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The problem with going up against Google is that they offer a superior product to end-users for free. I have no doubt that the iPad will remain a superior product to the Amazon Tablet. However, I also have no doubt it will keep costing more than the Amazon tablet. Consumers care about that extra ~$250.

Like Google, the iPad is currently the low-end and the high-end of the market, but unlike Google, it's vulnerable on the low-end. That's where Amazon will attack it and with ~100 million customers, their credit card numbers ready to go, good brand-loyalty, a huge content store, and so much experience in on-line/cloud services that even Apple uses them, they'll likely have quite a bit of success.
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To be honest I've never understood that, if you have an app to write, or a problem to solve, or users to help, how using one language over another can make that big a difference to one's overall job satisfaction (assuming of course that said language isn't actually painful to use). If Ruby makes you happy today it will go on making you happy in 2-3 years. Remember what Confucious said, if you chase two chickens they'll both get away.
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"Using one specific case to disprove an entire methodology, be it such a poor counter-example, is "shaky evidence" at best."

heh but you used equally anecdotal data and equally shaky evidence to support the snake oil methods. I quote

"I have experienced lean software first hand and I can tell you it is no fad. I have set up Kanban in companies a couple of times and the results were excellent"

So you say. Your anecdotes and experience are valid but mine are not. ;) Very convincing.

This is the standard snake oil salesman defense- when a methodology fails it is always because people didn't do it right. Nothing intrinsically screwy with the fad itself.

And when you claim some unverifiable successes that is convincing evidence about the intrinsic soundness of whatever you are defending. Pathetic. For every anecdotal "success story" you can find an equally anecdotal "failure story". Which was the point. And went right over your head. There was no claim this was evidence. (as someone trained in engineering and stats, I use the word "evidence" and "proof" very carefully).

"But I'm the one who should get a stats education, right?"

well you are the one who brought in an agile methodologists silly home grown survey as 'evidence' (when specifically asked for a non vendorware peer reviewed citation mind you) for some grandiose claims.

This shows (assuming you weren't just trolling) that you don't know how to judge the statistical validity of a survey or when to use one as evidence. If you really believe Ambler's marketing spin on agile is some kind of convincing 'evidence' for the validity of "lean software" you definitely need to learn some stats (among other things).

"End of trolling."

Thank You for finally admitting you were trolling. That clears things up. Wrong forum. On HN the assumption is that people are being genuine even if their writing style is abrasive. If I thought you were trolling (vs just being a bit incoherent) I wouldn't have responded to you at all. Live and learn :)
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The confusion around hypertension is really annoying. I have a bit of white coat hypertension, and my BP is usually around 145/80 when measured by a medical professional, but is still around 132/80 when measured automatically. Getting it down to 120/80, or lower (where everyone else who I know in my age group is, and which seems to be the safest in the long term) is stubbornly impossible, despite exercise and a healthy diet. A 24 hour workup by a doctor seemed to point to stress-induced hypertension, but I was told that there's no need to treat it.

Is hypertension brought on by being stressed/awake less harmful than "intrinsic" hypertension? That seems to be the opinion by my physician. But it's maddening that these issues remain unresolved.
This is a myth. What about the employees? We are also getting vastly more done with vastly less. Why is it only the CEO's that are seeing the benefit of scale here.

The reason the salary increase has been concentrated on the top and nearly ignoring everyone else is exactly what the parent said: these people are on each other's boards.
dunno what he means by "engine management system", but FADECs most certainly don't run Solaris, but very specialized real-time OSes.

maybe he means Flight Management Computers? those don't have direct control over avionics anyway, AFAIK.
It sounds like Texas is doing the taxpayers a favor.

...Mario Díaz, a physicist at the University of Texas at Brownsville...says his department was able to raise more than US$5 million for research on gravitational wave astronomy from the US National Science Foundation, in part because reviewers were encouraged by the prospect of enticing minority students into science.

Now that Brownsville's physics program is kaput, maybe the NSF will be forced to send money to someone who is actually good at gravity wave astronomy?

(I'm assuming, based on the statement quoted above, that Diaz would not have gotten the grant on pure scientific merit. If this is incorrect, his claim is pointless.)
I doubt the issue is difficulty. It's probably an issue of enrollment/retaining students in the major.
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That's an interesting point. There's certainly a cap on the complexity of code that can be put into a single long function. (Unless, I suppose, it has inner functions that call one another, like how people do OO in Javascript; such things can be just as complex as whole programs.) Usually it's implementing some conceptually unified thing. Even if that thing is a complex algorithm, it's still cohesive enough to be able to say what it is. And implementing even a very complex algorithm is not particularly complex at a system level.
I have a Kindle and iPad and use them for different things, I found the iPad isn't very good for book reading, it's too heavy, too bright and the battery life isn't good enough. On the other hand I can read from the kindle just like I would read from a paperback.

The only thing I would like to see from Amazon is a larger display version that is suitable for technical books.
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Why? Would you say the same thing about, say, ergodic theory, languages, automata and computation theory, analytic number theory, harmonic analysis, bordism and cobordism, algebraic K-theory, de Rham cohomology, Diophantine approximation, model theory and theory of forcing, descriptive set theory, algebraic geometry, representation theory... I could go on like this forever.

