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My wife is dubious. She doesn't like the lack of Flash. She doesn't like trying to type on the software keyboard.

Her parents, definite technophobes, were intimidated by it. The first thing they wanted to look at was a slideshow on smugmug.com, some pictures of their granddaughter. Also Flash. They looked at me incredulously as I explained to them that you couldn't view the slideshow on the iPad. They tried to use the navigation on the website, but the navigation links were small and adjacent to the shopping cart link. At the height of their frustration, I pulled out my MBP so they could watch the slideshow on it. The thought of explaining to them how to set up their iPad to sync photos gives me chills.

OTOH, my 3-year-old LOVES it. She can use a mouse and a trackpad, but she has to concentrate and make deliberate movements. On the iPad, she flies. She can get to her favorite apps and watch her videos in a flash. There are lots of downsides to having this device in a toddler's hands, and I'd never let her use it unsupervised, but that's an aside from the usability issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye .
I’ll start. Basic process: Applying solution from one domain to another + luck.

When I was working as a corporate lawyer, I noticed that both our clients and we could be a lot better at capturing institutional memory. The problem wasn’t that we didn’t have systems in place (we had email search, a wiki, an up-to-date website, top-notch on-staff researchers, etc.), but that there were no incentives for those with knowledge to take half an hour out of their day to contribute this knowledge to the systems. With size, the non-processes that work for smaller firms (coffee break, knowing what everyone’s working on, etc.) were failing.

From /. to StackOverflow via HN, Foursquare, etc. there are many examples and templates of how to use karma and game-elements (e.g. badges) to incentivize contributions. Moreover, many of these elements should be compatible with the work environment as they would permit management to identify contributors (high-karma and badges) and domain experts (subject-area of contribution versus job-title). The incentive-element should be very strong: if management is on board, employees are on board (e.g., if karma matters as part of one’s work-review).

The second part in my process was to speak to future clients (management at mid-sized companies), users (lower-level employees who would use the system) and other entrepreneurs to gauge whether the problem was actually a need (i.e., would anyone be willing to pay for it).
the two macs i've sold:

2003 aluminum PowerBook: paid $2800, sold after 5 years for $1000

2007 iMac: paid $1300, sold after 1 year for $1300. (It was the previous gen when I bought it, so that worked out really well.)
I gave up my job as software "architect" (really I was tech lead and in charge of production) for an education company and decided to spend some time "not working". The goal was to see how I could get by in life while just doing a bit of work building sites here and there for contacts but generally falling out of the job market.

My goal was just to be able to cool off for a few months having worked too hard imo for 8 years or so, and spending the time researching and building my own prospects. I left my job with £5k in the bank and a few people who respected my dev skills.

In the end I went with it for 3 years. Each year, all in, I probably worked (don't have my old time records to hand) 4 months out of the year total never working more than 4 days in a week and never working for more than 2 weeks in a row.

Only once did I need help covering my rent (even then that was only to stop me dropping into my overdraft and not actually to stop me being completely broke).

The structure of how I lived killed my motivation to work on anything to benefit myself, and any project I started always ended up being canned 50% through when I lost the starting up movitation. Lack of other people to bounce off and perpetuate the interest and excitement with really showed after the first few months.

In the end the total killer to the scheme was the isolation from people every day. Starting with £5k in the bank I came out with £10k in the bank. I would say the only real casualty of all of it was my career path, I've basically been forced back down to developer, but perhaps that in itself isn't such a bad thing for now.

The lessons I took out of it were that I'm the kind of person that needs people to bounce ideas and enthusiasm off, so next time I go out to start something up I know I need to find a suitable partner to team with. I also found that I felt a lot less inclined to spend money when I knew how it was earned. In realised that I was spending my salary money basically to prove to myself that it was worth sitting in an office every day; when it was my money I earned it felt good just to know it was there and not turned into an LCD TV or PS3.
Wikileaks were exceedingly disingenuous with their presentation of the material in the former video - in which 2 helicopters killed a group carrying loaded RPG and assault rifles that were an imminent threat to a passing ground patrol that was already taking fire.

I hope that they'll let the material stand for itself rather than lying like politicians trying to score points.

The way they handled the last one was like some sort of Microsoft marketing exercise.
OK, let me try to be more helpful. Here's good backgrounders

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/Technology/Concurrency/

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/10/05/the-cambrian-period-of...

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...

http://blogs.azulsystems.com/cliff/2008/09/jvm-language-su.h...

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/pdf/36_Click_fastbcs.pdf

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also recommended: Herlihy/Shavit book, blogs by Sutter and Duffy,

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Maurice...

http://herbsutter.com/

http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/Default.aspx
So, let me get this straight: People _prefer_ non-private communications, with advertisers, site operators, and a vaugue sense of "friends and followers" listening in?

