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Yup, that was announced after I prepared the list for this week. It will be included next week.
Does eternal=a sixth copy of GEB ;-)

Can't figure it out and have to go back to work.

An interesting strategy (almost cheating?) is to review other people's tweets and see if you can back into the question that way.
> And two, it's far more important to choose a good password for the sites that matter -- don't worry about sites you don't care about that nonetheless demand that you register and choose a password...

I actively use terrible and crappy passwords for certain sites, when I'm more worried about someone getting the password than someone getting access to my account on that site.
For reasons that silentbicycle presents elsewhere in this thread, that goal is quite difficult. The benefits I mentioned above would be true even if no other languages compiled down to the standardized byte-code - we'd have the above benefits first.
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The default for the Flash plug-in should be onDemand (aka FlashBlock). I love having Flash on my phone, but yeah if you have it on all the time it is going to seriously bog down the device. The perfect medium is ondemand where you can enable it when you want and need it, but disable it otherwise.

Every review where the browser was ever described as "slow" had Flash turned perma on. The Android 2.2 browser is the fastest of the bunch, and the Tab has one of the fastest CPUs, so it's the only explanation.

Samsung and others need to push back against Adobe on this.
The Flash thing is a good option in the bag, but it's hurting reviews.

Other than that, sometimes what is a critical deficiency for one reviewer just really doesn't matter much to another.

I have zero interest in the Tab. I think it's a premature product, and I don't know why someone would get it over an iPad.

Having said that, the Gizmodo review is terrible, and it is, by far, the outlier: Everyone else is generally positive, and then you have the over the top criticisms of Gizmodo.

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Which means, conversely, that there's almost no added benefit to using the Tab over a phone. It's not big enough. Web browsing doesn't have greater fidelity. I don't get more out of Twitter. A magazine app would be cramped."

Aside from the improved resolution (or does an iPhone 4 not have more "fidelity" than a 3GS?), 7" is a world different than 3.5-4.0". Perhaps it's just that I actually browse on my phone a lot, but I find this criticism oof Gimzodo's bizarre and...well...a bit "pick up the talking points from Steve Jobs". You know the whole ridiculous "sandpaper your fingers" bit.

If 7" isn't usable, then what the hell are people bothering paying good money for 3.5" iPhones for? Clearly they're completely unusable.
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Ok, done. This is why I post on Hacker News ;-)
I didn't like him at the beginning too.
But with time passing I began to admire him not because of his entrepreneurship skills but because of his exceptional personal branding
I wonder if Steve calls people who don't have a blog?
that'd be a fine critique if this article had a hint of schtick!
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I still just can't believe Jobs called the guy.

Wow!
> Just to note though: Javascript in fact doesn't require representing objects as hash tables. For example, the V8 javascript engine represents objects as instances of classes, more or less exactly how C++ would do it (the build the class definitions automatically in the background.)

That sounds like what Self does, too. See the excellent paper, "An Efficient Implementation of SELF" (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/implementati...).

The Self bibliography page (http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/index.html) has a lot of other content applicable to dynamic languages in general, too.
The marketing angle on this is great. It's not big exposure for apple, but it does completely illuminate a potentially larger conversation around API's. Steve is the one guy that could stop the conversation and having him make the 5min call changes the conversation for the issue, to how hands on Apple is with the development community.

Now, there is no way that Steve has time to deal with every problem, but things that have the potential for becoming bigger conversations I definitely see him stepping in quickly. He still reviews every.. EVERY single peace of advertising about the Apple brand and approves it personally...When it comes to brand, Steve is the most hands on CEO there is.
I was fond of: This is a milestone event for Red Hat as we once again push forward and upward our leadership position in the market.

The message seems to have manifested from the collective will of all redhat employees. There's no human signer or sender.
Is there any content available? Why would I want to request an invite? What does eeweb offer that is not offered by a site such as Physics Forums?

These are genuine questions. Before I request an invitation to something, I would like to know more about what it is I'm signing up for.
Hardware board design was done by Pegatron along with some contractors both in the USA and Taiwan. FG took all that IP and re-created it (or possibly just ripped it - they had the boards and most ODMs can scan them and RE the schematics) with their new ODM.

Pegatron did a lot of IP work as they were sold on the TC involvement and the deals we had in the pipeline. They had very good engineering guys that worked with a guy we had in the USA.

