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> What does Windows update have to do with IE usage?

If Windows Update didn't work, that would make it less likely that users upgrade IE, which increases the usage of older versions of IE. And users using older versions of IE might well choose to upgrade to some other browser, rather than to just a newer version of IE, particularly when they find that IE won't handle the sites they want to visit.
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Recently I saw a mob in Adelaide (I know, I know) doing cool things with computational intelligence

Curious minds would like to know more. I know of two companies in Adelaide doing stuff that could be called this and I'm interested which you saw (or other). Email's fine if it isn't appropriate here.
That's not really true. Yes, it is more work than "include
this Javascript file and you can accept payment" (aka
Stripe), but if you are prepared to do some work it isn't
that big a deal.

It is if you want to display your prices in US Dollars to American visitors: http://blog.angrymonkeys.com.au/why-being-an-aussie-startup-... (with discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098224 )

Summary: You CAN do it if you have enough cash.

(This post also addresses the PayPal point. You're stuck with Payflow Pro, which is much pricier, especially for a bootstrapped startup.)

(Also, most US countries accept Australian payment. Some
won't ship here, but that's a different problem)

Point.

(They won't usually quote prices in AUD, but that's much less of a problem.)
Stupid Canadians are going blind because they don't want to pay for eye exams.
It's not a sin to just have both.
Just went and checked it out, the specifically list screen as something they'd like to support soon, but that doesn't work (I think because "Multiple processes with hierarchy" doesn't work yet).

So... maybe someday, but not yet.
Why not just launch a startup and build a superb reader that solves the problem and looks nice?

Wouldn't it be better to have the freedom to implement your own version of what the ultimate Reader is, especially in newer tech [ websockets, node.js, realtime updates, drag to rearrange widgets .. whatever ]

Id love someone to make a nice reader [and a nice mail groups] web app, Id enjoy working on these myself. It must be more efficient to build these things outside of Google, as a startup.

An RSS reader with nice UI, realtime update, location sensitivity, smart filters, and unobtrusive social features .. you had me at RSS :]
Really, all technological improvements in the last few centuries are "hacks" then, in a sense.

Each time we write a piece of software, we are taking an existing system (a computer), and altering it to perform a somewhat different task. Hack.

Each time I optimize a DSP system to take 10% less resources, its a hack.

Just stick 100 or 200 of these together, and we have moore's law.
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The argument that WebGL "competes" with OpenGL-ES, to the detriment of Apple, makes very little sense to me.

You only need to look at the number of engineers Apple has contributing to WebKit & new web standards (CSS transitions & animations, WebGL etc.).
Have you read the article or used the app? Broken is exactly what it is, and it's a Google product. So yes, I'd assume that's exactly what's being said.
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I think, wolf 3d is C++ too.
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Using LuaJIT with minimal FFI C code to optimize, seems to be the best way forward in maximizing both performance and maintainability.

What would be really interesting is to see someone highlight specific cases where this approach ultimately fails to measure up in performance with using pure C.

I would think that the LuaJIT approach would be tens of times more maintainable for a sufficiently large application, so it's really imperative here that we ask 'Why not?'
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I just saw this comment. Very well stated!
12 free books a year say at average cost of $10 is still $120 of added value to a Prime subscription.
These guys:

http://www.solveitsoftware.com/

They do stuff with all the cool toys. Fuzzy logic, neural nets, evolutionary algorithms ...

They have a competition for students (edit: actually it looks like anyone can enter) at the moment. First prize is ostensibly $5,000 but what they're really looking for is potential employees.

http://www.solveitsoftware.com/competition.jsp
These kind of interactive tutorial are really very good for introducing a new language or environment. Another one http://codecademy.com/ is also great.
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You're right. I should have verified that before posting.
What language would you use to teach a beginner to program?
I was referring to the $0.15 that Square used to charge for each swiped payment in addition to the 2.75%.
Totally worth it. I was itching for a Kindle, but held out for the iPad. However, less than a year after getting the iPad I purchased a Kindle as well. The Kindle is a great reading device, especially outdoors. The battery life is fantastic and the screen is gorgeous.

