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I like the ad model. Only relevant tweets will make it in this environment, which ensures we won't be seeing too much spam I would think.
I wonder if a Google Adwords kind of text link in the sidebar would work for on the search page, I bet it would. Why wouldn't they use that?
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While enjoying sangria on the patio of our local watering hole a couple of days ago, I overhead a conversation about an iPad. I gathered that the lady who was talking was a teacher (so not a 'technical' person)... her big gripe? "I want a USB slot cause I have everything on my usb key"

Maybe the iPad isn't really a Ferrari? Maybe it's a Volvo. Understated, practical, and safe.
Yeah, a large part of an investment banker's job is playing this game so that his or her client's don't have to. Of course they charge a fee for that.

Even Richard Branson puts on a suit from time to time tho'.
Yep, I just use the free Twitterrific client on the iPhone and it actually serves high quality, unobtrusive, and occasionally helpful ads via The Deck. I've never been bothered by them enough to consider jumping ship.

Advertising isn't inherently undesirable, but even if it were, its annoyance would still have to exceed the cost of migration for users to make a switch.
Hipsters won't fill out the census because everyone else does and it's not underground.
Now if someone could create a Non-Deterministic Turing Machine; that would be much cooler.
Great answer. I also like the one "Don't like the government? Move to another country".
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I wrote up my initial impressions here:

http://thedailyt.com/2010/04/opera-mini-for-the-iphone-initi...

I have to agree with most posters here. It's a nice start and I think it's a very good thing there's now a competing browser engine in the App Store. It has quite a few non-native feeling elements to it, so if they iron out the kinks and give it a bit more of an iPhone feel it'll be a good contender.

The usual Opera instant back function (no reloading of pages on clicking the back button) is killer!
God is silent on all issues.

It's men talking, pretending to be speaking in the name of god, and using the gullible masses to prey upon them and create power structures.

That's a bit of a difference.

I think the bigger problem here is that science is simply hard work and that even for a lay person to understand all but the most basic science requires some serious dedication.

Much easier to believe someone that claims to have all the answers in an easy to digest form with a catch all clause at the end. ("God did it").

When science was 'new' (as in, when it started to replace the various gods of old) it wasn't seen as much of a threat, and when it did the occasional scientist found himself put on 'trial' and silenced or murdered.

Now the whole of science is on trial, with the ignorant masses used as an endless supply of funds to further the goals of a few scared old men. It's a sad state of affairs.

In a time when information is available to all those that want it, it is disappointing to see that so many prefer to live in a life of illusion. We have real problems and all the time and effort that goes in to reducing reproductive rights, the affairs of consenting adults and to put the lie to our origins is taking valuable time and energy away from more pressing issues.

Modern medicine would not be possible without a rigorous application of the scientific method. DNA evidence is used in courts of law. Speciation has been observed under laboratory conditions. And yet there are those that would deny others the knowledge of these truths to further their own goals and to extend their power.
I'm currently giving this book a first reading. From a Cognitive standpoint, I can understand how the author wants people to start putting themselves in other's shoes. It's a great piece of advice all-around, but when used insincerely, it can be very manipulative.
That question was asked in September 2008. One would hope some things could change by then.

Supporting c89 is supporting some of c99. As pointed out from some of the things you linked to, not fully supporting c99 means there are places where bugs are silently introduced (see snprintf) and, more importantly, my code that compiles under various c99 compilers doesn't compile under the stuff Microsoft ships.
Neofonie is not the maker of this tablet. They're only making the flash-app to read magazines with it. The designer of the hardware is 4tiitoo.

Don't hold your breath it will be available at the earliest in August :-)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Also what happens to this "universe" when the black hole dissipates due to Hawkins Radiation?
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Remember that most kids don't have iPhones, Droids, or Pres. It's most EnVs or Raves still. Basically texting phones, because you can get plans that are $30/month cheaper than the Droid or iPhone.

Now $30/month to you and me seems like noise on a tip for a night out, but for a lot of people this is a big deal. These people aren't deciding between a Kin and a Droid. But rather between a Kin and a Samsung Rogue.

