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It does seem a little pot calling the kettle black. From VinTank's about us page - They created "entirely new set of optics for the industry. This would build a framework for understanding the possibilities created when wine and technology collide"

Wait, what?

They built an optical table?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_table

More likely they typed up reams of drivel like the above that they sell to wineries
I don't program in my spare time. Does that make me a bad developer?
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I'm not sure it's so cut and dry. If you look at how CM releases are managed... they're very well done. Nightly build servers, good communication on their GitHub and Gerrit, very stable builds considering their nightly builds, all the dozens of phones exist as the larger CM project. I know you were speaking more generally, but I don't know that one or the other is always better, whether it's speed or style or development workflow.
From another report on the same event, this general caution: "Pandora's fall from grace is an extreme example of a larger trend. In a bad omen for the still-weak IPO market, 31 of this year's 73 offerings have broken below their IPO prices and 41 are trading below their first-day closing prices, says Renaissance Capital."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/stocks/2011-06-16-pandor...
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Looking through your previous comments history. In some it seems you have had some success with websites. Do you consider yourself successful?

Did you build your products on the side whilst holding a full-time job? And you just went at it, creating products and getting cash from users from it?

Are you a good programmer?

I've been thinking about these things a lot, but finding it hard to actualise everything around it. From what you've said, it appears to be as simple as it is. Build a product, try to get customers, and maybe make some money. Worry about everything else later.
That's fine. I'm in no rush to accuse them of anything here. WebGL is new enough that I'm shocked to hear they're pushing it at all, but I also know nothing about it and graphics (esp at that level) are as foriegn as photoshop and water painting to me. I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes and/or is adopted more widely!
Actually you just type ?facebook to force it to search. This even works with URLs: ?facebook.com
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This is not surprising, but really too bad.

I love Pandora, I have a Pandora One account, and try to buy as much music through the as possible. But still, I don't see how they can make any profit on me, much less someone riding for free.

Pandora seems to have been stuck in limbo for years, right on the brink of bankruptcy several times. I truly hope they make it, they are one of those companies that if I had Bill Gates money I would buy them and fund it just for the value they provide in terms of new music discovery.
Actually it does, it sounds like you have't spent a weekend in the Sonoma or Napa Valley area (I don't mean this disparagingly).

A large part of what you do is drive around a large countryside tasting wines at various family owned and operated winery tasting rooms, interspersed with tasty meals. Many of the best wineries are way off the beaten track and there are many wineries who only sell their wine at their tasting rooms so getting traffic into them is crucial.

Something like what scvnger provides would be a great way for those who don't know the area to find some of those off the beaten track gems.
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If I might ask, and I'd be happy to take this discussion elsewhere... but why? For that much money and the risk associated, surely as an investment vehicle?
Well they already managed to get me to fixed one of those issues with their announcement ;p I had an embedded youtube video using http on an encrypted site. Just fixed it.

But this could break a lot of sites.
Genuinely independent electoral candidates in Taiwan, who in some cases won executive offices with substantial decision-making power, first ran decades ago. Even when Taiwan was unmistakably a one-party dictatorship (the first time I lived there), there was more contesting of more consequential elections than there yet is in China. China has a LONG way to go to all of its talented, diligent people opportunity to shape the policies they live under.
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Ha! I came here to say the same thing.
One trick I read while writing some session code is to generate a session fingerprint using a salted md5 of the IP address + the User-Agent. That adds one extra level of protection in case your session storage (but not your webserver) is comprimised. If an attacker can spoof IP's, and knows the user-agents, then there is no safety except SSL. A post-modern alternative would be to open a websocket and do all communication through it.

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The site should 410 removed pages insted of 404ing... 404 just means "not here anymore" and google will wait to remove it from their index until they have revisited the page a few more times over days/weeks.

A 410 on the other hand indicates that this page has been intentionally removed, and google tends to act quicker on those.
Fun fact: farming games on Facebook were actually first made by Chinese

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> myFarm was the original farming game on Facebook. We launched Nov 1st 2008

It's a messy chain of copycats.
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Because of the lucrative nature of affiliate payments and commissions in the travel industry, one of the biggest sources of what Google considered bad content was sites linking to hotels.

