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> The size and weight are great, the iPad feels bulky after using the Fire.

Really? I only held one for a few minutes, but I thought it felt way too heavy (dense). It's only 2/3 the weight of the iPad 2, but since it's all plastic, I expected it to feel on the light side (like most Android phones, e.g. Galaxy S II).

As for bulkiness, I think both the iPad's and Fire's form factors are pretty great, and should be able to coexist rather than compete directly. For fullscreen video (which is 90% of what I use my iPad 2 for), the iPad form factor wins on sheer screen size, although the Fire's aspect ratio does fit most video better.
His post is an attempt to make money on the affiliate program for this book. Check the link at the bottom of the post, it's a clickbank link.

This shouldn't be on the front page of HN
I've been in a similar situation. It could be that your boss feels the company has invested time and money into your "training" (even if you didn't receive any formal instruction), so they don't want to replace you and incur that cost again. Whether this sort of thinking is justified or not -- I think it's not, considering you've been there for 3 years and your training must have paid out long ago -- in practice it's clear your boss' interests aren't aligned with yours.

Given that, and given that you've already expressed your wishes to your boss, you should start looking for another job. Unless you live an area with a shortage of programming jobs and you are unable to move to a better area (very unlikely if you live in the US), I'm sure you'll find something.

Don't even mention leaving your job if you don't have a job offer from another company. In fact, if you get a good job offer you should probably accept it; using it as leverage to move within your company might work, but you should think really hard if you want to stay at your current company.
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Technically if he wants to do depth-pass instead of depth-fail, he has to change two or three lines of code. He probably added a workaround for the depth-pass near clipping plane errors.
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Has anyone yet made a serious estimate of how likely SOPA is to pass?

I would hope that if our legislative system is so divided that they can't agree on legislation relating to budgets or healthcare, they won't agree on this legislation either.

Not that its a good thing for the legislation system to be so ineffective, but it would seem truly ironic if they agree on something that will hurt the economy, but not on things that will help the economy.
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>>* All Amazon does is provide the hardware and network infrastructure to run on. It is not a magic bullet that says I don't need to have these people around*.

Even in this case, I would still like to excuse my self of the headache dealing with real estate, electricity, air conditioning etc. In other words supporting factors required to keep the data center up and running.

Unless you are going to need ridiculous amounts of servers, its just not worth your time dealing with other support operations and its infrastructure. Hiring, managing and maintaining the staff full time to this job is not easy and takes a lot of your time.

For some large company it makes perfect sense to focus on data center infrastructure and support. But for small companies you are far better off letting some one else handle it and focus on your primary work.
The author is in general fixated to love anything Apple and "hate" anything Android (rightly for the usability reasons). He prefers not to develop an Android version of his superhit app 'Instapaper', while every other iPhone only app is now being migrated to Android. With such bias, I was not expecting a fair review from him.

However, let's face it, if like phones, Android picks up on Tablets, cheap or expensive, Amazon or Google, market would have its say. 35-40 million current owners of iPad are just a fraction of world population who want to own a Tablet.

Btw, I have been playing with my Fire since a couple of days. Yes, there is a little lag during transitions, especially orientation changes, probably due to Android 2.2's lack of hardware accelerated graphics, but using various apps was easy and video streaming on Netflix and Prime was neat. Pulse, HuffPo, Kindle and Amazon's other default apps were smooth.

However, Silk gave me trouble when I chose the Desktop view for websites, with "Accelerated Page Loading" on. I got script not running errors when I loaded my the browser with tabs from gmail, facebook and g+

It is an absolute value for money and yes in that sense, especially when you think it gives you the same hardware and a much better experience than playbook.

I would venture to say that Kindle Fire just might be the trigger towards the end of the era of iPad dominance.
It should not be possible to patent an idea, since most great inventions throughout the history were discovered by two or more unconnected people in parallel. You probably know that yourself, you run to google to check if the domain for your next great thing is still free, only to find someone is already working on your idea.
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Thanks for your reply. I have switched to Gnome 3 at this moment. I can switch back to unity, I will try these to see how that fits me. I am not sure how Alt+ will help because they are away from each other in the keyboard layout. Do you know how to remap the keys (I might remap to something funny like alt+shift). Gnome 3 also have this issue and there is an extension that allows switching between windows, do we have something similar in Unity?
Under patent law any user would be violating the patent by playing the game (or possibly just having a copy on their computer), unless they bought a license from the patent holder or were covered by someone else's license.

Yes, patent law is that ridiculous.
Doesn't that logic apply to every potential hire who comes to you while employed somewhere else?
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Well what's the bad thing about doing a crime? The damage done. So, the punishment should be in proportion to the damage. You don't punish someone for being "bad" inside, and the point of the punishment isn't to cause some emotional effect.
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To go just a little bit further, I would like to draw attention to some of the people who, at some point or another, were indirectly involved in some way with someone's death. I think everyone is familiar with the opine of 'If only I had told him to finish his dinner, that car might not have hit him!', or 'If only I had not stopped for a bagel this morning, the poor cashier would not have been shot!'.

