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Not to be a grouch, but most of this seems puerile and borderline irresponsible to me. Source code should be concise and beautiful, not a repository for unfunny attempts at humor by programmers.
That particular market is snapping at Nokia's heels as well. While its sales have stagnated, new contenders have risen very fast in the ultra-low cost market

[http://toostep.com/debate/two-year-old-micromax-becomes-indi...]
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The trilogy of Verizon suck. This is exactly why I switched carriers, they never have current products. (other than the Droid line)
Who told you a union supporter believes that what is "fair" to workers should also be allowable by corporations?
They're right. Where this went off the rails was whatever process that convinced a coffee shop to invest in Groupons when they were so close to the edge that missing their number by a couple thousand dollars caused them to miss payroll.
It seemed to me that Diaspora is trying to hold the code and project together, and the open source community isn't exactly the best for holding code together. We have forks all over the place. I've got a fork, you've got a fork; we all have forks and no spoons.

Is it better for the world for the open source community to fork left and right and ultimately risk fragmenting the market to fail to compete against facebook, or is it better for the open source community to work together as a singular voice and produce something spectacular?

I remain neutral in the answer, and I think Diaspora has a difficult path ahead of it.

It would be more interesting in my mind if the community actually worked together rather than forking to compete against Facebook. What if this was the opportunity for the open source community to rise up as a single voice and strike Facebook down? Afterall, we failed against Microsoft. Can we learn from our marketing and sales mistakes with Desktop Linux to strike a blow to closed source software? I don't know if it this project or some future project. I don't know if it is the slow march that will prevail. All I know is that the more we fragment, the easier we are to discount.

Well, I'm going to shave my beard now.
Here are a few reasons why traditional musical notation is far superior to timed falling bars (such as this Synthesia thing, or Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc). These are elements which provide important and useful information and detail to the performer.

- key signature

- chord shape

- exact relative duration (whole, half, quarter, eighth, etc.)

- dynamics

- phrasing

- articulation

- time signature

- measures

... and on and on. Traditional notation has worked really well for hundreds of years. Once learned, it is not so mystical or difficult, and actually makes a lot of sense.
There's been some interesting research on that in airline fares. Airlines are pretty careful these days not to engage in any private collusion, but they have quite complex dances of intention-signalling via their fare raises/decreases, their pre-announcements of those fare changes, their press conferences at which they discuss what they might do in the future (and what actions by their competitors might influence them one way or another), etc.

The goal is to avoid price wars and maintain some sort of soft price-fixing, but to do it all entirely publicly without direct discussions. It's not as blatant anymore as it used to be, but at its height (until some 1990s lawsuits), they were effectively conveying things like price-floor offers, e.g. "if you don't cut on route X, I won't either", but via completely public press conferences that openly said things like, "we're not planning to cut fares in the next 3 months on this route, unless a fare cut by Competitor A or B out of these hubs forces us to".
I totally agree, and I think the best way to get the community to work together and prevent forks is with a less restrictive license and no contributor agreement.
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I just some got QT animation working. For some reason I had felt like I never would down it. Have you found coding success to be really exhilarating?
That makes me sad.

I go back to my cave now.
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That's a very black and white, econ-101 worldview. Real life is filled with many more shades of gray.
That's a good idea, for now I made the signup link a bit more distinct.
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The roads were built for multi-ton automobiles and bicycles. Because automobiles are less flexible than bikes in terms of radii and lane widths, their needs set the constraints for those factors. By "posted speeds", I assume you mean the designated upper-limit. No one is proposing that cyclists should be able to ride on roads with minimum limits that cyclists cannot maintain. This isn't that difficult to understand.

Bicycles can travel safely with automobiles. Automobiles, on the other hand, can often not travel safely with each other. Perhaps you mean "quickly" rather than "safely"?

Is your username some kind of a joke?
It's amazing, when you look at a simple operating system like TinyOS, just how simple some of the things are. (Once you start actually hacking on the OS code, you realize that they're also very finnicky and easy to mess up if you don't know what you're doing. And hard to debug.)
How did I get my first paying customer?

One of many stories...

