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I purchased a ST-1700 TOUCHPANEL from et_man_4@yahoo.com for $1300.00 and now I am told that I can't get the software to program it! They tell me I have no alternative. Is there anyone out there that can help me ? I am willing to pay for the help!
Remember they once ignored the web.
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I am sorry to be negative, but can someone explain to me why this is a YC startup and not a weekend-project ?
If modified for close-range operation, it could probably be hooked up to a motorized monitor arm, so that the monitor stays perfectly oriented relative to your face regardless of how you adjust your sitting position or posture.
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I was sure hoping this was going to be about information archiving - and its long-term issues.
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A statically typed language I'd actually want to use
By "breeding situation" do you mean population growth or the right to produce children that are genetically modified?
Thank you, I truly appreciate your feedback.

The truth is that reader's expectations are permanently increasing and sometimes it is really difficult to meet these expectations because every reader has different expectations and requirements for our articles. You can't please everybody, and we can just try to make sure that the vast majority of readers finds a piece useful and/or interesting. We try to do our best to keep the high quality level, and the amount of editing work for every single article hopefully speaks to that.

I understand what you are saying regarding the color difference in the examples, and it would be more correct to keep the background color the same, but I truly do not think that it would change the choice of typefaces a lot. We have carefully considered the typefaces and how they work together regardless the background they are on.

Also, I found quite many useful practical tips in the article, which is why it was published in the first place. But I can see that some descriptions are more general and could (and should) be more precise and concise. I will certainly keep your remark in mind for the next articles.
The "daily builds" item should at least be a "daily build & smoke test", but for the rest I think it's at an appropriate level. Keep in mind, these are simple questions which have the greatest differential in quality between yes/no answers.
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"Voice recognition was mediocre. Had to repeat ourselves a few times, and background noises seemed to screw it up"

Since you're supposed to recalibrate the microphones if you move the furniture in the room, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of people moving around the room could cause problems.
when mom and pop stand at best buy and look through the options, there's definitely going to be some cheaper options than an ipad. still though, i anticipate christmas will be good for Apple.
I just enable the app in Labs that puts the "Beta" tag back on the Gmail logo and my anger instantly subsides!
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I've seen a claim of 2 cm resolution.
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I complain when I am not wrong. This time I was very wrong.

And now I know Apache has an explicit patent grant, something I didn't just 7 hours ago.

BTW, I upvoted equark's comment. And thanks for pointing me to my previous comment: I forgot to add the "but, karma, burn" part...
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Any thoughts about (optionally) turning URLs into hotlinks?
Or (as suggested on techcrunch comments) having (hideable) due dates?
Recently I have been having a good time developing a large program with this classical inheritance pattern.

Person = function() {
this.say = function(phrase) {
console.log(phrase);
}; Person.prototype.say = this.say;
};

Developer = function() {
var mypriv = "I have encapsulation";

this.say = function(phrase) {
Person.prototype.say.call(this, "Hello");
console.log("I develop "+phrase);
console.log(mypriv);
};
}; Developer.prototype = new Person();

var devel = new Developer();
devel.say("a lot");

Coming from a C++ and Java background, I have put this pattern together from various sources: Crockford, John Resig and others. It has worked great and I dont see any problems with structuring your large JS program in this way.
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Yes, I've seen a few hard core Linux hackers interested in it.

At least that means there will be plenty of optional options for adjusting the ability to adjust option selection adjustment options.
I disagree that they are different levels of problem. A fatal error in a web app is the same as a crash, the fact that it doesn't affect other people and the fact that you can effectively "restart" the app by refreshing or going back and performing an action again is irrelevant.

If you are a serious web business and your app drops a ten thousand dollar order, or it dies in the middle of posting an important live news story, or it fails to send a personal message to an SO overseas, the fact that they can retry (perhaps after re-doing a significant amount of work) is no consolation. You, dear web app creator, are still proper fucked.
i simply avoid writing "new" in javascript. ever. well, unless its for Date.

if i really need OO, i use YUI and forget about most javascript caveats. Everything is just too 'wrong' to keep track in your mind.
This remind me of the HADOPI law in France.

First, the parliament vote the law. That law is rejected, on the grounds that it does not respect the French constitution. (Among other things, there was the fact that cutting off an internet connection amounts to sever the freedom of expression of the accused. Only a Judge is supposed to be able to do that, and the HADOPI law didn't involve one.)

Second, they vote the law again, deferring the anti-constitutional parts to the application decrees. This law is now applied, despite many thorny problems (not respecting the presumption of innocence is one of them).
I am not "anti-Microsoft". I am just old enough.

