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Motorola EX115 & EX128: First Stylish Dual SIM Phones in India
Motorola India Private Limited introduced its first two dual-SIM handsets in India. The Motorola EX115 is a new, dual-SIM QWERTY phone and the Motorola EX128 is a stylish touchscreen dual-SIM phone with stylus. Both the Motorola EX128 and EX115 will bring cheer this festive season with the offer of social connectivity, entertainment-on-the-go with a 3-megapixel camera, video camcorder, large colour display and an expandable memory of up to 32GB3 micro-SD card.
I've seen the 'no alpha' repeated a few times, but can you give your use cases for alpha in jpeg? I understand the need for alpha channels in gif/png, and have fought the lack of alpha support for years, but for jpg's I don't remember ever needing it, nor can I easily imagine a situation where it would be needed. So I'm interested to learn about where you'd use transparency in jpgs.
Relax :)
It's not about Google vs. Microsoft. The world has simply gotten smarter about such things, and most people now accept auto-update as a good idea.
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I am in awe every time I read some of Norvig's code, it seems to be so simple, short and readable. He is truly a coding master :))
Sounds like the Yelp board blew it.
Absolutely, and yours as well. One of us will admit that they are terrible at understanding Apple's direction.
It depends on the economic (dis)incentives around such an action, and they will be the main determining factor, as opposed to technicalities. Whether it will be much easier with IPv6 than with IPv4 - the time will show.

Much like with the a migration itself - which is a balance of the cost of hinging on the IPv4 only (investing into NATs and support), or investing into IPv6 infra as well as a strategic way forward. I have no material interest in either (gee, FWIW the NAT mess could provide much more billable work:), but having helped non-single digit hundred of people people un-shoot themselves with NATs in the past 10 years, I think IPv6 is cleaner architecturally in the long run - because it is simpler.

But I think we both agree it's a matter of economics. What is simpler and cheaper to use. And the fact that the p2p substrate in the heavily-NATted environment is a dead-on competitive advantage - so no-one is going to play the charity and release their code for the benefit of the community.

But maybe the time will show differently.
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There's http://xp-dev.com/ as well that has unlimited repositories and users, only pay for the space that you use

(disclaimer: own and run xp-dev.com)
For a much better look at English grammar, check out Grammar Girl: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

Her blog covers English usage and grammar issues in simple, "quick and dirty" tips. So you'll usually get a quick explanation of why something works the way it does, and then get a quick tip explaining how to remember it.

I also bought her book (which is just collected posts from the blog.)
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We are living in a technological world where every now and then something or the other techno gadgets are introduced by our determined developers. They are just focusing in inventing the best of all computer systems with a tinge of extra comfort ability and desirable operations.
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OLAP on SQL comes at a cost, too (which is why some people are diving into analytics and reporting with NoSQL tools, where you can add one server without large expenses).

On CSV/XML, my point wasn't clear enough: I wanted to underline the fact that it's a lot easier to load dimensions data then load facts data and achieve foreign keys lookups when working with MongoDB (it's not about the file format, it's about the loading/lookup part which is a large part of ETL in my cases).
Android Task Killers Explained: What They Do and Why You Shouldn't Use Them
It depends on what kind of "trivial". I have a lot (> 30000 SLOC; hundreds of functions) of C code that does intricate math/stats/optimization, but from a control flow and memory allocation point of view is simple. This kind of code is perfect for the simple c-extension API of Python as described in the OP.

In fact, if you set up the gateway interface to your C code cleanly, you can have the same C code callable directly from (e.g.) Matlab via the "mex" mechanism.
You two have opposing statements, and neither of you backs up your argument.
The problem is not in the low-level applications - porting them is doable (http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~eva/IPv6-web/ipv6.html)

The problem is in the library frameworks that do not give at all the means of making an IPv6 socket.

Once that problem is solved - porting the properly written apps is not going to be too difficult.

For the IPv4 address literals being scalars - well, properly written programs would have used the DNS names in the first place, and the use of the addresses would be appropriately contained. So I would treat this much as other bugs.

Pointers may also fit into int, but it is not a reason to fit them there.
Yes, this is a crucially important fact about Apple. They do a bunch of things with independent value that nonetheless integrate to be even more powerful.

There was a thread on the last big 37signals troll, about Apple and its competition, that touched on this. Turns out it's a concept called "activity systems." Very interesting stuff.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736977
Very good points. I have bought a few dozen apps for iPhone and a couple dozen of books in Kindle Store (I don't own a Kindle, but do use Kindle apps). The numbers would be much smaller if not for convenience of purchase and instant delivery.

