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Does anyone know what Zynga did Q3 2010? Doesn't really make sense to measure profitability in succeeding quarters as it does to look at the YoY, right?
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It's a natural thing for me to think about because a lot of OurDoings users use Dropbox as their photo uploader.
You could probably add Picasa, Reader, Virtual Voicemail / Google Voice, Calendar, Video Chat, Instant Messaging as well.
I came here to see if anyone had anything to say about this. Hadn't heard rumblings about sunsetting GWT, but the conspiracy portion of my brain wondered if Google not trying too hard to keep the plugin up to date was a subtle push for GWT dev's to move to Chrome. :)

Last I checked the plugin for FF6 can be found here:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://dl.google.com/d...

More discussion here:
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thr...
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Hi guys,this is my first app ever. It turns your iDevices into a wireless game controller, mouse. There are many apps like this on the App Store already, but the purpose I create this app is because of another project.

A year ago, I was working on my graduation project as a undergraduate major in CS / embedded system. My project is to simulate a virtual device driver on Linux and Windows platform to share devices (especially HID devices like mouse, keyboard, gamepad..) between computers.

It turned out that I can create a virtual device that act as either mouse or gamepad (full functional gamepad, not just up/down arrow on keyboard). Therefore I decided to create an mobile app that help people to control computers via Wi-Fi.

Unlike most other remote control apps on App Store, which only simulate keyboard/mouse signal, and fake to be a gamepad/joystick, Air Controller is detected on Windows as a USB game controller, which means you can connect more than one iDevices to the same computer and the control signal is more precise (especially in Steering Wheel mode).

I’d love to hear your feedbacks and thoughts on this app. Anyone here major in Human-Computer Interaction, what else can I do to make this app more interactive, more fun ?
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My point is when there's a critical Flash update, Chrome doesn't notify me ASAP. So my Chrome might be open for days with a vulnerable Flash without me knowing that it's time to restart. This is why I check About Chrome almost daily (kind of an annoying obsession).

By comparison, on Windows and OSX when there's a Flash update, the user will be notified when the update arrives.

So Chrome delivers the Flash patch really fast, but then doesn't notify users that they need to get it.

And Adobe and Apple deliver the Flash patch slowly, but the user is notified.

Neither of these situations is ideal. What I want is fast arrival of the patch, plus notification. I guess I will look for a Chrome bug on this.
Their privacy settings are a huge mess...
The unfortunate side effect is that Scrolls (the parchment containing objects) are a deprecated technology. The only time We get to use them anymore is in a fantasy setting.

I really don't understand how they can reasonably expect to own the trademark on a word that is only a portion of their actual product line and describes an object that has been known to exist for thousands of years. Microsoft was denied the trademark for "Windows", but they were given trademarks for the phrases "Windows XP Operating System", etc.
> FF7's been running for about 12 hours on my win7 box and is using over a gig of ram just like normal...

Are you looking at resident set size (aka real memory), versus virtual set size (aka virtual memory)?

The memory VMs in both Windows and Linux kernels will happily let an app malloc all they want until they hit the userspace address limit, with no affect on performance. It's only when those apps use the memory that there's a perf hit.
Starting a business is only half the battle (at best). The biggest value of the MBA is the networking that happens. You're meeting people who will go on to work in a diverse set of industries. It's not uncommon for an entrepreneur with an MBA to go a year or two in business only calling on people they met in school, or fellow alumni. That networking isn't impossible to replicate, but an entrepreneur who forgoes the MBA route needs to make a concerted effort to make up for that.
For those who would like to try emacs in their browser, there is ymacs, a emacs like editor implemented in javascript. It's not specifically a tutorial, but it's good enough to try out the basics.

http://www.ymacs.org/demo/
I'm pretty sure those services were all on the internet before they died.
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Is this memory that is needed for some other application you are running? Is your system running low on virtual memory? If not, what is the problem with FF using it? From what I've seen (at least with FF6), when system memory gets low FF will start to release memory back.

