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You already said it, but just wanted to back you up: The MessagePack benchmark is completely useless!

It consists of serializing 3 integers and a string 200,000 times.

MessagePack defines 27 different types¹ (excluding reserved ones) with variable bit length for the type identifier, length somewhat correlated with frequency of use.

A benchmark should therefor test real life data and a lot of it.

Their inability to produce such benchmark makes me question the sanity of splitting up e.g. the type marker for “array” into 3 different types depending on the size of the array — this adds complexity, so it would be good to know what exactly the authors based this design choice on, hopefully not that it made it faster to serialize a 3 element array 200,000 times.

¹ http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification...
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You could use Amazon SES (http://aws.amazon.com/fr/ses/) but I think your app must be hosted on EC2.
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Google is adding back the offline support for Docs this summer (they had it before with Gears, but removed it). So your point is inaccurate soon enough.
This is very good. I remember reading it several years ago and been completely blown away.
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Paracetamol is the generic drug name all over the world, only the US, Canada, Japan, South-Korea, and Hong Kong uses acetaminophen. Although in Canada they know what paracetamol is at least!

So as a Dutch person I was at a pharmacy asking for paracetamol and off course the person behind the counter has absolutely no idea what I am talking about.

And directed me to Aleve (naproxen sodium) and Advil (Ibuprofen) and Bayers (Asparin) all of which are NSAID's which can't be taken with certain drugs, and for some reason they are not nearly as effective.

It bothered me to no end that the pharmacist had never heard of paracetamol, especially since you have to consider that as a pharmacist you will come in contact with people from all sorts of nationalities.
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thanks :) wasnt my intention do advertise the game (yet), but I'm working full time on it, so it makes progress.
I also plan to release the engine as open source in the future, once it is more stable and has better documentation.
+1 for questioning or ignoring commonly accepted assumptions.

Such as that compressed archives are hard if possible at all to repair. Or, say, that the optimal encoding is a very hard problem... something that David Huffman simply didn't know when he came up with his coding algorithm.
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"I don't think we need files anymore."

what does that even mean? even excusing the technical silliness of the statement, it's not even sound conceptually, unless "docs" are somehow not files. maybe, "we don't need a (hierarchical) file system"?

I also don't believe that "The service still doesn't offer a way to sync files" is true, incidentally. You could say that the service doesn't offer a pre-built, user-friendly way to sync files, but the documents API is pretty decent when I've used it (but maybe you can only sync docs, not any file?? a-ha!)
This is most certainly an artifact of using "content-aware fill" in Photoshop CS5.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/03/caf_in_ps.html
Very cool article. If you are going to have a bunch of packed structs, though, it's often easier to wrap all the structs in #pragma pack(0)/pack() rather than putting the attribute on each member. This is an MSism, but it works in gcc.
First I wanted to use an existing game engine too, but I decided to write everything myself to get a better understanding of how canvas etc. works.
Do you have any gameplay videos, yet?
What about bencoding?

http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification#bencoding

Seriously, this is not an either or question. Just use the right tool for the right job. I wouldn't serialize my data to XML on a micro controller but so I wouldn't drive my JS frontend with binary serialized data.
Italy + France trying to get some of glory back they once had. Wanting to have the success Germany has had these past years. Problem is that Germans like quality and working while the French, Italians, Spanish, Portugese and Greek do not. The latter countries protest against unemployment (???), higher pensions ages and higher taxes. They waste time instead of working for their countries to get better. Then get in a few corrupt presidents who like to be popular instead of running/saving their countries (give me Merkel any day over those imbeciles in FR/IT/ES). France needs to do something to get it's former glory back, so yeah, why not try to get 'control' over the internet?

Disclaimer: I live in NL/FR/ES, not in Germany. I spent a lot of time in all 4, although my main country is NL; the Spanish and French are just lazy. Nothing else to say about it; they really do not want to work, just maintain their level of comfort. Come on; protesting unemployment? They want cushy jobs from the government in government run facilities so they cannot get fired. What crazy attitude is that? /endrant

Edit: downvoters; reply and tell what's wrong with this; I live(d) in all these countries; I know the people and I know the mindset. Most inhabitants agree with these sentiments. Maybe you (hopefully you live in one?) don't, but you can have the decency to reply he?
XMLs great promise was that it was human readable.
Lo and behold, it is more readable by non-bit-addled humans than whatever binary format is used in COBRA RPC.

