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Why did you argue with yourself instead of editing your parent post?
How about this: I think vp8 is technically a piece of shit but I really like chrome, so if HTML5 video becomes common enough that I need it I will do it myself for OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
I noticed that just now too. I'll investigate and see if I can get a fix in the next update.
Are you sure? I believe Zuckerberg's diary described him doing precisely that when he first got the ball rolling at Harvard (which seems like an appropriate stage for comparison vs the Steamtunnels guys.)
The rudimentary copy protection of Flash/Silverlight can't be overlooked with this decision. I can't imagine the likes of Hulu or Netflix to ever seriously think that they would be allowed to support a HTML5 player. Only the likes of Youtube and Vimeo will seriously have to think about this issue in the short-term.
it just means you have to compete. Like pretty much everyone else who's trying to make a living.
Nice article. Should be renamed, "What to know before debating type systems... and then don't debate them".
Great in theory - but the reality is 90-95% of my dropped calls are in:

o Redwood City (Okay, I live here - but they drop _everywhere_)
o Mountain View
o 101 going south by San Mateo

That is, my calls drop in the most densely populated areas - not the least. As long as I get some reasonable number of Bars, my iPhone keeps working in the rural areas.

With that said - over the last year or so, I have been able to go sometimes as many as two or three days without a dropped call in the above areas, so I'll concur that AT&T is getting better.

I'm hoping that as everyone rushes over to Verizon, it will get even better. :-)
The dependence is already there. The only reason people even noticed <video> is because of iOS. Everyone not on iOS hasn't noticed or cared yet.

From Google's point of view getting everything switched from Adobe's proprietary platform to a platform controlled by a software cartel consisting of Microsoft and Apple isn't progress. You're just handing your nuts to be crushed by a different party.

Google's strategy seems to mitigate the harm now (Flash's security history) with an eye to getting everything on a standard not controlled by its rivals.
They also (finally) have their own micropayments system set up, which means they're getting a cut of all the payments made through them and I'm certain facebook will make steps to ensure they make themselves the sole payment provider for games used on it.
Surely you have had the experience of being in a class or lecture with someone who used Q&A time to preen or push an obviously inappropriate agenda.

Discourse, like everything social, requires a certain amount of good faith, or it stops being useful.
I think the point is that Wall-E and Up! weren't movies targeted at kids. Any entertainment value kids can derive from such a movie is purely coincidental. Any entertainment value the target market of such a movie can derive from such a movie is brilliant success.

Once again, they were not kids movies. Stop criticizing them for not being fun for kids.
The art is there is no art. It's called "making useful stuff that people can find." I always felt like a criminal when people paid me loads of money to do this :(
Totally, but there's also a good chance the interview went like this:

Reporter: "So knowing what Facebook has become now, would you have stuck with it?"

Founders: "Of course!" (laughter)

Article: "The founders say that they would have kept trying much harder at the Facebook component if they knew how huge a similar site would become."
> Diaries can be dangerous. They are a perfect tool for narrowing your thinking. What you want is repeated over and ver, to the point that you do not feel that you want it anymore but are just saying so.

Indeed. It's sort of like the danger of writing only for your peers and thus subscribing to their groupthink (a danger especially present on sites like this one), but even more so: you're writing for a peer-group of one. You'll never get an alternate opinion thrown at you that can disrupt you from going down a stupid path, when you're making that journey alone.

However, that can be useful in some situations: unlike evolution, where every complex adaptation has to be made up of simpler adaptations that were each successful on their own, we can refine thoughts in textual meditation that would seem stupid if presented to others in their prototypical forms: we can climb down the fitness landscape to explore.
I thought about a plugin but then you are maintaining several and handling issues from readers who hits walls installed or uninstalling it...

My hope tis that this approach is equally unhelpful to everyone :)

Seriously, my hope is that if an approach like this is going to happen that we can keep the usage (syntax) consistent.

Further down the road I'd like the view to also show you what people in your network have highlighted, or on a more aggregate and subtle level, what everyone has...
As others have said, it's not "their own video codec." Also, it's not clear that WebM is not patent-encumbered in some way.

Secondly, Apple "picked" H.264 as a format nearly four years ago when they built the original iPhone with hardware decoding, before WebM existed and likely before some of the code for WebM was written.

Third, whatwg tried to pick one single codec in 2009. Again, this was well before WebM existed in its current state. Back then, the two options were:

1) Ogg Theora

2) H.264

Read Ian Hickson's summary of the different browser vendors' positions from 2009: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...

As you'll note, it boiled down to "we're okay with H.264 because we can afford it and want to support something now" vs. "it's too expensive and we'll wait." Microsoft was late to the game or apathetic.

