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Somewhere in their cloud computing strategy must be to attempt to sue SalesForce.com out of business for software patent infringement.
Buzz? wave? you call these designed to cut through the noise?
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Votes? I shouldn't know that Altoona, PA even exists, but thanks to the 2008 campaign season, I do. Swing states get attention.

I know nothing about Pittsburgh, so I'm not suggesting anything negative about the city. There are just plenty of other possible reasons behind the evidence you gave.
I've used a SQL database as a document store, using a blob column to store a serialized data structure. It was used to store heterogeneous documents of various types across various installations. I did for all the reasons that have been given for schemaless data storage in NoSQL solutions. For each new document type, there was no need to adjust any database schemas -- whatever properties you have are just stored.

However, unless I had a really large number of documents, I wouldn't do this again. With a schemaless solution, you're just moving the problem of schema changes into the code and whatever structure your data was at any time you have to support forever. Right now, I have conditional branches in code to support an document structures that haven't been relevant in years. In SQL, you can alter the table and write a quick query to update your data and you're done. Whatever mistakes you made in your design are history.

Proponents of schemaless storage claim that it's great for development but I disagree. I change my design constantly -- add tables, remove tables, split columns, you name it. I don't hinder myself because my data is organized into typed columns. I alter the data as needed to fit the new structure. As a benefit, I never have to support my previous mistakes.
If you (and everyone else who've made the same argument) substitute "Syntactic Sugar" for "Abstraction" and "Turing Complete" for "Relational Model" I think you've just made the claim that every application can or should be written in Brainf*ck or one of the other Turing tarpits. Just because a model is mathematically proven comprehensive, (I'm not 100% sure if relational is but that doesn't matter) doesn't mean it's the most natural way to express/solve your problem. And really, that is the only thing that matters. At least when comparing models and not implementations.
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If you feel like reading it straight through, you can try this: http://toadjaw.com/article?url=http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~b...

The menu system on the first page is rendered using JS, so my reader can't pick it up. The good thing is, each chapter includes a "Next" and "Previous" link to the next and previous chapters.
Jeff Jarvis on Why Google’s App Inventor Could Be Profound
Coming to this late but...

This happened about 10 years ago. I was out in Chinatown and came upon a knock off of a Transformer I wanted for a long time (G2 Laser Rod Optimus Prime). I bought him on the spot for 4$ and took him home. When I got back, I wandered onto Ebay and noticed it was selling for quite a bit of money. I went ahead and listed it (with specific mention of it being a knockoff) and left it there.

7 days later, it was sold for USD 50$.

I later found the company that was importing them and bought 30 from them. I went ahead and made quite a bit of profit (for a University student anyway) before getting out of that game.
Wave certainly since it's a collaborative tool for people that want to get things done. Buzz is a twitter clone but we already have twitter so I didn't really understand why they launched buzz in the first place.
My advice for haters of 3D: try seeing Toy Story 3 in 3D. It was made for 3D and it doesn't use any of the usual cheap tricks associated with 3D (aka the cliche throwing things at the audience). It mostly just seemed to really enhance the depth of the picture and make it slightly more immersive. I agree that 3D is still mostly a gimmick now, but I think it will eventually be used mostly as a way to make the viewer feel like they're actually there, rather than for the spectacle. Think of it this way: we didn't need color movies, but they tend to look nicer (unless of course you just prefer that old timey look).
Sounds like something that I have seen/heard at a couple of dev shops. Break the build, buy doughnuts for your team. Not too expensive so as to ruin the person, but enough of a token that you think about what you're doing.
This is basically an echo of the news that been going around.

Yet still, everyone loves it. Why should Apple do a recall?
There's no reason in theory this can't happen, its just hard.

Sure there is. I won't attempt some silly proof because it should be obvious that tradeoffs exist in all software. Supporting ad-hoc relational queries restricts the types of optimizations that are possible. Every index you add is going increase write times and yet they may be necessary for some queries. SSDs open up some doors, but still, everything about the way a database is designed is a tradeoff.

I think the point of NoSQL is that nowadays with web software, often we have very simple data that needs to scale massively, and it is just easier to build some functionality with rougher primitives than it is to try to tease the performance out of an SQL database which may not offer fine-grained enough control to offer the basic functionality we need in the performance profile we want.

To think that dropping us down to GET and PUT operations is the answer is just saying "we give up."

