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I always splurge a little on Dell business support. Next day on-site fix with no (or very few) quibbles. Course, Apple kit breaks a lot less than Dell kit in my experience.
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Thanks for the out of the box ideas.

I didn't know about reddit.com/art (and i actually looked for it about the time I posted to hn)

Already found some of community but they all seem to have jobs now so response was kinda non-existent or encouraging and then silence. I'm starting to think I should get more pushy and have less... shame in doing so.
Absolutely. Would like to add that he has never been a founder, always a hired gun.
I think you might be underestimating the click-happy masses (myself included) who will happily pump the middle mouse button to queue up some even potentially interesting reads!
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A quick workaround would be linking via Coral Cache: http://lispm.dyndns.org.nyud.net/symbolics-ui-examples/symbo...

(note the .nyud.net bit in hostname)

But it won't work right now, as CC can't connect to your server at all...

Edit:
more info on http://coralcdn.org/
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Anyone who thinks Groupon has been caught off guard here - I highly suspect this was part of the preliminary due diligence process in order to get the $6 billion figure on the table when the offer was made.

In fact it seems like it would have been one of Google's bargaining chips to get a better price. "We offer $6 billion - you'd probably better take it because our BATNA is to launch Google Offers in Q2 2011..."
Cool! Showing a twitter feed using YQL is a great example. Is there a gallery somewhere of cool javascript widgets?
It's usually pretty obvious when you're talking to a "real" Bob or a "fake" Bob. In my experience, the offshored agents are almost incapable of communicating successfully.
It's a little different if you're the founder, CEO, ex-CEO, etc.

I don't think it's crazy for officers to sell some of their stock, you've got to convert what you built into cash at some point I suppose. Massive sell-offs are a red flag, but this is only about 6% of his shares, which shouldn't be concerning, especially with Google's sound financial fundamentals.
The idea is reasonable. A few comments:

* The login system is difficult to use. A user registration system on your site is really worth the effort; if not, at least supporting OpenID would be good. After logging in, returning to the page the user signed up on could also improve the flow.
* For a site like this, I'd expect that having a very refined visual design might matter to many users; the current visual design will probably be perceived as minimalistic. Minor details like curved borders and whitespace around important elements like drawings probably matter more to your audience than most.
* I'd suggest adding something similar to karma on HN or awards on StackOverflow. Make people compete for who can use the site the most and give them positive encouragement in the form of validation for doing things that benefit you.

In terms of getting users to the site, I think you need to decide on a business model; that will affect how much you can spend and be profitable. I think you probably have several groups of users:

1. Users who hear about the site, play with it, but aren't 'hooked' so don't return.
2. Users who get a link to an image on the site, look at it, and don't come back.
3. Regular contributors who come back to draw pictures.
4. Regular critics who look through the site looking for interesting stuff.

Everyone visiting your site potentially is of financial value to your business. You want to maximise their future present value (FPV - that is, how much a user is worth to you, taking into account that money in the future is worth less than money now because you aren't earning interest). A customer who regularly buys from you, or clicks on ads, is worth the most.

All of this assumes you have ways of extracting value from users. Suggestions:
* 'Get this drawing on a T-shirt / mug / print' (make sure you get users to agree to terms giving you a license to print their tiles).
* Advertising - not always a high income source, but still a viable one sometimes.
* Maybe some kind of freemium model - I'm not sure how it would work though.

Once you have an idea of how much a customer is worth, you can spend money driving them to your site - by advertising and PR - just make sure you spend less than what a customer is worth.

It is also could be worthwhile to add features to make it easier to share links to artwork on Twitter, Facebook, and so on - this is a good way to get virally referred users at no cost.
Or people that develop for smartphones. Or people that develop on embedded systems/consumer electronics. Or people that work with raw bitmaps (eg games writers).

You need to get out more if you think (as your comment would seem to suggest) that only Google has efficiency problems...
To agree with your comment, it is as dumb as a bag of hammers to have all of your savings in the company you work in. You lose your job, and your savings all in one day! This happened, as far as I know, to an awful lot of Bear Stearns employees - because it was considered good teamwork to own nothing but Bear Stearns shares.
It's often easy to forget that developer time == money. Any problem you can solve with an application of less money than an hour equivalent of developer time is often not even worth talking about unless it's just a symptom of a bigger issue.

Especially keep this in mind with regard to meetings. A half-dozen people in a meeting burns up about a day of developer time in cost every hour they meet.
FFFFOUND too.
> To me, it's more about no longer needing to think about memory as a scarce resource, something you allocate carefully and manage with great care.

