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I don't disagree, but I'm concerned that we're just recreating the Mac / Windows / Linux issue, in gadget form. The current form may sway towards Apple, as the previous did Windows, but it's still the same problem.

The nice thing about the ipod - or any mp3 player - is that mp3s work anywhere. I can move content from my media center (linux), to my ipod, to my Android phone, wherever I want it. And sure, with these new OSs, content can still be moved around to an extent.

But when Apps are the content, we're back to where we started. As a linux user, I have a plethora of software I can use, but if I want photoshop, I have to install Windows or buy a Mac. (dislike WINE, absolutely despise The Gimp).

I don't know what the answer is, but I think Android comes closer to what the answer could be. To develop for the iPhone, I HAVE to buy a Mac. To develop for the Android, I can develop on almost any desktop system, and I have a plethora of competing devices to choose from.

As a consumer, if there was an app I loved on my last phone or tablet, it will most likely work on my next one. Sure it has to be based on Android, but that's the ONLY requirement. I'm not tied to a device manufacturer, only an OS - one from which applications could potentially be used on other OSs.
"Why couldn't mental stamina be as genetically ingrained as physical stamina? There are obviously natural geniuses in our field, why not natural dunces?"

Are there really natural geniuses? To me a natural genius is someone who from the start performs at a high level, and I don't know of any such programmers. Maybe it's just that some people can move faster on the growth curve than others, but everyone can reach the same high echelons with perseverance?
It's such a bless for programmers.
My favorite subtle detail is that the picture in the middle of the post actually shows where Help Scout was seated during the program!
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Definitely a good place to raise a family. A couple of the top public schools in the country are here in the suburbs.

There are a lot of Fortune 5000 (so to speak) companies around, some were sold off from the Fortune 500 in town, others have started up on their own: Blue Tie, Pictometry.

I think every year it is a close race for largest employer between the University of Rochester and Wegmans (awesome grocery store chain).

The big companies get more press because of their history and visibility in the market. If Kodak were to fold up shop, there would be a loss of jobs, but it wouldn't devastate the area like the auto industry and Detroit.
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There are many graphics APIs for Windows. Which one is best for you depends entirely on what kind of application you are building, which you have not told us.

I would not worry about Microsoft deprecating an API in "6-8 months". Microsoft has been extraordinarily diligent in maintaining old APIs; I know of new desktop application development being done in WinForms, and 20-year old 16-bit MFC applications that are still being used.

If you are building an application now, choose the best API now. Do not worry about what will happen in 6-8 months, because by then there will be another new API coming. Waiting for the ultimate API means you will never start.
Rose-colored glasses
As a 15 year old programmer myself, I would much rather have some constructive criticism than another "oh, you're so smart for your age" comment. I think this type of feedback would be infinitely more valuable for him.
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Perhaps they could have the camera counter spin.
It was surprising that there are pixels involved. I thought in a world where we have all sort of displays, varying with both size and pixel density, using pixels to measure size of GUI elements is out-of-date.
Wow, did Cringely ever nail this. Right on target with the observation that Apotheker "has no history in hardware"; six months later, Apotheker has basically eliminated most of HP's hardware business. PCs, phones and tablets are gone; only printers (and hopefully HP-41CX calculators!) are left.

Meanwhile, Apotheker has decided to compete in the cloud space. Some company named Apple has also decided to go big in the cloud, I hear. Gee, I wonder who will win that battle.

HP better hope that none of the big boys decide to eat their lunch in the printer market, or they may not survive at all.
For our startup, we are matching place ids to different services which includes Yelp, Facebook Places, Google Places, and Foursquare.

We plan to make this publicly available thru an API when we have thousands of places matched.
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No, my point is simpler than that. The linked post is a lame rehash of the "Twitter is for self-centered people talking about mundane crap" criticism, with the twist that it's targeted at hipsters.

The commenter suggested that hit too close to home. Here's a quick test. Look at the homepage of the guy who wrote the OP and look at his Twitter feed -- it looks pretty much like something you'd expect from someone like the hipster made fun of in the post.

