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I work at a large government IT organization. We were way ahead of the curve on this trend -- we did a POC deployment in late 2008.

There are real issues with Mac vs. Windows in an enterprise for many categories of user. We found that some Executives and some knowledge workers LOVED them. All Unix admins and most web-dev types loved them. Why? They weren't using line of business applications, and either didn't have many meetings, or had an admin who handled scheduling on their behalf.

We did not end up deploying Macs more widely, but the POC boxes are still in service. I love my Mac.

Real issues:

1. Apple is unpredictable with respect to patching. Known, material security issues may lay dormant for months with no patching. Apple prefers to rollout lots of fixes at once (ie. instead of a security patch, they roll up to 10.x.y) which often break things. This is a problem if you have to rely on ANY non-Apple software.

2. Apple is unpredictable with respect to product lifecycle. Want to roll out 500 iMacs? You had better pray that they don't arbitrarily cancel or (worse) change your order because they are announcing a new product. When Apple releases a new product, the old product ceases to exist.

3. Identity integration is poor. Integration with LDAP/Kerberos or AD is unreliable and undocumented. Unless you can use tools with a different model for authentication (ie. Dropbox), simple things like filesharing are unreliable. 3rd party tools help, but that creates a new problem. (See point 1)

4. This situation improved when the new MS Office, but Exchange support sucks. Even with Outlook for Mac, calendar functions suck.

5. I don't think that Apple takes security seriously. "Viruses" are becoming increasingly rare, even in the PC world. The types of threats that are out there are different in many ways. People in the Mac community have a really bizarre outlook on security.

6. Apple doesn't give a flying leap about enterprise IT. They know that Microsoft jumps through hoops to keep Bank CIOs happy, and that keeping those folks happy comes with a cost (10 year product cycles, IE6, etc). Apple's ability to tell enterprises to screw off is both an advantage and a disadvantage. If you're a proponent of large-scale adoption of Macs in an IT org, you are taking a big professional risk.

Overall, I think that it's great that people are looking at alternate platforms. But don't pretend that Apple is a silver bullet -- Apple doesn't love you back, and will make you cry.
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The Ogg container is optional, and I can't say I've seen it used much, if ever - I gather its main use was for streaming. FLAC has its own metadata as part of the spec: http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html#metadata_block
From my perspective, it doesn't make a huge difference whether the idea was independently discovered by my dad or inspired by something he read--what matters is the effect it had on me.
I'll have to wait and see; Google is currently redesigning Reader's interface and they haven't really responded to my questions about the future of the API
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I hate how this (and to some extend OpenCV) expect you to understand computer vision to use the library.

I sympathize with your frustration, but being in Vision myself, I have an idea why this is the case: vision only barely works!

What this means is that most things you would want to do are only barely possible, if at all, and it is highly application- and input-dependent. To get it to work the way you want, you have to understand some vision, so that you can tweak things the right way.

I think once vision matures more and things become more "off-the-shelf", you'll find more libraries aimed at non-experts.
> If Apple had preferred patent-free formats at the time of the iPod, they would have chosen Vorbis, which has an open royalty-free encoder

That would have been a good trick, given that the very first release of Vorbis was only a year before the iPod hit the market.
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Wrong. If I share a document with another person who is only supposed to read it, and that person deletes it, how long before I notice it's gone? What if that person edits the document? Will I ever notice?

Saying that access control is unnecessary for Dropbox "for Teams" is absurd. Here's an easy example: My law partner and I share our documents via Dropbox. I want him to see my docs, be able to read them, save new versions, etc. I don't want him to be able to change my directories.

Not far-fetched at all.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3167412

First term I've heard this term is in a YC funded company recruitment post. I know I'm directly referring to a YC company's recruit post here, but someone did not switch their brain on when they posted that one.

Stating that you should be a fan of 'brogramming' to get a job comes across as blatant sexism to me. Especially given the pages that promote it at the moment.

Seriously, you're a company now, not a frat club. I'm not trying to spoil your fun, I'm sure that's your culture, but you just can't advertise for men only roles in this day and age.

