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Why? From what I can tell the Nexus One's primary strengths are its integration with GMail, Google Voice, its large screen (for web browsing), and the turn-by-turn navigation app. All of which would be much less useful without a cell network data connection.

The places where it lags behind are precisely where the iPod Touch is leagues ahead - the App Store, the music/video player, the integration with iTunes, etc. I'd even briefly considered getting a Nexus One for the aforementioned strengths and using my iPhone as a glorified iPod Touch for the weaknesses. I can't imagine why anyone would want to do it the other way around.
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Are there other (former/current) demomakers around here ?

I released these ones a long while back (ie circa 95-98):

Obez/KlOon http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=17268 (soft real phong rendering)

Nikki/Jinrikisha http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1368

I'm planning to experiment with ruby-based demo (maybe using Jemini - see http://www.learnivore.com/search/jemini) when I'll have more time this year.
"organized crime" pretty accurately describes other forms of government as well. Feudalism in medieval Europe, for example, was basically an extortion and protection racket.
Definitely oversharing, but that's sad, not funny. YMMV of course :-)
Some haven't and are engaged in it outright or through proxy. China claims all of the South China Sea (and islands) to be theirs. Ethiopia, I personally believe, is just still playing with the idea of taking parts of Somalia. This would be done already if their government wasn't already corrupt. And Morocco still claims Western Sahara, a quasi independent nation with no formal government.

And don't even get me start on Israel and the west bank.
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electric engines are far more reliable than piston ICEs

So are turbines, by a wide margin. Electric motors powered by a gas turbine would be a pretty damn reliable system. I do not trust reciprocating engines as far as I can throw them! I know the perverse regulatory environment that has lead to the stagnation of technology in GA but still.

Not completely dead, though, it seems - thanks for that link. Most impressive. $89k! Sheesh, that's almost regular-joe level!
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From my memory, this split (4k/64k/more) existed long before 1995.

More recently, see http://ind.untergrund.net/ for a list of very small (like 32, 256 bytes - not kb).
Sorry, but I don't see the attraction of those videos at all.

They just show someone typing in code and checking his browser to look at a list of plain-text links.

What exactly is the big deal here?

Watching paint dry could hardly be less exciting.
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I also thought that after some guy's post asking for a $150 Android phone with no cell connection.

I wonder how cheaply one could be manufactured by someone that wasn't Google or an existing manufacturer. I wouldn't want to get in a business trying to compete with Apple based on price alone though. Maybe if your handset completely supported Google Voice for unlimited minutes over a T-Mobile prepaid data only SIM card for $30/month but I'm not sure if the carriers and Google would allow you to do that.
CloudCamp Haiti ... seriously ?
One of the numerous geeky hobbies I have is thinking how to present things to people in a convincing, effective manner. This visualization conveys information through size, relative position, and color. Unfortunately, size, relative position, and color do not support the story that they want the information to tell. For example, if you're working in 2D, things close to each other should be related to each other. However, "keep costs low" is not related with "continuously grow product" -- that is a spurious bit of information carried by placing them a few millimeters apart. Additionally, you would assume the critical stuff is in the center and less important stuff is in the periphery. Unfortunately, again, this is spurious, which is why they're overloading color to convey levels of importance.

If I were going to tell this story, I would collapse it into an outline. An outline is close to linear, so you can put important part up at the top. It is quickly scannable and impressively comprehensible. It does hierarchical relationships very well and doesn't imply relationships where none exist.

Here is the same graph expressed as an outline: http://www.pastie.org/786194

I think it gets a bit clearer. (I have left errors and questionable relationships as is so that it doesn't get clearer just by having me copy edit it... although since you can whip out an outline in a fraction of the time it takes to do a visualization like the original, you might have extra time to squash the typos.)
Most African countries actually were better off under colonialism.
Definitely don't have a startup in Miami. All the sun, beach, and girls will rob you of your motivation to work. Who wants to spend 18 hours at office when you've got 12 hours of blazing sunlight. You'll blow all your money on liquor and clubs while staying in a decent sized apartment. You'll stroll into work around noonish after doing a yoga session... on the beach. And you'll meet all types of beautiful women who don't speak english. Definitely DO NOT GO TO MIAMI.

