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Apparently up to 4B tweets monthly now: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/09/share-photo-via-text-message...

Sending messages to recipients and load-balancing don't faze me. SMS gateway costs do.

I could have cloned it, web-only, missing out on what I assume to be the main userbase.

Of course now with smartphones, web-only is increasingly feasible.

Snappier performance, longer messages, and actually indexing them might make it worth a shot. Except it wouldn't make any money either (I refuse to inflict more advertisements upon the unhappy world).
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Reminds me of this blog post, "How to clone Delicious in 48 hours"[1]. It's cool that these people took their existing work and put a mockup of Siri's UI over it, but getting it to work smoothly and be useful is going to take a lot longer than 8 hours.

Besides, Android doesn't even need this, right? I thought it already had a Siri equivalent, and Siri represents Apple yet again playing catchup. Right?

On the other hand, Siri has supposedly one of the largest engineering teams at Apple. If a small shop can beat that team at their own game, that would be pretty neat to see. But, I am not holding my breath.

[1] http://notes.torrez.org/2010/12/learn-to-program-in-24-hours...
Apple announces iPhone 4S: fit-in-your-pocket 8MP, 30 fps, 73% more light, starting at $199 on a monthly contract.

Given that 1% create, 10% curate and 90% consume, unless you're in that high art 1% of photographers, the iPhone 4S is your man. Or woman.
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Not going into details, but yes, I was/am pretty mad at Google and Samsung. Seven months of use followed by a total loss of data left me with a negative attitude.
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And in addition, myself including, all apple users are not 100% apple users. I have macs, linux and android and dropbox works with all of those.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, but the press release suggests that it's harder than it sounds: http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/ll-seeing-through-walls-1...

“To understand the blobs requires a lot of extra training."
It's next to Nakameguro station.
I believe that is clueless journalist speak for "they want to make an object classifier and tracker next, rather than just displaying raw data"
You are probably correct - the Galaxy Nexus itself will not see anywhere near the sales that the iPhone 4S has. The real significance of this event is that it's the first Android 4.0 phone. And this release is mostly about trying to catch up with Apple on usability and glitz. They won't achieve the simple and clean experience that is the hallmark of iOS devices (especially as the phone vendors screw it up with their crapware), but hopefully this will make the Android experience a little less "clunky".
I agree with this. At first glance the problems he presents are simple, then you realise all the design decisions they've made and the pros and cons of each approach they were aware of when writing C#.

On a footnote I also recommend Jon Skeet: Coding Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/
He's known in the .Net community. He's the guy behind Tony the Pony. He's a Google staffer who has written some C# books. He goes into great depth about C# stuff.
The Galaxy S2 has sold over 20 million so it's very possible that this will do likewise. It's not iPhone territory but it's a very very big selling device.
You're better off using a browser extension or other technique.

Facebook uses a lot of subdomains like static.ak.fbcdn.net and there's no way you can include them all in your list.
Sorry if my 6-sentence post failed to provide encyclopedic coverage of the issue. (Snarky start aside...)

I'm a bit confused by the prevalence of the "so how do they cook it?" question in such discussions when I point out that one can live sustainably, if not well, on very little. It's as though many have never gone camping and cooked over a fire. Gas/electric stoves and metal cookware are recent developments which humans got by without for a long time - and many still do. For starters, shish-kabobs come to mind for cooking veggies on a stick.

In a cramped/austerity situation, little actually needs cooking, given that much can be either eaten raw, or just dried and eaten straight or reconstituted as needed. What needs cooking can be over a fire using the dried inedible remainder of the plants. Stir-fry Solar ovens are not hard to build. High-tech solutions, at the other extreme, could provide very efficient heat sources. (We need not abandon high- and future-tech for high-population-density scenarios; to the contrary, there would be great motivation to advance technology to match demands for efficiency.)

Desertification correlating with population growth? Will have to look into it more. Causation is not obvious (which influences which how & more?). Seems people _are_ figuring out how to feed a population with little resources, translating to sustainability with small per-capita footprint.

