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If we're talking Japanese cultural ego, America > Korea >> China.
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Has this been done before? If not, then why not? With all of the available services like this for Windows and Linux, why not Mac? Is there some sort of license fee or restriction that makes this type of service difficult to profit from? I'm just trying to figure out why I have not seen more of this type of service for Mac, especially with the large number of responses to this that seem to be really interested in it.
I can beat Very Hard opponents with ease but am stuck in silver :-). Furthermore, he states that his AI is weak to early agression. This is not a problem for him because the builtin AI never cheeses, but it happens all the time on ladder and will severely impact his rank.

Nonetheless, I'm totally blown away by the project! Amazing work!
It's how much you commit to paying for, whether you actually use it or not.
empathy will fix it.

you are illustrative of the problem because you are a) ignorant of what harassment is really like b) apparently unwilling to imagine it and c) BLAMING THE HARASSED
While better than actual violence I also don’t want to live in a society where threats of violence are common. That seems like an irrational and barbaric way of solving problems.

Violence is a tiny bit too serious for to just discount the threat of it as a nice rhetorical flourish.
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One problem with that idea is that tools like CSS tables still have some dependency on the source order in the HTML. So do certain other popular tools, notably various aspects of float positioning.

If we're going to have a proper separation of content from presentation, such that we can do things like alternative layouts for responsive design or A/B testing using only the presentation layer, there has to be a viable mechanism for overriding that sort of source-order dependency.
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If there were a biography of Dave Winer, I would read it. I might not like it all that much, but I would certainly read it and probably garner some great insight from it.
The same FAA that forces you to put liquid in your checked baggage unless you label it saline - yet insists that you only put Li-Ion batteries with the energy capacity of a grenade in the cabin.

That has for years resisted smoke hoods being required while deciding that aircraft that only fly upto 300mi offshore aren't really over water and don't need life rafts.

That increases spending on staff moral while cutting local ATC and is so far behind in it's plans for radar at small airports that it's not funny.
It certainly is a valid point. However, your assumption seems to be that the biggest barrier to entry would be hardware? If so, I disagree, with all due respect. I spent best parts of the summer learning iOS - it's not extremely hard, but it has many non-obvious corner cases that you'll need to spend some time to discover. So with almost any reasonable hourly rate (even at the minimal wage) I've invested much, much more in the learning of the framework that I would spend on a minimal hardware that will allow me to develop for iOS.

Let's face it - if you're serious about porting your apps to iOS, you would buy a mac at some point.
I have yet to read the book, but I hope to crack it open this weekend. So take what I say with a grain of salt.

To me it seems like the reason this book may be hard to read for some people is due to the public persona of Jobs over the past decade. He was an icon for all things Apple. How dare this non-technical person speak of Jobs in this light!? Surely he feels this way because he "doesn't get it" and "doesn't get his vision". Seem familiar?

Maybe that's the wrong feeling a person should have. Maybe he's just a brilliant man with flaws like everyone else. Maybe the real Jobs isn't what you pictured in your mind and this book is ruining your perception of Jobs.

Edit: not sure when I hit reply on this comment, but this is a general observation to everyone.
Yes, I was talking about developers. But I appreciate the other guy standing up for me.
Whatever scares you or excites you, go do it
the daily life of most women is filled with navigating a hostile space that may break out into sexual violence at any time.

having an obsessed troll on the internet following you around, or threatening you before you show up to a conference, goes way beyond what you're talking about here.

your whole point comes from a place of the privilege of relative security. imagine that is not the case.
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I would assume they're actually under obligation to not release them. Most people that sit down for these things would rather every word they've spoken does not see the light of day.
You could do a lot more than that, as there are multiple transistors for each gate (assuming static CMOS).

My company uses FPGAs to for verification during development (because it takes months to get silicon back after tapeout, and it costs millions of dollars even if you only want one single test chip). We make chips that are much more complex than a P3. Friends of mine at other microprocessor companies have told me that they have a similar process, though some of them at larger companies use their own custom hardware for accelerated simulation, since you can't fit anything like a POWER7 or even a core i3 on a commercially available FPGA.
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"narratives with more risk, more reward, and higher drama, are the kind of narratives human beings love"

I love human beings.
I wrote two pieces today, the other was about something I very much like.
Regardless of the $ figure, Stanford is clearly the right choice here. NYU has been in NYC for a very long time (just look at the name, right?) and has not contributed meaningfully to the technology scene. What New York needs is a fresh dose of valley perspective from the guys at the heart of it.
Licensing I think. IIRC, Previous versions of os x did not allow virtualization. Lion does not have this restriction.
So let's assume you wills spend couple of months learning iOS, and will decide that you're into it. Will you buy yourself a Mac at that point?

