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I have spent two sessions experimenting with the iPhone voice commands. Both times ended with me with tears of laughter, literally. I have never, not once, during one of these sessions gotten my iphone to do what I wanted to or call the right person. I find it genuinely hilarious though ... and adorable. "My wiiittttlle iphonie wonieee. Are you learning to talkiee walkiieeee?"
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> the 30 second video I uploaded to YouTube got over 50K views within the first week

I'm astounded everyone doesn't do this. It's free, and far more compelling than the handful of screenshots Apple allows.
> The prices seemed cheap...

cheap -> low
Maybe there is some space for a 3.1 step where you factor in the benefit from fighting even if you end up losing, but I doubt there is going to be one nearly as often as your VPS example.
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Lots of animals use tools. Only humans have technology. By that I mean the ability to learn and disseminate knowledge of tool use. Once you have that then genetic evolution gives way to the evolution of knowledge, which can be far more rapid.

Language is a meta-technology, a technology that facilitates transmission of other technologies, as well as itself. I suspect that language had its origins at the same time as humanity's tool use transitioned from serendipitous accident to learned technology. From there language and humanity's technological both rapidly evolved together in a self-reinforcing complementary positive feedback spiral.
Oracle would not want to "kill the golden goose" as it were. Assuming Google is infringing, the lawsuit is probably just a tactic to get a greater amount of licensing fees out of them than they would have been willing to pay without compulsion. It does Oracle no good to completely kill off Android, so any fees will certainly not be large enough to make the ecosystem unprofitable for Google.
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History will repeat itself. Sun sued Microsoft over their implementation of Java. In response, MS drops Java and creates its own language (C#), framework (.NET), and VM (CLR) which now solidly competes with Java in the enterprise software space.

If MS was able to accomplish all of that, then imagine what Google could create if they decided to drop Java altogether ('Go' language might be the preview.) That would be a huge win for the software industry while a big (long term) loss for Oracle as Java further wans in popularity.

(Hmm....if Oracle can sue Google over the non-Java VM they created for Android couldn't they sue MS for their "JVM-like" CLR? This is another reason why their patent lawsuit is so ridiculous.)

No matter how you slice it, Google has the advantage in the long run while patent trolls like Oracle have the most to lose in the long term.
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> Looking over the front page, I wonder what the people thirty years ago would have made of some of the other headlines

People thirty years ago? Heck, I wonder what my in-laws would make of those headlines :)
Well, I was checking for these so calling meaningless words. I realise when I write "You" in my blog post it gets more views. Some persuasion book I read a while back say copywriters use that all the time. But yea, I edit words that are interesting to me based on my past experience.
Are there any good whitepapers on megatexturing out there? I've been trying to learn about it, but the powerpoints aren't cutting it.
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This is why I withdraw all funds from PayPal every weekday morning.

PayPal has been the sole payment solution for my software company for more than 5 years. 99% of all of my money, my families money and my employees salaries goes through PayPal. When I bought my first home (at the end of 2005, oops...) I had to call PayPal to get some financial details for the mortgage company. I spoke with a nice person on the phone from PayPal and they faxed me the documentation I needed write away. Every time a new payment processor comes on the scene I check them out, but none have been able to offer the pricing or features I get via PayPal.

That being said. I have read all the horror stories. So I just assume that any money left in my PayPal account overnight could be potentially lost. No problem, I just withdraw it every morning so my lost potential is always minimal (a few grand).

I don't de recurring subscriptions. I imagine things would be different then. If I did subscriptions I think I would want my own merchant account - you want to own as much of the customer as you can.
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Is he saying that Amazon will sell the Kindle at a loss, so they can control the market where they sell ebooks at a loss? And what, make it up on volume? I think they'll have to trim down the features on the low end version to get production costs way down. Maybe get rid of the keyboard.
I know that, and you know that, but... achievement-oriented game mechanics pull in the kind of people who enjoy them, and a gathering of Achievers encourages a culture of competitive sport, rather than socialization/rational discourse.