/s
full text indexing: thinking sphinx, sunspot,

need to look at: acts_as_xapian

used in past: acts_as_ferret, acts_as_solr
This is exactly why I think the quote "I'd Rather Beg Forgiveness Than Ask Permission" should be carefully avoided when you depend on 3d parties, API, etc.

I always explicitely ask API/sites (Amazon included) owners whenever I have a doubt.

What do we have here - Amazon terms:

"The use of a mobile application
in conjunction with the Product Advertising API or the Associates Program without our express prior written approval is not permitted."

Which leads to this interpretation:

"Here's my understanding of the situation:
- Amazon does not seem to allow the usage of any Amazon data in mobile
applications, any data that was once downloaded from Amazon."

My interpretation is different: Amazon does not allow the usage of mobile xxx, unless express prior written approval.

So I really think this story tells us something: if you work with someone, get in touch, ensure the situation is clear, then go on with your project.
Why is it "disturbing to think that these people are responsible for the safety of our flights"? Did something about the blog-post in question disturb you, or just what you know in general about the TSA? I'm not being sarcastic. I just want to know what prompted your comment.
From the developer's perspective, he's got Amazon about to take down a major feature of his apps. He has to tell customers something when their apps suddenly stop working.

I'm coming around to the idea that he probably shouldn't have included the message from Amazon, but a serious, honest mea culpa is certainly in order.
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Loudmouths have followers for the same reason that stock analysts and oracles do/did. In the face of risk and uncertainty, it can be really compelling when someone tells you they know how to make it all better.
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>> "TopUp is compressed with Yahoo! YUI Compressor to 44.6 KB"

That seems quite a lot for a lightbox effect.
You don't need flash to watch the videos. If you follow the links for each video you can download them in mp4 format.
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All designs that are intended to be used by humans can profit greatly from knowing the abilities and constraints of human senses. Lossy audio compression works so great because of our initmate knowledge of how human hearing works.

The trick this screen uses isn't even exactly new. JPG compression has done something very similar for ages (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCbCr and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#JPEG_codec_example). Digital cameras also use that trick.
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I think expectations need to be pretty stratospheric for the Nexus One to be considered a "minimally viable product".
The videos were a lot easier to digest than reading the first few chapters of some lisp book, but I understand that if you aren't excited by learning about new languages, then this would seem dull.
I'm an assembly hacker (long time reverse-engineer, lately focused on compiler/kernel development) looking to get into the demoscene, but I've spent more time thinking and less time doing. I've built a few little fun things that are almost demo-related (I built a (x86 PC) bootblock breakout game that used the actual VGA memory to do collision detection, and a few other little things), but no actual demos. Is the best way to get into the scene to just start building things, or is it worthwhile to seek group contacts and try to get on an established team?

This will likely sound horrible for someone who wants to get into the scene, but I have a hard time coming up with an idea that's both interesting and doable given the restraints in which I want it to operate. This has been my biggest stumbling block so far, but I think that once I get one real project under my belt, I'll be considerably better off.

As a sidenote, if anyone here is interested in starting up a little group, I'm game.
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Don't hold your breath, the Internet has been "about to get a lot safer" for over a decade.
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it's easy to buy things from amazon from here in chile (and, as far as i know, other places in south america). so at least something related to billing works just fine.
I do like learning about new languages. But I learned nothing from the videos.
Hmm... looks like I replied to the wrong comment. I meant to reply to this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063142, one of the higher children of the one I actually replied to.
The original MapReduce paper was published in December 2004. 6 months after the patent was filed.
I think those are both excellent questions. I'm not sure what we do about it, I don't think anyone is. Google's choice certainly had some flair to it, but probably isn't a general stategy for most relations with China. I'm not sure where that leaves us.

Myself, I'm working towards more research that will hopefully make it harder to attack systems, it's a hard area, but I think there's still more we can do. I think there are some levels of technological measures we can take to help with this issue, though obviously nothing is a panacea.

