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EyeTV does not have large market share, in the sense that it does not compete on the scales of the ipad (which is what we're discussing).

I'm not bad mouthing German companies or products. I drive a VW.
Won't you be drawing a lot of attention to yourself if you smell like shit? I think the best thing to do would be to eat those wiping materials.
This didn't have anything to do with that. This was one of the most even yet intense debates I've seen in a while. Most of the time it's either one dominant person that no one is standing up to, or everybody is buddy buddy and I get suspicious about the lack of disagreement. The was healthy debate.
It's a simple app I built to help me prepare for programming interviews. This is a very early version but if people like the idea, I'll continue to develop it.
Thanks! DHH was an amazing guest with great perspective and obviously he has the talent to back up his positions.

Really enjoyed having him as a guest.... the show will be up at www.thisweekin.com in two hours or so.

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Ah! I will verify and correct. Thanks.
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They are able to be rational about everything except their religious beliefs.

Belief in gods and goddesses does not jive very well with Occam's razor or the complete lack of empirical evidence.

I can't say for sure that gods and goddesses don't exist, but I also can't say for sure that there isn't a giant invisible elephant following me around.

But if I claimed there was a giant invisible elephant following me, I'd likely be committed or medicated.

I don't intend to shove anything down your throat, but please...
I think I would have become one of the top 10 tech journalists ever if I had not been cursed with being a CEO/founder.

Sometimes I wish I was still a journalist.
T-Mobile is great example, thanks.
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All he is really saying is that simple architectures are better than complex architectures, if they fulfill the same functions.

I don't argue that underlying point, but the way he got there sure was a lot more complex than, "KISS."
Interesting. I do have to wonder about the video card, though, as the iPad boasts a bit of a beast for such a small device. And I have to say that battery life is a REAL selling point for me, and likely for many others.

I'm interested in how it sells, but if given the choice now, I'd choose the iPad, regardless of how much cheaper the WePad may be. Plus, I shudder to think of all the Air apps...
If you walk around, interacting with the world through a tablet with a camera, it may end up there, courtesy of <random person's name here>.
Does YUI3 have a similar resource footprint to YUI2?

At my job we're transitioning away from YUI to jQuery UI partially because for what we're using–a slider and a dialog–it takes an order of magnitude more included JavaScript (a few hundred KB minified)
Thinking about it, the app probably has a high number of returns then. That would probably trigger Apple's wrath.
Just updated Notifo to accept hyphens and apostrophes. That was a horrible oversight on my part. Please try it now.
I enjoy classical music of the modern period like Messiaen, Britten, and others. This is arguably more complicated than jazz.

I don't really like most jazz. The performers are mostly amazing players, but the music doesn't provoke any emotional reaction from me, whereas listening to something like Messiaen's Turangalila is as close to a religious experience as I'll ever get.
Why do you say @ J2EE and .NET-stack apps?

I would have guessed most vulnerabilities are in PHP code.
Yeah, there were a lot of feature grids and checkboxes presented as evidence to the impending failure of the iPhone when it was first introduced, apparently nobody learned from that.

The WePad looks like a fun device to tinker with, and I see potential for resellers or commercial use, but it's not playing on the same field as the iPad (yet).
In the era of server-side JavaScript, there's no excuse for not using the exact same validation code everywhere.
Good arguments need few straw men.
It's odd that the iPad invites that comparison, but the ThinkPad and CruchPad apparently did not (at least not that I recall).
Your wife should join the ACLU and the NRA.
I liked the part telling you that satellites can record your conversations from space by bouncing lasers off of your windows. And the part advising you to bring along any police dogs you might happen to kill, to keep from leaving evidence. And the part that gives "assistant to elderly Navajos" as a top employment opportunity. Wonderfully imaginative, if nothing else.
I'm a musician, and I completely relate to the author regarding not listening to lyrics, etc. The thing is, I strongly dislike jazz. I can recognize creativity and virtuosity in jazz musicians, but the songwriting and soloing actually seems lazy to me (the opposite of what jazz proponents would probably say).
I don't doubt that at all. Founding a business exposes you to very real pain points that someone who hasn't run a business might not think to ask about. Since my transition from journalism to entrepreneur/sometime-journalist, I've often wondered why on earth people listen to business journalists who've never started or managed a business of their own. How could they possibly write with authority if they haven't been through this themselves?
"But if we know what he meant why does this matter? Language exists to convey meaning, and I think we all understood what he meant, so I don't see the problem here."

I often don't know what the user meant. It makes for extra work to stop and think what possible meaning was intended. Some thing when people use "less" for "fewer". I have to think, did they mean "lesser" or "fewer"?
they sell in a lot of countries, incl. the US.