I'd rather have FF use the memory for cache to speed up performance than to have it sit unused.
I've never really understood the outward hostility Web developers display towards their clients, audience, customers, etc. Your job is to deliver the best experience you can for people viewing Web pages. If given all the information at your disposal, the costs don't outweigh the pros for your audience, that's one thing. But not doing it because it's hard or you just don't feel like it is a bit childish (please note I'm using "you" to mean the prototypical Web developer here -- not you as in simonsarris).

We all have to do things we don't like in our jobs, that's just part of it being a job. I can even accept a certain amount of healthy advocacy. Encourage people to upgrade if you'd like. But outright refusal to do your best because your customer doesn't run the browser you wish they did is just a very odd tactic to take.
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All great reasons, but there's one I would add as an MBA: Learning to program makes you a better business person.

How?

Made to Stick has a great story about a math teacher who struggled to convince his students of math's importance in life. As he put it, math is like weight lifting. You don't work out to prepare for the day a rogue barbell comes and traps you on the ground, you work out so you can run faster, tackle harder, and jump higher. Math is weight lifting for your analytic mind - it helps you rationally think through problems and establish logical steps to the solution.

Learning to program, and to take it further, learning computer science, is not about making the best app ever created. CS is mental weight lifting on the _process_ of tackling business problems. Dissecting an app into its MVC components will help you understand the business you plan to create, what is core, and what is fluff. In other words, learning to program will make you a better business person, even if you suck.
I don't have any numbers, but for a qualitative review see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3044351
And FF 7 (which I've been using for about 5 months now) is not even noticeably faster than 3.6 on my usage pattern. In fact it seems to spend more time with an unresponsive UI than 3.6.
http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-september-2011/

IE 7 is less than 5% market share now, almost the same as IE 6. I don't see how this predicts a future with 72 versions of IE. And how is this any different than Firefox? I am running Firefox 4 on my office computer - can't upgrade because of IT policy.
Your anecdote reminds me of when I think iOS4 or thereabout came out.

A friend was going nuts going OMG OMG THE WEATHER APP UPDATES LIVE NOW. It turns out it just happened to be 73 or whatever degrees out at the time after he updated.

For these small things like weather updates I agree that apple needs to allow developers to update the app icon or whatever with some alert system on the home screen. It wouldn't be overly difficult to implement.
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True fact. Voice search on Android works flawlessly and I use it all the time in the car.
Gladwell does a tremendous job of cherry picking bits of information to form a compelling narrative. I find his constant and blatant omission of inconvenient data to be intellectually dishonest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/...
I love your response. This is the kind of thoughtful reply I greatly respect, and yes, when I said 'economists' vs. 'analysts', I really wanted to just make a point between how detailed an economist can be and the difference between such and a stock trader.

Your response is one of the reasons I have to force myself to stay away from Hacker News; I have too much to do but there are some great conversations on here.
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What add-ons are you using? 95% of the time, problems with Firefox (speed, crashing, oddities) can be blamed on a slow add-on.
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Great point. It's easy to forget this when you're doing a tech or internet company... But you still need a defensible strategy, and some competitive advantage if you want to successful in the long term. Yes, DropBox got it right compared to others so far, but that still doesn't mean the barriers to entry are high.. give people enough time, and you'll start losing market share to another saavy competitor
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You lost me at "Here at AppStoreHQ, we love – I mean LOVE – mobile apps!"
Yes, he got the visits, but he wasn't the leader or even a primary influencer of the Lisa team.
Indeed. He is the king of anecdata such that "Gladwelling" has become a word (roughly meaning to construct a pretense of argument from a series of anecdotes).

Plus there's this (ab)use of his name: http://cyclingprof.blogspot.com/2010/04/gladwelled.html
> I find his constant and blatant omission of inconvenient data to be intellectually dishonest.

