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"This approach is not portable: it'll only work on Unixy os."

I weep for the lost souls of those poor benighted developers still stuck on Windows. No, no wait. why should we care about Windows developers? If they're still stuck there most likely they are deeply committed to the Microsoft Visual Studio toolset, in which case they don't (or can't) care about what goes on in the rest of the universe, and they really don't matter. (By which of course I mean that as fellow human beings they matter, and of course I have sympathy for their suffering, but by their own choice they are locked in such an impregnable ivory tower that it is neither practical nor economic to try to break in and rescue them)

Other than that, who else uses Windows? Oh yes, you have corporate teams doing 'enterprise' Java. They'll typically be using some colossally retarded Ant build system that takes 7-30 minutes to run (sadly, I'm not even exaggerating for dramatic effect). The problem with Ant is it is so easy to just bolt on 'one more thing' that it rapidly evolves to some horrible beast of a thing that lumbers around sucking everything into it, Katamari Damacy style. Really, there's no help for them either. You can't for example suggest that blowing away the entire database and recreating it from scratch in order to run the entire set of automated unit tests is something best left to the continuous integration server, or that should be done once a day - maybe out of hours or at lunchtime. No no, it has to be done every time you do a build. And that doesn't even touch on the ginormous mess that is the enterprise components, where each application server has its own arcane and unholy rituals to create its beans from the blood of unicorns and tears of virgin developers... try messing with that abomination and you're in for a world of pain. There's just no helping them either, though in their case usually they want to be helped, but they are captive to the primary problem of enterprise development, which is that the people who choose technologies and mandate tools and processes are usually so far removed from the actual use of those tools as to be completely immune to the pain, and unable or unwilling to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the programmers.

Don't even get me started on checkstyle with rules like no line can be longer than 80 characters (despite there being absolutely no good reason for this other than the horrible horrible UI of eclipse - in the absence of that you can easily get way more than 80 characters on the screen).

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It's disappointing to see a lot of highly speculative interstellar mentions, but nothing about solar system commercial development, that we have started seeing in our lifetimes.

The link about doomsday nonsense seemed promising, but it was some mathematical speculation the kind the article started criticizing.
Cross-reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2188580
How about three captions for a picture instead?
> I guess iPhone and Android are the same.

Nope, the interface is not unified, they have no equivalent to BBM.

Though in my experience, their SMS experience is quite acceptable.
Knowing how to use CSS hacks to target specific browsers does not make you a better coder. Knowing how not to need those hacks makes you a better coder.

Also, sigh.
I had a look at the problem and it seems to be related to the page transition animations (the amount of flicker seems corresponds to the animation steps.) I've created a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/issues/issue/148

We'll fix it, thanks for reporting it.
Most electric bicycles only enhance your own pedaling. This makes you faster, but it won't make you sweat less as you can still exert the same force (only to greater effect). In other words, if sweating is the problem, ride slower.

Personally, I ride slowly to work, and fast back.
This is the kind of list that works not to the advancement of standards-based creation, but its detriment. Firstly, the tips are just thrown out there, which will certainly not help the CSS novice understand the reasoning behind them. Second, they're mostly outdated/unnecessary. And third, as already mentioned in this thread, there's a case to be made for less hacks.

Regarding hacks specifically: if you feel like you need to use hacks, at least try to understand how they work and the problem they solve. i.e: don't just throw something out there to solve IE problems if you don't know what they mean. It's amazing how many people use box model hacks in their code but don't even know how the box model actually works. It is certainly one part of the spec that isn't really obvious for most people, but copying/pasting a few lines will certainly not make you a better coder.
PG says: "Someone riding a motorcycle isn't working any harder. But because he's sitting astride it, he seems to be making an effort. When you're riding a Segway you're just standing there." and: "So there may be a way to capture more of the market Segway hoped to reach: make a version that doesn't look so easy for the rider. It would also be helpful if the styling was in the tradition of skateboards or bicycles rather than medical devices."

This thing does in fact look rather like a bicycle, and the rider does sit astride it. Perhaps the YikeBike people have read PG's note about the Segway.