The industrial design was done by a firm in Singapore

Software design and components were done by a variety of people. FG bought in contractors who did some drivers, and they had 2 FG guys who did the browser and UI

It was all thrown together very quickly and the team was only really scaled up in the months leading up to FG leaving us (TC). Lots of mistakes were made on the software side, but that is a whole other story.

(Note: I worked on the project while at TC)
Can't agree more. Gizmodo's review is as biased as it can get.
Just had a look at the comments again and I have to say you are certainly eager to improve the site and respond well to (critical) feedback. Good show!
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I have that Apple remote and it's nowhere near as useful as what you can get for Windows Media Center.

I much prefer my Gyration remote - http://www.amazon.com/Gyration-GYR4101US-Air-Music-Remote/dp...
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Other responses have pointed out that many people just like programming, so they contribute without requiring payment. There's another reason that might appeal to your practical side which is basic economic utility - everyone gets to benefit from the specialized contributions of others.[1]

If there were no open source projects and you wanted to write the latest trendy web app, you'd have to either write or buy all of it which is horribly time-consuming or expensive. With open source, you can run a free web server and a free database server on a free OS and just write the business logic and presentation. For the latter part, you can leverage free application and javascript frameworks to speed up development.

At the end of the day no one cares if your application uses C/Postgres, Ruby/MongoDB, or C#.NET/MSSQL; they care if the application is useful. So all this contribution to open source helps everyone achieve the end goal (useful app) without getting lost along the way (implementing or buying the entire stack).

So why do people give away their free time and hard-earned, valuable skills? Everyone benefits.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gains_from_trade
I'm not saying that it quashes all of it, just that it's set back personal fabrication 25 years.

Forgive me for my historical ignorance, is there any sort of open hardware movement 25 years ago?

If not, than replication technology 25 years ago would probably have a different character.
To put it in mundane terms he's just more a sysadmin type than a programmer. Sometimes I think it's easy for programmers to have a bias against sysadmins because they aren't "creating", but the fact is that the scope of systems a typical sysadmin deals with is far greater than any programmer will ever program. Being able to grasp the scope of things and how they are working at both a high and low level is a special skill, and one that seems particularly applicable to the kind of hacks described in this article.

The wardriving and SQL injection, that's kid stuff, right? But what do you do once you're inside the system? That's where he seemed to shine.

The fact that he wasn't a great coder I think is more reflective of the fact that he didn't spend a lot of time writing code, but I don't think it reflects on his computer skills in general.
How is this different than http://www.eetimes.com?
I am pretty confident that women who don't read Cosmopolitan can also find mates.
Don't worry about flagging it, it's getting rapidly buried now. Colour me unsurprised.
And yet, for all the resources being thrown at improving Javascript, LuaJIT is still significantly faster. Oh, and it was written by one person.

The design of Javascript itself limits performance in various ways, unfortunately. See this discussion between Mike Pall (of LuaJIT) and Brendan Eich: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57671.
Dvorak could legitimately be described as a professional troll.

Stopping right here to reminisce for a minute.

When I was a kid, my parents bought me a subscription to MacUser magazine, because I was glued to our old 512. I would read the issues cover to cover. (I have particularly vivid memories of the April 1987 issue, which unveiled the Mac SE, the original Mac II, and the release of Dark Castle.)

Dvorak had a column on the last page of the magazine. It was basically an Andy Rooney routine -- he was a grump who liked to complain about messed-up technology. One of the first of his columns I read (some time in 1986) was a rant about his experiences trying to play ICOM's "Deja Vu", a fairly innovative adventure game with a noir theme.

Dvorak claimed to be unable to master the interface (point-and-click!), and described in great detail his attempts to fumble through the first few rooms. I was 9, and I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever read that involved a computer.

At some point he stopped writing the column, and I lost track of him until I was out of college and suddenly he was a notable tech pundit. That has always seemed strange to me.
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>Remember that many JIT optimizations apply only to interpreted code and would not be required with native code.

No, I'm talking about things like being able to skip virtual table lookups for method calls, you can't do that in C++. You can't short circuit them either. You can in a JIT. You also get superior garbage collection performance with a JIT compared to static compiling.
I really like how the Boxee Box team approached the "simple remote vs. youtube searching" problem. Their remote has two sides. On the top is a four-way directional pad, a select, and a menu/back button. On the bottom is a full, cell-phone style keyboard. I think it's the best of both worlds.
The funny thing is that BTRFS is developed by Oracle. ZFS was developed by Sun. Now when Oracle bought Sun they have two more or less competing filesystems. What are they going to do about this? Are they going to make ZFS GPL or cancel the development of one of these?
Oh gawd. Drink the kool-aid much?