Such as...?
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It's a little different in this case. Delicious is no longer owned by Yahoo. It's a new company/team capitalizing on the old brand. I wouldn't call it daring. I'd call it expected.
Actually, by late 2003 Phoenix (which is what Firefox used to be called back then) was already an impressive little browser (it was little back then) and IE6 was already horribly outdated and clumsy for those of us who grew a penchant for alternative browsers (the others being Opera and the Mozilla Suite).
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I'm convinced most developers will be able to ignore most of the 76 potential IE engines though; even if it wasn't possible to override I can't see too many people browsing with IE11 set to masquerade as IE7.
I upgraded, but Fast Dial is broken on 7.0, so I downgraded to 6.0.2. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.
Clearly, I meant for students in college, which was the subtopic of discussion.
He's in a position to know, and I am not, but this surprises me.

Personally, I hesitate at $10 a month when I am currently using less than the 2GB of free space available. If there were a $5/month plan that was even minutely better than the free offering, I would sign up without a second thought. I suspect I am far from the only one in that position.
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My biggest issue with the current discussion about taxing 'millionaires' is that the media and politicians seem to define millionaire as 'earns over $1 million a year' - while a millionaire isn't that rich, somebody who earns over a million a year definitely is.

This article is a perfect example of this, and is even worse in that it first points out that a million dollars in saving isn't much, then segues into a bunch of points for which definition of millionaire has suddenly changed.
Storage costs have been insanely cheap for a long time, the real dropping cost that is enabling this is bandwidth costs (commercial bandwidth costs, not last mile consumer ISP costs).
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Was pyrex a company name?

Pyrex == latin pyro + rex == fire king.
Big banks do rule the world! Not for the reasons he implied though. Take a look at Goldman's alumni list for example. So many people in power positions. And there's all the money big businesses put into politics. It's not charity! You don't think the ability to lobby effectively counts for anything?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Alumni
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This. Unless Google suddenly become a lot more customer service focussed, I really have no intention of using their service to back up all my stuff.
For those with their own ad network the obvious benefit is in better targeting of customer's ads to users. The more clicks they get the happier the customers are and the more money they make from their cut of the ad spend.

They also provide a lot of tools to view and examine the data to the advertisers so they can tailor their ads in some way. Most of the times you click one of these ads your user_id or email is sent to the advertisers and they can make pretty good use of that data as well.

That's the obvious one but they also sell the data to market research companies who analyse it and package it up for resale as "customer engagement profiles" or some other euphemism for poorly anonymized user tracking data.

I have no experience with Facebook here but with Google and Yahoo there is an understanding between big advertisers and their account reps about API abuse. Someone's personal credit card rents a few VPS's and some perl scripts start pulling in everything they can and even if they go over the API limits by a few orders of magnitude they never get blocked.

For any ad network or other service provider who has a resource like an ad unit or a like or +1 button everywhere on the web and can track people, the user tracking data is a major revenue stream, both for internal use and external.
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The carriers can still locate you without GPS using triangulation. But that kind of data requires a court order to access, so not a serious issue.

Anecdotally there are lots of people who care about a specific privacy issue based on a personal experience they have had. One shreds everything they have, another uses an unregistered prepaid phone, another refuses to Facebook. But no one person does all of these things. I can't possibly say anything more than human perception of risk is shaped hugely by experience :)
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>They're trying to clean up rootkits that load before antivirus to make their OS more secure.

And that in no way precludes the options that I outlined. To act as if the OEMs act independently or without significant guidance from MS is just misguided.

>Care to tell how?

You seemed to have missed the entire bit about it... preventing non-Windows OSes from being installed. You keep citing the developer tablets that have very obvious needs for having an unlockable UEFI implementation. It's just like Chromebooks (the CR-48 is unlockable, retail units not so much), or Android (fastboot on Nexus, locked on Moto/HTC). I just don't understand how you cite a developer tablet as proof, when it's obvious that Microsoft won't take the step to ensure that the choice is available for consumers. I mean, you even phrase it as "Microsoft got them to..." in reference to the developer tablets.
Interesting thoughts about the evolution of the web and the problems that people are solving. However, designing applications that require state to be maintained in a single process can come back to bite you in the ass when a single process can no longer keep up / falls over. Most people don't hit that ceiling, but then again most people's systems are "just fine" with having a thread blocked on their I/O.

