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Long story short: Dvorak is better than Qwerty by a long way, Colemak is better still, but not by as much. If you know Qwerty and were thinking of learning Dvorak, learn Colemak instead. If you know Dvorak already, don't worry about Colemak - it'd be a lot of effort for not much benefit.

(Cue Dvorak devotees with burning stakes and pitchforks?)
Thank you for your comments.

Some thoughts in response to your comments:

> professional engineers
> A. They could figure out the answer to these questions on their own.
[harnhua] True - what they would gain by using our webapp is convenience and automated testing/evaluation.

> B. one of the large distribution companies would only be too happy to send out a sales engineer to assist with the decision making process.
[harnhua] Probably only if one is buying enough FPGAs/CPLDs to pay for that sales engineer? I reckon there should be many small-/medium-volume projects staffed by professional engineers who wouldn't attract such a level of customer service from the distributors.
Sales engineers who're skilled in FPGAs are probably in short supply.

> hobbyist market
[harnhua] Although there's little money there, we'd really like to make FPGAs easier to use for students and hobbyists as well.

Any thoughts?
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I used to be on Facebook quite a bit. I deleted my account a week ago, and the abrupt change felt surprisingly liberating. Facebook was becoming a chore to manage, but I didn't realize this until after I left.

Sems like there's still room for something more simplified (but not to Twitter's extreme.) Buzz?
For communication purposes, Amateur radio would be the most common and accessible. Although, I have a feeling the internet would be much more resilient than it may be given credit for; it just might not be a World Wide Web, maybe a Regional Wide Web or City Wide Web....

Someone else had it right too, if there were a large enough catastrophe to knock out the infrastructure supporting the internet entirely - you would be concerned with many other things.
Fun demo. Not really surprising, of course.

Anyone know when the Pixel Qi DIY kits will hit? Last I heard it was "end of Q2..."
You could do worse than to download wikipedia and print it out.

Paper is pretty resilient, electronics are not. That's why it took a burning of the Alexandria library to wipe that knowledge.

And better use acid free paper. And print it out several times and spread as many copies as you can.
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Different motivation. The reason you give differs from "staying ahead of the curve".
Indeed, I missed a couple of these articles along the way and it was great to not have missed them completely. I wonder if this format has even more potential for communities who don't spend as much time on the internet, where even more of the content would be fresh to them. A future for publishing?
I think there needs to be reform of the patent system, so that people who hold the rights to an invention but are not exercising those rights in any way (making or selling products) cannot sue others for royalties. Patents were intended to support inventors, not parasites.
That kind of data may be hard to find for free, at least in a nicely digestible way. At FanPulse, we pay for a feed of stats, which includes live stats as well as historic data as well. These stats providers keep their info tightly cutoff from non-paying clients. I wonder where else you could find it.

Some stats providers we know include: xmlteam and sportsdirectinc.com
Thank you.

You're right in that we're still confused about what the most important problems we think we're solving are!
It seems like there are many problems in this area.

But certainly we're trying to make a standard interface for developers to create their FPGA apps, without worrying about different vendors and different FPGAs.

Although our webapp doesn't handle generic run-time reconfiguration or partial reconfiguration, I think I get your point--that unless the FPGA vendors reveal more about their hardware architectures, it's hard to build a completely generic solution.
I switched to dvorak awhile ago. I still catch myself having a frisson of pleasure in the act of typing some words; typing feels like an intricate finger tango at times.

The only gripe I still have with it is every single time I type ls -alx

Check out, if you haven't, http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?worst_layout is indeed the stuff of nightmares.
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Where do you live? In Seattle it's around 8x the cost.
Not an expert on this, but here are a few open source projects that came up from a quick search:

http://www.marketcetera.com/site/ (HFT platform)

http://zocalo.sourceforge.net/ (prediction market)

http://www.grism.org/ (stock price tracker/analyzer)

Searches

trading: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words...

market: http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words...
heading down to areas in San Jose, like Mountain View, Cupertino, etc. yields tons of people in every cafe talking / working on tech. Going to a random cafe in Mountain View, you'll be sure to hear people talking about something related to tech and code.
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> and we created what's called "WebKit" out there, and we did an interesting thing for Apple: we put it in open source.

