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>Can I initiate a wire transfer from an internet cafe in Laos?

This reminds me of the time in 2000, when I left the US for a 6-month backpacking trip in SE Asia. While in Thailand, I "lost" my wallet sleeping in a hammock at this bar...

I had maybe $20 USD in Baht in my wallet - but I had my cards as well.

I got hold of Washington Mutual and after some time got to some executive explaining my issue. My family had been banking with Washington Mutual since ~1940. My home branch, which was the branch I was talking to was the same physical branch my family had been visiting since 1959. They new my family name and I had ~$25K in the account at the time.

They REFUSED to help me in any way shape or form. When I stated that I only had $10 left their exact words were "Well, I suggest you use your $10 for something more productive than calling me"

I emailed every newspaper I could think of - after some time the San Jose Mercury News picked up the story and they went and interviewed the manager who had said that to me on the phone.

I had to get my mother to wire me money and it was a hassle - but it was infuriating that they refused to help me in any way.

I immediately closed my account the day I was back in the states.

(Aside: I left in October of 2000 with a three jobs "waiting" for my return - the market tanked while I was away and I was then out of work for 18 months. We had a BBQ one day and 45 people attended, all tech, of the 45 - 3 had jobs. Fun times.)
Github is the best place for Social Coding. Can't tell you how easy it is to manage a Repository being a Release Engineer with Github.
I would wonder how many of those accounts have pushed to a repo recently, not just their own (in cases where people work for a company/on a project that has a GitHub organization).
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I think it depends on how you define programmer. If you are just looking at people who write scrips or excel macro's etc then it might be as high as: 6billion people * 1/3 have computers * 25% of computer users write scrips = 500 million people. Or you could limit it to people who have software developer or programmer etc as part of their job title and then it's probably below 20 million.

PS: Personally, I rather prefer the most inclusive version which includes people who simply train their outlook to auto sort their mail etc. In the early days of computing there was little that separated users from programmers and I like to think we are heading back in that direction. If for no other reason than I like the idea of the maximum number of people learning how to work though problems logically.
The copy on the page seems to be a bit ahead of itself, as long as you are in the vaporware stage I think it is premature to say that "none will be as easy to use as I will. None will be as reliable or work as hard for you".

The video caption on vimeo says it is 'ready for immediate launch' but the origo home page says it is 'just an idea'.

Making statements about the reliability of something that is still in the idea stage is premature. Though it is admirable that reliability is high on the list of priorities.
First?! Geez louise, I still remember the day when I first heard about Google while talking to a computer nerd friend of mine over AIM. We were probably discussing an article on Slashdot. I still remember the days when I was constantly evangelising the awesomeness of Google and secretly changing the default home page for everyone else in my family. Good riddance Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos and Altavista. Good riddance sneaky sponsored search results.
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Rarely. If you're young, single, have never been sick, and need just a catastrophic plan, perhaps. Otherwise, without the benefit of an employer to negotiate a group rate, you get screwed, rate-wise.
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This should be interesting. My maxim is "Shared-state multithreading using locks for mutual exclusion is the most performant way to write a buggy program"

I typically use message-passing to avoid this (it also scales a lot better) but it will be interesting to see how transactional memory works for smaller scale parallelism (or the lowest level of a multi-tiered parallel architecture).
Origo can talk and write blog posts. Lose that functionality and the price should drop considerably.
> For example, a global economic depression would result in people keeping their possessions longer simply because they don't have the money to buy new.

That would seriously suck then because the stuff that we've got today for the most part was built with a very definite life-cycle in mind. So when you are dumped in that global recession you need the quality stuff that wasn't produced when the recession wasn't on yet and you can no longer afford its creation.
http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/api_terms
http://www.yelp.com/developers/getting_started/display_requi...
http://www.yelp.com/static?p=tos

"5. Restrictions

You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable others to:

...

B. modify the Yelp Content, or use it to update or create your own database of business listing information;"

"As between you and Yelp, you own Your Content. We own the Yelp Content, including but not limited to visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, design, compilation, computer code, products, software, aggregate user review ratings, and all other elements and components of the Site excluding Your Content, User Content and Third Party Content. We also own the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world ("IP Rights") associated with the Yelp Content and the Site, which are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, trademark laws and all other applicable intellectual and proprietary rights and laws. As such, you may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Yelp Content in whole or in part except as expressly authorized by us."

republishing of Yelp's content, except as allowed by its Terms of Use, Terms of Service, and Display Requirements, is against the terms of your agreement with Yelp, and illegal. even though someone grants you an API to remix their data, their intellectual property rights to that data are not waived.
Unlimited? You may want to rethink your business model.
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Awesome - thanks!

