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The touchpad and keyboard on my 2009 Macbook Pro are perhaps my favorite parts. I would have never believed that a touchpad could be as good, let alone better than a mouse! Resizing and scrolling with gestures is amazing.
It would definitely have to be designed for the kind of crowd that's never installed Jekyll.

As paleolithic as it sounds, I think a CMS build on flat files would be a lot easier to manage than a CMS built on a relational data store.

If you don't need accounts and personalization, or can just do that all client side, you could simply load balance across micro AWS instances pulling from the git repo and stick everything behind Cloudfront -- all for a few quarters an hour.
"At this point in my company it was far more valuable to land a dozen orders... This part doesn’t need to “scale,” it just [needs] to happen."

A thousand times this. I think this is the biggest takeaway from the article. I think as entrepreneurs, we see something both scary and mundane like cold-calling and think "I don't want to do this. There's no way I'm going to make $1MM+ calling people from the phone book." I know I suffer from this frame of mind, and the above quote is a good dose of reality.
So everything is great about the laptop except for the two main ways you interface with it.
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I actually rather like the name "fish operator". I just wanted to point out that Googling for that phrase wouldn't really work.
Google+ is certainly fast, I just wish it were quicker about showing me valid/updated state.

I've never used any website where the data I was seeing was so obviously out of date across the board as it is on Google+. Yes, eventually it coalesces towards correctness, but I don't think this model works well for things like notifications and such.

"Oh look I have a new notification... oh wait, no I don't, that's from like an hour ago and I already looked at it."

Speed is a feature, but so is not making your users think your software is just plain buggy and too much local state caching is basically indistinguishable from a bug for many users.. and in many contexts it can also be annoying even for those who know roughly why it is happening.
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Haha yeah... We should still try to get some of our eggs out of the basket, though.
I think this happened precisely because he is famous. Facebook assumed he was a fake Salman Rushdie, and demanded identification.
Not UDIDs. UDIDs are 40 hex digits; the Siri ID is 30.
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As a US citizen, I know a little bit about obtaining visas for foreign nationals coming to work in the US. I don't know, however, how an American could work abroad.

- For engineers who are US citizens, where are the best places to work abroad?

- What kind of regulation and/or tax issues might an American expect?

- Has anyone done this, have good or bad experiences working abroad?
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a response like that would make me a fan and a contributor for life
There's an important difference you are missing here, though, which is that even if you don't know what specific type context a function is being used in, you still have some very precise information about what the function may do. For example, you may not know what 'mzero' is going to do in this type context, but you do know that it has some specific properties (e.g. mzero >>= f === mzero) and can extrapolate from there.

You'll have similar problems in dynamic dispatch systems: what does this object do? It could do so many things. In Haskell, we demand that the object always follow a certain set of rules. This is very useful.
Hi Shalmanese, I do have my contact info listed here => http://oobly.com/contact/

In respect for Ilya and those close to him, I have deleted everything that I heard from my source. Sorry for your loss.
Looks like guzzoni.apple.com is named after Didier Guzzoni (http://www.ai.sri.com/~guzzoni/), an employee at SRI.

He's also listed on an interesting Apple patent that was only filed a few weeks ago, "INTELLIGENT AUTOMATED ASSISTANT"(http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/WO2011088053).

Some very interesting implementation details there.
Hi 21echoes,

I am sorry for your loss. I have deleted everything that I heard from my source.
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If you read the other parts of the thread, or check the source code, you'll see that the whole content is loaded at once. There are no further requests. It's all already there with `display:none`.

document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].className += ' js'

.js #search-results { display:none; }

That's basically all you need.
Yeah, I see your point. But I think it would be lame for me to make fun of them for a year (or however long Honeycomb has existed in closed-source form) and then not at least acknowledge that they did finally release the source. I said "well done," but maybe "at least you're in compliance with the GPL" would be more appropriate.
> It's loaded with junkware, because paying two grand for a laptop doesn't get you a system that hasn't been sold to someone else.

On this topic, does anyone know of any major manufacturers who dont do this with their consumer machines?
I have had really bad experiences of late with Dell, Toshiba and HP, to the point where they come with what is essentially malware built in. As one example, our latest dell purchase redirects search queries, puts a link to ebay on the desktop which comes back once deleted, and prevents you from adding an alternative search provider to IE.
When does this actually happen?

Oh, for Pete's sake. I'm not learning what I hoped to here, and you've made up your mind.
Thanks for the feedback. Some quick responses:

- You're absolutely right, we definitely need more error feedback.

- We're planning on writing a Markdown tutorial on site and building a browser-based editor (based on Ace, most likely). Will take this under advisement.

- I need to test with more variety of profile images. I held back on doing this until I could abstract away the entire image handling code.

