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Well, games can't be priced less than 50 cents. What you're suggesting seems to be strictly prohibited by Apple, so that developers can't get around it. They always get 30%, it seems.
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Hey, what's the point of DuckDuckGo when you have the NOTORIOUS FACEBOOK TRACKING CRAP in the page http://duck.co/topic/duckduckgo-in-opera and the forums ?
see http://nikcub.appspot.com/facebook-re-enables-controversial-... and
http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

defeats the intent and reputation of DuckDuckGo.
How exactly does selling computers to schools make you an expert in education.

I think it would be better to focus on making schools better rather than just telling students to spend more time at them.

Or have the students there for 40 hours a week, but ban homework. Use the extra time to get it done at school.

Then students will actually do it, and they don't have to worry about it at home anymore. Plus you don't have kids going to school for 40 hours then being expected to do an extra hour of homework at night.
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, "

He did and he lost.
I'm not proud that I stole from the vending machine. I'm proud that I figured out how to steal from it.

Fundamentally, I see no difference between being a 17 year old in a basement figuring out that if you send excessive amounts of data into an unchecked buffer, you can gain control over program flow, and being a 13 year-old kid figuring out that by rocking a machine back and forth, you can cause the front items to rub up against the edge of the rack, effectively sawing the plastic off. What is the difference really? Both are fine if you don't use it in the real world and illegal if you do.

And I don't think it's the same as crawling into an open window. Rather, it's more like lock picking, particularly after they started installing these rock-resistant cages and we had to get creative by using two-man teams (one rocking forward, one rocking back). I believe DefCon has a lock picking session every year.
It's interesting that they've bought Indilinx. OCZ has been Sandforce's most visible customer for a while. 1TB for $1,300 is a good price. The 600GB Intel SSD's that we've been purchasing at work only cost $200 less.
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I find myself having a love/hate relationship with Lua where I work. We have a solid in-house C++ game engine, and like good little agile programmers we exposed a good portion of it directly to Lua so we could prototype and get stuff up and running quickly.

Now it has reached a point where some people are writing their entire game in Lua and it just ends up becoming one impossible to debug mess. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if there were a decent, cross-platform remote debugger available -- but I have yet to find one that doesn't rely on doing silly things like DLL injection (Decoda). I would pay good money, like >= $500 a seat, for something that Just Worked and met the needs I listed above.
I owned both the Symbian based P800 (Touch screen, no face buttons at all) and then an HTC 6800 (touch screen, slide keyboard) years before the iPhone was ever released.

HTC alone had over 15 models of touch-screen phones released before the original iPhone. I think that kind of blows away "your less than 1%" made up statistic.
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Couldn't it go either way though? I mean ultimately it just depends on what returns they can get. My impression is that the New Deal in the Depression gave good ROI because the infrastructure improvements opened up new avenues of growth. However if you have massive corruption like in Greece then you're probably better off with austerity.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
How do you feel behind at 22? Your 20s should mostly be blown away on things you'd not do later in life. I think.
Because every page in the app is bound to carry the jQ dep, and you can just as easily provide your own static file hosting for jQ. It seems like a pointless complication to the security model of an app, to take its core Javascript framework library and host it offsite.
I think this post is just stupid.
It was Paul Rand who designed NEXT's logo: http://imprint.printmag.com/branding/paul-rand-steve-jobs/ . And here's Steve Jobs talking about Rand: http://512pixels.net/steve-jobs-on-paul-rand/
Sometimes, not often.
It's one thing to be brutally honest with people and quite another to disown your own child, deride subordinates for silly things, destroy people's public reputation and park in multiple spots meant for handicapped people!

People who are honest and disregard the consequences of absolute honesty are an asset in a world filled with people who would lie to keep social ties intact. Assholes on the other hand, not so much.
How about the fact that everything is button based, instead of touch screen based? Do you still have to go through a menu dialogue to input a website on your Android phone? The screenshot demonstrates that pre-2007, Android was along the lines of Palm and Windows Mobile. Post 2007, it was along the lines of iPhone.
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 2011 I moved to Seattle about 4 months ago

It's cloudy from November through June. Let's see how he feels in six months.

If you move to Seattle and complain about the weather, please, shut the fuck up and go back to California. We have enough of you whiners up here already.
http://www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork/sbs/kipp/index.html is something about it
Don't assume that lack of clicks is due to great / addictive gameplay. It also may be that your audience or demographic is not prone to clicking on ads; the ads contextually are not well matched to your audience; etc ...

