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Yes, and we've looked into that as well. We've tried multiple routers (we returned 2 prior to this one, thinking it was the routers at fault), and in each case the problem was always the same: iPad and MBP. Both of these have cases that can be searched for online, and lots of other people have these problems. For the MBP, it had something to do with Snow Leopard, as downgrading seems to help somewhat. For the iPad, their are other reports of it being a energy saving issue. We don't have issues with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, or the iMac when it's on the wireless.

We also considered the location of the router, but both the iPad and MBP suffer the problem even if they are in the same room as the router.

We also don't experience the problem on a netbook we have that runs both Linux and Win7. However, we don't use it that often, but it's never had the problem whenever we did use it.

It could simply be a hardware issue, but as I said, we aren't the only ones having this problem.
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Just one thing: bring back the leopard exposè!

I installed snow leopard and reverted back to leopard just after 3 hours as I couldn't stand the new (non proportional) exposè.

Yes, I'm exposè addicted...
This issue is very much considered. You absolutely don't use this to make a bunch of tiny little Ajax requests to load your application in pieces. Instead, you bootstrap all of the data you need for an initial load onto the page, and then populate the collections directly.

For saving, a single update often needs to be a single request, and the UI needs to know that the update has been applied successfully. If you need to do a bulk update, then use "set", not "save", and make a custom Ajax call for the bulk operation.

Finally, Backbone.sync is the lowest-common-denominator default REST request, which will work for many applications. You can and should override it if you have more specific needs -- using timeouts to aggregate many granular saves into a single HTTP request is a great idea for some applications...
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Like, for instance, if you plug in your iPhone and you don't want iPhoto starting up and stealing focus, then it's a headache.

Go into Image Capture and change the preference to not start iPhoto when it is connected. The reason it does this by default is b/c your iPhone has a camera so everytime you connect your iPhone the 'smart default' is 'hey there are pictures, let's suck 'em down 'n back 'em up!'.
don't charge individual users) by month's end, but I hope to have at least one user who has entered interesting information, and be able to give out interesting recommendations in return.
I'm somewhat new here, and expected some kind of story about how someone made this money at eventbrite. Instead it is an ad for a masterclass, targeted towards the readers of this site. Very sneaky. Also I would recommend the story links open in a new tab. Feel free to tell me if this comment is appropriate or not.
This might be slightly off topic, but I see Ryan's name in the announcement, he did a very interesting talk about "Designing with Forces: How to Apply Christopher Alexander in Everyday Work" http://vimeo.com/10875362
free video tracking/analysis software:
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Google Chrome 8 Brings Cloud Printing Onboard
- Tighter integration/control of external stuff: AppleTV, Airport Express, etc.

Not that I have any hope of seeing this, but I would extend it to iPhones, iPad, etc. for things like sharing clipboards, using the computer's mic/audio to pick up the phone, direct access to the iPhone's camera from the desktop... basically make the relationship between the computers and devices more symbiotic.
Since about 40% of the CPI is housing, and that component is calculated in a way that reduces the volatility of CPI, and essentially ignored the entire housing bubble, then any alternative to government statistics is welcome. It is as if the Fed was driving a car using the oil pressure gauge as a speedometer.

There was a time when the cost of collecting economic statistics was prohibitive for all but a monopoly provider. Now that we are all beginning to walk around with smartphones in our pocket, we can look forward to using them as live economic indicators.
You would have saved a lot of time, pain and effort if you just spent Day 1 installing Linux on your laptop whether it was a dual boot or via virtualization.
I can second the System76 laptop recommendation. I got a Lemur laptop from them last year:

http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&produc...

Sound, wifi and the camera work fine and it's been through a couple of Ubuntu upgrades with no issues. I was specifically looking for something that would be zero maintenance and have been very happy.
This could be done using their data dumps (however I don't have access to SQL Server so I couldn't tell you this).
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Better yet: Canon provides capability for low tier support technicians to obtain copies of sensitive documents.

"The server will email the administrator a PDF copy of the document in question if a user attempts to do so."

Seriously, WTF? Aren't they just replacing one security leak with another? Why would you want a printer technician to get a complete copy of a blocked document? A simple, nondescript notification/log entry should suffice.
I use Quiksilver for this purpose. It's as easy as Spotlight, but I've found it to be faster for the specific purpose of launching apps.
>a professional logo designed for your business (~$100?)

An amateur logo designed for your business.

