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Why does everyone complain so much about developers getting paid? Aren't most of the people here developers?
In Seattle last summer it rained only a few times between May and October, going for stretches of 6 weeks or more with zero precipitation -- dead grass everywhere.
I would recommend you a simple three-fold approach:

1. Think of an existing Web application that you like a lot

2. Think of a feature it's either missing or something that can be simplified in the app

3. Build a stripped-down version of the app in your spare time as a side project. Launch, gather feedback & analytics, improve, repeat.

This approach will solve your concern with finding the idea and executing it with limited resources.
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And it's not just the dev time: with C++ (and C, and any notorious unsafe language..) you've got to be extra diligent about security, which uses even more time, and requires expertise not just in C++ but also how to write secure software in low level languages... a skill many C/C++ devs lack, unfortunately.
It'll easily win the "O'Reilly Publishing" award for most obnoxious use of 'hack' in marketing materials.

http://www.metafilter.com/87440/Slowly-sticky-silicone
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If Microsoft were to announce tomorrow that they were shipping Windows with a copy of Firefox, but the default search engine was Bing, what would the reaction be?
Here's some research in to alternative keyboard layouts which are (arguably) even more efficient than Dvorak and Colemak. [Also included is an application for optimizing your own keyboard layout based on criteria that are important to you (such as minimizing the use of the little fingers, weighting one hand more than another, etc..)]:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx

The most efficient keyboard layouts are described here:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization
Apple makes the best hardware. I'm not talking about ram, processor speed, power, blah, blah, blah. I'm talking about the best integrated package, between design, specs, and OS. Apple also makes some of the best software.

Developers make software that they want to run on all hardware, especially the best hardware. They appreciate software when it works, and is designed well. Some developers value design more than others. Those, developers understand and appreciate the value in Macs.
Why didn't they switch to using UTF-8 internally in the 3.0 switch instead of sticking with the archaic UCS crap?

I'd even give them a pass if their UTF-8 implementation didn't handle combining characters correctly, since noone else seems to bother!
Apple releases the tablet.
...Yahoo, who uses Bing! as their search back-end...

I know such a deal was announced... but on a few test queries, there's little similarity between Yahoo's results and Bing's results. Anyone know what/when is really happening with Yahoo and Bing?
Definitions are useful for experts in a field. It is much faster to just refer to a concept by its name rather than explaining it every time.

Unfortunately, definitions are a terrible thing for students. Even more unfortunately, most books are written in the following style:

1. Here's a paragraph-long definition that makes no sense to you at this point.

2. Here's a proof of this thing you don't yet understand.

3. Oh, you want to practice? Here's an example problem and a solution. When you see a problem like this one, plug numbers into this formula in the bold box.

4. A bunch more problems to try plugging numbers into yourself.

5. The discussion on what this thing is actually useful for is outside the scope of this book. Read about that somewhere else.

The best teachers actually explain how the thing they are teaching works. They start with a limited concept the student can understand, and then refine it to make it more formal. Good textbooks do this too. The bad ones start with the definition in a box.

The problem is that by the time a professor writes a textbook, this stuff is second nature to them. The prof is an expert. So he/she starts with the definition, since that is how the professor commonly communicates this concept. The book then ends up looking like the author is trying to make him/herself look smart at the expense of the reader. Writing an accessible book is a rare talent.

Wow this turned into a long rant :)
Alive but with guilt. Whenever I do something on paper now, I notice that a little voice says something like, "You know, you could write that as a txt file and save a piece of paper and it would be searchable. Just sayin'" The voice doesn't stop me, but it does make me pause each time.
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So maybe he meant "on the expertise of the programmer" -- of the language/compiler...
I can't speak for anyone other than myself, naturally, but I was a very vocal Linux user until I got my first macbook and didn't have to google X-server error messages every time I did an upgrade. Getting various flavors of linux working was always exciting... and challenging and sometimes extremely frustrating. I think I never got the video card working properly on my last laptop.

So what I like about the Mac is OS X and all the handy *nix based tools that are still available to me, all packaged in a nice and slick package where stuff just works.
Thanks! Google wasn't particularly useful for me, unfortunately. Good for me to know, as a PS3 layman.
We don't do the drizzle sh*t in New York; we go big. When it rains, it pours. It also doesn't stop us from going outside. We don't care - we've got things to do, places to be.
http://www.bash.org/?152037

It's not a named law, but this quote pops up on reddit from time to time.
I've worked on a lot of embedded devices with web services, and it seems pretty typical to just run a JVM and serve web pages out of it.

