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Important to note also, this blog article is aimed at students, who don't have significant domain experience in any field most likely.

Therefore, his advice is sound for this audience as giving up big ideas is necessary when they're so nebulous and you don't have anything you could apply it to. An entrepreneur, by definition, has a skill in 'making something people want' and getting them to give you money and can apply that skill to a field, regardless of if they have much experience in that field.
We don't always agree jacques, but I'm totally with you on this. Stamp duty is the most regressive, unfair tax around

I think everyone agrees with that. Getting it fixed is hard though.
It looks like the minimum support price for a tablet. The $35 Indian tablet "Aakash" will face heat.
I just tried it. Changing it in the G+ chatbox also changes it in gmail. Which is good, because I use the gmail one (since I have gmail open all the time) and not the G+ one.
What you miss is that because Amazon is not in Australia, you have to pay a significant price for shipping and currency transfer to USD, then wait weeks (in my experience up to over a month!) for the thing to arrive

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/

Free (and pretty fast) shipping to Australia, better prices than Amazon, and a good catalogue (No association other than a happy customer).
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Actually yes, physically. The bug is in a beta version of Skynet.
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I tend to agree with you, and that's what my heart is telling me, but aren't there legal issues involved? I seem to recall the standard being something like "Wait 30 days after informing", but if they outright refuse to fix it before then and they say so, am I able to be sued for damages if I disclose?
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There you go: Google's embrace, extend, extinguish. Just like MS, but with better cover. "Its open!"
Of course, no one else will implement.
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Wow thanks for the clarification, Fred. Awesome to get some perspective from someone who deals with this day in and day out!
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Human error extends beyond the act of driving... it could be bald/frayed tires, non-existent brakepads, old wipers, missing turn lights, etc.

If those are addressed by driverless cars (ie, johnny-cab) then we're probably going to see a significant drop in freeway accidents.

On the other hand, will those driverless vehicles be capable of handling the unpredictable human drivers on the road?
> If you've a history of living within your means that should be a good thing, not a bad thing.

How is always paying off a credit card not living within your means though?

Maybe this is some US-centric brainwashing, but it seems to me that someone who has never had a credit card is less trustworthy than someone who had it and didn't overspend; it proves that the person had the opportunity to do something really dumb and didn't. The person who never had the credit card might have done something dumb if they were ever given the chance.

It's interesting that your credit checks are so decentralized, but it seems unlikely to me that would cause them to consider no history to be the same as known good history.

That said, I'm not even sure how much impact properly paying credit cards has versus not having one, but even with a minor difference there is practically no advantages to using a debit card instead of a credit card that you always pay off in full from your checking account. Even excluding credit, certainly you must get additional fraud guarantees and possibly rewards programs with credit cards in the UK?
Users: Wow, android is neat, but why is the interface performance so crappy?
Google: silence
Users: Hmm, I bet it's X, because of ____.
Google: No, no, X in android is great, it's awesome, and even if it weren't awesome it totally wouldn't be the cause of anything anyone might think is bad.

Users: Ok, hmm, then I bet the clunkyness and chippiness are due to Y, because of _____ and _____.
Google: No, no, Y is actually great in android; android has had Y since the beginning.
Users: Ok, so why is the android interface universally clunky?
Google: silence

"I am not writing this to make excuses for whatever things people don’t like about Android"

Dianne, don't you dare insult our intelligence by pretending the worst thing about the android experience is a case of personal preference by a small group of loonies.

http://i.imgur.com/e8S63.jpg
Resources and demographics drive the economic fate of nations. There's a large land area (i.e. easily accessed minerals) divided by a small population (less than 25 million). Because the minerals are in the deserts, there's little public resistance to digging them up. Similar situation as Canada. With a similar cost: ceding effective political and economic control to the US, and accepting high numbers of immigrants from developing countries.

The Europeans came 220 years ago, took the land off the indigenous people over the following century, then created a centrally-controlled federal border 110 years ago to keep out others. Australia became known as "White Australia". But they couldn't hold back nearby Asia's population for long. 70 years ago, Australia gave up control of their foreign policy and defence to the US to keep out Asia, and has been giving up economic control ever since. Many call Australia "the 52nd state".

