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Seriously. This is a rehash of a press release/slide deck. You would think an in-depth look would at least include some hands on impressions. This is more "Asus Transformer Prime Press Release In-Depth Look".

One thing that stuck with me about The Verge's Asus Ultrabook review is how bad they found the keyboard to be. And here the "article" states:

Extremely thin tablet+extremely thin keyboard, both made from aluminum and packed together – what more could you want?
This is for Flash Player for browsers. If you're going with AIR you'll be fine.

That's the problem with this conversation. Flash haters are wrongfully disseminating information (lookin' at you, Gruber), which is causing more confusion for the consumer - someone we're supposed to be looking out for. I don't care either way if Flash supports mobile/TV/etc but this is really about timing for the writers, the death of Steve Jobs, "he was right all this time", etc, etc.

My issue is, tell the story straight. Hater or not, this isn't the end of Flash on mobile/tv, it's the end of Flash on mobile/tv within the browser - something that didn't really exist in the first place. And if you think about it, hater or not, does a Flash app belong in a browser on smaller screens or limited resources? It's a logical step for Adobe to prefer HTML5 within the browser because it is more fitting. Adobe will continue to allow AIR -> device publishing as it had before.

Before these "Flash discontinued" articles:

Able to publish mobile apps with Flash? YES
Able to publish device apps with Flash? YES
Flash run in the browser for all mobile/devices? NO
Create Flash plugin in the future for all mobile/device browsers? *YES*

After these "Flash discontinued" articles:

Able to publish mobile apps with Flash? YES
Able to publish device apps with Flash? YES
Flash run in the browser for all mobile/devices? NO
Create Flash plugin in the future for all mobile/device browsers? *NO*

Adobe is no longer pursuing a Flash Player plugin for mobile/tv browsers. That's really the story. Whether that spells the end for Flash or not is anybody's guess. Just tell it straight, please.
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It is interesting...I had never heard of the Pomodoro technique but independently developed a method in which each "work unit" is: 25 minutes. I wonder how many others have also concluded that 25 minutes is short enough not to be scary (if you have to force yourself to do it) but long enough to get something done.
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Yeah, if you look at your circles, the friends that aren't on G+ show up with an email icon in their bubble indicating that you are sharing with them via email only. I've suggested multiple times that the same icon be shown in the suggestions list. It really sucks that it is not on by default.
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I'm assuming your application is listed on an app store, so have you tried the simple approach of emailing the appropriate people and asking for the app to be removed? I'm sure the TOS prevent this kind of behavior and they would be glad to assist you.
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Hi all. It was three and a half years ago that I posted a "review my startup" message about Balsamiq Mockups to the old Business of Software forums[1], but it sure feels like a few lifetimes ago.

I have grown a lot, our company has grown, the Internet has grown. The bar is definitely higher now.

One thing that hasn't changed is my thirst for honest, qualified feedback from smart, technical people.

So, if you have a little time today or this weekend, it would be great if you could take a look at what we built and tells us where we could improve.

We put a lot of love into it, but we know there are some rough edges and can take the criticism.

I wrote a little announcement post too that gives a little more info.[2]

Thanks so much HN crowd! I'll be checking in here in the next few days...unless everything crashes of course... :)

Peldi for the Balsamiq team.

[1] http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.643216.2...

[2] http://blogs.balsamiq.com/product/2011/11/10/mybalsamiq/
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I up-voted this because... well... I'd be curious to read the answers as well.

As for my two cents, one of the most creative PR stunts I've seen was a bit of a controversial website a buddy of mine runs announcing the development of an iPhone app. Mind you, all they did was announce the development of an app, but the tech press ate it up, claiming the Apple App Store had OK'd this controversial app. Again, while neither things were true (either that an app was done or the app store had approved it) the tech press ate it up and they got some huge traffic.
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Anyone know of a good and recent ØMQ/AMPQ/STOMP comparison, specifically with attention paid to the implementations available?
Actually app inventor allows creating new apps for non programmers, my brother, for example, created a small game in few days, if it was easy to put app inventor programs on app store - it would be much better.
cool, i'll try to make it
"But that seems foolish because at any time they could be fired and be left with only their vested shares."

