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As far as I can tell, the statement "why the heck does Excel support embedded Flash is a great question" was made by the F-Secure blogger. Microsoft Office applications have a long history of allowing embedded OLE/ActiveX objects. There are a bunch of companies that sell Flash dashboard tools for Excel. While I'm not a fan of Flash dashboards, the question just gave me the impression that the author doesn't have a good understanding of the environment that their anti-virus products are trying to protect.
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Well, the question is what does invokedynamic give? In a nutshell, it's the raw material for building efficient polymorphic inline caches that are subject to finer grained HotSpot optimizations. At the moment Clojure and JRuby (and others for sure) build those PICs from "something else" (a technical term). If the speed promises of invokedynamic are ever realized (much less released) then bingo, speed gain. But Charles and Rich have set the bar high for PIC speed, and invokedynamic has not met that challenge. It probably will... one day. But there are tradeoffs that I didn't even touch on even when/if that day comes.
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Apple really seems to enjoy suing people.
So much for their old "we're indie and fighting the evil empire" mantra :/
That's actually fairly common in fields where mistakes can be dangerous. Most places refer to it as apprenticeship, but it's fairly common in even less glamorous trades like electrical work, carpentry, etc.
Does this include SWFObject2? (I think the current version is 2.2)
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Specifically for poisonivy, off the top of my head, I would run a virtualized instance of windows inside of a different OS, and then monitor all network activity between the virtualized OS and the host system and verify every IP it is connecting to during installation and once installed.

Maybe somebody else can jump in here and offer better advice?
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Good comment. I agree, especially in the case of people who have never had to do routine tasks.

Eventually though, you come face to face with the fact that you've only got 24 hours per day, every day, and it is possible to get maxed out. So for someone who has internalized the lessons of hard work, cleanliness, order, structure, whatever - then moving to more broadly expansive planes of action (or just relaxing/recharging/enjoying) seems a good tradeoff. I reckon there's other "canary" indicators - how much you've written lately if you're a writer, how much you've coded lately if you're a programmer, how the financial statements look if you're an investor, and so on.

But yeah, I agree. Good perspective, good discussing here.
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So, what are the chances he walked away with most of the money? From what I understand, these types of acquisitions usually require x years at the acquiring company before the buyout terms mature.
I'm sure it's a good list of books, but you can't really talk about entrepreneurship without mentioning Steven Gary Blank's "Four Steps to the Epiphany"
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Note: I use AdMob for my NASCAR Countdown iPhone app. So my experience is with iOS not Android (yet).

First off, his ad placement isn't very good. It needs to be in a visible, but not intrusive spot. A preference screen isn't going to be visited much.

A fill rate of 28% is incredible. If I had that fill rate I'd be making actual money with my app instead of the $50 or so a month. AdMob adjusts your fill rate to control costs, it starts out high and drops as their system adjusts for click through and whatever else they throw into the equation.

My app's single ad on the main page gets between 2k-9k requests a day (it varies as you get closer to a race). The fill rate has been 0.54% to 3.7% in the last few weeks, translating into 1-10 clicks a day.
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Well, to be honest I don't think I was particularly clear in my comment. You're right that you can eat fast food for $2-$3 dollars per meal, and maybe people do elsewhere - I'm just going by my personal experience which is that people here tend to order meals that cost upward of $6, and those are the ones that are heavily advertised.

And although my family prepares meals for under $2 per person, we eat very little meat (a factor I hadn't considered before) so perhaps more carnivorous families would come in higher in cost.
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In another comment on this thread, in another context, I mentioned the architect, Eugene Tsui. He designed a house based on the tardigrade, which is apparently "the world's most durable organism". This relates to your comment because one way to study the oceans is to use examples from other species, such as the tardigrade, a tiny animal which "can withstand pressure of 6,000 atmospheres, which is nearly six times the pressure of water in the deepest ocean trench." We should be able to figure out how they can do this, and then apply the knowledge to our explorations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Tsui
That's a big problem with mobile ads. App developers need to make sure they place them away from buttons and OS elements to minimize stray clicks.
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Love the affiliate links to the referenced books at the top of the article.
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You shouldn't be very surprised.

It's true that the only way to be sure of what people will pay is to see what they pay. But by the time you have an actual product to sell, you will have asked people for advice and feedback about 8 million times. It's very natural at that point to go for 8 million + 1 and say, "What would you pay for this?"