People tend not to know that most of the stuff a math graduate learned was already known by 30s, and category theory was only starting to become anything close to popular in 50s - 60s. People also tend not to know just how much math research have been done, especially in last 70 years.
I always had a bit of a problem with this sort of study because you can never know for sure that you uncovered all the bugs in a program (short of doing a formal proof of correctness). This in turn introduces biases. Case in point, it could be that a program with a higher number of LOC is actually more likely to have a real user base which then leads to a larger number of bugs being discovered.
You make your choice and pay your price. Want a great type system? What code that runs really fast? Haskell and Scala are the only two choices that really fit the bill.
EDIT: After posting my initial comment below, I thought what the heck, I should try and be more constructive. So I signed up with my Facebook.

And this is what I got:

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You've got to be kidding me. This is really bad form. Deleted. Goodbye.

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Since you're posting an Ask HN type post, you should add a description of your app. Or post it as a direct url link. This is the worst of both worlds: people can't directly click through to see what the app is and they can't read your description either.

The idea sounds good(!) but there have been many such apps. So you might have to tell us a bit more to convince us why yours is better.

Given the recent hatred for Facebook, making it FB-connect only will probably not fly here. It will probably work fine for non-HN people, but I've been surprised recently by my completely non-techie friends who refuse to sign up to any apps with FB connect because of trust issues.

If you can do a demo video or at least some examples of the types of events you suggest, then you might get more useful feedback. And I might actually use it because I am often looking for things to do.

Direct link - http://ksoundsgood.com
I never understood why people can't write well designed modular code without writing the test first.

Tests should never dictate the design of an application.
Because Apple does not accept that solution?

The chunk they want would seriously eat into Amazon's margins.
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that is why I prefer local tool like fakeapp or imacros...
Scala provides two things: an expressive type system, and access to the JVM. The JVM is fast, and has a ton of libraries. If you write web apps that fit comfortably in one or two boxes you'll likely never need the speed. If you've never used a language with a modern type system it's well worth learning one, though Scala is not the simplest to pick up.
Is this just for spotting? I can't tell if it has any weaponry equipped.

This is a very cool build indeed.
That could be a new job - Facebook timeline analyzer. Snake oil or not, people would probably fall for it.
> "You probably remember SCADA from the starring role it played in the Stuxnet worm"

Nitpick: The article writes like 'SCADA' is a product from a single vendor. It's not. It's just an acronym for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, of which PLC's/DCS's/RTU's/PC's make up as a full system. SCADA didn't play a role in Stuxnet; Siemens PLC's (and a lot of specific know-how) did.
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They would have to come and get you.
Notice that in my OP, I said "take any significant chunk of _profit_". I'm not as concerned about marketshare as I am about profit. Yes, Android devices are outselling iPhones, but they are generating considerably less profit.

I don't know the latest figures, but iPhones relatively small market share accounted for over 50% of profits last time I saw. Amazon might sell a lot of cheap tablets, but that won't hurt Apple's profits.
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I agree..and at that point, Apple might be on the verge of defining an entire product category, which the rest of the market will follow 3+ years thereafter.

I have no doubt that at some point they'll slow down..but like I said in my OP, I'm not ready to bet against them yet.
Not sure. Almost all countries respect each others copyrights, that's why if a work is copyrighted in the UK, then it is copyrighted in Brasil (that's the Geneve Convention I think). I'm not sure about patents, especially when it comes to things like software patents. Ask your lawyer.
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I would guess it has to do with the "Double Irish" tax shelter:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...
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Are you familiar with his research? As much as I dislike affirmative action, I find it difficult to accept that as justification for writing off his work.
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Yes things like .com's would complicate matters. I'd guess the only thing they could do would be confiscate your .com. Worse case is they might try to extradide you. Of course if you were to set up shop in the USA later, your past would catch up to you.
"less sodium [output] could simply mean that the body is no longer able to expunge it from the body"

"the less sodium that study subjects excreted in their urine - an excellent measure of prior consumption"

These two statements seem mutually exclusive. If the amount of sodium a subject excretes is an excellent measure of prior consumption (ie, more out is demonstrably linked with more in, and less out = less in), then your hypothesis (less out may mean more retained, and therefore output can't be linked to input) cannot be true.

Of course, it could also be the "excellent measure" which is incorrect - my point is simply that these two are contradictory.
Is there any independent information confirming anything like this? I'd be absolutely horrified if anything like this was true.
Just for spotting. I imagine it would take on a whole new world of complications with a weapon, but legally and functionally.
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Isn't it pretty dangerous on a personal level to spend one day a month? AIUI board members have tremendous liability if something goes wrong. In the UK, board members can be sent to prison if someone working at the company is killed through company negligence.
I really like the third idea - it's something I would use. Not sure if it exists already - seems like something that might. Seems like a personal CRM.

Curious to see how your project goes!
Equipping it with weaponry would almost certainly be illegal, let alone the fact that it would be next to impossible to aim if you don't use very expensive weapons.
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Technology, startups, business, and workaholics' diseases. I also think they fit fairly well together.
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Would it not be easier to add motion sensors or something like this?