You've just hit on why startup equity for employees is very, very risky.
It is a big deal for all those people who like(d) Android because it is/was open, not because of its standard of quality.
I probably should have mentioned this in the text. I previously had an issue somewhat close to this one. Someone published an app named "<appname> - <some keywords>" while I already had published "<appname>". I emailed Apple and they just told me they had let the developer know about it. I never heard from the developer nor Apple again.
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It's actually fairly straightforward to achieve. What you want is a structure that rewards people linearly for the time that they contributed to the company relative to the "duration" of the company. To achieve this you only need two mechanism:
1. All incentive equity goes away if the employee is terminated for cause or leaves during probation (some number of months, we use 3).
2. For all other scenarios the employee gets to keep TE/TC shares (the rest are re-purchased if you are using reverse vesting or don't vest if you use options).

TC = Time of the Company from founding to liquidity event in days (or weeks as long as the unit is small relative to the expected duration of the company)

TE = Time in days that the employee worked at the company

It's actually really that simple. Obviously other factors like impact, performance, seniority, etc. play a role but those get adjusted by the magnitude of the stock grant and not the vesting process. We use a reverse vesting shares to give employees tax advantages but the same concept could work for vesting options.

The advantage of this approach is that everything is nice and linear (expect the 3 months probation cliff). A lot of sneaky behaviour is just not worth it when things are linear. Remember, lack of alignment is the big killer of start-ups.
Just another get rich quick schemes.
The specific effects are local to the business. Broadly, the business will be affected by the global economic environment, making everything from raising money to executing sales more difficult.

Personally, I had an interent startup that went through a lot of challenges due to the financial crisis in 2008, even though we weren't in finance or even the US. But it made the funding environment so bad we had to change plans for some time.

The current tech market is stronger than most other segments, but don't get too comfortable. Internet businesses aren't divorced from real world economics.
Well, if that's the case - why can't one delete a comment after a certain period of time?
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IANAL, but your Wikipedia contributions wouldn't count as personal information (unless it is explicitly about yourself). However the logging of when and which page you edited are, so those could potentially be affected.
Context is everything in these situations. A little info on what your start-up does, who you intend to target, etc would help.
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It seems you hadn't a pro app because you're outside of US and you can't publish it on android market. I think google should expand publishing rights to developers outside of US.
Hence "can".
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Do you mean "how much a 'regional' crisis affects an internet business based in the US"?

I'm pretty sure that if this leads to a break up or two-tier Eurozone, then it is going to touch every business, every where, because economies are like kids at school -- once one gets sick it passes it on to all the others. It's certainly going to affect everyone in Europe, even those that aren't in the €. It's going to affect exchange rates. It's going to affect the ability of many people to buy your goods. And so on...
It's the App Store. I didn't publish a Pro version because I preferred to use IAP to remove the ads rather than publishing a separate binary.
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All I can really say about this is that I want one. Now.
Mistake? A mistake is bringing me the House salad when I asked for Caesar. A rodent in my salad is an H-bomb!

Forget the restaurant's response; how the hell do you manage to bring out a salad with a mouse in it? What broken process led to someone being served with extra protein?
From all the articles I've read on the demise of Flash, Flash isn't going away; it's just not moving into the future. I could be wrong, but browsers and devices that support Flash now will continue to support it, but Adobe won't be pushing the platform forward.

I think Flash still has a place in the market (device UI, embedded online gaming, although HTML 5 is catching up really fast), but with the explosion of connected mobile devices that have a hard time with Flash, that place has gotten much smaller.
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We have been assigned the task of designing (and implementing) a framework for distributed optimization in the context of inverse modelling.

The target computing env. are both GPU clusters (infiniband) as well as other distributed systems (high latency & prone to error).

As for the optimization algorithms it will support both derivative free methods (e.g. VXQR1 or GA) as well as some variation of Gradient Descent.

As we would like the framework to be fault-tolerant MPI is not an option(?).

