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>well, ISO + TIME + APERTURE are ingredients of EXPOSURE, and that should be all you need to know to start shooting. you know this and you can grab the newest high-end dslr or your grandpa's 35mm oldie and know what you're doing. the rest is just geekery.

Perhaps I misunderstood your point but that doesn't sound right. Iso does not control exposure: in case of film it is the sensitivity of a particular stock, and in case of sensors it's basically analog gain. Since to use a different ISO in a film camera you'd need to use a different roll or sheet of film, you can't vary ISO on a "grandpa's camera" very easily unlike with a digital camera.
>I'd say selectively presenting one side is dishonest.

do you vote with your dollars in this regard?

If there was a bigger PR penalty for not revealing unpleasant truths and maybe more support for a company that does reveal unpleasant truths about itself, more companies would be more open.
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So true. After a year, i started feeling isolated, so i started part time graduate school.

There seem to be common patterns here http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
>I suppose this guy compiles his code by hand too.

He's an expert in compiling Lisp. Probably the world expert on the subject.
Many people seem to be complaining about the shift from CPU-hour to instance-hour pricing. They don't seem to get that it's more or less the same thing: dynamic instances can handle "a small number" of concurrent requests.

So the GAE team has set the incentives correctly, to reward apps that work well with concurrency.

The current free quota is 6.5 CPU hours, and the upcoming free quota seems to be 24 instance hours. I know which I prefer.
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... :-)

What's scary is, I fully expect those to actually be in the list given the group doing the work on this...
I got my last job at a startup by emailing the startup's info@ email address the following (searched my email for the exact copy):

Are you guys hiring devs for threadbox? I'm a web dev/software engineer in Palo Alto - couldn't find a jobs section on your site, but I have done some interesting work in the email space and I think there are a lot of opportunities there - let me know if we can get together.

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I think reaching out personally can work very well for small companies. I had sent this email the day after I had read on TechCrunch that they had raised funding.
Yeah good question.

As I don't have an answer here, let me just present an argument here for the sake of discussion: It's given that governments are fallible just as anything else on this planet, and can become corrupt to a point where internal correction becomes increasingly improbable. (I would say looking back to any stage in history proves the truth of this.) And so, as citizens (of a country, world) we all have a responsibility to keep government(s) in check, just as they have responsibilities towards the citizens.

Obviously Assange (et al.) didn't ask anyone if they could leak sensitive data -- and perhaps they should have (but how exactly would that have gone do you expect?) -- but I believe Assange is acting on this above principle. So does this responsibility exist outside of certain laws and expectations? Should it? Is it necessary that it does for it to be effective?
Because it's not the service controlling this, it's the copyright holders. Any service (netflix, hulu, et. al.) that wants to play nice with those in the copyright business have to limit their distribution per whatever licensing agreement they have.
Assume 20% just to be safe.
Yes to statics and dynamics.
Are you nitpicking? You can point to aperture stop theory and the history of the f-numbers etc. indefinitely, but ƒ is and will remain synonymous with light transmission (or "T" as you keenly insist; thank you, I am familiar with it) in every single practical situation of photography, no matter how much you try to balance the needle on its tip.
> oh boy. that's actually the mode that keep novices clueless about what's going on with the settings.

That's hardly the fault of the mode itself — it's just a large number of SLR-buying consumers probably didn't need the complexity (or heft) of an SLR, but have the misconception that an SLR will outperform a compact or bridge camera 100% of the time. And so they buy one.

The issue there is that a lot of these people are coming from mid-range compacts a couple of years old, and see the SLR as the next logical step. A high-end compact (S95, LX5, XZ-1) or a good bridge/micro four-thirds camera (GF1/2, E-PL2, GH2) would be a far more practical solution, and nigh-indistiguishable until ISO1600 anyway.

As a side-note, I went from shooting portraits w/ a 5D2 + primes to a GF1 + 20mm f1.7, since I no longer had the time to keep the portrait gig up as a consultant. My GF1 is no full-frame SLR, but it's very close to the entry-level SLR's and in a much smaller package (with better glass to boot).
That's kind of patronizing, of course I know that Facebook has all that information. (And though I'm annoyed at the moment, thanks for engaging me, this is an interesting discussion)

You're still missing the point: when information is put into Facebook by me or others, the intent is to share it with others. Facebook is not a vehicle to do things in private, the entire purpose of it is to share with others, whether that be your list of connections, your photos, how much time you waste on Farmville, or how frequently you communicate with Aunt Tilly.