BTW: Gladwell's "Outliers" spends a lot of time researching how ancient/remote/low-tech/cramped/austerity populations managed to feed themselves with few farming resources. For one, Japanese rice farming was a tour-de-force of squeezing as many calories out of a very limited space per capita. Worth a read.
Here's some salary data. It looks to be a couple of years old, but gives you some idea of what open source skills might draw in terms of salary, and where.
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Apple users tend to be more vocal about what they like. At my last job, by the time the company was acquired, 5 of the 6 people have switched over to Macs.

So I think yes, iCloud will have its effects. Not yet though.
As far as I understand, unless we develop reliable fast breeders, there is hardly enough fuel for that many nuclear plants.
I thought the Japanese were on a good way to build an energy economy based on breeders. Now, these efforts might be on halt.
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Alexis Ohanian talks about it. I remember seeing a video. Can't remember where.
I do, because I'm interested in buying it. No phone has interesting design in my opinion. I want the one with the best software and hardware.
I liked the part that mentioned that jobs can pay between $40k and $125k. Given how generic the article was, I'm surprised that they didn't start at 0 and go to infinity.
More detail (original article?):

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/blackberry-cuts-made...
I think it looks pretty sweet, and I finally got my desire for a native HD display. Now let's see what Android 4.0 is all about.
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Glad they didn't try to make a jump in the MP race (my 3-yr-old 5dII has 21.1 MP, but of course, only 3.9 fps)

ISO/noise-reduction is the most important thing to me as I don't like using a strobe. However, as I like having a reasonably portable camera, I hope they make an upgrade soon to the 5D line. How many non-sports/war shooters need this kind of frame rate anyway?
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Even now, RedHat Linux is used in local government offices. Wondering what happened now, for switching to Windows 7 for freebie laptops. Huge drain on the exchequer.
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a bit quieter than the stir that precedes an apple 'show' I'd say.
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Military research is where a whole lot of the cool science comes from. There's nothing like knowing the guy who gets there first is going to blow your head off to spur the competition.

In fact, maybe governmental science grants should have some sort of gladiatorial combat requirements for disputed priority...
It is not the government's job to train a generation of school children to slavishly conform to a particular proprietary product. Teach them how to operate a word processor not how to click the icons in Word which, by the way, will be in a new place by the time they get of age to actually get a job.
It has been shown before that single-word trademarks don't protect every phrase involving that word any more than a multiple-word trademark covers the Cartesian product of the words in the mark. In fact, the most obvious parallels to the scenario you describe are Edge Games' failed attempt at trademark trolling and the reaction of Bethesda (whose mark is three words long) to Mojang that's the subject of this article. Additionally, Mojang hasn't shown any inclination to test it out in the case of "Scrolls," so it's hard to see what grounding your comment has in reality.

The only real facts here are "Mojang decided to trademark … 'Scrolls'" (the "single word" bit is a stretch, as that isn't how trademarks work to my knowledge) and "Bethesda counterattacked aggressively." The rest of it is your spin, which appears to be based mostly on a fictional scenario in which Mojang started threatening people with suits rather than Bethesda.
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The fresh money will be used for acquisitions, strategic partnerships and the recruitment of new people, the company said in a statement.

I'm hoping for more work on the web API: OAuth2, sending/accepting shared folder requests, push notifications of file updates.
It's a phone designed by Google, maker of Android, and it has the newest major Android version, so of course it's an interesting device.

And since when do sales reflect how good a device really is? Remember Android devices have to compete among themselves, too. If iPhone 4S had to compete with 20 other "iPhones" in a year, it wouldn't get 120 million units sold either.
This is great feedback Mike. The "Learn More" page was built a long time ago, and I forgot that it uses the value from the slider from the previous page. I'll fix that today when I launch it on the CD rates page.

Thank you very much!
My wife is right: Babies should not watch TV. Says who?
"Ferdowsi from the start insisted Dropbox’s home page be a simple stick-figure video showing what the product does. No table of features and pricing; instead, a story about a guy who loses stuff and goes on a trip to Africa."

This made me realise I'd never been to the Dropbox homepage. I heard about the company here on HN (Drew's YC Application form is a great read), and I didn't have a need at that time - about 6 months later I took on a global project and one of the first emails I got from the client was asking me to sign up for Dropbox so we could collaborate.

As the article notes, that word of mouth (I've passed it on numerous times since) has driven growth, perhaps more than the homepage. After all - it just works.
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The difference is that it only makes well-defined, encapsulatable dependencies on your mutable state easy. It doesn't make totally screwing up easy.
> he may be liable for any costs in fixing the breach.

