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Even if HTC gained that knowledge from their time making WinMo phones and not from their time making hardware for Dell and HP, that knowledge belongs to them and has nothing to do with the OS their phones were running.
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I am working on a project to create an open-source alternative to Adobe Flash. I am trying to make to cross-platform compatible, at least across Windows, OSX and Linux. I only have a Linux computer right now, so I am trying to find somebody with an Mac or Windows PC to test it.
Details: It is written in Python; it uses a patched version of PyGUI (the stock version is missing some key functionality). The program is about 10.7 MB, and the patched version of PyGUI is about 2.2 MB. If interested/willing, please contact me at skycooler at
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TL;DR version - the relative popularity of technology gizmos doesn't correllate well with their specifications.

Somebody rolled out from under a rock that they ahd been in since 2000 and woke up apparently. The history was that with x86 flavored personal computers, there was a 15 year period between 1985 and 2000 where you could take two machines, compare the specs of the ram/processor/video and come up with a 'good, better, best' scale. This made it easy for technology journalists, they could get a press release for the new HP or Toshiba or Alienware PC and say "this is better than last years/competitor X's/etc model." Easy sauce. But eventually PCs and laptops got to be good enough so that most people didn't care, it just worked, and having more features was better, or having better features. So the 'specs' or the details of how the manufacturer did, was less important.

Why Techcrunch's editors didn't figure this out, oh, 5 or 6 years ago, is anyone's guess.

Now it would be great if they would internalize this newfound understanding and stop pumping up OMGWTFBBQ we have PS3 graphics on an ARM chip! Type headlines and instead focus on the people and companies who are using the capabilities of this embarassment of riches to provide new and interesting products. They do some of that of course but so far, for me at least, its not nearly enough relative to this 'specs are dead' stuff.
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A Self analysis tool? ( a startup )
This site believes we need a little self analysis tool to record our day to day emotions so that we can go back to time to track our mood (a trend analysis of our emotional flow?? )

We analyze subconscious and conscious mind on www.yumety.com - it’s based on applied psychology with a social networking flavor.

What do you think?
That's an incredibly low bar to set for something to be "the ultimate". I can smell the fanboyism from here!
Definitely unique and a smart way to market yourself for a product manager position within the tech arena. Good luck and please share any feedback you receive from potential employers.
Would love to see some kind of infographic after all is said and done. How many people contacted, how many interviews, etc. Good luck!
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A friend once told me that to get things done, it is money and time. If you have no money, then you have to spend time.

The important theme online though is to leverage someone else's audience.

Adwords, SEO are all leveraging Google's audience.

Approaching bloggers in that space is leveraging on those authors' audience.

Finding complementary products and offering them a commission is another way of leveraging an audience. There were a few interviews on Mixergy where SaaS makers deliberately integrated Freshbooks or Shopify because it brought them customers.
Yeah, I absolutely recognize the value in that. It's definitely an acquired skill and I can't help but be mildly envious of folks for whom that skill comes naturally.

rgraham's phrasing: "each call feels like an approaching disaster" is so spot on. It's terrifying and after it's over and went well (and even if it didn't go well), the feeling afterward is nothing short of exhilaration. However, I suspect after I've done a few hundred the fear and the exhilaration will both tame proportionately.
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What I had in mind were not services but rather Siri clients for non-Apple hardware, which I assume Apple would not be particularly happy about. When Siri comes to iPads and Macs, owners of a much broader range of devices could take an ID and use it, for instance, in an unofficial Siri client (should one be created) on an Android device. But then again, I may be way overthinking this.
It's taking 57.6MB for me. That's Real Mem in the macs Activity Monitor.
Agreed. I think I just wanted it to be cooler than it was :)
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On the one hand, I agree that the experience of using something is all that matters, and only a handful of specs (like storage capacity) actually mean anything.

On the other, I'm kinda not looking forward to the upcoming glut of Kindle Fire owners spouting off about what goobers iPad owners are, because they got the same thing (as far as they're concerned) for less than half the money.
That shot of WP7 also looks a lot less functional than the above one of iOS. Apple's interface is well-organized; the purpose of each screen element and the results a user should expect from manipulating it are fairly clear and unambiguous.

The WP7 UI seems to be following Microsoft's recent "haphazard grid of inconsistent elements" approach, which works about as well as the ribbon.
It's all about the price: $.99 per app (most common price) or $9.99 for a book... that and Apps are much more re-usable content than books.
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I can't say I ever had the impression that profit was a core aim of the Diaspora project; rather it seemed an attempt to create a Free Software social networking platform along the lines of GNU/ Linux.

