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I suppose one has to excuse Gabe Newell for not understanding this, because his company has been unsuccessfully trying to go out of business in exactly this fashion for most of its existence. Their failure to go bankrupt during any of their long delays is as notable and impressive as any of the games they've actually shipped.
No, I'm with you. I think Herbert's point was not that Paul was bad -- we wanted him to succeed -- but how naturally seductive the idea of a messiah or superhero is to us. Characters even explicitly say that a real messiah is about the worst thing a people can get.

I think Dune Messiah (which is rather disappointing even outside of how marginalized Paul becomes after focusing so much on him) is more about how the artifice built up around him becomes evil and does just fine without his actual presence.
I always say "designers make the site pretty, developers make the site do things". Granted, this still earns me a look of befuddlement, but it's the easiest explanation I can come up with.
Cool! Would love to hear any thoughts and suggestions you have along the way.
I agree but my conclusion based on this is that, for the foreseeable future, we'll need hybrid systems that can merge expert knowledge with machine learning.

In the coming weeks there will be a lot of hand-wringing about Watson's performance on Jeopardy and what it means for humanity and jobs and so on.. I think it's important to remember that the last mile in many tasks will still require humans and that AI should be seen more as human augmentation rather than replacement.
Ah yes...

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And they can change your rent to 11x normal - just before you sell your crops...

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Go question but it is actually a real question, not a rhetorical question... Do you want to a golden share cropper or do you want to be independent. There may be no easy answer...
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25% click-through without a direct link to the app?

Man, I'd like to shake your hands.
Computer security is obscenely asymmetric - an attacker only has to find one flaw, once, somewhere. A defender needs to constantly monitor, test, review isolate and basically never make any mistakes.

It is easy to look at almost any intrusion and attribute it to poor defenses. If HBGary didn't have a SQL injection, they'd have had a XSS vuln. Or a employee would get spearphished. Or an attacker at a local coffee shop would compromise a mobile client. Or a backup service would get compromised and unencrypted. Or a interviewee could plant a network listening device. Or the CEO's daughter could win a pre-owned iPhone. Or a secretary gives out a VPN login. And so on and so on.

Did HBGary suck worse than usual? Possibly - but consider Google china got hit by ie6+acrobat vulns, DOD lost hundreds of thousands of classified documents from an air gapped and physically controlled system to a private, Open BSD may have included side channel backdoors, Kaspersky lost their source code, PS3/iPhone/Xbox/HTC etc. are unable to secure their platforms.

The truth is, a motivated attacker will rarely fail. Anyone reading this would be unlikely to survive 24 hours of a coordinated attack whether it's done by 16 year olds, chinese university students, russian mafia, FBI or simply nerds that know how to google vulnerabilities.

Fighting back against a group like Anonymous provides the same asymmetric warfare problems as the US military experiences in fighting terrorists, including the inability to respond with similar tactics for legal reasons.

Bottom line is, almost any organization can be subject to this kind of embarrassment without warning.
I saw that and figured it was mundane. At least it provided a decent opportunity to rant. :-)
By what metric does Microsoft stuff perform really well?

You're seriously saying you choose Microsoft for performance and stability? And you have a dozen upvotes?
That's quite possibly true. It's interesting, I went looking for data and found that Python is now "more popular" (according to one index) than C#:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

It seems that wasn't the case even a year ago, though.
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I didn't get a personal office, but barring a handful of individuals, nobody did. Everyone worked in shared space. No cubes though- just adjoining desks, grouped by department.

Everyone got free snacks and drinks, and free lunches delivered to the office on Fridays. There wasn't an on-site gym, but the company paid for memberships to a local gym. There was also the beginning of a game room with a ping-pong table, a foosball table, and a dartboard.

The perks were by no means Google-scale, but they were nice nonetheless.
I don't understand how they can defend that position. Yeah, it's their job and they might be very proud of their work, but they can't be that dumb.

They're not dumb - they're full of shit, just like always.
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I'm not quite sure that VCs model startups as commodities, considering that you get these huge pile-ons where everyone wants to invest in Twitter or Zynga but nobody wants to invest in the random startup your roommate founded. If startups actually behaved as commodities, brand names wouldn't matter so much.

