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Then click "Install Now" to get the BlogRadio Desktop Manager

Is it just me or the term 'Desktop Manager' kind of confusing in this context?.

BTW, Nice work.
Although many websites contain some hint to the author's political attitude, this one is really strange.

The political statement (yet another 9/11 conspiracy theory) is placed in the middle of a Qt tutorial, off-topic and completely out of context.

It's like an advertisement, except that the author doesn't even get money for it. Moreover, the stuff reappears on front and bottom of every sub page. Regarding political statements and conspiracy theories, I've never seen an impertinence like that.

Will that become a new trend?
Can someone please remind me why interpreter startup time matters? Maybe it's because I originally came from Java-land. I really don't get it.
Last time I tried IronPython (~ 2 months ago) it was painfully slow ... slower than Jython which is really discouraging since they've put some effort into this for quite some time now (also hiring Jim Hugunin, the lead Jython dev).
Ok, so for this to work you have to click on a phishing email.

A few weeks ago I was working on the linkedin api and I noticed that if I was sending messages to multiple contacts, they would all see each other's email on cc instead of ccn. I reported this to the team and I hope it's fixed by now. It's not a big deal, but it's a way to know the email address of all your contacts.
Read the news much?

Are you trying to insult me for asking you to be more specific? I'm sorry if I offended you, but I did not think it was an unreasonable question.

Apple's been doing this all over the place.

I'm sure you would agree that "all over the place" is not very specific, just as "getting out of hand" is. I'm asking what exactly you mean by this, not trying to debate you on points that you haven't even made.

DOPi

That's was a trademark case. The HTC suit is patent case. Trademarks have very different rules than patents, most relevant among them they can be lost if not enforced by the owner.

Surely you realize that "DOPi" does not simply have an "i" in the name, but is in fact "iPOD" in reverse. I am not a lawyer, but I don't think it's entirely "out of hand" for that to be the basis of a trademark infringement claim, especially in the context of iPod accessories. Perhaps not as clear-cut as something like "iPob" or "iDop" or "Apel", but not frivolous, either. It certainly isn't, as you characterize it, a case against the use of the letter "i" (which Apple does not hold a trademark on), and indeed there are many companies that use prefixed "i" in names without such claims being made on them.

Again: Apple could literally lose the "iPod" trademark if it could be shown they were too lax in asserting it. It is obvious where the name came from, but not obvious that it is infringing. Hence, filing a trademark infringement claim and letting the court decide. This seems reasonable to me.

To come full circle: this is why I ask people to be specific. Now that I know what you were referring to as "out of hand", I know that I disagree with you and have the opportunity to explain why. Before, it was unclear, which makes it difficult to have an intelligent discussion. Had I commented on the patent situation right off, without asking for clarification, we would simply be talking past each other, with little chance for insight.
Hmm, I should probably do this as a blog post. Oh well.

CD duplication and delivery: SwiftCD. Every time I release a new version of the software I send them an image of the CD, and every time I sell a CD a service I use called e-junkie (which wraps Paypal's and Google's transaction notification API on my behalf) pings them to actually ship the CD out. I get billed later in the month. Costs about $5 ~ $6 a CD, or $150 a month.

Content creation: I've talked on HN many times about how my core SEO strategy is publishing 800 (as of today) sets of bingo activities through my website. About 780 of those were written by freelancers, using (most recently) a customized CMS written in Rails. Costs about $3.33 an activity.

Wordpress themes: One of my other SEO strategies, for activities I feel are likely to have tens of thousands of searchers (mostly holiday-oriented bingo), is to create mini-sites on Wordpress which serve as very, very focused landing pages for my product. I typically try to give them a laser-focused design. Most of my existing ones are from OSS designers, one is from a designer I know in town (hiya, Keith!), and one is from the gentleman who posted on HN recently about needing to make $400 a month.

Content for mini-sites: So while I theoretically could crank out similar-sounding minisite content on Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving ... I have better things to do with my very limited free time, so I pay people to do this for me. (Runs about $100 a site for 5 pages. I tend to overpay.)

Buttons: I'm passionate about A/B testing button designs and have all the image manipulation skills of a drunken squirrel. Most of the time I get people to make my images for me. I've actually got a few dozen in the pipeline right now for some A/B testing starting right after I go full-time.