Look at this page: [http://www.travbuddy.com/hotels]. All those links to "Hawaii Hotels" and "New York Hotels" look exactly like an old-school linkfarm.

Ask yourself this: if you're Google, and somebody is typing in "Hawaii Hotels" to do a search, is your Hawaii Hotels page really something they want as a top result? I don't think it is. Your content is not really "canonical" for Hawaii Hotels, it's just a page that lists a few reviews you've managed to collect.

It's all speculation on my part, since I have no inside information, but essentially, I think you're sort of poisoning your own reputation at Google with all those links.
I think that's the whole point though. It used to be that you could be a Rails dev with very little Ruby experience. Now, that's not the case.

It's great to advance, but when you start out as being quick and easy to get started in then everyone starts progressing you can easily forget that it's taken years as a community to get to this point. If you're not careful, as a community, you end up leaving the newbies always playing catch up instead of providing them a helping hand to get started.
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Alternatively, they could 301 the removed pages to the most relevant parent page if that would be a better user experience for those few who did navigate to them. (in my experience 301ed pages also get removed from the index faster than 404s)
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Comparing the US and worldwide graphs, they appear quite similar to me. The world graph has a strong rise mid-2010, where it raises above the US line for the first time. Then, they both level out with some jig-jogs shortly before the start of 2011.
This is the closing keynote from the NY AWS Summit: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/aws-summit-2011/aws-summit-n...
Should look a little further before I comment.
http://coryliu.com/ Looks profesh. And HiveDesk. So a lot of experience? Do you have a blog entry on some starter tips?
I think the ads here are only YC-funded companies, and so they're just a way to promote his investments, rather than a way to charge companies to list here.
There's a trade dress issue here and I'd guess that's what Zynga's claiming. It seems rather clear that a consumer could confuse this company's products for one of Zynga's and that that is their intent. It's as if you made Cleanex Tissues and then copied the design of a Kleenex box.
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Farm Town was definitely not a copy of myFarm. MyFarm was (and probably still is) far inferior in almost every respect.

Farmville was more or less a clone of Farm Town, though it evolved at a much faster pace.
Not including the addl ui layer and Flash is definitely going to make your battery look better.
Correlation does not equal causation. Asking whether not programming in your spare time makes you a bad developer is the wrong question. The right question is, What is it about certain/many good developers that leads them to program in their spare time?

Pursue that something and you may end up programming in your spare time. Or starting a company such that your side project is your job. Or finding something really exciting to do at your current job. Or whatever. In words much older than our civilization: "Do not follow in the footsteps of the Sages. Seek what they sought."
For the IRS or Employment law whether or not you are a fulltime employee has nothing to do with how your taxes are filed or paid. My point for those on this board who hire remote employees is that simply re-hiring as a "contractor" does not change them into "not a full time employee"
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Yeah, but typing is work, even if it's drivel. And changing the logo on your blog? Well that's creating different companies, apparently.

The problem with SMDB's is that they actually believe that what they're doing has an impact not just on the segment they're repping that morning, but in the technology as a whole. But god forbid you should ask them for any deliverables or whoa, metrics. That's when they shut up and become resentful. Like my barber does when I scold him for sharing out loud that he's part of the fashion industry. He's not; he's a fucking barber just like Paul is a booze promoter on par with the girls who walk around half naked giving out free samples or schwag, usually from that shit brand you never want to drink. Except he uses optics or something.
Facebook planning to release an iPad app makes the New York Times. Times have changed...
Google's intention with search, to return exactly the most relevant information for any query, seems a bit like the strive for a grand unified theory of physics. It's a noble ambition, but there are going to be a lot of mistakes and missteps along the way; it's probably going to take an awful long time to arrive there, if it ever happens; and when we do get there a lot of people are going to be upset by it. I really appreciate that you've stepped forward with both information about the effects of the changes and what you've done to remedy the situation. I'm keen to see your followup posts, and I will be keen to see what future changes Google implements and how they improve things for you, me, and everyone.

