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The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. (Kidding.) Updated.

Although I swear there were 5 when I first copied the article title. (The URL seems to bear that out!)
I'm pretty sure they are fake, this squared case is beyond compare with 3G's smoothly rounded design.
Craigslist spam is a huge problem, but they don't do enough to take care of it. Right now I'm really annoyed by the way every single time I want to look at the job listings, it makes me click again after a page explaining what affiliate marketing is and how it's scammed.
Please stop repeating the same bullshit that seemingly every VC pundit is repeating about the Dodd bill. The "2.3m" figure is a total fabrication!

The bill does not set new requirements at all. It just explicitly authorizes the SEC to adjust the income & net-worth requirements for inflation. The SEC was already empowered to alter the requirements independently of legislation (since they were not set by legislation), but they've never done so.

The figures quoted are pulled out of their ass — they just took the old figures and adjusted for the last 30 years of inflation since they were set. Nothing in the bill says the SEC has to adjust it all at once or at all.
How long until Apple compares the fingerprints on the device to its employment records to decide who to fire and sue?
I don't think the big reason for Microsoft's ascendancy was their deal-making. They provided a solution to hardware makers who wanted to sell their hardware. Microsoft came in with a cheap software stack that did everything Apple products did. I bet if given a choice, these hardware makers would have wanted Apple's software, but Apple didn't comply, or it was too expensive.

Hardware makers today (HTC, Motorola and the rest) will most definitely go all in with Google because there's no other choice if they want to compete with Apple! I'm sure they're all well aware that they won't be able to differentiate themselves and they their margins will be razor thin, but even razor thin margins are better than no margins.
Having the ability to solve equations is useful. Randomly write down an equation. That particular equation isn't likely to have practical applications. Is it worthwhile to explore whether or not it can be solved by algebraic methods?

Why is it that first, second, third, and fourth degree polynomials can be solved by algebraic methods but not arbitrary polynomials of higher degree? Is this worth studying only if it has practical applications? It does have applications today but it didn't for the first thousand years this problem was tackled. The requirement that something be 'useful' before it is worthy to be studied is too great a burden. It's a detriment to intellectualism.
I'm assuming as a government agency it'd want to make sure there wasn't any funny stuff going on, what with classified documents and whatnot.
Facebook started using this style of URL a little while ago but I can't get it to serve the static equivalent up yet. My bet is that they'll be the first big name to ship this in production.
While there is inherit risk involved in angel investing, it has been a fairly straightforward method for increasing one's wealth. It is becoming increasingly clear (to me at least) that this congress and administration are using regulation and governmental control to stifle and limit the production of wealth that cannot be taxed at a high rate. In most cases, an angel investment will be taxed as a capital gain, and usually one that is considered long term at a lower rate.
I absolutely disagree that the topic has been rehashed more than necessary. In fact, I think for it to remain relevant and more than just a PR slogan, the topic should be discussed and challenged continuously.
Getting in the door counts for a lot. Said congressman will hear much more of one side than the other, then make up his own mind on the merits and go to sleep confident that he hasn't been bought.
Ok - I guess I deserved a big WHOOOOSH. I actually thought you were being serious.
Making TV costs lots of money so they only make shows to attract large audiences. Because writing books is relatively cheap you get books for all kinds of audiences, importantly you get books aimed at smart people. My comments siblings provide examples of this.
Do celebrities die in threes?
There were, my apologies. Myth #5 is that lean startups make you lose the ability to count :)
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Twice the weight of a Brompton bicycle, not enough battery range for an ordinary cycle commute across London, terrible handling, no luggage capacity, ludicrous price.

Also, under EU law this contraption is a light motorcycle, which means it needs to be type certified to be used on the roads, which this machine will never achieve. In their own FAQ, the designers admit that the machine is not road legal in any of their target markets - their solution is to ask prospective customers to lobby for a change in the law. Even if they completely redesign the machine to be road legal, you'll still need a driving license, road tax and a helmet to ride it; you might as well buy a motor scooter, which will be cheaper, faster, more comfortable and safer.

Other than that, it's a great idea.

Honestly, this sort of thing makes me genuinely angry. It's a blatant example of the cart leading the horse, a designer starting from a blank page and ending up with a solution that is novel, exciting and far worse than all the existing solutions. It's exactly the kind of humbug that will result in more design awards than units sold. The bicycle is for the most part a solved problem. The non-folding bicycle was perfected over a hundred years ago and the folding bicycle has scarcely improved since the Brompton was launched in 1989.