SQL database technology is approaching 50 years old. It's had countless billions of dollars and man hours poured into its optimization. Big DBs like Oracle can do amazing amazing things. Even today development continues rapidly on SQL database of all types, both new and old. I'm not sure how a few people working on alternate data stores with radically design criteria can be called "giving up".
First off, Hey kadavy, its been a while, when you coming by Omaha again? :)

Mike, I'm in Omaha now. You should come check out our scene sometime. Feel free to email me at matt@nimblelogic.com
I think the general premise that ‘series are bad’ is flawed. When I am looking for programming books, I look for O'Reilly (maybe that doesn't count as a series, in the sense that one can refer to “O'Reilly volume 47” or whatever, but neither can one do that with a “for Dummies” book); when I am looking for math books, I look for Springer Lecture Notes, London Math Notes, or any of a number of other series. (In fact, I was just marvelling the other day at the universality of the Springer brand—even in domains about which I don't know anything, when I see that logo, I immediately think that I'm seeing a book that's worth reading.)
Perhaps that actually was our business plan!
That's a pretty good critique despite the inflammatory title. The MaxiVision48 process he mentions sounds pretty great as well. I definitely notice the jerkiness in some scenes when in the theatre and it always pulls my attention away from the film.
I think Wave's biggest obstacle was a clunky, slow interface. The concepts are quality, it just needs a real UI.
I don't think of the G20 as being a marker of endorsement for a city's economic well-being. If anything its akin to putting a big red target mark for chaos & destruction. Pittsburgh may just be well suited to absorbing riots
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The most important question asked to date about the iPhone 4
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Mobile phones, maybe, but pocket computers? I'm not so sure they're inherently social. Not completely so, anyway. They have a lot of utility beyond communication, and that may dilute their socialness to the point that it's no longer central.
like it was in Apple's iPhone strategy to sue HTC?

Microsoft gets sued for millions of dollars every year over patents and it makes sense for them to use the laws in their favor from time to time to make some of that money back.
Someone will probably build a huge and successful social whatever on Android, and maybe even the one that dethrones Facebook.

But it won't be Google.
> More generally, this whole conversation has become one of minutia.

Getting ahead is often minutia.

> First, you're rather fudging the conclusion that cutting expenses to the bone has bought you a house

Actually, he didn't cut anyway near "the bone". Write down everything that you spend money on for a month. (Yes, including vending machines.) You'll be amazed, and you'll save a lot of money because you'll find that the benefit of many purchases is less than the cost of writing them down.

> You will have a hard time convincing me, or anyone else paying attention, that this trend is due to some sort of society-wide age-related motivational shortcoming, which seems to be your argument.

We're not claiming that you're lacking motivation. We're claiming that you're spending lots of money that you could spend on something else.

If you're anywhere near "hacker news typical", you're spending 2-3x as some of your neighbors.
That's not how voting should work?
If you get stuck in a rip current or rip tide, the trick is to not swim toward the beach against the current. You'll often lose. Swim perpendicular to the current (parallel to the beach) for a while, until you feel like you're not getting pulled out to sea any more. Then, swim with the waves back to the shore.
I think this was just luck, actually. Let's see him do it again.
Yes, I want for example that my context menu becomes a platform of sorts, where they can show me good offers on any word selected in any software I use!

We can make it optionally purple and add bananas, if desired.
"False dilemma: there are plenty of jobs that pay fair market rates that don't involve hellish idiocy and bureaucracy. It's not somehow automatic in companies that are a different age than post-founder pre-funding."

True in California.

Not so much in other places. In India, you can work for body shopper process heavy companies (Wipro Infosys etc) , "India dev center" s of MegaCorps, which are universally severely dysfunctional and bureaucratic (Even Google and Yahoo aren't immune, their Indian operations are overrun by Middle Management and by and large, you get (relatively) crappy work (ops/legacy code etc)). Or you can work for the very few decent startups at below-market rates.

Choices, choices ;-)

Not so much opposing your view point as qualifying it a bit.

PS: If anyone knows of an Indian company that pays well, has great work, and is not infested by bureaucracy, let us know. I have friends who are looking to move from both Kafkaesque BigCo jobs and underpaid startup jobs.
Pretty much. My hands reliably short out the antenna. I like the phone so much that I'm happy to change the way I hold the phone.

Marco is right, though: Apple's damage control strategy is backfiring. For the time being, though, it might not matter. It's a really, really, really nice phone.
This generally means enrolling full time ph.d.

Not at all. I have hired software engineers for my organisation and can tell you that scientific background is not always required. Two of my hires had nothing more than school-level education, though typically a science degree confers a significant advantage.

