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I saw this startup up on Thrillist - mydropcard.com - do you see people actually pulling out cell phones to send contact details?
I don't see where Foxconn "tried to work with him", frankly. They asked one question (which completely missed the point: removing RAM doesn't tell you anything about ACPI behavior) and then punted with "we don't support linux". I don't know about you, but that's not the support that I want from my hardware vendors.

I mean, sure, the guy might be a paranoid jerk. But Foxconn is hardly blameless here.
Look at King Jimmy's bag collection. It will tell you, that GOOG is behind Wikipedia, somewhat like Firefox, but maybe not as completely having sold out. It made GOOG business sense to assist in generating valuable content on the internet, which attracts eyeballs and gives reason to surf at all. Since then, they must have figured out, that it would be much better, if they could own the net completely. At least they are trying ;)
Until you cannot dump Knol and modify it at will, it will be never free, hence it will never compete with wikipedia (which ironically is shooting itself in the leg, giving room for and old-new wikipedia).
What do you guys think are some ways to infiltrate this market? I think that a lot of existing models here might work there with just a simple clone.

Perhaps Twitter?
I've often thought this approach makes sense and wondered why it didn't seem more common.

The two challenges are gathering the information and interpreting it. Logging which links are clicked is obviously easy but not necessarily a good indicator of interest (for instance I'll often Ctrl-Click a number of links then read them rather than click one at a time until I find what I want).

It sounds like they are using a representative sample of users with a plug in to allow them to collect more advanced information (such as time spent) which is an interesting approach.

I can imagine that there may be false positives though - for instance a site that looks like it should contain the desired information (but actually doesn't) might occupy users for longer than a page with the answer they want right at the top.
A loss for not only the realm of science, but the world as a whole - very inspirational man. Mr. Pausch will be missed.
What you guys fail to see is that sure the product alreadfy exists. for scholars and techies wikipedia is great. But the text-driven presentation doesnt draw the regular joe who looks at presentation over function.

Look at apple. Sure their devices work, but I've heard several people say they bought it because its pretty. also mp3 players were out before ipod. they worked, in a lot of ways, better than ipod. But the apple machine could sell evian to a drowning man, as can the google machine.
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It could get more mainstream as more dynamic information can be shared via "dropcards" than on business cards. I think it's a pretty good idea, but I would prefer business cards.
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It's not hard to imagine the SEO "engineering" taking an all-new direction: trying to keep visitors as long as possible on a given web page. Terrible times ahead. Unless, of course, Microsoft's idea fails like everything else they undertake on the Internet.
To quote wikipedia! "A technical standard is an established norm or requirement. It is usually a formal document that establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, methods, processes and practices."

If they're following the standard they shouldn't need to cater for different OS's - one will do.

From the sound of it they've probably copy/pasted chunks of stuff, then edited the windows stuff to make that work and forgot about the linux bits.

There's probably no malice involved here but it sounds like a massive bodge, which is totally unprofessional for a commercial product.
Actually, that seems like comment overkill to me. Almost every line has a comment.
Here's an explanation for why foot speed and intelligence are inversely correlated:

"Upper body strength is relatively equally distributed between the races, but footspeed most definitely is not. So, tailbacks, wide receivers, and defensive players have a need for speed, so they are disproportionately black. I haven't checked recently, but in most recent years since Jason Sehorn's retirement, none of the 64 NFL starting cornerbacks at the start of the season were white, and none of the 32 starting tailbacks were white. (For some reason, this never gets as much publicity as the perceived lack of black quarterbacks.)"

"As we all know, there is about a 15 point difference IQ gap between whites and blacks, so positions that are black dominated tend to have lower average IQs than positions that are more integrated (or that are white monopolized, such as placekicker and punter)."

( read the whole thing http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/07/graphical-data-analyst-be... )

This seems like a much more plausible explanation of the facts than the "closer to the ball" theory. Are we really that scared of "things you can't say" not to point out something that is obvious to anybody who watches football?
Clearly you have never worked in a situation with a looming deadline. Sometimes there is simply no time to clean things up, you just have to extend from whatever code you have, no matter how ugly, because you aren't given the go-ahead to spend the extra time cleaning.
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I just looked at knol. It seems to be set up in such a way that it will encourage the creation of junk adword-magnet articles ("how to buy a hi-fi system", "how to find a personal injury lawyer in the state of Michigan") rather than the creation of truly high-quality articles by experts.

Hell, I'm an expert in a few things, and I currently feel far more motivated to write a junky "how to buy X" article than I do to write about anything I actually know.
The point is that no program can be "perfect" in the most philosophical sense -- that of having no flaw. In the eyes of an OCaml programmer, lack of OCaml bindings certainly would be a flaw.

