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That's not the only folder. There's the Documents folder, but the whole drama is that this folder is backed up on iCloud, which is not necessary for offline data. Not a big deal in my opinion. Apple should and probably will add an Offline folder and all of this will be over like the Antena gate
Basecamp per client project works effectively because:

1) They can respond via email to anything in Basecamp without ever having to login to Basecamp (after the initial registration)

2) Basecamp makes your consultancy look better if they ever do login, as it is a pretty good looking simple project management system.

You do not necessarily have to use Basecamp, the key point is that the system you use has email integration.

Weekly status calls (or meetings in-person, if possible) go a long, long way to reassuring clients that you are on the same page, while at the same time not making you
And then they shut down their gas station, leaving the community stranded.
Who said it was a "genocidal regime"?

Americans who can't even point Russia on a map and know their history from the History channel and New York Times bestseller books (if that)?

For hundreds of millions of people all around the world it was an inspiration, even if faulty, and hardly comparable to nazism.

So, there.
Why wouldn't you use the placeholder, attribute, then detect support, then use a fallback if needed... Something like:

function hasPlaceholder() {
var input = document.createElement('input');
return ('placeholder' in input);
}

should do the job to detect support.
This is what makes a game like Starcraft 2 so great. Every player, regardless of time spent in the game, starts out with a level playing field. There is no incentive to play the next game except to get better.

So how does Blizzard extract more money from you? They balance the game, update it frequently, and then don't charge you. And they hope your experience was so great that next time a Blizzard game is released you will know that it's a high quality game that will be supported for years.

No gimmicks, no shortcuts, just gameplay.
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Nice to hear. Go ahead and do write a program. If you have any issues with it, or have trouble following anything that is written in the article, send me an email and I'll be happy to help you out.
How do you tell that iPhone 4S has more accurate colors without actually seeing the real objects?
Why does the iPhone 4 photo look the sharpest?
Probably just shaky hands?
I setup Gitorious for the company that I used to work for, but it did not allow for fine-grained control of access permissions. (Everything is public for members.)
Steven Skiena was one of the most enlightening professors I've had the pleasure to be lectured at during my education at SUNY Stony Brook.

It is worth mentioning that further within this link he has posted video lectures from 1997 and 2007, along with audio and presentation slides:

(Analysis of Algorithms Course):

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/video-lectures/

(Programming Challenges Course):

http://www.algorithm.cs.sunysb.edu/programmingchallenges/
I find games like this utterly vapid and without any appeal whatsoever. I wonder if there's a name for the condition in which you are psychologically immune to these games, for whatever reason. I'm thankful I have it.
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So Apple pushed out it's browser sync feature at the same time it pushed out the cleanup feature which effectively broke the competition? How Microsoftesque.
He probably owns an iPhone 4S.
> If it isn't fun, people won't PLAY it...

The whole point of this article is that yes they do, and yes you can extract money from them anyway.
I'm saying that cryonics implies taking a certain degree of responsibility for the future. That's not an argument in favor of it working. It is an argument in favor of it being a positive thing overall, irrespective of it working. It provides selfish incentive for caring about the fate of future generations. Since we are trying to establish betting odds and what is a fair price for cryonics, all the externalities need to be taken into account. A world with cryonics is better off than a world without it.

I disagree that company failures or war are unrelated to education levels (or quality). A well educated populace should be more resistant to and capable of avoiding war, and more capable of solving and preventing financial problems. One specific thing for cryonics trusts to do is offer scholarships to those pursuing peace and financial stability as educational specialties.

Natural disasters can be avoided to some degree by careful selection of location. Alcor is based in Arizona partly because of the lack of earthquakes. Hurricanes and tornadoes be protected against by using a monolithic dome. LN2 shortages can be protected against by having a large bulk storage tank on site, and using efficient insulation.

That said, the most desirable solution (because it addresses all the different sources of risk simultaneously) is to accelerate the development of revival technology to whatever degree is possible. Maintaining high education levels is critical to this, as is spending money on brain and body repair research. This produces a very large positive externality.

The strategy that works best is to make sure that multiple things have to go wrong in order for a critical failure at each critical point. That is how disasters are prevented in e.g. nuclear facilities. It's expensive and painstaking, but it is a case where throwing money and competent engineers at the problem actually works.

