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AFAIL this is a very specific (and weird) US idiosyncrasy. In all other countries I can remember, you pay the price displayed.
Probably something along the lines of "it is in front of them".
Because they would be (rightfully) accused of attacking their own ecosystem. Because people (rightfully?) believe that they should focus on their core product first and not dabble in somewhat related areas until that is stable. Cf. the backlash when they brought out their "official" apps.
And again the true concern of Bell et al is apparent: they want to protect cable. They don't care about internet, as the incremental costs of adding more bandwidth are negligible. This is simply more confirmation that they either want to a) force netflix to pay a tariff, passing the buck on to consumers to make it less appealing, or b) force consumers to pay extra for the bandwidth used by streaming video.
In my case, for donations on a forum... nothing converted better than £3 per month.

Why? Because it's been translated into "a beer a month", as someone initially said that surely people derived value such that if they met me once a month they'd get a beer in for me... and lo, that's exactly what people started doing online. Prior to this comment I had real trouble pulling in any donations, now people buy the servers and I a beer each month (via £3 donations).

And in case anyone is wondering, average price of a pint in the UK is £2.80, and in London where the forum is focused it is £3.30. http://www.pintprice.com/region.php?/United%20Kingdom/

My thought on this a while ago: People have to be able to visualise it in a human way to them.

They can visualise a pound coin or dollar bill and say, "That's not much", and they can visualise a pint and think "It's the courteous thing to do". They can't visualise 67p very well at all.
You have to download dropbox.
That's section 4.3 of the guidelines, not iOS 4.3.
> Getting a standards-compliant XML parser into 2K lines is going to be a challenge

This is a pretty good argument against XML.
Dean Eckles tweeted a likely bias:
25% of Twitter's [US] users are black. With N=105 and survey weighting error, I'd bet the 95% CI is around 14 - 37%
How can the app review ensure that, say, you don't have a timebomb in your program after which you start sending off private data? Apple doesn't ask for the source code, does it?
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Isn't this move a bit hypocritical? Moving to metered traffic pricing models is arguably identical to the big bad plan that the telco's are trying to push through to achieve their own metered pricing for bandwidth?

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> Python and Ruby do them too..

Ruby has decent lambdas/closures, but Python absolutely does not. Its lambas are horrifically limited. Because of that alone, Javascript is a much better at functional programming than Python.

I agree that default global scope is a misfeature, but the solution is trivial--declaring variables--which I think makes the language much more readable anyway. I quite dislike the Python style of coding in which the local variables are just causally used without listing them somewhere--it's too easy for things to get lost. On the other hand, maybe I just need better syntax highlighting? The new "use strict" should completely fix accidental globals, as I understand it.

People complain about the implicit type conversions but I'm not sure I've had that pose a problem in real life and I've written my share of Javascript. I'm not even sure what that kind of bug would look like. I'd love an example.
Loren, I'm interested in the other posts about this, but I'm gunna forget to check your blog again and I might miss it on HN. Get an RSS feed please. Thanks.
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Mine or stb_*? I know stb_image is quite careful not to leak. It may not handle all perverse input files gracefully though.

As for twok, I believe the error handling to be decent and I don't believe it leaks. I'd be happy to hear of any errors you find. It's only portable to Windows, OS X, and Linux because that's all I have access to. It may work on BSD also.
You're right. I should have said "a todo app" or something similar - Rails was what came to mind first because of 37 Signals et al who make a lot of that kind of stuff.

Aside from that, I'm a huge fan of abstracting commonly made and agreed upon technical decisions further down the stack, making higher level development much simpler and less technically challenging - which is from my understanding what RoR was/is largely about. That's not to say that RoR as a framework isn't in and of itself a technical achievement though.
Would be inspirational to read about 'failures' of HN members here who ve' been there n done that...
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I used 0x30 for didactic purposes, so that a person less familiar with C would understand what exactly is happening.
We had an issue quite recently with this regarding the use of "App-Store". APP STORE is a registered trade mark of Apple across the EU. Not sure about "app", but our trademark solicitor made us remove it from our marketing anyway. We're now an "application store", an even that she wasn't happy with, suggesting we use "application shop" instead, as "store" was too synonymous.
Ah, that's a good one, and worth study at that revision with so few lines. Thanks!
Indeed, the bar has fallen pretty far with this title.
Thanks, I'll add that in the next update.
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Sounds like a challenge (to someone ;) A good XML test suite to confirm "fullness" must exist?
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Ah. So he was practicing law without a license.
I wouldn't think so - it should be more difficult to interface with a email service like than than to use their own server software.
I just wish you'd found that research right in the beginning! It's still not 100% conclusive, but it adds a lot more weight to your claims.

