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Yes, as long as one still needs to look at the screen there is still scope for ads. On-screen ads, if they are small enough, aren't annoying and sometimes they are useful too. There will be some interesting dynamics regarding how ad money is distributed among all the api backends.

But if voice response is used a lot, then ads(in the audio) will be sufficiently annoying for many people to switch to paying the equivalent small amount every month for ad-free services (which will have to be be distributed to the backend providers using micropayments). If this kind of service works out, then the mechanism exists for getting rid of the on-screen ads too, whether or not people actually use it. I wonder how much a the ad-value for a typical user is every month. A very rough calculation 30 billion in google's revenue/(say 200 million users * 12 months) gives 12.5 dollars/month. I think this should be an upper bound on the average, and that there will be a large variance - users who consume drugs will have larger value for advertisers, for instance.
Even if every single one of those employees 'liked' the page (unlikely), that still leaves 280,000 people unaccounted for.
Take a look at the PHP code in this question and weep:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1581610/how-can-i-store-m...

I think we need more code examples of how to do things right, because that code is very, very wrong.
This looks so promising! Kudos to you for working on it for a year and following through! Ill try it and if it really is speedier than iTunes it looks like a good candidate to be my default player. iTunes, I love but it can use a speed boost. Thanks man.
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what about basically just a search bar and que, you search for a song, and hit enter and it gets added to the que, press skip and the next song plays etc...
I don't really understand why one would accept the trade-offs of "NoSQL" if you aren't interested in "magic scaling sauce" (and clustered redundancy).

What's the advantage here? Less rigorous schema, moving data modeling and constraints into the more complex application code that's much more likely to have bugs?

I can't tell you how many times database constraints have caught application bugs with fatal data correctness consequences on the products we've worked on.

The only reason I can see for abandoning those declarative constraints is because of the scalability issues one must contend with (and even then, I'm somewhat unconvinced that they matter for all but the highest-load entities).
You guys can market the web development videos for webOS devs also since webOS uses web languages for development.
From the article: In later versions, I had to rewrite the entire database solution I had built (think one large array of objects for the entire app… yeah, seriously, but it worked!)

The rewritten version doesn't prove anything about the initial hack.
In order to succeed on this year's contest, you need good path-finding, which you won't be able to do easily in lisp within the time limit.
All good points! Regarding #3: I actually like this look. The primary divider is simply shifted from being top/bottom to left/right, and the album art gets to have the most prominent real estate. Perhaps it's just a matter of taste.
Ecoute is decent. http://www.pixiapps.com/ecoute/
I was quite surprised that Apple didn't build-in QR scanning abilities into iOS 5 / iPhone 4s.

They probably share your thoughts regarding the look of QR codes and are waiting for adoption rates to be higher (I.e. 'cross the chasm'). Or they're waiting on a more designer-friendly solution to fill the gap.

I believe Android phones have QR scanning built-in.
Thanks very much for sharing the compiled version. That's too bad that you are not interested in open sourcing it, but of course it's your software and your decision. Keep up the great work, I'm excited so see how it turns out.
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Looks like you use the video tag, but only support MP4, not WebM. You also don't have any fallback indicating the problem, just a big black region where a video should appear. And, attempting to dig out the URL for the MP4 video and access it directly produces an "access denied".
Thats great to hear. A little surprised it took 3 days to find her in a hospital. Hope she is okay.
Update: I went ahead and disabled Google Plus for my domain & users for now. I look forward to using Google+ from an Apps account once there's a way to exclude users' address books from the G+ suggestion engine (should be a check box on signup, no?).
Good Lord, it's so sad that mainstream media is helping push this idea that QR codes are good for small business.

Look at the traffic snapshot for that NYC liquor store they profile:
http://cl.ly/3s3Q1J3s0x1Y2f3w3V3x

That looks to be about 45 visits for 1 month. FORTY FIVE! That poor lady probably spent 4-figures in cost and time implementing that crap.

I've never seen someone scan a QR code on a storefront in the wild.

