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No, as a WPF/Silverlight developer, I think those technologies failed to take off because the development workflow of WPF/Silverlight simply sucks ass. Expression Blend is awful and is incompatible enough with VS that it becomes a nuisance to use.

XAML, WPF and Silverlight were designed by .NET developers for .NET developers, but marketed towards designers. You cannot develop/design in that ecosystem without already knowing C#, VS project and solution files. The workflow was very dev-centric, and that's why I think it failed to take off as MS would like.
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many would disagree with that - the medium certainly effects and at the least contextualizes a message... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
It's not so clearcut as this. Projects like these give the US government knowledge in how to disturb or thwart those that try to circumvent US-imposed restrictions.
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When you activate ‘Find my Mac’ a dialog pops up and tells you that anyone logging into the Guest account will now only be able to start Safari. With ‘Find my Mac’ disabled the guest account works like it always has. I think Apple’s intent is pretty obvious ;-)

I also can’t really see the appeal of this as a feature. Logging into a normal guest account doesn’t require you to reboot into the recovery partition, for one, and a normal guest account also allows you to use all the apps installed on the Mac additionally to Safari which works just fine. There might be one or two attractive use cases beyond goading thieves into going online but those are to my mind very much edge cases.
Awesome, but for those of use without an iPad, there is still www.gutenberg.org. They don't have that many beautiful illustrations, but they have far, far more literature and they are all in text files.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 Pride and Prejudiced
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054 The Brothers Karamazov
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524 Hamlet
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233 Sir Isaac Newtons Principa mathematica
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14986 Experimental Research in electricity by Michael Faraday
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215 Jack Londons call of the wild
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103 Around the world in 80 days
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3748 A Journey to the center of the earth

And countless others, including Benjamin Franklins autobiography [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148].

The only sad things is that there are more books there than I will ever have time to read.
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It's easy to under-estimate the value web technologies provide their users, because it's hard to visualise large numbers of people. It's the well known "your brain doesn't naturally multiply" problem.

Let's say you have a technology product that does something pretty trivial, but has non-zero value. Let's say you do something that's worth about 30c per day of utility to each user. If you give this value to 10 million users, you're creating about $3 million of value every day --- or $1 billion of value a year.

That value doesn't seem nearly as real as the equivalent value deployed to a smaller group of people. But that's just because 10 million people is impossible to visualise. The value is still totally real though, despite your lack of intuition for it.

If you believe Facebook delivers little total value, then you must believe its value to individual users is almost totally nil, simply because of the enormous number of people who use the service daily.

Even if you don't like Facebook much, can you really argue that it's delivering _nothing_ to its average user? It's not delivering _any_ value to them at all?

Facebook has 500 million users, and 250 million daily unique logins. If logging on to Facebook delivers even a single cent of value, the total value delivered by each Facebook engineer is already going to be staggering.

1c is an enormous underestimate of what people actually get from the service, but let's run with this. At 1c per login, it's delivering $25 million per day. It has 2000 employees, so each employee is delivering an average of $12.5k per day. I'd actually put the value-per-login at over $1, which would take the average contribution to over $1 million per day.

People would be wise to think carefully before questioning the way markets are allocating capital and drawing in talent. There are certainly cases where the capital allocation is inefficient, but there are also cases where your mental heuristics give you blind-spots.
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format is important in order to make sense of content.

I'm sure right now they have a huge database with lots of scanned images, and an app like this helps to make sense of it. If I'd have a big zip file containing all those books, it would be difficult to browse through them. They said they're planning to add support for other devices, so you may still get what you want one day.
He is hopeful, though, that as more VCs consider other parts of the country to seed their ventures, the problem may take care of itself.

"The University of Michigan graduates 8,000 engineers a year," he (Steve Blank) said. "Why don't we fund these companies cheaply in Ann Arbor?"

Why not indeed. But then some of those VCs might have to travel outside the Bay Area.

It's a self-perpetuating cycle - everyone's there because everyone's there, and I don't see that network effect going away any time soon. Everyone was on Windows because everyone else was on Windows. Everyone moves to iPod/iPhone, and the network effect brings everyone over to iPhone (yes, exaggerating a bit, but not much).
And not one of them considered salaries. For example, the answers that said 182 or 183 would get more work for their money hiring 182 employees. But that also assumes everyone makes the same salary. Differing salaries also complicate matters.

