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Agree with the rephrased emphasis and likely placement on mentioned silly diagram. SAP Streamworks was pretty interesting IMO, but I don't think there was any opportunity to engage independent developers. Hard to expect anything like that out of the depths of the enterprise and (IMO) that is a good reason to produce consumer (e.g. B2C) rather than enterprise (B2B) driven apps.
Apple Testing GPU Drivers for Higher-Resolution iPhone Screens?
that it has learned from an Apple software engineer that the company is currently testing fourteen different GPU drivers for iPhone hardware, including several drivers for running displays at higher resolutions of 1280 x 720 and 1440 x 800. The iPhone 4 and 4S currently utilize a 960 x 640 display.
Reading stuff like this reminds me of 1999, when the bottom fell out of the job market a few years later:

>>You need to find a way to invest in software developers.

Sigh, the gold rush will start again...
Created a throwaway account to test this against my own account, didn't work even with US English set. There's more to it.
That's opinion, and opinion shapes what reality you see. Changing your opinion is hard, but it can be freeing.
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Tested this theory against my account using another throwaway one. My real account has several profile pictures and the exploit didn't work.
DARPA's factory of the future looks like open source development
And this metric matters over profits because?

If I have a 1,000,000 person company that has 1 bln in profits, and you have a 100 person company that makes 10 million in profits, you make 100 mores per employee.

But I get to bank a cool billion...
Damn, I've never realized that before. It's weird how combined words eventually "evolves" into a single word you never realized was a meaningful combination of multiple words.
Gowalla lost. This is what happens to investments when companies lose. The "side deals" the team makes after their company fails are irrelevant. Nobody is better off going down with the ship; not the founders, not the employees, and not the investors.
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Accuracy vs. Insights in Quantitative Usability
My point was that in no case (Google/Facebook/Apple) does anyone have "a copy" of the core product that they can extend. The developer platforms of each are in a sense extensions to the core products and most "hacking" around Google/Facebook/Apple is related in some fashion to B2C products. SAP also has an army of suits creating B2B products, which makes sense since it is their core market (e.g. B2B offerings instead of B2C).

That said, I completely agree that there are (apparently) higher barriers to entry to SAP and it mystifies me why this would be in their best interests -- I assume in some sense it is the security of the "gated community," where one knows that if one engages a SAP consultant he/she has already been vetted in some fashion.

This sort of approach (which I find typical of Germany) leads to a high average but a real handicap when it comes to innovation. But then again if you are doing something very well it is easy to make money hand over fist and then use that money to buy the latest greatest new sauce once it is ready (which is what SAP has done here with this acquisition).
I love the comments but this is exactly the stuff I was talking about in this article. I'd love to show the wider tech audience a bit more about SAP and how it works. Guess that can be my project for 2012.

1) Yes, you can download a trial version as Zalthor points out. I'm trying to work with SAP to make this more open and easy to do. It's important.

2) SAP customers vary from 1 employee (SAP BusinessOne) to 250,000+ employees (SAP ERP). But from a download perspective the interesting stuff is coming with Gateway and the Unwired Platform. With those tools - the server components of which will be available in the cloud - you can build Edge/Web Apps and Mobile apps using whatever tech you want. Ruby on Rails, iPhone, whatever. That's the sort of open integration which I hope will interest this audience, not downloading copies of SAP ERP for home.

3) Couldn't agree more, don't block social media at work. I wouldn't work for a company that did. By the way, SAP encourage social media and have 50k+ employees. But some organizations are stuck in the dark ages.

4) Streamworks integration is coming for the mainstream soon. It will be PaaS, integrated with the new Java environment and developer toolkit and supports open integration. It's had a bad press so far. Hopefully this will help.

Hope this helps.
FYI: Editor doesn't work in IE9
Yes. Pimples. Almost boil-like in their size (is Boil a Briticism, too?)
Derek's more hard-core geek than I suspected. I could only dream of being that hard core :)

Jumping from Ubuntu to Linux Mint was already a leap of faith for me.
Enhancements to FsUnit (version 0.9.1.1)
It still working for me. Tested few minutes back. I tried this on different proxies as well, so it cannot be region specific.

Maybe they are rolling it out (lets say blocking it out) slowly now.
That's hilarious. From your behavior in this thread I'm pretty convinced that you have problems that could use professional help.

I'm telling you I see a problem, where I see the problem (you see perl as part of who you are) and you see that as an insult. Or maybe you were even calling my bit about not caring how perl is spelled as an insult?
Your advice to workout hard and short instead of cardio is wrong. Working out at all is better than not working out. But cardio exercise (e.g. running and/or biking) for sustained periods of time will burn much more calories.

