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Though the iPhone uses a YouTube app, which isn't the web. The allure of the Chromebook is that it can play the whole web, and YouTube is a big part of that. YouTube does have html5 video, but it is still in beta and isn't available for all videos. And it is opt-in.

In addition, with the focus on enterprise and education, I believe that Chromebooks had to support flash as a requirement.
The research determined that single photons could not move faster than the speed of light (sounds obvious, but quantum scale objects don't necessarily behave). This does not disprove time travel, just one hypothetical phenomena that could have led to time travel.
I think this matter highlights the absurdity of being offended by issues discovered during beta-testing. I suppose it's beta testing for the masses so people start assuming it's the finished product.
The funny thing is, none of this would have been an issue if their initial real-name enforcement had been to temporarily suspend a profile, prompting users to change their name in order to turn them back on.

It's the lack of recourse that gets everyone up in arms more than the name policy
Microsoft doesn't have the content or services that are more compelling than its competitors to generate traffic.

Google has search, gmail, google docs, you tube, etc etc.

Facebook has your friends.

Microsoft has a bunch of second place also rans like bing, hotmail, msn, etc.
> Ok, so when someone is being stalked by someone they simply don't get to use the Internet anymore.

Google+ != the internet.
"Its obvious that even software development is bloated beyond belief with no pressure to actually be responsible with the people's money."

Of course there are portions of government programs that aren't working right. Like all things. I know mostly the healthcare world, so I'll draw an example from there:

Medicare uses about 3-5% of its money on overhead. Private insurers use between 15-30%. The insurance company has really well designed brochures, snappy sales pitches, and coverage that varies in quality so broadly that it is unbelievable. On the whole medicare is far more responsible with the money it receives, and provides significantly more efficient service.

How does this jibe with the world view you are presenting?
The real value of buying a technology company is the talent that comes with it. Sure, the technology is good, but you will need to continue innovating or else the technology will become obsolete. For that you need the talent. In company acquisitions what many times happens is that the talent just runs away which sort of defeats the whole point of buying the company (unless you just care about patents). Because of the risk of loosing the talent I don't think buying Bing is such a good idea, especially since it will cost billions. I wonder if it would be better for companies like Apple/Facebook to just develop their own search engines themselves. In fact, I would be surprised if Apple doesn't have some people working on something like that, even if just for R&D and it never goes anywhere. I know I would have a couple of smart people working on it.
Except it clearly doesn't. For the use case in question, an IDE can build a .apk and install it on a single connected device. Can you run it in the same step? What if the app has a 10MB data set and takes 8 seconds to install, can you optimize that by copying only the binary? Can you wipe the data from the host machine? How about install a known data set for a test? Install on 5 devices and run a test suite without manual intervention?

Every one of these is a valuable optimization for some workflow somewhere. All of them reduce the compile/test cycle by seconds or minutes, speeding development. NONE of them are done by any IDE I'm aware of.

Seriously: write code to help you write code. If you aren't doing this, you probably aren't writing good code. And if you gave that answer in an interview, I for one wouldn't hire you.
Seems to be the same article if not similar: Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-minority-scientists-idea...
Thanks! I've had a few comments to that effect. Updating it as we speak.
I found this a interesting comment, from Danny Sullivan - it's not always straightforward to define what a "common name" is:

"What are the best ways for people to prove their 'common name' status. Unless +50 Cent has a government ID with that name, it's pretty clear that Google made the sensible decision to let him use his stage name, which he's commonly known by, here rather than a legal name. But if you're not as well known as him, asking for things like government IDs to prove your 'common name' -- which you do allow -- seems difficult."
As is typical, the article talks about Microsoft's online services division without any analysis of it's role in Microsoft's corporate strategy.

Considering that OSD does not include profit centers related to cloud computing such as sharepoint, and the substantial goodwill OSD provides Microsoft (over $6 billion in 2010), valuing OSD as if it were the whole of Google, is just poor journalism.

Comprised of both Bing and MSN along with an advertising platform, among the roles of the Online Services Division is to provide a channel by which Microsoft can promote it's products to consumers - e.g. Microsoft does not pay to advertise Windows 7 on MSN or to place advertising for SQL server alongside Bing search results. [I'll leave aside my hypotheses about the value of Bing as a research tool and as a strategic way of keeping Google from datamining queries from Redmond].

