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Sorry just wondering if you could expand a little on this paragraph:

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4 syllables: Wikipedia, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Mitsubishi, StumbleUpon

Sorry, but "Wikipedia" is five syllables, and "Microsoft" is three.

If the article can't get something this basic right, how are we supposed to trust the rest of its analysis?
Google are at it again... (Homepage logo)
Today's logo is greyed out until you start typing, at which point it colors in the letters for each character you type.

Here's an image in case it's not showing locally:
http://imgur.com/fx3F7

Why are Google doing this? Is live updating search going to launch for everyone? Do you think it's a good idea?
People shouldn't have to wait long to find out what this is about. A major announcement has been scheduled for Wednesday at 9:30 AM PDT.
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I shouldn't have to say this, but correlation != causation.
Made me think about foodgawker.com and tastespotting.com,imo you should add some sort of categorization. The average user probably will use you site as source of inspiration, so being able to choose with a tag cloud (or better, a more clever mechanism) would be a good plus.
What about trying to improve the look of the photos providing a section with photography suggestions(maybe wrote by your best users)?
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Man, go try to buy a non-sexist "Congratulations" card for a new-baby. It took me three stores to find a green card without any gender-typed activities on it.

The constant sexism starts at day one.
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I probably spend too much time picking up domain names and not enough creating the services to run on them already. That said, I'm working on getting codesmell.com :)
How does "something exciting" imply a major search engine feature? Something exciting could be literally anything. Google is known for embracing notable events and people. I'm actually guessing that this is a hint at something to do with HTML5, but I am probably wrong.
The more you use your bike, the less tired you will be after your commute. It took me ~6 months to go from really sweaty after 7km to barely breaking a sweat. Just keep in mind that you have to take off some of your clothes on the way once you warm up.
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I really hope that they improve this, it failed in so many ways.

1) When in Top Gear and watching the action, I'll buy a ferrari. This is a demo of screen-in-screen, yet bringing up the search bar hid the freaking screen, you could no longer watch the action. The screen-in-screen only worked when the search results came up, but the whole point of screen-in-screen is to not miss a second.

2) Transitions... where are they? Every screen was a surprise, it just obliterated the prior screen entirely and suddenly. If you were watching the action and accidentally touched a button you could miss your team scoring a goal... transitions help with this, as does opacity. It also gives it a deeper more tactile feel and a sense of quality.

3) Web browser on a TV. That's it? The font rendering looks terrible on the TV, none of it appeared to be readable which I hope is just the video of the presentation.

4) Where are the apps? Any apps would do? But more specifically things like:

4a) twitter for TV. Imagine watching a game and having tweets of a hashtag search appear live around a chosen space on the screen (overlay) or to reduce the screen (screen-in-screen, but the main screen at 80%) and a list of tweets on the right. Immediate awareness of all your mates watching the game elsewhere... an extended social experience based on shared viewing.

4b) home dashboard. Imagine the TV having 2 stand-by states, one being a home dashboard in which the screen goes into a low-power screen saver type state (utilising a low-power palette for the device and dimly lit) and on this dashboard information from which appliances are on and using power, where your family members are (via Latitude), what you have in the fridge and cupboards and some suggested recipes, the weather for the next 6 hours, local transport information, your unread email counts, google voice, shit... throw in Skype and use a high def web cam built into the TV so that full room video conferencing has arrived for home use.

And what did they present? Chrome browser within a TV at a touch of a button and the most primitive screen-in-screen I think I've ever seen.

I'm just, argh! Google, FFS! Hire me and let me run riot in doing the right thing here, this is an idea whose time has come and right now you deserve to be beaten to the post because the offering is under-whelming and doesn't yet offer anything that having an XBox, PS3, Apple TV or even just a bog standard media centre cannot offer.

Heh, enough of the rant. I'm just passionate about the potential here and was ready to be blown away. I hope the finished product leaps on from this and blows me away.
Today I looked, and if they buy the app a second time, they can't cancel a second time.

My biggest frustration is definitely the huge amount of "Payment Declined" orders that come through. Then I get emails a day or two later from someone ticked that their app never downloaded AND they think they were charged.

Google emails them that the app didn't download and they need to update their payment info in Google Checkout, but I think that most people just have Gmail accounts setup so their phone will work but they never actually check those gmail accounts where these non-payment notifications are sent. Then they're left wondering why their purchased apps don't download.