But no, XML wasn't meant for machines... its just that people today programatically generate and consume XML far more often than they do it by hand.
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And this is essentially how Google IPOed, using a "Dutch" auction.
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Funny that Marco wrote both APPs. You can keep using Instapaper and link it to readability to pay the writers if you want.
To quote eropple elsewhere in this thread:

There is nothing illegal that's been done (if the blog
post is honestly reported). This is a social problem.

Now I'm not entirely sure that's true (assuming there were only words involved), but it's definitely murky territory. I can legally tell someone they can only enter my house if they'll sleep with me, but I cannot legally tell someone I will only hire them if they'll sleep with me. Where on the spectrum is gaining entrance to an event organised by a private society?

I think it's more effective to direct efforts towards solving the social problem.
What I really don't understand is how Apple can do this due to the face that Amazon won't (and can't) sell any "Apple app store apps" on their store, so they won't be a competitor. For me it's if a company that produces patches to repair bicycle tubes called their product for "band aid", same idea but different markets.
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This is incredibly important. It cannot be repeated often enough, because people seem to keep forgetting it:

that *most* men in the industry aren't like that,

and

a small proportion of toxic people still make for a
poisonous environment.
It bothered me to no end that the pharmacist had never heard of paracetamol, especially since you have to consider that as a pharmacist you will come in contact with people from all sorts of nationalities.

Maybe, maybe not. Not sure why you assume that. The US is a big place. Also, I'm sure the pharmacist would have known the proper chemical name: para-acetylaminophenol.

And directed me to Aleve (naproxen sodium) and Advil (Ibuprofen) and Bayers (Asparin) all of which are NSAID's which can't be taken with certain drugs, and for some reason they are not nearly as effective.

None of this is strictly correct. There are many cases in which other NSAIDs are more effective. It's true that other NSAIDs have some poor drug interactions, but acetaminophen does as well (alcohol being the most notable and important).
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Have you noticed the update?

- There is clipboard support (bi-directional)
- It runs on Chromium 13
- It runs on iPad!!
(If it does not take your input, set the focus to the
clipboard edit box)

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

And as a side-note, Tom has ported JSLinux to node.js

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/B0OUf_Bd15E/discussion
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Such sites should be moving away from US controlled domains. The writing is on the wall.
What I'd like to understand is how pluggable these DRM plugins are. For most things on Android you can just replace the default thingy with your own (dialer, home screen are prominent examples).

How long until someone comes up with a custom DRM plugin that returns true for all validation requests?
This is really cool and all, but it doesnt seem like it will be any more environmentally friendly than paper. Certainly more expensive.
Not sure I understand were you're coming from. I'm sure you can find more complex arguments either way but as I understand it the basic effect of printing money is devaluing that existing money - a tax on anyone holding the currency.

Wouldn't the rich be the ones holding a disproportionate amount of cash?
They did at least once. I used to use an App called Zuginfo which was splitted into a normal free and a "Donation" version which was advertised to further development. (This app by an Indie was later killed by Deutsche Bahn.)
Why would they be an asshole? The license is fairly explicit in permitting it.

What if someone were to improve the app significantly and then submit it?
I guess everyone is using a lot of crap then, and they're all completely wrong and you're right.

This is possible, of course, but instead of snarky dismissals you could perhaps say why you think what you do. I respect you, but also happen to think git kicks ass, a few minor warts notwithstanding. Your dismissive appraisal as "crap" is basically worthless.
But drm is not similar to a password the client doesn't know. In drm the client has to know the password, it's the user that's being kept in the dark. If you have total access (source) to the drm system you can always modify it to report that the system is secure.
you're comparing a version control system with a repository hosting website.
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Over the last 30 years the amount of federal tax revenues from the top income quintile has increased substantially while the amount contributed by all other quintiles has fallen. Today the top quintile contributes 2.2x as much tax revenue as all other quintiles combined. And the top 1% contributes nearly as much taxes as the bottom 80%.
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You know that Honeycomb is not available (the whole point of the GP) and your 'eat this' link is totally not helpful?

If you'd followed that you'd seen that you will end up with Gingerbread instead [1].

1: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=heads
Thanks a lot for this tip! Saves a lot of writing. I knew there had to be a better way...

Ideally, I guess I wouldn't read directly into a struct, though, and instead use the right functions from endian.h to make the code portable, but ah! such is life when you're scrambling to save a zip and the post-graduation nostalgia is high and the post-coffee-crash caffeination is low.
It doesn't make XML any less human readable really. Hell, if you read and write XHTML a lot, it pretty much speaks volumes of its readability.