Pricing is one of the few things in business that's traditionally amenable to gathering hard data. Which is why I'm so excited about the Lean Startup approach; there one tries to apply the same data-driven spirit to everything.
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I already did the the more orthodox version of the saying (http://www.jesse-anderson.com/2011/06/a-million-amazonian-mo...). Due to my non-infinite resources, I had to come up with another way of attaining the goal. The saying doesn't come with a list of rules and could be interpreted in both ways.
Restored Herman Miller Eames lounge chair for reading, having guests over, etc. It might be the Plycraft version, I can't really tell.

it's a plycraft replica. they are easy to spot because the chair base only has 4 legs, while a genuine eames lounge chair sold by herman miller or vitra will have 5 legs on the chair and 4 on the ottoman.
>> I work a lot with Rhino, JRuby, Jython, Groovy and Quercus (a JVM PHP engine), and can anecdotally say that Clojure and Quercus are "fastest" of their breed for the kind of web development work I do.

Interesting. We maintain a Java-based simulation toolkit in which the target language (Clojure, whatnot) must make a lot of calls to Java and work with a lot of mutable Java data. And it's been our experience that Clojure is -- I do not make up this number -- approximately 1000 times slower than Kawa for such tasks. Mostly because of immutability guarantees and Refs. Indeed, it's one of the slowest languages on the block for this task.

I wonder how Kawa would perform in his web development arena. I've found it the fastest non-Java JVM language anywhere.
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Reservations are tricky with restaurants. Many of them have bought into Open Table or Urban Spoon, and with Open Table many of them feel trapped in something unaffordable. The market for reservations is currently owned by strong incumbents, and the customer is wary of giving away control of a key aspect of their business.
It depends if the exponential improvement in storage or chip technologies will stop before it's possible.

If we look at history , there were many exponentially improving technologies(for example speed of flight or height of buildings). But the trend stopped when it became to expensive to continue developing the technology.There is also a case to be made for physical barriers to a technology.

With chip manufacturing plants costing $3 billion , and only 3 chip leading edge manufacturers still operating today, and the element size of modern chips is a few atoms (and element size of an atom seems like a hard natural barrier), you could see moore's law stopping.

And even if we can build this storage device, will people want it in 2040 ?
So, on the one hand, I read this as a buzz-laden attempt to find the holy grail of programming.

"Highly complex yet simple to use" is a very major challenge on its own.

"Cross-platform non-resource-hogging simple native app" is another very major challenge.

If you can build ANY app that meets those criteria and does it well, it's likely to succeed. Ignoring the idea of the app altogether, go tackle a problem in a domain you have familiarity with and kick its ass. Ignore existing competitors, as the above-referenced feature set will destroy them.

As for the idea itself, what's different about this than something like "GoToMyPC"?
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Or just use pay-per-view not pay-per-click model in mobile advertising http://blog.adduplex.com/2011/08/pay-per-view-vs-pay-per-cli...
my main concern would be drunkenly stumbling into one of those bolts sticking out. those need to be cut and rounded off.
> So, was this an Advanced attack? The email wasn't advanced. The backdoor they dropped wasn't advanced. But he exploit was advanced. And the ultimate target of the attacker was advanced. If somebody hacks a security vendor just to gain access to their customers systems, we'd say the attack is advanced, even if some of the interim steps weren't very complicated.

The whole post read to me as "meh. We haz hack for months. not impressed".

But they neglected to mention the most sophisticated hacks of the whole incident:

1. cracked the vault/SCM of where the SecrueID token generation algo (generates a pseudo-random number) is stored

2. reverse engineered the SecureId token (ok, not that hard as apparently the crypto allowed regeneration the seed and associated token but still more sophisticated then a Excel/flash exploit)

The whole Excel/Flash exploit was just to get through the patio screen door (equates to the same access an employee has). What was more serious and not mentioned was the attackers cracked the safe in the house.
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If this is about mobile patent suits, why is Amazon included? I know Amazon pays Microsoft licensing to use Linux on their servers, but that has nothing to do with mobile.
Wow, if I had done anything like that, the housing authority would have found new and unique ways of kicking me out.

Really cool though.
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"charge too little, and people won’t use your service"

What?
I have felt variously throughout my life both beautiful and homely. As a gay man, I perceive the ubiquitous social pressure to be attractive much more acutely than most heterosexual men. That pressure is not easy to shake off; I can only imagine what women experience.

