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And MIPS, PowerPC...

And lets not forget i860 and the Intergraph Clipper.
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There's a comment which suggested that this happened in "England" (the UK, grrr) but the roles were reversed and Groupon did this to a local competitor. Does anyone know anything about this?

Quote: "and this was after you did the same thing to some poor guy in england."
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> "Hitting the jackpot is much more a matter of things outside your control"

It seems like this is even more true in the last few years, when company after company with no users, no business gets acquired, then shut down by the acquirer.
> I can do the [screenshot] scaling and cropping with GIMP

Shooting flies with a cannon. The gThumb viewer has those editing capabilities, and pops open instantly.
> I never understood why Microsoft was reluctant to get a full-blown XP running on ARM

Because they tried (and failed to gain traction) before with MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha and Itanium.
I'd like to apologize, since I am not a native speaker. So when faced with subtleties I might not perceive them properly. That said I'm aware of what I wrote and how it doesn't make sense.

And now for the record to just rehash what I am doing:

1. The person is obviously being treated differently from others (he is being given a chance),

2. I will not treat his work differently due to his condition. I want him to get up to speed and I'm helping along,

3. He doesn't need blanket pats on the back. He needs them when they're due and he also needs a proverbial kick in the arse when due.

Also, discrimination is a term used when we act negatively towards someone. I'd be discriminating against my mentee if I were telling him that he's no good dimwit. Or are you suggesting that I'm discriminating towards others?
Just to clarify, Wicket is not moving to Scala. This is a version of Wicket implemented in Scala, created by an independent developer.

Also, the (friendly) author claims 100,077 loc in Scala in his rewrite (vs. current 137,791 loc in Java), but he is not exhibiting any code (yet). He's looking for feedback on how to go about releasing. At the end of his post he writes "How should Scala-Wicket be extended and released?"
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I guess it comes down to your expectations - if you expect to use one operating system exactly the way you use another one, then why switch at all? There are some things that GNU/Linux is better at, and others that Windows is better at. That's why they're different systems.
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I know of someone who started up in this space in London in about '07. I talked to him the other day asking what happened and he said "oh, Groupon just overtook the market".

He didn't hold anything against them for it, just said they had better vision and iterated faster.

(that's probably not the story you were thinking of, but your comment happened to remind me of our conversation)
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I would even tell a non-white lie.
I agree, I think they should bundle it with a cut-down xbox and simplify the UX.
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He's probably referring at the technique they've used to get the groupon.com domain from a guy living up in UK. This guy bought groupon.com with the intention of building a group coupon business. While he was sitting on it, the real groupon guys built the real thing and registered the trademark in US (which, somehow, extends to the UK) and told the poor english guy to either take 250k for the domain or prepare to be sued. He accepted the money and everyone was happy.
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Agreed. Game programming will teach you a lot of programming skills, and staying with game programming can elevate you to great heights as a programmer, and it's great fun.
The only negative is that games are relatively closed systems, whereas most of the rest of the software world includes a lot of interaction with other systems (databases, security, operating systems, payment etc etc) which you may never get to practice while programming games (unless you do multiplayer online games i guess).
Oh, and do not expect to earn money programming games.
But I seriously doubt that ARM chipmakers not getting access to DRM core would constitute anti-competitive behaviour.

Especially since these are completely different markets who do most stuff differently. Thats what I wanted to point out - if they want their chips to play DRM content they'll have to negotiate it themselves with the Hollywood. I also strongly suspect that this is not an exclusive pact.

Since nowadays content producers are very well aware that more and more (probably the majority?) of content is consumed via - non x86 architecture devices.
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Yeah - this would annoy me, but I would class myself as a "power user". I just want to get in, give you my email, password, confirm password and be done. However, as @aeden mentions, what I think doesn't matter if it converts better!
I don't think that you are right at all.

First you said that Google just continued with free services. This is incorrect: Navigation was not free and they severely crippled the paid navigation market.

Quality e-mail was not free. A quality office suite was not free. And it still isn't, because Google has failed so far to provide an alternative to MS Office, but they're trying alright!

I do applaud initiatives of transparency such as publishing takedown requests, but income sources are a very powerful influence in a company. Decisions that benefit ads income surely get a priority boost or better funding. I'm not saying that Google is evil or good - this is simplistic and stupid - but a corporation is a corporation.

I don't use Apple products, and I don't care much what Apple does, but at least they're not hypocrites and admit that they want your money. On the other hand Google is all "free" and "open" according to their corporate talk.
Speaking of Apple, they ARE a premium brand. You're probably wealthy enough not to care that you pay 2000EUR on a laptop, but most people can't afford to do that.