I'm a tech writer. I use Twitter as part of my work, and rarely post personal stuff. And more to the point, I really don't care how other people use Twitter, nor do I find my self-worth in making fun of how they do use Twitter or FourSquare -- even when what I do or don't do on those services differs from them.
The "Why Software is Different" section is awesome.
Article loses credibility (imo) when it says Hurd was a worse hire than Fiorina. Hurd practically doubled the stock value for shareholders during his tenure and was considered an AMAZING CEO. Yeah, he disgraced HP a little with the sexual harassment issue, but that doesn't mean he wasn't an effective leader.
No, paying off earlier investors with later investor's money is a Ponzi scheme.
We're seeing a rise in patent bonuses, so engineers who crank out patents are being rewarded. Bonuses seem to be inching up towards many thousands of dollars per patent.
> Autonomy, one of the best software companies in the world,

By what metric? From my perspective they are reviled by their clients and their own (engineer) employees.
I remember when you'd still hear people refer to dime stores, though I'm pretty sure the term was obsolete well before my time.
Not really. I doubt it will ever change. Why do you say it's changing? All the same BigCorp programmers I know remain employed...
IE6 isn't very good either, http://yfrog.com/h28bmvp but i get the feeling its better than IE7 and IE8 from the screenshots people post in here
It's not usefulness as we know it: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
For the first one (email), gmails priority inbox is amazing. In practice I tune out those sales emails unless I decide to go through the effort of actually looking for them... it's better than just sending them to spam, as I do actually want to read them sometimes.
There actually is no audio, so you didn't miss anything.
I'm not dead, just resting :)

This was mostly about me not wanting to face reality, and then finding out that reality didn't care whether I was paying attention or not. Lesson learned.
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His $1500 dollar startup is just the store front for his $100k+ medical education. There is already a staggering demand for any and all medical services.

Not as innovative as the headline made it sound.
Not to discount the idea that tech companies should be run by innovators, but Apple wouldn't be one of the biggest companies in the world if not for its ingenious vertical integration, which ensures that competitors are always a year or more behind. A few famous examples include the way they temporarily monopolized the supply of a crucial type of flash memory for iPods, and still control the entire supply of certain touchscreen sizes for tablets. They provide the up-front capital to build factories in China to produce these new technologies in exchange for exclusivity. And after the exclusive period is over, Apple pays a discounted price, which means that their competitors actually subsidize Apple's products. There are plenty of other examples of operational genius within Apple along the same lines. Without those genius business maneuvers, they would probably be a successful company, but certainly not the biggest company in the US. The key thing is that this innovation in business ops is in the service of grand technological vision. Ops without vision dooms a company in the long term.
The competition for most outlandish criticism of Groupon is getting really boring. All of these articles ignore the same basic facts.

Groupon is spending a huge amount on customer acquisition. They've stated numerous times that this is a short-term competitive play, to try to create as much of an advantage as possible to counteract the dozens of clones by building up their brand awareness and subscriber list. The idea that they are a ponzi scheme or the next Madoff because they are choosing a fast-growth strategy is absurd. I might disagree that this is a smarter strategy than growing more slowly, but this doesn't prove that they're insolvent or something. Existing customers don't stop spending after one purchase, so the idea that they have to spend on acquisition in order to make money to cover operating costs is nonsense. They have total control over how much they spend on customer acquisition, and at a certain point will have to slow down. Again, you can disagree with their strategy, but there's no scam here.

Likewise, there is no evidence that any majority of businesses who work with Groupon, or customers who purchase Groupons, are overwhelmingly dissatisfied with the value they get. Tons of business still agree to run groupons every day, including businesses that have run groupons many times. Obviously, it's not a great experience for everyone, and I'm not even arguing that in the long term this model will do well. But to say that Groupon doesn't do anything or provides no value just isn't backed up by any credible evidence, at least that's been present in all these threads.

Boston is not Groupon's oldest or largest market. And the numbers in that article are to be expected, and aren't really "troubling" as the BI article's source states. Groupon is spending money to acquire more subscribers because the initial trove of low-hanging fruit has already been acquired. They're trying to keep a big market from rival companies, so they're going after people who are more difficult to acquire (and obviously therefor less likely to spend). Anyone who expects these more difficult acquisitions to spend the same amount per user as people who found their way to Groupon more easily is ridiculous.

I'm not arguing that Groupon isn't overvalued, or that their model doesn't have problems. But the arguments that Groupon is a scam or not a real business or that they're going to have to close up shop any day now range from unsophisticated to dishonest.
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Makes sense to me. CodeMatch also supports method and class insertion (http://languageinterfaces.com/help). If you create and share a snippet, I bet it would get upvoted (within CodeMatch).

Edit: there's a special markup to add a method/class - click on the "Insert Formula" button when in the snippet submission form for instructions.
i found your article to mean a lot to me, personally, as i saw a lot of the reasons for my past projects abandoned in your analysis. best of luck for the future!
Can gyro / accelerometer data be used to give the display client hints on what compensation to make?
He didn't explain how and to what extent, but in the second video he does say that they managed to "solve" that problem.
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Some company named Apple has also decided to go
big in the cloud, I hear. Gee, I wonder who will
win that battle.