That remote is horrible compared to what you can get for Windows Media Center. Have you even tried a Gyration air-remote?
Tcl would have been worse, probably.
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If Steve calls and there is no blog to talk about it, did Steve really call?
MS actually makes money on each Kinect sold. See http://www.mcvuk.com/news/41487/Kinect-priced-for-profit

So in theory each Kinect sold for hacking is money in MS's pocket.

Given that MS has bought a slew of patents all around this space, they may be playing coy here.

"Please don't hack this... please don't. Oh drats, you figured out a way around our advanced hack-proof system. But what can you do with it? Nothing probably, you surely can't think of some really cool ideas that we haven't... Oh you can give some additional hints to your Roomba from the couch with hand gestures... go on..."
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Yahoo!, once the largest destination on the net, has had a decade long identify crisis full of facepalm laden missteps, and a desire to outsource anything potentially profitable. This infographic scrapbook of the decline should bring some perspective to the one of the web's largest aging dinosaurs.
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Anyone care to share?

Example: App(Website) / How I use my App?
I've seen that post linked a few times. I think it misses the point of Ferriss' book. "Idleness is not the goal, doing what you want is". Ferriss optimized his business such that all the shitty things he didn't like doing, which was most, if not all things, could be finished in 4 hours a week. Getting his book sold was something else entirely.
I got modded into a smouldering crater for pointing out that another article was a massive troll.[1] I think I was modded down for the fact that I enjoyed it: despite the fact I was highlighting it was a troll and that people shouldn't take it seriously. Almost everything in tech journalism these days consists of hyperbole or trolling to get maximum hits or, failing that, thinly reworded press releases and superficial reviews to minimize the actual effort required to publish. There are a few exceptions - namely things like the really in-depth SSD reviews conducted by Anandtech which actually had well constructed benchmarks, told you something new and really valuable and actually went and did interviews with major players - but these are the exceptions that prove the rule.

Bonus points: video of Dvorak admitting he trolls Apple users in his columns.[2]

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1877219

[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQv0j29WHA
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Perhaps I misinterpreted your earlier comment?

I was responding to the idea that the stuff you see on Cosmo/society-at-large is just natural expressions of hard-wired biology -- what I see as a classic sexist cop-out.
I love the sense of community this is building already. Microsoft's initial 'don't hack our hardware!' statement only served to bring more attention to it.

I've even got some ideas for games for it, but of course, I don't have a license to officially program for it, and I don't think it works with the XNA. This means I have a chance to use with with the PC instead, though. If I can just find the time. ;)
> Google Adsense?

I recognize that you're being downvoted for not actually contributing to the conversation, but I'm going to use your comment as a springboard to make a point that's been bothering me.

I have serious doubts about the mobile ad space for the following three reasons.

First, what kind of user experience is it to "click" on an ad on your mobile device? I go out of my way not to read actual webpages on the 4" screen, and thus I am certainly not going to try and conduct a learning exercise about your product nor am I going to suffer through typing my payment details to buy something.

Second, and I think I recall reading somewhere that an ad platform seeks to change this [maybe they all do!], but chances are that I'm currently using my mobile device for something. Unlike the magic Ctrl-click to open an ad in a new tab, if I were to have a sudden urge to click on an ad, that is going to interrupt whatever it is that I am trying to accomplish right now. Strong disincentive to do anything of the sort.

Finally, it has been overwhelmingly my experience that an app which uses an ad network is going to have lag and is going to incur pauses while I am trying to do something on my mobile. Maybe on wifi it's less of a big deal, but the times that I use my mobile on wifi are minimal, otherwise it would be a netbook.

I agree with in-app purchases as one of the money-making vehicles for the mobile market. I believe, also, in trial versions and outright purchasing apps based on good reviews. But seriously: can we please skip past trying to replicate the success of the ad networks from the web?
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He's pretty much made a career out of making inflammatory statements about companies whose fans get riled up easily. It's not a result of ignorance, it's a result of calculated attempts get hits on his articles (I think he's more-or-less admitted this multiple times). The obvious target has always been Apple, but Google (espcially Android) fanatics have been equally quick to get their backs up lately—maybe he's just diversifying.
I was not going to get myself a Kinect but things are changing pretty fast..
Here's what Google had to say last year about exporting emails from their social network, Orkut:

"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click. In order to protect user privacy, we now exclude email addresses from the CSV export file."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-...