Ditto high-powered executives - if they were actually commodities, executive pay wouldn't skyrocket through the roof.
I'm curious what you're looking for here. Isn't this data completely useless if you don't know what the prototype is?
Really? I'm a linux user, but I bought an OpenMoko phone despite knowing it's pretty much going to be a paperweight. I bought an ugly keychain from RMS when he was in KL. I own a couple of Android phones. I could have saved some money on my Milestone if I'd gotten an iPhone on the cheap from my carrier and then sold it to offset my Milestone purchase, but I opted not to put more money in the Apple coffers (it was right after that fiasco about them dictating what languages you could use to develop for their app store and I was pissed). I am not tight-fisted, but I am pretty idealistic about who I am supporting with my purchases. I have two close friends who use primarily linux and they're both pretty generous. Both of them also own iPhones, incidentally. My anecdotal evidence against yours.
Thanks very much.

That's disheartening, but I suppose it makes sense if they thought they could just be selectively one-upped by the cable companies in every area they entered. That the cable companies are basically holding areas hostage that way is a pretty good argument for public internet infrastructure, though.
It's the choice of words, really. does it have good documentation, or thorough documentation?

The author's argument would be twice as compelling if he backed such a strong statement up, or toned it down a bit.

Unmatched? Mmmkay.
Sure, but I believe the average Jeopardy contestant could probably win this match handily if they had Watson buzzing in for them.

Therefore they've made a machine that plays Jeopardy about as well as an average Jeopardy contestant.

That's still an impressive feat but not quite one I would have thought was out of reach five years ago.
.NET actually isn't that bad as far as performance and stability go. It's about on par with Java. It's much faster than scripting languages, and significantly more stable than Ruby.

Administering a Windows stack can sometimes blow, but the languages and virtual machines themselves are relatively solid.
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Since Windows 7, I'm not surprised to see someone connecting Microsoft with performance and stability.

(I'm pointing out MS had worse days, and is catching up seriously. I also realize an OS for home users might not be the best evidence in the world.)
Well, at least IE9 is somewhat up to date. HTML5 is still a working draft that no-one implements fully. Everyone implements a certain subset of it and I don't quite see how one subset is supposed to be superior to another subset as long as their is no one who implements it fully. Gee, at least Microsoft is making an effort!

And by the way, an uncluttered, fast-starting browser that implements a somewhat smaller subset of HTML5 than a messy, slow-as-molasses browser might have something going for it, too. Just sayin'
Actually, I'd say that a proper designer actually designs how your site should work. Developers implement, hack, do backend stuff, etc.

"Making a site pretty" is what too many coders think they need a designer for at the end of their projects ("skin my app!"), when perhaps they should be working with real designers from the get-go.
You know why you don't have a good reason for choosing a language? Because you are a total programming newbie who hasn't actually tried to use other languages for anything!

If you use a better language, you will add features faster and spend less time fixing bugs, and you will be making the world a better place.

Your logic is naive at best, and awful at worst: "It just is." isn't an argument anyone should take seriously.
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Human reaction time to visual stimuli is approximately 150 to 300 ms [1]. I don't know how Watson was configured, but even with the same visual cue I would guess it could press the button in a few milliseconds. That's a massive advantage, enough to win the buzz-in every time both a human and the machine know the answer by the time the light goes on.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex
Humanity's best is by no means present in that contest. These Jeopardy champions do not represent the world not even all Americans. In most cases people that compete in these games are not by any definition the brightest. I really like the idea of the Machine versus Humans contest, but having some already retired champions of a game competing with a tireless computer and supposedly representing humanity at its best it is at best unfair.
I think you're describing a user interface engineer with a design background.

There is definitely a place for "Person who makes pretty". There is a place for "Person who makes it work well from a human computer interaction persepctive".

No reason for it to be the same person.
Design is not all about making things pretty. It's also about making things usable.
The iPhone 3G was my (first and) last iPhone because of other issues (the language lockdown). Actually not just my last iPhone but my last Apple Thing, period.

Voting with your wallet is the ONLY thing one can do to really get their attention (governments could step in on anti-competitive grounds, but that's not really something we can help with short of contacting our representatives).