The few times I've seen actual web stacks done in C++, the end result has been... comedic.
... but will they let you review AT&T?
It's amazing the bridges technology can create these days. cough
The integration is a complex 2-year process; six months have passed so far. Don't expect results to change before 2011. (I'm a Yahoo, but this is public knowledge)
>Due to space constraints

?? Since when does the internet have space constraints?
But there's no reason to store those artifact objects as if they were diff/patch/merge-able -- store them separately as archived read-only blobs.

A lot of people use a standard hierarchical filesystem that gets rsynced around, a new option would be to store them in something like S3 and keep their addresses as references in source control.
These sorts of comparisons are kind of silly, because there is no way to adequately put all these movies on equal ground (the movie market is radically different today than it was in the 1930s). Even if one could, what exactly are they trying to show? Relative popularity? There are better measures that do not include grosses.

The biggest issue though with comparing a movie that came out a month ago with a movie that came out 80 years ago is that movie has had 80 years of releases and re-releases in which to make that sum. It would be much more fair to compare everything to how it did in the first month of availability (though even then you have problems with judging how widely distributed a movie was initially). Also, the site doesn't make clear if, when taking into account re-releases, they adjust everything at the price level of the original release or if they judge each re-release at the new price level.

In the end, though, any sort of historical comparison is a silly exercise that tells us little.
buzz.com is a really good domain name for something like this, but I can't think of a single instance where a Fortune 500 company tried to build a strong community and succeeded.
If you're able to afford the payments, and are otherwise financially stable, I'm not entirely sure how another 5-6 years will worsen things.

Unless the economy manages to crash again in that time, and worse. Then, though, you'd probably be in a crappy situation even if you left now.

More than likely, at this point, your house will be worth more (though probably not a lot more) than it does now, and (since you've been meeting your payments) your debt will have shrunk, too.
"AT&T came up with the idea for buzz.com about a year and a half ago, says David Krantz, president and chief executive of AT&T Interactive"

He says that so casually, like it was an original idea. And, he's not bothered by the fact that it took them a year and half to launch.
http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/
Yeah, I mean what if the guy's name is Bob?
You make some relevant points.

But somehow, I doubt creating the "final solution" fail safe platform was first and foremost in the minds of whoever it was that thought up the iPhone app store model. Nobody likes a monopoly... unless it's their monopoly.
Pretty amazing content, but the worst web site I've used in ages. Seriously seems like they're trying to make it a
puzzle.

Parts 1 .. 8

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http://www.vbs.tv/newsroom/the-vice-guide-to-liberia-8-of-8
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I often make a list of things I want to talk about in my head, before making a phone call; often I also think of a nice introduction and phrase the first question - after that it just gets easier. Singing or making music, especially jam sessions, helps a lot in finding the right rhythm in speaking.
Case in point: we need a sarcasm tag.
Incorrect headline. Apple hasn't announced anything in the present tense.
Well, PyCon tutorials (and this is material from one such) are three hours long. Posting the entirety of one as text would be the mother of all "tl;dr"s.
Interestingly, it'd probably decimate Firefox since MS would no doubt feel no need to do a revenue share with Mozilla and Firefox users would feel no need to download a virgin Firefox, thus destroying Firefox's revenue stream.
Poll HN: Where to live in the bay?
We're a three person startup looking for a house or apartment to live and work out of (specifically, 3-bedrooms and a large common space for working) around the bay area. Taking into consideration cost, size, safety, and proximity to social life, where would be the best place to live? All three of us have cars, so transportation into SF would not be a problem. Also, we're fresh out of college, so cost is a very important factor.

We would appreciate any explanations or comments for your response.
Peninsula (between SF and Palo Alto)
Palo Alto (and South)
East Bay
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Like kowen said, it's still a (STABLE) *nix OS, but with a beautiful, functional UI.

RE: "Or is it that Mac developers are more vocal about their OS beliefs?"
The question you should be asking is what makes Mac developers so vocal about their OS beliefs? I think the answer you'll find is that they are so pleased with their Mac they feel compelled to share.

There's also a handful of fantastic development tools unique to OS X, two of my favorites being TextMate (RoR editor of choice by many), and Coda. There's also obviously been large growth in Objective-C developers since the release of the iPhone, again something (unless you count mono) unique to OS X.
Google, has decided to create their own browser, and is now working on their own OS (a linux distro).

And Google hired Canonical to work on Chrome OS...
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The whole point of the original article is that changing technologies are allowing smaller scale businesses to enter markets that were previously denied to them. It's _not_ about changing how existing hobby industries work. The author has failed to look beyond the hobbyist examples used in the Wired article.