I can't wait until these things go away.
That's one of the things that we're exploring over at Zazu (voice-enabled hyper-contextual advertising) -- we've stumbled upon some really interesting things that happen when you combine voice, context, and advertising; one of which is that our users have 8x more interactions with advertisements than they would any other mobile advertising platform.
As an expert on creepy robots (http://creepyrobots.tumblr.com) i declare this to be less creepy than expected. if it worked they'd have a video, not a picture.
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Tom Clancy did that in 'The Cardinal of the Kremlin' back in '88.
Amazing website. I will definitely subscribe as soon as you upgrade to iOS5. Keep up the good work, and shift to iOS5 soon.
That is why Voyager 1 has a disk with pictures and Voyager 2 is following with a suponea from RightHaven to 'Alien Doe' for rights violations :-)

While I don't doubt for a second that should our probe come into the possesion of another intelligent species, they would publish copies of the pictures on their version of the Internet, as they aren't signatories of out international copyright treaties they wouldn't be culpable, however you and I, should we make say a really cool t-shirt with these designs on them, well we would be violating someone's copyright.

Someday, assuming someone finds the probe before it gets sucked into a black hole. It will be a really interesting story.
Considering I feel obligated to "like" any inanities my employer posts on their facebook page, and considering the size of the Toyota corporation (employees+astroturfers), I'm surprised it isn't an order of magnitude higher.
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I don't really want to intrude on her life to ask just what happened---it's not any of my business---but I would like to know if, whatever did happen, the technorati/HN/FB/etc publicity helped find/save/help her.
Check out the Dresden Codex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Codex There's also this interesting short story: http://lesswrong.com/lw/qk/that_alien_message/
As a NASA project, the images are government owned and therefore public domain.

Works created directly by the federal government are in the public domain. Works created for the government by contractors or works acquired by the federal government can be copyrighted. (And not that it applies here, but works created by state governments can also be copyrighted.)

That's the law as I understand it. I agree it's insane for stuff like this to be copyrighted; it makes no sense to give copyright protection to works funded by and for the public.
Thanks, checking it out. I've been using Vox up until this point but it doesn't support playlists :(
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Have you looked into the possibility of two-way sync, or is that a non-starter? For now, iTunes is still necessary for syncing iDevices, and keeping two libraries updated sounds like no fun.
The only point to rewriting is to extend the project.

You can't always predict if new features will be wanted.
So unless you want to have to wait on a rewrite for each new feature you will need a rewrite.

Rewriting all your code because you might need to extend it is a bigger waste of your time than spending that 20% longer to make all your code extendible.

If you don't want to rewrite for the new feature then you contribute to the spaghetti.

Due to your bad code it'll take increasingly long to add features and you will eventually spend longer implementing the whole system (with extra features) than implementing a nice version first.
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The Fraunhofer team will be displaying a prototype of the robot at the EuroMold 2011 trade fair that runs from November 29 to December 2 in Frankfurt, Germany. They have still couple days to tweak it.
Way too many to list. Also, there are many different types of standardized testing, and each has its own set of benefits and drawbacks.

If you want to read a more intellectual take on the issues with high stakes testing, Alfie Kohn has some good books on this. If you want to know the specific problems with No Child Left Behind, then Diane Ravitch's new book probably does a good job explaining it. But it's difficult to really understand the issue without reading a lot of different books on education in general, since testing by definition is designed to enforce its own normative preconceptions.
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it's ironic to me to read this comment on news.yc, a site populated almost entirely by people who have formed a level of emotional relationship with the YC brand.

reading about it in such blunt terms might make it seem silly, but yes, people do want to associate themselves with global brands. they become part of people's identity, and i would think an internet person would have a better understanding of this than most, as we have more interactions with fanboys than most people.
I completely agree - I watched the video and it really could take this entire market by storm. Who knows where it could end up - I am looking forward to testing it - I pledged today!!
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This is very impressive. I really like the app icon. But it's refusing to import my iTunes library (10.6.8).
I can only wonder what sort of toys kids will be playing with once we have cheap 3D printers and everybody can do this.

I wonder if schools will have to ban robot spiders someday?
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It is worth recognising though that touch did exist before iOS, something a lot of people don't realise. It wasn't in consumer products so much, but it had been out there for quite some time.
What I meant by the piracy analogy is that you are assuming.

I'm not exactly comparing their purposes but the reasons people buy them. To do a proper comparison you would have to ask every single iOS device owner if they bought the thing for games, as the main reason for the purchase, to compare them with a device that is only good for gaming. You cannot assume to compare purchase numbers between two devices if people buy them for different reasons even if some features of the two products overlap.

