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This is a ridiculous complaint. Transferring 64GB of music to an iOS device and then regaining that space is quite simple, and about one or two steps more than the equivalent action with an Android device.

Check the little box in iTunes that says "Manually manage music and videos". Drag your 64GB of music into iTunes. Drag the music from the iTunes library to your iOS device in the sidebar. Delete the entries from iTunes, delete the music from your SSD. Done and done. You seem to believe the media has to exist in perpetuity on the computer the iOS device is synced to. This is not the case, and has never been for either traditional iPods or iOS devices.

iPods and iOS devices are built on the sync model and don't use regular mass storage, so you need to use iTunes to interact with them. This has upsides and downsides, but if you wish to simply drag music to the device and then delete it from the source you can definitely do that with an iOS device.

On an Android device, you can download 64GB of music from the device and get it into the media player, but nobody is going to actually do that. Also, plenty of people carry Android devices and iPod touches as media players so I don't think this aspect is enough to make the Android media player a convincing sell over the iOS one. IMO the fact that Android uses a Linux filesystem and therefore forces me to use the Android File Transfer Utility on my Mac to copy anything to the device is 1000x more annoying than any issues I've encountered with iTunes.
In the age of the internet, you have to grab the viewer's attention in mere seconds. A lot of marketers don't know how to do that without being annoying.
Brainwashing now has a science behind it.

Interesting, but could be bad:

1 - larger divide between those who can afford a service like this and those who can't

2 - governments and other entities can use it to brainwash people to create highly ideological and loyal agents/staff.
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"It won't be long until someone creates a version that blocks all ads again by default."

This version will still be able to block all ads. By does it matter if it's by default?
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This is a well-written and persuasive, and I think Elgan does a terrific job at structuring his argument around the 'product-to-feature' angle.

What I don't agree with necessarily is the framing that Google's success is fait accompli. One skill that Google has NOT established is their ability to integrate separate services such that the whole is at least as much as the sum of its parts. One might argue the only case where they've had success in this is AdSense. Tell me if I'm forgetting something.

While Google's scale and technological advance is a major plus, if you don't design these integrated products cleverly enough, you end up with a bloated, confusing, nebulous morass that people can't grasp as easily as they would independent services. I'm sure Page is aware of this, but the devil is in the execution, and again, the precedent so far is not encouraging. It'll be intriguing to see how well they do this in 2012.
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My theory is this post, along with this woman's online identity, is an elaborate troll on feminism. Let's explore.

"Here is a Blueprint for a Woman’s Life which I published. It is full of recommendations for how to make choices based on what we know women really want for themselves. It does not involve getting VC funding."

Hmm. It's kind of weird for anybody to pretend they can tell anyone else how to live their life, since figuring out how to life your life in your own way is what makes it your life and not someone else's. But whatever. Let's read a bit into this thing and see what she talks about...

She posted a list of things all women should be doing with their life. Here's the list verbatim (from http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/08/16/blueprint-for-a-wom...):

1. Do less homework.
2. Get plastic surgery.
3. Go to business school right out of the gate.
4. Start early looking for a husband seriously.
5. Milk maternity leave for all it's worth.
6. Guard your marriage obsessively.
7. Practice austerity.
8. Do a startup with a guy.
9. If you can't get men to do a startup with you, do a lifestyle business.
10. Homeschool. Your kids will be screwed if you don't.
11. Spend money on household help and Botox to keep more doors open longer.
12. Break the mold in your 40s.

All of that sounds like wonderful advice. It's a really thought-provoking and insightful read. Her only problem is she doesn't go far enough. First of all, you want to marry rich. That way you don't have to work, much less create a start-up. Actually wait, that was the whole point of the techcrunch post, so nevermind.

Before you liberal feminist sissies get all huffy, she clearly states "I know that's not good for feminism. But none of this post is." So please don't fret over whether or not she's setting women back by 60+ years as she is probably typing this story from the kitchen.

(p.s. this is the woman who did the tweet about having a miscarriage during a board meeting - http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/06/penelope-...)
While I'd agree that the root cause is unfair treatment, "ladies-specific events" only server to further divide groups. I like the parent's use of "organic" - let's keep the doors open to everyone, and let the system reach equilibrium on its own.
Finally... the devs are plain AWESOME.

