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> To anyone who had a computer in the past 5 years, recorded music is not worth anything. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

It wasn't always that way, and it doesn't need stay that way either. If no-one values the music, then maybe it will; if people do value music, then maybe it won't.

> I also don't understand the undertone of righteous indignation at Spotify's existence. I can listen to the radio, where songs are played gratis

The difference is that radio play was used to promote albums, which people then bought. Recording a song on the radio came with many disadvantages: DJ interruptions, missing the start/end of the song, lower sound quality, no album art etc.

With Spotify, there's no need to purchase the album, as there are no such disadvantages, the whole album is usually online, and you can play songs whenever you want to listen to them, not when the DJ feels like playing them. This makes in less economically interesting to be an artist. The righteous indignation against spotify is probably due to the fact that artists actually make very little money out of their content, whereas the spotify owners are probably going to make a lot of money out of the artists' content.
FWIW, I have the printed version and it is one of the most beautiful books I own. Both the content and production quality are first-rate.
Certainly not the same as killing WebOS, but MeeGo was a nice OS.
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Yes, but they probably get a pittance per Netflix subscriber compared to cable. In their minds they're probably asking themselves why would anyone pay $15/mo for the Starz cable broadcast when they could pay $8 for Starz on demand via Netflix? The fact is Netflix needs Starz more than Starz needs Netflix. The Starz content dramatically improved the streaming library, and Starz obviously feels like it's at the expense of their cable market.

Maybe they are right. Maybe they are wrong. My opinion is that they have the stronger position. I think Starz content will be back on Netflix when either the timing is better for them or the get better terms from Netflix.
Too bad what they said about the economy and politics were not covered - that would have been more interesting.
I find the exact opposite.

For example, instead of drawing a table programmatically, I can drag it into my view from Interface Builder's default list of objects. I can edit the table's properties quickly and easily.

And that's just one tiny example. Suppose you have a complex interface with loads of different buttons, sliders etc, custom backgrounds - you would have to set everything in code (e.g. button background images, button type, x and y co-ordinates on the view). In my admittedly limited experience that adds massively to the amount of code you have to write. It's crazy not to use IB in my opinion, but each to their own.
The devices that will shape Apple's future all run on ARM. Macs are important but not where the innovation is.

I have serious doubts whether Wozniak could lead the design of a lighter, more powerful and more energy efficient iPad.
I use Ubuntu Unity daily (both at work and at home), and still find myself lost when trying to navigate between open windows.
There is no need for me to live in a city. I work from home and telecommute. I travel to a city that is 45 minutes away for pleasure. He was 100% on from my perspective.
I have not read the article but RIM jumps out at me as not following this...
I do find that some of the co-founders "ideas" are technically not feasible and this is causing some distress, when trying to explain it to them how things work. Both of the 2 co-founders are mid-to-late 30s, one is a doctor and one had successfully built and sold a company (although in an entirely different industry, a consultant recruiting company actually). Both of the founders have limited technical knowledge and I don't think they understand the iterative process that programming is, they don't understand about refactoring code and rewriting/etc...and so as soon as I create a new feature, they already want to move onto creating another feature without refining what we have

They basically have a time-line of launching in March 2012, and we only started in May of this year. One thing that's worrying me is that I haven't yet done a second iteration of the code and they keep wanting more things added..and I feel that we're not focusing on solving one problem but many (too many). Products that are successful start off as being simple and then more gets added over time...

One of the issues is that one of the co-founders is my Dad's former co-worker's Son, and even though I have some say now that I have equity, it won't necessarily be heard because what does a 22 year old know anyway, right? My suggestions might seem too radical to them, and that is to drop a bunch of what we have, and now that we've had some testers, to focus on what the testers liked, and remove what they didn't.

