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And its not just a matter of what you get them. Birthdays, Christmas, random gifts from grandparents and other relatives and friends, and before you know it you can't walk across their bedroom for all the crap that's accumulated.

Good plan is to say "ok now that you have this new thing we need to get rid of one of your old things" but good luck getting them to accept that happily.
Even ignoring the small gaming catageory the market is still incomplete. As I stated before, being unable to find an app doesn't even cross my mind on Android or iOS. One of the first things I searched for was a Spotify client which doesn't exist. What amplifies this is that WebOS is (basically) dead and app devs have moved elsewhere. What happens in 2 years APIS change? How many of the existing WebOs apps will become nonfunctional?
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There is still no option to automatically cross-post to your facebook. Wait until the G+ platform launches.
I know, I had the same response when I first heard about him.
This has to be the most transparent article I've ever read. Very refreshing.
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Here's a Vim trick I only figured out fairly recently. Everybody knows that % jumps between a bracket, brace or parenthesis and its matched pair, but what happens if you hit % while the cursor isn't on such a character? Turns out, it searches forward until it finds such a character, then jumps to its matched pair.

So for example, let's say you had a nested function invocation that was getting long and unwieldy and you wanted to break it out onto its own line:

foo = makeFoo(
globalConfig.getParam(
"FooSize",
int,
default="37",
)
)

If you put the cursor on the 'g' at the beginning of 'globalConfig' and press "d%", it will cut the function name and all the parameters in one action.
Anybody know why to avoid the "sandwich"?
What truly annoys me is the proliferation of Javascript links. They prevent me from opening the page in a new tab, and I have learned that VERY OFTEN I prefer to open pages in new tabs. So the Javascript links take away my control and I HATE THAT!!!
> It's a very pythonic way to handle things

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. "
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The reason, IMO, it is already fading is simple: lack of critical mass. There was initial excitement, then people realized most/all of their friends were still on FB, so they stopped posting. This is exactly what happened to me. All my friends no longer post on G+, and are back to FB.
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Nuance has speaker-independent systems as well. If you have an iPhone, try an app like Dragon Dictation or Siri. Neither one requires any training, and will start off with high-quality recognition right out of the box.
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It's not really about the OS, it's about the apps. There aren't nearly as many apps for WebOS as there are for Android.
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"Also unrealistic is that one mathematician would be familiar with so wide a range of mathematical and scientific techniques as Charlie."

This is the only bit I disagree with. Math is his life.

Baseball fans know an amazing array of statistics about ALL major baseball teams. They can quote all kinds of crazy things.

Epps does the same thing, but with mathematical theories. It doesn't surprise me a bit for a single person to know about all those techniques.

Successfully implementing a given one within 24 consecutive hours is another story altogether. But that's already addressed.
You can make this claim for any headline referencing web traffic figures, and while it weakens the headline, losing a quarter traffic over 2 weeks in any market is still noteworthy at least to me.

FWIW, addons.mozilla claims 56,000 users for the Alexa Firefox toolbar alone.
I'd use Google+ more if the default view didn't show everybody's posts. There's some people I'd like to follow but only want to show when I select a specific stream because they're noisier than everybody else on the platform. Instead, if I want to follow them at all they dominate the primary view. So my choice appears to be to ignore them completely, or live with their posts cluttering the interface unless I navigate to each sub-circle to see everybody else's posts. There needs to be a way to turn off some users's content from the primary stream while still following them. Maybe there is, and I'm just not aware of it.
I've been using another C TAP library for a project for a few months now, but I think I'll switch to this since it has fewer dependencies.
My understanding of it is that as long as jobs are created, the success or failure of the project, and the ownership of IP doesn't matter. If a Canadian company was to contract out their R&D to another Canadian company, only one can claim SR&ED. Generally, the contractor would claim the SR&ED, but in this case, the contractee did.
Most surprising takeaway from the post: Gillian is Rand's mother. (Mentioned in passing in the deck.)
See my response to rreiner.
"Addressing the issues people are having" defines finding a market - a good thing here :-)

However, I would like to question these issues in the first place.

They look a lot like an existentialist crisis to me - basically finding no purpose in one's own worth, and thus spending time doing something deemed worthwhile and in line with individualistic values : "improving" oneself.

Better abs, travel, less time spend at work - that's what's popular today, but is this the successful recipe for reaching happiness? I strongly doubt that.