How is this even remotely logical? If someone walks by my house and yells "hey, your window is broken!" can I force them to pay to repair it?
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>This is not completely true since Ubuntu does provide (various software) updates and upgrades.

They probably meant that a major upgrade won't be needed to be paid for.

Anyway this is Tehelka, one of the big 'rags' in India, so don't expect any kind of objectivity or even truth from them. They will print anything if it drives interest.
However, if I were a younger version of myself getting started now I might read this comment I'm writing at length and get totally turned off from even trying to do frontend development.

Don't worry, it doesn't take your comment to turn people off from front-end development. For me it just took the dual experiences of a) knowing what normal programming looked like, and b) trying to apply anything that I had learned about good software development to CSS.

Quite frankly, CSS has been a misguided mess since day one: if a layout engine is so weak and underpowered at doing layout that we need to rely on HTML and Javascript anyways in order to do common layout tasks, then why shoot for the separation at all?

Further, we end up relying on things like SCSS to be able to productively and maintainably use even the limited functionality that's there, which just makes me nuts. Now instead of a single full featured view layer, I'm dealing with four different types of code, that all end up touching each other, and that's even assuming I have managed to comprehend the insane positioning model that CSS uses in the first place, which makes even simple everyday layout tasks require extensive fiddling and debugging...?

Screw that, I'll stick to programming using actual programming languages, and leave the CSS to someone that doesn't despise every goddamn character that makes up the spec that it (sometimes, at least when the browser makers can follow enough of it to implement it correctly) follows.
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>Would learning on Open Office and/or Google Docs really set them behind?

More likely than not. It's not hard to confuse people when different UI's are involved.
Yeah, gmane sucks that way. Alternate archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg180...
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According to Wikipedia, desktop Linux usage is below 2%. What is Microsoft's incentive to hurt their revenues this way? They sell software for living.
As is the 40D. A lot of the photojournalism professionals I knew used it as a backup, or primary camera if they needed a 1.6x crop.
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There are some really nice work in this release like the compaction work and years of testing to help add to the stability that I think is makes a strong 1.0 release for the Cassandra team.

I would like to see some more example data models and deployments on Cassandra because I still find the column model entirely unintuitive but that is more a limitation of my brain as obviously people are deploying on it just fine.
From what I understand HBase is a little more feature complete. It has row locking built in for instance. Cassandra really can't do that by the very nature of how it is designed(fully peer to peer, no zookeeper).

On the other hand Cassandra is really easy to get going, just download a build and double click. Hbase requires zookeeper and hadoop\hdfs before you can get it running as such it is more complicated and the config is a bit more squirrelly. It really is MySQL vs Postgresql all over again.
> Google, Microsoft, Apple were going to eat its lunch any day now.

Sure, there was potential serious competition, but not yet. It was still a big opportunity just waiting for someone to come and do it right.

It's the kind of service that everyone has a use for and many will pay for. Hook 'em with a free 2GB, and sell extra storage - a very solid business model.
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>> On Google’s side, one explanation involved complexities of the law. My wife and I might think that Google had a “duty” to be able to find her messages after some hacker had erased them. But according to Google’s legal department, its higher and more stringent duty is to ensure that messages are erased, if whoever is in charge of an account wants them gone.

That is a good reason. Moral of the story: make your own personal backups of everything that you wouldn't want to lose.
that only works if you are so careful with your identities that they can't be linked. so that won't help your wife. there certainly are people who want this, but the burden of proof is on you to show that demand is more than hypothetical or anecdotal. this is a niche feature, not a killer app.
I understand what you mean, but the problem is that the terminology has a precisely defined meaning, and if you ignore the convention you will be misunderstood. It would be like saying that a certain O(log n) algorithm has an exponential complexity -- the meaning is completely different. The growth of a function concerns the dependent variable, so y=e^x has exponential growth, while y=ln(x) is logarithmic. See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_growth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

(Sorry for the off-topic tangent!)
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Calling full-frame sensors 'oversized' is a reason why engadget shouldn't try to do photography news.
You're lucky you're not Randall Schwartz[1], who performed an unauthorised security audit on some intel boxes, and ended up being convicted and spent something like 10 years (and a hell of a lot of money) getting the ruling overturned.[2]

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Randal_L._Sch...

