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The comparison is actually more valid than it sounds.

Like the movie industry, it's becoming easier and cheaper than ever to make professional-looking films, but making "A-grade" blockbusters is becoming more and more expensive.

This sort of transition inevitably hurts the biggest-budget producers, as they're forced to spend more and more money to compete. Similarly, it helps the lowest-budget producers, as they can make millions of dollars off what would have been 10 years ago been considered a hobby project.

People tend to look at the most absurdly successful indie games like Braid, Touhou, or Minecraft and dismiss them as one-hit wonders or exceptions to the rule. But how many exceptions to the rule it takes before the rule becomes invalid -- especially as games begin to compete more and more on features besides graphics?

Many of these features are cheaper to develop and benefit from the agility and risk-taking abilities of a smaller development team as opposed to the designed-by-seventeen-committees-in-separate-cupboards approach of the big game studios.
Seems like watermarks that can be removed by turning off javascript in your browser wouldn't be too useful. (Unless you ran it on the server side? node.js/jsdom DOES run jQuery)

Whats the use case for this if not to prevent users from getting at the original un-watermarked image?

EDIT: I just saw the QR-Code example. Overlaying images on other images might be pretty useful, I was just focusing on the 'watermark' aspect.
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This is a weekend project from a few weeks ago. I 'm getting bored of playing alone with it, so i thought i 'd post it here. Comments are very welcome:

http://pubcentral.net/

Thank you for your time :)
I'm having a hard time not calling this project stupid, because it is one the most moot things I've ever seen. Are you seriously generating watermarks on the client? What's the purpose of the watermark, then?

Open Firebug (or, ostensibly, disable javascript) and bam, all your images are ripe to steal, watermark-free.

This took me all of two seconds:

http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/watermarkjs/jq/img/test1.j...
Looks like he's a new user that got mostly downvotes on his early comments.

In isolation, I can't entirely disagree the downvotes, but it seems to me that the system ought to be more tolerant of people that screw up their first couple posts as long as they were honest contributions (as opposed to spam).

Perhaps the ban should be triggered a lot more heavily on flags than downvotes up to a certain number of posts.

A karma based ban that makes some sense for people that are consistently bad. But it seems to me that the current ban code doesn't give newcomers enough chance to change based on the feedback they've been given. New users don't have a buffer to fall back on if they make one or two bad posts, and ought to be given more leeway. As long as people are flagging correctly, that should take care of obvious trolls or spam.
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This is fantastic, thank you so much for posting this. I felt like pointing out another headless Webkit project, PhantomJS (http://www.phantomjs.org/), which can also perform HTML to PDF conversion.

edit: I've just run a comparison between wkhtmltopdf and PhantomJS and wkhtmltopdf is far superior. wkhtmltopdf produces correct output and bookmarks but has a slightly lower quality, where PhantomJS's output was not correct and without bookmarks but at a slightly higher quality. From my perspective correctness beats quality.
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Switched from iPhone 3G to a ZTE Blade and am generally enthusiastic about the weird and wonderful elements of the Android world. I prefer to see the sausage being made than play along with Apple's sprezzatura.

I also don't think the price difference (which allegedly doesn't exist in the U.S.) can be justified for any purpose other than as a public display of wealth/status.

I feel similarly about most car purchases, clothes with visible branding etc. so it's not just an Apple thing. And while I can appreciate nice car designs, and certain fashion items as much as I can appreciate the iPhone, I can't bring myself to pay a large premium, just so that it's obvious to others that I paid a large premium. I would go so far as to pay more for (or put more effort into getting) something less blatantly materialistic in a weird reverse-snobbery kind of way.

Oh, and like Mozilla Firefox vs Google Chrome, I'm glad to see the competition and happy that Microsoft isn't in the running as it's not in their business interests to make good browsers, good phones or good tablets and any control they had would simply be used to stunt the market.
When we have smartphones with ~30fps full colour e-ink screens then we can officially forget our anxiety over the lack of flying cars.
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The biggest problem that comes in the way is the condescending attitude of the "grown ups". It is very important for the "management" to realize that they are actually only facilitating what is "happening" and they should let the system handle itself and get out of the way than get into and disturb the existing norm.
I guess in their instance the lifetime of the server was never likely to be eclipsed by that of the battery. In telco, 15-20yrs of operation is not uncommon, so a single set of replaceable/easily service batteries is important.
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As Microsoft was the IBM of it's day (which is certainly in it's evening, if not quite over).