I don't know the law in the US but over here in the UK these guys would be opening themselves up for a nasty lawsuit.
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Yeah, we were really trying to get users to click the "Try Demo" button to bring up the info boxes that teach the flicking to navigate but I do hear both your thoughts on creating less friction at first interaction.
It's probably just me, but I can't help feeling it's a bit underhand to offer something for sale that doesn't exist yet (unless you make it clear upfront).
There have been rumors for the past few months that Apple will do just that. This release might be consistent with that; it will undoubtedly expand the audience, less because of the source availability, and more because of the Apache license patent grant.
Apparently this can actually get decent frame rates. Although I suspect they are using the patched version of the JS interpreter mentioned on github.

http://yfrog.com/nmng0z

Still not sure how this is meant to actually be useful though. The problem with H.264 isn't availability of implementations, it's being non-free and heavily patented.

I can kind of see a use for this if you are a big content provider with a bunch of cash and want to distribute video to Firefox users without transcoding but it still seems pretty derpy.
However you fail to see that if you can open the hood of the car so can a mechanic. You are free to go and sign a contract that is just between you and him, that says that you will not open the hood of the car, but they will on any sign of trouble. As soon as something is wrong, you call them and they will come and do maintenance for you.

Congratulations, you just bought and installed Redhat Linux. Have problems configuring your software, call them up and they will be happy to help you. They are great, actually

But then someone wants to fix their car but they don't have the money to pay a mechanic. Instead they have all the time they need, so they can read through manuals and try to fix things themselves.

Congratulations, you just downloaded, installed and configured CentOS. Have fun playing with it, tearing its guts out, recompiling its kernel and doing whatever you want with it.

Now you are focused on features. "Oh look, super user friendly interface! Never have to open the hood of my car". That is great! What about anti-features. Now that you can't open the hood of your car. One or two car manufacturers can start installing tracking systems that report your position, record all your conversations, all your phone calls, etc. Why? Well because maybe they were approached by the FBI or because they decided they could sell all this as marketing info to third parties.

Now only that, there was legislation proposed to make it actually illegal to open the hood of your car. Think about that. You bought it, you open the hood, and police come to your door to arrest your for it.
Is that a serious question? I often trust users enough to read my stuff, but not to change it. I feel like I'm in some kind of alternative universe when you ask me a question like this. Access control is basic file system stuff, and has been forever. My understanding is that DB can't coordinate access control across the platforms that it supports. I don't understand why they can't build their own access control layer.
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Ok so you don't like electronic dance/club music. We get it.

I gotta say, I disagree with the guy below me being downvoted, because when I read this "troll" was the first thing that sprang to my mind as well.

I don't disagree with you on the matter that you can't tell the difference between quality lossy and lossless recordings, btw. As long as they're the end-product and not being used for further processing.

Which is one of the rare scenarios in which is actually does make sense to prefer a vinyl copy over a high quality lossy compressed file, if you can't find the lossless digital version.

No you won't be able to hear the difference in the version you bought, but it will make a difference if you intend to work with the data and transform it into something else, because then it is possible that sounds that were thrown away by the lossy codec because no human "golden ear" could hear them, contexts shift and they come into hearing ranges again. But the data is lost, so there's something missing instead.

With a digital lossless copy, or with vinyl, you know you're also getting the inaudible bits, even if you can't hear them.

And if you're just going to listen to the track, sure, get the quality lossy codec.

But if you're doing remixes, you're going to want the inaudible bits too, because you don't know if you'll need them or not.

Lossy compression is for end products, not half products.
No, AAC was a successor to MP3, about a decade ago. This is a lossless format, so not really suitable for the same roles.
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Microsoft's concern is recent rootkit malware that loads before Windows even boots. Thus it can make itself completely indetectable from Windows and any anti-virus software that is loaded later on in the booting process. The malware can even run a hypervisor of sorts if it wanted to and no one will be any wiser that there's malware running.
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Perhaps, but more than that it's bloody stupid.
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I also worked for a big corp recently where IT would not issue a Mac to anyone unless they worked in a "creative area". Some of the Intranet tools were strictly IE-only too, as in changing your user agent to IE didn't help you at all.

The silly part of the Windows-only IT policy is that it's intended to simplify IT support when in fact every week IT would broadcast alerts "EMERGENCY: Everybody must stop what you are doing and run this urgent security update!!!" That was a weekly ritual. Not to mention "New version of Office! Please install it!" ... two weeks later "Office update! Please install it" ... and so on.

So glad to be back in a Mac world.
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Lack of client-side encryption and access control means this Teams offering is DOA, in my view.
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"Student question. Computer science in education, starting even in elementary school. Good idea?

