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I can somewhat see the logic in this. Though I've never understood why the "about" window is the location for updates in the first place (is it because the version number is typically there?).

But removing them means royally screwing bug-hunting. You can't ask them what channel they're on - what if they disabled automatic updates? What if their employer did? You can't ask them what version they are on in two steps (Firefox/Help => About), you'll have to send them... where? Some deep internal about:something page that looks like merely viewing it will destroy your computer, and requires you to type something abnormal? And just try getting people to type something correctly, or explain to them what an "address bar" is. Menus are known and relatively easy to traverse - they're just reading text.

Not only that, but it'll make looking for information about bugs harder too, because people will refer to channels more often, which rapidly becomes out-of-date information with no way to know which version it applied to.

You want to remove version numbers from the notifications about updates? Great! Big numbers aren't awesome for encouraging people to do things. But don't hide the version.
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>HTC announced that its first quarter 2011 profits were up by a staggering 191 per cent to $511 million from the same time last year. Revenue figures were not too shabby either, showing 174 per cent growth, meaning that profit growth outstripped revenue growth, something that is particularly desirable on any balance sheet.

Do you get your news from Apple centered sites and blogs and the comments there? There seems to be an element of cognitive dissonance(or perhaps PR rhetoric?). If this was MS, there would be shouts of paid shills, but I am not going there.

Edit: Samsung made a profit of 1.5 billion dollars off their phones just last quarter.
Not sure if it boosts your intelligence; I am an avid barefoot walker. City streets, the woods; pretty much anything other than screaming-hot blacktop.

It feels good; your feet get accustomed to it pretty quickly. The OP mentioned his eyes were really needed to watch where his feet were going, but if he keeps up this habit this won't be the case near as much.

Small bits of broken glass or things like this will tear through most tender footed westerners, but just a few dozen miles over a few weeks barefoot will toughen up your feet very quickly so that gravel and tiny-sharp things won't bother you at all.

I just feel 'better' with barefeet. After the winter, and I can take my shoes off and rub them in the grass, after so little stimulation; it's nearly orgasmic.

Increased awareness with barefeet? Likely. Intelligence.. mm not so much.
Google to acquire Motorola Mobility in a $12.5 billion deal
Would you mind elaborating on why MongoDB cares about speed over reliability. Sure, you can go that route (and sometimes that is what developers want to do), but MongoDB, as a database, reliably stores and persists your data.

Just curious what your experiences were that made you think MongoDB isn't a reliable data store.
He's making much longer-term assessments about the evolving market. You seem to be calling it a "total blowout" from the perspective of a reality that hasn't actually happened yet.
I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around this. If Joyent wanted to stick with a UNIX then why not FreeBSD and help implement KVM there? Wasn't XEN already available for Dom0? I just don't see much mindshare in Illumos/SmartOS for keeping up with current server hardware drivers. I really would have liked to see one of the existing BSDs benefit from the time they've put into this project.

Obviously Linux already has KVM, and there are new implmentations of DTrace and ZFS. Btrfs is not too many more kernel releases away from being considered stable(fsck being a glaring problem) and if you want container-based virtualization you've got LXC(some prefer OpenVZ).

With that said, who is their target audience?
That's exactly what I was talking about.
Also, that is exactly what I am against. You do not write best practices. you discover them.
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1) The patch number is for things like bug and security fixes, and gets reset every time the major/minor version gets bumped.

2) Every 6 week release you bump the minor version _unless_ some big feature(s) are ready to be rolled in, in which case you bump the major version instead.
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http://smartos.org/2011/08/15/kvm-on-illumos/
While at the same time, the Moto Mobility division gets 100% access and a big influence in the direction?
I have to agree with this. Looking at those statements side by side it's as if they were given an assignment with 8 key words to choose from and given 5 minutes to work up a sentence.
open my ass.
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In the last few years I have come to the conclusion, that the most important aspect of TDD is the mindset that comes along with TDD. With the right mindset we can practice TDD even in environments where we can't write unit-tests. And when we embrace this mindset, we realize that it is applicable in many other areas than writing software.
How are you going to convince folks in their 60s and 70s to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in something completely unproven if, at the very least, you haven't studied corporate finance and corporate strategy at HBS or Wharton or wherever? Once you get to a certain level just being able to impress Paul Graham or Dave McClure isn't going to cut it anymore.
its their way to telling people that they should use (1) latest software (2) turn on the automatic updates.
KVM was ported to illumos by Max Bruning, Robert Mustacchi and me. Details are here: http://t.co/knW1UIJ
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I'm not even sure what it does. You're giving suggestions for domain names but ask for a link to the site? Or do people just describe their business and you find a domain name for them? What if they don't have anything at all yet (no product name), is that ok?
> and has MORE customer satisfaction than Android phones.