In the 1960's the immigration began: first from southern Europe, then from Asia. International students and immigrants lease the apartments and houses, keeping the rent high, eventually buying the houses, keeping the prices high. Like Canada and Northern California, most come from Asia. Australia/NZ and Canada are an economic, political, military, and cultural extension of the western USA, with the same immigration patterns.

Immigration is the price of remaining politically part of the English-speaking empire instead of a Japanese, Chinese, or Indonesian-speaking one.
I'm not quite sure what your point is - certainly Samsung was making laptops with the same black design theme prior to the iPad's release. I very much doubt they changed their whole line of laptops to look like the iPad.
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do android developers have many of the same issues?
If UNIX utilities and pipes (including the pipe function in C) are a "failure", why are they still with us after so many years?

I guess "us" means 1% of the population, since Mac/Windows users generally don't use the command line and the apps they do use aren't held together with pipes.
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Doesn't that prove the parent's point that the collection of supposedly reusable components could not be glued together to form GIT? There must be a reason why it was rewritten in C.

Ironically the main reason for the rewriting was the poor performance of the fork system call in Windows (Cygwin) which make the system slow particularly for shell scripting.

The problem was Windows, not Git.
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I'm quite the other way around.
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So the USA is responsible for deploying Stuxnet? Do you have any actual evidence for this?
As the article stated, the automated feature reduces the need for multiple cars, it enables better car pooling options - so yes, if you want to look at it by narrowly isolating one aspect of the scenario, sure, it uses more fuel to drive a car anywhere.

But as a complete solution - which is what the article talks about - the cost of 'wasted' fuel is negligible given the change in behaviours and travel methods that automated cars may bring about.
I don't think Google Chromium (Chrome) uses the .NET ClickOnce installer but Google's own Omaha software installer
Do you know what the solution was for XNA? The last time I checked, all the Mono XNA ports were in miserable shape. Considering Bastion makes use of shaders and mixed mode 2d/3d rendering, it seems like it must be running on a high quality port of a large portion of the XNA stack.
You have a domain you are trying to sell, people are asking about it on an entrepreneurial news board, and you won't say what it is? Free press man. Unless you got a real good reason to keep it a secret (how can you if you want to sell it), you should be name dropping that domain as much as possible when you have a captive audience
Doesn't seem to work on my Fedora laptop, despite having an OpenGL gaming video card in it. Sad. :(
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Are you kidding me? She's an undergraduate. Presumably she chose the best school she could get into. It's not graduate studies.
The domain wasn't copied, downloaded, streamed, remixed, tweeted, emailed, torrented or archived.

The domain was taken by ICE and its owner was deprived of any use of it, all while it hosted an image proclaiming the former owner to be a criminal of some sort.
> There must be a reason why it was rewritten in C.

The motivation for rewriting in C was performance on Windows - since Windows has very inefficient forking, shell scripts are very slow there[1]. I think that says more about the deficiencies of Windows than the deficiencies of the shell scripting/pipeline model.

This is slightly besides the point anyways. Even though most of Git has been rewritten in C, Git is still comprised of lots of little single-purpose commands, which I have used in pipelines to do some "outside the box" processing on Git repositories.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Portability
Sure, but then you have to create a function for each property, even if it's a number or a string. Those bytes add up significantly in large applications.

Additionally, specifying the property as a string allows you to implement "unknown property" handlers, which is another extremely powerful idiom.
There are other factors which aren't typically considered. The latency of someone walking from the head of the single queue to the cashier each time matters, especially if the person at the front isn't alert or is confused by trying to figure out which till to go to. People are smart enough to pick short queues to join and there is no latency. Also psychology, nobody wants to join a long queue even if it moves fast, they go to another store.
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> I disagree. There's over 200 pages before they even introduce mutation and impure functions.

That's kind of the point. I tend to be the one defending SICP on this board, but only for someone who wants the very particular kind of education SICP brings.

Meanwhile, over in languages people are using, you don't have the option of living without mutation. Time to learn how to protect yourself, or not, with closures.

Recursion has a bigger speed and space penalty. You need to tell people when to use maps and folds and when not to.

