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I was meaning "Symfony is in a league different from the one that Yii is in"

I value Symfony so much because you can create all model classes, crud forms etc from command line (as much as you want as you update your schema) just based on specifications from a easy to manage yml file. Also with ORM behaviors, you are in control of everything about your model.
Just replying to say how you are confirming my point either you intend to or not: What people think about different things differ, and there is no "universal" consensus about most things.

Like there is no universal consensus on the iPhone being "better" than its Android rivals.

I guess we somehow agree even though we seemingly don't.
Broadband performance study finds huge regional disparities in US
Many business sites still consist of mainly static content.
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Cool =)
But who says perl has "no support for Japanese"? Don't think that's true
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The enhanced version is completely different from the regular version. Not only are the reasons different, but a lot of the languages don't even inherit from the same sources (the regular version had javascript coming from java. wtf?). Just goes to show how arbitrary/silly it all is.

Still pretty awesome. Why did haskell come about? "Lazy evaluation is cool, yo."
I use it for short sessions on mobile, when I know I'll spend less time than it takes Fennec to load.
Where is Amazon MP3?
But the reason they're currently able to extract the profit they are from the market is that they've been able to build an aura as the only true 'premium' quality device, in some people's mind I've no doubt the only device of its kind.

That isn't sustainable. Both awareness and quality of competitor devices (primarily Android) is rising, and if unchecked will become a truly serious competitor to Apple. Who are then left with a premium but niche device that's incompatible with the software base of the largest platform and more expensive, and they're left selling look, feel and image over functionality for a premium - otherwise known as the 1990s MacOS strategy.

This leaves them two alternatives:

* Try to remove competitors from the market to protect your position and so margins. This seems to be the current 'patent war' strategy.

* Start trying to compete on volume. Low-end devices to get customers into the iOS ecosystem, price competition on the premium devices. It's working with tablets after all, where the major competitors to the iPad are still baffling me by producing half a netbook's components for twice the cost rather than merely 1.5 times the cost as Apple have. Problem, though, is that the whole market volume strategy increases costs and workloads, decreases margins and starts chipping away at the premium image.

Short answer: I don't see how Apple's current strategy is sustainable in the long-term. If that revenue graph is accurate, I'd be shorting Apple's stock.
I've looked through some source code in the Symfony 2 components. The code is well organized, commented, and most of all it is of high quality.

As far as I am concerned, Symfony 2 is the gold standard example for developing a PHP project of any kind.
There is also sfGuardPlugin, a great plugin for user management. It has everything about user management, easily integrates with symfony. Saves you so much time.
CloudFlare does proxying and cashing for static and dynamic pages too and adds some security stuff. Not sure they minify and compress static resources, though. So, both services look like they are very different. CloudFlare will speed up a dynamic page that loads slowly, Google's service won't.
Why an iPad app? I live in the US, but always thought that iPlayer was a web app/site.
Sad to watch them try to send another guy to jail for what they did. "No honor among thieves" came to mind.
I was just reminded of that xkcd comic and thought I would share. I wasn't actually trying to start an argument about the usage of the term "literally" (which is why I'm not continuing it!). In any case, I would have thought the comic portrays the person doing the correcting in a crazy enough light to show disdain for the practice...
I discovered my biggest complaint about Opera last night: It's not completely obvious how to set up a SOCKS5 proxy.

In Firefox it's as buried as you'd expect, but at least I never give up on it and use ssh/w3m to access private network sites.
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You should definitely drop by here to keep us updated on how things go! All the best.
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I haven't used Opera for nearly a decade.
Mess them up while they are young? The terrible state of web dev textbooks.
I only use it for testing.

It is easily the worst browser with respect to Canvas performance. It is almost always an order of magnitude slower than IE9, FF5, and Chrome 14.
I would consider it success.

$100/month is not a lot of money, but creating app that makes $100/month from nothing is much much more harder than polishing this app to bring $200 (or even $500) per month.
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Also added: Soundcloud, Amazon MP3 and Torrents
Why was a Secret Service Agent on campus in the first place?