If the user base just whines and moans while continuing to line up for the next shiny phone a week in advance of release to help Apple deliver record quarter after record quarter, Apple isn't going to change anything, they are just going to keep pushing and pushing. They've already shown that clearly in the past.. this is hardly the first questionable decision they've made in terms of controlling the iOS platform.
If you are hacking just for the sake of hacking then you are absolutely right. You should choose the technology based on how fun it is. But soon you will need to worry about how to pay the server and the bandwidth invoices. That time the business people's opinion will probably sound better.

Even for hacking, it is generally better to choose the technology that your core set of technical people are most comfortable with.
I am a registered expert and contributor and they reward me by locking me out if I do not contribute for a month. I cannot even see my own answers. With competition around I do not think they will be able to hold people hostage for long.
You're going to find the full range of talent regardless of which language you're using. Erlang doesn't guarantee godlike competence, and .NET doesn't guarantee mediocrity. I think your biases are showing a little here.
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I am not talking about the credit card info. I am going to be using 2checkout to handle that. Chargify, Recurly and Spreedly can't help me here - because as far as I know they don't work with 2checkout (and I need a payment facility that works with Jamaica, 2checkout is one of the few that does). However, if you have a recommendation for that, I will gladly look at it.

But more the logic of the restrictions on each of the plans. E.g. Plan A has 1GB storage, with 2 clients, Plan B has 5GB storage, etc.

Is there a rails gem or something that you guys have used that can help me with this ?

Thanks.
I'm still not sure what the point of all this is. Any developer worth their salt already knows that IE9 is more or less a small step forward but still far short of what it needs to be and of what FF/Chrome have accomplished ages ago. Any non-technical user won't be reading this article and won't give a damn about IE vs. FF vs. Chrome, as long as their internets work.

Why keep up the pissing match? Who are they talking to?
what about actually reading the article before commenting ?
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No, no, no. JRRT completely rejected the charge that his work was an allegory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-D65evOCX4

LOTR and The Silmarillion were not about WWII, the Bomb, or "racial purity." You are reading allegory into the stories.
Compare this with the revenue statistics for Windows Phone 7: http://www.occasionalgamer.com/2011/02/09/ads-and-wp7-games/
I remember people asking the same kinds of questions when Wolfram Alpha was released. Alpha and Watson work in very constrained spaces and transferring their success to general search is very much non-trivial. So, no Watson will not make a dent in Google.. It'll be a very helpful tool in specialized areas but scaling it out is not a matter of a year or two..
Thank you all for the suggestions, I think this is a good start. I am interested in Nosql suggestion, the question I would have there is how the cache would work in this cache considering object storage is going to be a little challenging.

Some pointers on programming language choices for technology would be great.

Kleinsch you have some very interesting thoughts, is there any other way I could reach you and talk in more detail?
"Customer Centric" as opposed to "Content Creator Centric" or "Developer Centric" - Apple is focusing on creating an experience for the customer.

Now - whether you _want_ Apple to be doing that, instead of just creating a neutral hardware system that permits others is another thing. I, personally, would prefer that Apple focus more on insanely great hardware, and developer centric policies, while simultaneously allowing all content providers to sell me their movies, TV, magazines, and Music.

I understand why Apple is choosing a different path, though. If they succeed - they just might create something we've never had before - A consistent, seamless, unified content purchase and presentation platform.

It will be interesting to see how it works out - and yes, I couldn't agree with you more - Thank goodness for Android - we've got choice.
No kidding. If they displayed an answer or two I might have even considered joining up. When EE was prevalent in Google Search results, it would always make me upset when one of the results looked promising and then I realized I had clicked an EE link. StackOverflow and its success should be a lesson to EE.
iPad's and iPhone's are not made for small children. People are being a little silly in demanding that Apple child proof their luxury brand gizmos.

Your child will not lose IQ points if he doesn't have a shiny iOS device to play with. Give him a book or puzzle to do like the rest of us had growing up. I promise you he'll turn out just fine.
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Succeeding harder if the technology was junk is one assumption you might agree with.

Furthermore, from your list, anything that's not business is technology. Not every company ships physically, and those who don't just ship their product through the stack.

