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INAA, but in many cases you do better to shutter something and write it down than to sell it for a pittance.

Let’s say it’s bleeding money. Keeping the lights on while you find a buyer costs money, and buyers are no fools: If you can’t find two buyers to bid against each other, the one buyer you find has you over a barrel: Every day they delay in negotiations with you costs you money, so you are under tremendous pressure to conclude a deal at their price with their terms.

I have no idea what’s going on with HP, but its not unreasonable to close something quickly if you don’t have a buyer or buyers already lined up to do a deal. I suspect that if HP had received feelers from a possible buyer, they would already have tried to sell Palm. Closing it means that they either don’t have any serious buyers or have already tried to sell and discovered that it’s cheaper to close it and keep the patents.
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Nice editorial. I have gone back and forth on this topic with myself for awhile. I finally caved and bought a pre-order Notion Ink Adam that I recently sold. I used that money and purchased an Asus Transformer with keyboard dock and an iPad2 with the goal to return my least favourite. Every time I see a 10" keyboard I get excited and think how great it would be to have - so light and portable. I always drop back down from the high once I use the keyboard and remember how bad they all are.

I find my tablet (read iPad) is great for consuming content while laying around. I don't think they are quite as awkward to use as the author suggests, at least for me. However, I agree that at times when I want to be more productive it frustrates me and I always move to my laptop or desktop to actually get 'er done.

Another usage for me is that they are great for kids in the car.

I have a beefy desktop, 13" laptop, iPad2 and iPhone4. If you held a gun to my head and said I had to give one up I would, without hesitation, hand over the iPad.
Why does it matter if there's no standard location? Do you use the ; command that often in vim anyway that this would be an issue if it were mapped to \?
They are both enterprise software companies. It looks like Autonomy focuses on data analysis while SAP focuses on business development. Regardless, Autonomy is much much much more like SAP than it is like a consumer electronics company. The point is a good one.
decrees by definition are uni personal approach to governing, weren't invented by her and she was the one that least used it since alfonsin.

I'm against DNUs, but you just say baseless stuff, I provide facts to counter your argument and someone (maybe you) downvotes my reply.

I'm providing facts, why the downvotes?

I'm not the one that started talking about DNUs, it was, you, and you didn't knew she used it too little compared to other presidents, can you provide links to your facts?

what have the glaciers to do with free speech, DNUs and this particular case? you are all over the place trying to justify that you don't like the president (I don't like it either, but I don't like people that talks without facts like you more than that)

where did I said that cristina promotes free speech? please point that for me please, I want to know.

that is not my point of view either, you are inventing that too.

please provide the practices you say she uses to censor free speech, you are the one throwing baseless facts in this post not me, I expect you to provide the facts.

just to provide some fact about this: it's pretty interesting that all the mainstream media is against the president when you say she censors free speech...

PS: I hate to say this again, but I don't like the president, but people like you make me put on the other side

EDIT in answer to burgerbrain (I answer here because I can't reply to your comment for some reason)

thanks for the note, didn't knew about the downvoting rule.

about the link between the argentinian president and obama I was just trying to provide an analogy, blaming a president by an action taken by an independent organism doesn't make sense, in that case the DoJ.

I'm not implying anything about obama, just showing that that relationship doesn't make sense.

the disclamer is made because is common in argentina to try to shoot down an opinion based on the party you support, so I was just clarifying to avoid that kind of behavior, it's almost impossible in argentina to say something positive to one side without being labeled as supported of that side and I don't like that.

but of course, this may be seen as a pattern in this kind of discussions and turn the red flags.

I just commented here because I think the title is misleading (read the EFF link I posted in another thread) it says that the judge asked for the domain to be blocked and the ISPs were the ones that blocked by IP, so I'm proving that trying to link a whole country in a mistake made by some ISPs doesn't make sense. Also, the title doesn't clarify that the blogs were blocked by mistake.
The HP board made the decision, and I am surprised that nobody has yet made the link between Andreessen's editorial in the WSJ (he sits on the HP board) and this recent shakeup.
Not much of a comparison, but JTalk aims for code compatibility with Pharo Smalltalk, whereas Clamato is a distinct dialect. Perhaps partly because of this, I felt able to work with immediately in a way I never did with Clamato, or any other in-browser Smalltalk-like software I've seen. My past experience with Smalltalk transfers well into JTalk, not so well into Clamato.

When I first ran JTalk (months back), one of the expressions I tried was to get the sum of even numbers between 1 and 5, and it doesn't work, because JTalk is missing various things, like 'even' and 'odd'. I had a Pharo Smalltalk system to hand, and was able to look up the implementation for 'even', and deeper requirements like '//' (divide without remainder), and type them into the browser until I got the answer.