[Link to 2010 Microsoft 10-k: see Part II Item 8 Note 10] http://apps.shareholder.com/sec/viewerContent.aspx?companyid...
For some people (not me), this is an issue of safety; I somewhat agree with you that people who genuinely need to protect their identity from The Internets might be better off not using social networking. There are some corner-cases, like famous people who want to be online to communicate with their fans, and with their families, but don't want their families to have to deal with unwanted publicity, but the number of people in the world who are that famous is very small.

For me, the bigger issue is correctness: through various quirks of history, different groups of people know me by different, unrelated names, and I'd like my friends to be able to recognise me as we encounter each other in this new medium. Pseudonymity is a different thing to anonymity.
Surely this particular restriction should be considered anti-competitive? Where is the FTC?
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Well, for someone that uses VIM/Emacs heavily, Eclipse might be fine as an IDE, but I don't like to use it as an editor. When I'm using eclipse to edit code, I feel like I'm using microsoft word -- user friendly, but not "coder" friendly.

Also, try using eclipse on very large projects -- it gets very slow. Sometimes I'm not sure if eclipse is hung, or if it's still stuck compiling something or fetching something in maven.
The ambiguity is that the law (or at least the system) is unjust. The patent system is supposed to promote innovation by granting a limited monopoly to truly revolutionary ideas, in order to encourage people to spread knowledge of these revolutionary ideas. In practice, almost all software patents are trivial to reproduce by a skilled practitioner of the art, so no knowledge is spread. Enforcing these patents kills competition without any corresponding benefit to society.

(The people who have the licenses and rights don't generally care about credit, only money.)
I don't know what a common complaint is against Twitter. But Google+ shares Buzzes stream/comment structure exactly -- in that comments on a post are heavily highlighted and constantly thrust in front of you. I don't just follow X, I follow X+ whoever comments on his posts, and my stream is very highly reactive to those comments.

Twitter does not work like G+ does. G+ does however work exactly like Buzz does in this respect (for public posts).

I consider myself a fairly regular guy, and yes the naming (among other things, but the ridiculous names of people I'm not following, specifically) annoyed me to no end on Buzz. So yes, considering G+ is a Buzz clone when it comes to public posts and comments -- it will annoy me on G+, and I assume I'm not alone.

Buzz is the most perfect first-line example that exists.
> That means with double the revenue (i.e. nearly Google's market share)

You're assuming search revenue and market share are linearly related. The whole point of the Bing/Yahoo deal was that they are not - as market share increases, revenue increases superlinearly.
In my city (at least) cyclists are entitled to a full lane, just as a car is. If there is a curb lane designated for bicycles that is preferred, but a cyclist can always take up a full lane if needed.
Apple is a very focused company. They build nice gadgets and sell them for nice profit margins. Everything they do is directed toward that goal.

Entering the search business means entering the online advertising business. They don't know anything about that business; just look at how iAds is working out.

Steve Jobs himself said directly at one of the All Things D conferences something like (paraphrase), "We don't want to do search. It's not a business we know anything about, other people do it well, there's no reason for us to get into it."

That's focus. It's something that's badly needed at Microsoft.
With regards to performance, keep in mind that there is simply a difference in processor performance. A mobile architecture browser is just not going to be as fast as a desktop based browser.

There are additional optimizations that can be done, of course--the ARM assembly generated by current JITs is not of quite the same quality as the x86 assembly, because the architectures are structured differently and ARM was shoe-horned in afterwards. Different ways of performing operations do better on ARM than on x86--the architectures have different performance characteristics. In point of fact, some of the JS team at Mozilla has shifted focus to improving ARM code generation.

Second, you are assuming that everyone at Mozilla works on the same single project. This is simply not so. There will still be a significant team of people working on improving the current mobile Firefox. This new project is distinct.
Possible cause:

The start of every project is fun. Its new. I have a paycheck again. Horray! When it comes time to actually start doing work, the lusture wears off. Whoa, this is more complicated than I thought, hrm, I am kinda stuck. I'll take a break for a day, clear my head. Then one day of procrastination turns into 2, then a week. From there it just turns into an endless cycle of dodging the client and making excuses about the 'code being a mess' because you are so far behind and there is no chance of ever catching up.

Possible solution:

1) During the interview, look for signs of interest in the domain the software covers. Or interest in the specific technical problem you are trying to solve.

