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> Even the number of devices you can support per year in your profiles is limited to 100, probably because they don't want you to use it as a distribution mechanism

Really? Even though they call it a distribution mechanism themselves[0]? Interesting.

> 100 devices per year is actually rather limited if you do custom work and each client comes with his own list of 5-20 devices they want to test onto.

If you do custom work for clients, then clients are supposed to get their in-house license for distribution. Either a company developer program, or an Enterprise program[1] which exists very specifically for company in-house deployments. Using your personal developer key for client-site deployment is not a good idea and makes low to no sense. Are you really suggesting that you should manage and deploy your client's device park forever?

[0] http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/distribute.html

[1] http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/enterprise/
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Here's the source I was using:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game...

Note, that Wikipedia has another list where WoW is behind it. With that said, the source dates for Myst and WoW are pretty old. I wouldn't be surprised if WoW surpassed Myst today by any count.

So by game I think its not unreasonable to say that after the Sims it is 2/3. Possibly 3/4 depening on Myst vs WoW sales the past few years. In any case, I think my argument that it's popular doesn't change.
Recruiters just mass mailshot everyone because they're hoping to get a bite.

I've had recruiters ring me in the past with jobs that have a real tenuous connection with my skillset, yet they still think I'm suitable for the role.

The best one was when one rang me advertising for a £50k Senior Java Developer position. "Great!" someone might think, but at the time I had only just graduated from University and had 1 year of junior development experience under my belt. I told her this and THEN she read my CV/resume and realised.

Recruiters these days are nothing more than CV/resume pushers, chances are for every 100 or so they sent out, 1 or 2 will get an interview, 1 or 2 will get the job and they land themselves a healthy commission from the employer.

It's a lucrative business
Nobody has ever encouraged me to rely on scripting.com for my own business, though, so I could accept that situation more easily.
I'll go in the middle.

First having a page like this where I can make sure I'm not the issue is helpful and I can be somewhat comforted there.

However, now that I've discovered the issue doesn't exist between my ass and my keyboard I'd also like some sort of idea on the depth of the issue and a timeframe for a fix.
Ah, I didn't have a meditation instructor. Tried to go it alone with instructions from the internet.
This is exactly how Varnish is setup. It's threads basically only exist for I/O reasons. It takes some serious fu to effectively mix event-driven and threaded programming.
They already have this, It's called plausible deniability.

What are the laws in the US on this?
You're looking for pattern based AR (unless the words on your paper have precise GPS coordinates)

I haven't look at it much yet, but you might have some luck with the new Quallcom AR SDK.

https://ar.qualcomm.com/qdevnet/sdk
The point about the labels doing it to themselves is probably only half the story.

The other half is the culturally ingrained phenomena of "the dream." Many artists jamming in their basements dream of "signing," and expect a big advance, tours, radio play, and all of that old-world stuff. Many today of course realize that there's the Internet and they can afford to distribute their work for pennies and market to their hearts desire; but even those artists generally still think that "signing" is the next, big logical step.

The big labels cannot change. The 80s and 90s left us with a market and taste for stadium tours, music videos, and times square billboards. Six decades of business have given us a model that requires a huge up-front investment for a risky, but lucrative return.

The problem is the returns are becoming scarce.

Yet I think big labels will continue to persist only because they're the loan sharks with the money. I think the author is pretty close to right that there's likely no one that will fund a start up that has anything to do with music. If you have an innovative idea that you think can improve the situation, create new markets, etc you'll have to do it on your own.
1and1 has always been pretty lousy. Good for domain registration, though.
I completely forgot about that -- thanks for the reminder.

It's tough. The heft can make it feel sturdy, but it's not nearly as comfy for one handed use as, say, a Kindle.
I respect your opinion, but what I mean is that seeing something along the lines of "replacing a router", or "re-establishing communications with AWS", or whatever it happens to be, is better than "it's down".

There also has to be a couple people there that aren't hands on with the problem, and their responsibility could easily be to constantly communicate with the public.
They already have this. You can have two levels of passwords: one for the OS and one for a hidden encrypted partition or encrypted file where you keep your truly sensitive info.
Read my post again. I CLEARLY was not saying that these don't exist, but that it's not easy to swap amongst them. Sheesh. Update your critical reading skills.
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What would be the point of being able to spill to disk if you've got to keep everything in RAM? Simple serialization?
Some answers in stackexchange too: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/6136/is-there-a-math...
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Linode is excellent.