Finally, Android is a story about the Linux kernel with a Java user space on top. Lots of products have Linux kernels, I don't see why it's such a big deal.
One thing that TST really lacks is grouping as on OPs screenshot. I wish I could make a group of 'unclosable' tabs which I have always open such as Gmail, Bitbucket, Tadalist, and have casual browsing in other group, after a separator.
I didn't notice until I went to my parents' house for Christmas, but the iPhone has made package management a huge selling point on the desktop platform as well.

I showed my parents the "Ubuntu Software Center" and they immediately understood and loved the idea that they could install a bunch of "apps" from a central repository.
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Yeah, that'd be a good thing. I tend to keep permanent tabs (last.fm, grooveshark etc) in a separate window (2 windows in total). When/if I close Firefox I just chose to "Save and Quit" and the tabs are still there when I restart. Not optimal at all, but works for pages that I don't follow links in new tabs from.
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Or even compared to, for example, the constraints on plays in the Elizabethan era when Shakespeare wrote, or the syllabic constraints on haiku. One would think that there would be a bigger "dancing bear" (it's amazing that the bear dances at all, not that the bear dances well) factor, but not many playwrights match Shakespeare, given fewer (or no) constraints.

I've had to switch languages a lot when coding, but even in a constrained or flawed language, you see code that is beautiful and amazing. Constraints free up thought, as when you stop rebelling against a framework, you can excel in it. It's hard to push your brain into what feels like a hole; I can't get anything done in Perl because I spend too much time being repulsed, but some people embrace the language and produce great software.

Having just praised restrictions like that, though, I still have to mention that this game looks really cool.
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No. It was LivingSocial who invested $5 million on JumpOnIt, which is one of the larger group buy site. LivingSocial themselves took funding from Amazon.

Scoopon (and the guys behind Scoopon and CatchOfTheDays.com.au) also registered other domain names such as Woot.com.au and DealExtreme.com.au. So I think it's a pretty trivial squatting case.
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I was surprised at how the idea of a lifestyle business seemed so new and unusual to Andrew Mixergy. As someone with a business that's focused much more on lifestyle and positive world impact than money, I've always been confused by how others often don't seem to understand that making as much money as possible just isn't a priority for me.

This interview was an eye-opener for me because of Andrew's reaction rather than because of the interviewee's business philosophy. If it's strange and alien to Andrew Mixergy, no wonder it's strange and alien to plenty of other folks as well.
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It's much more than just the domain name in this case, but also trademark and registered business name. Basically Groupon might not be able to operate as "Groupon" in Australia, regardless whichever domain name it uses.
I think your statements are accurate. I was not disagreeing with what you said, just pointing out a deeper goal behind it.
In by brief excursion to Java-land I got the impression that it is pretty popular. I investigated a couple of frameworks, and my choice for a simple application was Click, but the other team working on more advanced app chose Wicket.
I wish I could do it too, but Lightroom and Photoshop via Wine isn't pleasant. Don't know how well color management would work either. OS X works well enough.
You're still under the assumption that illegal is immoral (or that exposing secrets is in itself immoral). If the government were to disclose the hypothetical lists above, unclassified, would it be right to print them everywhere? (And in fact when the government "accidentally" reveals identities no one is really prosecuted... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair see esp. Libby )
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Yes. As with any real computing device, you can install software from anywhere. In Android, you have to check a checkbox first, but that's all.
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I find it to be far from empty, and it helps me in my decisions. shrug

Raising good adults does not preclude raising good kids, so I do find your response to be a bit combative. Just because you have one clear goal in mind does not mean that other goals are not achieved along the way.

I don't really want to get into details of how I apply this concept to my parenting -- my reason for posting was exactly the opposite. I want parents to stop (for a moment) focusing on the details, stop worrying about specific techniques, and look at the bigger picture - what are you really striving for over the next 5, 10, 20 years with your kids? And are your current actions supporting that?
Historically Microsoft has also been quite successful mostly copying competitors' ideas.

If they just make a better Wii, that would be fine with me.
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I've heard these type of brain-teaser questions, not coding or algorithm questions, are still common in the finance sector, when hiring "quant" developers.

Anyone know the extent of this?
This is yet another thing that I said, 'Man. I wish I'd written that.'

It's not outside my ability, it's just that I never think of these things first. And creating a clone doesn't have the same feeling as a new thing.

I'm betting a lot of other developers feel the same way.

Of course, that won't stop me from enjoying -playing- the game. :D
Some registrars specialize in this, SafeNames for example.
It is a bit sensational, but I suppose that is to be expected.

>... the trafficking of huge amounts of rockets and sophisticated weaponry into Gaza, which have been used to devastating effect since the start of the second intifada in 2000.

