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Here in India, I can pirate any movie for free and for 2.0$ if I want to buy a DVD. Its not stopped our film industry from producing new and high quality material.

Counter anecdote to your anecdote.

EDIT: Actually theres a small phenomena going on that I've recently noticed in the Indian cinema/piracy scene which is worth letting other people know.

Quick background first: Bhojpuri Cinema - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhojpuri_cinema

Bhojpuri is a dialect of Hindi, spoken mostly in the north easter states of India. Bhojpuri cinema was a relatively dead creature, with a small audience and it paled in financial/audience significance compared to your typical bollywood fare.

Now a lot of labor such as security guards, house help, cooks, are immigrants from those states, and of course they speak bhojpuri. They've had to watch hindi cinema when outside of their states though; the opportunity cost of putting up a bhojpuri movie, instead of a bollywood flop, is too high. The choices of bhojpuri speakers were basically Hindi movies or, Hindi movies.

Of late though, cheap color mobile phones, about Rs.1,500 to Rs.3,000 ($25 - $50), coupled with rampant piracy, are allowing that gap to be bridged.
Often when I come in late at night, I can catch security watching a movie on a cheap phone.

I wish I had numbers to know how much is being consumed (how much bhojpuri vs regular hindi cinema for example), but I do know that bhojpuri cinema is going to be able to keep and build a stronger network of viewers. The viewers themselves are able to identify and patronize the art form, something which wouldn't have happened otherwise.

TLDR: Piracy and cheap mobile phones are letting niche hindi dialect speakers consume and watch movies which would have been drowned out against bollywood. Considering the size of the populations, its interesting to see how this plays out.
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That shows the risks of vendor lock in. Although I don't believe MS will replace .NET with html5/js in any regard it shows pretty good why you shouldn't commit too much to vendor specific/centric technologies.
Thank you revorad! Seeding the site was my initial idea, as I wanted to have a database of all papers in all publications, that would be just one-click away and you could comment on them instantly.

As I discovered that Google Scholar has no API (I wanted to use it for the initial idea), I switched to user-submitted papers, with data automatically filled in by DOI. There are only a couple of steps required to submit a new paper and I don't have to deal with a lot of different APIs to seed the site (e.g. PubMed, Mendeley).

Also since the site's scoring algorithm is depended on submission time I'm not sure how I would implement scores if my database was pre-filled.

Thanks for your feedback!

Edit: How could I have missed Mendeley API? There is also a competition for the best app, that I think Comments on Science could participate in, if Mendeley API is somehow used. Thanks!
I know, I was calling bullshit on it the first time I heard it. What I liked was that the incidence of actual problems (IIRC dealerships installing the wrong size mat that would ride up) was almost identical for the rates found at other companies.
I'm by no means an expert but I know that most record labels begin as partnerships or individual endeavours. They start with one or two releases from either their own band or friends. Sub Pop and Electra Records[1] are great examples of this.

I have a friend who's putting together a vinyl compilation of some bands he's shot videos for and I think he's able to do a small pressing for under $1000 including mastering the recordings and sleeve printing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektra_Records
Flash runs as a plugin inside the webkit based browser and webkit is native code in android since day one.

that also means that you cannot play local .SWF files on android unless you manage to get them inside a web page...
It's been a while since I worked at Mochi, but unless they've dramatically changed their technology, it's because they don't have access to the cookie:

Mochi's ad product is a library that Flash game developers include in their Flash games, but this technology does not extend outside of the Flash SWF itself.

To access the cookie, you would need cooperation between Flash and a piece of javascript sitting on hosting page, and then you would use ExternalInterface to communicate out to that javascript to read or set the cookie. Unfortunately, like I mentioned, there is no javascript component to Mochi's ad product, only the piece of code within the Flash SWF itself, so there's no way for this to happen.

In fact, there are several use cases where people play Flash games outside of a browser environment, like on Android or on desktop versions of games (e.g. http://windosill.com/ it lets you "download Windosill for better performance".) In this case, there's quite literally no cookie available to set.

