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Actually, the default setup of MS Visual Studio build is quite retarded, because the build time grows with number of projects due to lots of temp file copying. But if you use a few large projects, the build time is big because an entire projects needs to be rebuilt (assembly level, not class level like in Java or object-level like in C)
Here ya go

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c
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Working toward an initial draft of OAuth 2.0
The product is definitely needed. Yes, "there's an app for that", but there are too many apps in my iPhone right now.

However, I just cannot get over how you will be able to convince all these companies to integrate. For instance, you show the ability to view restaurant menus, is that a manual process for the restaurant owner? Menu's often change on seasonal or daily basis. It needs to be easy for a Mom & Pop shop.

As you are building out, do not forget to add functionality for customizing the menu selections made by the customer. Like a comment "no onions on salad", add/remove toppings to a pizza, option for a restaurant to call back to confirm order, etc.
Same way kids discover monsters - they need an explanation for the shadow / noise / ... That's especially true for the civilisations before writing, education, ... Gods in those times were mostly equivalent to things in nature - gods of thunder, sun, nature, etc.
Because creating a new account is really hard?
That's an awful lot of apps to slip through the holes. The disturbing part is not so much that apps that violate their terms get removed, it's that seemingly nobody is safe.

Take the recent removal of adult-themed apps for instance - they in no way violated Apple's developer terms, but were banned anyways. Apple is well within their rights to do it - you're on their platform, but IMHO this sort of thing will encourage developer flight if it continues.

If history is any indication, the best cause of dissent and rebellion is inconsistent governance - people may tough it out if there's a 100%-effective way to keep the gestapo from raiding your home at night, but if you introduce enough uncertainty they will run and/or fight. By encouraging this sort of seemingly arbitrary banning, Apple is risking the long-term health of the App Store.
Not all of the relevant ones but off the top of my head (not all courses, some are just guided programs):

31 Days to a Better Blog

http://remarkablemarketingblueprint.com/wp/

BrainAudit
- and I'm a member of the paid community for this, there are challenges there

Various things about sales letters

I'm probably going to shell out and take this:

http://www.psychotactics.com/articlewriting-details
High "average maximum temperature" -- what kind of statistic is that? Why should he use that instead of the average temperature? Randomly picking a 1-day outlier from each year is useless.

Meanwhile, from the adults who use crazy concepts like "sattelite data" and "arithmetic mean": http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE61O02C20100225

Last month was the hottest january on record.

EDIT: Not to take anything away from the guy -- cool code, cool app. But to those who are trumpeting this -- maybe you should take a look at that "hottest january on record" article and take a look at the methods that were used to arrive at that conclusion.
When I was young, food came to me because my parents brought it. I didn't understand where most things came from, but I could ask my dad, and he would bring them to me.

When I became a parent, I wondered who brought the other things I needed that I needed. When I was cold, who brought me warmth? When I was thirsty, who brought the rain?

Reapplying the model from my youth makes sense, right?

We do the same thing today. When we are young, we are taught that if we are good, Santa Claus will reward us in the short term. If we are good, Jesus will reward us in the long term.

At some point, people realize Santa Claus was a lie.
I'd give them the money and then back away, maintaining eye contact. Running shows fear, and people are more likely to be killed (in war, anyway) on retreat, because it's easier to kill someone if you don't see the person's face.
Has anyone used their API? I can see a lot of potentially interesting applications, but my gut feeling is that this is still a problem in the academic realm -- though it might work in some textbook cases, it would probably fail/tag incorrectly in a lot of real world cases.
> Sounds like a gap in Unix's file metaphor. Would it be reasonable to copy a file to /proc/mail/coworker@company.com/ and have the right thing happen?

Sound's reasonable. Though you would probably have to set write-new-files-only permissions in that directory, to capture the semantics of email. Reading and modifying files and even listing directory contents should not be allowed. Perhaps it would be better to make proc/mail/coworker@company.com a special file that you can write to, instead of a directory?
Nice chart. Looks like there is global warming once a year or so! Conspiracy!
Ditto. Relevant to my interests, but not what I want to see on HN.
Well, maybe when he created the account email address weren't mandatory during registration or as eogas said I don't think its hard creating a new account.
Quote the variables.
The Apple logo has changed at least 2 or 3 times.

And the Ubuntu change isn't drastic enough that people will stop recognizing it.
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http://www.xkcd.com/675/
Yes.

Naming and tagging and hierarchies can still be useful. They should just be optional. E.g. searching works quite well in gmail, but I still use labels for some functions (most of the time my labels are just defined as the result of a search, but not always).
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Finally, there's insurance and taxi boards. The first can be handled (e.g. as a part of the booking process you buy a second policy covering the passenger or something like that), the second can't, and will kill this idea dead.

