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Fantastic outlook, and perfectly positioned for achieving wonderful real value, whether current implementation sinks or explodes in value. Thanks for a refreshing post this AM.
I remember in early 2000s when two-wheeled segway by Dean Kamen was on the verge of launch, it was secretly presented to a few ultra rich guys and was declared as even bigger than the PC. The opposite was true though in this case, this toy never took off.
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Argh. Down for me too now. Here's a page with an overview of the organization, not the actual list of servers I linked to in the title: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers
do you have an invite on moniker?
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After lots of work, apparently--up to "six or seven" partner companies in the network infrastructure. All this engineering tinkering has resulted in an always-on Loopt iPhone app that runs in the background on the network rather than the phone. Presumably this has a knock-on effect on the precision with which one can be located (the background Loopt app isn't accessing the iPhone's GPS to find out where you are, and it's most-likely using cell-tower triangulation methods, much as Assisted-GPS units do to boost their location-sensing powers).
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The opening lines and the close to your TC comment sorta suggested otherwise to a reader.
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No, Quicksilver has much more to offer than app launching. It's sad that most people never got past this. :-/
Easy to say "subjugation of the worker", in the sense that the worker doesn't guide policy. But the ideals of capitalism are supposed to work in the worker's favor, which softens the claim. If the worker values receiving compensation for what they do, has the right to spend their money as they please, wants to live in a thriving economy with choices, that is hardly subjugation.
A worker may feel subjugated because they are frustrated by policy decisions made by others. Is it better in Socialism where the committee of workers makes the decisions, if the worker isn't on that committee? How does it matter that the committee is "closer" to the worker? The subjugation is the same. (except now the committe is made up of amateurs,but thats another argument)
I think "subjugation" if it exists, is actually the decision by the governed to submit to the will of the whole. No matter what the system this "subjugation" must exist - its the foundation of civilization.
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Not the original title, I'm used a URL shortener and changed the title because I think I tripped the spam filter.

Something to think about for anybody looking at a profitable exit. You all have any good quitting stories?
Back in October I emailed Allan asking whether he'd be interested in the concept of a "Textmate Liberation Fund" that would compel him to open the source if enough money was raised. I think Allan deserves to be able to derive some income from v2.0, and that one of the driving factors behind its lateness is his promise that it will be a free upgrade for all current Textmate owners. I can't be sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Textmate has begun to wane in its influence and mind share amongst coders, so 2.0 therefore probably doesn't represent a lot of income for him (or anyone else associated with Macromates). Many people have offered to pay for 2.0 on his blog comments, be he won't have any of it. Admirable, but nevertheless, Textmate remains the hostage of an awkward situation.

The response I got:

"Right now we are working hard on getting 2.0 out the door, we haven't really been thinking of much other than that"

Which I find hard to believe in light of the above post.. But I still hope he'll get it out in 2010. Either Allan & co. have day jobs and no time to work on this thing, or we're looking at a Duke Nukem Forever / Netscape mega-rewrite syndrome situation. Either way, it sucks for the fans.
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Airports are very interesting places lately... Schneier mentions the different layout that involves screening at the gates - I've seen that one and I'm not a fan. If you want to leave to the toilet, you have to be screened again, which is a bit annoying, since you usually realise you need to go, after you sit down for a moment ;) Also it seems the planes are delayed more often, because people will stay outside of the gate area for as long as possible (there is nothing to do once you go inside).

OTOH screening rules can give you some nice bonuses if you know the airport well enough. I use a trick to get through my usual airport faster - print the ticket myself with the barcode in low quality, so that it cannot be read by the scanner (150dpi gives it a nice blur). Then I get sent to reprint it at any desk and go back into the priority queue to the security - saves me ~15min of waiting every time. All airports I've seen will put you back into priority queues if there was anything wrong "on their side".

Maybe some people find themselves in wrong places by trying to game the system in a similar way?
It's the quality, not the quantity of the apps that matters. Comparing on size alone is useless.

OK, but of course if we make a default assumption that the same percentage of apps are actually good on both platforms, you'll end up with five times as many good apps on the iPhone. So unless you're suggesting that Android has better quality apps on average, I really don't see what your point is.