He's acting like Apple had a choice about the licensing of someone else's work.
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Again, this is a video - I'll judge the final version when it's in my hands, I hope they manage to pull it off in a release version.
ahem this has been debunked folks by wikileaks itself..
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Without patents the only source for R&D is going to be universities.

That's an incredibly broad and completely unsubstantiated claim.
> The facts don’t support the assertion.

Unfortunately, the facts do support the assertion. I've been involved with computers since the early days of Windows 3.1, and if I tally up the number of times I've had to deal with Windows security flaws compared to security flaws on Linux or Macs there's really no doubt at all that Windows is less secure by design, and also more expensive and complex to maintain an adequate level of security.
Dunno about this situation, but there's a discussion in

http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FCA/...

starting at about paragraph 110. They are coy about the details, I suppose to make circumvention harder or something.
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Comparing aptitude with rpm doesn't make any sense. One is a tool to fetch packages and their dependencies, the other is a packaging format.

The logical equivalent - yum - was around in 2005 too.
I find it interesting that this question goes unanswered but I am more interested about what motivated you to work at Google.
First thing I wanted to click: the pretty color bar picture (http://www.plunify.com/images/plunify_graph.gif ); needs to link to a bigger version.

Also, if you're using Flash for static charts, I'd suggest replacing with pictures (no Flash player, nothing to see in http://www.plunify.com/reports.php )

[clicky for the site: http://www.plunify.com/]
I picked a hard problem (Drupal Performance) and worked on a open source project (Boost Module) for about 7 months till I was approached by a company and offered a job. This was an exit strategy I had in mind, get highered. I'm now paid to work on performance related issues & I enjoy it. When it comes to performance, I open source (GPLv2) most of my code since sharing is the fastest way to solve complex issues involving speed and scalability.

All of this to say if you don't find the open source work exciting, maybe you picked the wrong problem for you to solve. Now that I have a 9-5 job, I have less time to perfect the free software I've created. If it works 100% for the biz, why would they want to pay me (time) to fix problems the biz doesn't have.

I've spent time in various open source projects and Drupal was the first one where something stuck (people wanted to higher me). Luck has a lot to do with it; picking the right project at the right time. I've been contributing to Open Source since 2004, 2009 was the first time someone saw my code/work and wanted to higher me.
Logic experiment:

AFAIK, you can't download a torrent without participating in seeding it (at least while you're downloading it). Assuming that whomever is gathering the IP addresses is an authorized representative of the copyright holder, they are actively involved in distributing the video (at least while they're collecting IP addresses).

So, a defendant could claim "At the time you caught me downloading it, an authorized representative of the copyright holder was publishing the content on BitTorrent".

Of course, the problem is that the law isn't logical ;)
Good luck in your next project! I still remember reading the old blog posts of yours, when you started working in the dorm, then boston, then san francisco and LCD screen real estate.
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When you choose to build off a LGPLed project, you are choosing to open source the work you put into it. They could have easily chosen not to build off a LGPLed project.

Stop fishing for perceived slights. This is petty, and a waste of the internet.
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Thanks for those. I've not yet found time to switch, but it'll be to Colemak if and when I ever do. I'm a guitarist, so intricate finger tangos sound like my kinda thing :)
I prefer the one that lets me get the job done in the most efficient manner.
I'm a bit surprised that this seems to be a new development in the United States. In Germany this is the prevailing mechanism to make money from filesharing. They use cease and desist letters instead of subpoenas, but the principle is the same: Pay us and we don't take you to court.
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So, a good place to find these early adopters?, well - hacker news for one! ... but other places?

I'm wondering if there's a thread dedicated to this topic on HN?, and if not, if it would be worth starting one?

i.e. early stage app promotion/making your app seen by the right people ...
Windows 3.1 (or 9x or XP) is quite irrelevant to the discussion. Do you say the same about modern Windows (Vista/7)? Many people will disagree with you if you do.
Would you tell about some other projects that you did before delicious? Not necessarily their names, just roughly what they were about. Basically I'm curious whether there was a logical succession or were you just trying out random ideas.
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Handling binary data in Javascript will soon get a lot better with the new Typed Arrays spec: http://people.mozilla.com/~vladimir/jsvec/TypedArray-spec.ht...