General HTML design: I don't do consequential tweaks to HTML that commonly, but when I do, I typically get them done for me. As soon as my designer and I mutually have a day free we need to work on my signup pages and landing pages again.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm hoping to add taxes to the list this year, but we'll see what the pricing is on getting someone proficient with US/Japan tax issues versus just muddling through it again myself.
Doesn't it mean it digitizes the "process" of sheet music -- the whole thing from notes to someone playing it? Not just the sheets with the notes on them. This meaning for "the app digitizes sheet music" makes sense, at least for me.
The site itself created zillions of them itself with its random, expiring fnids. Although the scheme has changed now, cralwers would still hit those obsolete URLs.
Another example is their patent on unlocking a device with a gesture. Asides from Windows Mobile already using gestures for unlocks prior to iPhone beind released, achieving tasks with gestures has been around for years and adding a particular task 'unlocking a phone' doesn't make that novel.
* I fixed a Brit Award for Best Newcomer in 1998 (Belle and Sebastian) using social engineering

* I built the consumer site for BTopenworld almost single-handedly in 6 weeks (CMS and portal from scratch in TCL), it was live for 7 years before being replaced

* Recently enjoyed a 97.5% mark on an MSc assignment

* Survived living on the streets for more than 2 winters (when you live on the street, you count winters and not years)

* Every code I've ever written outside of education has gone live somewhere... I first learned to code by making a stock control system for a small company and knew computers should be good at that stuff

* I taught myself TCL, PERL, Java, C#, C++, JavaScript, and am currently enjoying a foray into Clojure.

* I've met Paul McCartney, hung out with Blur, Elastica, Pulp and Oasis... partied several years of my life away in a blur

* I've created a data warehouse for semi-structured data from ECM systems

This list is not necessarily in chronological order. I absolutely am missing stuff but the bullets above fill me with joy of some kind. I haven't done the thing I want most to do, which is to work with some great minds on some complex problems, but this is why I'm doing an MSc so late, I want to knock on Google's door.
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I'd like to point out that Android suffers from much more fragmentation than is apparent to the casual US-based reader, in that international versions of Android themselves are also fragmented.

For example, Google Navigation is still only available in the US, and if you are living in Canada, although the language and driving conventions are the same and all the map data is already available, Google Navigation launches only to tell you that it won't run in Canada.

Additionally, for the first year, paid market apps were not available in Canada. Our version of Market didn't even have a paid section at all. As of this week, they're starting to add it, but this section of the market is absolutely empty.

I don't buy for a minute that this has anything to do with the complexity involved making transactions in Canada, since Google checkout is the payment backend and it's worked in canada for about 5 years. Also, I installed MarketEnabled on my phone to pretend I was on T-Mobile, and was able to access paid apps and purchase them just fine with my Canadian bank info.

The real fragmentation I see Android suffering from is that it is at the mercy of:
1) A totally heterogenous set of carriers that each want the OS to work in a certain way. (Rogers refuses to ship a 1.6 upgrade to the OS)
2) A totally heterogenous set of manufacturers that each want to differenciate their handsets through the OS (HTC Sense UI, Motorola Blurr UI, Android stock UI, I'm guessing the sony X10 will have its own too).

And I perceive google as constantly bending over to the strange conditions imposed by carriers and manufacturers, constantly having to do extra work to compensate because they're losing more and more control of the platform.

I also perceive the Nexus one as an attempt to get out of this mess by re-gaining leverage over the carriers, and I think each Android handset sold makes their platform more relevant, hopefully providing them with more leverage also, but in the short term future, the fragmentation will only become increasingly complex.
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Has pg ever exhibited a painting?

http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
It made the point that HTC has been doing touch based mobile phones for longer than Apple has.

Apple tried to portray HTC as imitators in their announcement. This is a good damn good counter to that.
I survived being hit in the head with a running 110cc chainsaw. Minor flesh wounds only. Is that cool? I'm not sure.

A friend of mine won the Nobel peace prize and then lost it in a bar afterwards. I wish I could say that.
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I am moving from Grails to Play, because i can no longer deal with the half-assed-ness of Grails. It is so buggy and those issues shine thorugh to my product. It is hard to break-dance when walking on eggs.

>> The only thing I find missing is not really a problem with play! but rather a limitation of Java...I am completely, totally addicted to Ruby's blocks. I love being able to collection.each{|one|} over lists...it just feels right.

Absolutely true and that is why they are working hard on making Scala a first class citizen with Play. With Scala you basically get a lot of the conciseness of Ruby but with the static type checking and early error catching that you get from Java.
You can't really stream Vorbis in Silverlight 3. Yes, you can plug in codecs, but there aren't any usable codec plugins available. There's one made by Mono that is way too buggy to be used in production and another one that's not even released yet, just promised in a blog post so might be just as well vaporware.

I'm not sure if there's anything for Theora at all and I don't think there ever will be, considering that Silverlight can legally play back H264 out of the box anyway and anyone who does stuff in Silverlight (and generally Microsoft stack) is probably a pragmatist and not an ideologist who worries about the "freeness" of codecs.
This was quite interesting, until, "This is because Silverlight is the Python execution engine."
It matters in some contexts.

