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> At some point, when there are new Java/JVM updates, there won't be an Apple to get them from, and there likely won't be anyone else to get them from either

I don't know what you mean under "new Java/JVM updates" but anything that's GPL of Sun's Java can be used by everybody:

http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html

as long as they also respect GPL, of course.
Next-Gen Mazda2 Will Return 70 MPG, Without An Electric Motor
Why would you expect Steve to talk to him?

In an interview, Steve said, "I hired the wrong guy. He destroyed everything I spent 10 years working for."

[Direct link to the segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MwD-TZ6r9Y&feature=relat... ]

Hear him say the above words, you will feel the pain in his voice. If I was in his place, I would never ever talk to Scully again.
The automatic replies thing wouldn't work.

What you -could- do, however, would be to give all the trolls a share fantasyland. They'll feed each other.
My respect for Mark Pincus Suddenly dropped to 0.
Especially since he noted as saying, in the "Facebook Effect," that he (as well as Matt) bought the patent to social networking so he could make it free and independent, away from the big corporations, and talked about how patents hinder innovation... clearly that was all BS!
... that gets extensive coverage on Hacker News.
The dark side of networking?
The basic problem is that people don’t trust you

Bzzt wrong! There are plenty of organizations that DO trust Oracle enough to rely on their products for core mission-critical functions. Oracle cares what those organizations think. I guess the blogosphere got used to being able to bully Sun; they're in for a surprise of they think Oracle's going to be such a pushover.
If someone wrote a web IDE that integrated with github, I might give that a serious look.
Five minute brainstorm: (so most are awful)

The datatorium

Ferret (no reason, it just sounds right)

Niblets (because it stores small chunks)

Petadata / petapairs (because it works with many k/v pairs)

Basology ((data)base + ology)

Keyology (the -ology of keys)

Tupology (because a k/v pair is a tuple)
Or just rich people who want to go to space.

I'd want to go to space even if I could never tell anyone about it. (Though if I did ever go to space, my friends would probably get tired of me talking about it.) I imagine lots of people with $200K to burn feel exactly the same way.
Nothing against Zed Shaw, but maybe the guy should put an RSS feed on his not-a-blog so people know when he's posted something, even random screeds about how some technology and everyone who's learned to use it is stupid. Then folks wouldn't have to post links here to the sheddingbikes.com root for every single thing he posts.

Oh, wait - there it is, in big, orange letters. Nice!
> The rest of your scenario doesn't worry me so much. What does worry me is if they build hooks into the OS so that signed apps distributed through the app-store have greater privileges (e.g. with respect to playing DVDs) than other apps.

They're flat out saying the opposite; that Mac App Store applications will be pretty much limited to unprivileged user stuff (the overwhelming majority of what I do).
Perhaps your comment was meant to be light-hearted and I am just being pedantic, but all an interested party has to do is come back a few more times over the course of a few days and note the values of new IDs. At that point they know the rate at which you are (adding new customers/adding new content/whatever) and can project backwards from there (completely ignoring the absolute value of the initial ID.)
An #ifdef _WIN32 is a platform ifdef. Especially to cross-compile Unix flavors, it can help to use capability ifdefs, such as #ifdef HAVE_VSNPRINTF. This approach replaces if-then-else logic on platforms in the source with tests in the configure (or CMake) script.

Nice article. Is the GoF Abstract Factory pattern not popular for #5, "developing cross-platform base libraries?"
If you have the developer tools installed, in /Developer/Applications/Perfomance Tools there's an app called Spin Control that helps diagnose why apps are spinning.

By default it just sits there waiting for an app to spin for 5 seconds, at which point it starts sampling the app's activity (as in sample(1)). You can set preferences to make it watch a particular named app, and can set the minimum spin time required for it to notice and start sampling the spinning app. The app produces a text report of the output so you can see what functions it's spending its time in.

Might be useful. It seems like you shouldn't be spinning that much, even if you're multitasking.
... and some Mozilla guy dares to say that Apple is going to abandon the web :(
Sometimes it is "easier" to just type:
if (isThisReturningEmpty()) {}
instead of typing:
if (isThisReturningEmpty() === "") {}

And if you know something could return 0 (which is not empty), you should know to do a type-sensitive check). You are trading off HAVING to set types with HAVING to check types when needed (I think the latter is better).
Yup, incredibly ironic actually. :)

I know why that's happening, but I unfortunately can't fix it due to Rails Rumble rules. I'll be overhauling the content extraction over the next little while using what I've learned from stuff you guys have submitted. Example: Did you know a lot of sites don't actually use <p> tags? Or that some sites have a metric ton of JS (many times more than the HTML in the <body>!)? It's awesome! :(
Ahh - that makes sense. I linked to the exact article, you know, for RESTfulness and such. Still, annoying, but makes sense.
The First Graphene Single-Transistor Amplifier
A Troll Honeypot. But the AI just isn't quite there yet.
I guess the only problem with a private company instead of a governmental regulatory agency ensuring product safety is that the risk will mostly be born by the poor. Anyone unable to purchase a product tested by a private company with a good seal will be protected by nothing and nobody (not that they're always protected now).