Because only their wire taps (or laptops) are allowed in network closets... when other people do this, it is illegal ;)
Microsoft still pushing Public & Private cloud
Startup Qustodio launches killer parental control app
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- Understand how their kids use the internet
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I used Chrome for over a year and just recently went back to Opera. I have open bug reports for various bookmark problems in Chrome that have been ignored by the Chrome developers for several versions now. The chrome bookmarks code (and syncing) just needs to be thrown out and rewritten. It's a steaming pile of dung. I've even tried deleting them wholesale and letting chrome resync the whole bunch - it will only sync 100 per day as some sort of throttling mechanism, so it took a month for all of them to synchronize.

I do run into an occasional problem with Opera, for example, in Google docs, you can't upload a document. But for me, bookmarks are very important (I have over 5 thousand of them) and chrome can't handle them correctly.
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If it weren’t for this mishegas with the debt ceiling, there would be no doubt that the US would be able to pay its obligations, and even if Congress doesn’t act in time, the 14th Amendment ensures that the bond-holders would be first in line to get paid.

The US is one of the largest economies in the world; its overall tax revenues are low compared with other developed countries; as someone else pointed out, it controls its own money supply; it has enjoyed low inflation for the past thirty years; Americans grumble about our taxes but unlike Argentines and Greeks, we generally pay what we owe.
Per month on a regular basis? No.

Cumulative? Yes.

Both of my recent iOS apps reached 1k+ in their launch month, and average at least $1k every 1-2 months.
I use opera occasionally on my iPhone. Most common use case is when I'm playing a stream or podcast directly in Safari and I want to surf at the same time. Opera is surprisingly fast and works well considering that all the rendering is done remotely.
Having spent 5 years working directly with biologists at a major research center, I can confidently say that biologists don't want better tools. They have no interest in software beyond the bare minimum it takes to confirm the result they expect to see.
A pretty common reason for buying SUVs is because they apparently feel safer, so I think it is possible to argue that some people are indeed terrified of cars.
If you break even and make profits, then yes, it's a success.

Granted, you would need quite a few apps at that level a earnings to make a living.
Right next to my house (Ofallon, MO) there are two grocery stores within 200ft of each other. This is just ancedotal but any time I've thought about this topic I've always thought about it in relation to those grocery stores.
I'm just wondering if someone can invite him to the US on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to reiterate that message in a public forum. Nobody here is going to do it.
No, that is common sense. The dictionary definition[1]:

Good sense and sound judgment in practical matters

[1]http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=common+sense&tbs=dfn:...
What about Rhapsody?
Why would the government default on bond payments if debt ceiling isn't raised?
They release different styles of Macs and iPods, why is the iPhone the one product of theirs that has no differentiation?
That's exactly why I built http//listen.to.ricardo.cc! :)
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I fired chrome's bookmark sync and went back to xmarks. Works much better, though even xmarks still complains about chrome bookmark sync interfering (how? it's supposedly turned off) and asks me to redownload my bookmarks to one machine or another.
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Go ahead and upvote this mindless propaganda. But I really expected more from you.

http://www.infowars.com/oslo-police-conducted-bombing-exerci...
I hate when the top answers on stack exchange sites are suggestions to do something completely different (don't write your own web store). I wonder how that could be avoided. Should he have worded the question differently? Should there be separate upvotes for "answers question" and "useful information"?
Mesa is a GL renderer. POT only matters in 3D for things like texture sizes. Textures aren't allowed to have zero-sized dimensions. The check for v == 0 occurs far higher up the stack than where this function's used.

We're not writing bad code, we promise. :3
Societies adopt strongly held beliefs of minority
The discussion of admin tools is somewhat interesting - SQL Server's have been abysmal until recently. Seriously, if they couldn't have ported it to unix, at least offering some decent admin tools would have been nice.

I had a recent job where a very old NT4 box with SQL Server 6.5 was still installed. Getting the data off it to a modern platform involved the following upgrade version chaining.

6.5 -> 2000 -> 2005 32-bit -> 2005 64-bit -> 2008 R2.

So, 5 conversions, as there wasn't a simple "dump to text" tool. The silly thing is that database was under 100MB in size. (we did try dumping it into Access but certain saved procedures and other stuff in the DB wouldn't come over)

Then, after all that trouble, we realized that the client program was 16-bit, so they have to do a rewrite to run on x64 platforms (or run VM's, great...). And nobody has the code as the guy who wrote it fell off the planet.
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It's hard to compare the events and the psychological impact, but keep in mind that most of the victims are children, came from all over the country and knew the PM and rest of the parliament, especially the Labour party.

As far as I know, September 11 was an attack that killed people who worked in office and affected people who lived in or near New York the most, and did not hurt Bush administration like the Oslo-attack did.