Facebook is the anti-privacy, it's a public space, a place to get things out in the open. There's nothing private at all about Facebook, and that's the entire point of it. It's what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned the web to be, and what it would have been had he been able to put useable authoring tools into the hands of the masses, instead of HTML being limited to the benighted few that can afford the time investment to learning it and working with a web server.

Google, on the other hand, pretends to be an ISP with implicit promise of privacy, but will exploit the fuck out of your private email recipient list just to try to do what Facebook is doing. Google's core business is the same as Facebook's, advertising, but Facebook goes about gathering data about you in a far more transparent and clear manner than Google.

When somebody gives all that juicy personal information to Facebook, they're doing it with the intent to share and are making it public of their own volition for their personal social benefit. When somebody gives personal information to Google, they're not giving their search terms to Google in order to share search terms, they're doing it get something else in exchange, but may very well wish they could keep that juicy personal information completely private.

IMHO, trusting Google more than Facebook or Microsoft or Apple is extremely foolhardy, and a testament to how far a catchy slogan can go on the PR front. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned the people at the top of Google are, failures to adhere to policy will happen, and the Buzz incident is just how flagrantly Google will fail at "not being evil" when they're desperate.

I should note that my Facebook account sits idle because of my paranoia about it. But at least everything Facebook has, I wanted to be public. Google has me by the balls.
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I could tell you've read some game stuff. Was waiting to see if it'd show itself clearly. Solid comment.
Probably because VC money can't be as easily found as in Silicon Valley.
There has been no music locker licensed for unrestricted geography. See also: Spotify. This is the content owners' fault.
Please dont use the comment system to make comments with insults without suggesting a better solution.
It depends on the project. I would hope that our people give enough notice that their leaving doesnt impact a release cycle by giving us enough time that we can put someone else on the project to transition to. Usually 2 weeks is sufficient.
I'm hoping the browser control shortcuts improve tab switching. That's my only complaint about the current browser, but it's a big one.
Not necessarily. Look at how none of the comments is about it.
> a deal with big Chinese Record Labels

Are you sure?

music.google.cn is cooperated with YaoMing's top100.cn, here is the list of labels

http://www.top100.cn/corparation/
Passive isn't likable, it's boring and safe.
It isnt very nice, but Im sure it happens. We would only do it if business circumstances forced us to do it (not because we found someone better). If at all possible we would pay them a "severance" probably around 2 weeks of salary.

I dont see it as unethical either.
Has Google lost its mojo at I/O 2011?
You aren't suggesting that your Sekor 50mm at F/6.3 has a DOF simliar to your Nikkor 50mm at F/1.4 for a subject at similar distances? A 50mm @ F/1.4 is a tight portrait lens, that frequently trips me up and ends up with a lot of unfocussed pictures (well, focussed on the Tip of a nose, or an ear-hair) - whereas a 50mm @ F/6.3 is in an entirely different story. I don't recall having too many out-of-focus pictures at F/6.3 on any of my 50mm lenses.

Can you, perhaps, explains where you are getting your definition of "F-Stop?" Charitably, I'd like to believe you are just using a little known definition of the word, and I'd love to see your source material. I'm sure it will open my eyes to a different perspective on photography than what I've been operating with the last fifteen years.
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That may be an edge case, but it wouldn't be the first time that someone built a great company out of a side project or an idea developed after work either. My point is that such an investor wouldn't exclude people a priori because they can't relocate to Silicon Valley. Instead it would evaluate each case and select only the most promising investments, including the outliers who happens to have little flexibility at the time of the investment.
They're going to ruin it and turn it into a piece of shit, along with the Windows and OS X clients, like everything else Microsoft touches.

So pissed to read this today. Skype was really, really useful, and then they had to go and sell out. What a shame.
You missed the point, which is that you learn how to use the 3 exposure controls: shutter speed, aperture, iso; and then it doesn't matter if you can change iso on the fly on digital or by changing a roll of film - you know how to take pictures and that's it. We're talking education.

The worst a newbie can do is to focus on learning 'camera modes' instead of learning how photography works - that's why all those "P", auto-iso, etc would be pointless when you want to learn (and that's what this simulator is for).
Just as a counterpoint (not to pick a fight), I'd disagree with a lot of what you said in the latter portion of your post.

Entry level SLRs are great, even for people who don't know anything more than point-and-shoot. The advantage of an SLR is that it will focus faster, meter faster, and ultimately take the photo faster. This is a huge advantage for parents, whose children are fast moving targets.

