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A few years ago Verizon included an XID variable in the headers (essentially a unique subscriber code), but I'm not sure what the SOP is today.

Granted, there are still several ad-testing companies that store a variety of mobile cookies for tracking impressions, but this is much different from permanent, header-based tracking that used to occur with Verizon and possibly others.

I used www.autotempest.com late last year to find my latest car and I'm glad to see some competition emerging.

After a quick review, two things that strike me:

1. One feature I like about AT is being about to see which cars are in which markets. Even though the search radius may include 5 surrounding cities, it would be nice to see some physical separation between the markets when combing through the results.

2. One feature I DIDN'T like about AT is that in trying to accomplish [1] from above, I often found myself annoyed when nothing was found in specific markets. This resulted in me having to click through the pagination to see if anything existed in other markets. The better way to handle this would have been to show only those cities with results, in order.

Good work so far!

The expression "Thank God!" could easily be intended to show thankfulness that medicine and this person's illness crossed paths now vs. 100 years ago.

Not to spark a religious debate, but this reaction seems to be common among the scientific community. Granted, it seems illogical for a god to be selectively-responsible for occurrences in one's life, but I don't think a lack of correlation is proof of anything necessarily. Some people believe in a deity who sparked the big bang and has done nothing more (a "hands-off" management style, if you will). Whether this merits praise/piousness, it's not my place to decide. But since nobody has the answer (and will probably never discover it), everyone's free to believe what they wish as long as it doesn't impose on others (a rare feat, I know).

FWIW, I am agnostic.

There could be two reasons:

1. Microsoft is attempting to pique interest in gaming because they see Xbox Live as a key differentiator for the Windows Phone platform. 2. Microsoft is just trying to prove relevance for IE, since their numbers have been slipping for so long (a "me too", if you will).

Skepticism is necessary, but dismissal sounds like a knee-jerk reaction.

The reason I, or anyone else for that matter, might be interested in what he (or a non-climatologist) has to say is an attempt at avoiding any hoopla stemming from scientists trying to earn a paycheck. Global climatology is no where near the black and white science that cardiology or electrical engineering is.

The difference is that the additional effort put forth in the sales process yields direct, tangible profits, whereas coding efforts are not always as easily quantified.

Think of this from the perspective of an owner. If you are going to choose between two sales guys, one who pulls in $10 deals and another who pulls in million-dollar deals, who are you going to choose? OK, now that you've chosen the latter, how much are you going to pay him? Since there's no simple way to come up with an arbitrary worth, say you settle on a nice big offer for him. What if he stops producing stellar numbers (due to personal deficiencies or market forces)? Do you fire him or reduce his pay? Doing either is sure to infuriate him if external forces are at play, so the only alternative is a merit-based commission system.

I'm not saying it's right for companies who only pay sales commissions and don't reward coders--there absolutely should be profit sharing and bonuses for programmers with measurable contributions to the company--but this process is in place simply because sales' efforts are infinitely easier to quantify and reward (from a profitability standpoint) than are programming efforts.

"I'm not sure I follow your argument you should be directly (financially) rewarded for the additional effort in the larger deal. I've known several sales folks who chase many small deals simply because they're a lot easier to manage, require less time to close, and by collecting as many of them as possible, they're able to maximize their commissions."

What's the difference? In either scenario, you are rewarded proportionately to how much effort you put into landing one large deal or multiple small deals.

"My thought is that, just like in every other aspect of the business, your top players will be your highest paid as part of the normal compensation process--and those top people should be the ones closing the bigger deals. Just because you don't get cut a check for that specific deal doesn't mean there wouldn't be rewards for doing so."

I suspect commissions simply originated from sales reps demanding recognition for their efforts. Bonus structures and salary positioning through systems like FogCreek assume you have fair and competent managers who recognize and reward effort. Sales teams may not always present this luxury, so reps may simply demand these commissions to cover their bases.

Actually, Walmart has improved their produce offering over the last few years. They now source their fruits and vegetables from some of the same farms as Whole Foods (at least, their organics).