For quick scripts that you invoke from the console, it's painful to wait a couple of seconds just to see if it does something.

For web servers, if you're using something like Google's App Engine which starts VM instances as needed, or stops them when there's no traffic, users have experienced what is called a "loading requests" ... which is basically a very slow request or requests throwing DeadlineExceededExceptions.

That's because the startup time of the runtime is very slow, especially when you have big dependencies like JRuby ... see this blog post for instance ... http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/12/request-performa...
I disagree with you for the reasons the other poster did, but could new people stop voting stuff they don't like below 1?

Your post was polite, there was no reason to mod you to oblivion.
companies can say they own your product because it looks like theirs

What are you referring to specifically? Is there a specific one of the patents in the Apple/HTC case that you feel is purely cosmetic, or are you referring to something else?
"Python in the browser" ... with Silverlight.
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“But this was not the “union” the rest of Europe signed up for — it is the Mitteleuropa that the rest of Europe will remember well.”

So that’s the way they want to go, comparison-wise. I don’t know whether that’s where you would want to go when discussing policy in the EU. Seems unnecessary.
Speaking as a European - it seems rather ironic that the author is describing Americans as "narrow minded" for only being interested in following the big existing success stories when those are all American!

A very silly article indeed.
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I may just be stating the obvious, but I think this is because git is decentralised and SVN is not.

If you fork a git project, your clone is just another branching point in the DAG that represents the "universe" of commits across all repositories.

SVN on the other hand does not support branching naturally. It's as if the branching never happened, and there always were two separate repositories.

I think this is why SVN users often avoid branches. SVN can make them, but it does nothing to help developers merge their branches.
Would you believe that some sites routinely dump 2MB on you, just for one page ?

E.g., for AlleyInsider, which occasionally shows up here:
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100318_6303/

(Nice tester from AOL - try your own cases)
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Ok - so you've got a script that runs in ½s, but it integrates with some .net stuff, so you run it under ironpython. Instead of getting the result straight away, you have to wait 3s (startup + run). It will be at least annoying if you rely on that script many times during the day.
I'm looking forward to this. I want to see Apple try and claim they invented touch phones in court against a company that's been doing them for longer than it has. And I wanted to see them smacked down by a judge for doing it.
It's not there yet, but it is technically possible.

Of course the current implementation sucks, because it's an abandoned port of some Java code. But if someone cares enough about this, it can be implemented.

And you wouldn't need to be someone that does stuff in Silverlight ... all is needed is some Javascript/applet stored on some CDN that you can just drop in your HTML.

As far as ideologists go (thinking about services like Wikimedia here) ... what's better?

Using a proprietary plugin for those proprietary platforms that don't have Theora or using a patented format?

Life is full of compromises, you can't have it all.
-Do you have a blog? Starting writing. Share the contents via RSS, Twitter, FB etc.

-Do you have a twitter account? Start following relevant people, get involved in discussions, share your link (don't spam).

-Write to bloggers/journalists who might be interested in covering social networking sites (mashable?)

-Since it's niche, promote your site on every blog, forum, site related to the niche. Again, don't spam but inform others why its to their benefit to join your network.

-Adwords?

EDIT: The site wasnt loading when I tried, so I wrote all of that without visiting the site. But now that I've seen it, I'm not really sure how this is a "niche" social network at all. Confused.

-Some sort of content where existing members can win prizes for referring others?
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I wish some creative person could subvert the meaning of the word "internet" by establishing different protocols that exist on top of existing communications infrastructure.
Apple has no patent on the general concept of "unlocking a device with a gesture". They have a patent on their implementation. You can't patent a concept.

This would be clearer if patent titles were prefixed with "A", as in "A method...", etc. Most people seem to read them as "The method...", which when combined with the linear format (even though claims are dependent), makes almost all of them sound much more broad than they actually are.

You might might get a better idea of what the patent is intended to cover by noting the differences between implementations, rather than the similarities. I won't speak to that myself, as I have never seen the Windows Mobile implementation.
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Reminds me of the example of Henry Kissinger being a war criminal used in an O'Reilly book about Oracle PL/SQL:

http://oreilly.com/news/feuerstein_1000.html

Of course, Kissinger is a war criminal.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/CaseAgainst1_Hit...
You can see the email details on your contacts on linkedin anyway, no ?
The misconception comes from Google not wanting to use Theora on Youtube.
42-45C is the temperature of the very hot onsens in Japan (at least according to the thermometer reading at an onsen I visited there)... So no I don't think it'd cause injuries...
no tumblr?
If you don't mind me asking, how did you end up on the streets, and how did you end up off them?
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No, not really "enough said". If a correlation is demonstrated between two events, then the probability of the observations being due to chance is low. Now, whether we conclude that "A caused B", "B caused A" or "something else altogether caused both A and B" is another matter. In this case, since the MBA likely precedes billionareship, we will rule out the possibility that the MBA was caused by the billions. As to which of the remaining two explanations is the case, I suspect that it is a mixture of the two.
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Write an article about about it and submit it to photography magazines, techcrunch, etc.
Interesting; Map-Reduce does perhaps 80% of their stuff, this for the other 20%:

"Pregel: A system for large-scale graph processing" (title of a cited reference)

"Currently, Pregel scales to billions of vertices and edges, but this limit will keep expanding."
Silverlight... with "performance" stuff in C#? What kind of client-side scripting is going on that we need to push it down to C#?

Javascript does a great job manipulating the DOM, especially with Prototype and the like.

Having a stronger scripting language in the browser like python (even ruby?) would be great if it didn't come at a significant cost and increased performance. If you'd ask anyone who spends a significant amount of time writing js code, they'd want it faster. Not Python that is built on top of a proprietary engine (plugin based!), that uses... JAVASCRIPT to embed it.

On top of that, the python code looks semantically identical to DOM manipulation in Prototype. So really the only thing you've gained is "writing client code in python" while dumping proprietary formats and a huge initial download on your users. I'll excuse myself as sensationalist when I say that it seems a little selfish on the developer's part.
* I have been to all the states(28 states and seven union territories) in India

* At one time I have worked on 4 start-ups at a time

* I have donated Rs2000(Almost $50) to a begger

* I have programming my self and taught my college professors
It's a site where you can share pieces of code you find interesting and elegant. The social part comes from the fact vote/karma system and the ability to discuss code samples. A combination of HN-like interface with the http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ (recently covered on HN). Basically I was reading blogs like the Daily WTF and found that there are far more sites that talk about crappy code than good code.

Thanks for the advice. This is great help.
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Well, it was pretty lopsided, but there were some things that IPy was pretty good at. Exceptions are much more efficient, there were some bright spots in dictionary and string manipulation.

Given that CPython is about Python, whereas IronPython is about Python and the MS environment (libraries, IIS, MSSQL, etc.), it looks like a decent alternative if you like Python, or are just tired of C#.
Ask HN- Help: I need a technical advisor
Do you know the difference between Ruby on Rails, C+ and PHP? I don't!

I have an idea for a website project that I would like to get started on. I can fund the project myself and I have a good handle on the concept, marketing, sales, industry contacts etc... However, I have absolutely no technical knowledge. I might be able to name 5 or 10 types of code, but I couldn't tell you the difference between any of them. It turns out that hiring a programmer is hard to do if you can't even describe what you need them to do!

I need someone who is a technical generalist to spend a few hours with me on the phone, hear my idea fleshed out, and advise me on what my technical requirements really are, so I can go about developing an RFP.

I would be happy to pay a reasonable consulting fee. If there is anyone who is interested and thinks they can help, please email me at dave.leder at gmail.
Last year a friend taught me about the bash trick "CTRL-R" <start typing 'ssh' or some other previously run command> on the command line for reverse history searching, and it is an amazing time saver. It acts as a great alternative to #8, "Find the last command that begins with “whatever,” but avoid running it"

$ !whatever:p
Rode a bicycle (that I constructed from parts) through the jungle of Congo for 2 weeks. Got a rare form of Malaria. Rode it back.
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* I paid off my parents mortgage (age 20)
That's an interesting case. However, is that really comparable?

It was just one subtle sample dataset, and not a big (kind of) ad placed across the book.
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This goes to show that innovation exists for even the most mundane things.

I didn't even see the problem until this article came up (much less the possible solution). I'd always assumed that there would be children on-hand to thread needles for their parents, the way I was when I was younger.

In retrospect - really dumb of me.
Shoooooooot - that there is some tech-nickel words there. I have a D90 - glad to see it seemed to do well but whoa... Well over my head what all those charts and such mean/do/tell me.

I'm with ig1 - you need to write an article (maybe multiple) and submit to others. I would suggest you really work to make it accessible to people like me. I have quality gear, took a photography class in college, and like to shop for gear.
Do you honestly think that Steve Jobs (the person, not the businessman) has no feeling of empathy for others?

Psychopath != narcissistic asshole
I woke up on time this morning.
Strange that python-crypto would take care of padding for block ciphers and not calculate the CRC for you. I wonder how much code out there assumes it would and become susceptible to accidental corruption of the plaintext.