Since then, JTalk now has the very beginnings of exception handling. When Smalltalk is asked to evaluate a non-existent method, it raises a MessageNotUnderstood (MNU) exception. It's interesting to think about the idea of having a web service running on Pharo, which answer chunks of it's own source code, and JTalk's MNU behaviour being to send out an http request to try to load that source code, and then continue running. (I don't know nearly enough about Javascript or JTalk internals - this may be wildly impractical.)

In any case, the idea of code compatibility between front-end and back-end is very appealing: re-use domain model classes, write input validation in one place and have it run in both places, and such.

(I seem to have gone off on a tangent. Hopefully an interesting one.)
probably pointless... until you try it on your own site...and you immediately realize what's new... and you see the 'feedback' widget... and then you tell yourself "I want this widget on my site, it's an easy way to accept feedback!" :)
>Most systems of government can work at small scale.

That's part of the idea. Existing governments are too big and stodgy, too slow to change. This is like having a "startup sector" for the governing industry, a place where new ideas can be tried out. If it works, people who want to live under the new rules will have a place to go. If the new ideas work extremely well, the old land-based governments will eventually adopt some of them too.

> They really need to be sovereign, or they're just big cruise ships.

The first ones will likely be flagged vessels, as cruise ships are. (There's still a lot of room for jurisdictional arbitrage - you can pick the nation that gives you the most freedom with respect to whatever metrics you care about.)
> What Apotheker is doing is to change HP's business altogether.

No he isn't, he's reducing its scope to the most profitable and future-proof business units. HP is one of the world's biggest enterprise software business. Yes, also before they bought Autonomy. They just also make PCs and printers and the likes, which makes consumers not know any better than "HP is a PC and printer maker".
> No it's not. I studied Japanese as my fourth language for 1.5 years and went through pretty much exactly what the OP described.

I've been studying Japanese as my fourth language for over 2 years, and I have to disagree with both you and the OP. If you didn't find Japanese to be very gramatically challenging or interesting, you unfortunately probably didn't get into any keigo, which contains grammar of a mindbogglingly high level of complexity that is probably only surpassed by a similar system in Korean, since Japanese grammar was artificially simplified during the Meiji Restoration in order to make a simpler national dialect that all Japanese could easily learn/use. Nevertheless, the situational shifts in Japanese grammar based upon the relationship between the speaker and the listener are very difficult to become accustomed to, even for native speakers.
Embarrassing business practices.
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I think his interpretation of the facts is very plausible. Sadly, Larry Ellison was absolutely right when he said, at the time of Hurd's scandal, "the HP Board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple Board fired Steve Jobs many years ago."

Good CEOs who can revamp stagnant companies are hard to come by, particularly in the consumer space. Hurd was that CEO, Apotheker is not. And getting out of the consumer space, at a time when there are several paradigm shifts going on, means missing huge opportunities.
Perhaps "die Häckse": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/wiki/Haeckse
HP has a highly distinguished board of directors. I find it strange that no one is highlighting the fact that Léo Apotheker is definitely enjoying the vote of confidence of the top level executives, otherwise this would have never been possible.
One of my favorite pieces by him-- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede...
Don't you see a "feedback" bar on the left? Also, it seems to break the back button.
I would agree. The main problem at HP has been the board which has destroyed this company. They've hired the worst CEO's possible for the past fifteen years. They've gone to one of the most respected companies in the world to a laughing stock among many business people.

Maybe all that they have left is the business sector but they will be far less successful than IBM.
As far as I know, no-one has yet shipped a product that has a graphics sw stack written with a GPGPU api like OpenCL. It's an interesting project to do and you can do really cool stuff. However, practical it is not.

You also shouldn't forget that the GPU has dedicated hardware for graphics that cannot be accessed through a GPGPU API. The framebuffer can't be manipulated with a GPGPU API. Window compositing is largely done by dedicated hardware. Some GPU's still have dedicated hardware for vertex shading. If you try to write a graphics stack with a GPGPU API, all this hardware is left unused.
Envolve does the same thing - https://www.envolve.com/ except in the case of Envolve, I know what it is before I try it out, and I'm primed to use it.

From a usability standpoint, this technique is awesome for third-party widgets. I can jump right in, lazy registration, and try it out. I would only recommend that there are a ton of analytics tied to the whole flow to make sure you know where users are dropping off.
> to orienting panels at sub-optimal angles

My understanding is tree is not at "sub-optimal" angles. But at varying angles throughout the day and seasons as sun moves. Sometimes those angles < than flat panel and sometimes those angles > than flat panel. And that over time the tree was more often optimal than the flat panel.

