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In the UK, 'partner' is a spouse. You need to say 'business partner' if you want to avoid the confusion.

Misled is a political euphemism for lied. Politics is full of that sort of indirect language.

I think you need really high margins to do well with Groupon. Their first client was a pizza outlet, which is about as high a margin as you can get in food.

Sounds like one of those game theory side effects. If you pay and measure people by targets then expect them to use dubious techniques to win the game.

I assumed from the title that it would be something other than a boilerplate, or at least a follow up, but it's just a commentary on said boilerplate.

Also, if newer generations are more independently minded, i.e. less influenced by patriotism and the like, then I guess they are likely to support a David over a Goliath. Pressuring people like Assange and Snowden is just making them into historic figureheads.

It would be good to at least indicate when an editor has rewritten a submission, so that responsibility for the headline can be pointed to the correct user. Like a '/ editorsusername' after the submitters name.

I would like to see the insurance industry reduced in size, rather than be further bolstered by legislation.

It's similar for Scotland's rural routes. Some councils don't have the funding to maintaining their roads properly, so they focus on the important roads. It can be quite jarring crossing from one area to another.

I rarely fly. I have used British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Easy Jet.

It's not so much stealing the customer as it is rescuing the order. It may not be the most ethical of techniques but they are claiming a bounty for converting abandoned carts.

Like someone else said earlier, the order process is broken by encouraging users to leave the website and potentially forget the order.

I think one advantage of air travel is it's distracting. Busy flight attendants, announcements from pilots, plane moving to the runway, taking off... so there's less reason to concentrate on the lack of space while stuck in the seat.

You can get up and walk around on a plane.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if they bundled it in as a secret requirement for international trade deals.

It depends on the type and quality. If you purchase a can, then I would hope that it is mostly animal based ingredients. If it is dry food then it will be mostly cereals.

Yep. Whenever you work in an industry that involves churning out software as quickly as possible, it's easy to appreciate that commercial pressures are often too great to test properly. Whereas with start-ups (for example), they're usually well funded and have a strong focus on building great software.

I don't know what pet food was like in the past, but today it seems to be dominated by flavoured products made of cereals, rather than meat or offal.

Historians pull their information from sources of all kinds. For example, a piece of propaganda from WW2 (which is likely to be almost completely untrue) could be an invaluable insight into determining a collective mindset of the time. Similarly, a diary of someone on the street, who's been taken in by that propaganda is also useful.

Adam Curtis exists in the outskirts of a behemoth of a broadcaster, so his interpretation of these events will be useful - especially given that they are broadcast so widely.

He's an artist who uses archive footage to tell a story. The story is often so simple that it isn't strictly true, but it's still worth a watch. I think his films will be treasured by future historians to get an insight into the current events of our time.

There's also the 'engineer' baggage, in that engineers probably don't think software engineering is engineering.

In ad sales lingo, 'brand' is pay per view or sponsorship advertising. These people will be looking after the big clients, think music labels, movie studios, TV networks...

'Exorbitant' is a bit too loaded, whereas 'ambitious' is too forgiving. I would say 'unrealistic', given Indiegogo's previous records.

Even if most users had subscriptions, it shouldn't be linked to. The other day I was thinking the same thing about The Sun. It got a high placement on Google's search results, yet had no content to display, I hope search engines drop it from their results as it's currently useless.

I like to think of Less as the MySQL of the CSS world, whereas Sass is more of a Postgres.

Yep, I prefer this app too. The reliance on Ruby or Javascript initially put me off Less.

I was thinking similar a few days ago, but more like a cross between Slashdot and Reddit. In particular, I saw an item about cannabis legalisation. Got nothing against it, but it isn't technology in the slightest, it's political and maybe financial. I checked the news item a few times to see if anyone pointed that out, but no one did. I decided not to say anything in case it was some HN insider thing.

Microsoft's problem was they used the Windows brand on a product that didn't support most Windows' programs.

On Linux it's a different matter because there's decades of support for different types of CPUs.

HN users often view PHP and those products built using PHP with disrespect. Sure they have their problems, but these products have been around for an eternity (in internet terms). Lots of programmers wouldn't have long standing careers without them.

It's just a hack for people without access to cron. It was more of problem back in the day when hosting services didn't offer control panels and most wouldn't let you have command-line access. If you knew your hosting company well, you could maybe talk someone into setting up a cron job.

I remember doing something similar for a stats script that would wipe old data every time it was viewed by an admin.

No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules.

I think of websites like private properties. You are given conditional access on the assumption that you can behave (T&C / AUP), otherwise it's like trespassing. So, I don't think that people should expect excessive rights of freedom that they might have on their own property or even in public. It's a balancing act.