by law to provide FOO upon payment of the standard fee, then our examples are the same.

Cab drivers aren't blind sided by the potential pitfalls of their job. They know the hazards when they start. To suggest anything else is not only ridiculous, but it undermines the judgment of cab drivers.

NYC might not own the yellow cabs, but they certainly dictate some of the rules governing them. The are extended that ability in exchange for the working agreement between the government of NYC and the yellow cabs.

It is the exact same as "your boss... was hired by the person that owns the company to tell you what to do."

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Cab drivers are free to pursue any other career path if they so choose and are made aware of the rules before they get behind the wheel.

They are implicitly agreeing to the laws governing Yellow Cabs by driving one.

What you're suggesting would be like if I told my boss I wasn't programming today and if he wanted any work out of me that he better come up with something else.

What separates you from something like CPALead? (Other than a slick design.)

It's definitely a winning idea -- There are several other people in the sustaining themselves in this market, so while there is competition, I also know there is room for growth.

However you're monetizing it, I'd look to geo-target specific methods based on country.

Also, you can look at online marketing forums (warrior forum, wickedfire (maybe), digitalpoint, and blackhat world to advertise your services. Right now CPALead has a virtual lock on these industries in terms of locking premium content.

Also, facebook will typically either ban/warn you or delete your linking page if you link to protected material.

I have no idea how you intend on using it, but I picture seeing a billboard or newspaper listing (or real estate print listing) with the URL, not just people finding links online.

Anyway, hope it helped.

Seeing a listing or piece of paper with "See it online at http://leasely.com/apply/vtkj43x1 would 100% absolutely stop me from looking at it.

Who wants to type that in letter by letter?

Build it. Make all statistics on everything available.

License it out to game theory/behavioral economics programs.

Let them access other users analytics just as other users will be able to access their analytics.

That could be a really fun and informative unit... or even the subject of an entire class. Actually using real world data and how users interact with the uncertainty of having their message sent balanced against the necessity of having their message read.

Definitely make friendlier URLs.

The current URL structure basically requires an email to get the word out about the listing.

I would suggest <tld><username><keyword> resulting in http://leasely.com/Joe/LakesideView

I'm sure they are joking about withholding bathroom access (you can get sued for that).

But it does seem to me that doing this seems to serve the author's interest more than the devs.

"How does it feel to commit on your first day?"

"So, why was it awesome to do that? There’s something about that which feels????"

It sounds like person would be excruciating to deal with.

I'm sure it's just me, but how much he glorifies his policy of first day commits speaks to some larger issue.

I hope this doesn't offend (but I'm not sure how it cant) and I intend no malice. But if my boss said that to me I would probably start looking for a new job that night.

I have a (procedural) problem with your critiquing something not inherently bad with no alternative. You haven't presented any new arguments against the GDP nor have you attempted to argue that any possible alternative is more viable than the GDP. I invite you to respond to any of the arguments I made against GDP alternatives.

> The problem with economic sciences...

Honestly, this is hard for me to read.

Lectures on the inadequacies of the GDP are Macro 101 stuff. Throughout college in my different econ classes the shortfalls of the GDP were frequently discussed by several different teachers.

This economic sciences conspiracy to prevent indictments of the GDP you're trying to present as fact is completely fabricated and gives a bad name to economists that do discuss the shortcomings of the GDP (read: every economist ever).

I think the problem lies in that the downvote has two distinct purposes:

1) People down vote to express disagreement. 2) People down vote to eliminate value-less comments.

There needs to be a separate function for each of these. Perhaps the current down arrow for disagreement and some sort of irrelevance flag which wouldn't impact karma, but would still make the comment fade or eventually disappear.

I typically approach down or upvotes to my comments as (dis)agreement.

What is important to me is furthering the discussion if someone downvotes me for disagreement.

Requiring a dissenting opinion with a disagreement downvote would not only satisfy my wanting to hear the objections to my comments, but it would also require the downvoter to have a good dissenting opinion (lest his post be flagged as valueless/irrelevant).

Requiring a dissenting reply with a downvote is for my own personal reasons, but I do think there needs to be a distinction between disagreement downvotes and irrelevance/valueless downvotes.

I don't understand your argument here.

You won't find an economist (or any other person person) in the world that thinks GDP exhaustively covers every aspect of an economy and how it provides a standard of living.

What you will find is that they all agree GDP is the best available measure to determine a standard of living that is derived from some level of economic production.

If GDP is a terrible metric for determining standard of living, I'd like to know why it is still the most often used metric (by economists and non-economists alike) and a coherent argument for some alternative standard.

Any satisfaction based metric means that the majority of the developed world is doing something wrong -- numerous happiness studies show indigenous peoples often have a higher "happiness index" than people in the developed world.

