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yeah... generally when you buy a box for VPS hosting, you fill it to capacity with ram... of late, the price/density of ram hasn't changed much, so usually you'll throw out the box and replace it when it's time for an upgrade.

None the less, new servers with lots of ram aren't that expensive. Registered ecc ddr3 is about $130 for each 4GiB stick, give or take, and that comprises about half the cost of a server with 8 cores and 32giB ram. (on the G34 platform, that's a single socket server)
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Apple's advertising has never been big on hashing out technical merits.
Actually I would have thought the customer (after getting over being spied on) would have felt angry at Wonka corp for making it so easy for other parties to track them. That could be something you could capitalise on without being obvious :D.
I wish more people would consider unisex restrooms - we had co-ed bathrooms for my first three years of college and it really wasn't a big deal.
Funny thing is that the resolution doesn't always change at what we consider logical places - the town I live in (Waiuku, New Zealand) is split roughly down the middle with high and low resolution - most likely because of the limited availability of high-resolution data. It can be very frustrating when the area you are interested in is just on the other side of the line...

That said, through Land Information New Zealand you can get better aerial detail for free http://www.linz.govt.nz/topography/aerial-images/nzmg-non-ge... at a resolution of 2.5m per pixel.

I'm not sure if google uses this data or not, I guess it's all due to licensing issues etc...
Ah, bugmenot plugin, you save me SO many headaches.

Hadn't heard of techmeme before. Seems... interesting. Gives me yet more ideas of things I'd like to have in an/my aggregator, though.
HTC had high-res screens WAY before Apple did. The Touch Diamond had a 286PPI screen in June 2008, which is a month before the 3G came out, with it's meager 163PPI screen. The Touch Diamond, Touch Pro, Touch HD, Touch Diamond2, Touch Pro2, HD2, Evo, Desire, Droid Incredible, and Nexus One ALL had >200PPI screens before the iPhone 4 was even announced.
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I think there problem is that they are already riding on the edge in terms of service stability and availability, trying to conduct a large scale migration now would probably just add to this. I don't think they can really afford extended downtime now just when they're beginning to implement their monetisation strategy.
Vesting schedules add further complexity to this analysis.
It does seem unnatural, but I think it's unavoidable when you're showing images of a web interface inside another web interface (especially one with similar design cues). It's going to look strange either way, but it's a little more comfortable for the brain to keep the boundary when the inner image is tilted or perspective-shifted in some way.

The best answer would be an isolated image over black (or a lightbox effect) but alas their CMS probably doesn't support this kind of display.
I tend to go with the same. I've been a bit disappointed with the Economist lately, due to the recent cover Photoshopping incident (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/economist-defends-p...).

That said, I hear what their spokesperson said, but this sort of thing would never fly at most news organizations in the US.
I think in general, Americans have completely forgotten the distinction between liberal and leftist.

It also bears mentioning that the status quo before Obama's health care plan was, for the most part, proposed and enacted by leftist Democrats over the past several decades, and the maintenance of those systems has been seen as right-wing or centrist when their creation in the first place came from the left. The few actual right-wing reforms to health care (such as the HSA) are in fact weakened by Obama's reforms.
Every story no matter the source will have its (1) Origin (2) Value (3) Limitation (4) Purpose. Keep that mind mind. Credit to the IB History Program for embedding those criteria for analyzing sources into my brain.
More than 40 is reasonable on an ongoing basis at a startup, but more than 60? more than 80? I don't think it's smart to expect creative people to work more than 50 hours a week on an ongoing basis. If they've got the requisite commitment and excitement then the other 62 waking hours will be well-spent subconscious time.
So isn't that like thinking in text?
Only between iPhone 4.
I didn't mean it's wrong to create things just because you can. I do it all the time, and learned pretty much everything I know this way.

Totally agree it's a great thing for educational purposes, I was just questioning if it can be considered as something more than an educational tool.
> Needs physical buttons. Needs the trackball.

No. Really, no.
The black vans weren't them; you're thinking the Uyoku.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyoku_dantai

It could have been a political group but somehow I doubt they would be stupid enough to turn the volume to 11.
I guess it's a software limitation at the moment. I doubt carriers in Australia would go down the same path given the choice.
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I can't get over the fact that every single iPhone app icon has the exact same cookie cutter shine to it. It's already starting to look dated--very trendy for 2005.
There's informed, and then there's scraping every news site that you can in order to feel more informed. Prawn's original post said:

"I check Al Jazeera English once or twice a week and CNN a little less often."

