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The reality doesn't revolve around open or proprietary standard. The reality just IS.

An flash IS part of the current web-reality. You can't just ignore it when you want to make a browser for the mainstream.
Works on http://www.google.co.uk
Clicking on the images gives you the enlarged version.
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Congrats on taking on mapmyride -- I used mapmywalk recently and their "new" UI is quite rubbish -- I use GMaps now but it certainly lacks some features.

The desktop concept seems like a lovely idea-- but just be careful about getting too caught up in it. Desktop software (cross-platform?) can be a serious time sink. Make a better product and you won't need to import their data. For the users who are begging for it maybe try to hack together some desktop software with a scripting language -- don't worry about making it too polished, just make it work with as minimal as work as possible. Stay focused on the core user experience and you'll find plenty of users regardless.

BTW, you can take some pleasure in knowing they wouldn't be calling in the lawyers if they really had confidence in their product.
That is the title of the post on Mashable.
I don't think ANYTHING is "cure all pill", nor did I say so. I DO think that local economic development should try to foster local entrepeneurship.

(I don't mean to be rude, but I think you are criticizing my argument unfairly and unthoughtfully: I never implied all would be roses if you follow my simple plan. You never cite why my success rate is overestimated, though it may be. Your examples are all so extreme as to be non-representative or strawmen.)

While starting a business is both risky and difficult, I think it might be easier with an overall culture that supports it and trains its young people in necessary skills and attitudes (and we don't).

What would they sell? Same things everybody sells -- cat furniture, machine tools, jelly, organic food, printers, cars etc. One doesn't actually need to invent stuff to make it and sell it (for example. ... China)

Did I suggest that they try to sell stuff without researching what a market might need or absorb? (... "playing stock market with different strategies") -- don't accuse me of foolish statements I don't make in order to buttress your non-argument.

How do we address competition? Export, export, export. Is that not obvious? I took it for granted when I wrote the post, sorry if it wasn't. Perhaps competition might be a problem if every single locale in the US did this, but I am always surprised that none seem to be trying; if I were the city council of Corvallis I would be thinking: to hell with the rest of the US, lets sell them stuff they can't make for themselves.

Re skill like Sergey and Larry -- again, it seems obvious that you need a lot of smart people, and that a town like Corvallis has them -- the woman in the article had plenty of education to start something, or work for a local entrepeneur coding the next big social media thing (hehe -- not a good idea really,...)
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No it doesn't. Oppression is a pretty accurate word for what happens to women in IT. Somebody presenting their opinion about how they're being unfairly treated is hardly flippant.
1) Never used both of them, can't say here

2) Actually you can play most of them, at least those without copy protection. http://winehq.com

3) That's because Dell made drivers for win and didn't for linux. They can't hire one full day linux programmer? Maybe they do not want my money?

4) Works for me.
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This looks like the perfect companion for playing around with a REST API.. very cool. Certainly more fun than composing monstrous curl invocations.
http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/02/19/engine.html

Actual link
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The particles are divs styled with border-radius and position:absolute. Seems like SVG, Canvas, or CSS transforms would be better; I wonder if they chose border-radius and position:absolute for speed or compatibility? I don't have a copy of IE around to try; do they do something different there?

It's amazing the hoops people are willing to jump through to get fast graphics on the web. When WebGL comes out and makes all these hacks obsolete you're going to start seeing some really amazing stuff.
He didn't mention anything about Google App Engine, which is a very good (mostly free) solution for running your business (or part of your business) online.
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Brilliant.

Any thoughts on Oauth2 and Facebook Graph support?
Dave Barry once said something like "never assume a woman is pregnant unless you actually see a baby coming out of her".
Thanks! It worked there for me too.
I don't like their links fading-in (I could click faster on, say, language tools if I had not to wait). Now they make my browser choke (firefox on netbook, cpu in powersave).
I'm American myself, it's just that this viewing huge mega corps as a good thing by the right feels relatively new.
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Can you explain the reasons?
Sadly I've seen way too many times people with "Founder of [name of their personal blog]" as a position in their bios...
Fine on http://www.google.de as well.
I don't think that's true - Vulcans hold the record for the longest bombing mission even today (during the Falklands war). The secret is air-to-air refuelling...
I have no intentions of this being a nice, well supported and regularly maintained piece of software. It would be a single days work to hack together a ruby/nokogiri page scraping client and a simple UI. Application phones home to get new regexes or whatnot in the case that the UI changes on the pages to be scraped.

