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I feel like I have to jump in here. The worst clients I've ever had (and also the worst clients other businesses I've worked with have had) are the ones you do charity work for (family included). When people aren't paying for something, they place absolutely no value on your time, and without fail the relationship will sour at some point.

I'd charge a friend or charity a lower rate that they can afford but strategically set such that their budget (and amount of work they get) seems finite to them. Forces them to come up with their plan and execute, instead of "yeah that's nice, but my friend said THIS would be a better idea...can you just redo the whole thing??" Yes, you can say no, but like I said if there are expectations on either side, it can sour the relationship.
They certainly seem to have thrown away a lot of their advantage from the brilliantly-executed launch. If they had followed up quickly, and avoided the real names rathole, they were on track for a huge success. Now it'll be a much tougher path. I still think it'll be at least semi-successful, but it doesn't seem as likely to take significant market share away from Facebook or Twitter any time soon.
The kickstarter page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dot/dot-360o-video-captu...

A great sample of what you can do with it on their site:

http://www.kogeto.com/dotspots/3HRHSO232OYA

Simple and beautiful product.
So, are there any ghetto homebrew APIs that just talk to Google+ via POST and GET requests? I've found something that lets me crosspost something to both twitter and Facebook, and it's annoying having to do it explicitly in Google+ as a separate action.
Thanks, giving this a shot now.
Have you considered how much time and money women invest into their appearance?

Most men I know do little more than bathe regularly, comb their hair for a few seconds, and brush their teeth. Their wardrobes consist of a three or four pairs of shoes, some jeans, t-shirts, and a few dress pants, dress shirts, and ties for more formal events. They could probably replace their entire closet for a couple hundred dollars.

Most women I know spend time each morning on a shower, blow drying and styling their hair, and makeup. All in all somewhere between forty minutes and an hour. Reasonable quality makeup is expensive. Foundation? $30-40 Eye pencil? $10-20 Mascara, eye shadow, concealer, lip pencil, lipstick, blush. A women's makeup collection alone may cost almost as much to replace as most of my guy friend's entire wardrobe. Their closet? Many more shoes, skirts, dresses, jeans, bras, shirts. Women's clothes are in general more expensive than men's clothes.

The point? Women do much much more to keep up appearances than men. Saying "both men and women keep up appearances" is almost laughable.
Hilarious music video from Foundry Group. Submission needs a more descriptive title.
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I'm surprised behind the huge push behind a "soft yellow" colored bulb. The articles makes a claim that humans prefer the yellow/orange glow due to prevalence of fire as lighting.

But I don't see a single mention of the color termperature of pure sunshine, which is much, much closer to pure white (5500K).

Flourescent bulbs that glow at 5500K are considered "pure white" [0] and seem to be demonized in the article as too harsh.

I think this is a case of old folks that grew up under incandescents and prefer them purely because they grew up with it. As Steve Jobs has mentioned [1] (about keyboards), we just need to wait for them to die out eventually.

[0] http://www.pse.com/savingsandenergycenter/ForHomes/Publishin...

[1] http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/theyll-die-out-eventua...
Android Features Likely to be Missing in The iPhone 5
But I am not talking about which model code belongs to either. I sm saying, the Payment logic probably does not belong in either of the models (User or CreditCard) and should be in its own class and should have an well defined interface - independent of how User is stored or how CreditCard is stored. And I think, thats exactly what steve is talking about.
We could probably kick up a bit of trouble for their app, but frankly speaking, is it really worth it? We've moved on to bigger and better things, and despite their app launching, we've still got by far the biggest user base of cycle hire app users, so why bother with them? But on second thoughts, we may just do it for the lulz ;)
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its a managed host, so we dont want them to see. we maintain the db.
The logo looks more like the LG logo (http://www.lg.com/us/img/logo-lg.png) than the Apple logo
No, there is still a lot of C & C++ jobs out there. However COBOL might be another matter...
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When you start writing ThreeCamelcaseWords for your class names, it's probably time start questioning the design.

GoFites do this because they're Scared Of Code. Don't be afraid of code. Sure, don't poop it all over your files, cargo culting it from place to place. But also don't file it all away into a necronomicon to be conjured by name like a demon ("I Ankh-f-n-khonsu::Base, SET OVER THOSE THAT WOULD RENDER DICTIONARIES ORDERED BY FIRST LETTERS!").
>Google Chairman Eric Schmidt put it bluntly last week at a cloud conference here: He said tech had exhausted the limits of the PC as a platform, and the future would center on mobile devices.