I think that's more than enough to stay up on current issues.
I thought about that a little, thought "yeah, that's kinda weird...", and then looked again. I actually think I like the periods: they break up the lines. An important difference between the mock-up and your example is that they're right justified; the period makes the locations stand out.

new york.
9:00pm
seattle.
6:00pm
london.
2:00am
tokyo.
10:00am

vs

new york
9:00pm
seattle
6:00pm
london
2:00am
tokyo
10:00am

note the wall-o'-text effect in the second, and the organization implied in the first.
I work / worked on Pulse and It depends on your target audience. If they are on Yahoo! (Mail, Frontpage, etc) then it's worth looking into. Pulse probably doesn't have enough data to determine if it will be a success or not. But if you build apps on Pulse you are really building them on Yahoo!
I have a script that launches a browser with several tabs, for BBC, Drudge, al Jazeera (sp?), Google News, a few others. Somewhere in the mix I get to know when something or other happened.
bloomberg is my favorite news source. its no bull shit and data driven.

i remember once comparing a NYT's article on apple's earnings a little while back. one had to skip past the 10th paragraph to actually discover what their EPS was and by how much they beat expectations. those figures would never be found past the first sentence on a bloomberg piece.

in general i consider it safe to read articles with goggles that filter any hint of an opinion provided by the author. i look for the numbers and the facts, the rest is just noise.
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Physical button = tactile feedback. I was wholely unimpressed by the soft buttons on the Nexus One and Moto Droid.

As for the trackball? Still the best precision text selection device I've used on a mobile.
True, but short term thinking. 6 months ago in Canada the same would be thought of cell companies, now there are 3 competitors. The same would be thought of by Air Canada, now Virgin America is also flying from Toronto.

These dependencies are true but thankfully do not last forever. Eventually somebody innovates.
Sorry about that, I'm a bit embarassed because I feel the exact same way (particularly about misuses of "I couldn't care less")
"The lines fit together"? I'm sorry but I still don't hear anything concrete about what is unique to a 4x4 grid of icons and the same rectangular profile of a phone.

Throughout this thread, I keep hearing "its magical beautiful design" and nothing concrete. Please give me some examples.
That's a great question. I think any advanced space-faring civilization would have no further use of programming languages as we know them, as any ship or computer system would be sentient or even sapient by their builder civilization's standards. Communicating with these artificial minds would be as difficult as communicating with the aliens themselves.

We would have to overcome whatever language barriers we find before being able to do the equivalent of "programming" - I don't think there would be any language below whatever their equivalent of microcode though, nor do I think any language could express everything necessary.

Well, maybe Lisp ;-)
Big tech companies should be all over the place. If they focus too much, they will die, because ability to change is a survival strategy in tech sector.

And this particular case seems to very strategic for Google. It's believed (inside Google too) that Facebook could be the major thread to Google, if people start searching in Facebook first and go to Google only as a second option. Thus, attacking Facebook directly is very strategic move.

And it seems to fit nicely to Android strategy too.
I love this idea! What point of having 100k apps in my marketplace, if it cant run my own?
I feel this is the feature that truly differentiates Computers from Other appliances. We can reprogram computers you cant reprogram a toaster. IMHO thats why we need to avoid trap of Smart Phone is just another PSP or Toaster.
Except without the inner voice reading it back to you with the proper sounds.
I originally got into programming not for the exact same reasons, but for similar ones (reasons that were tangential to one of my primary interests). I guess I found that I loved it just as much and just never stopped, even though I never accomplished the original goal. These kinds of things can just as often lead to happy accidents, I guess.
no such thing as unbiased news. also, no such thing as left-leaning mass media outlets. think about it: mass media implies mass funding - you need to be a corporation to be a mass media outlet. nuff said.

if you want to learn about what is happening in the world, you could do worse than start at the forums of media watch sites such as http://medialens.org (for uk-centered media monitoring) or http://fair.org (for us-centered media monitoring). from there, you can refer to the original articles in the mass media and contemplate on the validity of the criticism by the media watchers.

that way, you incorporate a critical view on the news medium right from the moment you read the news.
I doubt it, your statement reflects Ignorance.
Have you tested for all $GROUP_OF_INTEREST s ?
E.g. Chemical Engineers use flowchart based system to design and test plants which has a set of complex programming language associated with it. There isn't any syntax involved as such and serves the purpose really well.

