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I do that, but I can't stand seeing a child/someone helpless at the end of their power trips.

What do you do when you see such a thing? I just can't help myself from feeling bad for the waiter who has to take shit from rich brats with acne. If I am able to then I usually cheer that person up, somehow, or say something nice to them, but that isn't exactly satisfactory.
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Well those kids usually proceed along these lines, "mother fucker do you know who my dad is?".

Initially I thought you were making a guess at what happened, but now I notice you are the OP. So... huh? There are dick-heads in the world though - you're right.
You have to remove ALL distractions. Set yourself a time to do email, twitter, HN, return client phone calls, then put then phone to answer phone, and turn everything else off. Especially that growl thing. Close all windows that arn't for your immediate bit of work.

An exception to this might be if you work to music. Personally I find a low volume, vocaless music, helps you not get distracted by minor noises like doors slamming in other offices or traffic passing by.

You have to have at least an outline plan of what you want to produce beforehand - not the HOW, but having done some research before your high productivity time definitely helps. Basically, get stuff queued up.

I think it helps to know that your concentrated period will end. For some this would be a 25 minute timer, but I think something more like 2 hours is best. Maybe 11 til 1. Then go for lunch for an hour, then do another 2-4 session. I think knowing you'll stop and being doing something else during a break, concentrates your mind on the job in hand, and it knows you don't have to worry about lifes other things at the same time, as you can do them later.

I think I like the idea of pairing up with someone else who has also removed distractions. Helping each other to keep momentum up, and every time something unknown happens, doing the api lookup before the main coder needs it would be awesome. Then switch the role over regularly.

hth. Just random thoughts really.

In reality most of the time I'm distracted by traffic noise, other people chatting about other projects I've worked on when I'm trying to work on another, people going off on tangents - probably because there's no allocated time in the week for actual research & training. And the bloomin phone. Support is essential, but completely takes me out of the zone.
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Also worth noting how many of those examples use "login" as a verb. "login" is the noun, "log in" is the verb.
You could not do much I'm afraid, it's sad but it still holds you responsible as part of the group. May sound too harsh, but collective responsibility is acknowledged explicitly e.g. in post-war German ideology. Being taught that in schools might alone make people more considerate of their choices in general.

As for the article, it suggests that Greeks despise and distrust each other in first place. Not sure it's a good starting point for anarchic type of society. Also, notice how the most vocal protesters there were the government workers (who earn triple of the private sector on average).
When power is a major concern, and that is the applications ARM is targeting, using a 64-bit system when 32-bit would suffice is counter-productive. A 64-bit CPU naturally requires more transistors and thus more power than a 32-bit one. There are other overheads (in OS etc) associated with a 64-bit system. The difference may not be great, but for many applications it is a cost with no reward.

Comparing to MIPS, they have had a 64-bit ISA variant for a very long time, yet all the recent cores have been 32-bit as this is all their current target markets require.

A full 64-bit system is really required only for HPC-type applications, a domain currently owned by Intel and IBM. If ARM are interested in eating into this market segment, it is most likely a very long-term goal, and obtaining a foothold in the 32-bit server space would serve as a first step in that direction.
Not entirely sure that it's good or bad, just differing points of view on how to get a certain look.

Sure, with time artists will turn the dial down and video HDR will be more subtle. All new tech goes over the top at first. Remember video morphing?
My thoughts exactly. But then again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_change.
It is not installed by default. The way it works, Debian provides you with many thousand of packages which you can install with one command. Debian makes sure that all programs and libraries work together, and that nothing is downloaded more often than necessary (by factoring out dependencies).

This approach works very well, but it has a few shortcomings, including the fact that sometimes, Debian ships a somewhat outdated version of a package, which may contain bugs. Some bug fixes, such as security updates, are pushed to users, but "non-critical" bug fixes need to wait.
I honestly believe that if Adobe got a version of Flash running on Android which overcame Apple's objections (battery life, UI, stability) then Apple would take another look at it, but right now we're a long way from that.

For now the choice is between no Flash on the iPhone, and seriously buggy Flash on Android. For what I want (and I accept others are different) there's really no difference between these two options - if I can't rely on it, I'm not interested.

I'd be interested to know what the view of the engineers inside Adobe is though. From everything I see and hear what's shipped so far is bad enough that it probably shouldn't have been released into the wild.