Now if MS can own the 3G Multimedia market in the same way iPhone picked up the smartphone market on ATT then things get really interesting.
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"According to comScore, Twitter.com had 22.3 million unique visitors in March, up from 524,000 a year ago"

The 524,000 figure looks fishy. Compete.com puts Twitter's April 2009 unique visitors at 19 million (versus 21 million for April 2010).
Curious as to why they have to be rich if the primary goal is no-strings-attached sex? If the assumed hope is that one could mooch off this rich, young, beautiful women a little before engaging in the no-strings-attached sex and taking one's leave, I'd say that would bring supply down to about zero.
Queue the apps that remove tweets in your stream not from your followers. Ad-blocking for twitter.
I thought it was weird that Stephen Hawking wasn't mentioned at all in an article about black holes. But to be fair, I don't think we have any evidence of Hawking Radiation either.
Maybe not reddit as whole, but surely the people reading the programming subreddit are a bit more web savvy than the average person?
You are quite correct "Hawking Radiation" (entropy) completely blows this (rather fun) theory to pieces. Nice idea but does not stand up to inspection.
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Does...this article have e thesis? Or is this just sort of an overview of stuff...
I rather think that there is such evidence (<edit>mostly indirect though</edit>). Plus - if folks start creating mini-black holes under experimental conditions then we are all in trouble if entropy does not kick in and cause them to evaporate in pretty short order.
Yeah, it seems funny, doesn't it? As a display technology E-ink is innovative, no doubt. But from the content perspective the E-ink paradigm has always been traditional. That is, E-ink is an innovation in the context of the display (in sunlight, on paper, everywhere), not the content.
Ha! When I tweeted the following a few days ago I had no idea this announcement was coming.

http://twitter.com/random_walker/status/11917456790

"within a few years there will be a real-time stream that aggregates essentially all activity anywhere on the web"

While Twitter, Wordpress, etc. have firehoses, this announcement is different -- aggregation across multiple services. I think the concept is very powerful and is something I've been looking into over the past few weeks.

I'm curious how many people know about Spinn3r (spinn3r.com) -- they claim to provide a real-time hose of all updates in the blogosphere. They quoted me $6k/mo. Unfortunately, Spinn3r's main product was deadpooled last year, so I'm not sure what their future is as a company. I think they should have made the real-time stream their main product. In a way they were too early.

Another startup called Superfeedr takes a different approach. They charge on a per-feed (or per-entry) basis, so their up-front costs aren't as huge. They currently cater to customers who might only want a few hundred or a few thousand specific feeds, but as they scale up they should be able to offer a bulk stream of essentially the entire blogosphere.

Then there's Google Buzz, which is also about aggregating different services. They don't currently offer a firehose but apparently you can build one yourself using PubSubHubbub, although developers report that it isn't working so great: http://groups.google.com/group/google-buzz-api/browse_thread...

But the long-term trend is clear. We're going to have an "uberhose" at some point! I have a few applications in mind of things that such a pipe would enable that are fundamentally not possible today, but I'm curious what ideas other people have.
It's not quite what they've announced, but I think there's potential in the idea that advertisers would pay to promote positive things people are already saying.

There's serious trust/disclosure issues to work out -- burying bad reviews and promoting good ones for payola is what makes Yelp seem a bit slimy. But if advertisers can pay to multiply any little positive thing said by someone real near you, who you already know isn't a professional shill, it could have legitimate influencing power.

Facebook's fan pages are also in an excellent position to try such models, with the same trust/disclosure issues.
They switched to dogfooding their own product in 2008, and you'll note that accounts created after that are not affected.
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Well I admit I'm mostly a "Wikipedia physicist", and the lengthy article there says that the effect has not been observed. If you find such a citation, might I suggest that you add a link?
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First impressions:

1. It renders pages in exactly the same way it does on my Blackberry.

2. The UI is just as awkward.

Amazing.
"Mr. STARK: I guess it's laziness and like, what's the point? When it comes down to it, nobody wants to fill out like another form that's just like getting sent to your house that really relatively has nothing to do with your life."

I mean, like, it provides essential statistics for the configuration of congressional districts, and umm like it's mandated by the constitution and stuff and junk, but like... what's the point?
The idea of the big bang being caused by some sort of 'white hole', is kind of cool. Here you have an object absorbing all matter, becoming infinitely dense, and at some point, it becomes so dense with matter that it actually tears a hole right through the fabric of the universe, where it then diffuses into a new reality where matter is low/non-existant. You'd have to agree that if this is possible, the 'explosion' that would occurr as the black hole diffused through the tear would be terrific. Would it be equivelent to a 'big bang'? I don't know.