Adding complexity is generally not the purview of the theoretical mathematician, e.g. "OK, imagine every horse is identical and spherical..."
Take a look at startupnorth.ca, Toronto's DemoCamp events, StartupWeekend events, and Extreme VP's Extreme University. A lot of the community connects through these groups.
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This greatly depends on your experience level, how much work you put in every day, the type of business you are in, you're personal situation, and quite a few other factors.

If you're at the top of your game (you know what you are doing - have experience of 5-10+ years), I would say if the income does not come in after 3-6 months, you're wasting time and effort.

Otherwise it could take years to get things right before you find out that the market for your idea is not there.
That I didn't realize; thanks. Time to go do some more reading!
This is true - FB/Twitter are just tools, just like the Internet is (or at least a platform). Social did not overthrow any governments, but it enabled people to communicate more effectively and thusly organize and do something about their situations.

I was just down at FB headquarters last week. Great space. Tons of smart people. Tons. But... I used to be a big believer in FB, but after I started developing apps on their platform, I just started seeing things that I didn't like. You could log into one of our servers, flip on the logging, and just watch all kinds of crap from people I had no connection to scroll by. Besides the fact that most of it was pointless, mindless, drivel (I was saddened by humanity at this point), the fact that this was a 'workaround' around FB's privacy - I dunno, it didn't sit with me well.

I haven't personally used FB in a while - over a year - and yet when I glance at my fiancé's wall, god, the most ridiculous crap is on there and it's consistent. I asked her "jesus, does anyone have a fucking life..?!".

But beyond that, I just feel like FB is a talent vortex. I went around last week and met so many smart, excited people, yet, I felt they were just suckers. Sure, they're all going to be rich, no doubt about that. And maybe, some will leave to actually start revolutionary companies. But the fact that they're all there coding away on ways to make me the ad or figuring out more efficient ways to share my information (even if I specifically have said not to) - to me, it just seems a waste. It's great for Zuck because, after all, FB owns the copyright to so much of the things that are 'shared'. But it's not great for everyone else. It's not a 'social revolution', it's just about money and, really, conning it out of people in ways they don't understand (yet, ever?).
Personal opinion but internship experience is probably going to be better at a startup. Now if you were looking for a job, then it'd probably depend heavily on what your goals are but given the short amount of time an internship generally lasts, you'd do better with startups.
Look at companies you like and look at the job listing there. There isn't really a super comprehensive list. It's much easier to find companies you like and join them. Also to note, unless you're willing to relocate, you might have to see what is available in your area.
I'd suggest two things are of value in this app: firstly, the the "format" of these particular editions, and, secondly, their curation as an app.

If you want to read "Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo", by T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. (one of the books), then archive.org has an excellent copy, here:

http://www.archive.org/details/excursionsinmade01bowd

However, you probably would never read such a book. You may, however, browse through the version included with the British Library app. The BL version is a very nice edition, with colour plates. More importantly, the BL version is presented as part of a collection of interesting old books, which means that a lot more people will be reading about Mr. Bowdich, Esq.'s adventures this weekend than would normally be doing so.

The presentation of the books is of general interest. By contrast, the actual text content of the book is of very specialised interest, and the (decontextualised) pictures not much less so.

Format is very important.
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I don't think you understood his post, or how you sign into a third-party site with Twitter or Facebook.

His post was about sites that DO NOT do OAUTH, and the only way to store passwords to interface with those sites. He clearly states how insecure it is, and the base64 thing is only to prevent you from reading their password accidentally.

Twitter, however, DOES use OAUTH. There's no need to store your twitter password on his side at all.

His auth page is down right now so I can't check, but I'm betting that it ends up at a twitter.com OAUTH page that is perfectly safe.
That isn't a Chrome OS-like browsing mode at all. It's just a browser kiosk mode.
I disagree. Windows is always interrupting me with things. Updates, virus scans, warnings, malware etc. whereas Linux stays in the background (for me).
No and no, but that's pure conjecture since I've never tried a mat.

At work my office has the standard thin commercial carpeting over concrete, which makes for a surface almost as hard as bare concrete. I'm usually in my shoes at work, but I do sometimes kick them off.

I have a standing desk at home as well, where I work almost half my days. I stand barefoot (in my socks mostly) on a thick padded carpet. To keep the carpet clean I have a small area rug over it. Very cushy.