There are bigger fish than Apple in "the cloud" that HP would have to worry about -- Amazon, Google, Rackspace, heck even Microsoft wants a piece.

Giving up WebOS is the stuppidest thing they ever did.
I wouldn't really know since I grew up speaking German, but I think this only works one way ( written to spoken). The other way ( hearing a word and being able to spell it ) has to be next to impossible for a non-native speaker. How did you learn to speak German?
My sister has actually been telling me about this. She has gotten in to "extreme couponing", and there are big groups online sharing information on where to get things from local grocery stores for free or less with promotions like double coupon weekends.
Judging companies just by stock price is a horrible idea.
The same way "some country" wants to do "ridiculous things" like fine you six-figures for downloading a MP3?
TFA: http://blog.hunch.com/?p=51781
Heh, well, maybe what they need is SAS.
I think you're incorrect there. I think the GPL is relatively complicated, and made certain high value project (Famously, MySQL and the Linux Kernel) safe from capture by private entities.

Most other open source licenses are extremely liberal. LGPL is a little complicated, but not so much anyone who understands recursion can't understand it.
They aren't planning to operate with greater expenditures for long, as they've stated. The plan is fast-growth in order to compete with clones to establish market dominance, and then to drastically cut back the marketing expenses.
Groupon has finally found a way to get local businesses to spend on advertising, which is a ginormous market.

Uh, Groupon has some ways to spend enormous amounts of money to get a few businesses to waste some money on ads.

What Groupon probably knows by now and anyone who invests in it will find-out, is that at the end of the day, local businesses simply don't extra money to spend on advertising. Local businesses such as restaurants or food store are distributing scarce resources with a low margin. They are mostly "stones" and you can't squeeze "blood" out of them. So its not just that Groupon's model won't work and that Groupon has no customer loyalty. It's there's just no alternative model that could work.

If Groupon were to somehow 100% succeed and every small business had to pay them something to get customers, they would simply face a rebellion as the average, pushed-to-boards small business owner realized they'd just gotten one more fixed cost that was bring them nothing. I mean, the thing that's not understood is most small businesses have no economies of scale, most small businesses have low profit margin. Small businesses altogether represent a huge chunk of capital but very little profits. Most small businesses fail - think about it. If a given field offered serious profits, a large business would have already taken it over.
This is a very cool project, and I agree that it will increase average developers' productivity. I do fear, however, for maintainability of those developers' codebases. Programming by copy/paste is bad because making a change to functionality in the future requires making the change in all the places you copy/pasted to. This tool might actually not suffer too badly from that downside, because the snippets are small enough that you wouldn't break them out into a separate function anyway.
RockMelt

Mountain View, CA

Internships are paid, I believe that should cover expenses but we can negotiate if you're a fit.

Re-inventing the browser to match how people use the web today. Bringing social interaction and link discovery to the browser itself.

We're looking for interns of all types. C++/Obj-C for native client dev (rooting around in Chromium and building features), JS and HTML for platform application dev, and Java for our back end.

We've had some interns stay with us for the year round, so we can find something that works for you.

Paid internship.

Further job descriptions: http://www.rockmelt.com/jobs.html
Or send questions or a resume to my email in my profile.
One thing I would like to do: Lock people out of email account s/phone numbers/skype during a vacation :OD

I DO think that's a valid separation.
The "Like" button is not a hyperlink. A hyperlink doesn't reveal your identity to the target site unless you click on it - the Like button will ping Facebook about your presence even if you don't click.

So yes, there are major legitimate privacy concerns about this. I'd hope you weren't aware of this, otherwise this would be an incredibly disingenuous argument to make.
In other words 100% of Apple users are more likely to ignore disclaimers and believe what people tell them if it sounds pro-Apple. :D

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Increasing the work factor makes it slower to check a password, that's all. Your home grown SHA-512 algorithm is more likely to be broken than bcrypt.
Ah so he does - although no video from the 'copter.
Tagstand (YC S11) Greases The Wheels Of NFC Development
I'm a vim user myself, but there's no reason this couldn't be made into a vim plugin.
As the maintainer of an open source proxy (Seeks), I'm playing with randomizing the last-modified header, on demand. The randomizing procedure is triggered by a regexp over the requested URL.