Honestly, I'd personally expect to find better quality apps on the AppStore - Apple vets them for UI coherence and basic functionality. Plus devs don't have to try and target multiple types of device, all iPhones share the same basic functionality in terms of screen size, input devices etc.
Nice read, but the writer uses the phrase "sends this Obigo browser through GWT hell". Unless Google is doing more complex user agent sniffing that I thought, the phone's browser not being able to use Javascript is just that, the phone browser's problem, and not Google's fault.

A more basic test I'd like to see is how well do these 10 phones stack up wrt to the task at hand. AS PHONES.

I have a smart phone, and my biggest annoyance? The simple task of "I have a phone number and I need to call it" is far more complex than it needs to be. Calling contacts already in the phonebook? Easy. Punching in a phone number has far too many buttons to get back main screen, go to phone mode and bring up the actual dialer. Once there, either it's a touchscreen without real buttons, or it's a sub-qwerty tiny keypad that may as well be annoying touchscreen at that size (The kind that RIM is quite fond of). (Connection services like Google Voice are up to the should-be-trivial task though).

Then again, I suppose the smartphone route would be to print up QR codes on everything and allow dialing of a cellphone camera picture.
Exactly what success are you referring to?

My understanding is that their income is derived from a couple big partnerships. Their partners control their profitability. In a publicly traded company, this would be considered an unacceptable risk.

If they mitigate that risk, then I would agree that they succeeded. Until then, they are a high-risk venture with a shaky income stream.
I have a small twist on this system, which is that I have a huge pool of tasks in a text file with headers for each day, and as I go through the day I pull out parts of tasklists and mark them "# DONE" as they are finished. Thus by the end of each day, each week, each month, I have an increasingly impressive list of accomplishment, even if the actual tasks are small 5-minute things. I don't try to hit a target number of tasks or a quality of task, I just do what's available that day.

One month in, I haven't missed a single day.
The submitted URL doesn't give much information.

Originial URL: http://www.mayzes.org/googlemaps.jquery.html

Since I have some experience with Google Maps API, I have to say that the code examples found on the website does seem a little easier than the original Google API.

For example, if you want to draw a polyline on a Google Map:

jQuery Plugin:

$(document).ready(function() {
$('selector').googleMaps({
polyline: {
startLatitude: 37.4419,
endLatitude: 37.4519,
endLongitude: -122.1519,
color: '#ff0000',
pixels: 2
}
});
});

Google Maps API:

var polyline = new GPolyline([
new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419),
new GLatLng(37.4519, -122.1519)
], "#ff0000", 10);
map.addOverlay(polyline);
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On plan9

Trying compiler constants first...

f is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450003564357760000000000000
d is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450000000000000000000000000
ld is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450000000000000000000000000

Now trying derived values...

f is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450003564357760000000000000
d is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450000000000000000000000000
ld is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450000000000000000000000000

So don't blame the architecture
I ran into a bug like this with rails and restful_authentication. It came from caching the logged in user through the session. I fixed it by using a cookie to store the logged in user instead. Here's the issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145169/inadvertent-sessio...
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You're talking about Digsby. If you managed to follow the story to its conclusion, you'll see that they dramatically changed the install process to follow Plura's (our sister company) affiliate agreement.
> Bigoted.

Can you explain why you feel the comment is specifically bigoted; and who too?

If he is referring to certain extreme societies it is probably a correct comment (and equally applicable to other countries too). He is, perhaps, confusing radicalized leadership with a lack of intelligence.

As a whole that entire section of text was verging on bigoted (though I can understand people feeling angry about the treatment of women/homosexuals etc. in the region) but I felt it was more misguided and angry than malicious.

