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Then you might miss out on a lot of talented people, because being away for a month at a time is a strange requirement for a programmer. Most people have families, friends, significant others, pets, or WoW guilds they simply don't want to be away from for a month at a time. The emotional toll of homesickness could very easily end up costing you.

Not to mention, if your employees are in committed relationships you're also subjecting them to a month without sex. I don't know if it's worth $2800/month to have two months a year where your employees are homesick and sexually frustrated.
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In C#, everything is assumed to be UTF-8 unless you explicitly change the encoding (the language-independent runtime is a bit more complicated). The only exception is where it is likely that some input in not UTF-8 (such as a byte array), in that case, you have to explicitly define the encoding to use. Works pretty well, never really had encoding problems in C# and I had my share of dealing with non-latin characters in my apps.
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"someone who covertly installs photographic equipment in the bedrooms of minors should get at least 1000."

Why?

They should spend the rest of their life in jail for invading someone's privacy? Is this to protect society or for revenge? Do you feel it's not possible to teach the person why you think their actions were wrong and release them back into society so they can continue to contribute positive things? What if there really was no ill-intent? What if the software was legitimately installed only for the purpose of recovering stolen property and the images that were archived were done so only for that purpose or accidently? Does the person responsible only have to serve a life sentence if they had voyeuristic motivations?
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Been doing that for years (not chromium) and it's soooo nice. Really wonder why more people don't do the some.
Check out that link. Extract:

... There’s no easier way to get an app than by installing it right from its website - that’s right, easier than the App Store. One tap and you’re set. Because it’s a web app, see. Not one of those where you need to be online either - once you add Pie Guy to your home screen, it’ll run even when you’re not connected to the Internet. And of course, your game will be saved to a local database. Read on...

Here's an example tutorial targeting web developers:

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/html5-iphone-app/
At the same time, it's important to keep Murphy's law in mind. That doesn't mean you should let yourself be immobalized by the worst case, but you need to make a conscious decision that the worst case isn't worth worrying about. Don't write something off because you feel it will never happen. Assume that it will go wrong and decide if the cost of dealing with it is greater than the cost of preventing it.
Already submitted without the RSS string in the URL:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1340983
An interesting point. "I must design this well" or "I must code this beautifully" are inner drives that don't necessarily have rational thought behind them.

But then, the real truth behind this is that all rational thought rests on faith. "A projectile launched thusly will follow this path, because this is the formula that describes it, because it will follow previously observed patterns, because the universe behaves consistently, because the universe is rational, because... well, I just have to believe that it is."

Or "I will strive to write clean code, which is good because clean code is easier to understand, which is good because it helps others, which is good because... well, I just believe that it is."

Whenever somebody says "we should reduce dependency on oil" or "we should regulate mortgage trading" or "ruby is a great programming language" or whatever, they're using a whole system of values that, at bottom, is not rational. You value something, period. You assume something, and go from there.

None of us are superior in this regard.
Yes, the iPhone supports client-side SQLite databases, accessible from JavaScript, and it has the ability to cache web resources, so that they can be used without network access (again, from JavaScript, you can tell whether you have a network available, and change application behaviour accordingly). Those are both from open standards.

Web sites can also declare themselves to be "web apps", in which case the user can link them to the phone's home screen, and they can look just like native apps, with splash screens on startup; even hiding the usual safari navigation if you want.
Yep. I know a lot of iPad users, and I haven't heard a single one complain about something being inaccessible due to lack of Flash. I'm an iPad owner myself and have been annoyed a small number of times by not being able to see something, but so rarely (and always on such uncritical stuff) that "support Flash" wouldn't even be in my top 20 of feature requests. There are of course some for whom this wouldn't be the case.
Good big picture stuff. Clicky to the print version of the five page article the blog leads into: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10630034

Couple of quotes/notes:

Schwartz declined comment as did Sun co-founder and former Chairman Scott McNealy.

Probable translation: signed a gag clause forbidding any comment on acquirer's management. Expensive money.

... Ellison was known to mock advisers who recommended that he consider acquisitions, saying "we write software, we don't write checks." But he changed gears ....

They're also investing in Linux (pushing btrfs, etc - http://oss.oracle.com ). Smart enough to figure it's shared infrastructure they can leverage profitably.