What's not necessarily a good idea, is buying the biggest, most expensive SLR you can find. Canon and Nikon both make entry-level SLRs that have modes specifically targeted at novice photographers who will never leave full-auto mode. Buying a more expensive model primarily gets you features. Features that you won't use. The hardware is remarkably similar until you get up in to cameras that cost thousands of dollars.

Many people believe that the huge lens is what makes SLR photos clearer in more conditions, but that's not the whole story. The lens is large because of an aspect of the SLR that you'll probably never see: the sensor. The single greatest reason for the increased image quality of an SLR is sensor size. When you shoot with a compact point-and-shoot, you're capturing light with a sensor the size of your pinky fingernail. You could shoehorn the fastest, largest, most expensive SLR lens on to a compact point-and-shoot, and the photos it takes wouldn't compare to an SLR with even a modest lens. The sensor in an SLR camera is closer to the size of a postage stamp, and this makes all the difference.

Keep in mind that compacts these days shoot comparable resolution (megapixels) to SLRs. This means that each "pixel" in a compact is microscopically small when compared to the "pixels" in a SLR sensor. This means less area for light to fall, and less light collected.

So, even with one lens, and in the hands of a novice, a reasonably priced SLR can result in sharper, more well timed photos in a more diverse range of conditions.
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I have to admit, I don't immediately get it. Kudos to you for hacking on comment thread presentation and interaction, however. :)
There are some comments about experiences using Zotonic in some of the previous HN submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2265765

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1534804
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What horrible advice. Yes, stalk the founders to get a job.
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Okay, let's see it already! :-)
I've never used the app, but I'm not seeing why their apparently unique approach to eBooks couldn't run on WebOS, Meego, or Android. I assume there's a good reason, since you don't throw away years of work easily, but I'd love to hear what that reason is.
Out of curiosity, why can't they have it as a reader of books that you download on your computer and transfer over via iTunes/any local area network. I admit this is not what they wanted most likely, but they could look into developing applications for Android devices and such as well that allowed royalty-free purchase in an application. As an iOS developer myself, I believe this would bypass the restriction, but I don't know for sure.
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BOO FREAKETY HOO. They put all their eggs in apple's basket. Sorry dudes, bad strategy.
The "new" Skype on OS X is certainly total garbage. They just keep making the UI worse and worse. MS isn't exactly know for making great UIs so I am not holding my breath there.
One thing that's put me off Zotonic in the past is a lack of a "here are some sites built with Zotonic" list that I could find[1]. So I set out to try and find some:

- http://erlangcamp.com/

- http://verafin.com/

- http://www.timbenniks.nl/

(I get the impression none of those 3 are doing anything very sophisticated on the backend, but they are all nice and fast.)

Plus some blogs using the standard Zotonic layout, or similar:

- http://blog.astekk.se/

- http://www.garbett.org/

- http://michaelconnors.net/

[1] The lack of such a list isn't a bad thing about Zotonic per se, but it's a nice comforting thing to see what's possible when you're considering using it against the established CMSes or rolling your own with Django/Pinax or similar. My heart wants to use Erlang cos it's great fun to code in, but my head wants to know I won't end up recreating the wheel.
I'm not Asian, but I can sympathize. I've been working to change that for a few years now.
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My guess is they're doing this through registry emulation - you probably have to run an application that starts IE after installing hooks to emulate the registry, since normally the only way to install a COM component is to modify parts of the registry that can't be accessed by non-admins. By emulating the registry APIs you can 'fake' the installation for a single process and load COM components as a guest user. Probably not something Microsoft would approve of, but I've done it in a COM-based application before to make it usable for guest users, and it worked.
What's funny is the entire web will be 3D in 5-10 years.
The problem is that this is not the model that is the most hip. What an iDevice user wants is one click purchase to download system. Apple knows this and knows that requiring such would defeat their competition.
I understand that's how most people feel. My point is that for those of us who don't fee that way, this truth is hard to spot. I know for me, I always thought that most passive behaviors were respectful, and most aggressive behaviors were not. Don't take up too much space. Don't interrupt people, and if someone is working, stopping to talk to them is interrupting them. Speak at a reasonable volume. Don't assume people want you around.

I mean, I now see that this behavior is self-defeating. Most people prefer my loud, expansive self who assumes that you want him around until you make it very clear otherwise to my quiet, small self who assumes that you don't. If I walk by someone who is working without at least an acknowledgement of their existence, most people feel snubbed.

