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You haven't taken a look at Amber, have you? It is also a javascript framework
Was that deliberately the funniest thing I've read today, or did you just luck out?
She was a intern at google, and dropped out its master degrees. Not so much newsworthy.

But, as a brazilian myself, I'm proud of what bel already accomplished. Being a co-found with Wencelao Casares is a great thing.
They exist so that their member companies can say unpopular things that aren't directly attributed to them. It's like money laundering, but for speech.
Technically, I believe, you're still limited to 255 colors per frame- you can just put two frames with two different sets of 255 colors on top of each other with 0 delay. :)
I included the Group Message screenshot as an example of what it's supposed to look like when it's working right. The first screenshot was how they all came through for me.
Apple's been fairly lax lately with its checking. A friend's game that we were able to get crashing on launch 100% of the time passed through the original submit process without a peep.

The same friend, just for kicks, submitted a deliberately broken app that didn't crash but showed a blank screen after launch. It also got approved without incident. It's like Apple just ran automated tests, but no human ever saw it.

I have a feeling that Apple's process varies depending on the kind of app (free vs. paid), the platforms you're targeting and your past history.
Sen Ron Wyden Wants Answers from DHS Over Domain Name Seizures
Internal version codenames are not recognizable, and are not expected to be used like this (www.macosxlion.com?) With hindsight, there should have been a site at amberjs.com.
Other fb employee here.

One of the other annoyances we had (I think its addressed in the note?) is that until now the interpreter (on our dev machines) and the compiler (hphpc in production) occasionally differ in small, occasionally painful ways. Unifying our development and production environments will eliminate another potential source of bugs.

Also: Tight loops don't imply a lack of understanding. Often times when you're trying to get the CSS on a page just right (across all browsers) it requires quick iteration, even if you do understand CSS well.
The problem is that we have ten thousand year old representatives. They probably still do accounting using an abacus (or demand that their account use one).

All joking aside, we're talking about people who can barely use a computer debating laws governing the use of the very technology they haven't slightest clue about. As long as our representatives continue thinking that the Internet is a series of tubes we'll continue to hear this sort of thing from them.
bingo. plus a wide spread effort and propaganda from higher education proponents that misleads kids into pursuing "no job" degrees. philosophy? communications? women's studies? please. if you're going to spend big bucks, especially fellow tax payer dollars, spend it on something real and non-obvious at least, something you can't just self-educate on at home, in your free time.
It is if there is no indication that you are replying to everyone though.

Disclaimer: I don't have a fancy phone so I don't know how clear things are.
>I stated that they don't summon ideas to it

Thats exactly what I am trying to argue against.

And in that regard the idea of Google is the direct derivative of the idea of DNS....the idea of Facebook is a direct derivative of the idea of having personal computers that can exchange TCP Packets.

You have used Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey to make your argument.Please remember that these guys are among the best engineers of our generation.

As a matter of fact the ideas of almost all of our current technologies came from engineers and not MBAs.(If you think Steve Jobs was not an engineer please read his bio!).Forget computers...Even Henry Ford was one of the best engineers of his generation.

Most of my best implemented ideas (the word implemented is very important!) came to me when I asked myself the simple question...what can I do to help people with all the code that I already have (code = My own code and Open sourced stuff) ?..If there is something small that can complete a great idea I go ahead and code it!
How to make a guy want you
How do you go about to make a guy want you or find a special place in his heart? Only some men impress women and when a woman really loves a guy there is no stopping her from getting him to fall in love by all means.
Isn't this is just a basic feature of human nature? I'm pretty sure we once had cavemen sitting around the fire grunting/bragging about their awesome hunting skills while other cavemen felt jealous, anxious, or depressed about their own skills. Fire is clearly making us miserable.
You just made me realize how self-driving cars can be (ab)used by police or higher organisations to track citizens, and stop a crime.

Knowing what they are currently trying to do with the Internet, them wanting to have some control over the self-driving cars wouldn't surprise me.

To some people it may seem clear how much of a benefit this would be. "Wow, the police are actually able to lock down a getaway car and arrest people who have just committed a bank robbery?".

But, there's a reason I wrote "(ab)used" up there, you probably understand the implications already.
Carefully what you wish for. Get the right rep with the right amount of pull in congress and they'll get a ton of support from the rest of our reps no matter how asinine their statements are.
OK, now I understand what you meant :-)
The Baroque Cycle. It's absolutely brilliant, I recommend it to anyone with an interest in security or economics.
Her app sounds interesting and useful and she's getting $10 million dollars in funding. Does this really happen everyday in Silicon Valley? How many make it?
A lot of the recent discussion around python3 has been about how 2to3 is slow and inconvenient, so this seems like a good time to plug my attempt to improve the process. https://github.com/bdarnell/auto2to3 uses an import hook to run 2to3 on changed files automatically, and cache the results on disk between runs so it doesn't have to run 2to3 over the entire project every time (and the caches are ordinary files so you can see exactly what 2to3 is producing).