Were they aware of that and was it pressure from the top that forced them to release it as it is? Or are the problems things which result from the significant scaling up of the number of devices and users? And do they have faith that these things can be solved before HTML5 gets a big enough foothold that they've got a real fight on their hands?

Getting back on topic, does the ability to compile Flash code to a native iPhone app actually undermine the need for Flash in the browser? If the biggest players can just release an app which reuses their existing code and fulfils the specific need they have, do they care that it's not through the browser?
I'm amazed at how much it looks like modern video game graphics, particularly the video of the man. If there was a way to go from the HDR to a "normal" image, perhaps that would let video games look slightly more realistic too.
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Love the "once we implement it" for making updates, very lean.
I agree with your statement about the HN meme. Nowadays, people don't describe in detail or give supportive arguments and examples to show why a product or service is so "horrible". It almost looks like these people just want to bash a company/product without any clear reason. :)
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So, how about all those people... who said that there is no
point complaining about it?

I don't think I was one of those people, but I don't think the complaints have had much practical effect, here. The real impetus is more likely that they are feeling the heat from the Android platform.
I have kinda of made a point of intervening in situations like that where I am likely to get an outcome (and I am fully aware that this is me running exactly the same program myself). The other day someone jumped the queue (I was a few people behind the front) and I just said, are you not going to queue, mate? No, he said, then left his stuff on the counter and ran away! Ridicule/social shame often works, but you can't overdo it. It especially works here in England where people expect other people to just silently fume and let them get away with it.

I wouldn't bother with kids just making a noise - they're untouchable and they know it. Maybe now the Tories are in we can address some of the root causes of that.
The whole of iOS 4 running on my iPhone 3G feels like walking through molasses, so don't Apple hold themselves to the same bar?

(I haven't installed this week's firmware update yet. I hope that does in fact improve things)
Nice and simple interface, Love it :)
P!=NP:

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Actually, as the article itself points out, there's a very easy way to avoid DLL hell - don't share DLLs with other apps.

All of the programs we produce here include all of their DLLs in their own folder. There's nothing shared, so no other program can cause a problem for them.
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Even better, offer a discounted service to people who agree to make a few calls themselves ;-) It could run itself.
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I'm LMFAO. This is great, and now because people see this is getting usage, it will get more usage, more coverage, and then more usage lol. Nice job AR :)
Two text fields, a checkbox, three labels, a button, three links. (That’s for Twitter.)

That’s pretty damn intrusive if the main purpose of your homepage isn’t even to provide you with the ability to log in. You obviously want to make it work with password managers but they should be able to pick it up. Mine can.

While hiding the respective fields on a homepage which has the main purpose of providing you with a login might not be such a good idea this is definitely so much better than any other solution which loads up a different page just to let you log in.
My theory is that if you get older and you're still angry... then you need to figure out real quick how to find peace.
Quality control would be quite a challenge. The occasional verification call wouldn't cut it.
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Interesting. Thinking about possible use cases. Any ideas?
I believe that the "million dollar homepage", and "one red paperclip" were quite financially successful. Both super simple and quick to build, however, as others have mentioned - it's not the thing itself, but the marketing of it that is important.
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Adobe are going to have to work on reviews like this if they ever want Apple to approve Flash on the iOs browser

http://newteevee.com/2010/08/31/video-flash-on-android-is-st...
The guy's wrist must be getting some seriously bad RSI very soon.
I like the minimal interface. This website is perfect.

Your getting something unexpected stumbleupon style, but you are controlling the seed of randomness, making it more interactive and game like.

The funnest thing is entering random letters\nonwords. For example "rowlz".
Agreed, not horrible just amateurish.

I should launch www.logodesignedbya5yearold.com and see if I could compete!
I'm sorry it was not very clear. Here's what's wrong with ePub: http://blog.widescript.com/2010/08/03/we-support-zhook/

But basically, ePub is full of bugs (that take ages to be solved until the huge committee agrees on every point), it is complex to build and debug, and does not support HTML5. Heck, there is not even a way to define a cover.

Just to be clear, HTML5 is composed of many parts. You might be thinking about canvas or video/audio, but one of the most important introductions are the new tags, that turn out to be perfect for crafting electronic publications (semantic richness). That you can use it in ePub doesn't mean you're meant to.
No. Have a look at http://ochook.org/how-a-zhook-may-be-split-into-components and you will understand why.
"Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. "

How can more performace ever be a bad thing, things you have not even imagined or been invented yet to do on a mobile because the performance is not there yet. E.g. things that I know: 3D video recording and photography, great performance augmented reality, instant search with social network and location data built it, HDR video recording.