Goole just announced that it is expanding Android market to more countries—I wonder, how much this was influenced by Amazon Android store.
What I don't understand is this: who has the power to decide such things? In this story it seems like there are two entities who can block each other. Why didn't someone decide for Yahoo, if their offer was so much better? It's in the interest of the shareholders.
It's not hardcoded in Chrome, at least on Windows it's not. I'm currently running 4.1.249.1045, which I gather isn't particularly recent, because I seldom use it except for Facebook and other sites I don't trust to be logged in to for general browsing.
Yeah, that's a tasteful expression to use in a tech article title.
Chrome's auto-update feature on Debian-based distributions at least consists of it installing its apt repository in your sources.list. Which is fine by me.
Sorry if you think I was being uncharitable. I suggest that stating that someone else must not be a programmer on a programming site may not be the best way to conduct a polite conversation.
Security-wise I'd be very surprised if Chrome updates weren't signed; MITMing of auto-updates isn't exactly new (see EvilGrade). So I doubt it's an issue there.

That said, I agree that there should be an option (not a prominent one) to switch it off.
This opportunity for instant purchase is a dramatic force multiplier for Apple in every single avenue they explore.

I fully agree. They also forced iPhone buyers to have credit cards in many countries to even buy iPhone. And they of course forced iPhone buyers to create iTunes account. These would have been totally absurd customer requirements from the perspective of e.g. Nokia, but for Apple it was a super clever way to grow their billing ecosystem.

I think their biggest opportunity is still a head. When they create a "Buy"-button for a browser, so that any web page can integrate to iTunes billing, the web economy won't be same anymore.

I was really bullish about this already over a year ago
( http://dirtyaura.org/blog/2009/06/16/mobile-startups-and-sma... ), but there are tons of problems with this (technical, scalability, fraud detection, legal...). However, I'm pretty sure that it will happen during this decade.
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"We plan to add support for a transparency layer, also known as alpha channel in a future update."

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-w...
I didn't see the hi-res stuff yet, but I consider the photo sharing and presenting to be very good at Facebook. If you guys could manage to compete with Flickr, that would be even greater.
This is actually something I've been thinking about doing. I'm not sure if I would want it updating every minute though.
If you want customers, give them some value. I didn't read your link because paying your bills is nit in my interests. Perhaps you do something else that is, and would make a better headline?
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Now fast forward 2 years. By now all your co-workers agree that you're far more effective than most, and way ahead of Bob. Now you find out Bob is making 75% more than you in the same role. It's going to boil your cabbage, I promise you.
Oh, that's fascinating. I hadn't even thought of that. You turn the entirety of the web, at least those who will play by your rules, into an App Store.

Wow, with that Apple benevolently takes the entirely world by the balls and starts a whole new gold rush. It's so interesting, it must be inevitable.

30% cut would be a bit rich, though — makes PayPal look downright charitable by comparison.
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Does this happen to anyone? Sometimes, I don't make an error - I didn't know it was an error that existed or that was commen - but upon reading about it, I start making the error.

This is similar to when I read about psychological disorders and the like - it seems like I learn about something and start acting it out in some weird way.

Long story short, sometimes I'd rather not read these lists of common errors.
I would argue that there is just as valid a reason for Epiphany as there was for Gnome. Epiphany was created after Galeon (another Gnome web browser that nobody used).

Gnome worked to create Human Interface Guidelines, and wanted a web browser (which is a fairly fundamental part of a desktop environment in this day and age) that used those guidelines to provide a cohesive experience.

Here was an announcement email which explains some of the reasons for it's existence:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2008-April/msg0...

I would say that options 2 and 3 that you propose are nonstarters.

I feel weird that I've found myself in a position defending Epiphany. I don't mean to be, it's a shitty browser.

I just don't find it puzzling that a desktop experience project would want to be in control of their own web browser which uses their own underlying technologies.
There's probably a legal agreement at Yelp that specifies what percentage of stockholders must agree in order to sell. It's unlikely the investors have enough equity to force a sale. That's irrelevant though. Even if it was possible Yahoo would not purchase Yelp if all the key employees where vehemently opposed.
I am currently doing reports/datawarehouses/dashboards. When something more complicated that simple questions is needed (see Data Warehousing for Cavemen), ad-hoc queries are quite often not the answer anymore, either with NoSQL or with SQL.

I don't want my clients to be dependent on me (or someone else) to build complicated SQL queries when they have questions, so I focus on getting an easy to maintain facts/dimensions model (as advocated by
Ralph Kimball http://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimens...) which can evolve if needed.

