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Typical noob mistake #73: trying to make a class out of every rule in a rules-based system.

I hate to be blunt (or worse, snarky) but seriously, everybody does this at least once: modeling and factoring out tons of bullshit when the user is really explaining an ad hoc rules system. Very painful.

At some point during analysis, you have to ask yourself "Do I really want to make the system more complex for each example of X the user gives me? Or just acknowledge that the user is free to come up with all kinds of crazy rules from now until the cows come home, and code that?" (and simplify)
"His misunderstanding is well within the bounds of what I experienced within the non-Apple programming community at the time."

Yeah, but you didn't have access to Steve Jobs. And Isaacson probably could have also talked to Bud Tribble, Avie Tevanian, Ali Ozer, etc.

Frankly, I'm not even sure why anyone would expect Gates to have any particular authoritative insight into OS X. Microsoft's concerns would have largely involved the effort of porting Internet Explorer and Office from Mac OS to OS X. Anything new in OS X that didn't require changes in their software could be ignored.
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The 5% that read it are the ones who influence policy in Washington. The most powerful thing on that page is not the text - it's the logos on the bottom. The average senator can not tell you the difference between a DNS server and a Warez server, but they know who Facebook, Google, eBay, et al are.

Remember, there are a lot of people out there who go to Google and type in www.gmail.com into the search box on a daily basis. To them, Google IS the internet.
I agree that's what they are pushing it for, but they seem to want to apply the same hammers to counterfeiting of physical goods and digital copyright infringement. Physical goods and media are very different.

The lost-income argument of this needs to be battled, because I doubt that everyone buying fake rolexes at $200 each is going to be saving up for the real deal. I have to assume that the same type of arguments are propping up this debate. I want to know where the people that support this get these numbers from. Do people really think that by passing this legislation we will somehow get money for nothing?

Does anyone really think that this won't be applied to Wikileaks and the like...
We used asbestos for ages too, because it got the job done, and we didn't bother looking for alternatives to that until we had to.

HTML5 has gained ground against Flash for a reason, and I certainly didn't choose it for popularity. I use and prefer open software and open standards, and Flash doesn't provide either one.

If the Flash player ever becomes open, I'll probably install it for convenience, but I'd still use Flashblock and prefer sites based on HTML5 over sites using Flash.
The highlight of this article for me is:

Amazon: 100 ms of extra load time caused a 1% drop in sales (source: Greg Linden, Amazon).
Google: 500 ms of extra load time caused 20% fewer searches (source: Marrissa Mayer, Google).
Yahoo!: 400 ms of extra load time caused a 5-9% increase in the number of people who clicked "back" before the page even loaded (source: Nicole Sullivan, Yahoo!).

Answered my own question but will leave for anyone else interested: but does anyone have the sources for those facts?

edit: Original source for Amazon stat (possibly also Yahoo, or possibly it's just referenced) is a powerpoint by Greg, downloadable at http://7303294208304035815-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.goo...

edit 2: The Google stat is from a speech at a 2006 "Web 2.0" conference, referenced by Greg at http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....

edit 3: Yahoo stat from Nicole's presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/stubbornella/designing-fast-websit...
You probably know better than me, but I thought the 25k limit was for songs in the "uploaded" category (i.e. your 5100 songs). IOW, you would still be far from the limit.
Those darn social science majors and their worthless degrees. If only they would get real jobs! http://piracy.ssrc.org/the-copy-culture-survey-infringement-...
I wouldn't say he's saying spending less time on them. He's saying that they are the exception, so don't make the whole interface depend on the possibility of them. Proceed assuming the optimal case and when they do happen, provide a safe, friendly means of dealing with them.
Music labels and other such organizations extort huge piles of money from YouTube for the "privilege" of hosting those songs. The pile of ads you see along with those videos go to paying that extortion.
I like to fantasize about transitioning to a technocratic government. Decisions are made by subject matter experts and those with intellectual capital, not political capital.

The stupid - it hurts.
"Whatever the cause, stupid comments tend to be short." - pg [1]

I feel like, whatever the cause, comments that tend to start with "This." tend to be follow this pattern as well. It's not always the case, which is why I'd urge people to not use "This." when starting a sentence. I also feel like "This." hangs there to evoke a vote of karma, irrespective of comment content much more than "I completely agree with you" would, especially with people who frequent reddit.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
You're also seeing a difference between undergraduate education and graduate education. The class sizes and professor interest are night and day.
Hours or number of volunteers?
"We've always done it this way" is a terrible justification for the status quo. Absolutely.