This is almost exactly what Facebook says today, while Google PR fakes a stroke in front of every blogger who'll pay attention. What was different was that, in 2009, Orkut was still the network of choice in two important markets (India and Brazil); "openness" of the sort that Google is advocating for its competitors would have actually been expensive.
> The new google image search is worse than the old one imo so dvorak's point stands even if he got a few technical details wrong.

It may be worse for you, but it is better for almost everyone else. Dvorak is getting two things confused here: first, he assumes that because of his special uses cases that aren't supported as well, GIS is overall worse now. Second, he assumes that because a certain Google property is worse, the entire company is headed for doom.
In a list of great predictions of our time, "There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in [the mobile phone] business" has to be right up there.
I was at David Sehr's presentation at the LLVM conference. There are something like a dozen Googlers working on getting PNaCL working. They are able to get pretty close to the performance of native code, which is pretty enticing. There's still plenty of work left to do though.

One of the problems that needs to be fixed is that LLVM bitcode is kind of bloated, something like 6x as compared with native code. Another issue is that bitcode is not platform independent. Things like pointer sizes and exception handling are dependent on the target you are compiling to. Thus, they have to define a bunch of specifications for PNaCL programs so that they'll run everywhere.

It will definitely be interesting to see if anyone uses it. Like you said, one killer app will do the trick. I'd like to see Google Earth reimplemented for PNaCL, or any Google project for that matter. That would give more confidence that this is a project that is going to be taken seriously within Google.
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They are all bad. At least though Giz addressed how a person actually interacts with the device, which is more than can be said for the others.
I love Keynote on the Mac, but I also love trying new software. I just tried to build it without success on Mac OS 10.6 using Ant 1.8.1. Any suggestions?

- I cloned the Mercurial repo (my first time with a VCS),

- I downloaded Ant [1], installed it [2], and successfully built a "Hello World" build.xml [3] (I have some experience in the command line),

- I ran

ant -buildfile /Users/mattparcher/Huckster/build.xml

Producing:

BUILD FAILED
/Huckster/nbproject/build-impl.xml:351: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/Huckster/nbproject/build-impl.xml:160: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

[1] http://ant.apache.org

[2] http://www.asceticmonk.com/blog/?p=388

[3] http://www.andyjarrett.co.uk/blog/index.cfm/2007/6/27/Instal...
Why are you paying for "CentOS?" Does Rackspace charge for different distributions? If you're going to pay for a distro then might as well go for the source and pay for RHEL.

I'm basing this from your comment:
"CentOS 5.4 - pretty much an exact replica of RedHat 5.4, so there's lot's of online documentation and help. Plus, it came as an inexpensive option with Rackspace. :)"
Did they really need to put CAPS LOCK on a remote?
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WesleyJohnson,

Thanks for the feedback!

1) The link should be fixed now. Thanks for informing me about that. I think I had a return character in it accidentally.

2) Okay, that makes sense. I think you are correct because when the user installs the extension it says something along the lines of needing access to basically any data. Obviously, my extension wouldn't need all that data. That must be the issue then.

3) Ahh, right. I had some stuff in there at one point but then decided to not use it. Must've forgot to delete it.

4) I had thought during the process that there was probably a better way to do it. However, for sake of just getting something out there I've left this code as is. Believe it or not, it was worse at one point. I'll look into other ways of doing it, though.

Thanks again.
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Certainly labels printing job has become a prevailing trend over the World Wide Web these days. That is why online label printing company offers you compatible labels printing solutions worldwide cost effectively.
Sure. But then Facebook doesnt really have a reason to care about you, as a non-user of their service, and keeping data locked in is their best way of keeping you coming back.
Vulnerability Alert: Using ProFTPd for Core Processing Anywhere?
If so, you might want to pay attention to this announcement of a critical remote vulnerability in the daemon. A patch is now available and should be applied quickly if you have core processes using this application. You can read the entire alert here...
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To answer the unasked question: You're being downvoted because the list isn't the majority, but his personal experience. You should also review the article again, since his comment is on topic with what it discusses, and your's isn't.
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I definitely said "this looks like an interesting app" to myself after first clicking and going to the page describing the app and then clicking the link to itunes and then waiting for itunes to load up.
He's not paying for CentOS, he'd have to pay for RHEL. It's an extra 3 cents an hour.
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