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jellicle is correct the ratings are complete bs. If AAA actually meant something the US would have been downgraded years ago. AAA means there is no chance of default no whatever so ever. It should only be reserved for countries with little or ideally no debt. The fact that our politicians and media are openly talking about default means that AAA does apply to the US but it does. So it means nothing.
Taking this even further, what if an ISP partnered with Google/Facebook/Twitter/whatever to expose their services on an "internal" box, and thusly provide an extreme "basic internet" ISP package that didn't allow you to leave the ISP's network?

Alternatively, should ISPs be charging for P2P traffic that stays within the network?
Craig Hockenberry, a well known iOS developer, has been hit by this along with lodsys. He works for the Icon Factory, a small design and app firm. He wrote Twitterrific for the iPhone before the SDK had been released.

Craig wrote the much linked to article about the fall of the independent developer yesterday: http://furbo.org/2011/07/13/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-indepen...

and today has been tweeting about how he feels like his ability to control his own products has been taken from him:

http://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/91904807748640770
http://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/91905256870510593
http://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/91940943183347712
http://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/91972743561613312

It is depressing. And enraging.
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Almost every worthwhile repo on Github has a README. A lot of them even use markdown. In terms of the source code, Github is for Git users--people that care about the code and commit history. Google Code isn't tied to a single VCS like Github, but it should still be developer-centric. After all, it's Google Code, not some app store.
How are our (I'm a grooveshark employee) legal tactics questionable? We sign deals with new labels all the time and our #1 company-wide goal is to help an artist make over $1M through our service. Here is a list of all our label agreements: http://www.grooveshark.com/labelslist. I don't think its updated though since we have a deal with EMI and I can't find it on the list. Yes, a few of the other majors are missing, but that is always an on-going conversation. We also fully comply with the DMCA in the same way YouTube and all other UGC sites work. Case in point: try searching for Beatles.
Because it isn't your Facebook Page. It's one of Facebook's Pages, which they let you play with, until they don't.
I'm not sure that the total amount of money you can make by providing such a platform to customers is greater than the amount of money it will cost to build it.

The main problem from a cost perspective is that there isn't a whole lot of engineering leverage to bring to bear. Every integration is custom, which means that the number of integrations built scales roughly linearly vs the number of people you have building them.

That said, Yodlee has already spent an enormous amount of money doing it. (And, from what I can tell, is de-emphasizing providing this sort of service as a component of their revenue mix.)

Yodlee can price the service at a margin above their marginal cost. (i.e., they have paid to build the integrations, now they just need to operate the servers & do maintenance). I doubt very much that any startup can compete on price.

It would be a layup to beat Yodlee in terms of developer friendliness (even caring the tiniest amount would do it), but delivering the functionality is IMO probably not going to happen.

(Note: I have written a Yodlee integration from scratch and am working on a different (large) project using it now.)
I'm not sure if any "social" type of discovery can beat algorithmic in quality. The added benefit of "social" is the socializing bit, not the discovery bit. Algorithms can always match you up with similar people faster and better.

But thanks for the link I'll re-consider the rating.
Is there a reason Slacker is not reviewed?
Amounts to browsing random peoples' music. Compared to MOG's discovery features, MOG's is much better. You might get lucky if a friend just happens to find lots of new music you like though.
Agreed. If MG Siegler starts one I'm going to start stuffing my mattress. But Arrington deservingly should be seen as the business owner/CEO more than as a "reporter."
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Off topic?

You completely missed the point.

He's not complaining about his business model, free competitors, or price.

He's venting his frustration with dealing with the Android Market as a developer:

1) Stats seem to keep breaking which seem to affect visibility and rank of his app.

2) Search is a problem. He went from top 10 to 200+ and with no understanding as to why that would happen - and so abruptly.

3) The comments system on Android is a mess. (sorted strangely, randomly?)

4) Google has a serious lack of good support for its developers.

I'd like to add:

5) There needs to be more game categories.

6) We want to be able to reply to comments in order to support our customers.
After you wrap your head around that barely useful, rarely used technique the next question is, why did pg name his company after it?
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No, they didn't.

I think they should have though. I went from working basically 6 to 6 to 8:30 to 5. It was pretty obvious.

Someone wrote on my employee review that they could tell I wasn't passionate about my job and it shows sometime, but I think that was post discussion with my boss and he would have probably been notified as he was in HR.
Once you've had a change to run in that kind of environment as a full-time job for 40+ hours a week, let me know...
>...in a similar sense that HN is run by YC and an inordinate amount of YC startup news is poured through here.