I don't even know what I don't know...

And its not even multiday - I would love my iPhone to be double the performance and 8 hours non stop video play. That would be awesome, nothing more frustrating than being stuck on a train with a mobile that has run out of battery, only so long you can stare at the hot chicks :)
Try to see the best in humanity, and not the worst.

For every person that acts ridiculous, there are ten that aren't making any noise. You have to recognize this.

Look on your local news channel. There's always something going wrong. Someone's house is burning down, someone got robbed, someone got murdered. Why, then, isn't the world burning down or going to anarchy? It's because people look to see the outliers, and not the average. Average people are just that: average. They don't stand out.

So the way to solve your problem is just to change how you see things. Take some time to look for the normal people, the people who subtly improve the world you live in.
It's the most literal interpretation of 'make something people want' that you could possibly do, make them feel loved.

To identify an human need like this and to have the guts to follow through on it is really something special, the funniest thing of all is that in the same thread where Zack launched this he was told off by people telling him to spend more time on his projects or nothing would ever take off :)

I agree with you that this could easily snowball, and for those that are not convinced of the use, (no, I'm not a user) there are plenty of people for who a daily sign of life from the rest of the world would make a huge difference.

Who knows, maybe one day your medical insurance will refund you your http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/ subscription fee :)

Another thing that might happen is that the service will branch out in to other fields once a large enough customerbase has been created, the customers themselves will probably start supplying ideas.

It's a golden recipe, dial-out to people that are happy to take your call because they know you will try to make them feel good, instead of calling them to sell them something.
> "If the biggest players can just release an app which reuses their existing code and fulfils the specific need they have, do they care that it's not through the browser?"

Mmm, the reusing code bit may only be partially true. Note that in today's App Review Guidelines there is a specific mention that apps must abide by Apple's HIG in order to qualify.

In other words, ugly apps, or apps that don't abide by Apple's usability standards, will not be allowed in the App Store.

IMHO this is a good thing - I personally despise one-size-fits all UI design... it maintains the weaknesses of all targeted platforms while being completely unable to leverage the strengths of any. Truly atrocious.

In any case, simply turning your Flash app into something that runs on an iPhone may not be sufficient to get Apple's seal of approval.
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If it is that addictive then Zack is home free :)
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Exactly - the author has a clear anti-XHTML, pro-HTML bias, even to the point of telling us that Google don't support any XML-born technology.
Yeah, exactly! They will never understand why, say, Clojure and Node.js are such a buzz - because geeks like the ideas.

Adding new themes on top of an S60 crap is still the same crap.

They had a very good attempt with N900, but some stupid management bet on N97 and lost.

Nokia isn't a software development shop and never was, and of course, they should learn from Apple (why experience is important) and from Google (how to create a developer-friendly framework).

Qt might be a good attempt, but someone should write a visually attractive (think Apple's animation library) and highly polished common stuff (Apple's attention to details), like contact list, settings, etc. They think a community will do the work, but that will never happen. No one would like to do a boring task for free.

Btw, Nokia already lost the game (To Apple and Google) the same way as MS did (to Apple). And it is rather funny to see that they hired an exec from another big loser.
I could see ARM processors really threatening the server market. Do you know how much power is used in a typical data center?

In fact Smoothstone just raised a lot of funding just to pursue this: http://www.smoothstone.com/

Also with increased virtualization you have beefier and beefier single servers running 100's of servers / desktops. Imagin running your entire VDI estate on a single 16 core blade powered by ARM processors that uses as much power as a single desktop, can you smell the $$$
So, how is this table made ? 'Available' with 'checks' and 'not available' with crosses ?

Does that mean something which is 'not available' with a cross, is actually available ?
Zynga's value to its users is what allowed them to beat those 300 other customers. "Copy/improve/iterate" can, in some cases, provide more user value than "create something new."
Yes, but we're not talking about accidents or major crime here.

This is the 'low key' friction that people create between them and the rest of the world on an ongoing basis and while I wished it was 'outlier' behaviour (so we could ignore it) in fact it is a rather large amount of people that participate in this.
I actually used to believe in this, but today it just hit home. It's so rare to see people who subtly improve the world. Who silently bear all. I try to look out for such people, but the ratio isn't looking promising.

