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Your comment is long on hyperbole, short on reasoning. What, specifically, is wrong with a textual representation? What alternatives do you suggest?

People have tried more sophisticated representations than text before. In my experience, they offer little benefit, while throwing away a rich ecosystem of tools that work with text. It seems to me the most promising advancements have been in tools that work intelligently on top of simple text files, rather than trying to replace them.
Pave the earth to save the earth.
Currently yes, I pay flat fee per month, however, my plan is speed-limited.

For the high-speed plans, there is always stated data limit. If you want to transfer more bits, like movies or sync big folder mentioned above, it is cheaper to use fixed connection (unlimited at commonly achievable 40 Mbps FTTH is about the same price as 20 GB over theoretical 14.4 Mpbs HSDPA; about 24 EUR/mo, both by the same provider [Orange]).

But still, if you want just few GBs per month, do not need fixed connection, why would be the provider bothered by tethering? Browsing and mailing is still more comfortable with laptop, than phone.
Given in 2008 MS was offering $33/share for Yahoo and it's currently trading at $16.47/share I'd suggest that Yahoo stockholders are used to losing out financially.
Did you want to install cameras or record what they were doing? Or give students feedback mechanisms or something?

I am considering a startup in this space myself.
smartGIT
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yes I agree. this was clear and easy to understand.
Now I keep http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git this open all the time for easy reference
Assuming you have a fixed set of values to be entered, and aren't looking to support arbitrary calculations, then this a very simple task.

First example off the top of my head: http://www.dannyg.com/examples/res2/resistor.htm
There's one reason I'd want a stylus on the iPad (or any other tablet device), and it's not for handwriting.

It's for sketching. Diagrams, wireframes, or just a squirrel in the park. Give me a simple sketching program - think Painter Light. Let it synch to a repository on my desktop. Let me use the tablet as an actual tablet via bluetooth when I'm actually at my desk.

I would probably pay bank for that.
Don't know the exact speed but around 80kbps which is basically just enough to stream Hulu.
You can do handwritten notes on the iPad, I've seen it done. A coworker uses iAnnotate and a stylus to make handwritten annotations in pdf files. Looks like it works pretty well.

The thing is that typing works fine for text. But as soon as you want to draw a diagram or a formula or whatever, you're way better off freehand.
And they don't even have a working prototype to prove the efficacy of their ideas?

I'm not donating a dollar until they have something to show.
There are already aggregation sites, such as FriendFeed.
there is a website for apple and adobe debate http://applevsadobe.net
We all have experience with SVN, and that's been our preferred setup in our prior roles.

Here, ClearCase is used by the back end services team and they use that to push things through the different environments too. So at some level we need to access their code, and to contribute code to their repository.

SVN is used by other rogue developers to try and avoid ClearCase... very understandable really. So we also need to get some of their code and contribute to them.

So neither holds all knowledge, and IBM doesn't provide ClearCase software for Mac OS X.

So what we're looking at is a git-cc bridge to go in that direction, installed on a Windows box and then allowing us internally to use git to work and then just to periodically push upstream from the Win box.

And as we'll be using git, it seems desirable (though not required) to use the git-svn bridge if that works well as then we only need to use the one tool daily.

I've read a lot about how to setup the CC2Git bridge, and no solution seems great but all appear to be adequate enough for it to work at some level. I haven't checked out git-svn too much but what I had read was mostly good.

The concerns we have are once we're in the git world, how do you use the thing? I've seen a lot mentioning the importance of understanding git and workflows, but not a great deal describing git for SVN users and then showing simple to follow guides that not just communicate the commands, but also a nice and solid workflow.
Also, mouse-hover on an internal link brings up a snippet view of the resulting page. What is really cool is, this works for links in the snippet view as well, so you can open nested snippet after snippet.

These had been available to logged in users as a Beta for quite a while now (~3 months? Can't remember when it started..)
Needs audio! But very cool indeed.
It looks like the AQA A-level is called "Computing", http://alicious.com/2010/aqa-computing-exams-2009/ gives an example paper on scribd, at page 6 you can see the type of questions being asked.
Larry Ellison might not be a role model for anyone on the Technology side but he is one hell of a Salesman.
I don't have that problem at all. I was hesitant to move to 64 bit but the Flash player is screaming fast on my machine. I can easily playback 1680x1050 YouTube videos without a glitch. It's more than possible that your hardware configuration is the cause. Get in touch with Adobe and let them know your config, the problem might be fixable.

PS: I run Ubuntu as well of course.
"What we don't love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web."

Adobe, you are not the web. Your apps are not the web. And if anyone chooses to make a device that consumers can choose to use, they are free to not have your commercial software on it.

