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Just because someone has an opinion different from yours doesn't make them a troll. You calling someone a troll because you don't agree with someone's opinion does.
I remember a Casio graphing calculator a friend of mine had (I had a PB-700 BASIC "calculator" at that time). It was good enough, but I was endlessly amused when it responded "irregal command" when asked to do something it couldn't.

I kid you not.

The Casios were nice, but the HPs were hideously expensive. I can see why TI entered the market.
I also notice the performance problem Win updates incur. Maybe Chrome does have a performance during its updates but I have yet to realize it. Perception is everything.
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Well you can say that. I am a system admin in my day job and technology area I work is not really hot area in other places.
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Saying that designers make the site pretty and developers make the site do things is exactly the kind of thinking that makes this whole thing a mess.

The "pretty" parts is such a small part of what design is all about.

I don't just create some skin on top of some application, I help create the underlying structure maybe even the business logic.

Also developers are not just making the things work. They are actually constructing the code space by making decisions that are based on some aesthetic principles. When you construct your code in a certain way it's not just rational it is as much emotional.

To give you an example of what design also is.

We recently managed to convince a bank to put some of the knowledge they had about their clients into play. Basically all transaction come with a unique vendor number that can be paired up to a category (utilities, groceries, insurance etc) and allow customers without having to type in a single thing to see how they spend their money.

The original design I did was nice and cool and all, the final design ended up looking rather pale in comparison, but it's one of the things I have done in my life that I am most proud off.

It took not only knowledge about how some of the innnerworkings of banking, it took political fights, fights with IT departments and so on.

But the results where phenomenal. People loved it and I neither they cared that it wasn't as sassy as I had originally intended.

Design is not just about how it looks, it's as much about how it works.
Here's a reference/cheat sheet to using SSL with verification with Net::HTTP:

https://github.com/augustl/net-http-cheat-sheet/blob/master/...

It shows different ways of providing Net::HTTP with verification certificates.
> To be honest, if they've put five years into it and are still so far behind, they need to fire some people.

You are assuming Microsoft wants to adhere to standards. I find it more likely their strategy is to fragment the market because the day web applications become the norm, as opposed to desktop applications, they become OS-independent and Microsoft will have its main advantage (the Windows software ecosystem) negated.

They won't allow that.
(full disclosure - I am one of the Springboard mentors so I may not be 100% objective)

Generally a valid comment about accelerators proliferating and being built in similar way, but:
* in case of the accelerators the people running them are fare more important than LPs behind;
* in this particular case Jon is one of the greatest mentors/startup supporters I met (I went through Seedcamp with on of the companies I am involved with);
* Jon used to run very successful TDE (see the track record from this program);
* Springboard is based in Europe (Cambridge near London, one of the few important tech clusters here), so for teams from EU applying to Springboard is easier than to Y-Combinator (e.g. just because of the US Immigration stupidity)

So summing up - I agree that it might look similar to others but in nitty gritty is not. But fair point about communicating it better on the website :)!

Cheers
Chris
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I think it would follow the letter of these rules if service-providers made "with iOS" versions of their services available - both on their website and in-app. So Rhapsody could say their service is $10/mo for everybody... except if you want iOS access, in which case you pay $13/mo.
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> So why is Mozilla even bothering with these technical articles?

Because they need to educate the clueless who decide to make their internal web applications IE-dependent. Making an internal web app IE-only is one of the most common and crippling mistakes corporate IT makes.
We have end users who were not so happy when Chrome updated itself and broke the rendering of a web page that they have to use every day.
This post is old, but looking on Google for something similar to a "command-line social-networking" app I came across this idea. And with everyone using GitHub for everything now, maybe it could be possible... with a little work.
Keep in mind /UI/UX/Interaction design is a new thing. I'm a UX designer but when I was in school nothing of the sort was offered. Designing for the internet was just then becoming a concept. Most of my studies were focused on print! I would say that this is true for a lot of interaction designers with more than 5 years under their belt.
Whenever I am searching for an internet solution, if I see a result coming from the EE domain I automatically pass over it, so why shouldnt the reporter?
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I always try to renew my domains months in advance, so it's possible I've been missing out on those letters for the last few cycles. I used to get a lot more than that though. It's been a long time, but I seem to remember getting daily junk mail sent to the exact contact info I used on a domain registration and nowhere else. I believe the registrars implemented new policies on whois that helped with that, but again, it's been a decade so my memory is foggy.
I seem to recall Nintendo was one of them (Atari vs Nintendo would be my guess but I'm not 100% sure), but I'm afraid I don't have the citations to hand.
Because, let's be honest, most "security consultants" are people who couldn't make it as sysadmins, and they've no idea what they're doing.
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> Life expectancy was only 35 because of infant mortality. Once you grew up, people tended to live almost as long as we do today.