Here is an good book on the trouble IBM was in before it re-invented itself as a professional services company:

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Blues-Unmaking-Paul-Carroll/dp/051...

A lot of the themes that seem to apply to Microsoft now applied to IBM back in the 80's and will no doubt apply to Google ten years from now.
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It's interesting for me to watch the downvotes, but I'm not really concerned about it. I won't delete these comments as I stand by them, all this upvote/downvote business to me looks like yet another MMORPG I have no interest in.
I don't see the connection between your first sentence and your second.

I don't believe reality television adds anything of value to the world, but that doesn't mean I think it should be 'stopped' (and what does that even mean?). Can you explain?
Prezi is certainly a cool innovation in presentation style, but you have to be even more careful than you do with Powerpoint that you don't let your presentation be dominated by the tool over the content.

I've seen Prezi used subtly to great effect, but I've also seen it abused where complex transformations are used for what really should have just been plain text.

Where it works is where you have a true overall structure (such as a map or blueprint or the object you are talking about) that actually represents your presentation, and isn't just some abstract pattern you've decided to shape your text around. For example a presentation on a new model of car where the overall structure is the drawing of the car and the Prezi moves around and zooms in as you discuss individual parts.
Perhaps a bit OT, but... The post seemed to be riddled with formatting and grammar errors. This rubbed my old-school English sensibilities at first, but then I began to enjoy its rough feel.

After all, it's a post about how people who worked tirelessly to bring a product to market were shipping things while the rest of Microsoft slept. The story very clearly describes a dichotomy in Microsoft's culture between process/rules/superficial quality on the one hand and relentlessly shortening the ship/fix cycle on the other.

This post is not just about shortened ship/fix cycles, it is itself an example of a shortened write/fix cycle.

When that struck me, the style of post suddenly "clicked:" It was as if I was reading an email that was furiously blasted out to Posterous while the author's compiler worked, and thereafter there was no time for extensive editing and proofing by a circle of reviewers. What mattered was to get the idea out and to start the conversation, editing and polish would follow later.

Great stuff!
Japanese people don't want to make mistake in front of people. That's why we are not good at English.
Just adding to the list that Erlang has optional type specifications, used only for analysis. http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/typespec.html
A counterexample is Wunderlist, which is built with Titanium Appcelerator, and looks and works really well on both platforms. It is also identical where it should but not where it mustn't: it follows the conventions of each platform in details such as where to put tabs, how to access the settings, etcetera.

* For Android - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wunderkinder.wunde...

* For iOS - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wunderlist-task-manager/id406...

Btw, I am interested if you know of other good multiplatform apps (not games) built using third-party middleware.
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Being an English speaker who has moved to Sweden and has completed the SFI course -- Swedish For Immigrants -- I can tell you it was a lot easier for the English, French, German, etc, speakers to learn Swedish than it was for the Arabic, Chinese, etc, speakers. It is a bit of a no-brainer I guess.

The best thing about the Scandinavians is that they not only speak fantastic English, but they also adopt the accent of the English speaking country that they've spent the most time in or watched the most TV from.

Compare that to the French, Italian, etc, who can learn English very well but who never seem able (or willing) to shake the accent.
Strictly speaking, in terms of grammar, Finnish is an Altaic language, like Korean and Japanese. However, in terms of vocabulary, culture and just about everything else, Finnish is closer to English. It has not just a great number of loan words (as Japanese does), but also cognates.

