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As a user of their service, I found it very frustrating when they removed the ability to add movies to your dvd queue that were not available via their streaming service from within the streaming service interface on the ps3, xbox 360, etc. A further separation will probably just force me to drop the disc by mail service altogether, since I really, really, don't want to put up with the hassle of logging into an entirely different site to manage my queue.
I also think you're underestimating the usefulness of a tablet form factor when physicians are sharing information with their patients. Harder to do that with a laptop.
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Sometimes, these things get so complex to implement and validate against that its worth it to just not. For google its cost. They can't use a minor's data at all, and they are a data company. The cost is high, the benefit is zero. A teen will use whatever their friends use anyways.
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I develop for mobile but do not develop for Android or iOS
My Asus Eee Pad Transformer with maxed specifications (32Gb storage, 3G & wifi and keyboard dock with SD-card reader, USB-slots and about 8 hours extra battery-time) costs me the same as an 16GB 3G iPad 2. That's a 16GB storage and keyboard dock in delta, and not in Apple's favour.

It may be a more favourable comparison if you go for the plain iPad, but Apple doesn't sell them any more, at least not where I live.

Anyway: Putting out "iPads are cheaper" as blanket statement like that is either uninformed, dishonest or plain trolling.
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The real names issue should only ban you from G+. That's it. There should not be any work done on your main account.

Of course google's famous policy of no tech support contact is good at making sure disputing is as painful as possible.
Actually there is no good reason Microsoft didn't write an X86 virtual machine so that their tablets could run the old programs.

The instructions set is obviously different, but Android does that with Java (on an ARM processor too) and Microsoft has enough smart people who could make sure that the performance would be great.
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Some good advice. Showers are important, but I'd like to believe that software is a place where a programmer (who doesn't go face-to-face with clients) could wear a mohawk for three months. I'm an idealist.
This would seem to be an advantage of the voice input API in Android. Something the iPad lacks.
It would seem I forgot to upload the new version, where I fixed that... Oops :D

Thanks a lot :)
That is an awesome idea. It would require some kind of infrastructure change though.

From the FAQ: http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/help/helpfaq.html#what_i...

Does your database include data on pending patent applications?

The database only includes data on Published Applications in accordance with the 18 month pre-grant publication rules. Pending patent applications where the applicat has elected to not publish prior to grant remain confidential.

Still though, I'd love to be a part of that kind of overhaul if there were some other way to get pending patent applications.
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Hey all, I'm the author of Storm. Just wanted to point you to a few resources:

I've written a lot of documentation on the wiki, which you can find here: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki

There's a few companion projects to Storm. These are:

One-click deploy for Storm on EC2: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-deploy

Adapter to use Kestrel as a Spout within Storm: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-kestrel

Starter project with example topologies that you can run in local mode: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-starter

Feel free to ask me questions here or on Storm's mailing list ( http://groups.google.com/group/storm-user ), and I'll answer as best I can!
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Neat blog, with a catchy tag ("The End of Anonymous Data and what to do about it").

The previous article mentioned upfront also looks interesting - Everything Has a Fingerprint: The Case of Blank Paper (http://33bits.org/2011/09/13/everything-has-a-fingerprint-th...), especially the part about using run-of-the-mill scanners instead of SEM.
Hmm... So you're saying it's a light weight version of Apache Service Mix/Camel? The same way Kestrel is a lightweight implementation of JMS.
You're right, there is a constraint for most rational customers:

X is in streaming => X is not in DVD queue

The thing is, the set of stuff available for streaming is not very large compared to the set of stuff on DVD. So the applicability of the constraint is small.

And, I think all the constraint tells you is, don't suggest titles that are available on streaming for someone's DVD queue. I think affirmative suggestions are much more interesting.

To me, your idea that people's streaming preferences are "virtually identical" to their DVD preferences seems like you didn't mean it seriously. Hyperbole?

