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Choosing the right tablet: How I got to the Kindle Fire
As an HP employee I have something to smile about today.
Ukash allow gambling and adult. Awkward but legal.

Also if your starting a gambling business then payment providers are the least of your concern. You need to be licensed by the UK gaming body - http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk.
Well, would you rather see companies in this market stop doing this pointless crap, or see Apple suffer? The answer to this question will dictate whether you think this turn of events is a good thing or not.
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The term "waterfall" wasn't coined by Royce in his paper. His paper was a set of suggestions to improve what later became generally known as the waterfall process.
Look at the wings closely. Looks like they had to taped them back on.
"""Don't know where you live"""

Half a world away.

"""but the constitution of my nation is pretty damn clear that the whole point of the patent system is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". I don't see anything in there about "protection"."""

Yes, because a one line "mission plan" summary totally summarizes the law and how it's used.

"""Patents provide protection as a means to an end. What I was saying is that the goal of the patent system is very much to get inventions into the hands of the public, and into the hands of other inventors who can improve them."""

That goal could be accomplished without the patent system altogether. Just make everything open. That would get inventions to the hands of the public and other inventors even faster.

The actual use of the patent system is to present barriers to the copying of inventions, to allow the one who come up with it to profit.

Now this is supposed to encourage R&D, and thus the party line about "advancement" etc (which is totally secondary and only comes as a side effect of patenting, whereas restriction of copying is the immediate effect).

So, yeah, Apple's attempts are against the abstract principle behind the patent office, but much in line with it's pragmatic use.
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So I assume you willfully pay your tax on all online purchases?
They did mention they wanted to control the development of the system to avoid fragmentation, so the license may be more restrictive than Android. Full open-source but cannot sell devices with wildly custom builds without HP's approval seems to be okay with me. As long as they leave a clause for being able to legally share your custom homebrew ROMs, they can put as many restrictions on hardware manufacturers as they like.
First the laugh at you.

Then they copy you.

Then they announce they have an X (your product's name) killer.

Then nobody cares.

Then they open source their product.
If it ever got to the point where brick-and-mortar stores for certain things ceased to exist since everyone was buying online, you could have a store that actually charged admission to browse (and to convince people to still come, you could make that admission count toward an online order or toward food at a store restaurant.)

Pretty unlikely, although maybe it would make sense in a less-developed community (third world countries, outer space) that does not already have modern brick and mortar stores.
I've been using evil mode and don't really see why you'd even want to move away from the vim bindings. Get the best of both worlds, the nice vim movements and model editing, plus all the nice emacs packages and being able to use elisp instead of vimscript.
>> It's simply too easy and financially rewarding to allow a client's political nonsense to screw up every stage of a project. I have less stress, the people who pay me are happier and I bill far more hours.

This is now one of my favorite comments from this site. Very well put!
That's also a syntax error; I think CoffeeScript wins this round.
This is a platform play. Think of it like a casino, HP is the house. It sits in the middle, makes the rules and pockets the mindshare, influence...and maybe some money.

Samsung, HTC have been desperate for an alternative to android since the Motorola purchase by Google. If HP does this right, I have little doubt we will see future webOS devices.
I think HP would benefit if the mobile/tablet landscape was not so dominated and controlled by two of their competitors
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I didn't say that all Samsung products are Apple ripoffs. But some, especially their higher end products, are.

Like:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/galaxy-player-samsung...

http://gizmodo.com/5836128/samsungs-new-notebooks-are-super-...

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-31/tech/30092522...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121322194642065867.html

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/15/samsung-galaxy-ace-gio-fi...
I shudder to think what could have happened, had she delayed the exam. From what I understand, she was not in a risk group and didn't yet require periodic exams. Not many people will jump through the hoops unless they have been told by a doctor that it is something they need to do.

And that's not even counting the heavy procrastinators, such as myself, that will postpone exams even when the doctor asks for them. Which reminds me...

In any case, I find the bureoucracy a pain. For most exams, you have to schedule an appointment in advance. Depending on what prompted you to seek medical help in the first place, you might even be feeling better already. Too many times I have been told that there was nothing wrong - no kidding, I was feeling better already.

Don't even get me started on how hard it is to find good doctors...

I believe we are reaching a point where we have the technology to cure most maladies, but which doesn't do us any good because it is not applied consistently enough, even disregarding economic factors.