Here's a parable: imagine that you and your friends are all playing a pen-and-paper RPG with a focus on storytelling, getting along, quite happy to collectively have interesting things happen to all the characters. Then, imagine that a new guy joins, and he's a munchkin—he plays the game to win, getting all the other players angry. He doesn't like his character to "get screwed" to tell a good story, and so on. The other players realize this, but they put up with it, hoping, for a while, that he'll eventually adapt. But he doesn't. So, eventually, the other players begin to leave—and new players join that play in much the same way the munchkin does. Eventually, the group is no longer story-focused, but is rather completely focused on collecting imaginary points and tokens.

See what I mean? Although karma doesn't matter objectively, if it's important within the "shared delusion" of the majority, it can still do damage. That something was voted high or low wasn't the basis for my statement—it was that it seems, lately, that the majority shares the delusion; that this place is a munchkin group.
Hrm. I think It'd actually be pretty interesting to have an audio recording synced to my typed notes. I think that'd be killer. Does it exist?
How much data can you have on your Palm? 16GB, 32GB? Backing that amount of data puts some requirements on the network too, not only on Apple capacity.
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All the low-carb advocates, one link!

http://www.leangains.com/2009/02/low-carb-talibans.html

And the OP did well to keep it simple and basic. It's all about energy balance.
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I suspect that these 50K views were a direct result of "I also tweeted at Robert Scoble to check it out which he did and retweeted the video to his followers".
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It might not hurt too much if Oracle just asks for money. I don't think it's the "free-as-in-beer" quality that is crucial to Android - it's the freedom for carriers to do what they want with it that matters.

They scariest possibility would be if Oracle actually tries to exert some other kind of influence - force their own software or restrictions or branding onto Android (ugh!) - that would really scupper the whole thing. I have no idea if that is possible or not (someone please tell me it is not).
I use the voice search in my phone. Not everywhere, because sometimes I would feel like a doofus, but when I'm walking it is so much easier to talk to the phone instead of trying to type into it.

I can see this being really convenient for text messaging. It's not perfect, but accurate enough to be useful.
It's not an HTTP server, so that example wouldn't work. The URL needs to be visited (with an anchor or just by typing into the Safari address bar), and Safari will close and open the application associated with the URL scheme.
I love this quote onn the nature of entrepreneurship:

"Having aspirations greater than your resources. That’s universal. Whether you’re Sam Walton or Narayana Murthy [founder of Infosys Technologies Ltd.], if your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you’re not an entrepreneur. For large companies to be entrepreneurial, they have to create aspirations greater than their resources. You can call it 'strategy as stretch' or 'strategic intent'. "
I'm having trouble blaming them for the out-of-band services exemption. That seems unavoidable to me as the alternative leads to absurdities.

How would you technically define "neutrality" between a digital TV service and its piggybacked internet connection? If the provider wants to allocate enough bandwidth for a specific quality video signal and use the rest for IP, is something wrong with that? Are they supposed to throttle the video signal to match the quality of Youtube?

Even if they use IP for the TV service, it's still going to blow away any competing service that has to traverse the public internet and I don't see any sensible way the ISP could avoid that. And it gets really weird when you look at internet over analog services, like DSL and cable modems.

The best you can do is force them to treat all IP traffic equally. Then they can't cripple Youtube or Skype without crippling the entire internet. The next least heavy-handed thing I can think of doing is simply forcing all digital services onto the public internet, which would be neat but a bit too ambitious.
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Yeah, I think pg was way off on that one.
> If I had a crazy idea, I was encouraged not just to tell people about it (up to and including executives), but to implement it and see if it tested well with users.

Are there companies that don't encourage this?
Could it be that pg's observations about how things were in '98 were realized at Yahoo around 2003 when Google ate their lunch and all the easy money was gone and they've since adjusted?
The whole world didn't have a baby boom at the same time.

WRT companies that produce stuff, the critical time is not when boomers retire, it's when they stop spending money. Fortunately, many will stop when they die, which reduces demand and the "load" on both the stock market and SS. Again, the whole world thing is relevant.

And, since boomer spending is income for later generations....

Do you really think that money invested in the stock market is like SS obligations? (Here's another difference - Congress can repeal SS whenever it feels like it.)
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"The OP claims that employers don’t value the institutional knowledge that is built up by employeees. I can refute this from my direct experience"

And I can confirm from my direct experience that institutions don't respect institutional knowledge, but I am coming from the angle of a major corporation, not a startup.