Why am I not surprised to hear that from Mr. Atwood?

Yeah, 24GB is nice and stuff but the "not care about memory"-part rings my alarm bells. I give him 2 or 3 months of careless coding till we see a "64gb ram ought be enough" post ...
I think this can scale nicely as fits into Venkatesh Rao's "warren" concept: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/27/warrens-plazas-and-the-...

Two things:

1. Throw some HTML5 gradients at this baby - they're not that hard - cheap way to look web 2.0

2. Do create anonymous users, but architect it so that all user profile storage is browser local - this keeps your costs way down - and gives users an incentive to register as they can then use it in other browsers.
I don't think the phrase "afraid of upstarts" applies to Groupon, which is seeking a $15billion IPO.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/groupon-readies-for-a...
Warning, sound (music) on the intro video when getting started, it would be nice if I could turn that off.

(I control the radio at work...)
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I agree, but would suggest a higher level course focusing on the works of Quine and Davidson may be of interest to an analytic mind. For a cs student with a strong mathematics background, a propositional logic course is often too basic.

I would also suggest a course in either philosophy of science or philosophy of law. I found courses in other areas; aesthetics, epistomology, existentialism to be much navel gazing.

If you go this route, I also suggest you keep in mind the goal for these courses should be to hone your skills in analytical presentation. Philosophy generally require you produce many papers.
Posted this to http://www.pingstate.nu/, a hangout for Finnish artsy people.
Unfortunately ? I would never buy it if it wouldn't be used, good RAM is used RAM.
"I made an app that makes people happy, how do I let people know about it?"

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126918
Ten years ago it was because the features were smaller than the light wavelength used to print the mask (not sure of terminology here). There's always something that looks like an insurmountable barrier, but billions of research dollars can work miracles. Intel spent $5B on R&D in 2009.
Sorry, I forgot to mention. For some strange reason, I'm not looking to make money out of this. At some point I was considering it, but decided that just making people happy and having a fun project to play with is good enough for now.

Thanks for the advice tho. Most of it applies even if I'm not looking to monetize in some way.
Thank you very much. Interesting article that ties together concepts from different fields.
jQuery promotes bad practices. People assume $('something') is a cheap variable access, when in fact it could be pretty slowly executing several functions. So they don't bother caching anything.
I went to the site, clicked around, but it wouldn't let me draw. I didn't "get it" (still don't), so I left.

I think you need to make it clear what the site does.
I second the full RSS feed request
The memory should be filled up. With file system cache etc.
As far as I can tell from their homepage (lovefilm.se), there is no streaming available. Where did you find it?
I am sorry but the GUI is confusing, I am doing something and suddenly a too fast animation overlaps it. Plus, the tutorial window cannot be closed by [x] in Chrome. The idea is good but the application is too busy, at least for me.
A friend of mine is the owner of a hosting-company and the last few years he has seen a rise in demand for good Windows-based hosting-solutions.

As a consequence of this, he has reworked his provisioning systems both for shared hosts and VPSes to work smoothly with both Linux and Windows to the point that the only difference you will notice is the price-tag.

Everything works out of the box. The platform you want, capacity you want, extras, applications etc. And this with no extra manual work for the company.

The provisioning system is a massive enterprisey setup with at least 10 servers. I doubt he would have put in all this effort if it weren't for an actual demand in the market.

That said (and despite getting free hosting as a "beta-tester" and Windows consultant), I'm going to give AppHarbor a try.
If you can reconstruct the boards from timelapsed states (either every time a block is finished or even better as it is drawn over time) you could generate youtube videos and have a youtube channel and reach a main stream audience? People like videos.
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How do the edges work? Does the site provide them at the start, or do neighbours come to a consensus on what their edges look like?
Doesn't Eric pay himself $1? He probably has to sell some amount of stocks every once and a while to pay the bills or invest in an asset that creates the cash flow to pay the bills.
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This is a noteworthy objection, and applies to much of Harvey's course at Berkeley as well. I think the rationale for his approach is so that student's don't get tripped up by using only math examples.

Several people have brought up HTDP, which is very much in the same SICP-inspired vein as these other books in the list. I personally find it to be different enough from SICP as to not be considered a precursor to SICP. YMMV.
Looks good, but why have the Demo button on the homepage if there's no actual demo? Also, how much does it cost?
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WJW. I don't think we can do that without Flash yet.
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You name Jonathan Ive and in the next sentence say there is nobody inside. There's also Tim Cook who did this interview.

