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I feel like you're getting piled on, sorry. Although I guess someone would have come along and made the point.

I don't disagree with you entirely. There are APS-C compacts available that have many of the advantages of a DSLR, but I can't see where buying something like a G12 for $500 makes sense when a Nikon D3000 is available at the same price point.

My opinion is that if you need a compact, get a compact. Pick up a Canon SD1300 for $150 and go crazy. I did a (personal, not school) photography project with my SD870IS and took some of the best photographs of my life.

However, I feel that parents, especially, can benefit from a DSLR, specifically because of the speed. My mother bought a Nikon DSLR a couple years ago at my recommendation because she complained of "always missing the shot she wanted" with her Canon compact. She's been thrilled with her DSLR because she can pick it up, flip it on, and start shooting. There's no waiting for a screen to come on, she simply flips the switch that is right under her index finger, looks through the viewfinder, and pulls the trigger. When your 4 year old grandson is doing something adorable in the living room, the difference between compact speed and DSLR speed does make a difference.
Totally agree with you.

I wrote this a few years ago on the exact same subject and advocated that a real VM plus application stack is required for the browser if it is to compete with native applications.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/webappsrslow
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I agree, but it's still hard to add $100K as a McDonald's server - clearly, some jobs make it easier to add that much value than others.
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You were alive three years ago; no? AIG, "AAA" rated CDOs, any of that ringing a bell?
That's a good read. The best way to prevent a wrong purchase is not to purchase it. I admire Chan's courage and slyness to sabotage that deal, he must have saved Google a few billions of dollars: Google has enormous data centers, and capable teams, lots of loyal Gmail users, there's nothing that would benefit Google by buying Skype. Those reasons also hold for Microsoft. I feel sorry for Microsoft as they just burnt a few billions for no gains --- that enormous amount of money should have been spent to hire talents and put into R&D.
If you're looking for something in the same vein but more substantial, I recommend _Leaving Microsoft to Change The World_ by John Wood.

In the book, John Wood describes his dissatisfaction with the Microsoft executive lifestyle (not much of a life, he thinks) and explains the origins & philosophy (importance of educating women) behind the popular charity he founded, Room To Read.

It is a quick read and available very cheaply if you don't mind buying used.
I have the impression that the author got somewhat frustrated by the lack of impact his previous ten-or-so pieces made. So he's now trying long-form.
This seems to be pretty hazy. The ICO report says we would advise anyone whose website allows or uses third party cookies to make sure that they are doing
everything they can to get the right information to users and that they are allowing users to make informed choices about what is stored on their device.
Have you consulted with any lawyers? You might have legal redress against Apple. (Or you might not, depending on details of the Sherman Antitrust Act and other laws with which I am not sufficiently familiar.)
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I'm still new to the bitcoin thing but how can it be regulated?
Amazon was working on the HTML5 version well before this decision came about (they previewed it during the Chrome Web Store launch). What they showed doesn't looked optimized for touch use. That could change, of course. I imagine their strategy is to stay quiet and hope Apple doesn't go after them; and when/if that happens they'll adjust. They could be one of the few companies capable of eating the cost to stay on the platform but that would mean strengthening a direct competitor. I'm very interested to see how they handle it.

As for Netflix.. if you're talking about their HTML5 player that was in the news a few days ago to be on Chrome OS, that requires a plugin. <video> doesn't support DRM -- and never will/can. I think Netflix may be the one company that is given an exception due to their influence over Apple TV sales.
Man signs contract containing NDA before starting work then seems to object to the fact that he's being held to an NDA.

If he made a mistake surely it reflects on him rather than Apple?

If you don't like the terms, don't sign the contract. If he's good enough to get a job at Apple I suspect it wasn't his only option.
You're right but in this case, the detail doesn't really matter. The point is you need a lot of capital to enter the market.

Once you are licensed, nothing prevents you from committing a fraud except for the potential risk of losing your bond. This risk could be insignificant given a large amount of money to defraud.

All this law does is guarantee that from now on, only rich people are allowed to commit fraud.
The glass effects look good. I noticed you are using fastspring which I have been considering as a payment processor, Have you had any issues with them? Also can you tell me how well does it handle digital downloads? The way it releases the download to the paid customer, or is it something you handle yourself? Thanks for any advice.
And a slight version of yours: Learning an ancient programming language in order to investigate some long forgotten piece of code...
Is the bond too small? Is that what you're arguing with that second sentence? I can't follow.
I would really suggest you actually learn and use Perl (all of it) before trying to do such a hard task. Too often people just compare a language to their favorite without bothering enough with the other language.
That is absolutely the best government site I've ever seen. It looks like a person designed it, rather than one hundred committees.
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What, that Google doesn't have money to put up bonds or buy the necessary expertise? I don't get your point.

More likely it's Yet Another Google Product They Can't Be Bothered To Finish (TM).
The title is pretty inaccurate, the article is quite specifically about Graphics programming, not games programming.
Sorry for taking this off topic, but this is the perfect example of a comment where it would be very interesting to see how many hners that upvoted this opinion. I was one of them, since I believe it is a preferrable position to take. But it would be very interesting to see on what magnitude it resonates with the community as a whole.