Taking responsibility for things that you did not cause and have utterly no power to fix has a long, long and documented history of (at least temporarily) destroying people. Obviously this is an extreme example, but I feel it illustrates rather well.
Surely that's not the only alternative. Another would be "influencing the BSA not to support SOPA", or support alternative legislation that still caters to the interests of BSA.

Note also that BSA members fund it proportionally to each member's revenues, so it's fair to assume that Microsoft and Apple have a bigger weight in its decisions.
I prefer switching between windows with alt+tab instead of alt+1.2.3. Sometimes I do use control+alt to switch between tabs.
This comment doesn't make any sense. Companies who need to build their own data-center aren't going to get by on Heroku.

For everyone else there's co-location, where you don't worry about those things anyways. Unless you have a just terrible facility I guess. I mean sure, one time in the past three years I've complained to our colo folks that it seemed warmer than it should be while one of the A/C units was being serviced.

Other than that your argument doesn't make much sense. It makes me think you've either got no actual experience with this sort of thing, or you're co-locating at "Bob's BBQ & Server Emporium"...
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I suggest building an API which extracts results from Google and WolframAlpha, depending upon whether it's a computation being demanded or an answer.
Thanks for the honest reply.

But come to think of it in an another way. If you actually let some one else focus on the issues you don't necessarily need to handle you can focus well on issue you actually need to work on.

But, yes its all about personal preferences and I respect your preferences. In my case I would actually let some one else do the job I don't necessarily have to do and use the same time to do well in my actual job.
People are talking here about the evil of patents - I remember the original deal causing similar controversy.

Some of Carmacks comments at the time seemed to say that Creative were using their patent to strong arm him into adding support for their hardware into Doom3.

There was also a lot of discussion about whether the patent was reasonable at the time, including, as stated on Slashdot, a claim that Sim Dietrich from Nvidia had demo'd the technique publicly, months before the patent was filed.

Some interesting comments here:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/04/07/28/1529222/creative-pr...

In particular, the comment by 'Dan East' in 2004 wondering if it'll affect the ability of iD to release source, is pretty prophetic!
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They actually do. Check the Perl Foundation website. :)
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To be fair, isn't that how criminal law generally works? Once you report a crime (or the authorities find out somehow), can't you still be prosecuted even if the victims say it's "no big deal"?
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> as a result of somebody measuring

> The conundrum is what is it about measuring that collapses the waveform? It is quite a mystery, and, honestly, very exciting.

Isn't it obviously the fact that it's interacting with another object?

- wave-function interacts with your wall/measuring-device -> wave-function collapses into a point (or: disappears and spawns a new wave-function at said point (which we end up interpreting as the "position" of the particle))

- wave-function doesn't interact with anything -> happily keeps propagating as a wave
Actually I was replying to the parent comment:

>>Call me insane because I sure do love spending time in a datacenter, it's one of the few times working in IT you really get to do something with your hands, and that does have a certain appleal to me.

We are both saying the same thing. You need to draw a line between "fun" and how much feasible it is to afford that fun. Most people don't need a data center, but still want it.

All passion and fun talk aside. Sometime you need to look at it very pragmatically. That was my point.
And household appliances and much industrial equipment — everything from hair dryers to jet planes — are built to use DC.

No, hair dryers do not use DC. That would be (a) exceedingly dangerous in the event of a shock, since you cannot release your grasp while being shocked by DC and (b) dumb, because neither motors nor heaters require DC.

In a data center redesigned to use more direct current, monthly utility bills can be cut by 10 to 20 percent, according to Trent Waterhouse, vice president of marketing for power electronics at General Electric.

“You can cut the number of power conversions in half,” Mr. Waterhouse said.

No you can't! Unless the DC you're getting is already the 12 V used by computers. And not only is that dumb, because it requires 10x the amount of copper (due to higher current), but:

Now, more than 145 projects using high-voltage DC, known as HVDC, are under way worldwide.

HVDC is not 12 V, so you'd still need to do DC-to-DC conversion anyway. (DC-to-DC, btw, is not significantly more efficient than AC-to-DC, if using similar technology.)

Direct-current transmission is also better suited to handle the electricity produced by solar and wind farms, which starts out as direct current.

No it's not! Solar and wind produce variable voltage... you need to convert the power either way. DC-to-DC or DC-to-AC doesn't make much difference.

