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I couldn't tell in the third example, wouldn't it be rather efficient to make a filled-in large black circle with radius r and then make a concentric filled-in white circle with radius r - epsilon? Epsilon would be the thickness of the circle (not exactly one pixel, but could be close).

I couldn't tell if he thought of this method, but it is a quick way to draw a circle.
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You could try the Files and Settings transfer wizard (In Start, Accessories, System...) and see if that works for you. I'm not aware of any tools off the top of my head, but (on principle) I would not rely on any auto-complete/password storage to ensure I could do my day-to-day computing.

There are plenty of tools which help in this area which are guaranteed to provide better support than Microsoft will. Things like KeePassX (for password management) and (while I don't use it, I've hear good things about) Roboform are supported by communities who are invested in a long-term solution. I would really try to migrate to a new solution. Anything else would be putting a band-aid over a festering wound.

Good luck! :)
The current content producers are scared that people can produce the same content for cheaper.

This means if something is a blowout hit then it isn't the studios pocketing the money. The barrier to entry to a "professionally" produced show is a studio, good cameras, good editing, lighting, etc.

Think about how much cheaper all that has become.
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On a side note, if you have 6 different ratings on one page plus an overall rating, should they all be stars and all in the same color?
if formula using (c+v) explains the situation while we may be sure that the CERN physicists calibrated their systems using various SR formulas with "gamma" (i.e. 1/(sqrt(1-v2/c2)) ), that would be an interesting comment on SR :) [especially considering that the Michelson-Morley experiment confirming the constant and isotropic "c" - the foundation of SR - wasn't calibrated using the SR's rules following from such properties of "c"].
Using it for a day now - it is surprisingly smooth for an Alpha. Some rough cuts here and there but nothing bad at all.

The boot time is fast. Apps launch fast. GPU seems to be doing its job - no sluggishness. Google Apps install and work fine. Wifi hasn't dropped. Browser/Flash works as well as it does on any other Android phone.

Haven't tested battery life yet but for the few times I tested disconnected from power source for a hour or two it did not seem to drain abnormally.

If you install moboot - you can conveniently choose between recovery/webOS/CM7.

BUT the webOS UI has different richness and cohesiveness to it - it goes closer to Apple experience than Android. But on the other hand it is dog slow in loading apps.

Once ICS based CM port comes out - the $99 TouchPad will be the best thing I ever bought! Till then it's a great hacking machine.
+1 For that. I really love webfaction and it was the best idea to go with that as I didn't know at first how to configure my server. It has great "default" configuration and practices. Also, as Mike said, the customer support is great if not the best I've seen.

And, as you'll become better at configuring your stuff and will want more control over all the nifty details, you could then switch to a vps.

Also, don't forget that Heroku now support more platform.. in fact, everything python is supported, but the platform is strong enough to support anything.. even if it's not as userfriendly as the ruby or python way.
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Thought I see what you're saying.
I agree WebOS task switching is second to none. Googles Ice Cream Sandwich release should go a long way to addressing the multitasking situation, team Cyanogen should be able to link the ICS task switcher to the "slide up" gesture, which should make for a much improved experience.
It's food for thought, isn't it? That the Panopticon [1] has become cheaper and more pervasive over time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
Corporate spin-offs are very possible and are done frequently.

The problem here is that Google Code Search wasn't independently profitable, so it wouldn't make sense to sustain it as an independent company. (I presume it was created to build goodwill for Google as a whole among coders.) As to whether any of the related assets are valuable to, say, another company who thinks they can make code search profitable, I don't know. But if Google can sell those assets to such a company, it will.
Makes sense to me. Most people aren't seeking out software that is a radical departure to what they're used to. They are only interested when it becomes popular. Apple does a great job popularizing technologies and bringing them to the masses.
It's been a while since I did my IRB training but I believe activities here are exempt since there's no federal funding involved. Privately funded research (for instance, the social sciency papers involving human subjects that come out of Microsoft Research) generally don't go through IRB, afaik.
What? Copy/pasting in Android between apps is At least as easy as the counter actions required in WebOS, and I can say that with a lot of certainty given that my passwords are all in LastPass and I don't save them in the browser. Further, having 8 cards of my browser open is beyond ridiculous, as is having to dismiss the entire window just to "change" tabs.

Downvoters, have you actually used both? I can open LastPass, click "Copy Password", long-press home, tap browser, click paste. Or, I can open LastPass, "copy password", swipe up, swipe to my browser card, select it, then paste. How is that faster?