I would suspect that may make it worse to bear for the Norwegian people, but as stated, it's hard to compare.
Can end-users somehow opt-out of the pages they are viewing passing through Google?

It should be technically possible but I doubt they will offer that.
There was tons of collateral damage in that war. It's a huge pain to transfer funds overseas and is a major impediment to opening up offices in other countries. Many banks won't even deal with the hassle if you're an American with a small company or below a certain net worth.

I guess some of the people doing anonymous banking or with offshore funds were indeed terrorists. But most of the "financial war on terror" is about terrorizing payment processors and banks, not actual terrorists.
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Depends on your definition of terrorism. Here's mine: an act of terrorism is an attack designed to elicit a reaction massively disproportionate to the damage directly caused, typically perpetrated by a non-state actor. This is why terrorists target planes, because plane crashes generate tremendous news coverage.

By contrast, if a person found an unnoticeable way to sabotage all cars in a city, making them slightly more likely to crash, and didn't seek credit, this would not be terrorism even if the act killed very many people.

You might say that our tolerance for the danger of driving is logically inconsistent with our expectations of perfect air travel safety. Is that irrationality a learned or innate one? Probably a mix, but certainly at least partially innate, similar to the human tendencies to value immediate rewards much higher than future rewards, or the loss aversion bias.
Oh, I'm not accusing you of that.

It's just how things supposed to be handled, Apple and Samsung are all big boys. We as costumers really should not be bothered with their petty squabble to be honest. Nothing drastic will come out of this case.
Right, but we have to limit ourselves to the upper segments of the smart phone market. If we include the cheapo Androids when talking about smart phones then Apple's relative market share may very well drop in the coming years (unless they come up with a lower-end iPhone but even a low-end iPhone would probably not exactly be low-end).

But I agree that they cannot afford to lose ground to HTC, Motorola, LG and Samsung's high-end phones.
There we go again. Market share. Author did not even bother to consider, at whose expense Samsung and HTC are gaining said share. Apple did grow too.

Fair point, but Apple's growth is clearly in a decline compared to earlier years.

And once the established smartphone market stabilizes at something with Android clearly in the lead (like 80% Android and 20% iOS) which platform do you think will get the attention of developers? Which platform do you think will get the apps first? Which platform do you think will get the exclusive apps?

If (and I say if) the divide gets big enough for these kinds of mechanisms to trigger and start playing in, iOS as a platform will slowly but surely lose users, and have the process reinforce itself until the platform wither off and dies.

So in that regard, while market share isn't everything, it is still important for lots of other strategic concerns which most certainly are.
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Depends on your intent. If you quit your day job to work on it and were hoping to make a living, then it's absolutely a failure. If it was a side project you were working on in your spare time, and you made it to learn and/or have fun, maybe not. I'm working on a project of the latter sort...it's not the kind of thing that can generate a significant revenue stream. But it was fun to write, it will be fun to use, and if it can pay its own hosting costs, that's an added bonus...
Success is the difference between expectations and results. I'm pretty sure the guy didn't expect to get millionaire with his app but according to his other posts he learned a great deal. I think it is not possible to consider these projects on financial success alone.
Very likely Perl didn't have integrated support for Japanese when this was generated. I'm not an expert, and this version was semi-crowd-sourced, so no doubt it's full of inaccuracies.

And it's just for fun.
Is this some sort of joke? This is usually a company wide policy at any large software company. Amazon is full of in-competent middle managers. Amazon as a company has no respect for software engineers and their quality of life. They are not in the same league as Google! No comparison. No self-respecting engineer lasts at Amazon for more than a few years. It is not a company where engineers go and build careers like Google, and heck even Microsoft. They have great top level leadership, and know how to suck blood and life out of their developers. That's about it.
Bullshit. Not to mean or anything. But bullshit. Most of the arrows are labelled with the author's post-hac, childish generalizations of language differences. JavaScript came from Java because of the scary syntax? No, it came from Scheme because of the scary syntax, Java's syntax was considered particularly comforting. There's no relation between Lisp and MacLisp. Lisp came from "Turing Machines"? Ruby came from Perl and Lisp (but not Scheme) and not from Smalltalk? In fact, seems like Smalltalk had no influence at all. It's a cool idea, but it forces one to trivialize language differences to a scary extent.
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I use it as my main browser.
Never had problems with canvas performance. Most websites don't use canvas anyway.

