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I think this is a tricky situation. Lets say for the sake of argument that they honestly handled the situation _unbelievably_ wrong as opposed to being deliberately shady. They realized, right before the blog post, they needed to communicate better with everyone.

How differently should they have handled it other than what they wrote in the blog post?

I should acknowledge that my knowledge about the situation is only as deep as this blog post and the post they replied to. No knowledge about their past reputation.
I partly agree, Google's operations just aren't of high enough quality in terms of uptime for the QPX market. It's one thing to be shut out of Gmail for a half hour, quite another to not be able to book tickets for any long period of time.

This acquisition only makes sense if the QPX operations parts of ITA stay separate from Google; in general, Google would have to avoid "Googlizing" operations and probably the working code base as well.

QRES, though, isn't as far as we know isn't in good shape WRT to its potential market due to the Great Recession and now the Iceland volcano and its one customer (Air Canada) suspended its formal involvement in it (now's just not a good time to make a switch). I wouldn't be surprised if that got spun off or more likely canceled. I'm assuming ITA's leaders are shopping around the company or at least entertaining offers due to it's poor prospects for the foreseeable future, it's a very good idea with very bad timing.
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These guys seems to be the more used http://www.psd2html.com/
Q4 2010 starts in October, it could very well be they have a few of them now but volume production is still months away.

Fabricating hardware is not a very fast process, typically a volume shipment lags prototyping by a significant amount of time.

Looking at these if I were Apple I would not be too worried, but RIM has a bit of a problem.
Not much on "why", just that it exists. The "why" is essentially a re-statement of the situation: illusory superiority and illusory inferiority.

A common "why" theory that I personally subscribe to: the less competent don't know enough to know what they don't know.
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I think this is an excellent point. Bump is (IMO) an example of too much dependence on the "magic cloud" and an odd combination of over and under engineering. Data shouldn't have to travel to a datacenter and back to move 3 inches from one phone to another, although I can see how it's easier to leverage a cloud server for some of the functions instead of making a 100% stand-alone app.
Being associated with Bootup labs as a venture they've invested in may actually be a negative for a while.

A second round investor may think twice before entering into a partnership where bootup labs is already present.
I'd rather have the option of still getting paid while I look for another job. :)
Windows doesn’t crash anymore. No more than OS X anyway. I do think, however, that the use of this icon is ok. It’s a cheap potshot at Windows but it’s only visible if you use Quicklook or Coverflow, no big deal. And, contrary to the author, I don’t believe that you should only mock if you are flawless.

(This is [2007], by the way. The BSOD icon is still there, though. It wasn’t removed with 10.6 update.)
Just checked my mac. You are right, the drop down doesn't work on Mac. But I guess you are trying to hide them so it works out perfectly. :)
NASA releases new pictures of the Sun
No company worth their weight should be using off the shelf shared hosting.
I agree with the concept, but at some point it became trivia, which kills the point.
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But Wikileaks isn't in the business of just posting any classified document. They're whistleblowing.
Be very careful with anything that was written by bureaucrats inside the Beltway instead of the results of the research at Oak Ridge (this book). Much of what came from there will get you killed, as detailed in NWSS, e.g. through inadequate ventilation resulting in too great a heat buildup.

But your general point is well taken; get hardcopy today, and it's a very good idea to get the official NWSS book since the scaling from a copier or electronic printer will throw off the calibration of the Kerney Fallout Meter (a electroscope radiation meter that you make out of aluminum foil (for the electroscope leaves) and a can (plus desiccant and a few other odds and ends)).
The legality of the initial invasion is an open question, without any clearly-defined and universally-accepted answer.

You might want to read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/iraq-invasion-vi...

One last time: while the UN Security Council resolutions from UNSCR 1483 on, that you list, do not ipso facto make the occupation legal. There is not specific language declaring it to be legal, and absent that language, you cannot imply it to exist.

(By the way, as I understand it, squatters rights only are possible when you don't break the law to enter.)

I also think that Iraq is better off now, but that's an obtuse point. From the mid-1980s to September 2003, the inflation adjusted price of a barrel of crude oil on NYMEX was generally under $25/barrel. Now oil hovers over $80 and will certainly only go up. Iraq is floating on the last ocean -- the last untapped large reserves. And how many people died for the US to take control of that? Iraq's infrastructure is better now, but does that even make sense to point out?

This is my last post. It was interesting talking to you, Maktab, and I wish you all the best.
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Buying ARM and shuttering up the business would be spending money to deny competitors a component (more exactly, future versions - the current ones are a done deal).