Something which is yet to translate into phones sold.

> Did you even read the article I linked?

Sure. There is only a handful of WP7 devices out there and they are all very high-end. Android phones cover a much broader spectrum - there are low-end Android phones - and the number of disappointed users is going to be much higher.

From TFA: "The data might be skewed because of the limited number of Windows Phone 7 users out there"

> Meego/Maemo was not ready on time.

And we can see the difference now that Nokia is selling devices running WP7.

> And what advantage will having a kernel that could power an Android device do?

It means it's mostly ready - all hardware is supported by the Linux kernel and the effort to make it run Android is almost nothing. The N9 could have launched with Android.

> Anyway what happened to WebOS?

It's a fine OS that lacks a significant developer ecosystem. There is a finite number of phone developers and now they are all very busy writing software for iOS and Android. Only a few developers have chosen to target WebOS, which has a smaller user base but very little competition.
There's no reason the individual artists can't sign up with ASCAP, BMI, Harry Fox, etc. (or some new similar agency) and I would expect most of them to do that (many already have, of course). The exception would be, as you say, the very biggest artists. Most small to mid-level artists aren't going to want to hassle with (or pay for) individual negotiation any more than the your music startup will.
"- That's not my job."

I've seen worse...an agreeing head nod that he'll do something...then months of passive aggressive cat and mouse games to get it out of him...only to find it's simply not been done.
Wow, look at any top 10 list of deadly diseases and at least half (Malaria, Cholera, Influenza, HIV/AIDS, Small Pox, Ebola, etc) are viral.

If we can check those off now, the researchers are going to the top of the Nobel Prize list and ultimately save millions of lives a year. Quite an achievement.

Still, they had better think through the consequence since any drug that can penetrate _all_ your cells and destroy them could be worse than the disease.
>Because most of the features are useless for writers who only want to write prose where formatting doesn't matter that much (or will be done by people who specialize in that.

And how is having the features available (as in, say, Emacs or Vim) cause the user to get distracted? If you don't need fancy commands, you just don't use them. The day you need them, they'll be there waiting for you.

> As far as "editing power" goes, I don't write much prose (I keep telling myself I should submit an article every once in a while to warrant my press passes) but I am quite sure I don't use much more than what WordStar gave me 25 years ago.

Wordstar was much more of a text processor than Writeroom seems to be. I was thinking more about stuff like regex searches and replacements, being able to see different parts of a buffer/file in different windows, etc. Again, having those features available do not make people spend hours pushing buttons, but when you do need them, they're pretty handy to have.

Just as an aside: this is Emacs with darkroom mode enabled. What exactly would be 'distracting' about it? http://i.imgur.com/hWyJJ.png
I don't see Mars-rover races being a spectator sport any time soon. That must require a lot of patience - not sure I care to have that much.
I doubt they all believe it, but they all want it to be true. At this point going on record for something they hope Google will do costs them very little.

But it is a bit telling that they didn't have an actual statement to make. I suggest the CEO's office of these companies is trying to make sense of the deal still.

How they really feel will be more apparent in statements about Windows Phone. They'll still state the party line on Android for a while, but if Samsung and HTC start openly talking about positive reception of WP devices and excitement around Mango then there's been an internal change in tune.
This is strange, since you basically agree with me, on the overall point, but I flatly do not understand people who think Google made "bizarre" bids. What is bizarre about a fundamentally engineering-focused company bidding pi? Why is it impossible to both take something seriously, and have a little fun?

It's like the "work shouldn't be fun" crowd -- why the heck not?

It wasn't the first time they did something like that. Their IPO was intended to raise e billion dollars. And why shouldn't it be?

Using fundamental mathematical constants may be unusual, but it's absolutely no more arbitrary than boring "round" numbers with a bunch of zeroes, and it's like a big geek flag waving in the wind.
Got any facts to back that up?

The American Red Cross, a large, established, and reputable charity, has about 9% general and administrative costs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Cross

Medicare, a large, inefficient government fiasco (note: irony) has 3% overhead: http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

Many charities do far worse than the ARC.
Google's coalition speaks with one voice (literally)
Respect to Hypatia, a woman whose wasn't afraid to talk science with men.

Respect to Aristarchus, an ancient scientist aware of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
So, Verizon needs to hire some coders and get cracking? It took Apple and Google years to produce a good modern phone OS. Palm took a shot at their own os, and as near as i can tell, they're gone now.

Phone manufacturers made their choice a decade ago. They picked closed, complex, developer hostile platforms. Now, it seems, that was a mistake. Phone manufacturers get to fund Apple, Google, or Microsoft's, move into their markets.
Pages' full-screen mode is relatively new -- as far as I'm aware, it wasn't added until the Lion update. Scrivener et. al. have had the market to themselves up until now.