The nice point about MongoDB when doing this is that it makes it a lot easier to add attributes to dimensions, or load the data, or evolve the reporting system in general (and I like that).

You can apply the same principles to build dimensions/facts based data structure and answer questions that SQL alone wouldn't be able to answer easily.

Example of such question: how many calls did we receive during french legal week #9 that were handled by team X outside the normal working hours or while we were in vacations ? In those calls, how many were issued by a woman (as it has a financial impact in this case) ?
A guy I know was making $100-150/day from passive stock sales. Not too bad for some shots he took on holiday.
No, I'm Not Interested In Your Startup
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I think in the submission policies there is a point "if it would interest a geek, it is ok to post it" (not literal :) I think it is interesting, too!
It would've saved me a lot of time if I'd realised sooner that, as far as I can tell, you can't use Bundler with the Rails 2.x gems if you need a Git repository as the gem source (e.g. because you've forked them) because the Rails 2.x repo contains multiple gems but has no gemspec explaining that. [Although maybe adding a backported gemspec to the fork would work?]

Once I finally gave up trying to use Bundler to manage my forked Rails 2.x and just left vendor/rails as a submodule, all the rest of the bundled gems worked beautifully.
Please do check and tell if you have the Google Updater service running and that it is working fine?

Else, please tell how you managed to turn off automatic updates in Google Chrome?
I hate HR orientation :(
On "frivolous' startups
I always thought so too, but it was surprisingly much less than this at my local Fry's. I didn't opt to buy, but these services ran in the $200-400 range there, IIRC.
I also notice a lot of "eke vs. eek" here. Turns out there's this property called onomatopoeia that escapes many people.
I agree that Bundler is useful. However there are purists out there who see the existence of Bundler as a flaw in Ruby or its community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1736726
Well if the management team won't work for Yahoo, then it's doubtful the Yahoo offer would stand; therefore there is no Yahoo offer and they should have taken the Google offer.

It's not clear why they even considered the Yahoo offer if it was in fact impossible for Yahoo to go ahead.
Note: That was the announcement of the shift from Gecko to WebKit, not the launch of Epiphany itself (which was years earlier).
Is it really so bad at Yahoo? Or are a bunch of fanbois just blowing things out of proportion?
The simple reason for all this mess is the fact that most enterprise companies have spent a lot of money on their Oracle/Sybase/Whatever licenses and hardware and want to see a long term return on their capital.
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I can't imagine working for Yahoo is so bad - not worse than other big corps anyway. Seems to me they actually provide a lot of cool things, too. For example, YUI, Hadoop, lots of internet services, BOSS,...

Also, I think they came up with internal Hackathons first?

Just to name a few things - I am not a specialist on all things Yahoo, but I don't get why everybody seems to hate them.
I could just be misinformed/sleepy, but why can't we all just multihome? Upgrade or replace (tech refresh, anyone?) all gear which doesn't natively support v6 and start running both networks at the same time.

You hardly need to support anything but the routable address space of v6 if the device is configured for a v4 network, and applications can get patches to prefer a v6 connection (apparently even though some applications claim to try to make a v6 connection first, it doesn't usually work for me in practice). This at least buys you the time and flexibility of transitioning the chicken while the egg finishes gestating/maturing.

We all realize that every v4 frontend server has to support v6 before clients can be transitioned. However, I don't see a problem with giving everyone a v4 and a v6 in the meantime while the servers are upgraded. This means middle-man upgrades first, and basically every link between an internet host has to natively support both ipv4 and ipv6. If you just used RAs you don't have to support dhcpv6 yet, and dhcpv4 handles the stuff RAs don't for the clients. Perhaps i'm over-simplifying.

(edit) Also, completely separate thought: why the hell isn't Obama offering a discount to help transition like they did with TV? That was a pointless upgrade while this is a real looming problem. Can somebody get Google and Microsoft in a room and make them form an IPv6 lobby?
Why would anybody care about the format that Facebook users use? I see way more value in reencoding company website images in WebP so that things load faster at the same quality. This is especially useful if your visitors are fairly technical, i.e. when you are a systems software vendor or when you're a tech blogger: even if WebP is only supported by Chrome and Firefox, it means half of your audience can enjoy the faster loading times. With HTTP content negotiation you can gracefully fallback to JPG. WebP does not need the support of Facebook users to become valuable.
If YC selects based on people and not ideas, what changes between applications? Does the submitter grow in some meaningful way, and that sticks out?
Correct. I had originally written a paragraph about the switch of rendering engines, then figured it wasn't germane to the conversation.