The difference being that YC doesn't try to hide it at all on HN. YC ads cannot be commented on, and YC related stories are(generally) noted in the titles. HN is essentially an advertising channel for both YC and YC funded companies.

The problem is that Techcrunch has positioned itself as a news reporting site, not Michael Arrington's Super Startup Investment Blog(tm). So it should be held to a higher standard than YC, especially when it comes to investments.

At the bare minimum, I think that Arrington should(assuming he doesn't leave TC to work on this) disclose his fund's involvement in anything that TC is covering. This goes not only for his personal articles, but anything that any TC reporter is covering.
Ridiculous. This is more "if only Ballmer would..." wishful thinking. It also doesn't inform us why a "single Windows ecosystem" makes any sense for anyone other than the accountants and marketeers at Microsoft itself. Oh, and lame managers, who want to be wined and dined in order to make a "solution selection".
I didn't take points off for having to jailbreak. I reviewed the app for the app, and the app is great. Plus, apparently jailbreaking is easy.

It's true the music player itself is inferior to Spotify, and the quality of search results is not as good. But it's free, I'm fairly certain it has more songs than Spotify, it's accessible from any computer, and it has other features like radio (which from personal experience is slightly better than Spotify's in term of recommendation quality).
I have long thought that the security lines themselves are far more at risk than the actual planes. If you fly through any relatively large airport during a busy time, or even just an unlucky time, you'll sometimes see lines with hundreds of people in them (thousands if you happen to be somewhere like O'Hare during a holiday weather delay). In IAD or DCA there are massive terminals with glass ceilings and windows with large snaking security lines. The carnage from even a small explosion would be immense when the structure itself potentially serves as shrapnel.
I will occasionally care about their twitter/etc, but mostly it's the person's picture that matters.

I guess it's hard to describe because it's a _feeling_, but it feels like I'm communicating with a person, rather than some kind of email sending robot. This wasn't the reason I started using it, so it kinda surprised me at how much of a difference this makes to my communication.

I'm not sure why it's not useful to you - one possible reason is that you're already very good at empathizing with the person at the other end of your email (not being sarcastic).

Another thing which surprises me is that the picture doesn't matter - old/young/geeky/cool/black/white/male/female don't really convey any useful information to my response, but it just kinda feels like I know this person in some way, and want to treat them better.
ck the "My Favorites" link in upper right
> What would be wonderful is if the government ran fiber to everyone's homes, and then let companies lease it from them.

http://www.utopianet.org/why-utopia -- sixteen cities in northern Utah have done exactly this. My dedicated fiber connection runs about $35 a month for 10 up/10 down, no caps that I'm aware of.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/google-besto... -- Google is running fiber in Kansas City, KS. I'd assume they've run the numbers and can cost-effectively last-mile the whole city.
I am not a lawyer, so run this by a lawyer before acting.

If you get a notice from them, you can just toss it in the trash. They cannot sue you over a patent application.

Furthermore, their application was filed on 2010-12-20, so even if the patent issues nothing that was in use in public before 2009-12-20 can infringe.
I don't understand your point

This article was about Canada
If somebody claimed that some specific domain was infringing their trademark they would have to go to court to get it. (Am I right?) Why shouldn't Facebook have the same policy? Right now it seems that their policy of just listening to anybody's complaints is open to abuse. In fact, they are probably opening themselves to a lawsuit by shutting down accounts every time somebody makes an unsubstantiated claim. In this case there were real monetary damages.
Nice! I've been looking for some proper iOS functional testing for a weekend project. Along with WaxSim this feels like enough plumbing to roll into a Jenkins plugin.
No, I'm saying /21000/ will match a path with a directory named /21000 but not a file named /21000.

When I say "non-standard", I am saying am saying that if the website's URLs looked like "/21000/foo" and "/21000/foo?page=2", it would have been easier to craft a "Disallow" rule that would have successfully blocked all of the desired pages.
even at a low evel the brain is compressing and throwing out such massive amounts of data that I don't think it's fair to call it solomonoff induction anymore.
Internet Explorer 9 utterly dominates malware-blocking stats
I signed up for Spotify and was pretty disappointed. I have years and years of Data in iTunes, and the only thing Spotify does is pull out tracks. It won't even sync my SmartPlaylists. So it's kind of like starting over. Not something I'm willing to do.
I've lived or spent extensive periods of time in most big European countries (Germany, UK, France, Spain), and there isn't much hate between them anymore. Maybe in the 70+ age bracket you will find some. Then you maybe have some mild distaste from 50-70 year olds, indifference at 35-50 and some appreciation from young people. If you compare German, French and British opinions of each other with their opinions of Turks, North Africans, and Indians respectively it's not even a contest.