I like node.js because it is much faster than ruby and it provides a very thin layer of abstraction that takes most of the pain out of dealing with async io. I also happen to like JavaScript as a language. Further, I enjoy developing in primarily one language as it reduces the cognitive burden of context shift between front and back-end development. Finally, I enjoy the node.js debugging tools more than anything ruby has to offer (thanks Danny Coates and the chrome dev tools team!)

However, telling people that you cannot connect to multiple databases with ruby or python and saying that node is unique in its ability to build systems that maintain state within a process isn't intellectually honest; node.js doesn't have a particular advantage over netty, eventmachine or twisted for the particular use-cases that you gave; there are already non-blocking variants of most of the libraries available to the node.js community in python, ruby and (increasingly) java.
I reported an issue related to the $ command:

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It's a little much to say design is the "least" important part of a site. Good design can instill potential users/customers with confidence, ease the sign-up or purchasing process, and give the site a personality.
> There is a bug where a_user was not cleared on logout.

Yeah, right! Sure it was a bug.
Mayb be a reference to the one iPhone 5 model reported to have lost in a bar ;)
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Who else can write about a killer and make him a sympathetic character.

That's easy, Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark. Though Block is probably my favorite crime author as well.
Well, the main evidence for me can be found in the leaked "Dart/Dash" memo, where GWT is referenced a few times:

"The JSPrime effort was begun to unify and be a (single!) successor to GWT and Closure/JSCompiler"

"What is the future of the JSCompiler and GWT?
JSCompiler and GWT were already on a merger path. This effort gives us a direction for that unification around the Dash language. We will actively support teams for a long time on the current generation of JSCompiler and GWT and provide fantastic co-existence and migration tools to Dash."

See: http://markmail.org/message/uro3jtoitlmq6x7t

(My emphasis added. I read that as "maintenance mode".)

(Edit: thanks for the heads-up on the FF6 version of the plugin - but I guess I have now missed the two-week window where both FF6 and the compatible version of the plugin where available to download!)
Yeah, though they haven't really dominated any of those sections - I considered a few, actually. Picasa for instance is decent and moderately used, but Flickr and especially Facebook are way way larger in almost every respect.

Their calendar is the best online calendar I've found, but nobody I know uses it except Google-aware geeks and the ones I've taught (they love it now, didn't know it existed before). And online calendars haven't really reached public-awareness or usefulness yet, it seems - the closest most people come to computer calendars is their work's shared calendar that runs through Outlook.

Instant messaging they've certainly impacted, but I think AIM and MSN and Yahoo individually still out-number Google, though that may change with Plus. And Skype dominates video and voice chats, though Google is a threat (again, depends on how Plus pans out).

edit: Though Voice is incredibly awesome and absolutely dominates in its niche - of course, it's the only contender. But nobody knows how to use it, and its user-base consists of a laughable amount compared to <random national telecom>, AFAIK.
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Bingo, I think you could basically distill it to this:

Apple demonstrably shows their overall attention to detail with this invite:

Just as you could also argue:

Bill shows his overall attention to detail by the way he dresses.

Both are right, and yes if Joe doesn't keep a very fit and prim appearance, most people will unconsciously assume that trickles down to other things he does. It isn't a correct assumption as it's judging a persons actions based on appearance. But in the case of the Apple invite it does show that the company overall has an attention to detail that other companies do not. But that obviously doesn't mean that it truly extends to their products. But I think we have enough information on their engineering practices to infer the overall attention to detail in Apple is most definitely a cultural thing.

But I'm inferring here based on limited information so take this comment with a piece of salt or 3.
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Coming from a similar perspective as the OP, but so far I always failed to go through with actually mastering a language. Over the years I attempted to learn so many different ones, from Action Script to Assembler, from Delphi to C++, but always became either bored of it after a few hours or got frustrated because the ideas I had in mind turned out to be far more complicated to realise than I had hoped for.
In the real world time is limited and expensive resource, and the more of it you spend catering to a small fraction of users, the less you can spend on improving your service in other ways – possibly more beneficial to the end users.

It's a matter of trade-offs that have to be made based on intended audience and information available. No need to be offended.