Might not even work very well. ARM has design expertise and probably patents on specific ways to implement things (e.g. register twiddling, buses, that sort of stuff).

Anyone can go design a processor that implements an instruction set (the I.S.Architecture), if they have deep enough pockets to avoid being stomped to death by patent infringement lawsuits (fair or unfair).

And the ARM ISA is not the only game in town, just the one most used.
Never mind the FAQ, the "Download Now!" link is a 404.

I'm kind of surprised that in 2010 stock Wordpress would not have this kind of cache-friendliness built in.
There's a whole world of difference between leaking pics and specs of a new gadget, and videos of your government killing people in (arguably?) dubious circumstances...

In Australia there's a specific Code of Ethics that journalists are supposed to work by. http://www.alliance.org.au/media_alliance_code_of_ethics/ - other countries may have similar things, but it basically sets out the role of good journalism.

You can easily argue the public interest was served by releasing the wikileaks video. The iPhone reveal is just tech industry gossip.
> I haven't had a virus in 14 years.

That you know of.

I can say the same thing, but I always put in that little caveat at the end. Same for being hacked. I've looked for evidence, and never found any reason to believe otherwise.

I've done too many cleanups for people, for whom I have the upmost respect, who said similar things for me lose my humility on that score.
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They produce more false negatives than false positives. If you aren't in a hurry to grow, thats a good thing. Even "cheating" (memorizing the techniques) to the point of being able to solve a problem on site (which is part of the interview) is not trivial.
Funny thing is that I know 4-5 other couples/families where the facebookiness is outsourced. It's just a huge timesink compared to other internet things.
More proof of the reasons for which I deleted my account.

Facebook seems like it's out to kill any and all privacy on the internet. And I certainly label that a Bad Thing™.
"There is just not very much substantial peer reviewed research supporting a climate model with zero radiative forcing for CO2"

I wonder why that is true? (See the start of this thread if you really wonder why, although I'll add that you just don't get funding if you disagree with the "consensus" (that based off a friend's interview of MIT professor Lindzen at the end of the '80s).)

I agree and have noted elsewhere in this thread that the observations of the last 10 years are not definitive. However, they don't match the confident predictions of the "consensus" and the leaked emails show them quite concerned about that.

Which suggests keeping an open mind about all this instead of declaring the science is settled and using the "consensus" to bludgeon people who disagree, keep them out of the peer reviewed literature, call them "deniers" and call for a new Nuremberg, etc. etc.
Half Life is the equivalent to The Seven Samurai.

I have Half Life. Yes, I have The Seven Samurai, in its black and white goodness. They both helped define in their respective areas the future. Half Life was that game for me. I still remember the feeling of finally seeing the soldiers, and then coming to a firm realization in horror that they were trying to kill me as well. The entire pulled me in at the time.

Art is, at it's core, something someone creates to experience. A painting is art because you experience it with your eyes. A song is art because you experience it with your ears. Both were creations intended to be experienced.

Architecture is art, not just because you can see it, but because you can actually feel it, move through it, use it. Beautiful architecture can be functional, and usually is. It solves a problem while being beautiful.

So, why does a game not become art? Winning, as described by Ebert? Architecture's goal isn't being art, it's to be a structure. The purpose of the art doesn't dictate whether it's art. The Mona Lisa isn't less art because it was commissioned. The goal of the Mona Lisa was in celebration of a birth, but does this diminish it's artistic value? The 'players' here used the painting for another purpose.

So, it can't be the goal. Winning isn't why I played Half Life. The story was why I played, the emotions it pulled on.

You make the argument that great films are driven by a single vision. But The Seven Samurai was not driven by a single person. So, if a game is designed by a single vision, can it become art?

The argument against games as an art is not new. Movies weren't art. Pictures weren't art. So many things weren't art before their time, and had to become art, evolve to art.

No. Discounting games as art diminishes all other forms of art.
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Also in the Celtic vein: uilleann pipes. Anything played in the key of D with drones sounds fantastic, since it is tuned using just temperament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW0foorxhDk
The content is a bit redundant, i'd like a follow-up that explains why (with insight of how that data is managed), but maybe are a bit too much details to disclose publicly :)
So we have seen the countless denial articles, then the anger articles when Apple introduced the developer agreement change, we have seen a bit of bargaining with Adobe kinda threatening a lawsuit and developers swearing to switch to Android if they don't remove the rule, there were no articles in the depression phase (too depressed to put into words). And this gentlemen is the first in the acceptance phase.
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There are no map-reduce implementations that work in real-time? I thought Google search worked like that. I do want it to work dynamically.
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You are right, I should not have put the "why" there (and can't change it anymore). If someone with editing abilities sees this, could you please change the title to "The Dunning–Kruger effect", or what you think is more appropriate. Thanks.
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I sometimes do this sort of thing. Send me an email if you're interested.
I did not see anywhere that it was stolen, any pointers?
How is this impressive? Which part of this hardware/software or form factor is impressive? Can anyone please point it out to me, after reading Engadget user comments going gaga over this device and I am really confused. I can't help but think that these bloggers are paid to rave about this device.