You seem to be living in your own small world.
"Few of us have been to Mars. But science fiction has filled in many of the gaps. We know that the Martian civilization is immensely old. Its software technology, therefore, must be similarly antique. Obviously nothing like it exists on earth - though those of us who remember VMS might be deceived...

...Since Earth code is fifty years old, and Martian code is fifty million years old, Martian code has been evolving into a big ball of mud for a million times longer than Earth software. (And two million times longer than Windows...)

...There is only one thing to do with it: obliterate the trunk, fire the developers, and hire a whole new fscking army of Martian code-monkeys to rewrite the entire fscking thing.

This is such an obvious and essential response to the big ball of mud pattern that, despite the fact that we know nothing about Mars, we can deduce that it must have happened on Mars. Probably several times. Probably several hundred. For each of these attempts but the last, of course, the result was either (a) abject failure, (b) another big ball of mud, or (c) both.

But the last, by definition, succeeded. This is the crucial inference we can draw about Mars: since the Martians had 50 million years to try, in the end they must have succeeded. The result: Martian code, as we know it today. Not enormous and horrible - tiny and diamond-perfect."

No comment on what follows, but you might find it entertaining.

http://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progra...
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I heard someone mention that octopodes are attracted to the colour red. I don't know if that's true, but it would explain why Paul picked the German flag, with its red central stripe, and the Spanish flag, with more red than Germany's.

Or maybe he's in league with the Great Old Ones...
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Without getting into an Israel vs Palestine debate, consider this: would you call the BBC biased for being anti-nazi in the 1940s? Or American journalists being anti- the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks? And, are there surely not Palestinians out there who would see BBC's coverage as overly pro-Israel?
Where does he get his local news and regional news? Does he not vote for those offices?
The app store is a feature, not a bug. Or maybe I and Apple are wrong, but why should it be illegal to make a product the way you think is best? If Apple's doing it wrong, someone else can outcompete them.

Apple thinks a free-for-all app store would make the product worse. Smart people take both sides of the issue. Why should the courts get involved?

As for locking, yeah it sucks. Presumably it's AT&T's idea since it doesn't benefit Apple. But anyway, if you don't like it, don't buy it. You knew what you were signing up for. It's not like Apple has a monopoly on cell phones. Again I don't see any place in this for the legal system.
Also simulink which is part of matlab package is quite successful. It has an underling syntax, but that hasn't led to complete abandonment of the gui. People dont write set of XML (Yuck!) files describing connections between individual components.
> might be some complicated differential equation

If by “complicated differential equation” you mean either “surface area is approximately proportional to radius squared so this could be solved by 8th graders” or “just add 20% margin and it’ll probably work perfectly well”.
I contribute bug reports to open source projects. If somebody contacted me through contact information leaked in a place like that about a 'competing product', I would be angry and probably blog about it. Fortunately, nobody reads my blog. Unfortunately, it is indexed by Google.
As a Brit I find that I just need to tune into pretty much any American news channel (like Fox), and after five minutes of that right wing hilarity any other coverage in the world seems 110% unbiased in comparison.
A lot has changed since Chrome 1.0.154.48. See this Chrome issue thread: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1906. I think one could always force a reload with Ctrl+F5.
> yet we don't pay as much attention to it as we should (see the planned 25% budget cuts on education in the UK, and elsewhere).

Counter-opinion: Good! Public education is all about obedience and stifles creativity, teaches children that they should follow orders rather than set their own objectives, passes off clearly incorrect propaganda as history, and neglects important life skills like personal finance and goal-setting in favor of learning archaic and useless facts. A main function of public education is the role of baby-sitting and instilling obedience and loyalty to the current government. Cutting this system returns the responsibility of educating children to the people who care the most and have the least conflicting interests with the children - their parents.
http://www.opencrs.com is good
Shouldn't there be significant differences between devices? What's the point in a single manufacturer making multiple devices if they're all exact clones of each other.

Apple isn't necessarily more cohesive, they make a single model of phone. By definition, everything they do is 100% cohesive.
Ask HN: Startups and how to avoid intellectual property troubles?
We're in a situation where our startup is gaining some attention and we've been actively recruiting advisors, e.g. a researcher who would like to advise us in his area of expertise. While having access to the mind of great thinkers is nice, right now we don't have anything set up legally for these people. I'm sure they are under some kind of no-compete/IP contract with their employees/institutions & I'm starting to worry this might bite us later on.

