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I agree with this post wholeheartedly.

At my company I've seen many projects fail, and a few succeed. Our most successful projects have also been the narrowest in scope. Once the project is successful, it's much easier to add on things one by one because you already have something successful.
On the other hand, our most epic failure of all time was a project that was supposed to only take a couple of months but went on for many, many months. In my opinion, the project's biggest problem was a lack of naysayers. Said project was going to have every feature ever. It was going to be Facebook, but prettier and with more features. That project was evetually killed of course, but the man hours and resources wasted on it were quite astronomical for something that, in hindsight, should have been pretty obvious that it would fail.

I will add that one skill I've learned is the art of saying 'later' instead of 'no'. If an idea is good but too time intensive or too low priority relative to everything else, 'later' acknowledges that and reserves the right to revisit later but still ultimately is a no, albeit less injurious to the ego of the person asking.
It kept freezing Safari on my Windows. :(
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Heh, this is quite even better than the "Evolution of a programmer".
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I'm kind of surprised that IE6 has actually been actively, not just accidentally, supported somewhere in the recent years. Microsoft has released two new versions after 6 so MS can't be blamed either.
Yes, this is essentially the same idea. The problem with Lamport clocks is that every two pairs of events can be ordered - since a < b or b < a or a = b for all integers a and b. This means that two events that are not causally related can't be identified. Lamport clocks just give you an ordering on events that preserves the causal relationship, but they also introduce unnecessary structure.

Vector clocks, at the cost of more storage, allow you to detect whenever two messages are not causally related. To be concrete, if I send you a message, and you then send one to someone else, your message is causally related to mine because its possible that whatever was in my message influenced the message you sent. However, if I send my message to a third party, it no longer causally precedes yours because you couldn't have reacted to what I sent.

Vector clocks will preserve this lack of ordering because the clock of my message will be 10, and the clock of your message will be 01. 10 is neither 'less than' or 'greater than' 01 under the ordering of vector timestamps, so we can conclude that the messages are not causally related.

This is important because sometimes we care whether two different updates to the same data are in any way ordered - because if so we know which one was 'latest' and therefore the 'current' one. Dynamo uses vector clocks like this: if two non causally related message arrive to update a value, the system is able to detect a conflict and take some remedial action.
Chrome/Linux works beautifully.

I wonder now. in 3 years will we see a port Half Life 2's Source engine (with all its physics puzzles) on Chrome!
To me this smacks of severe desperation on part of the Apple fanboys' attempt to defend iPad at any cost whenever anyone points to its real flaws. It simply shows that they can't take real criticism.

This is just a blog which showed several examples, 10 to be exact, including Hulu and Disney, to question Apple's claim of showing "real" internet, and all the fanboys see is the porn example.

It is the Apple fanboys who are playing the porn card, not Adobe.
Yeah, must be what the $130 is for.
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What's with the hackerne.ws link?

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whois hackerne.ws -> some godaddy registrar.
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Several meta threads at StackOverflow have pointed out this issue, resulting in a lot of discussion about fair use/excerpts, snippets, re-implementation, etc.; some users have even begun putting an additional license for their contributions within their profile.

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I imagine a surge of users from news.yc set off a few flags considering their product is intended to monitor this sort of thing.
If true this makes sense. When the IPhone came out it was over priced, I assume to help pay for their R&D.
I personally hate mobile version of sites. It presents a new interface where I have to find all over again the buttons I need. And sometimes those buttons are missing.
I've heard stories about "unofficial arrangements" that some CDNs are purported to use in order to see client addresses. No idea if it's true though.
If they would be serious about that, they would distribute IE8 for Win2k.
I'm sure of one thing though: Using an ipad for extended periods of time on the toilette can hurt your asshole by causing hemmorhoids. Whatever you do with it, do it quick!
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Well, because R&D and marketing costs are fixed costs and go to SG&A (Sales, general and administration).

What the article talks about is variable cost and it goes into COGS (Cost of goods sold).
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And Sony loses hundreds in each playstation 3 sold, but they make it up on games. Apple makes hundreds of dollars but still forces you (to some degree) to use their proprietary store. It's not like Sony didn't spend r&d and all that fancy junk on the ps3 too.
Range should go to 7 if we are doing factorial of 6.
You often can't tell when you're missing out on a feature due to JS being disabled. It isn't always visually obvious. Am I missing something or is there a trust system to this whole VM thing?

Edit: To put it better perhaps, are you worried that they can execute arbitrary code on your CPU as your user on your OS? Or are you just worried that they might paste a link into your clipboard?
"(EC2 is basically a really complicated way of charging for electricity.)"

