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I agree that managing multi language sites/apps adds a significant people cost. This is often woefully underestimated by the business. It's not the tech so much as the content. It's also hard to manage the content unless the development environment supports it.

However, you can do yourself a huge favour by starting out using UTF8 across the board -- for Europe/US, in particular, and this sweeps up Arabic, Cyrillic, and a few others en route. Retro-fitting character encoding is laborious and, for the data, may not be viable (due to time, effort, and cost) if there is enough of it.
The airframe is based on their existing UAV family, which means it is pretty small and so the plane may not have a full set of conventional control surfaces to start with.

It could also be a case of reporter-translation - anyway the film implied they had replaced all the moving control surfaces, including the ones in the tail. So it would have included ailerons etc if it had them.

(I used to work in this facility on a different project, and it was one of the most interesting jobs I ever had. Just a shame it's so far from civilization.)
Maybe you're on the wrong forum. Hackers do stuff just because they're curious.

[edit: he should have a monetization strategy!!]
You are right about the issue with the Beta. That never did cross my mind. I guess "Beta" is the new disclaimer and I got sucked right into it.

I have been thinking about individual users - but the 30 day 'all you can convert' plan might work very well with a company.
Not the best moment in MS' history but some of those questions are kinda "low" too: people seriously expecting that there will be IE9 for Linux? Come on, get real!
i guess Apple will somehow port that feature out into the iPad sometime into the future... Pretty sure Jobs did not see the iPad becoming a family shared pc substitute household device...
Thanks, some good points. I like the "trial projects" idea.

do you think the name infringes? Our name came from the concept of "a match-making service" - which is an idea as old as the hills...
I don't think that match.com can own the word "match" or the concept of matching people.
I think you're confusing moral nihilism (the philosophical proposition) and moral/immoral behavior. The two are not directly correlated.
I'd rate this a lot higher than the guy who made a big effort out of trying to build Simcity city with the largest possible population.

SimCity guy spent years on his city. I don't know how long this guy spent, but it can't have been nearly that long since the game is only a year or so old. It probably took some reasonable number of hours -- probably less than the average Minecraft player spends playing Minecraft without producing anything that anyone ever wants to look at.

Secondly, SimCity guy was trying to get the highest possible score within the parameters of the game as defined, which is less creative than this guy who is using the game in an unexpected and novel way.
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Do you lurk on the ESRI forums or have you been posting. It seems like it would be great marketing to post links to your website when people ask questions about converting, if done in a low key non spammy sort of way.
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Lack of Websockets support so disheartening it almost makes me want to cry.
"hey! Please install a plugin[1]?"

http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/
A lot of europeans are quite unsure if they want their data trusted to U.S. companies.
Flap means something to pilots, but not to popular audiences, I guess. What I gather from the article is that jets of air replicate the forces that the ailerons, rudder, and elevators normally provide.

From watching the video, it also seems like it's missing flaps, because of the shape of the wing. Landing is something they can worry about later ;)
Mercurial does come with everything out of the box in the form of standard extensions that you just need to enable if you need them:

* mq is a "staging area on steroids": http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/08/a-git-users-guide-to-mercu...

* bookmarks lets you name your cheaper-than-Git branches: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/mercurial-workflows-branch...
Well, the nation of Israel pointed to Abraham as the founder, which is about 1900-1800 BC. But the story of the Exodus was in the time of Moses, around 1200 BC. The written history (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers) are traditionally attributed to Moses himself, although Wikipedia gives a range of possible dates up to the late 5th century BC.

Chronology:

Abraham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham#Abraham_and_the_biblica...

Moses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses#Death

Exodus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus#Authorship_and_date
While not exactly 'flapless', blown flaps have used compressed air as part of the flap system for quite some time (it's even had time to fall out of favor due to complexity and costs!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blown_flaps

(Though it does look like the article linked refers to ailerons and elevators, not flaps proper).
If this actually works without any roadblock like catches, I wonder if Apple will start modifying the iPad to make chromeOS (or any other OS for that matter) can't run on it. I don't know if there's anything you can do from a Hardware perspective to stop someone from installing a different OS, but the cat and mouse game will be fun to watch nevertheless.
Finding one's whole be available past that one feature you need is harder.

It took me a while to parse this as "Finding ones who'll be available after finishing that one feature you need is harder." :)
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I agree, but I think the biggest net gain is how things like this show how cool and limitless Minecraft is, which will surely result in new users from the attention something like this gets.
He’ll assign a task, tell you exactly how you should do it, and then "stop by" repeatedly to check on progress.