FTFY
In other professional fields, people do not pay $1000 a day for a session necessarily. The only ones who do (usually) are those requiring continuing education credits - therefore, the consultants get to charge outrageous fees because they have a captive audience/market. Otherwise, the only entities that I know of who regalarly drop a grand or more on a day with somebody - or even a team - is a medium-to-large business for whom it is a tax deduction. And such decisions frequently come down to a management type who is trying to justify his/her existence by being seen to do something.

For perspective, we had a marketing workshop here in Edinburgh that basically offered intensive, MBA-level instruction on marketing. It was taught by a former head of marketing for a major North American firm who had buckets of experience and now has his own major marketing consultancy here in the UK. Around a dozen of us worked with him for 8 workshops and had three extended consultations with him about our particular business circumstance. The cost to the company? £750 ($1200 USD at current exchange) for the first person, £500 ($800 USD) for each additional. Consequently, unless these three amigos are going to ensure the success of every company who signs up, I fail to see how a price tag of $1000 is justified.
While I agree about Finder getting the shaft, have you checked out Pathfinder? http://www.cocoatech.com/
I don't follow your logic. Finding out that you need to raise your prices to capture value is a basic fundamental fact of life in entrepreneurship. You keep talking like Chargify broke a sacred promise to their users. This rankles me: in business, we have a word for "sacred promise": it's called "a contract". Chargify serves businesses, exclusively; you'd think its users would understand this fact.

It is not reasonable to take offense at a business getting their initial pricing wrong. Everybody gets their initial pricing wrong.

I seriously think Chargify might be making a bigger communications error now than they did by pulling the bandaid off on their new prices. They're creating uncertainty about whether they'll revert to old pricing, or create some "wash the dishes for your meal" freemium model. If they need to be charging this new rate to make the business make sense, it's their business, and it is fundamentally and totally and categorically their call to make.
Thumbplay Rocks 500,000 Downloads For Paid Music Apps
This is a great opportunity for the designers for they can acquire a sense of what the market needs. Also, I am sure designers have a better chance of visibility using a service like yours than setting up their own online stores.
I agree 100% history is hugely important, the only counter point i would make here is not to dump the narrative on the slide. History always comes out more passionate via conversation.
By your definition of "person of interest" this more or less fits "racial profiling" and discrimination based on religion
it does when the service relies on the human element to get completed.

You pay up front for websites/apps, because you get access/product right away.

But any interaction where the human is involved(plumbers, tree service, mechanics, body shops etc)...you pay only after the job is finished.

The reason is that when you pay someone they have no real incentive to give you their best service...since they already got paid. And yes word of mouth might work, but I'm not seeing awesome deals on there. The venture beat article shows they got someone an Accord for $32K. Carsdirect has that same top of the line trim for $28K.

And carsdirect has the same incentive, give good service to get word of mouth so they can get more leads....the only difference is that you get to save a bunch of money too.
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I feel that since there are comments, answering a question should automatically upvote it. It depends on what the criteria for upvoting a question is - whether it's "not spam/trash or poorly worded" then this would work, I feel most people go on "it taught me something amazing/unique" however.
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I have developed with several laptops and several Linux flavors during the years.

But I will certainly recommend the Dell Studio 15 + Ubuntu.

Drivers work without problems (just a small step to take with the wifi) and is quite stable. My partners that own MPB had problems with theirs during this time, plus if the need to have a presentation they need to carry additional HW.
Of course, if you think $100 pays for a professional logo design then $1000 would be too much for just about everything.
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They've only benchmarked 3 systems that don't support TRIM. That doesn't seem like a good way to prove that TRIM won't improve performance.
My mistake, I assumed 1280x768 or 1280x800 was typical for a 15" laptop. I thought 1680x1050 (MBP) and 1600x900 (E14) were considered high resolution.
1) when newmogul went offline various interested parties discussed it and attempted to contact nickb. It was established that nickb fine but no longer interested in the site.

2) The only site I'm aware of that is live is http://markenomics.com/ . Unfortunately I don't know of anything else that has the same mix of focus and audience.

3) great domain name ...
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I have a suspicion that among other things, 10.7 will introduce some new conventions to the basic problems of window management (though I might be a little biased).

For anyone not sure why mortenjock is biased, I recommend viewing his concept video 10GUI http://10gui.com/video/

The recent Magic Trackpad would tend to support your ideas here.
I know how to do it now. =) I set it to auto-import and it does it without loading up iPhoto. I also realize why it does this. The problem is iPhoto does this, but their is no obvious connection for going into Image Capture from iPhoto to change this feature.
> When I import my music folder, iTunes copies all the files to it's own private directories,

This is optional and IIRC, not on by default.