WebM was released by Google 7 months ago. Think about that! You expect a company like Apple whose business lies primarily in mobile devices that are capable of hardware decoding H.264 video to suddenly pivot and widely implement a codec released by a company that is increasingly competing with its core business and that has an unclear patent future and inferior technology.

A table of the current state of implemented tech features is not the same as knowing the history behind these decisions.
What about Phil Jackson? You're probably better at basketball than he is.
"Video no longer available"

Transcript from googling[1]:

"You can't solve problems with guns."
"We don't need any more restrictions in our society..."
"If maybe the gunman had some friends and family around him prior to this, this wouldn't have happened."
"I think there's always going to be random acts... but our family believes there is a lot of good people out there... If we live in a country like the United States where we're freer than anyone else, we're subject to things like this happening... and that's the price we have to pay."

[1] http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread649110/pg1
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Axure RP http://www.axure.com/ also generates some pretty sexy HTML prototypes ... all completely self contained and renderable in any browser.

Has helped make every app I've ever done for a client involving it, go really smoothly.
Every time I read a title like this, I just picture Teddy Roosevelt. Figures this link is from art of manliness.
Do you encode video for the web? Do you know how long it has taken to reach a point where there is almost a ubiquitous codec? I've been in the business for 10 years. Yesterday may have been the peak of ubiquity.

This is a selfish move by Google to put the screws to Apple. There's no question it's going to hurt users in the short term because they'll have to rely on Flash to playback H.264. And users are going to be using Flash a lot because the people like me who are in the business of encoding and hosting video will not be switching to WebM anytime soon. The millions of iOS devices and the higher ups who own them will dictate this for years to come. This is where your idealism meets reality.
I actually use a small sketch book. Hard cover, acid free paper with no lines, and heavy enough paper that ink doesn't show through. Also about 1/3 the price of a Moleskin.
Dropping Flash for video playback would be nice, yes.

But making the shift from plugin-based playback to HTML5 video is an opportunity. And it's really the only chance that the web as a whole is going to get - if Flash video dies and H.264 through <video> becomes the dominant format, then the web is going to be stuck with that, and the MPEG-LA will rake it in from anyone who wants to make a product that involves web video. That is a terrible position to be in.

The best option is to make a clean break here and now, and leave patent-encumbered video codecs behind at the same time as Flash for video playback is left behind. Playing through a Flash container is fine for legacy videos, and long-term there's no real downside to pushing unencumbered formats for HTML5.
I'm surprised to find this posted here. I developed this and given the community here I'd appreciate any feedback for future iterations...
How often do you have the fear that someone will beat you to a working product?

Hah, it's a little late for that, here. Some of the ideas I was chewing on in 2006 or so, were a bit novel then, but probably only a bit. But I lolly-gagged around, didn't stay focused, and never delivered anything. Now there are a billion companies playing in the space I'm interested in (in a vague sense).

At this point, I'm not really focusing on having some ground-breaking new idea that revolutionizes anything, I just want to focus on some specific things and try to be better in a few areas, and maybe introduce one or two ideas / features that may still be a little bit novel.

Basically I go back to what Bob Parsons (of Godaddy fame) had to say (paraphrased slightly) "Don't be afraid of a crowded market, just be better than everybody else."
If there's war, it may be over Fresh Water instead...
The issue is really that the cities in the US don't have the right infrastructure. In NYC I don't remember ever having a mobile phone call that wasn't dropped. Calls generally don't drop in rural areas in the USA unless it's really, really rural.
Why Verizon was smart to pass up the iPhone
I didn't say shiny & new == better.

Doing something that has existed on virtually every platform in the world is a "finally" moment, but not "awesome". Was this awesome when it was in Windows Mobile 1.0? Is it awesome that it's in Meego or Bada?

"Check out the new Bada OS. You can use an event loop! AWESOME!"

Just seems like a degree of hyperbole and marketing that goes completely unchecked.
This is pretty cool. It would be really interesting to see a full port of Qt (http://qt.nokia.com/products/) to Android. Write a single C++ application have it run on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android, etc.
$20 million saved in a year does not a balanced budget make.
What does this prove? Apparently, they have a new airplane. Is this plane really stealth? What are its capabilities? Does this really matter?
It looks like your version uses a numeric value as determined by the order of the P tag. This is what I had before.

The second version generates a Key for the paragraph so it can be moved anywhere in the page, and survive slight modifications if the text changes too.