What message system would be appropriate - I was thinking of 0mq, but I am getting mixed reactions
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That's funny. As I was reading the slides, I was thinking about just how unconfident (in the sense of the presentation) most Java appears to me. I'm thinking specifically of the messily nested try/catch/finally blocks needed when creating a JDBC connection (finally cleaned up a little in 1.7). Or perhaps the abundance of stuff like

if (foo != null and foo.getSomething()) {

or even weird little conventions that you get used to, like

if ("".equals(aString))

I think with some effort, you can avoid some of this sort of thing, but it's not always easy.

(Or, perhaps you didn't intend to include Java as a member of the set "decent statically typed languages?" ;))
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I will ask the opposite question, what are the goods you prefer to buy off-line and why?
0MQ is a product, AMQP and STOMP are protocols. In addition to that both AMQP and STOMP assume classic star topology with a messaging server in the middle, whereas 0MQ allows you to connect your applications directly and create arbitrary topologies.
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Ah, the old "You're not our friend so its not our problem". While I do not have any ideas on how to deal with it outside of emailing them, the least I would do is make a disclaimer in your app's listing stating clearly that you are in no way affiliated with this "Pro" version if you haven't already. Better to save a few of those potential customers then lose them to the person who ripped you off. As far as getting the listing removed.. I'll leave that up to the powerful HN mind.
One thing the article doesn't point out is that AI methods in the past did a poor job of detecting breast cancer. This is an important new result and big step for the field.
There is something I find truly funny. The image shows us that there is a 40 pin connector. How is that important to an end user? Are 40 pin connectors better than 39 pin connectors?
that's what I meant. exactly.
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As mentioned, there's a very simple solution as mentioned below: vest monthly. IMO startup employees, especially engineers in this market, should start demanding it during negotiations -- it's a very simple way to defend yourself as an employee.
It's shocking how cavalier economic folks like Krugman are when it comes to dismissing analogies between national finances and personal finances. Yes an individual does not have the ability to print their way out of debt, however, that doesn't diminish the fact that those doing the debasement are committing fraud against the people whose interests they claim to protect.
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I've worked from my home office for the past few years, and I've figured out it's the ideal solution for my work pattern.

I have a good work ethic, and stay very productive (better than when I'm in a client's offices.) And IM is a life-saver with the teams I'm on.

The biggest challenge to transitioning to WFH was not the kids. They respect my office as a workspace and really go out of their way not to interrupt me.

No, the biggest challenge was my wife. It took over a year -- a YEAR -- for her to recognize that I was working. For the longest time, I was "playing on my computer" or "surfing the Internet" or whatever the daily description might entail.

One day, she emotionally finally reached a conclusion: "I simply cannot count on you as being available to take care of things here at home while you're working." Bingo!

And that was the crux of it -- working at home didn't mean working while living life at home, it meant physically working from home. I explained how I was mentally at work, and not at home. As soon as she accepted the fact that I was earning a living while still being in our home, everything fell into place.
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I'm living in a third-world country, and making a living from the Internet. Can someone with experience/knowledge tell me how much this will affect the Internet business? I do web development (HTML5/WordPress/JavaScript)
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The funny thing is, most rads physicians would probably welcome this, as mammography is often the least preferred sub-specialty (my wife is a radiologist and feels this way, and I've encountered many radiologists with the same outlook).
Besides article being interesting, it's an interesting approach of presenting computer science to my dinosaur obsessed son.
I'd start with just leaving the word out. "This piece of software is useless." will most likely convey your point. Perhaps, if you wished to ramp up the emphasis, you could say that "this piece of software is totally useless." I also like the word "profoundly" for extra emphasis.
You say you're not in the US - where are you based? Because if it's Europe you don't need US legal advice. Your app is being sold to those in the EU by iTunes Sarl, as is the competing/infringing app. I know this isn't immediately helpful, but you shouldn't be under the misapprehension you can only enforce things through the US courts vis a vis the App Store. There is also a similar Australian iTunes subsidiary.
You have to resort to the "I don't know a better adjective or adverb" so I will throw a moronic word into the fray! Emotion comes from believing in the product you are talking about. Relying on an asinine word that has no real purpose in the sentence is stupid. Think about it! You say what the #$%^. Really it means "What the sexual intercourse was that! Or that's some good defecation!