This is how I added Python 3 support to Tornado. If you intend to keep supporting Python 2.5, I definitely recommend using 2to3 instead of the contortions required to use a single codebase across all versions (if you're only supporting 2.6+ it gets much easier to do everything in one codebase without 2to3, although even then 2to3 can help keep the primary (2.x) codebase cleaner).
(3) TARP was not a 'bailout' but just to solve a short-term 'liquidity' problem, that is, as in 'runs' on the banks.

Note: A 'liquidity' problem is when you are worth $10 million but have only $500 in cash and suddenly have a traffic ticket for $600 and have to pay up or go to jail right NOW.

You have the money but just don't have it in cash right away; you can get the cash easily enough but will need some days or weeks to do so.

So to solve your 'liquidity' problem, you get a loan using some of your $10 million in assets as collateral. The loan is not really at risk; you pay your $600 bill; then a few weeks later you repay your loan with interest.

You are not broke. You are not begging for welfare. The loan is not a gift. The loan is not at risk. The loan is NOT a 'bailout'.

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What would define a 'bailout' as then?

Your example may be a bit extreme. If you're "worth" $10 million, but don't have $500 in liquid cash, you're stupid. You're not prepared for every day eventualities in your line of work (or just life in general). When people are unprepared for otherwise predictable things (washing machine breaks, you need an oil change, flat tire, etc) they have to suck it up and deal with it. They don't get to tie up all their money in investments and have someone loan them money for 100% foreseeable day to day life realities.

"You have the money but just don't have it in cash right away; you can get the cash easily enough but will need some days or weeks to do so."

I get emails from these guys in Nigeria all the time.

"You are not broke. You are not begging for welfare. The loan is not a gift. The loan is not at risk. The loan is NOT a 'bailout'."

Yes, you are broke. No, you're not begging for welfare. But, the loan is a gift to save you from otherwise going to jail.

When normal people in their every day lives don't have a safety net/cushion/rainy-day-fund to fall back on, they're labelled irresponsible, lazy, deadbeats, or charged with "living beyond their means". But if a bank does it... WTF? It's just normal business?
The developer is ultimately hurting himself here. Each of these apps is competing against the other for attention.

If he had a single app, and if that app were useful it would garner all the downloads and help it rise higher up the popularity ladder.
This piece was spot on, except for one thing-- the suggestion that "quitting facebook" is unrealistic.

Why?

Maybe the author was trying to avoid being labeled "too extreme". And granted, there are probably a few people out there who are dependent on it for their livelihood somehow. For everyone else, "quitting facebook" is a very realistic alternative. I've done it, so have many of my friends, and life goes on, with improved well being.

Once you realize you're being used and abused, it's time to move on.
I'm procrastinating reading the comments to this post.
> Let a thousand Solyndras bloom!

lots of alt energy companies? you bet. risky? of course. will some fail? always. do people make mistakes? yes. would you prefer instead that a thousand new Wall Street firms bloom? a thousand new oil companies? And Solyndra's cost to taxpayers, and impact on debt, is a tiny tiny drop in the bucket compare to what's been spent on Iraq and Afghanistan, or the Bush tax cuts for the richest Americans. put things in perspective, sorting by amounts, at the very least.

I think we do agree on the idea that we should make it easier, or more meritocratic, to invest. And less bureaucracy. No arguments there. And there's a bill going through Congress now, I believe, and which Obama supports, to help do just that.
Alabama Can't Find Anyone to Fill Illegal Immigrants' Old Jobs
Aah, the time I wasted on that one and the Gorilla game. It's a bit odd given how advanced our current games are.
"...UIs should change themselves to suit him[the User], rather than the other way around"

Now here is a novel idea! :)
I was driving and listening to NPR the other day. Some story was on about the MPAA and the new SOPA bill. I hadn't yet heard that Dodd was the new MPAA chairman (chief lobbyist).

I was almost physically sick when that came across the air. I'm a long-time Democrat but I'll be damned if that didn't make me want to never vote for anyone ever again. Our two political parties are really two sides of the same coin and they are all working for corporations.
Emphasis on could. What we have now is necessary but not sufficient for that to happen.

It's going to be really interesting to see how it plays out. Even assuming it does get adoption, the most likely path is device makers and carriers taking the open source version and customizing the crap out of it and releasing their own "closed" versions of it, just like Android. And if HP does anything to prevent that then what we inevitably have is something less open than Android.

