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The author briefly touches on iOS' true advantage: the "run loop".

In addition, when scrolling, iOS's main thread goes into a "tracking" mode where it filters out certain types of events that might result in redrawing or other performance degradations

He calls it tracking mode; the full name is a "run loop mode"—specifically, UIEventTrackingMode. When you're scrolling or zooming or transitioning a view, the main thread restricts which actions are performed: timers do not fire, sockets are disabled, and many other tweaks. This is why animations on iOS are so smooth (in my opinion).
amazing what a bad relationship can do to a man
I imagine they will say "I've heard that same prediction every week for all of those 5 decades."
One of the original H.264 proposals was to make Baseline Profile royalty-free -- unfortunately this kind of died (I don't know the details). The goal of making a royalty-free standard predates Theora by at least 5-10 years.

Theora is an amalgamation of (mostly) MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and JPEG.
We just had a candidate that flamed out in the race for the GOP nomination speak with approval of an electrified fence. I have never claimed this to be the majority position on the right (it isn't; about 40% of GOPers support restriction ist policies), but if you think immigration restrictionists aren't in love with the idea of walling off the border you're in denial.
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You're probably thinking of Housefed.com. He took the site down a while back I guess. I actually contacted the owner and chatted a (small) bit. Housefed was by far what I would consider to be the most popular of any of these types of services, but I don't think he could get a biz model that worked for him.

I'm glad you like the idea. We're doing it a little differently than we've seen so far. Seems to be working out thus far, of course, it's still very early.
Are all entires user contributions? Is it be possible to scour Internet for these kinds of events? Twitter?
I always wondered why [WHATEVER].1e100.net showed up when I ran "ping google.com" to see if my connection was up. After a while I made the "1e100 -> 10^100 -> googol -> Google" connection, but even so I didn't really know why they were doing it.
Entries are all inputed by our system... that's the magic stuff behind UpOut.
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1e100.net is chatty.

http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?se...

Specifically...

http://www.senderbase.org/senderbase_queries/detaildomain?se...
But are you happy with Google data-mining your email to deliver custom ads? (Of course, if you have an adblocker installed you won't see them, but the principle holds.)
I recently saw something similar for the film http://urbanizedfilm.com/stream/ that uses http://distrify.com/ to handle payment/streaming/affiliates all within the embed itself.
In the apps I've written, it's not common for timer and/or I/O events to come into the run loop during an animation. Hardware acceleration will make a much bigger difference. Romain measured a 1000X performance improvement in one case: http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/10/ios-vs-android-ics-hardware...

I/O in the main thread and GC are also common culprits. StrictMode is helping with the first. The latter was improved in Android 2.3 with the concurrent garbage collector. There are still more improvements that can be had there, but like I said, HW acceleration is the biggest win. When apps start optimizing for HW acceleration, allocations will likely decrease (because the apps won't be re-drawing on every frame), and GC overhead will become even less of an issue.
Social streaming creates white noise, while curated social sharing provides meaning. Having the devices in a hundred friends' pockets passively alert their social profile that they ate at a burger joint is meaningless. Having my friend tweet a photo of the mouthwatering burger she ate at the Umami Burger in my neighborhood at least provides some level of ambient value.

I listen to a lot of new music. My Spotify account is linked to Facebook. Seeing an automatically posted list of the last 70 songs I listened to might be interesting to a stalker, but having me specifically post "Bah, the new Weeknd mixtape isn't nearly as good as House of Balloons" actually tells you something about my taste.
why didn't you pick something like 'googleserver.com'? I have been seeing all these obscurely named TCP connections on my machine in recent months and I resent the time wasted to look each one up and verify that it's a trusted provider rather than a botnet. It may seem like a cute gag, but for those of us not in on the joke it is, literally, a waste of time. Amusements like this are for consumer-facing stuff, not server identities.
I agree, nothing beats content that have been deliberately selected just for you and friends, who know you personally, are best positioned to do just that.

How have you been getting content from your friends? I'd love to hear about that from you.

On a related note, I thought I'd just share that I built this app called Handpick, which helps you be selective about what you share with whom you share:

http://handpick.me

Let me know if you might find this useful, I can send out invites.

- Alvin
Yes I am happy for Google to do that. You phrase the question as if people won't have even thought about it that way. I think it's a trade where I come off the best.

