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I use offlineimap to download my e-mails to my computer. I should do it more often, though.
Is there any way to avoid this at a company where huge scale of 'free' products is the norm? It doesn't seem feasible to provide proper customer service in that business model, and that business model seems to be where things are headed...
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Apple's "leaner install base" for Lion seems to ship with Oracle's VisualVM tool, which won't work until you install Java
This reminded me of http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html What ever happened to the research into using diamond instead of silicon in chip wafers?
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A better base metric would be to measure how long it took to reach a specific number of items posted or shared per day. Those posts on Google+ about Google+ would be disqualified outright, which right now account for ~50% of my stream.

Also, in reference to the quickie TC chart, those of number of users who opted-in to a feature their provider activated. In other words, it's a voluntary rollout versus their previous social offerings.
The people who participate in sit-ins are IDENTIFIABLE. It's often the whole point that you show your face and identify yourself as an aggrieved party.

Furthermore, lots of those folks get arrested. It's exactly the point that you force the state to take you into custody and deal with you as a means of overwhelming them with otherwise law-abiding citizens.

SO...I don't agree with your assertion that it's the same thing. It's a manifestly different thing.
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A report from True University. Why aren't more VCs doing this?
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There has been talk of making Bravo's rain wash away anything left exposed, and eroding grass and stone. No code's been written, but it's an interesting idea.
For the company, sure - they could have better policies in place, could outline clearly which part of the TOS was violated, etc.

For the customer? Well, you can try to write a story and tweet it around, and hope someone notices.
But did Google Wave or Buzz take off that fast?

Yes, in two days, Buzz had millions of users according to Google:
http://tinyurl.com/3gsve3q

I think Google+ is way overhyped. It's currently riding a novelty factor among early adopters of not being Twitter or Facebook. You even get blasted on it if you mention "Follow Friday."
Ideally, a consortium of Apple+Microsoft+Nokia+Google+HTC+Samsung would buy out Lodsys to silence it.

That would be very bad. It would provide a strong incentive for future patent trolls to do exactly the same thing.
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Where does it store the data?

Also, looks like it's only for Google Apps - what are my options if I just want my pavel.lishin@gmail.com account (and all associated data) backed up?
He makes a good point: "Being into open data doesn't mean just exporting yours, but being willing to import mine."
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Yeah, I was looking for the part where it actually explained what happened. It read something like:

"Diamonds are not made from coal under intense heat and pressure. They are made on top of the magma a hundred to two hundred kilometers below the surface"

So... you're telling me magma is not immensely hot, and two hundred kilometers of crust is not really heavy?
If they're infinite, the article doesn't do a very good job of even making this basic point. In any case, this bears little relation to what is ordinarily meant by urbanization.
> Which is the base class for all classes?

> java.lang.Object

> This is true for custom classes. For primitive types such as int.class, void.class and Object itself have no super class.

This is misleading. Primitives (and void) are not classes at all, which is why they do not have a superclass. Interfaces also don't have superclasses for the same reason. These all do have a representation of the type 'java.lang.Class', and they all support the class literal (X.class) expression, but they are not classes. java.lang.Object is still the base class for all classes.

If I had an interviewee throw this stuff at me, I'd consider it a negative. If you're going to be pedantic, you'd better be correct.

As for this:

> Which one is faster in Java ?

> for(int i = 100000; i > 0; i--) {}

> for(int i = 1; i < 100001; i++) {}

> Answer: Which ever is run second with be fastest. The server JVM can detect and eliminate loops which don't do anything...

Will the compiler itself not detect and eliminate these?

Edit: Apparently no, the compiler won't optimize those away. I can't imagine why. Whether the JIT will optimize away the second loop isn't as clear as he indicates, though. Assuming they are in separate methods, optimizing the first away (after it runs) will have no effect on the second.
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Spotify service fails on music quality: report
After upgrading my MBA to Lion, I couldn't launch Photoshop CS3 without installing a Java Runtime. Took 5 mins. Not really a big deal ...
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Java != XML

I code in Java all day every day and I haven't touched a line of XML in years.
What? Tibbon's post doesn't disprove anything. It just asks if Wave or Buzz achieved that many users so quickly, and the answer is yes--Buzz had millions of users after two days according to Google:

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users...
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This is really nice. The code of the demo app reads quite well - not only is it small its quite readable... I was thinking of using backbone for my next rewrite. Will have a serious look at this.
It makes sense for Apple to not bundle any extraneous, non-core stuff like the JVM/Ruby/Python runtimes with the OS and let people download and install things on demand from their preferred source. Microsoft has always done it this way.