Nice thing is too, for the books that you purchase, it will automatically sync your last page read ... so you can start reading on the Kindle, switch over to iPad, go back to the Kindle ... all without losing your place and while maintaining your highlights and notes.
Having traveled around the world (Sydney based) I will admit the Australian sun does seem to be much hotter and intense then any other place I have been to.

Its also one of the reasons tourists get such bad sunburns here as they hit the beach without any protection.
I said "at least". ;) It's really more like "oh hey, I just committed and it works, might as well push while I'm here." Usually every 3-4 file changes or so.
Well, its beneath me to respond to an ignorant and snide remark. I think the level of language on HN has gone down a lot
[1] They are only handing out temporary exceptions

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Miscel...
Well, you can pull from upstream twice a week. And you can keep a master on a computer in the next room.

(I'm also not terribly worried about my Air or my Hackintosh giving up the ghost, so...)
I wrote an Ambition-like API for DataMapper a couple of years ago and still keep it updated: https://github.com/dkubb/dm-ambition

It uses sourcify (which uses ParseTree on 1.8 and Ripper on 1.9). The semantics are identical to standard Enumerable API. In fact, it's not recommended, but you can turn off dm-ambition and the expressions will still work as-is -- only instead of generating a query from the block it iterates over the results and filter in-memory.
If you are a Mac user, Lion's Mail is the first desktop client I can tolerate since April 2004.
Plus that's still more books than the average American reads every year.
I have both. The Kindle is used for long form reading (Books, Essays), while the iPad is for comics, periodicals, etc.
That's a very good question.

I use Python a lot and I combine it with C++ and Objective-C to build a very complex application. While it looks like a regular app and behaves like one, underneath it starts out as a Python interpreter that runs a script and loads compiled libraries. It's a model that works extremely well and I hope it continues to "just work". Sure, it's unconventional and I'd understand if Apple didn't expect most things to work this way, but I hope they don't just break it completely for me.
Seems so: "In Mac OS X v10.7 and later, placing your application in an app sandbox is a great way to minimize the potential damage caused by successful exploits"

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Genera...
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how about a post on Apple 4S release with bugs causing battery drain. Or does MG believe apple can do no wrong.
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Hi Snaveint -

Congrats on getting this out! I recently started on my own startup and like you I always feel behind.

That aside, I've heard many people in the NY area ask for a service similar to this, but for managing whole buildings. Do you have an idea of what your initial target market might be?

Also, the video is very well done, but you make the assumption that someone would want to watch that to learn more about your site. I'd add some text for those that prefer reading.

Good luck!
I've been tempted to get Amazon Prime. The free shipping is great, and with their video streaming, I could also get rid of Netflix. This book deal is even sweeter, of course.

However, I really like Netflix. If AP's movie selection was different enough, I'd almost just subscribe to both. But in my browsing of Amazons selection, it seems they only have what Netflix has, just less of it
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I don't read as often as I might like

The Kindle doesn't have to fall victim to that- it can be a tool to fight it.

I have found the instant availability of a vast library of titles, combined with the portability and excellent reading experience, has helped me get back into books.
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Agreed. I haven't played with new UI too much yet, but the gmail interface was probably among the best web interfaces. And things just worked. It wasn't about 2GB limit per se (but it did create the buzz)
Is it really so bad? I would never even have noticed: I use Google Reader exclusively through client apps on my phone and tablet. I would never have noticed because these apps function today the same they did last week, last month, even last year. Pick a client app you like and stick with it. If it's made by a good developer the app will keep up with API changes. It could only break if Google decides it doesn't want to allow unofficial access to the Reader API anymore and doesn't provide an official API.
Why would anyone ever be dropped from a program? If they want to withdraw, they can. What this system does is it flattens the learning curve by drawing it out some but using its still substantial late trajectory to grant master's degrees without a loss of quality.
No surprise there, it's just a legacy from typewriters after all.

