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It keeps surprising me that Groupon still find merchants given their current revenue share. Most deals are 50%, the share is 50% of 50% - 2.5% for credit card fee processing leaving the merchant with 22.5% of the original price.

If you sell anything that you buy, you'd need to have a 77.5% profit. Most restaurants only do a 10 to 20% benefit usually.

They'd be better served by pinning a huge promotion on their front like :'50% percent on friday'; they'd reach more customers in they neighbourhood, who would be more likely to come back and they'd keep a much better share of the deal.

It's not even nice for your actual customers who come the same day and pay the full price just to discover that they got screwed because they could have paid half by going to groupon.

It's also vulnerable to html injection... by design

I'd love a service that would fix such mistakes in my blog posts to make them look more native; something like an online mum that would fix the turn of phrase I use. I'm french, and this is typically the kind of mistakes I do all the time as well.

I tried to use Emacs lisp, several, times, which in my head is almost the same thing as using emacs, but was never able to warp my head around the weird functions naming. Writing the simplest macro seems to require tens of lines of code.

I'm an happy vimmer, but the excitement about emacs makes me jealous. All my tries to use it makes me feel like it's either an endless unintuitive shortcut list OR an editor with very little text control (which I know it isn't ) AND I fail at customizing it

Any suggestion ?

I'm surprised that nobody is horrified by how deceiving this is. Its definitly a way for delaware to make money. May be it's just the way law is, you can't use your own judgement on if something is fair or not.

Bringing it back to a computer metaphor would be : Of course you should have done backup, everybody knows that ! You now need to pay 89000$ whether or not you need your data on that drive. You should have consulted an enginineer before buying a computer of course !

See... small mistake, disproportionous response.

At least think that you did nothing wrong, it's just that the law is unfair.

- step 1 : create rules that makes it near impossible to develop

- step 2 : accuse the competency of developers to hide your own incompetency

- step 3 : fail

Nobody is building big companies to prevent the world to crumble. They are build because it's possible for their owner, because their market is big enough, because of money, and because of the fun building them.

If there were only lifestyle business, investors would simply change the way they invest. They'll begin seeking lifestyle business that could explode with extra investment. Entreprenors would be probably get better terms as they'd be in a better position to negociate, but there would still be big companies.

Last year my browser extension ranked on the first page of bing and yahoo for the keyword 'google' : It resulted thousands of impressions, but it fade out the next days of course. It's not very useful trafic of course.

The Bill&Melinda Gates fundation might be interested too. They are interested in medical & technology. That would be a good fit.

Actually he failed, we could say that he crashed the plane into the Hudson River. It's a matter of measure. If he ever do it again, he might do even better ;).

I think that we improve continuously from failure into something that looks more and more like success. Success is very relative to what you are able to accomplish at a time. If failing teach you something, might be it's a success ?

Failing is a question of time scaling. If you look at a small piece of time or at a larger piece of time everything fail : - Roman fail seen from today, that was a big empire - MS is failing today - Facebook failed sometimes and will fail one day If you look at a micro level there is failure everywhere, bugs, stuff, missed contracts. If you fail AND are still growing indeed then it's actually a success... for the moment.

Another explication might be that rich kid not needing a job, do the right thing instead of the boss thing as they work lending them more opportunity.

'Linchpin' by Seth Godin defends this thesis that the job market has changed and that opportunities are given to (or taken by) the one that don't follow the rules.

The beginning of the article is nice, but the end nearly fall in fatalism. Saying that a sociological and behavioral issue is unsurmountable if you're not in the right dispositions first is just incredibly wrong. The world is changed by people doing things everyday even if the stars are never aligned; waiting a scientific approach to the world is very, very useless and a bit frightening too.

Telling candidates why they are not a good fit is not the company job, it's your job as a candidate to figure out why you are not a good fit. Also it would open them to some liability, which is something that anyone prefers to avoid.

I sometimes made interviews with potential candidates, and if you do it at a time you'll learn that it's really not something personal. I just say this, so that you know that you don't suck actually. Most companies are looking for someone who know their stuff (surprisingly hard to find ) AND is nice (someone you can work with ).