Who was CEO of Pepsi ever? Honestly, I'm not sure if that says more about Pepsi or my ignorance.
I think there was an OpenStep for Windows with the complete NeXT development toolset - editors and GUI builder. I remember seeing it. It could, of course, be part of WebObjects.
I starred at the page for like 5 minutes and was wondering why it wouldn't start to count down - not realizing that I was always moving the mouse around a bit. Damn you base-nervousness.
The downvotes to my response to his self-proclaimed precociousness indicate that others find my implication to be 'irritating' as well. However, anyone who is bogged down in the math would most certainly benefit from the sources in this list, many of which are explicitly prepared to avoid the math difficulties. SICP is not the place to learn basic mathematics, and it seems to me that it would be distracting from their message.
I wouldn't say that 24GB is enough, no way. It depends always on type of thing you use your computer for. For a normal user who installed windows and recently plays games, 24GB might be more than enough. For almost any kind of developer this might be also more than enough, in the end this developer develops for an end-user, which used not to have much RAM.

However, I am a scientist, and my machine at work has 96GB RAM with 24Cores, so at the end it comes to around 2GB/Core, which isn't that much anymore. In order to run algorithms on big data and not to bother about disk accesses (SSD or not) more RAM is just crucial. My previous machine had only 8GB ram and it was a big problem to stress algorithms with big data sets on them. So in my case, there are never enough RAM ;)
Very cool and artistic design. From a user perspective, it does not matter the language it what made.
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It goes like this:

- turn the screw: US$ 5

- knowing which screw to turn: US$ 5000
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I've been running XBMC as my media centre for years now, first on a hacked XBox (original) and then on a hacked Apple TV (first gen).

It's a great piece of software, happily streaming from my NAS box, playing music, etc. Not found anything it doesn't play yet.

And there are remote control apps for iPhone and Android too!
Rubbish, mine is larger.

And whilst I really don't want to engage in this kind of dick waving, since it's Jeff Atwood I will.

I have a HP Z800 ( http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-29... ) at home with 48GB RAM currently and it's upgradeable to 192GB RAM.

Of course, having hardware that you're not using is just dumb... why have such a large capex for home hardware if it's not required. I only have this beast because I worked on a project in my spare time around distributed data. For this I built 17 virtual machines with which to test my work. I calculated the cost of the opex of renting this in the cloud would exceed the cost of purchasing over the duration of the project. And because spending money on this kinda hardware is still dumb I then put it to work on a piece of software I sold to a local consulting company. The result is that at least the machine I have has been and is used, and has paid for itself a couple of times over.

BTW, this computing power really helps to build Chromium in 25 minutes rather than hours that most people experience.

Also... since I'm now thinking of the Blackbird ground speed check story ( http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.stories/browse_t... ), someone else has got to step forward and obliterate my home machine with some more impressive dick waving.
In this particular application, I have to inspect PDF and TIFF files that might have hundreds of pages or frames. These files can be over 100MB easily. Running those through RMagick makes the process blow up to enormous sizes. Even if the memory gets garbage collected, Solaris doesn't really release it.

Its just safer to keep it in a different process.
just a correction. The equivalent to the above is: c = (c + 1) % 5
My guess is that you'll get less tool head wear with pentalobe, but torx are in more peoples' toolboxes.
During my corporate gig, we engineers had a non-written rule of thumbs to estimate sheduling: Think about how much time do you really think it will take to do it, double it, and add 20% contingency. This worked well most of the time, as usually we tend to be far too optimistic.
New tiles receive edges from their neighbours, and they must make sure they blend in correctly.

When a tile is uploaded back, we discard the edges that would overlap existing tiles and present that to the curator to confirm the tile is correct.
Not to mention the fact that SPARCs, even under a common OS, are great for finding bugs that just don't happen on i386. Notably, the C standard only allows casting properly-aligned memory (e.g. typically, a chunk of memory with an address that is a multiple of four can be interpreted as a 32-bit integer, but this may not work for "unaligned" memory) - SPARCs will terminate your process with SIGBUS if you try this, whereas i386/amd64 machines will (slowly) perform the requested operation.

There are more differences, many related to multiple CPUs (SPARCs are not "cache-coherent".)
What is being creative?
Sugru wouldn't set hard enough, and you'd have to leave it in place overnight anyway. I'd go for Polymorph (called Shapelock in the US), which sets rigid in a couple of minutes.
The software is available in Fedora repositories?
I'm not sure I follow you.

P_i and D_i are sets of proponenents/detractors for discipline S_i, right?