But still, I don't understand why Bing felt it necessary to specifically target you! The generic approach of mining all URLs indiscriminately, which I advocated, would have had largely the same impact and would be defensible against claims of cheating. It's crazy. There was no need to copy directly from Google and yet it looks very much like they still did.
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> this was a very lame attempt of trying to get away with
> using a word I usually hold in contempt

Why not use a more general term then? Surely this practice pre-dates the internet (and therefore also the term 'linkbait').
The scariest part about this is that Verizon is modifying data in transit. Who knows what else they might be doing to it.
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Just wait until you hear: "Apple is the new Google"
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I had never heard of Sterling engines before, so I found this quite fascinating.

I have a question though to whomever may offer an explanation. Towards the bottom of page 1, the article explains that "[w]hen pressurized helium on the top side of the metal plate is heated, sound waves traveling through the gas are amplified, causing the plate to vibrate...."

When the pressurized He is heated it causes the sound to be amplified? But heating the He should cause the density to decrease, of course, and therefore reduce the power of the sound waves propagating through the He, no?

I'm not aware of any relationship between frequency and amplitude, just V=(freq)(wavelength). What's going on? The only thing I can think of is that perhaps there's some sort of resonance going on in the chamber? As the pressure drops, the speed of sound should drop. But this shouldn't necessarily affect the frequency... so I'm totally confused. Maybe there's a resonance effect as the waves propagate slower and slower and interfere with one another? I'm totally lost. I just don't see how decreasing pressure (by increasing temperature) increases amplitude.

It's been quite a few years since studying E&M as an undergrad, so I'm a bit rusty and just genuinely curious what I'm missing here.

Thanks!
The period on yours is nearly invisible and the letterforms are substantially different.

Just because you don't know typography doesn't mean it doesn't exist as a profession.
Probably the way youtube videos are interactive, you click to close the ads.
The problem with IE6 (now) as the lowest common denomination is the lack of upgrades. It wasn't a bad browser when it launched but it sure is now. I don't see there continuing to be a significant share of MobileSafari 3 or 4 in the coming years. People upgrade. So the analogy is unfair and misrepresented.
just so we're all clear... the goal is more than raising money... right?
I've noticed the same thing with cheap/upscale restaurants
Unmetered costs more. I don't know about Canada or US, but in Russia it's certain that your ISP pays for their uplink channels several times more than you would for the same bandwidth. Partially, that's because there are completely different SLAs, but that's also because a good share of users are consuming moderately (like web browsing) with only accidental high-traffic spikes. If every customer online will try to get their promised bandwidth at the same time - ISP will literally choke - and nobody would get even remotely satisfying connection. That's why ISPs have to impose bandwidth limits. Here, they're commonly shaping down the line after the traffic cap's hit.

In fact, I believe almost every ISP - unless they're monopoly - would be happy to drop the prices while keeping the satisfable service quality. Unfortunately, most of time they just can't (and when they can, they surely do).

Also, while it's certainly none of my business, I sometimes wonder why some individuals download terabytes of information per month. Considering the most heavy application I know of - downloading raw BD rips - they have to watch a movie every single evening. Must be quite a bad taste for a videophile, to say the least. For less traffic-heavy content, they just won't be able to consume it in time. I'm not saying that terabytes are not needed - sure there're cases where even petabytes might be necessary - but there're too many users who download whole day and night every month. Well, at least the Internets are backed up...
This just sounds like the author came into the mix long after IE6 starting showing its age, and knows nothing except for people complaining about how much it sucks compared to the latest versions of Firefox and/or Safari.

The analogy still falls flat on its face because what people expected IE6 to be (by the time Firefox and Safari were around) was improved/updated, which it wasn't because Microsoft disbanded the development team (and only decided to get back into the game when their dominance started to crumble).
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Canada has wackos too. If Canada has no engineering managers/administrators who are willing to pull some stunt like this, I guarantee there's one there somewhere who will pull something else equally silly.

Don't compare the US's extreme case to Canada's normal case.
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I would have quit to save him the trouble of the decision. Developers should be judged on more than an incident like this. If the developer is as productive or more productive than the others, does it really matter if you catch him / her watching a movie sometimes?
I already responded to that post on her blog:

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pretty much sums it up.
You don't have to, though it's geared towards that. You can use it entirely through the web interface if you want, manually uploading and downloading files.
"Bing should not be using clickstream data from Google searches as a signal."

Why not?
I'll bite: The problem with the implementation is plain to see:

-webkit-transform: rotateY(45deg);

That's a proprietary CSS declaration. It's exactly the same kind of "embrace and extend" kind of stuff that entrenched IE6 so long ago and severly splintered web development. Why, oh why, do I have to prefix -moz- or -webkit- onto CSS instructions in a "standards compliant" world?

Web dev is getting badly fractured again. There was a point of stability about two years ago where all of the IE quirks were knowns and the rest of the browsers followed CSS2/HTML4 fairly consistently. There was a blissful period where you knew something might be borked in IE6, but could almost just assume things would render in most other browsers.