Not every one is as large as Siemens, Bosch, Blaupunkt, ...

There are Braun, Loewe, Navigon, Sennheiser, ...
Well, if you abstract properly, you often wind up with fewer lines of code at the end, and certainly more predictable and easy-to-modify code. Am I really defending this? What's the opposing view, spaghetti code? :)
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I didn't spend too much time there but it seems like a neat idea.

I do however suggest not riding the "Flickr" naming convention as its played out and immediately tells everyone you don't think originally. Just my $0.02

The polynomial question is pretty tricky!
I didn't realize you'd worked your entire life in Japan?

Anyway, at the places I've worked at in the US (I have 3 weeks vacation time + any carried over from the previous year), you can take it at pretty much any time you want, but it's preferred that you don't do it at "crunch time." There is an approval process, but I've never had a vacation request go unapproved and I've never not approved a request from my reports.

Some of the foreign born people I work with will take an entire 3-4 week block at once to travel to their home country but usually I just take off a Friday and/or Monday here and there to make a long weekend or at most one week at a time.
I hate it when people shout and yell and scream and whistle at concerts :(

I'm there to hear the music, not listen to myself and other people's voices.

I know that probably makes me sound like I'm a bit stuck up, or an old fogie, but honestly, I go to concerts to listen to music. That can't be that wrong.
Yes, and I'm glad it is. An easy life would be dull.

Also, it's all relative - the chances are that if you're complaining that your life is oh-so-difficult, there'll be someone nearby who'd envy your life.

And to answer your question with a question... Why are you asking?
Not sure how this:

http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/secureflight/faqs.shtm

"If the name printed on my boarding pass is different than what appears on my government ID, will I still be able to fly?

Due to differences in boarding pass systems, boarding passes may not always display the exact name you provided when booking your travel. The name you provide when booking your travel is used to perform the watch list matching before a boarding pass is ever issued, so small differences between the passenger's ID and the passenger name printed on the boarding pass, such as the use of a middle initial instead of a full middle name or no middle name/initial at all, or hyphens and apostrophes should not cause a problem for the passenger."

reconciles with this:

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/acceptable_documents....

"Passengers who do not or cannot present an acceptable ID will have to provide information to the Transportation Security Officer performing Travel Document Checking duties in order to verify their identity. Passengers who are cleared through this process may be subject to additional screening. Passengers whose identity cannot be verified by TSA may not be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint or onto an airplane."

That sounds like fun.

FWIW the NY driver's license only had room for my wife's first and middle INITIALS and our last name. Not exactly a recipe for a happy front-line TSA experience.
How in the world could it not?
If you're going to write large scale widgets, YUI is a better suited choice because of it's already large collection of A-grade supported widgets, and emphasis on reuse. Yahoo! has put a ton of work into making sure their widgets are accessible by the disabled.

In addition, YUI3 can dynamically load resources, which can be very beneficial if you have a large collection of widgets and only want to load the code for them when it's necessary.

I love both libraries, there are trade offs with each, which is why evaluating them for your project is a wise decision, if only to understand the strengths and weaknesses.
2500+ sales from an email sent to 200,000 local Groupon members.

That's a 1.25% blind conversion rate from email send which is UNHEARD of outside of very targeted newsletters.

Where can I invest in Groupon stock again?

That blows my mind wide open.
Kind of undercuts his argument "look I can put crap in the appstore and sell it $300" when it gets pulled.
Did anybody here get the iPad email? I didn't, and I'm wondering if that means only "select" devs will be allowed to get on the iPad on day one.

Still though, I'm going to code like crazy to get my game ready to go, just in case. I've already mostly got it ported, so a week should be plenty of time.
I use the Netbeans IDE debugger. It can get hung and crash your rails app if you put breakpoints in certain places, but it's pretty good for simple debugging.
> [...] so one of my goals was to see how long I could keep "angrys" on the phone.

Just as a challenge? Or with anything else in mind?
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You could include the time something is posted in the Bayesian filtering.
We don't have an allocation for sick/emergency days (for salaried workers) so there are essentially infinite sick days. It's assumed that you won't abuse the "privilege" since it would be hard to make your deadlines if you did so.