2) Look for a candidate who is maybe a little less experienced but is really looking for a chance to prove themselves.
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It's hard to swallow Google claiming the high ground after according to their own analysis, they were willing to pay significantly more than they believed the patents were worth.

As they say, "We've established what kind of woman you are, now we are just negotiating price."

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When I first saw this was open source, I downloaded it immediately. Was pretty sure you were gonna take it to become a billionaire, so I wanted to have it as a reference for my own projects. Glad to see I can still get the updates. :)
Ask HN: Should I build a mobile app for freshbooks
I have been using freshbooks for 3 months now and I like it. However I am not too happy with the choices I have for an iphone app http://community.freshbooks.com/addons. There is only one decent app and that is http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/view/minibooks/ . But they charge $15 for that app.

I am thinking the users of freshbooks are in thousands. If I can charge even $5 then that would be good sum of money. Any thoughts.
Slow? What kind of hardware are you running it on? For me everything eclipse does is instant.
No, but I do use Reader at least weekly. I use RSS reader to avoid blog's annoying advertisement (although some blogs has ads in their RSS but that less annoy) and heavy load theme (yes my internet connection suck)
From the photo it doesn't look very hard to remove.
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Yes, many times per day.
If you think you can do better than what's out there, why not? Worst case scenario you have a Freshbooks tool that you like to use. Go for it.
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>>Apps can be delivered over the web, but data is stored locally. If it is backed up remotely, then it is encrypted first. If our app communicates with other users, then it does so P2P instead of through a central service.

I really wish this to happen. But unfortunately your next statement,

These steps would ensure the company whose app we use only knows that we are using the app, and not what our data is or who else we are interacting with.

clearly says why it wont happen.
I just noticed that too on John Boehner's website.

http://johnboehner.house.gov/

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It's better to make coal powerplants run cleaner too. Thorium will require serious effort to develop, a decade perhaps, but sure would be nice to have. Modern uranium is not that bad either.

There was some solar thermal project in California that ran into a lot of problems trying to use the desert land. Old power companies are paying environmental groups to protest those sprawling projects. Divide and conquer those hippies!

High altitude wind is the best source of renewable energy. It's concentrated and takes up airspace instead of land. They're taking their time though.
Apple rejected our iPhone/iPad app for the exact same reason. We had a link to our website in the help section.
I've used a similar technique to this called Mutation Testing to find code that wasn't tested by a unit test.

It doesn't use a GA, but it's still pretty neat. It parses the code into an AST and then mutates each node in the AST, rerunning the tests to see if they pass or fail. They are supposed to fail; if they continue to pass, it means a state isn't being tested.

The computer acts as my assistant tracking down cases I forgot to test, so that I can write the test to catch the mutation. Sometimes it even finds sections of code that are impossible to reach normally, allowing me to remove the dead code paths that I might otherwise have missed.
The problem with the game business is that so many young developers see it as a glamorous industry that, unlike most other dev specialties, there's more supply than demand. Employed game devs are reluctant to make too many waves because they know they can be replaced. This is why salaries are low and hours long.

I can't say I miss working in that industry much myself.
once a week.. as feeds increase I want to spend more time on it
Having to wait six years for a solution is ridiculous. In the same situation, I probably would've just moved out.
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Perhaps, but you are comparing Jupiters to raisins.
You know, all up, I like the site.

I think the MOST obvious use is for Mobile App designers that don't want to deal with web hosting in the short term.

I really like the simple prettiness of the stats page. Isn't recognising AtomicWeb or Safari from the Ipad though.

I've been trying it out: (warning shameless promotion)
http://faqme.com/howto
http://faqme.com/earthshout

Thanks for putting the site out there Pud and I am happy to write your FAQME FAQ's...

PS: "an FAQ". You write it like you would say it out loud.
Also, first post.... not sure about this news editor....
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To round out the reading list:

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I'm using NewsRack (which sync's with Google Reader), so implicitly I'm using Google Reader (just not it's web UI).
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Samsung in on pace to become the #1 seller of phones in the world and the #1 seller of smartphones in the world. I don't have access to their numbers since they're a private company, but from what they report their revenue and profits dwarf that of RIM.
I'm not in a wheelchair but I do have a disability. I'm also terrified of heights. There is no freakin' way I could be lifted up on the outside of a building like that.

