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Fog Creek's marketing has always seemed to me to center on Joelonsoftware.com, and then Stack Overflow, and also posts like this one. Unless I'm missing something we are part of the target market. Now, I don't have a problem with that, but it makes me read posts like this one (and this one: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/11/16.html) a bit differently.
1 You've never had a magnetic strip fail on your card? or the numbers worn off your card?

2 Just like you still have to carry cash in your wallet w/ your card?
I wouldn't really trust Evernote with anything that reveals a whole lot of my personal information though, which is why I'm still looking for a solution that's as simple as Evernote but local.
Just like it says in the article!
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Understanding support tickets
Have another upvote. I still use apache as a front end and hadn't seen this yet either.
Need to update my profile, didn't want to totally take over the thread with my warez.
I have a Suica card sitting here on my desk. Suica is Japan Rail's refillable, tap-payment system. It's been adopted for use at convenience stores and seems to be all over the place now. Basically, anywhere likely to make small sales to commuters is extremely likely to accept Suica.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica

The Wikipedia article mentions the VIEW card, which is a hybrid credit card and Suica.
Indeed the entire statute around these things needs to be re-thought out. And even if you are eventually acquitted the property can still remain the property of the state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture#Asset_forfeitu...

Just traveling with "an unusual amount of cash" can get your money taken from you on a traffic stop even if they don't find any evidence of you selling narcotics.
This is more than just a simple app install. The phone has to actually have an NFC radio, antenna, etc. inside for it to work. It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. No handsets (except the Nexus S) have NFC hardware because currently there's nothing your users can do with the NFC hardware. Now there is, so hopefully more handsets will start coming with NFC.
Either way, I think the field would benefit if tools like that made writing fast JIT VM easier.
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Wow. So much practical advice in there. I'd heard much of it before, of course, but seeing it in action really helps cement it. I may have to read it again to make sure I caught everything.
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Obviously this is competing at least somewhat with Rapportive. I wonder if this will actually consume users of Rapportive because it's good enough, or if it will boost Rapportive's coverage and use because of the competition.

If I were to make a guess, however, I'd guess this is "good enough" to steal a large number of users from Rapportive, or rather people will just stop installing the Rapportive add-on.
I'm quite surprised at how many steps it takes to get from Isaac_Newton to Philosophy (31). I'd expected that would be a quick one. I guess that's just a quirk of the "first link" rule though.
Apple uses google maps on the iPhone, there is no reason why Apple couldnt do the same with wallet.
The experiment was to detect spherical imperfections. That experiment failed to detect any. You're proposing limitations on how we'll detect spherical perfection, which is the opposite issue.
My phone already is my wallet: http://jacobbijani.com/post/4209441008
not sure you could classify the xbox effort as "scrappy." also, gates wanted xbox to run full-blown windows.
If they want a true leader they need someone from the younger generation who knows what our wants and needs are. A company that listens; that delivers a useful product that doesn't disappoint. As I stare at my 360 rebooting, yet again, I don't really see it happening anytime soon. We need a champion.
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"Trusted by 20,000 organizations" - seriously? That is staggeringly amazing. Does that really mean 20,000 are using FogBugz daily?

Edit: I guess it could also be 'trusted' in the past tense.
How nicely said - I was literally struggling exactly with this, both as space limitation (something beyond me) and best possible achievable clarity as thoughts<->words choices (something depending only on me).
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These two aren't equivalent, the first example requires the shapename keyword arg, raising a KeyError when it wasn't specified
My favorite comment:

"There aren't many people in the industry with the full gamut of experience, wisdom, vision, financial insight, and guts for risky moves. Perhaps they could offer the job to Woz? He might like the challenge of saving them."
Milton Glaser: "There is only one way out, embrace the failure"
Me too, I asked them the other day about it,

Response - http://twitter.com/#!/kevinweil/status/73263430873792512
As reemrevnivek explains, the answer to "25% of what?" is the issue here. An exponential decay can be described with the same words.
D'oh! Overlooked that in my quick-read (or seeing as how I chose the same 'prune' word, only noticed it subconsciously).

Still an important enough point to pull out for highlight here; I should have used a direct quote.
Can you comment on distributing non-JAR software?

Also, this sounds faintly like the old SunGridEngine.
I just want to pay less. Having an iphone is like having ANOTHER car payment. Granted a hyundai car payment, but still a car payment.
The article has its merits, but the ideas it expounds aren't new at all.
That's a good observation. Why does he even need to ban Google/Apple products if the Microsoft ones are that good?
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Do you want to keep the price down too? Because for $500 or so there are professional shredders that meet these needs. It's just that the home office market doesn't really need a 10 sheet shredder.

