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It would be good to know if Play+Scala will have feature parity with Play+Java in the future, or if it's always going to be playing catch up. I'm considering Play for a new project and would prefer to use Scala, but the impression I get is that the Java version is the primary focus.
If your in-house people screw it up then it means you don't value the data very much. If you say you value the data but don't act like it, it means you don't value the data.

If you really, actually do value the data, then the best way to assure its safety is to take control of it. One company I worked had a practice of taking a set of offsite backups to an emergency facility, restoring the data and doing some sample processing. Every month they did this, without fail. That's caring about your data.
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No docblocks. No readme. No tests. No separation of concerns (everything I saw was in a single Paraglide class). Personally, not something I'd like to give to a developer to work with. Might seem harsh, but I'm very opinionated.

I look forward to the developer documenting the project itself. It's not necessarily bad PHP - no terrible practices other than putting everything under the sun in a single class - but to say its a great framework with all of these glaring faults is a little much.
> P7 and P11 thought that "LibreOffice Calc" was a calculator

"Calc" is just not a smart name for a spreadsheet application.

> and P7 and P9 thought Ubuntu Software Center was the Recycle Bin.

I understand that, because that is what the icon looks like.
Why would one use a language where the best you can say is "it gets the job done". There are so many better options in absolutely every single way that the only reason I can fathom for one to start something new using it out of choice is laziness to learn something better.
That's good to know (you can manage currently by changing where one version stores its data - I run stable, beta, and dev simultaneously this way). But it looks like that's not per-window / per-tab, but instead an application-wide setting. Or, the screenshots imply that to me (OSX especially). And multiple profiles, even at the same time, isn't the same as multiple sessions.
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> what difference does it make which investment bankster does it?

To the Wall Street Journal, which Wall street firm gets the business might appear to be newsworthy.
They're removing PHP4 compatibility in 2.0, which is being more than actively developed. And it at least gets as much traffic as Symfony does: http://www.google.com/trends?q=symfony%2Ccakephp

As far as not using Symfony 2, I wouldn't use anything not marked as stable in production. That goes for CakePHP as well.
Needs more participants who aren't students or teachers heh. Interesting results though.
One fairly significant problem I see with an EHR running in iOS is that, unless I'm mistaken, the sandboxing effectively makes it impossible for 3rd party developers to extract patient data from the EHR. This limits the potential for additional services like realtime clinical decision support.
I hate to post what is nearly a "me too", but I'd also like to ask that question, with the clarification that I do not mean it as a rhetorical equivalent of "No, of course it's not instantaneous, duh", I am genuinely curious where the sheer confidence of the definition of "teleportation" as "instantaneous in violation of relativity" suddenly came from. Is there some scifi show on TV that I'm not watching that is promulgating this interpretation or something? I've seen the belief that entanglement can be used for FTL communication going back unto yea the very beginnings of the internet but this solid and shared definition of instantaneous is new to me vs. even the iteration of this whole argument I saw a few months ago. (Fringe maybe? Haven't started that yet.)
I can't thank you enough for pointing out Super+W.
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Here's a guide to using Google Apps or any other outsourced email provider successfully:

1. Use a resilient external DNS system
2. Configure local mail clients to save messages for "offline browsing" or equivalent.
3. Use local mail client to check mail at least once a day

When email goes down, point the DNS to a pre-configured mail server. You have all your archives and shouldn't be missing any mail since delivery failures will try again not too much later.

As for the Google Docs issue, ensure that users are exporting vital docs frequently, preferably when they're done making a change. You should actually edit locally and use git. You can set it up to automatically upload changes to gdocs on push.
What language or VM wouldn't this architecture be a problem in?
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Easy solution: He should just run a static analyzer on the code first to see if it will terminate before he executes it.
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Is there a good name for a spreadsheet application besides "Spreadsheet?"

"VisiCalc" was the first one on a PC, "Lotus 1-2-3" became popular later, "Excel" is now the dominant one...
3D printing continuing steady progress.
http://www.makepartsfast.com/2011/04/1757/objet-introduces-advanced-materials-for-3d-printing/

Objet has just released 3 new materials to their lineup making it a total of 65. What is most exciting is the addition of their ABS-like material and clear material.