That being said, the fullscreen mode in Pages actually seems like a pretty nice compromise between features and non-distraction. Apple's obviously been taking some notes. :)
I'm not sure "it's open, once it's obsolete" is how the philosophy is intended to work.

Also, Carmack doesn't engage in PR wars about the non-openness of others.
Don't worry... it'll pay off in only three times using it :)
Yeah, that's perfectly fine! Asking for a link is for those who may have their sites up and running but would ultimately like to change their current name. But if you don't have a link or a site, and you've got just an idea, just send me a description and I'll find some names!
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> Hot pavement. Hmm… increasingly hot the longer I stand still.

Is this a case of mind over body? When on vacation, going barefoot to the beach, the short blacktop pavement crossings make me feel like I am burning my feet.
I like when some great company copy good stuff from other great company. when Idea is good, competition should recognize and copy it instead of avoiding it. great stuff.
Except, of course, things like Maps and Places and stock quotes etc. etc..
They have a lot of investment around Solaris (let's not argue about Solaris, OpenSolaris, Illumos) since a few years ago. Brought a lot of ex-SUN engineers, hired open source activist around OpenSolaris, probably built their infrastructure around it as well.
I'll try to help you out a bit.

Taxation is Mutual Coercion, Mutually Agreed On.

The phrase was used by Dr. Garrett Hardin in his 1968 essay on global overpopulation, "The Tragedy of the Commons".

Oh, and the example Hardin explicitly cited as an example of mutual coercion? Taxes:

"Who enjoys taxes? We all grumble about them. But we accept compulsory taxes because we recognize that voluntary taxes would favor the conscienceless. We institute and (grumblingly) support taxes and other coercive devices to escape the horror of the commons."

http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_tragedy_of_...

The "just pay voluntary taxes" has been very, very dead for well over 40 years.
You can tell this is going to be an amazing read:

"I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out." - Steve Jobs
My dad works for MSI - he kept his job, and a few people he knows at the mobile one kept theirs. I know layoffs are fairly common, although it's possible that is true for most other large companies.
The version number is in about:troubleshooting which is in the help menu. And Help|Troubleshooting seems like a much more logical place to go when bug-hunting than Help|About.
Completely agree! Let's say the author got 20c clicks. So, for $20, he got 100 clicks. And these clicks were divided among 4 names. This is obviously not statistically significant data.
Thanks, that is interesting and kind of matches my reasoning.

I have a feeling the debate is a bit colored by leftover paranoia from the times when several users shared one computer and the password database was easy to get hold of.

Unless the attacker somehow manages to grab your password database (and not your content, which would be an interesting setup in itself) he won't be able to brute force you. He will only be able to lucky-guess you. And you don't need 24 random characters to block a lucky guess scheme. :)
Why is this on the front page? There are so many problems...

What's going on here?
What are you trying to get me to pay for?
$50? $75? What's the difference? 5, and 8 of what?
Why can't I close this box once it's opened? (chrome)
"Send me your site link/description, first!" This link doesn't even work! (chrome)
I think the difference between Carmack and Google is that Carmack writes proprietary software and then releases the source code when it stops selling. Google on the other hand is writing open source software but is choosing to hold back on releasing the source code ... why?
Can bitcoin grow beyond speculation?
20 years after filing date, IIRC.
Just got done reading "The Now Habit", and the book concurs with this prognosis. The book also suggest several ways to tackle these issues that cause procrastination. Anybody have any recommendations/pitfalls from "The Now Habit"?
"Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits..."

Respect.
Do you sometimes feel like an IDE operator?
I have first-hand experience with MongoDB silently eating my data (yes, I was using the 64-bit version) which I realized a week earlier when I noticed half the dataset missing.

The reputation (specifically of Mongo) is probably not undeserved.
SQL is (an expression of) relational algebra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_algebra. NoSQL is your (poorly named) ability to cache stuff (flat datasets) in assorted places.
Thanks. But didn't they also have a lot of FreeBSD such as during the TextDrive days?
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Maybe nutter is a strong word, but still, there is an obsession with taking numbers and 'facts' and trying to twist them into spin for Apple with dodgy long winded 'analysis/predictions' that doesn't stand five seconds of reason(except from the big Apple fanbase), all the while still trying to sound objective...
Huh?

So they don't look at whether I have a sound business but whether I have an MBA when they are in their 60s and 70s???

Care to give some examples?

Are you really arguing what I think you are arguing?
Doh, you're right, I meant Ice Cream Sandwich. And I was wondering why I was being downvoted. My comment made no sense whatsoever with that typo.
GPGPU is incredibly overkill for simulating a water surface.

Create two 256x256 RGB textures, call them foo and bar.