To me, it's more like "if you use words in a way that diverges from what people can reasonably expect, nobody can understand what the fuck you're saying"
If you're in the tech industry and you realize how stupid this proposed law is, realize that it's no more stupid than the vast majority of laws passed by congress, you're just better equipped to judge it.
Amazon was nowhere near immediately viable.

It was founded in 1994.
It had its IPO in 1997.
It posted its first net profit in 2002.

It lost money for 8 years. Hardly "something that was viable immediately".

On the other hand it didn't take that much investment before IPO. It was seeded with 300K from Bezos and his family followed by 50K in angel money and finally an 8MM round.

http://www.quora.com/Who-were-the-original-investors-in-Amaz...

It rode the cheap cash infusion from the dot com bubble for as long as it could until the bubble collapsed. At that point it had cash but was going to run out eventually which is why I imagine they decided then it was time to try and make the company profitable rather than expand through investment.
Am I the only one that did a double-take when I saw Zynga on there?
There is a settings cog in the bottom left corner. Selecting "view desktop version" simply reloads the "optimised" mobile version which looks nice but is utterly unusable and breaks the web.

I wish OnSwipe had a per-device opt-out that worked.
Obviously you need to weigh the gains vs the development time required for adding and maintaining this, as with anything.

In terms of the user experience, if the perf gains are small enough, then the chance that the user tries to exit while a request is in-progress should be slim, so interrupting their exit is fine as an edge case, and the gains in responsiveness should be weighed against your core user or business metrics - several hundred ms extra delay per action can have a significantly negative impact.

If the gains are large enough that the user is likely to interrupt something when exiting, then blocking the entire UI for each request is a terrible experience and you need to do something about it anyway.
More than one independent clause, specifically. I believe your sentence still only has one of those, no matter how embellished the various parts of that independent clause may be :)
As far as I know the full body scanners are terahertz scanners. They do not use X-rays. An X-ray scan would show your bones!
Also if you really want to reduce your exposure to radiation, you should avoid flying itself.

That said, if there is a significant increase in cancer among TSA workers, that should be a cause for concern.
Retailers do not pay sales tax, consumers do. And in every state I am aware of that has a sales tax, those consumers still have to pay use tax.

I really don't understand why people have a hard time dealing with this. This is an issue settled over a century ago by Sears.
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well, <audio> had never been an advantage html5 has had over flash :) It's been pretty bad both in spec and especially in the implementations (edit: but finally improving!)

That said, someone told me they got google music playing in a UIWebView on iOS, so there must be some fallback mechanism.
I don't know how people listen to music on Youtube. The audio quality on those videos at less than 720p is unacceptable. Even people that walk around listening to 128kbps mp3s can tell when I ask them to swtich from 360/480 to the 720p stream.
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The matching process is disk I/O intensive, so it makes sense that it'd take a long time on a slow network-attached Drobo.

25k songs applies only to non-iTunes purchased songs. Songs purchased on iTunes don't apply to that limit.
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Can you send me some screenshots? Reach me at phil@yearofcode.com.

The app tries to always organize correctly, but to be light on the wire, it has to make some guesses. Your examples of where I'm getting it wrong will help me fix. And, yes, you can change your ID3 tags. It should pick up on that next time you enter the app.

In the meantime, if it has guessed an album wrong, say, try playing a song from that album, and it should fix all of them.
What makes it lesser?
The paranoid security geek in me says "You know those Microsoft contributions to SAMBA lately? Could they go for a takedown order of the open source project on the allegation of copyright infringement now and make the SAMBA project fight to get their domain back?"
Full testimony: http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Pallante%2011162011....

Although I strongly suspect that SOPA will stall either in the legislative pipeline or in the courts, I think it behooves opponents of the legislation to address the legitimate points raised here about the interests of copyright holders. The financial cost of creating and launching content into the market can be considerable, and to the extent that technology facilitates piracy the economic impetus to produce high-quality content is correspondingly reduced. Considering that the entertainment industry makes up about 5% of GDP, there's quite a lot of money at stake.

I share the general opposition to censorship, but what sort of enforcement mechanisms would be appropriate against organized infringement carried out for profit?
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I'm going to pick Apple's cheapest laptop with a non-Intel graphics card here for comparison, as I do like to play games and modern Intel cards still seem to suck.

Apple: http://www.apple.com/ie/macbookpro/specs-compare.html €1800
Asus: http://komplett.ie/Komplett/product/ZKB_02PC/02_NOTEBOO/21_1... - €900

Not entirely comparable, the mbp has a potientially better graphics card (its definitely faster, but having a quarter of the graphics RAM does limit its future proofing), the asus has a higher resolution screen, more RAM, more storage space etc.