It's the same comparison that people keep doing with PCs and consoles. Everybody buys a console for gaming (which is slowly changing, granted) while not everyone who buys a PC does so for gaming.
I haven't been able to read this status update (it keeps timing out for some reason), so I'm just going off the title here. *

The downside of these hugely public, and permanent, appeals for information on someone is that everyone will want to know every detail of what happened, will discuss it, and dissect it publicly.

Imagine a situation where someone in our technology community quietly embarks on a suicide plan, as many people do every day. Once the word has gone out and a public search starts, there is an enormous pressure to go through with it successfully. Knowing that you're going to step back into a shitstorm of thousands of people asking what's happened. Which is going to encircle your name for a long time, if not forever.

I'm not saying there's anything to learn from this - it's just something to consider. I am in no way questioning the judgement of friends raising the alarm. It's just that strangers will feel, rightly or wrongly, that having read, and perhaps spread, an appeal that they are entitled to know the details of the outcome.

* I have absolutely no idea what's happened in this case.
Do you have a business model? There might be a serious market for this. Maybe keep the app free, even open source, and charge for an iOS Remote style app?
If you:

1. evaluate the default settings with which MongoDB ships and
2. evaluate MongoDB performance with more strict,
consistent options and learn that it's quite slow and
3. look at my comment above

... then you will quickly see that MongoDB is not RDBMS like at all in terms of data safety and consistency goals.

Currently 10gen is shooting for light-weight web workloads to spread the product, and they're very successful.
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You might look into LaunchBar and QuickSilver, which both offer some pretty nice features for finding songs via search.
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To be even more correct, Usenet was, in fact, there before the Internet. It predates TCP/IP by two years, and originally ran over dialup UUCP connections.
iPhone sync is always going to be difficult: you are forever chasing a moving target, although the libimobiledevice and libgpod guys have done a great job. The encryption used to sign the music database on devices released after iOS4(+original iPad) hasn't been cracked yet (they changed it from the previous versions), although you can edit a file to tell the device to use the old db encryption if you have jailbroken your phone (I've not tested this with iPhone4S; things may have changed again). Building a product around the feature is probably unwise — Apple is a capricious master.

(Disclaimer: I develop a competing os x music player which can add music to (some) iOS devices)
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The headline says it all. Both the Facebook page and the website offer no additional information. I'm glad she's safe.
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I probably won't use this to replace iTunes, but I will probably switch to it from Cog as my FLAC player. I know SHN is no longer developed, but does Enqueue support it?
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Using a POST seems like a solid workaround. It might even be possible to include a POST form from your default email notification.
Yea, that sounds like a good way to get lots of unfriends. Who comes up with this stuff?
i don't get any new functionality from the omnibox either, and even searching on google.com/ncr for +pepsi doesn't return a google+ page, just pepsi's website.
This looks great. If I hadn't migrated from iTunes to Spotify, I would definitely try it out.
The videos takes forever to load for me.

I have sent an email.

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I think the big difference is going to be software. I expect that Amazon's engineers are going to be able to pull that off better than Barnes and Noble's.

Nothing against the devs at B&N, it's just that B&N is a book store that writes a bit of software while Amazon is a software company that happens to run an online store.
>No way to turn off Growl messages? Oops.

You should be able to turn them off from the Growl preference pane. I was always under the impression that this was the recommended way to do things, the idea being to have a central place to control them. Now that full Growl costs money and people start using Mist (which as far as I know has no central pref pane to turn off notifications) I guess devs will have to start adding individual Growl options to every app.
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Overcyn,

This is phenomenal. Were you a Windows Media Plyaer v8-v11 user? The playlist on the side reminds me of my favorite feature from the WMP8 days, where I could queue up music even while another album played. It was wonderful, and when I went Mac full-time nearly a decade ago, I lost the easy queueing in iTunes (where I had to create a playlist every single time).

Bravo, this is a great app and I would love to support it. I'd be willing to pay $39, but that may just be me. I'm going to switch to it full-time and see what happens.

And I don't need the same piece of software to handle my iPhone and my music library. Don't bother supporting iPhone sync, it's just not part of the value of a good music player. I can open iTunes when I sync (and now with iOS 5, I don't think I'll ever need to manually sync again).

If you want a gratis NewsBlur premium account, let me know: samuel@ofbrooklyn.com. It's the only way I know to actually pay you for such great software.
Excellent music player. I noticed one little bug: during import of library from iTunes, the percentage on the top-right is incorrect. For me, it set it at 209%.

