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Ruby person here. I keep wanting an excuse to try Pig. Is there any reason to do so if my entire data set fits comfortably in memory?
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The Firefox one gives you Safari screenshots on a Mac, regardless of what browser you are using. So Dropbox did take it one step further.
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I have this fear literally every time I start on a new problem: am I re-inventing the wheel? Has this problem been solved already - maybe written about and discussed at length about in some paper/textbook/blog I haven't read? The more I learn the more I realize I don't know, which seems only increases my anxiety level. So that's one reason I can't stop reading this stuff.
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We've now got things set up to handle backdated checkins, but you'll need to get whitelisted. See:

http://twitter.com/foursquareapi/status/144516117510111232
Like any other payments company, we face transaction fees.

We're pushing a bunch of changes tonight since we're migrating to a new payments system, but afterwards I'll pass you information that should let you purchase without fee.

Thanks for the feedback regardless.

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I find people who 'do' and don't 'read' annoying. They tend not to understand their current cultural and mathematical context and end up re-inventing the wheel in their products.

These are the guys who tweet about 'this cool new language, Lisp' and talk about basic CS algorithms as if they were breaking news, discoveries that will disrupt the industry.

That said, at the end of the day, yes: doing is great for understanding.
Listen, Jason, please don't take this as an attack. You seem like a nice, earnest guy who in many ways is really trying to help.

But your inability to distinguish between bullshit and demonstration of value is abhorrent to me. If you make an amazing product and never tell anyone about it, you're keeping it a secret. If you honestly demonstrate its value to a demographic who can truly benefit from it, that's good marketing and communication. If you lie or exaggerate to people about what your product can do, that's bullshit. These are on a spectrum.

I'm going to be blunt here. Pretty much everything on your site, from the branding, to the copy, to the actual blog post itself, which I find mostly insubstantial, sets off alarms. Your basic premise -- that transactions should be mutually beneficial and sales is communication of that mutual benefit -- is not particularly insightful or well-represented. The ratio of self-promotion to content is disconcerting. The presented 'attitude' is off-putting and seems forced.

The fact that you can't distinguish between what patio11 does and what an archetypal used car salesman just makes me think you're a bullshitter.

But maybe I'm not your target demographic. That's fine. Don't let me stop you. If it works, it works. But know that that's the kind of stuff that makes me allergic to self-promotion in the first place. I don't want to present myself this way, I don't want to be this way, even if that's what it takes to succeed. And the fact that it works hurts my soul.

Again, I'm not attacking you, and I'm not trying to be negative. I'm trying to be honest about how I perceive your site. (If you don't think I'm your target demographic, please safely ignore me.) I'm also trying, in my own way, to come to terms with a form of salesmanship that doesn't make me hate myself.
A bunch of stuff I didn't care about plus a CD key for WoW, on release day.
I prefer not to eat with my coworkers or even see them outside of work. Work is stressful enough and we're all great friends when we're there...but we all understand that we spend too much time together and would rather not spend our lunch breaks or weekends talking about work because it isn't productive. We hit the same points over and over again. It's a never ending meeting.
Guilt? Don't think so. I woul bet on something more like "now, let me engineer how I'll be remembered".
They estimated Android downloads to be 6.7 billion about 2 weeks before Google announced there had been 10 billion downloads. That isn't very accurate.
Or people who genuinely find his music tedious....

Personally, I find the notion of a guitarist boring. I like music, not guitars played expertly.
The dictionary's on my side, but maybe usage is changing.
This is the reason I like hanging out at HN, finding people like me with similar problems. Glad that I am not alone trying to deal with this as well.
Obligatory:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/494328
High-res screen: expensive[money]

Super-sampling: expensive[cpu]
"Incredibly, no one was injured in the mishap."

It's not incredible. Most space isn't filled with people.
FXAA is neat, but the idea of using pixel-based edge detection on games is, IMO, a bit silly. Why not use detect edges on the depth buffer? You'll much more easily see the contrast and you will be far, far less likely to blur your textures. I might have to whip up a quick WebGL demo of this.
Worst case is the genes do something unexpected and advantageous to mosquitoes and a breeding pair their find their way on to an airplane.
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A download does not a sale make.
A high-res screen isn't just expensive money-wise -- at the resolutions you need to avoid AA techniques, you're rendering at the same resolution you'd be rendering at for AA techniques. So it's more expensive in terms of money and in CPU/GPU time.
yes, this happened to me, too.
shocking. ;)

not really. it's pretty expected.

