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We're kind of splitting hairs at this point, but HTML5's standardization is a foregone conclusion given that it is backed by all major browsers. This protocol from Apple is just a proposal and it may never be adopted by other vendors or any standards body, which would leave it as an open non-standard protocol.
There's also something interesting that happens when you try to fully write out an idea. When I do it, I usually only finish writing about the good ideas. Sometimes when you sit down and take the time to think out something you realize its not that great half way through writing it. Ideas are rarely very original anyway so you might as well write them out and if you get feedback then maybe you're on to something and can revisit it later. If anything, writing alone is an interesting filter mechanism for the idea hub.

In the meantime, keep making Mugasha awesome!
This used to be a deal breaker for many folks. Combine this with the root object support and you can really host entire production static sites on CloudFront now.
Dali makes a big production out of the way he did it and describes it extensively in his book "50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship". It was a key rather than a spoon in that case, though no doubt the details changed in every telling.
I thought this said flies at first and it grossed me out pretty bad.
I think everyone agreed on that the service provide have to investigate and take action on any abuse claim. But what is questioning now is that is it reasonable to shutdown a suspect case of abuse without giving time for the service provider to investigate and respond to this case?
There are 2 aspects to programming that you might or might not be getting. First is figuring out what the solution to your problem is, Second is to put the solution on paper (write the program). Both of these take practice, but the former is much harder to learn that the latter. Most programming courses will teach you the latter. I wrote my first C program at 11, but I certainly didn't understand what that * meant next to a variable at the time, but I could think of the solution to the problem in terms of a program.
Java is a good starting language not because Java is good, but because it covers a wide base of foundational concepts in programming. I personally feel that the first language someone learns should both be strong typed and compiled. The reason is simply because I find the transition between [compiled -> interpreted] and [strong typed -> loosely typed] an easier transition to make than the inverse. In addition, learning a strongly typed language first gets students in the mindset of knowing what data structure their variable is in its current state. Java is strongly typed, a compiled language, and it's fairly easy to learn - all in all a good candidate for an educational language.

The important thing to know here is that just because you learned Java doesn't mean you're a Java guy. If your teacher is worth his salt he'll quickly make you realize that the foundations that Java teaches can be ported to every language.
When 'pg' tweeted other day about all deals being convertible notes, I researched a bit about them. Following is my notes on em.

Convertible notes make a lot of sense for both Angels and Founders as both are taking risks. If a startup ever makes it big, founders have benefit as angels are being discounted. If a startup doesn't make it, at least angels get the power and they can act according to the prior agreed conditions. For angels, tax advantages are also worth considering. Again, all the benefits depend on the fine details.

Venturehacks has nice article. http://venturehacks.com/articles/debt-or-equity
Summary is that, it is better to raise convertible debt for small amounts and it is better to go for the equity if bigger amounts are needed.

There is an awesome write up by Yokum here http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/category/convertible-not...

There are many types http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible_bond#Types

I think it is safe to assume that a seasoned angel/vc won't screw founders - it only gets them bad reputation. That said, it is everyone's responsibility to know/read what they are getting into before signing.
:-/

For your argument, I just created an wufoo form which should take down immediately once discovered. http://rickmak.wufoo.com/forms/phishing/. IN that case, I am sure only my account will be taken down, not the whole wufoo.

Actually, it depends on size. If someone created a phishing site on Heroku's, Amazon probably won't shutdown all Heroku sites. But to let Heroku to investigate. For small startup like pandaform, no luck. Rackspace just regards you as one site.

Pandaform can handle things better, like banned "password" field like wufoo do.
And how long as Flash been in development and had time to mature? You can't compare something that is at version 10 with something brand new.
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FYI, my phishing form @wufoo: http://rickmak.wufoo.com/forms/phishing/

Look professional? ;) Similar form on pandaform will make pandaform shutdown entirely.
... and the platform won't survive long-term on free games and audio/video capture alone.
I've tried (and continue to try) several programming fonts, but always stick with Terminus. In my opinion, it is the most readable font at 8px, and I like being able to fit as much as possible in a screenful without losing readability. Most of the other fonts I've tried seem more suited for sizes 10pt and larger, and that's fine, I would consider them for usage in my web browser, or some other place. But my console windows are all Terminus.
He was referring to the title of the article in the last sentence. I think if there is a better article on their research, it may help in explaining better as this article seems shy on explanations.