My own streaming habits are totally different from my DVD habits, not only due to limited availability of streaming titles, but also due to ingrained expectations. It's kind of like TV versus movies.
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The Storm deploy is awesome. It's built using an awesome tool called Pallet: https://github.com/pallet/pallet

I'm going to try to get more documentation on using Storm from Clojure in the next few weeks. I write all my topologies in Clojure using a small Clojure DSL that ships with Storm:

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/clj/back...
There are places you can get away with it, but the industry as a whole is still very business-centric. I've heard of places were people are required to wear slacks everyday.
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I haven't used eCollege or Blackboard, but I have used Moodle (as a student) in a couple of courses, and to be honest I found it to be a stunningly mediocre. If it really is miles ahead of everything else then the whole concept of that type of software probably needs to be radically rethought.

PS: I should add that this was a good 3 years ago, so great things may have happened in the meantime.
Apple has great developer forums at deforums.apple.com.

I suspect most iOS developers go there when they need help. If not, they hang out at any of the dozens of developer forums that started back before the AppStore was created or in the years since.

Further, iOS is a very well designed set of APIs that are very well documented by Apple with very extensive example code.

I've asked a lot of questions about iOS, though mostly about things that are in beta or under NDA, and I've never even considered asking on Stack Overflow.
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Is this what extremely good organic SEO looks like?

Most of the other names are not really used on the Internet at all. Now, when anyone fails to spell qwikster, they're going to find this article. It seems like they rank for every misspelled query now.

(Google may start spell correcting to qwikster, though for the moment they seem to spell correct to quickstar when they do.)

Are there other variants of this technique?
The conventional wisdom seems to be that Jobs forced Apple to focus their product offerings down.

You seem to be saying, "Jobs' Apple didn't so much 'focus' as simply kill bad products".

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle; the strategic shift wasn't so much from complexity to simplicity as it was from niche to mass market. Some things were killed because they were crappy, others because they didn't have mass market appeal (for instance, custom-branded printers and digital cameras).

Apple seems to have been on a trend towards escalating revenue and improving margins long before the iPod was released; see for instance the historical 10Q's on "Wikivest" (whatever that is).
I suspect because if you seriously believed killing living things for food is wrong, it would be suicide

I don't believe that killing living things for food is wrong. Of course you could be using the generic "you," in which case your point is irrelevant to the conversation.

so the only conceivable answer is to reason in such a way that it comes out with the answer you want

I don't disagree. If you find flaws in the reasoning by all means point them out.

- draw your arbitrary cutoff between important-living-things and not-important-living-things somewhere above plants and bacteria while staying comfortably below humans.

My cutoff isn't arbitrary (again I presume you are addressing me), and this is a mistaken presumption. If you endeavor to minimize suffering among things in the world capable of suffering, eliminating animal suffering is a net plus.

If you want to argue that since all living things suffer and therefore all of our food sources suffer and therefore any attempt to delimit an ethical food source is arbitrary, good luck. I eagerly await your finding that vegetables feel pain.
You have confirmation bias. For every one of you (and me) who are fed up with vertically-controlled distribution models, you have 10 people who literally could not use their computers because they can't figure out how to install/use their software (let's not even get into hardware maintenance or data backups).

Metro/iOS to the rescue... this will be a godsend for them, and Microsoft sees Apple laughing all the way to bank (and wants in on that action).
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It would be very unpleasant to write a Batman app in js since it's dependent on CoffeeScript's "extends" capability (which can be recreated in js, but would be unpleasant as most frameworks handle this sort of thing for you). Of course this can be fixed if they decide to provide a Batman.extend() method.

Looks very nice! I'm certainly excited to try this out on mobile, as it sounds pretty perfect for that. I'd rather wait for pushState support as I dislike hangbangs. Looking at the source, it would likely be easy to create alternate storage adapters, which is something I'm interested in.
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Someone want to implement something like that without 100 jars of dependencies and 8Gb of memory required to just run, in old-fashioned C/Lisp way (or more modern nginx-way)? Update: on top of Plan9?! ^_^

Or, at least, in more suitable Erlang? ^_^

Isn't it an obvious startup-idea?
We've tried iPads in our practice for EHR, including a trial of Dr Chrono. It is unusable because:

- it takes too long to enter notes on a tablet. A "template" system is way too inflexible.

