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83 is masses with respect to what they do. I wonder how many of those employees are 'PR/marketing/bizdev' etc
@Terrence_B: Good to see that you've stumbled across eFront. Not sure what version you looked at, but be sure to check out the 3.6 version being released at the end of January (beta available on the eFront website).. pretty radical change to the theme engine, tighter integration options, etc.

There has been support for add-on modules for a while now, but for the hackers, the 3.7 release later this year is a fairly big architecture change and opens up the entire platform similar to how Wordpress manages their plugins in terms of hooking, etc.

Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do what I can to assist.
10/10 for persistence. I'm sure it'll run BeOS too before long ;)
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If Evan Williams tells me to be narrow, maybe he could also tell me how not to be just a tiny feature of some powerful entity's app, waiting to be replaced as soon as my app gets traction.

I sell a strict subset of Microsoft Excel. My strategy for competing with Microsoft Excel is two-fold: first, I'm not Microsoft and second, I don't sell Excel.

Plus, if you'll forgive me one of my hobbyhorses: there is a titanic gulf between your application's feature set and your business. I think as engineers we look at the feature set and see 90% of the value, and naturally assume that something with 100 times the features is 100 times better. I think the truth is that the application itself is closer to 10% of the value, and that huge ginormous feature sets have costs as well as benefits.

One quick example: if you have a very focused vision of your product or users, you can afford to play depth-versus-breadth on marketing to your niche.
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I hate lists like these and here's why:

#3 contradicts #1

#5 and #6 contradict

#7 and #8 often come into conflict

#4 and #9 are in conflict

lists lead to check mark the box attitude, which is pretty much the opposite of the flexibility that allows new companies to steal users from entrenched players. running a business is a creative endeavor. asking yourself if you did XYZ today is counter productive.
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Take your argument to its logical conclusion and you reach the perverse notion that it's the USA's, and the rest of the world's, moral obligation to pump money into the region to prevent war. The oil is not even a factor, and will run out eventually anyway.

Isn't this imperialist thinking of the very worst type?

Like in all things I defer to the superior words of the masters:

"It is as you say, of course," Shoum said smoothly. "It is simply that, from a further perspective, one cannot but recognise that these very rules I allude to are set out so with precisely such an idea of justice at their core. We seek to be just to the peoples in our charge and those that we mentor by, usually, declining the always obvious option of facile intervention. One might intervene and interfere at every available opportunity and at every single instant when things did not turn out as any decent and reasonable creature would like. However, with every intervention, every interference - no matter how individually well-meant and seemingly right and proper judged purely on its own immediate merits - one would, subtly, incrementally but most certainly remove all freedom and dignity from the very people one sought only to help."
Cripple the phone? Only T-Mobile?

You can use it on almost any GSM/3G network in the world (instead on only AT&T). How is that crippling the phone?
This could very well mean SVG in IE9, very exciting. Goodbye Flash, hello future!
You can take it to extremes though. Twitter is such a narrow simple app. I think they'd probably do well to add features and expand the scope a bit. Sharing videos/pics/urls are things twitter should just implement themselves IMHO. Then we wouldn't have the bizarre situation of bit.ly twitpic, twitvid etc etc Or god forbid extend the character limit from 140.
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No, with more evil. They introduced open source so Intellectual Ventures could sue the writers for patent infringement.
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Of course User Stories are incomplete by themselves.

User Stories are the starting point for conversations with users. From those conversations you build quick mockups or sketches, and get continuous feedback.

If you're taking user stories away and building directly from them then you're not agile - you're building mini-waterfall projects.
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there's nothing there aside from a big banner ad. what is interesting about the site? did I miss something?
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Yeah I think they work differently in general. From my experience they do not benefit from iterative development the same way we do. They do but they iterate when solving the problem, usually on paper.

This is partly true in my experience and you will struggle to find a Mechanical Engineer that doesn't know what Kaizen is. With engineering iterating is expensive so iteration normally would happen at design stage. However, when it comes to Construction there are different levels of iteration, for example the Consultant will produce a set of specs and drawings but is up to the specialists to produce the detail studies and shop drawings.They will also spent months with mock-ups in order to confirm compliance with requirements.

However, I think every Engineering discipline (and I include Software Engineering here) can learn a lesson or two from Sanitary Engineers:) Systems produced by Drainage Engineers virtually outlive the buildings they are installed, large part of such systems are standardized (use your standard libraries). They run for almost ever and anywhere (ie, quality assurance brings reliability), they require almost no maintenenace (minimize bugs). They have very well defined objectives (no feature creep). If they don't perform well they stink so someone notices and does something about it! They employ 'set of primitives or principles' like gravity that always works, they are simple and construction can be delegated to cheaper labour (outsourcing). It is not a very glamorous field but civilization progressed when this field progressed (social responsibility). They are not expensive to design and produce. They use standard details (ie DRY principle) and I have seen .. a lot of these Sanitary Engineers debating if their discipline is ... art, engineering or science. Rings a bell?

Mechanical Engineering like IT - should be IE Information Engineering:) - has is own disasters and Management problems.