- We wrote all the text files on a Mac so we're probably seeing some problems with Windows vs. *nix line-endings. I'll address this tomorrow.

- You're not the first person to be confused about how we're handling publishing, so we'll address this in a UI update.

- In terms of publishing images, we want to be able to process more than just text files in your Dropbox, so eventually you'll be able to relatively link to images instead of having to host them somewhere else. Our browser-based editor will let you browse your Dropbox and select images.

- We do support custom titles (and summaries) using the MultiMarkdown formatting syntax. Just make the first line of your text file look like this:

Title: The title I want
Summary: A summary of my text file

And that will customize the title and give you a summary. If that title line is missing, it'll just set the title to the filename.

---

Again, thanks for the feedback and I hope you can give it another go once we make a few tweaks. I really appreciate you input.
"Well done, you've put in the bare minimum amount of effort required to still get away with the open-source moniker" is not particularly flattering...
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What is your revenue model? Ads? Price? DLC? It makes a difference. As well as the market.

In general though, I have found that the best use of your time and money is making a good demonstration video on YouTube (which improves all of your future posts/messages you distribute anywhere), and a PRMac release ($20).

I'm not endorsing PRMac, but I have had great success with it, and in the long run it helps your search rankings.
is it notably more challenging to develop for Android during periods when the source is not yet public?

Not really. It's occasionally convenient to have the source, but it's not at all required and the documentation doesn't assume that you do.
From the article:

"The iPhone 4S sends identifiers everywhere. So if you want to use Siri on another device, you still need the identfier of at least one iPhone 4S. Of course we’re not publishing ours"
Yes, I know of one. I'm sure you do too.
Wow, what an ignorant article. I own the previous version of this (Sony does iterate...this is the 4th iteration of the Z series), and I absolutely love it. I can't speak about the new version, but the version I have has a fantastic keyboard with much more key travel than an Air. I wouldn't be shocked if Sony messed up the keyboard and trackpad though. They have a certain talent for screwing up ergonomics in the name of looks.

But really, my main issue is that this article appears to be written by someone with an agenda and little actual knowledge. The laptop's name, for example is the Z14, not that long string which is the model number. Practically all laptops, even the Air, have those model numbers associated with the specific configuration. The box for my Air has it listed on the back, in fact.
I agree that pressure and strict timelines can be a pain, but compliance with the GPL is not optional.
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I didn't really run any super advanced analytics. But when you're there 2 hours a day 6 days a week, it tends to stick in your mind when you're progressing and when you aren't.

But to give you a sense, it took me 3 years to go from 50kg to 64kg body weight (first ~8kg was in 6 months or so). 64 is my IBM limit so it's incredibly difficult to go up from that.

I could squat-lift 130kg, benchpress about 80kg, biceps curl around 25kg and so on ... it was epic.

I've since taken up boxing and in a way it's even awesomer.
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Sony does iterate...the article is just ignorant. It used three different laptop lines to prove that Sony doesn't iterate. Walkman, Discman, PS controller and even the Z series laptop this talks about all were extensively iterated products. Now whether all iterations were good is another matter entirely...
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Diablo II is actually the one game I return to, time and time again - but not really so much for the game as the socialisation.

I've never had a battle.net account - instead I've always played co-operative LAN with friends. The madness and the glory, the "oh shit" moments where you start cursing under your breath and everybody else piles over to where you are to help, and the tactical analysis over pizza - that's what Diablo II's about for me.

I think the advent of MMORPGs with voice communication has made them much more social - a friend of mine who's a serious WoW player spends as much time talking about his guildmates as he does about the gameplay.
And honestly, the fact that we've come to this indicates just how completely Google has failed at being an open-source citizen.

Actually it just indicates the large number of analysts/trolls who were confidently proclaiming that Google would never release Android source again.
Why did paypal mysteriously freezed donations to diaspora?
For my money, the best "ultraportable" around is a ThinkPad X: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/x-series
They've always been in compliance with the GPL; the Honeycomb kernel sources were always available.
If they have the talent, time, and funds (they have all three btw), why shouldn't they? The might have not a lot of competition right now, but that will change in the future I'm sure. Any competitive advantage is a plus IMHO. As a developer who uses github everyday, I love that I can use my normal workflow to post to a blog if I so wish.
They released the GPL parts.
You are correct. That is approximately my feeling about the situation, but, like giving a dog a treat when it behaves well, I think it's good to praise companies for behaving adequately because I think it increases the chances that they will keep doing it.