SICP doesn't really do combinators, and they are very useful in JS.

Also, a lot of libraries in JS use chaining, so a grounding in their theory (maybe even a discussion of monads à la Haskell) might be very fruitful. SICP has nothing like that.

Callbacks are everywhere in JS programming, so a discussion of how to avoid spaghetti would be good.

Latency is a much bigger deal for JS -- how to balance very fast local resources with potentially never-returning remote resources -- and techniques for beating that are not to be found in SICP, as far as I remember.

And of course there's no discussion at all of UI or media in SICP.
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"This is very different from iOS’s original design constraints, which remember didn’t allow any third party applications at all."

This argument resume the whole article's intent. I'm not using iOS. I dislike Apple's way of enforcing it's products. But I know BS when I see it.
iOS's security and sandboxing, while technically different, is practically similar to android. Each app is sandboxed.
Oh and guess what, the AppStore let you install third party apps, and since before Android became Google's Android.

And for the actual thing that matters, Android uses multiple GL contexts by design, iOS doesn't, so Android is slower.
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Ah, just searched the iOS store for Jargoneer after watching the video. Is there a mailing list or any way to find out when it's released? Looks awesome.
there are a bunch of domain parking services like sedo.com that will host a parked domain, give you advertising revenue from the ads shown on it, and handle buy offers that come in from it.

http://hntrades.com has quite a few domains from other hacker newsers for sale or trade. i could probably extend it to also serve as a domain park page if anyone wanted it.
Wow, thanks so much, this looks like an amazing resource indeed!
Enlighten me, what the point of "Install App" while you can directly access http://chrome.supergiantgames.com/ ? Does "install" allows some local storage access or stuff?
Glad that was helpful. 4chan is just an example. Go find the other 20 websites like them that have good traffic volumes that you can advertise on.
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> I have not seen evidence that designers, on average, know what people will want in advance.

Of course designers do not have magical powers and cannot predict future. However, one often can make a good guess about the future based on knowing who is widely imitated. Widely imitated people are influencers, and whatever they like will often be liked a few years from now. All great designers have a mental list of such influencers and they likely will never share it with you because that list is literally the source of their success.

Also, if you are really great designer, you can directly make future happen without having to imitate others. I had a chat with one former roommate of mine who was going to a wedding when he asked me about my opinion on his shoes. The shoes were way too clubby (i.e. completely inappropriate for a wedding) and I was frankly horrified, telling him that I would never in a million years be seen at a wedding wearing that type of shoes. Next day, he shows me a very fell-fitted suit looking completely dapper yet still wearing those completely inappropriate shoes because he could not get a pair of shoes that fit on time (Saturday was right around the corner). Seeing his new outfit, I changed my opinion on the shoes and asked my roommate this question: "Do you know what happens when one item you are wearing is wrong and out-of-place but everything else about your outfit is completely and utterly awesome?" He responded, "Hmmm, no one notices?" I said, "No, you're wrong. That one out-of-place item becomes the new trend."
Oh you mean something only ONE browser supports (and "ever" will), is non-standard, and attempts (and will probably succeed) to split the web by providing free games (don't worry, there's still in game payments)?

Great days ahead!

(yeah that's a variation of the comment of the same other post)
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"certainly Samsung was making laptops with the same black design theme prior to the iPad's release"

As was Apple, hence my earlier comment. Samsung hasn't just ripped off Apple's iPad design, it's been ripping off Apple's designs for years. From the MacBook Air to the iPhone to the iPod Touch, Samsung has been making faithful copies.
Just FYI, drones don't fly from America to attack Middle Eastern countries. They have nearby bases to land the planes, while the actual control is in America. Or so the media says. But I don't see how you can fly such a small plane with a military payload across the Pacific Ocean, twice, without refueling
A tablet only app isn't the same beast as a smartphone app. You can throw a large number of menus onto a 10 inch tablet and gain functionality rather than lose it; try the same thing on a 3.whatever iPhone and you'd have an extremely cluttered, useless app.
Of course I'd prefer they work in a way which meshes with existing process, but I'm not going to act dismissive and sigh if someone goes another way. If someone removed the GIL from CPython and gave me a context diff, for one I would barely be able to read that format, but I'd find a way to make it work.

