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The short version: with one thing and the other. I was working toward that at one point but it fell by the wayside. Good reminder, though, should get those up there. In the interim, of course, rdoc + doxygen should work for you locally.
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http://twitter.com/azaaza/status/10253138540

Aza: Just got off the phone with MetaLab, glad to have quickly reached an understanding. Expect to hear from them soon.
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When you talk about lawyers and strongly worded letters, are you talking about MetaLab suing Mozilla over copyright issues, or are you talking about Mozilla suing MetaLab for trying to damage their reputation? And what about Daniel? Doesn't he have a reasonable expectation to privacy? I'm assuming he didn't give MetaLab permission to post his private correspondence with them on their website.
The one where DailyWtf submissions are always boiled down and reconstituted into unrecognizable just-so parables that read like the editors of Chicken Soup for the Soul tried to write Malcolm Gladwell articles for InfoWorld.
Another thing I wonder is, if their "search" system, what kind of indexing is required? How long does it take, and can you re-index on the fly? Their demos have a conspicuous lack of any kind of movement at all, much less dynamic geometry.

And what about shading? Shading typically require surface normals, something that's not readily available from a mess of points in 3d.
GitHub would be a good place to start, but really it should be a project you've used a fair amount and that you really like.

No need to approach them. If you want to fill in the gaps in the docs they have, then fork the project, improve the documentation, and send them a pull request. If you want to start a separate project documenting the project, whip something up that's decent but doesn't take you too long and send them a GitHub message.

Don't be shy. The sense I get is that people that want to do documentation are extremely hard to come by, so most OSS project leaders would jump for joy if they got a message about someone improving documentation for their project.
The music pushed this from "really cool" to "awesome" for me.
I could conceive a fractal analog of the spray paint tool.
How often is "usually"? Is it 20% of the time? 60%? 80%? 90%?

Did you see this New Yorker article on how the underdog can win? http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_...

An interesting quote from that article:

What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.
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It's probably a lot easier to render when it's the same model over and over.
See: any documentation on GStreamer, as I rapidly discovered last fall when I attempted to use it for a project. Many of the components are pretty much undocumented; I was reduced to finding blog posts where some guy says "Hey, I streamed a video to a different computer with this command line", then figuring out how exactly you're supposed to instantiate these things in C, string them all together, use the disgusting object system, etc.
I think it's a great idea. Nobody's forced to buy it, so it's not like locking the main site behind a pay wall.

And if someone can learn a new language more easily with it, it has life-changing potential (I know that learning English changed my life, and I would have loved to have this back then).
Pretty cool. Perfect response to the Microsoft Social Connector (http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/11/18/announcing-...) - which is typical Microsoft, no marketplace, no details, I can't even find the SDK!

EDIT: of course - right after I praise them - I'm getting a 400 Bad Request on any app that I try to add.
Well that explains why I couldn't download it on my Hero either. Indeed, a shame.
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11:44:33 AM Alex K: that makes it sound like it may not be worth huge optimization?
11:44:46 AM Alex M: no, not really
11:44:56 AM Alex M: I’m a purist though
11:45:18 AM Alex M: so this makes my world

Last two lines scares the hell out of me.
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edited the title, kudos to the Mozilla team for their quick work in getting the story straight
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Seeing as the issue is already public, a quick "we're looking into the issue" would be a reasonable, professional response. They don't need to make a public statement that specifically acknowledges any wrongdoing, but they should make a point that they recognize the issue and are trying to work it out rather than simply burying it.

EDIT: at this point, Mozilla has given a response to MetaLabs that appears to have satisfied them. That's good enough for me.

(BTW what makes you think people are "out of their minds with rage"? Mozilla did something irresponsible, but I'm not going to get angry about it.)
This is probably the mock-up that almost landed you the gig in the first place, but obviously that isn't going to happen now.

And you've undoubtedly convinced a few additional CEO's that absolute secrecy is the best way to operate. Let people participate in works-in-progress and someone is sure to get their knickers in a twist. This is also why more companies don't open source their tools: they expose themselves to patent infringement suits when anyone can read the code.