A few years ago I got a dreaded call from a customer. A point of sale system was taking 45 seconds suddenly to post invoices. This is a big deal for a cash register role, as you can imagine.

So I went on site, ran some diagnostics, isolated the problem query, etc. At this point they were into the slow part of the afternoon so I asked about it on the -perform list along with query plans and everything else I could think of.

Within an hour I had received an email from Tom Lane explaining:

1) What the planner was getting wrong

2) Why the planner was making an error there, and why this was a special planner case.

3) Giving me suggestions as to how to fix it.

First rate support, let me tell you. (Also, planner behavior was changed in a release soon after to accommodate my use case.)
I like this. I've been toying with the idea of turning it off so that my favorite websites can get a bit of revenue from it, but I like this option even better.
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I love this. We all know he doesn't actually want to change the filesystem, won't do so, and frankly can't. However, Google's marketing and public line insists that he can, so he can, and this erroneous belief actually helps shape his purchasing decision.

This is a good lesson to keep in mind when encountering programmer-types that are arrogant enough to insist they are never swayed by marketing. Truth is, very little marketing targets them. When it does, it works just as effectively as it does with everyone else.
> I mean, if a company needs to hire a person for a certain critical role in the next months, how is a person that cannot work during that period of time going to do the job?

I think you're making unwarranted assumptions. Specifically, you haven't read the family leave statutes. Employers don't really have any obligations under them until an employee has worked for a year, and small employers are generally exempt.
I am saying that there is a difference between what's a facially non-discriminatory policy that clearly discriminates and what's a truly non-discriminatory policy.

BTW, from discussions I have had with young women trying to decide whether to go down the tenure track in academia in the sciences, I would say that academia has a system which is very discriminatory in its effects.
It's not clear that some roles are genuinely best filled by women, and some by men. There is still plenty of institutional sexism that pushes people into certain roles. For example, many women in high-powered careers are forced out after they have children. Here is a link to a book on the subject: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/18616558/ns/today-books/t/why-...

Here is an excerpt: "Married to fellow professionals, who face the same pressures at work that they do, women are home alone and go home because they have been unsuccessful in their efforts to obtain flexibility or, for those who were able to, because they found themselves marginalized and stigmatized, negatively reinforced for trying to hold on their careers after becoming mothers."

You can't look at the general pattern of women failing to pursue their own startups and assume that this is because they actually chose to do so. You might as well step back in time and assume that the reason black people were picking cotton instead of determining their own fates is because they were biologically inferior. Culture matters.
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> in any situation where you need absolute portability or availability on an otherwise bare system, bash is the way to go.

Interestingly, this is why Debian uses dash: A smaller shell is more portable.
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I am doing customer development and getting feedback from my customers but only using a PDF to show them features. It's like I want everything perfect ... At least useful...
Would you know of resources that help share practical information on how to make that work? Often, simply don't know how and making some sweeping statement that "it can be done" is typically insufficient to help spread the practice.

(I know from first-hand experience as my attempts to tell people "X can be done" often fail to fill them in adequately on the how and this gets me lots of ire. I struggle with that. I am often shocked at what other people do not know that I take for granted they "should" know. I continue to try to work on that.)

Thanks.
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The author makes the very good point that what people "want" changes over time. For example, in the 1960s only a small fraction of a given law school class was female.

Now almost 50% of law school graduates in a given year are female.

And I am sure people in 1965 were saying the same things about the differences between men and women and how those differences were reflected in law school classes.

The author's very valid concern is that one cannot draw the conclusions Penelope Trunk is drawing. The evidence just isn't in and quite frankly never will be in because society changes, expectations change, and preferences change.

I don't know how many startups will be founded by women 40 years from now. Neither do you. Which is exactly why the the author is writing "STFU about what women want." When we make assertions about what other people want we end up categorizing them without sufficient evidence, which ultimately leads to poor decision-making.
Maybe you should go do some volunteer work. I recommend a homeless shelter or some place catering to people dying of some gruesome illness. The point: Get some perspective on your problems. Falling on your face with your business is not the end of the world.

