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"I have to give them a 30% cut if I want to sell software for their hardware."

Right, if you build something and Target puts it in their store you think they don't take a cut or doesn't take it out of the store if it crosses taste lines? Is that "sharecropping in the retail world"? Sorry no, that is just how business works.

Lady Gaga didn't become a big hit because she is the most talented artist and pressed her own CDs and kept 100% of the profits. She became a big hit because she signed a deal that gave 10% of her profits to her agent who got her another deal where she signed away another 70%+ of income to a company that got her the best beatmakers in the world and put her songs on the radio every hour.

Analogously, Apple has put a store together that brings tens of millions of paying customers right to your app's doorstep and makes it super easy for them to buy it. The deal they're offering is that they take 30% to cover expenses (customer service, servers, etc.) and as a finder's fee. If you don't like that deal you're free to say no but plenty of other people have said yes. Very few big software houses develop for Android but not iOS and very few develop apps for Android before iOS despite the market share disparity. Clearly they see Apple's deal as a lucrative investment and not sharecropping.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html shows that the iPhone 4S has the same GSM bands as the iPhone 4 (T-Mobile 3G uses the 1700 Mhz frequency, which no iPhone supports).

The "world phone" designation refers to the fact that the iPhone 4S has a dual-mode CDMA/GSM radio.
right tool for the right job. solving real problems is hard. unix, microsoft, beos python, java, brainfuck whatever. experts tend to be overspecialized and one dimensional. pundits have their own agenda. religion closes the mind's eye. forget about your preconceptions and embrace the world around you.
This article is flawed. It is making an assumption that public posts correlates with private posts.

"Further, I think it’s reasonable to assume a correlation between private use & public use: if you were constantly posting things on a service and each time you were given the option to make it public or private, surely sometimes you’d make it public, especially as a somewhat public figure wanting to help your own company’s new service get going."

This is fallacy, and it is not even persuasive fallacy.

I make significantly more private posts than I do public posts. I've made exactly two public posts since using it in the early field testing days, and have many more private posts. The friends in my circle tends to share privately, not publicly. You don't have to make public posts to use Google+.

We can say for certain that Google management do not make public posts. We cannot say for certain that Google management do not use Google+ at all.
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What bostonOU said, also get a car loan or two? I recently got my first car loan without a cosigner. I have no credit history and only student loans since I'm just a college student, yet I have a decent-paying job and I also have better credit than ~35% of Americans according to the score report.
1 & 3 might be conventional wisdom, but are you absolutely certain they're still true on modern platforms? http://blog.extracheese.org/2008/05/processes-spawn-faster-t...

(I'm not saying they aren't or that I know the answer.)
Incidentally, the total upgrade price from Windows XP to Windows 7 Home Premium is $109 at Amazon right now, and to Windows 7 Ultimate it's $171.(http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...)

By comparison, OS X 10.1 was the latest version of OS X available at XP RTM. OS X 10.2 would've set you back $129, 10.4 another $129, 10.6 another $30, and 10.7 another $30. (I don't believe that you can skip OS X release-level updates, but I'm not a Mac user, so I don't know; if you can, feel free to correct me.) Even if you magically bought a computer in 2001 which would still run Lion today, you would've spent $310 on OS upgrades, for a period of time for which upgrading Windows cost less than half as much.
Yet their revenue and profit has been increasing... So even if you were correct, it clearly doesn't matter.
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It seems to me that given the task of video encoding, the overhead of a fork is probably going to be trivial. I do agree with point #2, though.
On the checkout form, I think that you should have the zip code field prefill the city, state, and country fields. Or explicitly limit to US only. I think that people will wonder why you're not asking for their full address, most people don't know you can get city and state data from their zip.

The enlarged radio buttons don't look good on Firefox 7 Mac. In general radio/list/select fields not not scale well.

The 3% fund from you is a nice touch.

There needs to be a link which you can share with other people to help fund your purchase on the account page. Don't see a link.

http://i.crowdfunded.it/crowd_members/?id=4 Does not work.

"You currently have 0 completed funds. " Should be at least 1, right?

I like the idea just needs a little more polish and a lot more pitch. To be honest I just don't trust the service in it's current state.
Very cool! Is the source for this available anywhere?
There was a documentary aired here in Australia which follows several out-of-work UK natives as they're given the jobs that (legal) immigrants do. These are jobs like picking asparagus, working at a packing plant, and carpentry. Out of the 8 or so natives only a handful actually show up for work, and of those only one or two actually do the work to a reasonable standard and would be considered employable.