Ok, so why we calculate it this way? Shouldn't we look at median instead of an average? Or average on data between lower and upper quartile? I thought that quartiles exist exactly for those kind of situations...
> At what margin? There's more revenue in gaming than engine licensing, but once you have the engine, I can't imagine it costing much to license it.

When you license UE3, you receive technical support from the programmers who implemented the engine. That's part of the sales pitch. Epic's marginal expense cannot be covered by just hiring more random hackers; it's mainly an opportunity cost. The engine is also in continual development, so you can't think of marginal revenue after the initial R&D investment as pure profit.

An alternative licensing model was followed by id Software back when they were still in that business. You sign the contract, pay the license fee, get a full day of face-time with Carmack, and then you're all on your own. There were other reasons that id's licensing business collapsed but the non-support was a contributing factor.

But there are also strategic technical issues that discourage Valve from chasing Epic's engine marketshare. Building an engine that's fit for many genres and platforms takes longer and is fraught with compromises compared to catering solely to your own needs.

It's a good business but there are reasons Valve focuses their attention elsewhere.
I'm not sure HN is a suitable forum for your request, and at any rate, you should consider providing at least some basic details.
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Not all technically-inclined people or even developers do any web-related work at all. I've learned from this.
The thought of moving from Netflix, Rdio and Kindle to iTunes strikes me as akin to moving from Gmail and Facebook for photos to MobileMe. I love(d) Apple, but their web services are afterthoughts that can't hold a candle to specialized (or, in Google's case, just brilliant) competition.
One huge advantage of living in Europe is that we get sodas with real sugar here. None of the HCFS crap. And yes Virginia, it does make a difference. Suger > HFCS.
But the calorie count though! :(
You need to give us some context, you just put numbers on a page and hope that we understand what you are talking about?

It's great to share, it's better to explain. Thank you.
I wonder what are the real speeds, because true unmetered gigabit link certainly costs more than $26 (and even more than $260).

I believe it's that you would get a peak speed of about 1 Gbps, but I'm certainly sure it's impossible to have a constant 1 Gpbs speed over long time. In one possible case, you'll divide the ISPs' uplink with other users, so if ISP has a total uplink connectivity of 100Gbps - which is extremly rare case - and there are 1000 users, they'll all get less than 100Mbps. In another case, if you'll hit some sort of a bandwidth cap, your connection will be shaped down.
I did the same thing two days ago for the exact same reason, with the name "Aleph Zadik", and it worked like a charm.
Is there a human being deciding what looks like a real name or not, or is it algorithm-based?
This it a lot less true today than it would have been several years ago. I'm a designer and most of the younger designer's I know are comfortable programming in several languages.

Anyway, your statement is an oversimplification. You could also say that the website the designer made would have better usability and be more engaging for the users (but perhaps buggy), while the developer would have a well coded site that no one (except maybe other developers) would want to use.
the fact that watson has good nlp isnt nearly as impressive as the fact that it has a huge knowledge base, how the hell did it get all that knowledge, if it is just from browsing the internet by itself that makes me afraid.......very afraid
I used to think Monster cables were a complete joke too until a musician friend pointed out that they have a lifetime warranty and very generous terms of exchange. One can essentially walk into any music store in the country and swap out the splinched cables for new ones, no questions asked.

Is he doing it right? Should the cables fail after every show? Shouldn't he just get better cables?
It's not just the races, but the geographical descriptions as well which seem to be grounded in reality.

*Middle Earth* - Europe

*Numenor* (island to the west of ME) - Great Britain

*Valinor* (distant land of the 'fair' elves, west of ME) - North America viz. USA

*Mordor* (south of ME) - Area around Turkey

*Harad Desert* (south-east of ME) - Middle East

A quick look at the map of middle earth in LOTR and the Silmarillion kind of confirms this suspicion
Doesn't matter, you're discussing a different set of goals. Which might make an interesting game, but ignores the purpose of this exercise. The question on everyone's mind was "can a machine beat humans at Jeopardy". The answer appears to be: yes, very much so.

Whether or not we can make a more interesting or "fair" game of Jeopardy involving such a machine is an entirely separate, and to my mind far less interesting, question.