I say it here, it comes out there. :-)
Upon visiting your site for the first time (I went straight to the link and cheated), I am entirely overwhelmed and confused. 10 minutes in and I've yet to discover exactly what it is your site aims to help me with.

Things that stand out:

Why is the front-page a list of blog posts written by you asking for funds? I can't think of a worse way to welcome users to your site. Not to mention I haven't a clue what I'm looking at..

A "we need money" page. Begging for money is hardly a way to get someone interested in funding your company. This page is highly redundant and the Paypal donation button is also extremely tacky.

An @gmaildotcom email doesn't exactly come off as being professional. It doesn't take more than a couple seconds to setup an email for your own domain and IMHO just looks much more professional.

The big sidebar links on the right. What are they? Popular links? Favorite links? I've still yet to figure that out.

Overall I'm having a hard time seeing exactly where all the hard work and effort towards this site is going. Not to be rude, but it's certainly not towards the design and usability of the site. The site itself is something I could throw up in a day with any decent CMS (drupal comes to mind immediately). It seems most of your effort has gone towards convincing yourself that you have something amazing on your hands and trying to convey that through... begging?

Upon visiting your twitter I was greeted with the message "http://wikitorrents.org/ for all your BitTorrent wiki needs." That really doesn't mean anything at all. Not to mention it looks like this site has been around for over a year now. I'd expect there to be at least some signs of growth at this point. Why would someone invest in a year old site that hasn't more than a few pages of content? Maybe I'm missing something here?
I am the complete opposite. Having more than 4 tabs open feels like working at an untidy desk. I can't cope with it!
This actually makes perfect sense to me. Knowing this would have really come in handy a while back when I was creating my dynamic excel spreadsheet generator in PHP. While it doesn't follow ASCII char indexes, it follows a base 26 numbering system.

Edit: Oh... and if anyone was wondering, PHP's "char" function (provided an index) should perform similar to incrementing an ASCII char in C/C++.
Haskell doesn't have active patterns. Although they were originally proposed for Haskell by Wadler, they don't make so much sense with non-strict evaluation because you can just write code to compute the result and match over it safe in the knowledge that it will be computed on-demand only as far as required.
It's not just about hoarding cash. When you act so as to maximize your income, you have found society's consensus that what you are doing is the most important and valuable thing you could offer. Altruism disregards all that feedback from everyone else, in favor of doing what you think we should want most from you (even though we demonstrably don't).
"improve my own immediate quality of life"=="vodka, hookers and weed" ;)

edit: and a top hat and monocle. I mean, I am loaded after all...
F# was just released under to OSI-approved Apache open source license.
Alternatively, they might have come across Six Sigma ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma ) and decided it was relevant.
Kinect is definitely disruptive. Which is all the more impressive considering the Wii has been on the market for some time, yet Kinect is not just a Wii motion control imitation (as the Playstation Move is), it's something similar but very different.

It's probably too soon to tell how significant Kinect will end up being, it'll probably be follow-on generations of Kinect games which will prove whether it'll be a game changer or a dud.
Ubuntu To Ditch X Server For Wayland
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Yeah, it's an absolutely ridiculous combination. On the other hand ...

unsigned char c;
for (c=0; c<=255; ++c) {
printf(" %d", c);
}
printf("\n");

exhibits the exact same problem, which all C's integral types have. So unless you embrace Bignums Everywhere (or at least automatic promotion to bignum and therefore Potential Bignums Everywhere Except Where The Compiler Can Prove Otherwise) it's hard to avoid.
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I appreciate the fact that the drawings are made by real people. Still, I wonder how much better these actually are compared to a carefully customized set of photoshop filters.
Making money and having happy customers are not two mutually exclusive ideals. Its quite satisfying to have both conditions occur in business, and quite possible no matter what Mr. Marx has to say about it. If you do something for someone that they are willing to pay you for, then congratulations: that is the nature of productive success in business.
Did you read Engadget or Gizmodo? They often break stories and provide their own gadget reviews, it's something completely different as what was described in the article.
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Multicore is one obvious huge advantage over OCaml. Associating basic functions (like comparison) with types is a major advantage. Equality types are a huge advantage. Overloading and associated benefits like support for the full range of primitive types is another important advantage.

Also, F# executables tend to be orders of magnitude smaller than OCaml executables but, of course, the F# ones need a CLR installed to run them.
Yes, this! Add some example lists to it, and reset it every hour or so. This way when they sign up, they don't just see an empty list, but already have ideas what to do with it.