Otherwise, the app is fairly solid. The design could use a bit of tweaking, but that's pretty much it.
A big problem is most jobs say "competitive salary" without specifying what that means, and only after a few phone calls and maybe a full interview you find out it's significantly less than average pay.

It would be nice if a job board could filter out these low paying jobs that nobody wants.
The specs on this are all I could hope for, except for the display. It has the same pixel count as my iPhone 4, spread out over four times the area. I don't want it to have four times the pixels, but 1280x720 would be great. Jailbroken, it'd be a perfect slab to carry.
I'd add consumer brand confidence B&N vs Amazon. In this case B&N needs to overcome at least $50 worth of Amazon's influence to even the odds.

Another thing I'd add is brick and mortar retail availability - in this case I believe the Nook is also available at Target as well as B&N's stores, and that might influence some shoppers who want to try before they buy.
It imported my little "other" iTunes Library of about 1,500 songs, albeit with some stalls. However, for my main 20,000 song library it just crashes out.

I hate to say it considering the other feedback, but I'm not a fan of the UI. The giant words instead of icons, off colour and sort of grafted on now playing box, and no ability to hide the "browser" all put me off pretty strongly. Integrated preferences was a bad choice, too IMO. That's a good lazy solution for an app like Chrome to support all platforms, but for a proper OS X app I see no reason to avoid a standard prefs window. Prefs shouldn't be given equal prominence to actual application functions. In fact, because you are using words instead of icons and "Preferences" is such a long word, you are actually giving it greater prominence.

I'm lost as to the purpose of the sidebar. I get that it jumps to the currently playing album, but why can I scroll around to other unrelated albums? It's like there are two completely independent browsing frames in this window. Plus I can delete things in the other frame with the "x" button, but they just go away temporarily until I start playing a song again... I just don't get it.

Honestly, besides startup time, iTunes does everything this does better and it does it with a more refined UI. I know the standard response is "great job! can't wait to see the progress!" but I feel like I need to be honest. There are a million iTunes replacements and companions out there. They all suffer from requiring more effort to manage two music playing apps and offer dubious benefit. They all have small dedicated user bases but they never take the platform by storm like they seem to be hoping to. I'll keep it around as I would like to see if it can handle a 20,000 song library with future updates, but I don't see myself using it over iTunes. Sorry.

EDIT - Before you reply about the draw of features like extended filetype support, last.fm and queuing, consider that almost every iTunes replacement/companion (and there literally are dozens of them) has these features already. That's also a reason to take comments like "Can't stand iTunes bloat, definitely interested!" with a grain of salt. If these people were actually receptive to change, they most likely would have switched to an alternative long ago.
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Can you explain what the metal plate and calibration circle are for? (edit: I meant, how do they work?)

To me, the plate looks like Death Star blueprints, so I'm a little relieved to hear that it's not what I originally thought :)
Agreed. I have been waiting for iPhone and Android to build QR scanning capability natively in the Camera app.
BTW, Android phones (atleast until Gingerbread) does NOT have it built-in either. You have to use Goggles apps (or I prefer RedLaser)
While lots of us are nosy enough to want to know, the answer is that it isn't any of our business. If she wants to say, she will... presumably after she gets out of the hospital.
Some the the databases grouped under the over-broad NoSQL umbrella have reasons to use them other than magic scaling sauce. Redis, for example, is a ridiculously fast in-memory database that gives you data structures like sets, lists, hash tables, strings, numbers, and so on. It's tremendously useful for some problems.

For example, at Greplin we're using Redis for our document analysis pipeline. We're pushing thousands of documents through Redis every second, using it to durably hold data while it gets passed around through our various back-end worker server clusters. We've been very happy with how Redis has been performing; it handles the write-heavy workload beautifully, and is way more resistant to data loss than most systems for doing this sort of thing. We'll be even happier when it gets server-side Lua scripting in a stable release, and we can define our own commands. The point is, though, that this would be crazy to do with a traditional SQL database, or even something like Riak or CouchDB or most of the other NoSQL databases. Redis fills a different niche, and filling a lot of cool niches is what I think the NoSQL stuff should be about.
The xNook have a decisive, killer advantage to me : they support countless available free ePubs.
It reminds me of my opinion on folks like Russell Crowe. Incredibly talented at what they do, but destroy people to further their product. Crowe uses and abuses people. He also has a reality distortion field, but woe betide you if you're in his way. Friends of mine say "but it's okay because he's such an artist!" to which I say bullshit, you can provide his product without being a mongrel. And people do.