Why not just run the site outside of the US? Who are the insurance companies and taxi boards going to come after? (A disclaimer like, "you may not use this site if you live in the US" could also be helpful for handling any lawsuits. Very much like Youtube is not liable if someone uploads child porn; their policy said not to do that, and it's your fault for doing it, not Google's.)
Offtopic: that syntax highlighting upon mouseover is a great idea. Does the fact that I haven't seen this before mean I need to get a new editor?
Sheesh, honestly this is far afield but why do people keep lumping not having a feature in with evil?

Aren't most of you people software developers? Do you sell software to people? Regular humans who can blow out your profit with a single helpline call?

Choosing to not support a scenario is about as far from evil as you could possibly get.

Do you seriously look at all of the things that itunes doesn't do, all of the things that it does poorly or all of its bugs and think "apple is evil"?

Isn't it clear that they, despite having some great talent, are resource-constrained like everyone else?

Have you ever used a bug database? Tracked a bug count? Tested? Shipped a product?

OK, I'm trying not to be insulting or personal here but let's be clear: not supporting file system access aka supporting only the sync model INDISPUITABLY saved engineering resources. That feature you want is not free. If you can't see that then we're done because the only response would be insulting.
Among atheists the terms "gnostic atheist" and "agnostic atheist" are thrown around a lot. It's the different between a positive assertion and a lack of assertion, i.e. - "I believe there is no god" vs. "I don't believe in god."

(A)gnosticism has more to do with certainty than belief - someone who is gnostic is sure, someone who is agnostic is not sure. There are plenty of agnostic theists, as many religious people don't claim to be sure about the existence of god, but choose to believe or think it probable.
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I think the general prediction that print will contract to the production of only high-quality "permanent" documents is spot-on. I'm not so sure, however, that pagination will go away, at least not without the invention of a new UI element to replace it (other than scrollbars).

Pagination is useful to our mental models of progress through a document. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the reasons scrolls died out while we're still using the bound book format many centuries after it was invented. A hundred pages is a lot easier to parse than an infinite number of positions on a scroll, while recall and addressing is vastly easier citing a page number than counting out a distance to scroll.
smart people never start startups... due to the fact that they will rationalise the risk as being too great
Check the IQEngines link on the bottom and their demo on http://www.iqengines.com/demo.php . Pretty impressive (iff it's legit).
In Mobile, Fragmentation is Forever.
I am not sure what the point of this is, but it's an interesting demo of newLisp... but just use R next time.
Remote control the Dreambox with Windows Mobile
Control the linux-based Dreambox, produced by the German multimedia vendor Dream Multimedia, remotely with your Windows Mobile smart phone and WMDreamRemote

If you’re reading this, you probably already know all about the Dreambox, one of the most popular lines of digital television series ever to be produced.
It looks like the majority of TC is being run through Google Ad Manager with lots of inventory going to them (notice all the google ads). I don't see iSocket's ad script anywhere on their page, maybe they interface to Google Ad Manager?
This is very cool, if the tool works as shown for most queries.

One thing I noticed: The battery meter on the iPhone went from nearly full to nearly empty in the course of the demo. I was wondering whether that type of app could draw that much juice, or if there was another explanation -- lots of outtakes, failed search examples that didn't make it into the demo, etc.
Since the iPhone is currently a very successful product I wonder what Apple see's coming down the road that scared them into this patent lawsuit? I suppose it could be pure greed but it almost feels like they know the iPhone is in trouble long term and this was the only viable strategic move to protect the market. Otherwise they could just stay ahead of the competition with innovation and nice bouncy scrolling lists and "slide to unlock" would be old features not even worth protecting. Lots of Apple investors seem pleased at this patent lawsuit but I think they should be asking themselves if maybe Apple knows the iPhone's current success is unsustainable.
I see Amazon, eBay, etc.. it would be cool if they added something like Milo for local search. Might be a better use case (save money by finding a lower price for something locally)
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My own computer never agrees with these benchmarks. For me IE starts up way faster (2-3 secs) than Firefox (5+ secs).

Btw, does it annoy anybody else that to view the print version you need have an account.
One word: corroboration. You know reality from hallucination/dream because one survives objective verification, the other does not. Let me turn the question back on you: what use is there in NOT drawing this distinction? (ie. what use is denying that there is a knowable reality, and then our interpreted knowledge. territory/map)
You are right. Current file systems already try to address these. E.g. you can have multiple links to the same file (and even mount directories on top of each other). And for divisibility: Reiser4 brought the idea that e.g. /etc/passwd can be at the same time a directory with a bunch of files (say, one per line), or a single file that is automagically aggregrated (via a plugin that understands the format).

A filesystem is just a special purpose database, and there are a lot of interesting approaches left to be explored. For example, transactions would also be nice.
I don't think so, we only handled authors that had radio and/or television shows. Radio is great for driving local traffic to book stores.