I like some things about WebOS, but I don't know how it's card system is in anyway easier. It IS extremely condusive to those who like to wave their hands about on their tablet. The swipe up and left/right is great for those who like to emphasize "I'm gesturing on my tablet". Besides HC/ICS has the same mt-button which brings up live previews in the same way.
It's good to agree with you about something.

I don't think I understand what you mean by 'obviously you need to "x" more than just "malloc"'. If you use xmalloc() instead of malloc(), and either abjure realloc() or use xrealloc(), haven't you covered all your bases?

It's true that a bug could creep in somewhere, but that hardly seems like a particularly damning criticism. Every place you use xmalloc() instead of malloc() is one less bug, one less potential Mark Dowd Flash exploit. And you can use nm(1) or the Visual Studio equivalent to find out if your program still has any calls to malloc() or realloc(), and then you can remove them.

From my perspective, the problem with rigging malloc() itself to blow up is that there's no portable, standard way to do that. And, if someone fails to do it when they're porting your code to a new platform, everything will appear to work perfectly, but the port will have introduced a subtle bug that may result in remote-root vulnerabilities. That would be really bad.
Apple will fix these issues. First, the average user isn't trying to upgrade the moment new software is released; I'd guess most of the people upgrading on Wednesday were the kind of people who need to have the latest iOS and OS X the minute it comes out, and those are also the types who will power through and figure it out. The average users will upgrade a few days or weeks later, and the kinks will be worked out by then.

And Apple is working to merge multiple Apple IDs. These issues presented here have relatively easy solutions and are probably close to being solved.
I don't even know if all those demos are cool or not because I don't have a very recent graphics card and all I can see is a phrase telling me that my Browser (Chrome 14/Ubuntu 10.10) doesn't support WebGL.

On the other hand, all the 3D Flash 11 demos work vey well.
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This is wonderfully packed piece of advice, I'm sure it will be useful to many.
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Just a comparison, Mozilla Foundation spent 62.8 million US dollars for software development, unclear for how much is spent on staff.

ref: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2010/fa...
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Surely we've got enough places having droughts that our control over nature will have us putting up massive water pipelines around the world. They'll need redundant desalination and cleansing plants.

Anyone know what to do with all the material removed?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but over its life and decomposition, isn't a tree carbon neutral? While growing, trees basically absorb carbon, and when they decay that carbon is released back into the air. Therefore, planting more trees will not reduce carbon in the long term.
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Ok, I'll try to push forward the plan for 2.6 as hard as I can. I'm sure shipping 2.6 and 3.0 is a bit more time consuming than shipping everything into 3.0, but actually it can be worth it. Thanks for your feedback :)
I don't know how well does code search work for searching punctuation but I'm sure general web search doesn't cut it.
hahah yeah i figured that afterwards
I would do it another way. I'd have an on state and off state graphic as a sprite. There'd be two divisions, one laid on top of each other. The bottom layer would be the off state tiled horizontally statically at the width that is the number stars your ratings setup uses by the width of you on-off state graphic. The layer on top would be the on state with a width determined by an online style - CSS accepts percentage as a unit which can be worked out trivially. I find this is far more flexible that setting static widths in the CSS. You only haVe to set one width: the number of stars. Other things can be worked out programmatically and cached if needed.
look intresting, but seconding the "why" posts...

what advantage am i getting for having these all under one roof? how are the integrations going to help me?
> Obviously you do not personally pay after death, but you set aside money for a trust before hand, which amounts to the same thing.

This is a good point, but it bears stressing that the bulk of the trust fund is there for reanimation and as protection against economic instability. Only a very tiny fraction gets used for ongoing expenses, at least in the current Alcor situation.
Patents are only a short term advantage and they know it - Google doesn't have lots of patents but they have cash and, surprise, they have gone shopping already.

Just wait until Google, Samsung, HTC, LG and maybe smaller players like Acer form a coalition and go after Microsoft - a company that is not a patent trol, that can be attacked and that will take a stock market hit in the case of failure.

What really works for Microsoft at this point is just plain old FUD, but that doesn't lasts long.
How is buying a house and working a job a safe thing?

I'm Canadian. We Canadians grow up extremely aware of our behemoth neighbour. We watch your TV, your news, your movies. Your culture permeates our culture.

And your culture celebrates home ownership and working a job as the American dream. From Leave it to Beaver to Desperate Housewives and Weeds, your culture (and ours) is all about having a job and owning a home. It's part of the American dream.

How many people pursuing that dream lost their job and their homes? If you're unemployed and homeless through no fault of your own, how do you feel when you see bankers, who are at fault, getting bailed out by the government?

The Occupy Wall Street movement is about pointing out how unfair it is to bailout the rich without doing a thing for the middle class.