I did see recently that EC2 really has some competitive pricing, though - $225 a year for a 1.7GB server? That's a lot cheaper than most VPS hosting.
If I might make a (self promoting) suggestion, I wrote one specifically for small C/C++/ObjC projects. You can find the most recent release here[1]. Only a few people have used it, but so far the response has been positive.

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Always keep in mind the following general rule:

If having it headline a news article would damage your reputation or your business, don't do it.
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Google music. Who cares? Oh right, you guys don't have Spotify.

I don't know anyone that has it that bothers with iTunes or actually buying music anymore. Get the free version, and get any music anytime and the occasional ad. Pay a few bucks a month, and you get any music anytime with no ads.
TrueCrypt already has this feature: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume
Successful in any way, really.

From Theodore Roosevelt to Ben Franklin to Feynman to SI Hayakawa or Chomsky. It seems to me like a technique that helped someone to think more clearly, be happier, or judge their goals more accurately would aid success regardless of what direction they were moving in or what situation they were coping with.

However, this thread did convince me to give it another try.
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Hmm.
The changes are posted through comet in continuous replication?
That would mean another distribution system would be better for heavily published nodes.
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I'm ok with everything here, except why wasn't his bosses charged?

74 Alarms triggered and no one said anything or did anything.
I'm more inclined to believed that they were happy when he made money but also would not be taking the blame if it went sour, which it did.

They effectively looked the other way that is my only conclusion.

Yea, I know someone is going to say don't attribute to malice what can be explain with incompetence, but it is hard for me to believe that they didn't know and just looked the other way.

In my opinion, his bosses should be culpable.
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Ah well...at least I thought of something worth doing :)
anyone surprised? probably the same goes for unfollowing on twitter
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Can anyone recommend an alternative to TechCrunch that is less centered on consumer web startups?

I'd like to hear more about startups/companies in specialized industries that get less mainstream coverage such as agriculture, national defense, health care, engineering, banking, natural resources, etc.

In other words, companies that are trying to solve real, hard problems.

I just came back from a career fair at my university and was shocked to see so many software companies that I had never heard about in industries I had very little knowledge about.
The point is zero-copy on load, not being able to spill to disk. Most high-performance, scalable servers I've seen ignore virtual memory entirely and kill (+ restart) the process if it exceeds the physical memory available on the machine. Yes, that means they use pre-1960s technology; sometimes, the price of performance is ignoring the programming conveniences we've come up with in the last 50 years.
Visual depiction of who is suing who in tech world
Sam is probably an accredited investor due to the value of his Loopt stock. Their last round was valued at something like $500MM.

From there he can invest whatever he wants -- $1k, $10k, $100k, etc. -- assuming the entrepreneurs agree.
It seems like that's all I'm reading today, but this is yet another article that I started reading with one idea, and finished having completely rethought it.

My instinct was to make a snide remark, or to say something like "Good luck", not believing there are serious inroads to be made there (at least, not by Calacanis) -- but he speaks of a 'race to the bottom', and in writing deeper, more detailed posts than those made in an effort to be the first to break the news.

I've always felt that was an error on the part of TechCrunch, in that they are so eager to release that sometimes facts just get in the way of a story breaking. Or at least, aren't checked to the degree they ought.

I personally, welcome something like this in the market.

My initial hesitation would be that I wouldn't expect to hit this site every day, but it appears Calacanis has already thought about that as well, intending (at least to start) an email distribution, which I think fits the model nicely.

Perhaps I'll learn to start keeping my prejudices in check.
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Fascinating article. I wonder how SSDs affect his conclusions, though. If you really care, don't you have an SSD? Especially for the recently mentioned 1:10 problem (10G of data, 1G of memory).
Presumably the UK police are aware of this feature, which could lead to a more interesting situation when you can't prove that you've really unlocked to the deepest level.
There's another angle to this:

- what type of businesses are Groupon users after? Obviously restaurant coupons are very popular, but why are Groupon users on Groupon?

- what type of businesses benefit most from Groupon's model?

The issue here is that the businesses that present the largest draw for Groupon consumers may not in fact be the businesses that benefit most. In an eventual steady state, businesses that can't make the Groupon model work for them will stop using it, and I have a sneaking suspicion many of these business types are the main reason people are on Groupon to begin with.
The big labels don't feel like changing, not that they cannot change. They are a bunch of human beings at all.

Aren't human beings flexible enough to thrive anywhere on earth?

Yet, some humans choose to die rather than adapt.

The labels don't want to deal with the changing business. So they rather die.
In other words, dropping IE6 support is not yet plausible.