What about using some of these wits to actually create some economic activity or solving different problems? You know, mastery, independence, purpose? At least there are more proofs there.

I fear this investment on the self is misguided - since it has a negative interest rate (because until we get better at cryogenics you still die in the end).

I could believe in an investment of the self if it was consistent - but besides the revasterol thing mentionned in the article (which doesn't work on primates unless you have a special gene removed IIRC), it seems very lowball.

That's how I'd sum it up - minimalist in the "minimal effective dose" sense, low risk - low gain, no passion. Mod that down if you want, but I'm sure we can do much better as a species.
I changed my diet to avoid wheat and sugar (something like paleolithic). I just did it cold turkey and didn't find it that hard. Stop eating bread and other baked goods, candy, soda and you're 90% there. I lost close to 50 pounds in less than a year. I have not eliminated sugar in the sense that I still eat fruit, but mostly berries and I think eliminating nearly all the refined sugar is what's important.

My diet is now mostly meat, eggs, fish, and salad with some nuts and fruit. There's really nothing complicated about it.
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Other than understanding SQL I think the #1 issue for most developers is understanding database preformance. The most basic understanding of indexes and how the database parses commands goes a long way.

PS: If you don't understand the value of 'Explain' or your local databases equivelent then a day or to is all it's going to take to save yourself from a world of pain.
Those are definitely bits I haven't seen. Thank you so much! (My girlfriend may not like you as much as I do!) ;)
The article makes a good point that yes, that idea is racist, because you explicitly chose to look first at the correlation between sports performance and race, rather than other, far more finegrained and predictive factors. If it weren't a visually obvious and culturally ingrained distinction, nobody would bother with such a poorly-defined coarse-grained factor.
I think we don't need anyone to show us numbers or stats that Google+ is not gaining traction. We already know that, just compare your Facebook usage vs G+ usage. Compare the # of friends who talk about Facebook vs. G+. Compare the # of non-techie friends who signed up for G+. It's a no-brainer, we all know this deep down. G+ is going nowhere.
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A simple solution might be to devise a test with non-expensive results for failure.

For example, we could teach them to construct and transmit a jpeg using their words for left and right. If the jpeg comes through flipped, we got it wrong, and switch the words. If it comes through correctly, we got it right.
This feels like Wave 2.0. Google created an incredible product, but botched the launch by keeping it shut down for too long, and now the newness has worn off. Good luck getting people excited when it finally is open to the public.

That's not to say that a social network can't build steam over time (after all that's exactly what Facebook did). But the problem here is that the role of Facebook and social networking is much more well defined than it was when MySpace was the leader. At that time everybody knew these sites were cool, but the value proposition wasn't completely apparent.
As well as <Ctrl-{>.
I agree.

Many people who haven't dealt with HP in business are unaware of the large amount of enterprise software they provide. For example, HP is one of the largest healthcare software providers. Just go to their website and take a look.
This would carry over somewhat into your personal life -
it's hard to be wearing thousand dollar suits to work while
living in a rat's nest, I guess

Yeah, maybe, though the rich people I know are generally not suit-wearers.

I like your backdrop/decoration thing though, it's an interesting theory. But I still believe that having a nice bank account makes people feel independent and free, in the end causing them to see a lot of superfluous things as they are: clutter.
My tax accountant never gave me details about it, but I remember him clearly saying that there were serious tax consequences in doing so and that generally, this kind of setup should be avoided.

If your structure looks like this: YOU-CA -> US -> CA (sandwich) and you sell your US company, the acquirer is stuck buying the CA as well, which is a pain for everybody. A US acquirer won't want to deal with a Canadian company. This is not the main reason not to do it, but it's something to consider.
For a project in school I used clasp + gringo to make a labor scheduler for my 100+ person co-op (I'm in charge of that). It's amazing how fast it really is. I'm very interested in bringing facilities like this to other high-level languages.
Exactly. How do you teach children left from right? "Left" and "right" are arbitrary names for a position relative to where the heart is. You have to point to it.

It's the same as teaching the difference between "tomorrow" and "yesterday".
But the direction of a magnetic field is an arbitrary convention. If we used the left hand rule consistently we would make all the same predictions for the forces exerted on particles thanks to two reversals cancelling out.

Now, if the aliens were sending us transmissions through circularly polarized waveforms that would be different, that's a matter of observation rather than communication.