P.S. Ironically, just noticed the 'Blogs' section in that OSS page, e.g. Virtual Box blog at http://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/ (Hey, good news: "May 10, Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.1.8 released ... Supporting new platforms such as Ubuntu 10.04 ...")
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98% of enterprises rely on flash player ?
There's still a fair number of Java-based web games out there, and lots of older web games were made in Shockwave instead of Flash. Flash is certainly dominant amongst newer web games, but lots of old games stick around in various portals.
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Please review: DoReserve.com, an appointment booking system
We have just created/launched this site.

The idea is that small/medium businesses can outsource online booking system to this service. We have noticed that a lot of small companies such as beauty salons and restaurants have very rudimentary web sites which do not have booking facilities at all, but they could benefit from booking via web a lot.

So the site was recently launched, but there is a problem -- users show surprisingly low interest in this service. So we wonder -- is it a problem with site? with the idea itself? or maybe it just needs to be advertised/promoted in other way?

Here's a demo:

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Any feedback/discussion is welcome.

Please note that English version of the site lags a bit to versions in other languages, so please don't be too mean about bad language or a lack of some content.
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I've tried both the apt package and downloading directly from adobe, to be honest I don't remember if there was a difference in problems, or just the same set of them, either way it didn't 'just work'.
Clickable link: http://doreserve.com/about/demo
Absolutely true. However it also frees them to hire people who live anywhere in the world, which gives them access to a lot of cheap talent that they otherwise would find hard to access.

Given that they have 5 employees in 4 countries scattered across 2 continents, this is a pretty big benefit.
That's not being paranoid, that's depending on me being paranoid. People make mistakes, and a clearer separation of these two functions would make it harder to make this mistake.
Doesn't matter. ALL flash pegs my MacBook Pro CPU >50%, most of the time > 90%
A few kindles?
I've worked at a company that operated like this. It's great if the company is the only thing going in your life, and that's how you like it. It's not great if you want to take a night class, or have a regular volunteer obligation (I was a math tutor) or play on an after work sports team, or are in an amateur orchestra, or have a regular fitness training regimen, or are dating, or have a garden, or a dog, or simply don't like living in hotels. For me, the end result was having a life not unlike George Clooney's in "Up in The Air."

Edit: it's actually quite similar to a management consultant's schedule. Except instead of Bangkok, you end up in Houston.
Sure upgrading to Ruby 1.9.x is a hassle (character encodings, changes to array class, etc. does break some old code). That said, 1.9 gives a good performance boost that Ruby needs, so man up and just do it.

It is also a "public good" issue: the sooner everyone up-converts to 1.9, the easier it will be to develop with Ruby because all required gems will work, etc. I have whined quite a bit on up convert hassles on rubyplanet.net, so I do understand the author's pain + complaints, but we do all need to move forward.
I don't think it's an article. Looks like it's just a banner ad from Adobe.

And it's a Flash banner ad, BTW, so don't even bother trying on your phone ;)
There certainly can be - I had a colleague who was working in the US for our UK based company and after a mix up by the tax advisers he ended up being taxed twice.
I think the real lesson is "avoid lockin whenever possible." Yes, it's easy to switch from Google search to something else. But is it easier to leave Google Buzz or Google Docs than to leave Facebook or Microsoft Office? (Yes.)

As long as you can leave easily, they have to keep trying hard to please you. If you're locked in, look forward to high prices - in the form of money, sucky product, loss of privacy, or whatever.
I agree. This and access to categories are my 2 biggest wishes for the mobile version.
Cant believe that you are getting downmodded so hard! iPad really sucks at rendering even basic html5 interactive content and the more i play with it , the more i feel like, iPad just isnt capable of doing even the basic 'interactive-rich' content. I was suggesting ,Flash is too advanced for iPad that not allowing it in is technically a good thing for Apple.
I'm curious: If you knew Flash was going to be problematic for a large part of your target audience, why did you choose to base your project on it?
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Yep, I actually owned a few tablet PCs. A stylus is a fantastic interface for entering unstructured information, one handed input, or drawing. It's not great for navigating.

The biggest flaw of the Tablet PCs was that no one really committed to the interface. This was surely a result of the expense and not having much traction. And a giant failure on Microsoft's part.

However, the "keep handwriting around" thing was (and is) a good idea. People like to decry handwriting recognition, but the idea was really "use digital ink, don't convert".