I don't buy it. Either he's focused on only one segment of the internet population (individuals, not businesses), or it's more wishful thinking regarding social networking.

Just what, exactly, is deemed so terrible about email? Shouldn't this be analyzed via mass correspondence vs. individual-to-individual? I think the author is greatly overgeneralizing, and thus drawing misleading conclusions.
Do Google employees gather every morning to sing the company song?

Because if they do, I get the feeling he'd belt it out with enthusiasm.
>Really? On2's main claim to fame for VP3,

Oops, that should read: On2's main claim to fame for VP8
why the downvote :/
Very cool, but fortunately soon to be unnecessary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x#Lambda_functions_and_...

Also, real currying in C++0x: http://pastebin.com/KRraz7iU
I agree that this is a minor annoyance, but your local hardware store probably has one available for $5.

In other words, it's still orders of magnitude better than replacing the HD in, say, an iBook.
Actually the latest mobile i5 and i7 are both Arrandale variants and support the AES New Instructions:

Core i5 2.53GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43544
Core i7 2.66GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560

I think the only real difference is clock speed and that the i7 has an extra megabyte of cache.
1) Volume on video demo should be higher

2) Better mic on video demo - got tired of hearing sibilant ssssssssss within 20 seconds

3) Better demo

4) Less compression on audio on video demo

5) Does Tawheed really want his actual email address in your demo video?

6) I see the need but don't get it. Why is it free? How will you make money? If you don't make money, then you close. If you close, I've wasted x hours of work.
So we have a video codec. But which container is it put in? MP4? MKV? FLV? And which audio codecs are used? Vorbis? AAC? MP3?
I can see your comments in the context you put them in here but keep in mind that there's an overall discussion which was a reply to the original comment which accused the article of "spin" and attributed it in a derogatory manner to the article being written by a conservative. So I took your comment to be supporting that point.
For the benefit of those who haven't seen the prior parts: Can someone link to parts 1, 2, and 3?
Yes, but if this information is public, in a small corporation, it'll probably mean a riot and a significant motivation killer.
I think the most important thing I've gathered from this article among others is that the iPad can do a lot for you and can do it pretty well, but possibly not exactly as you would like it. I think it has one the best sleek form factor to performance ratios out there, with style and ease of use to boot. So it really can't help but produce entertaining and useful software for people (with developer support). Power users who already have multiple desktops/laptops may struggle to justify their purchase, but in a large household I don't think people will be questioning the irony of the device when they're too busy using it.
Is there evidence for this?

I know a lot of people believe that lower weight x many reps is "toning" and higher weight x few reps is "bulking" but I have found credible arguments AGAINST this idea that there is any difference.

It also seems to me like people won't get very large muscles without either incredible amounts of dedications, or juicing.
His credibility to talk about the usability of an iPad goes away when he shows himself to be uneducated on some software terminology? I don't have a clue about the chemical makeup of sucralose, but I feel confident stating that the new Splenda Diet Coke tastes better than regular Diet Coke.
Thank you for your appreciation!

Currently I don't have plans to opensource the engine. It isn't a noncommercial project; I spent a lot of time on it. What business model would you suggest if I opensource the engine?

In fact, it's impossible to port Akshell database to App Engine. The database system is my pride: Akshell provides a special query language for it, which is based on relational calculus and easily integrates into JavaScript. A relational database couldn't be ported to Big Table.

Akshell features another approach to scalability: each application has an access to a fully functional relational database with transactions, complex queries, etc. Application databases are completely independent; so the whole system has a non-relational database, which should scale well if multiple applications are loaded. You may imagine it as "relativity islands".

The database API is described here: http://www.akshell.com/docs/ref/core/db/
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Good idea. Ignore the naysayers.
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UIWebView isn't part of the Apple API?
I doubly agree with reading widely (+outside of tech) and speaking with people with expertize in other domains.

The less-sexy the domain, the more opportunities for innovation. Too many (very smart) people out there looking at consumer internet and tech.
I agree with you. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer moves the family to a new town which is run by Scorpio, the head of the towns power plant, and everything is managed by The Company, oh and Scorpio happens to be a world class terrorist? That's how the article reads to me.
This post doesn't make sense. It's comparing email to social networking all as time spent communicating. It doesn't classify that time though, is time spent reading emails really the same as any time I spend on social networking sites? How many hours of farmville equals one hour of emailing?
Have to disagree with people who say you do one and not the other.

Building muscle, without changing your diet, will cause changes in your body that will reduce the impact of what you eat. A pound of muscle takes ~100 calories a day to survive, a pound of fat ~10. It also changes your body in other, more subtle ways.