I guess that's why the Star Trek's sick bay appeals to so many people. It is not hard to envy a future where one just has to walk-in with an obscure disease, get state-of-the-art scans, done by one of the very best doctors, who will not stop until he finds what's wrong. And not go broke afterwards.

Yeah, give me that over a transporter any day.
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And the upside of Google doing the same to Android was?
Seems like a thorough study:

Accuvant focused only on Chrome, IE and Firefox, leaving out Safari and others for the sake of time. It also tested the browsers only on Windows 7, 32-bit edition.
Same here - I used to line up variables with tabs and such to try to make things look neat and put in lots of dashed lines to separate groups of functionality. I don't know if it's experience or just preference but I don't like doing that anymore.

I find it much more important to put in javadoc style comments to make the code understandable for other users rather than lining things up nicely.

If you're using an IDE you can view all of the variables and methods sorted however you like anyway with a class or outline view.
Thanks vyrotek
Thanks.

Your third point is something I've been trying to keep in mind; of course I want more, but I'm conscious of that desire so hopefully it won't get the better of me. I keep reminding myself that "50% of something is better than 100% of nothing". Sincerely though, I'm not interested in owning the whole company out of greed, I'm just conscious of splitting it 50/50 when the responsibilities currently aren't stacked in that manner.

Mainly, I'm just unhappy because he really is doing nothing. We split out our responsibilities--with myself taking most of the hard work--and despite that I've still ended up fulfilling both of our roles.

There's an aspect to this that I'm thinking we may just be operating on different timescales. I do believe he'd come through in the end, but I get the distinct impression his end may be in a year or two, while I'm aiming at considerably nearer than that.

Obviously, the solution to all this is to just talk to him, but I'd rather get my slaps here if I'm being silly before saying anything stupid.
Outsource the future
My point is that Office and Photoshop don't use pipes either (AFAIK).

(BTW, how did sedq get banned within 3 hours of creating an account? This doesn't seem right.)
Of course not. SOPA is common-sense legislation designed to protect the creative people in our society. It has nothing to do with Internet restrictions or censorship.
</sarcasm>
well done sir! I will use it.
Next meetup to find a co-founder is Monday in Mountain View
Meanwhile at the US....
SOPA
Need I say more?
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It was ahead of its time. Windows Phone picked up where WebOS left off on that measure, and did it quite well. They also grabbed the cards feature and put it to use (though without real-time multitasking).

All the features that should have made WebOS the best-selling platform ever have now been incorporated into the competing products. The fact that Windows Phone is basically WebOS with the homebrew taken out but is still lagging far behind in sales goes a long way towards showing that features matter much less than advertising and hype.
Because cashiers are trusted and customers aren't. There's still the delay during checkout, though.
Do you remember how?
You can now check into video games with Playd
You know what they say, "Hindsight is always 20/20"
While we borrowed incredibly heavily from Panic's design at Fog Creek, I think StackExchange's is an example of parallel evolution more than anything else at this point. Panic built an absolutely beautiful board, but the idea of a board didn't originate with them, nor is there much overlap between StackExchange's and theirs.
No, what I mean is - tase them when they "crash" in the simulator, not when they stall.

A simulator "crash" is not nearly significant enough to their reptilian brain. Their neocortex may register it as a failure, but for the reptilian brain is just a big nothing.

Adding some physical jolt may drive the lesson deeper in their psyche, that a crash really is a bad thing.
I believe there aren't really any problems, just he doesn't have a lot of free time with a full time job and family; but you're right, I may not be aware of the full picture here.

I'm honestly not interested in screwing the guy, we've both (mentally) invested in this project even if he hasn't contributed significantly to the actual work itself. An honest sit-down is definitely the way to go.
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Wordpress is insecure. There's not much point arguing about it. You can do things to mitigate the practical impact of its insecure design, but castigating people for pointing out how insecure it is isn't productive.
I added your book, thanks for submitting it :)

As I said, the inventory isn't that big, but it will only get better with a larger inventory. Scaling is the challenge. The other problem is maintaining quality and not turning it into a boring gift shopping site.

My current approach to scaling is finding people from different backgrounds and interests to add and tag gifts. I've got two people helping me right now to try and increase the inventory size.

Thanks for the gift suggestion and feedback :)
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As far as I'm aware, Tizen and webOS are both the Linux kernel, X, glibc and other standard Linux distro components with apps built with "HTML5". I guess it wouldn't take much for webOS to be compatible with Tizen.
Python makes little frowns at the end of conditionals and loops that call functions or have sets of boolean logic ):
State of the Lambda [Java]
You forgot torture, executing people with out trial, executing minors and the mentally retarded, holding political prisoners, and using the military against the populace.
Those notes found their way to 'The Practice of Programming' book.

