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I get what you are trying to say - believe me, I do. I just don't think that at $300 this is a good value. This may be Android tablet or a non-Android Kindle - $300 is not something ( I think ) people will pay for a limited thing that looks like all the other tablets but doesn't quite work like it. At $179 may be you have a point. But as you approach the Archos to iPad price range you can't just sell experience to people - you have to sell experience and all the regular stuff competition ships, you know like an email client! There is no excuse for omitting a great email client at that price range.

You seriously think Apple would have sold as many iPads if they sold it with iOS 1.x version of the browser and no email client, purely based on experience? I don't think so.

So again - our debate here is about price, features and experience. You can change the order but I think excluding any one or more thing at $300 is not really a good thing.

And you and me can argue to no end that it's not Android or it doesn't really matter that it's Android - but Amazon has an "Android" App Store and they sell apps through that and people are going to be expecting to see some apps that they won't either due to them not being compatible or not on the Amazon app store or in the best case just not working good enough due to running on an older OS with deep 3rd party customizations.

And upgrades being nearly free for Amazon - It's Google's code, they just have to rebase and deal with kernel/hardware bits just like every other vendor. The customizations probably are all Java and easily mergeable atop newer AOSP releases - if they aren't then that's bad news already. But let me be clear that even if it wasn't nearly free - as a user I don't really care - I want a reasonably secure and updated OS with no artificial limitations if I am paying $300.
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Seems like a link-bait title. How is this Microsoft's website?

(Please correct me if I am wrong.)
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I realize you're being rhetorical here, but one good way to see this is to couple the law of supply & demand with this: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kelsey-keith/designage/infog...

Of course that doesn't account for population density, but if you take a look at http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=populations+of+LA%2C+sa... you can see that the Midwest certainly has a higher per-capita rate of McDonald's.

(I realize this is not much better than anecdotal.)
Unless it uses color eInk, it is not going to be that good at reading books.
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I didn't quite know what to expect when visiting the site with a name textlaundry.com As tacky as it sounds proofreadmypaper.com would be much "cleaner" (excuse the irony).

Props on launching. I think your provide a useful service. I love the idea of submitting my paper immediately and getting a quote.
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That's really overstating Jordan's future as a baseball player. Jordan was never seriously considered a major league player.

He's much closer to being a pro golfer than a major league baseball player.
Bejar said Facebook is looking at ways to avoid sending the data altogether but that it will “take a while.”

Maybe I'm naive, but why would turning off the gathering of information take a while? This reminds me of unsubscribing to email newsletters, where the final goodbye says something like "you should stop receiving our emails within 6-8 weeks."
No SEO can guarantee results. They aren't the search engine, so how could they?

I'd be interested in the changes to your site, your data architecture and your content that they have suggested because, if that's not how they've worked, you've at best (or worst) engaged a bunch of black hat SEOs whose actions may cause you extreme pain down the line. At worst (or best, depending) you've engaged people who have taken your money for no action, but at least there's no reputational damage.

If you /have/ had proper engagement from the firm, you will probably have derived value from their work in the areas I mentioned above, regardless of your SERPS position.
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You cannot guarantee or expect search result placement. Period. In addition, rankings are always in flux, and require additional work to remain well ranked. Do you expect the provider to continue to work on your SEO even after that period?

If they are a reputable SEO, they will provide you with an analysis of your current site, a statement of work for what they will accomplish for their fee, and note that rankings cannot be guaranteed. If they fulfilled the work, you just have to understand how uncertain SEO can be.

Then teach yourself the basics of SEO and save yourself the cash next time.
The power of the web isn't any one technology, but a combination of two very powerful things: the ability to present arbitrary content with an arbitrary look and feel, and the ability to trivially point a user at someone else's content.

We have a (HUGELY successful) first crack at a platform (HTML, CSS, JS) that enables completely custom UI, presentation and generation of content.

Hyperlinks form the other half of this in that my content can send you over to someone else's content (with their own customized UI and presentation) with a single click of a mouse.

The problem is that people are using the first half of the web as a basis for delivering traditional (thick client, local) applications, and that does indeed suck.

We've become focused far more on the experience than the content. I think that focus is misplaced. We've spent a decade now trying and failing to perfectly implement our content for our UI paradigm and now we're paying the price as that paradigm shifts. I expect that paradigm to shift again before we perfect our new implementations.
Yup, it's all about DNS and links.