The proper recourse would be to email someone, or wait to see if your designs showed up in the final product. I mean, you aren't going to forget to check the theme on the latest version of Firefox.
The last century had Horatio Alger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Alger,_Jr.):

"Many of Alger's works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others. This widely held view involves Alger's characters achieving extreme wealth and the subsequent remediation of their "old ghosts." Alger is noted as a significant figure in the history of American cultural and social ideals."
Relevant link to actual post about it: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2005-09-12-blogsh.html
I think it probably meant server-side Java, not applets.
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A friend of mine intends to invest in a SW company. He's asked me to review their flagship. I'll probably get a chance to look at a demo, and maybe a sneak peek at the code.

Anyone has similar experience or suggestions about what I should be focusing on? (Architecture, Maintainability, Security, Test Coverage, etc...)

Edit: spelling.
That tables really are the best, CSS is good for changing fonts all at once though. I read it all for you so don't worry about double checking.
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It is very likely that the Rocky script evolved a great deal after production started.

Sounds more like Stallone is advocating Minimum Viable Product.
I don't understand why it's called "Karate" Kid, when he's in China and learning kung fu...
Did MetaLab design the Campaign Monitor website?

http://www.getballpark.com/
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"I'm not struggling, but I know smart people who are. Startup founders and people trying to make it in the arts come to mind. Not everyone smart immediately becomes rich, you know. I know you don't understand this, but that's how it is for the other 99% of us."

Art and startups are a huge risk. Many smart people have dumb ideas that will never make money. Art generally doesn't make you money (even some of the most famous artists were poor their entire lives). If those people just got a regular job, they would not be struggling to pay the rent. I'm not saying they should do this, I just think you should stop bitching about it. The world doesn't owe anyone a living.

"By contrast, we have a world run by snake-oil salesmen and bullshitting rainmakers, while culture is utterly devalued. Hence we have graduates of great colleges busing tables in cafes while mouth-breathing trash-fuckers make big decisions that affect their lives."

They don't need to be. If you are intelligent, you will find a way to be successful. Any great college graduates that are stuck waiting tables have other issues. I read a great article on how today's youth refuse to take jobs because many expect a $70,000 entry-level jobs and when they realize that they won't get paid this much, they decide to move back in with mommy and daddy. It's this sense of entitlement that is ruining the US, not a devalued culture.

"Let me guess. You got really sick outside of the US and experienced another country's health system. You chalked your negative experience up to that country's health payment system rather than, I don't know, maybe the fact that getting sick really, really sucks no matter where you are?"

Universal health care waters down the entire system for everyone. I would rather have the choice of a good system than be forced into a mediocre one. Pretty much all of the people I know from Canada have come over here for any major surgery. If the universal health care is so much better, why would this happen?

"We have the same problems and potentially life-wrecking bills."

Universal health care isn't free. It comes out of our taxes. It's also just not a good system. If I saw some form of proof that universal health care will work better for the US than our current system, I will be for it.
I would say the team and market need is more important than the code (since he is investing in the company, not outright buying the IP).
"I don't understand why it's called "Karate" Kid, when he's in China and learning kung fu..."

It seems like they are just using the name to get people to watch the movie, which is a completely different story.

There is also a small scene where they make fun of the original.
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Great idea! Looking forward to seeing your predictions.
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Note that post was 4.5 years ago and my blog code has evolved significantly since then -- in particular I now have comments (via discus) and an RSS feed.
My father (Moshe Yudkowsky, author: The Pebble and the Avalanche) has a similar thesis about how Star Trek caused the downfall of American engineering:

"Well, Captain, you crashed into that planet there and sheared one warp nacelle completely off. It'll take two months in dock to repair."

"Dammit, Scotty, I need it in five minutes!"

"Okay."
You could always chuck a hash tag on it and try it yourself haha.
I think approaching your work from the standpoint of "Learn from success, not failure" is a sure path to succumbing to confirmation bias and becoming a one-trick pony.

The 37s guys have done some wonderful work. But to me they are pretty much the embodiment of what I think of when I remember Paul Buchheit's great quote:

"Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = Advice"
We had a (small) Hacker News fantasy league for March Madness last year -- the only rule was that your picks had to be by some algorithm which you shared after everyone made their picks. I'd be happy to set up one for this year if there's enough interest.
Well, short version, I couldn't get government help 'cause my family is considered upper middle class and I'm not yet independent, plus my grades sucked too hard for grants. Whatever other ways there were I was too lazy to look into.