I've also seen reports in the news where Australia needs more seasonal agricultural workers, as Australians don't necessarily want to do the work. Most recently there's been a trial program to get pacific islanders in on temporary visas to work these farms. And traditionally it's been backpackers that have worked these fruit-picking and misc jobs.

So it seems to me that a lot of the population of the "developed" world, especially the native people, don't want to be doing those menial, labour intensive, and repetative jobs themselves. Also I don't believe that the immigrants that do these jobs now want their kids to be doing them. Therefore I would say that we should work harder to try and automate these kinds of menial mind-numbing jobs as best as we can.
I’ll be leaving for home Oct 15th. Until then…how can I help you?”

That is exactly how I read that which of course doesn't make sense given that they will be running servers for the new version :/
If they'd just remove the circumvention device part from the new bill it wouldn't be so bad. But That thing never expires so even if the copyright does you still can't break them. That's infinite copyright in disguise.
Interesting. I checked it earlier and it said I wasn't accepted. I just re-checked and it's asking for verification that I'm coming.

We can't know that anything is ready until they send out the email, so don't get excited/disappointed yet.
It is not obfuscated. View source fot the code, and for the linked libraries (also not obfuscated).
> Problem is that not all those are "decisions" people make. Many of those are not decisions but arise out of life circumstances.

Almost all pregnancy is the result of a decision to have sex. Yes, contraceptives fail sometimes, but that doesn't explain teen pregnancy rates. And, in the US at least, contraceptives are free, and have been for decades. Yes, even in rural/backwoods US.

> but she went to college, got a worthless degree after 4 yrs, and now complains how she has no money.

I think that schools should be on the hook for student loans. Yes, including non-profit and state schools.

And no, grants shouldn't be increased. 4 years of effort should have some lifetime economic benefit.
The problem with metrics is they always measure less than you think. Polio, for instance, is more likely to cripple you for life than kill you.

You only have to go back to the year 2000 to give up iPhones. Going back to 1990 you give up the Internet. Going back to 1980 you give up Mac and Windows. Going back to 1970 you give up microwave ovens and personal computers at all along with cable television. Going back to 1950 you give up birth control, open-heart surgery, commercial air travel, and color television.

That's just technology. There's a huge cultural gap, too. In 1950 segregation was the law, there was little to no access to foreign culture, atheism was distrusted and associated with Communism, pre-marital sex was taboo, and women by and large did not work outside of the household, especially not when they had children. None of the music that I listen to even existed back then. None of it would even be possible.
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>>Is a smart person slighted by getting less attention in school? I would argue no.

Taking your whole post into account, you might like to read this version of utopia by the late great Kurt Vonnegut titled "Harrison Bergeron":

http://www.nationalreview.com/nroriginals/?q=MDllNmVmNGU1NDV...
And where did the author get the "making $50 per Kindle Fire sale" number? From what I've read, each Fire costs Amazon about $192 for parts plus $18 for manufacturing:

http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Amazon-Sells-Kin...
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It has what I want. Improved camera (especially image stabilization in video mode), and faster at loading games (and probably useful apps too). I don't care much about Siri, but then I didn't realize how amazing Maps was on a mobile phone until I had it myself.

I suppose I also had a good idea about what would be announced thanks to MacRumors accurate reporting, so I wasn't let down that the phone is called 4S instead of 5 (besides, I love the iPhone 4 external design).
"Every block in a liquid grid is unique in it’s shape".

Oops.
The market is true.. as long as someone follows. For example, the market average for an app that is a dictionary is $1.99, if some developer makes their own dictionary app and charges $29.99, the only person who dictates the price is the creator.

My point being, no one can tell an author how much to sell his content for. They can quote market average, scream and do whatever but they cannot make that developer sell it for a price they choose which comes back to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it too highly" and the idea that people have a right to content/software which therefore backs the bizarre act of stealing/illegally acquiring. People might feel like it's priced too high but that doesn't make it a 'fact' that it is.

I'd gladly pay for Netflix too but it's not available in my country. So, I'll go without or I'll rent movies from a video store for $1 on Tuesday. Netflix not being in my country doesn't give me a right to pirate content.
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And Siri in turn was more or less a commercialization-oriented spinoff of this DARPA-funded project from SRI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALO
Yea, I totally agree.
Akka looks pretty sweet, but it looks like you still have to worry about blocking code in external libraries. In Haskell (and Erlang, IIRC), blocking code is deferred to a background thread automatically so you don't have to be consciously on-guard for it. You also get proper pre-emptive multithreading, while Akka looks like a hybrid of an event loop and a thread pool.