Your argument for cryonics having a low probability of working apparently assumes no one has done or will have done this, despite the obvious fact that they have an extremely strong interest in so doing. And you accuse accuse me of hand-waving?
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Sadly and relatedly, the Descent series (6 degree of freedom FPS) was an intense test of skill unmatched anywhere else, and the last release in that series was ~13 years ago. I don't know of any other newer games in the genre.

Competitive FPS gaming reached a peak around 1998. Since then, the only games I've heard of with similar high-level competition have been in the RTS genre. "Watered down" seems to be the name of the game nowadays.
I thought this would be a drinking game to play while watching Kitchen Nightmares.
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If you look around, almost everything you click on the web is set up to make someone money. It's none of Google's business how a website is making their money as long as it's legal and follows FTC policies. Browsers make money every time you use that little search box in the top right corner of Firefox. People have a right to be compensated for their work. If the site provides a good service, I'll use it. If you don't want people to make money off your clicks. It would be best to close your browser and never open it again.

My site got hit by Panda (no manual penalty). After relaunching my site (which I had luckily been working on for over a year), my bounce rate is 30% and my direct link rate is 50%. Still, Google has me by the throat. My traffic is almost dead. Panda doesn't care if you're solving a problem for users and giving them the eye candy they want. It apparently just wants your site to be a "unique, well-written" news site. People come to my site to browse vintage items and find stuff that they didn't know existed in the niche. They usually visit during work hours and late in the evening. Reading ease for these items is on a college level (Which Panda doesn't like). They don't want to read a 1000 word article, they usually just want to hear it, see it, maybe ask question or two about the item and see who may be selling one. I offer that.

Panda's obvious Bayesian nature doesn't understand nuance. It only knows napalm.

Niche markets are the ones getting the crap end of the stick. And it's funny, niche markets used to be what made the web so great! Not anymore. Now it's 100% Googlized Walmart-ization.

And yeah, I'll be using www.filleritem.com when shopping Amazon. I didn't know it existed until I read this post. I don't mind, transparently, giving someone a few pennies for a good service. You do it all the time.
Yes, it's like sending a scrum update to a teammate who's working from home. It's routine and matter of fact after awhile. If they bitch about the amount of communication, I just make sure the invoices are all up-to-date and send two-day and weekly summaries. Following up with a phone call if they don't respond to requests. If anything, at least they'll think you're diligent.

It took me years to figure out as well. It's like being a silent, technical co-founder for a short period of time. Having some experience in the particular business domain is good but not always required as in the case of a marketing site, but I find it better to not try and outsmart the client and just fulfill the business objectives that they have with a solid, appropriate technical solution.
By my math, there was only enough film in the satellite for five hours of continuous shooting. So I guess it sat dormant most of the time, and was only activated when there was serious intelligence need?
anyone on this thread looking for a game recommendation, check out minecraft.net. it has rekindled my interest in video games.
>This used to happen all the time in the 1980s and 1990s, before the DoJ anti trust lawsuit really got rolling.

Yes, and the reason for the DOJ anti-trust lawsuit? Developers were screaming bloody murder.
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Perfect idea for a business-selling slide. It answers two powerful questions: 1.) What gap are you filling? and 2.) Is there a precedent for success when filling gaps of this type?
I get really really excited when I read articles like this. For the elderly, so many causes of hospitalization are completely preventable. And it is hospitalizations which wipe out patients' savings.

So if we can prevent hospitalizations for the elderly, that is a huge win. Bonus points for using everything we know about wireless sensor networks to monitor patients' conditions and predict when something catastrophic is about to happen, rather than relying on a person to physically examine each patient.

I have seen one patient who developed sepsis while in a nursing home. She had an expressive aphasia, so she wasn't able to tell us that she was feeling ill. I wonder if we would have been able to test for it earlier with better monitoring and mining.