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/the-grea...

Over-promising is usually a result of a poor salesman who does not focus on maintaining long-term relationships with his or her prospects/clients (and will probably jump from industry to industry). Unfortunately this is rampant at businesses with high sales volume and lower software / contract prices because there is minimal incentive to focus on anything besides quotas.

If this happens often at your company, Client Services or Development needs to have a heart-to-heart with the sales manager.

I suspect FogCreek had success because their sales team is relatively small, but I'm curious to see how this works long-term. Is a lack of commission structure going to deter future recruits? They said nobody left, but have they tried hiring any additional sales reps? Big time sales reps will assuredly balk at the prospect of cutting their income to some average amount, but perhaps that type of employee only exists at larger organizations.

As a sales engineer, I'm not sure I agree that employee views can be divided into a black-and-white categorization of X vs Y. I'm not lazy, want to avoid work, etc., and yet I still think a $200,000 deal requires more work and yields more profit for the company than a $5,000 deal, and thus I should be rewarded for that additional effort.

Comparing this reward system to coding or some other profit-generating segment of the company only works part of the time. With sales, the increased profits available for reward are immediately clear. With coding, the value-add of a coder's efforts are less clear, so it's up to his or her manager to see the financial impact of that employee and reward accordingly via bonus. Simple example: a friend of mine optimized some javascript, reduced the file size, and this ultimately saved his company over $200,000 a year in bandwidth. This is quite clear, whereas a simple bug fix or new feature is not.

He's probably using List-unsubscribe. You can add headers to your emails that give users a way to unsubscribe from your list if they click "mark as spam" (and many do, despite an "unsubscribe" link appearing at the bottom of the email).

I'm a bit bewildered there's an entire discussion about this based on a reddit post. While the OP's circumstances may be true at his or her company, is it still universally accurate? I don't actually know the answer, but based on several articles released in the last year I would wager this discrepancy is no longer uniform for all industries:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/02/she_m...

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-09-29/strategy/3007...

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/09/01/young-single-women-ea...

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2010-09-01-single-wo...

There are still some statistics floating around that compare salaries without factoring in control variables (mostly based on generic census data), but these tend to be less accurate.

This is correct for their high-yield investor checking account (don't let the name fool you, the interest is a fraction of a percent). This account requires a credit check and a linked brokerage account; although, I don't think that brokerage requires a minimum balance. While I hold options, my cash balance is ~$3.

Anecdote: I have been with Schwab for years and love their offering. One weekend in Vegas I accumulated something like $150 in ATM fees and they refunded every penny of it. Like Alex said, this was only possible through previous trade commissions/fees they've generated from me.

You're absolutely right, but I think you overestimate the general public's preferences with regards to quality. From low bitrate mp3's, video clips (movies or otherwise), laptop speakers, car speakers, computer monitors, etc. there has always been a multitude of products / services people just want to work, and could care less about whether they're high quality (within reason, of course).

I would never use this service, but I would be willing to wager there are a lot of people who could care less about the quality of preservation (again, within reasonable range).

Perhaps this is a naive question, but are there any benchmarks comparing client-side load times for actual images vs. images rendered in CSS?

Server-side bandwidth savings is easier to calculate, and while I realize this kind of savings for sites like Twitter can create noticeable margins, I'm curious as to what the cost-benefit threshold is.

I suspect you'll get downvoted for this, because the tone of your comment insinuates developers need recruiters. While this may be the case for the lowest percentile, the fact remains that companies need recruiters to locate and hire that top percentile of talent.

Just a datapoint, but out of all the invitations I sent out when G+ first launched (100-150, I don't recall), 40 or 50 friends signed up. ~3 of them still use it at least once a week.

From my observations, G+ still seems to consist primarily of three major user groups:

  1. Tech celebrities
  2. Technologists in general
  3. Non-US users

Facebook's feature set is killer, but at some point, I really would like to use some social software that doesn't silently launch a blinking GPS signal when I'm reading my news feed (I know, I can disable it, but still...).