These days, unless you're doing data-entry or a lot of SQL, caps-lock is just wasting (a lot of) prime keyboard real estate -- on the home row, no less!
I'll think about it. It's not an easy choice, the guy in question is someone that I liked a lot, tried to hire him, he's a good guy other than this one issue. As much as I'd like to show you all that I'm right I'm not sure that dragging someone through the mud is worth it.

I'll think on it. Thanks for the suggestion.
Swiping a card is sounding a lot easier right about now.
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I presume he means it in a bad way, not in a good way like tiling WMs have.
It's almost impossible to get slotted in to the point-of-sale. Anyone able to do it has a massive advantage.
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On a rather different note, a very comfortable setup can be achieved. Setup a neat iPad mount on a wall with a comfortable viewing distance and say goodbye to neck strain :).
Tim O'Reilly makes a good point here: https://plus.google.com/107033731246200681024/posts/aZSZCsAc... :

"It isn't really Vim's 20th birthday. It's a lot closer to its 35th!" Because of course, vim is really just an extended and improved version of the venerable vi, the first screen-oriented editor for Unix.

While the article starts out with a history of vi, it somehow treats it as if it were a grandparent, rather than the template for what remains. The core design of vim reflects the design insights of Bill Joy, not those of Bram Moolenaar, who refined and updated them."
Someone at Google needs to get a Goddamn clue and look at a UI design manual.

What the hell are they thinking?

Has Larry let the MBAs get out of control? There's clearly something wrong, as no sensible, actual user of these products surely could believe that this mess is an improvement?

This is on a par with the del.icio.us mess.
It's also brand new. When the Mac App store is 5 years old, like the iOS store, this discussion may seem quaint.
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I seriously doubt that you're alt-tab'ing faster than you're making a saccade to another monitor. We're talking tens of milliseconds to glance over. What if you have to hit tab 2/3/4 times to get to the application you want? And you have to stop and see how many tabs you need?

Looking over at a different monitor is significantly faster.
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IDK about you, but I generally have >30 or so windows open at a time. Listing them all in [modifier]-tab would be hard to navigate (by window title?) but having the icons of all the apps is actually kinda manageable.

It goes in circles because computer technologies are bursty. With Win95, managing by window was reasonable because having >10 windows would usually crash the box. That's also why every window was a taskbar entry, as there was actually room for all of them... By WinXP, when virtual memory became more robust and RAM cheaper, you needed to sometimes collapse taskbar buttons by app to make them fit... And now in Win7, it's the default with just big icons. People leave way too many windows open now because closing them is a chore, and people are crappy/lazy memory budgeters. Apple realized this with iOS, and ported some relevant concepts back to Lion--apps should be able to close and restore at any time, and their open-ness is irrelevant to the user. So yeah, that's why we're back to thinking about apps; windows may be what you most often interact with, but they are no longer the mental unit of desktop management. It's now all about task-->app-->windows.

As an aside, let's consider how effed up MDI is, the inconsistencies in window/toolbar management between Win Office apps, and how the Mac "one window per document, palettes appear on app activation" scheme has managed to stay remarkably consistent for over a decade.
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"The native Gmail app isn’t really shit... it’s just buggy as fuck and extremely underwhelming."

I am not saying it is good app. It is weak and disappointing. I am saying that the philosophy MG is promoting where you must get everything right the first time is a distracting and unattainable goal.
Cool. I'm a lot less uncomfortable with DRM-restricted content on a limited appliance, if it's presented honestly as a temporary rental on subsidized hardware that's substantially cheaper than a legitimate purchase including first-sale rights.

I'm surprised the time period is so much longer than it takes to read one book, though. Netflix got a very strong start offering "keep n DVDs, we don't care which ones, swap them every day or two if USPS can keep up". An all-you-can-eat version of this for $50ish/month would be compelling.
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Actually, I only made light use of Reader's social features. Aside from their absence (which I do think is a shame) the visual changes to the more newsreader aspects of Reader severely impact the product, and are a big part of what I want to repair.
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It's actually the lack of air pollution that makes the difference.