I don't currently have a business but I am a lot less of a perfection-obsessed neurotic since spending a year at death's door. It was very freeing and empowering.

Best of luck.
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Technology has made people to fall in love with the new tech gadgets. Markets are loaded with laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and many high tech gadgets. However, everyone wants to enjoy the new advancements and gifts of technology, but one gets strangles at the mercy of inflation and increasing unemployment rate.
Or imagine that you're not Stephen King, but an owner or founder of a large software company. A disgruntled employee on your team downloads the source code for your entire software product (which you spent millions of dollars along with years of development work and market research creating) and sells it himself, undercutting your prices and taking all your profits. Copyright is essential for any field that involves intellectual property.
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The problem is that AdBlock Plus is becoming popular.

Advertisers are noticing it too. And it will become a whac-a-mole game, in which advertisers will come up with creative ways to get around ADP or publishers will just block users with ADP enabled, or just setup a paywall.

We are indeed tired of intrusive advertising. But some websites are good citizens and shouldn't be punished for the mistakes of others. It wouldn't be in our long-term interest.

For example - Reddit is a good citizen. It only has an image in their right toolbar. Many times they just advertise for other reddits you might be interested in, which is also cool. I even clicked it a number of times.

So why punish websites like Reddit for the mistakes of others? We shouldn't. Reddit provides a valuable service too and the developers working on it need salaries too. And there are other websites like Reddit, also good citizens. It is in our interest to reward these websites - this way advertisers will start getting a clue.
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If everyone STFU about what others want or don't want and just focus more on they want out of their lives, world would be a far better place.
I love Jay, seems like a great overall guy.
Easy. He writes the book. He decides he wants to make one million dollars from its sale. He lets everyone pledge $5 or more toward its release. If he gets one million dollars in pledges, he releases the work and sends a copy to everyone who pledged him money. If not, he deletes it (or has it eaten by rats and zombie cats).

Copyright not required.
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College students and new graduates are always told on Hacker News "Get a GitHub page. Contribute to open source projects."

What are some projects a junior/entry/student level developer can hope to contribute to?
Dead on. I'm excited to see more services in the sharing economy. ebay and airbnb is just the beginning ...
To be fair, it would ruin the business model of Google's competition too.
I applaud the initiative, but this has a long way to go before it adds more value than the effort you put in to set it up and switch over from your existing editor. By far the best python/django IDE is pycharm. It's free for open source developers, and a small price to pay for anyone serious about python based web development.
When I started making the videos back in 2009, my concern was just showing how to solve games. Details were details, especially since your average YouTube viewer does not have much an attention spam that lasts past five minutes.

But you're right, the other things are important. I eventually get to them in some of the later (and longer) videos, I talk about them in the textbook. The first lesson is a free PDF on my academic website wjspaniel.wordpress.com, so you can check it out if you are interested.

Thanks for the feedback.

William
But I guess Jedi are still allowed to speak absolutes, if not think them. Anyway, I'd rather see an option for an in-page popup asking to donate to the arbitrary website you're on, with AdBlock as an escrow where site owners can collect their donations.

Edit: just saw https://flattr.com/ linked below. The problem with their execution (unless they do this already and I missed it) is that they don't stick a flattr button on every site. They should do this, and if a site isn't registered with them alert the donating user of the fact. If the donating user cares enough to contact the site owner in question they can sign up and get their money, otherwise at the end of some period it goes back to the user.

Edit2: Ah, looks like they do have an unclaimed feature. Yay! Everyone who uses the excuse of allowing ads to support the site should use flattr and make a direct known contribution instead of an unknown one. https://flattr.com/unclaimed
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Visit a job board of a SF based company and you'll find plenty of open positions. There is a supply and demand issue in cities around the world - not just Austin.

There are some great companies here who have no problem attracting talent. The companies that are struggling the most (and making the most noise, unfortunately) are the ones that simply don't get it. They throw money at numerous organizations in town asking them to "fix" this "problem" they have.