For large docs, I'd prefer XML too. I mean, I'd rather hunt down a missing closing tag than a missing closing bracket when the thing is pages upon pages long.
The most interesting link is from the guy's uncollege page regarding the academic performance of homeschooled children.[1]

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Why should they take consequences for what is quite possibly a false accusation?
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That's not really a fair analogy because, while the Amazon marketplace may not sell iOS Apps, presumably they sell things which compete in the same market (i.e., solve the same problem). The Band-Aid competitors don't literally sell Band-Aids, but they do sell self-adhesive bandages that compete directly with the market for Band-Aids.
Grammar are hard.
You properly have to replace the entire component - eg you have to decrypt the movie (easy enough since the master key was leaked some time ago), talk to the hardware, etc.
Thought this was gonna be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_(programming_language)
In the context of tech for women, this means always
wondering if you were hired, fired, or asked to coffee
because you are a woman or because you are interesting and
competent.

Your example also goes the other way around. As a man, you can never hire, fire or ask a woman to coffee without her doubting your motives. The same goes for a gay man, a black man or an old man. As a man, you can't forget your identity either: you always need to be aware of who you are, in relation to the others around you.
But it was during the period of WWI and WWII that America became a super power. The syphoning of wealth from the general populace will ensure that America will no longer be a super power any more given a generation or so. America is repeating the economic history of a number of past empires; once the overall growth goes the rich try to take a bigger slice to keep their relative growth up, which leads to collapse. The transition of wealth to other countries like China has already begun.

If you have a look at the graph you'll see that in the 40' the top 95% was approximately 4 times the 20% line, by the end of the graph that is approximately 8x, so the ratio doesn't hold at all. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient and you'll see that the Gini index in the US has been steadily increasing, boiling frog style, since the 80's. I wouldn't be surprised if the US's Gini index was worse than Mexico by these days (i.e. the US has a bigger problem with the _relatively_ poor than Mexico).

If you look at the colour coded map of the world you'll see that Europe's socialist states, basically all of them, have less of a problem with the relative poor.
How does it stack up against Pickle? Because that's what I'd be using in Python in places where JSON doesn't make much sense.
> … and the necessity of using resource-fork-aware mv,rm,mkdir, etc., commands when on the Linux shell, in order to preserve metadata and resource forks.

What still uses resource forks? I can't speak for your company, but the only files with resource forks I still have around are historical curiosities. Modern OS X apps generally don't use them at all.
People decide to buy things based on the value it has to them. The value it has to the producer is irrelevant. The right price is the one that will bring in the highest total revenue. If it's priced too high or too low then the producer is being deprived of his hard earned cash.

Failure to grasp this simple concept is costing some industries a lot of money right now.
Ha that is really going to help reduce piracy. Sorry you can't see our movies (even if you are willing to pay for them) because you might share them with your friends.

On the other hand, if you get them for free of some torrent or from rapidshare (and finding the links are much, much easier than rooting your phone) there are no such restrictions and the studio doesn't make a dime.

When did these people stop thinking?
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I'd love to see some benchmarks comparing the size of gzipped messagepack vs gzipped json for a wide bunch of example messages. If this is better than json, and has objective-c libraries, it could be magic for our purposes! (file size is very important when making mobile apps).
The logical result of "do not write about it in your blog" is not "don't say anything".
An app that is using android.drm will probably be looking for specific DRM plugins.
For sure EECS, all the ideas we are trying to validate are focus on growing plants. The way you didn't fill out the form was just right.
I have been using a similar project (Red) for a year in production.

Here is why we wanted to use it:

- Development speed (ruby can be typed so much faster and has a class system)

- Packaging system (we want one minified js-file)

- Code reuse (we use Ruby in the backend)

Here is why we stopped using it in favour of native JS:

- Slow runtime (try to read some big JSON in your favourite js-ruby, we had time diffs of 20secs to 0.2secs native js speed)

- Debugging (this is the most annoying thing, which you will not realize in the beginning)

- Development speed (recompiling time increases the more accurate the ruby implementation gets - my fork actually used multiple cpu cores)

- Red was immature (had my own totally rewritten fork going...)

I still love projects like this, but the mentioned problems will not all go away any time soon (a few of them might).