I know David, and I know the guys at Mochi, and I'd stake my reputation on the promise that they're not being shady.
I'm somewhere in Un Lun Dun by China Mieville right now. I cannot recommend his imaginative writing enough. (Un Lun Dun is a children's book in the same way the Potters are children's books).
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In order to closely imitate Bitcoin, the proof-of-work would have to be based on a block of payment history. So folding proteins can only be used if there is a suitable mapping from blocks to protein problems.
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It would have been really neat if the page was served by the very same assembly code.
There is SplFixedArray http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.splfixedarray.php, not sure if this is the one he mentioned though.
Now that a group the size of a band can produce a product are there any "record labels" for tech products? I know I wish there were someone I could go to for my products to handle the functions below that David Byrne lists as label responsibilities - I just want to make stuff, not run a business:

Fund recording sessions (VCs / Angels do this)

Manufacture product (Many Contract manufacturers exist)

Distribute product (SparkFun, ThinkGeek, Seeedstudio)

Market product (Do contract marketeers exist?)

Loan and advance money for tour expenses tours.

Advise and guide artists on their careers and recordings
Handle the accounting
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You seem to be talking about … different things, no?
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For me this varies based on device. If I'm at my laptop then I'll usually click through, but if I'm on my phone I won't unless I have to.

It takes too long to render sites with loads of images and adverts on my phone, so I always dread clicking a search result.
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Siedmiu na dziesięciu użytkowników internetu w Europie przyznaje, że zna zasady kupowania w klubach zakupowych (ang. shopping e-clubs) – wynika z najnowszych badań. Co więcej, jedna trzecia internautów np. w Niemczech należy do jednej z ekskluzywnych grup, której członkowie mogą korzystać ze specjalnych promocji podczas kampanii promujących sezonowe produkty znanych marek. A jak kluby zakupowe radzą sobie nad Wisłą? Czy będą, obok zakupów grupowych, główną siłą napędową polskiego handlu internetowego w najbliższych latach?
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Currently reading The Power of Full Engagement (after hearing about it on HN). It's not bad, and has already encouraged me to look at my eating & working habits.
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I don't know. From that demo, I really doubt that the tiled interface will ever provide enough functionality for these apps to be really useful or as full-featured as their real desktop counterparts.

I see this tile-thingy more as an additional overview-shell, but the real work will remain to be done in the classic apps. This is more comparable to the Mac Dashboard widgets than to a complete UI redesign.

As such, I see no problem in doing these widgets in HTML/JS which is what we have used ever since. The "real" applications will still be done in whatever technology is available under windows.

Of course, everything is just speculation. I just know that I'm sure as hell never going to use a touch interface on my desktop PC nor drag around tiles with the mouse trying to fake enough inertia to get the scrolling to go.
These Win32 assembly programs are quite cool. I used to dabble with writing small things in it. But I realised a while ago that, as Luyt has already touched on, 95% - 99.x% of the CPU time is spent in the Win32 library code, which is written in C, and which you have to call if you want to do anything significant, eg. put up a GUI. That defeats the performance benefit of writing such programs in asm: like Luyt said the slow down from writing the same thing in efficient C or C++ code would be minute. You still get the benefit of tiny executables, though.

One might consider the fact that nowadays it's only worth writing "busy code" in assembly, and most or all of a GUI app isn't busy code, but that would be being sensible. A web server might have a few pieces of busy code in it IF it's designed to connect to hundreds or thousands of users at once. It would be good to write those in assembly. :)
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We should have something like GWT that compiles .NET to whatever Microsoft thinks developers should use.
> why would you even consider using an explicit setName over __set ?

• You don't put logic of all setters in one place. Although you could create some dispatcher in __set that looks up method for the setter and calls it, that's a bit of magic that may not be expected by someone using the class.

• You can control visibility and override setters using standard PHP syntax rather than custom code in __set()

• Inside the class and derived classes it's clear when `$this->foo` is direct access and when it's a setter, otherwise you need to be careful about property declarations and visibility.

• It's possible to pass extra optional arguments to the setter

(none of these points are particularly strong, but there are non-insane reasons to use setters)
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Even better:

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The point was that for Groupon the revenue numbers are meaningless not that the example business plan can't work.
Sure, and maybe fire their web developer / team at the same time? Unencrypted passwords? really?
Based on that logic no one should be building iPhone or iPad apps. You have to commit to something at some point. The odds of a company ditching a product they have invested hugely into is probably the same as the odds of an open technology or framework simply becoming unpopular.
Why do you think so? It it doesn't contain any snide comments. Sure, it is clear that the developers of PHP made some choices that have a negative effect on performance, but so did the Ruby guys. Making tradeoffs that affect performance doesn't necessarily look bad and this article remains neutral as to the background of the performance issues in PHP.