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I dunno. Loggly CEO here. We seem to stay pretty well connected at lunch. At some point our size will cause us to splinter, but for now it's awesome. I love these guys!

BTW, free food in our office at Bush and Kearny Tuesday/Thursday! Swing by if you want to talk about zombies or anything else controversial. (Hey, we're ex-Splunk and LookSmart after all!) :)
SMAA is even better and faster than FXAA.
http://www.iryoku.com/smaa/

Also there is software that automatically injects SMAA into your d3d9, d3d10 or d3d11 games: http://mrhaandi.blogspot.com/p/injectsmaa.html

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I've found that prepaid credit cards work well as gift cards without the restrictions.
Yeah. A crappy choice. I would not be saying this if Android was such a beacon of software quality.

Android is just Google's tool to serve users ads. Nothing more.
So, who wants to sell me a $100 Whole Foods gift card for $91?
That is a good guess - the Home Subscriber Server is the authentication server in an LTE network. Short of this or a PCRF (Policy Server), I cannot think of any other single element that could bring the network down. Routing (as identified by another reply) could be an issue, but I would assume that 3G and 4G data use the same core network.
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We've been using ZeroCater since the very early days. As Dave said in the article we went away for a while but then came back because of the variety and how easy it made it for us. Just fire and eat.
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I've been amazed how in the US being sarcastic and stretching it to the limit - specially in work places - was seen as "the norm" and "how you should be".

The result is that very few people trust very few people (and that trust is not very large, its more of a way 'i know this guy who do XX because I have leverage').

That's sad. Working in a sincere environment, with good values, is so much better on so many accounts. And it also pays off. Have courage. Be sincere.
The value I place on a gift card bought online has to be adjusted for trust and convenience.

If I'm buying an Amazon gift card online from Amazon, I will happily pay $100 to get a $100 gift card. If I'm buying an Amazon gift card from someone on ebay, of course I'm not going to pay $100 for it. Why would I when buying the same card from Amazon would be far more convenient and Amazon has proven itself far more trustworthy to me than any random ebayer?

However, this reduction in value due to a decrease in trust & convenience says nothing about the actual value of that gift card to me or the receiver. I'm simply trading some increased risk of being ripped off for some of the cash value of the card.
It is quite clear that you are a person who likes to revel in appeal to authority arguments and casually throw off insults. Throwing a textbook, or your phd buddy's anecdotes in my face does not negate what i say.

Of course, dr andrew ng, head of the stanford ai lab is pussying around with his autonomous helicopter, after all problems were apparently solved by your defence contractor buddies in the 60s. The fact that helicopter pilots still exist is because society is too rich and we need to lighten our wallets. There, i mirrored your appeal to authority argument.

Mirroring your insults, it's clear you don't know what you're talking about. The fact that you've somehow been granted a doctorate further confirms my suspicions about the quality of education these days. The simplicity/non-pioneering-ness of your phd buddies's theses' is further confirmation of that. And the fact that you have been assigned to evaluate important technologies in your sector says a lot about the general competence level in it.

Of course searching can result in local minima. -That Exactly- is why you have to keep to keep running computers and getting more data. You can keep chanting to yourself - i am clever, i am clever, i write equations - and tell everyone the problem is difficult, years out from solution - or you can switch on the damn computers and let them find your answer.

If a billion dollars is too much for a system that can finally allow you to have autonomous planes, that you hope somehow your big brains will solve it, despite not having done so for a few decades, means that you, or your industry, does not have a clear grasp of the meaning of the term opportunity cost.
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Indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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Am I like the only person in the world who hasn't been able to see jaggies in like.. 6 years?
Interesting... in audio, we've basically had affordable super-sampling for a few years. That's exactly what "record at 96KHz or 192KHz" is; all your plugins run against a waveform that's higher-bandwidth than you can hear, and then you downsample and dither at the end to 44.1 or 48KHz in mastering. Some of the best equalizer plugins had internal upsampling, so that even if your source material was 48KHz, the processing was all done at 96KHz. The quality gain from the higher resolution offset the quality loss from resampling.

