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The definition of a personal computer is probably a topic that could be endlessly debated. I would personally classify it as a general purpose computer that the user can program, so why not a phone running (non crippled) Linux?

Once you can run your own native code on the thing the differences are down to factors like software ecosystem, hardware performance and input mechanism, but the potential is there.
Indeed.

Not to criticize, though, but the underlying premise that industrial scale "charity" is necessarily good deserves a critical reassessment.

Investment works and turns countries and companies into net producers. That's the story of countless Asian Tigers. At the largest scale, aid did not fix China and India, capitalism did.

This is because charity/aid doesn't scale. It's zero sum, it does not teach the guy on the other side of the transaction to catch a fish, to determine what they can produce which is worthy of trading in the global market.

I understand that Gates, Buffet, and now Zuckerberg had to throw their money away to buy respectability, in the same way people in olden times gave money to the church for various mumbo jumbo rituals. But I often wonder what could have happened had more of those billions been channeled into genuine positive sum activities like Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus' Grameen Bank.[1] Entities not necessarily focused on absolutely maximum profit, but which are at least self sustaining like Craigslist and hence not infinitely dependent on yet more infusions of cash from third parties.

[1] I'm sure that with all the billions spent, at least some has gone into real social entrepreneurship, meaning profitable standalone organizations. But it's hard to escape the fact that Gates, by his own admission, wasted literally billions on education with little to show for it.

The goal instead should be to identify the next Craig Newmark, Jimmy Wales, Salman Khan, or Mohammed Yunus and back them. Have them create a few billion in value and capture enough to remain afloat, and maybe dial up the next few efforts of this kind.
It seems odd to me that we, as a society, look up to or hold this in high esteem. It's not my life and the decision is entirely Steve's -- but it's sad that spending your last day of life working gets more cheers than spending it with friends and family.

I do hope that it's at least universal that relationships do trump work. If not, then I give up on life.
Trucking didn't take over and the freight railways didn't go bust, so I'm not sure where that adage came from.
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I'm not sure what you are saying. I think you are saying that altruism requires self-sacrifice, and that self-sacrifice is not self-serving. But this is silly.

Altruism doesn't have anything to do with self-sacrifice. It is about doing an act that benefits others. Saying, as the person I was responding to said, that someone is not altruistic if they do something "just because" that was their passion, and not because it would help others, is myopic.

Then there's the evolutionary biological sense of altruism, or the philosophical variant of "Pure Altruism", requiring that you suffer for a gift to be truly selfless. People who get really bogged down in this kind of nit-picking would do well to go outside and breath deeply. (points at self)
We got it. It's just not funny.
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I'd like someone to start a service that guarantees I get the best deal on my utilities every month (gas, electricity, broadband etc). They would get paid an amount based on the saving they made for me.
I wonder if there is a correlation between IQ points and the number of item in the 'no. of things I can do on a smartphone' lists that linkbait authors write.

"You can call people, browse the web, take photos, send text messages, and play Angry Birds."

5? Surely the author wouldn't be able to tie his own shoelaces with an IQ of 5...
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If you can tell the difference between 192kbps and 320kbps in a blind test, I would say that is impressive.

I'm a musician and I have a few "audiophile" friends that say they can tell the difference, but when we conducted a blind test, they were basically just guessing.

I am not saying it's impossible, but there aren't many people that can hear the difference, I know I can't. Even with my Grado cans.
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I feel pretty bad for Yegge because he always talks about how excited he is to work at Google and this is the kind of response he gets for being progressive.
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The US is an incredibly easy country to start a company in. Low tax (yes, even if the media doesn't believe it), easy bankruptcy laws (you don't go to jail for defaulting on debts and you can start again), low corruption, low barriers to entry, government support in many industries, very weak labour laws in most states, plenty of capital floating about, etc. If you think the US is a difficult country to start a business in, you need some perspective. Relatively, it is one of the easiest countries in the world and the easiest large country (over 50 million people) for investment.
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Everyone is gushing about him like he cured cancer, abolished hunger or something.

He ran a successful computer company and led the teams that produced some really nice gadgets.