If your reading it as "Arab people are stupid" I think your misreading (or deliberately looking for it).
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Except it's not one instruction - you still have to put the result somewhere, potentially save registers (of which there is a great dearth) and so forth. My point is none of the things listed (aside from not really being part of 'the architecture') are significant factors on top of being largely inaccurate. What does make a difference is that the instructions themselves are short, the addresses are short, alignment is on the byte, etc. Can you fit a lot into 1k? Sure, if you're clever, you can apparently fit a whole chess program in less. But the fact that, say, there's just your process or that Huffman encoding is neat has next to nothing to do with it.
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Have you tried searching in a big project? Blocks the main thread and you're stuck waiting until your memory fills up completely.
Ah yes, TextMate: the text editor that proves that the patent-pending Duke Nukem Development Model™ need not be reserved for video games.
Also a highly ranked Topcoder.
In fact, if you look at the source code in the actual article, you can see the graphical characters used to draw the board right in the Basic code listing. :)
C Chess program in less that 1200 chars:
http://home.hccnet.nl/h.g.muller/max-src2.html
The most interesting thing I took from this argument was the musing on PA Semi and how they'd tie in. I know at the time they were acquired there were a lot of musings on what exactly the purpose was, but the ARM licensee situation with a custom chip design as described in the article makes a whole lot of sense.
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TextMate is one of only a very few applications for which I'd actually tell someone to buy a Mac (CSSEdit and Coda being 2 more).

It's such an essential tool for so many developers - I'm in it each day for my rails apps - that I can't imagine the pressure being placed on Allan to make it "just like 1.0 but better".

I really like Maciek416's "Textmate Liberation Fund" and see where that has the potential to make Allan more money than giving away a free upgrade.
Very true, but I had this game, it was one of the few that ran without the rampak. I think I used the pak primarily for Bomber and 3D Monster Maze.

Good times!
This link is dead, your caps lock key is also broken, you should look into that.
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This must be some new meaning of the word "understanding" that I'm unfamiliar with. The linked article offers zero explanation, only demonstration.
YEah I tried to take an old Sprint phone in to Verizon to get it activated when my wife lost her phone. They said technically it would work, but they were not "allowed" to do it.
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I have been an iPhone user since whenever the first one came out. I now own an iPhone 3GS. I recently (3 weeks ago) bought and tried my very first android phone (with OS 1.6)

I have really never been so disappointed in my life. This thing is supposed to compete the iPhone? The movement is not smooth, the interface flickers, buttons don't react immediately, the keyboard is laggy and the entire thing feels so unpolished.

I instantly hated it. I still have it - I use it for development, but Android 1.6 is not even close to the iPhone in 'goodness'. Maybe 2.0 will be better.

On the other hand, I wrote my first program for it. Programming for Android is MUCH easier, a lot more intuitive and there are so many widgets that you can very quickly get things sown together. Android programming reminds me of programming in Basic, while iPhone programming is like normal C++ programming.

I know java somewhat and C++ very well, and it took me like a month to really feel I understood iPhone programming. It took me 2 or 3 days to feel comfortable programming for Android.

I have not yet sold anything on the Android market, but when I do I'll be sure to post a comparison of the two platforms with the exact same app. In a week or two I will have my first Android app up.
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Ok, thanks, and good luck with yours.
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Yeah probably but more importantly you're functionally locked into AT&T if you want 3G and anyone spending $600 on a phone presumably wants 3G service. So you're stuck with AT&T or stuck with T-Mobile if you get an "unlocked" Nexsus One.
This is where I believe the iPhone wins at the moment.

It works brilliantly, for me, as a phone. I've not found another smart phone as good so far.
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Sorry about that... i didn't mention colour depth originally, someone else brought it up (trying to look smart).

6502 was my platform, so I missed the exact Z* platform...

I was sharing general info on assembly for 8bit, not specific to one platform (ZX81). This seems to have incensed some people who took a narrow view on what sort of comment was permitted.
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OK, fair enough. I can't help with any suggestions for books though, sorry. You might try similar searches on Amazon.

For reference, you'll probably get a better response if you demonstrate that you've already exhausted or rejected the usual sources of information. That way people won't track over the same territory needlessly.
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>> "Your value is in the protocol itself, not where it's being used."

Can you name any open protocols that are profitable businesses? I don't think writers of the email RFC made all that much money out of the email spec :/
The code referenced in the article is located at:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~uzdm0006/scans/1kchess/
"GodMode" is basically just a folder that contains all of the options from Control Panel in a simplified list:

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Gotta admit. I want one, not because I see it better than X, but rather because on it's own it's an awesome phone. I just had hoped that it would be released with a version compatible with AT&T's 3G network. HTC is manufacturing a CDMA capable phone, and do make phones for AT&T so why not produce a second GSM version compatible with AT&T? Unless AT&T works hard to get a very nice android phone soon, I'm likely to switch carriers.
Hmm, looks like the network is the bottleneck to me. Those pages load at about the same speed, so this is IMHO nonsense.
> Good to see such a considered approach in this day and age.