Does anyone here know if (and where) a useful list of websites that use such tracking methods has been compiled ?
Several areas high level engineering, logistics, and business deal with breaking problems down into their parts. Unfortunately the people that run big projects often have not studied them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research#Second_Worl...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_analysis#Overview

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree#General

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decomposition_%28computer_scien...
What's interesting about the economics of all this is that the cost of an office and staff overhead is now greater than the benefit from taking insurance. Complexity has benefits but it also has a cost that tends to deliver negative marginal returns after a certain point and the U.S health care insurance industry passed that point long ago.
Tiny correction: His name is Mark Otto; "D" is the middle initial.
Is any startup in the US taking interns from Canada? Good schools up north (UofT, W'loo, etc.) :)
Yup, we know we need to make that clearer, and fix the issues of IE8 and IE7. We'll get to that ASAP!
> Server: "Nope, your Last-Modified is the same thing I would tell you if I sent it right now."

To get that information the web browser must ask the file system when the file was last modified and compare it. It is recommended to do a "submitted time is less than time now" on the file (which means the date must be parsed), by the RFC (2616 14.25); however, some people do use inequality operators as you suggest.

In this case, it would be the web server that is not following the RFC (sending arbitrary Last-Modified header), not the browser.
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Nothing surprising here. Cheaper phones/plans = higher % of lower income ownership.
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Many of the good parts of the old HP were spun off into Agilent. http://www.home.agilent.com/

Any Agilent people here who can say if it still follows the old HP spirit?
Actually, it came from our internal apps and is used across the board for all of those (and believe me, there are a lot of them) :).
Note the wording: "27% more likely to SAY they tend to lead" - yet they follow Apple like sheep.

Have you looked across the table in your Starbucks lately? Guess what, the person on the other side has the exact same iPhone as you do. And it is not because they are trying to imitate you, either.
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No, sir! It comes with compiled (and optionally minified) CSS, so you should be all set.
In the second video, they said they'd solved it, though not how, nor was any imagery shown.

Counter-rotating the image, synced to the rotational speed of the device, would seem to be a simple solution, provided the camera was centered i.e. it wasn't constantly panning.

Even if it was (e.g. mounted on the fastest-moving outer edge of the wing), software could reconstruct a panoramic view. You don't even need to align images from subsequent rotations, if you know what direction it is pointed. You'd get fps related to RPM though.
I'm not sure of the name but there is a true dollar store. I think it is called, "The Dollar Tree" and everything in them is a dollar. You find them throughout malls in the midwest.
Apple phasing out developer access to the UDID in iOS 5
We plan on supporting at least back to IE7. Some of the code was written to do so already, and we'll get there with the rest of it, hopefully with negligible code bloat.
Looks interesting--will read later, thanks!
Goddamnit, now I want to try writing my own online trading card game.
this looks very promising, how does this differ from the one click staging plugin by WPEngine?
It is always interesting to see how people interpret statistics.

I would describe Android users as a younger demographic who live spread out across cities, suburbs, and the country. I would describe the iOS users as middle-aged rich women who live in cities.

None of the other data is really that meaningful when you start with a such a different base. Are rich city dwelling women more likely to identify as politically liberal? Obviously. Are young people more likely to make less money? Again, this is not rocket science.

The follow/lead thing is highly amusing. In my experience the largest "I lead" responders in a survey are people who are uncomfortable thinking of themselves as anything other than unique snowflakes but this has no bearing on actual lead/follow behavior, it may actually be inversely correlated.

Disclaimer: Android phone user, and iPad user/dev.
For sure, and doesn't seems to be that hard to convert into SASS... It's a great project to the weekend :)
Ultimately for Groupon if these articles begin to intensify in frequency and ambition (wait for the first one to use bankruptcy in its title), then they stand a fairly good chance of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>There are bigger fish than Apple in "the cloud" that HP would have to worry about -- Amazon, Google, Rackspace, heck even Microsoft wants a piece.

Why? At least 3 of the 5 cloud providers you mentioned(Amazon, Apple and MS) use HP servers as a part of their hardware infrastructure. It's not like HP isn't making money from them, and I sincerely doubt that market is going anywhere, considering how many services are moving to cloud-based computing.
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Agreed, especially with the dropped year.

If the duration is less than three months, the year can be inferred from the date of the email.
Better title: "A must read for anyone involved in software development!"

I wonder if this will become required reading for CS students?

I haven't read the entire contents, but browsed through a few of the chapters. REALLY GREAT WORK! Very interesting lessons learned and just overall review of choices made with some of these apps. I'll definitely come back to this and finish reading.
If your goal is to make a quick buck on your shares, it's perfect.

And that's all these CEOs are brought in for. So by that metric, Hurd was a stellar CEO.
Dollar Tree the place the author visits in the article is a actual everything is a buck store.