Of course, I think there's a middle ground. Too much government regulation is terrible for everyone, but too little disparately impacts those of little means.
Barry Schwartz: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...

Richard Dawkins: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins_on_militant_atheism...

Martin Seligman: http://www.ted.com/talks/martin_seligman_on_the_state_of_psy...

Philip Zombardo: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_o...

Dan Ariely: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o...

Bill Gates: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html

Sir Ken Robinson: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...

Neil Tyson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfAzaDyae-k (and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPLn9nv26NM)

Especially Neil Tyson, as a matter of fact. I highly recommend anyone watch every single one of his videos on Youtube, if only to reap some of his overflowing passion.
Big three networks have all blocked Google TV
If you have to explain it...
"Designers retain full rights to their work"

In fashion school, they told us that it's nearly impossible to receive intellectual property protection on fashion design, since the courts have decided that people have been making clothing for a long time, so it's hard to prove that you've done something sufficiently complex and novel.
(Hm, I remember this submission! Glad to see it being revived... Similar posts spring up all the time.)

a little proof that WordPress can be used for an interesting prototype: http://www.notepeep.com

I don't code and with a handful of plugins and a few changes to some PHP I was able to pull off a functioning prototype.

I'm glad to see technical founders out there appreciating the pseudo-technical work the non-coding bunch of us do.
Yes, and you can get your toddler to sleep later in the morning by keeping them up later in the evening.

Oh wait, no you can't.
> I would be a user of this tablet. I think the greatest shortcoming of the iPad is the lack of digital ink and native pen support.

My wife agree's. She's also a teacher of math and physics and she was excited to get an iPad until she found out she couldn't use a stylus to mark with.

if this tablet fulfills that need then this may be the tablet for her.
>Rule #9: Require all programmers to compile on all platforms

... and have a build server do this automatically & email the results. Manually building for each platform if there are more than two seems like quite a hassle and you know programmers will skip over it for minor changes.
The thing that I most favor in cross-platform programming is the code quality. Heck, I might almost say that even if you only intend to write a program for Linux, make sure it compiles and works on Windows and OS X too. (Well, almost.)

Somehow, almost magically, if you have two or preferably three platforms the relevant code abstracts itself nicely out of what is the low-end mess composed of platform specific concepts. I don't mean merely thinking in terms of FooHandles and BarStreams instead of "file descriptors" but the whole process of thinking that happens when you have to separate, in your brain, that what is "platform level code" and what is "problem level code".
How much tweaking (of the source code and the build process) does it take to get it to work on OS X?
We have some like that this way too, but I was more thinking a focus on general education via a liked craft. Something further into the academic side.
It all depends on how apple carries it out with their Mac App Store.

If they manage to do it in a way similar to steam, they'll be tremendously successful. The only problem is that a lot of people don't view games the same way as apps. I have friends who don't torrent games like MW2 & indie games but they end up pirating office for mac. In fact, I would say over 50-60% of my friends have torrented copies of office. Then again, my friends probably aren't representative of most people. While the majority of people don't bother pirating apps on the iOS, I wonder how much this will change with bigger and more expensive apps on the Mac App Store, like with mac office.

One convenience with something like the App Store is that as long as you sign in, you have access to your apps on your machines. More importantly, it's available online digitally so you can redownload it anytime you want without the worry of losing your dmgs. That alone is a major plus for me and probably will get me to buy more software than I usually do.

And DRM systems are always going to be broken and again, the bigger question is how will Apple execute this?

I still have a sense that people view games on steam vs normal apps differently though. I know a lot of people who don't feel right pirating certain games, but will gladly pirate other apps. I guess we will see when the App Store launches.
The main problems most designers have are

* missing connection to their potential customerbase

* missing exposure

* and a downward spiral of low volumes

The problem in the fashion industry is that it is enormously hard to get from one level in your career to the next.

You don't have enough customers therefore you won't be able to sell and produce enough pieces. Therefore industry manufacturers are not interested in working with you. Therefore you work with by far more expensive tailorshops next door. You cannot get materials and even if you can get them you don't get the needed prices. This sums up to bad production prices, which lead to horrible endcustomer prices. Which leads to low customer conversion and therefore to the fact that no botique is really interested in working with you. Which means you won't be in front of enough customers and therefore won't sell enough and won't raise your volume into the scale needed.
Most successful fashion designers had economic partners, who supported them. We try to be that to the crowd by aggregating production, taking the cashflow risk and using our production network.