I will agree that there are times you really need a volume shredder. If I keep up on it, it's not so bad, but if you have half a box full, it's so daunting. I usually just bring it to my office and dump it in the secure trash at that point.
Mobile. iOS and Android mainly.
The other problem with my theory is that it would be kind of jerkish for Tim to leave with Jobs this sick. If Jobs were healthy it would be reasonable. But with Jobs sick (or worse) I don't think he could jump ship to a competitor. Oh well...

Sinofsky, Rudder, Guthrie, Elop. I think, in no particular order, are the four that could take Ballmer's spot.
Justin Bieber: 18 steps. I don't know if it is a good thing or not.
What makes you think he is angry? He has a point. It is consistent. It might be false, might be true but most certainly it is partially true. He doesn't need to be angry to state his point.

By demonstrating certain naive views about soviet union, people here motivate him to try and shake their world picture in hopes that it would somehow fix itself a little.

Not that I agree to all the things he writes, but many Russians would. Many would not, but that's what pluralism is about.
What's Paul Allen up to nowadays?
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Anyone knows on what are the reqs for publishing into this store?
So the idea is this is more than credit cards, it is about using NFC to replace keys, boarding passes, and whatever else you can think of. Not so clear on the monetization for google. Well after my first gen iphone broke, i still don't have a smart phone. Is this worth $30 a month yet? No, not to me.
Yeah, looks like they're having a $1 sale to celebrate their 3.0 release. Perfect timing!
The paradoxical reason why pragmas don't work well is that the machine is better than the human.

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-01/msg00978.html

"Also, it's not a good idea to second-guess the region selection heuristics. I tried this many times ('This can't be the best path!') and failed miserably. The selected traces are sometimes very strange, but so far they turned out to be near optimal. It's quite embarrasing if your own creation turns out to make smarter decisions than yourself. ;-)"

What you'll ultimately end up doing is spending more time fiddling with pragmas and code layout trying to control what machine code the compiler produces than you save by not writing the assembler directly yourself.

It has to be said, though, that we really are talking about a critical loop here. This is no real justification for using assembler instead of a compiler outside of extremely hot (or extremely odd, e.g. dynamic invocation, coroutine stack switching etc.) pieces of code. An interpreter loop is the ultimate hot loop; all code goes through it.
A majority of their titles are language learning packs.

Maybe some key software makers like VMWare will step up, I'd like to see Adobe's products there, also - Adobe has horrible DRM and licensing management.
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I wonder what the attractors are for Conservapedia?
In the post, I suggested those with big brands, like those you mention, are probably not interested. Maybe LivingSocial wants it?
Exactly. That was one of my suggestions as well.
It makes writing a JIT so pleasant that I meant to write an article walking through the process of building a simple JIT.

Please do, if you have the time. DynASM really is a stroke of genius.

The way it works is that the JIT contains bits of pre-generated machine code, and then a little bit of bytecode stitches these bits together and emits them. This means the actual runtime piece of the JIT doesn't need to know all the wacky details of x86 instruction encoding. All that is done in a preprocessor written in Lua.

I never got around to finding out how to do dynamic register allocation though. It seemed to me that there was no way to parameterize the pre-generated machine code, but presumably I'm missing something.
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This is a very interesting post that fits nicetly with many other interesting statements Mike Pall made (such as his reference to the LuaJIT2 interpreter being faster than the LuaJIT1 jit compiler on some cases [http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57646].)

On a related note, a similar problem is highlighted in a paper by Anton Ertl and David Gregg ([1]), where they claim that the slowdowns of an efficient interpreter to an optimizing native code compiler is 1:10, whereas the slowdown between an efficient interpreter and an ineffcient one is 1:100. Consequently, there seems to be a lot of optimization potential (though I admit that depending on the kind of the interpreter, it might be unlikely to stay within a slowdown of 1:10)

[1]: Ertl, Gregg. "The Structure and Performance of Efficient Interpreters", 2001. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.69....)
There are a few killer features that come to mind (though I'm not sure if Google is already looking at them):

- no paper receipts. Do I want my receipts? In an ideal world, of course, but in real-life that just means more paper junk. Receipts are also awfully easy to lose - making returns onerous. Imagine having an electronic receipt instead of juggling all of that paper!

- doubling up on loyalty cards and payment. Instead of swiping a loyalty card once, and then again for actual payment, a NFC transaction can potentially do both at once. This also reduces the number of cards I have to carry around dramatically. Bonus points if they can make this work with my library card (with the added bonus: if I'm late returning a book, they can just charge me).

- more fine-grained budgeting. Right now Mint knows if I spent $50 at Staples. It doesn't know what, though. An itemized electronic transaction record would tell my budgeting software that the $50 was spent on printer ink, instead of, say, a new gadget.

