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Banksy has hung artworks in high profile galleries and museums without being caught or subsequently identified:

http://gothamist.com/2005/03/23/museum_shows_for_banksy.php
My phone and Nook Color are both running CyanogenMod 7, which essentially amounts to stock Android 2.3.3/2.3.4 with tweaks. I do not think they could look more different from iOS. Where is this "resemblance" theory coming from?

EDIT: By "tweaks" I mean "under the hood", as far as I can tell.
A bit of historical perspective may prove helpful: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/15/thurrott-claim-c...

Paul Thurott's track record when it comes to making predictions about the iPad is terrible. There's simply no reason to take him seriously, and perhaps we should really be criticizing Gruber for the tech blogging equivalent of being a prominent biologist stooping to debating creationists.
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Am I the only dev in the world who doesn't know what a "Metro style app" is ? Trying to find out what a metro style app actually is on MSDN is a frustrating exercise. It's annoying when any organization invents new terminology and then acts as if it is a fundamental part of the language.
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this is completely silly. what about all the developers that devote all of their time on the product at hand...? i guess... your heuristic says that you dont want them? and you'd rather take the guy that goes home at 5 and gets distracted with pet projects that sap engineering time and focus?

simply put, you are thinking it wrong.
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Oh, okay :) Thanks for clarifying
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I don't think there's too much danger in going off-topic if the conversation is interesting and has some substance.

Yea I think lag in touchscreen interaction is a huge problem. I think this is largely a result of hardware. We've had to ship on atom-based hardware with 2003-era DX9 graphics. Even the latest Intel chips with DX10 are horridly slow when it comes to graphics.

The other side is actual touchscreen hardware. The machine used in the video is an HP Touchsmart, which uses an optical touchscreen panel. These panels have a latency of around 100-200ms, and that's before we even start processing the touch event information. Capacitive touch sensors are much better, but the're expensive to manufacture above about 10 inches.

In the end lag/accuracy is a reality of the low-cost hardware OEMs use, and there will always be some trade-off between hardware cost and performance.
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so how is it getting around the double NAT problem? Are users acting as bridges (like Skype super nodes) or is it going though aerofs's servers?
Windows actually have great Chinese translations. They are not official, and some of them are really stupid (but funny!), e.g.:

Windows 3.2 -> Win32 -> 瘟32

Windows 95 -> Win95 -> 瘟95

Windows XP -> XP -> 叉屁

Windows 7 -> Win7 -> 瘟7

As long as Microsoft sticks with the pattern "Windows + something short", it's fine for most people to shorten it to just "win-something short".

Linux the term itself doesn't seem to have a translation, as most of Linux users seem to be able to pronounce the term in English (but they do fight over which way to pronounce the "i" sound). Various distros have official Chinese translations.

Mac OS X is the most stupid one to pronounce in Chinese, and many would pronounce the "X" as |eks|, not "ten". So many Mac users prefers to just say the "Apple operating system".
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Relational algebra is a conceptually different approach to "merging data back together". So, I think the key point you made is that people end up optimizing their data storage to support faster joins.

Key/value stores have a different approach to "merging data back together". They seem more inclined to keep the data together in the first place (documents).

Both require a language of some kind to do the merging. NoSql is like saying NoMapReduce or even more like NoAlgebra.

I agree it is more like NoJoin.
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I tried to solve this using WhoIsWorkingOnWhat.com (hn submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979671). It didn't get much traction. I was obviously a no match to Joel. I am thinking of open sourcing the app when I get some time to clean it up.
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Just curious... how quick it was? (2-days for coding and 2-months for ideation??)
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Why the downvote? It is bullshit. This is the first stage in making yourself an obsolete COBOL developer - just say "I don't have time to keep up with the latest technologies." and twiddle your thumbs for 5 years.

Lots of knee-jerk defensiveness on this thread.
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How interested are developers going to be in developing apps for a "maybe" platform when they can be developing for an installed base of 50-odd million iPads right now? What if this is a TouchPad? It doesn't seem like a good bet on the tablet side given the history.
Like the person who wrote the article and as someone who has hired for more than a decade for my own businesses, I've noticed my best developers had pet projects. They tend also to be the most passionate about developing. It's not an absolute rule, but I found a good indicator.

As for having a life, let me tell you I have a 6 months old who spent 1.5 months of his life in the hospital, a wife, I'm CTO and co-founder of startup for which I code about 60 hours a week. On top of that, I have time to help my my wife with her business (my previous company), I have fulfilled time with my family, take the weekends off and have time for personal hobbies and pet projects. I sleep enough and sleep well and I'm happy and balanced.

A lot of the most involved and active people in the tech community in Montreal that I know personally have startups, children and time for their family. I'll tell you they're the most awesome, bright, funny and balanced people I ever met.

