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Rounded corners are friendly. It's almost as if they say "come play with us, we won't bite or cut you".

Sharp corners on the other hand are more like "I'll cut you if you come near me."

Perhaps this means that one can constrain user by placing sharp corners on contextually unavailable objects, and rounded corners on available objects.

Speaking in terms of progressive disclosure, one can animate sharpness of the corners depending on if the users need to interact with the info inside of the corners.

Then it's more like "oh, ok, now I won't cut you -- you're cool, boxes around me told me that, come enter me".
Don't forget:

-They are trying too hard.

On a daily basis, this hurts me more than anything else.
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Although I gave out about arm chair cryptography, here's some arm chair cryptanalysis:

The NSA created SHA-512. They are in the middle of choosing a successor, implying that SHA-512 isn't good enough any more and it's time to have a backup.

The Wikipedia page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-512 ) lists some cryptographic flaws, which implies it's time to start retiring it.
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Your homepage looks like a rectangle with sharp corners. Have you considered making them rounded? ;-)
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Judges who deal with these cases take an interest in the goings on, just like sports people tend to read the sports page, and computer geeks keep up with the computer news. People tend to act remarkably similar where their interests lie.
Great idea! It's a shame it's only available for Eclipse. I would definitely make use of this if it were available as an operating system level plugin for OS X, a la TextExpander.
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Technically? Not too difficult.

Strategically? They'd lose the Market (need to attract devs), lose Google apps (Maps in particular), and run the chance of diverging from the Android API (making point #1 more difficult). Oh, and absolutely no chance of Google stepping up to defend them from patent suits (and for all we know, Google might target the rebels themselves).
I love it. Well done. And thanks.
It is a definite possibility. I think they key factor is that if the net revenue generated by advertising and/or other means per motorola/google android device is reasonable in relation to the cost per device then ofcourse there is monies to be had.
Eloquent Javascript was painful for me. As a beginner, I had so much trouble understanding what was going on.

On the other hand, I've had a great experience with Codecademy, though I haven't spent a bunch of time with it yet.
Since I'm recommending books today, I really liked "Thank You for Arguing" by Jay Heinrichs. Very fun and instructive intro to rhetoric.

I can see how rhetoric (and religion!) can come into play in design meetings :-)
That's too bad the article is written that way. It really gives bad press to Kondoot.

"take on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus". Seriously?

"already is making a splash on the web". It is barely visible on Alexa: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kondoot.com

"is currently working 18-hour days". You aren't productive while missing sleep

And it looks like that's not the only article written this way. A related article is about "Mass exodus from Facebook due to fatigue"
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code had some Fibonacci hocus pocus in them according to Wikipedia.
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All Yandex resources have been down since 14:13 GMT. As you know, it is a biggest search engine in Russia, (yes, it is more popular, than Google in Russia) including search, mail, money, video, photo, free hosting, you name it. The reason is yet unknown.
Even if the test were accurate, an average but motivated guy would focus well and quickly become better than the naturally gifted guy who slacks off reading websites all day.
Function calls that are visually indistinguishable from variables are of the deevil, and I'll have nae to do with them!
Actually, I perceive it too. Most Windows developers I meet are doing either Java or .Net - or, even worse, SAP, Oracle or... maintaining legacy VB client server/stuff. That's not a place you would expect interesting things to happen.

At least, not for me - I focus on dynamic languages, web frameworks and distributed databases - the interesting stuff can usually be coerced into running on Windows, but it tends to involve things like Cygwin or VMs. If you have to use Cygwin or a VM to do your job, you are really running the wrong OS for the job.
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That's a big jump from 250MB to 2GB. You might want to add <500MB and <1GB .. In the UK at least, the "unlimited" cap is set at ~500MB.
Half an hour ago they twitted that network failure accrued and they are fixing it. http://twitter.com/#!/yandex/status/104552393110323201
Ack. I use <500mb
$110

:)
I think it's prudent to add to the conversation that the Japanese language has a rather significant difference in the way that pronouns are used.

"The first person pronouns (e.g. watashi, 私) and second person pronouns (e.g. anata, 貴方) are used in formal situations. In many sentences, when an English speaker would use the pronouns "I" and "you", they are omitted in Japanese. Personal pronouns can be left out when it is clear who the speaker is talking about."

There are a lot of gems on this wikipedia page that have other interesting correlations.

Such as: "Social standing also determines how a person refers to themselves, as well as how a person refers to the person they are talking to."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns
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Fibonacci trees, which are connected to Fibonaccy numbers, are actually useful, not just for learning a language.
Better reliability wouldn't be hard, and the CLI looks pretty good.
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Minor nitpick (correct me please).