I mean, using the word 'asshole' is a value judgement, which probably made the message come off wrong. My point is that 'likable' is a word that means very different things to different people.

To this day, I prefer being around people who are less aggressive, even though I've adapted to a world dominated by people like you, who prefer behavior that I find mildly offensive when directed at me.
I've found that sending emails when you know they'll be at work (so they'll notice it) is tremendously useful -- say 9am, 2pm, 5pm. People will tend to answer immediately incoming messages before a long queue of messages from the previous day that need attention.

A little shameless self-promotion, that's exactly one of the use-cases we envisioned for our company's product, Momentomail ( http://www.momentomail.com ).

My co-founder and I actually do this with each other, schedule messages so they'll be received sometime in the morning when we're both likely to be working through our mail queue from the end of the day and night before.
They could. The answer they'd get is, "it's too expensive to store everything people downloaded, and our paying customers don't want us storing that information anyway."

A law could be passed requiring Usenet providers in country X to log downloads, but then you could just use a server hosted in some other country.

Preventing people from copying information is like preventing water from being wet. You fail.
You put it a little more harshly than I'd have done, but this is essentially what I was going to say.

You shouldn't build your foundations on ground that can move at any time.
since Windows 2000 you've been able to register COM components in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Oh, no question. That's part of why Mercurial is so close to Git in terms of speed, despite Git being hyper-optimized C and Mercurial being Python. But so far, this has always come up when I'm doing one-off, or nearly one-off, stuff. Getting CPython extensions whipped up is more effort, and less fun, than writing the solution in Go.
Now that Wikileaks has given them a good basis for their judgement, it is up to the Mexican people to do their job and get rid of the corrupt Mexican officials.

Isn't this what was part of the discussion about Tunisia about?

Then they can re-instate the effective ambassador.
As someone who makes a living selling layer styles[1], I have to say this is very cool, but also slightly worrying ;) I've been trying to figure out how long the market for Photoshop addons will last, as CSS and other technologies advance to the point where everything can be done in the browser. Clearly, we're getting closer.

[1] http://photoshoplayerstyles.com/
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Coming up with a list of wedding reception songs can be a poser. Good thing I saw this list of reception songs from Brides.com. It sure does include some of the most romantic songs that'll certainly make your wedding day extra special.
According to the blog post, deployment to app engine will only be available initially to those who sign up as a trusted tester via this form: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey...
great job. Please make more tools.
Hopefully every (re)seller on the planet is now aware that they should not attempt to build a marketplace on the IOS platform without getting a licence agreement with Apple.

I'm very interested in seeing how Netflix and the Kindle play out on the iPad though. If Apple gets too agressive in trying to lock down revenues, they may just end up driving people off their platform on to Google's.

Thank goodness for competition - can you imagine if the iPad was the only tablet option for the next couple years. At least this way, Apple will have to exercise some restraint.
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Valid point I guess. I also wonder how a company like Amazon handles this situation.
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When so much of the world's population is disenfranchised, that is not a terribly convincing argument.
It's a learning tool. Cut them some slack =).
So, does that make the ISO setting a no-op in RAW mode? It sounds like it's entirely a post-processing option.
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Doesn't this case contradict the earlier ruling[1] that said companies can't go after ip addresses?

[1]http://sixestate.com/judge-rules-ip-addresses-are-not-people...
The IO session is up on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YkEUpJQP3o&feature=chann...

29:30 mark is where the admin rights discussion begins.
Congratulations, you've named the one popular service that's only available in a few (seven) European countries and not the US. Which has plenty of great alternatives. Unlike Germany, which has one (Simfy), and it's shit.

Nearly everything but Spotify is US first, everywhere else later. Often never. Which only makes sense, since so many major tech companies are American.
Yes, "boo hoo", and all that, but what about the third-party in this failure: the user. Ultimately, we lose. iFlow was a unique application that was innovating in the reader space. It's a shame that they were pushed off of the platform that I prefer.

I'm not going to get all sanctimonious about it, but it's slowly beginning to weigh on my decision making process. I love my iOS devices, I really do, but when I look at Apple's approach, it appears that their bottom line comes first. Period. It's already hurting innovation in limited ways, as we can see here. What happens as they continue this approach and it affects more types of software?

In my view, Android looks more attractive all the time, and I'm not exaclty happy to say that.
Ethical questions of Facebook's data sharing policies aside, this can only be a good thing for end-users can't it?

I'd like to see them move to being SSL only accessible, or at least making it the default and HTTP being the fallback for mobile devices and similar.