On the other hand, I think it still makes it look as if the rider is "too lazy to walk". If that (rather than, say, the $3600 price tag) makes the YikeBike fail, then it'll indicate that PG's basic analysis was right even though his proposed ways of solving the problem were wrong.
I found both the demos really smooth on my iPad, worked great.
Last time I looked into this, mogrify will re-encode the image, resulting in a small loss of quality. jpegtrans and other tools will only remove the metadata without altering the image data.
It's simply because with most urls, when you type them without www they will work and send you to the page you are looking for, even if the url includes www. Therefore www presents no additional typing for the user. However the TLD does.
I wonder if some of the benefits of simplicity come from the reduced probability of making errors. I know that in my own research, I always try to use simple methods or at least augment more complex methods with graphics and simple methods.

That being said, I think it is useful to know the complex methods, even if you don't use them.
That is an entirely different problem than the one I typically face. Also while I have no experience writing OS's, but IIRC none of the modern ones have their processes based on event loop. Maybe writing an OS is just not a trivial problem and the code is bound to be somewhat ugly.
I know its a little late on this thread, but how about adding some more manager related tasks to the thread: Hiring, Managing Employees, etc

I understand its not a completely "hacker" category, but there for a hacker that needs to complete a lot of those tasks for my startup -- I'd prefer to speak to a hacker than get advice from more business orientated people.
No, this actually means Facebook is now AOL. They used to show "AOL Keywords" in the same places he mentions Facebook page URLs appearing.
It's the usual nonsense: people only buy Apple products to be fashionable; if you want to be genuinely different - buy a non-Apple product.

It misses the truth by a mile: Apple products are very, very good at doing what they were designed for.

Make a better product and you won't need a stupid ad like this: we will sing your praises for you.
Show me another widespread technology that exists since the late 1800s and that has not been completely replaced by another technology. Most technologies get replaced by newer 'disruptive' technologies in rather short times (think gasoline vs. steam vs. electricity for trains or turbine vs. gasoline for planes).

The 'driving force' for bicycles has stayed virtually the same (human muscles), but the transmissions and layouts have been improved steadily. Only the advent of hybrid electric-and-muscle driven e-bikes can be seen as an actual revolution in cycling technology.
I know this is immensely geeky and of no use to the average Facebook user, but my Facebook profile "about information" is PGP signed so people (who know how) can verify that it belongs to me:

https://www.facebook.com/imike3 (You can only see this URL when logged in)

FireGPG users can auto detect the signed text in the page and have it verify inline in the page.

Just paste the signed text into "cat|gpg --verify" and done.

I mention my profile ID and username inside the signed text to prevent replay attacks where someone simply copies my signed text and adds it to their own profile.
It's not. Some people are holdouts. Foregoing a website in favour of a Facebook page means excluding these people. I don't see that replacing yourbrand.com with a redirect to facebook.com/yourbrand is a good idea.
Not to mention he isn't wearing a helmet!

[NB I've had one accident where a helmet definitely saved my life and a couple of close calls - two my own fault cycling off road and another where kids threw a brick at me].
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Peer feedback exercise
If this device existed and worked as advertised I would but one and use one.

If it is thin and light I would carry one everywhere - the way Kindles get carried around. I currently carry pads and paper everywhere.

However - I don't want features. I want a really good writing/sketching/doodling experience - something that an iPad cannot supply. The only feature I'd want is the ability to easily get my notes onto other devices

Why shouldn't we carry an iPad, a Kindle and a Notepad?
"When he rides the Eunicycle, people smile at him"

There is a chap who commutes through central Edinburgh on a unicycle and it does indeed cheer me up every time I see him.
I thought, that a large percentage if not the majority of US 'manufactoring' is actually agriculture.
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Sooner or later there will be a HBS case showing social marketing returns are falling and the hype will be over.

Currently Facebook might be AOL like, but it won't stay like that forever. A lot can change in a decade on the internet.
Since only a small percentage of the UK population use Foursquare I'd be more inclined to be concerned it might head in the opposite direction (i.e. relatively small numbers of people using this site to identify quiet days to visit are substantially more likely to check in - resulting in more noise than signal)
Yes! If one really ponders the mega structures required even for a fully realized Type I let alone a Type II civilization, the economics of such a civilization are probably far more telling than the total energy utilization in some senses.

Dyson swarms don't launch themselves, thousands of individuals have to work to manufacture, launch and maintain each panel. And you can't do that if everybody is poor, living a subsistence life, scratching food from the land.
I can tell you what world that is. It is the 'old world', Europe. I live in Germany. I have an iPhone. I have 'net access virtually everywhere including all of western Europe. I pay 30$ per month for it.

