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Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. The marketing department of that studio should collectively fire themselves for gross incompetence, it is every good marketeers wet dream to have a scene from their movies go viral like that.

Millions of people that would have never even heard of the movie must have gotten interested in it simply because of the parodies.

Other companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to get something like this going.
Upvoting isn't enough?
To quote angelbob on an adjacent thread, traffic is not created equal. For example, you can't sell tickets to watch cars drive down main street.
Apple uses the same drives as other manufacturers, so yes it can happen to anyone.

I cannot stress this enough: Backup your data. Even if you have RAID, you can still accidentally delete data. Considering how simple it is to use Time Machine, there's no excuse for not having backups.
And besides you untold others. Simply incredible.
Does that setting keep the FB iframe request w/ my cookie and URL I'm viewing from being sent to FB? That's the real issue in my book.
The desk only kind of addresses the main problem though: being too stationary. That problem can be solved entirely, and for free.
That's surprising, to me at least. Here in Norway, desks like this are fairly ordinary. I've had one for a few years, and I've got no complaints. I'll be honest, though-- I probably only have it in the standing position once every month or two.
How about two desks, monitors, and a wireless keyboard/mouse? Just today I was thinking of setting this up for my office.
I think it very much depends on your customers. It's true that I was thinking of companies with very tech-oriented customers when I was remembering other cases of this. I can't remember exactly who they were though, sorry.

But yes, I should have qualified my earlier response. This is only going to work for certain businesses. If your customers don't care, then I probably wouldn't bother.
That article got me to Googling for lecterns and podiums. Wow, some of those are very, very expensive. And the ones that are more stand-like than furniture don't look like they'd stay upright if a cat jumped on them (as you know a cat will!).

This is the cheapest I found locally -- just $15! -- but it's not local enough for me to get there economically efficiently. If you're in the NY/NJ area, though ...

http://cnj.craigslist.org/fuo/1700842957.html
There won't be any surprises on this front at Apple's announcement, because of Gizmodo.

A slightly tweaked exterior and front facing camera are not remotely surprising. The quadrupled resolution is a much bigger deal; are you as annoyed with Gruber for ruining that?
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Though I'm only a marginal Python hacker and thus consider it unlikely that I could contribute at this point in my development to the code base, I've continued to be interested in things like outreach, particular improving the Python web site.

The current Python website continues to be a terrible first stop for new-to-Python visitors, despite this very issue being discussed at length at recent PyCons. Compared to the excellent Git and Ruby sites, for instance, it's really second rate from a design, navigation and identity perspective.

However I haven't pursued contributing to the site. Here's why:

1. Contribute to the website options on Python.org seem limited to "bug fixes". The "SiteImprovements" page is a mess. The whole site design and identity is a bug, unfortunately.

2. The stagnant design (only a marginal improvement over the previous iteration) implies that there is either a serious design-by-committee problem when it comes to the site or a serious lack of good-design-sense from whomever is actually running it.

I'm not trying to be a grouch about this, but the site needs strong direction in terms of visual identity, navigation, presentation, etc., not just incremental fixes.

I'll put my time/money where my mouth is on this. If there really is a chance to radically improve the site and contribute, I'm there. Point me in the right direction. If there is a roadblocker committee issue that needs to be sorted first.
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Even with instant personalization turned off, your friends can share your info on any service they get suckered into using. Given how many of my Facebook friends bombard me with quizzes and Farmville, I'm guessing that's going to happen a lot. You have to block each application individually.

Moreover, any site can display your profile information. http://cnn.com even seems to combine it with what CNN stories they liked recently, which makes me wonder how much data they can read back. Has anyone taken a look at the Facebook social plugins to determine how much data, if any, you can get out of them?
Some other things I've remembered since posting this.

1. I wrote my solution in lisp, which likely helped quite a bit toward getting me in the door. I imagine my 'not as great' solution had some more leniency being in a hard-to-find-developers language.

2. The problem I solved called for finding the largest rectangle. This was tricky, so I just ignored that and searched for the largest square (yes, I know a square is a rectangle), which helped simplify things greatly. I stated clearly that I was doing this in my solution. I still got an interview so it seems simplifying the problem in this way was acceptable. This lends further proof to my idea that these problems are just an excuse to see some of your code (and prove you like solving problems).