The point is that the last two questions are the ones that truly matter.
Twitter?

http://fanfou.com

http://zuosa.com

http://jiwai.de
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"One consequence over the endless fawning and hyping over everything they do is that people are willing to let everything slide and will still buy and hype their products."

And Apple can't figure out why they haven't penetrated the corporate market...
There's no contradiction there. You can crow about your successes all you want, so long as you also consistently try to fix your mistakes.

In certain sports, anyway. In other fields -- customer service, for example -- things are different.
Perhaps they meant assisted GPS.
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If you want a good look into Apple, develop a long-term relationship with a sales rep. Within 9 months, assuming you're actually purchasing product, you will be colossally jerked around. (Shipment delays, EOL on products with 1-day notice.) The longer you work with this person, the more their frustrations at the system will come out, and you'll actually start to feel lucky when things go as planned.

Then watch as the sales rep (assuming you have a good one) struggles to help fix the situation. But they are as powerless as you are. And they weren't told any sooner than you were.

So then you go to the Apple support forums to see if anyone's figured out a way around the problem. Except the thread that had decent activity and a few decent leads disappeared.

But it sure feels good pulling out my Mac in an airport.
Well, you guys can mod me down all you want, but the fact remains, they said the motherboard itself is not certified for Linux, so putting Linux on it is a gamble, regardless of the ACPI standard. "Run an O/S we support, and tell us if the motherboard still does not work": Pretty standard response when you try to do something unsupported and then run into trouble. There's no manufacturer that's going to tell you otherwise. Try and complain to Intel about overclocking problems with their motherboards: They will first say "turn off the overclocking and tell me if it does not work still. Oh, and you have just voided your warranty."

Just switch brands already. I have my own brand that I like for MBs exactly because I have never had to put up with this cheesy crap from the mfg I use. Foxconn sucks for pulling this crap, so the guy writing the article should stay away from retard brands. Next time, spend the extra $10 or whatever and get a good motherboard. That is the real lesson I see in all of this.
If someone is working with business cards and gadgets, they really need to try it in Japan. Business cards are extremely important there, but they have many early adopters in the population, too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meishi for more information.
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Apple is doing the minimum that the market will let it get away with. Fortunately for the company, that bar is pretty low by the alternative: Microsoft.

This is a pretty good example of the power of branding. Customers (on the whole, not necessarily individually) are willing to overlook poorly functioning applications, lost data, expensive hardware, DRM, near-instant depreciation, lack of APIs, and so on because the positive feeling that brand imparts balances out the negatives.

As martythemaniak points out in his comment, if Microsoft were to try some of these things, the press and blogs would be all over it.

At the least, this sort of behavior from the big players in a market has one upside: It creates an opportunity for an upstart to come in and compete on service.
Yeah, because large corporations never buy products due to often baseless hype... Oh wait, other than some Cxx being on some other companies board of directors, I think hype is the 2nd most common reason for corporate software/hardware selection. Lowest cost is the third, although rare.

I think Apple's reasons for not having penetrated the corporate market are more a result of their primary market position/niche and their lack of REALLY trying. I mean as a company over the last 20 years, they haven't done the things that SAP, IBM, Cisco, Sun, etc... have been doing: totally different marketing approaches, totally different primary target demographics, totally different history of corporate VIP shmoozing, really a totally different type SW/HW.

I'm pretty sure the folks at Apple have a 10x clearer picture of this than I do, and aren't scratching their heads in wonder:)
Search is also a game of scale. And Microsoft has billions to throw at building this. C'est la vie, I guess.
I agree with you that !, &&, || aren't the best idea ever. I wonder if the reason behind them over words is so you don't have to put spaces around them. Omitting spaces seems to be popular with the infix crowd (e.g., they happily give up *,+,- from identifiers just to leave out some spaces).
There is a lesson for the long tail here, right?
Being unscientific isn't always bad or wrong. Science isn't the One True Path to Everything Meaningful. Calling something unscientific can be entirely correct, meaningful, and not derogatory. Using the label 'unscientific' to demean something that is scientific-but-worthless-or-wrong does a disservice to everything of value that isn't scientific.

This post wasn't created scientifically, that doesn't mean it's worthless. Ok, bad example (this post is probably worthless). All art gains it's value from something outside of science. That doesn't make all art worthless.