The market is polarised into bicycles and motorbikes for a reason. If you add motive power and fuel to a bicycle, you end up with a machine too heavy to comfortably carry. Once you're over that threshold, it makes no difference at all whether you go 1kg over or 100kg over. You might as well use the extra weight and build a proper motor vehicle. Trying to bridge the imaginary gap between a bicycle and a motorbike makes perfect engineering sense but no practical sense. It's what happens when you forget that you are solving a human problem, not a technological one.
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The font is specified in the CSS with @font-face, a CSS2 feature. Perhaps the browser you're using might implement this feature using JS.
I think the 30" ACD is even more at risk, since it has been unchanged in ~forever. It was released in June 2004!
How would the performance of this mobile Flash browser plug-in be on a cellular connection? That's what people use their mobile phones on. I'm sure websites would crawl. All Adobe demos are on WiFi.
Flash banner ads are 3-5 times bigger. Sometimes 200x larger if there is an autoplaying Flash video banner(20K static banner vs 2-3MB video banner).

Flash/Ad blockers are the most popular add-ons for FF & Chrome so whenever they ship it, we'll see how many people actually install Flash mobile!
Besides the Farmville junkies! :)

Yes, you do have to optimize the content for it & do a whole lot of other things:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/mobile/flashplatform_optimiz...

Reading that document makes me think badly written Flash apps could have bad performance & drain the battery quick.
> Do laptops have the water-damage-sensing things that they put in cell phones?

No.
I really dislike these inverse guides -- they fight a strawman by negating an obviously false statement.

You see this in programming essays, where people show examples of absurd commenting (i++; // increment i). Yes, yes, we're reasonably intelligent readers know that's bad -- show us an example of nuanced commenting, or nuanced thinking!
Why would new "explicit authorization" be needed if using that power wasn't foreseen?

These discriminatory thresholds shouldn't be raised one dollar -- they should be reduced, abolished, or replaced with something more respectful of individual circumstance (like a percentage-of-portfolio in private equity or waivers based on experience rather than pure wealth).
Unlike the current iPhones, iPad's sides are hard edged as well. The "crease" from the border of the iPad to the back of it is a very hard, un-smoothed edge, as is the crease on the front (see the far right http://www.miproconsulting.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/... it's only bulbous because they need space for the guts -- the actual point where the back meets the border bezel is a hard edge).

Despite the way they got stereotyped with the bondi-blue iMac (ten years ago!), Apple tends to not actually like super bubbly or round industrial design, as evidenced in the shapes of all of their displays, notebooks, Apple TV, Time Capsule, and the current iMac family. Bringing their phones in line with the "its a metal border with four rounded corners, containing inset glass on the usable faces" would be 100% in tune with the rest of their current aesthetic. iPhone is currently the weird exception, especially with the plastic backs they have right now.

Also see: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/18/apple-ceramic-pa...
What you are suggesting was called Time-sharing (1960s).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing
Even though these might only be development prototypes (Read: Not the final design), this photo: (http://www.engadget.com/photos/iphone-4-hd-hands-on/#2903374) could be incriminating to the photographer.

Other notes: Housing near the top of the device, but no obvious user-facing camera housing (there are lots of other sensors that current iPhones have there). Mic hole near the headphone input? (http://www.engadget.com/photos/iphone-4-hd-hands-on/#2903372) Stereo speakers?
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All good :)

Implementing exceptions with the continuation monad is straightforward. As you can see, that's sort of how it's used here. You can also recreate the State monad, Maybe, and others, deriving each from the continuation monad. I don't recommend this for actual use in JS, because JS lacks tail call optimization, which means any serious use of monads will cause stack overflows straight away.

But it gets crazier: you can implement the continuation monad using JavaScript exceptions. And JavaScript exceptions do cause the stack to reset (with a performance penalty). So if you derive a continuation monad in JS from its built-in exceptions mechanism, you can implement the other monads without breaking the stack.
Has google actually started doing this? I thought this was still in an exploratory stage.
Consumer-friendly material? As opposed to what? Something that electrocutes you? The iPhone 3GS battery is not really consumer-unfriendly, it's just hard to access.

iPhone 3GS battery: http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/sRE6GIaYuMouSGsY.huge
"even when people have options, they feel compelled not to pursue them"

Thats a really good point and its scary when you see it all around you. And I think the reason it happens is because you dont see anyone else pursuing those options.

I have, recently, moved out to Queens and now live with roommates so as to save money. previously I had my own 1 bedroom in Manhattan. No one at work understands why I did this.

The one thing I've learned though is that if I get a negative reaction from my co-workers then I might be doing something right :) ...
The iPod is the exception because it started that trend, and Apple has brought everything in line with it.

Quick, which Apple product is this: http://www.photoshopnerds.com/images2/xp_icon_01.jpg

It's an... iPhone. No, an iPod. No, it's a Studio Display or iMac turned to portrait orientation. No, its a widescreen MacBook with the lid closed. No its the front-on view of a Mac Pro... It's an Apple TV from the top down which has been squished in Photoshop... It's an Airport Express base station. Or it's a 4G iPhone. Who knows!
Here's an example for you:

I use Slicehost, which is rather more costly than similar VPS options such as Linode. This costs me something on the order of $2,000 a year -- but it works, almost flawlessly. With sufficient time available, I could theoretically migrate to Linode (or EC2 or wherever) and shave off ~40% of that bill, but I don't have to. There will never be a day where I say "Aww effity I wanted to develop features or do marketing today but I can't because if I don't get off Slicehost right the heck now I will suffer angst-inducing downtime."