As a result, we've ended up with lots of articles like the one Garann refers to in the Statesman lately. I'm not denying that there is a problem here. I'm just stating that it really isn't specific to Austin.
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Copyright probably did not bring about an increase in total creativity or art excellence. (How would one measure those metrics anyway?)

What copyright did was create financial incentives for distributing the existing levels of creativity far and wide--so people other than rich patrons can enjoy creative works.
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Not at all. This is the first time I see it proposed seriously, and I monitor the Russian internets quite closely.
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Ok, that might work for Stephen King today, but how would it have worked for JK Rowling in 1995?
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> Since it's a one-time notification, it should've explained the rationale behind this feature and asked for a decision. That would mean treating users as intelligent adults.

I disagree. This is the cowardly and helpless solution to the problem: When in doubt, throw Yet Another Dialog or installation wizard page in the user's face.

Programs should confidently do Something Sensible by default, and instead let the 25% who want something different be able to easily change it.

Less choices makes more happy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
As a publisher, I say bring it all on. The reducing effectiveness of display advertising online has forced publishers to find different, and more profitable, models. Some have gone the 'payola' route (tailoring content to advertisers' whims - whether discree or not), and others, like me, have started to produce products that can be directly promoted within our content.

Happily, these techniques are far more profitable, better tolerated by users, and not affected by ad blockers at all :-) So block ads all you like - the agile publishers will adjust and the ones relying on garish display ads will go under.. which means more opportunities for the agile ones.
We've just released a bunch of updates for gevent-websocket: https://bitbucket.org/denis/gevent-websocket

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The answer to the question of "how to get more women into tech" is simply "get more women into tech" — if women see other women in the tech industry, they'll be more likely to perceive it as a viable career path, and their numbers will go up.

But when you have the present situation — where women are still a minority — it's hard to start that positive feedback loop. Women don't see other women in tech, so they're less likely to see it as a potential career path, and their numbers stagnate.

So the idea behind an event like this is to help break the perception that "women don't do tech." If you have a concentrated event with lots of women programmers, women are more likely to show up just because they see at as an event they are welcomed at.

Having an all-womens' programming event also helps alleviate a lot of the pressures that prevent women from showing up at coed events. Ask a female programmer you know about how it felt showing up at their university's computer club, or a hackathon, when they were still relatively inexperienced: they'll probably attest to feeling as if they needed to "prove" their geek credentials, or they'll talk about being afraid of looking like some incompetent girl (as opposed to simply incompetent). All-female tech events help women build up confidence so that they feel "equipped" when/if they choose to tackle the larger tech community.
Actually perl makes it way easier than python, because it supports more of bash features directly, from backticks to here-docs.
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My local university is Lincoln and I'm on campus every now and then as I have friends who work in their enterprise park. They have an excellent and reasonably new library but you need a student card to even get in since they put barcode scanner gates in when they built it. Their Web site notes this also :-(

That said, I might go and explicitly ask sometime, as there may be an unpublicised way around the problem.
If you read her whole life story, it's not all "class". She is remembered as nothing but wife to someone else, and another rich someone else.
Communicating hostility and disrespect and patronizing your opponent is not the best way to participate in a rational discussion.
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Not at all. The majority of the people aren't that fool. I'd say you can't fool others at all: earlier or later this gets discovered.

A small number of the ruling party supporters do suppose this. I guess part of them are real zealots, but there is another part that are just paid for blog & news comments. (Screenshots of announcements of such jobs were circulating recently.)

Now, the problem is if we (Russians) can achieve anything with this evidence. The quality of the political opposition is very low. Most of them do fight each other more than work for the people's needs.
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agreed, their latest integration with GMail definitely hints the trend
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Interesting, a service registry in Ruby. If you already have redis etc. running on your system, why not. But as I already have the dns servers running — for my specific use case — you cannot beat it, because it means just one line per service in my DNS server configuration to have it available.
I use it more as a reference / scan it for inspiration when I'm stuck. Way better than the bash man page...

I use it like I use 'perldoc perl' or
http://docs.python.org/ or
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ or
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide or
http://docs.jquery.com/Main_Page or
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html etc.
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