A simple email to both the gmail account AND the user's primary email address would at least help solve this problem.

EDIT: I'd like to add that in the few short hours I've been working this evening and following this thread here and there, I've received 4 payment declined orders for our apps. It's like watching money blow out the window.
I found this to be a very interesting article, but doesn't this describe life in 3rd world countries everywhere? Why is it so shocking simply because it happened in Europe?

"It behaves as a collection of atomized particles, each of which has grown accustomed to pursuing its own interest at the expense of the common good"

This is, unfortunately, a rational survival strategy in a 3rd world country.
On the positive side, although google has no customer service or email for feedback, there's a chance that someone from google will see this comment here, and do something about it. A chance is better than nothing.

In this context, Steve Jobs personally responding to emails (apparently) is amazing positioning. Even if only to say "we disagree", it's a factor of infinity better than google.
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What are the chances anyone can make accurate predictions about phone in 2014?
It will be interesting to see how they integrate the back button into this. I will often backtrack if my changes to the search string don’t lead anywhere and use the back button for that. Will you be able to make snapshots of the current results by pressing the enter or search button, hopefully without causing the whole page to reload? That would probably be the ideal solution. (It would mean that the user would get the benefit of live updates but the behavior would remain unchanged. It might, however, invite me to tinker with my search string without ever pressing the enter button which would in some way break the back button. That might be a worthy tradeoff.)

Can someone who this has already been A/B tested on shed some light on that? Oh, well. Might as well wait.
I tried it with the entire alphabet.. you can see it here: http://blog.cankoklu.com/google-scribe-abcs-nothing-but-anot...

The attractor does seem to be "nothing but another form of therapy"..

Almost all letters end in this loop..
I take it by those comments you've never actually invested any money? The number of people employed has zero to do with making decisions about investment returns. But that's been the problem all along - people with very little idea about how capital markets and mining investment works deciding they want some of the pie, and coming up with all types of justifications for it.

I'm not talking about marginal rates - I'm talking about - hey you! You're making too much money, I want some of that! Here's an extra 40% tax for you - no consultation, no transition period, no questions asked. Would you defend this tax if it was applied to technology startups because they made too much money?
Actually, Gmail (Google Apps accounts work too) account has quite a lot to do with the task at hand.

You will find out, when you will have a new phone and log in with the same account - the market will know which apps you bought or downloaded in the past and will set up them on your new phone.
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The idea of Scrum terrifies me, especially the Daily Scrum, because I've a very cycling productivity. In averaging the days, I get enough done. But if I would have to justify my less productive days, it would be very stressful for me, and it would be quite hard to explain why I couldn't get done more today.
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Surprise, surprise. Having no secure icon on page increased conversions by 400%
I blame John Romero.

John Romero, for those who don't know (or used to know, before his name faded into obscurity over a decade ago), was at one point best known for his work on idSoftware and his creation of several milestone games such as Doom. He then split off to release his own game, Daikatana, a move that garnered a particular amount of hype. The message at the time in 1997 seemed to be, "Video games are cool. So maybe making video games is cool?"

As a young high schooler in 1997, reading about John Romero in the late 1990s basically made me want to be a programmer. He was the proverbial "rock star," right down to the ridiculous hair and outfits (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Romero_3designers.jpg).

By now I've probably jogged your memory and you know the end. Daikatana flopped and Romero ended up with so much egg on his face he pretty much faded into obscurity. The rock star programmer died as a concept (only to be resurrected 8-10 years later in job descriptions for companies wanting brilliant 25 year olds willing to solve all their problems and work for peanuts).

I believe an alternate reality exists, where John Romero succeeded, Daikatana was a smash hit, and the art of programming truly entered pop culture celebrity. Romero's dizzying fame and fortune soon found him in dizzying benders in Vegas. His successors continue on the trail he's blazed, bedding supermodels and entering rehab in six month intervals. Smash hit video game after smash hit video game is released, their programming teams rising in notoriety, and a Hollywood exec glances over a spec script and thinks, "hmm, maybe we should make that show about programmers." The working title is changed to "Turing's Anatomy" and then it's released, featuring Dr. Meredith Turing, who works as the principal engineer for the Seattle Grace Gaming Company, where she heads a team of programmers in solving software problems with unorthodox diagnostic approaches, while struggling to prevent the expectations of her genius grandfather from overwhelming her.