Serious low-carb dieters (as opposed to people who just binge on meat instead of cake) often do weight-training. (Especially women!)

They eat 11-15 calories/lb of current body weight, with lots of protein, which sustains them healthily and creates a caloric deficit. (And the ketosis helps.)
Just to make sure you're on the record accurately here, and that your world view is consistent.

You enjoy watching ads on TV, hearing them on radio, reading them on billboards, seeing them on buses, in subways, on milk cartons, benches, ...

It's always OK if it's free, right?

And, they _are_ hell-bent on making cash. Everyone who seriously applies themselves, as they are doing, are hell-bent on making cash. They've acquired a huge base of users who, inexplicably, find value in their wares.

You and those masses are hooked, and now you're advertising targets. Happily so, in your case.
Here you are:

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N16/dubai.html

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N17/dubai.html

http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
The libertarian argument (not sure from your post if you hold it) is pretty simplistic.

What kind of government regulation is keeping Microsoft at near-monopoly level? (if you disagree it's a monopoly, pretend we're a decade back in time)
I don't have hackintosh experience but here are my thoughts.

- The trackpad. You won't be able to use gestures and multi-touch features. Especially if you use some software that lets you add custom multi-touch gestures, it's really nice to have a huge trackpad with gestures.

- Battery life (and longevity) will almost certainly be significantly better on a MacBook Pro.

- Apple's support is pretty great. If you have any hardware issues Apple will take good care of you. Sometimes you have to push for it, but I've had a 2 year old computer replaced with a new one because they couldn't fix a relatively minor WiFi issue.

- The MacBook Pro displays are really good and viewing angles are much better than most PC displays I've seen. You can optionally bump up the resolution of the 15" MBP to 1680x1050 for $100.

- Backlit keyboard — I thought I wouldn't really care about it, I type in Dvorak anyway so I don't need to see my QWERTY keyboard, but this is actually really nice in low-light situations.

- I've also read that there's a lot more that makes Mac hardware fast than just the tech specs. The hardware is well tuned.

A lot of these are little things, but they add up and make for a really good experience.
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This looks much more promising than the earlier version, last time it was far too much of a pain to setup, docs were scant, and I didn't like the web server interfaces that much.

Good job! I actually want to start playing with this now...
I agree, but just wanted to say that the title almost certainly isn't intended to denigrate women or imply they can't be awesome programmers. When such and such were men almost always really means when such and such were awesome. The sexism comes from awesome being equivalent to manly, and fact that not even an ounce of consideration is given to the possibility of non-manly awesomeness. It's not that the author is consciously thinking that women couldn't ever be awesome programmers. The question simply doesn't enter into his mind.
That's an interesting idea. How's it working out?
You just gave me an image of being a Google employee kind of like being a member of the Dharma initiative. Add the jump suits, and you're pretty much there.
This was one of the first things I noticed. I've always considered the MBP pretty much perfect except for the lower 1440x900 screen resolution.

Now I wish I could upgrade mine :)
Someone please explain to me why bearwithclaws even has to ASK permission to reprint the comments. This is a forum of discussion - if I am sitting in a city council meeting and someone whimsically writes on the provided chalkboard "I want to speak next!" can they then sue me if I publish a book with the title, "I want to speak next!"?

Sure, creative work recorded to some medium is protected by copyright - however, transcribed discussion is not by the standard measure, "creative," (i.e. derived for some rational and/or aesthetic purpose, such that it has the ability to be appreciated and admired on its own merits, for its own sake.)

I say publish the comments consequences be damned. If any commenter has issue with their words being published hardcopy, they will have a hell of a time trying to justify why they wrote them in a public forum in the first place.

In any case, given the indignation that is ever-present here when a software I.P. story gets posted, at least you will have outed the hypocrites among us... ;)
But the nth stealth bomber includes 1/n of the development cost of the 1st.
I had written a blog entry inspired by this article (but not entirely related to it)

http://lifeasparesh.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-obsession-with-y...
I can't find a reference now, but I've read in the past that the 5.56mm round -- the ammunition used in M-16s, for example -- is designed with a goal of (among other things) seriously wounding the target rather than killing. This isn't for humane purposes, but because putting a soldier into the infirmary with medical staff necessary to support him poses a greater cost to the enemy than simply killing him.
Of what generation are you speaking? There are large populations of at least five generations still living: the "Greatest", the "Boomers", "Gen X", the "Millennials", and then whatever they decide to call the kids born after 2003.
Yeah, I'm probably gonna need at least one strong $10 martini (still add tip onto that) if I'd qualify it as drinking :-)

Also, you won't find a $5 burger in any bar in NY.
My understanding is that 'entanglement' is like having two urchins each draw a ball from a bag with a black/white pair. One urchin goes East, the other goes West.