Is this a substantial headache with Akka, in practice?
I don't consider myself a heavy supporter of traditional free market idealism, but it's clear to me that the credit and banking industry has long been in bed with the government. The government says X so company does Y, the government says don't do Y so company does Z, and they're all probably winking and nodding behind closed doors. With a government separated from such industries, I believe we'd actually have some decent choices instead of "Visa or MasterCard?" and "BoA or Wells Fargo?" (Of course there are credit unions but they're only bandaids.)

I don't know of anyone who supports free market ideals saying you should let sociopaths skin you alive, let alone singing praise. Some of the meaner people in the crowd do say "let the stupid people be exploited, it's their own fault if they don't realize they're being skinned and their stupidity keeps these things in power." I don't particularly agree with that sentiment, though it is rooted in another one: if customers are truly pissed, they'll go somewhere else [in the absence of government/monopolistic forces preventing them from doing so].
Thanks for the feed back.
http://i.crowdfunded.it/apple-ipod-shuffle-2-gb-silver is the page people use to pitch in. you can click the fb like, google +1 or tweet to share with others so that they can pitch in.
Trust is definitely important here. How do you suggest I improve on that?
Yes, others are certainly willing to buy into a planned economy.
Well as an Australian I am pretty unhappy that our government is copying your government's stupid ideas. Which is more disappointing, someone jumping over a cliff or the person that follows them? :(

I can only hope that this won't pass through our parliament successfully, there are a couple of fairly clued in left wing politicians holding the balance of power right now in Australia. But then again this seems like the type of thing both the major parties will rubber stamp with barely a raised eyebrow.

Hey look mainstream Australia look that way, there are people on boats.
I haven't had it crash ever (that I remember). I am running it on windows XP and 7. Maybe I am lucky or are other OSes less stable?
It should be noted that code reviews, though useful for catching defects, are incredibly expensive.

I think there are cheaper ways -- along the lines of automated testing and design reviews in lieu of code reviews -- to reduce risk and defects, and obtain high quality software, than to spend such massive time/$ on code reviews.
> Why not?

Because server code and client code do very different things. Once you start using node.js you start to feel that real hard. Server code is accessing the database, client code is rendering to screen, etc.

Mixing that is always a bad idea, even in games. You'll end up with spaghetti code.

You will also probably have different guys working on server stuff and client stuff. Keeping it separate will make things easier there too.
An SSH server outside the firewall listening on port 443, and a copy of PuTTY on your desktop can solve many firewall problems. Yes indeed.
I knew a guy who transferred schools halfway through his senior year because it put him far enough back that he could play another year of high school football.

There are some really strange motivations out there.
Where is he suggesting forking on every request? My read sounds like he's suggeting the main process handles web requests and a single other process to handle encoding?

The suggested approach is to separate the I/O bound task of receiving uploads and serving downloads from the compute bound task of video encoding.

I'm assuming by using something like child_process.fork to create a video encode queue separate from the main event loop.

http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.5.4/api/child_processes.html#child...
I would suggest two things: First check out the curricula for the following semesters and see in how far these interest you. And second if you are already quite proficient in programming, there might be some research projects you might can get involved in, therefore making it a more interesting experience.

In my view the challenge of college is to find a few things that interest you and become really good at them, but at the same time "survive" the subjects that are less interesting to you personally.
Your comment would be a lot more interesting if you add what those network-based applications are that you think Node.js wouldn't be a good fit for.
In BB's defense, GH's issue system is horribly underpowered too.
That sounds about right. I don't want to lose access to these great tools. I don't want the lockdown trend to continue here. I don't want it to be more difficult to make sure my corner of the retail site works well with Silk if I can no longer browse through its source code.
most people bought the iPhone 4 on a 24 month contract, those people probably wont by the iPhone 4S due to the high cost of early termination fees for little gain. (of course some people will which is just a bonus).

This cycle is pretty clever as it pretty much guarentees majority of iPhone 4 holders will upgrade to iPhone 5, whilst simaltanously giving a decent bump in sales to people who have had there friends talking up the iPhone 4 for a year a chance to one-up them.
Seriously cool. Many thanks for not obfuscating the source :)
As far as windows and ram requirements, it is possible to install windows 7 on very low-end systems (even 128mb of ram) with some tricks. But aside from the novelty the utility is questionable. A 512mb stick of PC133 (the functional minimum for a Windows 7 32-bit installation) costs a mere $10 or less, which is a tiny fraction of the cost of buying Windows 7 itself. Setting the minimum requirement that "high" saves a good amount on testing, and it also ensures that customers don't end up with extremely underpowered machines (a problem that plagued the Windows Vista launch and led to law suits).