But as time has shown, holding out hope for Google to do anything specifically helpful has been a disappointment in so many instances I've lost count.
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They are still getting paid by Apple to manufacture Intrinsity's chips, and Apple is clearly worried that Samsung has been learning from that. [2]
Apple's acquisition of Intrinsity was expensive, and the rumor is that they will keep the design to themselves, not making any money off of licensing. [1]

Sorry - I'm kind of chuckling to myself at how hard you're trying to think of this as a good thing for Samsung. Either Apple keeps the technology to themselves or they license it to others and risk others learning from it. This much you seem to understand - but you don't seem to acknowledge that these are the only two choices! Let's put it another way - either Samsung has to pay Apple lots of money to make a SoC to match the iPhone 5's performance, or they lag behind in the benchmarks race.

Samsung's choice of chips for the Galaxy S II blow away the competition with performance, losing the Intrinsity design is clearly not a problem. [3]

Jesus man - you sound like the Iraqi minister of information.

It wasn't Samsung that made the Hummingbird what it was - it was Intrinsity. It was Intrinsity's design innovation that set Samsung and Apple so far above their Cortex-A8 contemporaries. And now they don't have that. The S II has a fast chip in it. Faster than what Apple will have soon? No one knows, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Again, Apple is taking the expensive route with anti-competitive practices, whereas Samsung is learning from others and using its flexibility to overcome obstacles at lower cost.

The unfortunate truth is that all of the lawsuits that are being thrown around in mobile right now are dirt-cheap compared to the cost of building a new SoC. They're also dirt-cheap compared to income on those chips and handsets that the big players enjoy.
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I believe the "big leagues" phrase is about Google & Samsung, and less at the actual power of the device.
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I'm not sure $14ea makes them "cheap enough to swarm in the thousands", at least not for home hobby/hacker use, but the video at the bottom of the page shows some great examples of them doing interesting things in swarms of 20 or fewer. I could easily see 2 dozen of these being as much fun as Lego Mindstorms in the same sort of pricerange.
It looks like a worthy competitor to OpenCL and CUDA. The programming model is quite similar to both of them. The current implementation is on Windows only using DirectCompute API, but since they are making it "open", we should hopefully see implementations on other platforms using more close to the metal APIs.
I used to code the night away. Then be unable to sleep too excited about what I was doing.

Now I have a fiancee and we live an exciting new city (Brisbane, AU).

I've just outgrown it. I think both ways are normal. However, the dude that doesn't program during the day and yet paid to do so IS WRONG... Whoop, that would be me. Back to work!
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The terms on the beta are pretty restrictive. It's better than nothing, but basically it's non-profit, educational stuff only. A little discouraging to start working with, especially when I couldn't find any concrete info about future commercial SDK.
I had a friend who did this to a (really) prominent angel investor, but planned it on twitter first. It apparently went great.
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Oh hey, apparently the order of the results is maintained, according to Larry Wall. I'm not sure if that's new, or I misread something. (I was sure I read something about the result order being undefined.) So the tiny Perl 6 version does nothing at all for sorting per spec.
As an outsider (not being you), I would consider it a red flag, nothing more. Additional evidence would be needed to draw any conclusions.
I got mine second-hand. Somehow, the warranty and all other license materials weren't included.

I can has open source now?
How so vis-a-vis mobile Flash?
A nice, well written article over-all. However I would like point out an observation I made that nobody seems to pick up on. The “"big six" are all American corporations that trying to monopolize American media industries, which leads to false sense of freedom of speech among Americans. As you know it will be hard to get this documentary produced and released to an American audience that lies in the middle an information monopolization that I have termed the "media bubble". All attempts to break the media bubble from within the media bubble will encounter a devastating attack from the big six corporations. So far no one has purposed a strategy that incorporates gaining support and using resources from outside the bubble. A place such as Europe, will allow the documentary to be very resistant from corporate attacks. While, Europeans might not be as compelled, to donate their money towards a documentary aimed at stopping a corporate takeover in America, Europe still has plenty of characteristics, which the United States lacks, that would be fruitful for making a documentary.