--EDIT--

Also, the screens weren't pressure sensitive. They were capacitive, it only worked with the stylus.
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I jotted this down from a speaker at a security conference last year:

"My nightmare scenario is that I don't know my nightmare scenario. We can obsess about all the extreme things that could happen; but the truth is when, or if, it does happen the chance of it being one of them is tiny. In fact we probably haven't thought of the very worst sort of scenarios; those tiny little things that someone suddenly figures out they can exploit and turn against us. We cannot predict or offset these scenarios. All we can, all we should, do is make security relevant and robust - and then be ready to meet threats quickly when they occur."

(pretty much what Schneier says too; but I thought worth sharing)
It's not clear what would happen in aggregate, but if social security and medicare taxes were abolished tomorrow, I would certainly demand that the equivalent amount be added to my gross compensation, and I would certainly agree to this demand if I were an employer.
I quite dislike Ellison (read about his excesses in The Silicon Boys). He's one hell of a pusher, tough, which is what you need in times of distress.

From the article linked from the post:
>In typical Ellison fashion, he took a hands-on approach to the integration, choosing to meet directly with technical managers at Sun as often as four days a week to diagnose its problems, rather than delegating the work to underlings.

Exactly! I've seen some CEO's who don't know the location of their R&D Lab better than the janitor closet. This is how it needs to be done. Dictatorships are awful, except when the dictator knows the right direction to go in hard times.
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The difference of course is that Larry Page has actually created value for Google.
I have a friend who spoke at an event in Croatia. Also, I think I discovered it even prior to that through some video or another that someone in my network shared.
I made a canvas variant of asteroids about a year ago. It's not up any more, but does anyone here remember it? The game over screen told you you'd died of dysentery

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It theoretically ends where it's most comfortable for a wide range of people, experienced or not. And hyperbole doesn't help. Telling me to pull first so it can incorporate the remote changes isn't a big deal I think. Where does this idea come from that the interface has to be cryptic?

If it isn't in there because nobody has done it, fine, that's cool and understandable. Actively arguing against better user messages is simply weird to me.
Let me rephrase that. Did you install the normal plugin (which is not x64) or the beta x64?

In case of the package, which package exactly did you install?
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On the contrary, I deliberately selected this example because the farmers using hormones to mass produce milk fast have successfully lobbied to force the organic milk farmers to label their organic milk saying "There's no proof the hormone milk is bad."

It's the same argument here.

The hormones accelerate milk production, like the cross-platform dev tools, and the end result is claimed to be the same, like you just claimed. Defensiveness about production methods and indistinguishable product still don't mean Whole Foods has to stock milk made that way.
I completely agree. If there is something that I like about Apple is that they don't brag about things they haven't done yet. Get over with this philosophy of prototypes. Flash on mobile phones is as good as Microsoft Courier. The day I will see 19 out of the top 20 device manufacturers worldwide run Flash with no problems I will complain about Apple not being the 20th.
I'm not sure where you're from, but nobody is living like a king in NYC (or most any other major US city) for that amount of money.

Also, if you compare the ~$90k they've raised so far with some recently VC funded social media startups, all of a sudden it won't seem "obscene"- in fact it seems positively lean and scrappy.
I guess the ad is invisible if you don't have a Flash plugin enabled....
What purpose did you think an alternate OS would serve? To drive sales of Playstation games so that Sony could recoup their subsidy? I don't think so. You can hardly blame the Air Force for doing what Sony enabled them to do.

The alternative for Sony would be to sell non-subsidized machines with other OS support.
But you're not committing, you're adding.
I think this has been addressed several times, the performance issues for video playback are Apple's fault for not providing the necessary APIs to allow third-parties access to hardware decoding (which exist on Windows). In 10.6.3 I believe they finally added them, and Adobe released a beta/alpha of Flash player that uses them.

Then, there have been several benchmarks released recently showing that Flash is faster than HTML5's canvas for drawing, both on desktops and mobile devices.

So I think your comment isn't exactly fair, or at least it deserves some qualification.

(Note: I am not an Adobe apologist. I barely use any of their software, and have no personal stake in their survival. I'm just seeing Apple spreading a lot of FUD and that upsets me as I've been a big fan of the company.)
I really can't recall the details but there are still some Asian character sets (Chinese iirc) that are not fully covered. The "two-way conversion" fails. And this was with UTF-16 iirc.
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My post was unfortunately worded. That's what you get for posting late at night I guess.