I do very much like the fact that Google now has another player that will keep them honest about how "open" they are.
On #2, Obama has had a pretty big impact.

A) The democrats pushed through Student Loan reform alongside the healthcare bill last year. "The new law will eliminate fees paid to private banks to act as intermediaries in providing loans to college students and use much of the nearly $68 billion in savings over 11 years to expand Pell Grants and make it easier for students to repay outstanding loans after graduating."

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/obama-signs-bi...

B) A month ago Obama announced a plan to allow college graduates to cap federal student loan repayments at 10 percent of discretionary income starting in January, two years before the cap was due to take effect under federal law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-administra...
> You are better off investing in your own self (education and the like).

agreed, and wise. my attitude towards eating and exercise changed significantly once I looked at it as a form of investment. Only one that didn't take much money to do, mostly a little time and making different choices. A little life hack.
AngularJS is ridiculously good so I'm not sure either.

For those who are unfamiliar: Angular examples are about 1/4 the size of backbone equivalents. I'm working on an angular version of the most recent peepcode backbone cast. It's about 1/5 the code size, and available here: https://github.com/ludicast/angular-peepcode-todo
Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers
The style decisions used in this article do not adhere that well to Crockford's style guide "JS: The Good Parts" and generally not that JSLint friendly.
You're spot on with your last point. More financial basics education is needed.
I disagree. With an app like his, a white noise generator, he is unlikely to ever rank highly or be featured by Apple. But if you are searching for white noise/pink noise/relaxation/relax/sleep/dreaming/rest/calm/tranquil/tranquility/peaceful you're guaranteed to encounter one of his apps. Classic SEO stuff.
Exactly. If each person does a little bit to advance us forward and educate our youth, that needle will move.
That's possible, but I think that the more likely scenario is the opposite - WebOS apps on Android. With a competent Webkit environment on the phone and Enyo open sourced, it seems possible, simple even.
Comparing is built-in perceptual functionality, but the meaning we associate with what we see are not. I'm not sure what culture you're embedded in, but where I live, in America, we are taught to take pride in material success, and to judge ourselves negatively or positively in comparison to others' material success. There are examples of countries that are quite different, e.g. Bhutan. In some cultures, people are taught early on that they should be happy for others' success, instead of envious and depressed.

Regardless of where it comes from, if one has concluded that such comparing and one-upmanship is not helpful and probably deleterious to well being, doesn't it make sense to opt out of things that encourage it?
None of his statemetns suggest that anyone should be a true generalist, but that people should not focus on a single field to the exclusion of even a basic understanding of the rest of human knowledge.
I remember reading that Steve Jobs originally wanted the iPhone only to run web apps. That's why the "Add site to homescreen"-option has always been in the browser.

Then jailbreakers came along, and demanded to be able to run native code, and boom, Apple agrees and we have the App Store.

It's interesting how opinions can change, and choices strike back.
Touche. I guess the other option is amphetamines or other stimulants then, and given that it's burning man, not terribly beyond the realm of possibility.
The investment itself should be tax deductible. The payments themselves should be rather than just the interest. If you freelance at night to pay off your loans, then you basically have to earn almost twice as much as you owe due to the taxation on the additional "income."
That's certainly an improvement to "email to a program that wgets the data and emails back."
> and is fast becoming the dominant communication platform of the future.

Facebrick is only a necessity for attention whores, stalkers, pedophiles, and the insecure. Social networking is a fad, people. Just like pet rocks. Get over yourselves.

Downvote all you like. Don't care. Those with two brain cells to rub together will look back in five to ten years and try to remember why they thought Fartbook -- and the whole damned "social networking" phenominon -- was such a big deal.

For those that aren't old enough to remember how many times we've been through this cycle, do the research on MySpace, AOL... hell, the list is endless. Google "predecessors to Facebook", learn something about what's gone before, and for Christ's sake, get a life.
yeah totally.

so, I'll see you at the bar? ;)
He is probably doing some kind of research
Trying To Getting Rid Of My Apple Products
... and no monitor out. Apart from that, it looks pretty cool if you want a Windows PC (of course, my macbook air is about to explode if I keep writing about that :) )
This is a common business model for mobile apps. I see blog posts here on the hacker news front page from iphone app guys describing the development of their app product line. In the end its quite literally make a tool that poops out apps that are just a little different.