3. After nearly every snippet of code I wrote in the interview, someone asked me: "what's the pathological case for this? What kind of input would cause this to take forever?" It's an interesting question, and clearly something they're quite concerned with (you can't just not respond to a web request for flights if the user happens to enter tricky data). If you're going to interview, it'd be a good idea to get in the habit of asking yourself this question about your code.
Care to post some of those ideas? Could be an interesting topic for conversation. I think a lot people's thinking about smartphone apps and what's possible has started to get a bit... constrained by what's already popular.
That's sort of beside the point. If people start freaking out about this, they aren't going to see that setting and say "Oh, I guess this is OK then". They're going to be angry that they were signed up for it in the first place without realizing what was going on.
Sorry, you're correct; I must have left NoScript on :P
This iPhone incident has been a low point for Apple blogging. I think that when an Apple blog is teaching us why stealing is wrong, or publishing California laws, then I think that Apple blog is doing something other than Apple blogging.
The author states...

Instant personalization means that if you show up to the Internet radio site Pandora for the first time, it will now be able to look directly at your Facebook profile and use public information — name, profile picture, gender and connections, plus anything else you’ve made public — to give you a personalized experience.

Is this true? A simple enable or opt-in prompt in the frame on the first visit to a site would be the expected behavior here.
> some clever applet-writer realized that you could change them and start intercepting all output and do all sorts of nasty stuff.

Can someone explain how this worked? What does he mean by "intercepting all output"?
I find that it is true in general. It seems too hard to learn about svg.
We were told that third parties can't get any information from the social plugins. The data is served directly from Facebook using an iframe.
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I find laptops to have inherently bad ergonomics. If the keyboard is low enough for my arms, the screen is too low, and vice versa.
Somewhat related: I've been archiving the stories (and vote/comment counts over time) via the JSON API for the last few months or so. Post is here if anyone is interested: http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/bttjw/top_1000_ral...
Your closest match might be Hubspot.com. I'm not sure how different your approach is but it seems like you're going after similar target markets.

They seem a little more traditional of course - webinars and white papers abound on their site. Personally when I see webinars/white papers on a site I immediately think of old people in suits.

Your site seems younger and more 'hip' so I'd play that theme up more. It's always good to play to your strengths IMHO.
For me, with Ruby, it's that I only know Ruby. I don't know the underlying C. So I figured that anything I tried to look at would be complete C gibberish.

Though I have looked at Rubinius (Wishing they had a better name :/)
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Ikea makes one (or at least did a few years back). I bought 3 of them along with tall Ikea chairs. Total cost for chair and desk ~$100. Fantastic desk at the right price.
"Facebook also introduced a way for certain sites to push this further than everyone else. Three carefully chosen launch partners — Microsoft’s Docs.com, Yelp and Pandora — have access to what Facebook is calling “instant personalization.” This is a powerful, inventive and creepy tool that the company hopes to extend to other partners but is testing the waters with these three first."

Wait a minute; Yelp? Isn't that the small business extortion site? What a weird outfit for anyone to want to associate themselves with.
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Yes! I found fontspring from an ad on fontsquirrel.
Looks to me like an unfortunate step sideways in usability. Hopefully I'll be proven wrong when I try it myself.
I also find it unfortunate that you decide to debate this around those who are wasteful. ...Would you rather ignore the needy at the benefit of giving the wasteful what they deserve (nothing)?

Well, of course that's because it's easiest to argue against the wasteful :) For those that are truly victims of circumstance, the argument requires quite a bit more finessed debate, and obviously I'm better at the fiery rhetoric.

I think that the best work concerning liberty and social justice is that of Rawls (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rawls ) and the reply by Nozick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick ). Your mileage may vary, I guess, because the topic is still argued, but I think that Nozick has the better argument. From a quick search, this (http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=28773 ) appears a decent essay on the debate.

Rawls wants us to create a fairer world today by taking from the fortunate to help the unlucky. But Nozick shows us that this interferes with the "natural" way that people will distribute money, allocating it to those who give to him the greatest benefit. Interpreting this through Hayek, we can see that diverting wealth away from those who would be delivering the greatest returns will, over time, hobble all of society. Without the work of those who would be creating more wealth, the entirety of society is destined to poverty relative to what could have been.

Framed in this comparison, it looks to me like the disadvantaged aren't worse off in the big picture; it's not that anything is being taken from them, but that they're not benefiting as much from progress as the rest.
That's right, you need to sell beer too.
More proof for the reasons why I refused to ever create an account, then.
Is there any suggestion in the original sources that there is a camera in space involved? It seems to just be plate reading cameras with GPS for time sync and possibly location of the camera combined with knowing the fastest legal driving time between the two cameras.