Science is an incredibly powerful tool, but it isn't the only one. When all you have is science, you start to see everything as a nail. Or something like that...
Exactly - these were the two main problems we faced. I learned a lot and had fun doing it though.
Well, I think this is a great idea if you consider the importance of business card against the idea that the business card holds all this contact info that you're going to get anyway.
Umm, that's not what I said. What I said was that Apple operates in a world in which most customers will "let it slide". See the parent for examples. But that _doesn't_ cut it in most corporate environments. If you've told me X is going to do Y, it sure as hell better do Y or there's 10 other vendors waiting to replace you.

"totally different marketing approaches, totally different primary target demographics, totally different history of corporate VIP shmoozing, really a totally different type SW/HW."

How in the _world_ is that at all in disagreement with what I'm saying? Apple markets itself to be 'cool'. Apple "hype" is substantively different than HP "hype". Being 'cool' means you're only accountable to keep being 'cool'. Hyping reliability, while perhaps still hype, is an expectation of the system. That's, for instance, why Apple stopped pushing the "just works" line for the Xserve. Too many people pointed out too many times that, in fact, it doesn't 'just work'. Apple "hyped" in a new direction, and they got burned for it.
"-What will happen if Microsoft demands 30% of all developer revenues for their products and limits the distribution of applications?"

Of course you don't mean across the board. You mean for a specific closed HW device via a specific channel right?

Sort of like games being sold on XBox live?

From three days ago: "Microsoft announced today that user-created games will be sold on Xbox Live through a new Community Games section starting this fall, with developers taking 70 percent of the revenue."

So yeah, let's see what the outraged reaction looks like. So far I think it's been happy developers. But yes, I suspect that you are being hard and unfair towards Apple. Time will tell if there is a huge user backlash and revolt toward Microsoft.
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It's about as realistic as merging Mach, FreeBSD, NeXTSTEP, and Mac OS. It was done, but it took years, cost a lot, and left a lot of legacy crap in the system.
"Doc, the pill you gave me made me vomit uncontrollably all day, and once I recovered I realized that I was still as sick as before."

"Oh yeah? Well what about all the times I told people to get some rest and drink lots of fluids?"

Yes, I can see how this would be a good success strategy.

(I do agree that it's important to recognize when you're doing the right thing, especially in a creative field. But when you're playing a game according to strict rules, on a team, the need to avoid failure is probably greater than the need to avoid success. Especially when you consider that the people who make it to these teams probably emphasized pursuing success over avoiding failure when they were younger, because someone in the 50th percentile in a professional sport might have been in the 99th percentile as an amateur. If nothing else, they should dampen their individuality to reflect the higher average performance of their peers).
I think the first step is not to look at the market and say "What US company can we build in China? Chinese MySpace, Chinese Facebook? Chinese Twitter?" Chances are they've been done. As the market in China grows, developers are going to have to ask themselves what is unique to the Chinese culture that is in need of a technological solution.
You don't have to know the right answer to know if the answer you've chosen isn't the optimal one.

While I'm sure it'd be nice to know all of the answers all the time, some of us mere mortals can continue to try to notify other people that extra attention should be paid to the code following those comments.
there is only one reason it'll beat knol...EVERYONE knows that wikipedia is where you go for info on the web. Most people now don't search for "______", they now search for "_____ wiki" to avoid the ad infested sites.

Knol is just another case of Google copy pasting other people's products, w/o real care if it succeeds or not. If it does? GREAT! If it doesn't? Well at least we managed to get 20,000,000 page views and got us $500,000 more in ad revenue
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ESR also recommends learning XHTML before taking on programming, saying it can teach a person certain mental habits. This fellow however, enumerates those mental habits quite well and accurately, based on my own learning experiences anyway. A great blog entry indeed.
So cornerbacks have lower IQs because they are malnourished? That explains the IQ difference in the chart? Right ...
His development on alice is an amazing tool to teach kids programming.
http://www.alice.org/

Randy you rock, and always will.
The article uses advertising as an example, but I'm not sure advertising is a good way to start a market. The value in advertising is in it's ability to get people who see it to spend money somewhere else.

Until there are things on the internet that are worth end-users spending money on, I don't foresee advertising being all that valuable... unless you want to create an advertising framework and sell that.

How did the American internet market grow? I'd bet that the Chinese internet market will grow following similar trends.

Start with sites that offer tangible benefits for Chinese people. Something people would be willing to spend money on directly. I'm thinking things like online shopping, gambling, porn, event tickets, communications (phone, email), banking etc... Of course someone with knowledge about Chinese culture and what they find important would be able to come up with a better list :)

Of course... all those things that built the American internet market now have established companies who want to tap into this new market.
The article basically summarizes into this: "Even though the Chinese government has heavy control over [the internet], if you factor in the population growth of 1.3 billion people, there is a lot of potential there."