Downvotes accepted as retribution for me going meta on this conversation.
An unregulated market will spawn entities that provide the services it needs.

Information and resource asymmetry are not easily overcome; how is your argument any different than a naive assessment of economics that fails to take into account the impact of information asymmetry on the decisions of otherwise rational actors?
I think they just like playing with stuff that is this cool. It's great that it aligns with their business model, but I don't think the thought process went "hey, let's build a driverless car so people can see look at ads more!"
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The greater principle (perhaps not made clear by my example) is this: Don't trust governments. If they choose to keep things secret, it may not be in your interest, but theirs.

In relation to your questions about the law, I recommend that if Assange has broken laws or been violent, then he should be apprehended and charged. I agree with the rule of law.

I'm actually not aware that he or his organization have broken any laws in relation to publishing these cables. It's been six months now, and no charges have been laid. I'm aware that whoever leaked them to Wikileaks probably did break the law though, but that is not related to the suggested prize nomination.
There is also gccgo, which uses (and profits from) the gcc backend.
Ask HN: How to author animation like today's Google Doodle?
Today's (2011-05-11) Google Doodle is an elegant animation in honor of Martha Graham.

The source of the animation is some JavaScript and a large .png sprite:
http://www.google.com/logos/2011/graham11-hp-sprite.png

What kinds of tools are used to create animations like this?

(I assume this was made by a tool or framework, but I guess there's always a chance that this was lovingly constructed by hand.)
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I'd be interested to see what this would actually be able to make it from alpha to reality. I get the feeling that the dev team want to build some real use statistics and get as much feedback as possible in order to pressure their higher ups to allow them to do it for real. I hope they succeed.
All those work on the principle of trust despite not being regulated:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

- eBay feedbacks

- http://www.escrow.com

etc.

Furthermore, magazines, blogs and retail store all act as rating agencies in some ways. Magazines have a strong incentive to only recommend quality products since their reputation is at stake. The same goes with retail store. They make sure they sell quality product because their reputation is at stake and they don't want to lose business.

Of course, the incentive for building those kind of companies is very low given the uncertainty that the government might decide to assume your role, putting you out of business.
Not the kind of error page that I would expect to see for a government website! http://www.alpha.gov.uk/fail
Site credits: http://www.alpha.gov.uk/humans.txt

(also check out their very cool error page: http://www.alpha.gov.uk/fail)
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Honestly, it sounds like a pretty interesting job, but reminds me of the adage about choosing between doing something awesome and being to tell no one, and doing something (more) mainstream and telling everyone.

Sounds like he'd prefer the latter. And maybe he's right, at least from a portfolio perspective.
So ... If "cloud computing" is the new paradigm that Google works in, and that's why they should avoid the old "peer to peer" paradigm that Skype is using, where does that leave "client/server"?

I had serious problems making sense of that. I guess they mean that since Skype is peer to peer, that leaves too few places for Google's server-oriented infrastructure to inject advertisements?
I hope some smart people are trying to figure out how our economy is going to work when transportation is outsourced to robots. Obviously it'd be great but the idea that everyone needs a job is going to start unravelling.
Google announces Android(at)Home
It seems to me that the only things that really bothered you were how they ran I/O this year (which is barely a day into the event so far). ....Rebooting laptops without a spare, being locked out of conference rooms, being forced to listen about Google's new products without having an open API at Google's only conference every year.

It's as if this is a complete waste of time for you. I'm certain that you are not getting any valuable knowledge whatsoever being "trapped" in these rooms. There are plenty of people who are extremely excited at the prospects of Android@Home and the Open Accessory Framework (which will probably enable manufacturers to eventually develop for the largest ecosystem of consumer products than ever before.... a product designer's wet dream).

Not sure what you're looking for out of this event. Why don't you elaborate on that and maybe Google will hear you (and might even fix that "un-encouraging" event that you're probably still at). eyeroll
Not what CSC said in its results call
You didn't understand my post. Might be completely my fault though, so let me add one last remark:

I presented two tracking reasons/models. You quote my model 1), which is about user tracking for your own sake only, without giving something in return. In other words: There's no direct connection between you selling out what you collect about me and my usage.

You talk about GMail/Facebook, which I presented as another, different example/model, 2). The quote does not apply here.

For these services I trade privacy for usage and I merely wish that the trade would be more transparent so that everyone and his mom can decide if they want to give up these details for your service or not. But - it's at least a "deal" of some sort: You give me something valuable/useful, I have to cope with your privacy invasion.
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I completely agree to this. PayPal somehow has been evading this problem for a decade but finally the government is stepping in to square away this mess. How many horror stories have we heard about PayPal locking up people's accounts for no good reasons?
>especially considering that Microsoft can significantly reduce expenditures by integrating the company into the web group

This is a business truth generally, but Microsoft has proved a very strong exception. Historically their attempts to integrate their web and communications acquisitions into the web group (or at least the Microsoft frameworks) have resulted in stagnation and/or collapse. Whatever they gained in operating costs, they lost many times over in value.