I realize it sounds obvious to say "going to the hospital is bad" but they have a bigger impact than you'd think. Upon return to a nursing home from a hospital, patients will have been moved to a different room. Or moved from a single-occupancy to double-occupancy room. Which has a cascade of implications in terms of their care. Often this kind of thing is a function of how much the patient can afford, which is significantly decreased after a hospitalization. So the prospect of having better care (via technology, since nursing homes are chronically understaffed) to prevent preventable hospitalizations is so so cool.
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Really? You're pointing to Up as a Pixar failure?
I suppose my biggest objection is I hate his lifestyle. I like going out, I enjoy activities which are more often than not paid, I don't have a girlfriend who sits at home and cooks for me all the time. Just because one person is happy with a certain way of living doesn't mean everyone will be. I could do it like he does and simply be miserable.
Back then every big company was doing this, or attempted to do this. The goal was to dominate the desktop and get as much grip on the end user as possible. Proprietary file formats for just about everything. Remember Desqview (by QuarterDeck)? DR DOS? GEM (also DR)? OS/2 (IBM)? NetWare (Novell)? All those companies did what Microsoft was doing with one small difference, they stopped at the OS or Desktop layer and never saw beyond that, to the applications. They saw the system as the ideal place to dominate and they set themselves up for being slaughtered.

The combination of dominating two or more levels is what made it lethal, OS/GUI/Application companies aplenty back then but only one company that did them all and that used its own internal knowledge in order to make life very hard for the competition. And the final key in the lock was the Application level and nobody that made it big in the systems sphere ever got there besides Microsoft.

Microsoft may have lost their anti-trust lawsuit but the damage was done and it won them the war until the web came along.

If Sir Tim should be remembered for anything at all it was for breaking the stranglehold Microsoft had on personal computing, freeing us from the Application level headlock.

Oh, and in my time we didn't have walking sticks.
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Aren't A and B traveling at slightly different velocities due to being at different latitudes?
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I wasn't happy working for other people. Being told to work on something I didn't really care about for long periods of time made me depressed. I decided I would much rather fail doing something I love than make money doing something I hated.

After you've accepted that, the rest is easy (decision wise at least!)
Ya, I read about that and I really, really, really respect him for that.

kaffeinecoma - Google "The Woz Plan" for more.
If you look backwards, people have always been quite happy to enjoy fairly simple games with a mild social component. I`m thinking of card games, boules/boche, dominoes. Everywhere I`ve been I`ve seen people spending an afternoon playing these games with a few other people. So as long as onlne addictive games come close to that experience (which doesn`t really offer more than a pleasant time passing and a few jokes with others), they are not going to crash.
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> I can use this for free for my own projects (private) and the UI is awesome

This was the first thought that came to my mind! A really awesome project, was much needed.
What's discussed in the article depends on the capabilities of hardware you are targeting. :) Filling is typically a bottleneck as you are writing to a lot of memory. Square roots can also be rather slow, esp. when there's no hardware implementation of it. Square roots, divisions, multiplications, additions and subtractions, and shifts perform in order of slowest to fastest. Some processors have no floating point hardware. Some processors do shifts,
additions and subtractions much faster than multiplications and divisions.

Think of the article as a bunch of ways to draw circles, and you can make up something based on what device you write your code for. :)

Drawing the circle as points using the last function in the article, rather than 2 concentric fills would be faster unless you have some unique hardware for it. :) Disk filling can be implemented in a fragment shader by testing each point against the implicit equation. Such testing is easily parallelized.

You are a clever thinker nevertheless. :)
One thing that works great is to build a sandbox tool that lets your users make real API calls with their credentials from your API documentation.

Facebook, Stripe, and WePay have done this. It makes integration much easier when you can test API calls before writing any code.
As this anecdote demonstrates, it is very powerful to be able to organize information in a way that reveals gaps and holes. Another famous example: the periodic table. What Ljung did was make a periodic table of social media. And I have a sneaking suspicion that the way he organized his table is not the only way one could do it, and that a different organization might reveal more opportunities.
Did Apple really once provide a direct link to Instapaper as the inspiration for their new built-in features?

If so, did they actually ask Marco before they took that link out?

If so, did Marco ask them to take it out?

And, if he did - which, having heard Marco speak on this topic, I do not assume, but merely suppose - was that the right call?

My understanding was that an App Store developer might kill for that kind of free publicity. Could it be, for example, that Apple stopped linking Instapaper so as to avoid playing favorites? Might one of Instapaper's competitors have complained about that link?
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Probably shaky hands indeed.

While not indicative of real-world use, comparison shots like this, IMHO, should be done with a stand... unless the only variable being tested is "likelihood of shakiness due to camera(phone) form factor."
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The 30% applies to all in-app purchases, and attempting to circumvent IAP is against Apple's guidelines.