'szła' is closer to "she was going"

'poszła' is closer to "she went"
There's definitely a lot of strategy being reviewed inside HP right now. They have a number of options available to them, some of which include licensing the entire platform, or even specific patents. Having paid $1.2bn for Palm, and having observed two large patent portfolios sell for a number that is 10x that, I'd imagine that there is at least some consideration being given to exiting while the market for mobile patents is hot. Licensing is a much longer play, but it's also fraught with the risk of having to enforce the portfolio with litigation, not to mention the threat of patent reform.
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I think it's good to have someone who remembers. I, for example, forget this. I want to provide the maximum value, but I just forgot about it, and when I submit articles I'm not quite careful. His comment made me remember and the next time, I'll be more careful.
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I'd like to believe this, but it's not my experience. There are people for who it comes effortlessly, while it's a real uphill battle for others.
Most of your listed problems are part of 'not being able to cross the chasm'.
Why I don't finish games:

1) Lose interest - the game mechanic seems repetitive (puzzle games), I've seen this level before, now it's a little bit tougher or it's a different color.

2) Sudden ramp up in difficulty - I'm enjoying a nice casual game (Terraria comes to mind) and suddenly I have to beat a boss character. As I play on a laptop on the cough, I'm not as agile on WASD keys + mouse, which didn't really matter until it suddenly went from minecraft to a platformer.

3) Needless frustration - either from 2 above or from dumn things. I really hate consoles b/c I can't save when I want. I have limited time so when I need to stop, I _really_ need to stop and save, not when the game designer decides I am allowed to save.

Also glitches.

4) Choice - I've been playing since the NES/Dos days. We've never had so many awesome and fun games. You can get a great game now for a few dollars on sale. If I runt into frustrations (see above) I just quit and switch.

5) Laptop friendly. I can't sit at my desk on Saturday morning like I used to. It's easier to play on a laptop when I have time or while my son is watching a video (after our Obama mandated exercise time). Get home from the pool in the summer slump onto the couch and nice laptop friendly game is nice.

Some recent examples:

Witcher 2:

Man is it tough (for me) to get started. But Normal is too hard and easy is too easy.

(fun game, stopped playing it, can't remember why, probably pick it up again)

Terraria:

Fun game but sudden ramps up in difficulty, plus being a platformer and a "mining" game makes it somewhat frustrating.

God of War (Series):
Made me return my PS3. Again sudden ramp up of difficulty as I had to do some kind of triple crazy jump. I just don't have the patient to practice some stupid arbitrary move.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

I think there is a great niche for casual games (brilliant, right?) that aren't diner dash but are still fun for the "aging" game like myself.
So for the German data protection authority it's fine that all european flight passenger records and all direct debit transactions are transferred to the US because of the "international war on terror", but Facebook's "like" button is a severe privacy issue?

How pathetic.
It also ignores what Nintendo is. Nintendo is vertically integrated. It makes game machines, games, and game characters (i.e. Mario). It doesn't make money by making a better FPS machine. It makes money by making a cheap machine with some wacky creative edge (i.e. a new type of controller). Then its game division creates the best games, with their internal know-how. Then they leverage the Mario brand, and sell they can sell the whole package (along with the sequels they crank out) with a massive margin.

If it flops, who cares? They didn't spend huge amounts on loss-leading hardware, and they didn't need to make a huge investment in a cutting edge FPS only to be told it's not as good as Halo.

Apple (along with the Angry Birds developers) stole their lunch, with another cheap game machine, with an even cooler new control system. Eventually, that market will start to mature, and you will need 100 developers to make a good iOS game. And Nintendo won't want to touch that market with a barge pole, because it becomes a winner-takes-all bloodbath with huge entry costs.

The question is, is iOS an existential threat to the gaming market as a whole? If so, Nintendo will lose. If not, Nintendo will come up with some other wacky control system, and build a few fun (but simple) games staring Mario. People will buy it, because they want a bit of a change from their familiar, mature, and eventually boring touch games. Apple won't hurt them this cycle, because they are busy consolidating their monopoly on tables. Apple doesn't want to take over the gaming market - the 3DS was just a piece of collateral damage. Apple wants to sell a boring mature platform (with simple updates to performance, but no fundamental changes), not novelties that will need to be redesigned every 5 years. But the iPad just happens to be new enough to still be a novelty, and thus devastate Nintendo.
A 15 year old work experience person I have just ran through this, with no prior programming experience ... seems to have worked very well, grats to the authors!
I recommend reading the (ongoing) story of Dan:

WHAT IS THE DAN PLAN?