And look at that - a 35 minute video is compressed into 1 minute of reading and I bet, thanks to the summary, I obtained 75% of the relevant info that I would have got if I had watched the video in it's entirety.
It doesn't actually patch the import table, but actually finds the functions address in memory. This has the benefit of working for statically linked libraries and run-time dynamic linking (loading). You're correct in all other respects. My casual impression is that the technique would allow more than one library to hook into the target function.
The whole point of using a human is that they should be able to intelligently handle some level of screening that's hard to automate.
Existing 3DPs tend to require significant maintenance by expert or semi-expert operators. I don't see anything here showing that you've solved that.
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You're welcome, hope it helped.

I really despise non-textual media.
Good work GitHub team! Using github as part of my workflow has greatly helped my efficiency. Their interface makes reviewing code and making comments much easier.
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Don't forget security. It's a virtual guarantee that the new version introduces several new arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities.
If adobe "got it", Flash would compile into cross-platform HTML5 code. The world doesn't need another inner platform.
What's the correct term, in your opinion?
What, you mean like how bands release singles and do live performances to build up a fan base and get backing?
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Adobe Alchemy getting an update.
except perhaps at great effort and expense, you can't gain a monopoly over books on a given topic, and once someone has transferred all of the information out of your book into their mind by reading it, the book has no enduring value to them.

the analogy is more like that of a car manufacturer gaining 90% market share, designing the interface between it and its seats to be proprietary (and preventing other manufacturers from learning about it except through a business agreement with them), then getting into the seat business and making it clear that third-party seat manufacturers make inferior products.
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Lycos was ok in the super early days but as the amount of content increased a simple search engine was no longer effective. Inktomi was great because it didn't have portal-bloat and it had pretty high quality results. But when google came around it blew everyone out of the water because not only were the results generally of higher quality but it was enormously faster. Combined with a smart datacenter strategy and a smart advertising strategy they dominated the market with ease.

Edit: To follow up, google was able to deliver better results (due to pagerank) faster (due to map/reduce and sharding) cheaper (due to highly automated data centers filled with commodity hardware). This combination set them up for dominance, the ability to generate better, more context appropriate ads (due to pagerank, map/reduce, etc, etc. and an effectively massive excess of processing power per search) and the ability to be profitable at a much lower CPM for ads (due to cheaper operations) was what allowed them to become a multi-billion dollar company and leave all other search companies in the dust.
I expect that once they fire him, they'll unravel many of his moves, such as retaining the PC division. WebOS, though, is probably done regardless of what happens at the CEO level.
Fortunately, in this case we're clearly talking about people who understand what source control is and have a desire to use it ;).
I'm very surprised to see native 64bit linux support as one of their first bullets. It may very well be too little too late though. As of late, the only thing that I've used flash for has been to supplement my <audio> tags.

The native JSON / jpeg-xr / LZMA support will certainly make flash feel somewhat more lightweight, but I don't think it'll be enough to make it not feel bulky.
I'd disagree. I've come to realize that crashing is usually either the developer's fault (e.g. trying to do something that doesn't make sense) or the browser's (with Firefox I'd get crashes constantly, since their sandboxing actually breaks the plugin more often than it protects from it; with Chrome, using the same version of the plugin, I get none).

Still, if you look at what they've done in the past couple of years you'd see a lot in trying to revert that situation. Forcing a maximum tick rate of 60hz (was 120), dropping memory use and performance (tick rate goes to 2hz when hidden on a separate tab, or out of the screen); coming up with new browser APIs so the browse can control the plugin performance; and on and on.

They do deprecate a lot over the years. However, is "eliminated" something people really want? The platform prides itself in the fact that SWFs that worked for Flash 2 still work today, despite the changes in the language and virtual machine. So unless it's a change of security policy, nothing breaks or is "eliminated"; as a developer, I find this to be a good thing as I don't have to have a client coming to me after 6 months complaining about something not working anymore.

Flash is a platform that allows people to do a lot. Including shitty binaries. And there's not much defense against it.

And personally I still have my browsers crash more because of shitty HTML/JS than Flash. YMMV.
I'm not just looking for a bank that does the standard stuff somewhat better, or is nicer to me. There is a lot more that could be done. Wealth management related startups like Mint have scratched that surface, but with an end to end implementation of a bank and all the tools and data that brings, a lot more becomes possible.