And I doubt they are issuing the ticket from space. Jurisdiction issues aside, it would probably burn up on re-etry.
Do you play games? I do. Consumer electronics unveilings were one that I enjoyed until a blog decided to stop playing for fun.
I agree with the general push of the article, that we should get back to admiring entrepreneurs rather than VCs, but I have to admit, NYC doesn't do a great job of welcoming entrepreneurship. NYC is an extremely expensive place for a company with little to no revenue, considering wages and rent are so high. I also haven't heard of any tech incubators here either (there might be, so please correct me if I've missed them). A startup could easily grow 3 hours North in Albany with half the early-phase burn rate and have access to both the NYC and Boston VC pools.
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Ah, so CNN is handing its template and some fb query off to the plugin for display, then?
Do we really need physicists? What have they done apart from give us ever increasing ways of destroying ourselves. Has quantum theory brought happiness to the world? Love? Peace? Has it helped you feel more connected to your neighbours, to the person on the bus or tube? Has it had any meaningful positive effect at all on the human condition?

Or is it and its ilk of science degrees merely a relentless march to the day that the whole world disappears in one of two ways, self-annihilation or self-exile in VR?

And even if we survive somehow, what about once the relentless march of science is over, when there are no more secrets to uncover? What next? Is that the end of meaningful life as this author thinks?

Or is there perhaps something more to life than finding the next equation? Perhaps we will put aside the toys of technology and start reflecting on ourselves.

Maybe by doing a liberal arts degree.
I solved the Instant Search problem when I was applying there for an internship. The puzzles aren't required for internships, but I figured it could only help, and I landed the internship. Was a great experience!

For my solution, I tried both tries and hash tables, and I found them to perform at more or less the same level. I later experimented with suffix trees, which I think is probably the best way to go for that problem.
You're right, that it is difficult to visualize from the POV of a less-than-net-savvy local business owner.

However, we are finding that a lot of small business owners know that they need to take advantage of the internet, but they don't know how. They have a website, usually a static website that they paid some student X thousand dollars to build, that they can't update because the kid disappeared. They hear about Twitter and Facebook in the news or Inc magazine, but they don't know how to get started. They have a lot of information that others are interest in, but they're not getting it out there. We help with that, for example we also send their content to local journalists who are always looking for more local happenings.
I can't be the only one disturbed that the standard for graphics online is roughly the same as the standard for graphics on the desktop twenty some years ago.

Oh, sweet, a moving square.
All the ones showing are the ones that show up in a default 9.04. The 9.04 example, for some reason, has hidden a few.
We looked at these for the office (we have Steelcase Leap chairs and love them) but they're $1400 desks. Yikes!
Isn't that a problem with testing apps on almost any platform? How many iPhone devs have every model of iPhone AND an iPad? What about PC software developers? Hell even web devs really only test on what they hope is a representative sample...
Agreed, I personally moved the window controls back, but otherwise 10.04 is a huge step forward.
It's not just easier for that. I just did a push from a Git checkout on a Linux virtual machine where I'd been doing some debugging. I just had to type in my GitHub password and not set up any ssh keys for a one-off push.
I think what would certainly help Python community is to have a prioritized list of specific small tasks that could be done to improve Python, grouped by contributor's skill level, e.g. tasks for complete newby, tasks for C hackers, tasks for folks who are good at writing docs etc., along with some information on how to get started. (I'm not sure if you have it already).

That will require some additional effort from Python core developement group - somebody would need to go through the bug tracker, categorize the tasks etc. - but it will probably mitigate some of the issues mentioned by jesse above ("Don't know how", "Don't know where" etc.)
Except of course the engineer that Gizmodo publicly humiliated, of course.
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I'm hoping to get that data up today, if not then over the weekend.
Proof of concept. You have to start somewhere.
People who say that Flash is accessible aren't visually impaired. I am. I have not once seen a Flash application that works well enough to be useful in any screenreader I've used. I have been following Adobe's accessibility efforts for years.

HTML5 + JS + ARIA works better now than Flash ever has.

It's fine to make Flash games that don't work with screenreaders. But not websites.

And it's not fine to claim that something is accessible just because the vendor says it is.
Agreed. Publishing the story about the device, fine. But it takes a real d-bag to leak the name of the engineer who lost it.
I know I missed the point, that was my point...

That said, I think the "paradigm of creating a business for the purpose of getting on a specific investor's radar" is an idea that largely exists in the minds of tech bloggers like the one who wrote the article.
You see a monitor with something blue on it, it’s not identifiable as a BSOD (if you don’t know). That was my point.
But what I think is the greater good is different to what you think it is. So what if Gizmodo thought they were doing the greater good?
Perhaps that will fan the fire of publicity even more? (Although it will destroy goodwill.)
Applies equally well to sales as well.
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I wonder that myself. It has something to do with a feeling that people aren't understanding Apple in tech circles, and that we have a lot to learn from them as a company. In this case, I think people are underestimating the damage to Apple from this leak. It's not a coincidence that Steve was CEO of Pixar: Apple doesn't just sell gadgets, but the entire narrative - about the company, about Steve, and about their devices. It's inherent in their secrecy, in their packaging, in their stores, in their presentation, and in the unveiling. Preserving this "Willy Wonka" narrative is why they go to such lengths to avoid leaks, not because of some manic control issues.