Let's not forget the rest of the story: Dick is not a dick by accident. He chooses this management style to keep his people on edge. Do you recognize any of these other things...

1. Dick will omit one or two critical considerations about the task that you have no way of knowing. You're expected to gain this knowledge by osmosis or through the ether. It's your fault, not his, if you don't.

2. Dick assigns no priorities to any of the tasks he assigns. Since by definition, there will always be something not done, he will choose that thing to delve into. You can't win.

3. Dick waits until 4:55 to start a conversation. Once is an instance. Twice is a coincidence. After that, it's a pattern.

4. Dick only uses first names. If you don't know who he's talking about, you're the idiot.

5. Dick will pull his people off partially finished projects all the time for the emergency du jour. Then he will act as if he never did this when the bumped project is not done. Again it's always your fault, not his.

6. Dick will always find some outlying case no one has ever thought about and drill down 8 levels deep until he's the only one who knows what he's talking about. Everyone else is an idiot.

7. If Dick wants something, he yells. If he doesn't get it, he yells louder. If he still doesn't get it, he cusses.

8. When you least expect it, Dick is manic. The greatest guy in the world, as happy as can be, and everyone's buddy. Don't worry, things will be back to normal tomorrow.

9. Dick never uses formal functional specifications and rarely commits to anything in email. That way, when things are not built exactly the way they are needed, he can't be pinned down. It's always someone else's fault.

10. People come and people go, but Dick is still a dick and always will be.
OK: There is no earthly reason why MS would want to add massively to the development effort of IE (test matrices, abstraction layers, etc etc), in ways that would in no way benefit their customers. Their goal is to provide the best browser tailored to the OS that they sell.

And the idea (by extension) that any app that works with standards-based content should be cross-platform is barmy.
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OTA sync? Wireless is still not fast enough for that. And what's the point if you still need to be in your house? 3G networks are definitely not fast enough, which leaves USB sync.
This is a startup.
...or Jobs is hoping every family member gets their own iPad.
FYI, Jim's doing a talk on Conduit at Strange Loop in St. Louis, Oct. 14-15th, tickets still available. http://strangeloop2010.com/talks/14497
IE is the only (common, useful) browser that doesn't run on Linux. It's not that absurd to hope that future versions might be cross-platform.
Part of me has the reaction you labeled prudish, too. The other part of me thinks this is sort of a rich-people's problem caused by a cognitive surplus and a societal decision to subsidize whatever he is doing right now, probably because he is a student. Yeah, Minecraft might be wasted time, but it isn't obviously more wasted than time spent acing the heck out of a degree in Studio Art. [I'm slagging excessively on art degrees. I simulated logic circuits for my Computer Engineering courses -- built an entire CPU, one line of VRML or whatever it is called at a time. It also has no practical application because it was thirty years behind state of the art, but it was a learning experience.]

Besides, the nice thing about students is that they have the rest of their lives to do something important.

I mean, personal experience here: to at least some degree, what I will do today is important: I'm helping a company help their thousands of customers help their millions of customers. Yay. If you were to flip back five years to the second, I think I was probably in a WoW raid. And there were spreadsheets for that WoW raid, and a complicated compensation system to maximize participation from 60+ participants (40 on any given night), and political issues, and blah blah blah. Five years later, does anyone remember that we killed the dragon and got the purple pixels in 3 hours instead of in 5 because of obsessive optimization? Probably not. Did obsessive optimization really help me out in the intervening five years? Oh heck yes. Is it going to help my client out today? Oh heck yes, except 5% of "really freaking big number" is better than 5% of what my sales are.

Who knows where this kid will be in five years? He could be an architect. He could be a project lead. He could do something really important, like being a dad.
Here's the link announcing they will be managing the campaign:

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/depct/and_now_for_a_wo...

Quote from the link:
"See, Microsoft is getting ready to release Internet Explorer 9, and they reached out to us because they genuinely want to start a dialog with the reddit community. In fact, they've taken the unprecedented step of putting the reddit team in charge of this entire campaign."
I think building is still a lot better than watching though.
Absolutely... but that assumes two things:
a) you're the person with the idea AND
b) you're the developer.

If you're not A or B then you need to find somebody that is...

I came up with this idea because I was A for quite a while... but I did want to get into the space. I'm good at executing, but at the time wasn't so good with coming up with ideas (you may still think that is the case ;) )

I also know that business-development and marketing are not my strongest areas of knowledge....
so I went in search of business guys who had a great, marketable idea but nobody to build it for them...