Assuming yes, you've maybe generated them $100 in revenue. They would need 10,000 people like you to generate their first million in revenue, and they have obviously many costs.

Do you think the world has at least 10,000 people interested in iOS development who don't have a mac yet? 100,000?
your faith in the police to protect women is almost charmingly naive.
No Ambient/Lounge so +1 to Electronic
I think unfortunately, in this particular case, you can't fix what seems to be the single biggest problem--- one person who is already widely condemned, banned from forums/IRC when people see him, but nonetheless persists, and keeps reappearing in new guises.

I can imagine fixing the more common problems, like pervasive stupid sexist comments everywhere, and inappropriate content in conference presentations, but stamping out every single rare-but-extant crazy stalker seems unlikely. A number of high-profile bloggers, Usenet posters, and forum admins of both genders have attracted unhinged people of that sort, and discussion about what to do about the problem dates back at least 20 years.
Read the other posts in the thread. artmageddon's in particular. For an aircraft on landing approach, it's low enough that even a small fraction of a second's exposure can cause flash blindness.
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The games industry does not refer to anybody who plays games but refers to the development of games; in the same way the automobile industry does not refer to anybody who drives a car.
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Everyone lies, most people are self-centered since birth, and his belittling is pretty much non-existent when you compare it to a CEO like Steve Balmer.

I think Jobs was just a guy who had a vision for computers, and knew that he had to be relentless to reach that goal in a short amount of time. I also think Jobs is probably one of the most level-headed people in the tech industry. Check the beginning of this video, very observant and calm, and I don't think he is necessarily as self-centered as you wrote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaF3CA_Nl9s&feature=relat...
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Aisle50 is disrupting the way grocery coupons are disseminated, tracked, marketed and redeemed. We offer discounted promotions on our site, consumers pay us, and then we load credit for that item to their grocery store loyalty card. We give food manufacturers the ability to target, track and follow up on their deals. In short, the business of marketing food is a big one ($35b+) and we do it better than anybody else.

We launched in August. We’re looking for a front-end developer who can help our website evolve. We need somebody with a touch of design prowess to go along with experience in current web standards, such as HTML5 and jQuery. Some Rails experience is preferred.

You will be our point person on the front-end. This is an important job. You will be one of the first employees at Aisle50 and will reap the bounty that comes with such a designation, including: a real equity stake, competitive salary, health benefits, sandwiches and Anchor Steam. Please do not request Heineken; we won’t serve it.

This job is in CHICAGO.

Applicants should have some way to share their portfolio with us. We need to see sites you’ve helped put together.

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I was thinking it might be cool for a job recruiting software program.

The software would pull data from Facebook and find people that are graduating the upcoming academic year, find the correct major for the job, and then send the applicant a job proposal.

It reverses the job search, helps students leaving college have options immediately after school, and makes companies bid on the best and brightest - i.e: Stanford grads would perhaps have many offers and would require bids from companies.

Just thought of it - probably not THAT viable of a program.
I'm not defending the mentality, just describing its origination. Please note my last few sentences.
Yes it is, at least for us. We run a 15 mio pageview/month website, completely reliant on advertising, and we have a google map on probably 4 mio of those pageviews.
So our bill is going from free to 16.000$ pr month

$4 cpm is interestingly enough the same as we charge our own advertisers leaving zero profit margin for us. We are now in the process of converting our website to another map provider.
That's why this entire topic is a tempest in the teapot. Only us geeks and computer enthusiasts care about firmware updates. In real life, I know many people who are satisfied with their Android 1.6, 2.1 and iOS 3.x.

These people, even if they know that upgrade is available won't bother. The existing device with it's current firmware works for them, so why change it.
I think that MeeGo may have some advantages over android, but I don't see how X is one of them. X is the single most broken piece of technology on any *nix box today.
I agree, its a pain point and will loose you signups. Swallow the bullet and implement a simple pricing scheme.
This has an MBA-in-charge smell about it.

I'm not certain how many GMap implementations there are that exceed a 25k/day load, but my back-of-the-napkin guesstimation is <10% of all sites that use Google Maps.

But, those are exactly the sites that I want using my maps, instead of Yahoo or Bing or some other provider.

Unless there's something I'm missing, this seems penny-wise and pound-foolish.
BTW, when I said potential market is small, I didn't mean "number of people around me who will find the idea fascinating" is small :). For obvious reason, this is not the case here at HN, but we're a very special crowd.
It's because they don't intend to be offensive. For example: in the US, holding up two fingers is cool. In the UK, it's offensive. So one group of people can have a set of behaviors that another group finds offensive, but the first group has no idea why the second group is offended because they don't intend offense.