It's also about being able to enter niche markets that larger manufacturers aren't interested in. There are plenty of markets that require a high standard of complexity in both design and manufacturing, yet are too small for larger companies to care about. As the cost of both drops, so it becomes more viable.

Also, despite the author's disparaging remarks, being able to do small scale runs in China is significant, because not so long ago this was _inconcievable_ for many businesses.

It's fair to bash Wired for the hyperbole -- it's not a revolution yet -- but Giz's critique is shallow and doesn't address the basic argument; that the lowered cost has increased access to equipment and skills for industrial design and manufacture. That this change will lead to greater numbers of smaller businesess operating in new niche markets, or markets otherwise previously denied to them because of scale.
Put it that way you can store the genome of 8 people on an 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB flash drive. It is not that large.
Quick, off-topic question, but weren't you guys called Yahooligans for a while? A quick search on Google shows that it might have been repurposed as a children's gaming brand.
Great for travelling with young families. I wonder where the lifejackets are kept now.
I don't think it's an accident that this announcement comes far away enough from the next release for there to be time for Google to make them a better offer. Even if that doesn't happen in the next release, this may be Canonical's way of showing their hand.
Or Mozilla could revoke Microsoft's use of their trademarks, thus creating "Microsoft IceWeasel", a program I don't believe anyone would consider using. (Or they could brand it as IE9—but then people would keep downloading Firefox, just to avoid the now stigma-saturated IE brand.)
Very cool trick!

Go google!
Point well taken, I will admit a lot of been looking at it through my cheap college lifestyle goggles.
I'm sure given AT&T's laudable history of building huge-scale, world-class websites and their sterling reputation for dealing with customers in a human fashion this site will do excellently.
I don't get why you don't just use webgl and hlsl?
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It looks interesting and clever (and a practical way to learn about relational algebra) but the reason similar interesting and clever solutions haven't become very popular over the years is that the field of applications where they have a significant advantage is very narrow. Often these are rapid-prototyping development tools and places where there's a need to generate very complex queries in a way compatible with different relational sources. Typically, though, the queries are not that complex and don't need to be generated dynamically so this sort of thing becomes just an exquisitely designed layer for more bugs to hide in.
Improve Your Eyesight Through Diet
Most of us may think that diet has nothing to do with our eye sights, but health only. In fact, they are tightly related to each other. This is because healthy bodies can help us to maintain good visions.
What kind of diets can be called healthy? They should contain some proteins, vegetables and others. If you want to take in more proteins, fish is one of the best choices, for it contains a lot of Omega-3 acids. Still, sufficient proteins can benefit our brains very much. There are various sorts of vegetables, such as carrots, spinach, etc. Other products, such as Dairy products, are also very important for the health of our eyes. Be cautious about some milk, because they can be harmful for our eye circulation.
If you eat some complicatedly processed foods some time, it matters little on your vision. But eating too much can cause serious side-effects. Just follow one principle that all foods you eat should meet the demands of your body, such as, foods with plenty of Vitamins and other nutrients. As for the nutrition of food, sunflower seeds, soy beans, liver, etc, are really good alternatives.
Also, while I'm bitching...

http://www.buzz.com/

The logo looks like somebody took the bing font and merged it with the technorati icon, with a near-fatal dose of compression artifacts.

Sorry, AT&T is not my favourite company :-)
They always tell you to buckle your seatbelt when seated, so how do you get your seatbelt on when lying down like that?
There is too much hype, it's not organic. Frankly if Apple doesn't display a tablet tomorrow, their stock price will go into a free fall.
I've only worked for Yahoo for 3 years but AFAIK employees have been called yahoos since pretty early on, and yahooligans was only ever the kids brand. I could easily be wrong though.

Also, thanks for researching Yahoo's own history on Google :-p
The only way this will be successful is if they manage to buzz.com for a lot, once they've given up.
It's a sliding scale of box office gross that goes to the studios. Believe it or not, each film has its own deal, and there isn't really a standard amount. Bigger films can negotiate more for the distributor (studio) and less for the exhibitor (theater). The typical pattern is that the first weekend or two is very heavily slanted towards the distributor (as much as a 85/15 split, though 70/30 is more normal). Then the distributor's share goes down each weekend.

The rule of thumb is that over the course of a typical film, the distributor will receive about 55% of box office gross. Foreign deals can differ a fair amount.

Each deal is different, and it's hard to say what any one film gets without some insider info.

Then there's the cost of the film. There's not been a firm number on Avatar's production costs. High 200s is a good guess, but it's a guess.

P&A (prints and advertising) can be a huge cost on something like Avatar, though it had fewer prints than a typical blockbuster. Advertising was certainly substantial, though. I suspect 100 million is actually low.