Case in point: a few years ago, I noticed that my hair wasn't quite as thick and lush as it once was. I panicked, stupidly. Without performing adequate research, I began taking a medication that blocks the hormone DHT. Only later did I learn that this medication can subtly alter cognition by affecting the production of various neuro-steroids. Obviously, the value of my mind vastly outweighs that of my appearance, so I stopped taking the medication knowing that one day, I'd probably lose my hair because of it.

Despite the obviousness of the choice, it was ridiculously difficult to implement. The social imperative to be beautiful is powerful. Yet:

You aren't your hair. Or your face. Or your breasts.

It may very well be that attractive people have it easier than less attractive people. But that's a problem with human nature, not with those not blessed by beauty. Make reasonable steps to improve your appearance, then forget about it. Self confidence, humor, and a compassionate nature will always win the day with people who matter.

Ask yourself: is Steve Jobs as classically attractive as Brad Pitt? Who is more accomplished? Isaac Asimov? Donald Knuth?
I would reiterate what some of the others have said, esp about the name. There has got to be something else out there. As for the plans one of the premium benefits could be that you input the menu items at least initially up to X amt or something like that because the people who will be willing to pay may not have the patience to input the items.

The simplicity is really good. Intuitive nav bar names would be helpful. And I don't think the 5 locations is really a selling point for most small businesses. Defnitely a great idea and if you need any help with marketing/social media I'd help.
Why are we even discussing an article from 2000? This is so irrelevant to todays Flash, and todays digital landscape? And what would the web have looked like before jquery, html5 etc came to the fore? We needed Flash. And could YouTube and Google Maps have ever taken off without it? I'm all for the demise of Flash and the rise of open source, but everything has it's place, and it served and still serves brilliantly for sites made by the advertising industry.
Jake/Verbling here. Thanks for this.

1. The reason you have to register is because the people you talk to have the option of adding you to "My Verblings" and thereby increasing your reputation on the site.

2. Thanks for your input on the Asian market.
I do a lot of Flash development. I would love to switch to HTML. I can't wait. I will probably be forced to quite soon in order to support mobile devices.

But.

I'm going to miss so very many things:

1. A decent display architecture. Every display object has its own matrix transform. All of its children exist inside that space. Position your elements exactly how you want them. If you want markup-like UI layout, you can use MXML. Their display system is quite elegant. I will miss it a lot.

2. A complete development environment. Write code in Flash Builder 4. Generate art assets in Flash CS5. Save. It works. It's fast. All you need is two programs (maybe three if you want Photoshop). This is huge for me. The thought of re-rendering all of my art assets as thousands of flat bitmaps makes me shudder.

3. Performance. Yeah, yeah, everyone hates Flash because it destroys your battery, but it can actually pull off some very impressive feats. When I switch to HTML, I will have to prune back some of the cooler features I have, simply for performance reasons.

4. (nearly) Identical performance across browsers and OSes.

5. A decent language for large-scale development. Actionscript3 is actually a really lovely language. I wish I could write HTML apps in AS3. It has real namespaces. It has real classes and real inheritance. It has static typing (but it's flexible enough that you don't feel trapped into endless boilerplate ala Java). It has a sane definition for the 'this' keyword. Javascript is a lovely language, but it's a nightmare to write a nontrivial app with it.

6. Display bling. Want a drop shadow around any shape? Done. In HTML, all you get are square drop shadows. Blur filter? Done. Dynamic masking? Done. Efficient alpha transparency for any object? Done. Obviously, if you go crazy with these you quickly eat up all your processing resources, but if used wisely they are very fast and look lovely.
In my opinion, the best way is to study and contribute to an existing compiler.

There are dozens to choose from that compile to javascript:
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

or java's JVM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages

or .net/mono's CLI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages
Thank you. I keep pointing out that these complaints can be applied to Canvas just as easily. When it takes over, will these people hate Canvas with the same passion?
8. Fail to gracefully handle trolls.

I follow Alton Brown, who I really enjoy watching on television. Alton is a food hacker, and I love him for it. The problem is, as much as Alton "gets" food, he doesn't "get" twitter. Most of his tweets are great, but he doesn't cope well with the open, public communication channel that Twitter provides. Twitter is unfiltered, so you're going to have to deal with trolls. I saw him suffer a fairly significant early-stage loss of followers over a troll battle.