You hear that, diBona? Keep releasing the code!
For a great counterexample, watch the first 10 minutes of this screencast of data-driven programming, in which the the data types for OCR, like PixelData, are first written as essentially undefined, and then refined and changed as needed by the code as it develops. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045422s6xik
A cloud DDOS would not scale that well. Even if amazon did not shut down instances because of ToS violations how many free accounts do you think could be created? Compare that with the ease of renting botnets...
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Hi Everyone!

I have released my app to the AppStore called Harvey Vs TheBadBits. It kind of a clone of Super Crate Box but in an Atari Style. I didn't want to release an all out clone so I have decided to release the game for free and release the source.

So here it is:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/harvey-versus-thebadbits/id477710593?ls=1&mt=8

https://github.com/safetyscissors/Harvey-Vs-The-Bad-Bits
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I hadn't heard that. Is that verifiable by any means at this point?

It still doesn't justify the "open source" moniker, but it's still good.
Yes and in fact what he did was more ambitious than just forking android.

Since I am getting downvoted let me clarify....There is nothing special in the Kindle....It just uses ordinary hardware with an open source operating system...yes any kid could make something like that....But what amazon is really selling is the services they have built through which people are going to buy content on the kindle!
I will never, ever work 16 hour days like this. That said, if I cofounded Twitter and Square (and thus had that much of an effect on the world), I sure as hell would work a lot.
Same here... darn, I know.
I love my x120e, and it doesn't need quotes around the word ultraportable.
I hadn't heard that. Is that verifiable at this point by some means?
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So, we'll have plenty of relays, all fundamentally under Amazon's control.

But exit nodes are a problem; how can we get people to run those?
Techdirt doing procedural reporting about congress.

Do yourself a favor and search for [ycombinator tzs techdirt] (actually, if you have a little time, you can leave the "techdirt" out of that query, because 'tzs is awesome) and get a feel for Techdirt's track record on stuff like this.

You can very safely assume that procedural shenanigans for this bill will be covered in excruciating detail by sites that haven't obliterated their own credibility, like the EFF. Meanwhile, all this posting did is get a bunch of people to spend time talking about how "congress is bought and sold" and the system needs to be replaced and something about Obama and boom look at that I flagged this story.

Really: go read 'tzs comments; they're fantastic.
pretty much, its an amazing machine, except for the keyboard, and touchpad.

I could be nitpicking since its still a nice keyboard. However, for that price, you should expect perfection.
I wrote a tutorial back in June on how to setup an ec2 exit-node for the Tor Challenge (https://www.eff.org/torchallenge). It also includes an automatic shutoff when you've reached the data limit of the free usage tier. I've only received one DMCA in the past 6 months I've had it running.

http://bryogenic.com/eff-tor-challenge-amazon-ec2-free-usage...

Edit: After reading through the site it looks like they basically did the same thing I did but created an AMI that you can just 'clone'. Either way, good for the Tor community.
> [playing cards] you are investing in to those relationships and fulfilling a very basic human desire for socialization.

I think your point of view, and pg's, is very utilitarian. Utilitarianism has its uses in many human activities, including writing code, but should not be invoked when talking about playing cards with friends. When I play card, I do NOT "invest" in relationships, I have no intent to fulfill anything. I am just having a great time with friends. Playing cards, or fishing, or chatting idly, is just a way to spend time doing nothing. And doing nothing, ie spending time without any "investment intent", is the way to enjoy fully your time.

Take another case: if you spend time reading a lengthy novel, say Proust, what is it for? Do you read it because you want to tell your friends you read it? Do you read it because you think it is an "investment", adding up to your knowledge of world literature? Do you read it because you want to learn how to write a novel? Learn about Proust? Understand why so many people admire this book? NONE of these reason is valid. All of them are "intents", "investments". All of them will actually destroy in the egg the only valid outcome of reading this novel, which is pure reading pleasure. (You'll have to pass some barriers to feel this pleasure, in the beginning)

The same holds for painting, music, etc. If you go to a Concert hall listening to Mozart or go to the Louvre and take this activity as an investment in your knowledge of art and your ability to talk cleverly about it, you better stay home watch TV.

The flip-side of this is that by actually reading lengthy novel, playing cards idly with friends, etc., and doing so without intent, you will in fact learn a lot about life, about humans, and also how to handle relationships. But the "without intent" part is essential.

To take your example about the president: I would LOVE the presidents of big or small countries to spend a lot of time doing nothing, chatting with "non-politician" friends, read lengthy novels. They would probably do less mistakes.

We live in a world where we are made believe that every second counts, like in TV series. It is not true. The only reason to live on earth is to be happy, happiness is a state of mind that need some idle time to spawn, let's stop running behind our ghost's shade.