Maybe even add some example lists for new registered user (you could use that to add a little user guide).
That's not really true. Greenspun was the hot pundit before Joel. A bunch of people hung out on SlashDot. And the C2 Wiki, which arguably was filled with more experienced practitioners than Joel, has been around since 1995.
Transcendental infinities and infinitesimals - many different types of infinity exist, both countable and uncountable.

Most people tend to stop at the standard infinity that lies at the top end of the real number line - "bigger than the biggest number you can think of, and then some, plus one."

Never mind that there's another infinity, just as big, at the far end of the negative side of the real number line, and further infinities in all directions when you bring in complex numbers, quaternions, infinitesimals, the uncountable infinities lying between any two arbitrarily chosen adjacent real numbers and so on.

Also, the "Arabic" number system was invented in India. It was only introduced to the West by the Muslims.

Yes, America, if not for Muslims you'd still be counting in Roman numerals.
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The secret to building an inexpensive flexible computer display is not in the core components of the displays themselves. It's in the material those components are mounted on.The fundamental elements of e-ink and OLED displays are small enough that they won't break if laid down on flexible backing.
Another option would be to just use vimeo instead of youtube. Or better yet, justin.tv, since they are also a yc recipient.
These machines and the whole security theatre is simply this: a psy-op designed to produce more malleable citizens in the years to come.

5 years from now there will be grown adults, who once were teens, who won't think anything of it because "thats how its been our whole lives, so whats the big deal?".

Never forget this fact: you are going to be replaced, citizen, in just a few short years.
Who is this Ed Turner guy? Sounds pretty awesome
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This is the first time I've watched an online video which started with an advert and decided "You know what, I can't be bothered to watch an advert just for this."

I have a hunch this is going to become more frequent for me. I've reached my tiring point. Taking 15 seconds of my time just so I can decide if I want to skip through the video to find 5 seconds of interesting content is just not acceptable. Video content is not that special. Would you sit through a 15-second flash ad to see an article? Me neither.
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Miguel has left a very suspicious tweet:

"There is a rumor on the tweetosphere of an F# addin for MonoDevelop being demoed tomorrow ;-)"

http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/384890042327040

This is very exciting!
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Everything felt wrong when I started programming in JS for real about a year ago, but now I would say I understand most aspects of it, and can keep track. Im still not ready to let go of classes and classical inheritance though. Not sure if I ever want to.
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I think moonlight can't show you any DRMed content; it's still the technology that is at fault.
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This is where centralization of video hosting onto sites like YouTube can be a big benefit. They can show you a 30-second ad and then let you watch 10 minutes of video, even if that is in 5-second chunks.
I am pretty sure Dropbox used to have a link right under the video saying "If you'd rather read a text than watch a video, click here"
Http://post.psctube.com/apple-iphone-4g-hd-32gb-300-2/
There's a huge difference between "3000 uniques a day" and "3000 uniques in a single day". What's your average traffic per day this month?

But more importantly, there's really no necessary correlation between traffic and value. (examples: wikileaks, geocities, cuil, somafm, and, well I mean just browse through TC's deadpool)

Can you instantly answer what your business model is? How much revenue you expect to have in the next 6 months? What your competitors are doing, and how your service differs? Who your users are? And what the next iteration of your product will be?

If you have to think about those things, you're not ready to be acquired.

(disclaimer: I'm talking out of my ass based on what I've read not what I've learned.)
I have a worry of this turning out very badly.
This one not too bad either:

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To run F# you need .Net runtime, which is as closed as it can be. It's like Sun open sourcing the Java compiler but not the JVM.
I agree with that. My contention is unfair pricing doesn't necessarily make people pirates, indeed it will more commonly just make them customers of something they see being priced more fairly.
Android smartphones: hack me if you can
What is sad about Facebook not allowing users to export their contacts is that they let advertisers and apps have access to your contacts without your permission. I doubt Facebook will do anything about this, it would take their users screaming for it.
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There's certainly an air to having your dot sketch in the WSJ from what I hear, though I imagine that's faded after its years of remodeling itself and its time under new ownership. That said, the difficulties with using an algorithmic filter for creating this stipple effect are, based on my past attempts:

(1) robustness to lighting conditions

(2) recognition of continuous shapes, such as hats (captured well in [1])

(3) avoiding stipple effect on facial features (e.g. lips, eyes)

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that I haven't been clever enough to encode it correctly. :)

[1] http://gazeandstare.com/pic/nolinovak_01.gif
Wayland uses OpenGL ES for rendering, preparing Ubuntu for handsets.