As you mentioned above, there's really no way for a bunch of near-total strangers to know what led to his suicide, since most of us knew of him only through his internet activity rather than as personal friends or family members. Simplistic cause-and-effect analyses are usually inadequate or outright misleading where suicide is concerned.
There should be elements of B&N's assertions (like which specific patents Microsoft is using) that can be regarded as factual.
That is a relevant piece of information I hadn't known. Thank you.
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Just wanted to let you know that it looks awesome. Great work! People on the internet will complain about ANYTHING. Hopefully you just ignore them. I wouldn't change a thing.
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Note that the above link is NOT what is referenced in the original post.
You're right. Something is wrong with the Census site, but there are images on the tour page. I'll take a look. The Census product uses Mechanical Turk to recognize deer in trail camera photos and determine herd statistics using capture-recapture. You upload images and get emailed results. That is it.

I never managed to sell the Scout product online. It is incredibly bad marketing copy that I modified from some examples I found around the web. Any sales of that product required calls or in person handling. I did best at a trade show. There is no online audience I could reach for it. I underpriced the product and marketed it poorly. I found some success in higher-touch sales, but you are correct that the price point needs to support that effort level and you should target your market accordingly. That particular product also has an entrenched and highly likable competitor.

Phone numbers (business listings) from a service like Hoover's are free at your public library.

You're also correct that working on a technical product has nothing to do with writing marketing copy, but I'll bet that not everyone in this audience knows that. Hopefully my story lent them some perspective.

I'm working on another product at the moment. I wrote the article about my experience developing those products hoping that people would think about what might work for them and be open to ideas that aren't commonplace. I'm glad to have your perspective as it may help everyone consider their options from every angle.
I think this more appropriately catches it. There are weird things too with this market but consider the following;

A 'software startup' is a generally a data mining operation of some form, data (the raw form of information) goes into the sluices, and out comes some post processed data as information that has some value. So perhaps the name, address, and daily rates of every Hotel goes in as data, the sluices take your input on where you are going to be and provides a report of just those hotels and their rates where you are and voila, distilled data as valuable information.

Unlike the goods economy, the ore for our information products can be re-used again and again to make a variety of products. Further all of our ore can be 'stolen' by a competitor and we're still able to make our information products out of it. Thus this new information economy values the richness of the derived information, that richness is defined by relevance, precision, and timeliness.
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The books are on different topics. You only read the ones you want to.
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I have worked for at least one game development studio that uses perforce on a massive Unreal-Engine codebase. I have no major complaints about it - I'd imagine the primary reason it was used was for administration purposes (tighter control by an admin / senior level developer). You know, so us n00bs didn't wreck everything at every available opportunity.
You just rocked my sleepy afternoon brain. I guess soon we'll all be outlaws. Here's to flying under the radar?
I have read that, but they used tcpdump only to detect what kind of traffic Siri sends after failing to use a normal HTTP proxy. Setting up a custom SSL certification authority is exactly what sshmitm does - but it does not (yet) support transparent proxying. Somehow they have redirected traffic for guzzoni.apple.com to a fake server that acts as a man in the middle (probably simply by using their own DNS), but what I wanted to know is what software they used to fake that server.
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"Doesn't function right without JavaScript" disabled rates a shrug - JS enables lots of cool stuff. "Displays a completely blank page without JavaScript" is - well, in this case, as others have pointed out, one of the tradeoffs made in pursuit of a 24-hour project. However, in a mature site (I'm looking at certain MSDN blogs), it's very disturbing, it's a big warning flag for "lack of attention to detail."

My reactions to broken-without-JS sites spring from security, privacy, usability, and accessibility concerns. "Sites that completely break without JS" is a category that strongly correlates with "sites that have major issues in at least one of those four categories."
Old link, but the class is very much still alive, here is the course website from last spring (6.945, "Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming"): http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/

And the excellent "Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach" using the SICM textbook (with SICP as a reference): http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/

Obligatory animated gif: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/henon_anim.gi...
Screen readers support Javascript-enabled browsers these days.
Samsung has change of heart, won't try to block iPhone 4S sales in South Korea
Can we lobby Wikipedia to send a similar message? Does that make practical sense?
I think you're still missing the point by focusing on how much he would be earning a year. He may have been perfectly happy with $20k a year making Diaspora- it certainly seems like money was of little concern in his career choices.
1) If you are an Australian I'd be worried, because if this passes I'm pretty sure that the Australian Government will be quick to enact similar legislation under the guise of the AUS-US free-trade agreement to appease the copyright cartels and their own political egos as they finally have an excuse to implement the great firewall of Australia (which in turn will appease the Australia Christian Lobby).