[Edit: typo, clarity]
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I also have a Z. The keyboard isn't great, but I got used to it. The only real problem I have with it is the shift key. On the other hand, it got the arrow keys right--they're actually full-sized unlike the mini ones that other manufacturers (Apple included) seem to like. I've spent hours programming on the keyboard and it's been fine.

The fans are loud, but only if you use a significant amount of CPU, which I almost never do. If some errant process cough flash cough is taking up too much, I can hear it and deal with it (this alleviates the annoyance a bit).

The trackpad, on the other hand, is brilliant. Using multiple fingers works every time (on Linux, anyhow) and it's actually pleasant to use. I think that all your issues with it would be resolved with Linux; the bloatware is also gone. I've played around with Mac trackpads, and like this one more.
With Amazon kicking out Wikileaks out of EC2, how are they going to like Tor?
I think the parent meant that if you are a non-famous person and this kind of stuff happens to you, then you're screwed.
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Regex capture is the most obvious one. The $N variables are updated silently. You just don't think about it because it's so central to Perl.

There are also many things that update $_.
they really did fug up the keyboard and trackpad. The 2 finger swipe to scroll like on macs barely works, you have to do it a few times to make it work. The keyboard, you can type well on it, but its not the most comfortable feeling and the space bar flat out sucks. I have to tap the SB pretty hard to have it register.
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Awesome idea.

I spent 5 hours at a Tor hackfest once, and was extremely impressed by both the pragmatism and creativity of those folks.

This is just one more elegant dent in the right direction. Their "Tor Browser" project is another nice one.
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Interesting, he went to the same high school as Kobe Bryant.
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Good point. And if you look at the folks working in banking and management consulting, they'd laugh at the concept of a 9-5. 80+ hours / week is not that much of an outlier.
I'm sympathetic to the claims presented but how can Think file suit pro se? Corporation are considered separate persons and therefore cannot be represented pro se as has been held in numerous cases (e.g. Brandstein v. White Lamps). While there are limited exceptions for administrative claims, this suit is not being filed as a continuation of the process but rather for damages created by flaws in it.

It seems that the two options are to find counsel willing to represent Think pro bono or for Aaron to re-craft this as a personal claim.

Note that I am not an attorney and this does not constitute legal advice.
I've been running an exit node on EC2 for a few months and I've only received 1 DMCA notice and I responded that I was running a tor node and was not legally responsible for the traffic I was producing and it was resolved. Their EULA does not explicitly prevent you from doing this so if you don't mind dealing with the feigning bulldogs every once in a while it's not that bad.
I knew it! I have a client that gets some crazy image related traffic and just recently, it peaked and tailed off. This was going on for the better part of a year. The traffic was meaningless to them. At our last review I noticed the new trend and chalked it up to a algo change. Glad to know I was right, well maybe
When getting my new laptop, I spent some time looking at various "ultraportable" including the MacBook Air, some Toshiba (I forget what it was called) and the Z. I ultimately chose the Sony because it was, by a nice margin, the nicest computer of the lot.

The screen is really awesome, it's incredibly fast and I actually really like the touchpad. The keyboard is not great, but none of the options I physically touched--I never saw a physical Lenovo X1; that could be good--had particularly good keyboards. The Air's keyboard was not bad, but it had an annoying layout with small arrow keys and an odd ordering of meta keys along the bottom.

Overall, I am extremely pleased with this computer and would probably buy it again, although I would also consider looking at the X1. However, an X1 configured to similar specs as the Z costs about the same and I've heard both the screen--which is really awesome on the Z--and the batter life are worse on the Lenovo.
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I'v never seen so many people BITCHING about getting free code. No less an entire OS that runs on hundreds of devices. Maaahhhh you didn't release it fast enough. Stop whining!!
I would say that both sides of the argument that VladRussian started have a point but equally lack civility: viggity simply linked to a suicide prevention site and VladRussian lashed out how somebody dare to ask for suicidal people to seek help when it's society at fault. Cushman took offense and implied that depression is the culprit here. Cue further misunderstanding about the wording of "imaginary".

I think both sides are projecting their own view a little too hard on this.

Environmental factors surely are a factor in this and I was 'quoting numbers' because VladRussian was a little to quick to dismiss mental illness. Again - since we all don't know the details in this particular case, this is an abstract discussion about suicide. In an abstract discussion, you either make a case and discuss it, or you discuss one that another person has made. VladRussian simply picked a fight and Cushman bought into it.

Also, re: circular logic. I don't think it is circular - Suicidal thoughts may be a symptom of depression, but that's not the same as saying they are a cause of depression. I know you don't say that either, but that's what would make it circular. (Also: saying it's 'somewhat circular' is a cop-out - it either is, or isn't circular.) I further don't think mental disorders really are "blamed" for suicide, they are simply accepted as a very common pathway in medical studies.