I so, I assume that the & and | boolean operators you use are substitutes for set union and intersection, respectively.

Assuming that the opinions on the various topics are independent, I would rather see K tend to

\sum |P_i| == \sum |D_i|

What am I missing?

___

Also, for my previous post:

s/(appeal to authority)/(appeal to potentially corrupt authority)/
More (but only a little) about the tennis paradox here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126890

Pretty sure no one cares, but I thought I'd add it for completeness.
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OS X will prompt you to download and install Rosetta from Apple, hassle-free, if you attempt to launch a PPC application and you don't have it installed already.

It only works if you're launching an app bundle, though, not if you're trying to run a bare binary from the command line. I just downloaded some old PPC-only shareware app and launched it.

Apparantly there's a .pkg file somewhere on the OS install DVD too, but I couldn't find it on my MacBook's restore USB stick.
> There are a lot of problems which the engineer in me wants to code around that should really, really be solved by throwing money at it. Often, a trivial amount of money.

On the other hand, I once saw a project where people seemed to want to use a non-SQL database to store about a hundred megabytes of metadata a year. They also want to use S3 for a couple terabytes of content instead of a filesystem.

Throwing money on a problem that doesn't need to be solved, just because you can, is tempting.
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Finereader is what Project Gutenberg has been using for the last decade or so.
reading your post gave me a serious sense of synchronicity. I have been researching this same opportunity and have come up with a number of assumptions that I intend to validate. I would love to exchange some ideas with you on this topic offline. Send me an email at mwiseone@gmail.com. Thanks!
From what I've seen, all Android phones do not have JavaME installed as default. My Samsung Galaxy I5700 did have it, but another phone my college tested with didn't have it.

This killed "hey we can just use our current MIDlet for Android users" -idea for us.

If anyone knows better, please let me know. Working on porting a MIDlet to Andoid right now. :)
Thank you, just posted to deviantart!

My dream is that the old school tiles.ice.org people will stumble upon (ha!) tzigla and want to moderate boards.
Money is a side-effect of great ideas (at least in this industry) :)
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One thing that improves Tesseract's performance dramatically is giving it grayscale tif images. Do

mogrify -type Grayscale *.tif

and run them through tesseract to see the difference. No idea why no one mentions this in the documentation.
Adam, firstly thank you for building this. There is a real need for this. As many others here will point out to you, your website is not delivering your product message or value proposition. However, that's a separate concern from evaluating the product itself.

Overlooking the problems with the site copy and design, I went on to sign up to try it out. It took me a couple of attempts to register. I'm not your target customer, but even so do you really need to know your customer's date of birth? Finally, when I click on the link in the registration email, I land on a page which says before I use anything, I must contact an account representative. My login is failing even though I'm pretty sure I'm using the correct username and password.

If as a techie, I found your site hard to navigate, it's going to be nearly impossible to get non-techies to use or buy it.

I understand you are building a difficult product, but there's a lot of research to be done to catch up with the latest developments in this space.

For starters, please see http://www.weebly.com for a well-executed version of your idea.
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Good luck getting any better value from Facebook unless your not directly selling anything. My experience has been Facebook ads cost just as much or more and convert terribly. Unless your providing something fun to do or building a brand they seem like bad value.
tesseract is way better than gocr, and is also open source
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That sounds like an interesting eggcorn that I haven't heard before, probably derived from "death knell" with echos of "another nail in the coffin".

I see that it's been already discussed at the Eggcorn Database forum: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1195 so it's at least somewhat common

For reference, an eggcorn is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
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Reasons why sometimes you cannot just throw RAM at a problem:

1. Your smarter competitor will both throw RAM at the pb and optimize their code, and end up outperforming you.

2. Your quad-socket machine already has RAM maxed out and adding more RAM (ie. adding a second server) will need significantly more complex code to distribute the workloads on more than 1 machine. Optimizing your memory usage is probably easier.

3. Increasing RAM is just not an option on a mobile platform (eg. cellphone).

4. You will lose customers by upping the minimum RAM requirements for your app.

5. Once you have added more RAM, you have no more tricks left in your bag to quickly scale up in case of emergencies. Instead work on optimizing your code while you have time.
It's not possible to think nothing, so you think a thought that doesn't expand into something big.

Like focus on breathing... occupy ur mind with it.

Focus on birds chirping around.. Now your mind might wander off to ANGRY BIRDS but pull it back softly. And focus on just sound or sensation.

Idea is to not think about something that expands into an essay. Helpful?
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