It is a very creative field and the only unfortunate thing is that it does not benefit from - open source. In this respect anyone in Software Engineering, should count themselves lucky!

Qualifier I hold a PhD in Mechanical Engineering
I actually use my phone primarily to make calls and texts. Access to a 3G network is nice, but it's an accouterment. For many people, the slower data speed is not too big of a hassle when you only need to use it occasionally.
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"Wouldn't it be great if Apple ran a similarly carrier-independent iPhone store, or Nokia did the same with its smartphone lineup?"

They've done it for years, but not in the US.

http://shop.nokia.co.uk/nokia-uk/searchresults.aspx?search_i...
Even without an explicit contradiction, the terms and metrics are so vague that they could really mean anything, according to your interpretation.
I grew up coding assembly for 6502... and you can fit a lot in 1k.

the 1k is aided and abetted by the architecture of the computer.

* Reading keyboard is reading a register/known address, not loading the keyboard library, allocating a structure and jumping into an OS routine.

* Clear screen is writing zeros to a known address space

* Drawing is writing a 1 to a known address space

* Yours is the only process on the machine

* Text compresses well with Huffman

With those assumptions a lot more can fit in the 1K
I don't quite understand what you mean by T-mobile's 3G frequency being non-standard? Care to explain?
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Funny thing, I was just gonna check out the US Nokia website to see what it would look like without the store, and it turns out they already have one:

http://store.nokia.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/shophome_10...
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Looks rather cool, but with Google's recent privacy issues I'm trying to wean myself off their services.
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Am I the only one who thinks they would be accidentally pushing buttons on the underside all the time?
We hadn't, since this is not an issue so far. CPU is quite cheap, so it is much easier to use cloud than adjust code for GPU.
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Let's be fair. 3dmark is a horrible way to test if cleanup helped. It's mostly gpu limited, and that tends to be unaffected by OEM crap. Rendering a complex webpage, launching an office suite, or watching high-def flash video would be more useful tests.

I am not volunteering to do these tests.
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Neat looking remote, but it feels like they're reinventing the wheel here. There are quite a few other handheld wireless keyboard designs that seem to work well (not to mention the PSP-type form factors). I hope they don't overstretch themselves at the expense of the core software product.
I'd guess it either has an accelerometer (hopefully) or a slider switch to change modes.
Pretty much every component of this story is being filtered through the claims of one man, a man who's one of only two known outsiders who speak their language to any extent - and according to the other person, not very well. Think how very weird you could make any group of people seem to another if you were the only person who could translate between them.

These people have no art, but they make impromptu sculptures with moving parts and decorative necklaces. They have no use for change and reject all things of the outside world, except for clothing, cloth, thread, machetes, movies, and random strangers, including families who hang around for decades trying to learn their language. They don't point...except maybe with their chins. Their language is strange and unusual - unless it's in a way that casts doubts on Daniel Everett's understanding, like Keren Everett's claims about prosody.

We don't know what these people are saying to Everett, and we have no idea what he's saying to them, due to either deception or a language barrier. Skepticism strikes me as entirely appropriate.
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Slightly offtopic but on crippling Firefox, too: I didn't need automatic updates because I used the nightlies of FF3.5 before it was called FF3.5, mainly to get my hands on the javascript JIT.

But then Chromium came.

Now I'll wait until Electrolysis fixes the biggest problem in the current Firefox: the sluggish bottleneck of the single UI thread that does all events and rendering for everything. It's not only slow but a single Flash video can bring down all my dozen tabs and while Firefox can restore them, it takes forever to load them in "parallel".

WebKit is quite crappy and odd, Chromium is still in its infancy but the user experience is an order of magnitude better almost solely because of multiprocessing.

It's amazing how a single thing can make so much of the difference merely by coming from the next decade. Now I'll just have to wait for the copycats to work their duty and I can go back to Firefox.
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I think this may very well be true. It has always been the case that some search terms simply don't yield suggestions. The fact that 'islam' is among them, could very well be a mere coincidence.
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Same here. I brought home the BYTE issue with it on its cover and read the article eagerly. At that time, importing personal computers into Brazil was forbidden, and it took me a couple years to see an Amiga face to face, but from the extensive coverage, I was very impressed. I stuck to my Apple II for a couple more years before, grudgingly, moving to a v20-based PC.

I never saw a 1000 in person, but I am the happy owner of a 500, and it's a centerpiece of my "interesting computer" collection.

I really miss the 80's in that: you could tell different computers apart. Now even Macs are PCs...
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"Take your argument to its logical conclusion and you reach the perverse notion that it's the USA's, and the rest of the world's, moral obligation to pump money into the region to prevent war. The oil is not even a factor, and will run out eventually anyway."

If the world were black and white and the only choices were stop buying oil completely or continue the way we currently do things that would be true. But the world isn't like that.

Contrary to what Political Pundits might say our leaders really aren't idiots. For several decades now we've been pursuing alternate fuel sources (which should start to slowly reduce the amount of oil we purchase) while denouncing foreign oil use (which should subtlety undermine regimes that have no real plan beyond "make money off oil").