2) This I don't know, but I do think it's time that we as consumers started boycotting the copyright bullies. Stop buying, watching, listening, reading and yes absolutely downloading (legally or otherwise) their stuff. It's time to take away their power. If you consume only copyleft materials then it won't matter how draconian they get on using copyrighted material* they will just further restrict who will consume it.

(*I understand the issue with SOPA is to do with censorship and freedom of speech)
Compared to Ruby, one liners are more efficient in Perl because the normally infuriating cryptic variables and defaults save space. For example in Perl you can run a foreach without naming the current iteration value and it defaults to $_. $_ in turn is the default target for many commands, like print.

So Perl's `print foreach @a` becomes Ruby's `a.each{|a| print a}`. Not so bad but it adds up.
Opera still has this feature. I use it all the time with wmii.
exactly. google also needs to drive cases to resolution quickly and not just answer the phone, but i think it is safe to say they are constantly working to reduce the time to resolution across the board.
Write to your representative and let your friends know that you did (on facebook). Start here:

https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?...;
You're still missing the point. Making millions was obviously not his driving desire. You simply don't build Open Source software if your primary motivation is to make a lot of money.
Get involved by writing your representative and making sure your facebook friends know about this:

https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?...;
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There IOS 5 by tutorials is very well done, and also uses XCode 4.2 (thank god)

http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-5-by-tutorials
Android ICS source code pushing now
What demographics are you targeting?

Example: Mint has infographics because people who love numbers will love those pictures. So, they pay the cost of someone designing them.

A social network like MySpace/Facebook wouldn't attempt this because they are not looking only for an audience that love numbers.
Making something in the library non-exceptional is equivalent to discarding an error ... The other option seems to be to continue in a erroneous state.

I guess this is where we differ. I feel that the designers of the .NET library have chosen to throw exceptions in places where nothing exceptional is actually happening, where no error has occurred, where the programmer may very well be expecting the "exceptional" outcome.

Where my code must handle such conditions, forcing me to handle them as exceptions makes my code longer, less readable, harder to change, and harder to reason about.

...it's important to note that the runtime can't reliably distinguish between "bugs" and "expected problems".

This is exactly what the author of the linked piece points out, this is a part of my complaint, and it's an issue Microsoft has tacitly acknowledged the seriousness of by the addition of alternatives to exception-throwing calls, like TryParse().

The problem from my perspective isn't the runtime or the languages that target it, but choices made when the library was designed.

It does not feel to me, as a user of these massive libraries, that there was any systematic way of deciding what should be and what should not be reported as an exception.
I admit I'm atypical here, but I do all my development work in emacs, and it's nice to have reference material that can also be accessed through emacs.
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I don't understand the methodology undertaken in this study.

The whole point of having political ideologies is that you believe yours is correct.

They asked politically polarizing questions to conservatives and liberals, and each answered according to their beliefs. It's not so much confirmation/myside bias, as it is confusion about truth.

This study required the authors to have objective truth measures for all the questions asked. How were those truths obtained?

It's completely irrational for people to believe in things that are known, objectively to be untrue. Basically all the author has done is shown that politics based on ideology is irrational, since ideologies lead people to disagree with known true facts.
Anyway, this is a proof that siri is a pure cloud service and as such may work even on 5-yo Sagem...
He didn't mean he wouldn't want to work at Facebook for 200k because it wouldn't be enough money. He wouldn't want to work there because he was working on replacing Facebook with something more open and morally better.
the point is that at 21 and with his skillset, he had quite a comfortable life waiting ahead of him, one that would have been better than 99% of people out there.

I don't care what other things happened in his life, at 21, there is absolutely no valid reason to kill yourself.
The facts are the facts, but one's "analysis" is always based on opinion. When you suffer from depression, that opinion is always biased towards the negative, and it's nearly impossible to get out of the vicious cycle, especially if your serotonin receptors or secretors are malfunctioning.

Worse, you simply accept that opinion as established, cold, hard fact, which means that in your own mind it won't ever change (the world will always be a shithole. I'll always be a loser, Anything I try to do to fix things is futile because everything's so horrible, etc).