As for health insurance, does the author sound like he has a few extra thousand dollars kicking around to pay the deductible?
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Suppose you have 3 points in 3d space.
P1 = (1,0,0),P2 = (0,1,0), P3 = (0,0,1)
You know point the distance from U to P1 is x, from U to P2 is x +1 and from U to P2 is x + 2)
You know know U is on a 1d curve (c1) though 3d space. (Or as you say you don't know time aka distance.)

Now suppose P1, P2, P3 velocity is more than 2x that of point U and you have you have new offsets from U to {P1,P2,P3} you are now going to have a new curve (c2) in 3d space, but you know U's vector must take it from c1 to c2.

Now add another time cycle, and you know it's vector must take it from C1 to C2 to C3. As you keep adding C's you constrain both the valid vectors(direction and velocity) as well as positions.

Now measurement accuracy as well as change in velocity limit the accuracy but GPS satellites are moving a lot faster than you are so you can get reasonably accurate information this way. Edit: Also you can basically ignore the sections of the curve that whose altitude is unreasonable so the solution space is fairly constrained to start with and for each subsequent curve. But you can also use an internal clock/oscillator, accelerometer, gyroscope to further constrain reasonable accelerations etc.
Asimov, I think it was, wrote a short story where the German spy during WWII was identified "or the gloom of the grave" as the words following "From the terror of flight." Those being from the third verse of the US National Anthem.

Of course, few Americans know anything other than the first verse, but the over-prepared German didn't know that.
"the average user isn't trying to upgrade the moment new software is released"

Oh don't bet your house on that statement. Everyone in my office (and most aren't "geeks") who had an iphone/mac was waiting for the update. By 2PM they were all running it. Including me.

Everyone was eager to get it. And I agree with the OP, Apple dropped the ball. Again.

I remember the MobieMe chaos.
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Speaking as a layman..this all sounds a bit far-fetched.
A drop of 80 million people in the Americas then is as nothing compared to what's happened with world populations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Despite a growth by billions we're still debating if climate change is definitely happening today.
Maybe I'm just becoming more cynical as I get older
Installed it on my 32GB Touchpad last night; here are my observations so far (YMMV).

Pros:

+ It's an alpha, but impressively stable. No more than a couple force quits all night. No random reboots.

+ It feels a world faster than webOS already.

+ Battery life isn't optimized, but wasn't horrible, either.

+ Touchstone worked for me; even had a chime when docked.

+ Many apps I restored to the device worked wonderfully.

+ Did I say apps? I'll say it again: Apps.

Cons:

+ Obviously, not all apps work perfectly.

+ Wi-Fi was flaky on 802.11n (5Ghz). Turning on and off a few times fixed it.

+ Market reported being offline when everything else on the unit was connecting fine. See above Wi-Fi fix.

+ Market is filtering many apps, but here's a fix: http://forums.precentral.net/other-tablets/303534-how-guide-...

+ Unexplained slowdowns from time to time. It's Alpha. It happens.

+ Will wipe your /media/internal directory for repartitioning. Back it up first.

Overall, I'm really impressed with the speed and result of the CM7 Team's effort although I find myself missing the multitasking/switching component of webOS (but not the slowness).
It never worked all that well for me.

What I want is a "curl | grep" for the web. Just something that searches the entire page, including <head> <!--> etc. I can do without fancy semantics.

But Google tries to be smart even on quoted queries. And that annoys me deeply.
"You can't measure geek cred. You can't measure the second-order effect of services like Code Search."

And so as a publicly owned, regulated, billion dollar corporation, it no longer make sense to commit unmeasured resources to support unmeasurable benefits.
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Yes there is. It's called Moonlight. I went there in Linux Chrome AND Firefox with Moonlight installed and watched the video fine.
Wow, I had never really appreciated the fact that people working in GCed languages had to deal with memory leaks. One of the things I enjoy in the limited time I work away from C and C++ is not having to worry about memory leaks but I guess it can happen depending on the complexity of the system and what you're plumbing together.

I'm wondering, though, is there no way to point back at the code that did the allocation? We used to instrument our heap management routines to give us whatever info we need to figure out who the offending allocator is, e.g. functions, line numbers, thread IDs, etc.
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thanks everyone! your insights helped a lot, and i'll be continuing the project :)
Except there is a plugin for Linux. It's called Moonlight. Why wouldn't you just install that? It worked fine for me on my Linux box as well as on OS X.

Also there's a difference between complaining just because you hate Microsoft and calling out a hater.
I'm not sure what your point is.