"The PC market has become commoditized," says Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps.

The automobile industry is highly commoditized, yet continues to innovate with hybrids and electrics - not to mention the commoditization of the mobile phone market which is conveniently ignored (and perhaps cynically ignored as well given Google's role in commoditizing the current generation of devices).

While it is possible that one day there will be no computers in the cubicles of the world's office parks, absent a coherent argument showing why businesses will shift from computers to mobile devices en masse, the argument seems tenuous. Yes, the consumer space is changing and that's all Google really has a meaningful presence in [a smattering of small businesses aside].

There is nothing surprising about HP's move, it is pretty much an attempt to repeat IBM's act of twenty years ago.
I've been as frustrated as anyone with CFL bulbs that die early deaths, but I think this article is more than a little over-the-top with the CFL bashing. None of the CFLs in my house are "horrible, flickery, ugly." Many of them have lasted for years and put out light that's indistinguishable from incandescents.

Still and all, I'm glad to see something even better on the way.
Why would you want to export the data? to save voicemails?
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IonCube is expensive, any free alternatives, we are a startup.
Arianna was the one who announced that Arrington would no longer be doing TechCrunch now that he was doing CrunchFund. The higher-ups at AOL were apparently on board with the plan for him to do both up until then.

I don't have any inside information, but one possible interpretation is that Arianna made this announcement to effectively force AOL to choose to either back her or back Arrington. They seem to have backed her, which has strengthened her control over the content engine that more or less drives the current AOL. With both Arrington and Topolsky gone (along with much of Topolsky's team), there's really not anyone there with the stature to challenge her in this area.

Honestly, it looks like she could be positioning herself to be the successor when Armstrong gets the boot for the current straits AOL finds itself in. Why leave the company when you can just run it?

Edit: Huffington clarifying Arrington's (non-)role: http://www.businessinsider.com/mike-arrington-no-longer-work...
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I knew plenty of people who were top-notch developers who didn't find jobs back then.
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>"Call me cynical but I see this as just another way to get some money out of google."

I won't call it "cynical". I'll call it "business."
I enjoyed Rise of the Dragon immensely. I'd play a comparably intricate and engaging 'point and click' game today.

This blogger doesn't know what they are talking about.
Why you have a broken blog and how to fix it
You have a broken blog. In fact it is not just your blog. Its pretty much every blog out there. The problem is that blogs are fundamentally flawed. Blogs are great if you use them for their original purpose. However, we often use them for a lot more than a chronological series of posts that have a short shelf life.
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> If it remains hard to do, she'll stick to the default config, which is what she does already.

The problem with the CA system is that the default config is already unsafe, let alone robust, as evidenced by major browsers hastily releasing new versions to be able to revoke trust in a single CA. Jane McNewbie goes to sleep every night without a worry on her mind while the Comodos and Diginotars of this world make mistake after mistake. Is that really so much better?

> So, the main change wrt the current PKI system is that by default, her browser would probably check a certificate validity against a couple of top authorities, rather than a single one. I guess it would make getting a certificate a couple of times more complicated, hence a couple of times more expensive (if the process of trust propagation is fully automated, then I'm no safer than with a single CA signature).

You guess? Have you actually looked at Convergence?
I think there may be object bees on you. Just because "logic" doesn't belong in a model class doesn't mean it needs its own class. In Rails, you already have three good places to move code like this to:

* The controller class, to generate a populated instance variable used by a view

* The helper class, to transform a general-purpose instance variable into the variable you need in your view

* As a free function or static method anywhere in lib/, particularly if you could conceivably re-use the code in another project.

The issue here is nominalizing all the logic in your code; besides creating unnecessary indirection (indirection is the coin of the realm; spend it wisely), it also creates One More Thing everyone has to remember to use your code: how to instantiate your object.

Just write functions. People have built and maintained things far more amazing than blog software in C using nothing but well-named functions. What Would Norvig Do?
This is exactly what I thought.
I don't think this cycle is evil. I just want people to be careful when they read stuff like this in the article:

"Are you in college and bothered about the job market ahead of your graduation, should you consider switching majors? maybe. The industry is booming and doesn’t look like it will be slowing down anytime soon. In the middle of all the unemployment, maybe we can take solace in the never ending demand for Engineers."

After a boom there is always a bust. And the bigger the boom, the bigger the bust.
You're right, this will be a fast way to get people to stop telling you their ideas. But if you're trying to shut people up then you've missed the OP's point.

You can easily make normal people feel like their idea is worthless and you have mountains of business acumen that, obviously, they must lack. Do this enough times and what you'll find, just like you'd hoped, people stop telling you their ideas.