Assuming they arrive at A and B, respectively, this may be useful somehow. But it cannot really communicate new information from A to B.

(Unless the balls are carried unobserved, and one of the recipients - by staring real hard ? - can somehow choose the color of the ball he is unwrapping.)
This is like the modern Powers of Ten(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z53wTtGGA0)

Beautifully done.
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It's not merely sexist, it's misleading. When the LGP-30 was in use in the late '50s (the RPC 4000 was introduced in 1960), the proportion of women in the field was higher than it is today. When "programmers were men", more of them were women.

References (secondary sources only, sorry):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing

http://knol.google.com/k/the-decline-of-women-in-computer-sc...
It depends on your usage patterns. Performance begins to degrade as soon as you've written an amount of data roughly equal to the SSD's total capacity. If you're not writing much data to the drive on a regular basis, then it'll take a while to hit that wall. But once you do, it's a significant drop in performance for most SSDs. And at that point, the only "fix" is to format the drive.
Didn't Microsoft also offer much of this? Back in the day, they were the poster child corporation for bringing kids out of college into a college-like atmosphere, in order to keep everyone on "campus" and thus more likely to keep working. Google has just upgraded the formula slightly for the 21st century.
I think this is the preferred method: http://www.dustindiaz.com/min-height-fast-hack/
Well, I am now working on one project adopting nitrogen, thanks for the hard working. Really enjoy the event driven programming style
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Dell Studio XPS or HP Envy line are good alternatives, depending on what you need. Both are available with higher-res screens and faster (quad core i7) cpus than the mbp, for instance.

The major caveats on the Envy are that it has serious, deep issues preventing Linux from running on it, and it has no displayport or dvi out for driving a 30" monitor.

The Dell's biggest weakness is battery life.
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There is an essay on this point by Mencken dating from probably the 1912 election.
Am I the only one who found, when set at an angle using the apple case, that I can type at about 80% of my regular typing speed?
"Personally, I took the pictures as a reminder that the men running Dubai’s gargantuan companies had been given an upbringing that could not prepare them corporate management"

Am I the only one who finds this not-so-subtley racist?
That's similar to the workout program outlined in the book Body By Science. They advocate short high intensity workouts over long low to mid intensity workouts; the reasoning being this: with high intensity exercise you fatigue all three muscle groups (Slow, Mid, and Fast twitch) rather than just the first two in low intensity exercise.

This style of exercising forces the body to have a much more acute adaptive response than the typical low intensity exercise.
This is a good start. You should do a better job of selling the idea of the service to developers. Come up with some pain points that Akshell relieves, and use that as the basis for the language on the homepage.

A directory of apps written with Akshell would be more powerful than a screencast or explanation. If you don't have very many users yet, write the applications yourself.

It might be wise to hire or find someone to narrate the screencast.

Great work!
i don't get it, are you going to print the original articles?
many are coming from wsj, nyt and other magazines, i don't think you can do it
One way or another, the beginning of the universe has to violate conservation laws, doesn't it?
> Just think about it on an airplane. I could load it up with movies and watch for an entire flight, thanks to the iPad's excellent battery life. Of course, because of the lousy keyboard I can't use it in place of a laptop, so I would have to carry the iPad and my MacBook. How is it that, for years, I've pined for a lighter laptop, and now I'm considering carrying an extra pound-and-a-half just to watch videos on an airplane?

Or, don't. The iPad goes with you into the seat. Apple's wireless bluetooth keyboard goes in your carry-on, and stays there until the hotel room desk where you might actually do some typing. The rest of your business trip, the iPad lets you reference things, make minor edits, show Keynote on a VGA projector, and keep up with email and news.

(And for printing at the client's location, you do the same thing with your iPad you do with your "real" laptop: email the client the file for them to print because their IT won't let your laptop see their printer queue.)
a slideshow on smugmug.com, some pictures of their granddaughter

I have a feeling that if the iPad sells well, the "why do it in HTML when we could do it in Flash" style of site will die out. It's no consolation right now, of course, but I wouldn't complain if that ends up happening (and, really? Flash just to show some pictures one after another?).
Most "non-lethal" weapons are short ranged. You can't fire a nonlethal bullet from the air.
Re-plugging when you get home is a lot easier when you have a second power adapter that lives on the desk.
The only thing I'd suggest is getting rid of the XP chrome.
Walmart and suburbia have leveled American living standards. Now any old slob can own a house and fill it with the same sorts of things as their richer compatriots (though it will be made in China rather than Germany). Things didn't used to be this way-- and people complaining about the change are often rich enough to not need Walmart to maintain their lifestyle.