Also, the article cites that the nondrinkers may be more likely to be poor. This means a) less medical care to have doctors find things early, b) less stress, and c) they are not benefiting from escaping any stress they do have. Really, this article seems more like, "Stress kills, alcohol relieves stress temporarily, those who drink often have less responsibilities." So an alternative to alcohol: relaxation.

It also (as far as the article) does not go into detail about how many were from natural causes, etc. I'd be interested in whether the nondrinkers were more prone to heart attacks and this caused the discrepancy in deaths.

I can see so many holes in the research that I think it is far from conclusive on the matter.
I think he meant the name 'Y Combinator' is also similar. It has significant meaning to those who know what a Y-Combinator is. For others, it's just a cool name.
Why don't you just turn it off and have it run only on request?
How did it go? I'm curious...
A lot of people don't have the luxury of spending tens of thousands (or in some cases hundreds of thousands) of dollars and, more importantly, several years of earning potential to just "learn things."

That's not to say that all or most people don't want to "learn things". But they're smart enough to realize that they can't afford to do that. What they may want to do, though, is support themselves and possibly live something approaching a middle-class lifestyle.

Many students are smart enough to realize, as well, that if you can get a good job and financial security, you can afford to have free time to do things that interest you. If you're scraping by in a dead-end job, it's a lot tougher to have hobbies or do any other sort of self-improvement.

And so they go to college, because they've been told over and over again that college is 'the best investment you can make.'

In some cases, that advice is coming in good faith from older people who grew up when a 4-year college degree basically was a Golden Ticket into the comfortable middle class. In other cases, it's coming from 'admissions counselors' (aka 'recruiters') whose job it is to get signups in order to bring in Federal loan money. What you don't hear from either group is that a college degree appears to be a declining asset; as more people have them, the benefit of having one (in terms of standing out in the hiring pool) goes down, at the same time the cost on average has outpaced inflation.

It's a shitty situation all around, and I'm honestly not sure what the best advice is to give a young person today. But one thing I am sure of, and it's that the old canard about "study what you love, the job will follow" is a lie. If nobody will pay you to do what you love, don't pay a lot of money for a piece of paper that says you're an expert in it.
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Agreed, but I just don't find myself writing much boilerplate in modern languages. The other abstraction mechanisms take care of most of it.
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90% of my day-to-day flash usage is for video
except for my fantasy football draft today at espn which kept crashing every 10 minutes because i was using flash on linux
You just described how it should be: locally hosted solution.
I believe you are onto something here.
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I've watched quite a lot of videos around the web without any particular problem. I suspect the ones he is trying are all very high quality streams, or using an encoding that Android doesn't support well.

I regularly watch iView (http://www.abc.net.au/iview/) here in Australia and Flash playback is flawless on the Nexus One across the board. I'm really glad I have it even if there are situations where it doesn't work well.
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Did I miss the part where they said HTML5 was better? I took it to be more of a slam of the Android fanboys who insist that Android is better than iOS because look! we have Flash and you don't! Reality is, video just plain sucks on mobile, period and until the various lunatics quit pimping which platform is cooler and actually work on fixing it, it's all going to suck.
While the points made are valid, I think this article misses out on the broader contextual change that has happened. It's not just kids looking through YouTube for how-to videos; my parents and my grandparents use it too. The availability of information has changed many aspects of many types of relationships, and this particular observation is really part of a much broader trend which has by no means ended. As technology is evolving, responding, and spreading; I'm enjoying watching the internet become increasingly more pervasive and predictive about the sort of information all people need. The internet is - without a doubt - the world's largest and greatest experiment.
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The real issue to me is their apparent zero tolerance policy. Unless I'm misreading something, if there are two incidents where your site is used for phishing, you will lose your Rackspace account. I understand that Rackspace doesn't want to go chasing these things left and right, but it seems that's a little extreme, especially when they're supposed to be infrastructure providers, and should recognize that their clients have clients, and their clients shouldn't be held entirely responsible for the actions of their clients' clients.
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Congratulations to the guys.
It may be true that the flight search market is saturated but I'm not so sure if that is the case in Australia, anecdotally when it comes to people booking flights here the first impulse seems to be to go to the carriers websites or webjet which is more big business and less useful.
Mac is a more commercial software friendly platform. While Apple isn't quite as friendly as Microsoft, they're going to do a lot more to keep things stable and friendly for developers than the wild wild west that is graphics and/or GUI-intensive development on Linux.
I don't think he was doing it to necessarily save money but to have more control over the process, or possibly to create a under-modified malt suitable for decoction mashing. None the less, he turned 50 pounds of seed into 20 pounds of seed.