I know there are a lot of actually misogynistic people in tech. I'm only talking about the guys who "don't get it."
It's a good book, I think, but Dave is right that it gets repetitive at times, and the storytelling is a wee bit exaggerated. 20% is about Steve being an asshole and 20% is about him being a spiritual and emotional kind of guy. Luckily, the remaining 60%, thank heavens, has some actual content.
Thank you.

To all who are interested in facts over fiction: if you want an even more comprehensive view on the matter, try http://questioncopyright.org/promise.
I saw this for a class recently, here's the link (part 1 of 5):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toRIkRa1fYU&list=WL7AE0E3...
With the way that apple computers hold their value, I'm surprised that there aren't physical leasing systems from third parties. $30/mo on a mini, $45 on a low-end air seems doable.
Exactly - Accounting as an example had a much lower bar of entry, similar to programming today. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen -"Hey Arthur Andersen, your a bright kid, you should come work for us") It is very possible programming follows a similar path requiring more and more professional requirements to get a ticket to play.
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There is a difference between transistors and gates. FPGA's implement gates (i.e. "and", "or", "xor", "not", but really they're all only nand). Generally on a standard processor, one gate is approximately 2 transistors (assuming a CMOS process). So theoretically this FPGA could implement approximately 4 P3's. 10 million transistors ~= 5 million gates.

However, the process of implementing circuits in an FPGA isn't that efficient (processors can do a lot of tricks to get better than 2 transistors/gate. They can also do other tricks to do calculations with just transistors instead of gates and FPGA's can't). However given the 4x overhead, I would say, yes, theoretically an Intel engineer with a full spec and some really good VHDL (the programming language of FPGAs) skills could implement a P3 on this.
Were you at the other end of that 200 yard beam? I remember playing with presentation lasers when I was a teenager. At night, you could light up the side of a building, visibly, from over a kilometer away. The divergence factor is certainly substantial - this makes it easier to hit a plane from distance - but it's still very bright. I remember thinking that they would make useful point-to-point morse code transmitters at night, because the "dot" is highly visible at the other end of the beam, even over substantial distances.

But I'd certainly agree that the astronomy lasers are a far bigger threat, the presentation lasers are more likely to be just a minor nuisance over any kind of range.
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Have there been any articles/studies about what gender relations are like in other equally "divided" industries? I'm wondering if it's related to a certain type of person naturally attracted to software/tech, or if it can develop naturally in any industry split pretty starkly along gender lines.
Yes, ICS solves that.

Even if the apk is installed in system partition (that means you can't uninstall it), you can mark it hidden and the system will never take it into account at startup, intent broadcast or in other situations. It is as good as removed (except that it physically can't be removed, because you may want to restore the phone to factory settings).
You're confusing the TSA and the FAA.
I think including source code in patents would (a) achieve the goal of creating a public good, and (b) provide a concrete mechanism for gauging prior art and obviousness. We already have tools for detecting plagiarism in computer science assignments.

Of course a patent application could include obfuscated code, but if the obfuscation were effective then it would be unenforceable -- oh the irony. (my new implementation is much more efficient...)

I agree with your points, but I don't see that they actually detract from what I propose relative to the status quo.
My thoughts exactly. This is perfect to get little ones excited about coding.
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I'm actually pretty underwhelmed by the 3D on the 3DS. I was really looking forward to it but it doesn't seem to add anything to the games.

Market saturation is another one. Nintendo is traditionally strong in it's home market, but I was watching a TV program in Japan prior to the 3DS launch saying that one in four Japanese owns a DS. Hard to imagine they can sell more hardware units.
on the Xoom:

> the ridiculous $800 it eventually debuted at in February 2010

I am so sick of this. The Xoom cost $600 at launch for the WiFi model - every single time anyone quotes Xoom vs. iPad prices, they find the most expensive Xoom and compare it to the cheapest iPad. The Xoom was significantly cheaper than the iPad if you picked an expensive iPad and a cheap Xoom to compare.
Lol. I know what you meant. I just wanted to show you the impact in an office of 13. That is close to 50%.

And While I think the market is not big, I don't think it is that small either.
Well, a good part of it could be a reversal to the American norm; American gun control has gone through these phases, only the first of which could be considered legitimate:

Pre-Civil War suppression of dueling.

Post-Civil War suppression of freedmen, despite the 14th Amendment.

Starting around the turn of the last century, measures against recent immigrants (in the case of NYC, one set of older immigrants (the Irish) against others (principally the Italians), hence the patrimony of the Sullivan Law).