- the dictation feature didn't work.

- nobody has ever been able to even begin to convince us that our patients' data was secure.

Laptops work MUCH better. We do use tablets for patient education purposes, for which they are much better suited.
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There're some great apps here that almost anyone should find tempting including:

* - LaunchBar Mac OS X(priced at $35),
* - ColorSchemer Studio 2 Mac OS X / Win OS (priced at $50),
* - WriteRoom Mac OS X (priced at $25),
* - Gomedia Arsenal Vector Collection (priced at $70),
* - Seamless Studio Mac OS X / Win OS (priced at $49)
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* - ThemeTrust 3 WordPress themes (User's Choice) (priced at $147)
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* - Geomicons Iconset (priced at $16).
* - TN3 Gallery (priced at $37)

In all, there are 12 applications and products, all for an amazing price - $49.99.
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Is it common practice for a corporation to release code via one user's Github account? I would expect that if Twitter were open-sourcing something, it would show up as something like https://github.com/twitter/storm (that link is 404, to save you the trouble).
I made a LaTex resume a while back too: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume
The PC probably is losing steam; most people are happy enough with whatever 5-years vintage machine, nowadays. However, I totally agree with the idea that HP selling its PC division is complete craziness (the best parallel I've seen would be McDonalds stopping selling hamburgers, on the premise that there aren't making enough profit on them).
I found Sakai, at least in the "T-Square" rebranding used at Georgia Tech, pretty annoying also (as of a few years ago), but at least it isn't sucking millions of dollars from their budget. At the time (possibly now fixed?) it had a very strong single-session assumption that would cause weird things to happen if you did obvious tabbed-browsing things like opening multiple users' assignments in new tabs. The "solution" was big red warnings at the top of every page about how you shouldn't do that.
Heh. My reaction to them topping at 40mbps was 'only 40? How crappy'.

The most dominant mobile operator here tops at 80mbps...

EDIT: Where 'here' = Sweden

EDIT2: Uh, after reviewing the speeds, they actually top slightly over 100mbps.
This is an interesting app, but I fail to see the use of it after I forward my spam onto the service. I can't click on the submissions to see what other types of spam there are or what other people consider 'recruiter spam'.

There's also a privacy issue with displaying other people's full names (probably pulled from the email headers).

Without any feedback about the submission, it would be easy to game the system and skew the results by forwarding emails to the email address listed.

Lastly, IMHO there's a bit of spamminess to the whole service because now the service now has now verified email addresses. Who's to say that the service wasn't setup by another recruiting agency looking to increase their cold-call database?
What about having the heap allocation actually use the stack?
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You missed J2ME (which has certain, but not 100% overlap with Symbian OS development). Now even Bada supports J2ME apps.
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> If it really is miles ahead of everything else then the whole concept of that type of software probably needs to be radically rethought.

That's pretty much what I thought, reading that. The college I'm at right now uses Moodle, and while it gets the job done it doesn't do so particularly well. Might just be because of how the professors use it (there's a lot of variability in how useful it is between classes), but even in the best cases it's nothing special.
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You generally feed a Storm topology with a queueing system at the source. For example, we use Kestrel to feed Storm topologies. There's a setting called "TOPOLOGY_MAX_SPOUT_PENDING" which controls how many tuples can be pending on any given spout task at a time. This is more than sufficient for controlling bursts of data. If things back up, they will queue on the queueing server (s). In the future (not for a few months, at least), Storm will have auto-scaling where it will automatically scale the topology to the data.

If a tuple fails to be processed, the tuple(s) that triggered that tuple are replayed from the spout. See https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Guaranteeing-messag... for more info on that. In that sense, Storm is an at-least-once delivery system (but messages are sent more than once only in failure scenarios). It is up to you to architect your systems to handle this. The approach I take is to build systems using a hybrid of batch processing (Hadoop) and realtime processing (Storm). With batch processing, you can run idempotent functions even with duplication, which lets you correct what's happening at the realtime layer. In that sense, Hadoop and Storm are extremely complementary. Here are some slides from a presentation I gave about this technique: http://www.slideshare.net/nathanmarz/the-secrets-of-building...