- immediate feedback without extensive POS modification. I've noticed some grocery store checkouts now have a secondary printer that spits out special offers to you (assuming you scan your frequent shopper card). This can be expanded upon greatly without modifying POS hardware - i.e., pushing promotions directly to your phone.
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Gitbox 1.3: full text search in Git history (including actual code)
Gmail’s ‘People Widget’ Takes On Rapportive, No Browser Plugin Required
I don't usually respond to trolls, but thought I'd respond to yours since the quotes you've used are misleading:

I didn't buy an expired domain.

It doesn't feel like voodoo. I've been breaking web apps since you were 12.

Aren't we all black-box guessing Google? Aren't you?
Consumer Spending Cools More Than Estimated
Here is how I solved a similar problem (project on Github included):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576266
So the web wikipedia.org is the same as making the files available at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/ ?
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IANAL, but it's my understanding that these issues are not what trademarks are all about. Having "NYSE" as a trademark means I can't make money selling some investment or trading product called that. And if, in my business, I mention "NYSE", I need to note that this is a trademark, and possibly disclaim any connection.

It is copyright (a very different thing) that prohibits arbitrary reproduction, but even then not usually in brief form as part of news reporting.

Yes, the article does say, "... we've been advised that the NYSE's claims are baseless and ridiculous on their face." But it would be nice to say why. I suspect that what I've said above is essentially the reason.
I love that the image has a status message saying "I'm hosting game night tomorrow night" and that the message was posted "five days ago." How useful!
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"Have to say, I didn’t see this coming. Notable among the titles Amazon has but Apple’s Mac App Store does not is Microsoft Office.

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Interesting too, in the context of Apple’s legal pursuit of a trademark for the term “app store”, is that Amazon went with “downloads store” rather than the closed-up “appstore” they use for their Android store." [1]

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[1]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/26/amazon-mac-downl...
I'm really sick of hot girls in maxim, playboy, etc calling themselves 'geeks'. Just cause you've seen Star Wars honey, doesn't make a geek. I truly believe these girls are just trying to sneak into that demographic and gain more (followers, fans) attention.
You're missing something, but it's subtle.

If you're reading this, you probably will never give FogCreek a dollar. That's the hard truth of the matter. We literally give the product away to startups (Student and Startup Edition, free forever for 2 users) because a) in aggregate startups demonstrably don't spend appreciable amounts of money on this, often preferring OSS or "we can totally duplicate that 100 man-years of development in a weekend" and b) dedicated effort at making sales to you doesn't make any sense relative to dedicated effort at selling 20 seats to an insurance company in Idaho.

But do we care about the community liking us? Oh heck yes. The average reader of HN is very link rich relative to e.g. the project manager for the IT team at an insurance company in Idaho. Producing stuff which you like enough to link to gets us higher on the Googles and thus into the line of vision of people who can spend more money on bug tracking than many startups spend on everything. Similarly, if you feel good things about us, you might recommend us internally to someone who has ability to make decisions about which product to purchase.
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It took me 30 steps to do it manually, following the correct rules.
Second this... Actually they had (still have?) a sweet deal going with About.Me, where you can get an initial batch of cards for free (you only pay $5 or so for shipping)

If you have an About.Me profile set up, your Moo cards will have a QR code that goes straight to your About.Me page.
Funny, but the attractor for Conservapedia seems to be "nation".

http://www.conservapedia.com/Nation

I suspect that's also one of the most common non-stop words on "The Colbert Report".
53% of youth would give up sense of smell to stay connected
Youtube gives it to you for free but you have to have enough views. It's under "Insights" on the video and then "Hotspots".
Synthesizing Products for Online Catalogs
Which papers do you need to keep that actually have to be in paper format?
Youtify
What happens if you combine Spotify and YouTube? Youtify is just that.
Is this anonymous or does the place afterwards know my phone's ID?
Wait, hoops? DRM???? Where have you been for the last month.

However, to not cause flaimbait, there are technologies such as http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/ which look promising potentially making this "# of polygons" issue moot.

Don't forget the overhead that comes with windows and direct x. It is quite known that these things do cause a reduction of power.

ALSO with PS3's fully known hardware, sony optimizes IT and developers optimize FOR IT. They know exactly what limitations exist in which parts of the hardware. Because flaws and advantages in the hardware can be directly exploited certain optimizations are possible ONLY on consoles. Parts are specifically chosen and the OS is designed to do it and get out of the way. They can create a new OS for each console and not worry about legacy, making the best of optimizations not possible in OSes that must support legacy programs. The older PS3 had PS2 hardware to run PS2 games. The new PS3 does not. The point is everything on these consoles is crafted to specifically target that exact console and nothing but.
Agreed.