TL;NR: Fashion production below several hundred pieces is highly expensive. Garmz links them with customers and aggregates the needed volumes, produces and sells the pieces in its webshop.
Is this some retro thing I'm missing or is a site dedicated to hacking really using spreadsheets to organize data?
If it was backed by a good version control strategy where multipal developers could work on the project and the version control seamlessly worked to easily incorporate others changes. I think this would be the advantage of using a centralized application logic, web based IDE over a distribution of desktops.
"if an engineer moans and moans about his tools, and refuses to work in anything but his favorite language, I would say he's an absolutely terrible engineer."

Let's say he's great enough to get lots of job offers. And let's say that among those, the ones in his favorite language - the one he actually enjoys using - also tend to pay more, and his average coworker in them is more proficient.

Is he terrible to start filtering his job searches by that language?
In real estate, it's "location, location, location".

In VC it's "team, market, product".

In most cases people are happy to give you their reason why they think it's not such a great investment.

You might want to go back to people's reasons for rejection and make sure you took away the right lessons learned.

If there's some underlying oddball reason they're unable to articulate clearly, like you didn't pass due diligence because they have you confused with a mass murderer of the same name, or the reasons are otherwise it might help to work with an intermediary who is familiar with the VC process. Either your experience should put you in touch with possible mentors/board of advisors, or as a last resort you could give someone with a record of success a stake contingent on getting you over whatever hurdle is blocking you.
I changed the start-up image on my GPS. It's now got a background of a satellite, with text saying "Your position has been relayed to the GPS system".

Obviously that's preposterous, but my theory is that it might make some thief wary of stealing it.
No editorializing in titles please. Flagged.
Not everything worth looking at is a marketable product.
Async I/O is important for any time the connection needs to be kept open while processing the request under heavily concurrent conditions; it's less about not blocking on I/O, than it is about avoiding the overhead of context switching in the kernel and the extra resources of keeping a thread / process alive for the duration of the request. I don't see it as less or more important in a PHP context than an event-based model. However, without an automatic CPS transformation (continuation passing style) of the source of your request handling logic - in particular, continuations at the boundary points all I/Os - you do need to write to a pattern which is in effect event-driven.
Yes, this is the weakest point in the article. There is no piracy on non-jailbroken iPhones because there is no way to run arbitrary code. There happens to be rampant piracy on jailbroken phones because they are able to run modified (cracked) AppStore applications. The AppStore on Mac OS X will be no different from a jailbroken phone.
if the same miniaturization technologies as Ipad were used, wouldn't the 15" have a lesser weight/unit screen area, when the computing electronics/battery components are removed?

Or for that matter another pure screen gadget the same size as Ipad, it would be lot lighter than the ipad itself. wouldn't it be?
Be took this approach, for what it's worth -- they sold two models of BeBox, and all developers were given the slower one.

They pointed this out very proudly in their launch pitch for BeOS, a pitch which focused as much on performance / concurrency advantages of BeOS over the then-lagging MacOS as it did on the novel API features of the OS.

Don't know whether that anecdote counts as for or against the idea, but it's certainly been tried...
Posts like this are a sure-fire way to guarantee that my company would never hire said contractor to work on one of our projects.
IMHO, Redmine is much better product with much worse marketing :(
(Stuck with FogBugz for now).
In today's environment, you can definitely make them want to quit sooner by giving them a slower machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crashplan

"Online Backup," "Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003/08, Mac OS 10.4+, Linux Kernel 2.6, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris"

An online backup app, free for personal use, made for all common platforms is a "businesses centered on selling apps written in Java for OSX"?
When I started consulting, I initially made the date part of the invoice number, e.g., 04100501 was the first invoice sent on October 5th of 2004. This sidestepped the problem of showing customers how many invoices I had already sent. But it did show them how many I sent that day, which was usually not many.

I eventually switched to a sequential monotonic invoice numbering scheme for other reasons, mostly because it made it easier on the webapp I use for invoicing.
Well my grandma is 90 and has troubles walking. Gardening is not an option anymore. Not that she wouldn't want to do something productive. Maybe internet could make that possible, too - ideas?
Modern CPUs are pretty low-level RISC stuff internally with x86 instruction set layered on top, right? Now, it would be interesting to see what would happen if someone started making desktop-class cpus with the ARM instruction set instead of the legacy x86 instruction set.
JSONP-Fu
"Why would I use your product? What's the use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?"