(In audio, there are other benefits to higher resolution, like latency; a 256-sample buffer adds 6ms at 44.1KHz, but only 1ms at 192KHz.)
Huh? I was connecting the dots. Most corporations won't leave Firefox 3.6 because of the rapid release cycle of Firefox. The extended support is for these companies. Regular consumers will be happy with the silent update every six weeks. If most corporations buy into the new ES version then 3.6 will be practically gone in a matter of months. This is important because FF 10+ is a vast improvement over 3.6, and soon developers will be able to assume FF 10+.
The connection between the network and Langely, through which all data passes.
There is if you want to try dataflow programming, and hope your dataset grows to exceed RAM :)
But wouldn't normal sampling on a high-res screen be just as expensive[cpu] as super-sampling on a normal-res screen?
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Edit: Actually I am remembering wrong see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2205174

A little more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302595

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2302547

WRONG STATEMENT: I believe that the person running pinboard mentioned that it started at something like $3 or maybe more, so it isn't 9550 but probably a bit less, even less if you count inactive users.
I'd say be honest with them and rather than just bill extra hours, bill a flat fee for use of this code base and then bill for each hour spent customizing. I think any reasonable client would find value in having code already written that can be used for their project. Even if the project is open source, I'd still bill a flat fee for inclusion of it in a project given that you have very high expertise in it and thus can be more efficient and effective with customizations than an unfamiliar programmer could be.
Do you have citations for your $5-$10 figures?

Also, you're neglecting to account for the money they're making from the Android market: apps, movies, books, etc.
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By the way, your attempt at striking out "config file gconf" looks bad on Chrome running on Windows 7 -- every letter is followed by a box. Looks fine on OSX Chrome though.
Don't most gift cards their money on the interest the money earns while the company holds it (iirc float)? and then on the unclaimed cards, if they're allowed to expire?
Its an idealistic goal but not practical in the cases of companies who have specific niche web applications, etc as obviously then anyone wouldn't have to pay for use of the application
As a current 4G customer, I can say this has been the most frustrating 6 months. It's been well documented their LTE network has been sketchy from the start:

4G launched in Dec 7th 2010 and this article ran a week later about issues already showing up with handoffs between networks: http://bit.ly/td1XQT

Another article from April 29 2011 about an earlier 4G outage: http://bit.ly/v8zJUZ

I'm not surprised this happened and will be returning to 3G. Clearly their 4G is not ready for prime time yet.
The situation is quite a bit more nuanced than that. The court will certainly go to substantial lengths to find a way to uphold a popular law or strike down a bad law, but they don't make things up out of thin air.
The license says Google is not obligated to offer support, accept liability, etc. to anyone who uses the code. Google is, of course, free to do more than that for certain users (like Android OEMs) if they want to.
Interesting that Guatemala is using GMail. And Trinidad is using RoadRunner? hahaha
I guess I'm probably the only person in the world that prefers the look of no-AA...
Worse, it is an estimate of sales to date of the two markets. The Android market was seriously immature until around a year ago, and it has been exploding since (from a personal perspective, the number of apps worth buying has increased exponentially in the past couple of months). Most recent anecdotes seen on here and on other development boards have found similar current sales rates across Android and iOS. If I'm making an app now, it is meaningless that for three years iOS held a huge headstart.

There are a couple of platform zealot prats rambling on with their standard, dated anti-Android nonsense in here. It is disheartening that they haven't been carpet bombed into the hellban so many voices of reason end of enduring.
My point is, who are you to decide how "Linux" is supposed to behave by default? Why do you get veto power over what should be "optional"?

A choice has been made for Ubuntu's behavior. Other distributions are free to make their own choices. If you find Ubuntu's choice disagreeable, you can file a bug and try to change it, or you can change it for yourself on your own system, or you can just live with it, or you can change distributions. You can even fork Ubuntu and make just this change, if you like. You do have that choice.

Getting mad because Ubuntu's choices are different from choices you might make is just silly.
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I use this on my Iphone: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/

To prevent those annoying widget buttons, use NoScript or Ghostery. Of course NoScript's white list method is more secure but I like Ghostery's blacklist approach more. It's tiresome to have to constantly click on NoScript to allow Javascript running
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We just need more competitors for PayPal. Perhaps one from credit card company, one from Google, one from Facebook, and a couple from successful, less evil (for now) startups.
Big box stores give gift cards in return for falsely returned items (get a receipt, walk out with the same thing twice; this is why the guy at the door wants to mark your receipt with a market.)

So of COURSE people are willing to take a lower price for their $100 gift cards - they paid less than $100.

