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Part of it seems to be that for copyright they want to own the physical books that they have scans of. Instead of destroying the books in the process like is common, they are taking care to preserve the books.
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OK, that kind of makes some sense - apparently that quote needs some context.

Still, Microsoft's commercials are awful as always.
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And yet your example is squarely in the center of the problem. How many children's books from 1850 are in your house? How many children's books from 1950 are in your house? What percentage of your own children's books are still in your possession?

Children's books have a very short shelf life. New ones get published all the time. A very tiny percentage become Curious George and get reprinted for decades, but the rest go out of print. The printed copies get used by children and therefore become ragged and nasty. In ten years you will have thrown them away. Hopefully you will have thrown them away: Clutter is no good either. If we want to preserve them it should not be your house's job.

This is why archiving is hard. It is why backups are hard. It all seems so redundant when the objects are shiny and new and sitting right there, they're in the stores, they're on all your iDevices, they're all over YouTube. And then one day you wake up and the original film of your 1970s-era Oscar-winning movie has fallen apart. This actually happens! You've got to think ahead.

The danger of the digital era is that we get tempted to rely on a number of physical copies that is so small that we get blindsided by black-swan accidents. That's what this is really about. The movie Metropolis was ultimately saved because it was distributed in physical copies and a film archive in Argentina didn't throw theirs away like everybody else. That sort of thing is in danger of stopping. Make copies!
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Things have gotten much worse on this. Years ago, I never got spam @ replies on Twitter. Now just about anything I say triggers some shit about a free iPad or ebook being messaged to me. I guess the target has gotten large enough that the spammers have really gotten onboard heavily.

I wasn't in the very first batch of people using Twitter (sxsw 2006), but I was on there shortly after any now I barely care about it anymore. Its an annoyance. A tool. Worse than email with few real benefits. At this point its just back to texting the 100 or so people who I really want to stay in touch with instead of tweeting at them like I was doing for a few years.
The video the article links to has Julie Larson-Green going over the tiled interface. Different video from the one you are referring to I believe, but it covers almost the same exact material in a very similar manner.

Here's the link used in the article: http://allthingsd.com/20110601/microsofts-windows-8-demo-fro...
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So can you do "myElement { alignY: 50% }" or something like that to automatically center vertically in your browser?

Or can you do "100% - ref(width of sideColumns)" to create two fixed-width and one fluid column in the middle?

Or can you rely on having exactly the same interpretation of your code across all browsers?

...

I guess you are looking at just a limited subset of what AXR is, mainly the syntax features that are similar to SASS and the like, while ignoring all the other problems it solves.

Of course we can do websites now, but no one says it's easy. Just think at all the productivity gains and improved user experience... !
Please, no, just don't.
There's a big fat ad in the middle of the page visually and verbally trumpeting the Boston Herald's availability on Blackberry, Android and iPhone.

But not Windows Phone 7.

(In fairness, "Your phone not listed?" is displayed at the bottom of the ad.)
$50 + a high monthly contract. If you're willing to accept an arbitrarily high monthly fee, then you can buy basically anything for $50. At least here in Sweden the 8GB 3GS is almost 4 times more expensive than the cheapest Android phone (both without contract). Until you can buy an Apple phone for $200 without any sort of contract then they'll still be far off from competing with Android in the lower end of the price spectrum.
You're also constructing the array in the second test.

For a fair test, add elements of an array vs. joining them.
I only get alerts from people who @reply when I already follow them. That makes it pretty much spam free.
Anyone capable of getting access to the database is probably capable of getting some guys in a car to follow you round all day though, right?
Nah the API just uses a different pattern from the "classic" WinForm development that most developers are used to.
As another anecdotal data point, I visit non-Latin URLs almost every day working in Tokyo. For example,

http://www.amazon.co.jp/自転車-カテゴリー別/b/ref=sa_menu_bic9?node=1...

Although I can't really figure out why they bother localizing that one component of their URL, when they have all that gibberish-in-any-language crap at the end.

That is just an internationalized resource identifier (IRI), which is a different thing--and more widely supported--than an internationalized domain name (IDN). I too seldom use those in practice.

Because the part of the URL after the actual host/domain doesn't involve the DNS system, progress was more quickly made there.

More info: http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
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Not as good as satilite imagery, but openstreetmap[1], a wiki for maps, is not US based and is an open wiki. and might have maps that help you.