I highly recommend it.
Not really. It's not usually mentioned but CoffeeScript loses a lot of its supposed elegance when you try to do things like chaining. Especially chaining a function that takes a function as an argument. To achieve better looking chaining you'll talk yourself into not using anonymous functions. tldr: whitespace significant languages do not do chaining very elegantly.

Other than that CoffeeScript is pretty cool.
Less. China is honest about restricting its people and doesn't try to tell everybody else they're not paying attention to human rights.
Paul from Geckoboard here. Geckoboard doesn't collect or store the stats, it collates and displays them.

These guys are hooking in to their analytics package. The web analytics services we connect to include Google Analytics, Chartbeat, GoSquared & Mixpanel natively, but you can use our push & pull APIs to connect custom widgets.
Facebook releases “HipHop Virtual Machine”, A 60% Faster PHP Executor
I think that acting like those you despise might get you ahead in the short term, but will ultimately make you just as despicable as them.
One prominent chief executive told Fortune he'd heard from someone close to Gates that he might be considering such a move.

It's hard to imagine a less reliable source. And that sentence is the only real news in the article!
> Too much useful work is already done in elisp.

I'm not contesting that, just saying that it is a pity (from the perspective of the wealth of the overall Lisp ecosystem) that all this valuable work has been done in Elisp and not in Common Lisp. Moving to Guile will probably take several years, and even if it really works some day, it will be just another insular Emacs-only solution, because nobody else is using Guile. It wont benefit the overall Lisp ecosystem in any way.
Most stores will not match amazon's pre-tax prices today. Why would it be any different if amzn collected tax?
I'm hoping to avoid e-wallet style providers, but thanks for the tip, I'll make a note of them.

And yes, licensing is a problem for another day. The UK's gambling laws are complicated and vague, especially when online businesses come into play (it all seems like an after thought, as always). I think we've got that one covered though.
I disagree.

Yes, there are terrible Jquery plugins out there. But, I have a nice collection of ones I've used in previous projects that have saved me many hours.

I can now concentrate on the functionality of my application rather than writing yet another table pagination plugin.

It's also nice because if you can find a mature enough plugin, most of the bugs have been fixed for you through the community of people that use it.
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It's ridiculous that there is no mention of SOPA or her thoughts on it in this article. Why would the NYT not mention it either?
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No, I mean that he cares about giving his clients a great product. He's not just in it to soak money out of people; he actually cares about the outcome, much like an artist cares about their paintings.

And look, I'm not Clark. I don't speak for Clark. This is just the experience I had working with him and getting to know him for a year and a half.
What do you think of my landing page
I want to buy some Bing adWords to validate my business idea. Keywords: Grocery List, Spoiled Milk

What do you think of the landing page. Does it succinctly convey a use case and the purpose/features of the app?

Would a background of a shopper at a store make more sense?

Any other input on the business idea & validation method is appreciated.
As a Paleo eater, I'm happy to see this in the research.

(also replying as a form of bookmark)
And this is worth the tens of millions, if not hundreds, that they would have received for selling it?
Well, the number one reason why my iPhone is a much less useful device than it could be is that many apps are insanely slow to launch.

Dictionary.com - what do I use it for? As a non-native English speaker, sometimes I do a quick check on a word I'm not sure of. But the app takes so long to launch. It activates GPS, it connects via the Internet to download some obscure data that I don't care about, it does so many things that leave me completely indifferent... and it fails to do the one most important thing that I DO care about: find out the meaning of a word really quick. Like, right now, please.

Sure you can turn off some of the extra features (but not all), sure you can reboot iOS to make it a bit more snappy, but the app still feels sluggish. And this is on an iPhone 4.

Folks, sometimes an app is just an app. All those features that you think make the app more appealing to the customers - are just dead weight that pull it down. Please, keep the apps lean and quick.
It will be interesting to see if webOS's governance is as open as its code. Will its direction and roadmap be as open as its source?
"Social Media Sharing Links - It is not easy for a person to Facebook like or tweet an idea"

Sign me up!
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It already says what the the stocking stuffer is
>You and millions of others will reap the benefits. A nice stocking stuffer for sure!
At the End of a Procrastinated Day
Where does one find these magical accounts? In many countries no bank pays interest on current accounts, or, where they do, currently interest rates generally are so low anyway that the amounts are negligible. I have much better ways of arranging my finances than faffing around with credit cards I don't need and moving money around short term money market accounts just to earn less than $20 extra a year.