The problem in the JVM's case is that Apple made some intricate changes to the JVM to better integrate with OS X / Cocoa - like the look and feel and other integration stuff. A JVM with default Swing implementation on a Mac, without these changes, would have never been used at all - it just doesn't go with a Mac.

These changes are not going to be Open Sourced and the required OS level support for these changes is going to be deprecated. Which means whatever solution OpenJDK comes up with is likely going to be at the level of 'bare minimum' - enough to run server side apps and stuff and may be some horrible looking alien Swing Apps based on X11 or something.

There's the hold up I think - they need to come up with open source reimplementation of the integration bits without needing any OS/framework level hacks and that ain't no easy task!
I must ask: why?

Both "why was the change made" and "why would you not link to your own blog article detailing the change?"

http://blog.minus.com/2011/07/21/min-dot-us-is-now-minus-com...
Is it reasonable to expect that any free service owes you much more than that? Google and Microsoft can blast away my entire 5+ year history of hotmail and gmail all they want. Anything really important is backed up on storage that I actually own.

Maybe I'm more paranoid than most but here are a couple of internet rules that I keep in mind:

1. Any thing in "the cloud" is subject to evaporation.

2. Anything posted online is open and free information to the entire world. If it is clearly specified otherwise, you can try your luck but don't be surprised when your luck runs out.
Right and most hate doing it because it hurts, so they don't. This will make it painless (after getting the tattoo) to continuously monitor your blood sugar level. Sweet (pun intended).
It seems that the fees have changed. In the article she says shopify keeps 20%. On their site it says:

"You will receive 50% of the profits. You will receive 70% (an additional 20%) of each sale if you agree to provide full support for your theme."
If the Fed buys bonds it's paying cash for them. Net savings doesn't change. It's just changing the duration of the savings.
I'm a data nerd and I like to see when people click on my links :) For example barely anyone clicked when I posted this on twitter vs. tons of exposure on HN: https://bitly.com/qxaxrC+

Dunno, I just enjoy keeping track of what I post and seeing what's popular, etc!
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They sure don't talk much about how it would actually work. Does anyone even know if it can be done? Or was this a SOI process.
Blizzard has a PhD in econ working for them to manage the in-game economy, iirc from my time on the WoW forums.
Those are covered in the anti-pattern book.
I think the other part of that problem is that, even if they could be guaranteed to win and have their costs paid, the whole process could take a very long time, and they have to be able to pay all those costs in the meantime.
A few things.

First, as mentioned in the article, the Museum of Modern Art in NYC will be featuring Dwarf Fortress as part of its "Talk to Me" exhibit. The exhibit will be open from July 24th through November 7th. http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1080

Second, for those looking to get into the game, the two recommended video tutorials are SippyCup's (humorous) http://www.youtube.com/51ppycup, and Captain Duck's (down to business) http://www.youtube.com/user/captnduck#p/a/u/1/yn1iW1QN7_s.

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Tarn has The Fisherman Parable philosophy and I have a tremendous amount of respect for that. Doing what you love, no matter the "sacrifice", above everything else. He's probably the biggest reason why I've been working on the side to try to create my own games, so I can get the heck out of finance and do what I wanted to since I was 6 years old. Until that works out for me, I send a monthly donation to ensure that at least someone can fulfill their dream.
How many of those other companies offer a credible Twitter competitor? Twitter's chilly attitude toward third-party Twitter clients makes it seem moderately likely to me that they'd cut off Google's firehouse access to keep it out of Google+.
I'm 27 years old, and I'd feel odd if someone referred to me as "The Man Who X".
Didn't all those "good" things he mentions that come from Java actually come from other languages (Smalltalk, Haskell, Lisp, ...)?
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with a strong focus on the most lucrative forms of search

Their revenue hasn't shown they've achieved this. Their search revenue seems about inline with what you'd expect for their marketshare. Not disproportionately higher.

Remember when MSN Messenger was #1 in a lot of the world, and so was Hotmail? Remember when Spaces had initial momentum in the photo-sharing/blogging world and they were about to introduce Circles? Remember QnA, which had a shot at combining with algorithmic search to duplicate Naver's approach in South Korea?