This is why we are so excited with what we are building at Fieldplay (disclaimer: plug). So many technologies are enabling a new wave of commercial product design, it's just a matter of years before we hit the tipping point. I can't wait for the day that products are made by individuals and teams thereof--not by just corporations--who's solutions are most often business decisions, not design, user and passion-driven decisions.

Imagine walking into a store and seeing a shelf of market-challenging, carefully produced products, and instead of seeing brands, you see the names of the team of 2 or 3 designers and engineers that produced that product. And there are only 1000 of these items produced. When they are sold out, a revised product is brought to market by the same team or someone else. Quicker evolution and innovation.

It's what web has enabled for years now, but the world of tangible products has yet to enter this phase, given the expense of manufacturing and the conundrum 'quantity monopolies'.

I could go on and on...

--

What are your thoughts? Do you know much about rapid prototyping technologies? Would you like to know more? Would you want a world where products are made by individuals, not just corporations. There are pros and cons to each side.

Comment away.
> Sure Harvard may employ people who are titans in their field, Nobel Prize winners and the like, but unless you are going to Grad school there it won’t affect you any. They won’t be teaching you, TAs will.

Is this actually true? I don't attend Harvard, but I do attend a private university in the top 10 of the US News and World Reports rankings, and I don't believe there is a single CS course taught by a grad student (although some are taught by "lecturers". Some of the classes from the core curriculum are taught by grad students, but that's not actually necessarily a bad thing. Both of the grad students who have taught courses I've taken have been excellent teachers, which can be much more important for a teacher of introductory calculus or such.
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Screncast is also available:
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I'm also a startup in LA, and would just like to connect as I like to reach out with others in the area.
"Gnumeric" at least has something to do with the task, and "KSpread" is basically "spreadsheet"
I run with a laptop (display on, but rarely used) connected to an external monitor. Linux assumes the laptop is the default, and changing the external to primary is next to impossible.

Unity puts everything important on the laptop display in this configuration. That alone is a deal breaker for me.

Note that Ubuntu Classic works perfectly in this setup. My panels go to the external monitor when it's plugged in, and move back to the laptop immediately when it's unplugged.

Unity (as it's currently designed) would pose some serious issues in a dual-display setup even if I could move it to the external monitor. As the launcher is stuck on the left, I'd be constantly overshooting it (laptop display is to the left).
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This sounds like a bad idea, but it's actually very reasonable. Students, especially in early courses, are generally taught a subset of the language that wouldn't be that difficult to check for halting. As a bonus, you could also have that program analyze asymptotic bounds to help with grading.

Still, this isn't the easy solution. The easy solution is to use a process and terminate it if it takes too long. Threads can't be reliably terminated, and especially not without accidentally ruining internal state. (what happens with locks? etc.)
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Who says "Yep, its ready. Lets ship it" to something like this?
For windows users in particular, the bundled calculator is called calc.exe. That alone might create confusion. Besides, "Calc" does have a "Calculator" feel when you read it. A comparable thing would be to have a text editor named "Term", or "Conso". Any unix user might expect those to fire of a CLI, not an editor. This is comparable, IMO.
If we could actually break causality, playing games would be the last thing on our minds.
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The only Windows Phone feature that really matters: All Nokia phones will ships with WP7 on them starting in the fall.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/11/open-letter-from-c...

Seriously, though, it's pretty exciting.
They should make a special button for that on the launcher. It'd be much better than the workspaces button.
"After you know some history, you can tell because biases causes their owners to make mistakes."

The catch--

"History is a set of lies agreed upon" - Napoleon Bonaparte

The whole "after you know some history" demands a framework of a macrocosm to which one must depend entirely upon second-hand, at best, accounts. The glue that holds it all together is so tied to so many handles for bias both at the hands of the proxy observers as well as within the very bonding agents in the mind of the aggregator that the whole enterprise is rife with corruptive feedback potential that the anomalies that can be conclusively nailed as bona fide mistakes tend to be, for the most part, minimally useful for bias detection that tells you something you didn't already have a rather high certainty of.
Funding is going crazy....it was Color last time, now it is Flipboard...just for APPs. Sounds like another Bubble.
Some of these are humbling. They reinforce how disconnected I-- a programmer-- am from the average person.

> P1 recovered amazingly well after trying to save "Letter to Mr Smith 08/04/11", and getting the vile response "Error stating file '/home/ubuntu/Documents/Letter to Mr Smith 08/04': No such file or directory"

That's something I'd never consider, what with various directory separators baked into my subconscious.
And what in the world are they going to spend $50 million on?
I appreciated the 'vile' comment very much -- this tester cares!!
He's selling experience or byproducts of his work.