I do plan on trying again when I turn 23, though.
What if the main character was some karate-prodigy that didn't know it until he found his master?

This is not completely unheard of.
I think people keep forgetting that Rocky was already a fighter, and that he lost the main fight at the end of the film (although he did meet his goal).
Title should be changed to Chromium OS.
Excellent idea regarding the art page, I'll definitely need to redo that page.

I already applied your suggestion for art submitting/evolving page, I can definitely see it attracting more people that way by showing the guts.

Really appreciate your input! :)
Newspaper French is a little difficult to approach if you are not already fairly fluent; it's distant in style from colloquial French and uses some grammatical features that are likely to be unfamiliar.

I would suggest reading some Jules Verne! You can find full texts of his stories online in French and English, and reading them in parallel (with the English as a check on your comprehension) will help you hoover up a lot of vocabulary while enjoying a fun story.
Gotta love embedded systems. On a side note, don't bring it to Boston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare
Yes, right. The main selling point of this device, is the small size, that makes it really easy to carry in your pocket.Also as mentioned in previus comments in this thread, the 3G dongle is designed to be as smallest as possible. Regarding the anemic storage, you can always upgrade it with T-Flash. And the RAM memory is good enough to run smoothly with any application. Thanks for your comment.
Somewhere between step 3 and 5 it goes down a rathole that just does not apply to most projects I've used (Spring, commons-*, iBatis, Wicket...) Of course, configure and install don't really apply to Java, doubly so now with Maven repositories...

The Maven archetype concept might be one of the greatest tools invented so far in combating the type of "intro tutorial" BS writing described here.
Also, stop thinking that doxygen output from your source code qualifies as adequate documentation. (Insert whatever comment-embedded-docstring-auto-extraction tool your language supports, if not doxygen.)

It's great as a reference, but woeful to learn from.

Ruby libraries, I'm looking at you.
Yeah, the tag line is just a place holder for not having something better, need to brainstorm harder...

The content concentric idea with a few images is definitely a good one. I was thinking of something like TED.com where things are tiled, but with bigger images, but hopefully will get to that once I finish developing the core features within the site. Really appreciate you input!
Their homepage now redirects to http://blog.metalabdesign.com and rest of the nav links are not working anymore. Good job, make your website completely unusable for a bit of PR.
That sound fun. I think the rule should be a bit more hardcore, though: that the predictions have to come from raw data. i.e., no meta-algorithms that use information about seeding or expert predictions, but if somebody wanted to gather, say, play-by-play data and use that, it'd be ok.
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First, I do agree that she's selling herself short. Actually she shouldn't even mention salary to start with.

But I keep hearing that X is too low for living in the Valley, for varying values of X.

Out of curiosity, I checked the minimum wage in California and it's $8/hour. In SF it's $9.8. So how do blue collar workers survive? Do they all (mostly?) commute from outside the Valley? If they have to live in the Valley, are their living conditions terrible?

Serious question.
Cisco announces 322Tbps router
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I only had time to read pages 1-4, please correct if I missed something crucial:

Being presumed weaker does not mean that you actually are. Expectations are orthogonal to actual power/skill/knowledge/etc.

There is a point to be made about choosing the correct strategy or tactic: for example, a less-skilled karateka could opt to just shoot the opponent and win the fight. It does not make them better at karate than the dead guy, though. We often have options such as that: programming is hard? Make your living doing something else. So on, but that is only a strategy for avoiding the things that we find difficult.
I like this article; the message really resonates with me. For instance, I write music. But a good three minute song could take me days to write (and most musical artists usually take way longer than that). I like to animate, but a minute of animation could take even longer than a minute of song. Similarly, writing a trivial game or a simple app just takes way longer than it should.

But I don't think that this sort of complete inability to gauge how long something should take to do has anything to do with the Karate Kid. Instead, I think the ubiquity of complex works makes the effort required non obvious, and even difficult, to see.

Right now, I'm hearing music on the radio, typing on Hacker News, running Google Chrome on Ubuntu, with a book next to me. Incredible amounts of work went into each of these things. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for me to fathom the amount of hours put into Ubuntu, for instance. It feels sort of like our inability to comprehend huge numbers, or the Universe - and I kind of feel like there might even be a tie in to that old Wired article about the 'Monkeysphere' somewhere. The omnipresence of complex creative works makes for two related effects: we only use those works for relatively short periods of time, and we come to take them for granted.