Get some perspective people !
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My point is perhaps narrower than you are seeing. It was not that trust levels don't change, or advocating for some level of trust. Just that his conclusions do not follow from the evidence presented, to the point where the connection borders on the irrational (to me).

I don't think my username here is particularly interesting, just a variation on a typical one that was already taken.
While I'm empathetic towards the founders who got the short sticks on this episode, I just watched episode three (having not been aware of the show before reading this post) and it was exactly what I'd expect a show like this to be. If an incubator gave me an ultimatum like "reality documentary or hit the curb" I'd run the other way as quickly as possible.

Melanie might be strong and brilliant, but there's real live footage here of her being unrealistic, ineloquent and covering for a weak business model (in which she appears to have zero unfair advantage) by hiding behind a claim that "developers just don't get fashion".

This show might be trash but her responses to medium-hard questions about her business model don't suggest CEO DNA. I've never met a competent CEO that says "like" constantly and says what they think VCs want to hear.
i remember reading that apple tended to financially help companies set up new fabs/equipment/whatever in exchange for fairly long term contracts. For example, when they do a die-shrink, apple might pay 30% of the cost to upgrade the fab, in exchange for preferred (in terms of quality and price) chips for X years. No source, too lazy.
No it's quite a serious & well written module. Hopefully it will become part of perl5i - https://metacpan.org/module/perl5i

&_ is an explicit $_ You use $* or &* when you need to check $_[0] first.

So &_ is more correct with general map but $* (and &*) will work also in
this autobox example (in fact i had used it in my first edit but preferred
aesthetics of &_ especially with previous usage of $* only being deprecated
in 5.10).

NB. Above in code just for aesthetics!
Cookbooks are accessible via your private key, which Opscode Hosted Chef does not have a copy.

You can choose to encrypt the contents of a data bag using a locally generated (on your hardware, nothing we control) key.
Shocking easy solution, great puzzle :)
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Some have said their grid system is somewhat wonky. It's also not responsive.

However, I'm using it as the basis for my current app. Since the CSS is all written in Less, it's easy enough to override the base styles to "theme" it, which is what I'm doing.
You don't have to pull down Jobs to bring up Ritchie. Both impacted the field immensely.
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Been working on this for a little while now, today we launched a new introduction video.
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We gain if there are any OEMs that do implement the proposal.
I just take bits and pieces from it that I like. For example, I took the table css and modified it a bit for my tastes. Came out great.
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He trashed HP, SGI, and tanked Quantum? That's an impressive resume.
If anyone needs to rebuild it in node.js, take a look at https://github.com/donpark/node-robohash project which renders bots using SVG parts.
Not just "included", but according to the linked post, Opera now uses DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. That sounds like a major win for them.
having people buy new phones/contracts actually makes the carrier some money, whereas giving free upgrades doesn't. Note: I use t-mobile, which uses sim cards, which is just easier to deal with when changing phones.

Last year, I tried upgrading my phone, but they said it would cost me $200-$300 to get a decent android upgrade, so I went on craiglist and bought a G2 and a Mytouch 3g slide as my backup/music/video player for a total of $225, they had scuffs on the side, but overall were in fine conditions. I also had a G1 that i used to learn about rooting, so after i got the G2 i rooted that in 20 minutes by downloading the 1-step root app, downloading cyanogenmod 7, and flashing it to cm7.

If you want help buying a phone via craiglist, pm me.
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Everyone is under the impression that the waters are poisoned or they'd be flocking to the platform.

XNA is actually a decent toolkit, and the Visual Studio environment is way better than the Android Eclipse mish-mash.

What's preventing uptake is a complete lack of understanding in their market, an inability to take down even weak competition like RIM, and no clue how to leverage their success from the 360 on to a phone.

If they'd just called it the Xbox Phone it would've sold ten times better.
I'd say use it to get your initial version out. Focus on usability now.