Pull requests are great, but it's not like someone couldn't apply the patch and give them a hand - earlier in the thread someone did just that.
It can be hard to get some people in the open source community to accept that "shiny stuff" is also crucial to a project.

For example, I organized and developed the http://www.thisisthecountdown.com event for the recent Ubuntu release as a volunteer project. While the response was mostly well received, there were very harsh remarks by some people directed at the site.
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I'm not entirely sure how free the game is as I've only played it for a few minutes. I did however notice that if you bring up the menu there's an option to unlock the full game. That takes you to granting the app permission to have your email address and then redirects (if you accept) to google wallet and wanting to charge you $15. I didn't at any point in time see what the difference between what I already have access to and "the full game" are.
Shouldn't the snake speed up as it gets longer? I played for a while but didn't notice.
In what way exactly Skia (which is the vector graphics library that powers Android and Chrome) is any less "awesome" than Core Graphics?

The same goes for Core Text or Core Animation - they are not doing anything especially hard or mind blowing. Android displays text just as well and has an animation APIs that are arguably easier to use that Objective C APIs.
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Is this working on OS X for anyone?

None of the hardware acceleration stuff seems to work on Chrome with a 5870. No idea how to enable it. :(
flashblock is not good at blocking flash from a security standpoint. with it enabled, visit http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/html5object/ and you'll probably see at least one flash animation start.

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Rails is not for beginners.

A MD is not for beginners either.
Policing is not for beginners either.
Even cooking is not for beginners.

I had my first son 9 month ago before I learned how to change a diaper.
Being a Dad is definitely not for beginners.

Life is not easy, nothing is for beginners.

People just learn along the way if they think this is the skill they need to learn and they have a strong will.

The most important thing is to BEGIN.
I think this is probably the most plausible explanation. Apparently six weeks ago the Iranians took delivery of the Russian's latest Avtobaza ground-based electronic intelligence and jamming system.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2011/12/avtoba...

If that's the case it's a win win for both Iran and Russia. Iranians get the press coup of poking the US's eye whilst Russia walks away with an RQ-170 (to reverse engineer and resell to the Iranians of course).
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What? This is just another cross-compiled target, and the porting times I've seen have been really impressive. It's not taking away from anything; it's giving a new platform to existing native applications with barely any code changes.

This strikes a nice compromise between demanding native applications, and safe sandboxed but technologically limited Flash applications.

The impact of NaCL isn't limited to browsers, either. Imagine if you could finally shed that gross feeling that you get when you run binaries on your PC.
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I think we are in agreement but coming at it from different viewpoints.

As you say, designers do not have magical powers to predict the future. In a situation where you can't predict the future you have to make your best guess (designers help here), find out how good that guess was (interacting with lots of people happens here), and make your next guess (again, designers help here). Having a good designer doesn't eliminate the potentially expensive middle part where you need to find out how a large heterogeneous audience reacts to your current best guess.
I think that's more or less superfluous, probably a way to keep the Web relevant in an age when people are increasingly expecting functionality under "app" tiles.

Also good for CrOS I imagine.
One of the most original and best games of 2011. That being said I feel like the colors are much more vibrant on the 360 (have tried both using same monitor).

Soundtrack is worth a listen too - although song names might be spoilerish.
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You can gain experience just working on your own small projects, if you aren't making money from something then there's no reason you need to work for someone else, you can gain experience on your own.
On the topic of visual design and UX, these are two (not quite orthogonal) different domains. The area in which they meet, design that helps UX and UX that doesn't look off putting, is usually missed. IMO, software used by professionals can get away with poor graphic design as long as it provides high functionality and efficiency. For software intended for beginners or occasional users the graphic design needs to be stronger to encourage the user to keep trying!
I would have geeky chicks send in naked photos where they have "I love Javascript" painted on their bodies. Just pointing out the obvious here. ;) (xxx = naked chicks or you are badly failing the expectations of the user.)
The major difference being that Microsoft has a history of anticompetitive behavior and google does not. Your unfounded wharrgarble is noted, though.