I still think you should change your username, though :-)
Great! Go right ahead and program everything you want in assembly. If it's for fun, or for educational purposes, or whatever, awesome. But don't go around saying it's going to perform better than Haskell code, or whatever higher-level language you want, that produces the same output, without testing it.
being a patent troll
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think web apps existed when patio11 was 12.
I don't usually respond to trolls

Dude, did you just call Patio11 a troll? And then claim that you've been breaking web apps since he was 12?

Just when you think you've seen it all...
Rapportive is still a far better product than this Google Chat widget. I'd say it's a Rapportive killer if they added LinkedIn, Twitter, FB and Tungle integration, but they would never do that.
Chrome simply hasn't implemented the WebM container changes and rendering changes (YET) for this to work there. I can't imagine that they won't soon enough.
At least he is being conscious about his eating. He noted the hypocrisy of people who will eat meat and then say they don't want to think of what was involved in producing it. No support of mass slaughterhouses, hopefully he will keep it up.
Anyone can build a Facebook alternative. There is no magic list of ingredients that you'll be able to throw into a Facebook alternative that will compete with Facebook. Just becuase you are focusing on what Facebook does not do well won't give you something to be competitive with. From a high level perspective, IMO, Facebook had very similar features as Friendster, MySpace and a whole other slew of social networks.

You can't just build something for the sake of competition. It has to be grown organically. People won't flock to your social network because it's better. People are like sheep, and they need to be herded like so.
I think as log as Google doesn't allow third party status updates like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn Rapportive doesn't have to worry to much (at least I won't switch back).
And sadly, the "cross platform" nature of Doxie doesn't encompass Linux.

Can anyone name a decent document scanner supported by SANE?
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I'd just go to a 'vending-machine' style shredder. For a aligned pile of flat paper that you can just slide in they work very very fast. (They're absolutely horrible for receipts even if you align them due to the entry way being too thin) Accumulate a pile of several hundred papers, go to the machine and shred it in a couple of minutes and be done with it.
Exactly, they are both an exception in their respective group.
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I have experimented extensively with various domain registrations parameters in correlation to SERPs. In my opinion, private registration does not have any effect. The only domain parameter that seems to have effect is the length of domain registration. Your domain is likely to have more trust value if the domain is registered for 5 or more years.
"I think it's really awesome that Linux is finally taking the lead with innovation on the desktop..."

The key word is "finally."

The proponents of the open source development model and, in particular, the proponents of X-Windows, promised that their way would lead to superior innovation in the user interface and user experience areas. That innovation has been a long time coming.

Now that those promises are finally coming true, momentum has switched from desktop computers to mobile computers, an area where everyone is still trying to catch up with Apple.
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Mobile gas stations have had a touch and go payment system for a while called Speedpass. It is very slick and I use it all the time. I even go out of my way to visit Mobile gas stations to use it. I can't wait till this is everywhere
That has to be the dumbest name I've ever heard. Is this even supposed to be serious?
There are neat implementations out there. I particularly like C#'s LInQ for XML. Lets you shred that (untyped) XML into strongly typed objects faster than you can say "wow that's declarative".

If you have a typed format (i.e. XSD), there are enough tools out there to generate the code <-> XML interchange boilerplate. In C#, this is typically solved by creating a serializable class with attributes/annotations denoting what XML nodes the actual class-properties map to. Again, fairly painless. And declarative.

If your main beef with XML is that the libraries you have to work with is an exact replica of the W3C DOM-model, then it is your tooling which sucks. XML is just fine, when used correctly ofcourse.

Think how jQuery managed to make writing JS fun, as opposed to when you had to work with the plain DOM. HTML is not that far from XML and if tooling can make that kind of difference, judging a technology exclusively based on your lacking libraries (or lack of exposure to good ones) can really not be considered fair by any means.

Now with that said, I find JSON nice as well, but for different reasons and with different drawbacks.
Does anyone know of something similar for Android?
Well, if they really can and do see Microsoft's unique strengths, they'll notice that Microsoft is actually sitting on a world-class consumer-design group and a platform that could be painlessly [1] pruned down to a single cohesive media and social ecosystem.

Simply moving Microsoft down the Enterprise/Consulting road would be a huge waste of that opportunity and would piss off any number of partners and third party developers.

[1] It wouldn't involve screwing over partners, just clearing away the internal backbiting nonsense.
ZeroMQ has examples for many languages. Try changing the language from the page. Recently tons of lua example were submitted.
Yeah, professional tools cost professional money, but I was hoping there was something in the middle. The ScanSnap equivalent of a shredder -- the pro versions of sheet-feed scanners are several thousand dollars at least. Is there a similar value shredder?

Maybe I was over-thinking it with 10 sheets. My desire is to shred junk mail without the indignity of having to open even the fattest faux-hand-addressed envelopes.
Now 32.

Playing games with an ever evolving game board is... interesting.