[2] http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/
Aw, I was afraid that might be the case. Okay, I just placed an order for a "New Mass Market" copy of Glasshouse with Powell's Books. Better? :-p
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>"This is not completely true since Ubuntu does provide (various software) updates and upgrades."

Also, Ubuntu's support cycle is also much shorter (18-36 months v Windows 60-120 months) making standardization and support more difficult.
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Or why not ask their EU customers to pay the extra 4.9% it would cost to sell it as a camcorder?

That would not only get them off the hook but also encourage their customers to abolish this ridiculous law.
Only if iCloud will run on every device. Normal people don't use 100% Apple products.
My office was on Main Street, Santa Monica for 5 years. Coming from NYC , the sun , the beach ...wow...after the first year, it started to feel like "groundhog day"...every day blue sky, sun, same stupid movie business conversation, at the bars, with the young drunk girls wannabe movie star...the guy above is so right. The sun , the beach, the drunk beautiful stupid girls are just distractions. Took my bags and now back to the east coast dreaming of the sun.
How many people would sit in front of Steve Jobs, refuse to a hundreds of millions acquisition offer, just before Apple enters their market.
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You don't know where ck2 lives.

I live in Victoria, BC and there are bikes on the road all the time here. A good portion of the roads have bike lanes and people are used to driving motor vehicles in tandem with bikes on the road.

For all you know he does live in the Netherlands. Maybe even on Vlieland (ok I know this is extremely unlikely, but we don't know).
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Nice post. Puts more flesh on the bone than some previous examples i've seen (for eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros).
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So when is Dropbox actually going to be profitable? If you have 45 million users and you can't be self-sufficient then maybe the business model doesn't work.
And this is called the good kind of macros.. i'm not sure if i want to ever see someone manipulating the AST in his code.. i don't know Lisp and he says that this is what makes Lisp the awesome language it is, but to me it sounds scary and dangerous and inconsistent..
I don't think they meant it that way: they said "uses oversized pixels to battle noise". The original press release stressed the fact that the pixels increased in size even as their number increased (because of more efficient layout). This is just flowery prose.
Or, "I found that you, the bank, left all of your customers' money and social security cards and personal records (including mine) in an unlocked windowed room facing the street where anyone might walk by and steal all of it. You might want to lock it up."
"Prove it."
"Ok, I'll just show you how ridiculously easy it is to open this door . . ."
"Thief!!"
> Why do you assume using Linux means you are training to be a programmer?
> Personally, I have installed Ubuntu Linux on friends' "old" laptops that have gotten "too slow" for Windows upgrades. Instead of being thrown out, these machines are still being used for common tasks such as internet browsing and e-mailing.

I'll vouch for this. My wife uses Xubuntu, and she's an accountant. There was a period of learning for her, but then again, part of that was due to the fact that one can automate just about anything via cron. (:
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Who said they're not?

Also, if there is any business that benefits from economies of scale, it's this one. Storage (and it's associated cost) scales very well as your user base skyrockets.
Heh, I don't know why your comment reminded me of this old gem:

Of course, no one wanted to comment on how lucky I was to spend time reading software manuals, or Cisco Router manuals, or sitting in my house testing and comparing new technologies, but that’s a topic for another blog post.

The point of all this is that it doesn’t matter how many times you fail.It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right.No one is going to know or care about your failures, and either should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because…

All that matters in business is that you get it right once.

Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

http://blogmaverick.com/2005/05/30/success-and-motivation-yo...
It's a facebook app. It asks your permission to access pretty much everything on your profile and when you finally accept it cuts to a fullscreen, high production video of an incredibly creepy actor on a computer in a really dingy room. It then cuts to the computer screen and shows the creepy guy scrolling through your profile page in a very realistic manner as well as clicking through some of your photo's and friends. The guy looks more and more irritated and angry and he goes and looks up your location on google maps (with mixed results, mine was relatively close).

It then cuts to him driving with a picture of your profile pic stuck to his dashboard, the whole time you get the feeling this guy is tracking you down with the intention of hurting you.

Really creepy and incredibly well done and surprisingly not obvious in terms of what they are promoting.
You're right. I forgot about that.

People also say "totes muhgotes" (spelled phonetically)
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