Where do we go from here? It would seem silly to say "we make a more interesting Humans vs. machines Jeopardy game." Rather, it seems more prudent to figure out ways to expand on this research and use the underlying technology to solve more interesting, and practical, problems.
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This has been mentioned a few times in here and sounds interesting - sweeter on the first sips but people would NOT prefer the whole can. Please cite sources!!
My last company hired a guy who claimed to be one of the top engineers at EE. Crystallized ancient knowledge is appropriate. Then again the company I was at is still using classic ASP in production, so even that ancient knowledge can at times be a bit useful. I agree with icco, I've heard bad things from friends in town, never checked it out myself.
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So, you have some obscure reason for being in stealth mode, but can't tell us more than that, other than that the original poster is completely wrong in your case. You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post.

In my opinion you are not really contributing to the discussion. Just stop.
It's easy to find the link via google: search for 'site:experts-exchange.com "<title of question>"'
Facebook is just a social networking tool. If you decide to treat it careless and accept requests for people you don't know, expect its usefulness to dramatically decline. Use it what it's for... socialising with friends and perhaps you'll find you don't hate it so much.

As someone who has moved around a lot, I find facebook absolutely invaluable to keep in contact with old friends. I'm considerably closer to my old friends because of facebook, whereas usually I would have spoke to them a few times but eventually faded in contact with them.
Yes. At the moment they offer several options to verify your identity besides the face recognition thing (I can't recall them precisely, but I'm assuming a standard Captcha and SMS-based verification).
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I was kinda expecting to get hit by a paywall in order to see that post.
Is that a comment on Hudson/Jenkins plugins? (Puzzled look)
Whilst I agree with my sibling that a button (beyond the generic 'report' link) for this would be good; most cases of hacking are either PEBKAC or a user being very careless with individual password security rather than a fundamental issue with Facebook itself.
> Actually I learned this myself just this week. Don't fear the binaries in Erlang.

I don't understand why you would though: Erlang's binaries are one of the sexiest, simplest, most readable and most fluent ways to work with raw binary data.

Sure they're reference-counted on a shared binary heap instead of the pre-process one and you have to be careful about sharing sections of binaries and hanging onto them, but apart from that it's utterly fantastic.
Use a mediator. Your company attorney is a great start. As others have pointed out the 50/50 split can paralyze decision making. Getting your concerns (and your partners) in the open and accountable to a third party will start the ball rolling--and your mediator will help validate or deny your internal narrator's assertions.

As an aside--you'd find "Managing Corporate Lifecycles" by Dr. Ichak Adizes a fascinating and relevant read. It talks through many of the concerns you express and offers solutions I've seen work wonders in practice. For instance, you express things like--"sales are down slightly" and "collegue waste[s] countless hours." I gather that you and your partner haven't delegated responsibility and authority in the area of sales. That is, who is _responsible_ for your sales? You? Your partner? And then, that person must get the authority to make decisions affecting sales.

In practice, you would both make weekly/monthly/quarterly updates for the areas you are responsible (given the responsibility and authority over). If Jan 1 you agreed to give your partner authority for sales, they would give you a measurable commitment say 5% month over month increase this quarter. You would track progress in the W/M/Q meetings, but would get no direct authority over their technique (if wasting time works for them...).

This doesn't mean you'd get no _say_ in things regarding sales. It means you'd only be an influencer, but have no decision-making authority.

Maybe you find after a quarter that you the numbers aren't getting met by your partner. Then you discuss remedies--which might include hiring a salesperson or you taking on the role.

Anyway--all of this is great if you are hitting organizational issues in your growth, but have a strong backbone of a relationship that first brought you together so strongly and has helped you build a successful business. If there are other systemic issues you'll have to address them too.

Congratulations on growing your business to this stage. These are some of the better problems you can have!
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The true total market value of a company is certainly a proper metric for comparing size.
I'm not sure MS are that dumb §. They know apps are moving to the web, and they want to be sure that Google and Apple don't control that experience.

They know IE9 is a bit crap, and they'll release an IE10 with proper history API, gradients, transforms and the rest when they can. They'll have a working web office someday too.

In the meantime they'll pimp IE9, the Office 'web apps' and other substandard ones to their customers until their kickass version 3 products come out.

§ Withstanding there are probably a few people in MS who really still love fat client.
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Watson also generates confidence estimates and minimum confidence bars for questions. It may sometimes have batty "answers" but usually it knows they are batty. The rate of incorrect answers that Watson has a high confidence in is fairly low.