As for military response, it may well be that eventually that plays a role. (Hopefully at most only involving the ability to set clear lines on what merits military action to hopefully act as a deterrance.) I think many people are working hard to try and get a handle on this issue before it ever goes that far.

In my opinion, the largest problem is right now we do not have a handle on this, so it's really unclear how it all plays out.
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"I am responsible for it, and if I choose not to do anything about it, then it's my deliberate choice."

What could you do about it? Granted, you could somehow dedicate your life to trying to end it. But even then, you'd need a starting point. Suppose you are extremely poor, how to you start? If you have to spend 20 hours/day to find food, you don't have time to practice becoming a good speaker to rouse the masses.

I don't mean it as patronizing, quite the opposite. I think it is patronizing to say it is the people's own fault for not doing anything about it.

If you were a Cameronian, what would you do? If you chose to work against poverty in India, what would you do?

I wouldn't know what to do as a Cameronian. As the article says, if you try to start a business to improve economics and infrastructure, thieves will take it apart. If you go into politics to try to change the situation, I suppose you will be murdered or something like that. If you start a revolution, there will be lots of bloodshed. I don't see an easy solution.
This however does not:

(cdr (list ddd a xxx))

If the language doesn't allow lists containing things other than integers, it's not really a lisp.
the 3g cards I've used (currently a verison evdo card internal to a thinkpad x60s) seems to add about 150ms latency. this is usable, but not awesome for ssh connections.
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Not necessarily. The specific mathematical/programming techniques can be very complex. It is probably not reasonable to learn them just because you are dealing with large matrices. Of course, some knowledge of the computational complexity is definitely helpful.
huh. I thought latency on satellite was pretty bad.
There is no difference in behaviour of two systems, when each element of the system behaves like corresponding element of the another system.

It will be much easier to understand what happen in Cameroon, if you imagine similar system you can understand.

Imagine, you have group of web-servers. You hire administrator to administrate your dedicated servers in dedicated data centre. He changed all locks, root passwords, identity information, and then installed his own servers in addition to your own. The only right you have now is to pay bills. His servers produces too much load on your system, his incompetent administration causes outages, so your own income is suffers down. There is no "provider" to complain to.

What you can do in that situation?

a) Pay more to administrator, so he will take some courses and will provide more competent service in future;

b) register new web-domain, create new, separate, data centre, hire new administrator;

c) hire a gang to kill old administrator, blow up doors, reformat hard drives, hire new administrator.
I'd be interested, but probably if you went into less common subjects. "Don't invert that matrix" is probably the first thing I, or anyone else, learned in numerical analysis.

Side note: My professor also mentioned it at least 3 times in each lecture... so it is important.
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Jessica's work is amazing, and she has a cool CC-licensed graphic design project: http://dailydropcap.com.

Exchanged a couple emails recently encouraging her to allow comments on it and she was quite gracious.

Great advice, too.
It's such a part of my workflow that I think I at least would be crippled without it.

Hack hack hack...hrm... need docs, go fetch them... hack hack hack ... need some source code ... fetch it ... hack hack hack ... need some examples or to talk to someone on irc ... hack hack hack.
To be honest, I do. I am constantly referring to online notes, docs, manuals, blog posts, and every other source of information you could name. I make at least 3 or 4 programming-related searches an hour, I reckon.

While I will readily admit I am probably one of the more clueless programmers here, I doubt I'm alone in this...
How long is a piece of string? Different startups have different budgets. Some designers are expensive to some budgets but still cheap for other budgets. If you are working out of your home or a small office you are still likely spending much less on your business front (website) than a brick and mortor business which has to buy a building and spend money on signage.

Do what you can. If you have no budget for design, then do the design yourself or use a free template. If you have no time and a tiny budget, get someone cheap off a site like Elance or Odesk. Getting the business off the ground is more important than starting out with a world class design by a high end design studio. Go take a look at what the first versions of some of your favorite sites looked like when they first got started. ;)
"Yer inept [...] custies"? There's frank, there's pathetic-sounding and there's turning every day into talk-like-a-pirate day.
Ptents in theory are meant to blanace a public bad (a monopoly) with a public good (teaching practitioners how to do something). I am a programmer, and I do not understand software patents. I'm sure I'm not the oonly one. If a typical practitioner of an art, when seeing a patent, says its hard to understand or confusingly worded, the patent should be void.
Transparency is not part of the "Don't be evil" motto.
Why don't all of these libs close the popup when you click the image?
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> If you chose to work against poverty in India, what would you do?