Depending on how huge fields they have this might be hard though..
I would argue the difference between a great CEO and a mid-level manager is closer to negligble by far than their salaries.

I wonder more recently if we should force more re-distribution, through tax or otherwise. Not because I am hippy (or not going to be a squillionaire myself), but because I doubt the capacity of the top CEO to allocate his capital wisely.
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I used to use MS VC++ at the daytime job between 1997 and 2004-ish and also used Delphi (up until Delphi 3) for after-hours projects in the late 90's. I played around with Adobe AIR.

At the moment I'm considering Delphi XE2 Starter, VC++ 2010 Express and Adobe AIR. Delphi used to have a vibrant community, but it seems to have disappeared.

Pricing is also a concern: the cheaper the better, because I'll have to pay for it myself and might only use it for this small project.

Any suggestions? Or any free alternatives?

Thanks in advance!
Why illegal? Are there specific laws about mounting a firearm to an aircraft, or is the problem the automation of the weapon?
Quite true, which is why you should stop banging your head against the monitor at 3AM, sleep a little and solve that bug in 30 seconds in the morning.

I must admit this is very controversial among startups I've worked in, as the policy is usually along the lines of "no one goes home until this works".

Good thing I have my own company now, and bugs are only solved by programmers that are "fresh" :)
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I disagree about removing FB-connect as the only auth method. There's nothing wrong with it, despite the current perception around privacy issues. You did say that us techie-types are more aware of the cookie issue but you can't extrapolate some of your non-techie friends to the rest of what would be the OP's target audience.
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I did a whole bunch of research into DevOps and Chef (or Puppet) were the clear winners. That's really kinda sad because Heroku's model is just sooo much more pleasant as a developer... at least to start.

I'd really love to see a better abstraction than "idempotent wrappers for shell commands" which is what Chef and Puppet basically are.

Most applications are simple enough to run as a single process with a read-only file system and log to standard out. Surely someone could use the Heroku Procfile model a reasonable starting point and create escape hatches down to lower levels as you need them.
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What's wrong with a fifty-cent Bic?

Nothing that $281,989 can't fix, it seems. Amazing project.
I hope that doesn't mean they're abandoning development on their e-ink devices, or relegating them to third-class citizens. The only reason I'd buy a reading device is if staring at it for 2+ hours didn't give me a headache like a backlit tablet does. (And an all-purpose tablet like an iPad still doesn't interest me enough to buy anyway.)
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There is certainly nothing critical running Solaris on a 747 or any other airplane. All airborne software needs to get certified by FAA and is developed and evaluated through the lens of the DO-178B standard.
That is what I tag as(the inception of) a Stupid Arguement, pretending a unit of a whole is 'better' than another unit(not sub-unit), and ignoring Context.
A successful FB is made of both the working business and the working tech ends. They may not be equal but it's up to Context(actual facts) to determine which end is key to the 'success'. But then we are humans, we have opinions and egos. Oh and the title used 'All'.
"on the way" as in "we're looking into it" versus "we've spun out a company to manufacture these."

Basically they are attacking one of the current problems with LIon batteries which is degredation in the anode over time across recharge cycles causes them to lose capacity. The current 'best practice' anode is graphite which works well but limits the charge it can hold. Their polymer in the lab is 10x better at holding charge. They give some analysis of why its durability should be good too. If so, and we can get batteries made with this polymer ion they would have 10x the capacity of current batteries.

That is all great except reduction into something manufacturable and repeatable is like a 3 year process so 2015 you might see them.
And this is why the EU Amazon datacenter is there too. Irish is good for royalty based stuff (software etc.) and they invoice everything hardware (the retailer side of Amazon) from Luxembourg where you can negotiate your taxes with the authorities.

Oh, the result, is that Ireland is definitely not the best place to serve Europe from a latency point of view... so we have bad latency from EC2 EU because of fiscal optimizations...
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Another reason (in addition to those already mentioned) why these numbers are not easy to interpret:

small routines [..] had 23% more errors per LOC

If the smaller routines had, on average, 100/1.23 = 81% or fewer of the lines of the larger routines, then they still had fewer errors per routine.
Here in the Netherlands we have Albert (www.albert.nl), the online version of the biggest supermarket chain in the Netherlands (Albert Heijn). They seem to do a good job, especially in places like Amsterdam where a lot of people don't have a car.

When I was in France this this summer, I noticed an E.Leclerc supermarkets where you could purchase your groceries online, only you had to pick them up yourself at a drive-through counter. The groceries were already packed in bags, so I can imagine you can save some time there.

I did not try these services, though, I like to see/smell/feel my food before I buy it.
What to do if the post has subposts from other user?

My solution: mark the record with a 'deleted' flag, leave all the logical/structural data (user id, post id, etc.) untouched, overwrite/wipe out the post's content, on the webpage display "Post deleted" message. If you want to have an ability to 'unerase' things: mark as deleted, delay the purge.

Cache should be purged as well, though not necessarily in real-time. Backups issue is a complicated one - but is there any use of yearly backups in Facebook case?
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