Ps. the chart, which is displayed in the article, cannot be zoomed in on and is rather hard to understand. However it could just be the fact that I am not very intelligent.
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Completely dependent on your market and product. As the other response noted, data points from other SaaS companies are useless unless said companies are identical to yours.

SaaS is just a type of business model, not a type of market or product.
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When I search Hawaii Hotels on Google, the top result is a 7-item list of hotels with a little bit more information (link to the official hotel site, review count, place page, etc). How is that different from travbuddy's list page except that extra information?
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IAAL, and I do agree with you that contracts are overkill in many cases. However, if you are complaining publicly about another business breaking promises, I think it reflects poorly on you that you didn't get those promises in writing. That's what contracts are for, after all. You don't see Fortune 50 companies griping about shady suppliers on their blogs for a reason...
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the place i used to work prided themselves on having a large puzzle collection that candidates had to suffer through before even submitting an application.

i wanted to work there, so i put up with it, and write a fairly decent solution to a problem. took me about 10-15 hours by the time it was written and tested. "make sure it scales", said the doc. ok, async i/o and home grown select() loop it is! all this just to submit an application; no guarantees of even a phone screen.

fast forward a couple months, i'm sitting in the office with my team, and the subject of the puzzle comes up -- i asked if anyone noticed anything about the one i submitted. NOBODY HAD LOOKED AT IT. HR didn't even send it over.

probably the last time i'll ever do one of those. they're supposed to attract "passionate" people under the bullshit guise of "we'd like to hire the kind of people who like to do these puzzles in their spare time" -- code words for "we'd like to hire the kind of people who want to live at the office"
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I would also recommend board games, such as Go, or Chess (actually, let's just pick Go; Chess is undeservedly popular, you know, like Java).
The top result I'm getting goes to TripAdvisor. Arguably, TripAdvisor is much bigger and has tons more reviews than TravBuddy. I can't speak to its quality but that does speak to its "canonicalness".
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Doesn't it do hardware acceleration?
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I think Sinatra is one I've had tossed at me a few times as well. Do you have an opinion on that?

It's not for me. It's clever, and makes certain kinds of apps easier for some people, but it doesn't buy me anything over either a straight-up Rack app or a Ramaze app.
when i'm working a 9-5 job, the last thing i want to do is go home and program more. i'd rather throw the ball around with the dog or rock out on my guitar.

in my experience the people who say "you have to have side projects to be a good developer" are either people who do program in their spare time, or people who want to hire the type of programmers who voluntarily chain themselves to their desk.

this is one myth i'd really like to see die. good accountants don't balance checkbooks in their spare time, do they? lawyers don't hold mock trials, doctors don't do surgery on their friends as side projects, and construction workers don't pour concrete for kicks on the weekend.
You should turn your chronicles into a book. You should call it Fogbeam Labs: "How we were able to avoid the fog".
Great post!
Unless you have a super-awesome job (and lots of people do), programming in your own time may be the only way to discover and play with new things. If you work backend at a C# shop but would like to start writing Ruby, you're unlikely to get the opportunity to learn unless you do it in side projects.

Practically, you may be totally happy in your current niche, but you're at higher risk from technological obsolescence unless you diversify.

This is as much an argument for '20% time' as it is for programming at home.
Hopefully they start by eliminating their redundancy of having 2 CEOs. I know that'd be my first reaction if I was a RIM engineer.
what's with the random number generation at the start? how does rand() + 3*rand() improve on just rand()?
Are there specific techniques to learning it, or is it just experience? For example, do you have to be very familiar with the specific weapon you're using? Does "visualizing" help? Are there tricks or points of reference that you use to help out?
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I agree with what you are saying. It is impossible to have accountable governance when most people get their "news" from the television. Television news in the US is unfortunately concentrated among six huge media conglomerates.

The Internet as we know it, is unfortunately increasingly looking like it is going the way of cable television. Especially in the wake of the NBC-Comcast merger. If this progression continues, which it looks like it will... we will continue to have more and more people in the U.S. keep up with the Anthony Weiner and Royal Wedding Stories and less and less people know that the Internet was shut off in Syria.
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He spazzed in the other direction when it came to the iPhone (copy/paste et al)