So I've noticed that I'm just as comfortable at work as I am at home. Particularly, the standing surfaces seem to make no difference to the aches in my feet and knee.

I've actually never understood how anti-fatigue mats are supposed to work if you're wearing shoes.
Well at least he didn't have to invent the universe.
Wow, real-life Minecraft.
I was sticking to GR for simplicity.
So the government wants to develop communication links with hot zones. I find it more likely they want reliable communication with agents in conflict zones without needing agents to carry specialized equipment that could tip off local governments [0]. After all, if you install one of these Internet-in-a-suitcase devices in a conflict zone, you're likely there for more than a package delivery. What better way to blend in than mixing with hundreds of local citizens trying to use the same shadow network to communicate with the outside world? The risk still seems high, but it seems marginally better to be identified as a protester than a spy.

[0] Except for, of course, the Internet-in-a-suitcase itself.
Site was loading quite slowly for me and missing some of the pictures. The Google cache of the first part is here for those who want it http://tinyurl.com/6k2mxue
Probably the same reason the UK license-fee-funded BBC initially supported iPlayer on Windows only - it's the most popular tablet platform (or so I believe). The Kindle\Android flavours are apparently on their way, let's give them a chance eh.
Can somebody recommend a good C++ book without all the new to programming parts?
"Charcoal has to be chopped to a specific size for the operation to run smoothly. I chopped mine during the days before the run in little chunks about a cubic inch or less."

Chopped using what?
Do you mean lulzsec or this 'thehackernews' site? This site conveys no new information and has a very _very_ annoying design (a twitter bird that follows you around? really?), and the only thing OP (unixroot) does on hn is post link to this site.

In this case, all the link contains is a one-line blurb of Sophos' article at [http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/12/26000-sex-website...]
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Ever since comments points went invisible, less and less quality articles seems to be making HN. And I definitely find myself visiting HN less and less.

Is it the same case with you?
I think people are missing the point here. This is for bibliophiles not readers. Those interested in "just the text files" probably want the Book of Kells w/o the calligraphy...
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They wouldn't be paid if they weren't worth the money they were getting; the customers would rather keep their money.

Lawyers: Do I really need to explain that they perform an important, valuable role?

Drug dealers: Can't say much here. Drugs are tricky, economists call them inelastic, and they can make people irrational.

Bankers: I sure like being able to invest my money and use it everywhere via EFTPOS

Accountants: It's a hell of a drag doing taxes. It's very valuable to have someone do this work for you (if it wasn't, everyone would do their own accounting).

Bottom line: determining value is a tricky economic/algorithmic question.

Luckily, we have a price system, where people can set prices. If the customers pay that price, that's a strong indicator that the service is worth that much. It's not perfect (see bubbles), but it works pretty well on average.
Very interesting. although I can't help but wonder, other than possibly starting silicon valley sooner, what would have changed if apple had been located in San Jose?
If you really want to dive straight into the deep end, I'd recommend Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu. But if you want just a gentle introduction to C++ I'd suggest The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup.

Both of these authors are staples in the C++ world and so their advice is usually worth their weight in gold.
HN does seem to be getting more mainstream and less techy articles voted up.

But this was a trend that started long before comment scores went invisible, and has nothing to do with them.

It's just a consequence of attracting a larger audience.
despite mentioning algorithms (once), the links in that section are related to language-specific tweaks. so the article seems to assume that the reader is already a competent programmer (or, worse, doesn't understand that language-specific tweaks are much less important than basics).

for example, about 6 months ago i rewrote someone's C code into python. this was numerical code for processing astronomy observations and comparing them with numerical models. i reduced the running time from about 24 hours to 15 minutes. that wasn't because python is faster than C (it's not), or because i used python specific idioms (i did, but they made no real difference). it's because i replaced O(n^2) algorithms with linear ones.

the lesson being: language is not important.
Where have I been "belligerent" in my initial (downvoted) post? Where did I say then I was "definitely right"??

I stated my view of the issue, especially that I find the view "freedom of speech == always good" rather simplistic.

I also explained briefly (only one argument out on many) why I have this view (resposibility).

However, answers to my post where only presented in form of downvotes, rather than opinion or insight.