Since when is holing up for multiple years to work on your commercial project with little outside communication a "considered approach"?

> In my eyes, there could be no TextMate 2, and I wouldn't complain. It is such a sturdy, reliable piece of software [...]

It's both of those things, but that doesn't mean the 1.x branch doesn't have gigantic issues. My personal gripe is that when you focus a project window, the entire project is rescanned from disk for changes. When the files live on a WAN-mounted network share, this makes it unusable.

I stick with TextMate when I can because it's a very good Mac OS X editor, but Vim and Emacs make inroads every day.
>> "maybe, just maybe, part of Twitter's success is due to it being so simple. Due to the 140 character limit, due to the lack of features like image uploading, etc."

Oh I absolutely agree. But I'm not sure that's sustainable. Where do twitter go next? They've effectively said "We're all about one thing, and no extra features." How can they move forward from that?
Also as I've said before, fashions change. How soon until twitter is 'so totally last decade'.
There is an interesting macro in the glusterfs package that gives you call/cc, across machines no less.

I think functional programming is anything that tries to avoid side-effects for as long as they can be postponed.

There are languages that put an accent on that but you could program in a functional style in just about any language that supports function calls.
They might as well have one; they sell more than just phones, and some of their phones (e.g. N900) have not yet been adopted as subsidized models by U.S. carriers.
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I'm writing a javascript chess game write now and I'm currently at 200 lines + 50 of HTML. The source code of mine is larger than the byte code of his program. I am a moron.
OK, that's right. But think for a moment the quantity and quality of the restrictions that needing a keyboard imposes:

-It is a big thing that requires a lot of space.
-It is slow to learn.
-It makes sound.
-Gets dirty.
-You can't write with emotions, or tone, nuances are lost.

On a laptop, makes it really difficult to rotate the screen(I'm writing on a rotated laptop right now, if you try it you will be slow at first, but I'm faster this way).

I'm experimenting with my own sound recognition programs and note taking, I thing that is the future. IMHO we will talk with computers, and the children of your children will see keyboards as awkward as they are.
In partial response to tokenadult: There's absolutely no question that cognitive therapy (nowadays cognitive behavioral therapy) is a critical tool in fighting depression. On the other hand, it costs a lot more money than the "band-aid" of a 15 minute visit with a psychiatrist and an prescription of antidepressant. And "bending the cost curve" is the current zeitgeist....

The description of this study raises a few questions in my mind:

It's a meta-analysis of 6 studies, half with Paxil (paroxetine, which went generic years ago) and the other half with imipramine, which is the Gold Standard in the previous (pre-Prozac) generation of antidepressants. I'm a little uncomfortable with their using Paxil as a proxy for all the current generation drugs, e.g. not all are SSRIs, Lexapro is interesting because it's laser selective in acting only on serotonin, etc. etc.

Just to bring in some anecdotal experience: I have somewhat refractory depression of a bipolar nature (I only go manic when taking the wrong antidepressant, e.g. Paxil :-) and I've tried all of the above drugs plus Serzone.

Self administered cognitive therapy made a big difference (to the point that talking therapy afterwords has been entirely useless).

When things get bad enough, each of the above drugs made a difference, but weren't "miracles". And each was different in their own ways, not just in terms of side effects (the new generation is much better) but in terms of how they worked and how well. And it's well known that if a patient doesn't respond to the first drug at a sufficient dose, you try another till you (hopefully) find one that works.

The whole field is at an extremely primitive state, akin to poking at the brain with sticks. We've observed that sticks with certain shapes have good effects, and we've guessed why, but the distance from those guesses to what's really happening in terms of mood is huge.

So I wouldn't be inclined to push this study too hard, except to note what's no surprise to anyone, I'd think, that those with less severe symptoms get less benefit from these drugs. But I confess I'm not too interested in that issue, mine is how to treat the hard cases like myself and a few of my friends. And for us, antidepressants are most certainly a part of the picture.
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