Adobe, a few years ago you yourselves refused to release parts of your "Creative Suite" for the Mac. You refused to maintain feature parity across platforms. I was free to create how I liked, as long as I liked Windows. When you did that, my designer employees needed to switch their computers to Windows to offer certain features customers wanted. We resented you taking away our freedom, and we didn't forget.

Adobe, today you are arguing to take away my freedom to use a device that doesn't include your commercial product, Flash. I chose that device because it supports installable HTML5 apps I can build with notepad. A child in Africa can build apps for my iPhone using a text terminal. I don't want that child to have to buy Creative Suite for a price measured in thousands of dollars.

Adobe, you saying this is about freedom and choice is just like the recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) milk producers arguing that their milk must be sold in organic markets. The organic market is free to not stock your milk, and I'm free to shop at a market that makes that choice. Anyone who disagrees can shop at the many more markets, and buy the many more brands of milk, that agree with you.

Adobe, stop dictating that to be free, I must choose Adobe.
If not relate to the internet then it's a time machine...
Yes, exam questions ask you to "write program code", http://alicious.com/2010/aqa-computing-exams-2009/ rather than specifying the language. I wonder if they'd accept languages not in the syllabus? LOLCODE anyone?
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For anyone interested, the JS Tools bundle for TextMate alerts you of errors in your JS every time you save.

http://github.com/johnmuhl/javascript-tools-tmbundle
I'm also in the US and I can see carriers removing this feature. I guess when I say standard android build I mean before the carriers mess with it. I feel pretty safe with the nexus one.
Because that's appropriate for your intended audience?
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You don't measure the length of the physical arm. What you measure is the length of the arm from the highest point to the top of the water.

So if one container is less full, then the arms are NOT the same length - the arm in that container is longer. And yes, the length of the arms changes as the water moves.

The hydrostatic pressure does NOT push the water up the arm! The hydrostatic pressure can not move the water any higher than the top of the water.

Basically, for a siphon any water below the surface essentially does not exist. You could have a mile of water - it doesn't make any difference. The only thing that matters is the relative heights of the TOP of the water.

Try it. Get a very tall container, and a short one. Position the containers so that the top of the water level is the same for both, and see what happens when you move one up or down.
(accidentally upmodded you)

You seem to be saying that by offering people the ability to view flash content, Adobe is forcing people to view Flash content. They're not the same thing.
They will release code for anyone to host their own site, but provide a subscription service for people that do not want to manage the code. I'd imagine some of the sites will be free, but they may not have all of the features possible. For example a company may want to use the subscription service for internal use but not want to host it.
This is great news, and rather unexpected. I'm running the cyanogen firmware on my nexus one specifically for the wifi hotspot app. (the multicolored trackball is just a bonus).

I'll probably stick to the default firmware once 2.2 comes out.

The only other thing that cyanogen adds that I'd miss, is a 1-100 indicator on the battery charge icon in the notification area.
New iPad Commercial. It's Almost Manly.
Exactly, seeding a long array has never been pretty. Some languages allow you to get rid of the comma but that's about all. Get over it.
Not just that, but you'd think that they could work with Sony to come up with a DoD-spec version that had lower cost, but cost the same (without the manufacturer subsidy). Then Sony might be willing to support them.

The OP alludes to the wasted controllers, and surely the DoD could help Sony save money on those. But there are other components that they wouldn't care about. The actual video and audio output is useless and could be excluded. Does the device come with Blueray? That could be replaced by an off-the-shelf DVD drive to save a bunch of money. Maybe swap in a rack-mountable case, which wouldn't save money for Sony, but would be more attractive to DoD.
Why in the world would we want to make raw data to language?

You use a spreadsheet for your budget. You use an accounting system at work. Yet you use a text file to describe the mission critical rules your business runs on.

This is the misconception we've run into: that we think we need to move programming languages to human languages, when human languages are bereft of concision and determinant qualities. We need to move in the opposite direction.
So, are you hiring?
Reminds me of the 2 schools in "Worse is better":
http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
Is Facebook the AOL of yesterday
Just starting to blog about my views on the startup world (1st timer)... figured this topic was rather pertinent with Diaspora etc
I've never used the video tag. I'm sure there is more involved than adding <video></video> tags to my page. I'll probably have to do some research to get it working the way I want. "How do I make the play and pause button the way my visual guy designed them" would the first question that would come to mind. I guess the same goes for a Flash based solution.
For what it's worth, the iPhone has one there.
I was taken aback by how manly this commercial was from apple. If you just listened to it without looking at it it could almost be a truck commercial. This is a very divergent strategy for apple, even though the apparently made a similar ad for th newton, but even that one didn't sound as manly.