Again history provides the perfect model here. The U.S. won the cold war not by drastic actions but by slowly undermining the USSR's political system with political rhetoric while doing everything we could to create an economic environment that endorsed the ideals we hoped they would emulate
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Every product will always have a set of intrinsic features; things like usability, aesthetic appeal, performance, efficiency, robustness, etc. When you use a brain-dead functionality checklist approach to development you are almost assured to fail at delivering on the intrinsic featureset, which is often the most important.

In mature industries most of the competition is on these intrinsic aspects, just look at automobiles, furniture, or food.

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This is really good stuff.

Does anybody know of a good set of video lectures on probability/statistics? I'm interested in a mathematical statistics approach, not the usual experimental statistics. There isn't much on iTunesU, unfortunately...

Anything on Bayesian inference would also be great.
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I've been doing something similar to this for quite some time.

I made a Google-docs form containing boolean-answer questions regarding whether I did any of the things I aimed to do regularly (running, writing code, good interaction with people, etc), and wrote a script to remind myself to do it every night via email.

Answering "No" to a question put a nasty red mark on the generated spreadsheet, which led to a huge motivator as to avoid the nasty red marks on the otherwise clean spreadsheet. Now, after doing this for almost exactly a year, I can claim that this system works quite well for me.

I'm going to make this into a full-fledged app inspired by the "Calendar about nothing".
Firefox updates are pretty annoying, I hate to launch Firefox only to wait for him to update. I wish they could fix that.

Chrome is great because he handles all this dirty job in the background and you can browse almost instantly.

I guess Firefox could try to de the same job as Chrome, I don't know why the typical user wouldn't want to update it.
I don't see how these assumptions really help - 'greatest program ever written' is a bit bombastic but working chess program in a few hundred bytes of z80 code is still quite impressive.

Reading keyboard is reading a register/known address, not loading the keyboard library, allocating a structure and jumping into an OS routine

Or calling a ROM routine. Reading the keyboard directly at the lowest level would probably just make the program bigger

Clear screen is writing zeros to a known address space

Generally, another ROM routine call.

Drawing is writing a 1 to a known address space

Not really. Just about all these machines had color. The Apple ][ had a fun non-linear video buffer layout, to boot.

Text compresses well with Huffman

Not a lot of text in a chess program.
I think it's a touch trickier than that. As far as I'm aware, a reload cannot remove namespace mappings; it can just add new ones and overwrite existing ones. So with continual reloads you might find yourself with old deprecated functions cluttering up your namespace.

Another problem is that Clojure loads up namespaces sequentially, rather than atomically. So you might end up with an a new version of one function calling the old version of another.

In order for your reloading middleware to be robust, I suspect you'd have to (1) wait for any existing request-handling threads to finish, (2) suspend any new request-handling threads, (3) reload your namespaces, (4) resume any suspended request threads.
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An accelerometer wouldn't account for people lying on their back with the remote upside down. Could the keyboard perhaps only become operational while the device is expecting text input?

Entering text on a 360 with a controller or ATV with the little Apple remote can be pretty glacial! An alternative remote for the ATV could be useful too.
I'm sure Microsoft want to see the back of Flash too. However, I suspect they would rather see Silverlight replace it than SVG!
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It sounds like you're helping my point... thanks.

ROM routines is a jump into known addresses... so no extra impact on the 1K. Parameters are read from registers.

Color of 4bit? only a slight increase. Often acheivable in 1 instruction. Limit of 2 colors in 8x8 block on ZX81[1]

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[1] http://www.giantbomb.com/zx-spectrum/60-16/
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Stopped reading there.
This is a good idea I think. I would consider learning Java, the basics, with Clojure. At the same time because you will have to regularly make use of the huge Java library. So it's a good idea to know about classes, objects, basic syntax and primitive types.
Of course you will put the focus on Clojure. I also recommend SICP and Scheme. Scheme, in its R5RS form, is a really good pedagogical programming language. I learned it at school and it was a really good experience. One that forever changes the way you think about programming. But I didn't get that at the time, only later :)
You can do the SICP exercises with Clojure instead of Scheme.
I would avoid digging into C++ or Common Lisp now. Those are quite complex. Keep CL for later, and forget about C++ :)
Next get deeper into Java and start to learn a "scripting" language like Ruby, Python or Perl.
All in all, I think it is really important to grasp different programming paradigms: functional (Lisp, Haskell, ML, Erlang, ...), logic with Prolog, procedural/OO with Java (can get you a job :-), distributed (Erlang) ...
There are a lot of other interesting languages out there but it is a good start: Clojure + Java.
why would they even risk it at all?

So, you're saying terrorism works. It's ok to offend groups who don't resort to terrorism to destroy freedom of speech.

That Google operates censorship in China and India is bad enough. Now you're saying the number 1 search engine in the west is right to censor.
I suppose if 'just about everything you said to support your point is wrong' is 'helping you', there's probably not much left to discuss.
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