And that's what weight loss is all about. Calories in vs. calories out.

I speak from not only the obvious facts but also experience, I lost over 100lbs from January 2009 to July 2010 and got healthy in the process.
Perhaps. But the danger of clean, attractive, reductionist metaphors and analogies is that the general public -- including decisionmakers in the business world -- tend to reify the analogies, and treat them like immutable laws of physics.

Witness, for instance, the rise and fall (and rise again?) of "The Long Tail." As a concept, the long tail certainly applies to some businesses. But not to all, and not nearly as successfully as the concept's author once claimed. But the business world was frenzied with long-tail fever for years on end. "Long tail" became the buzz-phrase of the day, even in companies for whom the concept made no sense whatsoever. People with no understanding of the underlying principles could, nevertheless, grasp the surface-layer metaphor -- and, in so doing, assume that they understood the whole thing. That's a dangerous mindset.

So there's a sort of Faustian bargain in all of this. Appending a nice metaphor on top of a concept increases the likelihood that the concept will be disseminated, talked about, and taken up. But, at the same time, it invites intellectual laziness and fads of half-baked thought.
Do you really believe that? Maybe the antibiotics in the chicken --- although truly healthy chicken is spectacularly expensive, and even products labeled "organic" can still be flooded with antibiotics "to prevent disease outbreaks" which are inevitable in factory farms.

Other than antibiotics, I generally call BS on the health benefits of "organic" and "grass fed" protein. You should eat organic --- or, VERY preferably, local --- but you should do it (a) because it tastes better, (b) to support local family farming, and (c) because it's more humane. Not because of some supposed health benefit.
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The advantage of this approach is that our sites are always current, diverse, cheap to operate and free from all forms of commercial and political bias.

Each topic on The Wall features links to the most shared and debated media, commentary and opinions at any particular moment in time.

Currently we're processing over 7 million tweets per day to generate this content.

Hope you like it- much blood, sweat and tears has gone into it.
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This is a security hole and nothing more. Developers make mistakes. This is not some vast conspiracy by Facebook to undermine your privacy. Why, of all places, is HackerNews unable to comprehend this?
That may be the worst interview I've read. To sum it up:

"Comic Sans has its purpose. I still design fonts, and I do it as a business not as an art. I hate driving."

Just pepper that summary with typographical errors, formatting mistakes, and then remove all the substance. There, I saved you a click-through.
Is it possible to create an HTML quine?
Why Apple (and Sony, Amazon, Microsoft etc.) Should Support Jailbreaking
My father has been a SAP consultant for about 20 years. I remember when I was a kid, he told me about this guy at his work who took SAP home and hacked on it at home in all his free-time (he was single). Unlike most SAP consultants who are only qualified for one or two SAP modules, this guy got to wizard-status in all of them. My father always said this guy got so good he had a demi-god like status at the company and was making big bucks.

So, SAP is certainly not sexy, but if you can take the pain and get good at it, you'll make big bucks.
>and neither I trade with perception in mind

Then I'd be surprised if you do well in trading. For monetary value; perceived value is value. We have no other means of valuing things monetarily.
It's not (most likely) the case of Microsoft going to them. Microsoft (as well as google) just pays for customers that you bring to their search. Many products make living out of it. Now, CNet just wanted to make more money. It's a shady practice to do it this way, but Microsoft shouldn't be the one to blame.
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UK: http://thewall.co.uk
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^ latest project from our team (we also built trendsmap.com, cushycms.com, retailmenot.com, bugmenot.com, etc)

The Wall provides an automatic, real-time view of what's newsworthy by monitoring, analysing and publishing the most discussed topics on social networks as they occur.

The advantage of this approach is that our sites are always current, diverse, cheap to operate and free from all forms of commercial and political bias.

Each topic on The Wall features links to the most shared and debated media, commentary and opinions at any particular moment in time.

Currently we're processing over 7 million tweets per day to generate this content.

Hope you like it- much blood, sweat and tears has gone into it.
Seems to be interesting. Do you have a demo video? Will this work in all the browsers? Any browser restrictions?
I think it's a stretch to call this "just" a mistake. First of all, there isn't any malicious code that has to be run to execute it, it's a simple as clicking a few buttons in the UI.

Secondly, Facebook is a site with hundreds of millions of users managing billions of private photos. With the amount of revenue & number of developers they have, it's inexcusable that they can't think through a simple process like this without considering what happens if two users aren't friends.

Granted, they're probably not "trying" to undermine privacy. But they're doing a very poor job at maintaining it.
Thanks, added to my Amazon wishlist! I'm planning to pull aside some SAP consultants at some point soon and get them to show me the inner workings of the SAP stack. It is amazing to me that they only provide documentation to people who take their courses.
Hopefully only when the last time a pilot had to intervene on a plane flying itself is only remembered in history books.