It was invented for WebGL but is already being used by the guys doing raw audio APIs and will hopefully see wide adoption wherever binary data is found (2D Canvas, sockets, XMLHttpRequest, Web Workers, storage, local file access).
I can't see any way that going to the Moon or Mars is going to help with the real issues we will have in the next 20 to 50 years.

It's not like I dislike the idea of going to Mars (I have a well thumbed copy of Zubrin's "The Case for Mars") - but at this moment in time, do I think it is a sensible thing to do? Sadly, absolutely not.
There is a story told, I think in Ken Auletta's book, by Eric Schmidt from the earlier days of the company where Sergey proposes starting a hedge fund because they have so much better data than anyone else. Schmidt cautions against the notion due to perhaps significant legal implications.

Something that would perhaps counter this are complaints on zerohedge and elsewhere that Goldman's privacy policy on some of its data services leave open the possibility for them to use usage data for prop trading.

There must be people within Google wondering that if others are getting away with this, why can't they? There must also be people worried about the company's dependence on a single source of revenue...
I would think 2.2 might be appealing, though, given the substantial speedups some people have reported with it. Assuming those come from improved efficiency in the VM, that would be of most benefit to the weakest processors. There's nothing I can see from the CDD that suggests that at least 2.1 wouldn't be supported on these devices, even with limited (or no) graphics flare.
I'd like tools for OSX.
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They're ahead of Apple, and Google isn't stopping you from using OS X, therefore Google's view is inconsistent with reality.
Tthe parent article complains:

"The Financial Times article states that:

'Windows is known for being more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and more susceptible to computer viruses than other operating systems.'

The facts don’t support the assertion."

Both parent article and parent post switch the topics: Though Microsoft did a lot of work to improve security, Windows as a platform (when you include anything installed on Windows like Adobe Flash and Reader) is certainly "more vulnerable to attacks by hackers and more susceptible to computer viruses."

I don't think I have to provide examples, anybody is able to count.

That's why I actually like that iPhone and iPad don't allow "anything goes" with the native apps. That's the biggest improvement in approach to the security in the last decades.
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Thanks for your thoughts!

Yes, I think it's beautiful to try to apply software/computer science/statistical methods to a hardware field.

Making builds faster via parallelism, publishing <a href="http://www.plunify.com/reports.php>statistics</a>; for an application and like you said, having some intelligent ways of indicating errors are things that we're very enthusiastic about. And it's great to read that people actually want such features.

Testing instead of chip selection?
I guess I'm too used to the word "testing" being used for actual hardware testing, but I can see how the change in phrasing might appeal more.

I see; instead of greasy marketing talk, we should emphasize technical data in order to win over our target customers--the engineers. Being engineers ourselves, this makes complete sense. I wonder how we can appeal to the "suits" too.

How we're currently presenting results is something like this:
Here're all the FPGAs that we've tested your application on.
These are the ones who met your frequency, size, power, and this is how much they cost.

For simulators, we're trying to see if providing the open source Icarus Verilog and GHDL with custom libraries might work for people.

Can I ask you about that flasher that you wrote sometime? Not at all familiar with how they work, but a universal USB-JTAG solution would be great.

Really appreciate your comments.
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I'm setting my ToS and privacy pilicy page, is it smart to link to your competitor in this section, suggesting your users to try the competition if they are not fully satisfy with your service? do you have any experience with this situation or any advice and suggestion?
I had to put this up because my colleague thinks it's a spoof, or TC made up the story. He can't handle the idea of single pirates.
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The article states:

Data from the recording industry lawsuits, revealed in a court case, showed that 11,000 of the 18,000 Does settled immediately or had their cases dropped by the labels

And:

Dunlap, Grubb, & Weaver generally asks for $1,500 to $2,500, threatening to sue for $150,000 if no settlement payment is forthcoming. Assuming that 90 percent of the current targets settle for $1,500, this means that the lawyers, studios, and P2P detection company would split $19.7 million.

I accept that I could be missing something here and would welcome enlightenment from someone better informed than me, but I find it difficult to believe that the lawyers have downloaded 18,000 copies (i.e. one for each John Doe) of the infringing material.