Gates. Hmm. I think computer is a great tool, but if by computer science we mean understanding queing theory and hashing and database indexes, not sure. But knowing how to write a program, prime numbers by algorithm is very interesting test of whether I know prime numbers. What’s really necessary? Geometry? No, probably not. But certainly a level of complex thinking valuable to be exposed to. Statistics very important. Where computer scientist falls in hierarchy, I don’t know."

Obviously elementary level students don't need to know queing theory etc. However, I think a lot games developers might disagree that Geometry is not really necessary. There's other uses as well I'm developing a web app for customizing products and I use Geometry every day.
I'm kind of biased against using Google AdWords since they banned my account for no explainable reason (they lack complete customer care to the point where they can't even display the ban message right: http://www.devside.net/images/adwords-account-suspended.png), but consider spending more money and getting better validation by going directly to websites specific to your market and buying ad space there.

The AdWords traffic is just too broad and "general public" and it's incredibly difficult because to get good CTR (click-through-rate), you actually have to find keywords that produce bad or irrelevant results for the searcher while being on topic, as otherwise the searcher will simply click the organic results and never even see your sponsored result (when was the last time you went to Google, did a search, got good organic results, and decided to skip that and just go to the sponsored link?).

AdCenter is a little better IMO, but niche websites are absolute killer since you're no longer screwing around, trying to filter out irrelevant traffic, trying to get the right keywords and bid prices, and making sure your landing pages have the right quality score. The moment you get a low CTR is the moment Google AdWords start increasing prices, stops showing your ads.

Go right to the source to test your ideas. It will take more money, but you'll get a confidence level of 95-99% for your validation, rather than something much much less that you'll get using AdWords. It will be quicker too; AdWords keywords can be incredibly difficult and time-consuming to get right.
I guess the beef is that the metric keeps changing. Before Android took over the market crown it was all about unit sales and marketshare percentage that everyone touted. Once Android took over, the metric changed.

For example, Windows Server makes billions per quarter and probably is the Server OS that makes the most money for it's maker. But you won't find that argument on HN to say that Windows Server dominates the server OS market. In fact some believe that Windows has no viable presence in servers.
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Here it starts at like 0.6 fps, and then runs at 4-7 fps onwards.
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How do you measure "comment quality"? Average comment karma per user? Average votes per comment? Some ratio of upvotes to downvotes?

If it's any of these I see a problem similar to what I think has happened to Stackoverflow. I've answered a lot of questions on SO (although virtually none in the last year) and started doing so a few months after it launched. In that time I noticed two things:

1. The low-hanging fruit got answered (generally speaking most of the highest voted questions and answers are early); and, this is the important one

2. The volume of questions and answers was higher. One impact of this (IMHO) is that people see each question for a shorter period before it drops off the front page. It's that period on the front page where the bulk of votes come from (although there is a significant long tail, particularly on questions that surface on the front page of Google a lot).

HN is of course a news site so the "low hanging fruit" doesn't equally apply but there is some relationship. Each article is, to a varying degree, part of a larger debate whether it be about free software, user rights, the future of the computer/phone/tablet/whatever, etc.

In the early days of HN such debates probably had livelier discussion due to previously unsatisfied demand. Now though I think there is a lot of rehashing of the same point. Early users probably have reduced interest in this.

To (2), if there are more active users commenting then it stands to reason that each user sees less comments overall. Depending on how this scales you may in fact have less people overall reading and voting on a particular comment.
The subject is a bit misleading: this is a new computer vision library. There is a separate augmented reality library which lives on the same website, but the two don't appear to be connected.

FastCV has the potential to be interesting, but the website is pretty off-putting at the moment. They need to clarify the license, as others have mentioned. It also appears that the SDK might be Windows-only, judging by their installation guide (I didn't want to register, just to find out that was the case). Having to register just to see the release notes is pretty bad too. Hopefully these are just teething problems and will be sorted out in due course.

It's great to see new computer vision resources like this appearing. Although I'm not willing to register for the download at the moment, I have been browsing the API docs a bit and would be very interested to see a comparison between this and OpenCV from someone who's used both.
No.

Not if the definition of "letting kids be kids" is to let them do what everyone else's kids are doing these days, mollycoddling their every whim and when not acting as chauffeur or butler, letting them babysit themselves with TV and video games.

Or, yes...

If the definition of letting them be kids is shutting off the TV, on sunny days pushing them out the door to go play in the dirt, and on rainy days taking them to the library, coupled with spending time to encourage and support them in the interests they develop and express. The key is engagement.