Why? 5.6% does really justify the costs of supporting IE6?
"Net worth" does not mean liquid. Sam's equity in Loopt is easily worth more than $1MM.
I blame Benjamin Zorn in this paper: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/d...

for the whole "programmers shouldn't manage memory" myth. Clearly, if you know what you're doing, you can do better than the OS and/or malloc() does. If you don't know what you're doing, you have bigger problems than writing your own allocator will quickly solve.
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Seems like you're giving the police a lot of credit, but maybe not. Regardless, there's really no way to prove anything either way, is there?
It occurs to me that since this part of a child pornography investigation, 16 weeks in jail for not giving them a password might actually be a far lighter sentence than if the key was provided and illicit material was found. I don't condone the porn, but it does seem like a logical trade-off.
Not quite. Around 10-12 years ago when dynamic web-programming for the masses started to take off, nothing, and especially not Postgres, paralleled MySQL in low barrier to entry.
This Star Wars quote seems appropriate here, especially given the hidden volume feature of TrueCrypt:

Princess Leia: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
The police will just beat you up until the secret come out. They're not going to say "Drats! Our evil plans are foiled!"

http://xkcd.com/538/
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The main contributors to weight boil down to 28% glass, 21% battery, 20% back panel. No easy answers making naive cuts to any of them.
There was no mention of Linux in the article. This system also runs on the various *BSDs, Solaris, MacOS...
Well, we do have Grooveshark. But it probably won't last. :(
It's the modern alternative to pulling fingernails.
While this is interesting,I think there is a lot of scope to draw mistaken conclusions-
a)What is the justification of having a sample time of just 1 hr? That's not even large enough to ignore effects of time zone differences (Twitter is pretty much global- if this measurement is done at a time when Twitter users in Japan are sleeping, or USA are sleeping, you would get skewed results)
2)Is this measurement made by usage of a particular app? Which app? No explanation whatsoever!
3)At the bare minimum, this should have been an average of 1 hr, same time, for a duration of atleast 1 week.
4) "Lies,Damned lies, and Statistics"- I think the numbers presented in that context are almost meaningless, if not
telling a completely false story.
I came to this conclusion myself about 6 months ago, after Dalton Caldwell spoke at a YC dinner. I realized it was basically hopeless to start startups that touch label music, because even the ones that seem to be succeeding (in the sense of not being sued out of existence) are only allowed to live so the labels can suck investors' money through them.

But by creating a startup-free zone around themselves, all the labels are doing is hosing themselves, because they won't have startups working to develop whatever would have been the new ways of delivering and using label music. They've created an anti-platform.
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Steve Jobs might be the meditating type. Or probably did in his youth, if he doesn't now. He went backpacking in India in the 70s.
I realize this story is in the UK, but could it happen in the US or would the 5th amendment protect you?

As an American, it seems a bit insane to me for someone to be jailed for refusing to help convict himself.
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Spotify is excellent, I love it but more and more I get tracks in playlists that are 'not playable in your country' or 'the record label has chosen to make this track unavailable'
I have a love-hate relationship with unit tests. They are great in theory but in practice not enough people do it to reach that "critical-mass". By that I mean very few projects you pick up (especially in the maintenance phase) will have tests.

And writing good tests is HARD. If you think it is easy then you are testing the wrong thing. A lot of people say refactoring without tests is pure danger. I disagree. Sometimes you don't know enough about the problem space to write good tests. However, refactoring forces you to understand the "micro" world of the code. And this gives you a leg up in order to understand what tests are actually needed.
Then it's worth noting that CLOCK-Pro is used in NetBSD.

My point here is that a lot of people have spent a lot of time working on the page replacement problem. I am very open to the idea that an application can beat the page replacement policy in the underlying kernel, for a variety of reasons. But: numbers. Always evaluate. The implementation of these algorithms in practice is always more subtle than our high level understanding, so we need to do real performance comparisons to know if we actually improved anything.

(I'm getting my information from the algorithm's author's page: http://www.ece.eng.wayne.edu/~sjiang/ Jiang graduated from William and Mary while I was a young grad student there.)
We're seeing the very beginning of what it means to be able to go to war for free (both in terms of cost in lives, and, in practical terms, in literal price), and there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
It seems many people must have a lot of Facebook friends they don't really know? I don't think I'd remove an actual friend, or even moderate acquaintance, simply because they posted too much unimportant stuff, or posted political/religious stuff I didn't want to see--- I'd just hide their posts from my feed. But I could see it being an impetus to remove someone I realized I didn't actually know.

Or perhaps the "hide posts from feed" thing isn't a widely known alternative?
Actually, mildly so since Facebook gives you the ability to "Hide" people.
I think the fundamental idea of it is great, but one of the biggest issues they'll have is to get the point across to the average user.