Some charity sponsored some aerial imagery of Gaza and mapped that well[2].

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=32.29&lon=34.03&zo...
[2]http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=31.51&lon=34.4543&...
It sounds like a rather depressing experience, and I'm rather sorry to hear that.

That said, would you consider going back after the groupon deal, just on a purely scientific basis, to see what you'd rate it at based off a clean slate? I'm mildly curious about the actual differences when the place actually wants you there, as opposed to "handling" you.
I've been doing web application development with HTML+CSS+JS for many years, most on Unix but recently fully embedded in the .NET world. I can tell you from my experience that as good as VS and the .NET framework can be, they're way behind when it comes to web application development for cross-platform clients. (And by cross-platform I mean browsers other than IE.)

For years most of my time has been spent developing through a terminal, with Vim as my editor and the world of Gnu command-line tools as my toolset. My primary development language was a scripting language, and my code-run-test iterative cycle took seconds. Now that I'm developing on .NET, it can take 20-30 seconds to restart my application to test a change I just made, not counting getting back to the part of the app I was working on. That's using the built-in IIS server; once I deploy to a real one I've got another round of testing and coding to do because they don't work the same way.

I was much more productive in the old environment. I'm happy to see Microsoft moving towards making HTML5+JS a full-fledged member of their development system; it means that their tools are going to get much better at developing web applications, and maybe I'll be able to reach my old productivity level again.

PS: I don't get the wailing about WPF getting replaced. WPF replaced WinForms, which replaced Win32, which replaced Win16, and I'm sure I'm missing some of the intermediates. The same kind of succession has occurred in most other parts of the Windows development stack. Microsoft has a long history of deprecating APIs and replacing them with completely different and incompatible APIs. All of these WPF developers, who I assume are simply too young to remember the earlier shifts, should be grateful that the new API has a fully backward-compatible history going back to the mid 90's and can carry them forward to any platform they might need to work on in the future.
I recently did exactly this to discriminate English text from gibberish.

https://github.com/rrenaud/Gibberish-Detector
If the AT&T/T-Mobile acquisition goes through, this will benefit a pretty small group of users. The primary benefit I see is for international travel. I've got a business partner living/traveling Europe for the summer, and he's stuck on his old iPhone 3G because he updated his iPhone 4 to the newest baseband by accident and AT&T offers zero unlock options for international travelers.
Agreed, that's clearly part of it, but the overall thrust of the article seems to be 'if we don't do this physical books will disappear', which seems to be duplicating the work of national libraries.

It's a pity they seem to gloss over that, since the duplication of that effort does need some justification - perhaps the national libraries don't cover enough foreign books? Or they don't trust the government? Also it's a bit misleading, acting as if it doesn't already happen.
How is this not a violation of the first amendment? They aren't US government buildings (which still exist on the map, just some things are occasionally blurred). Why as an American company can't I take pictures of anything I want from the sky and post them online?

Furthermore, its just silly in an international market. Thinking that this will make images of Israel go away to protect them is just silly. Useless legislation is useless and a waste of taxpayer time and money.

We don't do this for any other country/ally. As a non-religious American, I quite honestly don't understand why we have such a relationship with Israel as it yields us zero benefit and many losses.
I can do simple boilerplate stuff I've done many times over without an internet connection... but anything more and I can flip flop around with it for days
Actually, there is a digital signage platform named 'Scala.' At my workplace, this can cause endless confusion among non-technical people.
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Like I said, I would not be surprised if the censorship is overkill and/or almost entirely useless.

That said, (A) satellite imagery, I assume, contains information that's hard to get from a map. The buildings, trees, layouts, and flow of the place. You can easily see on satellite where people are likely to be. (B) Maps are also censored. What's this thing?: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Also, just to give a picture of the scale we are talking about, that thing is close enough to Gaza to aim with a naked eye. We're not talking about ICBMs
I am 100% in favour of archiving and I agree with your point entirely. My frustration is directed towards those who believe that within the next few decades, printed books will be obsolete.
Why do you think AXR would have the same interpretation across all browsers? Dont you think somone cough will make their own implementation that fucks up the rendering/layouting just for the heck of it? cough
I blame teenybopper exams.
My Nook is good for travel, but now the novelty is wearing off I use it less for that. Last week I went away for a week carrying only a small cabin bag, which should be the killer app for the Nook, but when it came time to pack I didn't feel like dealing with questions like "Is my Nook charged?" and "Where the hell is the charger cable for my Nook?" and "If I start charging now, will it have enough charge to make it for the entire flight?" so I just shoved four paperbacks into my bag. Heavier and bulkier, but less effort.
Yes and no. I have a 10 and 13 year-old boys and there are two things we do to limit what they can do on the internet. First, we only allow a certain amount of screen time. We're somewhat flexible with that but when I see that my oldest has been playing Doom for 45 minutes, I'll tell him that's been long enough.