We were 4/4 for #1 NY Times Bestsellers.
How many internal corporate apps are serving millions of viewers?
I couldn't resist to download this app, so I did, and tested it. Took a picture of a red logitech wireless mouse and it was able to recognized in a few seconds. It knew it was a red logitech brand mouse, though it didn't' get the model right, but nonetheless it was able to classify it pretty well. I also took a picture of my toshiba laptop, this time it only knew it was a laptop.

Overall it's pretty awesome! They're doing a fine job with this thus far. I applaud them.
This graph actually carries a lot of intellectual weight for 2 reasons:

1) it is an apparently unbiased inquiry, which means a lot. The allegations against leading climate change scientists, whether they are valid or not, highlight an inescapable reality about the world of academic geologists (no matter how "inconvenient" of a truth it is): like many scientists, these people need to raise large amounts of funding for relatively boring projects (i.e. ice samples anyone?). But if they tie in their research to a hot (no pun), visible issue (as rendered by the media and politicians, regardless of its scientific merit), then BAM! It's a lot easier to get funding. Hence, climate scientists have a huge incentive to paint global warming as massive, urgent big problem, whether or not it actually is. Seeing data crunched by an amateur, who has the skills to process it, but not the incentives to skew it, means a lot.

2) Even though it only shows weather data from a single region, "global warming" would presumably be a global phenomenon that one could detect from basically any location (and if this is not the case, then the press needs to revise its doomsday scenarios about global warming necessarily flooding New York City and Shanghai, because if it's only occurring in some places, then we shouldn't use data gathered in Canada to predict catastrophe in East Asia.)

I'm not claiming to know the scientific truth about this issue one way or the other, but I do know that there are a lot of forces at play here besides science (funding incentives, politics, news media sensationalism, green energy business interests, etc.), and I think a return to the data is a great place to start unraveling this issue that is far more complex than Al Gore or his opposite Dick Cheney would have you believe.
And in the GUI case, Xerox invented many of the concepts for the Alto. Apple both improved upon and popularized their work (often, Xerox engineers moved to Apple and brought their ideas with them.)
> how is it a "solution", rather than a severe indignity, to accept a regime that requires people to buy insurance policies on their own bodies?

Wait. So raising taxes to let your government take care of you is fine, but telling people they have to buy insurance to pay for their healthcare is egregious? Your objection makes no sense. They are on the same side of the coin.

The only difference is that in a functioning marketplace there is competition to reduce costs.
uh... You sure about that? Opera did not install when I installed Abobe CS.
Congratulations on making the leap from consulting to products to a dynamic combo (products + consulting)!

The story of Twistori is amazing. Eureka moment in the bathtub and design/code immediately thereafter.

http://slash7.com/2008/04/29/twistori-i/

Her personal experience with Twistori being an attractor for consulting projects jibes with the iPhone developers I know who don't make a lot of money from their well-crafted iPhone apps but make the bulk of their revenue from consulting on iPhone app development for companies.
Anybody can rationalize anything to his own satisfaction, regardless of IQ. The problem with being smart is that there are fewer people who can see through your rationalizations. The skills of dissasembling your own cognitive biases and testing your ideas against reality grow in value as your IQ increases.
Interesting.

Could you put any money, some odds and a timeline on your prediction?
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On the other hand, people that have moved, by running or otherwise, to a different location are pretty difficult to kill with a knife.
OK. I thought this was some commentary like talking about M$.
You have it backwards. The iPhone was revealed before the Prada, and was not considered to have feature parity with the iPhone at the time. Your comment about HTC phones from that time period is kind of meaningless since you don't mention what phone(s) you are talking about, so it is impossible to check your assertion.

You may want to have a look at this article from that time period: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/72B08E9A-D46...
I disagree. Animals in general are naturally inclined towards superstitious thought. I recall experiments with rats and pigeons where they dispensed food at regular intervals. The animals ended up developing an elaborate ritual they repeated before each presentation of food, a sort of rain dance [1].

[1]: http://www.jstor.org/pss/4533467 (Hank Davis was my professor for intro psych)
You said something about denying that things exist. You said that "objective reality" is a myth, and you said it as though people who believe in objective reality are simpletons.

If there is no objective reality, one person can say, "There is a car in my garage." and someone else can say, "There is a dragon in your garage." and both will be equally correct (because there is no objective way to determine otherwise). But, because objective reality does seem to be an accurate model for our universe, other observers can look in the garage, and see that, yes, there is a car (or dragon, as the case may be) in the garage. You can take a picture of the car (or dragon) in the garage, you can measure it, you can hop in (on) and take it for a drive (flight), you can touch it, etc. While your perception and your recollection may have gaps, we have scientific tools to remove the ambiguity of faulty perception and memory. With enough measurements, recordings, and photographic evidence of something, we can know it pretty darned objectively.

