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This is just the stupidity of the "me too!" clones. Just look at clones of Groupon. Or jobs on Elance (at least 20% are "clone this").

Copying is no guarantee of success. At a certain point you have to risk being hated (Jobs' and his products) and actually listen to what the designer thinks.
Agreed. Nexus Galaxy is just as bad, imo.

When all the rumored names were flying around, I suspected this would be it, but I was hoping it would be some sort of dual release, with Google selling the 'Nexus Prime' directly, and Samsung releasing the Galaxy [X] on carriers. Maybe that would've been worse, though.
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I've always heard of most companies/startups putting out a mobile webkit capable website/service/webapp to circumvent the AppStore restrictions among other reasons.

But I never really got to check them out, and can't remember any apart from Amazon Kindle/Cloud Music Player and a few news sites.
I think this gets lost inside most android comparisons, but I find the lack of an intents system and more importantly, a global back button completely jarring on ios, the most common example would be, from clicking a link in email, to opening that page in the browser, then pressing back to go right back to my email. the same operation on my ipad means clicking a link, going back, being confused closing my browser, opening email and finding the email again
Yeah. Wonderful. Nothing says loving like a teaser of info and a "Buy The Rest" button.

And I'm sure whoever wrote the article has spent time reading free documentation, using free languages, free community specs, etc.
So, someone still wants to argue against this being a bubble?
I see the same front page in an incognito window.

I think you just have similar favorite sites to the developers.
"replace"

Sorry, double quotes don't mean what they used to. We'll need to come up with something else for that.
i mean, if you look at old iphones, they're pretty laggy and jittery on newer versions of ios
A product is something you sell to a customer.

IMO, Emacs is one of the best pieces of code that the FSF makes, but there's an important sense in which it's not accurate to call it a "product" of theirs.

Google sells advertising space to advertisers, while they give away search and maps to the users to facilitate the selling of said advertising. (GMail is an exception because they offer business products built out of GMail.)

The fact that search might not be considered a product need not reflect a value judgment. Either way, it is a very nice service they provide.

But when people refer to Google as an advertising company rather than a search company, they are correct from a business standpoint. Likewise, many media companies -- whether like the New York Times or like Daring Fireball -- have always "really" been in the advertising sales business. (Though some, like the Times are also in the content sales business.) Those companies obviously take great pride in the content they produce that draw the eyeballs to those ads, but it wouldn't be a viable business if the content was all they did.
Qt and Swipe UI is their long-term strategy. WP is short-term. Low-end is getting more capable and Nokia aims to enable smartphone capabilities for the 'next billion'. That's the disruption.
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Can we get some more precise details on the "when"? I'm on the West Coast, and I have a feeling "morning hours" means something different to me than it does to NASA.
This is interesting although I really really wished they had used oauth v2 since it is so much better and is designed to give a first class experience on mobile devices.

In fact I can't think of any good reason to use the older version but I would like to hear if there are anybody who has different experiences since I haven't worked much with it.
I read this at least three times while thinking of how true it was.

My wife is someone who would happily spend all her waking hours on the back of a horse. She's trying to make her horse training/riding lesson business work while I wonder if it's ever going to be possible to make a living at something that's essentially become a luxury but which people aren't willing to pay luxurious prices for. Talking her out of it would be pointless, so the only thing I can do is try to help her find ways to make it even slightly even more profitable.

Even has an HN component: I just mentioned patio11's Appointment Reminder as she was sitting around with four horses tacked up and ready to go, pissed off at the people who made an appointment and didn't show (eventually got here about an hour late).

At least hay's cheaper per ton than coffee :-)
Turn on the guitar then go back up to the graph and change it. As you drag you hear its effect on the audio.
yep. You'll want to change it so Plaintext doesn't operate out of a folder, but can see your whole Dropbox. See FAQ #11 here: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext/faq
That's not the fucking issue here. The only issue is whether is if ICS is smooth and yes it is across the board. But not in apps that havent been updated to take advantage of the newly added HW acceleration yet.
Just curious, is there a reason you chose GD over imlib2?