What's remarkable and important to not take lightly is the result that it's possible to generate answers to often vague and indirect clues without understanding. That likely means that it will be possible to build useful systems for automating research and the synthesis of large amounts of data without needing to build artificial human-level intelligence.
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"It seems that others share this view. The discussion on YCombinator starts with this comment" - from the article.
Dan has all the qualities of a Microsoft employee - staff photo on blog (check), stripey shirt (check), called Dan (check), enterprisey design (check), wall of text (check).
This was as overdramatic as I have learned to expect ever since the whole fork thing started.

Hudson cannot "lose" its plugins right now because there are no signifiant API/ABI changes between the two forks.

Also, I wonder how much these plugins are actually used? I've only installed mercurial on my servers and I'm pretty sure that will continue to be supported on any fork. As for the rest, as long as they are open-source they can always be forked too.

It's getting a bit tiresome to watch this unfold -- can't the new Jenkins community just go on with their life and make their fork as good as they can? They got what they wanted -- why the constant need to somehow prove something to Oracle?

Having such a big face-less enemy is the best thing that happened to this community as it gaves them something to bond against. I'm curios what will happen when the rush is gone.
> the day web applications become the norm,

That will never happen. Web apps have critical issues that can't be solved even by HTML8.
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Exactly. Just compare the map of the Middle Earth to Europe and you will see how well it fits in WWI setup.
Good Little Hobbits (Britain), some humans (France, Italy), a dwarf (maybe a Scandinavian?), some Elves (Russians?) form the Good Alliance (of Christianity?) and fight against the Evil (muslim?) Empire of Mordor (Ottoman Empire) and its allies (Germany and Austria = Saruman's army?) who are traitors.

And also, the good Elves of Eastern Europe migrate to America after the war, because "the world has changed".
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I believe IPv6 provides a start for what is necessary to solve Step 2.

IPSec is part of the protocol so these connections can be trusted. Also no NAT issues so connecting directly between trusted 'plugs' may be simpler than with IPv4. May need to start with a mesh network over a mix of paths that you own and paths that you may not.

I have no real world experience implementing IPv6, just been looking into it lately.
The question is not if the Tolkien estate makes less money.

The question is if the Tolkien estate has the freedom to decide what derived works they want to allow.

Copyright is not about 'if it makes money for the rights holder, it should be allowed'. It's about the freedom of the holder to decide what they think is the 'best', be it in monetary form, or artistic integrity, or whatever.

Let's say I'm an author and I feel that my work is best served with no derivatives like fan fiction or translations. That I feel that my novel is a work of art that only be appreciated in its original language. Should I have the right to prohibit translations? I think so. It's about the freedom and the rights of the author (or creator of other sorts), not about the supposed entitlements of others.
There are people who specialize on drawing things, and there are people who specialize on API-level programming. However, I'm a firm believer that a developer who creates programs to be used by humans has to have designer mentality as well. Trivial example: if your web app doesn't allow bookmarking and breaks browser history, that's a usability issue. But you can't fix it at the end of development process, it's something you have to be conscious about from the start.
As a FF user, I wish they would adopt the same security improvements that IE has, instead of writing lame posts about canvases and shadows. i.e: automatically running under a restricted account and tab-as-process.
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i think the original plan for Dune was that it would encompass the events of the first three novels, but there was some scope creep that prevented this. Therefore, the long-term impression/memory of Paul is probably a lot different than it would have been if the original Dune had contained all these events. It's a 'rise and fall' kind of thing and Herbert himself was mostly interested in the 'fall' part, philosophically.
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Pardon my ignorance. But isn't your site slow if you develop it wrong, not because you use the "wrong" language?

I thought there where good developers in all programming languages and really bad ones too?

For how many people is overnight success really the case? Most companies grow slowly over the years making scaling issues much less volatile.
This post is incredibly vague, and it is missing the point. First of all, it doesn't explain the huge lack of standards in IE9 that Paul Roget mentions. And second, it forgets that IE has a really awful record on making browsers (IE has been the biggest drag on the web being more usable and modern for the last 10 years).

At least Paul's post gives a tangible and definition of what 'modern' means in form of checklist points that are easy to prove true or false just by looking at the browser implementation. How do you measure 'modern', Microsoft? You will have to do better than saying it is 'faster' and that provides 'rich, immersive experiences'.

Mozilla hasn't stopped pushing the web to its boundaries and making a big effort to put standards first during all these years. And there is no doubt that the new Firefox will be a much better browser than the new IE (check out the beta).

Also, where is the strict mode in IE9?