With your particular challenge, as you hit higher audience levels, maybe think about sponsorships / branding opportunity where you can sell the 'eyeballs'. Since you are currently making nothing from the ads, maybe dump them and play around and give some sponsorships away as a trial to brands that you think are cool and well matched to your audience.

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Second the comments on paying for extended play, but maybe instead of levels (which you say don't exist), pay is for extended time per day. (free 60 minutes cumulative a day, extended no daily limit)
How much do you think Apple paid Android for the shade-style notifications that appeared in iOS 5?

Or push notifications?
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I believe, it's some sort of IE hack.
Flipping is always low risk

Whoa... tell that to the folks who worked at Bear Sterns and Lehman during 2007/2008. This is precisely why all of the major banks needed a bail-out. The risk models all automatically assumed that these instruments would maintain their liquidity, but when that capital dries up, it turns into a game of musical chairs.

When your business model fundamentally relies upon a liquid market for short-term credit[1], you typically end up in bankruptcy court when/if the music stops (unless of course you threaten the entire financial system and get a government bail-out).

When the institutions you rely upon for credit lose faith that you can repay your debts, you're sunk. Mark to whatever, that only matters with long-term debt.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_subprime_mortgage_financia...
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As a positive, he lists "one of the best elementary schools in Seattle (John Stanford) just a few blocks away."

As 1 of 2 negatives, he lists "everyone in Seattle appears to be white".

Consider the economic conditions of American cities in which Whites are a minority. Virtually all are economically depressed. Think Detroit, Newark, East St. Louis, East LA, Miami’s Little Haiti, South Dallas, etc.

Unfortunately, most white people would do anything to avoid being called a racist. This includes doing things that go against their group interests at all costs. Most white people are proud of themselves for "not noticing" race unless it's to point out whites behaving badly. I get so exasperated with the whole situation that I don’t know what to do.
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Sure. Try putting the ipad in your pocket.
Just continue to strive to build the best device...

This idea of stolen design makes no sense. Should patents on dropdowns be allowed, how how buttons, windows, hyperlinks, menus, etc, etc? Or how about cellphones itself?

Should car manufacturers learn from each other? Somebody copied gears, automatic transmission, catalytic converters, airbags, radios, sun roofs, convertibles, etc.

Somebody has an idea, others follow. That's how it should work. That's how we get the best products. That is how we keep competing.
It's not that Android stole iOS code or something.

The idea of multitouch does not have much value (in the sense that a lot of money was spent on it, something had a great idea), the value is the implementation.
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> Inertial scrolling, yeah, that's a good call, and the only one you mentioned that's a legitimate invention.

Actually this was used in games long before the iPhone, including 3D games and 2D scrolling games.

It might even have been one of the toy hacks for X11 or Windows.

Here's a mention from 2001:
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=350

Here's an IBM patent, filed 1997, for an "intertial slider": http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=uugAAAAAEBAJ

Multi-Touch goes back to 1985 at least: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/02/07/24/1615259/building-a-pr...
I don't have hard numbers, but I wold like to point out that Japanese students spend more days per year and longer hours in school, as well as hours of cram school on top of it for most of them, than Canadian schools, and yet Canadian students overall end up ranked higher on than Japanese students on every ranking I've ever seen.

Canadian schools also spend more than $3000 per student per year on average than American schools.

What American schools need is more quality, not more quantity.
Well, I was interested because 2009 is the only dip year in their data. The distribution data is not as interesting to me given what they ignore in income and location.
I think this is because most people tend to make a connection through talking about the weather. Hence, picking a side is a normal thing to do, are you for the weather or against it? For people that don't live in Seattle, I find that all they really know about Seattle is their mysterious rainy weather and the space needle, of course.
It _can't_ be totally an engineering field anymore than language communication can. Trade and marketing are not about maximizing profits or reducing costs, though those are important aspects. It's as much politics and power and sex and violence as it is anything to do with prices and shipping costs. No matter how "good" your models are, people will get funny ideas in their heads and do something completely unexpected.

When Asimov posited his Pyschohistory in the Foundation books he indicated that it could only be statistically useful on populations measured in the _trillions_. And even then it could only work if the methodology were kept absolutely secret from everyone in the modeled society.
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The whole point of that song was that everything seemingly ironic was NOT in fact ironic at all. :)
At 55:20 he says, if you have A calling B all the time, you should "Stick a queue in there."