I've used both and I think I prefer imlib2 for flexibility and breadth, and there's already at least one imlib2 binding for PHP: http://pp.siedziba.pl/
I wouldn't be surprised if MS is trying to leapfrog over the latest social craze and looking further down the road to DECIDE what the next craze will be before anyone else can.
Has anyone here ever had their name on a press release for a product launch? Dude gets a 8-figure salary and unlimited autonomy without the risk and management overhead of starting his own firm. There are tradeoffs in life.
Of all the tech blogs I read, thisismynext were the only ones who reported a laggy UI. Engadget and gizmodo reported the UI as very smooth. Next time get your fucking head out of apple's ass and take a look at reality.
Not sure exactly what you're describing, but my project, for an extremely small number of programming languages (4 or 5): hand compiled datasets, such as clojure atlas,

http://www.clojureatlas.com/

and mine:

https://github.com/gtani7/Prog_Lang_Search_engine
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Humans are most certainly not 'rational beings'. Our thinking is constantly biased by our formative experiences and our environment.

It goes far deeper than that, too. Our raw pattern matching sensitivity is cranked to the max at a very low level, and this hypersensitivity to perceived order ricochets throughout the entire system of data processing that our brain engages in.

We see patterns everywhere, whether they're real or not, and we have trouble unseeing them even once we know for a fact that the data is random, or that the pattern fails. Statistically speaking, we're a freaking mess, we're constantly pulled towards the wrong answers, we never have good estimates about how reliable our inferences are, it's just an all around bad scene.

And yet the combination of all of these seriously flawed pattern inferences leads to a creature that, all said and done, makes pretty damn useful predictions about a lot of things, even if the details of how those predictions get made are all wrong. This is surprising, since typically in statistics when we use algorithms that are too optimistic or sensitive we end up with pure garbage. If I had to guess, humans end up implementing something like the reverse of a typical boosting algorithm, in that we take a bunch of too-strong pattern recognizing subunits, and then put them together into something that pits them against each other to become more robust against mis-prediction, but I don't have any data to back up that assumption, or any clear idea how it might work - which is, I guess, a perfect example of exactly this kind of mental stupidity that we're so commonly driven by.
I'm amazed no one's mentioned this yet. it's not just hardware acceleration that's the problem with Android. it's the garbage collection constantly running in the background that's causing some of the performance issues and lag. Now with ICS I read that it will allow the garbage collector to run on a different core from your application. that's definitely going to improve performance, but the overhead is still there. No wonder Android smartphones need 1.x GHZ and 1GB of RAM. Android needs it.
TIMN/Verge also has this note[0]:

Note: Our initial performance observations were focused on touch response and not system-wide performance, and were based on a Galaxy Nexus being used by one of Google’s staff. The demo units during the show were definitely smoother in operation. All of them featured an early build of Ice Cream Sandwich, however, so we’ll make our final calls on the phone once we have a review unit in hand.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-...
It's not clear that it still works, but there's also the AROUND(n) operator.

oauth AROUND(3) authorization

would reduce the set to results that include "oauth" and "authorization", in any order, separated at most by three words.
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Thats the same as saying computers 10 years ago were smooth ... they were, but if you have used a 2011 pc and then use some high end gaming pc from back then ... you wouldn't call it smooth.

Same goes for iPhones ... just try to use a 3GS ... it's slow as hell compared to current high end devices :/
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It probably would have been a lot fairer had he compared the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 to everything pre-ICS (AKA any android phone on the market). In which case, any iOS device would still win.

We'll have to see how ICS on (Android device) holds up against iOS 5 on 4S.
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It's hard to read your post will all that FUD on it.
tl;dr A lot of businesses feel that non-designers know how to design something after they've seen a successful Apple product, and that designers are just there to implement the 'vision' of the non-designer(s).
I'm selling $10 notes for $20. It's a better deal than the Groupon IPO. Anyone interested?
Subscribe to the python tutors list [1]. Take a break from coding for 20 minutes a day or so and just read about the problems that other people have.

[1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
I wish they had replaced the - operator since many error codes contain a minus and it's easier to type -2081 than "-2081".
bing, perhaps?

I intend to give it a shot. Seems there's some reasonably powerful query syntax: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795667.aspx.
I've only ever run it on a linux environment, I have not heard great things about the windows version.

Are you guys using Mongos (for running several nodes) or just standalone Mongod?

If Mongos, can you talk a little about your experience in setting that up? If not, can you speak to why you chose to run it in a single node?
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Someone needs to write a Firefox Add-on that automatically quotes your Google search terms (unless you are quoting a phrase).
Considering this, I think it is a good move,
"He said the decision, ultimately, was to help prevent his company from following the path of Solyndra, which exhausted nearly all of its loan money on a high-tech solar manufacturing plant in Freemont, California. "
R in Nutshell is pretty good book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596801717.do
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I haven't had any of these issues. I am an cyannogen mod though.
The entire point of the design process is to produce magic. Why would you want to destroy that?