Now, there is a phenomenon where if some particles decay in a magnetic field the products tend to have their products go in different directions depending on the magnetic field. This was a bit of a shock since physicists had assumed left-right symmetry until then.
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Hmm... The problem is, that first bit DOES sound like she whole-heartedly supports Groupon by calling it 'guaranteed'. Even after reading the entire thing (not the shortened one) a few times, I wasn't sure what her stance was.
Blogging is crowdsourcing introspection.

I like that line. Often, the act of writing something forces me to commit to a particular thought rather than the Heisenberg-uncertainty haze that is usually bouncing around in my brain, and it is often the case that once the thought has been nailed down it looks a lot less compelling than it did when it was still a probability function.
Re BiDil - note that African Americans are a small, not very genetically diverse, subpopulation of black people.
I still wonder if I could have made more money back by spending more effort on selling them. I probably could have, but it would have taken longer. But you get some freedom in return for your capital assets, that is how I rationalize it.
I balanced your accidental downvote with an intentional upvote. :)
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> Switch to an existing tab when following a link to an already opened url

I think this would be pretty jarring unless you restricted it only to tabs that had just been opened. A better approach would be to cache the URL you typed and any URLs it redirected to in the AwesomeBar lookup table.
Yes, yes I did! :)

It was more like proof of concept that GNU Awk is awesome and can do things like binary data IO and networking.
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Any feedback is appreciated :)
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Drag and drop in Google Docs (and Gmail) is HTML5.[1] I don't think WebKit supports it fully, though. I am using Chrome 15 canary and when I visited html5test.com I got "partial" for the "dropzone" attribute under "Drag and drop". Same for Safari.

[1] http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/04/google-turns-to-html5-for-g...
I like some of it, but much of it seems a lot less scientific than what we try to do to computers. Have any of these odd health remedies been empirically tested? Does organic almond butter on celery sticks actually repeatably reduce insomnia? (Also, is its organic-ness a statistically significant factor in its efficacy?) It seems to have an uncomfortably high overlap with some of the natural-medicine/new-age-remedies crowd, in terms of having (sometimes) scientifically plausible arguments for a mechanism, but not much in the way of empirical evidence validating the effect.
Although I take issue with trotting out single lines out of context, I'd say that this is in line with that. The "one -- preferably only one -- obvious way to do it" is to make everything a module. The confusion stems from not knowing how to deal with Python modules, not from anything Django is doing. If you know Python, you know how Django handles things. There's no (or, very little) magic involved.
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It will stop being invite only eventually

And why will that matter? It doesn't change the point I mentioned. Why would a non-techie join a social networking site filled with techies?

And Google will kill Google+ because people will stop using it and it won't make sense to keep such a large project going without a userbase.
The new webapp version is tested and working on Chrome 12+, Firefox 4+, and iOS Safari packed with iOS 4.2+.

SiteChat was released a week ago today and has already built a nice community, and the Chrome Extension has been installed almost 1000 times, to very positive reviews. Here's hoping for more!
I have certain issues that I know I need to fix in myself, and while I know they won't make me happy just because I did them, improving myself makes me happy.

However, I don't have time. I probably have the time to actually do the work... What I don't have time for is figuring out how to do the work efficiently.

I think that's why his '4 hour' books are so popular. He's done the work of figuring that out. (I haven't read them, so I can't be sure of this.)
for that to work you would have to have already communicated that the x-axis component in a 2-dimentional image increases rightwards..
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A related problem is developers who do have a decent understanding of SQL Server then going to something like Oracle and thinking that all their best practices are still correct. You not only need to know about database generally, but you need to be familiar with how your SPECIFIC database works and how it's different from others you may have used.
I think the point you are missing is that even if researchers/people can verify what the server is sending in general, there's no way for you to verify that the HTML/CSS/JS it sends you at that particular point in time is the same as the generally vetted version.
I stopped encouraging people to join up when I saw how badly Google were handling the pseudonym issue. I no longer believe they're any more fit to run a social network than Facebook.
frankly I'm surprised they even had to raise funding with their current revenue levels and profit margins.