Keep in mind that it doesn't support a wide variety of browsers (namely, IE falters).
This actually also has to do with cross protocol attacks. http://i8jesus.com/?p=75
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1. Yeah, the stop-gap "solution" is to white list a number of attributes in order to reduce the data set, because in the most common use case we see, there's only a few attributes that people actually care about in the chef-client context. The node's run list, its IP address or FQDN. Really. That is the most common. For like, 90%+ of the use cases out there. Everyone has a unique snowflake and thats cool, but really, not that much.

2. There's no assumption that systems are correctly configured other than they start from a baseline configuration in the most common use case. We have worked with several customers managing existing infrastructures of running systems that had an unknown baseline and Chef was able to automated the pieces they cared about.

Again with "most common use case."
Perhaps Swype would be a decent enough replacement? They advertise 40+ WPM: http://www.swype.com/about/key-features/
The cameras they use on this project are absolutely incredible. If you know what you are looking for, you can really gain a new appreciation for works. The only two downsides I have seen with this project and ArtFinder is that 1. They seem to focus on Modern Art and earlier, and are really weak on contemporary challenging artists. Meaning you can't really interact with artists you read about at Frieze etc. and 2. I still find it hard to just get pleasantly lost in the work - Quite often it is a chore to discover things you actually care about, and the "fun" of wandering around a museum wears off quite quickly.
would love to hear people's thoughts.
Exactly. Hardware (CPU/GPU) performance of current phones is on par with "desktop PCs" of only a few years back, so I would even count that one out. It's fast enough, and they're catching up.
I don't doubt that you're correct overall that everything on "reality" shows is staged: my neighbor was on a dating reality show on national tv and lots of it was fake. Just for the record, though, as a huge fan of TAL, their site describes that story as based on a work of fiction.
It's nice that the startup founders are defending Techstars, but as a potential applicant, this whole thing does raise red flags for me.

Doing a startup is hard enough with your personal emotional ups and downs. To add a reality tv show to that just seems like the worst idea ever. Maybe it's good for media startups to get as much press as possible, good or bad. But this blog post seems to suggest otherwise.

If the people running Techstars really got fooled by Bloomberg, then how can I trust these people about giving good startup advice?

The title of this blog post doesn't help. Why isn't it Bloomberg, lies and videotape?
You're definitely right about the ambiguity of the term "personal computer." The OS X adverts of Macs vs. PCs have always seemed a bit silly to me -- after all, a Mac is a personal computer, right?

Unfortunately, manufacturers are trying to take the control of devices away from their users. The vast majority of users don't notice and/or don't care. I think it's a problem, but maybe (hopefully?) I'm wrong.
I didn't see that, and if true would be insane. It's in an "alternate search engine list dropdown".

Good PR piece, but I'm skeptical it'll translate to any extra traffic.
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Roboto may be clumsy, but it's far from a patchwork of existing pieces. (if you look, really look, at those comparison charts, you'll notice that even the "frankensteined" source fonts have significant differences from the Roboto glyphs they inspired, in weight, shape, and proportion. the bar on the capital Q looks nothing alike, for the most blatant example.)

it's not the case that Roboto is a ripoff of an existing face, or even four existing faces (for the special case of "an existing face" == Helvetica, I posted about this at length here at my blog, complete with ranting and bad photoshops: http://http204.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/all-sans-serifs-are-...). it is the case that it's a product of its times and took inspiration from faces which already existed -- because if you create a font from scratch, intentionally trying to do only things which have never been done before, you're likely to end up with something completely unreadable.

that said, to me, it's super unrefined, chunky, and challenging to read -- it's outright broken at small sizes (and, thus, on low-DPI displays) where letters blob out around the edges due to poor hinting.

I'd much rather they just bring back Droid Sans. :(
The one with the reflection off the car bumper is CSI-amazing. Can't wait till we have this in normal DSLRs.
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I'm not sure being a great programmer (as in being great at the craft) is the same as ship on time & be sucessful. It's quite possible to write crappy code but still have a usable product that satisfies the customer much more than the previous pile of crap.
In fact, Microsoft is giving them away for free at their stores.