Win Live Messenger ist still #1 in a lot of the world. I Think its #1 worldwide in fact. Hotmail is still top 3 probably (Yahoo, Hotmail, GMail?). But honestly I don't really remember anyone using the other ones. I recall Spaces, but no one was really using it. I donm't recall QnA at all.

I think what MS tried to do was focus. And they decided that search was their focus area in the online space. I don't think it was an unreasonable call. And frankly, I think if I were in charge, I'd do the same thing. And if I were running MS today, I think I'd continue to invest in search -- especially mobile.
I find great fault with your calling these services "free." They are free to the user but we pay for them (and they make money) by us looking at targeted ads that they are serving us. The issue is that they hold far more command over us than other free services out there (like OTA TV, for example).
We're getting so close to that tricorder I can taste it. Keep it up guys!
Yeah, but using the iPhone is more buzzworthy. Even if you're just using it as a hammer, using the iPhone instead of something else = buzz and clicks
Waste management for computers?
Nice lib for small apps. But for something bigger I would consider go for Backbone - it have much more defined separation of models/controllers/views.

Although I like data-bind stuff - really neat!
Panic, that I can't do it.
Then I do it.
This is pretty cool. It didn't work for me on Firefox 5.0.1 but it did work for me on Google Chrome 12.0.742.122. Thanks for posting this!
This sort of thing is why I find myself uncomfortable being reliant on any service where I don't have a paying relationship (and some real human customer support) with the service provider.
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Jive turkeys who apply patterns for the sake of applying patterns are the reason the code was bad. But don't blame the GoF.
I think this article was written to drive traffic only. The author is comparing apples and oranges and he knows it.
I disagree. The h-online.com articles, while not in bulletpoint style, are usually more detailed and better written, and currently the best way to dig into a new release.

Overview: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-3-...

Networking: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3...

Filesystems: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3...

Architectures and general infrastructure, including virtualization: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3...

Drivers: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Kernel-Log-Coming-in-3...
He did mention he paid for additional storage, so he's a patron. Understandably, there are business expectations attached to that.
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You can still use Gmail and use a personal domain for emails. Best of both worlds.
That is precisely the root cause of it. Well spotted.
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They're infinite in the sense that more will always exist, but you'll have to keep walking further and further to get at them.
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apparently the shooter on the island was nordic, tall, blonde in appearance. (according to tv2.no news)
While being strong in the market doesn't necessarily quantify better/worse or more/less elegant. But it does mean the tires have been kicked a lot more.
Yes, the iPhone is currently just a camera chassis, but it's a network-enabled camera chassis. As the article said, they want to write an iPhone application to do the analysis immediately instead of offloading it to a desktop computer. If the processing is too heavy, the iPhone still has the advantage of being able to zap the image off to a server that can munge it and return the results. Easier than schlepping an SD card back to your PC.
Backupify uses AWS, if I recall correctly. Services like this will become an absolute must, I expect.
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Don't miss the chance to read through the "Boatmurdered" Dwarf Fortress succession campaign:

Perhaps most fascinating are the stories that fans share online, recounting their dwarven travails in detailed and sometimes illustrated narratives. In a 2006 saga, called Boatmurdered, fans passed around a single fortress — one player would save a game, send the file to another player and so on, relay-race style — while documenting its colorful descent into oblivion. (After a vicious elephant attack: “A single untrained marksdwarf stands ready to defend the crossing, but I doubt he’ll be enough.”) Boatmurdered spread across gaming sites and made the front page of MetaFilter, a popular blog. “That did a lot to make people aware we existed,” Tarn says.

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/
I've done this before, but only when I knew the designer pretty well as there is a lot of trust that goes in to this type of arrangement.

"I have designed and developed large and small scale distributed systems. I have worked on web based applications, unix systems in user land and in kernels and build & release systems. I can code in C, C++, java, javascript, python, and a little bit of erlang. I can help with algorithms, math, and even a little bit of SVMs."

I would really love to talk to a designer that faces a problem in one of those areas!
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I can't speak for others, but I hated it. The people I know who liked it were the ones who were scared of JS because they didn't know it very well. The problem with GWT is that if you want to do anything semi-complicated you end up needing to write native JS anyway. So you end up with an ugly cludge of an app written in two different languages and cobbled together with a JNI-like mechanism. I also had a ton of trouble getting their funky debugger to work correctly. Writing in Closure is soooo much nicer. The Closure compiler can give you type safety, which seems to be about the only benefit of GWT.
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Luddite. :P Seriously, would you prefer a car that was built by a robot or a human?