There are 50+ types of specialty grains, each with distinct flavor and color contributions to the beer. In a more malt forward style like a scotch ale the grains certainly do provide a lot of the flavor profile, and there are at least 100+ strains of yeast for that matter.

Actually hop prices have dropped to half or less of their highs during last years shortage. Disclaimer, I work part time at my local home brew shop to support my brewing hobby with the employee discount.
"revolutionary" counts as opinionated (at least in my opinion...).
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we're going to offer that.
Is it just me, or are there more (R) and TM symbols in this press release than is usual for Apple PR?
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I love git, and I love github, but I honestly have not found any of the "mangle your repos through our website" features of github compelling. Perhaps it's because I don't have projects with hundreds of watchers, a couple dozen forks, and a pull request coming in every day. I just feel a lot more comfortable working with my repos on my own machine(s), with the CLI git commands. I can do what I want locally, and I have full control over any mangling or bungling, as well as whether or not said bungling gets pushed to what is often the official repo for the project (namely, the github repo of the project).
It's interesting how differently we sometimes treat "release early, release often" depending on how big the company is that's doing it. With headlines like these on the front page, I can see why so many people feel like they need their product to be absolutely perfect before they release it.

I for one have been enjoying flash on my droid, but I guess my expectations weren't set nearly high enough.
Cool, thanks for the info. I guess if it's splitting hairs, then Apple is at least reasonably justified in making the claim they do.
Good, but I think you'll have some competition ;) I'm already on my way building my scripts, which has a panel for tagging and is built also with jQuery.

Anyway, wish you good luck :)
@what, I understand the basis of the argument, I just don't think it's logical. Of course popular social services fail, regardless of their user base at time X.
What is the reason Lisp code is not written with closing parens on new lines?
I think they stopped in late 2004 or early 2005. It's a lot easier to do nowadays, weird that it took so long.
In Objective-C/Cocoa, I'm a big fan of using the "assert" macro's to throw exceptions if something happened in programming land which is the fault of the programmer. If the assertion is not true, an exception is thrown, and the Class/Method/Line-Number is printed to the console with the exception details. This makes certain programmer errors extremely easy to track down.

For example, say you have a method that prints a string, and you "require" that all callers of the method to actually provide a string, and that it's not 0 length:

- (void)printAString:(NSString *)aString
{
NSParameterAssert(aString || [aString length]);

NSLog(@"Printing a string: %@", aString);
}

If |aString| was passed as nil, or 0 length, an exception would have been thrown, showing up on the console. Class, method name, and line number, along with the exception are all printed. Super easy to find!

Asserts are also great to affirm that a method returns only "kosher" results:

- (NSData *)loadDataFromDatabase:(NSString *)databasePath
{
NSData *someData = [aDataBaseClassInstance loadData:databasePath];

NSAssert1(someData, @"The |databasePath| is invalid: %@", databasePath);

return someData;
}

If |someData| came back from 'aDataBaseClassInstance' as nil, an exception is thrown; the programmer provided a bad |databasePath| to the database file. The caller of -loadDataFromDatabase: never has to worry about being returned a nil NSData either. You can crash the app, do @try/@catch/@finally, or whatever you choose.

While you have to be careful where you use NSAssert()/NSParameterAssert() (Obj-C methods) and NSCAssert()/NSCParameterAssert() (C functions), it can make it easier to stay out of debugger land.
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As the author points out it is great when you have no firm dates in mind, perfect for planning holidays etc.
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Perhaps: "click-averse audience"?
It seems that people using windows or linux won't be able to watch the live stream which would be broadcasted on service based on "open standards"

Quote from the release:
"Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™"
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It isn't just AU based flights (though I think that was their first revision given they're from AU themselves).
Interesting - I first thought of The Wonderful O [1], a children's novel. A wholly different kind of evil there -- the villain would certainly also hate Open sOurce sOftware!