This is rampant in the industry and is motivated by cross-promotion and social marketing with little development overhead. Their product is the eventual user base. Apple doesn't care because it feeds the market and they get their cut. To top all that off, its successful enough that there are armies of micro-companies out there doing this every day because to them it actually works.
Which all Metro apps will (for non-developers).
> Maybe Obama and the Federal government shouldn't be in charge of "fixing" economic aspects of society, as that is not what the founding fathers of this country intended, and that is not really within the authority of Congress.

demonstrably not true. think the US federal postal service, department of treasury, the patent system, right to regulate and tax trade. All of which helps to both "fix", promote and tax economic activity throughout the nation. Also keep in mind that those same founding fathers whose "intent" you seem to want to honor, birthed a country where neither women or black people (for the most part, as slaves) were not allowed to vote. So unless you agree with that original state of affairs, clearly their intent can be wrong or evil, in some cases. And therefore just citing their intent is not sufficient to win an argument.
The problem is I can code anything, but can't find any artists to back me up. And talented art isn't much easier to find than talented coding.
If you've got it enabled...
I honestly wasn't surprised to read this, I mean I'm not in favor of it, but look at Apple and the iPhone. They have the same ability, and unless I'm mistaken so does Google and Android.

Precedence (of cultural acceptance, not legal standing) on this has been set for awhile now.
I have observed the same thing. On the other hand however, when I submit my apps, somehow I always end up getting allocated to reviewers who fancy a little argument / rejection cycle about the finer details of the more exotic parts of the Human Interface Guidelines. I suspect that it relates to the price tag of the app.
> There's really no need to complain about what companies ship as the default. That's just the setting they feel will work best for the average user. Fine, you're not the average user. That's why they build settings to allow you to change shit. So fucking change it and you're fine.

I agree. This is what made the post really annoying for me. If you are really an expert user, in almost every case he mentioned; you can change the UI settings to suit your tastes.
Do you have any data on that?

I only have two data points: I've contracted for two Fortune 10 companies. Both companies had Windows on the Desktop. But their Big Data / Big Iron was linux and solaris. Indeed the license managers (FlexLM) that authorized software for those desktops? Solaris.

Needless to say both of these companies were outside silicon valley.

So do you have data on that? Just doing some googling it seems that Walmart started out as an IBM shop, more recently Oracle and HP are mentioned. Are walmart buying Microsoft licenses to run Oracle on the HP boxes? I mean, they could be, but I think it would be unreasonable to assume that is the case.
Oh great so now rather than compete with other entrepreneurs on a level footing we have to compete with companies that are partially owned and funded by the federal government.
Because a) that would be wreckless and create more problems for the economy - i.e. handing out a few 10s of billions to startups, b) the banks DO need to prop up their balance sheets - we can argue about the reasons until the cows come home, but if they don't increase their capital, they will take down the entire financial system, and c) the last thing a startup (well, a 'startup' in the Valley/high-tech definition) needs is a loan from a bank.

I understand your frustration with the way the economy has performed (or not) in the last 2 years, and the seeming 'cronyism' that Obama has enacted - but the fact remains that if he didn't do what he did...we wouldn't even be having this discussion now. There is no telling what state the US would be in, after the rioting and such.

I know it's hard to envision, but believe me....rioting on a wide scale and massive police crackdowns (on a scale America has never seen) could not be ruled out.
Is comparing ourselves to others so bad?

For me, it called attention to the fact that others were leading more interesting and dynamic lives than me. Yes, it made me more stressed. But it also brought me out of my comfort zone, and it led me to honestly ask why I wasn't getting more of what I wanted in life -- and to do something about it.

Facebook has my gratitude.
App Store spam should be like web spam - if the search and browse tools are good, it should fade into the background. Instead, actually choosing a good app in one of these categories is intensely frustrating. Blocking noise like this at approval time is a lot less sustainable than making it less prominent than good competitors.
"I often think of what OS X would be like if Apple assumed only Pro users would use it and everyone else would be on iOS."

It's an interesting thought but quite feasible. Open up any Apple "Pro" app like Logic Studio, Aperture or (more recently) Final Cut Pro X. The look and feel is quite different than the rest of OS X. Things are smaller and far less intuitive (they are hidden away). Apple knows that amateurs will stick with Garageband, iPhoto and iMovie, all of which feature large, intuitive interfaces. I like that they are not afraid to make their "Pro" apps heavy-duty.
Our two political parties are really two sides of the same coin and they are all working for corporations.

They're not, right? Google is a corporation and SOPA goes against Google's wishes. The political parties work for whomever they think will get them re-elected, and apparently the media companies are who they consider most valuable.
Nice code! There are 4 functions that can be collapsed to save some space, since they're only called once. Also assigned document.body & setTimeout to vars. Brings the size from 1090 to 966...nice to be less than 1kb!

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If you're going to break up an Occupy encampment, this is how it should be done.