How fundamentally technical the startup is, is not decided by the owner but by the context. And technology matters there, a lot.
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I know, right? Those damn programmers are so entitled. Everyone knows the marketing people do all the hard work!

Ok, I'm done sarcasm trolling.
Doesn't that make them look even more amateurish and incompetent? They chose an insecure content management system and, most importantly, they didn't isolate it enough.

No more than google choosing a linux kernel with a privilege escalation bug for Android, anyone using OS X in 2009 while a remote jdk bug sat open for 6 months, anyone using windows+ie in dec '10 or jan '11.

Unless you can explain how to only buy software that will never have any vulnerabilities.
What's the deal with all of this high school bitchfesting going on lately between Google, Microsoft and Mozilla? My opinion of each of them drops every time they involve themselves in this crap.

How about you all stfu, work on your respective software and let your products do the talking?
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It completely depends on what you're trying to build. I've built some things in a couple days (maprejuice.com -- for Node Knockout) and others over the course of a week.

I estimate my current project will take a month.
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> [I] think that if price matters in your market you already have a problem in your business plan.

I think this is one of those rules of economics that holds true until most people start believing it. The thing is, most businesspeople and investors agree with you; they run in terror from any business where price has anything to do with the costs involved.

This means that the market is pretty much wide open. /especially/ if you have technical skill laying about and are willing to give it a go without investors or MBAs.

I mean, right now my customers are overlooking the fact that I lack some of the important features my competition has /and/ overlooking my horrible marketing, in exchange for around half off. I'm profitably out-competing absolutely huge companies on price, in a market that is generally considered to have large 'economies of scale' effects.

I think the thing is that larger companies don't want this part of the market, because if they lent their credibility to the low end, they'd cannibalize their own higher-margin products. And smaller companies, well, they usually need investment, and investors generally run screaming from any business where profits are directly tied to costs.
I'm confused by your post because:

1. Are you USian or UKian (or neither)? Pre-packaged sandwiches have much greater acceptance in the UK. Heck, M&S sells them.

2. Don't pre-packaged sandwiches already have ingredients printed on them? If you're drawing a distinction between ingredients and recipe, how does one more than the other guarantee quality of ingredients?
It's not so much that it's backwards-compatible with C so much that it is C. It's plain C with a class and run-time messaging system built on it. Message sends are translated to C function calls by the compiler.
No need to suppose - check out the profile and posting history of each of those commenters and form a conclusion.

(I'm one of those "I found an answer on EE I couldn't find anywhere else" people, and I stand by it)
Let's everyone have their own satellite! I'm kidding, but maybe not necessarily...
Agreed. In reality, many developers have plenty of design experience & skill as well.

I like to separate design from pure art, subscribing to the Steve Jobs "design is how it works" mentality. To me, design is as much an engineering discipline as an aesthetic one.
> Secondly, when it comes to performance, IE has been getting better with every version

Really? I use IE 8 at work and opening a new empty tab takes ten seconds. I'd hate to see what it was like in 7.
The article talks about a deal struck in MID 2008, mid 2008 sounds awfully like two months before Bear Stearns crashed in September 2008, begetting economic apocalypse. To take a 7% haircut from the peak of the market is not a bad return. Especially good would be to be fully liquid during that period, hindsight is of course 20/20 and buying GS during that period would have been viewed as very risky, but again, in hindsight there would have been some amazing opportunities sitting on $125 million in cash. A deal struck today would probably be 20-30% less than mid-2008 valuations. There are an amazing number of blue chip stocks that you could have bought in 08Q3 to 09Q2 that would have doubled your money by now. I'm not familiar with the particulars of the deal but it sounds like sour grapes on what was probably a great deal retrospectively for the sellers.
It seems that they facilitate sending money back and forth.

But I see nothing about integrating into my Rails app to handle subscription management.

Am I mistaken ? Can you provide some more details please.
Agree AAPL is one of the most innovative company yet they don't release any "concept" products but tht's probably because they are fiercely secretive about their new products and major updates. Nothing to do with real artists shipping.

> "One of the latest Microsoft concept products is Surface"
That's no longer the case. The surface is going to be a real product that you will be able to buy this year. Cost ~2K. I think this was announced at the CES this year.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/microsoft-shows-off-next-...
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