Following that, crime was the excuse (the Roaring '20s and Prohibition) and all but the elite were the target, and this just continued to increase.

With the exception of a counter-reaction to the Black Power movement and the related big riots of the '60s. Keeping inexpensive guns out of the hands of blacks was an explicit goal in this period.

Followed by more of the middle of the century stuff peaking with the Clinton "assault weapons" "ban" that finally started causing tremendous political damage, culminating in Gore's loss in 2000 (not the only reason of course, but one of several that if not for any of them he would have won).

Since them, at the national level outside of safe seats (Schumer, DiFi (well, maybe not in 2012)) gun control has become another 3rd rail of American politics.

And the gun culture's counter-revolution has been quite successful, among other things re-norming the ownership of guns. And these video games haven't hurt one bit.

One thing I didn't mention but that might be relevant is the sharp decline in trust of our ruling class, who's fruits were are enjoying at large scale in the Great Recession and that otherwise rather resemble this bit from the Deceleration of Independence: "He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance."

But it's not so much that as the shear ineptness of our ruling class. No one with a clue (often requiring some time in the real world) and the courage to face the facts is confident that this ruling class is a good steward of the nation's future, that we can trust them to take care of us. We're pretty much on our own until (ideally) we have a Pareto circulation of elites, and much can go wrong until then and after then.

I could go on but I think you get the idea. What I'm expressing should get a hearing from people who are attracted to a site that's dedicated to people not working for the man....
Congrats on PadMapper - it's a fantastic service, and makes looking for an apartment in a new city infinitely easier.

This doesn't help much in this situation, but thanks for all your work on it; I can't think of a single person in my social circle who's moved recently and hasn't used it.
http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/browse/home/shop_mac/fam...

The price of leasing a Mac Mini from Apple is $25 per month ($34 with more RAM, but that would be silly to pay for). Much cheaper than the model of renting a virtual machine, plus works with your local devices. The only problem is, Apple Business leasing has a minimum order.

Of course, if you can't stand Objective-C and want to stop, the virtual machine gives you a simpler path to quitting.
Instead of asking here, you could read here. Over the last few months, the attacks on the certificate authorities and the beast attacks have been covered.
Oh, the temptation to evoke the godwin's law...

To facilitate a mature conversation, one might want to set the tune first.
Great post by Sahil (not me). In the consumer world, I fundamentally believe if you can solve a problem for a community, you will more easily reach product / market fit. Too often consumer apps go for the home run up front, but in the best situations, consumer sites have been built for a select audience, and then have organically grown. Facebook is a classic example - it started out as a dating site for Harvard, it resonated, then it grew naturally.
I think the point is that it's fine to swing for the fences, just make sure you don't skip other 'lifestyle' opportunities in the mean time. You may never get your homerun pitch, nothing wrong with a base hit. You watch enough pitches go by, you end up striking out.
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Anybody can decide to attack you, whenever they want. We have police, courts, etc to settle disagreements, but if they are not interested in getting involved in your case, you two are on your own.
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Cocotron or GNUStep plus Chameleon will get you most of the way to developing iOS apps on other platforms. I imagine there is some work to do to round out the experience, but tis the nature of open source.

There's definitely nothing stopping you from developing iOS apps on other platforms though. It's just going to be a bit more work than using the polished packages from Apple.

[1] http://cocotron.org/
[2] http://www.gnustep.org/
[3] http://chameleonproject.org/
I speak from experience that the 3G running 4.2.1 that I still use "whilst no speed demon, at least runs reasonably well".
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This will help flesh out some of the concepts from the last units in the Stanford AI Class. I really learned I had a deficiency in Statistics after those videos.
Didn't they address that in a subsequent iOS 4 update? My understanding is that 3G iOS4 support got a lot more tolerable.
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I can barely believe the things I'm reading on this page. Lots of comments similar to "It's just trolling, get over it." And "she's just reinforcing negative stereotypes of women by not being strong enough to handle the internet." And "men deal with negative comments all the time and don't whine about it."

These are the exact attitudes that are the problem! Why can they not see this?
> these aren't startups, they're small businesses trying to
> dine out on the glory of the name "startup" without takin
> the risk

The only difference between a "lifestyle" business and a "high growth crazy startup" is that in one, you're betting small amounts over a long period of time. If one of your bets fails, you're not broke.

In a more VC-style startup, you're betting most everything up front. Pardon the gambling metaphor, but this allows you to play higher-stakes games, but this also means that when you lose, you lose your whole roll.

They're all businesses, the founders are all entrepreneurs. We're all in this together.
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I like Bing's bird's eye view too, but their interface doesn't compare with Google Maps.