Is that reality better than what we're dealing with now? I have no idea. I do know though, that in that reality, women make up 50% of computer science students.
Well, why are german people watching american content? Why don't the german language producers create there own version of hulu?
For YC, is E(IPO) > E(quick acquisition). The latter obviously being more likely, but less valuable. How do you have enough data to know?
Really, you think the all-time high unemployment rate among recent graduates is because they, as a group, are somehow uniquely unqualified?

I wish I were that arrogant.
I think mentioning the username and email ID is a lot more preferable - and safer. I'm not as concerned about my email getting hacked (in which case, I have bigger problems) than my password being up there in plain text. Most of us sign up for more things than we can remember individual passwords for; many of us probably use a set of few passwords across sites - with our own rules for what's used where. The fact that any person can assume a reasonable degree of password reuse and try my password on (say) Gmail, etc is very disturbing.
Sorry about that, have fixed that now - thanks for noticing (I was mainly focused on the names with 2 syllables). Regarding the rest of the analysis I believe the list of names with few syllables speaks for itself, and regarding the predictions it is of course in the same tradition as a monkey throwing darts, but with slightly more empirical support.
So how does this work with Rack? Unless I'm mistaken, you have to return the body all at once, which entirely negates the benefits here. I don't see Rails mandating that an asynchronous server be used (i.e. Thin, Mongrel2, etc.), so I'm rather confused.
Don't most people? I have 6 passwords I normally use- with one for untrusted sites, one for money related stuff, etc. Even though the damage is reduced if someone lays their hand on my 'untrusted site password', it is nevertheless disconcerting. Time to use Keepass or something similar, I guess.
Um, I think that jerf is trying to say that your figures can be interpreted another way. For example, maybe back in '83, computer science was comparatively friendlier towards women than other maths-oriented degrees, such as engineering, medecine, and astronomy. But as these other degrees have become less mysogynistic, they have successfully taken women away from maths disciplines that had previously been comparatively friendlier to women. It would be interesting to know how the percentage of women choosing maths-heavy degrees has evolved over the same period.
That sounds like a technical justification for a business problem.
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Add to that "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes and that's a start!

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I think you're underestimating WebGL. The Quake 2 demo was a port from C to Java, compiled to Javascript, of a codebase that was originally designed in the heyday of software rendering. It's surprising that it works at all, and shouldn't be seen as a demonstration of the full capabilities of WebGL.

That "Project Sword" demo is built with OpenGL ES 2.0, which is the same API WebGL is based on. All the GPU-based effects will work exactly the same in WebGL. The only part WebGL might have trouble with is the CPU-driven particle systems and cloth simulation, but even there you might be surprised at what V8, Nitro, and JaegerMonkey can achieve these days. And if the performance still doesn't satisfy you, GPGPU is now an option.
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> I've learned how to use git not so much from intuition but memorization of what all the commands do and how they interact.

Yeah that's what grates me about Git: apparently, unless you're willing to learn all of it from the implementation details up (which I am not as I have absolutely no interest in implementing my own DVCS) you will forever be limited to rote-learned "recipes" because the command-line interface makes no sense in and of itself, it only makes sense if you understand how it relates to Git's implementation details.

I'm sure somebody will chime in with "well make your own CLI then" or "other people have built new porcelains and they have not taken off". Of course that won't work, for two reasons:

1. To build my own porcelain, I'd have to learn all of Git's implementation details. See above

2. People who build their own porcelains have to do it as well, and by the time they're done learning... they don't need a separate porcelain anymore. They might not even realize why they were trying to do it in the first place. And so they leave their project in a mostly-broken state and go on with their life, and the next guy comes around and builds his own from scratch.
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I have a brand new E-commerce coming soon on Amazon Webstore selling jewelry. I want to launch it BIG but I do not have more than $1000 to dedicate to PR.

So far I am planning to have the following strategy:
1 - Send emails to 1000 editors in the jewelry business and tell them to have a press release on s specific day
2 - I will use prweb.com and other free press release to launch it.

Any other ideas on how to use PR to launch a new business?
once upon a time in the world of technology we were not significantly different from those that have already passed their driving test
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Disqus also uses MongoDB amongst many other tools not mentioned. Those fine folks aren't misleading anyone.
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Ok, here we're getting into confusion about terminology here.