But let's try to look more than a few years out for once? OKAY?

You could make a very decent web that is made out of many clients, that can all link to each other and maybe even all run in separate tabs of the same browser (or whatever 'process' model you want).

But god help you 50 years down the road when you need to download new client browser for every other web page.

This, among other long-term type trade-offs are the very good reasons why the "open web" as it exists on it's current trajectory are a very good idea.
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- Start writing on the board. : start making diagrams on what you think the problem is. Most of the time this half solves the problem

- Talk it through : Sometimes interviewer will prod you into right direction, if you are just off. And sometimes get more impressed with the way you are thinking, then the final problem. Worst case: interviwer get stuck on his pre-defined solution.

- Think algorithms, Think data structures : This go hand in hand.

- Think about related problems you’ve seen before and how they were solved : This is would do after you have broken down the problem in smaller parts

- Modify the problem by breaking it up into smaller problems : do this before 5: mostly 1 step will help you here

- Don’t be afraid to backtrack: start with the worst case solution, but obvious, then optimize the heck out of it!
Stop Useless Notifications From Facebook Groups 
Facebook has many way to interact with a number of people at the same time like Fan Page, Group and Event. You can share post, photos, videos, events documents simultaneously or you can even ask question to your friends too. But a biggest negative point of these group is that admins of your friends can add you in a group without permission which leads to flooding of useless updates in notifications page.
One option of stopping these notifications is to unjoin that group, but there’s an alternate solution too, where you can stop these notifications while staying in that group.
where you can stop these notifications while staying in that group.

How to stop group notifications:
Open the group from which you want to unsubscribe. You can see all your groups on this page -Facebook Group.
Click on “Edit Settings” given on the top with group’s name.
This will open the custom notifications

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In Edit Settings Make the Following Changes :
Select ‘Only posts I am subscribed to’ to completely stop notifications from that group, you will not receive any notification even if the admin posts. If you want updates from a post click ‘Subscribe’ link given with that post.
Uncheck this box if you don’t want notifications as an E-Mail too.
This box enables group chatting, if you feel that pop-up appeared by group chats are annoying too, then uncheck this box as well.
Now you are done, just click “Save Changes” and that group will never disturb you again with annoying and useless notifications.
"While that store doesn’t offer all the apps found in Google’s Android Market..."

With tablet hardware providing little differentiation, software is the main value proposition. In light of this, providing a subset of the second largest app selection is a questionable move.
The sad thing is, I bet a lot of people memorized those instead of learning enough about the data structures to be able to fill out the table on the fly.
In that case it would be a huge gaffe on Amazon's part. Amazon will have to be responsible for the full OS and it will be a nightmare for them to integrate whatever Google is pushing out every 6 months, including security fixes.

But let's put that aside - think about compatibility from user stand point. Google's app store is still the main Android app store and is likely to be so going forward. If Google and its partners start pushing out newer releases that Amazon fails to incorporate in their 2.1 tree - users are going to miss out on apps - when they have a 2011 era dual core hardware that they paid $300 for.

Again if this was $100-$179 it would be OK - $300 is what makes this not attractive.
Lot of people use SDRAM with FPGAs.
http://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&q=fpga+sdram&...
SDRAM is used commonly with FPGAs for storing largish amounts of data at a reasonable price (static RAM is fast, predictable, and very expensive for large fast memory arrays).

SDRAMs are horribly complex state machine driven pipelined devices. On a system I was working on, a simple write operation to the SDRAM could vary from several clock cycles to 52 (IIRC) clock cycles, depending on what was going on before the "simple" write. I forgot what the worst case stack up was, but it was probably something about a refresh followed by a page miss that needed a precharge...

AnandTech has a good intro... note the simplified state machine diagram (Figure 2) is not simple. If they published the full state machine, your head would explode.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3851/everything-you-always-wan...

Trivia: The data throughput listed by SDRAM manufacturers is the best case sequential access fully pipelined scenario when all -nine- eight planets align.