Twelve thumbs down to the lame folks who failed to install an elevator. Props to this guy.
They're also probably the ones that type "google" into the Bing search bar to get to Google. :)
I'd suggest allowing users to embed this on their own sites using <script>. My current employer has trouble with FAQs because we have to manually create them in fckeditor, but there is no way in hell we'd link out to your site. We'd want it to simply be embedded on our own pages.
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So you removed the link?
I just don't understand why people are so against Google over this, when Facebook has always been doing it.

I know it's a delicate issue and it deserves debate, but at least I'd like the issue being discussed in a more general setting.

That being said, I think it would be another advantage of Google+ over Facebook to allow people to use pseudonyms, because it's yet another thing Facebook would never change.
>>I'd much rather have Mozilla working on an "OS for the web" than Google, despite whatever problems Mozilla may have.

In this context, one of the problems that Mozilla has compared to Google is money.
Interesting that they are publishing that he is 16 considering that Google+ is currently limited 18+ for the "field trial"
What if two people independently arrive at thesame algorithm, say, an optimal implementation with the least possible amount of code in a given language. Is it still a copyright violation? You can't copyright math, can you?
Those are great points.
Please educate me, I honestly don't know, but I've tested html5 games on an iPad2 and a 5 year old single core PC and seem the PC consistently outperform the iPad2. What is it about ARMs that are so slow compared to the equivalent or worse x86 chip?

I'm completely supportive of this project, and would probably use it on my personal phone, I just wonder if Mozilla isn't already stretched too thin.
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I'm always surprised at the unmitigated hostility at cyclists on the road. Like, nasty aggressive swerving, cussing, etc., all kinds of driving that makes the car driver a far greater liability than the cyclist.
I'm guessing that you don't work on a large compiled application. :)

When you're working with millions lines of C, the speed of the compile decreases (nearly) linearly with the number of cores. Having gobs of memory speeds things up, too, because large portions of your filesystem will be cached in RAM all the time. Throw in a couple of VMs that you use for different build environments and you can easily suck up 4 gigs of RAM.
So... this is tender ground to be treading (holy wars).

I am a strong believer in your tool feeling good to you; it is the environment you create in. The better it feels, the faster and more cohesively you will work (within reason).

That being said, I'm comparing Eclipse+ADT to IntelliJ. I have no opinions on alternative home-brew solutions that are a combination of editors and command line.

For Android development, you'll want the following things:

- Strong Java editor support
- Strong Android UI support
- Strong debugger support
- Strong deployment/emulator integration
- Support for whatever Android version you are targetting.

The two IDEs in all those areas are damn near similar, except...

ADT 12 just added a slew of nice, Android-specific context-sensitive content assists that are really damn nice.

In addition, ADT 12 jumped the visual layout designer forward in a big way with accurate component rendering in preview as well as support for custom components[1].

I think something worth considering is that Android support is a feature, among 100 other, that the core IntelliJ team develops, support and extends.

ADT is the official, Google-driven effort to develop and expand their Android tooling on the Eclipse platform. The ADT team isn't distracted by things like autocomplete support, classpath scanning, project formats, etc... all they do is develop Android tooling directly ontop of Eclipse.

I would expect that the ADT tools continue to be more robust and outpace competitor implementations.

I would also point out that the ADT team has some seriously fantastic developers on it; if you are the type to enjoy high level "new feature" overviews of IDEs, check out Tor Norbye and Xavier Ducrohet's presentation at Google I/O 2011 showing off a lot of the new features in ADT 12[2].

I realize up to now it has sounded like I'm an Eclipse fan, but I am just a "tools to get things done" fan.

[1] http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq05KqjXTvs
NewsBlur is awesome. I think it's the visual refresh that google reader needs. It also has a public documented API which is awesome. Google readers API users have to cobble together documentation of a private API. After a public API was promised years ago.

But one gripe, when is newsblur going to get google reader sync. As many have mentioned on this thread they like using google reader as the backend sync between many clients. There is already a issue in github.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/19
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I think pseudonyms might have the same problem that too much customization over myspace profiles drove people to facebook; people are stupid and don't do what is best for them. More customization of profiles has probably been the #1 request on facebook since it's inception and they have deliberately not launched it, which ends up being what the people actually want despite what they think they want.

Everyone wants to be able to set their profile to their favorite color and have their favorite song autoplay, but no one wants to see other peoples crappy color schemes or hear their music that you don't like. Lots of people want to have some random name on Google+ but people don't want to interact with a bunch of people named "vagtastic" or "bluntzzz".