As to hiring developers to work on PHP: I don't see how that would be of benefit to Google. They aren't using it anywhere and I'm sure engineers at Google wouldn't touch PHP with a pitchfork when it comes to selecting a language for a new project. That doesn't mean that PHP is left behind in any way, though, because Facebook and Yahoo are actively working on the PHP ecosystem.
Why? Remember that at this point in history, Java-the-language and Java-the-VM are related in name only.
Given that your emails are publicly available, what's stoping anyone from using them as a template for forgeries? I don't think there's anything in those headers that couldn't be forged (disregarding that Ceglia seems to be terrible at forging documents, of course)

DKIM headers contain a cryptographic signature of the sender's email address, subject, and body, so I think that would be pretty decent proof, but unfortunately DKIM wasn't introduced until 2006.
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MS has done tablets before. How is this going to be any different? Maybe timing? MS is hedging their bets as always. Not wanting to fully abandon their Windows OS. (Except maybe in the case of XBox and Zune.) I wish they did move forward with Courier. Windows 8 will be a jack of all trades and master of none.

Update:

Just saw a video of Windows 8 and it looks great but I still have worries about trying to combine the old with the new. Interface looks great until you run one of those old windows apps (ughhh). And when will be ever rid of those drive letters? ;-)

Update 2:

There are two skills that will not go out of fashion: windows/x86 programming and HTML/JS.
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Flash can't run natively "on webkit." Flash file contains bytecode, which has to be either fully interpreted or JIT-ed. It has to be done on mobiles too. The interpreter or JIT-er has to be native. Writing native JIT-ers is hard, to have a native interpreter you can write it in C and recompile it for every platform but it will be significantly slower. In short, it's not easy to make the Flash fast on a new CPU. And no, Webkit is not a CPU.
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Next time you’re near an Apple store pop in and have a play. It’s much better than any non-Apple trackpad I’ve used (though I haven’t used many recent PC trackpads to be fair).
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I can't wait until I can start using this in XCode.
For those who enjoyed this article, Byrne writes a superb blog: http://journal.davidbyrne.com/
*We put up with Windows so we can use C#,
F# and VS2010*

It's not like you won't be able to use .NET - they are just adding IE9 into the equation, so I don't understand what this "fret" is about.

This is what happens when developers believe blindly in promises, instead of focusing on getting the job done with minimal friction.

Of course Microsoft was going to let go of the .NET "vision" at some point, as .NET is not applicable to everything. If you believed that by learning .NET you are going to have a unified platform to be able to use it for everything, that's your problem.

It's like believing .NET's CLR is a general-purpose VM. Well, it ain't. Yes it provides some flexibility, but you'll never have Haskell on it. Or a reasonable LUA implementation for that matter.

And in my view, basing this new UI on IE9 and Javascript/HTML is a move in the right direction for Microsoft, one of the few I've seen in years - I mean, why reinvent the wheel instead of leveraging the knowledge of lots of outside developers? Last time I checked, even Adobe AIR had better penetration than Silverlight (total, not counting the number of out-of-browser Silverlight apps or people that use such apps).
How does the Indian film industry make money? DVD sales? Theater tickets? Something else? I've heard that the Indian film industry is pretty deeply infiltrated by organized crime but I don't know if that's really true.
...this is why Adobe and Qualcomm would want a deal to add hw support to their ARM fork.
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Microsoft's biggest problem is how fractured this new consumer-centric approach is inevitably going to feel for everyone, though devs are probably going to be hit the most, and that spells trouble.

The problem is that Windows has a slew of legacy API's, languages, and frameworks that you can't get rid of without undermining the existing application ecosystem that made it popular. And it seems like they're not willing to get rid of any of that for the new world of web/mobile apps, like Apple did with flying colors. Instead they're shoehorning yet another framework onto an already bloated platform.

So in the end they're trying to apply a lesson from Apple (touch, interactivity) with total disregard for why it worked (simplicity, seamlessness, usability). A recipe for failure if I ever saw one. Ballmer still doesn't get why iPhone won the mobile wars.
Sure, but as a UI designer you have to privilege one input device. You can't design the same interface for touch and a stylus/mouse.
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I'm also looking for a non-Apple laptop, to run Linux mainly but probably also Windows.