:-)

See, my version of your question is: What would Gandhi (or Nehru, Bose, Azad, Bhagat, Savarkar, et. al.) do?

I don't have an answer to that right now, I am afraid.
No need to manufacture it yourself. There are dozens of phones/media players on Alibaba which can be purchased cheaply and hacked to your heart's content. I actually considered picking up one of the existing Linux ones and making it run Android, then reselling it. You can get decent hardware from there for $100 for a single unit, even cheaper if you do it in bulk (even 10 units in certain cases).
Well back in the days, I just started out experimenting with some effects (ie standalone piece of graphic effect), or music. At some point I had various effects available handy, so I started sharing this inside the college, met a few people, went to demoparties etc.

After that people approached me to ask if we could work together etc.

Well I think the most important thing is to try doing a little something, see how it goes etc.

This can be time-boxed like any other hobbies.
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I am not fully convinced that everybody could be a Gandhi. Wasn't he from a wealthy family and got sent to England to study?

Probably everybody could do fasting (although even that might require a certain amount of dediction). But to come of with the psychological strength and dedication would be another matter.

Maybe for everybody there is a path of possible actions that would lead him to become like Ghandhi. But that is what I was saying: it certainly isn't obvious what actions that would be. Therefore I think a certain amount of luck is involved.

If you don't have an answer to my question, then why do you disagree with me? How is the poverty in India your fault? I suppose you could at least decide to study and try to find an answer, but there is no guarantee that you would find one.
Takes me back. 10 years I chucked in my job and bought an old clunker RV and just travelled the USA. While I wasn't working (the idea of a startup back then involved VC money and millions of it), I was doing my best to stay connected. For the most part this was using the old NetZero service and begging/borrowing/stealing a phone line. Very few RV parks had a modem service, and Wi-Fi and 3G were just pipedreams at that point.

I did 22,000 miles in my old Dodge (78 Class C) and saw more of the USA and Canada than most people ever will in a lifetime (I'm not from North America). From taking a snowmobile up a remote mountain to watching a satellite launch in Cape Canaveral, staying on Indian Reservations in AZ and hitting Irish pubs in NY, all was done in good time. I even found time to get stranded in a blizzard in North Dakota, which was so cold it froze all the water tanks.

Mainly I'm just reminiscing about a simpler time in my life, but my one piece of advice is about getting the RV level on streets. Get yourself some flat pieces of wood, and a simple spirit level. Keep the wood in one of the outside storage compartments. When you've got to park on the street, just put the wood in the lower side of the street and drive up. Check your level and adjust as necessary. The advantage of this is that someone driving past won't notice quickly (because it's usually the footpath side that's lower), like they would with the jacks. And if you need to make a speedy getaway (for instance, seeing patrolling cop cars) you can just drive off the wood and go - easy enough to get some new pieces somewhere.

Other tips include : don't park in obvious places like recreation area carparks, and never park outside someones house. You want to get more 'public' buildings like churches, schools, retirement homes and telephone exchanges, but without going into a deserted area. Nobody is generally in these buildings at night and you'll be gone in the morning. Street parking/sleeping is a fun pastime once you get into it because you really feel you're getting away with something. The only time I had any problem was when I had the motorhome parked outside my apartment, and my elderly neighbour rang the cops on me. I wasn't sleeping in it (obviously) but was always tinkering with bits and pieces, so she thought I was. Most cops don't care and if you're courteous and leave when told it won't go any further. It was easier for me to play the dumb card because of my accent.

Good luck with it, and I'll file this one away as something to think about. I think I'd need ubitiquos internet to get a little better, but it's probably something to think about.
That's what the Blue Brain project is currently doing. They are very convinced it's possible, but they are working on a molecular, not atomic level.
Other than possibly being fired if found out. Perhaps our definitions of "no reason" also differ.