I have to add:

> Thanks, but my music is already arranged the way I like.

This just baffles me. Why would you ever manually arrange your music? I used to do this when I use Linux because I basically had to if I wanted to browse it in any sane way, but I much prefer having some app do it for me. It just strikes me as one of the many things that my computer can do well, so it should do it.

> iTunes doesn't play flac or ogg. And when I rip a CD, it wants to save it in some proprietary flac-like format (which, as far as I know, does not work on non-macs).

I have no clue about non-macs (iTunes generally sucks in Windows IMO) so I can't really help, but in OSX if you have the codec installed, it will work.

> I enjoy controlling my music from a phone/tablet/other computer.

Google around, there are a lot of remotes for iTunes (free one from Apple for iOS, one for android here: http://dacp.jsharkey.org/).

iTunes is one of the main things that I'd miss if I switched to Linux full-time.
Uh what?

If you edit your profile or set your status to "is looking for a new job" everyone gets notified. Have you used LI?
Lately, instead of running Linux in a VM, I've been messing with EC2 micro instances. At .02/h, it's fairly inexpensive, and the load isn't on your own machine.
an OS that doesn't appear to be affected by SSD performance degradation

That may be true, but there isn't enough information in that article to tell. I think their other theory — that the Samsung SSD is essentially pre-degraded — is more likely to be correct.
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Why wouldn't you just buy a used car from a person? I'm asking this sincerely. Why do people buy from dealers? You save so much money by buying from individuals than from dealers.
Well, in contrast to the second theory, there's the possibility that open source commits and closed source commits look pretty much the same. They're mostly done by people looking to get a paycheck, and without a paycheck the quantity drops. People aren't necessarily being pulled off open source to work on closed source, they're just being laid off (which seems supported by the unemployment stats.)
OP (or anyone else) - I saw this on slickdeals.net and decided to post here in case you decide you want one: http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2292647
I agree, this writer seems is generalizing hostility to "ivy league" with hostility to "elites" in general.

It frustrates me that Americans still tend to view Harvard (or maybe Yale) as America's most elite university. It is an extraordinary organization, of course, but it is (strangely?) MIA in engineering and many branches of applied science. Consider the US News and World Report's list of "most elite undergraduate colleges":

Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Stanford
University of Pennsylvania
California Institute of Technology
MIT
Dartmouth
Duke
University of Chicago

Now look at the top ten research institutions in Engineering overall..

MIT
Stanford
Berkeley
Georgia Tech
University of Illinois (Urbana)
Carnegie Mellon
CIT
University of Michigan
University of Texas (Austin)
Cornell

So there's only one ivy here, and it isn't an especially high ranking ivy in the ivy pecking order.

I don't think people resent wealth at all in America. People have huge admiration for Andy Grove, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. They have less love for Zuckerberg, but that's because they see him as a punk kid, not because they hate his product. There's plenty of respect mixed in there too.

To me, if you want to say Americans hate people who went to elite institutions, I'd ask: which elite institutions? The elite engineering schools, or the ivy leagues? Ok, maybe some "anti-intellectuals" may brag that they didn't go to Yale (which is stupid, I'll admit). But how many brag that they didn't go to University of Michigan, Illinois, or Texas?

I think it comes down to the notion that wealthy people are wealthy because they created wealth. Once an elite is viewed as a parisitic aristocracy, the admiration drops off a cliff. As it should...

... that said, I do think it's unfair to paint the Ivy League completely with this brush. But it is telling that these venerable, elite institutions have been surpassed by such a different (and often publicly supported) group of universities.
Your other CarWoo business partner already submitted a link about CarWoo to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787451
There is nothing quicker than Quicksilver http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver, which the developer of has now continued work at Google with Quick Search Box http://www.google.com/quicksearchbox/ .
I thought I remember reading that it doesn't use WPF at all, but uses the same internal-only framework (Iris?) as Media Center?
1000Memories (YC S10): The Internet Adds New Dimension to Grieving Process
In contrast to the army of Thinkpad/MBP users; I've been using a (fairly generic) Toshiba laptop (It is an older satellite model) to run Ubuntu.
It has been rock solid for me for 2-3 years now.