The R channel will store current height of wave. The G channel will store the previous height of wave (allowing you to derive velocity).

... each frame ...
render_to(bar)
sample_from(foo)
/* insert fancy partial differential algorithm */
foo,bar = bar,foo

In other words, you're "ping pong"-ing between two textures.

Now if you set an arbitrary texel to, say, 1.0 (maximum), that texel will propogate outwards as if it were a ripple.

Bonus: the result is a seamless tilable texture.

Look up "toyshop rain" for the exact details. But I used this method to augment an ingame lake surface's normal map (thunderstorm effect --- rippling raindrops propagating across the lake). This was in 2007, running on 2007 hardware. GPGPU need not apply.
Microsoft's offer assigned Yahoo's shares at the same value as Microsoft shares. It was a fair and it was questionable for Yahoo not to take it.

On the other side of that coin Microsoft is really lucky that Yahoo didn't take the offer.
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I went running barefoot a few weeks ago. It was an amazing sensation and the best run I'd had in a long time. I went significantly faster too, which I suppose can be attributed to the lack of weight wearing shoes brings. It just felt awesome. That following week, I went running through the same course. Not over a quarter mile into it did I manage to step on a bee. The course I run on is grass and a little pebble-y. My foot is still recovering somewhat. Going barefoot is definitely something everyone should do once in a while. Makes you feel more human. Don't quite know how it made me more intelligent but running and exercise generally release endorphins which make you feel better so I suppose it's possible you could "feel" more intelligent after spending an afternoon barefooted.
I'm offering domain name suggestions for your idea/site. $50 for 5 suggestions. $75 for 8. Everything works on chrome on my end. I'm using goodsie.com to run the store.
After clicking on either of the images, there's no way to get out of the lightbox, as the X in the top right does nothing. So you might want to fix that. Similarly, the "send me your site link/description" link doesn't do anything.

You also might want to use a different list of clients - one is a parked domain, one is a page of lorem ipsum, and the other doesn't load.
Hindsight is 20/20, but Google would have been a lot better off purchasing Sun and all of its patents than Motorola at a $5 billion premium.
I think it's more the case that Google has to fight both sides of this: acquire patents for defense in the short term, lobby congress for patent reform in the long term.

I think long long-term, the friction of the patent system goes against Google's incentives. Google isn't a hardware company (even though they just bought one). They sell search ads, and their complements are hardware, software, everything between consumers and search ads. If patents in general are a tax on innovation, that's bad for Google.
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Undeserved traction? Isn't Apple performing outrageously well with consumers and as a company? Were they not the largest capitalized company in the world at one point recently? If Apple were not being reported on here heavily (and positively), a site devoted to the intersection of hacking and business, that would be awfully weird, no? As far as I know, developer revenue from iPhone apps still dwarfs Android. Shouldn't that be pretty interesting to a community more than partly devoted to making money off of programming?

If anything, I suggest the extremely large number of Google employees who participate here swings the bias the other way. I found it exceedingly odd that--regarding a story about a company paying $12 billion to buy another company, the type of move that is normally considered incredibly risky, and the type of move which does not have a great track record in the annals of corporate history--after making it 3/4 of the way down the comment thread here on HN, there was virtually no criticism. Really? This move is a slam dunk?
Ask HN: How are vesting schedules for YC/YC-like companies?
Standard is one year cliff + monthly after that for three years.

My question is, I'm hesitant to do exactly that (the cliff mostly) since my partners and I have been working on this for a few years and have tens of thousands of code written and a working beta.

What stops us from being fired and having zilch a few months from now? How could we get fired anyways?
And then he stepped on glass, a rusty nail, got ring-worm, and several diseases that he doesn't know the names of yet. But he will.

That's how I think the story will end. Shoes were made to protect our feet and they've lasted for a reason.

I go barefoot whenever I can, but that doesn't include uncontrolled environments.

Also, I wonder if the shop owner would have let him in just having shown the shoes and shirt... The signs usually say you have to have them, not that you have to -wear- them. ;)
Better they had ported KVM to FreeBSD.

Who will add support for the new hardware to basically abandoned OpenSolaris kernel? Oracle? No. That small company? No. Leveraging FreeBSD community to grow the list of supported hardware would be much, much wiser.
Yes: it would alleviate the concerns of other other Android licensees, who currently own about 45% of the smartphone market.
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Google just bought itself patent protection
Respectfully, this isn't true. Yes, fire and forget is the default behavior, but there is a confirmation step that you can check. It may be implemented a bit differently from driver to driver, but it is generally called a "safe insert". Numerous people use this to ensure their writes across single databases as well as multi-node master-slave and replica sets.
Are there any kinds of guarantees? Will the suggested domain names be free? What if I don't exactly "go nuts"?