Several of the testing sessions that we had, the people using this new service had mentioned that because of the relatively private nature of this service, that they feel uncomfortable with a linkedin/facebook login button on registration because they feel like the private information available on the service will be shared with other more public networks. My vote is to drop these "features" but the cofounders seem insistant that we keep them and feel that it "adds legitimacy" even though the testing sessions seem to show otherwise. There are other examples of this based on tester feedback, this is just one of them
Never thought of that, good point. I usually just do the "find out when to wake up if I go to bed right now" mode. I'm assuming that works for you, since they use javascript to determine your time.
I have no programming talent (nor money). So if anyone wants to create a "zero player" like game (see, for example, progress quest) but for simulation racing games it'd be awesome. Imagine the tinkering fun of Forza or Gran Turismo, but without all the time drain of actually doing any of the upgrading. Or racing. Or licence tests. Or car buying.
Wondering why the page was with no content. It seems to be Chrome (15.0.865.0 dev), loads good on Firefox.
WGU consists of 4 colleges: Teachers', Business, IT, and Health Professions. All well and good but I wish quality online programs were also offered in Math, Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Computer Science, Writing,
Humanities, etc... In my view a good College of Arts and Sciences is what makes University good. A great Engineering program would be awesome too.
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I am a full time iOS dev: I cannot imagine professionals who completely avoid interface builder.

For some screens, it is certainly faster and easier to programmatically build them up, but for the vast majority of screens, your comment seems to tell more about a willingness to learn than a desire to make good apps.

Perhaps you stopped trying to use it during the Xcode3 days? Now, almost any hairs it did have got shaved off in the Xcode3->4 transition.

I'm not saying use it for all adjustments to views, sometimes those go faster in code, but it is by far the better way to do almost every view.
Some things I've learned about the process of making iOS apps.
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I haven't noticed that sort of problem with uploads up to 100MB. I use a Linode 1024 in the Fremont datacenter.
Many of those ideas require not only that we can make this stuff in bulk at low prices, but also that we can dynamically change the stuff after production at high speed. I did not read that in the article. Did I browse it too fast?
What specifically is meant by 'unpaid' vs 'paid' work hours?

I find it hard to believe that Belgians, for instance, are only paid for 3.8 hours of work per day.

What am I missing?
Go mess with MonoTouch or whatever if you want. Then go grab a fruit roll-up, think about what you did, and realize you should have just learned Objective-C.

OK, but why?

Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management.

I'm confused - MonoTouch presumably has garbage collection, but Objective-C lets you 'not learn about manual memory management'. What's the deal?
Angellist is heads and shoulders above any other Angel network by an order of magnitude.
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It appears he was wrong about it. If anything, the cities are not just getting bigger and denser, they are starting to "specialize". (Geeks tend to congregate in the SF area, investment bankers in the NY city, ...) Anyhow, he described the rest of the changes brought about by the revolution in telecommunication technology rather well.

Looking back it looks obvious, but I wonder how many people at that time agreed with his vision of the future? That brings the question, how many "Arthur C. Clarke"s lives today that we are dismissing as lunatics?
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I find that added generated NIB files just dirty the code base. Of course this is just my preference. However, when I was a beginner, beginning to create more advanced views, I found it easier to programmably add them then to use Interface Builder. I like to be in control of my views and it helps me better visualize the view hierarchy. One example, was trying to create a UITabController with UINavigationController's for each tab. It can be done with Interface Builder, but it takes a lot of steps.
They (as in Intel) don't say that, it was a rumour from "industry sources". Intel say that ``it remains committed to MeeGo''.
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Yet, you are still an outlier. I also work from home and telecommute, but I enjoy living in a city because of the diversity of choice available for nearly every endeavor, be it schooling, dining, or cultural.

If telecommuting does become the defacto mode of work, I expect people will live in a greater variety of places. For instance, I wouldn't mind living a few years in Europe and Asia.
Microsoft sticking to their behind the scenes evil doings, as usual.
That prediction by clarke means that today million of relatively poor indians work for companies in the U.S. and make better living.
I found that Unity doesn't like Super+R or whatever other combination you enter. It doesn't always seem to "catch" the combination.
Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management.