I had an application I had written for my own personal use. I was talking to a guy who asked how I did something. I told him I had written this program. He said "I'll pay you $200 for a copy of that." So I took a weekend to add copy protection, and accepted his check. Pleased that I actually had a commercial product, I then spent the next couple weeks putting together a web site advertising it as a product and things went from there.
Colbert's faux opposing rally http://www.keepfearalive.com/ .

I also thought it was odd in the source of both pages is a commented out link that solicited donations.
Your graph has even more flaws than guelo's graph. In addition to having the same flaw I pointed out in his graph (it looks at wages, not comp), it also doesn't give magnitudes at all. All it gives you is relative proportions.
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To expand on that: it's fun to take a look at the assembly code "gcc -O3" produces. It's absolutely wild: even after staring at it for a while, I often have no idea what clever tricks gcc used to turn the C code into that assembly code. It does a better job of making fast, compact code than I suspect I ever could.

There was a time when C compilers generated crappy assembly code, because that was easy for the compiler writers. That time is long past, with exceptions for a very few situations where the compiler misses a trick that a human can do.
What does this have to do with Apple and the App Store?

re: "having a hard time believing"... read the complaint. Apparently Skyhook has a source from "Company X" (educated guesses on that time period place it as Samsung) that complained that Google was leaning on them into dropping Skyhook from its phone launch, despite Skyhook being "superior".
Ask HN: Product Naming
Two things. One, I'd like to get some feedback about the name of my app. It's a survey app called Goodgecko... but is that the right name? Is it too quirky and vague? Should I be more direct? Opinions here please!

https://goodgecko.com/s/q3lynIwZ

Two, I'd like to open up a discussion on product naming.

We all know that meaningful domain names are hard to get these days. This forces app-builders / startups to get increasingly creative in their naming. Cute mis-spellings, using "alternative" TLDs like ".ly", completely made-up words, being descriptive, not being descriptive, appending -app to the name... there are so many possible permutations.

So here's the question:

How did you name your product?

BONUS POINTS: Give 3 top tips for product naming, if you can! :)
So let me understand this. Screw over the customers who hand you loads of money to satisfy customers who frankly don't want to use your product regardless of quality?
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The description of the algorithm is eccentric. I'm guessing it's written by a lawyer. It's not the way cryptographers or hardware people talk.
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And unfortunately for us, it is not a decision that we get to make which is where I sense some of the anger stemmed from in the article.
I recently noticed the same (that the tradeoff of price vs. capacity seems odd lately).

The author was criticized for failing to notice that one of the drives he included in his chart, a Seagate Cheetah, was actually a SCSI server drive: I think this drive must be inadequately described or incorrectly classified online because I had it come up in my own Newegg search results for desktop drives, and I was similarly confused by it. So that's on Newegg or Seagate, not the author.

The point of the article is still valid, I think, provided you look at the BOTTOM of his datapoints (though he actually tried to fit a line to the mean).

When I say I think the current price/size distribution is odd, I must say what I would expect instead. I think I would have expected one of two things: either that it be like processors, in which increases in price grant diminishing returns near the top end, or to be a kind of "lazy J" shape like RAM (mainstream RAM is cheap, rising in price as you move right, but small, old obsolete RAM can be overpriced rising toward the left). Instead, hard drive pricing seems to be tending to a very linear ratio so there's no obvious best value point anymore. That's the real take-away.
Actually there is a fine line. Is it the mortgage broker's fault if a homeowner has to declare bankruptcy due to the broker promising her that dream house and selling her a completely unaffordable loan?
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I hope it didn't come across as nerd raging. Well, I guess it was nerd raging, but I really do want the project to succeed.
Most cyclists die because they are going straight through an intersection where a car is turning right.