Nice work though.
That doesn't preclude the rest of the scenario from playing out. To the contrary, Flash and WebM support is a critical component. Google needs two things to apply pressure to Apple with WebM:

* Widespread WebM support in web browsers (Flash is a good vehicle for this)

* WebM exclusivity (or at least preference) on Android handsets

I'm not sure how they'd execute the latter. The handset manufacturers pick the chipsets and build the drivers, so it's not clear to me how that part plays out.

Like I said, it's a stretch, but given that Google seems to want to go head-to-head with Apple, it's plausible, IMO.
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There's also this:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
Can you code while in a dream?
So the people complaining about complaints over UI being about style instead of substance are themselves complaining about argumentative style instead of substance.
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And the hard working, loyal employees that worked their butts off...will be looking for jobs.

If you're a MySpace engineer that was laid off, hit me up: bpaetzke@leads360.com. I'm a software engineer at a .NET startup in El Segundo, CA that's hiring.
glympse? Ish, would like to connect with you. we build geo apps, and work out of the mission (in the us bank building on 22nd and Mission).
Not really that, but people either love him or hate him, and there's usually little to be gained by trying to convince someone to change their position in matters such as these.

It doesn't change my opinion, but I don't feel like getting downvoted today.
Having just watched someone else give a chunk of "my demo", well... yeah. (And this is for a pure software project, which is rather less capital-intensive than deploying anything involving hardware these days.)

Here's the flip side: if no one else was interested in your area, it's probably not very interesting. Dropbox wasn't the first file-syncing service. Vimeo was started before YouTube. And there were plenty of social networks before Facebook, which was entering an area where there were large and well-funded incumbents when it was literally some kid's dormroom project.

It may be worth keeping in mind Fred Wilson's advice: once you're pretty sure you know what you want to do, put your head down and execute: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/your-worst-enemy-is-yourself...
I think Credit Suisse is just spreading FUD, so they get people to trade on their own market, instead of some upstart HFT firm. Every new rule and game is just another money making opportunity for a opportunistic firm.
MySpace slashes nearly half its global staff
SIP beyond VoIP - location based services using SIP/SIMPLE
Scott says it all the time when making fun of the way people use social media. That being said, you are correct, haters hate. No use trying to convince them to stop.
He must have attended the Kai Power Tools School of Design
I've had a project in mind for a while: reverse and document the protocol used for the pads in Roland V-drums. Picked up a TD-4S kit last month and have been pondering replacing the brain with my own, the first step of which being figuring out the protocol -- shouldn't be too terribly difficult.

Think I'll stop by and do so.
Competition is good, it means that more people thinks that the market that your product is targeting is worth the effort/risk.
there's a world of difference though, between criticism and just being nasty

this is not a site for criticism, it's failblog for iOS apps; somewhere for people to gather, point and laugh and some poor sod.
Many thanks! This is very nifty.

Since you asked…

1) Change tracking. Technical hurdles (and they're huge) aside, it would be great not to have these links break when text is added/removed.

2) Better onsite instructions. I knew how it was supposed to work, and it took me a bit to figure out that clicking a sentence highlighted it. Perhaps a tooltip?

3) A wordpress plugin seems easy/obvious :)

Many, many thanks for the good work!
I've been wondering that too - what makes it stealthy?

It doesn't look stealthy - it has large fins, a big cockpit bump, and the engines don't seem to shield their exhaust.

Anyone know more about this subject, and can explain?
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What part of his line of questions would you deem "obviously inappropriate" or lacking "good faith"?

I can understand Google wanting to push open standards, but there are some very glaring hypocrisies on display here. Everyone questions Apple's agenda when they leave Flash out of iOS, but somehow Google gets a pass?

Gruber is biased? Heh.
So only iOS counts? Because that is the only platform <video> matters on right now.

I'm glad to see Apple calls the shots and Google is in the wrong for making a move in its own interest. And in the interest is places that don't want to pay a software patent cartel for permission to innovate.
Fresh water? That's the silliest thing I've heard in a while. Drinking water is easy to make from salt water, it's just more expensive than pumping it from a nearby lake. But making it is about a billion times cheaper than starting a war.
god help those who buy Libyan domains though...
Congratulations on not only 'shipping' but documenting the process. I've been working on something technically similar, but with a very different application. Can't wait to share!
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A little off topic, but I had no idea there were so many bad apple apps. Some of it looks like the crap that comes on my motherboard driver CD.

If anything, this is a sign of the mainstreaming of apple. No longer is it an exclusive refuge of self styled artists... the barbarians are at the gates. This probably wasn't how things were supposed to turn out.
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Congratulations on a great concept and design. Any plans to offer a free trial or demo of the product?
Do they have a clean way to handle handle native code on Atom, and MIPS as well as ARM? I particularly think Atom has potential in the Android tablet market, but too many native ARM only apps would make it less cool.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Scott+Stratten%2...