Perhaps the life (or death) of a black hole varies, dependent on the available matter for the black hole to consume. A black hole that never reaches that critical amount of mass required to tear through into a new dimension (or whatever the terminology for describing the event is) is doomed to dissipate via Hawkins Radiation, however a black hole that consumes enough matter to tear such a hole, ends up disappearing anyway, as it diffuses into the newly created universe?

I have no idea, nor am I qualified in any way to have an opinion. I did read 'A Brief History of Time' once though!
Arnold may not have been in space (yet), but he was one of the very few to come back through time.
Tap Tap Revenge was featured in many ads from Apple and – get this – they used it to demonstrate Multitasking last thursday (at the iPhone OS 4 sneak peak event).
Wow. Coming from the Mac, I have never realized you had to pay, and possibly pay so very much, for dev tools on Windows. What kind of things does VS do that are exciting? I see they have a feature list a million miles long, but I can't get a sense of what VS does that eclipse or Xcode does not. Color me surprised.
Is that sarcasm?

To the best of my knowledge, they don't even have any significant revenue (besides bigger and bigger VC rounds ;-)) - let alone having hit profitability.
Actually, it kindof tarnishes my image of Apple.
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They got about $25m from Google and Microsoft in return for real-time data feeds, which is by itself enough to make them profitable: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2009/tc200...
you never shake your phone accidentally?
I don't think it's entirely image based - how can I search for text inside a page if it's sent as an image?
If this is true, is the LHC creating universes?
Good thing Android sales are on track to surpass the iPhone.

http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005344/android-unit-sa...

+1 for openness.
They were profitable in 2009 because of the search engine deals. But these were one-offs so they can't be the whole story.
Friend of mine:

"Opera Mini's flagrant disregard for UI conventions would get any other app rejected."

Pretty much sums up my thoughts. It's bad on so many levels and somehow received special treatment.
Supports .NET projects ;)

Seriously though, VS and Eclipse compare quite similarly on features. There are also free Express editions of most MS tools which cover perhaps 80% of the features so the price isn't really an issue.
So your question is basically "Why are we still using C in 2010?".

C is just a mapping to a generic assembly language. The machine will be adding pointers and integers anyway so this is inevitably reflected in C in one way or another. There are different notations to adding pointers and integers, such as &pointer[index] or casting and adding, but in C you still have to think in terms of pointers and integers.

Why C? The main reason is that it has lots of pragmatic bias for its use. It's simple (unlike C++), it's closeness to assembly makes it a nice candidate for writing low-level layers, and it's supported nearly everywhere (unlike C++). This is hugely important in getting things done even if there were a number of smarter but less pragmatic ways.
It's not about the number of apps lost, but about the message that "Apple is not good to the people who make my app and they're leaving" getting out. It takes a few high-profile bad reports like this for a negative impression to form and that's hard to reverse.
He uses this idiotic and clumsy like-speak. Like, what do you expect? :)
Hm, nope. I'm explicitly saying work with Apple stuff out of conviction, rather than a sense of duty.

And I'm saying that Apple has a point in supporting the faithful, as in the people who are convinced this platform is the one they want to work with, because that group of programmers will probably stick around even when some new other thing comes around.
Meanwhile, they don't allow the gardeners to weed the garden because the gardeners are not dressed in their sunday best.
How much will this cost?

It's a very cool service that only a company the size of Yahoo! (and Google, Bing, etc) can provide due to the infrastructure needed for crawling and serving. It would be interesting if this was the first of many Yahoo! moves in which they shift from a pure search + portal to data providers. Their APIs already do that, but this is much bigger.
If we are on this, isn't it then better to have your files in Dropbox and edit them with some native application like OpenOffice or Microsoft Office?
Ummm, I'm working on a site that still generates 20% of its multi-million revenue from IE6 alone. In the same vein, lots of developers will be developing for iP* for years to come: we have to be where the customer is, and unfortunately that customer has locked himself into the platform with his AppStore purchases.
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I think the world needs china , and nobody likes doing business with peoples you can't trust. The idea of closing a deal with a chinese company and feeling like, you may have your intellectual property stolen is not really exciting.
The connection is only encrypted between the web site and Opera's servers, and Opera's servers and your phone. Opera's servers see all the data in its unencrypted form. From their FAQ[1]:

Is there any end-to-end security between my handset and — for example — paypal.com or my bank?

No. If you need full end-to-end encryption, you should use a full Web browser such as Opera Mobile.