I'm not much of a consumer. I don't buy that much stuff. My value to advertisers is probably a lot less than they think it is so I'm currently doing fairly well from selling my profile in return for free services.
This controls spam but it has it's side effect.
This is a UI issue!. they should fix it..maybe making the link to the 'other' folder more visible
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Your complaint is ironic given that 1e100.net is the result of an effort to standardise the naming of all Google's addresses. Once you know that 1e100.net is Google you never have to look it up again.

Besides, even if we picked some other domain you'd still need to look it up to determine whether it was actually us or someone pretending to be us.
Sure, because no botnet nor any fishy internet operation ever would use something like "googleserver.com" as a domain name...
I got a p151hm from Malibal with the better matte screen, 16gb of RAM and an i7 processor. I went with SSD in the main slot and had the optical drive swapped for a spinning hard drive.

This thing is a great workstation replacement: I run Linux as the host OS, with Windows 7 in a vmplayer VM for work. The VM gets two cores, 8 GB of ram and both sides stay really snappy. It also runs cool.

It's certainly no macbook though: in comparison the battery life is poor, it's heavier and the fans are a little noisier. None of these things have been an issue at all for my usage patterns: I walk to work with it and haven't noticed the weight, I use it plugged in at home and work, and ambient noise generally outweighs any fan considerations.

I couldn't recommend it more at this point. Malibal's customer service has been great, and I got more hardware for my buck than I could find from anyone else.
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One of the largest webmail providers on the Internet and you're surprised it has a page worth of email-sending computers?
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Interesting but color me skeptical of claims that they "[take] computing concepts to a whole new level". This would be fantastic if they could do it, and I think asynchronous event-driven circuits are definitely a move in the right direction, but the supposed "blog" they link to is nearly content-free marketspeak. The hyperbolic claims and lack of proven results set off little warning bells on this PR piece.
googleserver.com is taken, but $7.95 will get you googleservers.com.
Google chose a name that works for them, the reverse naming is for their convenience and use, not yours. This is quite a common practice to use more obscure naming for internal infrastructure (eg, footprint.net is Level3 CDN).

When you see a connection on tcp/443 to ec2-50-29-151-90.compute-1.amazonaws.com, how do you know if that is a botnet connection or not?
I thought you were being rude but prawn really is his name.
@ and # may define Twitter, but there are simpler and more accessible means of addressing users and creating groups/topics categories.
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Does anybody know of articles or methodologies for designing the rules of games? My son has what I think is a pretty good idea for a battle card type game, but I know that playability of rule sets is a pretty complex thing. I think maybe we can design by analogy from things like Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon, but it would be even better if somebody had already put some thought into this and published the results.
Can someone quickly explain (like I'm an idiot) how you remote administer a Windows Azure machine without a unix command prompt? I have a feeling that Microsoft and their cloud strategy is at a disadvantage in ways that they cannot even comprehend.
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Nobody has addressed the author's failure to back up his files. The loss wouldn't have hurt so bad.

Dropbox, Google Docs, Office Live, Ubuntu One - it's not like there's a lack of options.
I'm glad I don't have to worry about being beholden to a third party in situations like this.

I canceled my Facebook account about four months ago. I don't have to worry about missing messages; the only way people can reach me is via Twitter or email, both of which are posted prominently on my website.
Also nice because SSL doesn't tend to get preempted by traffic shaping so you usually get close to the max download rate the ISP says you're paying for.
That's precisely why while everyone is predicting the death of traditional publishing houses, I predict that they'll continue to flourish (though in a slightly transformed state) even with ebooks supposedly leveling the playing field. In an era where everyone and their grandma can sell their ebook on Amazon, you need a respected publisher (or "editor" as you put it) to sort through the coal and present you only with the gems.

This is a role that traditional publishers actively do today!
The problem is that instead of worrying about price, compete by being different and better. Make a store that people want to be in rather than a store.

Amazon will win on price hands down. If you think only on this dimension, then close up; instead, ask yourself why your customers come to you at all.
I'd love to commercialize this by connecting our brains to a farm of electronic brains via an API. Brain Power on Demand(tm)! :)
You mean Citigroup's Plutonomy investor Memo:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=2512...

It's not that fearsome.

Over time it becomes easier to give more value to more people thanks to progress in technology and greater amounts of money/economic wealth sloshing around.

The people who do something of value, or capture it, derive a huge surplus from the leverage provided by what's out there right now ( billions of people, trillions of dollars )

You can see the difference between Nikola Tesla - an absolute genius - who created the basis for all modern technology/progress and Google.