I believe he's making reference to the inclusion of automatic reference counting in iOS 5.
(I work on correlate)

The gist of why this is so fast is:

1. For the vast majority of queries, we only need to compare hashes of the time series, not the time series themselves.

2. We make no attempt to detect shifted correlations. The correlations you see are all synchronized in time.
That's pretty much how I looked at his post--he's blaming his tools for him not wanting to know how it works.
As a Detroit http://goo.gl/hyOts suburbanite, Clark's prediction certainly seems to be very relevant for me right now.

I live in a relatively sparsely populated area. I often work remotely. When I do go into the office, I'm headed for another suburb. I'm about as removed from urban life as you can get, and still have a major hospital within 5 miles. I've not had to visit downtown Detroit since I worked their 11 years ago.

I much prefer the deer eating our hastas in the garden vs. drive-by shootings in the next neighborhood.

If Clark's prediction isn't true yet, I do see a time when it would be more typical.
I'd add MutualMobile. They are the largest mobile consulting and services firm in the market and straight out of Austin UT, started in a college dorm.
Intel may be pulling the plug on MeeGo
I admit I did stop using it during XCode3. I got so use to it I haven't yet used it in XCode4. I meant it more as a better way to understand the iOS view hierarchy, not necessarily the faster way to build apps. But building faster apps doesn't make them better.
I think the free software video editors have been too fragmented to produce one.

http://jeff.ecchi.ca/blog/2011/07/15/the-glorious-history-of...
How does a tool like Cinelerra compete with FCP's feature set?
...until he has to go back and fix the rafts of bugs he generates.
My exponential curve beginning in 2010 yielded "dubstep download." I guess we know what the kids are listening to these days.
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Constructive criticism: change "goto" -> "go to". Unless you're targeting programmers. :-)
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I read earlier that Lion was Apples "Vista" moment.

The FCP situation is more reminiscent of what happened with Vista - where MS had to extend the life of WXP until they offered something better.

Although, it'll be interesting to see how well Lion is doing in terms of market share at Apples next event.
Exactly. That's why you have to pay the $100 for the dev license - to get Xcode 4.2 beta.
Needs scientific proof to users at the page. Otherwise looks too meaningless.
Bug: If I do not select a value for the 'minutes' field, the suggested bed times are 12 hours off.
But still no reason for anyone not working in that niche to know who Zed Shaw is. Is that Scala's niche?
And if you visit the parent page (http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/), you can search for a term and see it's graph, along with strongly correlated queries.
If you do the exact same amount of functionality in a shorter period of time, it frees up that time to then go make another part better. More features. More testing. Faster Release. More documentation. Accessibility features.

If you prefer to boil each grain of rice separately for a pilaf, and it tastes the same at the end, you just wasted a lot of time in the kitchen for no good reason other than you've not stopped and learned how to boil them all at once.

Try the new Xcode4 book: http://www.amazon.com/Xcode-Developer-Reference-Richard-Went...

It goes into IB's newest incarnation. IB is also fantastic when adding assecessability functions to your app. Another reason to add accessability functions to your app (beyond being a good human being who lets not-fully sighted people use your app) is that it allows kif to work: http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.h... (play the video).

I'm not a IB Zealot, I make views manually when it makes more sense to or IB is just not doing it's job with any speed, but "0" is not the amount anyone should be using it who makes non-game apps.
I learned the basics of Python, object oriented programming, and SDL by participating in PyWeek and asking lots of newbie questions on IRC. It's definitely possible for you to make something from a cold start if you drop an hour or two a day on it.
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This is seriously an awesome proof of technology, but what is a practical purpose for it?
I can definitely see it playing out that way.

However, my limited knowledge of the problem precludes me from understanding if a simple 24 hour re-sync would address the underlying problem.

From what I do understand the accuracy/precision of the GPS system would be affected. I'm also inclined to believe that even with a regular re-synch, the overall usefulness of the system would be affected. As I don't believe the re-synch itself would be exempt from the underlying problem.