Technical debt, on the other hand, looks something like this: the printing code in the Java version of my software is an offense against God, and I cannot incorporate new features into it without a complete rewrite. No kidding -- I want to be able to put a title on those bingo cards, but it architecturally just will not support that. It is a mess of kludges and a class hierarchy descending from FailFactoryServiceLocator, held together by duct tape and prayers. The fact that it functions at all is a miracle.

That is technical debt: I would like to incorporate new features my customers want into that version of the program, but I just can't until I rip its rotten heart out and start over. That is, in fact, so much technical debt that I'm probably just going to End Of Life the sucker and concentrate on the web version and my new projects rather than deal with it.
Goodreader is nice (much, _much_ better than the built-in PDF reader for large files) and it has support for loading files from Dropbox, etc. So far may only lingering complaints are the non-configurable swipe-for-next/prev-page action (up and down instead of the side to side of iBooks) and the fact that landscape mode shrinks the page to fit the full height in the landscape screen instead of going to half pages, and the lack of annotations.
So if I had identical twins and I fed twin 1 ONLY 500 calores of carbs per day, and I fed twin 2 ONLY 500 calores of protein per day, they are going to have markedly different outcomes? I highly doubt it.

I think the big difference between getting your calores from carbs vs fat and protein is that it is exceedingly EASY to consume vast quantities of carbs, whereas consuming the same amount of calories in the form of fat and protein would be much more expensive and satiating.
>> but it is also a lot more complicated than just having brakes

At least one train maker still struggles getting this bit right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_%28train%29#Braking_iss...

I'd be very worried about safety with something this complex unless it could be proven to always fail in a safe way.
sounds like a useful feature, will try to add it.
Doh you're right that the iPod did round off its corners for two or three generations - the one with the four touch buttons, and the first clickwheel designs. They sharpened the edges back up when they went to the "Classic" though.
I don't get it. They're requiring authors to provide HTML content that lives behind a URL. How is this different than just requiring the application gracefully degrade to a plain HTML mode that's usable without JavaScript, and crawling that?
This seems to be mostly an argument about terminology, isn't it? The "myth" kind of startup (bootstrapped, low-expenditure) is a coherent concept too, but I take it that the author is arguing they should be called something other than "lean startup" to avoid confusion with what he means by the phrase (perhaps "ramen startup"?).
The whole point of the Air is that it doesn't weigh very much. It weighs the same as a netbook but is much more powerful.

Look at it this way: a 13" Macbook Pro weighs a whopping 50% more and all you get is a CPU that's a little faster, bigger harddrive and an optical drive, which many people don't need. I don't think I've used the optical drive in my MBP 13" for anything other than the OS X system disk once or twice.

You can make the iMac or the heavy MacBooks more powerful, but they will still won't be as portable as the Air.
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Inspiring! A question: How much did it cost (in dollars, not sweat) to get these services started, and how much is it monthly?

I'm surely off-base, but I feel like it "should" all be free for something getting started (ie with very little traffic), because it would be a great way for all these services to get many initial users, some of which will become paying.

EDIT answers:

Heroku: free for dev, $15/month for production (it seems?) http://heroku.com/pricing#blossom-1-0

Sendgrid: free for 200 emails/day http://sendgrid.com/pricing.html

Charify: free for 50 customers http://chargify.com/pricing-and-signup/
Well, I suppose you are right about it being an assembly line. Nonetheless, it is to me mad "amazing" that someone could do this with lego.

And as my japanese friend so kindly translated the whole thing to me, some parts like the dump truck and the crane uses no microcontrollers or coding at all. Just amazing.
For cloud-computing skeptics, perhaps this comic could be an unintentional political cartoon: http://www.explodingdog.com/title/dontworryitsonlyacloud.htm...
"Happiness and life fulfillment are very much found in the 9-to-5, pay-check-to-pay-check demographic of society."

I wish this were true because then I would not be trying to get away from a 9-to-5 job which pays very handsomely with no overtime.

The real reason that a 9-to-5 is not fulfilling is because ,as an employee, you are not measured by how much you create. The metrics are a bunch of bogus crap some HR dude listed down before he had to leave to pick up his kids at 5pm. So your forced to do things which are usually unfulfilling and a lot of times inconsequential to the business and your own development.

Add that to dreary meetings, performance reviews which leave you feeling violated and managers who check whether your in on time instead of what you've produced makes for a $hit of a day. Do it 223 times a year and you'll soon realize that 9-to-5 is not about happiness or fulfillment.