To clarify:

In the Bayer filtered Canon CCD each individual photosensor is covered in a colored filter [1] in a pattern such as:

B G
G R

So when capturing an image 1/4 of the sensors are capturing blue light, 1/4 capturing red, and 2/4 capturing green.

In contrast the CCD in the rover's cameras do not have filters in front of individual photosensors. Instead, there is a set of filters on a disc which are mechanically positioned in front of the sensor. Using this method three images are taken. On each with a red, green, and blue filter covering 4/4 of those same sensor elements giving you 2x-4x the number of elements capturing each color and thus much higher image quality at a given resolution.

B B
B B
then
G G
G G
then
R R
R R

Similar multi-shot technology was used in the early days of terrestrial digital photography to provide better color, exposure latitude and resolution. [2] for a bit of discussion on multishot vs. single shot medium format digital camera backs.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

[2] http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/h3d50ii.sh...
I don't understand what you are saying. Who is marginalizing the ambitions of others? Why is it easy? I take it you think that the study is invalid because you called it "crap" and a "joke". I'm honestly not sure - why is it a joke or crap?

Did the poster in the classroom provide any of the many examples of fortunes that began with crime? To say that "every" great fortune began with a crime is false, but certainly many did.
Yeah I saw that, and thought it was particularly crass and insensitive. Set up both a strawman and a cliche so that you can mock a minority as a character in a Monty Python sketch.

Bravo.
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Keep in mind that to become as rich as the partners at 37Signals you have to be just as much of an outlier as the people who found your average high growth startup and have a successful exit. The average SaaS business makes nowhere close to 8 figures a year. Venture backed startups certainly have higher variance, but I wouldn't agree that its black-and-white that starting a SaaS small business is a more reliable way to become wealthy enough to never have to work again.
if it's a merge conflict happening while updating the submodule, then the conflict is inside the working copy of that submodule. Go there and resolve it using the usual tools, commit and commit the updated submodule revision in the parent repository
"A 900-MHz system will be more easily able to broadcast through a multifloor house, but a 2.4-GHz system will have a longer range (if unobstructed)" - isn't it so that lower frequencies can penetrate longer distances without obstructions? And higher frequencies are better in short distances? If they get interupted they can easily replace the "damaged" data with new ones since it's high frequence(ability to transver more information in the same time).
Virtual matter can not give off photons - it would violate conservation of momentum (unless it was in pairs, but that would not work with Cherenkov radiation).
I think some people do have need for service like Instapaper. I just bookmark what I want to read in a "Inbox" folder on bookmark bar (or you can named it "Read-Later"). Then read it later. For conversion to text based reading, use Readability or viewtext.org. For bookmarks sync with multiple devices, xmark or mobile.me or Chrome bookmark sync.
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Radiolab's "Stress" episode (http://www.radiolab.org/2007/apr/09/) mentions rat studies in which experimenters made rats sick by subjecting them to extreme physical stressors (cold, treadmills, forcing them to swim for hours until exhaustion, etc.). Other rats merely had their food put out and taken away at the last minute a couple of times. Amazingly, the researchers could make the rats equally sick by simply frustrating them. I thought that was a powerful reminder of the real physical effects of stress.
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Maybe don't test with an icon that looks like the "XP AntiVirus 2009" scamware.

The small "verified by X" logos, McAfee's for example, have repeatedly been shown to increase conversion rates.
Totally agree the unknown unknows make human prediction ability particularly poor in non physical fields. Humans are spectacularly bad at guaging probability of future events, especially using only past evidence

Such presise figures are no better than a finger in the air. For what it's worth I would wager that Apple market share will not drop that much and neither will Nokia's if the MeeGo OS performs as good as it looks: http://bit.ly/bXmOyg
The fact that the device is only this price because of a government subsidy for university students makes this a non-starter. There are definitely cheap and low quality Android tablets that can be sourced at the sub $100 price point.
Cost will be way too high for the student target market, weight of two screens will also be a major challenge - maybe carbon fiber or other lightweight materials? But this will raise the cost even more. Hope they at least use Android or Chrome and do not try to invent their own software. Duke nukam forever prediction.
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To prevent loops you can vary the selection, not just picking the top item, but perhaps doing something like 1-2-3-2-1-2-3

This actually produces less intelligible sentences, but more randomness

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