On balance, they probably balance out technically. This is pretty clear premium pricing. Whether you consider it worth the premium or not is another matter.

As to the usual claim that this is because Apple products are better built and more durable, Apple are big on planned obselence, so let's say that mbp has a 5 year lifespan. It'll work for five years, probably, but you will want to replace it then.

The Asus is more likely to fail before its obselete, but by the wonders of consumer protection law (n/a for US people, unfortunately), the minimum time before hardware failure forces you to buy a new one is two years. Put your €900 you saved in the bank and buy another one in when it fails (which more realistically is in 3-4 years). It'll be much better than either of these laptops are now.
Double post, please ignore.
What's the point of "This."?
Yay Monsanto. Not only this, once you licence their seed, you are no longer able to use non-Monsanto seed.
Google is out executing Apple lately.
With the public release of Google Music, the redesign of Gmail and other properties, and the open source release of Android 4.0 Google seems to be out executing Apple lately. Thoughts? Seems like the ship has been righted since Page took over.
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This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

Many of these folks don't even know what Flash or HTML5 are. Explain the issue to them. Let them know why some websites are built to work on the desktop, while others are built to work on mobile; it's better this way

No it isn't. Users shouldn't have to know or care about that stuff. The fact that they do is a bug, not a feature.

Kind of like Flash.
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Maybe a better word to make my point would have been "launchable" rather than viable.
No, I (obviously) can't download a car.

Apparently, I can't send a file to someone else and remove it from my iPod, Galaxy S, Blackberry, office and home pc either.
There's a vast chasm between what consumers "have to" pay and what consumers do pay.
In other news, bank robbers say bank robberies should be punished by fines under $100.
No mention of Category Theory.

:(
I was almost moved, but it's so obviously manipulative in other ways that it's kind of sickening. I'm not sure we have the stomach for competing on that level.
Lithium-sulfur is an older, more well-studied technique, and it only promises a 4x increase. There are still quite a few kinks to be worked out but I think it has the best potential of the bunch for the near future.
syslog never leaves your local system unless you specifically do something with it.

This data is collected and sent off-device without your consent or knowledge.

Also syslog collects information on events, not specific keystrokes or commands issued and so on.
white, fat boy should quit his day-job and rap full-time. for real.
In my opinion it's just a commonly used term in which I subconsciously process as something else. Whenever I read a reply that begins with "This." I instead hear "I couldn't agree with you more." Typically, the comment doesn't stop there and the author would elaborate as to why he or she agrees.

Do you just stop reading the comment at the point of "This."? Oftentimes, the reason justifies use of the word.
No, this is entirely factually incorrect: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68486.html and http://judiciary.edgeboss.net/wmedia/judiciary/crime/crime11...

“The DoJ is in no way interested in bringing cases against people who lie about their age on dating sites, or anything of the sort. We don’t have the time or resources to do that,” Downing said during testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee.

I think this is about as explicit and straightforward a refutation as anyone could possibly want.

George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, who also testified before the House subcommittee, said he is not sure that DOJ is going to keep its word, and is confused as to what exactly the current Justice Department position is.

I'll bet he is. It might jeopardize his nice sideline in misinformational op-eds of boogeyman stories for libertarians.
thank you, that's a great complement
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>As an IT pro I can't do much about the laws and regulations, but I can advise and design business systems in ways to avoid complexity traps and help accommodate more sane business processes.

This, I think, is a very healthy attitude; Focus on what you can change rather than railing against things that won't.
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My original iMac had one. So did my Performa 6112CD.
I'm assuming your suitcase was checked baggage and not a carry-on item, in which case it isn't a threat.

I accidentally left a leatherman tool in my carry-on once, it has a vary sharp knife in it- it went through SFO security with no problem, but the Vegas X-ray guy caught it and confiscated it.
Sent you some pics. I have some pretty badly tagged music so it's partly my fault, however Spotify did recognize some things that your app didn't. Still, really good app that I'll be using a lot, keep up the good work!
he does already! see http://www.facebook.com/cswsprovo and @DavidFPeterson just a friend who helped us out for the rap
Since it's run by the Android team, I guess there is never going to be an iPhone app.
Yes, this is so blindingly obvious that I'm surprised we don't see it happen more often.