That doesn't mean that anyone's going happily hand over their sovereignty, but the picture you are painting of Europe does not fit with my experience at all.
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I imagine I'd need a High School diploma for that, so probably not gonna happen.

Nobody is slamming HBS or MBA's, or questioning the quality of people going in, or coming out. You said that people attending Techstars (and YC, I assume) would not be experts in anything except their respective programs, while implying that an HBS MBA would be an expert in so much more. Simply put, I've been working in my field for 13 years, 5 of which I was managing an organization responsible for up to $60M in revenue. I had 4 years of good job experience and glowing recommendations when most of the people you're talking about were just getting their Bachelor's degree. Now, I just wrapped up YC. It didn't make me an expert in running a business, and yet it was extremely educational, even for someone who has run a decent organization before, and had been running their own startup for a year - all of which is a lot more experience than the average HBS entrant or graduate has in actual business management.

I'm sure HBS is amazing. I wouldn't kid myself about getting in. But just as going through Techstars and YC doesn't make you an expert at running a business, neither does a degree, no matter what school you get it from.

This wasn't intended to tear down the credentials of a HBS MBA. It was simply to clarify that, while you're right about TS and YC not making you an expert of anything, you may have overstated things by implying that being an HBS grad would.
... I'd love to see a discussion for instance on the continual existence of evolutionary destructive traits such as homosexuality ...

Parasites. Parasites frequently manipulate the host to change its behavior. Toxoplasma gondii, for example, is associated with a 6X increase in car crashes among human drivers. Parasites also cause variety to evolve in the host immune system and other body systems, resulting in a variety of oddball genetic variations and autoimmune disorders.

There is also an effect called frequency-dependent selection. Some gene variants are useful if you get one copy of the variant, but harmful if you get two. Evolution multiplies the useful gene in the population to the point where the good effects on reproduction balance the bad. Examples of this include sickle cell anemia (one copy protects against malaria, two copies give crippling sickle cell attacks), and the sphingolipid storage disorders (a small influence causes higher IQ, more influence causes lethal degenerative changes of the brain).
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He does say "The easiest way for me to handle this is to be up front about all of these investments and disclose it in posts, which I've done and will continue to do..." So at the very least he has acknowledged that disclosure is important.
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About #2: Isn't this similar to complaining your website isn't ranked in the first page for a keyword in Google? Yes, it's unfair, but if you're basing your entire business on whether Google is giving you exposure, isn't that a flaw in your business? Perhaps you need to find other venues to market your product. Again, I'm just addressing #2. The other points are valid...
Sure, it's deprecated. Using the new API:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Alb...

Still produces the SAME result.
Interesting. Currently I don't use an ORM in my projects solely because if I don't use a CursorAdapter, it's not going to perform well. In addition, we have a fairly large dataset (for a mobile device) that I don't want to have to pull in memory like most ORMS do. If I were able to use an ORM for just saving and updating, then have the ability to also to make a query with a query builder and then use a cursor adapter, that would be a slam dunk for me.
It will be a sad day if this patent is actually granted, especially with how vague of a technology it defines and how much the technology is already used by current giants (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, etc)
It seems that what really needs to happen is all of these companies being sued need to team up and grind these patent trolls into pulp to keep people from doing crap like this.
no need to be argumentative, but again.. no one is telling you guys to develop for the Android Market, go do apps on the Apple market if all these things are so troublesome for your team. I imagine you can do search and see all these issues in the past, and rather ranting figure out how to work around it, theres actually been a lot of good suggestion in this thread, and I can see you continue to place the blame on Google. So what it is their fault.. they won't fix .. now do something about it. Believe me theres plenty of opportunity on the Android market for good apps.

Second, working on any platform changes occur all the time.. example: Twitter and Facebook developers get screwed all the time, Apple just changed their subscription policy, Google changed their regular search algorithm to take down content farms.. Yes companies change their policies constantly its up to the developers to adjust or quit.
Check out http://brightworks.me too - more geared towards Comms/Marketing - would love to hear your thoughts :)
I can't figure out this rating. What perspective are you taking on usage? Technical user? Casual music consumer?
Where did I make any claim related to that? The only remark I made was that, "entity X can print money at will" does not imply "entity X has AAA status", as the comment I replied to seemed to imply.

I did not check this, but Zimbabwe definitely did not have an AAA rating in, say, 2008.
should ISPs be charging for P2P traffic that stays within the network?

In some cases (DOCSIS), such traffic costs the ISP much more than downstream Internet traffic. http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/peerto09.pdf
Spotify "discover" 7/10 IMO, I find new music everyday via Spotify + Facebook integration.