The other thing we enforce is that the computer can't go into their bedrooms. They can use the desk in the kitchen, sit on the sofa in the living room or spread out on the floor, but while we don't monitor what they are doing, whatever they are doing is somewhat public.

This seems to be a good mix for us now. The kids are comfortable on the computer and we're comfortable with what they are using it for.
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I'm quite happy with simple PDFs and a laptop or at home on my desktop. I don't know what PDF readers you're using, but at least Okular has bookmarks, notes, markings, underlinings, highlights... Dog-earings and other book mutilations are so primitive! Index searches aren't as useful anymore, I love ctrl+F. :P
Hi. Read a book doesn't mean don't start doing things. It doesn't mean don't have fun and play soccer. It means "Read a book from A to Z". And most of the time, even before I complete reading the book, I become more enlightened and new ideas come to my mind.
Thanks. I know and like that project. What I tried (and failed?) to say was that I wish for

a) decent _readable_ (here's the focus.. I cannot, yet, read hebrew) maps. Google Maps is actually not that bad for that so far.

b) a way to explore points of interests in advance: This needs satellite images that have a high resolution. OSM doesn't help here for all I can tell.
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Too many of the comments here are implying that "It's too hard, there's obstacles in the way, so don't bother". Which is pretty disappointing.

To a large extent, I agree with that sentiment. There may be obstacles, more human than technical, but under no circumstances should that ever be an excuse for not even trying. All the best, and I like the cut of your jib.
> how the F did anyone get any answers to tough questions before the Internet?

My first serious programming attempts were on my MSX computer. And not only there wasn't any internet access, but I knew no one owning a computer even with the same CPU (a Z80A). There wasn't any dedicated publication in my country, either.

I basically was on my own, with two books : Rodney Zack's "Z80" and an MSX programming technical book, and could discuss programming problems only with a couple of friends owning entirely different machines (C64, Apple II).

I went as far as writing my own assembler in MSX-BASIC because I couldn't afford to buy one; then used that to write my own games. I had my share of tough questions; I remember my frustration with the existing MSX graphic modes, and I tried to elicit the machine to create new ones, for which I partially succeeded. That is, I tried to reverse-engineer the hardware by making it crash repeatedly.

So the answer to the question is : by trying again and again, and thinking really hard about it.
I'm really curious to see which way Groupon goes in the long term. With things like Yelp reenforcing a feedback cycle which directly effects the eating establishment in the long term, it rarely becomes all that great of a deal for the restararaunt or the consumer.
That a feature! Seriously, imagine the possibilities. Yes, privacy is good and should be protected, however this feature enables many fancy things to be done.
that's pretty much the main reason I don't use Groupon etc, if you are so desperate as to use a groupon to promote your business and get raped with all those fees, then chances are the quality of the service will be extremely subpar.

that's why pretty much the only coupon I ever bought was for Amazon.=
And yet web browsers support a far larger world of applications than .NET has. Consider that every website is essentially an independently-developed HTML-based application; do you think there are more of them than there are .NET-based applications?

Those small incompatibilities may be annoying, but they're a small price to pay for the otherwise easy development and broad reach of the HTML+JS+etc platform.
Performance doesn't matter if nobody can use it, and right now nobody can use it. By the time you have a working C++ implementation, for all you know v8 and SpiderMonkey's optimizers will be generating code just as fast as your C++. You're allowing an engineer's natural love of premature optimization to distract you from actually getting your product in front of people.

C++ is also less cross-platform in this sense because to support multiple platforms, you will have to support compilation across target platforms and handle the variety of plugin APIs available for those platforms. And on iOS, your stuff won't work at all because it's Javascript or the highway if you want to run in Safari. (I guess you could ship your own browser on the App Store, but I suspect you'd run into rule hassles.) Maybe you could use Native Client, but in that case you will need to ship native client binaries for each CPU architecture and you'll only work inside Chrome.