I've actually been (gently) scolded for using a vacation day instead of a sick day to take care of my wife when she was ill.
I haven't seen any evidence that Apple is poaching Google's employees. It's quite possible that the employee in question approached Apple, not the other way around.
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Restaurant reviews indeed.
Training on word pairs or triples may also be worth a look, instead of going for single words only.
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On a related note, it would be great if Google allowed others to post education materials of length beyond 10 minutes in length, as well. For example, I want to post full-length videos of computer science conferences and talks but this seems to be impossible without applying to the YouTube Partner program, which requires traffic and credentials. Does anybody have such a contact at YouTube?
No, we had some unexpected infrastructure problems today.
If you know of Clojure etc resources to add, feel free to edit the wiki page. It's hosted on Cliki but i don't think anyone will mind.
I've made this prediction as well. Google will bring on experts in their fields to write books, class room material, teachers aids, supplements, etc for nth-12th grade levels and put it all on the internet. They'd probably provide no cost book binding etc and update it in a software like release cycle. States could adopt the Google model instead of the TBOE.
You can test your techniques on comments (not used in training) for which you know the author. If you can achieve a high accuracy there, you can be fairly sure to be correct in the challenge, too.
I'm in 100% agreement. Btw, the book I referenced is "Beyond Category" by John Edward Hasse.
We really should go one-big-text box. I've tried to do it as often as clients will let me get away with it.

A recent client demanded the address be broken out into fields, but I at least swayed them into accepting a big-text-box for "international" addresses after showing them a few examples.
But that already assumes that you ask the card type in the first place. There's no need for that and hence no possibility to choose to stop validation. It smells like premature optimization to ask the cc type for this reason?
The "destroy photos" step seems like it would be difficult to accomplish nowadays. Most recent photos (of me, at least) are digital, and many people have copies of the image files.
Whew lots of words to sum up something that seems kind of obvious to me: People just aren't exposed to good jazz very often. We mostly hear really terrible soul defeating elevator jazz. People grow up understanding the language of rock, country, hip hop, etc so they will almost certainly hear some really good examples of music from these genres and naturally gravitate towards some or all of them. Jazz is an art form you really have to seek out these days. The better question is why did popular culture move away from jazz in favor of these other genres? I think it reflects the demand for shorter more concentrated messages in music. The 2-3 minute song is how most people consume music. If you sliced out some choice 2-3 minute segments of some great jazz albums I bet they could be palatable to a bigger audience even today. We see this in film & TV today with jazz and orchestral music. People like it but not in big doses.
I should add this. I believe it is correct (no personal experience).

It seems there were two ideas here. One, do the stupid game enough so you didn't learn much by doing half an hour again == that is, it was a good test of present ability. Two, find something that is relevant for the problem you have.
> [...] it would fetch only $45,000.

Or would still be worth so much. (Not that I have any opinion on the value of 4chan.)
Thanks for the link. That might be plenty of information for me for now. I tried playing around with Wordpress and it just didn't click for me. I have done better with Textpattern but I am still wondering if there is something out there that is a better fit or if it is merely a matter of time stress right now.
Whatever we tried to make life easy, it'll always seem difficult. Even for the spoiled kid whose Dad is nifty rich; he has some difficulties (like not being able to date with the girl he loves). It may seems stupid for you and that he's not aware of the paradise he's living in, because you are working 9-5 job to survive, because.... but everyone has a problem to deal with. People that doesn't have problems/things to deal with along the day, usually finish by a mental depression (because of the emptiness of their life), which is a more difficult experience.
If there's backing to the assertion that I'm doing it wrong in there, I didn't find it.

Incidentally, I use emacs and Lisp every day.
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Well, patents are not products. I gotta say I don't like Apple much at this moment in time.
Is posterous the one where you can email your blog posts? I was thinking about that. It has a lot of appeal. I email myself a lot of stuff, and often cannot find it again later. :-/
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I'm not sure why you think pypy is slower than cpython "at pretty much everything" after looking at this site. Out of the 21 benchmarks given, 10 are 2x or more faster than cpython, 10 are between 2x faster and 2x slower and only 1 is more than 2x slower.
Interesting that reverse engineering is still somewhat shady.
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"Hence the patent suit against HTC. That’s all about Google - about creating a situation where Android is no longer a free operating system for handset makers in the U.S., because the cost of using it is an expensive legal defense against Apple."

Spot on.
I wasn't really looking to generate comments when I replied to you. A) I'm very chatty and don't like to just ignore people who are speaking to me. (I've actually had to work on learning when to let it go and that some comments do not really need a reply.) B) I find something very humorous about my poor ability to start good conversations online. I'm infamous for being very talkative and for having a habit of generating big reactions completely unintentionally. Somehow, I haven't mastered the art of "bottling" it, so to speak.