What's even more tricky is that these people are outliers in the sense that they had an abnormally large sense of entitlement, but there are others who are silent and just as vicious as them given the right opportunity.

So, now I want to look at the problem and, perhaps, find a way to solve it. If it's intractable next time I will just smile and move on, but I want to be sure.
You might not be able to, but being first isn't everything. The right person could copy AwesomeReminders with the right twist (and the twist is key). Being first is, in fact, harder since the first entrant into a market has to prove it exists! We now know there are > 700 people who like the idea of someone validating them over the phone each day.

I suspect that most self help gurus could sell a similar service to their user bases at a higher rate. Would I pay $100/mo for Tony Robbins to call me for 1 minute once a week with an inspirational message? Probably not, but I'd bet my left arm that 100 or more of his devotees would, and it'd be a $10k/mo revenue stream for 2 hours per week.
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I never picked up development on Silverlight because the Linux client (Moonlight) is unusable, but its advantages are ... an efficient VM (dotNet's CLR) with real multithreading capable of running any .NET language on top, video DRM and adaptive streaming and ... this is important ... consistency between (supported) browsers and OSes.

I know normal people don't care about the first point ... but because the VM is efficient, it might just be that Silverlight is actually efficient on mobile phones (versus Flash) ... a Symbian version is already available, a MeeGo is in the works, if they add Android to that list + Windows mobile 7 ... then you've got a winner (if only they don't fuck up the implementation as Adobe did with Flash).

From Microsoft's point of view Silverlight also has another advantage ... they can add to it whatever they want. Few people complained when they added COM interoperability. They can't do that to web standards without bad publicity (though this didn't bother them in the past).
I totally agree with the experiences thing. Assuming you're not saving up for a house or something, what better thing to spend your money on than a new experience?

A lot of people suddenly become frugal when confronted with the price tag of an amazing holiday, but are perfectly happy blowing £50 on a night of drinking. It always seems like a false economy to me.
The point here is that HTML5 is a semantically richer format to create books. ePub uses too many configuration files that become a barrier when it comes to authoring.

If we had a decent standard, these e-reading startups probably wouldn't be creating their own.
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@Clmntlxndr hacked that in less than an hour with Sinatra (his first app with that framework)

What do you think of it?
I'm similar. Convenience. Fine dining. Travel experiences.

But I'd add cookware to the list - pains me to see people struggle along with cheap and shoddy knives, small chopping boards and weak pots and pans.
Here is Googles battle plan:

We can't do an all-out attack on the carriers since they will fortify their positions and we need the carriers to move data for us.

So we will take them by stealth and guerilla warfare, a little bit at a time, forcing them to be dumb bit-movers.

Google could move faster than they do right now. I think they already have the infrastructure and applications on Android to make a worldwide Skype alternative which is free. But the carriers would scream if Google does that. Hence, they slowly morph the Android system into their vision over time. A carrier can't complain on each of the small steps -- but take all the steps together and their power is dwindling.

"Open" is not a discrete thing. You can be "more open" than another handset or operating system. But "not being open" does not imply being "closed". The positive thing about Android is that we are seeing the most open devices ever. And this signals the slow but sure death of the carrier conglomerates.
I don't know, I also think you have people who have serious problems (like, my baby's daddy ran off when he was 12 days old, my kid can't read, there are crack vials on my street, and my mother needs medicine) deal with those in a fugue (or not at all) and go totally ape at perceived slights to their dignity because that, at least, they think they can control.
The fact that ePub = (X)HTML is perfect, however the standard doesn't incorporate HTML5 yet. But this is not the problem.

If you look at the ePub specs you'll quickly notice that the standard is way to bloated! You have to specify all kinds of settings/resources/meta-info and crap in 100.000 different files, you have to create you're own book spine, set up structure and whatever not...

HTML5 itself is descriptive enough to specify reading systems with the right information to display it as a book. The zhook guidelines specify - based on the HTML5 Outline Algorithm - how a book should be build up. So zhook is nothing more than a friendly reminder to keep it simple, slim and stick to the web standards. The only thing zhook adds is a specification on how to add a cover image to your book.. because even though the ePub standard is bloated as I don't know what - there is no standard way to add an image as the cover of you're book.

For more info about the HTML5 Outline Algorithm:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Sections_and_Outlines_of_an...