"Great friends/family" just means more people to disappoint or fail in some way. "In the news" just means a bigger humiliation once you inevitably screw everything up and piss everyone off and let everyone down.

Essentially, anything good in your life receives a negative spin, and anything bad gets amplified in your warped opinion. And that only leads to more despair, lower opinion, more despair, etc until it feels like the only logical choice is to off yourself. After all, you'd be doing the world a favor if you ceased to exist. All those people you wouldn't be there to hurt or let down. All the outrage you won't cause. It's a net gain, really.

Does that sound fucked up? It is, but for the depressed, that IS their reality.
In all honesty at this point I don't care. It's part of the evolutionary cycle of the internet, the laws cannot keep up with both the demand and the technology, close one door and several others open up.
It has joins now, but Google says this: "Joins have size restrictions due to implementation details. Essentially it means that the data on both sides of the JOIN clause cannot be large. For example, select count() FROM big_table JOIN another_big_table will fail, but select count() FROM big_table JOIN small_table will succeed. Because this size restriction depends on many complex variables, the best way to handle joins is to try your join, and if it returns a "Table too large for JOIN query" error, limit the data handled by join clauses by specifying fewer fields or rows."

If someone is in the pilot, I'd love to know some different table/result set cardinalities where you hit the "too large for join" limit, as well as what your data and join conditions look like.
Thanks for reminding me of the bright side.
Direct quote from linked article: "I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable." He also spoke frankly about the benefits of individual freedoms when saying, "We do not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation," before adding that unrestricted access to information and political participation are not principles held by the United States but "universal rights."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1939572,00.htm...

While you might be right, I still read into it as a huge U-turn in thoughts and policy. I hope it will not affect the UK, but inevitably it will in some form or other.. probably as an extension to ACTA :(
My favorite part of the article by far is the uncaptioned action shot of the man drinking apple juice.
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That only works when 1) you have enough money for a lengthy appeals process, 2) the appellate court agrees to hear your case, and 3a) the appellate court contains judges with more sense or 3b) you can repeat starting from 1.

3b stops working when you hit the Supreme Court, which frequently fails both 2 and 3a.
Who are the Congressmen and Senators for the bill?

What is the WH position?

What are the chances of passage and signing?
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Came here to make a remark about Knuth. Indeed, in TACP vol 1, fascicle 1 (the new MMIX design) he talks about being able to address memory in chunks larger than 8 bits and specifically remarks about the unused bits: "we will find precious use for them later". :)
Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site
Having done business in China and knowing a little bit how some of the good people there think; my bet is that the square pattern(s) which looks like Voronoi diagram are just a Chinese version of the Crop circles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle. They like to do things in major scale in China.

Couple of the pictures were clearly geology/mining related and one is a military training area. No biggies.
Organizations like the EFF already lobby on this sort of topic. There's no secret sauce or suitcases of cash involved; lobbyists are just people who know how to sell policies to politicians.

Personally, I'd say that the the best way to move forward on this is to publicly write large checks to the EFF (with whom I am not affiliated, btw). Inventing a new market mechanism for this purpose is equivalent to saying that you don't understand how the existing marketplace works. This isn't something you can simply automate away, for the same reason that government by plebiscite is not historically effective.
Please don't sync yet, it's currently in a mixed state. The 'repo for-all git push' is still running and will take some time to complete, so if you sync now you'll get some parts with Gingerbread and some parts with ICS.
searching for cursor yielded some nice content. A few proprietary things I didn't know about. Thanks!
Same question here from a non US resident.

News of this law makes me ill, yet I see nothing I can do to help.
Where do the events come from?
Absolutely. I have no problem stipulating to stuff like that, because it would be ridiculous for B&N to lie about it or get it wrong. But that's not the kind of assertions I'm talking about.
Your response to Hessenwolf is great, and it's clear you know what you are talking about. I happily voted it up. But your reply to 6sigma is indeed uncivil, and I did my part to downvote it into oblivion. Since you apparently didn't intend to offend, I'll try to explain why people (me included) are having a negative reaction to it.

Starting off with "Hint" is condescending. Don't do it unless you intend to condescend, as this is uncivil. 6sigma offered a fact, qualified with "For what it's worth". You read a specific meaning into that fact, and are attacking him for the meaning that you have chosen to assign to his statement. This is impolite. Ask for clarification before assuming intent. And try to avoid insults like "worst kind of shallow, ignorant investor".

But please stick around and offer more solid comments like the one to Hessenwolf!
Compartmentalization would make sense. Installing a root CA in the email app would only work for the email app.