Note: He's gotten much better recently.
Last time I tried one of those gists, it plain didn't work. Not sure if the gist I tried was outdated by then or if things are working now.
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Does anyone else remember the hatred toward the old editor michael ? What was the deal with that? Also, doesn't it just seem off having the facebook and twitter buttons under the summary? Is it just me? UID = 597418.
Yeah I would like to hear advice too. I am based in a developing country and my choice of technologies is absolutely not helping me do anything (I learned ruby on rails and I want to start a service company as well).
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It says it costs £250, we can't really justify that expense at this stage, do you know of any other cheaper ones?
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.9.39... - thesis in PDF format.
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Not sure how that would solve the problem unless the CPM is like $0.0001. Maybe they should do click to call tracking and set minimum call lengths to be billed - although that might mean AdMob doesn't make any $ b/c it's all mistakes/fraud.
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AdMob doesnt work for such few installs. I have an app with 900 active installs which averages 600 impressions per day with 1%CTR. That makes only 30cents the best days...

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.devartis.games.mem...
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I'm actually not able to follow your usage scenario. Do you mind providing a representational bit of code to illustrate?
I recently moved from Glassfish back to good old Tomcat because of this classloader leak. With GF, I could typically do no more than 1-2 redeploys before having to kill -9 it. That was really painful. We found that we weren't really using many GF/JEE features that couldn't be added to Tomcat as a simple jar dependency (J2EE connection pooling was one nice built-in, but we'll use c3p0 or something similar soon). Tomcat is a breath of fresh air- starts/stops in < 4 seconds, and redeploys never hang.
But the auto industry is not accusing search engines, and anyone else who opposes the PROTECT IP Act, of aiding and abetting criminal behavior.
Maybe if Google buys Disqus. Disqus has far too many outages and performance issues for my liking.
You can score it however you like, and I grant it wasn't a total disaster, but by the standards of high-tech investments, it was definitely a failure, albeit a gracefully executed one.

I will stand by the notion that it was a pity sale. The CEO is not a salable company asset. That Apple bought NeXT for so much as a way to make Jobs happy doesn't mean that NeXT did well; it just means that Apple really wanted Jobs. (Correctly, as it turns out.) Props to Jobs for cashing out his investors rather than just pocketing the money, though.
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At this kind of scale, you would probably just let disks fail which eventually would kill off entire logical modules, and simultaneously keep adding new modules to supplement them. So replacing the drives has no real urgency.
In other news, De Beers makes a surprise investment in SpaceX.
http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=dd987552c...

(Not an F-Secure employee, by the way)
better i think.

it shows how aggressive is Microsoft.
Often, the most productive thing to do is leave.

The day in my management career that I learned to walk in to a large meeting, say, "<Direct report R> will be making this decision for my team" and then walk out was the day I reclaimed my work life. It may sound sad to IC types, but particularly in large companies managers end up invited to meetings just because some random person wants to ensure official buy-in/approval.
There is video - click on watch video above the main title. Maybe should be more obvious?
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Moving towards a world where having contact with at least one Apple product per day is the norm? Pfft. Nice article other than that weirdly my-social-circle-centric line.
+1 for "Stop eating crap and start eating real foods – meat, eggs, fish, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Cut the bad carbs, eat more protein and fat." but this should be #1 on the list. It's far more important than running.
joshua, what business model are you considering without curation topics?

relevance engines and lateral developments around this space is just exhausted.

Good to know about interests. Congratulations on the release.
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Is there a description somewhere that talks about points 1 and 2 in greater detail?
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Current studies show a positive correlation between IQ and looks. If that is true, and it wouldn't be unreasonable to think the same factors that result in good looks also result in a well developed brain, attempts to normalize pay regardless of looks are misguided.
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Actually, he mentions the base was taken from another chair.

I found two Herman Miller Eames chairs being thrown away. The bases were missing, so I pulled two chrome chair bases off some old desk chairs and mounted one of the Eames chairs onto a base.
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Try Cloudbees for that. Plus they do continuous integration with Jenkins as well.
They would if you tried anything like this in, say, Simmons. They're much more relaxed about student alterations to the older dorms like EC, though.
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Yes, NeXT and NextStep were flops as products: nobody bought them. Some of the OS technology was great, and it eventually got incorporated into a successful product after a lot more work. But a flop with good tech is still a flop.