But, your point is well taken. I am fond of SaaS rather than installable software for a reason!
Given the revenues for a startup in an adjacent space at the tech incubator I used to work at 3 years ago, I would be flabbergasted if the headline was literally accurate. As you can probably guess, I am not at liberty to disclose specifics. But let me repeat: flabbergasted. Like I would be if someone ballparked search at below a billion bucks a year.
Galcon itself used to be mod-able, with several people creating bots for it. Someone rolled them all together in a single mod allowing you to pit different AIs against each other, tournament style. The whole package was an excellent sandbox for teaching AI to budding programmers.

Sadly, that's all gone. Mods are gone, the modding forum is gone. Rather than an engrossing programming game, Galcon is now a mind-numbing clickfest. I am delighted to see Google picking up the concept.
Not exactly. HP developed the first Memristor.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2010/apr-jun/memristor.html
It certainly is when the startup time and general memory usage of the JVM is taken into account.
As somebody above says, http://www.google.co.uk works :)
The news isn't that there is a correlation but that there is such a strong correlation. There are a bunch of specific techniques Google could be using and it looks likely that this is close to what they actually use.

They also use a lot of other ranking factors beyond just the words on the page so seeing such a high correlation from a "bag of words" model is pretty interesting (to me at least).
How is the new google logo (dynamic balls) implemented?
That was my assumption. They never took any technical measures to prevent us from doing it, they just sent us a letter. Calling it a cease and desist is a bit generous, as it wasn't crafted very well, or by a lawyer.

I am not worried about arguing over copyright, considering that ultimately, if the user created the map using Google's maps, then Google trumps all. If it was created by uploading a log file, then it's more gray, but, the user provided a file created by hardware they own, and MMR is merely representing it on a map. I can't imagine they can successfully pursue a copyright case.

Thanks for the input!
It means there is a likelihood function.
I ... was always struck by how economic development discussions were ONLY focused on how to get a large employer to move to town

My thoughts exactly. I see as a politically expedient way to bring local job growth. The city of Portland has spent a lot of time and money, plus a few million kicked in by the state of Oregon, to lure Danish wind-turbine maker Vestas into building their North American headquarters there. As a taxpayer, I'm never sure if we get a good long term ROI on such deals. I think I'd feel better about it if they put that much money into bolstering the state's middling engineering and science university program education or fostering tech incubators.

"Corvallis was once a hotbed for tech start-ups"

Is that true or is it newspaper hyperbole? I graduated from OSU (in Corvallis), but campus life tends to be insular. I know there were some, but "hotbed" seems over the top.
Never mind that, does everyone else get the funky new streaming search results on google using Chrome?

1. Go to google.com
2. Start typing
3. It moves the search box while you're still typing
4. It starts streaming and updating results in real time as you type.

It's crazy awesome.
Lanyrd, a web app for tracking conference just launched.

It's new, probably still has a limited audience, but it can't hurt to add your event.

http://lanyrd.com

I would also suggest contacting meet up groups in your area (web, design, whatever -- any topic freelancers would attend) and asking the organisers to do a small announcement for you, or at least post on the mailing list. The people that attend these events are likely to go to conferences, too.

For a large-ish meetup group you could consider offering a free ticket as a door prize.
You're doing yourself a disservice. As we all know, caps lock is cruise control for cool. All you're doing is throwing out the resumes of A-listers.
What's really cool is that when you move the browser window around, the particles move accordingly.
Simple cosine similarity is not the same as LDA.
FYI, we updated http://rocketpack.fi/engine/ to use YouTube's HTML5 embed code, which will hopefully make it easier for everyone to see the introduction video.
He wrote an excellent book Carrying The Fire that's widely considered to be the best written by any astronaut. It gives a broader overview than just the Apollo missions and covers the Gemini and Mercury programs that prepared for the moon shot.
you can send the same to 10 companies in the time it takes to conform to the wishes of one company. And until you are ten times more likely to be hired that way

Incorrect. 10 times zero is zero. If you don't put any thought into applying for a job, you have next to no chance of getting called in for an interview.

On the other hand, 1 times something is something. If you take the time (measured in minutes) to learn a bit about the company and job in question, and change two sentences on your cover letter to talk about those things, you'll find yourself moved off the big tall stack of "idiot who didn't even bother" resumes and into the tiny little pile of "maybe we should call this guy" ones.
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And here is their website - http://15kop.ru/en/
It has some nice photos and one playable game in the english version.
"This year, Mr. Phillips acknowledged having an affair after a woman he had been seeing put up a Web site and billboards detailing his extramarital relationship."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/technology/07oracle.html?_...