What is an example of this?
Oh really? If you use SHA1 then the scheme I just described is a pretty well-established method called PBKDF1, specified in RFC2898:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898#section-5.1
Inertial scrolling has been in Windows since at least XP. It's the one feature of Windows that I miss in my linux desktop - middle-click to get the inertial scroller, then move your mouse appropriately to flick around as quickly or slowly as you like. It's very far from a new concept or innovation.

The App Store? Perhaps for payment, I don't know. But Debian has had a 'centralised online repository from which you can effortlessly get all the software you want' since 2001 (apt). It's what drew me to Debian in 2007.

Mobile browser? My cheaparse Ericsson non-smartphone from ~2004 had a mobile browser in it. The screen was just too small to be useful, and the uplink too slow. There were even webpages made specifically for mobile phones then, catering to the smaller screen size.

Apple is a talented design company, but they didn't 'invent everything good in tech'.
Jeeze I hope not. I really like Google Reader, although I did notice they moved the Reader link from the top of Gmail to the drop-down menu for some reason, a few weeks ago.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/236073/why-split-the-scri...

Found a stack overflow question with explanation. Again, I believe, only IE couldn't handle word script in the literal string.
For all new to or planning on coming to Seattle there is a Hacker News meetup that recent started (http://www.meetup.com/HackerNewsSeattleMeetup/events/2752013...), I haven't been as I live up north and driving into Seattle is something I try to do as little as possible for my own sanity. There is also a local startup group (Seattle Tech Startups: http://seattletechstartups.com/doku.php) who have occasional talks at the UW campus as well as a fairly active social calendar (http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/). Then of course there is the UW which has public lectures, Bill Gates is giving a talk next week I believe (just saw an e-mail invite for it today, but alas I am gone on vacation next week).
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It seems kind of verbose having to define all of the keyframes and such. Very cool nonetheless.
Does your company have a customer success manager?
"It's cloudy from November through June. Let's see how he feels in six months."

Only if you count July, September and October as sunny. By any conventional standard, "summer" in Seattle lasts from August until early September. I lived in Seattle for seven years, and every single year I was wearing a sweater to the fireworks on July 4.

You get used to it, but that's nothing to brag about.
Inertial scrolling existed in Windows XP.
High achieving computer science folks choose google because it feeds into their existing dogma - "I am smart. I did well at High School - I get into Ivy League - I do well at Ivy League".. Errr now what? I know, let's go where everyone thinks the high achievers go!

Google managed to very effectively be an acceptable reason to quit academia or not pursue a PhD. Good on them, working in the Plex is better than going through the bullshit that Matt dealt with. Doesn't change the fact that if you work at Google you're getting paid at a discount, and probably are a lot more unhappy than that retard who can't figure out how his Google plus account works.
Google is obviously not "retiring Reader". But I suspect it is making some changes substantive enough to lose some users, probably of the power variety. I think it is jumping to crazy conclusions to interpret that blog post as indicating anything remotely resembling a retirement.
That would explain why my Google search wasn't bearing fruit :)

Edit: the video has the quote I was thinking of, but what I read was an article. From the video (Jobs talking):

> I asked him if he would come up with a few options. And he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you, and you will pay me. And you don’t have to use the solution — if you want options, go talk to other people. But I’ll solve your problem for you the best way I know how, and you use it or not, that’s up to you — you’re the client — but you pay me.’
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-p2p-live-streaming-110119... has a longer story (from earlier this year).

I hesitate to say it has more details though...
http://www2.bittorrent.com/dna/guides/dna-integration-guide/...

I don't really understand how it works though.
Safari is hardware accelerated - so a lot of the more advanced CSS effects will generally be faster.
So does this mean that on August 4th, 2016, I will be able to buy a 1TB SSD drive for less than $260?
If all you need to code is traditional novels, then what we already have is fine.

If you want to code poetry, plays, research with footnotes, or anything else, then having access to more options is a wish come true. (Waste a few hours trying to hack any of the above into epub and you'll feel my pain.)

It's not like making this available makes it harder to code novels at all, so why complain?
H.G. Wells, Original Wargamer :)

This reminds me of a similar game called Lego Wars that my friends and I used to play in middle school (I downloaded the rules off of GEnie):

http://mama.indstate.edu/users/sean/legowars/wars.htm
Fair point, but welcome also to evolution. Yes, the iphone was a big step forward in public access to touchscreen phones. It was an awesome product - the only problem is that people credit it for outright invention of far more than was actually invented.