It’s a project in transformation. An experiment in potential and possibilities. Through 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice,” Dan, who currently has minimal golf experience, plans on becoming a professional golfer. But the plan isn’t really about golf: through this process, Dan hopes to prove to himself and others that it’s never too late to start a new pursuit in life.

http://thedanplan.com/blog/
I agree it definitely looks as though B comes first and then C is a secondary option. Furthermore, I see nothing wrong with the other diagram that doesn't have a curvy path. I think this example is different because it's a three path node. It doesn't jar the mind as badly as a two path node having a sharp vertex.
Thanks! Xcode and MSVS plugins are in progress. Should be available this fall. This is just the first release :)
Yes.

Haskell still needs to do some stuff at runtime for type classes.
This probably has a bunch to do with how the Fibonacci sequence is attributed with a lot of mysticism and attributes it doesn't actually have.

The golden ratio does not depend on the Fibonacci sequence, it depends on the recursion equation, and it's only ubiquitous if you add error margins of 10% or so so that it covers ratios like 3/2 and 7/4. Nautilus shells aren't described by the Fibonacci sequence, and the golden box isn't all that pretty.

It's a great and motivational story, but it's not the magic bullet some authors make it out to be.
Yes. Thank you. I think we the software developers need to see, evaluate tech products from a regular user perspective. As I mentioned in a comment above, no consumer accepts a bad experience just because he bought a cheap computer just like nobody accepts his private parts to be visible when he buys cheap pants. As far as the consumer is concerned he found a good deal.
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But he's not talking about becoming a better programmer. He's talking about becoming great.

Not all software can afford to be made out of crappy code either. There are many fields in which being a good programmer is the same thing as being able to write good software.
The web might be the exception here.
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Under 5gb, over 2gb. comes from streaming subsonic/pandora at work and on the road. without that, I'd be well below 2gb
The fact that programmers tend to not get better has little to do with programmers' inherent worth or talent. It has everything to do with how programmers are trained. Employers are doing less and less to train their technical staffs, which has fostered a generation of programmers who believe that the right way to learn something is by Googling it or experimenting randomly on their own. Of course you're not going to get better this way.
I use under 2GB per month but with so much going mobile, I can easily see myself pushing that limit soon. Cell phone carriers shouldn't be afraid of growth.
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As someone who comes from a family of lawyers and attorneys, I think you vastly misunderstand what most lawyers are like. I think you also go to fancier golf courses than most of us. :3
I only pay for the 200MB per month plan from AT&T, so I always use less than that....

The plan determines my behavior, not vice-versa. I'm careful to turn on WiFi both at home and at work. I can't allow myself to listen to streamed music in the car. And I have installed DroidWall (a firewall app for rooted Android phones) and blacklisted certain "chatty" apps from using the network over 3G.
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If they're anything like the web dev shop I work in, absolutely not. We're free to grab drinks after work and we're free to go home, there's never any pressure to join.

I assume GitHub is all that and a bag of cookies - you can join and chat and build relationships with people, but under no circumstances is a gun held to your head.

Chances are, if you work there and you enjoy the environment, you'd WANT to go out for drinks with them!
Ditto in Russian - I suspect this is true of most slavic languages, and if I had to guess, romantic ones.

(Apparently, one of the hardest things for someone learning Russian from English is the almost total lack of the verb "be" - you can say "I am." in Russian, but it's almost a nonsense sentence.)
Also,
I have a lot of "distractions." Wife, son, get an email, etc that I really need to take care of.

When a game only tells me something relevant once and then is gone, It's really damn frustrating.

Put in a quest log for zeus's sake. I may have been looking away or talking to someone or doing something else on the side.

This is good advice for a program too.

Young people (man I can't believe I'm saying that) don't understand. You think your app is the center of the universe. You don't understand that someone may get interrupted while filling out your online mortgage application.

The kids may wake up, the wife wants something, you get a phone call. Don't _punish_ people for this. Don't let my session time out, etc.
The article is almost devoid of information.

(But the title would make for a good article in the Onion.)
Well he did say in the source article that he moved the test location around a few times, but another flaw is that the height of the solar "tree" means that it would put the "flat" design in its shade at times. I wonder if he controlled for that, although the images would suggest he did not.
I agree that the brain is "adaptable and elastic". But it is still subject to physical limitations. Probably to a much lesser extent than physique.

It's not a very motivational message but I really believe some types of thinking are beyond the reach of certain people, due to the physical (read genetically determined) constraints on their brain.
Here in Guatemala, there are 3 carriers and their "unlimited" is 3GB for smartphones. Blackberries do have unlimited data, don't ask me why.
At the moment supposedly it's not - $10 per year (to Google).