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-O-James-Thurber/dp/155611189...
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So why do people go after Microsoft when one can save to .docx format which is based on a real open standard
Since the video review requires flash to view it, I decided to fire up my nexus one to watch it. The video started at 10 fps and jumped to ~25 after 5 seconds of decoding. This seems completely contrary to what the author is claiming.
Oh, well I didn't think any of it was silly. The magical bit might have been slightly over the top, but I agree with everything else they said.
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I've enjoyed using BigCommerce... I was able to design a site that bore almost no resemblance to their default design. Most e-commerce systems start with a terrible interface and make you go through hell to improve it. BigCommerce certainly has its quirks but it's flexible.

I'm interested in learning more about what you're doing as well as any other useful voices/resources you have found in the e-commerce space. If you'd like to chat you can reach me at mhuebert / gmail.
Ah, didn't know that setting existed, much better now :)
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I guess different things resonate with different people, but to me MS's line sounds tepid and uninteresting, while Apple's is something concrete that I can agree to.
I have a burning question with regards to memristors:

I've read that memristor technology can be used both for memory and for processing; does that imply both?

If there is just one fabrication process that builds a "memristor chip", and fpga-like systems can be built where memory can be converted into processing power, and back into memory freely, then this is by far the most revolutionary technology advance I've witnessed in my life.

If not, it's still neat for many reasons - but I haven't ever seen clarification on this. Even if it's not being done in this batch or with this fab process, would it be possible/not stupid hard to do, after some investment?
I've been surprised how often Flash has come in handy on my Evo. From the WordPress Audio player, to random FunnyOrDie videos, to NYTimes infographics, even for watching embedded YouTube without having to leave the context of a web page.

It's not perfect but it seems to work pretty well 9/10 times. It is very useful and nice to have, no matter how much the diehard Apple fanboys want to believe otherwise.
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Talk to a bank who can represent you. Typically they come up with a pitchbook/deck and try to pitch to prospective companies. They charge anywhere between 5-7% depending on your business. Best way to get to a banker who can sponsor is to talk to a lawyer who is in the startup world.

If you want to send direct messages, do the pitching and negotiations yourself, try linkedin paid service.
Oh come on, you're not even trying :-)

Microsoft's sentence is a compromise written by a committee. Apple's identity statement is beautiful (even if you don't agree with it) and I would be shocked if there were more than 3 people involved in the whole process of its creation.

Each sentence starts by drawing focus to an ideal of the company, and then mentions products Apple makes according to that ideal.

1. "Designs" instead of "makes" shifts the emphasis immediately to the abstract, away from the mechanical process of assembly. There's a contrast drawn between the "personal" computers and the "professional" software. "Personal" describes what the computer is, all the time. "Professional" is just what the computer might do, and it goes away when you're done with it.

2. "Leads" would be a weasel word when relating to some market segment, but not when it's paired with "revolution." Apple styles itself as a moral leader, not a business leader. "iPods" and "iTunes" are mentioned separately, maintaining the being/doing dichotomy.

3a. Abstract "reinventing" is the goal here, even though physical phones are the medium. The author realized that claiming to also lead this revolution would sound redundant, but couldn't resist using the word "revolution". So he used the adjective form "revolutionary". This is someone whose aesthetic sensibilities, acute though they are, can only minutely deflect his drive to get the word out about these revolutions.

3b. All the verbs so far have been ongoing (present progressive). The past and future are relegated to the last half of the last sentence. "Has... introduced" is technically past perfect but the adverb "recently" pulls it back toward the present. Even "the future" in this sentence is merely a noun, preceded by the present progressive verb "is defining." "The future of mobile media and computing devices" is the only category of product hanging without an Apple product to exemplify it. In this statement of identity, the distant past does not exist and the future is not fixed.

I typed all this at midnight, so it isn't very good or very thorough. But you get the idea :-)
It is like asking why we need special facilities in building for the disables. Why didn't we treat everybody the same and don't provide any special facilities for disable?

I do think that site owner of any scale IS responsible to abuse complains, but the scale of the company do make a different. The influence and harmfulness of a fake shop in Amazon is not same as a fake shop in a very-small-online-shop. Thus people expect Amazon to take action instantly.

A start-up is not possibile to react as fast as large company, so why shouldn't we give them a reasonable time for them to do their job?