But as I've found, its not the interest of the corporation you have to worry about, its the career aspiration of that corporations representative.
Victoria Coren's had an interesting career. Writer, TV presenter, including _Balderdash and Piffle_ connected to the Oxford English Dictionary, poker player, and porn film maker, though just the once. It's nice to see see someone well known, in the UK at least, show their pedant side. Hopefully, her appearance on news.yc will make twitter take note. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Coren
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This is the best explanation of the technique I've found (if you need enough detail to implement it): http://silverspaceship.com/src/svt/

He uses the name "Sparse Virtual Textures" instead of megatextures so it's not very googleable. Also it's a video, not a paper, but the code is included.
If this sort of thing catches your fancy, the Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit (http://corporatebs.com/) is a fine collection of humorous definitions.
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It seems to be the o and the e at the end. Homoglyphs were a bad idea. Single letter or word homoglyphs in ohterwise latin text ought to be highlit somehow to warn against tricks like that.
I... I only carried it for protection! To scare off the bad guys. I never meant for anyone to get shot!
I'm sure Yahoo has realized since I was there that it's important to be more hacker-centric, just as they've realized search is more important than they thought. The problem (in both areas) is how far they fell behind during the time when they didn't realize either.
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Check out this one which is not included in the top 10 list but one of my favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQZuo6pFUw
I didn't think that it was an option, but I did check. You are right. Of the three checkbox options, notifying the recipient of a share invitation is the only one checked by default.

Either way, my main point stands. This isn't a major privacy issue. Though, I've always been taught that when developing an authentication mechanism, one should not distinguish between a bad password or bad email address/user name in the error message provided to the user. Specifically the latter, since a "Invalid password supplied for John Doe" gives confirmation that the username provided is valid, and a bruteforce or dictionary attack on the name will probably successful.
I just got Prime free as a student and it is very addicting. Almost anything you want is a sweet sweet 2 days away. My bank account is not as happy...
Methinks the iPad caused a renaissance for the digital book & Amazon is doing everything to make sure that their eBook format does not become obsolete. Amazon has been advertising the Kindle app for the iPad all over the place & it only makes sense to aggressively reduce the price one the readers. The money is in the books, not the readers. Or rather, the money is in the convenience of digital distribution. Apple convinced people to pay for convenience and Amazon is trying to hitch a ride.
Dean Kamen is one very smart cookie and to have a serial inventor like that on board could definitely be an asset for any venture.

The fact that not all his inventions take off is something I think we can excuse him for, and I'm sure that millions of dialysis equipment users world-wide would agree on that.
in this case, they'd only get the benefit if they won; assuming that if they lost they'd have to pay the other guy's court expenses /and/ a license, it would make loosing more costly, but it would also make the win more valuable, possibly out of proportion to how much more costly it makes losing.
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> My point was, you can ask questions like: Which was the peek year for crime? Why did rape not follow that trend?

"What was the peak year for crime" assumes a definition of crime, a way to aggregate rape, murder, etc. While we can agree on one, that agreement isn't binding on others. That's why I didn't claim that there was a peak crime year.

That said, averaging the 60s doesn't make sense as there was too much change.

Demographics alone tell us that different kinds of crime will peak a different times.

> By second digit I was talking about % change,

Since I was talking about to 5.1 to 5.4, the 98/99 comparison isn't especially relevant.

> A heatwave can significantly change a city's crime rate, but on it's own there is no meaningful long term effect.

You're assuming that weather doesn't have trends or long term effects. I'd argue that the dust bowl did. Urban heat-islands cause persistent heatwaves. (Yes, that's artificial climate, but ....)
It seems that the search engine is only indexing the archive that has been publicly available for, if I remember correctly, almost 5 years at http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/
I think it entirely depends upon the country in which you're operating. In Canada, I can be a 40 year old man with a wife and child and think contracting is reasonable, but I don't have to worry about a 400,000 bill for a stubbed toe on my daughter.