With early signup this week at $7k (cheapest) and for 200 pax, a 40% signup this week will give him 560k for a weekend of delivery of several years of experience and byproducts.

It's interesting. How many of us have byproducts or experience we can sell at a premium in single session events like this? Why aren't we doing more of this? Anyone have experience doing it?

Also another tidbit, he had an advance of <$100k for his first book, and $2+M for his second.
This ^

I've been running Unity for 24 hours now, and I can honestly say it's been the best desktop experience I've had in all my years. Notice I said best "desktop experience", and not "best Linux desktop experience". I have been running Windows since 3.1, Linux since Red Hat 5.2, and OS X since, well, Leopard. Unity is by far the best and most cohesive experience I've had so far. It tops OS X by a wide margin...it has many of the same sort of niceties with window management that actually makes sense (yes, I think OS X window management is horrid). Add to this the fact that it bakes some of my favorite compiz features (grid plugin anyone?) in and I couldn't be happier.

I know there will be some naysayers...many, in all likelihood, but in this daily Linux desktop user's eyes, Unity is a VERY big win for Ubuntu.
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I found it best described as such: you put a white marble and a black marble in separate paper bags. You send one to a friend. As soon as you open the bag, you instantaneously know what color the other marble is. That doesn't mean you can instantaneously communicate with your friend.
The framework is one thing, how you use it is more important and I believe once you know any framework ( and in any language) inside out, it's kinda pointless to compare. Anything will do, unless you are writing a new super duper cool Google, Twitter of Fb

Also strange, after reading 51 comments, i have not seen anyone mention Zend Framework. It's got a steep learning curve, but it's just awesome. I've been writing a social web app framework based on ZF, Redis, Gearman and lots of other stack and it's awesome.
This was my favorite -- DESIGNERS, THIS IS WHAT AD BLINDNESS LOOKS LIKE IN AN APP: Don't design stuff like this in, people don't notice it anymore.

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notification bubble appearing, (2) the Ubuntu button going blue,
(3) the messaging menu envelope going blue, and (4) an emblem
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This is provably impossible in the general case [1] and almost impossible in his specific case. It's extremely difficult to know if/when a program will terminate using just static analysis.

Edit: Why the down vote?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem
Oh yea, I always miss when someone mentions my name in xchat.
I have it running on dual displays with no problems whatsoever. That said, I have two 22-inch monitors and not a laptop screen. Unity is early days now...I'm sure your issue will be fixed soon enough.
I like it. The main tool has nice UI and looks clean, but the surroundings are a bit distracting. Get rid of the extra clutter, throw it up on a stand-alone domain with nicer chrome, and it'll be at top of HN in a few minutes :)
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Yes, that's true. It's 2011, not 2006 (Web 2.0 bubble) or 1999 (Dotcom bubble). Totally different.
It's explicitly clear in the article that this isn't "instantaneous" travel. As much as I hate the analogy, they basically were able to copy the box, the cat, the Geiger counter, and the radioactive trigger wholesale and transmit the copy somewhere else. Normally the process of copying would mean someone had to look in the box. This time they were able to copy the package without finding out if Heathcliff was alive or dead.
Here's what I think should happen before final release:

- Make the launcher always on by default

- Remove the recycle bin icon (I really don't get the point of it)

- Remove the applications icon (redundant with the Ubuntu button). Perhaps add a "System" lense view instead (system settings and all that).

- Add an "expose" icon (super-w). And perhaps hide the workspaces icon by default.
I've been using Unity for about a month (or more?) now. It is indeed an awesome experience. Definitely much better than Windows 7. I can't compare it to OS X because I haven't used it, but your testimony makes me really excited :D
After 15 years in the corporate world I've almost forgotten those exciting early days of programming. This article brought back the joy I felt when I figured out how to make the bad guy "home in" on the good guy - that was a turning point for me!

I need to do some true recreational programming again - just for the pure joy of it.
Yes. Whenever I want to concentrate, I choose something to work on, set a 50-minute timer, pop in some gum, and turn on the rain noises and ambient music. Then I focus like hell for 50 minutes until the timer rings, take a 10-minute-break where I walk to another room and daydream, and repeat.