My point is that it's simply unproductive to deny that there is an objective reality. The world behaves as though there is objective reality. My house has never turned into a turtle, and my dog seems to be a dog every day no matter how much she might want to be a cat. I may not remember all the details of each of these things, but that doesn't mean they aren't what they are. The "patchwork of things" that my brain puts together about the world can be made to match the patchwork of things that other brains put together by using tools to measure and record those things, even while understanding that no one will ever have a complete grasp of the entirety of reality (it's pretty big, and even one single pebble, is too much for a single human to grasp in its entirety, when you start thinking in terms of atoms and particles and such).

Basically, I think you've decided that "objective reality" means humans can be all-knowing and perfectly observant...but that's not what anyone else means when they use the term.
> [...] you have to work with intuition and experience [...]

Yes, and you can also do exploratory math in this fashion. You just have to come back and prove everything eventually, if you want to be sure.
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If everyone was trying to build a kick-ass company all the time, nobody would have time to use the services of your kick-ass company.
Hmm,

Statistics is already dangerous enough with the math, I shudder to think of it without the math.

--> The danger just begins with the umpteen media-driven conclusions driven by the correlations that one can find in data while neglecting the point that correlation does not imply causation. The danger continues with the fallacious-but-Nobel-prize-winning efforts of Black and Scholes (see collapsed American economy...). Maybe "thinking like a statistician without the maths" means understanding these problems but I see nothing in the article to suggestion this. The article seems to describe the process as "attend to details, think big picture, live-right, think-right, to-thine-own-self-be-true, etc" (nothing but intellectual banalities).

Fooled by Randomness is not a great book but it might be a much better place to start than this article. Still, I would say, learn the maths, darn it.
LG Prada was announced on Dec. 12, 2006, and the design leaked on Dec. 15, 2006. The iPhone was presented on Jan. 9, 2007.

Honestly, timewise, they're pretty much a wash. The iPhone could have been revealed first if Apple wasn't so good at leak control (at least at that time).
Ask HN: Work alone or in a team?
I was in an entrepreneurship in residence after graduating college. My mentor told me, that when most people commit a crime, they won't do it alone. He then told me, the same goes for starting a small business. The idea being, that people are afraid of taking that much risk (and cost) all on their own.

Personally, I like working with others - whenever I have a new project brewing I like to have a team of 3. Sometimes I wonder if I'd be better off doing it all alone - if I fall into this category of people who is just too afraid to take on that much risk.

That said, when you start a new project, do you prefer to include others? Or would you rather attack everything by your lonesome (coding, design, marketing/sales, business/accounting, fixed and variable costs).
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I gave this a try too with some borrowed items around the office; here are my results:

Blackberry - "Blackberry Cell Phone"

Flat Screen TV - No match (but there were tons of reflections)

Motorola Cell phone - "Cell Phone"

Ikea French Press - "Glass Coffee Press"

Extra impressive since it was transparent!

Klean Kanteen metal water bottle, non logo side - "Silver Metal Water Bottle"

Klean Kanteen metal water bottle, logo side - "Kleen Kanteen"

Black Stapler, odd angle - "Black Stapler"

Roll Call Newspaper - "Roll Call Capitol Hill Newspaper"

Vanity Fair cover - "Vanity Fair"

Economist, Feb 13 - "Economist New Dangers for World Economy" (The title)

Microsoft Natural Keyboard 3000 - "Ergonomic Keyboard"

(I was a bit disappointed in this one, it's a very distinct product)

Front of the book "Ambient Findability" - "Ambient Findability"

Back(!) of the book "Ambient Findability" - "O'reilly Ambient Findability"

Trader Joes store brand Apple Juice - "Apple Juice Trader Joes"

Urban Outfitters sunglasses - "Sunglasses"

Ken Cole messenger bag - "Black leather pouch"

Overall I'm VERY impressed, although it looks like it's mostly just reading any available text, and that they're not canonicalizing their entries (So 'ambient findability' and 'oreilly ambient findability' aren't really records pointing to the book, just strings of text).

Still, identifying an upside down stapler from the side, and a book from the back cover is pretty darn impressive.

I also noticed experienced a noticeable battery drain and warm iphone from using this thing for 10 minutes or so, but definitely nothing show stopping.
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That's a very surprising message (dare say refreshing? I dare not) from an investor in the largest cross-platform app vendor, GetJar. I think his best advice, which applies as well to mobile as it does elsewhere, is bound the problem: Get off the Adobe-vs.-Apple bandwagon and figure out what your market is and how you can best achieve it. Solid piece.
Nobody said I would or wouldn't mind this, I just said it's not stealing. It's "looking".

But anyway, feel free to go ahead with your plan. But it might be a waste of your time; the bits on my hard drive are already public: http://github.com/jrockway/.