I'd argue that every time you do this you are shutting down opportunities to collaboratively create ideas that would probably work. Part of being "lucky" is increasing your exposure to failures [1].

When someone approaches you with an idea, you've certainly got a better feel for what will "work" more than you're average person. Consider taking the time to give feedback, help shape it, brainstorm with it. You might find that between the two of you what you create is bigger than what either one could come up with individually.

This applies in all areas of personal relationships, not just iPhone games.

[1] "To increase your chance of success, double your failure rate" - attributed to Tom Watson
why am i getting down voted?
"the destruction of cognitive and behavioral diversity is probably going to lead to our extinction in the long run."

What an interesting idea. It would make an excellent central concept for a work of speculative fiction, and probably already has.
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Big Block Games is developing a game in 14 days, live, for charity.
All the donations are going to charity. They are literally on 24 hours a day, and answer any questions you have. Great learning experience if you've ever been curious how small indie game dev's operate.

http://www.twitch.tv/bigblockgames < live stream

http://www.bigblockgames.com/games/coffeehero/challenge/ < current build of game/progress
Doesn't it worry you that you're working in an environment that dedicates so much time to filing code away into objects that it needs a name for the idea of an object that doesn't derive from one of the framework classes?

An antidote to this mentality:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
Because it's yours?

Of course, there's a difference between why you would want to export your data and why you would want the ability to export your data.
[Edit: Why wouldn't you want to export data?]

Yeah as well as text messages, phone numbers (for importation into other contact systems) etc. backed-up and archived for work/business (even personal) purposes.
I am a big fan of TC and of Arrington. Yes, he is not to everyone's liking, but he has built an amazing business from nothing.

So this is the reason to like someone? Sure, he turned tech news into over-the-top, Hollywood-esque gossip, but hey, he built it from nothing!

I can't wait for all the neo-yuppies who visit TechCrunch and spend their days talking about startups and venture capital to fade away. I really can't imagine more boring people or more boring "news" to read.
Ah, good times! It's always great to hear kind words about the accessibility work with Visual Studio. When i first joined the Accessibility effort back in 2001, I coded in Visual Studio for 3 months without a monitor. I'll never forget the nightmares of hearing VS talk to me in my sleep :)

I'm embarrassed I can't remember their names either. It was a great group of people. (Hey Arron! Hey Lars!) But yes, the accessibility virtual team consisted of about 50 people across the division all using JAWS, Window Eyes, and other programs to open bugs. Really good times.
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To test the color rendering ability just take a CD or a DVD disc, and hold it to the light.
On CFLs you'll often see just a few streaks instead of a rainbow, while halogen lamps and LEDs are pretty good.
Hi Sara! :)
Any insights on the company you can share?
Exactly. The other day I was hanging out with some relatives from out of town and my uncle dropped that famous line, "I have an idea for an app." I had been functioning under the same notion that I should always listen to people's ideas, so I listened.

He then says, "I'll tell you, but if you build it I want 50%." I said, "Fine." In my mind I'm thinking, "No way I'm building this." Then he says, "OK, my idea is a contact management application for the iPhone. They have them for the PC, but they don't have them for the iPhone." That's it. That's his whole idea.

That's when I realized I should stop listening to people's ideas about apps because he just basically told me that I can't build any contact management apps without giving him half the profits. If I listen to too many people's ideas, I won't be able to build something without being sued because someone else "gave me the idea".
Because then it would be a tax. Also, we couldn't have the warm fuzzies of having 100% conversion to CFL/LEDs, 99.5% might have the same practical effect, but it doesn't have the same rhetorical force.
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I've wanted to do something similar except with Real Estate transaction data in the state of MA. Most residential real estate transaction data is available via each counties registry of deeds website (http://www.masslandrecords.com/malr/controller). The challenge is much of this data is stored using proprietary systems with limited (or no) APIs and different counties use different systems.

Much like with Real Estate data, the biggest hurdle with this initiative is there is no standardized convention from one city to another. With data being all over the place it makes developing a community driven data gathering platform "wicked hard". What I think would be a good starting point is define some standards so that when the ad-hoc data is transformed it follows an agreed upon convention. This approach would allow for a centralized data sharing platform to be developed making data available via all kinds of different formats(RDF,JSON, etc).

tl;dr: Awesome idea but comes with some difficult challenges.
I hope so, but the problem I see is that new grads (I include myself here) are willing to work for 80k, while it's not that much of a stretch to say that the best graduates will be almost as productive in a few years as they will be in 7 or 8 years. That doesn't, however, automatically mean a commensurate salary increase, so developer salaries are kept perpetually lower than they should be. How can employers and employees adapt to this bifurcated market?
Helpers.