The idea here is to leverage classical conditioning. Just like Pavlov conditioned his dogs to drool on the bell, you want to condition yourself to focus when you're chewing original-flavor Trident gum and listening to rain noises and ambient music. This means that if at any time during the 50 minutes you feel your concentration starting to slip significantly, take out the gum and turn off the sounds. This is so you can avoid ruining your trigger. You want the association between gum + rain + ambient music and Getting Stuff Done to be as strong as possible.

I didn't choose these triggers at random, by the way. See the following links:

For chewing gum: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/redefining-stress/200902...

For ambient music: http://www.reddit.com/comments/6l9t9/best_background_music_f...

For rainymood.com: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/805cp/need_some...

But you can certainly choose your own set of triggers if you like. Just one might be enough.
Also, if you do have the resources to do, say, 100 user tests, you actually actively don't want to do them all at the same time or it will be a waste because they will all say the same thing.

If anything, this was overtested. There's a lot of redundancy in those results, just as Nielsen would predict. This is not a scientific experiment to determine the effect of a drug, and you do not always need or even necessarily want a 95% confidence interval, as the costs would exceed the benefits here.
Unfortunately, PHP offers very little in terms of modern and agile MVC frameworks.
There are many good MVC frameworks for PHP. Look at Zend Framework (most popular in our region), Kohana, Yii.
The glue that holds it all together is so tied to so many handles for bias both at the hands of the proxy observers as well as within the very bonding agents in the mind of the aggregator that the whole enterprise is rife with corruptive feedback potential that the anomalies that can be conclusively nailed as bona fide mistakes tend to be, for the most part, minimally useful for bias detection that tells you something you didn't already have a rather high certainty of.

wat.

Seriously, it took me something like 4 minutes to understand what you wrote there. Maybe I'm just tired.
I had no issues with them for eight years, and now I'm in the midst of an utterly ridiculous support issue.
Here's a great interview with the founder of JackThreads - http://mixergy.com/jason-ross-jackthreads-interview/

He goes into sourcing product etc.
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I think we agree then. Dozens out of 36,000+ instances is a very low failure rate. I haven't had nearly that volume so I've only experienced 2 failures on EC2.
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Remember: It’s not innovation until it gets built.

- Garry Tan (@garrytan)

http://startupquote.com/post/4627167158
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I'll admit. The headline belies the actual content. Which wasn't so flippant or off-putting.
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Oh, and you can’t delete a GoDaddy account. (Really
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As much as it pains me as a person who values intellectual property, I have to admit that copying is a valid and important strategy. At least half (anyone know of a more educated number?) of the development in Asia since the Meji Restoration consists of pasting Western ideas.

I hope this means that all startups take the internationalization seriously from the beginning. Hopefully we can get some sort of solid services / startups / processes that can help internationalize companies much earlier on.

The current crop of localization services are frankly inadequate.
Unity environment in good shape, on track for Ubuntu 11.04
I love Terminal too. It's extremely fast at scrolling, and it is the only terminal emulator I know of that does the right thing when you resize the terminal (it reflows everything to the new width).

It's also knows if any programs are running inside the shell and changes the red "X" button in the top left corner accordingly. If the button is "X", you know you can close the terminal without losing any work. If a program is running (even suspended with CTRL-Z) Terminal changes the button to a circle to indicate that work would be lost if the window was closed.
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Apple has "Numbers", which seems as good a name for a spreadsheet program as any, to me.
I was never really a fan of iTerm, but I do really like using my mouse in terminal applications, so I wrote a SIMBL plugin for Terminal that implements support for mouse tracking: [link redacted]

Also, I think a recent update added support for horizontally splitting windows (with cmd+D).

I do agree though, I think Apple could do a much better job with Terminal.
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Many libertarians hope to convince the government to reduce regulation and protection of BigCos, instead of adding more regulation to make the market "fairer" for other players. But I got to agree that's not very realistic with all the lobbying going on.
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I'm not against stealing ideas and methods from other companies, internalising them then IMPROVE upon them. That's part of innovation.

But blatant copying?! Even the UI?! C'mon Kai-fu, I'm sure Innovation Work can do better than that. The whole purpose of Innovation Work (which is itself a copy of YC, for those of you who don't know) is to spur entrepreneurialism in the region, but all I see is setting up a very bad example. I can't imagine how the founders feel OWNERSHIP in their startups. It's more like a gold rush.