One thing that makes it possible for me is a 10 minutes walk commute. The other biggest factor is having priorities straight on how I want to balance my life. Is it easy? No. Do I always have the energy and passion to go forward? Yes. Seeing my son smile when I wake him up each morning helps a lot.

You don't have to be young, without a family and responsibilities to have the passion and energy to be able to do things you care about for yourself outside your work. Even if you work more than 40 hours a week...

Another thing: some pet projects or hobbies can take only a few hours a week or a month. So not having enough time is not a valid argument in my opinion.
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Why would you demo a prototype?
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If this really proved to be a differentiating feature, would it really take Apple more than a month or two to provide user switching? They already have it in OSX.
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The idea that a page should not be refreshed manually to get the latest information should have been a defacto "Web 2.0" idea.
This was just posted to the authors blog:

"My name is John Batistich and I am the General Manager Marketing for Westfield. Firstly, thanks Troy for bringing this issue to our attention. Our intention was to create a free service for our customers so they never lose their car again! However, we have more work to do. Our partner, Park Assist, who provide the camera technology to capture the number plate today advised there was an issue with the authentication of their data feed to the iPhone which resulted in number plate data being publicly assessable via the internet. This issue has been addressed immediately by Park Assist and the Find My Car functionality will not be available for approximately one week until the app has been modified to ensure that data cannot be publicly assessable online. Further, the ‘Find my Car’ functionality on our app is similar to other location-based services and has been developed to provide a service to the average shopper, in an effort to make it easier to find their car. In terms of privacy, the application does not contravene the Privacy Act in so far as numbers plates are not “personal information”, and are therefore not subject to that act. Having said that, the application theoretically could be used for purposes other than its original intention, however it does not facilitate any activity that couldn’t already happen otherwise. For example, a member of the general public may try to use the application to find a car that is not theirs. On the other hand, at the request of police, the application might also be used to assist in their enquiries into a given situation however, Westfield would not expect either of these situations to be typical.We appreciate you bringing this issue to our attention and we are now working on an update to resolve the technical issue. "
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It is way too early to proclaim that history is repeating itself. 20 years ago Apple were a rudderless ship. Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies out there. They have a vision, they have a solid foundation on which to build, and they have the resources to execute rapidly on that vision.
I learned some things too. However, even if you have a tiny piece of software, like a game that you can reliably complete manually in 20 minutes, completely playing it through after every change is way too slow for "live coding". You should see your results instantly. Just like your test suite should run in seconds. If you have to wait minutes to compile, deploy and test your productivity will fall. A full integration/acceptance test suite can take longer, but it should be as automatic as possible and you can't use it for rapid feedback like this, but more for regression/acceptance testing.

Notch was able to take advantage of immediate feedback for the most part of his coding. The first hours spent on the rendering was tested by watching the world being rendered live. I've been doing the same developing a game in Clojure. When he got as far as the gameplay, he slowed down considerably, since he had to wander around in the game world to test each new feature. He for example made temporary shortcut passages, so he was able to test the boss monsters, without actually having to pass through the levels.

He is a person who can concentrate on delivering results and hack away at code for long stretches. This is the kind of code he presumably has done again and again for years. Who professional web developer can't hack together a small site as quickly? Where most people fail is attention span and drive! I know my unfinished projects speak of that :)

Most interesting part to me, of watching Notch code, was to see how he used his tools. And it was inspiring and motivating to see the progress. The actual code was very hackish but quality code is not important in a throw-away project anyway :)
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When it comes to the design, here you can find what its supposed to look like: http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/tutorials/windows-ph...
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I develop for a company that does much of this. Electronic applications, plan comparisons, drug rates, etc. Also, you can phone in and have someone help you through the process. Is this more of what you would like so see?

https://www.extendhealth.com/health-insurance/quote/search
Just checked this out...pretty. I am very interested in the boot up video... from 0 to desktop was under 4 seconds... impressed.
I wonder if that might be a myth? It appears that Office has probably peaked and is losing customers to less featured offerings like Google Docs.
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This is what I hoped the iPad would do (run multiple iPhone apps concurrently at 1x and allow inter-app drags).

However, the complexities of this are boggling and will make a nightmarish (or nonexistent) security model. It would trully be OLE, take 2 if it worked at all.

This is a year out. When Android 3.0 was previewed 6 months before release, I was amazed. Then I realized how buggy and rushed it was.

Apple sets a very high bar for quality. It will be interesting to see if either Google or Microsoft can compete.
I use twitter for news, follow scientists & technologists, I see many links there before HN.

I think platforms like FB are for showing off and looking for chicks and stalking people.

SN interest me because they are yet to be explored medium. There are many algorithms that enable you to find out nifty things. See https://github.com/clyfe/cywiky/wiki/Social-Media-Analytics and http://www.hilarymason.com/
It's a great PR move, actually. If the artist now eventually comes forward, he will be instantly famous. Banksy[1] did the same.