There are places like Google where this may not be true but this is par for the course for every job I've worked at.
If you're in Silicon Valley, NASA's tracker applet (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/st...) claims that you'll be able to see the shuttle streaking just above the north horizon at 6:06 AM, just before sunrise.

...I might actually have to get up for that
Wanna buy a crackhouse (in Vancouver)?
I am an entrepreneurp and after a few shows, i eventually unsubscribe Jason’s podcast. I think he is trying to make startup into a gong show and he is doing a disservice to the profession. Leo, on the other hand, is a class act and we have much to learn from him. http://buzz.dennykmiu.com/be-a-magnet-be-leo
That's my guess...since they opted for a virtual private cloud, they were probably interested in seeing the firewall setup. The VPC would let them bridge their in-house network with an isolated Amazon cloud over VPN.
Getting to the bottom of what went wrong is important to the future of the US economy, far more important than jailing a few alleged swindlers.
First the do-not-call-registry and then this. 'Bout time they did some good. Now fix the @#$%$% angel funding issue with Dodd's bill.
ebay: auctions suck, bidding on stuff isn't my idea of fun. There is too much of negative press surrounding fraud etc, so you have to go out of your way to portray yourself as not being a criminal.
craigslist: people are cheap, it is handled face to face, if you are selling something large, usually random strangers come into your house.

So that really has nothing to do with coding, but those are my gripes with each.
I use Google Voice and all unknown numbers do not ring my phone and go straight to voice-mail.
That style is also used on launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271706

I'm not sure where it came from originally.
>Do not skimp on the word "illegal" when thinking about this.

Not trying to be snarky here, genuine question:

Did courts validate that Microsoft's business tactics were, infact illegal?

Maybe I'm talking about something else, but I recall Microsoft being let off the hook by the DOJ.

What they did was certainly sleazy but since you insist of the word 'illegal' here, I guess it's important to know if what they did was finally recognized as a violation of any laws.
Do they seriously fingerprint employees?
I'm in pretty good shape, and training in the morning is always more difficult. I train mid-morning on Saturdays, and it always takes longer to get going. I think just the act of being up and moving for even half a day gets you looser and more warmed up than if you stumble out of bed and start doing something.

The few times I've done strength training first thing in the morning have been hard. I remember doing squats at 9 am and just dragging ass the whole time.
I normally like to think I have better things to do than to go all Zapruder on a purported Apple leak, but hey, lazy Sunday...

I propose to disprove that the image Engadget claims as proof actually depicts a slab-shaped iPhone. It is simply an optical artifact caused by the slow shutter speed of the camera used. I took a photo of an iPod Touch (using an iPhone, naturally) that shows the same smearing effect, visually extruding the iPod's chrome bezel into a slab (this one's too thick, but you get the idea):

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6633/extrudeblur.jpg

As you can see from the other edges in the Engadget photo, the vertical motion blur follows the same direction and length as the purported 4G iPhone.
I'm sorry, but this really sounds like a conspiracy theory. There are much saner ways to raise taxes on the rich -- even if you were inclined to be sneaky about it.
I read a lot of books (and sometimes even write them), but I don't see a lot of value in reading over watching TV. I treat both as something to do when I don't feel like doing anything that requires thinking. If you like TV, watch TV. If you like reading, read. Or do both.
Meebo introduces xAuth (the scoble interview w/ whiteboarding)
xAuth.org coming monday.
4chan is basically HN, except that on 4chan, everyone has a more reasonable perspective about their worth and ability. Oh, and you can post pictures.
yeah, this is sort of amusingly ironic coming from an analytic philosopher.
Yes you're right. But.. you probably wouldn't find any of the batteries on the shelf in an AT&T store looking like that (http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg)

I was implying that the battery in the leaked photos looks like it's the kind you can remove from your phone. Coated in plastic, with a barcode, serial number, etc... the opposite of what you would find inside a traditional iPhone. That's part of what leads me to believe that these are fake, because I don't see Apple moving towards a device with a removable battery any time soon.

TL;DR you linked to an internal battery, which is not what you see in the photos of the leaked iPhone 4G. What you see is something more on the lines of what you might buy for your Nexus One (or other device with a removable battery).

But, alas, if this is just an internal testing machine for Apple purposes only, I suppose something with a removable battery might make sense.
It's interesting because he's still mad that Perl killed Lisp 20 years ago.
I have several repositories with personal and client related code which needs to stay private (like wasitup‘s source).

Because what a tragedy it would be if someone saw the source code to a site that does an HTTP request and occasionally sends email. It would save a "competitor" like 15 seconds!
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Editing your post and claiming you never said the original comment is pretty shady.
Please let me know if you figure out the reason for that, so we can fix it if it has any actual problems.

(note: I wrote the posting)