Also, First Republic's site looks like something made with a table layout in the 90s and left alone since, so I doubt that they're doing anything innovative on the consumer facing side that requires any amount of tech expertise.
I'm wondering how would HTML5 video support audio, webcam feeds, and a plethora of other features that Flash has had for years but that are barely on the HTML's radar.

Having a time machine is not the same as "getting it".
I hope they have liability insurance.
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Cross compiling would be a horrible idea in my opinion. The end result would be horrific code that ran slowly. The platforms are too different to be ported automatically. There've been attempts in the past, but the cross browser support and performance are usually not that grand.

Adobe is however working on a html5 builder called edge - http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/
Looks pretty good from the face of things, and to be honest I think this is the right direction for them to take.
That’s a minority of use cases. Flash can stick around as a bridge technology for a few years to cover those. The majority of stuff that’s today done in Flash can easily be done with plain HTML, CSS and Javascript, often not even the newest variety.
Yes. No ;).
That is nice country (if you like it quiet and you can make a living). And they're not even very far from Houghton/Hancock (which has the technical university).

I guess I'll have to enable Javascript for the flavors.me site (whatever that is) and have a closer look. Wonder what they paid...
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It all started back in March with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303395 -- now I've finally got something ready for quasi-public alpha testing.

I welcome any feedback on possible uses for this, directions to take, etc.
You're completely killing innovation this way. Your bash and coreutils work on Windows, they're just not as useful in that environment. Would you also expect to have bash and coreutils on Lisp Machine?

Also if you don't know this anything about new toolchain, how can you say that your old one is "just as good"?

Caveat: I have been heavy Linux user for past 7 years, but I'm not so quick to dismiss alien technology, especially when it addresses obvious flaws in Unix -- e.g. piping plain text with parsing and printing it again on all stages seems so ancient, I would much rather like to be able to use structured data instead. Also, you could remove the overhead of process initialization if your command line tools are just functions, and not executables. Just sayin'.
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We have the chance to acquire a single letter domain at a competitive price for our start up. It will be the largest single expenditure from the angel round/seed and we're considering on whether it is actually worth it.

We own the brand name .com domain and the single letter domain is brand related.

I was wondering what you guys thought on this and whether it would be money better spent elsewhere.

I have to admit it does look cool.
As a user of video phones/laptops, what ends up happening is that you clip your nails anyway and keep on talking. Just like if a close friend was doing that while you were in the same room. It quickly becomes not a big deal.
If you really want to get some amazing results from the recruiter do this:

1. Go into their office and sit down and do some database searches with them. Sift through a mountain of resumes and then show them what to look for and what to ignore. Be sure to note down searches that bring back decent results.

2. If you have existing staff that you want more of give the recruiter their resumes and sit each of them down to do an interview with the recruiter so they can be profiled.

3. Once you have a stack of perfect candidates that they can use as a reference do some analysis and look for the previous employers that are statistically significant and add all of these to a list for headhunting. Also add any special skill sets that someone in the past may have which would predispose them to having skills you are after now.

4. Sit down and write the recruitment ad together with the recruiter so it "calls" to the candidates you want. Make sure they CC every resume that comes in so you can quickly flick through them and ask them to screen any that look interesting. Recruiters will often reject perfect candidates because they do not fit the profile exactly or they miss something interesting.

The recruiter should now have a pile of information and reference points that they can use to seed numerous searches that have a much higher likelihood of delivering candidates of interest. If a submitted candidate is not right make sure to give feedback that can be used to further refine the search.
The most interesting thing about Flash 11 is the Stage3D and how it compares against webgl. It looks like IE10 won't support webgl (at least the version in WDP doesn't), and webgl penetration on the mobile platform hasn't gone very far yet. This will make Flash 11 very attractive to developers who want accelerated 3d content. Although, the very fact webgl exists (and has implementations) means it definitely isn't out of the game.
why wouldn't you try to release it for free, and figure out another business model. I can think of a few off the top of my head. Your only issue should be to gain users first, as you have an adoption problem or more like how do I show people the long term benefits of doing something different and new. Its about educating your users, which is hard by itself. Maybe we didn't ruin the web, we just weeded out those that are not creative enough to figure out how to make money from it.
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Any cool biotech or health-care related startups?
I am doing some general research on what kind of startups are out there trying to improve/disrupt the biotech/health-care/patient-care industry. Please let me know if you know of any interesting startups that are in these industries.
thanks for themeforest.net, the site I had been using in the past was costing $75-250 per template and they were geared more towards commercial than what I needed. These are much more in tune with what I am looking for.
If you don't care if most of the results are fake, scrape Amazon.
Where does the plastic go in?
Well, we're doing some pretty awesome things to disrupt the way medical records are interacted with electronically!

http://www.elationemr.com
Shouldn't the new Web Audio API in Chrome be enough to replace that (at least for Chrome users) ?
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Not worth it.