The Occupy Wall Street movement may have people who feel entitled to something, but I'd say Wall Street has a bigger sense of entitlement. Remember how upset they got when their bonuses were in danger unless they got bailed out?

If you're a tax payer, you're entitled to good government. You're entitled to be treated fairly and equitably. You shouldn't be short changed just because you're only middle class.
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By 2pm they were all running it? And Apple dropped the ball.. how?

I understand there were delays, but I got a ton of updates yesterday that I really needed (iOS developer) and they all worked well together.
Redis is one of the most stable components of our architecture -- thanks for the great work.

We're probably going to run it as a slave for awhile w/ a 2.2 master -- will be interesting to see how much memory we save, especially with copy-on-write improvements.
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Something I'd be interested in is where I could find these sort of items in the first world.
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I asked around. Not everyone at my office did. In fact, some people didn't even know there was an upgrade.

It took 4 hours on Weds night to get myiPhone update. It only took 30 minutes the following morning for my iPad. I'd say the worst is probably over by now.
With solar lanterns or houses, you can just make prefab ones and sell the same one to everyone. If you can make them cheap enough, middle men will pop up to make a profit selling them to help with the distribution problem.

Eyeglass lenses on the other hand, need to be made for a person and often changed every couple years.

The problem is not making $2 glasses, but determining the prescription of 1 billion people with limited access to an optometrist.

Adaptive Eyecare[1] has done some interesting things with liquid lenses which solves both of the problems for people with spherical ametropia. Unfortunately, it won't work for people with astigmatism which is quite common (upwards of 30% in people over 30 according to some studies).

A portable device that allows someone with minimal training to determine a person's prescription, even if fairly expensive, would go a long way to solving the problem.

[1] http://www.adaptive-eyecare.org/
Being index-indexed would decrease the size of a number you could count on your hands while maintaining a logical bit ordering by 768 (1024 - 256), so we should all be thumb-indexed.

The proper comparison with endianness would be thumb- or pinky-indexed, but physiological limitations make pinky-indexing pretty useless (try counting to 2 in binary, starting with your pinky), so we should, again, be thumb-indexed.
This is not a new idea. Iverson's original notation for APL came out from trying to apply the same insight.
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Interesting, so to extrapolate from this theory, we could halt and even reverse global warming by killing off tons of people. Seems obvious in hindsight.
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i"ve only thought about it for about 30 seconds but it would seem to be the absolute best place to post engineering job ads.
I wonder if there's a scientific paper equivalent to Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

If a headline ends with a question mark, then the answer is "no".
I concur, it takes much more than 6 months. That's barely enough time to build the product/service, nevermind trying to build a customer base.

I recently posted my companies revenue chart over the last 8 years, and if you'll notice in the first 3 years even if there was growth (year 3 was almost double year 1), it still took a while to really get some good growth: http://www.followsteph.com/2011/08/23/landlordmax-2010-best-...

I'd say if you can do it in less than 3 years, that's amazing. Trying to do it in 6 months is unrealistic, you'd need way too much luck to achieve that.

The good news, as you can see from my revenue graph, is that once you get momentum behind you, it makes all the difference. After some time you learn what works and what doesn't, you start to get systems in place, you have a network of customers, and so on.

Btw, 6 months is barely enough time to even just do split testing on a website, nevermind trying to implement what you find and test it again. Any marketing effort takes at least a few months to really get the hang of.

I salute you for being brave enough to share your failure, that's a major step. As someone else said, you will most likely succeed in the future because you can see and admit your mistakes. But please do expect it to take more time. I agree that 3 years is a pretty standard timeframe to get a business going...
Can we assume that Mozilla's software development is more technical than Wikimedia's software development? I think the only thing they have in common is that they're both non-profits.
I agree that when price of zero is bad in sense that it raises the users expectations to infinity (if you think of value/price) and this is bad for the echo system. On the other hand "free" allows everyone in the world with Internet access to use the service which is a very positive thing overal. IMO, the best model (in terms of impact, not in terms of business model necessarily) is a hybrid where you offer premium services (like github, linkedin, dropbox, etc.). I'm not sure why Google shies away from it but my guess is customer service.
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Looks really ambitious and look forward to seeing what you do.

A bit of a chicken and an egg problem for me. You want me to put my business life under your roof but i have no idea if you will be around ina year or two so i am very hesitent to try it at all right now.

Worst case, i love the service, import everything i own, then funding dries up in 18 months and now i have a monumental amount of pain on my hands migrating away.

That is just 2 cents from the peanut gallery. I cant be the only one thinking this though.

Figured i would share since you guys are looking for feedback.