Enjoyed the post, but Rails also provides helpers to 'help' you with view specific logic. Granted, this might not be as fun as a plain Ruby class, but I've used helpers extensively on various projects and whenever I join an existing project, it's one of the first places I look with dealing with the view layer.

One of the nice Rails conventions.
I can only second that. I also tried some sprites we use. The service reduced the size by about 15%, but introduced clearly visible artefacts, especially around text. Not very convincing.
It's a slow process, for sure. It's difficult to even explain the utility of an API to the non tech-savvy until you show them an app that uses the data.

I live in NYC and they're doing a great job- but change isn't immediate. I'm really interested in the area of governmental data- I feel like there's a need/use for an open wiki style directory of info, but http://opengovernmentdata.org/ is already a good resource.
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Yea, good point. I was thinking of the case where you wanted to monitor something like your refrigerator. I suppose my TV has a computer next to it at all times too. Great project!
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Agreed! Something which fits on this: http://gopro.com/cameras/hd-hero-naked-camera/ and does 360 on the cheap would be amazing - and I presume even better quality footage than the iphone4.
Boys generally only hear that sort of statement from family members at family gatherings.

Young girls hear how pretty their dress or hair or smile is from just about anyone upon introduction. They are put into ballet classes where they learn to act pretty, into girl scouts where they do traditional arts and crafts rather than the camping and leadership that boy scouts focuses on, and are given play makeup until around ten or so when they are encouraged to learn how to put real makeup on. Many young girls know what dieting is, and start doing so in intermediate school- before they have even stopped growing. Young girls are supposed to behave appropriately as such, while loud, rude, and overly rambunctious behavior from boys are tolerated as "boys will be boys". All of this is anecdotal from my own experiences, but I believe to be true in many areas of the US.

The extent to which young girls are raised to be pretty is on a completely different level of young boys.
It would be interesting to know how long it takes to run locally on a single instance
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Most acquisition failures can be tied directly to the founders leaving too soon.

I think that it often works in reverse: the acquisition fails, causing the founders to leave too soon. I don't doubt that some founders see the $$$ and can't wait to leave, but there are lots of founders who genuinely want to thrive at the new company. Sometimes the acquired startup doesn't get the attention or resources it needs to successfully integrate into the new company, or maybe it gets put on a back burner. That may cause a founder to want to leave.
Ditching the James Webb Space Telescope would be a turning point
I think it's more name recognition. Nearly all of my freelance clients who bought their own domain name for a new venture used Godaddy. Why? Because it's the only domain registrar they've ever heard of.

They don't know about Godaddy's bad press or it's upselling techniques. They just know they saw a superbowl ad saying "need a domain name? use godaddy"
Wouldn't be surprised if GoPro ran with that idea.
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You really don't get this? People comment on the css when it interesting and you can learn from it. Saying someone didn't use css is not interesting at all.

It's not a design page, it's not an html tutorial, it's an article on DNS, the html and css make difference at all.

Try to answer (in your mind) the question: "So what?" to both your posts. Merely raising a point isn't really enough - there has to be a reason to raise it.
Yay! (I am also an investor in this.)
> Obviously there are examples of cultures where men cook or women hunt, but I can't find any culture around the world where women don't traditionally have nurturing roles.

How much of this, do you figure, is survivor bias? If there were just a few dominant cultures historically who happened to have a patriarchal bias and which went on to be profoundly influential over a large volume of the planet (like, say, the Romans, the Chinese, etc), it stands to reason that male-female relationships in the many, many cultures that were shaped by them would simply happen to exhibit these traits, not because of biological constraints, but because of simple historical happenstance. Cultures which failed to fit this mold would be "civilized" when they came into contact with the dominant cultural hegemony, and relatively few counter-examples would survive.

Thus we can find in small, isolated pockets surviving cultures like the Aka, who split "nuturing roles" equally and fail to fit your hypothesis, but outside of extremely isolated cases it is hard to find cultures that run counter to what you perceive as biological norms precisely because it is hard to find any culture that wasn't extensively re-shaped by contact with one of a handful of historically dominant civilizations
I would tend to agree, diversity being so fundamental to survival. Even in a futuristic world like Deus Ex where you can customize yourself at will, so long as we have biological components we will have biological weaknesses, and diversity is what helps mitigate those weaknesses.
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