Attempting to entirely supplant the browser's rendering engine with yours in a plugin is also a hopelessly shortsighted move. You'll be throwing out all the hardware acceleration and advanced layout logic provided by modern browsers. Just rendering text is complex enough to require multiple full-time salaried engineers, and you will have to bear that burden if you will ever be compatible with HTML/CSS, because international text is important.

Build a prototype using JavaScript, HTML, and Canvas/SVG where needed. Put it in front of people. Let web designers and programmers play with it. If they can play with it, they'll find reasons to love it. Once you have web designers and programmers who love your actual product, you have a path to success.
It's worth learning to use the highlighting and bookmarking features in the iBooks/Kindle readers.[1][2] I felt exactly the same way as you until I started actively bookmarking and annotating as I read, which makes it much easier to cross reference and skip back. It's made a world of difference to how I feel about e-books.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help...
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Same here. My wife and I called it quits because it was just a big stressor and added nothing of value.
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I often wonder these same questions myself?

How many of us feel like we're 'faking it' even though people are using the results of our work happily?

I often wonder if it is good programmers who think their code is crap, because they know it can be better but maybe don't know how to make it better.
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I just keep my tweets protected. Seems to work.
Not entirely meaningless - I think the important number is the ratio of followers to followees. If somebody's got 1000 followers, but they also follow 1000 people, most likely those are all followbacks, and not indicative of genuine interest. But if somebody's got 1000 followers and and only follow 100 people, they're more likely to be worth your time.
I don't use groupon for restaurants or services because I'd probably hate it if I were in their shoes. I think business owners get roped in the same way that artists or programmers do free work because "it'll look great on your portfolio/resume".
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I have to have Flash installed to see the slide deck that actually shows code samples? So much for "the web done right".
It's really sad, because it's not only good restaurants that do the Groupon thing. It can be a good way to advertise your business in addition to the standard (boring) ways.

Any restaurant that treats their customers like crap because the customer uses a deal that the restaurant approved is... Well, rude. I don't have much use for rude restaurants. For a lot cheaper, I can cook the food myself, and it's probably as good. Worse, the time spent is about the same, too! And cooking can be fun.

So in the end, what does a restaurant offer me? New dishes, and good service. Most restaurants don't have the former, so that just leaves good service.

The restaurant in this post failed at the only thing they can offer their customers. And all because they made a bad decision. (I'm assuming they think it's bad because of their actions.)

I'm not a Groupon apologist. Some of the tactics I've heard lately are downright dirty, and detrimental to both the restaurant and Groupon both. But it's not inherently a bad thing.
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Don't care about the rate until you are competent enough. Competence is subjective, and the more you learn the better. Try to be able to do something from A to Z (like a Website) and take care of all the details. When you are self-confident enough, start looking for jobs.

Rates vary widely and they are not always a good measure of your knowledge and expertise. Connections, portfolio, friends... are what will determine your rates. Meeting with the right person and the right company is key and it's not always an easy job. But that's the not the matter now.
You can disable/block a lot of those types of updates. I get very few automated updates, and it's very easy to block automated updates from apps people might use. I only say this because I don't see "X is now friends with 10 new people" or notifications that "X changed their profile pic." You can disable a lot of these notifications by clicking the little X on each post, and blocking the specific item you want to block.
>HSS is a language based on CSS, but offers many more advanced features, such as object orientation, rule nesting, expressions, references to other objects, modularization (code reuse), etc.

Ew. This is an advertisement? Elegance is usually achieved when you hit a maximum of capabilities with a minimum of explicitly defined features. The last thing you want is so many different constructs that when someone reads your code they have to keep a reference manual handy.

Granted, I haven't worked my way through the spec, but maybe there's a better way to phrase that sentence that doesn't evoke memories of C++.
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Great article. I'm raising my grade school daughter on my own and I struggle to raise her to be adventurous and curious, and it seems to be working okay. She's been bugging me to "program a robotic dog" -- Mindstorm time?

Anyway, I'm disappointed one of the most interesting anecdotes was saved for the end. I'd like to hear more about how his mother grew her deceased husband's wholesale business and then sold it to a larger firm.
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And the Amazon promotion was from LivingSocial, not Groupon.
I agree. 6,958,517 "likes" (at the time of my writing) may be perceived as a successful campaign by those who initiated the "like wall" as well as other marketers. Which some may use as fuel to do the same. Which is as you said a "complete misunderstanding" of social media.