Even with all the value he created, he couldn't really derive that much personal benefit, as the utility of his inventions were low before network effects set in and there were fewer people with less disposable income to spend money on his inventions. He also got screwed but that's another story.

Compared to Google ( very smart guys yes, geniuses perhaps ) which started less than 14 years ago and has become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world.

Lady Gaga ( 4 years ) vs. Madonna ( 40 years ) for huge success.

Avatar ( 3 billion ) vs. Jaws ( .5 billion )

You catch my drift. Feedback loops are getting larger and faster - it's like nothing stands still anymore.

But society is getting better.
Hardware acceleration is a huge boost, but the main remaining problem with Android is stutter. This is where run loops really help.

As you say, I/O in the main thread and GC are central causes. Both are problems that Apple doesn't have, because of run loops and manual memory management respectively.

Also, the focus on multithreading the heck out of everything is not the way to go. There is real, substantial overhead to having multiple threads. Run loops are such a powerful tool precisely because they let you keep everything on the main thread (avoiding context switch overhead) while giving you an easy way to prioritize UI when needed (event tracking mode).
I think it's just supposed to fit in with other current Microsoft designs (i.e. "Metro-style"). It will use Segoe UI if installed (i.e. on Windows).
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The meta-point is more that we need to find a deviation from the current Standard Model. Further confirmations of the Standard Model are in a sense bad news; we want it to come apart so we can examine the pieces. It is true that if we can produce the Higgs we can then study it, but if it then turns out to precisely fit the parameters predicted by the SM, that's bad.

This argument should also be read along with the fact that last I knew, none of the accelerators have been able to turn up anything else particularly interesting either. Some of the supersymmetry theories predicted particles in ranges that we should be able to see (barely) and none of them have appeared. We're down to hoping that there's something else to find in the extra room the LHC will give us at full blast or we really will be up a creek.

"These days there seem to be many more models out there than there is good science behind it - at least to a layperson like me."

And in fact your observation is connected; particle physics has been starved for data and in the interim have come up with all kinds of things, trying to find things that may have testable consequences. This would go a lot better with some data.
I just think it's neat to see scaled services from the point of view of senderbase when a RHS rDNS pattern is available.

Also, I don't recall using the /surprised/ tag in my post.
I don't know, but I assume this is why Windows PowerShell exists?
Why need it be a unix command prompt? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg271300
The lamest bug you will ever encounter deletes your whole /usr.
He didn't mention how the logging was done but if it was over a TCP connection then the send() call probably blocked until it timed out since the sleeping computer didn't close the socket nicely, then it had to re-establish the connection. Although reliability is nice, if I were writing a remote logger for a something like a game, I think I'd use UDP.
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The answer to that is complex, but worth considering what happens without it. A perfect example would be the Bill Hicks guest appearance on David Letterman that was not allowed to air because the material was considered too sensitive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkptz2YfZik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf340K_Ed0o&feature=relat...

I fullheartedly support comedy as a form of free speech that should not be influenced by sponsorship.

Remember: Nothing is free. If something is "free", that's because it's you that's being sold.
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Someone can just park in your street and steal your internet. Just saying!
Any links you can share please? I love coming up with new ideas, only to find out that it has all been done well before my time.
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This is true, however it does put additional pressure on (volunteer) exit node operators nevertheless.
I disagree. That's what "people who bought this book also bought that book" is for.
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Sick! The lack of adequate functionality in PyPDF has been a pet peeve of mine for a while! I really look forward to trying this out.
It is hard to see through the veils of history, but one of the things that always strikes me is that if you sit down and really try to put all the pieces together, what you find is an alien world, far more alien than most supposedly alien worlds of science fiction, especially if we're talking about going back all the way to Ancient Greece. What we think of in our bones as civilization doesn't exist then. The closest thing that might get you there is farming communities in the Midwest... with no power, or cell phones, or cars, or houses, with dangerous wild animals still roaming about, no medical treatment, no firearms, and no prior 21st-century civilization thought patterns, and you're still only sort of glimpsing it. Friendship wasn't an affectation, it was a necessity; humans are effectively incapable of surviving as an individual with no social support, and these people were, by modern standards, in a constant state of just barely scraping by. Even wealthy people were still just one bad fall or cut from a lingering death. When reading about the ancient past one must always be sure to keep this backdrop in mind, and not surreptitiously sneak in a modern setting for the drama in your head.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too. History doesn't make any sense at all unless you learn to stop seeing it through 20th/21st century preconceptions about ethics or civilization. (And I'm not saying I've got a grasp on the older preconceptions, I've just observed that using my "default set" certainly doesn't have much explanatory power for why people do what they do in the past.)