Maybe it's just a cool hack. Not everything has to be a fancy boxed up product with the only hope of being sold to Google. Sometimes people just like to build cool things.
How about Newd? For "New Datastore," of course. And all your clients can say "I'm going newd" when they adopt it.
Though you might be able to pirate Steam games, you can't play online, which is the major draw for a large number of them. Regular apps don't really have that effect, though.
Location-Based Game Scvngr Launches Revamped Mobile Apps
I have been working on a similar problem and was surprised to find that there isn't a solution that can extract text perfectly (or is there?).
Last night I talked with someone who did a weekly media fast for most of her life, otherwise known as Shabbat. Great way to think about taking a break and getting back to what matters.
brownboxauctions.com
discardedgoods.com
brownboxgoodies.com

Checked and all are available as of 2010-10-22 9am PST.

On a side note, my younger bro was considering doing a student storage business. I'd like to hear any feedback suggestion you may have regarding it, if at all possible.
TheListBox.com

ListByBox.com

I wish droplister.com or something similar was available (your business is like dropshipping, but in reverse).

Good luck, its a great idea!
New Zealand could be a good option for you.

1) Broadband speeds are good although maybe a little pricey by global standards (eg $55/month for cable, $60/month for ADSL. FYI 1 NZD ~ 1 SGD). The main cities (which generally implies Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch) have good universities and IT jobs. Also IT jobs pay well (that's compared to other local jobs, NZ salaries in general are lower than other larger western economies)

2) English is one of the official languages.

3) I dont know your age but there's a new Silver Fern visa for skilled migrants under 35 which allows you to move to NZ without a job offer (http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/work/silverfer...). With IT skills you should qualify for standard Skilled Migrant visas too.

4) New Zealand has a maritime climate (Köppen Cfb ie not too cold and not too hot) so is much cooler than Singapore. The country runs north - south so there's pleanty of variation in temperature. The main cities all get just over 2000 sunshine hours which is about the same as Singapore. However the rainfall of Auckland and Wellington is 40% less than Singapore and Christchurch is 60% less.

5) Kiwis have long admired those who have a go at starting their own company and take on the big fish. And as daliusd mentions it's easy to start a company.

6) Also there's plenty of easy direct flights from Singapore to New Zealand.
UnPackage.com

With spelling of Un-Package in normal copy and also buying Un-Package.com to redirect. Probably get Un-Packages.com and UnPackages.com too until you're sure whether you want the verb or the noun as your main focus.

----begin sample copy----

Introducing Un-Packages -- a greener, easier, and more lucrative way to get rid of things you don't want. It's just as fun and easy as buying something online, but in reverse!

1. Put something in a box.

2. Put it outside.

3. Wait for pick-up.

4. Receive money a few days later.

5. Decide what you want to do with your extra money.

It's really that easy. Request an Un-Package today and have less clutter and more money tomorrow.

_______ end copy ______

EDIT/OFF-TOPIC: Incidentally, I enjoy coming up with names for things and have done it successfully for friends' websites and businesses in the past, but I've never made any money off of it.

I've flirted with charging for a service like this in the past, but I've never gone through with it. If anyone would like a few ideas, I'd be glad to spend a little time on it for either no charge or for an optional gratuity in return for a winner.
Amazon goes free for users next month
Not so shocking: TV networks block Google TV
My guess is that the indies will hit it first, just like they did for the iPhone.
Yes. The most common problem is being designed for large values. My situation of having a large number of very small values is unusual, so it's not surprising that existing code isn't optimized for this case.
I understand the chicken-and-egg problem but I have some contacts that would be willing to post jobs up there to begin with. You are correct that if an employer is not willing to spend $500 to post a job then they are not attractive. However, still everyday I see an increasing number of jobs being posted (for IT field) on cragislist. There must be something attracting those employers/employees?
HSL (Hue Saturation Luminosity) - bring your mouse all the way down to bring saturation to 0% or close and then scroll down to bring luminosity down to black or up to white.
I've heard of several news websites doing a version of this, with some success.

For instance, one New Jersey newspaper has a forum called "Take It Outside," where the comment policy is not as strict as in other areas of the site -- basically, only profanity and pornography get banned, but everything else is fair game.

The idea is that if you give people who want to post trollish comments a dedicated place to do so, maybe they'll gravitate there and stop bugging everyone else.

Then again, I suppose a true troll wants to bug everyone else.
Not Playing Farmville
I also see the danger of downward pricing pressure, since the mobile AppStore sets a precedence. And then AppStore Mac might increasingly be seen as the only display window for software, without leaving much room for separate framing and marketing. It transforms apps into something more like dumbed-down content.

Just taking the same share ratio of 70 / 30 from the mobile to the desktop space also doesn't seem favorable, since the mobile space used to be a much more walled garden, where it was an accomplishment to make distribution work at all. That is not the case on the desktop.