It's one thing to give insider looks like Valve does with developer commentaries. It's quite another to give up on providing and selling magic. Magic is the goal of technology.
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So what is the logical opposite of using a minus to remove terms? Quotes?

This is what customers remember and do? I highly doubt that.

Or are they trying to reserve the plus now for another feature in the future?
Wasn't this an old altavista syntax ?
It's pretty odd that they don't tell what the + operator now means, or more likely, what it will mean in the future. If you're going to take away a feature that I use, I'd be a lot more accepting if you explained why.
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He is probably comparing R to SAS (which are the two most popular statistical programming languages). SAS doesn't really have libraries, instead you buy additional packages from SAS, which are very reliable and well supported, but expensive.

My company shuns R (although I personally like it), primarily because of this issue. If we need to run a rare or uncommon statistical procedure, it is a lot easier to trust the SAS procedure, rather than an open source R package written by some grad student.
The page linked by the headline? I see no guitar on that page.

EDIT:
So now I see markbao's comment[1] referencing a page[2] with a guitar on it. His comment was not in the top of my window when I was perusing earlier. In this thread of comments, there is no reference directly to the Explorable Explanations page, thus I was wondering when my sanity plummeted (since there's no guitar icon on the Tangle page).

While the Explorable Explanations page is darn nifty, in my original comment I did not clearly communicate my actual intent. To clarify: If Dr. Prof. will be incorporating such things into his lectures and course media, I suggest that he also provide the reactive aural experience to reinforce the material.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3140241
[2] http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/
Some commonalities in how Pixar, Valve and Blizzard are run as organizations
Indeed. The whole job of a manager is to keep whatever metrics are used looking good for his department and/or team. If your metrics don't correlate well to a given project, it will be almost impossible for it to work unless you have a command structure that's aware of this potential dissonance and can send down the edicts necessary to fix it for a given situation.

Middle management is really dangerous for this reason. Managers effectively are stuck with blinders; their one and only job, and often the only thing they know how to do (frequently through surreptitious or less-than-stellar means), is to keep their team and/or department sitting pretty in terms of normal company metrics. This correlates both to the resource allocation given a team and the rewards allocated specifically to the individuals that comprise that teams (including the manager, of course), which is why people appreciate "good" managers, until something unanticipated comes up and is killed by this rigid process.
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I'm not sure of your definition of "proper search", but bing seems to have a reasonably flexible search syntax (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795667.aspx).

I'm personally going to give it and DDG a try over the next couple weeks, just in case either is currently significantly better for tech related searches.

So far Duck Duck Go is looking like a potential win.
Your right, its not the least prestigious, but its nowhere near most other large universities in terms of clout (except within CS/the tech scene).
Sure, Groupon is successful, but is it sustainable? To me, it's not a good business model because it could be easily copied, easily replaceable, and anyone could do it. Short-term success doesn't translate into a sustainable business model.
Sorry, I forgot to answer that, we are running mongod :)
Quite ironic, in my view - because it's that singleminded pursuit of maximum profit in all situations that leads the corporate mind to consider the current patent system a Good Thing. Not because it furthers society or any such weakminded claptrap, but because it affords one more place where rent-seeking behavior is not only condoned but explicitly encouraged.

It's my fervent opinion that rent-seeking behavior and similar economic dysfunction is one of chief underlying problems with economy and with society as a whole. OWS isn't objecting to rich people in general - just to rich people whose modus operandi is to drain resources from everybody while never giving any back. There's no thought for the larger consequences, and the law permits it only because most people have so far been more or less well enough off that they don't need to bother with it.

It's all coming to a head now, though. Or so I damn well hope.

I agree wholeheartedly with your bitterness here; this is precisely my beef with the patent system as misapplied to software - but the truth of the matter is that mechanisms like Kickstarter would be a great way out of our societal bind, while their actual success makes them a target for leeches.
I agree with the implication of your last question. It would certainly make sense for google to integrate Google Plus directly into their core product. I haven't thought of an exact path this would take, but if you're branding an operator, brand it everywhere.
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Well, it means compiling with profiling, running, visualizing the output, and then figuring out the hotspots. That takes some amount of work. (Or you run with valgrind, in which case it runs so painfully slow that before you've gotten to the slow part, you've gone home...)