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one... though maybe I'm in the minority on this particular news site :)

Also - I'm not sure if I read it from Seth Godin or 37signals, but I do like the idea that if you can't convince at least one other person, then maybe you should reconsider the idea...
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11. You keep Outlook calendar up to date with all your meetings, but Dick will schedule his own (useless) meetings over them because he thinks he is that important. Dick will never keep his Outlook calendar up to date as that would allow you to know where he will be.
I had great fun writing the traditional "Cloak of Darkness" exercise for Interactive Fiction in pure AWK:

http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/if/if.awk

For comparison, here are all the published examples of this exercise in a variety of systems:

http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/

I won't say it's the best tool for this job, but I feel that the awkishness provides a certain elegance to some aspects.
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But..

1. Part of 'what's out there' is still limited by attempts to remain compatible with IE6. Especially looking at the 'top X' sites. Yes, some sites are ignoring IE6 these days, but I bet when they started researching that wasn't the norm (and it's probably still not the norm today).

2. Spoke to developers and partners - yay. Except the majority 'partners' they speak with likely are very MS centric. This isn't a "MS devs are dumb" comment, but I speak with many people across multiple platforms, and there's a shocking lack of understanding (or even caring) about other platforms across the board. Many "mac only" devs don't know much about Windows, for example.

If the majority of people they spoke with were MS partners, they're going to get a very skewed input base. Did they go out of their way to consult with anti-IE devs? Did they talk to Rails/Mac-based shops to see what they're doing? Did the reach out to Opera or user groups (if any exist)?

"What they were going to do in the future" may have been dictated by their understanding of a future MS roadmap.
Well yes, that was the point I was making :)
Aside from anything else, saying "act like a man" is sexist.

It's assuming that men should bear burdens that others shouldn't have to. That they should not complain when faced with hardship (whilst others can) that they should take harm and not object because that is just their position in the order of things. It's an extension of men being expendable - http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm (most here have seen that before I'm sure).

FWIW I, at least in part, agree with that sexist position that I've just espoused. But I recognise it as sexist.
once we've separated this into "learning" and "building" components

We should not separate them like this. Building something is often a great way to learn about it.
Isn't this still a problem in a dynamic language? For example in Erlang let's say my state is the 2-tuple. In version 2 I make it a 3-tuple but it stays the same in version 3 so it has no upgrade code. Consider the same situation with any code where the middle version update adds data to your state.

I'm not sure why being statically typed would make hot code loading impossible. Can't you always interject some transformation function between updates? At the very worse you could have code to serialize your data structure right before update, then another function after the update to deserialize and turn it into the new structure. Am I missing something?
Dick is insecure in his own abilities and has probably hit the wall per the Peter Principle. Good managers get out of the way of their developers; Dicks micromanage and hamper the creativity and growth of their developers because they fear that one day a developer may make them irrelevant. Nobody likes to work for a Dick.
Looks like it went down overnight, but the server is now running again.
Okay, but if you look, the only (stated) reason they’re now adding SVG, for example, is that “Acid3 is one of the sites that is frequently mentioned in the community.” It’s not like SVG is otherwise used all over the web. (Though it’s starting to be a little bit, and will be much more once IE supports it)

As the browser with dominant usage share, Microsoft has (and had to a much greater extent 5 years ago) great power to hold new technologies back. For them to turn around and say “well, people don’t use those yet, so we decided they didn’t matter” is pretty rich. I think “arse about” is just the right description.
"Find real live people who are potential customers and talk to them."

Yes, do this. Find 10 actual real-world users, and talk to each of them for 30 minutes. If you need some good tips on finding users, convincing them to talk to you, etc., see Steve Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany". At the very worst, this will still be less stressful than sales or political canvassing, because you're only asking people for their opinions (which they love to share) and not their money (which they prefer to keep). You'll probably need a list of at least 100 users before you find 10 who will talk to you.

I _guarantee_ this will open your eyes, and save you months of wasted effort. Been there, done that.
Unless I'm mistaken there's no chapter about functional programming in Python (lambda functions, filter(), map() and reduce()).

I really think it's acceptable to introduce these function to newbies, I'll go as far as saying it's actually a good thing.

I like the chapter on automated testing.
yeah - that what I said today.

And now there's 300 less IE6 to worry about.
Of course they are. If you have scaling problems that means you have a ton of users. A hard problem but I'd rather have it than not have it. Same with capital gains tax. I'd rather make enough that I have to pay attention to this stuff then not ever have to think about it because I've never been financially successful enough for it to matter (and with taxes you're not "losing money", you're paying for the services that helped you get there. Of course that's not as clearly the case in the US tax system but that's the idea anyway).