Anyway, I am pleasantly surprised to see a couple of other comments. So it's all good. :-) (And would have been all good even if no one had replied. I figured I was doing it badly when I wrote it. I left it up to see where it would go anyway.)
it strikes me that some people have a harder/easier time than others, and i wondered how hners would self report on this question.

why do you think someone "complaining that [their] life is oh-so-difficult" predicts that others will envy them?
I've been fortunate that I've been able to see people in a lot of different situations. People who are independently wealthy, people who are struggling 9-5, people who are chronically unemployed, people who are criminals, etc.

People have a set happiness point. Probably genetically set, but that's beyond my pay grade. Whatever the external situation, they'll gravitate towards that natural setting.

It's a very weird thing to watch: the guy who has millions complaining everything sucks, the guy barely making it telling you how great life is, etc.

So yes, life is difficult. But it's difficult for everybody to some degree. It's not life -- it's the people living it.
I think Miquel Torres did an excellent job putting this site together. For anyone that is interested the code for the site can be found at http://github.com/tobami/codespeed
This kind of evolution to the cloud is inevitable, I'm glad to see a team making it happen for a piece of software that is so essential to business.
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Well, that doesn't stop them from filing with the US patent office. Here's one they did file, citing an earlier 2008 patent in Taiwan, http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0264157.html.

It appears to be a patent for a mobile phone touch-screen 'slide-to-lock' interface. Hmmm.
My dad didn't play the kids for money. He did play other adults for money when he was younger, and won consistently enough that he basically treated it like a part-time job in addition to his regular full-time job. (For some strange reason, mom didn't object to him spending Friday night out with the guys. <wink>) When I was a kid, we sometimes anted up with cookies or mints while playing poker. The problem was trying to not eat all your winnings while playing, thereby leaving yourself short for betting. :0
The thing I rarely see brought up in discussions of automated testing is longevity. If you have a team of developers and the codebase is going to be around for a while, you need to grow tests over time so that the someone doesn't accidentally break something they weren't aware of and so that you can refactor your code with confidence that you're not breaking existing functionality.

Sure, in an ideal world, everything is isolated by clean interfaces and encapsulation, but even in that ideal world, you still have a complex system that produces sometimes unexpected side effects (the emergent behavior of a software ecosystem).
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In this context "poaching" doesn't necessarily require Apple to have approached him.
Does anyone have a link to the video?
Where is the "large phone" quote from? I heard it before but thought this was Schmitt talking about Android tablets, not dissing the iPad?

I'm strangely pleased at how rattled Apple are (by this account at least).
The title should have been "A lot of unit tests does not mean you've written good code." I think the implications of the post are correct, but I think it would be incorrect to say that if you have a lot of unit tests it means poor code.

There are engineers who have a difficult time seeing things architecturally (for reasons ranging from ability to priorities). Razor sharp focus can produce a lot of unit tests while missing some refactoring that might have helped reduce the code base, and therefore the number of unit tests.

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"bugs are caused by things you didn't think to write a test for"

Bugs are not caused because of missing test cases, but it is perhaps true that the same thought process that "causes" bugs is also responsible for not coming up with a test case that would find the bug.

On the other hand, writing buggy test code (enter into meta madness :) is responsible for causing bugs to metamorphose into 'features'.
I listen to John Cage. I don't only listen to John Cage, but it is interesting. I think the problem is that you have to have a basis in music history to be able to appreciate what the hell he is trying to do.

If all you have been exposed to is 3 (four-five-one four-five-one) chord pop rock, no of course you won't appreciate Cage. In music, like cooking, you have to develop a palate for such things.

If all you've had all your life is french fries and ketchup, you probably won't like a lot of food that others will appreciate...
Liked the idea. Very useful concept. Will try for my prep now.
I think the driving factor is "OMG 2-hr helicopter lesson and I've never even flown as a copter passenger before for only $69!" -- not Groupon's magic pull. And PhilG makes it clear they're selling these initial lessons far below cost.
> [they] do not test the same thing, they are not the same,and do not at all display the same riguor

Ok, but I'm not sure who you're arguing with here. Is your beef with the word "experiment"? Nobody is submitting these results to a journal. If you prefer, call it a demonstration re-enacting a phenomenon that has been the subject of other experiments.
Its usually posted on itunes a day or so after.
I suspect many people in their 20s and 30s aren't aware of much of the jazz they've come in contact with as being jazz. When the expectation for jazz is "Kenny G.", you can come across quite a bit of it from older movies, TV shows, and pop music without recognizing as such.
I think his argument was more along the lines of "people will buy overpriced crap" than "apple won't pull overpriced crap from the store".
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I got the email a few hours ago, but there's no way I'm going to get anything in there in the next few days.
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