Possibly more importantly, Finland shares a common history and religious background with Europe. There are many, many idioms and ways of looking at things that stem from historical and religious influences. Grimm's fairy tales, for example, spread through Europe widely, but not through Asia or the middle East. On result is that while Chinese often has sayings with a similar meaning as English ones, their literal meanings are very different. In European languages, on the other hand, the sayings are often literal translations.
Ay, me... so little confidence in reincarnation within HN ;)

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Will someone please explain why this has been voted down so far. I could understand a 0 or -1, but in this case, I don't understand what warrants another downvote when it is already at -4.
Right, the system is far too trigger happy. Instead of showing a newcomer what kind of comments are valued here and possibly gaining a valuable new contributor, the system severely punishes beginner mistakes. We can't reasonably expect that a new user knows what kind of comments are valued because on the rest of the internet such comments are perfectly acceptable. Perhaps something like Quora does would help: before you can use the site you have to do a quiz on what kind of comments are good comments.
It does, in that you can send any information you want from one app to another.

But there are two reasons it doesn't make sense to me:

1) This is a huge violation of trust - Google specifically says that you shouldn't collect information just to add it to the ad request.

2) It is not enough that the app where the information comes from also uses adMob, it has to be signed by the same key as the app that is reading the information. That is only possible if both apps where developed by the same developer.
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So, if my password is compromised (or I just routinely change it after some self-defined "expiry date"), I have to visit all my devices and reauthenticate them?

I believe this is counter-intuitive and inconvenient. If some of my devices (tokens) are compromised, I'd just go to Dropbox web interface and revoke their tokens.
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Just curious, did you do a cost analysis with Amazon S3, i'm guessing that amount of media might cost a lot. I haven't run the numbers myself.

EDIT:
At $0.095/GB, it would cost you over $48K per month!! I guess i didn't internalize how expensive S3 was.
Is this the most pointless jquery plugin ever created?
Have you looked into tape libraries i.e. The HP StorageWorks MSL4048. Obviously you would be looking at the uncompressed figure (144TB per unit)assuming your pictures are already compressed.
I think I prefer the 502 to real-time HN. I am already 3x more productive than usual. Congratulations.
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AFAIK, currently, hard drives are by far the cheapest solution per GB.

Does it need to be online at all times? If not, why not use offline drives and store them somewhere?
Apple already made the first step by releasing an OS that is geared around the idea of cloud-based computing (Lion). It's just a matter of time before this happens, and when it does; Dropbox might have a hard(er) time competing.

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/02/apple-in...
Have you tried http://www.backblaze.com/ ?
Are you using Webmaster Tools it might give you a better insight into what went wrong?
Also, hard drives are cheap, but you would need servers to manage around 200 of them and that will cost a lot to run, not to mention maintain. Tape, in my eyes, is still the best way to archive data.
I'm not trolling - but this is hardly a 'weird idea' as the article states ... I thought of this and did it last weekend :)

My flatmates harddisk broke down the other day in his laptop, so I put Ubuntu live CD in, a USB stick and hooked up dropbox. A script later, and he's using dropbox for permanent storage online, and considering not buying another hard disk.

Of course he will :P .. but my point is that this seems a pretty obvious progression :)
Incredible. Who could have anticipated this small game would make tens of millions of dollars (more than any single app in the iOS app store)?
It's one of those very, very scarce texts where mild swearing adds something. 99 out of 100 times, it's just deteriorating the post quality and signs of bad writership.
You can now add Tiny Wings (an iPhone game) to that list. The 'exceptions' keep piling and piling. It's really quite astonishing how succesful so many indie games have become.
It's different in that I don't have any of my passwords or private keys sitting on disk unencrypted.
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I'm stealth-blacklisted. I hate it. I don't understand the value of it being permanent, either.
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Doesn't seem wise to entirely trust your data to a single entity. Can we be sure dropbox will still exist in 5, 10 years time?

What happens when your net connection fails?

Local storage will forever be around, in some form.
Watermarking is not only about image protection. You could also place website identifiers in the images. If you need a strong image protection library where you can be sure that noone is able to "steal" the original images, then I wouldn't recommend the plugin ;)
I thought that ease of distribution through things like Steam and the App Store would be the big changer for indie games. I know I wouldn't have bought Peggle and many other indie games if it weren't for Steam.

It doesn't help the big players that a lot of the big games are franchises (what's the difference between Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops?) that are nickle-and-diming players through Xbox Live and PSN. It costs more to buy a few hours of new content in Fallout: New Vegas than it would to buy many indie games.
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This article is very interesting. The iTunes example in particular shows that these measures have to be transparent or they won't work very well.