I'm talking about jobs like this:

http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/careers/jobpost.nsf/EnglishAll/A10...

or more typically this:

http://members.aas.org/JobReg/JobDetailPage.cfm?JobID=26533

(not in Canada, but you get the idea)

The problem is that it is generally hard to find these jobs in global searches. The trick is, once you know where you are going to be, to look up research institutes in your areas and see what they have going.

It's not my field, but I hear there are a lot of jobs supporting medical research for example.
When you run out of useful features, generalizing is easier than stopping.
I love how I got downvoted to 0 for telling the truth. I think Pittsburgh is great, its one of my favorite places. But, you can substitute Pittsburgh for Cleveland or Philadelphia, or Chicago or St Louis or Baltimore. At the end of the day successful entrepreneurs typically go to where there is the most upwards economic activity.
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Dashed domains are to SEO as bogosort is to scalability.
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I don't know whether this is it quite yet, but I'm definitely looking forward to everyone else's tablets coming out soon. I love my MacBook but I'm not interested in the closedness and restrictions of the iOS systems.
I was thinking along the same lines. Leaving ill-fated attempts at social like Wave and Buzz aside, most of Google's products have been about getting things done. Especially search. You look for something, it finds it. That's all. It's essential that the "application" gets out of the way here and finds what you were looking for as quickly and accurately as possible. To make that happen, technology is needed that is very complex, deep, with almost everything happening behind the scenes.

Social networking sites/apps are, by definition, completely different beasts. They're shallow (I don't necessarily mean this in a negative sense BTW), they don't get out of your way, and users generally don't want them to. That's why sites like Facebook don't just have a list of friends, but are crammed full of games (many of which are "social" as well), videos, pictures, ads, polls, questions, suggestions, etc.

Building a system like this is diametrically opposed to what Google has been doing. So it would make sense that they aren't good at it... it's just not what they do. But I can understand that they might feel they need to produce something like this, otherwise they're going to miss out on the Next Big Thing. If people are spending all of their time on Facebook or wherever, and Facebook decides to add a decent search engine, well... =/
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Man, now I want a context menu that gives me bananas! Brilliant.
The prospect of potentially scarring gashes from a straight or safety razor have always put me off on the idea. Even with a disposable double-bladed gilette-sensor excel, the hair on my chin is just so incredibly tough that unless I prepare everything correctly, there is a chance of taking a chunk of skin off. To deal with this I hack away with an electric razor first, then finally attack with razor, since the remaining stubble is much easier to cut without the hair taking the skin along for a ride.

Is it possible to use a straight razor or safety razor in a way that leaves no risk of deep cuts?
>> The birth of ORM lies in the fact that SQL is ugly and intimidating

I disagree. In my opinion, the birth of ORM lies in the fact that a lot of people want to work on problems that have almost nothing to do with SQL but need persistence. They want to spend time working with objects in their domain model and just have persistence that works.

So if that's the case, why did ORM even appear? Why didn't everyone just spend time figuring out "NoSQL"/key-value stores/object stores and move away from RDBMS? 1) SQL and relational data stores, as the author himself points out, are trustworthy and standard. People may not like working with them or be intimidated by them, but most people can at least figure out simple joins and things. The relational model may not be the best answer for some things, but it at least gets the job done. 2) Just because I want to work with my domain objects in my application, and just because I'm short-sighted and all I care about at the moment is enabling a business idea or solving an interesting problem with my app, doesn't mean that I won't want to "get answers" from my data in the future. Maybe it won't be me - maybe it'll be another group in my company with more RDBMS knowledge than I have that's interested in data-mining my store, and because I've used an RDBMS, it will work extremely well.

I don't think developers are scared of SQL, I think they just don't care about working with it because it doesn't have much to do with what they're interestd in. Maybe ORM isn't a perfect solution, but it lets me have my cake (persistence that gels with my domain model) and eat it too (a relational backend when we need BI and reporting).
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Does Google need to conquer social though? I guess in a world of shareholders and delivering ever increasing profits they need to try. From the outside it seems it would just be smarter to consolidate a bit, focus on what they can do in the social based search space, do a deal with Facebook ect.

I think they spread themselves across way to many areas without perfecting the core, like better support for the advertisers driving their massive revenues.
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Me too. I'm making sure I don't touch the danger spot as I post this reply. "I don't care," indeed.
The first few hires often happen before VC funding is raised, right? And 2-3% for the first few employees isn't unusual amongst companies that later raise VC funding and make it big.
Google doesn't necessarily need to conquer social, but they definitely need to understand it better. They wasted a lot on wave and pissed a lot of people off with buzz. Plus the way the gchat contact list and the greader following work is completely mysterious, and that's kind of an important aspect of their social backbone.
When I interviewed in Microsoft I asked this question. The person who interviewed me honestly said that he was interviewing a replacement for himself: he was leaving because he hated it there.