Automation today is really good, but only until something goes wrong. Until automation becomes absolutely perfect, I will argue it's even starting to become dangerous - as pilots are thrown into emergencies without quite knowing how the plane got into them and based on what flawed assumption.
The myth of the pilotless commercial plane
I'm sure the intent of the law was "the carrier cannot restrict apps that are available on other carriers."
I can see some problems with your "per-exception" pricing model.

If your product works and adds value, it will result in the reduction of exceptions. A reduction in the number of exceptions will result in web sites requiring a smaller plan. Smaller plans will result in lower revenue. The more useful your app is, the less money you will make (a bit of a generalization but you get the point).

Could you not migrate to page loads? Fire off an event on every page, regardless of whether or not there was an exception?
What's the support like for mobile browsers? Debugging mobile webkit is a pain. It'd be nice to see some screenshots on the site too.
Usability 101: Definition and Fundamentals - What, Why, How
A great font is one that fit’s it’s purpose.

Sentences like that burn my eyes in any font.
The funny thing is that over here in the UK the press have claimed that schools are dumbing down maths education based partly on the fact that they don't teach calculus or geometry as part of the compulsory curriculum. It's been replaced with (amongst other things) basic probability and statistics which apparently wasn't taught until university before.
This might work as a DARPA project, but it won't work for real, non-DARPA projects for a large number of reasons. A few that spring to mind:

1. DoD spending is more political than military or technical. The US congress uses "defense spending" as a way to bribe voters, rather than as a way to defend the country.
2. Can't be done in secret. Without secrecy, DoD spending would have to withstand some scrutiny, and it probably can't, due to (1) and some other factors.
3. "Intellectual Property". The US as a society is busy locking up all of the ideas it can, for some strange reason. Every smart patent troll in the country would start looking to see what it can sue for.
Not the same. Business that sell VAT 0% items (zero-rated items) can still deduct VAT on supplies, whilst providers of VAT exempt goods can't claim back VAT on supplies.

For example, admission to a charitable event is VAT exempt in the UK, while goods sold at a charity shop are zero-rated.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/goods-services....
If you're product it targeting developers, as I'm sure a "High performance JavaScript error tracking" service would be. I would hope that the "Features" page would be a bit more descriptive of how it works.

While I understand that you don't want to over complicate the features section, the reality is that the people you're targeting should have more than a basic understanding of whats happening, and you should talk to them as such. - Unless you're targeting managers and hoping they will force this on their developers.

Edit: I notice you have _some_ technical info in the FAQ, but my personal opinion is that if you're targeting devs you need MOAR.

tl;dr: Give us more info.
Punitive damages on a geometric scale for repeat offences in a 10 year period? 3 times profit made plus any damages for first re-offence, 9 times for second re-offence. Sounds similar to training a child to go to sleep on their own...
You are comparing Asian 8th grade scores to the Asian-American 4th grade score. If you compare 8th graders to 8th graders (Asian-Americans scored 549[1]), you'll find that Asian-Americans came in a distant last place among all ethnic East Asians.

Still, somewhat ironically, you are both right. Underperforming ethnic groups in the US bring the average down, and the US educational Prime Directive of making sure the high-performing groups don't get ahead brings it down even farther. While Asian schools work hard to push Asian kids ahead, US schools refuse to do so, because that would just widen "the achievement gap" they're trying so hard to close. So US schools, first in spending, are last in effectiveness for ethnic Asian kids. That "doing the least with most" is school underperformance. The only reason Asian-American kids do as well as they do is that, like their cousins in Asia, they get a lot of their education outside of school.

[1] 2007 TIMSS results:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009001_suptables.pdf
Asian scores are on p. 3, Asian-American scores on p. 15
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The second, you mean.
Microsoft, as well as Google, pays for searches you bring to them. That's why many free applications offer you toolbar and/or default search. They make money out of it. Similiary, browsers (Opera, Firefox, ..) make money out of it as well. So there's probably nothing wrong here done by Microsoft. It's CNET that is abusing this.
General form appears to be as follows:

http://www.facebook.com/ajax/report/social.php?
__a=1&
__d=1&
attach_additional_photos=1&
cid=((FBID))&
content_type=0&
h=((HASH BASED ON YOUR ACCOUNT))&
phase=6&
report_id=1&
rid=((FBID))

After you get that initial hash then you can swap out the CID and the RID and get everyone else (I tried it for 3)... it's pretty easy.