It doesn't block the UI and yet it still gives the user an indication when the actions are in progress/completed.
I wonder what metrics for bounces would look like before the advent of scroll wheels. Using a scrollbar was always a little bit of a pain.
Incidentally, "stupid comments tend to be short" is a short comment.
In a quick test I did, using a better compiler (gcc 4.6.2 or icc) makes it 15% faster.
Awesome - yet another way to support those backing SOPA.
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This wasn't addressed to me but I thought I'd comment.

The We The People petitions, I believe, are there to make the people believe they are making an impact in policy by signing one. Most, if not every, response from the White House has been a generic, basically meaningless response from an unknown staffer.

Case in point: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-v...

Notice how this petition has been signed by more people than most of the others...
They're faster than a pat down, not than just respecting innocent travelers' privacy in the first place.
Open sourcing an operating system as nothing to do with executing well.

Releasing a music product with serious UX issues isn't that impressive.

The Gmail redesign is nice. But not in direct competition to Apple.
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Agreed but I think your whole post is a karma fishing redditesque 'Does anyone else' self-post.
I hope Bill Gates with his philanthropy drive goes publicly against Microsoft company's support for censorship.
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I thought this was touching. I wonder if you could hack one of those picture 'frame' gizmos so that it just came up with a new picture of a puppy every hour. No browser, just a sort of 'happy fun time pictures' picture frame.
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First, it does indicate a problem with the copyright system when such a large number of people (+50%, per Free Culture) are 'felons' under US law and liable for hundreds of thousands in damages.

Second, wouldn't it be reasonable for the bank robbers to request that they're not sentenced to death for robbing banks? Can't they argue the punishment doesn't match the crime?
To extend the video game analogy, one activity that some video gamers have made a sport of is "speed running," or trying to completely a single-player game in as little time as possible. Sites like http://speeddemosarchive.com/ host videos, and people compete to get the lowest time.

There are two ways that one typically goes about improving on the existing record. The first is to look at the video posted by the current record holder, dissect the run, and find all of the small mistakes that the current record-holder made. Shave off a few seconds here, a few seconds there, and by the end of your run you've beaten a game in 4 hours and 57 minutes instead of 5 hours. That's playing harder.

The other way to break existing records is to start completely from scratch, map out the game and figure out if there's a different route to take that the previous runner didn't. Maybe it's doing the levels in a different order so you spend less time walking across the world map. Maybe you spend an extra 10 minutes picking up a stronger sword that allows you to save 20 minutes over the course of the game because you're killing enemies faster. These are the kinds of improvements that lead to people turning a 5 hour game into a 4 hour game. That's playing better, not harder.
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Maybe have it send them a daily email with links and thumbnails of the past 24 puppies.
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I think the non-HD videos actually have monaural sound. When you switch to 720p, you get your stereo back.
Just like there's no iPhone app for Gmail, Voice, Reader, Maps, etc.?
nice! ;)
How is ReDigi fencing the acquired music files? Who is buying second hand digital music?
These bills would also allow someone to demand the takedown of the entire iTunes store over a single allegation of copyright infringement in a single app. Consider how much trouble they've had with patent trolls in the past.
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The current laws allow huge fines per song. Download about $100 worth of music (~6 CDs), get hit with over $500,000 in fines. That's simply overkill. A fine of less than $100 (even on a per-song basis) would make the punishment fit the crime.
There's another argument against SOPA.
This looks horrendously horrible on LiveDrive. Not only for the customers of their reseller that they've screwed, but for their resellers. I would never become a LiveDrive reseller after this debacle.
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The word 'why' should be removed from the title. Usage statistics are fine, and TPM admits to not being a representative demographic of the Internet at large, but the blog entry doesn't attempt to answer the question of 'why' at all.
Or a private Roku channel - streaming puppies FTW!
The way it works in Jeopardy is that after the question is read, there's a guy who flicks a switch after which the betting window is open (and there's a visual cue so the players know when this happens). If you buzz before that you get briefly locked out.
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That would make the most sense, but I've observed contradictory behavior with MA->CA->MA mail taking ~10 days. Also, the CA post office not respecting the "end forward" date, and mail getting sent back and forth a few times. I suppose I could have been seeing corner cases due to some unknown facet, but to me they indicate an antiquated system.
Even better than the statistic quoted in the title, 48% of Americans don't believe any fine or other punishment should exist at all. The quoted statistic actually refers to 75% of the remaining 52%.
This is what MS Outlook does, as much as you might hate the program. Outlook gives you lots of information on whether and when your mail is still sending, if there was an error, etc. It is tolerant of closing the window or losing network connection. And sending a mail doesn't get in the way of doing other things in the program.
"Whatever the cause, stupid comments tend to be short." does not imply "Short comments are stupid".