I may have gotten somewhat belligerent (I'd rather say frustrated) as a consequense. Understandably I'd say.
Care to back up that statement? Can you explain how objects and patterns in C++ make the design worse than objects and patterns in another language?
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You weren't being downvoted for the grammar — rather for not bothering to click through or at least hover over the link and find out that's not actually on Google.com, but rather on a Google Site for antimatter15.
I applaud efforts like this one, because if the fashion of looking at books in their original layout catches on maybe I'll finally be able to buy an ebook with decent typography.

The average ebook is appallingly ugly, and poorly proofread to boot. Typographers and publishers have known how to fix this problem for several centuries -- it's striking how nice the typesetting looks in a printed book from 1830 -- but apparently ebook technology is too primitive to assist them, or maybe it's just that nobody has been able to afford to take the time, since there has never been any money in ebooks before. This can be fixed and it should be fixed.
I work at a huge tech company and in the new SVN repo I've created last week there's a folder named skunkworks. It's just easier to acknowledge these projects will happen.

The repo hasn't hit it's 50th commit yet and there are already two projects there.
I am not comparing Facebook to meth, but I just want to point out that the same form of argument you just made would also apply to meth.
Glaring usage error in the first sentence (s/there/their). Proofread. I mean the "article" is only three sentences for God's sake.
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I understood his post perfectly well. By using base64 to store passwords is just as bas as storing them in plain text, because you only rely on the good will of the person who has access to them.

When dealing with security, this sort of practice should be avoided at all costs e.g. a sacrifice to the functionality of your product.
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Interesting question, thanks for posting. I'm selling Chinese tea (a physical product sold online), so it's different from these SaaS guys, but it's about 3 months from launch and covered 1/3rd costs, but about 6 months since first line of code.
First thing I did, searched this (comments) page for "Rearden".
Odd. The filed legal paper says "iCloud Communications was formed in 2005".
Every time I read about the BL they're doing something inanely anti-web, though usually Microsoft-centric, like putting interesting audio online as .WMA files, or buiding things in silverlight that would have been as easilydone in javascript, or supporting OOXML for fast-track ISO standardisation.
The passwords in the lulzsec site:

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It's reasons like this, that I really wonder if someone from today were to time travel into the past if anything they know would be useful at all. Medieval people would probably think we're all idiots.
I think this problem was one of perception. I think too many salespeople were pushing Netbooks as "cheaper smaller computers that can do anything a desktop can except gaming", which to most people translated to "cheap and small windows install that can do simple games". But then they took it home and turned it on and saw something that wasn't windows and they got scared.
This is completely naive... today Italy is voting for a referendum. After 35 years we are near to reach the quorum, and beat Berlusconi special protection laws, avoid water privatization, and so forth.

Part of this I bet is thanks to Facebook, as in the latest days there was a massive campaign to go voting, ran collectively by all the people that think this vote is important, on Facebook. For us "internet geeks" Facebook may be not so cool, but the reality is that he is making the average person, a "connected person".

This is huge... and deserves the best minds in the world.
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Precisely! Why would I care about a browser only mode for every day use? I have not rebooted my Air in weeks.

So there is two applications, right?

1) Surf station, if your borrow your Mac to a friend or stranger once in a while.
2) Anti theft.

Sure, running the browser only might increase browsing performance a bit. But I guess it won't make a big difference. Avoiding Flash and a add blocker is way more effective.

Has anyone seen any other recent advances in anti theft? Will the new Mac Air have a lock? The current one doesn't and I find that very annoying. There used to be a USB stick that would trigger an alarm when pulled without password deactivation. But I can't find it anymore and last time I check it was discontinued on Amazon.

Any solutions? Otherwise, lets build one and pitch it over Kickstarter!
Sorry, but you completely misunderstood (or wanted to misunderstand, and then attack me by implying I wanted to "install dictatorships" everywhere). Wow.
The reason people don't bother with IPv6 is because it doesn't get them anything. But if you use IPv6 and share an IPv6-only-URL, then they'll finally have a reason to turn it on.

Repeat this a few times, and NAT dies forever!
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I could if I wanted bitcoin and if my customers had bitcoin. Realistically though it's going to amount to my customers buying bitcoin to pay me and then me converting immediately back into hard currency. So, we'd both pick up some fees along the way. Prices would nominally be set in some other currency, probably the same currency as my expenses.

That's not really a currency. It's a payment processing service.

I guess it has to go through this sort of thing while its small.
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