If everything were effortless then anyone could do it.
It's been done. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-CHdukO7to
I personally know of very few "potential co-founders" that don't have a day-job. The only ones I know that have "plenty of time" are unemployed or students... that is a small sub-set of the available talent.

I also wanted to make sure that people that wanted to commit a larger amount could weed out people that are only able to commit to a few hours per month.

Finally - we were also thinking about the possibility of people such as lawyers/accountants joining up - who would in fact only need to commit an hour or two per month to add value. Obviously this means the site is open to much more than just equity-share/co-founder arrangements
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I wouldnt give up on adwords yet.

(from your site)

If I want GPX to XLS or SHP to KML..thats what I will search for. I don't see your ad there.

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Hm. I guess it works for Enterprise etc, but not for small groups. I've got a high school club, 12 members. We use(d) Dropbox until we "ran out of space". Its $9.99/mo to "upgrade" and we ALL have to pay it.

So the business model (from our point of view) is: pay nothing until you're hooked, then its $1,400/year. Ouch! We have to find a different solution.

And what is that money paying for? Of course from Dropbox's point of view its "what the market will bear". But from the customer point of view?

They say its to "increase your space". But its MY disk drive, I already bought it. So that seems phoney right off.

Maybe for all the network transfer costs? Hm, we have 1Gb, to copy it all every week between all of our computers would annualize to a few dollars, not $1400.00.

I know they seem successful, but they're still leaving some folks out in the cold with this business model.
Please do point me at this other service. :)
Understood. I just don't see why you believe it's better even when it's simulated building. This sort of thing seems amazing to me, but not necessarily praiseworthy.
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Facebook generates a static url for each photo you upload. Regardless of what your privacy settings are, anyone can access that photo if he knows url of that photo. I don't think that this should be the ideal behaviour? I tried changing my privacy settings such that photos I am tagged in, should be visible to 'only me', but regardless of this, anyone who knows this url can see this photo. I think this is a big privacy leak issue, or am I missing some point ?
They tell me not to feed the trolls but here goes anyway.

You have constructed a straw man. He is not saying that one IE9 problem corresponds to one problem with the catholic church - in fact you made that up! Instead the argument is that, when pressed on issues that have unpopular answers, that are difficult to answer, or that have bad press, the team sidestepped them. This is made evident by the tl;dr version but is just as obvious if you read the original thread.

It is impolite to put words (and other ridiculous things) in other people's mouths.
Agreed, it could probably be solved some better way. I can see the reasoning behind doing it this way though. Drag and drop is something the user is presumably already doing, so installing a new program is associated with just copying a file into a folder. My favorite apps on windows were my favorites long before I ever touched a Mac system because they behaved this way (e.g. PuTTY).
We've already added the ability to put in an idea - but it's possible that the person joining doesn't have an idea - but wants to get involved with somebody that does...

thus the "pitch" field on our form was intended to mean "either your business idea or why you think you'd be a great founder"
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The authors of this article are "semantic jockeys." First, they define a "theory of everything" as a theory that will unify disparate theories of physics. Then, further down, they define "theory of everything" as "one complete and consistent set of fundamental laws of nature that explain every aspect of reality."

Unifying 3 inconsistent domains of academic physics; and explaining "every aspect of reality" are two different things.

The authors use their authority as academic physicists to corrupt our everyday language. They have no credibility as scientists.
How would one take this git flow model and add a third environment, staging, to sit between master and develop?

My initial thought would be to not change anything in the structure and to simply run a deployment script to export to the staging site using scp/ssh/rsync and ensure things are working properly before doing the same thing on production.
I think we're both looking at the same coin from different sides and disagreeing. As I understand my and your argument, we're arguing cup is half empty vs half full. My "half empty" argument is centred on the how stressful it is for people to go through these "good problems".
tl;dr: the acronym-avoidant will loathe acronym-rich scenarios.
I too assumed they were just the first ones with the idea. I've come up with a thousand and one amazing ideas only to find out that they've already been done--I actually invented the internet... It's encouraging seeing an example like this where quality matters.
I understand there's additional effort needed. What I don't understand is, why you and some others keep repeating that it's such big problem to solve. It really isn't, based on my experience. There's nothing massive about it. If nothing else, they could open-source it, since it's already free and someone else will write a port. Layout engine(css+html) and js engine would suffice for most use-cases.