Does Apple feel a need to attract men with this product? Are they afraid only women will buy it?
Wouldn't it be illegal to serve hulu content to the outside of US?
You're very welcome to! I had worried it was a little too long, but I'm glad it turned out to be enlightening despite its length.

Git is not without its flaws, but I'm convinced the majority of problems people have with it is because most tutorials on Git seem to focus only on the commands, without giving them any context on how Git actually works. Initially, I had exactly the same problems as you did (and exactly the same disillusionment) until I happened across Git From The Bottom Up (http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf). Upon reading that, I also had a lightbulb moment.

Git From The Bottom up is definitely worth reading, but it does tend to be a little too low level at times. So I've been toying around with the idea of writing a "You Could Have Invented Git" article, in the style of You Could Have Invented Monads (And Maybe You Already Have!) (http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...).
Heh, well if you want an education, go run for some political office yourself and see what it's like to deal with real world limitations.

In the last few months he's secured chinese cooperation for sanctions against Iran, a generational nuclear disarmament treaty with Russia, a major health insurance reform bill, etc. Before that he led the stimulus and bailout effort which, while unpopular, does seem to have contributed to the fact that we're not in another great depression. In the next month or so we'll have financial reform and probably a crack at immigration reform after that.

It's not like he's sleeping on the job.

Marketed "executive leadership" consisting of a whole bunch of highly visible press conferences from the gulf might make you happier, but that's not leadership. Taking care of the parts he can help with in a 30 minute meeting in Washington and then spending the rest of his day attending to everything else in the country is leadership.

But yeah, I'm sure Ronald "I have no idea what's going on in my office but I have great stage props" Reagan was a much better leader.
Is that a Flash Player or a Flex framework thing?
Outsource your call centre to an Indian prison
I wonder what kind of business generates 40k a month with three people remotely scattered around the globe. Sounds like a pretty awesome model. Care to share?
One of the better comments by Jobs, "It’s really true, if you’ve got a bunch of rich guys who can afford their third computer — you know, they’ve got a desktop, they’ve got a portable and now they’re gonna have one of these to read with… that’s your market!"

I've got my iPhone, I've got my Macbook Pro, I've got my gaming systems (and we have a few Kindles floating around the house)... I need the iPad because?
No, no, no. Graphical tools suck.

I'm specifically not naming what I'm talking about because I didn't have it in 1996, when I started; I just had the anger and frustration. That's where you start.

You can't get a solution before you realize there's a problem.
I'm a programmer, and just started work at a hedge fund. My value and a big chunk of my pay is assessed by a piece of software (the PnL calculator). It's pretty awesome. Most entrepreneurs are assessed in a similar manner.

I think most programmers would be very happy if their performance was assessed by software, e.g. get paid for making unit tests pass. That's the holy grail of consulting: you get a spec, you build it, you get paid, no last minute changes or "this isn't what I meant".
You don't watch YouTube videos? Not all of them plays on html5 player.
You didn't ask a question, you threw out a bunch of assumptions, most of which were so far off base that I need a stronger word than "wrong".

You're still doing it here. Did you read my earlier comments about how the property tax is assessed and collected? If you had, you wouldn't be talking about how the tax base took a "hit".
Think of these cases every time you look down at our ancestors for holding witchcraft trials.

At least for the Massachusetts ones in Salem the state realized it had made a mistake, apologized and held a day of ... remembrance or whatever. Today's Massachusetts pursued the Amiraults to the bitter end (and that was probably a factor in Scott Brown's Senate win).
Will work just fine. On a touch device you use your finger to move the mouse, what would be the problem?
I think Adobe is at 3rd phase in the Kübler-Ross model

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

1. Denial – "I feel fine."; "This can't be happening, not to me."

2. Anger – "Why me? It's not fair!"; "How can this happen to me?"; "Who is to blame?"

3. Bargaining – "Just let me live to see my children graduate."; "I'll do anything for a few more years."; "I will give my life savings if..." "I understand I will die, but if I could just have more time..."

4. Depression – "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"; "I'm going to die... What's the point?"; "I miss my loved one, why go on?"

5. Acceptance – "It's going to be okay."; "I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it."
Regex? Really? Because that's exactly what I'm talking about. Regex is a quite simply the nadir of querying languages and challenges that we ever evolved up from monkeys.
Can someone explain why the CEO was held 'personally liable'?[1] Whenever companies behave like (at best) like dipshits, I've only ever seen 'the corporation is a person' and hence liable. Why single out the CEO personally in this one? Is this at the judge's discretion?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/major-copyri...
Looks better, but the new autosuggest search has a horrible race condition: type fast, hit enter quickly, and you end up with a truncated or blank search string. Not an improvement!
Digest and heartbeat notifications
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Laptop? Check. Student Playlist? Check. Classroom of the Future? Check.
This is simply false, at least according to one controlled experiment.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://econ.ucsd.edu/~kam...
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"If you disagree, then apparently, "clean" just means "looks like what I saw yesterday and the day before"."