I tried almost all browsers (except Safari) and the latest versions (>9) got me hooked. I like the screenshots inside the tabs (when you drag them down). It is looking clean, doing what I want, nice developer tools. I like it a lot!
Where do people think "D" should be put? What arrows with what labels?
Good stuff but I'm not sure if if optimizing a website consisting of static pages this way really makes sense. If the website was done by an idiot then yes, but most of the users probably won't even notice any change in speed if the website was developed correctly earlier.

Also I probably wouldn't trust some other company enough to proxy my stuff to my users for the price of a slight optimization.
The US is far more complex than that with some areas being significantly more Democratic or Republican. Also candidate also choses a point on the political landscape and often needs to beat people within their own party before going after the general election. So there are plenty of Democrats that are far more conservative than elected republicans and vice versa.

This suggests that each race may have a seperate Nash equilibriam based on the canidates and the electrate.
The September 11 attacks also struck the Pentagon in Washington, DC, which would have the same effect on members of the American administration.
The U.S. uses pay-as-you-incur-costs type billing for some large projects, exactly for that reason (hard to estimate up front, would have to overprice it due to the risk), but I'm not sure it reduces waste overall. It provides a different kind of incentive, since now companies like Lockheed have a monetary incentive to drag projects on for years, overstaff them, etc. At least with fixed-price billing they have an incentive to finish the project, since they aren't going to get more money by dragging it out longer.
So, do the words "just for fun" not actually mean anything to you?

Just curious - you seem really angry about this.
It's pretty clearly not meant to be historical at all. That said, it's pretty questionable that it's much accurate at is trying to do either...
Makes one wonder if their monikers are really tightly tied to real persons. Maybe the core group uses their names interchangeably and when one of them is ousted with a raid, some one else from the group assumes the online identity.
What I don't understand is why we aren't being asked to look into the root causes of Breivik's terroristic impulses. Shouldn't the PM state that "Norwegian nationalism is peace" and visit a Christian church which has partially denounced the Knights Templar, to pour some oil on the troubled waters? It's very important for the Norwegian state to show that it is not at war with Christians. Not all Christian anti-immigrationists are terrorists, after all, and it would be stereotyping to make such a generalization.
On help groups, it has become common to address the XY problem: A user cannot solve problem X, but thinks that problem Y is equivalent and tries to solve that. The user can't solve Y either, and goes to ask for help on problem Y, without mentioning problem X.

Of course, this doesn't apply to this particular question, but I figured I'd explain why people do this.
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The way I figure it is, if it consistently clears $100/month more than the value of the time you put into it each month, hey, you've got a new macbook every year.
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I'd also like to point out that on Monday, an estimated 200,000 people turned out in Oslo for what was originally planned to be a "rose parade". The parade portion was canceled at the request of the police due to the huge number of people who turned out. --200,000 is more than 1/3 of the population in Oslo. Other cities also saw huge turnouts.

I am very amazed, but in many ways not surprised, at just how different the reaction has been in Norway as compared to 9/11 in the US and 7/7 in the UK.

You can read more about it here: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/07/26/extraordinary-show-of...

I've been taking pictures over the last week, including at Monday's events: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tallanvor/sets/7215762713080899...
tags and cscope look excellent.

However, for the grepping and general file searching stuff, wouldn't that be better done from the shell? I generally have both vim (either MacVim, or shell-vim) running, as well as a the command line sitting in a window right next to it.

What's the advantage of doing the searching inside vs. outside vim?
They are paid to care. That's their job. They are custodians of the public purse. We castigate irresponsible bankers - civil servants should not be excempt.
Python is "notenough OO" and leads to Ruby?

I smell a troll under the bridge.
I'm an Android fan, but marketshare between Android and iPhone doesn't tell the whole story, at least for developers. I haven't seen numbers on it in a while, but iOS is much better for devs in terms of making money. iOS users buy more apps, and if you're developing to make money, that's pretty good deciding factor.

Of course, may not want to develop for Apple for other reasons (store policies, not wanting to get randomly rejected, etc), but I'd assume money is the driving factor for many.

Now, that isn't to say that Android won't be making good profits. It's just that Apple has a cash cow with their App Store's 30% cut (and now mandatory payments in app). Actual market share matters less, because that's not necessarily where they're continuing to make money.