Though discovery should not get high ratings in 2011 as there are so much that could be done using social and Music-DNA to discover music - so giving any of these services more than 8 is just a joke.
He started a business, and now his business is starting other businesses. Recursive...
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I know there are post out there about what are good computer monitors, so if someone can link them that would be great, or mention what is a good computer monitor for coding, but still be an everyday monitor
Andrew Warner will be spewing. I don't think he's ever gotten an admission to someone crying in an interview!

In the Kevin O'Connor interview he even came right out and asked to hear about the times he was crying in the shower! [1]

Call it beginner's luck I guess?

[1] http://mixergy.com/kevin-o%E2%80%99connor-doubleclick-interv...
Hi, I'm a longtime grooveshark fan and user but I've also had similar questions to the grandparent. You let users upload music arbitrarily. You also add that music to your index and use it globally on the site (or I presume so, since some of your music has irregular tags or tags that say things like "radio rip"). How is this legal? I don't think you're allowed to upload music and keep it there as long as you don't get a complaint about it. That's basically the same thing as having an ftp full of mp3s. You can't even claim that you're not hosting the content. Maybe what you're doing is more similar to what youtube is doing.
Why didn't you use UIAutomation? Was it lacking?

(http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Develo...)
I imagine they may just be the only two that the poster knows about. It's not like it's a radio button poll, though. It's enough to spawn a discussion. Someone that knows can respond in free-form.
Where is Last.FM on this list? It's actually the best (in my opinion) service out there. Their "discovery" feature is the best, and simplest to use - just choose "Play artist/song/tag XXX radio", and it will play related songs for you. Their catalog seems immense, and I listen to some of the most obscure stuff out there (/hipster joke). And it's completely free.. the only thing it doesn't do is play music "on demand", but nobody else got that right either (for free).
I am annoyed at MacWorld for not using the words "patent troll". The whole article is depressingly neutral. I realize that there is virtue in reporting the news objectively, but these people are thieves and MacWorld should regard them as such.
They's not so much anti-acquisition as they are warning that the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow may not be all that you seek or wish it to be.
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While he might be a fine advisor (I wouldn't know), I would assume his main value add is PR. He definitely knows that space inside and out.
Grooveshark has been playing a lot of copyrighted material without licenses for a very long time. It takes it down; the content reappears. I understand that you're somewhat protected by DMCA, but the entire business was built on the backs of mostly mainstream content. It wasn't until you already had a big audience that you started securing the majority of your most important licenses, and plenty of the music there is still not properly licensed. EMI is a perfect example. Only recently did you get a license from them, and yet their artists have been playing on Grooveshark for ages.

If you really did a good job of making sure the music that was uploaded wasn't copyrighted, you wouldn't have a business because nobody would be looking for that music. The period between illegal mainstream content going up, and that content coming down, is just long enough for Grooveshark to have a competitive cost advantage over companies who properly license their material from day one.

If the tactics aren't at least "questionable", then why has Universal declared "legal jihad" on Grooveshark?

P.S. My band's music is on your site. I didn't put it there and neither did anybody else with proper authority to do so.
Let's just pretend we are binding values. There are ways to make perl look like you are doing parameter assignment.

sub {
my $builder = shift;
return sub {
my $n = shift;
return $builder->($builder)->($n);
};
}->(
sub {
my $recurse = shift;
return sub {
my $n = shift;
say "$n"; # Just a way to test
if (0 == $n) {
return 1;
}
else {
return $n * $recurse->($recurse)->($n - 1);
}
};
}
)->(5);

I was confused about the "perl can't do this" part.
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Multicast doesn't (currently) work in the Internet due to router state cost, and is orthogonal from IPv6. In a hypothetical Internet where multicast works and is free, I could see pirates adopting it but anybody who can afford to pay would probably stick with unicast — bandwidth isn't that expensive these days.
It's interesting you mention that. The US (& most other places) may have something to learn from Israel here. It is my understanding that they make people waiting in airport lines to remain in small groups and arrange them in such a way as to minimise the expected loss of life in the case of suicide bombings etc.
How to stop procrastinating:

1) Stop reading articles about procrastination.
2) Start doing what you're supposed to be doing, you lazy asshole.
"Google's market problems aren't app developers responsibility to overcome just because they are 'sort of known'."

Ummm yes they are. When apple changes their policy for subscription, you either quit or adjust.. When twitter says no in stream ads to an ad company like ad.ly, they either quit or adjust, when facebook says no to an app that notifies users of changing relationship , you either quite or adjust... etc, etc.
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Also, just the amount of issuance will in itself increase the risk, as interest payments are higher.
No that is not generally the case.