Well
, sometimes the way it was done yesterday simply _is_ the right way to do it
. Of course
, one can occasionally try to challenge fundamental grammatical conventions like putting punctuation on the end of a sentence instead of the front of a line
. To me
, "clean" or "beautiful" code is both easy to read and understand and follows the conventions and best practices that have proven themselves over and over
.
I like how he refers to his "programmer" like it's his pet monkey.

Sounds like a great plan, but is it sustainable? Is it really solving the problem?

Edit: iPhone apps. Not sustainable. OP even agrees. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019
"Python falls in the middle of C and Lisp and thus is a useful comparison (and everyday-living) language."

Its a shame Lua isn't more widely used / known that would be an even better fit.
Because its far more of a middle ground between those 2 than Python in my opinion, it gives you very little that you can do a lot with - for instance compare the singular Lua table with the wide choice of data structures Python offers.

Theres a great paper by Robert Ierusalimschy that goes through the multi-paradigm / extensibility that Lua offers:

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/ry09-03.pdf
A child in Africa can build apps for my iPhone using a text terminal.

Sic...
I thought about working in this problem space. Maybe I should think about it again, and receive wads of money as a result. Except I'm not that young, or working in Ruby on Rails so I won't just get handed money before producing any working code. Even then, there are plenty of one-man projects with working code up on google code, codeplex, github etc. that get nothing at all.

When I last thought about it, I became convinced that we don't need a single implementation, we need standards for multiple implementations to interact. Stuff like RSS, OpenId, OAuth, etc. It's a lot less glamorous to work to these, and to try to push them forward, but it's a lot more useful.
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The concept seems cool, but if people really do have family lives, a month away is too long (IMO).

I also think the 5 month cycle between trips could cause a lot of repetitions of falling back into a boredom mode.

Seems more like 1 week together every 8 weeks would be more manageable and logical overall.
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I'm in the same boat as you, though not in California. I'm at the point where earning more money is not worth the extra time. I prefer to invest that time on enhancing efficiency. That lets me earn the same money with less effort, and the extra time improves my physical and mental health.

That way government workers might take 50% of my money, but they don't take 50% of my productive time on earth. If they push much harder then of course I will have to move, but so far I'm very happy here.
But your're ok with the child in Africa having to buy an expensive Mac?
iPhone mostly, and I'm not the only one, check out http://twitter.com/spreadsong, they make even more!
If I want to view Flash on my smartphone today, I can buy... Well, if I want to view Flash on my smartphone later this year, I'll buy an Android phone. I will have that freedom of choice.

Adobe's handwaving is confusing people. Analysts report more Android phones are getting sold than iPhones. There is choice.

Your remark fails to consider the Whole Foods Market example. Whole Foods should be free to manage their own brand and inventory. Nobody should force Whole Foods to offer milk made using rBGH, regardless of whether offering it means people have to buy it.
Looking for feedback on this early redesign of VideoLAN website
Hi,

The current website of VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org is old and crufty.

We are not web people, nor webdesigners, but we are looking for feedback on the next iteration of the website as you can see on http://www-test.videolan.org/ .
It is totally unfinished, no need to say so :D
It is still very early work.

The idea is to make it clearer for people to get the download and go away (fast).

Many thanks

PS: I am reading around here since a long time, but never had an account so far
If the company generates 40k a month without expanding, and the break costs 2.8K a month then it is sustainable. But the trips are a clear aid to expansion meaning potentially a lot more revene generation. So it's actually in the interests of the company to do this from what he is saying.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337216
You would think the biggest, most successful data infrastructure company on the planet could figure out a way to keep warm JVM's running at a reasonable price.
i dug my newton out the other week for a photo-op:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/4554719593/sizes...
I just bought a $50 dollar peripheral for my computer specifically so that I could have a stylus, write handwritten notes and sketches.

The issue is that if you have to have a stylus, it becomes a pain, because you are sitting there awkwardly hunched trying to scratch out handwriting. (elbows in, hunched over squinting at the screen).
Yes, but very expensive. The trips are not cheap at $700 a flight.

Ship captains and oil rig engineers leave their family for 6 weeks or more at a time. There are some people for whom this type of travel is workable, and some for whom it is not. If oil rig engineers can keep families and be away so much, so can programmers.
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I don't think the stylus was the biggest problem with the $2-3k tablet computers running a generic OS with applications that were mostly optimized for desktop use.
Same experience here. Had to integrate Elgg into another system, and the code pretty much turned me off PHP forever.
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