Is it really proof? I have used G+ only a handful of times, but posting has been incredibly simple -- to classify who should see your post you click in a box and select the groups who should have access to it. One of them is "Public."

I'm struggling to see how someone intelligent enough to work at Google could not figure this out. Perhaps it was just an error caused by posting too quickly, or it wasn't an error at all.

Perhaps the speculation is instead whether or not Jobs skipped chemotherapy and radiation after his surgery in lieu of alternative medicine (to eradicate the micrometastasis)? Although this changes the original argument, it still suggests a cause for concern for alternative medicine.

And as many others have mentioned in this thread, if even ONE person avoids alternative medicine and instead utilizes evidence-based medicine to save his or her life, this kind of discussion is worthwhile.

Just a single data point, but I noticed similar antics even from outside the organization. My company licensed our software to Yahoo for several years, but they stopped using it six months into the contract. The projects kept running and we kept collecting data, but nobody ended up doing anything with the data. Employee turnover in this division seemed like 6-12 months, and to my disbelief the Harvard and Stanford grad managers I interacted with had no idea what was going on or what they were doing.

I certainly don't think the concept of losing scope over the course of an enterprise software license or a project's life cycle is unique to Yahoo, but these corporate inefficiencies have been a serious eye-opener.

Knowing Peter wrote the book that describes this situation[1] and then denying that it's happening makes me seriously question whether this is Morton's own doing (great PR) or something that was discussed beforehand. Regardless, this is clearly just PR and in no way reflects customer service. Not to say Morton's doesn't have great customer service--it appears they do based on their high satisfaction rates--but the event was not causal.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Stunts-Work-Company-Needs/d...

Are bandwidth caps really that common? I was under the impression Comcast was the only major ISP in the US that imposed caps.

FWIW I just signed up for Grande's fiber service in central Texas -- 40Mbps/4Mbps (though I have not dropped below 70+mbps down) for $56 a month. They seem to be sticking by their "no caps" policy: https://twitter.com/#!/iansltx/status/94395597351698432

Maybe I'm getting too cynical and pessimistic about society, but an abuse of the system seemed like a guaranteed result of this project. Jonathan's card is simply a redistribution of wealth based on the honor system (masked by words like "karma" and "good will"). Some people will throw ten bucks on the card because it makes them feel great, but leeches will always take part in the project, and at some point there will be more leeches than seeders. People have been abusing programs (government or otherwise) that do the same thing for generations, even without the honor system.

*I enjoy volunteering, donating, paying it forward, etc., I'm just trying to illustrate a point.

I can't tell if the video is perpetually out of focus or if the quality is just incredibly down-scaled. Perhaps the uploader intentionally chose latter as a result of the former.

This might help: http://code.google.com/p/photograbber/

Do you have proper posture and a chair suitable for your stature? I'm sure the answer is yes, but a chair with a base too deep or too shallow could easily cause numb legs over an extended period of time.

I assume you're either the founder or work for Vively--do you have a contact email or phone number? I have a few questions about this this service and how it might be useful for my company's customers.

I believe someone already mentioned it, but Gmail used to (by default) add all people you communicated with to your contact list. I didn't start using my Gmail contacts list effectively until 2010 (when I got Android), so I ended up cleaning out something like 6k contacts I accumulated over the past 5 years.

This guy doesn't need 10k contacts--he just doesn't want to go through and remove the non-essentials.

Experts exchange answers aren't nearly as bad as things like yahoo answers, etc. (PS - you know the answers are available at the very bottom of the page, right? I thought this was common knowledge, but just wanted to make sure the content was the reason behind the animosity and not that the information used to be inaccessible....)

Perfect example of this extension in action: search for "how to remove ear pads from HD555", and I get a link to this page as the third result: http://www.fixya.com/support/p516634-sennheiser_hd_555_consu...

Totally useless!

What about video clues? I assume there is a transcript, but sometimes there's a visual reference. Perhaps some sort of integration to Tineye.com or advanced video recognition? :-)