What I meant to say is that you're not going to get away with using any sort of complex system without understanding what it's doing. This seems to be the sentiment expressed in the original posting, and some of the replies here.

Sure, Git's UI could be improved. But managing several divergent histories and correctly merging them together is a non-trivial problem. If you make a tool that allows the user to just plow on without understanding the underlying paradigm the results are going to suffer.

It's like asking for a RDBMS that allows you to "just do it". You might get away with that for a while, but not for long.
Those stats are useless.

Microsoft had 95% of the browser market at some point.

I'd also like to know how 98% of enterprises "rely" on Flash. I think if Flash was completely obliterated, those enterprises would be largely unharmed.
You mean it actually makes sense if you forget the other VCS versions of that command, and know git's? Because ignoring all VCS experience I have, "checkout" would indicate to me that I could "check something out" as in "have a peek at it."
Ellison: The sales staff was compensated based on deal size, not profit. So the commission on a $1 million sale that generated $500,000 in profit was the same as one that cost the company $100,000, he said. "The sales force could care less if they sold things that lost money because the commission was the same in either case," he said.

Meanwhile, I've never encountered an organization with more perverse sales incentives than Oracle had when I used to deal with them, back in the early 90s. Salesman were fired if they missed their sales quota for a single quarter, so we used to get phone calls at the end of each quarter begging us to buy something, anything, and return the item and cancel the invoice after the first of the month. Et cetera.
"The RIAA has claimed they are owed up to $150,000 for every infringing work. With millions of files in question, that number could become huge."

These guys need to get a new business model. Suing everyone is just becoming tiresome.
... which is butt-ugly compared to QuickSort in Haskell:

qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs)
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I think there are trickier issues which a programming language has to deal with. For example, concatenating 2 strings using different encoding. Conversion is required. Specifying encoding is required.

And btw, here there is a loss since all character sets are not fully covered even in UTF-16 (iirc). I am trying to recall- maybe Matz gave a details reply somewhere on the net.
What an asshole. I don't have a huge objection to discontinuing unprofitable products, but bad-mouthing the previous management because they had a different philosophy of R&D is beyond the pale.
Actually, he clarifies in the comments that he really does mean a "client" and not Status.net (what Laconica is called these days). But, there are definitely quite a few out there. Gwibber, Spaz, Canary, etc, etc.
Doesn’t work for me, neither in Firefox nor Safari. Strange.
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>decide if the cost of dealing with it is greater than the cost of preventing it

Yes. I build small apps for various tasks at my current job and am always surprised at how bullet proof they want the thing to be. I spend the majority of my time trying to safely handle the remotest of issues for these apps which are mostly fairly trivial (not operationally critical) if they stop working. I find it especially amusing because we host our entire operation off a single box in our own network closet.

In other words, make sure you take care of all the simple things that have a much higher chance for disruptive error before you start worrying about the once in a lifetime catastrophic ones.
And young people who have not had kids yet think that every diaper they come across needs changing.

Good analogy.
There are a lot of talented people in the world and Max needs to hire, hmm, five or ten of them? Being a Japanese salaryman probably wouldn't sound that attractive to the average American but there are a few of us defective types who do/did it anyway.

(Speaking of quirky individual preferences: I'm a strict Catholic. Two months, huh. <dry>How ever would I cope.</dry> You can probably find five or ten other people with similar preferences -- it is a big Internet.)
Nobody is telling Linus he messed something up. Are we not allowed to raise issues, discuss and bring forth our perceived problems? "Use it as it is or GTFO" doesn't seem like the Open Source way.

The problem here is that there are people telling everybody that "git is easy," "everybody should use git," and then every time someone raises a concern someone brings up the argument above. I wonder, what is your goal? Are you trying to get people who "don't get it" to stop using git? Do you think killing discussions about it will further progress? Are you afraid the interface you learned might change?
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Stylus is not more at fault of terrible UI than anything else. Designers simply did not design for the fingers in the first place. If they were told to design the other way, they would do it. The mere presence of the stylus did not have to change anything. I actually like using stylus and don't see anything unsexy about it.
I truly loved my MP 2100. The iPhone was the first electronic device to come along that worked for me as well (and in fact better) than the Newton.

Ah, what could have been... </wistful>
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