But 'do I still have to go through a menu dialogue to input a website'? Well, yes. Once I'm at a site, the URL bar disappears, and I have to interact with the phone to get to a point where I can enter it again. It's not specifically 'a menu', but it is 'reveal to me this interface'
This is more of Android adapting well to society's needs. Isn't that what RIM and Nokia are trying to do? What's wrong with adapting to a new general idea on how to operate on a phone - from keyboard to more touchscreen?
I've started bindings for certain LuaJIT FFI libs, and have put some small samples - but pretty much unorganized.

http://github.com/malkia/ufo

Just try this one, it shows some raw speed of luajit:

./luajit samples/intro.lua

Should work on Windows, OSX, Linux (x86 and arm (EfikaMX))

As long as things are kept in lua much of the time, and rarely call "C" for the better. And if "C" is to be called, it better be called through the FFI - pure awesomeness...
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> So from the point of view of e.g. GMail, it is making HTTP requests via XmlHttpRequest still is it not?

No, it's making SDPY requests. It is, however, making that difference insignificant to the application developer using the xmlHttpRequest API. HTTP is a protocol not an API. This is exactly what the paper says; the protocol is designed to make the API differences very minimal.

> And from the point of view of my Django application sitting behind some future apache/nginx SPDY module I will still be accepting HTTP requests and responding with HTTP responses will I not?

No, Django doesn't talk HTTP -- Django talks WSGI or CGI. That hides many of the details of the protocol in use -- I imagine that you could run Django with a server that sends/receives web requests over FTP. That doesn't make FTP into HTTP.

SPDY does not sit in the same level as SSL. With SSL, HTTP packets are tunneled through it. SDPY replaces HTTP; there is no fully formed HTTP message inside. If SPDY was merely multiplexing and compressing HTTP streams in frames, I would agree that it would be like HTTPS. But SPDY doesn't contain HTTP streams; it's all right there in the document.
And this is why politicians can lie with statistics.

GDP in dollars fell in 1998 due to changes in the exchange rate. The price of the dollar went from BRL 1.2 to 1.98 in a matter of a week.

Further, the spike that you see in your chart after 2002 was due to the dollar hitting an all-time high of BRL 4.00 when Lula was elected, and there was huge speculation in the market. After he took office and kept the monetary policy, the market calmed down and the BRL has been rising in value since.

Had the price of the dollar kept stable during these years, you would see a curve that shows exactly the numbers I mentioned before.

The IMF has not been kicked out of the country. Debts with the IMF were paid, but the monetary and economic policy is still there. The Brazilian Central Bank still recommends austerity policies for government spending. They still have the highest interest (inflation adjusted) rate in the world. Your cute chart does not prove anything.

P.S: It's in times like these that I really hate voting in discussion forums, and makes me even less of a believer in "the rule of the mob". You are completely wrong, but your cheap jab managed to convince a couple of uninformed people that what I said is worthy of a down vote.
I'm not sure what your point is. Is it to say that it takes minorities to create poverty?

Are you saying there aren't poor white communities in the US? What about around the world, like Eastern Europe, or even Greece?
I think that option isn’t even displayed when you have never used a smartcover with your iPad and it defaults to being turned on.

So in order to avoid this bug you would have to own a smartcover (or magnet) and hold it up to the sensor (it’s on the right side of the device) in order to display the option in the settings and only then could you turn it off.
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Ok, I have stripe for processing credit cards and it looks great. I would like to be able to handle payments for my customers and send them money on a recurring basis.

I haven't found an easy way to do that. Should I just cut them checks? I'd love a service like stripe for handling outgoing payments as well.
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Why the downvote? I don't see how the GP's comment could be construed as trolling. Unless I'm missing some innuendo (which if I am doesn't seem very funny).
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The ongoing ODI series against England might be billed as 'revenge series' for India after the drubbing they received this summer but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is no mood to term it that way, saying "revenge is a very strong word in sports".
Why should we care what Jefferson thought about copyright?
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I have never left my iPad lying anywhere, unless it is with friends, and I am not too worried about them getting a peek at my home screen, or my email...
You can down vote all you like, but there in lies the truth. Just check with all your academic friends 10+ years older - they'll talk of the lure of Microsoft..
R&D != patents.
The number of patents generated by a company is really based on the system employed within the company and not about how innovative the company is. Most software patents are bogus and if your company is set up with a great system to file patents quickly then you will get a lot of them. For example in my company, your performance is based on how many patents are filed. Additionally they have an entire team of lawyers that take any one page description of text and turn them into patentable items. The team of lawyers write the patent, do the research on prior patents, and will then file the patent for us.

It's a great patent filing system and it generates A LOT of patents, but the company is definitely not innovative.

Most other companies that are less keen on such a system will not file these bogus and broad patents.