So yeah, go ahead and ask! You may get surprisingly honest answer :)
It's odd now. There truly is no reasonable fear that either company will eat into Google's core business.

It would make sense as "Zuckerberg and Jobs undaunted by Google"
The Java Tutorials are great for people new to the Java Platform:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17409_01/javase/tutorial...

Of course, the focus is the Java language... but there are lots of practical examples.
This is a major problem on the Great Lakes, too. Scary because I'm planning on taking a Lake Michigan swimming trip ASAP but I don't have anyone to come and swim with me this time :(
1. CSS==CSS1, CSS3==CSS3. CSS3!=CSS1. 100% of users see CSS1, 50% see CSS3.

2. Everything was explicit, there were no insinuations.

3. You aren't allowed to downvote replies to your own comment even if you had higher karma.
You’re absolutely right. I didn’t intend to imply that excessively bright stimuli (such as when the ground is snow or concrete or sand and the sun is directly overhead), couldn’t be too bright even when adapted as far as possible.

What I meant (and should have stated more precisely/clearly, not using the word “only”) was rather that, at the intensity of an iPad screen, adaptation should make any hurting stop. The iPad screen is several orders of magnitude dimmer than the brightest sunny days. Light adaptation takes us pretty darn far.
No, in those cases you should change the name to eliminate ambiguity.
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We’re talking about a balloon that we want to have rise to the stratosphere in 2-3 hours. If the balloon rises at 4 meters/second, or 7, instead of 5, it’s really not the end of the world. Just pick a size, calculate (rather trivially) how fast it’s going to rise, and then change the amount up or down.

If it really must be exactly 5 meters/second (or whatever), the computation is still at about the level of a slightly-above-average 8th grader.
"apps" are the new "extensions" which were the new "plugins" which replaced "skins" which supplanted "themes". Or something like that.

How long before have to have this conversation:

"Our product needs to support user customization. We need apps!" "We have an extension framework." "But that's not apps!"

From http://www.utorrent.com/labs/griffin

The Griffin project introduces a web-based extensions framework for µTorrent to allow for easy extensibility by 3rd party developers through a simple API ... What we came up with is a web-based extensions framework where "Apps" which consist only of HTML and Javascript can be added to the client and displayed using an embedded browser window.
It wasn't actually a rhetorical question. Just wanted to point out that historical fiction is interesting food for thought on the question and hoping someone else would say something enlightening.
Yeah part of the process, because of this new paper someone might get an idea they wouldn't have had to expand upon it.

You see articles stating that something broke the laws of physics when really it just didn't fit our current model of understanding.
It gets transported in bulk in containers that maximize the amount that can be transported on a truck. I think it's fair to say that the amount of gas used per bottle of toothpaste is probably less when transported in bulk.

Not sure about all the downvotes, I'm just trying to discuss possible negative effects. I usually just downvote when something is off-topic or someone is being a troll.
How about a context menu that drives you bananas? I'm sure I can find one of those...

/me is glad I bought bananas a while ago. * nom nom nom * .
This works both ways,though. I'm stuck on at&t because of my wife's contract, so I bought a nexus one. I'd guess most people wouldn't buy unlocked, though. Not saying it's a 50/50 split, but it's something that should be considered.
We are at a point where belief in a god is probably at an all time low due to our greater understanding of science without the basics being to complex. Gravity is currently a simple enough concept that most people can understand it in a local context.

It will be interesting to see if in the future it is found that the laws of nature are much more complex than most of us can comprehend do more people again proclaim a god as the answer. Of course it could go the other way and we find nice formulas to better describe the universe.
Another variation from http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html, item 3, break the build, it is now your job to shepherd the daily build until someone else breaks it.
The iPhone 4 reminds me of the Macbook Air. It has been squashed to an amazing size and filled with a huge battery, but it just kind of isn't their best product engineering-wise. (Air was riddled with requirements like only having 2GB of memory, 1 USB, 0 NICs, and 80GB HDD due to its "ground breaking" thin size.)

Maybe I'm being naive - but I think this will be bad in the long-term for Apple as new Android based phones flood the market with quality products.
I see the argument, and no doubt it'll be pretty successful, but a large reason why I liked uTorrent is because it was fast and lean. More layers of abstraction tends to lead to slower performance.

I wonder if they're trying to compete with Azureus / Vuze with this?

:| It's the "why no love for the hardcore gamer?" lament all over again. People who care are a minority.