By the way, CoffeeScript shares some of these downsides, but is far less of a pain, because the whole language was designed with JS in mind (fast compilation, fast runtime etc.).
Graphene is a 2D material, like a sheet of paper. A carbon nanotube is more of a 1D material, like a pencil. Carbon nanotubes have (extremely) sharp points. A single wall carbon nanotube has a diameter of ±1.4nm. That is a lot smaller than the size of a cell. The danger of nanotubes in living organisms is that they can puncture cells. A graphene sheet cannot do that. That’s why nanotubes are potentially more harmful than graphene.
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What does it mean when something is 'on top of' another thing in computing?
In absolute terms? Real terms? Relative terms (i.e. per capita and/or share of wealth)? and others have said; source?
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Doesn't that line raise a host of legitimate questions with you, that need to be answered before you can ascertain what miss Camp's accusation entails? For all we know, she could have been wrong about the intentions of said organizer. If being 'banned' means: not being offered a position in the presentation schedule, she could have wrongfully inferred a causal chain between the wrongly interpreted intentions and her not being offered that position. A decade of witnessing professional misunderstandings between people taught me that you can never take a single report at face value, unless you know the person doing the reporting very well.
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In cases like this it means that the language was built to compile down into the other language. So you can write ruby code andnthat spits out JavaScript for thte browser to read.

Same thing with coffee script / objective-j
Well you can, as evidenced by the attitude of the person I was responding to. That doesn't mean you should, which is I think what you really mean.

But yes, having such an imbalance in our community leads to this being a salient part of social interaction when there are much more important characteristics that should rise to the top.
Dropbox folders.
They did this at Amazon in the early days, but had to stop because it got annoying when sales became huge.
It still doesn't make coffee, but I expect it won't be long now.
My mind is still blown.
I think he should change the name before it gets any kind of mainstream adoption...or maybe way before that. It's bad enough that such properties imply usage by the "evil-doers". You shouldn't give it a name that sounds like it's something used by evil-doers, too, which might actually be the worst part. Politicians never bother to learn about something in-depth anyway. All it matters is if it sounds bad or good, then they'll vote for it or against it.
I use these all the time in many gadgets. They're easy to find in supermarkets, so it depends where you live I suppose.
Instead of just ignoring that; be nice about it or even answer his comment you have now polluted HN with a page of stupid discussion.

For the record I don't mind (nor do I think anybody else outside of a tiny but very trigger happy minority) people calling them MAFIAA -- it is shorter than the Recording and Movie Industry Association Of America, is arguably more accurate (RIAA isn't really producing that many vinyl records anymore, but they are suing grandmothers and there are plenty of companies who send out letters threating huge fines if they aren't settled for less than a lawyer cost) and honestly people should be free to express their opinion.

Do you also object to RIAA calling people who infringe copyright pirates? Because if not, you are enforcing a double standard.
I'm wondering when he releases the clipboard source code.
On the kernel side it's a custom character device.
Currently he is violating the GPL. :-(
Does that really affect the argument though? Does paying $5 for an app suddenly become the _wrong_ thing to do if you "only" earn $50k/yr so that $5 represents 10 whole minutes of work instead of 5?

I quite like the "here's the source, compile it yourself for "free" if you want" line... You can have my app for free, so long as you're already paying Apple $100/year... :-)
for large js projects, sprockets is a nightmare. trying to add a breakpoint in a 5,000 line javascript file is really really frustrating.

Would love to see a workaround in sprockets (to make each js file included separately in dev mode), but until then I'd say Jammit is the way to go.
I could understand if it was "AppStore" in one word or something to that effect. "App Store" on the other hand is definitely a generic term.

"Application" has been shortened to app for a long time and it is very generic. And I'm not sure how much more generic you could possibly make the word "store".

Even the "noun store" combination is extremely common and basic, (e.g. computer store, grocery store).
Because mr. Pichai is not such a visionary as he portrays himself as?
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I guess that could make it enjoyable. I even enjoyed watching football (i.e. soccer) when I did so with a knowledgeable friend.
But please only with an option to fix it to portrait mode - iPods don't allow to lock the mode.
I have always wondered why the big banks were so eager to work an IPO - surely there must be more money in playing the market.

Which makes me think: couldn't a company simply get a law firm to write and file the documents needed? I realize that it would cost a lot of money, but it must still be cheaper than being taken to the cleaners by the banks.
And that's the primary reason I don't even think of using Docs for anything except on-line surveys - I often work offline, and I need local files.