Personally, while I see where you are coming from and share your reservations about unproven technologies, I also foresee a time - within our lifetimes and hopefully sooner than later - where cars are 100% computer controlled and roads are at least an order of magnitude safer.

Imagine if every drunk at the bar could just press "home" on the dashboard of their car and then sleep it off during the trip?
I know of no-one who does, technically challenged or otherwise. Also, I don't have downvoting rights.
Bandwidth is not the only consideration. Apple sells MacBook air's with a single 64GB 'disk'. On such a system, users will notice a difference if you manage to save 'a couple hundred megs' a few times.
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I am looking for a freelance UI/UX designer to design my pre-launch website for my startup. Does anyone have any recommendation working with a good designer? How much does it typically cost (range) ?
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The developer package you download from connect.apple.com is a full JDK in its own right, there's no need to link the sources to the JRE under /System. You just need to let Eclipse know that there's a new JDK in '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/' and make that the default in your Eclipse execution environment settings for 1.6; all your projects for that environment will pick up the new JDK along with the sources and docs. I link the specific JDK to 'latest' under the JavaVirtualMachines' and use that in Eclipse; that way I can just recreate the symlink after upgrading to a newer JDK and my IDE doesn't have to care.
Yes. But the pure part of your program tends to be bigger in Haskell than in Java.
It makes sense for Apple to not bundle any extraneous, non-core stuff like the JVM/Ruby/Python runtimes with the OS and let people download and install things on demand from their preferred source.

But they do bundle Ruby 1.8.7.
Here's some footage from the attack location just seconds after the explosion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciQvqBgK-nY
How about don't refer to it as IT?
Does seem very neat and I like the proposal except for the idea that all JS/CSS/HTML are all contained in the same code... that to me seems like a recipe for headaches down the line, even if it does speed up initial development.
This is called concept. Really useful service. Awesome !
The thing that annoys me is that people always thing the worst when something happens in Apple land. Most of the times things happen because they simply make sense.
It is reasonable to expect them not to be jerks. Google saved a penny in doing this, and they caused hundreds of dollars and dozens of hours of losses to the victim. It's "my penny is more important than your hundred dollars" mentality that's the problem.

It's simple - don't be a jerk. If you want to terminate relationship with a user, let him leave and take his stuff him. Just because the two of you did not get along and you happen to have the power, does not mean you should inflict misery on the other guy.
Replace Facebook with Google Search and Twitter with Gmail, then add in Orkut for good measure. That would be an interesting graph.
And Scala, and JRuby.
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FontGame for iPhone, dev's notes and analysis ("expect slow sales")
example.com/2010/terms-of-service would still be a good URL for the namespace reforming reasons you cited.
Google+ reached 10m users in 16 days. How long it took Facebook and Twitter?
(and oil is not made from dinosaurs - really)
Google Apps, or do you have a simpler setup?
I know - but they don't necessarily have to continue doing that unless core OS stuff relies on it.
5-6 month checkpoint is from the time you go full time.

I hear of people doing it from time to time, but I generally think the self-funded folks fly under the radar. When people raise money you see more press coverage, so in terms of what you read about online I think the visible data may be slightly skewed. I know many many people that worked for some amount of time (usually less than 1 year) self funded and then either raised money or pulled the ripcord and went back to work.

I do not personally know many who were able to get to something near break even or viable in less than 1 year. But that is just me.
> one (big) part terrible UI/UX designers

I had always assumed that eBay couldn't/wouldn't change their UI because their users are not techies and would be more confused by change than the terrible UI they've already learned. Users have learned how to do what they want, even if they don't understand why.

For example, my parents know that to watch DVDs, they need to press button X on remote #1 and then button Y on remote #2. They just don't know why.
I think you should keep in mind that you appear to be an intelligent, skilled and avid driver. For you driving is an experience you take seriously and also seem to enjoy. I'm not worried about what you do on the road, but I am worried about the millions of less intelligent and skilled drivers that are pushing 3000lbs of metal around at lethal speeds.

I think you are justified in wanting and buying a machine that suits your needs, but please don't assume that everyone is or even should be as adamant about driving as you are. I for one will happily let the computer take the wheel and allow me to focus on things I care about like conversation or coding. If I want a joy ride hopefully I'll be successful enough to own a classic gasoline powered driving machine ;)
T-Mobile says G-Slate is 200% faster than iPad 2, 300% faster than XOOM