Question: could the act of simply talking & sharing ideas be seen as infringing on their IP agreements?
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Very interesting... (http://www.swypeinc.com/)

Requires touch-typing ability, as you hide a large amount of the display as you swype, but easily stands to be much more efficient than repeated jabbing, but it doesn't prevent specific, accurate input. I quite hope this takes over, it's a great idea.
So it's doubly wrong?
I haven't settled on one yet but I know it would not be Fox News.
That is neat but I would hate to type that in or try to find it in my bookmarks. A better solution, IMO, would be to have a Programming "folder" where all these reddits could nest. I could then click that folder and the page would display stories from them.
you've independently rediscovered the principle of "if news is important or relevant enough, it will find me!"
I think I understand what you are saying, however, I'm still not sure. Are you suggesting they use their print publications to promote their online resources?
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So you think they could just describe what they need, and their awesome AI computers could just whip up something just like that? If so, even the AI bots would express alien logic birthed unto them (unless we're talking about a species of AI that has evolved into its own race, but lets not go there :D). So at some point, something or someone has to put code down into some hardware.
upvoted you to counter-act what I think is a rather strong right/Fox/Repub segment among HN readers (I think, based on activity I've seen so far)
Sorry, I also check ABC's news feed (usually Just In and the local part) and with a partner who works in media plus AM radio to/from work I stay aware of what's going on. I just try to completely ignore the trash that infests mainstream papers, FM radio, etc.

Pretty sure I don't need to see the latest set of bikini shots News Ltd has stolen from Google Images because some celebrity tweeted about something mundane to stay abreast of the real things that matter.
I wonder if this isn't a more common problem than some hackers realize. We don't all want to be CS and programming geniuses. We just want to know enough to get by and prove that our ideas can work.

A common sentiment among this group is that 'idea people' are worthless unless they can work hard at making that idea a reality. Unfortunately, not everyone wants to dedicate themselves to the technical end of that process.
I think this is best suited as an entry level tool, then when someone wants to progress to code to do some things they need to make it easy to start. An example of what not to do would be net beans, which allows you to create a drop and drag UI fairly easily but creates a mess of code if you actually want to customise it later.
Aaaah, those fuckers. They're some thinly veiled mafiosi.
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This might answer your questions
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When it comes to text selection, how often do people use it? I ask that in sincere curiosity. I know personally that I only select text once, maybe twice a week on my Palm Pre. Holding shift and dragging through the text works great for me. Perhaps you meant in terms of positioning the cursor? Anywho...

Tactile feedback from keyboards/button has always been an issue with me, but I find that a slight vibration from the phone when a softkey is pressed does the job just fine.
Steve Jobs said the iPhone 4 evokes the feeling of an old Leica camera, designer makes a study of a phone supposed to evoke the feeling of a Leica camera. Where is the originality in that? It's way not to beat Apple.

Instead of thinking "how can I make a phone look like an iPhone", better think "how do I want my phone to look". If all you can come up with is an iPhone, change your job (and get an iPhone).
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I'm not even going to venture a guess on the lower-level similarities. It's certainly easy to say that, of course they'd use binary, it's the obvious, simple choice. But I'm not an alien and don't presume to know what they would find obvious. Their "computers" might be built by wiring a bunch of alien cow brains together until they get something that can navigate starships but can't be trusted to add two numbers together reliably. Things are made from what's handy and then grow from there, not necessarily from whatever is the most elegant or mathematically pure.

One thing I would bet on is that they wouldn't code in anything resembling C++. Even now, only a handful of decades into human computing, languages are becoming increasingly high level and abstracted from the machines themselves. Assuming that our alien friends have had a few centuries / millenia to improve on things, I'd expect that they'd have progressed to much more intuitive, more automated, and less detail-oriented methods. Especially if we assume that they've developed reasonably strong AI, the very idea of "programming" could be as strange to them as someone building their own computer from wire and logic gates would be to us.
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I definitely like the idea of pushing the 99 designs concept into new verticals. That being said, it seems like one would want to target the low end of the market such as people doing music for a friend/lover, podcasts, indie games, etc. Bigger ticket items are likely to be done in-house by a studio or outsourced to an already known quantity. As an analogy, I'd be happy to make use of 99 designs for a personal side-project or a place without much money, but when it comes to bigger projects that have a little more money to spare, I'd be much more inclined to go directly to a trusted professional and feel happy that I was in good hands.
I like HuffPo but lately I've begun to feel they're a bit Fox News-y except in the other direction. Though I don't exactly think it's an evil direction to be leaning in.