I don't see any indication in this story that the boy didn't enjoy it. Sounds as though he found it an engaging challenge, and that it didn't take too much of his time. If he wasn't doing that, he could have been playing Lemonade Stand on a Commodore 64 or Apple II. If the story was about Lemonade Stand, nobody would say "let kids be kids", so what's the problem here? Is it that this sounds like "work"?

Work, even real work, can be fun, and figuring out how to enjoy something that returns financial gain may be the lesson with the most payoff a parent could provide, given the ratio of time most adults have to spend in work versus leisure.
Yes it is. Sounds like it's not the kind of company I'd like to work for, so I guess in a way it's useful that they use that term.
> If everyone is busy, those calls are often not made.

I personally have not seen a single doctor's office that does NOT make reminder calls or forgets to make them. Moreover virtually all of them also have a $50 fee penalty for missed appointments (which is never charged, mind you).

In other words be careful if you are validatng the idea just for the sake of proving yourself right. Especially when your landing page is so ambiguous in its message, that it's basically detached from the original idea.
Agreed. I do wish there were more lessons.
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Customization is fine, when end users do it, but companies should not be messing with Android like they do (or at least, they shouldn't be able to refer to their Frankenstein creation as "Android").
I'd kill to have Mission Control, Spotlight and Quicksilver at work. I haven't found great Windows equivalents.
As a consumer, I think I'd rather buy from the guy that's, yes, profitable, so they don't disappear, but not the one that's making quite so huge margins on the stuff they sell me.
> From eyeballing that chart it appears he's counting the whole of Apple's profits towards that graph despite the title being "Operating Profit from Mobile Phones".

I think you need to look closer. While Apple don't break profit data down by product line (I don't believe) he's not that cack handed. If you read through the comments you'd see that he won't use the Samsung telecoms unit figures as these are meaningless in this context so it seems unlikely that he'd use an even more crass approximation for Apple (and this can be confirmed by checking the number he uses against the number Apple publish - they're not the same. If you wish to confirm this remember Apple's Q2 is not calendar Q2).

> I don't consider Asymco an independant source [...]

You may not like his views but he shows data, he shows his working, he answers questions in the comments and on twitter about why he's done something a certain way. Hell, when he messes up public predictions he even rakes over his own errors publicly in more detail than anyone else would.

In the face of this level of openness simply saying you don't consider him an independent source isn't a good argument if you don't show that his data or working is wrong, or provide contrary evidence.

Please show some numbers that show that right now someone other than Samsung is getting anything close to Apple level profit margins on handsets.
It also seems ageist. It sounds like it would exclude anyone more mature than Justin Bieber.
They were going to try and bring the thing to the mass market, but they got cold feet.
My 11-year-old daughter for Christmas last year asked for a bubble-gum vending machine. She got the idea from hearing stories about a family member who had over a hundred machines placed at one time.

I thought it was a great idea. She placed one machine, then another. Now she has four machines, but she has only placed 2 of them. Each machine makes about a buck a day gross, 70 cents or so net.

I'm purposely not doing any of the stuff this guy's dad did -- charge for gas, insist on doing the math, etc. For now all she has to do is buy the inventory. Once a month or so to pick up the "haul."

I think if you push these things then you lose track of the point. Right now it's something she enjoys -- who wouldn't want to take a trip each month and come back with tens of dollars? If we were to get into marketing, sales, cash flow, or any of that? I think it would turn it into a chore. After all, geesh, the kid is only 11. The only thing I've told her is that she has to save up if she wants another machine, and the more machines she has placed in good spots the more money she will make.

Looking back over the previous year, I think this Christmas gift might turn out to be one of the best presents we've ever given. It has the potential to teach so many lessons. The coolest part is that it is all driven by motivation on her side -- she was the one asking for the machine, she is the one picking out the product, she is the one saving up for new machines, she is the one responsible for scouting out new locations and making the pitch to store owners, etc. If she pushes a lot, she could make some real cash. If not, then she knows more about how these things work. It's a win either way.
So you have to see the gunk page first, and then the clean version after?

I'm looking for an RSS reader that defaults to the "Reader" or "Readability" type view without the extra click.

Currently, I use Reeder.
Login itself is the biggest obstacle. If your blog is not as popular as say HN, then don't bother with requiring logins to post a comment.

Seriously no one wants to bother even creating a user login just for yoursillyblog.com. It's pointless. What about spammers? So what, create a moderated posting queue if that's an issue. Just don't make me sign in. This is your silly blog, not my bank account.
To answer your question, no, brogrammer isn't even a term.