Fields grouping uses consistent hashing underneath. So if you redeploy with more parallelism, it scales naturally and easily.

If a supervisor dies, it starts back up like nothing happened. Most notably, nothing happens to the worker processes. All state is kept either in disk or in Zookeeper. All daemons in Storm are fail-fast, and the Supervisor uses kill -9's to kill workers, so that makes things extremely robust.

I hope that answered your questions!
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In a country founded by patriots protesting taxes, I find his rhetoric tiring. Patriotism doesn't create jobs, capitalism does.

Taxes, legal fees and regulation can all kill a start up. The government has a money printing machine, it's not like a fledgling startups is the only source of revenue to finance endless war. If we want to create jobs, it should be free to start a company, sell shares, and start doing business.
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all the pages in that site are identical to the home page. I guess there is some kind of problem going on.
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iOS, Android, webOS, Blackberry, J2ME

The first two are so much nicer to develop for due to tooling, webOS is pretty nice but perhaps a dead end!
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Darn, I forgot to list it. I won't add it now though, as it would not be fair. There is an Other option for what is worth. If Other gets a huge number of votes, we'll know that options such as J2ME and others have a somewhat large market share among HNers, and it's not all about Android and iOS.
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Cowboy up and buy a Windows PC, or at least install fricking OpenOffice if you're persnickety.

It's 2011, the efforts to boycott Microsoft have failed, the world is tooled to use Word for documents and Excel for lists and basic numerics. Adapt or suffer the consequences.
Oh, you meant the Mac app store -- my bad, I was thinking iOS.

I know a lot less about sales in the Mac app store, but I'm still a little skeptical. The #5 paid Mac Music app today is MP3-Converter. It's #137 overall paid.

Is the Mac app store really so small that 15 sales per day gets you into the top 200 overall rankings?
Yes, indeed. That's what I suggested to my attending...that he have keyboard docks in every exam room for the tablet. That would solve the data entry problem but we would then essentially have a laptop that has a touchscreen instead of a mouse.

I'd like to try it but my attending already made up her mind against getting a tablet.
Fewer ports are better with HIPAA. You don't want somebody sneaking out data on a card. You don't want doctors with all their personal crap on the tablet, so what does it matter if there's 2x the storage on a Transformer? Do you put 2-3x times the ram in a dedicated app server just because?

In this case, everything a consumer wants is antithetical to what the hospital wants. I think you're the one trolling, talking about consumer needs in a locked down situation.

Also, seriously?

'My old account evidently got flagged "troll" for speaking against the Apple-worship cult found on HN.'
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Depends on where you work.

Personally I screen out all the companies with smells like that - not because I like to wear a mohawk (I am a huge nerd but I love wearing a suit and tie) but because it tends to be the kind of place were people judge you on how you look rather than what you do.
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Hi,

I want to learn VBA for Excel and I have a bunch of naive questions about it:

-what are the sort of very powerful things you can do with it, other then the obvious automating parsing and analyzing data

-is it even possible to make an "app" (macro) that you could sell ?
is this something that is standard for people who use a lot of excel
There are so many [yourlibrary]js.org microframeworks out there, and their feature sets are mostly equivalent, and largely unnecessary for small projects, that it ultimately becomes impossible to get behind any of them.
Redbox is great. I love it. Redbox + Netflix Streaming + Hulu Plus should get you most of the movies and TV shows that you need.
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Thank you for releasing such thorough documentation with your project; it is a great indicator of professionalism and passion. ^.^
That's a much better point than the one I made.
because I believe it has more to do with social conditioning than any sort of natural inclination.

does that mean i'm politically correct?
well, you can use jQuery.extend(whateverBatman, *methods) if you want to extend it.
(i don't do much JS, but I know just enough to write really bad code)
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Oooo Hype is a very interesting one!