And an investor might think that the company has peaked already. Everyone knows who they are. And SEO is something that doesn't have a lot of growth for company adoption. It's been around so long, that most people already know about it. So your hope for customer acquisition is to find that one marketing professional that doesn't know about SEO.
I've been using Vim for about three years but I've never been very handy at it. I'm now wondering that that might be because I touch type with only four fingers and whether it's possible to relearn my typing methods.
Critical mass and a compelling reason to use it over Facebook. Most people just don't have the hate for Facebook that some in the tech community have. That was the main thing people said to me when I tried to get them on G+ "Why would I use this over Facebook?".
Blogging is a bit like public speaking, and people are scared of it for good reason. You are really putting yourself out there.

Totally agree. After my first blog post I woke up the next morning with the same feeling I get after a night of too much drinking, asking myself "what did I do?".
I tend to agree with you, but as online "voting" systems become ubiquitous (likes, karma, +1's etc.) I can imagine a future where a public voting record would seem normal or even desirable.
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No hyperbole. You've clearly not run any large mail systems.
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what on earth does this add to the conversation? can we stop hashing over last week's news? i know that jobs' slow death is a great excuse to get upvotes and blog hits, but, please, can we just give it a rest? leave the poor guy in peace and keep this tired junk off the site.
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If you look at latest numbers in the table it's already down 37%
> Wasn't it the case for gmail? For me gmail is still the best webmail around.

You dont need other people to use gmail to be able to use gmail. Email is standardized, so gmail as a client could be evaluated on its own merits. Since it was good, usage grew. There were no external factors outside gmail which could slow down gmails growth.

Social networks show network effects. You cant use a new social network with your real social network being somewhere else. If the initial growth is slow, the early adopters will be pretty alone there, for a long time. The new network has to have advantages over the old to justify the initial isolation period. FB had advantages over MySpace, so users slowly crept over. G+ had basically nothing over FB other than this "not evil" label they gave themselves. Then they started strictly enforcing a real name policy, which many users perceive as evil, and the "no evil" label is perceived as a blatant lie. This removes their (imho) main advantage over FB, and without a net gain, less and less people bother to try.
Looks great!

Here's some of my thoughts:

- Sign-ups might feel a bit lengthy for non-technically savvy people, maybe just allow them to put in their Restaurant Name, their name, and an email, and give them a pre-made page where they could add/edit all their information

- There's a mailing list option? How does that work? Will I be able to push updates to anyone who signs up?

- You might be able to make a more restrictive way to input restaurant hours; being able to put in hours freely is great but doesn't give me a format to use

- It's been mentioned already, but the URL IS really ugly

Overall, plenty of work to do, but you've made a fantastic start. Happy to give you more feedback if you like, let me know. :)
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I agree that they've squandered the initial momentum. This is a lesson everybody can learn from Apple: make a big splash on day one. Maybe MVP and iteration is a good approach for a new startup but when you're going toe-to-toe with a juggernaut like Facebook you need to land that first punch.

It gets worse though. I suspect I'm not the only person for whom their heavy handed real name policy was the final impetus to unplug from their information harvesting network altogether. G+ may actually backfire on them.
56k is quite a few, but the top extensions have millions of users.

I'd imagine the vast majority of Alexa Toolbar users get it bundled with other software they're installing.
> I was under the impression it was hacked together by the statistical process known as evolution stacked over many years...

The problem with that argument is that it comes close to Chomsky's concept of a "built-in" universal language, which has been demonstrated to be mostly wrong (some African languages differ wildly; attempts to produce a universal grammar mostly failed; humans who grow up in isolation never really acquire language).

Whatever evolution has bestowed upon our brain seems to be first of all flexibility and adaptability, not a series of inflexible statistical "hacks".
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I agree completely.

If you can stand the snarky answers that a crowd will always generate, there is nothing in the world like writing a blog which basically says "I don't understand this! Please help" and having folks come by and offer assistance.
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I had a similar experience when I moved from the UK to the Netherlands in 2006. You gather a lot of hubris over the years and it feels nice to be able to dispatch a big load of it.

Also it's an interesting point you make about dutchies and their agenda's. No wonder people think I'm crazy. I've never had an agenda (or used calendars either for that matter).
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To me, the most important sentence in this article was actually one that seems to invalidate his main point:

> I don't want to install an app for a one-time hotel room reservation

Most of my time spent on my phone is spent doing mundane things, like using wikipedia or making hotel reservations. I would rather not use an app for these things, and would gladly sacrifice a bit of usability for the convenience of not having to leave the web browser.
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