I'd submit for your consideration the idea that what we see in ancient friendships is more like what we'd today call the "war buddy" bond, because life was a lot more like a war back then. As we move through history and more and more people are no longer engaged in war with Nature just to survive, we see that level of bond fade because we see the conditions that give rise to that level of bond fade. Personally, I would say this is cause for celebration more than sadness.
I hope this doesn't end as another "cat brain" fiasco:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229

Since the original critique by Henry Markram has been removed from the bluebrain website, I wish if anyone can confirm that the pasted exchange actually took place.
WTF is the best comedy podcast out there, hands-down. The 2-part with Louis is worth the price of admission alone, but there's many more that are as well. If you like comedy at all and a contrarian, alternative point of view, I can't recommend it highly enough.
You can already see how much Scott Guthrie is changing things in Azure division.
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While I am sympathetic to this argument, I would say that is not always the case. Some configuration issues are usually required and when something is set up for a specific case, and it behaves for that case, and the user simply forgot that this is what they did, then it's a bug only in the storage retrival routines of the user's own memory.
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Facebook jumping shark--a loose timeline:

2004: I sign up for Facebook because it lets me easily find classmates' cell numbers, and I got my first cell phone for Christmas!

2005: wow, my HS friends are all joining facebook! More connection.

2006: networks de-emphasized as facebook opens to anyone with an e-mail address. Many stop sharing contact info with a network, so odds I can find cells/emails go down.

2007: I graduate, but use Facebook messages to stay in touch with friends (feels less formal/weighty than email).

2008: I find some guy's wallet, find his facebook page, message him, and he gets it back.

2009: I'm using Facebook less. But Facebook stock is burning up. Everyone I know who went to work for Facebook could retire. I can't--but I apply to go back to school instead, which is a rough approximation.

2010: I really can't get much info on my new classmates from Facebook, except streams of status updates during class--a distraction, not real communication.

2011: I learn Facebook spams you a lot if you don't log in frequently enough (they need those monthly active numbers). Messages to strangers apparently don't work.

2012: What can I do on Facebook again?
I love this comment:

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At the end of a whiteboarding interview whenever the interviewer asks "do you have any questions for me?" I'm always tempted to hand them the marker and say "Imagine you are given a binary tree with elements containing linked lists ..."
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Have any of you guys ever done this? How did it play out?
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He puts his finger on the right question: why do large firms exist? But I disagree with the answer. I think a better answer is: they don't. That is, they existed in the past for reasons of industrial scale; but they exist now (at least in post-industrial fields) only by inertia. The wheels of history grind slowly and the monoliths haven't been ground to bits yet. But they will be: into smaller, more productive, hopefully more humanly satisfying bits. It just takes a long time for people to get over the things that everybody "knows" about reality, such as that great companies inevitably grow into behemoths.

Google is an interesting case, because they manifested so many seminal changes, for example their hacker-centric culture. And they still do some amazing work - yet astonishingly little compared to what one would expect from an organization with tens of thousands of such smart people.

This is explained if you consider that we are early in the post-industrial age. It takes time for new organizational forms to develop. This is also an opportunity, because anyone who can see a little further ahead has a chance to leapfrog over their cohort the way Google did. Somebody is going to figure out how to grow a company without dissipating the bulk of its human energy in meetings, politics, and other depressing shit.
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If you check out the "publications" tab there is more substantial content. The first one in the list is a pretty readable yet detailed description of their approach and philosophy.
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Is anyone willing to speculate why Microsoft is supporting nodejs on Azure? Or their use of Github/git rather than TFS? Or the work on redis-win32? It seems like a negative for developer mind share in the long run.
1) Increase Linux's usage share, and we will see a greater share of Linux exploits and malware. Case in point: Mozilla Firefox.

2) New versions of Windows have long retained backward compatibility with older applications (the upgrade from 98/ME to XP an exception largely necessary for security).

Just as importantly, Microsoft supports their operating systems for at least ten years after their initial release dates. In contrast, Ubuntu LTS releases are only supported for five years (and until 12.04 comes out, only three years on the desktop).

Keep in mind that upgrading software costs a business money, and rewriting (parts of) it to run on a totally different OS costs even more. No wonder why Windows is the business OS of choice.