Maybe there's something to learn here for startups as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
Well, to fuel your fire, Fog Creek also happens to make a bug tracker, http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
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Published airline fares change only a couple of times a day (10:30am, noon and 8pm), and only once a day on the weekends. Airlines (like American) are trying to push travel sites to use more dynamic pricing. The data is cached and outdated (including availability).

It doesn't take a tremendous amount of computing power -- remember that most airlines are still running ancient mainframe reservation systems.

The multiple destinations functionality was from ITA -- it's been around for years. Check out flyertalk.com for discussions -- you can input multiple layovers to have it compute cheap fares that maximize miles/segments. They keep a basic backend open at: matrix1.itasoftware.com
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> Various distros have official Chinese translations.

Debian -> 大便
Ubuntu -> 俺不土
Gentoo -> 真土
Why is this crap being posted on HN?

Lame spammers.
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Mostly a nitpick, but it'd be nice if the home page had a little <noscript> text for those of us who browse safely and are wondering what it is at a glance or why we should care enough (besides the Spolsky reference) to enable scripting.

Anyway, it's pretty slick with the UI. I'm going to check it out for tasking myself, and if I like it see how it works for a school project with others.
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I was just discussing this with a friend last night. There is a lot more to going global (or even targeting a new culture domestically) than simply translating your website and/or getting prepared for international shipping (if your product is physical). UX needs to be culturally savvy; ideally, the product/service would be adapted specifically for each culture. If that's out of the budget, a company should at least make sure that they aren't being unintentionally offensive.
I went to go and prove you wrong (I personally use outbound/return).

But webjet (Departing/Returning) and skyscanner (Depart/Return) seem to back you up.
Hearing about this made my week.
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My point is that having pet projects might actually increase software development skills. In the same way that practicing any activity generally makes you better at it. People who're good at socializing, basketball, football or whatever typically invests time in it. The more you do it the better you get at it. Why shouldn't the same apply to software development?

A person who invest their free time in relationships or sports will probably get better at those things than a person who only invests in pet projects, but why shouldn't the person investing in pet projects get better at his/her activity?

I think it's unfair to say that the employer should ignore all skills achieved your in spare time because other people choose to spend their time differently.
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I would say change the colors. They're as fresh as Windows software from the 90's.

The typography is rather ugly and makes the UI look stuffed (so maybe tuning the font, font-weights and font-sizes would help)

Overall the UI looks stuffed and heavy and colors make it seem depressing. The actual task something like two words, but about half of the space is occupied with heavy indicators of comments or other UI elements, so you tend to focus on the UI and not the actual information.

I guess the UI works in the basic level, but it's not that well or tastefully executed, and definitely looks like coder design.
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Everyone I talked to then recommended the Strang textbook, and also Stanford EE263, both already pointed out by other commenters here.
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The market for building complicated routings is very small -- typically only mile/segment runners. ITA's backend is already used by that community for this, but not sure why the public would be interested. Each segment adds additional landing fees and taxes, making it more expensive, unless you're exploiting a rare hub/partner mistake fare.
Haha yeah glad you liked it, but I wouldn't call it "fully functional" (although that image in the top left does say "chinese business name" in Chinese repeated over and over :)

I couldn't resist it and was pretty surprised the domain was available. Even a search for "chinese business name" in Google doesn't return many results so maybe I'll do something with it.

I submitted it to HN but I think it's sailed off the newest page and into oblivion.

I actually just had lunch at my local noodle joint and chatted with the guy there (who's native Chinese) and we played around with names for my CMS which is "Decal".

He doesn't have any special training other than being a native speaker but he was able to come up with a few ideas - he was pretty familiar with the concept.

Makes me think that actually my best strategy is just going to be to pretty up that landing page a bit (not too much though :) and just replace that "coming soon" form with a form that gets details about the business. My mate at the noodle place said he'd be happy to come up with some names. Start simple, iterate.

Then I could offer testing on each of the options via Mechanical Turk or something .... annnyhoo.
This makes a ton of sense to me. Users already trust Google with search and connecting people with airlines has baked-in revenue. This also has tremendous advertising potential. Imagine if local restaurants could target ads at people who will be traveling to the area in the next three months.
Indeed I am. Thanks!

I love so much the effortlessness of steeping in a culture of people with such similar tastes and preferences enabled by the internet (and, to a lesser extent, HN).
Or maybe you will be downvoted by all the HN crowd according to the rules "don't call names" and "only contribute with something that adds value to the discussion" and "don't complain for being downvoted.
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I have the 64-bit Dev Tools edition running pretty good in VBox. It doesn't like the VBox Tools, though they partial install. No seamless mouse sadly.

It does seem to hang up rather a lot, but it clears after a minute or two and keeps going. No panics yet.

I only did that, since I didn't have any DL DVDs, and no Windows install to make a bootable USB.
He is not talking about moron bloggers. Paul Thrott and BGR. Gruber said "He is not alone" as well.
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