Surely before we were totally immersed in a world full of the products of work, we took more time to appreciate the details around us. But now we are essentially incapable of doing that. I wouldn't say that that is a bad thing; it's just a change. But it does lead to problems like the article mentioned where we can't properly understand how much work some things take.

The other issue I mentioned is that we only use these things for short periods of time. No matter how familiar we become with a game or web app, we can not fathom the amount of detail put in to that app by the creator. I'll use the example of a game: every time we play through, we will only see one path through the game. But the game creator had to account for every path (just like the creators of Ubuntu had to account for someone doing any possible action within the OS). So there are several orders of magnitude more depth in the game (or OS) then I could ever truly appreciate just by playing it.

I think that this sort of analysis can be extrapolated to all sorts of other creative mediums as well. We read a book in an hour, where the author probably labored an hour just choosing the right words for a sentence. There would be no way to appreciate that kind of work unless we spent ridiculous amounts of time reading, but we don't - like I said, we only use things for (relatively) short periods of time.

You probably read this comment in a minute or two, or maybe didn't even read it at all and just went down to the end to find the tl;dr. But it took me maybe 30 minutes to write. So there isn't one. Go read it.
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I still get a kick out of playing the old Neuromancer game til now.
From a modelers point of view, this type of technology would be perfect, essentially rendering redundant most of the current workflow, from battling with poly counts to playing tricks with displacement maps and baked occlusion. The model swapping he mentioned is pretty outdated, most engines use dynamic LOD which automatically reduces a models polycount depending on your view distance, also removing parts of a model that are under a certain size.

I'm not sold yet, it's making some incredibly bold claims. I'm aware of point cloud data models from back when it was included in the 3D Mark '01 benchmark (the rotating horse statue, the test was called point sprites http://www.ixbt.com/video/images/3dmark2001/gf3-sprites.jpg ), and found it an oddity at the time, not all that visually appealing and certainly not as a believable modelling method. It's not raytracing, although it does bare a lot of similarities.

I'll be keeping a sceptical eye and an open mind on this one.

Anyway, here's their website http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/

Edit: Thinking about it, it's biggest downfall will occur when physics are involved. For a static scene it's ideal, but to get the branches of the trees to blow in the wind, or to achieve any kind of real time environmental change beyond lighting would likely cause some serious difficulties.
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I fail to understand how this would make that much of a difference in the speed of the internet. It a core router, and 322 TB is the back plane bandwidth. Is there anyway this is relavent except it is marketing speak?!

The real need for bandwidth is in mobile aggregation devices, particularly wireless and wireline convergence.

Disclaimer: I work for Ericsson, and this is my personal opinion
interesting interview. I never would have guessed Zoho was doing 40M in revenues, 12M+ in profits. They have a lot of great tools for small businesses. I have yet to find a better (and free!) CRM alternative than what they offer.Never again will Benioff or Ellison get a penny from me!
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Shading in particle systems (when its addressed at all) usually involves making a topo-map like structure out of the points and then creating virtual polys out of the contours. You can then apply shading to groups of points contained in the virtual polys based on those surface normals. It takes lots and lots of cpu. Decidedly not like the "it'll run on your cell phone without a GPU" hype presented here.

My guess is that they created a small static particle system that looks like 3d figure, "rotated" it by selectively displaying particles and got all excited.

A classic case of needing to be an expert in a field before trying to push the state of the art in order to save yourself the trouble of chasing a dead end that most people in said field already know is infeasible.
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I think you should left align the introduction texts and title on the homepage.

Also it is not clear if everything on the page is 'recent artwork' or not.
Me-too-soft will have to follow up with their own enterprise app marketplace now. But it will suck because they can't execute. My money is on Google dominating this battle.
I suspect there is quite a market for this, actually.

Japanese publishers sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of "Learn English with Barack Obama" by taking his most famous speeches and annotating them. Yes, I think there is a wee bit of a market for selling practical English instruction to high-brow consumers in other nations. (Granted, a lot of people buying those books are paying for the experience of buying the book rather than paying to learn English, but that is true of plenty of software, too.)