Do you have any sources for that?
Not quite - "is now in the default search engine list". It's still an incredible achievement. :-)
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but I think this is the best of the three and you see the movie when it comes out in theaters later this year.
So would you say this is more of a gadget camera rather than an everyday use camera? I have just paid out for a pretty decent point and shoot, would I replace it with one of these camera's or opt to use both?

I do love the concept of them but if all I am ever going to get out of them is a 6x4" pic to print at the end of the day then it's only really useful for "playing" with?
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It allows you to write open letters to any one in the world. The idea behind this app was from a twitter controversy in India.
>"Will it look silly and amateur if I use this instead of coding it all myself? Is the bootstrap too Twitter-ish for a real company's brand?"

Dropbox still uses famfamfam icons, doesn't hurt them one bit. Best of luck with yours!
I don't know why some people keep trying to compare Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. One created an extremely successful, ubiquitous, and powerful programming language and OS. The other was a driven, successful, visionary, leader, and businessman.

It's mainly people claiming that Dennis Ritchie did not get the attention he deserved. But I have also seen Steve Jobs' fans defending the attention he got because of the ways he changed the world.

To both parties: STOP TRYING TO CHEAPEN THE DEATH OF ONE OF THESE MEN BY COMPARING THEM TO THE OTHER.
How did this post get so popular? Google isn't doing any of this behind your back. If you don't want to share your identity with Google, don't use their services. Simple as that.

It is no secret that Google is a corporation. The only thing that matters to a corporation is to make money. Google doesn't spend millions on improving their search engine and developing a fantastic social networking service because of some altruistic motive. Don't be so naive as to expect companies like Google and Facebook to adhere to your idealistic views of privacy and anonymity if that means a reduction in profit.

Direct your energy to keeping the internet free. As long as we have that, we can represent ourselves however we like by being able to choose which services we use.
I know I will get downvoted for this, but who the fuck gives a shit? These recent Steve Jobs articles are getting more and more ridiculous.
An Objective-C-like language wasn't the goal, but it happened to be a great fit for a couple reasons:

1. We wanted to add the same features to JavaScript that Objective-C added to C, namely classical inheritance, while remaining a strict superset of the language. The first language we prototyped actually looked more like Java.

2. Cappuccino's APIs are similar to Cocoa's, so it's a natural fit, rather than having to translate all the method names to JS identifiers (a la PyObjC or RubyCocoa)

That said, a lot of people share your opinion, so I'd like to provide pure JavaScript bindings to Cappuccino. IMHO it won't be as nice of an experience, but some people will be willing to make that tradeoff to avoid learning a new language.
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Why would a country change their laws to suit a company? (not even from Europe)? When Europeans go to america do they not have to follow the laws of that land?

As a European I feel that I should have access to any information a company holds on me.....both MORALLY and legally...
There was no public humiliation. The only person who saw the assessment form was my boss.
I didn't say it is a conspiracy, just silly.
The concept of altruism doesn't mean "hey, as a side effect, people are better off". The inventor of Teflon isn't altruistic because people have better frying pans these days.

Altruism is doing something where the balance is for the betterment of others, and costs you in some form, such as time (and it is also not atruistic to donate someone else's resources). But that cost does not have to be suffering.

Ultimately, the core of altruism is really whether you're primarily doing -foo- for yourself, or for the benefit of others.
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I recently did a study of 10,000 android apps at Black Hat Vegas 2011. We looked at privacy violations, bandwidth usage, etc.

The most bandwidth-hungry app in the sample downloaded 12 MB in the first 30 seconds. Most apps used far far less. Details are in http://www.neildaswani.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Mobile...
>It seems to me that the only legitimate use of circles is with respect to people you are sharing with that you know in real life. If you want to talk to total strangers, then you want to be pseudonymous but you also have almost no reason to not post publicly.

The typical usecase for circles I've seen (aside from the obvious of protecting privacy) is when someone has multiple interests, not all of which any given contact will find interesting. For example, a person might have a foodies circle, a roleplaying circle, an anime circle, etc.

And many of the people who have circled me in this way I do not know IRL.

(Although my own take on this is that this is probably not an optimal use of circles, it has none the less sprung up as a fairly common application.)
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