Speculating here: The variability of SDRAM access latency is one reason for putting a high speed cache in front of it. For instance, the cache could be a simple FIFO operation to buffer the data to avoid dropping data when an operation got hit by a long latency stackup. The SDRAM may have the average throughput to handle the data stream, but the (unpredictable) major bumps in latency may required "cache" buffering to keep from dropping data.
Agree 100% with this. Good points.
http://www.fairsearch.org/about-fairsearch/ Microsoft seems to be one of many. Looks like it's mostly Microsoft and plane seat booking sites.
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How would you do that? ctrl-v for instance is really useful in Vim.
Actually, Google+ is based on open standards, here is what Evan Prodromou (the creator of http://status.net, one of the biggest decentralized open source social network) has to say about the API:

> Activity Streams, PoCo, OAuth 2. I feel like the girl in Jurassic Park. "I know this!"

https://plus.google.com/104323674441008487802/posts/jJNsUDPc...

So, you couldn't get more open and decentralized than that. G+ api is read only for now though but the devs made it clear that it won't stay that way.
I wonder if that involves something like collecting the data and storing it locally on your computer, then only sending the data once you log into facebook...
The company says the data is sent because of the way the “Like” button system is set up; any cookies that are associated with Facebook.com will automatically get sent when you view a “Like” button.

They have a point. This is going to be the same for any site that has static content served elsewhere with cookies attached to the domain. Hot link to an image on my blog you commented on? OFFLINE DATA GATHERING ZOMG.
It's strange; I found little to disagree with in this post, but when I went back to read the original, something about it rubbed me the wrong way.

It seems to me that this response was written because people (including myself) get jumpy when the death of the Web is mentioned -- they conflate the Web with the open principles underlying the Internet, and a BDFL there runs counter to those principles.

I don't really have a dog in the fight as far as HTML etc. are concerned, though I do think the benefits of having an open-standards, (mostly) consistent rendering framework and execution environment across all major platforms and architectures, including mobile devices, far (far!) outweigh the drawbacks of our retrofitting what began as a document markup language. I'll stick with it until we -- or if Joe has his way, a charismatic visionary -- can come up with a more appropriate replacement.
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Their defence doesn't hold much water. But then, I can't imagine any excuse that would satisfy me.

They say “The onus is on us is to take all the data and scrub it,” said Arturo Bejar, a Facebook director of engineering. “What really matters is what we say as a company and back it up.”, except their track record on that matter isn't exactly stellar.

We know they don't actually delete messages or things you delete on FB, they just mark them "deleted". With that attitude to "deleting" things, what does it even matter?

And I don't care if they promise the data is not used for targeting ads, that is just one of the many ways this type of data can be abused.

The argument they use it to prevent "spam and phishing attacks" also seems dubious to me. How does that work? And the cookie that's kept contains just your facebook ID, so wouldn't that be trivial for spammers and phishers to work around?

And the most important thing is, they might act all innocent about it now, that they did it with the best intentions and not to continue tracking people after they log out. Let's believe that and lets assume this behaviour doesn't involve any other privacy implications: Facebook is by now well known for their feature-creep, if we hadn't caught them red-handed now, what's to say they wouldn't be using this data in a few months from now?

Sorry but it's all bullshit. Facebook doesn't care one bit about their user's privacy, they've made that perfectly clear by now, and them pretending to do otherwise in this article is absolutely laughable.
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I signed up to Spotify before they had any Facebook integration, but when they originally got Facebook integration (see your friends' lists) I thought it was pretty cool to be able to browse through my friends' playlists and find new music.

What's not cool is being bombarded with broken modals trying to get me to re-oauth Facebook to start streaming everything I listen to into my feed. But at the same time they broke the old Facebook integration, so now it's all or nothing.
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Interesting except that it seems to keep going down on me.
The existence of the HTTP Accept header shows that HTTP was designed with a variety of incompatible user-agents in mind. If you write new user-agent, use Accept to specify what content types you can render. Intelligent web servers can serve the same content in different formats for the same URLs. Your browser that only handles HTML will browse on unimpeded, my browser that also handles NewLanguage3000 will get the newfangled version. Everybody wins.
Thank you for saying it. I have been echoing this sentiment for a long time. Why settle for "good enough" when the root of all progress is "better?" I think one key thing that we will need first is a language to challenge Javascript and HTML. I think C# and Java are good, but they could be a lot better. The language will need native rich media abilities and enough abstraction to run on any device or operating system.