As for your example of buying something online with a debit card, I don't do that. My bank lets me generate as many virtual cards as I like for online shopping, each with a different number. I set the maximum amount that can be charged to each one and I can then order anything I want online with it with none of the risks you mention.

Even if I couldn't do that, the situation you describe wouldn't arise, as

a) I have daily limits on various types of transfers and withdrawals (that I can adjust online if I need to spend more than that at any time, so I keep the defaults pretty low). So even if someone was being malicious they still couldn't take out more than that amount (and I've SMS notifications set up for all transfers over a fairly low limit too, so they couldn't just come back and take another payment every day until I was cleaned out). It would certainly inconvenience me, but that's just as true with a credit card (and that would probably take me longer to notice). And, as I said earlier, I've had experience of problems with both, and the credit card ones were much more hassle to resolve.

b) my current account is multi-currency, so even if someone managed to clean out all my euros, I'd still have cash in GBP, USD, etc.

c) most of my money isn't in my current account anyway, so even if that got completely cleaned out, in all currencies, I'd still have money in my various other accounts.
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How many of the remaining cancers are colon or insulin resistance related?
Great anecdote that illustrates this principle observed by Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." (from I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked)
Do you really think that matters? Amazon seems to be doing really well (and retailers not so much) even in countries where all retailers have to collect VAT (like Germany).

Online shopping is just more convenient and gives the buyer much more control and information.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=zoetAAAAEBAJ&q=hardwire...
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Great news, I guess this means that Wikileaks will be free to receive donations and disseminate news of interest to citizens.

At least now we know the real reasons the US wants to restrict internet access, it's not copyright as we had long suspected but to "threaten basic freedoms and human rights and also international commerce and the free flow of information."
The fire sale puts them in a decent position against Android.
Getting a drivers licence in Germany costs roughly 2000€ (2673$), assuming you pass theoretical and practical exams on first try. You need to take 14 theoretical lessons at 90 minutes, 2 of them on technical stuff, you need at least 12 practical lessons, 5 outside of a town, 4 on the autobahn, 3 at night and you will need a couple regular lessons just to get started so most people end up with 20 practical lessons or so.

After all that you will have neither training nor experience with emergency situations, in fact you will barely be able to brake a car so that it stops as fast as possible, which the majority of drivers are simply incapable of.

As nice as it would be to have that training, your assumption that you have to add it is fundamentally flawed in that already nobody can manage his car in such a situation with or without assistance. Apart from that most Americans probably consider what Germans have to do to get a driver's license insane, I doubt they would even seriously consider implementing something similar.
How's the performance of Redis when it's running in a Linux VM?
Pernicious falsehoods in HN mobile IP discussions:

(1) Apple is the only company that sues anyone.

(2) Apple was the first company to start suing.

(3) Whatever negative happens to Apple: well they deserve it for being meanies.

(4) Whatever negative happens to Android: miscarriage of justice that just shows how broken the system is.
Agreed, open source does not mean free, or unencumbered. Symbian went 'open source' too.
PDF is typically directly generated these days. There's no need to generate it from PostScript first.

The main difference between the two is that PDF is a declarative definition of the page whereas PostScript is a turing complete language. You can write a PostScript ray-tracer which will execute on the printer itself something which would never be possible in PDF. On the flip side, PDF is far more efficient as an electronic document format.
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Oh the hypocrisy.

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/09/hillary_clinton_and_internet...
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Then the stores just aren't competitive enough if Amazon is taking business away from them. Tax isn't usually a big enough reason for me to order something online when I'm standing right in front of the product.
There's a blog post on it now. I don't know how much disorganization that speaks to: Maybe the PR person jumped the gun by a few minutes, maybe the blogger was a few minutes late, or maybe they posted simultaneously and then discovered that their blogging platform has a longer cache than the PR wire. :-)

I will check out Enyo, thanks (and megaduck too) for the tip!
I plan on buying Bing AdWords to validate my business idea. Keywords: Grocery List, Spoiled Milk

What do you think of the landing page? Does it clearly describe a use case and the features of the app? Would a background img of a shopper make more sense.

Any other input on the business idea/validation method is appreciated.