Ubuntu must be eying a future alongside Android, which is an excellent bet.

There have been many attempts at X replacement, all well justified, and if Wayland is the best of them, it would still be better than the baroque X protocol.

Like almost every C++ programmer working in the early 00s, I too hacked on Berlin :-|
I also had the problem. I think it is because of one of the google labs features. Since disabling them, I don't have the problem anymore.
Why not just Bookmark pages you want to read later?
By the way, I keep a lot of tabs open and I had never such problem with Chrome. And I don't think it's fair to blame Chrome(you meant Chromium) for Flash's bus.
Your landing page screams for A/B testing, but not just of different permutations of this page but of entirely different product names going for different market segments.

If you wanted to market to this particular segment, you could more explicitly make mention of how well kava goes with cannabis.
Hey Peter,

You could take a look at FreeTheApps.com.
http://mixergy.com/free-apps-interview/ There's an in-depth mixergy interview on how 2 guys outsourced iPhone app development on Elance, often under $3k and they're doing about $80k in monthly revenue. Pretty interesting for your budget =) Maybe you could email them direct, they seem pretty friendly. They also have an e-book called "How to Make Profitable iPhone apps with No programming experience".
Using flashblock is not at all disrespectful. Sites can still serve text ads (remember those?) and graphics (even animated gifs, if they are so inclined) to you.

If flashblock is a common phenomenon (I don't use it because I shun sites that have abusive flash ads), it's because advertising networks do an extremely poor job at policing the kind of ads that they publish. (To be honest, they do a better job at it than a couple years ago when you could get the flashy-blinky-type that would play sound without being asked to)
If you create a site's CSS from scratch you will never need !important. Basically the only good use for !important is when you are dealing with a buggy CSS that you can't quickly replace.

Using mostly CSS classes helps you avoid the need for !important.
While I appreciate this move--Facebook is a silo and you need to be able to get your data out--it's probably too little, too late.

Facebook has half a billion users and this mostly affects you when you sign up. It feels like the ship has sailed.

Also, it'll need some other big players to adopt the same approach: Yahoo and Microsoft for a start.
That's what I was thinking, and in this case 'zz' would be > 'a'. I'd say that's a reasonable choice.
As mentioned, his primary interest here was that the guys had outsourced every aspect of creating the apps and had created a business doing it. Sure it may not be the most high quality business but it's still interesting to look at by virtue of the success.
The idea of Wayland growing and becoming a more usable platform sound terrific. The troubling part about this is ubuntu's history of doing what's good for ubuntu.
I was thinking about being more polite and just calling it "awesome kava tea" or something. But then I just said "fuck it" and decided to see what a flat out "MAD magazine" or "Cracked" approach would land it. It's kinda fun.I'll se what happens for a while and then possibly change it.
I have no worries about this. Linux distributions always do a couple of releases of "disasters", (e.g. KDE 4) before it starts becoming stable.

Wayland is theoretically superior and with iteration after iteration, I'm sure it's going to come out on top. Just don't be one of the early adopters, but that's a given when it comes to Ubuntu, in my experience (unless you really do like the risks involved with cutting edge software).

The truth is, X is just too old fashioned and it's like trying to spend time maintaining an old car from the 1970s instead of just buying a new car with electronic fuel injection and excellent brakes.
Named after Wayland the smith? Who killed the kids of his employer and fashioned goblets out of their skulls? Erm…
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No, but it does reflect badly on the employee selection procedures, and training of people to be sure that they are 100% aware of the responsibility they have. Yes this may be isolated incident, but I'd like this case to be publicized widely so that it can be used in the next generation of TSA employees training, as a 'hey kids, don't do this because you'll make CNN in a bad way' warning.
Thanks :) My biggest concern has been about taxes. In fact it's the reason I've delayed as long as I have in finally processing the paperwork (that and health care).

I'll read the blog.
Perhaps in the future, when we have a better understanding of genetics.

Right now it seems we can't account for unintended consequences.
Yes you're right but the OP stated he's already stopped (a few times) with no physical withdrawal symptoms which leads me to conclude (and I think the OP already feels this) that they are not physically addicted.

Of course we'd all agree that the OP should probably seek medical support regardless of the rambling of a few people on the internet :)
I think a prominent client of mine may owe you a beer. Thanks for bringing the light of A/B testing to platforms without great options. Nobody should have to use Google Website Optimizer.