... The original post, btw, simply said Hurd had an affair, neither it nor I say he was fired for having an affair...
Meh, I don't care for being spoonfed. I also read RFCs. I'm actually embarrassed to have paid for Real World Haskell, because if I were as smart as I want to be I wouldn't need it.

In this case, neither perlobj, perlboot, nor perlbot mention any CPAN modules at all, and perltoot cites a couple but Moose isn't among them.
The best part of the article is this quote:

This is the cable-splicing machine used on board the Ile de Batz--one of the most delicate and precise pieces of equipment on a ship laden with very heavyweight gear.

Next to it is shown a picture of a fiber optic cable split in half, and a roll of electrical tape.
Nice bowncing balls doodle on google today
never! give me my cave or give me death (or inability to think, roughly equal).
Updated test are here: http://www.pengutronix.de/development/kernel/arm-benchmarks-...
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Central Japan, for one. And they wonder why our recruiting pipeline sucks... Great opportunity for startups though. If you can pay $40k you'd be making engineers comparatively rich.
I find the daily morning scrum meeting a major "zone killer". It's completely orthogonal to how I function that I often spend a major part of the day just recovering from it.

I arrive in the office ready to roll, motivated, head full of ideas that have matured during the night, breakfast and commute. I can litterally arrive, sit down and crank out code (or whatever task is on). And then it's daily morning scrum meeting, and even that 5 or 10 minutes (when done right, a thing I've never seen with my own eyes) totally kills this mental state. 99% of the time my task is self-sufficient enough that what other team members do is completely irrelevant to me and I rarely have any insight to give them either. And I don't remember nor even care what I did yesterday, it's done, forgotten, check the SVN commit logs if you want to know about it. So I zone out, then the meeting is over and I've half-forgotten what I was doing so it's time to look at the latest meme on reddit.

I'd gladly settle for a daily _evening_ scrum meeting:
- What did you do today?
- What bothered you?
- What will you do tomorrow?
put that in the back of my mind and go home, I'm sure I'll have sorted things during the night to be useful tomorrow.
2) Wow, I had no idea so many were gold rated. Now if only they could get office working, I'd never have to use windows again on my desktop. :)

3) Are there any laptops with such features that work very well with Linux?

4) What distro to you use? Both of my computers have issues where the full screen window appears behind the browser (and switching back to windowed mode fails) - I'm on kubuntu 10.04.
No, on "7.0.503.0 dev" on the Mac.
Bribing users for iPhone app installs
Its because most sites that tell you about how to [do something] with [cheap thing] is trite.
6 vital elements for a successful viral loop
Full disclosure: I'm the owner of AdsReloaded.com but thought the article was A) Funny and B) provided some insight.

For iPhone developers out there... what have been your most successful/worst marketing campaigns? Would love to hear stories about cpc campaigns, blog posts, social media, or other unique strategies (both for other developers looking for advice and out of curiosity)
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I really admire the way Jason and the team have taken on this problem space.

They react well to customer feedback and it has been a great experience to watch them grow as a user.

I look forward to the next innovations from the team.
Step 5: write an article about how cheaply you made you blog.
"Just do it"? Stop it. Please.
All good ranking functions are pretty correlated. There are many ways for a ranking to be bad, and few ways for it to be good.
LSA is relatively similar in some abstract sense to the published pagerank algorithm. LDA is more powerful, in the sense that it can account for more complex relationships (but may be less accurate with large number of data - I have really no idea how those would scale and compare at google-like size).
This is my all-time favourite Wired article, a fascinating read...so much so, that I still have the original print edition.
Absolutely. I use ternary if when appropriate. But nesting ternary ifs is horrible, and nesting ternary ifs while discarding parentheses is malevolent.
This is seriously distracting and I really wonder how many users are going to be completely dumbfounded by the circles floating around where the logo used to be.

An event-based illustrated logo is a simple switch-out. There's not much resistance to understanding the meaning there. The Pac-Man game logo was a bit more complete, but Pac-Man is universally recognized. This on the other hand - how may people will see the logo when they move their cursor away and understand that something on the page isn't broken - that it's intentional?