The article only has one point: China has lots of people. The author's basic understanding of how internet companies work is the following:

1) Operate in a place with a large number of people

2) ???

3) PROFIT

I would LOVE to read an article that discusses strategies for successfully penetrating a market where there is heavy government censorship, corruption, and tonnes of bureaucracy. Tell me how some companies deal with the fact that most of the 1.3 billion are poor, and the fact that the rich are even stingier than the poor. Tell me how to run a business in a land with no respect for intellectual property, where many of your hired hands are capable and willing to memorize your business/machine's idea/database/blueprints, and sell it to your competitor for pennies.

Tell me how you could do it when so many businesses have failed, and you have written something of worth.
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My experience with C# suggests it is extremely tied into the Windows world, and for some tasks -- like building a plugin for Internet Explorer -- you may be best of with one of the MS languages (VB or C# being the most prominent).

For more general-purpose desktop development, Qt is pretty good. It's mostly a rich set of GUI libraries on top of C++, but is packed with features like integrated WebKit browser, OpenGL, SQL, networking libs, etc.

And if you develop with Qt, you get Mac and Linux versions for free.
Your last point main me feel a little better. I was really unimpressed to see that the safety positions were rated so low. In many respects, this is the hardest position on the field to play, because you need to adjust how you play it not only every play, but several times during the play.
Beware: this is a microbenchmark. It tells you a little about the interpreter innards that get used for different kinds of syntax, but that's about it.

Unless you're writing tight loops over small data, though (e.g. doing cryptography in Javascript or whatnot) this is not where you will be seeing slowdowns. In the real world, performance analysis always needs to start with the data. Are the questions you are asking your data algorithmically fast? Are you failing to cache things that are expensive to compute and hurting performance? Are you incorrectly caching things that are easy to compute and hurting performance?

Those are the real problems. And they have nothing to do with for() vs. Array.forEach().
If you document you need to keep the comments in sync with the code. If you write self-documenting code, you need to keep the function names in sync with the code. You just can't win...
This is sort of the self-taught path I've followed, but I have no idea how to use an IDE. Can anyone recommend a good one for beginners (assuming that may not be the same as the wonderousness of some emacs thingermajig I don't understand either). Right now I use vi and see what changes in the browser. Where's the IDE come in?
Sorry, I had read your comment to mean that Apple was failing to gain traction in the corporate arena due to being hype instead of substance, versus the no-hype-all-delivery corporate vendors.

My experience with most corporate vendors is that they are 90% hype, old-boy-network, shmoozing, or a "safe bet". In general I'd rather use an Apple product than a more mainstream corporate vendor product, assuming they're solving the same need.

So my apologies, I'd mis-interpreted your post.

I will however take issue with the veracity of this: "But that _doesn't_ cut it in most corporate environments. If you've told me X is going to do Y, it sure as hell better do Y or there's 10 other vendors waiting to replace you."

I can't tell you how many times I've seen vendors who have caused week long delays, production system outages, failed uptimes, breech of contract, unreliable hardware (not just a single box, but an entire line), buggy software, and the consequences are.... an apology on a con-call. "Oh we can't replace them, it's a corporate standard" or "well, our contract with them is another 3 years, so..." or "replacing their system would cause too much disruption". I've seen a totally useless, misleading, etc... vendor replaced just once in 10 years in enterprise environments.

Quite frankly I think that is one of the reasons companies love targeting large corporations. It's slower to get in, but once you're in, it's almost impossible to be fired by your client. A home PC user can ditch a phone, computer, mp3 player, etc... a million times easier than a large corporation can replace a vendor who has a 5 year contract, whose SVP golfs with your CEO, who has 5,000 products in place in your org, that 5,000 people have been trained on, that have to be uninstalled by trained folks, and hauled off by union labor, etc...

How often have you really seen a vendor to a large corp being replaced versus the number of times they've failed to deliver?
The malnutrition explanation doesn't really work in the NFL. Even the "small" players weigh 220 pounds.

Regarding size, speed and intelligence, even though they are huge, most NFL linemen will have a faster 40 than most math graduate students.
I see the following problems:

1. Most people find websites through Google. MS wants to measure what websites people are going to, well that is going to be influenced by pagerank.

2. It will be like alexa where there sample data just covers some users and not a great cross section of Internet users. Unless if MS builds this into the browser, which would cause a firestorm of protest.

3. Pagerank uses obvious indicators of value which BrowseRank seems more like the Yahoo home page where the top seaches box give you links to Jessica Alba pictures, the Batman movie, etc. Driven by popular culture.
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