I find the whole process of choosing a laptop to be some kind of voodoo science. Everyone seems to have loyalty to some brand X based mostly on personal anecdotes.

For example, a lot of people diss Dell. But I've used a Dell inspiron 9400 for many years now and it's been really good. Will I buy Dell again? I don't see why not. I think they sell good cheap computers.

In terms of spec, I find that all new computers are good enough now that I can't be bothered to drop more than £500 on one. If I need crazy processing power, it's probably going to be for some web data processing and will just use one of the many cloud services.

But currently, my personall challenge is to build a laptop for myself. I posted the other day asking for help on how to go about it - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2599389. I'm really surprised by the lack of know-how about it. So I'm even more motivated to do it. I hope to have something to show for my experiments in the coming weeks.
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Should I quit my job?
I would very much appreciate your views and own experience!

I have just recently joined a big company (I mean really big) in the financial services industry as a senior analyst/ .NET developer. We fix bugs and implement changes for an application used within the company. The changes and fixes are implemented in release cycles.

Just a couple of months in I already started to kind of dislike this routine, and the work is not really that creative (although it can be challenging and stressful). It is really quite boring, and I can not really see this changing soon, especially because of the scale of the company and the time it would take before I could move to a role that would be more creative. I have worked for smaller companies where this was better but I would still get bored quite quickly, which did not benefit my productivity.

I have started doing a bit of Android development in my spare time, this is much more rewarding (not in monetary terms) although it is frustrating at the same time, because I do not have time to really pursue this.

I am now considering leaving the job (I am 33, the salary and benefits package is good) to try to start up my own company. I am not sure though if I would be able to handle the stress! Does your tolerance to stress improve when you are doing things you enjoy doing? Should I just quit my job and go for it?

Thanks!
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I don't have any special info either, but after getting a couple of Groupon deals for restaurants, I've stopped.

Dining out simply isn't pleasurable when the waiting staff treat you like a 'coupon customer'.
I'm surprised that there isn't more talk about Flash efficiency and its impact on global energy consumption and the environment. My desktop CPU burns an extra 50 watts when it is pegged at 100% (and in a typical day, Flash is the only thing that pegs my CPU for a prolonged period of time). Multiply that by hundreds of millions of computers running Flash -- many whose owners don't realize their CPUs are at 100% -- and it adds up to potentially millions of extra pounds of CO2 emissions every day.
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The problem with WPF/Silverlight is that Microsoft never managed to make it feel fast enough to compete with native code. The Windows Phone 7 UI is praised because of its excellent performance. Now imagine that Microsoft would have used WPF instead. Because of the Silverlight requirement it's impossible for third party app developers to reach same level of performance as build-in services.

I would like to see a new UI framework that everyone inside Microsoft feels is good enough to use. And give third parties equal access.
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Good question. Maybe the answer is, 10 years on, someone now has to do this:

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release749.html

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Right, sorry, I misunderstood you.
True, but this is one of the reasons people choose to code in C++. The quality of tools & common libraries is as much a factor in language selection as the syntax and semantics of the language itself.
This is pretty different from their previous tablets in at least clear way: it's not a stylus-based interface.
Agreed. Visual Studio 2010 is testament to your comment.
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How much savings do you have in place?
If you have enough for 12 months - go for it.
If not - continue the day job, do the minimum, and work on your startup in the evenings and weekends. You can always find an hour or two each day and have plenty of time at weekends. If you really want to start your own company you will find the time.
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Properly optimized front-end will help your servers a lot.

Case of typical website: 6-15 JavaScript files, handful of CSS files, tens of images, 60-100 HTTP requests. On repeat visit still the same amount of requests, majority of them are just 304 Not Modified

Case of FE optimized website: 1 request for main document, one for combined and minimized .js, one for combined and compacted .css, 1-4 for CSS sprites files and some content images. Repeated request: 1 request for document (the rest of resources have far future expire time so are not requested).
Server has to serve order of magnitude fewer requests.
I've used Firefox since it was Phoenix/Firebird. It saved me from IE. You can pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I've been pushed back into C++ out of necessity for some DSP work and I'm actually enjoying it quite a bit. It sucks for text processing but for other things it's really not so bad. As you say, with computing shifting back to underpowered devices C++ is having another day in the sun.
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not sure if that counts as technical or not ;)
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