I found the reasons they list for the switch still relevant as reasons for the existence of the browser, however.
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You could choose alpha compression quality separately from luma/chroma. Alternatively, either compress the premultiplied colour values directly, or compress raw colour but optimise the premultiplied error.
One interesting question is:
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Q: Was Stuxnet written by a government?
A: That's what it would look like, yes.
So, if one smaller part of shareholders couldn't force a sale to Yahoo, then why larger part of shareholders couldn't force a sale to Google? As I understand, management was all for Google.
Well, I feel like I am a backlash of one person. Twitter's selling points used to be simplicity and encouraging developers / encouraging a platform. With the change they are moving away from that simplicity and also taking something away from the developers (no more app attribution). So it seems like a step backwards to me on two fronts.

I think that this is really a symptom of Twitter's growth in employees. If you have all of these front end developers / Product Managers they'll make products even if they are the wrong thing.
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I'm starting to get the impression that Chrome is the browser for inept people, and that if you want good control over the browser behaviour, it's not a good choice. Chrome's responsiveness to public feedback is similar to Google's responsiveness, i.e. not responsive at all, and tends to authoritarianism.

My worry is that Firefox may take too much of a lead from it, and similarly start removing features.
What backlash?

It's better than the old interface.

Most of Facebook's design choices have left many users in the lurch.
You can do everything through the API that you can on twitter.com. In fact the new twitter.com site uses the API! One more thing, their API does what it says in the docs... when twitter is up ;-)
Key thing is really to disallow third party cookies, as that (among other things) is what is being used to track you by all the advertisers, spammers, Facebookers and so on out there.
By 2011 or 2012, can't remember the exact deadline, their mobile phones must have Micro-USB. At least if they want to continue selling them here in Europe. The ruling for it passed a while ago that all mobile phones must be chargeable with the same micro-usb connector. Apple agreed to those requirements. I don't see Apple doing Dock AND Micro-USB.

Unless they provide an adapter, don't know if this is allowed or not.

EDIT: Ah screw it, if this site[1] is to be believed Apple will only provide an adapter.

[1] http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/25149/next-iphone-charges-vi...
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It's simple because it doesn't do much. A really tokeniser would have the ability to handle strings, escape characters and comments.
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In all the excitement, we forgot to ask about the API. I am curious what they will provide, and with what limits.

One big problem I had with bit.ly on Twitter is there was no way to get all shortened URLs pointing to a "real" URL. This was a problem because I wanted to search for references to the "real" URL.

The lack of that feature of course empowered dedicated services like backtype (I suppose), who have special deals with Twitter so that they can get all references.
Maybe working at Google is better than Yahoo!, but both companies are notorious for killing acquired startups. Its hard for me to see any reason for the Yelp management team to take the Google offer when Yahoo! offer was almost 40% more.
I suspect there is more to the story.
Well, not morally wrong or anything. But you can earn a lot more with the same effort elsewhere. For good science to result, you will usually have to be driven primarily by your passion for the research itself. ymmv
Bundler is a worthwhile patch on rubygems itself, but from where I'm sitting it's only needed because rubygems is flawed. It solves symptoms, not underlying problems.
This is true. I was considering that might be an issue, to get recurring traffic. I have hope though that enough people bookmark the page to come back to that I can continue selling my time. Even a few hours a day is better than nothing.

I have actually started applying for jobs again, which stinks because I love the freedom that freelance affords. Unfortunately for me, freedom does not pay the bills :)
I only just realized that the new stuff obscures most of my lovingly chosen background picture :-(

Other than that, I didn't care much yet, because I use a client to access Twitter anyway.
The Yelp board of directors, faced with a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests all stockholders, couldn’t approve a Google deal when a competing deal was available at a $200 million higher price.

If it became clear that the management would not work at Yahoo (for whatever odd reasoning) then surely the best interests of the stock holders is to take the deal that works..

Rather than let it go down the pan!
Easy factories are easy (Ohm object factory)
Given the maturity of the software, there's no reason not just to run a virtualbox on Mac OS X with Ubuntu inside it. It's a hell of a lot easier than messing around with the partitions on your hard drive and worrying about hardware support. Unless you do very intensive real time work on the linux install, it's almost unnoticeable from a performance viewpoint.
Yeah, that's an easy one, I feel perfectly okay applying force in response to aggression against what's belongs to me (like my body).

And no, the fundamental question is "why would someone think that ozone layer or forests etc belongs to them" (because if it doesn't, they are not in position to decide if it should be kept or destroyed).
The board of directors at Yelp has representatives from both the management and the investors. The board probably needs a majority (or unanimous) consent in order to sell.