It's not entirely difficult to shoehorn Windows 7 onto such systems either, I suspect it's sort of designed that way, to ensure that the only people who do it are the people who know what they're doing and won't be disappointed by the results.
Well it could certainly solve the problem of him having a job. ;)
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As of 1.3, Sinatra can do streaming using an evented webserver like Thin, which uses EventMachine. Goliath may also be worth checking out.
Most articles I've seen post-unveiling say the launch firmware will be (based on) 2.3. The bit about it running 2.1 is leftover from the rumor mill (which isn't surprising, odds are 2.1 was just out when they started the project). I'm more curious to see if Amazon will keep in sync with ICS (presuming Google makes good on their word to open the source) or give Android a proper total forking.
This is an opportunity for the Google leadership to be leaders not only in their company but outside of it by contributing their knowledge and lessons learned to the public. Unfortunately, they are not taking this leadership opportunity, since most of the posts from Larry Page and Sergey Brin are from their amazing adventures and travels, which shows that they themselves don't understand the real power of social media and how they can use it to actually contribute to the world.
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> It encourages people to get married when perhaps they do not wish to do so, thus increasing divorce.

There's divorce, and then there's divorce.

No kids, not much of a problem. Economically, they're better off together, but ....

Unwed parents are a disaster for both society and the kid(s). It's pretty much a guarantee of long-term poverty.

Having kids is almost always a choice, a choice that has huge consequences.
I am sorry, but I just cannot let that go!

From a recruiting point of view, this kind of questions are indicators. They are easy to verify and they are correlated with some other, more relevant skills.

First, knowing your 101 Data structures is correlated to your Computer Science general knowledge. What relevance does it have? It depends on the job description. There are jobs that merely require churning out bland CRUD application code, and it does not make much of a difference if you know this stuff. But, in general, for anything that has strong performance requirements, it might be a concern.

By example, if you let me feed the troll, your solution shows a mix of cleverness, (potential) ignorance and unawareness of the high level goal.. that I might be concerned you would produce something like...

class SortedList extends List{
//...
add(E element){
parent.add(element);
qsort(this);
}
//...
}

On the other hand, Linked lists also give you a hint of the ability of the candidate to manipulate pointers/references. This may or may not be relevant, again, depending on how often do expect to use this skill in your code base. A trivial solution would let you at least know that the person pays attention to detail and does not leave a mess behind. A more sophisticated approach gives you more information about actual expertise (like, if you know about cycle detection, this is a piece of cake).
They seem to have also invented the concept of "checking-in". See video[1] at 0:38 second mark onwards where he talks about a student checking in at Guatemala.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WdS4TscWH8
An interesting question (disclaimer: for intellectual interest only, of course, if the police ever are actually chasing you the only right and smart thing to do is to pull over before somebody gets hurt).

Assuming they really want you for something, and it's not just a speeding ticket (in which case you really should have pulled over) I think you'd actually have a better chance by pulling over somewhere and running and hiding on foot, before the chase gets too big (and especially before a helicopter shows up). Depends where you are, of course.
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It is going to be interesting to watch how the whole TLD "opening" is going to develop. So far the addition of new TLDs made more or less just the value of .coms stronger. Hard to predict how this is going to change when every ad on TV is going to have a different TLD.
Ok, makes sense. thanks for that ken.
That's nice and all but this video is not from 1987.. 1997 maybe. The lady at the beginning of the video mentions Yahoo which didn't launch until 1995.
He's not suggesting forking. He's suggesting spinning up a new process entirely (ffmpeg in this case).
Can't this be solved with Wikipedia (who is hosted outside Italy) not showing the IPs of the wikipedians in Italy?

Also, I think that these laws will move people to the darknets, like Tor. People aren't going to stop blogging, downloading copyrighted stuff, etc. Tor isn't even hard to install or use anymore.
Why are some people thinking the iPhone 5 will be announced tomorrow (i.e., 10/5). Has anyone else heard this rumor?
From http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html:

Siri is available in Beta only on iPhone 4S and requires Internet access.

Systemic obsolescence, plain and simple.
Excellent chance of getting away if you can stop (without making a scene) and blend into a crowd, hop onto a subway car etc.
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Darknets are so slow that it pushes away normal people unless absolutely necessary. It's like walking vs. driving.