What I do know is that given our better conceptual framework we're able to leverage very precise location information; this leads to a more useful and productive GPS system than we would have otherwise.
The "comic book" link on Correlate is awesome. More sites should have documentation like this.
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic
Very cool but quite useless. I guess you might be able to spot emerging trends if you spent a bit of time on it though.
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No, no it doesn't take a lot of steps. Perhaps I'll do a screencast to prove it.
I got Mailchimp: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:Gd4UyqzZF...
Mysterious Google Chrome traffic
I happened to have Fiddler tracing on and I saw this piece of traffic today:

GET http://p4.ao6t3uhlkxkua.rnuix6f5idurgaym.164105.s1.v4.ipv6-exp.l.google.com/gen_204?ipv6exp=3&sentinel=1&v4_img_dt=1118&ds_img_dt=1844 HTTP/1.1
Host: p4.ao6t3uhlkxkua.rnuix6f5idurgaym.164105.s1.v4.ipv6-exp.l.google.com
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://p4.ao6t3uhlkxkua.rnuix6f5idurgaym.if.v4.ipv6-exp.l.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/exp/iframe.html
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.218 Safari/535.1
Accept: /
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,de;q=0.6
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: rememberme=true; SS=DQAAAMEAAABiNoWYCQdok-xnLZh8-8xa7YZAtqVxqr3_2zKgbpMfHx-c0dZ3Tklp6maaO7IGeZ8IuUY5NepxSraoZdQrBIZaOs8sS6o9AQyRXWOLe_ldE7spJgTzfjW0gt3BHrVOmu2Sk1lAlOoUs3r5psGdX1LWPNtf2irZAvhII10xUy2-XnhPYvkghNZwghmY8K6lIPd5RSXLwPD9ntB18bi7ZL4X1Lqj2Ix8ITMyzm-BgObgPYB5lIJu4LiDRe1GWVSDcK-pU2MZzmAIm8gSLJaaoq5h; PREF=ID=587575f9d525ab9d:U=2c3ef3059b7e1231:FF=4:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1298579907:LM=1309357618:DV=sTIUytipGDoC:GM=1:S=QOTTIVwY-2Ds4DGC; HSID=AfpIAFGtbLIl607yQ; APISID=ras81hjtSM2f4_F2/AYXPmQGpL2L58FXDX; SID=DQAAAMAAAABrnBY8Wj4F9dUFsszxohcHVoKzTc456-kqrgCwiBtQzzIYSBbOQelKQ4LjGU0KY7Rj-Ba8LqWsxeYO49KilP1OKL3F3QJ024Ta01EvWVWzoM-cIbyfs_XrMlnfoO2La5Utk7JwiXxkhBD0ArhgV7x0FXr0_zLc5uCGatGeo_v-rWdSLy6GpeiaZYuA7tHvIhwBYa9_MCd1z4LlBTY4zxg3ExgC4fFp7z29a5f3Lc3fGSOxp55bpWfz-oF1xbHDxlE; NID=50=NA_Podb2Y1coksuzYuIA8qnlLWbsKxypuVMXD64n7QR7nsJa74uEOHfacckaedMhMlyXTVghLBhS0HKx8y6QZ1zPiJ8ZrfM9lg1NVhHzhg6gYyAXzz-EzBFoSb0ngvtW

Check out the response. Is anyone else scared by the JavaScript code that says?

ipv6iframe.runExperiment();

Can anyone figure out what Google is doing with this? Why the odd Url? Why do I feel like I'm in the Matrix?
Ahah. So the mention of MonoTouch is a red-herring? Weird.

EDIT: @tptacek What confused me is there's no reason given to avoid MonoTouch, so I latched onto the memory management comment, to try and make sense of the text.
Then this morning, Arianna Huffington told us Arrington no longer worked for TechCrunch at all – that Arrington will merely be welcome to contribute unpaid blogs to the company, as long as he stays within AOL's blogging guidelines.