The worst is when the bike lane is sandwiched between automobile traffic on one side and parked cars on the other. That way, not only do you have the problem you point out, but there's also the risk of going headfirst into some guy and his open car door.
The Arc was the last mouse I owned and I loved it, it was probably the most comfortable and usable mouse I have used. As I have noted in other post on this topic I stopped using it for the magic trackpad. Anyway I would have to agree the mouse is definitely an area where Microsoft produces some of he best products in the industry, out of all the Microsoft mice I have ever used the Arc was head and tails above them.
You just obliterated like 3 hours of my time. Good job!
Haha. It's impossible to hate on Groupon when Andrew Mason writes so well and so sincerely. Good luck haters. That's a good blog response.
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This tactic surprisingly works very well with Chinese websites. Most Chinese firms have reached the conclusion that a short domain name with letters and numbers work even better than a cute, clever wordplay. Those names don't work in Chinese anyway as Chinese is based off ideographs. Short combinations of letters and numbers (especially with 8s) work well.
"Love the simplicity, wish I could do more. Maybe that's not what you're going for - in which case, awesome!"

Thanks! That the idea, at least for now. It used to have GTD-style context and various other features, but I almost never used them personally, so I gradually removed them. I'm open to more advanced features though, as long as I have real-world use cases to back them up.

"Third Notes: Your feedback logo is missing from the first page, just has the link. Intentional?" Yes, I admit there's not much rational reason for it, I just don't feel like duplicates.

"Also, when I want to delete something, I would want something better than a "pop up" asking me if I wanted to delete it - a bit obtrusive. Better to have a fade out or something clever."

It was like that once, but on some occasions I accidentally removed tasks when I was dragging and fiddling around. Then I realized deletion is a fairly rare operation, most of the time I just mark tasks as complete, so I thought a prompt strikes a good balance. I guess I could make it more ajaxy. :)

"the shades of grey kind of mask the tasks etc and don't quite pop out in a way that makes it skimmable."

I'm trying to figure out a good colour as well. The tasks used to be a darker grey with white text, which had much more contrast. Maybe I should go back to that. I kinda chose the easier colour transitions for aesthetic reasons.
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dude this is Vanity Fair, the most show-offy anything in the world

btw this is one of my favorite articles from the magazine, though
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here in Brazil we all pronounce it S-Q-L.
Actually, I don't see it as the broker's fault, and I think it is a net negative for our society that so many people (especially the people who sign and aren't able to pay) do think it is the broker's fault. If the broker is lying or otherwise being fraudulent, that's a different story.

FWIW, I don't believe this is what the coffee shop owner believes.
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It'll be interesting to see if these catch on or go the way of so many "iPod killers". The iPad depends more on 3rd-party apps than a phone, and apps have been a weak point for Android so far. They'll also have to compete without the huge marketing campaigns funded by the telcos that gave Android phones traction.
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I don't have time to slice it every way possible, but I found this with a minute of time on google

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_10...

Please show your unflawed version and tell me what point you think it is making.
I would have to agree with most of this post. I gave IE9 a full run yesterday, using it as my primary browser and honestly there is nothing huge that I miss from Chrome.

Although this may not get some people going back to IE, I think it will definitely stop people from changing in the first place.

Serious props to Microsoft and the IE team for this release.
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This a thousand times. I understand that not all traffic is created equally, but there's no value in no traffic. Technology problems can be surmounted. Solving the traffic problem is hard.
Standards organizations frequently have very good people from many of those companies working closely together under circumstances that make it very clear how much the company trusts those people.
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I bet you could play Dwarf Fortress over this. I'm not being facetious: on windows, using msys/mingw or cygwin term, the game looks terrible: not all the characters render and the font choices are limited and uniformly inadequate. If this thing's fonts are better or it's terminal emulation a better match for DF's idiocincracies... Even if not, I'd rather hack on a javascript program to make it work well for that than try to figure out xterm's code.
The problem is that even if you made a contract between the colluding companies unenforceable, the companies would be glad to collude anyways because it is in their best interest to maintain the agreement.
Yes, Google prides themselves on that, and it looks bad when they pull things like this, but their generosity is not unbounded.

But they do an awful lot of stuff with the Android platform that is really "open" without equal in the market, and I'm pretty sure they're still qualified to keep pushing that angle.

I agree with you on why this is a story. But it's not a very compelling one. What are these Android enthusiasts going to do? Go with Apple?
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For those that care: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061854549/ ( Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions )

Basically, the forces of darkness muster and arm themselves; those seeking the light must be diligent.
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$1.99 seems to only cover .INFO domains, $8.99 for .COM domains.
Is there a full list of the companies involved somewhere? I'm finding it hard to find.
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Well let's call it "learning large"...