Cameron's share is likely defined to come after some sort of breakeven point, some minimum number the studio beancounters said had to come back to the studio. There's really no standard whatsoever for someone like Cameron though, so who knows.

It's also important to remember that a lot of a film's production cost is really just the studio paying itself. Soundstage rental. Grip trucks, costuming, blah blah blah. Money moving from one column to another.

Avatar probably didn't qualify for any tax credits, though some films get really amazing deals. Some come close to having half their budgets in transferable tax credits, depending on the state or locale they shoot in. Those tax credits can be sold for cash and can considerably lower the cost to a studio.

The traditional hope for an average film has been to break even on box office, profit on the ancillaries - dvd, tv, etc. But with DVD sales dropping, that model will need some adjustment.

Avatar, though, is probably pretty close to some definition of profit in theatrical release.

And all that billion plus dollars is cash flow. Which is king, as much in Hollywood as it is anywhere else.
Yes, and that's why it's a shame.

I realize my message above was a little too cheeky and deserves the downvotes, but it's a legitimate concern. I want Canonical to have a firm financial footing, and I don't think this will help much.
How can I get an invitation?
I'm surprised by this, given Google and Ubuntu's previous relationship with Goobuntu.

Not that the two are mutually exclusive, but Google and Canonical do appear to have had some form of commercial relationship.
The answer depends on if you know what you want to do. If there's an idea you're passionate about, go ahead and build it.

If you don't have an idea or need help building it (design, programming, business) - go work for a funded startup that pays market rate, learn as much as you can, save up some cash, network like crazy and leave when you're ready to start on your own, but make sure not to burn any bridges.
It seems TechCrunch is still compromised
This appeared at the top of the page just now:

So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage yesterday brought you in trough the welcome.html ad you
forced
people to? What a fucking retarded move was that you twat. You should be thanking me and sucking on my fucking ballsack for not deleting everyone on the box and publishing the mysql, if that's what you want O.K, I can do that. Also, you fucking dickwads from sites like Yahoo!, BBC and plenty more, where the FUCK do you see adult content on
http://dupedb.com/
???????? I mean honestly, are you fucktards also in just for the money?!?!?!
This is for long haul trans-pacific flights (e.g. Auckland to San Francisco). I take that route often. It would be highly suspicious if the seatbelt light was on for 12 hours straight. Also, the cabin is seldom full, so getting to lie down without paying for extra seats is quite likely. On my last trip from SFO -> AUK I had three seats to myself and managed to sprawl out across the chairs, albeit uncomfortably. This will be much nicer.
"The site, which is in an invitation-only "alpha" testing phase, is geared toward helping people ferret out the best local businesses using recommendations from friends and family."

Immediately brings to mind:
http://www.thumbtack.com/
Techcrunch hacked again
here is the message it shows:

So Arrington, how much did all the media coverage yesterday brought you in trough the welcome.html ad you
forced
people to? What a fucking retarded move was that you twat. You should be thanking me and sucking on my fucking ballsack for not deleting everyone on the box and publishing the mysql, if that's what you want O.K, I can do that. Also, you fucking dickwads from sites like Yahoo!, BBC and plenty more, where the FUCK do you see adult content on
http://dupedb.com/
???????? I mean honestly, are you fucktards also in just for the money?!?!?!
Die-hard republicans won't be convinced no matter what. There's not really much point in trying with them (the same can be said of die-hard democrats). However, I think this will convince some voters that he is really the "transparency president." Given how little work it takes, I think the cost/benefit analysis comes down clearly on the side of posting online.

That is, until you consider that some people will comb through this stuff. All they need to do is fine some horrible sounding clause mid-way through a bill and take it out of context to bash the President. Maybe this is what they are afraid of.

Or, maybe, as someone else said, he is just breading his promise.
No, I think the reason many people (myself included) find this absurd is precisely because we don't think companies should be able to enforce whatever draconian property rights scheme they choose. Whether it makes sense or not to believe that,and what its possible economic implications is a different issue. And the fact that every court in western civilization seems to think otherwise, doesn't actually affect the way I feel about it.
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TechCrunch is still hacked??
This is what I see on the url - http://imgur.com/H9jxU.png
I don't know if C is the best answer for him. Ada has most of C advantages(unless you are doing "dirty" C tricks), while retaining type safety, exceptions, bound checking... (Haven't used it in years, though).
Right? What's the fuss about?
more like ... hit ctrl k <search> + enter, realize they haven't set default to google, and switch :)
Here is a screen cap in case they fix it or it goes down completely: http://imgur.com/koIso
Well since your submission is getting the upvotes...

I went ahead and took a screen cap:
http://imgur.com/koIso
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