Not much I can add other than.. that sucks. I hope Michael starts a new blog instead because it was primarily only his posts I cared for anyway.
Apart from just being able to search by drawing (cool concept in it of itself), the practical purpose would obviously be the reverse: looking at the graph of any search query. But obviously they will never release that :)
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Google only considers it cloaking if clicking on a link in the search results gives something different from what googlebot sees.
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Simple app that helps you when searching for fragments of error messages
I put together this very simple app using web.py to automatically quote the terms in Google web searches. I was fed up with Google silently discarding terms in error messages and other multi-term searches that contained rare terms along with other more common ones and having to quote individual words by hand.

I'm not logging any IP addresses, by the way.

I hope you find it useful!
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Launch first before you consider any rash decisions. Your perspective will change quite a bit. It could be for the better or worse, but you will almost certainly see this venture differently than you do now.
I put together this very simple app using web.py to automatically quote the terms in Google web searches. I was fed up with Google silently discarding terms in error messages and other multi-term searches that contained rare terms along with other more common ones and having to quote individual words by hand.

I'm not logging any IP addresses, by the way.

I hope you find it useful! Any suggestions are welcome.

Disclaimer: I originally posted this as http://finderr.com.ar, but I noticed some interest so I went ahead and got finderr.org for convenience.
> I don't think universities should just be signing off that you understand a subject.

There are many more considerably more transformative experiences than hanging out with a bunch of same aged young adults having lots of sex, parties, and experiences with new subjects.

You're not going to GW for the first two, and honestly, if you have valid knowledge about the degree, why shouldn't you be able to get it accredited somehow? Why must you use years of real life to sit in classrooms with protoadults who don't work?
Reminds me of http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/

:)
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Companies investing in other companies always strikes me as weird, and investing in a venture capital seems even weirder.

Companies have a fiscal responsibility to deliver as much money as possible to their shareholders, do they not? So if AOL is giving Arrington a few million dollars, that's money AOL shareholders are not seeing; it's only justifiable if AOL thinks Arrington will use the money to outperform the market (otherwise just invest in the market or return to shareholders) or there will be some friends-with-benefits deal worth millions to make up for Arrington's lack of edge. Neither one seems all that likely.
WGU seems to be looked at askance from some googling by positions seeking MBAs
Google Trends?
Regarding the Google Flu trend, a Wired magazine article talked about how Google could identify the location of flu outbreaks before the CDC could solely because of search (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_sergeys_search/all/...)

In epidemiology, this is known as syndromic surveillance, and it usually involves checking drugstores for purchases of cold medicines, doctor’s offices for diagnoses, and so forth. But because acquiring timely data can be difficult, syndromic surveillance has always worked better in theory than in practice. By looking at search queries, though, Google researchers were able to analyze data in near real time. Indeed, Flu Trends can point to a potential flu outbreak two weeks faster than the CDC’s conventional methods, with comparable accuracy.
The article was good in breadth but lacked depth.

For deep-dives into the nitty gritty of Cocoa Touch, we've learned minute important details from digesting countless hours of WWDC videos that make all the difference.

http://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2011/

Especially the perennial classic, "Designing Apps with Scrollviews"
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Isn't a fresnel lens really just an non-idealized boundary layer too?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel_lens
http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/comic?p=1

Read this :-)
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Wether rapid prototyping or creating CAD schematics for manufacturing or even just taking notes on a product concept brainstorming session, I personally have found a stylus to be essential to creating quick sketches. The recent addition to the Waacom family, this Ballpoint pen allows you to write in ink and while simultaneously digitizing the information and saves up to 50 files in the devices storage. Having been developing patent sketches and constantly revising a robotics prototype I can see the benefits of a tool like this. I especially like the idea of having both a hard copy tangible sketch and a digitized format that I didn't have to scan then upload. I will definitely be picking up one of these considering they are only going for $199 and will be released late sept/nov. Good by cumbersome tablet, hello future pen.