My theory is that the gift card economy is a shadow economy for people who need to use plastic for whatever reason but are unable to open accounts (lack of documentation I guess?)
Is this where I bitch about those "cash" gift Visa and Mastercards? (The ones that are essentially a prepaid credit card with a fixed balance.) I've received a couple of them and they're so bizarre to me. First of all, they apparently cost $3.95, which is a 15.8% fee on a $25 card. (You would think Visa and Mastercard would be so happy to have more cards out there causing 3% transaction fees to happen that they'd give the cards away at face value).

Then they're actually less practical than cash. You have to spend exactly the card balance to use them effectively. So if I swipe it at Starbucks a few times until it's down to $1.49, the next transaction will simply be declined! I'd have to ask the barista ahead of time to split the transaction and charge exactly $1.49 to the card (so I have to mentally track the balance or call Visa/MC every time I use it). I'm guessing it's more likely that people reach the point where the card is declined and then throw it away, with Visa/MC pocketing the remains.

If you want to use it online, you have to go to the Visa/MC web site and register it (provide your personal details) so that the card is associated with billing details. Lovely side effect: they get your personal contact information to spam you with.

For the love of all that is rational, please don't give me these cards, I'd much rather have $28.95 cash than $25 + extra hassles. The best use of these cards I could come up with is converting them to a gift card at a particular store you actually like. Store gift cards have correct overflow semantics - the full balance of the card will be used and the register will ask you to come up with the difference.
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Author here, I thought I'd respond to a few things.

I tend to write posts on my blog in a particular style. It tends to run towards bombastic, deliberately, for effect. My point with this entire post was more how something simple can unravel into a deep hole, and how, in particular, I hate the way Ubuntu does many, many things. It's not that I hate change: I hate non-obvious change.

I often don't write posts as a systems administrator might approach something (my main complaints about honeycomb, as an example, were more focused on how an average user might interact with it as opposed to, say, me - I was just annoyed), and I tend to like to turn over rocks and see what is underneath. My post serves to relay an experience, rather than plead for help, or whine, if that makes any sense at all.

I should have titled the post better, admittedly. And for the record, I don't hate Ubuntu. Or Unix. Or Linux. I've been using them in various iterations for fifteen years. Try not to read so much into a rant written mostly to amuse a few of my friends.
The thing you have to understand about "wireless" systems like CDMA/GSM/HSPDA/LTE is that there is little diversity in the vendors of these types of systems and there are a bunch of relatively closed protocols that govern how things like the base stations authenticate subs and do provisioning of stations. It's not like IP; it's more like Novell IPX.

So even though LTE is ostensibly an IP-based system, there are a host of dependencies on single vendor closed management systems and protocols that could be the cause of any outage. A nationwide outage points to the failure of one of these systems to properly handle letting subscriber stations onto the network, not something simple like getting packets from here to there.

Think failure of the RADIUS/DNS like systems, not the routing infrastructure.
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FXAA and other similar techniques are only relevant when dealing with deferred rendering only. Detecting edges on the depth buffer may sound as the solution until you realize that two planes at right angles has an edge between that can alias. The change there is in the normal and not the Z.

Also modern graphics cards do not give programmatic access to the z-buffer as the z-buffer format is often proprietary. Deferred shading based renderers often duplicate the z-value also into a texture.

Deferred rendering can render large number of dynamic, unshadowed lights very efficiently. It can be used as approximate global illumination technique.
The algorithm analyses the contrast from the luminance of the pixels and does more than just edge detection. There's more in the paper that I don't understand with a quick look. Screen space edge detection (RGB or Z) + low-pass filtering is not a new idea at all, maybe FXAA is just the first that can make it work well.
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ZeroCater is great! We have used them a few times and been impressed with the quality and variety. My only complaint would be that take-out food can be greasy and unhealthy sometimes. It'd be great if ZeroCater could cater to the "healthnut" crowd.

My company usually has healthy, seasonal lunches cooked by an in-house chef, but when she is not available we use ZeroCater. The discrepancy between healthy home-cooked food and sort-of health catered food is more visible when switching back and forth.

That said, the ZeroCater guys are great and I'm quite impressed with the service. If your startup isn't eating together yet, you should. It's definitely worth the cost!
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No, you're not alone. I've never liked the strange colored edge effects you get from normal AA. They're as annoying as jaggies.

As an aside, the FXAA touted in this blog post looks washed out and generally terrible.
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