Opera Mini uses a transcoder server to translate HTML/CSS/JavaScript into a more compact format. It will also shrink any images to fit the screen of your handset. This translation step makes Opera Mini fast, small, and also very cheap to use. To be able to do this translation, the Opera Mini server needs to have access to the unencrypted version of the Web page. Therefore no end-to-end encryption between the client and the remote Web server is possible.

[1]http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#security
It is worth noting that the estimated mass of the universe is the same as the mass of a black hole whose event horizon has the radius of the visible universe.

This coincidence is rather striking and has been the subject of much speculation, though nobody has been able to make anything useful come out of it. If this theory manages to predict this relation within the created universe, that would be evidence for the theory.
And if so, what are the ontological implications of it creating universes with a strong anthropomorphic bias?
I liked the comment: "Apple is like Venezuela"
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I think building that stack that figures out who is saying positive things on twitter about brands is probably valuable in itself. You can resell the results to whomever.
Maybe an irc netsplit ?
The comments of the article say the term "Private APIs" isn't defined in the document. So, even if Apple actually meant "undocumented system libraries", that's not what its document strictly means. And until a judge says otherwise, we may want to stick with that strict (though silly) interpretation.

Anyway, this document changes nothing: Apple was able to arbitrarily ban any app from the very begining. They just want to appear legit.
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Compete's stats are WAY off. At least for my sites. I suspect they are for others too.
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Well if someone decided putting all there eggs in the easy to implement Twitter feature basket they are asking for trouble. I wouldn't assume there was any feature that just worked around the Twitter API only that Twitter might not implement themselves at some point.
Last summer, I was curious about how Mechanical Turk worked, and signed up for some HITs. I had to classify the sentiment of tweets -- mostly about airlines/airports/travel-in-progress. I suspect I was helping train an automatic classifier. So work on such stacks is certainly underway...
Is the black whole compressing space? So basically it makes things so small to us it's practically another universe? Then considering things can become infinitely large we are just part of another bigger universe.

Anyways I always thought that parallel universes could not interact with each other (since, if I understand correctly, the parallel universes in the many worlds theory cannot interact with each other) so describing the black holes as containing another universe seems misleading.
Theora is not as good as h264... but neither is VP8 (granted, VP8 is closer to h264, but it's still inferior).

I didn't know that Adobe had an option on VP7, but I'd be impressed if Adobe added VP8 support to Flash - I mean, the whole point of this exercise is to undermine Flash, and I'd be surprised if Adobe joined in except in the face of overwhelming customer demand.

Yes - if Google officially supports VP8 in Chrome, Android and YouTube, that'll be a very strong argument (far stronger than Theora has had) for other content providers and user-agents to support it... but Apple/Nokia/MS and YouTube already support h264, so adding support for another, less efficient codec seems silly.

Theora's "patent-free" status comes entirely from On2 saying "we give everybody the right to use all our IP involved in VP3". Presumably On2 had the same due-diligence issues when it was licensing VP3 to others; I don't see how On2 could give VP8 a stronger "patent-free" declaration than Theora already has, unless (as other people have suggested) Google has bankrolled an exhaustive search for applicable patents.

I don't really mind whether VP8 or Theora winds up being the dominant format on the web, I'm just skeptical that VP8 is all that different when it comes to the pain-points that have prevented people from adopting Theora.
Not really. Google might have paid for a copy of Flash or Flex to build the player, but other than that they don't pay any licensing fees to Adobe since they don't use Flash media server.
Why is everybody talking about recoding? Can't they just keep the current videos as they are and encode new things in a different codec? As far as I know all the old H263 videos on Youtube have never been recoded. And why would they? Recoding H263 to H264 would just degrade quality.
The problem is that `buf+len` is still a `char*`. So it could still trigger undefined behaviour before it is converted to `uintPtr_t`. The real solution is to have `buf` declared as a `unitPtr_t` in the first place. Ugly, but standard.
Great idea! It looks like I'll be spending a couple hours tomorrow getting the Poignant Guide up and running on my iPad :)
First off, why would Yahoo!'s firehose have "YouTube favoriting" in it?

If they continue to aggregate 3rd party data and put it all in an easily accessible firehose, I could see this being really useful.

I haven't used them a lot, but Yahoo!'s developer stuff seems pretty handy. Would be nice to see them reinvent themselves or really push this division much like Amazon AWS has.
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