The problem with HTML (to me) is that it is not really driven by capitalism or competition - say what you will about the two, but they do force companies to strive for the best products possible.
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the difference is, that's not linked to your FB accounts and friends network / social graph.

not that third-party cookies aren't a big privacy issue, but this goes one step further.
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More accurately, there is a time and place for controls and discipline. You can have both without actual bureaucracy, or, more commonly, bureaucracy with neither of desirable ends.
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I think it's a bit of an overstatement to say tags are "flawed". Tags are, well, simply just tags, and not meant as a proper taxonomy system. They are lightweight labeling and metadata and I think they serve that purpose relatively well in the contexts they work well in.

The question that isn't being asked perhaps, is should tags be used or should a fixed, organized and meaningful taxonomy of categories be used instead (or in addition).
OK, so I tried it out, and have immediately bumped into two things on it, one of which is kind of a show-stopper.

The first is kind of a minor nit, but when launching MacTerm for the first time, I get prompted to choose a terminal, and the options don't immediately make sense. Choosing "Shell" at random caused the terminal window to seemingly appear and then disappear; choosing "Log-In Shell" at random did the same thing, until I found it under the File menu ... I think? When re-launching the app, the behavior seems to have changed. At least, I can't get it to do the appear-and-disappear thing now; instead, the first two options just give me a blank window.

I much prefer being presented with a ready-to-go terminal session in a window without having to answer any questions first or go searching for the session I just started.

But maybe you set it up that way for a good reason and I just don't know it.

The show-stopper though is the font rendering. Here's a screenshot of my desktop, with full-screen iTerm2 in the background and MacTerm in the foreground: http://i.imgur.com/5D1z2.png

I've set up both of those apps to use the same font (Monaco) at the same point size (12), and the rendering looks a lot different. I can stare at iTerm all day and not want to gouge out my eyes afterward; I don't think I could spend much time in MacTerm without hating life. I didn't see an option in the preferences for anti-aliasing; did I miss it?

Since a terminal window does nothing but assault the viewer all day with text, doing the text rendering really really well is a great way to make your app stand out. Prepackaging a default mono-spaced font like Consolas or Panic Sans (not likely on that one, but maybe worth a shot?) would help a lot, because Monaco is really not the best font out there for programmers.

Stuff I liked right away: I really liked that you include the scroll bar in your full screen mode, but none of the other window chrome. Nice! That's something that iTerm2 gets wrong. I want the scroll bar, but none of the other stuff, in full-screen mode.

Hope this helps.
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Seems like a novel idea. Are you hoping to monetize this?
I do this already manually (i.e. contacted various businesses to see who can offer me a deal on 7 suits for a wedding party). I love the idea of it being automated for me.
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Get off your high horse. An installation of the JRE on Windows will install the Java VM, plugins for several browsers, a Java update scheduler, the Java Web start framework, a control panel and a bunch of other related utilities. In other words, a software suite.
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Any code changes take a non-trivial amount of time. It sounds like the solution is to delete more of the cookies on logout, but there may be other Facebook services that use them and need to be transitioned away.
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Where I work we have a choice as well and I, along with many others picked a Mac (Macbook pro specifically). I wonder how many are picking these for the flexibility of spare-time iOS projects and how many just like the shine of it.

Personally, while I don't have that much interest in working on iOS projects, I enjoy using OSX as a *nix dev environment for Ruby and other such things, and I supposed I feel better knowing I have the option for iOS if I want or need to.
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As of right now there is no standardized way native Windows applications save or manage settings, trying to introduce this technology into the older platform probably isn't possible.
I think this could be a good idea as long as the companies in the drop down have agreed to be apart of the deal. Also I'd recommend having a directory around the companies so that there is some marketing for the companies where visitors can find out what they do and through that discovery ask for a deal
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Not only Microsoft's, but, of all the logos on

http://www.fairsearch.org/about-fairsearch/

at least 3 of the logos have direct ties to them: Tripadvisor is part of Expedia, which was part of Microsoft before being sold (I don't how how much of it) to Ticketmaster. Kayak is a major partner of Microsoft on Bing (after accusations of Microsoft copying their design) and, obviously, Microsoft itself. Travelocity is also a Windows Azure partner (they are one of the companies Microsoft mentions when they push Azure).

So, no. It's not "Microsoft's" site. But we can sense a connection to it, despite the fact the domain is registered to an undisclosed entity through a company in Portugal. It also runs under Apache/PHP on CentOS.
Another good reason to run something like ShareMeNot [1] - it blocks Facebook from receiving anything unless you specifically click on a 'Like' button.

[1] http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/
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