I don't think the weapons smuggled into were particularly sophisticated and I don't think they were used to devastating effect at all.

Still a very informative piece though.
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The new database layer is... nice-ish, but what ever happened to Dries Buytaert's prediction/dream of finally having an object-relational mapper in Drupal (http://buytaert.net/drupal-predictions-for-2008)? Last I heard was that a Doctrine integration got rejected chiefly because "it would slow Drupal down".
I don't have a side to take in this, but I think it should be pointed out that scoopon have a real business that's been going some time and seems to be reasonably profitable.

The name thing seems a bit underhanded, but I think it's disingenuous to simply label them domain squatters

[Edit: I think I may have a bias against US companies intruding on Australian turf. The whole ugg boot saga has left a pretty sour taste]
Burned? It doesn't appear to have actually hurt them, and they ended up with better policies because of it. Doesn't sound like a burn to me.

And that article even states that they will continue to have price a/b testing, just a more fair sort. They aren't 'trying again', they are continuing.
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This seems like it scales well (important for our 1000 core future). Does it?
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Unfortunately, I use cascaded windows as a way of selecting which window I want active. I detailed my technique here: http://blog.barrkel.com/2009/11/on-difficulty-of-setting-win...

This means that my browser window, in its natural shape for cascaded windows on a wide screen, is approximately square: the left hand side of the wide screen is filled with the left edges of smaller windows (mostly terminals, sometimes with status text scrolling by, busy compiling or with other jobs), with the bottom-left corner of the screen containing desktop widgets telling me about my CPU/GPU temperatures and the current time in California.
They've been slowly moving to a more object-oriented approach, but in general the consensus seems to be that procedural code and a very, ahem, loose separation between logic and views is just fine. See http://drupal.org/node/547518 which makes some good points (Drupal uses a lot of patterns commonly found in object- and aspect-oriented code, even if it's neither) but also reads like a long apology for crummy software architecture.

It's a mixed blessing, I think. OOP can be scary to people new to programming, and the PHP ecosystem has a lot of new programmers. On the other hand, I'm very, very glad I don't have to maintain the Drupal codebase.
> I don't think they were used to devastating effect at all.

That's a matter of perspective. I think the citizens of Ashdod would disagree.

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To your last point: I think this happens because when donating you put a "price tag" on your actions. You will not want to spoil that for a silly flame.
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Yeah completely agree. I was looking everywhere, opened it twice, then, scratching my head glanced randomly @ the tool bar. The prod version will certainly need some sort of pointer to what's going on re: this. Config wizard or similar i guess
Interesting how constrained the view frustum is, with the top down view. I wonder how many voxels the rendering engine can handle.
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Use Tab Kit instead. You won't get those nice labels you see in the screenshot, but you can protect tabs and you can group them.
I like my tabs on the top. This is a great though if your more of a tabs on the side kind of guy.

I use a 24" screen i rotate for keeping websites nice and long. Same goes for code. Its great for keeping more lines of code and text on a screen.
It took me years to unlearn the "get investment, get big exit" mentality and focus on a lifestyle business. Looking back, the thought of getting investors for my ideas is so ridiculous, but all you ever hear about are dumb ideas getting millions in funding. I just thought that's how it worked.
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It's worth noting that a simple input-sanitizing if statement applied across the $_REQUEST variable can eliminate this vulnerability, a measure that every PHP dev can use right now regardless of admin access to compile a new executable.

Also, yesterday, there was a poster in here claiming that PHP's json_decode() of an object like {"motb":"2.22507385851e-308"} would trigger the vulnerability whether the number was enclosed in quotes or not. I have since determined that this claim is false, json_decode() did not trigger the problem with or even without the quotes. In fact, the only way I was able to reliably cause the crash was by casting variables from the $_REQUEST array as float - a behavior that can be safeguarded against pretty easily.

Obviously, this is a serious issue, but it's an attack apps can be hardened against with minimal effort. For comparison, a buffer overflow vuln on the string type would be much, much more disastrous. So we're going to have to run an extra line of input sanitization for a while, that's all.
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It happens mostly in Silicon Valley because of the success enjoyed by some big companies that grew fast and became very profitable, like Amazon and Google.

Problem is, for every Google-like company, there are hundreds if not thousands that fail to make a profit and just disappear. On the other hand building a 37signals-like company is within reach of most talented people, but these stories aren't highlighted by the media (unless you have the oratory talent of DHH).
Agreed. My wife's business recently did a deal on Scoopon and they were great to deal with. What a pity that they've resorted to gazumping a competitor for their trademark and domain here. Totally unnecessary and disappointing.
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