That's the takeaway. I do agree with this basic premise though. That said, it's not just charging for electricity, but electricity + profit for them. I do think it's possible to run your own operations cheaper than outsourcing. I think a lot of pure "cloud" solutions are just smoke on top of some jacked up pricing. A lot of people are billing by weird bandwith+server+cpu+disk metrics that are hard to evaluate. If it's hard to figure out, your probably getting worked. Unless they're really adding something useful at an operational level, do it yourself. Hardware is relatively cheap. Guys who can build and configure hardware are reasonably available. Having total control over all that gives you some flexibility and that's where you add your "special sauce".
They exist. They are payroll, timesheet, and scheduling apps built in the early days of javascript and css when cross-browser compatibility was much harder, and sold to companies who has IE 4 or 5 or 6 on all machines anyway, so what's the big deal if it doesn't work in Netscape?

I'm sure even the people who wrote them never imaged they'd still be in use ten years later.
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<Shameless plug>

They're used (amongst many other applications) by Amazon-dynamo patterned storage systems, such as Dynomite, Riak or Voldemort. My presentation from November < http://behemoth.strlen.net/~alex/Voldemort_NoSQL_Oakland.ppt > explains vector clocks and their use in a storage system, but in my opinion the parent article does so even better (I wasn't too good at OmniGraffle and only used PPT out of expediency).

</Shameless plug>

You should definitely read the Dynamo paper < http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.h... > as it's just plain interesting (although, it's by no means a "blueprint" to building a storage system). Here's my attempt at cliff notes to the Dynamo paper, explaining the application of a Vector clock:

Suppose you have a system where you want to achieve N-way replication of data, but don't want to lose availability for writes by going to two-phase commit. So in this case, you do this:
* Write your data synchronously to W nodes

* Perform a background (async) write to N - W nodes

* When reading, instead read from R nodes. Now, if R + W > N, you can now be sure that at least one of the R nodes will have the most up to date version of the data, achieving a very basic "read your writes" consistency, without having to write to all of the nodes.

Problem is, how do you tell which is the node holding the truth? That's what vector clocks are for.

Given a value X with clock A and and a value Y with clock B, you can tell whether X was written because Y was read (implying X was written after Y), whether Y was written because of X was read (implying X was written before Y) or if the two are independent of each other. The latter scenario occurs when nodes holding X and Y become partitioned from each other (i.e. network link going down) - but some subset of clients is able to talk to X, another is able to talk to Y and another to both. In this case you can't tell which came as a result of which, but you can see that the scenario has happened and attempt to reconcile the values.

The simplest example of this reconciliation is Amazon's shopping cart (powered by Dynamo), where if two node had causally unrelated versions of the shopping cart it would make sense just to merge the two versions (combining the items).
Does the video work in Chromium? Using a macbook.
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b. Fairly sure Leonardo would use SFTP or rsync rather than grandpaFTP.
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The complaint assumes that those portions of the NY Times site will still require Flash by the time the iPad ships.

I wouldn't recommend assuming that.
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Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of touch points it will accept as multitouch input?
It's not terribly relevant to HTML5, but I wracked my brain over trying to figure out what song plays in the video and how I know it.

After listening to a bunch of tracks and going through my music collection, I found it. It's a re-orchestration of Bond's "Oceanic" (Bond, the string quartet). I'm not sure if their version is original, or if that's a remake of something else (they do like to do updated dancy versions of classics like the 1812 Overture).

If anyone's interested anyway, it was bugging me like crazy.
EC2 really makes sense for lumpy loads where it's not efficient to invest capital in hardware for bursts of processing you want done. With a more predictable load, it makes less sense.
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Full-screen is apparently only supported by alt-clicking the full-window button in the latest WebKit nightly builds.
Canvas rendering is starting to really kick ass, yet I can't help but feel that it doesn't quite belong. Is this how early Web pioneers felt about the img tag in a Web of grey documents? I know there are practical applications, I can think of several off the top of my head. It just feels like we're overloading the browser with candy now.

Do we now expect browser vendors to support cutting-edge, hardware accelerated graphics along-side those bleeding-edge standards we whine about?
There is also a second Dartmoor video on James Watson's site. It uses the music by Javier Navarrete from "Pan's Labyrinth" film.
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Who controls the buffering logic in this case? Is it entirely up to the browser or it's configurable somehow by client's JS?

I'm on a less-than-perfect connection here and all I'm seeing is hiccups and it doesn't try to slow down and fill the buffer
I write what I believe to be functional style Python, and have great coverage and fairly easy multithreading (normally using 2.6 Queue objects) as a result. I really like the clean syntax of Python, the less I have to look at on screen the better. Do you think there's a functional programming language I'd like? I've looked at Erlang but not been persuaded.
If flash was more performant and stable, I think people would be less opposed to its continued dominance.
The article is entirely new content updated to fit an existing idea. How is that a 'ripoff'?
It really remind me of a song in I think Beauty and the Beast. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
You are right.