Note: I am not a mac fanboy in any stretch of imagination or don't own an iPad.
As long as Bootup Labs is a silent investor (and AFAIK they don't take board seats), why would future investors care?
nothing more than a "Thanks for trying, sorry about this."

Actually, they got a request that they be grateful that they received some minor expenses, and some whinging that BUL paid some money but didn't receive a finished product.

"Sorry about this" would've been nigh infinitely better, as it would've shown some understanding of the value proposition as viewed by the entrepreneur.
I can't believe I even tried to read this.

"C language inventor too busy to take test, can't check in code and doesn't need to"
Non-scientists can take a legitimate stand on the methods, e.g. the statisticians from Canada who destroyed the hockey stick. We'd see even more of that if the data, code and methods were public (pity the original raw collected data was lost (much of it might be recoverable if someone were to go back to the original national weather service sources)).

I think you're also misrepresenting the nature of the debate; it would be a lot more like everyone arguing about managed (GCed) code vs. unmanaged (C/C++/Objective C etc. with manual memory management). The other side, and plenty of them are scientists and even specialists in this area, are not arguing the equivalent of "machine code is best", an idea that died very shortly after the advent of symbolic assemblers.
"If we're going to argue at all, our position should be that play is potentially as important as art, if not more so."

I think that's an interesting point to make. What does art bring that play doesn't do so more?

Play has, for centuries, been the way of passing down history via stories and songs. It's been part of culture so much more than mere pictures, which can be destroyed.

While you won't be popular because of your stance against games being art, hopefully people won't stop before the end of your comment and will ponder this point.
... as all the languages that come from an age where verbosity was not a problem. Glad to see that new languages/frameworks try to address this.
I think that is great, and they are very fortunate. Unfortunately it doesn't match my experience with such seniors.

The ones I have contact with are totally intimidated by computers and can't seem to get past the complexity of using such simple things as the mouse and figuring out how the Windows work.

The ones which are more adventurous do use computers, but they loose their Windows and end up opening the same thing several times because the previous window was covered up by another, that kind of thing. This is where I believe the iPad makes such big difference to these people.
ARM is a British company. The EU Competition Commissioner wouldn't allow this sale to go through because it would threaten European interests (i.e. those of Ericsson, Nokia, etc).
I do not perceive a double standard here.

Gruber: I’m not offended by their decision to obtain this unit and publish everything they were able to ascertain regarding it. [...] Second, publishing the name, photographs, and personal information of the Apple engineer who lost the phone is irrelevant to the story. It was the dick move to end all dick moves.

It seems to me that he made it pretty clear that he does not take offense with reporting about the prototype per se. Rather, he condemns the way that Gizmodo chose to handle the whole affair.
This happens often in music, where subjectivity comes into play. What's not immediately obvious: programmers use subjective measures of quality all the time. We have to do so to get our work done in a timely fashion.

Those who want to be truly great should be humble. They should also check themselves as much as possible with objective measures and feedback from trusted and respected fellow practitioners.

Come to think of it, I suspect this phenomenon affects the implementation of programming languages. A lot of second tier CS talents implement languages because they have enough ego to get through the ordeal.
Source? As a muslim, I have never heard about this.

Tradition holds that he was exceedingly overbearing with his persecutors, the most notable example being forgiving the persons who killed his pregnant daughter while fleeing Mecca, after they came into his hands as captives.

(Note that it doesn't matter if you believe the historical record, only that this is the ideal that Muslims hold themselves to.)
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You could have written that "in my circles" part from the beginning. :-)
I have hard lockups on OSX occasionally (1-2 a year) and it’s always down to badly written device drivers. Guess the same is true on Windows as well?
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True. So what we'll need to do is to run the iPhone OS virtualized under Linux. Or perhaps using an ARM emulator. :)
I think that this price point is too high. Compare with the minimal Netflix subscription at the same cost that gets instant view movies and 1 blu-ray at a time.