The key thing is to make sure that all of the hardware in whatever laptop you buy has proper drivers. This can either be accomplished by buying a cheaper laptop with slightly less top of the line hardware (hardware that is slightly aged is more likely to have had someone debugging driver issues on it), or by checking that all of the hardware has appropriate drivers.

http://www.linux-drivers.org/ might be a good starting place.
Seems strange to decide on node.js if that's the problem. Node.js is by far less proven than Lua.
I'll say that it's not perfect, but there have been pretty big improvements since 2007. Just turn off the option to copy files into a new iTunes location(I think it prompts for this upon first load) and it's a pretty solid player.

The lack of FLAC is indeed a pain in the ass though.
Well on Windows 7 it is just one button (the Windows button), so I guess the Spotlight equivalent is twice as inconvenient. ;-)
I was intrigued enough to go to http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/wom.htm and download the Real Audio file of the alleged "first woman in space." It certainly doesn't sound like a communication of the astronaut, and it also sounds like it's doctored, like in the modern music, using the same sample more times from the pieces of some recording of the phone call talk. I'm curious if anybody who has enough experience with the sound analysis would be able to confirm the use of the same sample more than once.

Maybe it can be shown that the Italian brothers faked their proof of their most exorbitant claim the same way it can be shown that something is photoshopped. Then we can claim that what they did was that they were actually producing fakes.
In this case it was "big company" versus "small company who is selling the same data." The real issue seems to be that "small company who is selling the same data" feels that "big company" stole from them (instead, they should have bought the data). They did fight back legally, via a cease-and-desist which "big company" complied with, so they kind of won.

Personally, my major concern is an article on something as seemingly trivial as web scraping making its way into the Wall Street Journal.

As you point out, the legal protections are there, but from a technical standpoint how do you prevent that? DRM in HTML6 (</sarcasm>)? I'm concerned because websites that prevent me from right-clicking to "view source" or already annoying enough.
Docks are incredibly underrated, and it's the one thing you'll probably never get from an Apple laptop.

If you can afford it, it's worth seriously considering buying a laptop with a minimum of 1 docking station (depends on your work situation - if you have an office and work at home, I'd suggest buying 2). They just save so much headaches and fumbling around with cords. Of the brands I've tried with docking stations (Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo) - I have found that I've had the best experience with Toshiba, and the worst with Dell.
You got downmodded, presumably for snark (or for being off-topic?) but not being a game dev I'm glad to have learned about box2d; thanks!
psycopg2 on snow leopard has been notoriously fucked forever. There are thousands of blog posts on installing this, of which only one has worked for me in the past.

This, granted, wasn't through homebrew; I wonder if that would have worked back then
My advice to you if you are going to this Q&A - read up on YC first.

It was amazing how many of the questions asked in the Boston session are easily answered by quickly looking at the YC webpage or reading the "What happens at Y Combinator" pg essay.
You know what would be funny? If they sold 37 seats at $1000 and then when you get there they told you that's what they did.

All kidding aside, if I had the money, I would be interested in this. It is a bit steep, but I admire these guys and their business philosophy.
Windows Phone 7 supports sync with the cloud for all of these. Having to plug your device in for anything other than transfer of large files (like music and video) or charging is an aberration.
A couple of comments:

1) I know there are other companies that do something somewhat like this. My auto insurance company has a car buying service and I'm pretty sure it is run by a 3rd party. The business model is presumably different though (sell to auto clubs, etc).

2) The dealers it lists for me are mostly really far away. And I mean "I've never heard of that town, let's google maps it, wow, it's 5 hours of driving away!" far away.
Maybe this will save people some googling.

7.6 million passenger cars sold in 2006 in the US * ~$30 per buyer = $228 million is pretty much the hard limit for yearly revenue at least without going international. Maybe 10% of all sales is an ambitious yet attainable goal so $23m in revenues?

I think it's a winner, but it could easily pull a digg and take too much vc for its own good.
wow that baramail site .. is .. slowwwww .. even on an ethernet connection
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CarWoo! is only for new cars at the moment. We're going to get into used cars soon, and odds are we'll work with private-party transactions as well as dealers if buyers want a Certified Pre-Owned car.
It's time to break up iTunes.

Like a bank that has become too big to fail, iTunes has become this massive hub that manages everything from audio and video syncing to mobile file and app management. Mobile device interaction not relating to multimedia needs to be offloaded to a renovated iSync, or better yet, Finder needs to be updated to integrate the iOS anti-filesystem. Photos, apps, app files -- all hierarchically listed with MacFUSE-like simplicity, but probably with a more context-appropriate UI than the standard Finder view.