LA has a SPF 30 sitting above it for most of the year. For most of the time, Australia does not.
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Yep, I guessed it must be them.

They aren't exactly a startup though - been around quite a while I think.

I was with these guys for a while, who played in an adjacent space: http://www.intelligentsoftware.com.au/
Bah.. stagnation is not worthy of being called life.

I love vim because it is the best. I can't use anything else because nothing else works like it.

I hate vim because it has stopped advancing. It has not had a good update for 5 years.

May 7, 2006 7.0 Spell checking, code completion, tab pages (multiple viewports/window layouts), current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and more

May 12, 2007 7.1 Bug fixes, new syntax and runtime files, etc.

August 9, 2008 7.2 Floating point support in scripts, refactored screen drawing code, bug fixes, new syntax files, etc.

August 15, 2010 7.3 Lua support, Python3 support, Blowfish encryption, persistent undo/redo

We are all still waiting for various types of extensibility, even though they been in the top 5 sponsored requests for over almost 15 years. I normally wouldn't be complaining about free software, but vim is donationware.
Would love to see more about how to read that disassembly and piece all that together.. I'm impressed!
Putting my applications in a sandbox doesn't really prevent my application from doing exploits because my applications are not malware to begin with. Well behaved applications that are not malware are already not malware. The real issue is what about malware, will this stop them. Well, obviously malware authors are not going to put their applications in a sandbox. They will continue releasing them as before.

And so, obviously, this system won't work unless all software is sandboxed, not just the normal innocuous non-malware that didn't need to be in the first place.

It's the same principal where you can't stop gun crime by banning only law abiding citizens from having guns. You have to completely eliminate all guns or it doesn't work. All or nothing.

To me, this tell me where this is headed. Obviously total sandboxing of everything has to be done for this to be effective at all. And with total sandboxing of everything we no longer have a desktop computer that can be used for general productivity, we have an information appliance that provides a nice consumer experience.
tabloid describes the format (as opposed to broadsheet).

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EDIT: I just re-read the parent, and is using 'tabloid' in the trashy sense. I'll leave the comment as a general knowledge point.
Perhaps more interesting than WebGL is actually him documenting the process that he took in figuring out how it worked.

I really wish I had a better understanding of disassembly.
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Indeed! Look at a novice Mac user, and you understand why Apple built the MAS. No matter how easy software installation was, the process was still difficult for most users (how to handle a bundle, package, zip file). The MAS has streamlined both installation and paying for an application.

Also, it's what people who bought a Mac because of the iPhone/iPad halo effect expect.
Ahead of its time, and Microsoft was always too stodgy to nail the fun factor in user experience.

Nobody trusted Microsoft then. I was one of many people who refused to create a Hailstorm/Passport account.

(And now I refuse to use Facebook.)
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Not just a fear, but a reasonable conclusion. Obviously sandboxing won't be effective for third party software unless 100% of all third party software is enforced to use sandboxing and won't run without it. It's pretty much an inevitable conclusion that that is coming because the system doesn't work unless you go all or nothing.
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wotif.com is the local .com success story. Not a single original idea on it's site, of course, but good luck to them for pulling it off.

I did some work for a social networking startup that was a pure copycat site. I think this is mostly true.
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Having practical experience working at a company that has a large number of developers trying their stab at C, I'm bound to agree.

It's clear that you can make great code in C, if you're a good programmer and get enough time to plan things like memory management done right. Enough examples of that.

But when you don't, C is a terrible language. It is very verbose, it makes you repeat yourself and the macro system is so error-prone to the point that it's usually forbidden to use. So you have to resort to custom code generators (we have at least three!).

Most companies don't want to be in the business of worrying about buffer overflows and memory leaks and segmentation faults. They want the requested functionality implemented robustly ASAP. If there is less code to be written, there is less to test and worry about, so a high-level language that takes those concerns (largely) away is a great help.

So my advise would be to limit using C to the performance-critical parts (found using benchmarking), and only make developers work on that which understand every detail about C. Also, give them enough time to test every nook and cranny threefold.
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