Environmental based metrics have their own problems because environmental benefits and harms are not internalized by nations.

Income distribution based metrics aren't acceptable because the harms of great income distribution disparity are not easily mapped and are rarely agreed upon.

The only thing that might make sense is a metric based on life expectancy and education (Human development index from your Wikipedia link), but even that is problematic. Research created free-riding, regardless of patents.

The second a US company makes a drug that eliminates cancer, any lab that gets their hand on the drug can reverse engineer it with ease. The however many millions of dollars that went into building it (and become a function of its cost) are undercut by countries/people that do not respect the intellectual property rights of such a patent.

The outlay of spending becomes highly concentrated while the company doesn't see the returns that it expects. The drug copier gets the benefits of the hundreds of millions in R&D expenditure while only spending a few extra days of a scientists time.

I've kept an eye on this thread trying to think of how I think of code.

This is the best explanation I have -- I don't think in/visualize code at all.

I think of the individual parts that make up what I am trying to build.

This starts in the broadest sense (application requirements) to the more in depth needs (specifically what function ideas (what is going in, what is coming out) and in what order they will need to be in).

By the time I finish this architecture layout in my head, actually coding everything becomes very straightforward.

> Is it clear that per capita GDP is a good measure of standard of living?

Yes. This is something else virtually every economist will agree on. ACists, neoclassical, keynesian, Chicago, Austrian, I'm sure there are other major schools I'm forgetting, but this is a very accepted measure of standard of living in the field of economics.

If that was the case ego stroking would never work. It does. It is the easiest way to get persuade people. Everyone deals with hundreds of people per day and ego stroking works on most people (maybe not to the extent that gets you what you want, but it works).

People like to be complimented on their work/skills/whatever. Context for receiving the compliment is irrelevant.

I don't believe this is correct. I'd suggest you stay away from this kind of answer. The last thing you want it someone to reject you because they think you can be argumentative. Never talk about weaknesses, but if you have to, make it as inconsequential as you can -- don't mention how you can be argumentative and not be aware of your surroundings.

Rather, stroke the ego of the person you're talking to. I grew up always knowing I wanted to do <whatever>. In high school I started learning as much as I could from the library and it really started to grow my interest as I read more and more. This school is particularly high on my list because I know you have some of the best professors and a culture that focuses on the students in a way that bigger universities cant.

That is assuming you're going to a small school. I imagine big schools don't have time to interview every single student that wants to apply.

This answer talks about you, your interest in whatever you're going to study, and why you think the school is awesome.

It costs tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars to sue someone residing in another country... That's if you can even find a lawyer to take the case against someone in a third world country.

If you feel you owe him more, give him what you think he is worth to buy him out. If you think you owe him nothing, then cut off communication from him.

He has to sue you in your country of residence so until you start hearing from local courts, I wouldn't worry.

The stands look awesome, but I had some thoughts.

I don't have a lot of use for a (really cool looking) laptop stand. But there are other things that I do have a use for. Mostly chairs, tables (maybe a coffee table with a great design or concept), trunks, boxes, etc.

Those things in a dark finish are really what appeal to me.

I guess what I'm saying is that while the stands look awesome, don't forget the classics that have just as much, if not more, of a market, but also keep doing what you like to do. This is obviously heavily slanted towards what I like to see in woodwork, rather than what I'm sure you really like to make.

I don't know what your intentions are (just doing this for enjoyment or one day hoping to leaving your job for your craft), but there is always a market for quality woodwork and I think your stuff is phenomenal.

"Leverage hundreds of our computers to power your programmable spreadsheets"

You don't have to give away how you run your company if you don't want to. So saying cloud or grid isn't necessary, even if it how you do it.

If you feel you must, why not just say you scale via Amazon web services so all data is secure, persistent/perpetual, and built on top of proven, robust architecture.

Chances are pretty high their regex for email validation only matches 2 and 3 letter TLDs.

At my current job I noticed that all of our email validation for all of our sites was limited to 2 and 3 letter TLDs.

Am I the only one seeing a possible jv opportunity with Github or a Github like service.

The key to having a good web based UI is the ability to debug, compile, test. If you can set that up, you may be on to something.

Why not put an ad on Craigslist looking for testers (for free) and they can email you for a free download code from itunes? A lot of people would try it if they thought they were getting something for nothing.

Alternatively, post free download codes here and you will also probably get a lot of people glad to install the app and poke around.

I've always wondered -- is the reason people can't do fizzbuzz because a lack of understanding of modulus or because they can't comprehend the problem?

I know modulus isn't necessary, but I can see someone not doing the problem if the solution they are turning in is in a less elegant way.