This issue is probably going to make mainstream news by noon.
"And for nearly two decades, automatic landing systems have been able to drop and stop a jet on the fog-shrouded deck of an aircraft carrier that's barely twice as wide and three times as long as the jet's wingspan—and the ship is moving. Meanwhile, the pilot sits in the cockpit, hands folded."

I know that aircraft carriers have these systems, but having been on two deployments on an aircraft carrier I have never heard of it being used. I think it's only for emergencies when the pilot is injured or incapacitated.
what is does making big bucks in SAP world mean ?
Very well written article. My problem with SAP is simple. I have no idea what they actually do. None. They do a terrible job marketing their products to people who would actually use them (as opposed to the people responsible for choose which products in this category get purchased). The only product of SAP's that I know anything about is Crystal Reports, and only because it ships with Visual Studio.

For example, here's the one-liner about BusinessOne that you pointed out:

A SINGLE INTEGRATED BUSINESS MANAGEMENT APPLICATION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

^^ I get nothing from that. The details section on their website don't do much better. I fear this is not accidental; the pitch is just enough to get you on the phone with one of their sales people.
http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1526539

Summary: resistance training is most effective, then interval training (high intensity and lower intensity), and then steady state high intensity cardio training, and finally least effective steady state low intensity cardio training.
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The taxi cab in NYC that I was in this morning had Google Wallet support. I've yet to see ISIS support anywhere.
> Fasting is really bad for you.

Do you have any data on that? Many nutritionists and healthy people are big fans of intermittent fasts.
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Thanks for the feedback, Clay.

I considered that model for a really long time. But there were two problems with it. (a) Actually just handling large amounts of hits wasn't really a huge cost for me, and (b) I don't think the usefulness will reduce for people who actively deploy regularly.

If people don't deploy regularly, they'll likely be happy with the free plan anyway. :)
It's not the first time either. Very similar breach of privacy happened when they implemented "view my profile as ..." functionality. You gained access to the private data of the user you were simulating.
still works.
You are right and wrong. It is about consumer behaviour. I can't think of a technology that is affecting consumer behaviour in a way internet does. And now it got legs with mobile. If it has not affected you in the case of a bakery, surely your children will be.
Thanks. Point taken. Do you have any specific questions in mind?
Automation doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to have better judgement than a human pilot.
SAP was built in the seventies on seventies technology, which it still uses today (ABAP).

The Internet was built in the seventies on seventies tech, which it still uses today (IPv4).

I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but this is a dumb yardstick to use.
In addition, while you may not ever make an OS, you will most definitely make things that have to interact with an OS. Understanding the world your application lives in and some of the constraints the designers of that OS faced will make it easier to troubleshoot interaction problems that occur outside of the borders of your application.

I'm more impressed that OS is considered an exceedingly difficult part of a curriculum somewhere. I found it a relatively straightforward course, and do not recall anyone else complaining about it. Most of the difficulty in the curriculum seemed to center around Theory of Computation and our programming language concepts course that was in scheme, a lot of people have a really difficult time with continuation passing and understanding call/cc after all OO languages.
Funny how something like this is originally posted on a body building forum. I think the first reports of the recent Penn State scandal were posted there too (around a year ago.) Who would have thought that's where you'd first find such things?
Thanks, Colin.

Currently, mobile browsers aren't supported because mobile webkit doesn't support window.onerror. Errorception doesn't distinguish between browsers, so whenever mobile browsers add support, I'll be ready.
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The operators of free services do not owe their users anything --- apart from safeguarding any data they took from users --- when their companies fail. This "somebody think about the users" meme needs to die. A company offering free service has an overriding first obligation to its own employees.
Narad, no demo video yet, but I'll see what I can do. It works in most popular desktop browsers - any browser that supports window.onerror is supported.
Makes me wonder about BD-J (A J2ME-derived Java runtime available on every commercial Blu-ray player) and the potential for writing demos that actually execute from a Blu-ray disk.
Should probably do some more careful code checking, or actually run a validator on the code.
Hack on Solr. Dabble with the NLTK. Implement a couple of the algorithms in the Collective Intelligence O'Reilly book. There're plenty of interesting opportunities for the hobbyist in the world of information retrieval.

Neither Facebook nor SAP are solving particularly interesting problems. Is it useful to facilitate meaningful human interactions? Yes. Is it valuable to glean insights about the operational structure of a business? Certainly.

Both of these companies do something like this, but emphasizing the wrong aspects of scalability. TechCrunch is still boring, but SAP isn't interesting.
The Chinese version of Facebook, Google and Amazon. Your Views?
Check out this infographic that looks at the Chinese versions of our favorite social networking sites.
UI: Adding Subtle Textures for Depth
Sure, but mine is probably a more interesting company for TechCrunch to write stories about. It's more likely to be innovating in ways that readers will care about.