If you do the two above thing for a long enough time, have a good CV, ideally some personal project to show, you'll land up a good job in the end.

If you implicitly consider the market to be fair, yes. It's a kind of fair though...

I think that was a comment on your blog ! I bookmarked the comment as it was the first time I heard about this too. It was here : http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do

It's something I've been trying to fix lately. It's not only about your online reputation, you should care of your offline reputation as well. I don't mean it in a tricky way, by deceiving people : You should try to provide value for others via your blog, etc... Do some projects, talk about them.

It's important because, as a developer, you usually don't make a lot of connections with others. If you don't do anything your only connections will be your peers and little bit a variety is better. Even if you and I would like to be valued on our technical knowledge, it won't bring you very far. If you don't talk, nobody is gonna to know you.

I use my blog more like a platform to share stuff I made, or thought, or to clear my mind about some idea. It's also something I can point potential employers to when I'll need it. It doesn't really matter if you don't have readers, it'll put your resume apart in most interviews.

Also I added many local folks in my twitter, and it leads me to some meet up that gives connections with new peoples around me. I live in a medium city in the south of france, if I can met people there, you can probably too.

it wasn't that successful before the acquisition

If it doesn't hurt, you aren't trying hard enough...

I use vim project. I load all my files in the side pane, and I search with / the file I want to open.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69

justin is way too modest. He grew his plugio to a passive $1000 a month revenue which is actually more than most here I suppose. It is certainly more than me.

I don't know him personally but he is the host/cohost of http://techzinglive.com/ my favorite podcast where plugio developpement is actually a recurring subject. He actually turned to a paypall paywall first in the recent days, so he is taking the monetising subject seriously.

I think it's because most help system emebedded inside applications are useless. Vim is the only internal help I find useful.

very nice idea, I wonder how much money would be enough to make wikipedia run on its dividends only. Does anyone know how much wikipedia cost to operate ?

To the rate at ipv6 is installing we are still nowhere today, we have been there for more than 5 years, and we could still be there 5 years from now. I have read several times that it ipv6 had been designed non backward compatible, so I suppose there was a backward compatible way to design it. It seems that it would be possible to use 0 0 0 0 prefix as a special case for ipv6 and truncate it for ipv4.

I suppose there is a reason that prevent that because this is way too much of an evidence, so someone certainly has though about it : what's prevent us to do that ?

Agree, it may even be a good thing for them, because as apple is popularizing HDR picture, friends with 3G phones will want to do the same and find an app. Sometimes it's nice to have the big player do the education of the market.

Can't we just make a backward compatible IPV6 bis, move on and forget this fiasco ?

You can't go wrong by doing nothing : I think that the most prevalent behaviour in bank. Anything new is dismissed as too unsecure, so only the most essential things get ever done.

Be very careful, expect if you were specifically engaged to fix that kinds of issues, that's fine. Otherwise you might end up in the role of the guy who is disatisfied of anything he does.

Get some things out first, once you get more confiance from others, it'll be ok. Keep in mind that they have no reasons to trust you more that people that have worked with them for month, years before.

Beyond there might be extra issues/constraints that you do not know, that might have lead the code to end up in the state it currently is.

You could host a webbrowser view inside your app and use any webview. Most affiliations platforms should work except adsense and other technologies who need contents on pages.

You could also try to contact http://www.spointer.com/ . They are doing targeted ads embeddables in apps. They detect topics that might interest users with in-browsers addons.

I remember professors doing that kind of things when I was a student then declaring that students didn't studied well, didn't followed their rules, cheated, or anything else.

I don't think it help students to progress it any way. It just feel like you are fighting against a bureaucraty which has no rules, or which has rules that will only be revealed until it's too late. What they are creating is traps, and traps don't teach anything because they are random.

Please teachers, read Richard Feynman stuff, he had such a joy to teach his students and stop bullying your students.

Whenever I feel bad because the world around me is falling, I always repeat myself that it's just a normal reaction. Take your time, it's ok be sad, you don't have to accomodate people around you.

You were also very lucky to have build such a warm relationship with your father, something many childs are never able to do and regret later. Only time will make you feel better, and he still be here with you as you'll remember his insights all your life.