Hotmail, Mesh, TellMe, Groove, Colloquis, and Danger all experienced terrible stagnation as they integrated into Microsoft. Yes, even Hotmail, which has never recovered as a brand from the three or four year period where they moved from unix to windows servers, producing no new features and allowing Gmail to gain rapid traction.
A bit of a red scare here. All the time I was reading I was led to assume that companies like PayPal and Square (imperative mechanisms for freelance these days) were to be affected, ultimately though, this was dismissed toward the end. I can understand the frustration here, but like a lot of people are saying, those are the rules. Also, for the FaceCash folks, if you intend to disrupt the financial industry in any fashion (in this case circumventing traditional forms of cash transfer) you should be ready for a significant amount of red tape and "fuck you."
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Computers have not reduced the convenience of writing symbols on PAPER or on a BLACKBOARD, the places where math is actually done.
With difficulty. The most likely way I can see is regulation of exchange markets (which could actually be beneficial to the markets, as a way of showing credibility).
Your apparently definition of 'fair' is '50/50'. I have a different one: You share it according to what you bring to the table.

If you really are bringing the same value to the company, then 50/50 is correct. In reality, that's not likely to be the case.

The CEO needs to be the guy that holds it all together. That's a lot of responsibility, and requires some serious knowledge/education/experience/talent/etc. As much as I like to think the developer is the lynchpin in the company, it's actually the CEO. A bad CEO will destroy a company faster than a bad developer. And a bad developer is easier to replace.

As the article says, the split will depend on the people involved. There's no magic formula for figuring it out.
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His point is that the bond is too large, and that's _just_ for California. In the linked quora post, it was specifically pointed out that there are 43 other states where one has to do the exact_same_thing where the bonds vary from $10k-$1M.

Edit: Check out PayPal's list: https://www.paypal-media.com/licenses
Its been that way for decades. Carpet used to be the most luxurious thing in the world; as soon at it got cheap, the old, undesirable hardwood became the preferred sign of wealth.

If robots start taking over a lot of the work, people will start wearing coats made out of solved captchas or something.
It depends what immediate plans they have. If they want skype-like voice/video features for integration in some product(s) soon it may make more sense to buy in the already working tech and just add what is needed for the integration. Designing, building and testing their own code and infrastructure could be cheaper in the long run but would take far longer than just buying in the code, talent and infrastructure that Skype already has.

Also the MS brand does not command immediate trust in many, so convincing users to use an MS product over something else is not as easy as it once was. As well as the code, people and infrastructure they've got the brand, a name that a lot of the general public already "trust" as they already use a product carrying that brand.
"Peer-to-peer just eats up your bandwidth, right, it's like the old technology."

This quote intrigues me the most. Is peer-to-peer really bad, and uses a lot of bandwidth, or is it just bad for Google?
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They will complain that the robots are driving so nicely and defensively? That seems unlikely.
If it's available for purchase/download elsewhere it also needs to be available in-app for the 30% fee. It can't be priced higher in-app. That is the dilemma for the retailers.

Here are the choices:
1) Pull out of IOS completely
2) Lose money on all in-app purchases and hope that you make enough in direct sales to stay in business
3) Raise prices everywhere so the 30% fee doesn't hurt so much

Option #2 is just not realistic. It could be a very tough call between #1 and #3. The IOS store probably has enough critical mass that a business could lose substantial sales by ignoring it. The bigger risk is allowing an opening for a new entrant to come in, build a business in an untapped market and eventually be a tough competitor. Option #3 basically screws all your customers- even if they've never even heard of the IOS stores- so Apple can line their pockets.

It's a really crummy policy. It's either going to hurt businesses, who stand to lose sales or even go under, or it's going to hurt customers who will have to pay higher prices as a result.
It does scale with transaction volume, but the floor is $500k. But it's explicitly payable via a surety bond, which works like insurance; applicants with good credit history might pay just a few thousand dollars to get one.

There is also a class of money transfer company ("A licensee that engages in receiving money for transmission") that only needs a $250k bond.
What's the jurisdiction? Some freshly made illegal company can operate to California residents and be located outside of it (even the USA.) Are they going to block the website to California residents?
He never mentioned being productive. If you're confusing "focusing my attention" with being productive, you've read too many lifehacker posts.

Now, "put up all of your problems on a piece of paper" is a great suggestion, I've started writing down everything I want to look into, every feature idea I have, or technique I want to try, along the lines of the idea files that get posted here on HN, although more discrete and less focused.

I have hundreds of them that haven't been done, and may never get done, but writing them down made me think of 2 or 3 more, and maybe one of those got done, and is making me productive.

I don't keep track of how many there are, or how many I've done, that's not important. Really, it isn't, I didn't even believe so myself until I tried it. This list actually started out as a todo list and has grown into something far more valuable.