...serious hats off to them if they've learned enough to be dangerous (literally)...
Before AppEngine, that's the only way I would write GWT apps. I loathe Tomcat. (I know there are other J2EE servers). I used Rails on the backend. It worked amazingly well.
Some economists believe that banning such agreements could harm Silicon Valley's open, collaborative model.

Banning such secret agreements would harm an "open" model? Irony, anyone?
Ask HN: Finance-oriented startup ideas?
Hi all. I'm an engineer by day, MBA student by night. I've been lurking on HN for a while, but was hoping to get some startup ideas for a business plant comp. I'm not trying to build the next Renaissance Technologies, just something useful that combines finance and technology. I'm no web hacker, but I'm comfortable writing code.
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It sounds more like hacker speak. They tend to communicate the most important information not in code or math, but in (as unambiguous as can be made possible) english. It's the sense of "I'm not giving you a crack, I'm just describing it, you can build your own if you really want it".
These can also be seen as opportunities to sell a normal person something (software or a service).

Imagine a service as follows:

As Geekz, we know your privacy is important. So we provide security monitoring services to protect you. (i.e. we provide a DNS server and go through each one and determine if legitimate and install Norton blah-blah to protect you); we also know that your software is important, so we have a CD vault and will be able to remotely install or fix software as you have problems. We also know your passwords are you life, so we provide a web centric password vault that you have access to any time either by the internet or by phone.

If you have a good enough salesman, then you can sell it.
That links to an older version - the current version seems to be at http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/xv6/
Thanks, it's been a lot of hard work for a lot of people making all of this happen ... I am glad to see you're happy, but am most curious what else you think can be improved. How can I help you get to the 100% happiness point? Please feel free to drop a comment in here or email with any feedback you have. For technical bugs, the established process is to indeed go via Connect, so this would NOT replace the correct/official feedback process ... But I promise to read up every comment left as a response to this one and try to follow up on as many of them as are actionable. I am obviously under NDA so cannot always discuss the internals/specifics of what we are doing, nor am I officially a spokesperson for Microsoft, so please keep those in mind when reading my responses :-)
GitHub is very polished and they add useful features like pull requests, issue tracking, code comparison view, etc. often.

They are very well setup for "social", open source coding projects. It's easy to fork someone's repo, add a fix then issue a pull request to them.
and thats how you respond to a PR crisis. wp groupon, wp.
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constantly, when working on things I am passionate about that is! It's what makes "the grind" tolerable.
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I think it is horrible. It shifts blame entirely onto the shop, doesn't explain how it went wrong, isn't clear about what what GroupOn is doing to help this business, and doesn't give any clue how they will avoid this situation in the future.

If I were a small business owner looking to use GroupOn I wouldn't feel comforted by this response in the least.
The security of HDCP seems immaterial. Hasn't Blu-Ray been cracked?
I don't think you'd even need a new Blu-Ray player if you had a genuine one. HDCP is aimed mainly at protecting the video stream between the disk and and display on the monitor, to keep people from grabbing the video off a DVI or HDMI cable.

It's not clear to me why you'd need to manufacture hardware at all to exploit it, unless I'm missing something about what part of the system this is breaking. HDCP negotiates an encrypted connection between video sources and HDCP-enabled monitors/TVs, over standard physical links like DVI and HDMI. It's what normally keeps you from just hooking your Blu-Ray player up to a DVI or HDMI input port on a computer and recording the video stream. But with the HDCP key leaked, can't someone write a driver that makes the PC's input port authenticate itself as an HDCP-compliant "monitor"? Is there something in hardware that'd still have to be done to make that work?
One side effect of canned themes is that you will look similar to other startups doing the same thing. This could be an advantage in the beginning, because the site will feel familiar to new customers who are used to the theme. You will want to differentiate if distinctive branding becomes part of your strategy.
One annoying bug/feature i just noticed is that when you delete a folder from the favorites view it closes the favorites bar. When wanting to delete a few folders kind of annoying.

I will collate a small list of items if you like and shoot them through to your email.
But again, great work.