In my opinion the way that you talk and your method of speech tells me a lot about the person. If someone wants to sell me on an idea and they begin swearing that person will never sell ma anything. The individual will not work for me! And the company that the idiot is representing will not get my business!

By calling a person a writer, you have now put a label on that person that they are a professional, that they know what they are doing, what they are talking about. A writer targets a specific audience. By the language a writer uses, he will gain the adoration of some, and will drive others away. I guess it all depends on who you want following you. I personally would rather not listen to swearing. In fact, I will walk out of a talk or presentation if the person swears to "enhance" his vocabulary by swearing.

Kinda like steroids--make you look good, makes you feel strong--but it isn't real. And the majority of people would rather not here a pro on steroids.
I am seeing this comment pattern more often now; Its like the opening sentence is meant to insulate the commenter from being dinged in the event that this article turns out to be a honeypot.
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This is about personal information not about creative works.

Besides if you contribute to Wikipedia you have to agree to a license which would obviously trump any privacy measures.
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To me this isn't a problem with nil. This is a problem with the create method. create either returns you the object or something ambiguous (nil). it COULD return you the object or something useful, like an error class, or an error code, or whatever....

If you care enough about the state of what's being returned then it would be trivial to test if the returned object was of the class you were expecting (Account) and if not handle what it did return (some error indication) as appropriate.
I was wondering the same thing.

To give my opinion on the matter I like the 13" Zenbook's 1600x900 resolution better than MacBook Air's 1440x900. The 13" Macbook Pro has 1280x800 which is useless to me.

When running Visual Studio or Eclipse I definitely like the extra 160 pixels to have the sidebar wider without sacrificing space from the editor.
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For me it's the opposite. Home life comes first, and work is a secondary thing. If my wife needs some help, or the kids want me to play with them on the wii, I usually do. If there's an 'emergency' at work, say a server has blown up or something, then sure, I lock myself away for a bit until it's fixed.

Work will still be there when they're in bed.

I'm not suggesting that either way is right, but just that those are my priorities and they work for me.

Also it may have some to do with my own ways of working - I intersperse work with playing games, browsing the net, doing DIY, playing games with kids, walking the dog etc. I don't have any "work" or "non work" times really (Or an office - I usually work on the sofa in the living room). When I get stuck on work I might play a game on the Wii, and solve the problem while I'm racing round a mario cart track. It works for me, but quite possibly not others...
Contact Apple, but in a forceful way. Word it as a cease and desist, with a demand that the other app be removed or renamed, and send it to the App Store team, as well as Apple legal, and the developers themselves.

Apple passes this stuff on verbatim to the other developer. (I have been on the receiving end myself.) If it's a mealy-mouthed pretty-please, I'm sure they'll ignore it, if they're dickish enough to name-squat on your app.

It helps tremendously if you've got a trademark for the app name (even a pending trademark) you're golden. Or, if there's any other infringement (i.e. they stole your icon, which is copyright infringement) you're in good shape, too.

Edited to add: not a lawyer, my legal advice is worthless, etc.
I think truthiness and validity/completeness are different things. Overloading truthiness sounds to me like a recipe for confusion and less expressiveness.

That said, I'm all for experimentation and would love to see this idea tried.
Why not just release your own "Appname Pro", take out the advertisements, and charge $0.99?
It isn't necessarily the swearing, but the stupidity of using the word. A person may as well say "This software is acrylic useless" The swear word used has absolutely no place in the sentence, the definition of the word is what makes it useful, not the "shock" value.
I'm in Spain. I didn't think that getting their app removed from the EU stores would make a noticeable difference, since the app is only popular in English-speaking countries. However, your point really makes sense. I'll be contacting my lawyer later today just in case.
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Names are unique in the App Store, so it's too late for that.
Few hundred dollars over a year is nothing. Point of my message was that there are only a few people in the world who could live just by blogging and researching topics to blog about all day long.
I haven't seen anyone complaining about the keyboard on the Asus Transformer though, which would seem more relevant, right? Amazon has it as 4* with 138 reviews.
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And it won't go away, even when Flash finally dies, because people were doing it on purpose. Usability is not everything to everyone.
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