The main advantage of Diaspora over Facebook seems to be "you take control of your own data" which isn't easily understood.

It is similar to a company who says they offer an extended warranty for their product, but don't have anyone to actively sell it. Honestly, how many people would buy the extended warranty if there wasn't someone there to scare them into buying it?
There are also audio guided meditations available online from established teachers.

eg, http://www.dharma.org/ims/mr_audio.php
Better ability to categorize friends and have targeted "feeds" would help mitigate this.
Wait until they ask him again, 16 weeks from now...
Sorry, that wasn't clear to me, partly because I've been using the 4.2 beta and it's hard to remember life without it. iOS 4's omnipresent list of running applications (sorted by most recent use, just like command-Tab on the Mac) is now my most-used interface to launching apps.

I noticed last month that the list even survives a reboot of the device, which is the kind of detail I love.
If it's lasted this long it will probably keep going for some time yet. They have a pretty clear song takedown policy, so any music being shared on grooveshark is likely being done so with the full consent of the label.

Grooveshark is also paying the music owners royalty from a share of their ad revenue.
Nothing a couple of classes can't abstract away - then you are only stuck if no other vender has the features that you need, not just because you lack the correct apis.
"email newsletter?"

I love steam powered technology.

sarcasm aside, this is a good idea on the whole. just not over email. my inbox is fifth date material. I'm gonna have to create a separate email address that forwards to my rss reader, or something..
Hmm: http://fusepod.sourceforge.net/
Then why doesn't New York ever need to bomb Pensylvania? If the border of these two areas can be open, then so could other borders.

Likewise, there are places where you don't have to lock your doors.
The alternative to vendor lock-in isn't the ability to do a drop-in replacement of every single component, it's to think carefully and pick the set of lock-ins that has the lowest possibility of ending up hurting you.
Personally, it's extremely simplistic to say that the labels aren't "changing"

The ecosystem, the market, and working with artists engenders a much more complicated landscape than one might think.

agentultra has some good points there.
"Jason's list" (his current email list) has been, on average, excellent. It consists of long writings trying to convey what he thinks in a reasoned (if occasionally emotional) way. It is plished occasionally instead of around the clock, and so avoids most knee-jerk topics. He often responds to well-thought-out user replys.

This sounds like him hiring some more people to have more articles and points of view. If it manages to continue to be thorough and nuanced, it'll be a great resource.
Can anyone explain how TrueCrypt works for OS X? Could I have my entire home directory on the hidden partition? What about their hidden operating system feature? So I can have my normal OS as the decoy OS and then have a hidden Linux OS (as example) that I use for sys adm type stuff and boot to it when I need to? Can VMWare or Parallels see this partition and create a VM based on it?
Correct: and "The Sims 3" was the best-selling iPhone game of 2009 (according to Electronic Arts).

I'd call this one "case proven" -- either Blizzard have a skunk works team working on an iPad client right now (maybe for release when the second-gen iPad shows up) or they're not trying, and the MMO-on-iPad niche will be occupied by someone else. (We're heading towards 20 million iPads sold within the next six months; to me, that suggests an 0.5-1M player MMO based on the iPad alone is feasible, and if there's an Android/ChromeOS client in the works, it's going to have a huge impact on gaming in the 1-5 year out time frame.)
In the USA can you be compelled to testify against yourself by being coerced into giving a password to law enforcement?

Has this been tested yet, out of curiosity?

I remember reading they can deny you entry/exit to the USA if customs can't read your laptop but never heard anything like local/FBI.

If not, I hope it doesn't go before this particular supreme court.
Re: counting

The Korean Zen meditation instructor I once had suggested counting breaths, but only from 1 to 7, then start at 1 again. If you lose track, start back at one.

Alternately, just mentally labeling your breaths as 'in', and 'out', also is effective.
nah, the police can't torture you for your password. Only the evil criminals can do that. The courts can incarcerate you for not revealing a password, it's is up to you the criminal to decide if the punishment for not revealing the password is more/less severe than the punishment for whatever crime your hiding the evidence of with the password.

Edit: OK now I have found evidence to prove myself wrong. At some point in the past I though I had read of a court case where a judge ruled that a defendant had to reveal a password. But a more recent case says otherwise: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-02-07-encr...
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only allowed to live so the labels can suck investors' money through them

That's true, but not as true as you might suspect. Pandora is profitable. Yes, they are certainly pumping a large amount of money to the record labels, but they're able to exist without driving their users away with over-advertising.

I wouldn't do a (label) music-based startup today, though. Sad.
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