That being said, it still costs me $4000 to get one tooth fixed in my wife's mouth, and I have 3 in mine that have been waiting for over 5 years, so Canada is not perfect by any means.

Reminder to self in next life: If you want to make the most money with the least amount of work, in the field with the slowest slowest advancement of technology, and have your monopoly enforced, for free, by the government...go into dentistry.

Maybe I'm bitter, and I'm certainly uninformed, but I would absolutely love to hear to hear someone in the know defend the dental industry.

$3000 to fix one broken tooth (if you're lucky), it takes 15 minutes, tops. Thats $12,000 / hour. At what point do people start asking questions?
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Apologies for stealing your attention - I shall try to make this post as short as possible.

I am in school in Australia, and wondering whether I should take the maths class that is ridiculously easy or take the 'Specialist mathematics', given that I have a strong interest in recommendation and collective intelligence, and am probably looking to study Computer Science at a Uni in the USA.
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Annnnddd the obligatory xkcd!

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I'm reminded of a comment a Mono developer made about the hullabaloo over whether Mono is a Microsoft Trojan Horse:

"I can only imagine the C++ developers are laughing their heads off at us."
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Florida is talking not just start-ups, but also education etc. And he's on the money...
The comment you're replying to pointed out that Oracle owns MySQL (acquired with Sun) and BerkeleyDB (acquired with SleepyCat).
Well, author said it himself: he was at Yahoo! Search. Search is so technologically challenging that there is no choice but to have hackerish culture in this team (if you want this team to produce something). Microsoft Bing team (originally known as MSN Search Team) operated noticeably differently than MSN or rest of Microsoft, as time goes it changes, but still.
it's fascinating that in all of human history, the part of history that is recorded is a very small percentage.

will our current era be that insignificant in another 800,000 years?
"It'll be interesting to see Oracle's stance toward other alternate JVMs such as IBM's."

IBM could completely paralyze the entire computer industry with their portfolio. That they don't is a testament to how much money they earn in simply letting others do the "hard" PC stuff while they singularly engulf the big iron market.

IBM was the only company that I know of that actually outlasted the US government in antitrust litigation. The DoJ, after 15 YEARS of litigation, simply dropped the case due to lack of will and resources to continue. Oracle wouldn't dare try IBM in court.
Hmmm I tried feasibility analysis, time to market, and monetization. I got zilch on all three, maybe I'm not a big enough business jerk.
I recommend linear algebra, probability theory, numerical analysis in that order if you want to pursue recommendation and collective intelligence in cs. Discrete math is also nice but you will be faced with discrete math issues in the above classes as well and you'll pick it up along the way.
Neat subset of the quotes here:

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Wait - isn't Yahoo's search now powered by Bing? The author says that he was at Yahoo search - but what hacking can there be in that department today if you no longer have a search engine?
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I'd throw him to a hungry pack of grammar nazis just for the 'software' bit.

Maybe he's irritated that Google has been getting all the 'evil' headlines lately and wanted to outdo them.
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Wrong. There is nothing in a high level JavaScript API that is hardware, or even operating system dependent.

Also, as I forgot to mention before, this API is already implemented in Chrome desktop browser.
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yeah but...those lines are blurring and not just because of facebook. partially to do with increasing ease of travel and long-distance communication, partially to do with changing attitudes about family maybe? surely there are many other factors, and more still around the bend.

this isn't to say that i don't ever want to say something to my friends but not family, or vice-versa. more often my issues with the "audience" for my facebook posts have to do with various groups interest in the subject of the post - people i went to high school with mostly don't care about python, or some great restaurant out here across the country.
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This week seems to be particularly bad for Big Names and their stance on such things as Net Neutrality and Software Patents, first Vint Cerf (who after Jon Postel was my internet hero #2) and now James Gosling, who seems to imply prior knowledge that this one was in the cards.

So, if he saw their eyes sparkle that means that he is saying that he had an inkling that they were going to use that patent, and then he says "I hope to avoid getting dragged into the fray".

Great guy, not only does he sell a cocked gun to a company that is well known for using guns, on top of that he hopes that he's not even going to have to testify.
> If such a union existed it would immediately stop the use of software patents.

Or companies would just hire overseas programmers...
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