That's obviously great when you consider the total number of Android devices out there but Google would have to ramp it up majorly to have enough to subsidise devices.

Not impossible, certainly not if they introduced additional services (particularly paid for ones) but a way off I think.
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Interesting ... I think I've got a mix of these "personalities". I was more of a Philosopher when I was doing embedded programming since there's a huge and real cost involved if you ship 100,000 units with the wrong code (this was before you could reflash every little toy you bought).

Now I'm more of a conqueror ... there's often no cost to having a bug on a web application, so get the code out the door and deal with the bugs that are found later. You can still keep the code reasonably clean!
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About a gig and a half, but I don’t stream music/video or use my phone as a mifi. Luckily this is on a 2gb/month contract that my company pays for so it’s not really an issue. I’d definitely use more if I was on an unlimited service though.
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It has been suggested that the three core concepts of assignment, encapsulation, and inheritance are unteachable/unlearnable and have to be present a priori in order to become a programmer with any competence.

I've seen people not be able to answer these questions, even after a term of CS. :c
Not worth saying: "I like pizza. It tastes good."

Worth saying: "I like pizza. Its combination of bread, cheese and tomato sauce is unique."
From the context in which he's saying it, I don't think he means it in the sense you're thinking. I thought his reference to physics was an analogy, not an exact statement. I took it to mean more "don't assume that what you hear is true, if what you conclude based on the things you know is different, you should go with that."
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Blast, I voted wrong (the jump is a bit much). I think my peak was 800MB. Sprint's data history graph makes it look like they charge you over 800MB, but that may just be bad design.

Also, I have "unlimited".
What's the percentage of games that don't even get started? I've got about 30 games in my Steam account, and I've only played about 3 of them more than 1 hour. Most of those games came in through bundles so I probably had no intention of playing some of them, but many of them I purchased with the intention of actually playing them.

Partly it's lack of time but the number of hours I've put into Civilization puts the lie to that. I play on my downtime and it's just easier to play something I already know than learn something new.
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Aren't you describing a niche here? Sure tablets are going to be great with some uses in business, travelling salesman, in meetings/presentations etc. But surely the vast majority of office employees sit behind a desk, making a cheaper more powerfull desktop computer the standard choice?
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I think there are good hosting options out there, if you choose the right one for your application. For hosting small, mostly-static sites with very little traffic, you can't beat hosts with unlimited plans (space, domains, bandwidth) for $5-10/mo. Of course they aren't truly unlimited, but as long as you aren't putting too much load on the servers, they don't hassle you.

Where you run into trouble is when one of those sites gets too much traffic, or you try to run a resource-intensive site like a forum or CMS. This is where I think the hosting market has a hole. There are plenty of options for high-traffic, resource-hungry sites/apps if you want to get your hands dirty with server/network admin. There is no limit to what you could do on AWS or RackSpace, but for the non sysadmin who just has a high traffic site and wants ease-of-use, redundancy, caching, and backups, there aren't many options in between cheap shared hosting and complex cloud or dedicated setups.

There is the VPS route, but depending on the provider, redundancy may be an issue. There are VPS plans that include cPanel, so the ease of use is there.

I've often wondered why there weren't more managed CMS hosting providers out there. There is WPEngine for WordPress, and I think they do a great job of making it plug an play while offering advanced features (static caching, CDN), but shouldn't there be others like them for Drupal, Joomla, vBulletin, PhpBB? Or even for generic sites, shouldn't there be a shared host that offers separate machines for database, web, memcache, and Varnish, with automatic CDN integration, and hourly snapshots?
The median age in the US is 36.5 according to this: http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-geo_...

I have a terrible grasp of things like statistics so I'll avoid making any kind of leap of logic here and suggest this means anything, but I just thought it was an interesting coincidence if anything.
Except that you continue to waste the resources of both acmecorp and yourself by sending mail that no one ever sees.
I would've loved to see ChromeOS + WebOS.

I was just on a Virgin America flight where they were lending out Chromebooks to try and part of me thought why aren't they lending out tablets on a plane instead?

And porting some of those chromeOS apps would've been pretty easy...
In the UK smartphones have been "free" for a while. You can get a "free" iphone4 or ipad2 on a 24 month contract, or not quite "free", but an iphone4 + ipad2 for just £99 !!!!!!

<rant>The Advertising Standards Authority should ban this type of marketing. The phones are not free, the cost is just included in the monthly contract. People never multiply £40 by 24 and realise that actually they're going to be spending £960 over 2 years. And given that the same call plans are available sans phone for £10 - £20 they're not getting any kind of deal at all </rant>

P.S oh yeah, that iphone4+ipad2 for £99 ? Try 99 + 24 x £65 (!!!) = £1,659