Compared to that, firing up the debugger and hitting break is pretty easy. If the hotspot is like core meltdown hot, it's probably faster.
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My money's on something related to Google+.
Hardware acceleration is just one piece of the puzzle. Garbage collection is another issue. with ICS, you will now be able to run the garbage collector on a different core. great in theory but experience tells me that's a band aid solution.

A lot of people wonder why garbage collection is done manually in iOS/Obj C. Performance is one reason, battery life is another.
OWS crowd proposes to solve the problem of corrupt government by making it bigger and more powerful

Citation needed, jerf. And when you look at whatever venue got this idea into your head, look even more closely at the owners of that venue.
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Thanks! Feel free to suggest new features :)
looks down to me, I just see the Loading new posts ? is it slow ?
The problem is that it challenges the "status quo" in way that many find ignorant, misguided, flailing. Those that have fond teenage or college memories of the 60s (which I don't) would appreciate the protests, megaphone speeches, and drum circles. But to me, I'd find these people much more intelligent if they were meeting on their own regularly and quietly and sending letters to their senators, becoming engaged in politics and running for office.
Not my criticism.

For one, their list is public. Nobody else needs to generate leads - and these are already qualified as being willing to buy a similar service. Simply scrape the list of companies offering coupons.

Second, they can't enforce a monopoly. Companies will offer coupons through all available players and keep track of the performance of each individually. They'll always be actively competed against by competitors who can copy any of their good ideas without being locked into any of their bad ideas.

Third, deal seekers are notoriously willing to comparison shop. There's absolutely nothing keeping them at Groupon. All the coupon shoppers I know use multiple sites, it's part of the fun.

Where's $11B in value?
kinda weird that this is pointing to a full excerpt of an article from the New Scientist reproduced in a blog. Is this a new splog attack vector or legit and just misguided?
And he's also spent a lot of time and effort freely disseminating a lot of good information and sharing techniques based on years of fieldwork and analysis. Look him up some time.
You can do cross-domain POSTs. You just cannot get a response from the server. Often times though you can get the length of the response. This can be used to do a POST to change settings on an unsecured Wi-Fi routers, for example and checking whether the call succeeded or not by the length of the response.

The method described in the SO answer is similar, from what I can tell, to what DISQUS uses. I believe they call it JSONPI: http://alexsexton.com/thirdparty/#forms-are-cool-too
Since the earth is rotating as the orbits of the earth and the Orionids are crossing, every place on earth will see them in the same angle relative to the sun, not relative to a point on earth. So as your part of the earth turns into the right place, you will see them.
another note:

iOS/Obj C does not do automatic garbage collection specifically for this reason (and battery life).
OAuth 2 is way simpler but requires HTTPS, which may have overhead at scale.
If you use the SDKs on mobile devices, users can auth via their Dropbox native app if they have it installed. https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/sdk
I'm curious to see how the Linux process scheduler will load balance processes will be tweaked to use the big dog and little dog processors. IO-bound processes could be migrated to the little dog and CPU-bound processes to the big dog.
Could be that your connection is a bit slow. It preloads the images (in order to fetch width & height) before it renders them. On slow 3G connections it could take a minute. I advice you to use wifi. Does it work after F5?
Maybe it's for a minimum number of Google +1 actions.
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Exactly. With Dropbox, you're making storage the customer's problem and not yours. You could argue this is bad for the customer, but you end up with a web app with next-to-no server overhead: just serve your static files and everything else is taken care of. No different than the many mobile apps that sync to iCloud/Dropbox already.
Unfortunately, it's almost impossible to work with a very large datasets in R, because of the speed limitations. Many researchers I know use Matlab because of this.
Seems like a great product idea, but it looks like I am only able to sell a video game item. How do I sell a guitar? I'm an ignorant user...
it is the issue. because it doesn't matter if you've got the fastest phone in the world if you can't use it because it's got spyware/malware/virus your phone's useless.
The new content pushing in from the top displaces content you may currently be looking at. If you are reading a text snippet, or starting an embedded video and new content comes in it's easy to lose where you were as the content pushes down the page and changes the columns as well.
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Heh, it seems that people who still use RSS or have an interest in it also share the same reading lists.

Newsblur should just convert to a blog aggregator. Then it could change its name, say, to Hacker News? :)
Use Newsblur and Pinboard, the only two real competitors out there whenever someone comes up looking for replacement for GR or Delicious....as per HN of course!
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"big.LITTLE processing".

Funniest name since Blast Processing.

I imagine little Sackboys running around my smartphone, carrying bits of soft polyester data.