I have lived in the US for a while, and I can tell you: US mobile carriers offer incredibly bad service for incredibly high prices. All of western Europe is way ahead of AT&T or Comcast in these regards. I have not had a single 'dropped call', ever. This problem just does not exist outside the US (except when you enter a tunnel, of course).

Hence, I can always send emails, or even Facebook or Twitter updates from anywhere. Why would I want to send an SMS instead?
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Average salary in the US is around 50k
Really really simple Ruby metaprogramming
>>ideas, diagrams

yes! Scribbling a small mock-up screen or a mind-map or an algo on an e-ink pad would be just so simple && awesome! (I can't even imagine doing that with a keyb/mouse)
I think this is far more true if your business is B2C (Business to Consumer) than if it's B2B (Business to Business). It might now be the internet for individuals, but I don't think it's there yet for companies.

I use Facebook (when I do) in a very personal space. Brands whose pages I have liked are all personal - Get Into London Theatre, my work, my favourite film. I don't connect with any of my clients, or my corporate suppliers, on there. And I've had limited success promoting my business through FB, as opposed to LinkedIn (which I use in a very business space).

(Obviously, what we've done with FB is not very good. That's not the logic behind my argument here, just another data point.)

I do see an opportunity for businesses in the B2B space to use it better. It might now be the internet for individuals, not companies, but that doesn't mean my business shouldn't have a presence.
So the intention is to prevent counterfeiting by attaching something to the product that is easily counterfeitable. If this makes sense to you, and your business is not selling RFID components / products, please do enlighten me.
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I tried an electric GoCycle the other day. It is the best looking folding bike I've ever seen, reaches 30 km/h (faster than all other cyclists around you) and you don't smell when you arrive at work.

http://store.gocycle.com/

Also you can fold it up and take the subway if it starts to rain unexpectedly.
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Hooray! If all the advertising / marketing types can move to Facebook I can successfully ignore them just like I used to successfully ignore AOL keywords.
I completely agree. When I first learned CSS it was largely through tips and tricks like these, but without any sort of mental model or big picture understanding of what was going on my progress was unimaginably slow. I had to actually read part of the spec and start looking at and modifying stylesheets used on real sites before I became at all comfortable.
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Redirect people to your Facebook page, and since even dogs have Facebook profiles, the user will probably click the 'like' button, and may also share the page or invite a few friends.

Companies now are looking for more fans because it means for them more coverage. The news they publish on their page will show up on the user page. But what will happen if all of the companies that exist in earth and other parts of the universe advertise heavily on Facebook?

The typical user will have then a subscription to more than 1 thousand page and he'll probably end up watching what his friends are sharing. This is exactly what happened to Twitter, when web masters started to accumulate followers, but in the end it didn't work out. You can have 20K followers and barely 10 users read your tweet.

And this is not only linked to Facebook, imagine you are watching a movie and get a break with 320 ads, will you remember any of them? What the conversion ratio will be?
There will always be holdouts - hell, I am one. If the demographics of your customers mean that you can safely ignore them, then why not?
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i am not using fb. may i not pay for the internet access?
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Except python.org is so much better than python-lang.com that isn't even funny.

Case in point ... I searched for "ruby language" dozens of times before learning "ruby-lang.org". And the ".org" suffix was the easy part because my brain associates those domains with non-profit stuff.

I also find TLDs to be useful for figuring out the target of a website. E.g. ".co.uk" / ".de" / ".eu" are usually companies with headquarters in the European Union.
Fads among Madison avenue creative agencies do not the Internet make. (Anybody remember the Starburst wikiTweetBook promotion?)
I didn't see their commercial, but you missed the opportunity to point out that they have lots of loudly unhappy customers (http://nodaddy.com/), shut down sites for no good reason (http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0 and the recent spate of 'seized for infringing copyright'), etc.
AOL: Keyword
Wow, yeah. I remember reading this thread earlier and thinking "this guy (you) is the only person who has looked at the current API and is thinking about this from a practical perspective", and now I see you getting a million downvotes. That is incredibly disappointing.
What utility do these Facebook pages of companies offer, other than allowing me to become a fan?

I am not even sure if I want to have news feeds of my favorite products. Quite the other way round: I like products that have a high quality and last for a very long time. This implies that once I buy it, I don't need a news stream about it for a very long time anymore, either. The product should stay out of my way and do what it is designed to do.

Also, it would embarrass me to advertise stuff to my friends.
It is questionable strategy to give control of your brand over to another party.