No one is gonna convince me that millions of years of evolution hasn't resulted in efficient solar collectors. But, from the original announcement the biggest issues I noticed was that actual tree leafs move during day and many trees just give up in winter. Neither of which was replicated in solar tree. Therefor solar tree very likely not as good as nature's trees.
Just as an FYI, I've kept the sheet unchanged. For the most, this is what the users put in and this is the order they inputed them.

If you guys would like me to organize the chart better, i.e. by salary, or something, let me know please.
Treating it as the same language would be a stretch.

As a Swede, especially spoken Danish is completely unitelligible.

Having worked with Norwegians the last few years, I have learned to understand spoken Norwegian most of the time. There is however a lot of variation i dialects, making some of them easy to umderstand, while others are almost as bad as Danes.

In adition to dialects, there are enough unique words and idioms in each language to make especially written norwegian cryptic.

There are also a lot of gotchas where the same words have different meaning. A fun example is the expression "rar tös" meaning "sweet little girl" in Swedish, but "weird slut" in Norwegian.
I disagree completely with demoing products this way.

The site doesn't suggest what the product does. Because no trust was established with me, I submitted someone else's site, and I still couldn't figure out what I had done. I only noticed a feedback button, and I debated using it to complain about your site not working. However, after reexamining the title of your site (I apparently never normally read titles...), I'm guessing the feedback button is the product your showing off.

I'm left kind of annoyed and not really wanting to further explore your product.

(Not wanting to be entirely negative, it does seem like a quality feedback button.)
Prior art ...
I guess I could see some usefulness in a quick weekend prototyping to get a persistent app up and running.
I'm all for pseudonymous actually, and I've never argued against them. I use them where allowed and don't where they are not (or not participate at all).

What gets on my nerves however are those comparing their grievances with a project not yet mature to those currently struggling in freedom struggles around the world.
:) .. Did you wait for a survey to pop from the right bottom of the page? So we are mix of two engagement tools - feedback and short, targeted surveys. You should indeed try it once.
This raises my blood pressure.
Weird that a decline in productivity is interpreted this way. During the recession, productivity increased substantially. The general interpretation I heard for this fact was that businesses were forced to cut roles with marginal productivity because they didn't have a whole lot of excess money and confidence about revenue was low. I heard this from a variety of news sources and economists and never heard another explanation, so I think it is probably the generally accepted explanation.

I guess interpreting things pessimistically is good journalism, but if we're consistent I don't see why we would not apply the same rationale here. Businesses feel more confident about the future now, so they are resuming work that has lower marginal benefit, decreasing productivity relative to hourly wages.

It seems a bit inconsistent to interpret both positive and negative changes in productivity pessimistically. I would expect one to be interpreted positively and one negatively, unless we are currently at some optimum amount of productivity and a change in either direction is bad. I can't think of a mechanism by which this would be the case, so I'm inclined to write off this article.
I tend to agree with anigbrowl. While there are some overlapping products, those things are a tiny fraction of what SAP sells and far from their core business (I used to work for SAP Business Objects.)
I think a lot of people will be confused, as I was momentarily, because the product is nearly identical to GetSatisfaction. I didn't understand if the service was providing instant deployment of GetSatisfaction, or if you were just using them as an example of something else. It took a moment to realize that this is just an extremely similar service.
I'm not sure why the author seems so focused on the need to be "productive" with a tablet. For me, the tablet form factor seems to be recognizing a truth that's still emerging, although it's inevitable: much of the time I used to spend reading books and magazines and newspapers for fun or personal edification I'm now spending reading those things or their equivalents on the Internet. And if that's all I'm doing, I'd rather be on the couch with a vaguely book/newspaper/magazine-shaped object than sitting in the same chair in front of the same monitor where I spend all my workdays. I can't tell you how much it's improved my life to have instapaper on my browser on my work computer, so I don't have to make the "this looks really interesting, do I waste work time reading it or lose it forever?" decision like I used to.

That said, I fully agree with nesbot above: if you made me give up one of my gadgets, it'd be the iPad, no question. But since nobody's making me give up any of my gadgets, I'm not too worried.
"around the turn of the century" - we are 10 years late people!
You might want to look at http://openkeyval.org if you weren't aware of it. Exact same idea.

(HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846088)
I thought the "feedback" button is for giving feedback back to WebEngage. This is a demo, and I thought I was supposed to give feedback on how I like the service after experiencing the demo. It really needs an about page or something explaining what it is.
That is because text/html content is not actually parsed as XML.
I assume you've seen this? http://💩.la

http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom...
Amazon is a good example where "real name" reviews cause a bias towards positive reviews. I believe that most people are reluctant to write negative reviews if their real names are associated with it, even if the fairness of the review is not in question. Negative reviews always put a negative halo on the reviewers, so good reviews are overwhelmingly more common. Curiously in our site, where anonymity is a requirement, also the positive reviews dominate by far, which is indicating that there's much more good than bad in the world. Cool!
Thanks for pointing the back button breaking. We'll fix it. For now, there's a "back" link on top of the demo page.
I've read this piece tons of times and whenever it finds me (as now), I never pass up an opportunity to read it again.

I can't tell you how many people I've sent this to, or shared the sentiment with, over the years.
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This happens all the time. Some people at the top just want to hear good news even though its false news. If there is one individual saying dont ship and they ship it, if it roots up after its been released the 2 get fired cause

1 - the marketing guy didnt listen to advice
2 - the developer introduced the problem

If the person giving the advice isnt there to say "Hey i already told them that ! but they didnt listen" they can declare it as a mistake or an unknown bug. Usually people dont get fired for an unknown bug and dont look "as bad" as if they where told and chose to ignore it.

Happened at my work a few times, engineer didn't get to the point of being sacked but when the severity 1 solution was ignored in preference of another more "stupid" solution proposed by business types the engineer that suggested the proper solution was never invited to meetings anymore. Then when the initial solution didnt work and used the said engineers solution they didnt even tell him they implemented it until weeks later when he found out indirectly.

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hmm, after reading it again, its either what i wrote above or someone lied and said QA didnt find any problems so we shipped it based on their recommendation(which in my opinion is worse then a way to keep his mouth shut)
awesome! like someone else said, this is a great tool for prototyping, and likely other projects. tinydb is pretty cool as well. http://tinydb.org/
Thanks Nischal for sharing this. Hello people, I am Avlesh, co-founder at WebEngage. WebEngage is a simple customer feedback and short targeted survey tool for websites. Please bear w/ us for the lack of better explanation of the tool on the demo site. We are in the process of moving to the newly acquired WebEngage.com domain. You'll find more details here - http://webklipper.com/webengage
The thing that gives me pause is the energy input, for air conditioning for example. You don't need AC on a patch of ground.

So the competition is between local pod growth, and no AC plus shipping for ground farming, and bad luck weather for ground farming, and not enough ground for the mouths to feed.

It looks like pod farms definitely have a place in the mix.
Yes, but these rules are applied in a spoken form only, not to mention the fact that they are not studied, but are instead learned over time and in no fixed order.

Besides, nobody would write an article in Egyptian Arabic or any other dialect for that matter because it'd simply be a waste of time.
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Sorry to have left you confused :(. What you are looking for can be found here - http://webklipper.com/webengage
If looked at closely enough, no two businesses are alike. The question is, what's relevant to the discussion? In the scope of comparing consumer products vs business consulting, we can paint with broad enough strokes to call SAP and Autonomy "similar" businesses.
Code transformation has historically focused on syntax, but fallen down on semantics. The devil is in the fine details; C# might look superficially similar to Java, that you might create a code transformation from one to the other, but you end up falling down in really thorny areas like order of class initializers and finalization semantics, not to mention of course differences in scope and substance of libraries, standard and otherwise. When your code is pure and functional, you can make much stronger statements about it. But I think it's still an open question as to whether functional code can be made practical in the large.

"You say that most languages don't have well founded types but you fail to note that many of those same projects often have massive teams, massive code bases, fail often, run over time and are insecure" - are you suggesting that correlation is causation? Of course you aren't. But you might be guilty of thinking that something must be done, powerful type systems are something that seem good, therefore they should be used. And it's precisely this kind of implication that I'm skeptical of. When we start seeing substantial bodies of industrial software using advanced type systems rather than incorporating more limited, less orthogonal and less general subsets, I'll dial back my skepticism; but I'm willing to bet, at this point, that if that does happen, we won't have seen the end of massive software failures. I think that's a social problem, not a technical one. Our reach forever exceeds our grasp.
Moving a button or changing color was to exemplify for a hypothetical client what a commit is, if said client was “non-technical”.
What kind of workspace is best for your startup?
It would be a heck of a lot more useful if it were namespaced, like S3's buckets. Let folks put into those buckets whatever they want, but make the buckets in your datastore unique, based on the domain, referer, etc.