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The thing is, if you have control you can play ANY game without getting sucked in, they focus on the people without this type of self preservation.
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I've been invited to a "superday" hosted by one of the larger financial services firms. Initially I had applied for a PM role, but the recruiter thinks I'm a better fit for the business systems analyst position.

It's my understanding that the BSA is responsible for consulting with clients/internal departments to determine business needs, then draft software specs for engineers. Thereafter, the BSA sees the project through development, testing, implementation and finally review.

If this is an accurate job description, then it seems that the skills needed really do run the gamut. I'm just trying to get a sense of the questions I might be asked (accounting, technical, general) and whether I'll have to code during the super.

Thanks in advance, everyone. Also, if anyone here has any experience as a BSA or SA, I'd really appreciate hearing what a typical day/week/quarter is like.
When you are developing for a platform that is active on multiple layers (say, both OS, GUI or APP) then you are essentially validating the market for whatever you come up with. You have to calculate that in, if you are successful you will have competition, and if you are very successful the entity controlling the market will re-implement what you have already proven works.

If you develop something that is just an 'add on' or a missing feature you are setting yourself up for eventual trouble.

Such products have a life cycle and you can't reasonably expect the situation to continue unchanging forever.
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Love is beautiful in still shots but the actual game gives me motion-sickness. Even Mirrors Edge, which is renowned for being vomit-inducing, didn't have that effect on me. I think it's because the background just won't stay still.
Look at http://www.mapstraction.com ... It provides a common interface to many map providers, one of which is completely open (open layers). More importantly, you don't need to change your code if you decide to switch providers (or in our case, allow our customers to choose). I hope this helps!
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I understand the argument exposed in the document; anyway, I've always felt the "struct" was somewhat redundant and added unnecesary noise (specially if you use three or more pointers to structs in function prototypes, for example).

The example is also not very useful and even a bit perverse: sure you don't know what "vps_t a" is at first sight, but with "struct virtual_container a" you have almost the same information. If you could omit the "struct" and wrote it as "virtual_container a", the meaning is equally clear.

Anyway, I think this is a matter of taste.
Thanks for the link. Amazing show.
>But Google tries to be smart even on quoted queries. And that annoys me deeply.

They're just trying to redirect you to more profitable (i.e., a greater probability that you will impress an ad) search queries.
Was thinking the exact same thing - placeHolder support is native with HTML5 spec - so better to utilize the 'future' and rollback for IE<9

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-placeholder-a...
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Quite exciting, given what a rainy hill climb gitorious is and the lack of much else.

But: Gitosis?

Unless it's back from the dead, its development has long been abandoned. It works just fine, but the new kid on the block is Gitolite, and it makes far more sense.
To me that slide says that SoundCloud is simply following a trend. A "___ for ___" company isn't one that I would bet on long term.
I appreciated this generous interpretation of a blackboard reading "1+1=2":

> This is clearly an extremely advanced level mathematical course, focusing on the Peano axioms for the natural numbers which formalised mathematics in the late 19th century. This course would culminate with Gödel's second incompleteness theorem which shows that the consitency of the Peano axioms cannot be formalised within Peano arithmetic itself.
My trick for getting unstuck is to start maintenance on the part where I'm stuck. Any kind of cleanup, comment clarification and so on will do. Once I'm doing that I'm doing something and moving from doing something to doing what I want to do happens more or less automatic at some point.

I got this trick from working in a metal shop. We'd get stuck trying to solve a problem all the time, and whenever that happened we'd simply start cleaning up. Usually after cleaning up the 'way forward' was crystal clear.

Now, of course one day there will be a problem where this will not work but for now it seems like a really good trick.

The underlying mechanism is as far as I can see related to being stuck in the same cycle in your head. As soon as you start cleaning up you force yourself to look at the forest instead of the individual trees and that's where you'll find the key for moving on.

ymmv, it works for me.
I was going to say the same thing.

In addition, I would really hate to lose the < and > characters to formatting.
I agree absolutely: templates are only just a little less crappy than preprocessor magic. I personally never use them.
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Google rolls out new Panda Update yesterday (Confirmed by Matt Cutts)
Expected to be a "minor" update, with less than 2% of index affected.
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