That said, two $10/month subscriptions (Hulu and Netflix) might replace cable/dish sometime in the future - if Hulu has a wide enough selection of shows.
Agreed on the windows, although these days you only really need one window - the browser.
(AFAIK Gruber isn't a lawyer, so it's just an uneducated opinion)

That's a bit harsh; there's a large difference between an "uneducated opinion" and a "carefully researched assessment by a non-lawyer". Based on your criteria, no journalist could ever write about any topic but journalism.
I'm not sure I understand your last point: Usually when you ask for research money, you don't know what the outcome of the study you want to do is.

Besides that, I'm not even convinced that you are right: I would think that a whole bunch of people would be interested in concluding that AGW is not a problem, given the political climate in the US especially. If you could convince everyone that the scientists got it completely wrong, I'm pretty sure even most of them would be relieved. It's just that you can't do that by attacking one argument here and one methodology there. You need to present a comprehensive and consistent framework that shows that AGW is not happening, and if someone did that I'm pretty sure it would be taken seriously. But noone does.

Instead of grasping at straws, why don't you just accept the maximum likelihood solution: most of the papers are correct and global warming is a problem.
I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me

Whenever I have more than 100 browser tabs open, I get crashes at a rate of about one a week. Somehow, YouTube is always the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I love it. Keeps my desktop clean :-)
I wonder how many patents protect the ARM ISA.

Because it's not the ARM implementation we depend on - it's compatibility with its instruction set.
In the UK, all public companies (except those threatened by animal right extremists) must maintain a public register of all shareholders.
That's disappointing, I had expected them to analyze the vibrations of the bump on the two devices. Maybe that would be too much black magic after all.
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But there are two things: (1) relevance and (2) I'm guessing the consensus among Americans is that we wouldn't want merely a majority-rule democracy, but a democracy that also respects the rights of minorities.

Using the reasoning of popularity, we could put "Land of the Whites" on our money.
Since Apple remotely disabled it and Gizmodo didn't have a license agreement with them couldn't Gizmodo sue Apple for vandalism and destruction of their property?
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Apple basically breaks even on the iPhone app store, too.
So is a degree in journalism, and yet here we are.
Posting the private text pages of New Yorkers on 9/11 wasn't whistle blowing. They were clearly stolen too.
Impressive in that they look really good and have good hardware specs.

Impressive the same way that super expensive sport cars may be impressive to people. At the end they are cars, but cars that drive 300+ km/h. ;)
Business Insider[1] has some decent points arguing against this, but I disagree with their suggestion that Intel might buy ARM.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/no-apple-will-not-buy-arm-int...
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pleasant to watch but I think it misses the mark by not showing footage of the actual extensions referred to doing what they do. It might go over the heads of their target audience.
That's brilliant! Perhaps this is an idea that will catch on like the atheist bus campaign.
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What do you mean by false negative?
I think dropbox is an app that is instantly understandable and takes quite a bit of work to get functioning seamlessly.

The big thing isn't the literal "rocket science" part, just the "easy" part where you don't realize that the problem might have been difficult at all.
The one feature that I wish would be added to both Java and Python versions of the SDK is a very easy way to migrate app data stores between AppEngine and a local development environment. For Java, I find myself writing bits of custom code to load data from a JAR file to load up my hosted data store - I do this one time, then delete the code and JAR, and re-upload the app. A nuisance.
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What do you mean by anagram solver? Find anagrams for a given word? Isn't that trivial by indexing words by the sorted version of the word? E.g. {"aep" -> ["ape", "pea"], ...}
I know what an important tool computers can be to the older folk in my life; so, yes, if the iPad allows more seniors to benefit from computers then that's fantastic.
That's not true, he was offended well before they outed the engineer. He actually never even mentioned the outing in the OP.

Gruber retweeted this at 1:41 AM on the 19th, 18 hours before the outing: "Here's an interesting fact: in California, the finder of a lost item is required to tell the police and turn it over to rightful owner."

He called it stolen on his first post about it, just after Gizmodo posted:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/19/gizmodo-rumors

So quite literally since he found out Gizmodo had the device he has been offended by it.
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Shhhhhhhhh! Do you want to get them killed?
Actually, it can be seen in smaller version on the side of Finder under shared. I find it funny that i have two computer connected, one using NFS which shows up a cool LCD and another one using SMB showing up with the BSOD icon and both running Linux ;p
Yeah flash usually is the culprit for me too. It leaks ram
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Where is Facebook going? And why should we want to follow?
I ended up teaching lots of journalism majors Comp Sci 101/102 when I was in grad school. They took my course in droves because they thought it was the easiest way to get through the math requirement, which tells me that a lot of those students hadn't yet acquired a fact-checking habit!

Given what I saw, I should not be surprised that there is a lot of bad science journalism out there.
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