You get those deals on screen/flash when you buy in the millions.

The thing is, research is a one time cost, the more they sell, the more their profit approaches this number.

It is a useless number for anything apart from comparison, and confirming that they will actually make money of each device, unlike some console manufacturers at the beginning of their cycles.
Yes, but obviously Apple think it will be cheaper for them in the long run, over wise they would not have done it.
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"Adobe is playing the porn card. It's over" - spoken like a true fanboy.

There are many reasons to hate flash - it's proprietary, it's slow on anything other than Windows, it's sub-optimal on Windows compared to alternatives (such as just streaming video directly - Youtube HD being a case in point).

It's also something that runs a large part of the Internet. I went without Flash for 3 months and whilst my Internet experience didn't feel that much less after getting used to it, I did feel left out by not being able to watch Youtube, play games on newgrounds etc.
I always liked math for the sake of math. Math that has "real-world" applications is boring.

(Of course, Calculus, number theory, and differential equations have lots of real world applications, but the "real world" that these apply to is not "daily life", and is interesting as a result.)
No Firefox support? That seems pretty arbitrary; why not show my browser the page and let it decide if it can render it?

Oh yeah, it's by a web designer...
Now has a real quote from me--I was misquoted earlier

Also, I found no reference to video chat, backplane cameras or backgrounding--that must be from a source closer to Cupertino.
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Who buys $50,000 databases to run a website? Install Postgres and be done with it. It's free, and has more features than many of the big databases.
The API has no restriction on the number of touch points Apple could offer, and current hardware caps out at five. I think it's safe to say at least five
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Yes, they do unfortunately. Often they are relics of some old homespun solution no one understands and everyone is afraid to touch, maybe a product of a dead company, or simply ancient versions that haven't been upgraded in eons because it's cheaper and easier to keep IE6 installed.
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Treat it as gamma function instead :)
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From The EFF's Panopticlick's things that enable it to create 'unique browser fingerprint' about your system + browser, Combined with browsing history as determined by www.whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com, this is quite scary!
You should keep reading, the $50,000 database is the first thing to go.
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But this has nothing to do with "NoSQL", it's "No$50,00Software".
From what I understand their inception is 2001, which means they've lost about $30mil/year. That doesn't sound excessive to me at all. Software startups normally count $15k/employee/month as a reasonable expense (including hardware, rent, benefits, etc.) Given how massive the equipment and production expenses for an auto company can be, I wouldn't be surprised if their number is three times as high. At only 500 employees (again, a very small estimate for an auto company) that would put their expenses at 45k/month * 12 * 500 = $270mil/year. Considering that they've lost only $240 mil in eight years, they're doing extremely well.

I can't even imagine the amount of effort and capital required to pull something like this off. If anything, I'm surprised how well they're actually doing so far.
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Wait ... SMS? I could have sworn that my friends with iPhones are able to both send and receive SMS.
I doubt it's worth doing much more than looking at version comments in the HTML, because the majority of people won't go to the effort of hiding the version.
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Quite a broad brush...
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You have to weigh in the fact that the growth of the internet has allowed hobbyists to find each other. But then governments and international organizations will be pressured to prosecute against hackers and tinkerers. The post addresses the possibility that in the future, we won't be able to modify our own hardware. It's not elitist to worry about who will have ownership over our future products if it's not going to be ourselves.
It doesn't work properly: after it plays a section of the movie, dragging back will re-download!! (Chrome/Mac)
So funny. The Windows one makes me wanna abandon computers altogether.
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Thank you. It was bugging me as well, which is funny because I rarely listen to these and don't usually "index" them... But this one really sticks in your head!

It's not the original Bond Oceanic, but definitely similar. However I've heard the same exact re-orchestration before, still dying to know where though.
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No, it's because Firefox said outright they will not support HTML5 H.264 streaming.
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So that's it we amalgamate HTML5 video and H.264 already ?
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Pretty good summary I thought.
Replace those screenshots with some of all those sites stuffed with flash adds, and you actually have some pretty big argument in favor of the iPad ;)
> I would have ample resolution for just about everything and I wouldn't have to alt-tab at all.

You sound like a man in desperate need of virtual desktops.
Actually, most deadly plagues in the history of mankind has been caused by bacteria, and it is antibiotics, not vaccines, that has stopped them. :-)
Curiously this player causes more CPU load than a flash video here on chrome/OSX. Must be something specific to this implementation, though. The html5 player on youtube causes less load than flash.
He's disagreeing with the idea that those two issues are in any way separate.
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What does the codec have to do with the player?