Without doing this, how can they have a case that actually stands up in court, and one that successfully proves that the John Doe actually made the material available? Surely it would only take a few hundred people to successfully challenge them for the profits to be lost?
Nothing and thats the problem. Its the same it was since it started (as far as how it functions is concerned). And if I were to guess[1] it is rapidly loosing whatever standing it had good old days. Its horrible, because it had a lot of potential for growth in to something really amazing. In the fast moving internet landscape, you have to evolve with everyone else in order to survive. Other than a facelift, nothing much changed with delicious.

Sure there are sites and services that survived without evolving, but they are exceptions not the norm.

Once awesome but dying sites/softwares: Myspace, Digg, IE

[1] http://siteanalytics.compete.com/delicious.com/
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Thanks, that picture has been updated with a link to the sample report page.

Are you accessing it from an iPhone by any chance? ;)
What an interesting problem! Definitely not something I had ever given much thought to in all honesty. Do Twitter now have enough Tweets flying out at any given moment in time that they need to have multiple ID-generating servers?

Not sure about anyone else but it makes my mind boggle!
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Regular short selling is fine, and provides information, liquidity, a mechanism to enable Put options, and a much-needed reality check to sometimes irrationally exuberant markets.

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> "I am just a regular guy who spends around $3000 a month."

Is it me or "regular" is quite inadequate?
Unless you have access to the said source code, you don't have a point.

I can actually tell you that Windows NT source code is everything but "a pile of crap". I can't tell for exchange or IISS, but I would be very surprised that it's crap.

Security is extremely difficult. It's even more difficult for a consumer product.

Even OpenBSD had remote exploits in the default install.
Fascinating insight into a real-world problem, and hopefully one that I never personally have to deal with ;)

I've found it interesting to observe when loading up huge PDFs. The London Underground map PDF is an example which has always taken an age to sort itself out no matter how powerful a machine I'm working on.

Fascinating writing by scribd though, hope they continue the series.
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Most bittorrent clients rank their peers by upload speed when they choose who to upload their pieces to. You could still download a file if you refused to upload (afaik seeds will upload to anyone), but you would probably experience a decrease in speed.
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Maybe use 'survey' or 'audit' instead of 'testing' to describe the mass builds. It's a continous integration system for a notoriously fiddly set of toolchains, and right now you're pitching it at the beancounter that selects the parts.

Send me an email about the flasher (see profile), I might be able to dig it out of an old home directory. Don't know if it still works, I only used it with one Utah on one dev board for a few months a couple years ago.
I hope that's a rhetorical question.
You don't need to download a complete copy to convince a judge/jury of copyright infringement. Don't forget that these are civil cases. It's not that hard to write a custom bittorrent client that automatically searches torrent sites for the media you're after, gathers lists of ip addresses, feeds it into your case management system and have that spit out the paperwork. You come into your office in the morning, run the software, and you can file 500 cases before lunch.

Actually I was describing this setup just a few weeks ago to my girlfriend. It's an awesome money machine, and it's what's going to eradicate 80% of todays user base of p2p programs over the next few years. Once a few high-profile publications publish stories of people paying thousands and Oprah runs an item 'how to prevent your kids from bankrupting you with p2p software', most casual infringers will become too scared to use illicit sources of media.
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Even NT is a better starting point, being a separate kernel to the 3.1/9x days.
Yeah I love good ol' printed content.

Wait... they don't ship to Poland. Ouch
The question is not whether you can, but whether you should.

People who make things deserve to get paid. If you don't like what they make, fine, don't read it.

If you try and rip other people's content sponsors with a bayesian content classifier they'll be more likely to have subtler 'product placement' style sponsorship to avoid your ad ripper. They may also have things that appear as ads to your rip app that are required to navigate or read the site. However, rather than avoid a technical war, why not consider either going somewhere else or accepting that content you like is made by people who like being compensated for it?
Apart from the fact that you can disallow download and only query the tracker (you'd get horrible download speeds but presumably that wouldn't matter for this use case), you logic is flawed. Merely co-distributing pieces of material doesn't automatically grant others use rights. The co-sharing could be a necessary step in discovering the identity of infringers.