I also wonder how companies are truly monetizing their FB traffic.
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Thanks all, author here (along w/ bramstein). The documentation and site aren't quite ready yet, but we're getting there.

If you're curious to see how to use the framework, your best bet is to start with this tutorial we're working on: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/wiki/Walkthrough
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I like the scroll and history support. Nice touches. It is very well done.
> Well eventually the same thing that happened to SCO ;-)

Oracle has some very good products. SCO had a Unix nobody wanted anymore (at least, nobody with two or more neurons).
But back then AOL was considered The Internet by many, so the author's point remains.
I can confirm that mobile operators absolutely LOVE SMS because it is so highly overpriced for the amount of data you get to send. They love it so much, in fact,t hat they are willing on spending large sums of money on services to improve the SMS network in some way (eg, we did anti-fraud and anti-spam stuff, amongst other more niche things).
Exactly! People install software onto other systems every single day onto systems that do not have capability-based security (including iOS, for the record, which gives application a lot of implicit access to data like your address book), and they never think twice about trusting it, but as soon as you mention what is available to the app, even with an explicit and well reasoned statement about why you are getting access to something you aren't using, people (like this poster) get /angry/, not just confused but /angry/, and start taking positions like "I will not install your software at all"... it's pure madness.
As Web Professionals, we need to pay attention to this fundamental shift and act accordingly.

How, by calling themselves social media experts?

....Oh.
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Aren't those stored (only) in EXIF?
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As said, just a quick hack with no claims to perfection, but imho an improvement over the original.

Left-align vs justify might be worth retrying, justify won in my 5-second comparison. You're right about en dash; I left the copy entirely untouched because I didn't want to spend more than a few minutes on the whole thing.

While you're at it, the signup-button could use some love, too...
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What is being described here is blocking and non-blocking IO. The analogy is pretty good.

However, the pizza company can probably still only cook 256 pizzas at the same time (due to running out of pan-handles).
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For most non-technical people AOL was also the internet back in the day. Today Facebook makes it easy for most non-technical people to publish, share, and network. High-speed broadband was the disruptive force for AOL and it's only a matter of time before something else comes along that will disrupt Facebook's wall garden. When most non-technical people realize they can do the same things on Facebook with a new technology that is more open they will switch.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-14/huffington-post-nea...
If only it was that easy.
You do not peddle the bike that the article was discussing.
However within a few years it was irrelvant and the real internet remains.
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This is what all code looked like when I started programming.
I can remember a few years ago companies were just saying "Google <our brand>" instead of giving out the URL. I think it's all just a way to make it easier for people to find their sites. People are very used to using Google and Facebook so why not give out information in terms of those services?
Yes, but it was fairly short lived. What will be interesting to see is if the internet ebbs and tides between the open (early internet like usenet and bbs, and more or less current form of the internet), and closed (AOL, and possibly now facebook) or if this is a more permanent switch back to a comfort zone for people online.
There is something between append only and reusing blocks
Why would Oracle keep his account with full functionality after he left the company, badmouthed it, and started a fork of the product the company paid him to develop?

I agree removing his name was dumb, but it could be an unpredicted side effect of modifying the account.
Several after-the-fact analyses of the Iranian "Twitter Revolution" concluded that it had minimal, if any, impact. Most of the tweets were retweets or were tweets by supporters, but almost none of the tweets were actually from within Iran.

http://www.webecologyproject.org/2009/06/iran-election-on-tw...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/06/evalua...

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2009/tc200...
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This makes no sense. I've seen women in skirts blasting up a hill by my house with a kid in a bike seat that would leave me huffing and puffing at any speed. They don't even have to get off the seat.

The enhanced pedaling makes you stronger not just faster. That means less sweating.
could you tell me which theme you use?
I wonder if there'd be a business in finding out who's subscribed and for a small fee helping them get unsubscribed from AOL.
User Data Header => UDH Length + Information Element Identifier + Information Element Length + Concatenated Message reference number + Sequence Number of Part + Number of Parts. Each is one octet, for a total of 6. Hence 134 octets, Note that the user data header can, conceptually (I have not seen it in practice, but the spec allows it) contain multiple information elements of varying sizes.

I don't know much about CDMA, but from the little I did interact with it, the upper levels of the protocol stack (TCAP upwards) looked almost identical to me. Does this mean that CDMA "phones" never implemented this or is it a protocol issue?