The speaker's statement hinges on not being the kind of person that uses those other sayings. I suppose he could take the position that he himself is a professional "Jackass Whisperer" and that you should not aspire to become the same, though that puts the listener in the awkward position of being the aforementioned jackass.
Wow, this really made me feel terrible. I had no idea that that's how the deal with the layoffs went down, but it all makes sense now after reading that.
Can you provide the reference to his diary? Just curious about it.
I think the differences are this:

* Apple has a very well documented case that Flash contributes to significant instability on their platform, hence they didn't want it on iOS

* Flash was/is a significant consumer of CPU cycles, resulting in reduced battery life, which didn't allow them to meet performance targets

Regardless of your position on Flash as a proprietary piece of software, its presence would have had a very real impact on the performance and reliability of Apple's product at launch. That's not to say there wasn't an ideological component, because Steve Jobs himself included one in his anti-Flash rant, but I find it a little easier to excuse apple for leaving Flash out in the cold on iOS than I do Google shutting the door on H.264.
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Yes. And they're not shy about it either.

"The way in which the J-20 was unveiled also reflects China’s use and control of information technology to support national interests. The test airfield is located in the city of Chengdu and is not secure, with many public viewing points. Photography is technically forbidden, but reports suggest that patrols have been permitting the use of cell phone cameras."

http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-on-chinese-stea...
> How does it benefit me right now?

The same way iOS not having Flash benefitted you right when you bought it: it doesn't, but in the long term it'll be a good thing.
When I was much younger I had an idea for a frisbee-yo-yo. You could play frisbee by yourself! Thirty years later I have yet to see anyone release anything similar. In fact I couldn't get any of my prototypes to work how I wanted. Moral to the story: If other people aren't working on something at least similar to what you are doing it is very likely a dumb idea. Have a bigger fear that there won't be other companies trying to do what you are going to do.
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"Perfect is the enemy of deployment." is a great line.
They have a way to bundle code for multiple architectures into a single .apk. They don't yet have support for x86 but it appears to be forthcoming.

Source: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html
Maybe even Apple might read the HIG!

I think the bigger point here is that he's complaining about something which may not even be relevant any more. As John Gruber wrote recently, the HIG is dead and Apple is what killed it.
WakeMate (http://wakemate.com/) developed a hardware device to track sleeping patterns. Although they end up hooking into a webapp for further sleep analysis, prototyping and production of a hardware device is sufficiently different from coding a website.

This should be a solid example that not everyone in YC is creating just a webapp that you can thrown onto a few EC2 instances in under 10 minutes.
Or ever-so-slightly lighter Perl 6 version:

my $x = 'Apple Carrot Banana';
my @y = $x.words.sort;

if @y > 2 {
say "we've got {@y.elems} elements!";
} else {
say "insufficient elements. fail.";
}
That special something was the $30 you paid for them compared to $0 for an equivalent Win32 application
>Pixar doesn't do the straight-to-DVD sequel gig.

As much as I love Pixar, that is incorrect. Toy Story 2 was going to be straight-to-video:
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-122205888/sequels...
PS: The real shit-kicker is that eventually I did get it together on my own terms, with just OK grades by even my own standards and graduated from some out-of-state land grant university. Some of those other kids who got straight As or whatever, some whom went to Cal or Stanford, whom spent their youth jumping through hoops for their parents' affections, work at the same place I do, writing shitty enterprise code.

That's the ironic bit to this entire debate. I know I've worked with people who spent their formative years going through the over-achievement grind (and I certainly didn't by any stretch).

What's really interesting to me is how they self-reinforce their upbringing. "Oh it set me up for success" or "It made sure I wouldn't end up as a failure", but then I point out how many of their colleagues didn't go through that hassle to get to exactly the same point and they can't answer it. Many of them even say they would do the same thing to their kids. Sometimes hilariously -- I have one colleague who has already started saving for their kid's tuition for Harvard (his alma mater) and doesn't yet have any children.

They expect that the tuition will have inflated so much that they have to start saving now. Observing that he and I have ended up in virtually the same jobs does nothing to dissuade this.
Woah. I had to check the username and date because I swear I wrote that. I was closer to 15, though.
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration...."

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"

Sorry for the trite quotes, but there is truth here. Are pursuing this project because it's worth doing or because you hope to get paid? First to market doesn't assure success. If it's worth building, build it. The worst you can do is learn something new. Your time is never "wasted" if you are having fun, learning, and developing your chops.
I'm suspicious of anyone who spends their time critiquing others' work so harshly instead of innovating on their own.