A reasonable variation on a domain would be one that includes some line of work, e.g. if it were gardening you could get "z-gardening.com" instead of "z.com" and probably save a ton.
> Being first to market does grant a significant advantage.

This was the first comment I saw on the article and I immediately began to cringe. This is so dead WRONG! For the life of me I can't find the reference but I believe their is a book that talks solely how being first in a market is a massive myth.
I know Project and Account managers that have github accounts, you are probably missing those or similar users in nature
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That is a good scene from Traffic.

It seems like HP had a good thing going. Then Wall Street decided HP should be making more money. This insatiable need for increasing profits then forced a group of people to make a series of increasingly bad decisions.

That is how it looks to me at least.
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Some people are hearing-impaired and need a transcript in the absence of captions.
I've been running my own SVN server for nigh-on 10 years and it requires very little management, if any at all. I imagine git is similar.
Good point, it is an important distinction to be made but I did mean over priced. One company charged me (ripped me off) $500 for 3 "unique" logo and business card concepts. They had a very good rating and feedback on the site and looked trustworthy. I paid them, 4 hours later they provided me 3 stock images (which I traced to iStock) with my contact info on it. The stock images they used were also totally unrelated and generic. When I complained the response I got was "You paid for 3 concepts and we delivered." So I emailed the CEO of the company and it turns out the guy I was dealing with was the CEO! Lessons to be learned.
It's downright scary how accurate that prediction is.
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Just the kind of stuff I was looking for, I will get in touch in a couple of days.
Yes unlimited repositories, but you will have a space limit.
Her father was a US citizen, simple as that. He left the US during college and settled permanently in the UK. Her mother is English.
No.

On even a netbook keyboard I can type at pretty much full dictation speed if I have to, with high accuracy. I can feel if I've made a mistake, I can feel if I've hit two keys rather than one or if my hands are drifting off centre.

I am utterly, utterly unconvinced that that level of performance is going to be available from a haptic touchscreen any time, particularly at a cost comparable with keyboards I can buy for less than the cost of lunch. The patents may well be interesting and have all sorts of beneficial applications, but wholesale replacement of computer keyboards by them isn't one.
I don't think it's common. I had never heard of it until I started my current job which has that policy. As a young guy who doesn't get sick often, I'm happy to have it pooled.
Are you in SF? I know a couple of docs who were begging for someone to build this...
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Thanks! Hope it's helpful for you! If you have any questions or suggestions let me know. Got some cool features planned, so stay tuned :)
Well, my probably even older great aunts seem to appreciate table games, more specifically card games. Board games are also older than any of us. I don't see how is this fundamentally different.
Adobe has been working on a variety of HTML5 tools, so we can presume they "get it".

It must cost them a fortune to support Flashplayer (which they give away for nothing). I'm sure they'll drop it the moment there's enough HTML5 penetration on par with Flashplayer's capabilities.
I haven’t seen “Traffic,” but I first heard this story told about Billy Martin, who somehow managed to get fired and rehired by the Yankees five times. It was also allegedly told about Yogi Berra. I would not be surprised if there is a version in latin told about Ceasar.
Medical outcomes informatics.

https://www.medify.com/

I'm not entirely clear on whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's a thing.
Ahh okay, that makes sense. Modifying the actual page the instructions live on in memory would force it to be marked as dirty and thus if paged out it would actually need to hit the page file instead of just being able to discard it and when it is needed again fetch it from the original dll no? I suppose that is a minor concern assuming you aren't patching tons and tons of things that reside on lots of different pages.
" Forcing a maximum tick rate of 60hz (was 120), dropping memory use and performance (tick rate goes to 2hz when hidden on a separate tab, or out of the screen);"

Wow! Those are SERIOUS feats of engineering! Color me impressed.

And they must have took Adobe the best part of a couple of hours work by some intern...