I think this was very much Microsoft's vision for Livemesh; they were thinking about desktop apps running data across the cloud.

There's a real potential for dropbox if they could somehow hook into a variety of web apps and provide a common back end.

The problem at the moment is that if you assume much of the app work people do will move into the browser, you're losing the common file base. You have several app-specific silos across the web.
Reminds me of a section in The Blind Watchmaker on cicadas and convergence in evolution - http://books.google.com/books?id=sPpaZnZMDG0C&pg=PA100&#...
One of the most serious problems with modern "management" is that the incentives are all wrong. Imagine that I hire a programmer and pay him by the line of code. This idea has been so thoroughly debunked that it is nearly impossible to write out the consequences without sounding cliché. Yet it happens all the time: Companies promote "Architects" who are evaluated by the weight of their "architecture." The result is stultifying and demoralizing. The architect does not work to facilitate the programmer's work, he works to produce evidence of his contribution in the form of frameworks, standards, and software process.

So, how are most managers evaluated? By the amount of "managing" they do, as measured by the amount of process they impose on their team. Evaluating a manager by the amount of managing they do is exactly the same thing as evaluating a programmer by the amount of code they write. And it produces results like you describe, where the manager works to produce evidence of their management in the form of processes and decisions from the top down, rather than facilitating the work actually being done.

In a simplistic world, the answer would be to change the incentives and the behaviour would change itself. But as they say, "correlation does not equal causation." The incentives have to change, but so do the people. Results-oriented managers don't work in those kind of environments to begin with, and after a year or two in such a place they will already have left. You need to change the incentives and the culture and the people all together.
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I'm guessing they would change their terms :-)
I just calculated(above), that it costs a small fortune to store that amount of data on S3.
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I find that "80% of Australians support the Govt. proposed clean feed internet filter" to be disturbing. The survey has to be wrong and/or I don't quite know what a "clean feed internet filter" is.

I had a professor in college who once said "What is source code? Well it is kinda like Porn. You know what it is when you see it but you can't quite describe it." Maybe the "clean feed internet filter" is something like that?
I've dealt with hundreds of hard drives over the years. Using them as offline storage is very risky as they do and will fail to spin up after being sat for long periods of time.
The print media company I used to work for, which had an almost bottomless collection of massive image files, used a large tape robot and had its office across the street from an Iron Mountain storage depot.
The Mac guys would work with small images then the workflow tools (TWIST afair) would issue requests for the huge versions, which would produce a daily request to Iron Mountain to bring us the right tapes. The next day we'd feed those tapes into the robot and the full resolution jobs would be completed, rendered, uploaded to appropriate FTP servers and the tapes would be returned to storage in the next daily Iron Mountain pickup.

Poor latency, but massive throughput and storage :)
This is how I use Google. My docs, calendar, and email are everywhere at once - no syncing necessary.
I'm not seeing where it copies the file TO, but assuming you have a dump directory /dump, is that the same, more or less, as:

zsh -c 'cp $HOMEDRIVE/**/*.{txt,{doc,xls,ppt}{,x}} /dump'

?
I'm not sure I agree at all with Jacques maths, the cost of local storage is tiny compared to the cost of Dropbox itself, and that's unlikely to ever change

A hard drive costs maybe $30 for 100GB, higher capacities have much better GB/$ ratios. Dropbox costs $240 per year for 100GB, which has to cover both the storage and bandwidth costs.

At the moment, the growth in data stored is increasing at much higher rate than the rate at which the cost of storage and bandwidth is decreasing.

Sure Dropbox is great and a local/remote sync process is likely to become normal over time, but it won't be for cost saving reasons.
Millions of people don't appear to share your concern when it comes to their personal email accounts, which are arguably more valuable than a few documents...

Actually the majority of computer users have no form of backup, despite how easy it should be. Lose your laptop/iPhone/hdd crash, and many people find themselves lost with no backup.

Of course local storage will be around, in some form. But my guess is that that form will just be a cache, and for some people, a mirror of everything on a small box (NAS/plugpc type device) at home, which they can take everywhere for convenience.