It will be interesting to see the larger reaction from everyday Google users.
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is not , is it good startup idea?
p.s
i dont mean simple html2pdf kind of stuff.
And as the most talented developers increasingly realize they get shafted pay-wise working at most companies, compared to running their own business, more of them will start their own, stay indie, become an ISV, a consultant, co-founder, etc.
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DataViz, Makers of Documents To Go, apparently acquired by RIM
The Blender guys also used such an approach...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eWJs9pygwU

for their new movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac7KhViaVqc
Do you know who worked on it, and why it's gone? I might be interested in making a extensible HTML5 version of it...
Between this and the former 100% cpu buckyball logo, I'm actually getting quite annoyed.
Keyboardr.com does that.
wait until she buys "garden designer 5" from Wal-Mart
"Oppression is a pretty accurate word for what happens to women in IT."

We call that "assuming what you're supposed to be proving", or for people who still remember the traditional meanings of idioms, "begging the question".
An OS with a third party market for over the counter programs.

Think Zuma and Bejewelled
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The exotic technology need which required an engineer to cast magic spells last time was, ahem, wireless. I know, not Ubuntu's fault, but Mom doesn't care why it is a paperweight. She doesn't know what a driver is.
Google App Engine seems pretty cool. 1 GB per day free (outgoing) http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html#Requests - there are other quotas for other resources, like datastore etc.
You can set a background image I suppose.
This is good for now, but, I wont be surprised if they start generating leads and doing affiliate marketing for shoes/apparel.
Considered it too, and it may be a better starting point but I'd want to move away from it ASAP. I figured it may be better to just go for it in the first place.

Also I would have started with a smaller airline, but being in Perth, there isn't exactly that many places to fly to.
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Love it, one of the more interesting google logos. I'm still not sure whether dynamic identities are good or bad for a brand. The pros are it keeps the brand fresh, it allows the users to interact with the brand. But the cons are it can make the brand less recognisable and maybe the confusing for some users. Thoughts?
The SSL version of Google doesn't have it:

https://www.google.com/
Tweeps seem to like it, and it doesn't showup in IE.
However, we’d have to really, seriously, question whether people you get this way are going to stay engaged with your app long enough for there to conceivably be any positive value proposition attached to their acquisition.

That's been my response the last few times AdsReloaded has come up here.

I still can't for the life of me figure out a plausible scenario where a business would pay a user to install an iPhone app.
Thank you guys, we have a wonderful community :)

VMware was really supportive since the start, it's really an impressive experience, they behave as part of the Redis community, it's amazing as when I talk with VMware they just care about stability, documenting Redis well, making users happy.

Another reason why I'm happy about how things are going for Redis is that it is like an utility. Everybody is starting to use it because it does a simple thing, is simple to build and to use. It's not perfect but it is very accessible. I think this is how software should be in the first place, then we'll have more time to improve, but I hope Redis will never lost his "take it simple" soul.

Thanks!
1) I'll be focusing on both, however I think there is still more digital(ising?) to be done including packaging everything into a smartcard. I can buy a ticket online but still have to get a boarding pass at the airport. There's some mobile apps but they aren't really an option for me (no phone at the moment). Also getting 3-4 boarding passes for a multi leg journey seems a waste.
2) I don't mean "high cost" as such, but including amenities like food (except excess snacks and drinks), pillows etc, tvs/ports, free checked bags.

I also considered a first-class/all business airline ;D but decided against it as even I wouldn't be using it. I think it would work (I was also only going to have one class/plane type ala Southwest) but not right for me at the moment.

Thanks for the response
I know more Japanese female engineers at one office in Nagoya than I have met in my life in the US. Some of that might be cultural: Japanese girls, to all appearances, don't dislike math. A lot of it is related to other options: tech is seen as a "progressive" industry to work in, where the Old Guard isn't going to squash your face in. (Relatedly, translation/interpretation is almost female only.)

Punting on the cultural issue for a minute, is tech really the best option available to an academically prepared American lady? Compared to, say, management consulting, or law, or medicine, or... ? We have good lives as programmers, don't get me wrong, but for startup hours you could work for McKinsey and make six figures from day one with no uncertainty about exits required.
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This baffles me. Did the software engineers creating this not take a course on numerical analysis in college? Or were those, as so often are, electrical engineers that had been hired to do software work? The amount of misunderstanding in the industry about what it takes to create mission-critical software is incredible.
For some applications Dirichlet mixtures are even better. I used this tool, which I can recommend, for deriving the parameters of the mixtures
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I'm sorry, but saying that Blender is the only 3D app for Linux is simply incorrect. Maya, XSI and Houdini plus several other professional 3D apps all run on Linux.
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Isn't self funding the future of start-up funding, servers are cheap, software is cheap, who needs VC's to fund a start-up anymore? Sure once you have a proven business model and profits and you need to scale quickly a VC maybe an option but are you a "start-up" at that stage?