Also, I hate to find myself disagreeing with the "stream of thought" around here: for example, I think 3.3.1 is good for startups because it's unenforceable (hence, hackers and founders get to ignore it and get a competitive advantage against risk-averse competitors). Another example: I think one can easily paint Android as evil (Google is clearly developing it at a loss to commoditize complementary markets). It's the equivalent of Microsoft funding extensive open hardware design at a loss. As a heuristic, open is good, but reality isn't that simple: had Microsoft done that, IBM and Intel would never had a reason to invest the billions into chip development they did.

I love Google and think they do many great things for the world, but I easily see a different perspective in the case of Android. I can see how what Apple is doing could be about Steve's ego issues, but also about making the best devices possible.
I don't think "FrankenMac's" where people were loading OSX on generic Netbooks had any effect on Apple's hardware sales. I doubt this will either. Its a super clever hack and mighty amusing. But I'd assume that, much like the FrankenMac's, it'll be too awkward and unstable for most people to even consider using long term. (I know I gave up on running a frankenmac under VMWare, and all the people I know who were running frankenmac netbooks have gone back running either Windows or Linux on them. A few of them keep an OSX partition around just to show off that they can do it. :-) )
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I actually completely agree with you, and your final point is what I want to drive towards.
As someone using all 3 OS's day to day (Ubuntu is my primary development OS, I have an iMac next to me, and I switch my laptop to Windows 7 for video games in the evenings), Windows 7 is easily my least favorite OS, it's performance is generally crummy compared to OSX and Ubuntu, and it's UI often aggravating.
I'll admit that I haven't been following this story very closely, but I was under the impression that an employee at Apple accidentally left the phone at a bar, someone found the phone, tried to return it to Apple, but kept getting the run-around while on the phone with them, so eventually he gave up on trying to return it and he ended up selling it to gizmodo instead.

I could be completely mistaken on that though.
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wont it be odd if you go to a website for the first time and u see that the website knows more about u than you know about the website?
We do have an "easy" list in the bugtracker, but it can be annoying to find.
I for one like the clean look of my XMonad.
The specs are public and unencumbered:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/

What would submitting to a standards body give them? If they are to continue moving Flash forward with new versions every 18-20mo they can't wait for a standards body.
The biggest privacy issue here are the social plugins. They're easily embedded in existing sites using an iframe which is hosted by facebook.

As more sites adopt these, Facebook will be able to track every site you visit on the web. I don't know about you, but I'm not comfortable letting Facebook know which sites I visit.

Google adsense/doubleclick is fairly prevalent and has the same issue. You can opt out of it with Google though: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html -- the Facebook settings I have seen aren't clear about their data retention policies and what 'opting out' really means.
I think he's highly professional in his stance, if I were him and I were angry I wouldn't let it show publicly either.

The rest of us don't have anything to lose here, having an investor bail out that far in to a deal is as good as being shot down, there is no way they could have survived it. Also, your sample size is just one individual out of all the founders that got axed, so not 'people', but person.

How the rest of them feel is any body's guess.

We, collectively can put a fair amount of pressure on boot-out labs, more than Jamie could at this point in time, he hasn't got the money to sue them (I'm fairly sure he'd have a case), but even if he had the money to sue them it won't look good on your future resume if you go and sue a former investor.

The right way to handle this would have been to reverse the deal and to compensate all those wronged by it, there are plenty of ways that could have been done.
One thing I liked about this article is that it's not about "working on technology X" or "making a lot of money" or "having a great title", but about challenge, learning, and passion.

I finally realized last year that my dream job is having a bunch of kids and helping them grow into adults. In a way, it's not so different from Gary's dream job.
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The shelf and wall mounted display work for me, I can't go back. Originally I set this up to counter the constant hunched posture I get at work. For anyone who tries this:

- You will need to adjust the height of your keyboard at least once.

- Get a foot rest, I plan to build one into the wall.

- Opposite that wall is a couch. With some nice speakers you can have a decent home theater going. My 24" Westinghouse has a great one touch brightness adjustment. It might seem small, but native 1920x1200 resolution makes even blueray movies look good.
This has certainly gotten more attention and buzz than the real launch of the 3GS, and it seems like the phones have less of a difference. Who's the victim?
What if the programmer clearly explains the amount of work involved to your requirements into a working product?
I've noticed a coworker of mine with a similar setup, but with more of a tall chair than a stool.