Such a time has now ended. I find myself saying "but that should have worked?!?!" at about the same rate I did when IE6 was new 10 years ago. Sadly now I have to have $$ to spend on testing hardware rather than just firing up an old piece of software.

TL;DR, 3D transform in webkit isn't true CSS3... it's a proprietary webkit feature.
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Ahem... Does the name Galileo mean anything to you? How about Socrates?
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Yes. The fact that more than likely it was their PHB who made the decision, not them.
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I haven't tried, because I don't want to throw off the results, but it looks like you can vote more than once (only the arrow for your selection disappears). If that is the case, consider this a bug report.
Does that mean this would be the ultimate linkbait heading: "Top 10 Xs that are the new Ys, plus puppies."
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But there's nothing to prevent everyone from using the bandwidth they've purchased at the same time.
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After reading all the comments I find myself at the tipping point of a truly great idea -- no doubt inspired by the questions brought forth by Martin.

If the end goal of schooling is to learn AND be able to apply knowledge, then what can be used to show a child the benefit of understanding knowledge? That is, could you construct a situation in which a child in, say, third grade would want to repeat a course without outside pressure?

If we can assume that adults are willing to make this decision based on a couple of key factors: e.g. 1. the need to provide for themselves (and family) 2. curiosity - the desire to innovate, is there a way to convey or reinterpret these ideas to a child?

My thoughts anyway and kudos to logjam for quoting Pirsig...that's awesome.
I was wondering: especially considering your experience with selling T-shirt, have you done enough to make sure people know that they get their shirts in the right size? Or are you preparing to set aside a specific margin for return cases?

It may just be me always having trouble with US sizes, but I'd imagine it to be a common thing for apparel vendours.
> I don't believe in government interference.

But that's just it. Most of the telecoms in the US and Canada were built off of government subsidies, guaranteed (regional or nation-wide) monopolies, and/or guaranteed profits (see AT&T in the US). How can you then say that the government needs to be 'hand off' with a market that they've already skewed in favor of certain players? Not to mention that Bell in Canada is regulated this way by the CRTC because they control the last-mile telephone lines for DSL. Legally they are the only ones allowed to lay such lines, so should the government allow them to do whatever they want with their government-granted monopoly?
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I currently have a company that has funding and a partner and I'm giving 100% to that, but can't help to think of these new ideas and put them on the back shelf.

Does anyone else experience this same thing? If so, what do you do to stay "hyper focused" on your idea at hand?
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The review process has come a long way, folks. It's still nowhere as explicitly documented as, say, Sony or Microsoft's review process for video games -- which is both a strength and a weakness -- but the transparency has slowly gotten better each year.

What impresses me the most, though, is the payment system, which he mentions. I don't mind Apple taking a 30% cut of my sales, because they are not just taking care of all the merchant details (e.g. payment processing), but they are giving consumers confidence that they aren't throwing money into the void. Furthermore, the one time I've had a problem with a payment on iTunes, I was reimbursed for the problem, and got my download for free.

What more can end users ask for?
I'm betting he's probably talking about features like having a queue, embed code popups, tweet from within the video and things like that. Such features are considered "basic" in any decent interactive flash based player.

For your YouTube example, don't look at the player while the video is playing... look at the interface between videos. That's an interactive video player.
There was a similar period in the US when regional phone companies were required to lease lines out to 3rd parties, but I believe either the policy was changed or a court case deemed the rule to be invalid.
I don't want to defend the idiocy discussed in this article, but it's useful to try and understand where Cox is coming from.

Traffic engineering is one of those fields where there probably haven't been a lot of hobbyists, until recently, when the Internet has allowed geeks to become expert on pretty much any subject with a few weekends of study. I would also imagine that the PE licensing rate among practicing traffic engineers is pretty close to 100%, whereas I have yet to meet a PE-licensed software engineer... I'm sure the half-dozen or so licensed engineers at NCDOT were probably pretty freaked out to see a study like this from an amateur. Who knows, maybe the group did blow a lot of the conclusions -- it's almost certain that Cox's team disagree with the report, since it is counter to their recommendations. Anyway, the last thing the state engineers want to do is to validate the standing of the community group by engaging with them on the issues, even if it's to educate them on where they made mistakes, so they're going to look to discredit them.

As an analogy, practicing medicine without a license is a crime, even if you're really good at it, and even if all of your patients know you're not licensed.

Again, I think this is a terrible way to try to solve the problem, even if it is supported by laws or regulations. Professional fields of all kinds need to cope with the fact that organized groups of laypeople are going to be able to mount credible challenges to their opinions, on their turf and using their tools.
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There's still the complete 240.0.0.0/4 range left (class E), but unfortunately it's probably too late to make use of them now.
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Wait times are so variable. When I started, about 6 months into the iPhone dev being released, we were looking at 2-4 weeks wait time. For a while there it went to 1 week, very fast, then even faster. Now, it is back out to about 1 week.
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