I really hope I'm missing something here, because HVDC is of much more limited usefulness than this article makes it out to be.
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Yeah this is driving me nuts. It feels like a lot of companies are throwing around the same catchphrases, when instead they should be describing what they actually do or need done.
How about doing a rule-based control app, that would let the user enter rules (either using a simple GUI with icons) or as a script for certain actions, e.g. IF (my home WiFi is detected, i.e. I'm at home) THEN (turn off bluetooth) AND (switch to using WiFi).
Is this about hidden-variable theories? I thought Bell's theorem already nuked those...
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You're probably not gaming yelp correctly. You can't ask your customers to review you because they'll be filtered since they'll only have one review.

You need to get more Yelpers to your business. If they're elite, that's even better. You obviously have a good product because you have 4.5 stars, so it's just a matter if getting those elites to your place.

I have friend who works hard to cater to the elite Yelpers. He thinks that's the key to his success. I don't know if it does get him more foot traffic though. Anyway, It was a lot of hard work, even though he had a great product. He finally got his place to the magical 4.5 star mark with over 125 unfiltered reviews.
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Often times when I am comparing systems for a client, validating ideas, research competitors and any number of things - I throw together comparison lists. Often times they are just lists but sometimes I add scoring of some type (often in product evaluation)...

This is something I usually throw together in notepad at worst or Excel at best.

Surely there is a tool for this kind of thing, anyone know of one?
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Maybe that's a good thing. There's nothing arguable about the article.

That or hackernews is no longer the place to be for startup news and advice and becoming like another reddit. If so, then where's a better place for startup related articles?
Whatever the cause, you've got to admit, that is an awesome "down for maintenance" page.
I don't know if "this" usage has spread to the general population as a whole but it seems like it at least started with sites frequented by programmers / hackers and I don't think its hard to see why something like "this" would become commonly used among this population as people who write code have a tendency toward trying to express things concisely when possible
There's a CPAN module for it in Perl 5 (with support for fork() on parallel comefroms):

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-ComeFrom/lib/Acme/ComeFrom....
So do you guys make all the apps that you sell through your platform? In either case pretty great concept
Nextek Power Systems, for example, has developed a system for delivering power via DC to lights and motion sensors through a building’s metal frame, instead of through wires.

How.. what? A frame can provide one side of a circuit, but it can't provide both. The FAQ on their site talks about wire gauge and length. What is this line talking about?
> I'm claiming that you can't just say "oh we had some big downturn in educational quality so we're adding tests to insure that teachers do their job right".

Why can't we say that? We did have a big downturn in education quality. If we don't know whether teachers are doing their job right, why should we pay them?

> But remember, whatever you measure, that's what you get more of.

Absolutely.

Why the assumption that the majority of education is untestable?

> I'd say in all cases it's important to leave a lot of leeway for professional judgment along with the thing you're measuring.

Which reminds me - why the assumption that teachers are professionals? Yes, they're paid, but traditional professionals are liable.

What have teachers done to earn leeway?
I am very new to HackerNews but this comment surprises me. Affiliation has been clearly mentioned by the author in the disclaimer section. See the right hand section of his blog. What's wrong if he has worked out a review and wants to earn some money. Do you ban all pages on HN which have posts with ads. Isn't that making money?
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While it may have been checked it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897v2
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ROFL "You will NEED to shape the product since we don't know what we are doing."
I can't help but wonder if it also has something to do with DemandProgress.org. Aaron's group is one of the more effective pro-privacy, anti-wiretapping/snooping/etc. advocates around.

Efforts like this are particularly problematic for the massively growing US security apparatus:

http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/snooping_bill/
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Agree with the community being more important than the marketplace, will look to add more web 2.0 elements...

Why another marketplace? Because if I love books, then I want a place to hang out where there is only book related information.
> It should not be possible to patent an idea

Ideas are the only thing that can be patented....
If the job market for the target audience is so great (which it is), a service like this doesn't make sense. You'll only attract employees who are not competitive.
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> There was also a lot of discussion about whether the patent was reasonable at the time, including, as stated on Slashdot, a claim that Sim Dietrich from Nvidia had demo'd the technique publicly, months before the patent was filed.

Until recently, the US was "first to invent", not first to file, and public disclosure didn't establish a bar date but rather started a count-down to a bar date. In other words, a public disclosure a few months before a filing can be irrelevant. Whether it actually is irrelevant depends on some other details.
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A note taking application. I'm not kidding. I've never been happy with one. I don't need hackable like Gina Trapini's frankly amazing todo.txt. I don't need a huge platform like Evernote. I need something that is stream-of-consciousness. I post a small reminder to myself, and I can simply view this stream as a stream of my thoughts and reminders. It should be dead simple to note. It shouldn't ask for options, tags, or anything else. I should spend less than 3 seconds doing anything other than typing the note. I've never found any product which allows me to do this easily.

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A nice thought, but I honestly don't think it's worth the 30 seconds it would take me to follow the link and sign it.