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I think the app is indeed polished. It looks really good. But you do have a point in that users, specially iOS users, expect a lot of feedback from the app in the form of animations. I remember reading the guys from @mikamobile talking about how they even added a little bounce animation to the characters of Battleheart (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battleheart/id394057299?mt=8) when the user selects them with a tap. That's something you barely see because the character is under your finger, but it speaks for the amount of animation feedback necessary for a game to look "amazing" in the eyes of a current iOS user.
I think he's saying, to make progress in a field, find a place where there are experts and work with them.
What I'd really like to know are the carriers who pre-installed this software. Carrier IQ is just the hammer. So who was swinging it?
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Bad advice, especially if you're under the age of 35 or want to evolve as a person.

I would suggest the exact opposite: do many things, fail better, be open to new possibilities.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605845/do-i-cast-the-resu... is a good place to start for a deeper discussion of this topic, if someone is interested.

My answer (obviously) is "yes", although as some folks point out here too, there are portability concerns that make it worth it sometimes.
You need the T1ASCII utility to convert your binary Type1 PS Font to a Type3 ASCII font. You can then embed the font as a PS resource and call it from within your PS file as you would normally.

T1Utils is the package and can be found from your repository or synaptic. There's also a DOS version and it comes with its c code.
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We should setup a payments service that works everywhere, except the US. Revenge ... kidding. Although given how dodgy the PayPal APIs are and that future economic growth is likely to be based outside the US, it might be a very viable business.
"It's been a long time since Postscript has been "the universal language for graphical and printed work""

That's actually not true. There's LOTS of PS files in workflows in commercial printing -- I know because I write software for the print industry.

Its true PDF is often replacing the PS file but these are NOT without their own set of problems.
Ahh, actually I was just sharing my realisation of the three kinds of stress that I'd self-identified… and a lot of people seemed to relate to it.

But whatever, maybe it just wasn't for you.
As a webOS enthusiast and interface programmer for a patient care system. I find the potential for webOS in the medical community to be huge. It would be a terrible waste if webOS wasn't allowed to mature. Palm used to be the preferred tool for medical providers; its been hard to watch that slipping away.
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Quake? This quake? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)

What a wonderful argument in support of @antirez's suggestion that other people port and maintain it. In every case each port was done after the fact, into its own project. They may since have been reintegrated back as part of the source release (5 years later). But the core team certainly didn't do it. Carmack ported Quake to GL in '96 and IIRC that was used for a linux port. Again, not on main branch, not being committed while the team was working Quake 2.

I've made cross platform video games and I don't find your opinion remotely credible. I've also ported video games from one platform to another. A game that was highly optimized for one platform required a complete rewrite of the graphics engine for the other. Companies like Naughty Dog and Insomniac, that can focus on a single platform, have a much easier time of it.
It seems like that when analyzing this accident. If you analyze another, there may be 2 or 3 other things that would seem "pertinent enough information to push it front and center". And yet more for a 3rd accident.

The problem is that making something more noticeable automatically makes everything else less noticeable...
Just one more reason to not use iTunes!

It appears that Apple Software Updates are indeed signed: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5044

Are there any journalists planning a story about this who can contact Apple for a possible statement? I tweeted the author @a_greenberg to do so.
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Yes indeed, astonishingly, people do thing for reasons other than money.

However, even if this was a commercial project, this would still be the correct decision. Innovating new features, polishing and making Redis even better is exactly what @antirez should be doing.

Make an awesome product. Not a half-assed one that runs on every device / os / mobile under the sun. I've seen more than one project dissolve in mediocrity under the pressure of trying to do that.
There is, of course, the elephant in the room: nobody currently builds WebOS devices.

Which is too bad - I love my Palm Pre.
Got no contact from them.
It uses Native Client. It can't run in any other browser.
Since we're all admitting to have done this at one point in the past, here's mine; PSTab, a guitar tablature typesetter I wrote in 1994. The code is...not great.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pstab

I heard from a guy in NZ a while after that he'd used it to typeset a book of banjo music - it was the only software he could find that supported anything other than 6 strings.
Rendered on your hardware.

A thought: with NaCl, OnLive could run in the browser. Just saying.
>and with HP still undecided on the fate of WebOS I’m not going to spend my money on a potential brick

This sounds like a misnomer. Can a device that is primary focused around web-browsers be considered a brick?
"""There are old things that are much better than their newer counterparts. Take S-expressions for instance, or Lisp, or Tex."""

1) There are today tons of BETTER Lisp-like languages than 60's Lisp.

2) What are the "newer counterparts" that S-expressions are better from? Here's a few propositions for something better than old style S-expressions: http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/

And from a pragmatic standpoint, one can even argue that (more modern) C is even better than Lisp/S-expressions, because it has enabled orders of magnitude more used and useful software, include the whole of Unix/Windows/OS X/Linux, etc.

3) Putting TeX on this list makes it a vicious circle. You cannot explain why TeX has not been surpassed by something better by invoking TeX being better that anything newer.
How dare he neglect the poor industrie? He really should stop the development of new features and start worrying about porting and maintaining his software to range of different environments.
Redirects are a good idea. Redirects mean that you don't have to juggle legally sensitive credit card data yourself, and your customers see a browser indication that they are talking to the genuine Paypal (or whomever).

Paypal sucks, blocks your account and keeps your money on the least excuse, and is a bureaucratic hell, those are good reasons to not use them. Redirects aren't, IMO.
>Antirez, if you could try and imagine how Redis could be used in different environments (inside devices, as a component in 'end-user' business software, and so on), you might see why 'deployment' and 'servers' and 'the cloud' is not at all the only area where Redis might shine. It's your project so your choice, but don't neglect industries and areas simply because those involved in it aren't so represented among your twitter followers!

This is how you go from a great, focused project to a buggy and bloated one-size-fits-all project that gets gradually abandoned and replaced by a new fad.
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It seems that most of the 'new' features described in this post have existed since the last new Twitter (from a year ago). Some just slightly more recent than that.

I'm not sure that saying Twitter has 'grown more like Weibo' is accurate given that those features have been around since before the redesign.

(disclosure: I work for Twitter)
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It's a bit more future proof than a device missing a browser. However as the browser is not updated, it will lack future technologies.
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Also see Acmeist Package which allows you to create packages in CPAN, PyPI and Ruby Gems.

ref: https://metacpan.org/module/Package & http://acmeism.org/projects/
Well, whatever it was, I can't read it anymore. It's dead, 404.
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DirectX is a pretty nice lib in the C++ ecosystem. OpenGL is comparable but I'd argue DX usually leads the cutting edge of graphics capabilities.
You might want to try cairo for that instead. It has PS and PDF backends which are pretty direct (see the bottom of this page http://cairographics.org/documentation/using_the_postscript_...), and it'll take care of font subsetting and embedding for you, if that font allows it.
Someone absolutely should do this... there is definitely a business opportunity in publishing information gathered from foias
Yes, the part where UK != EU.

Fastspring is available in all EU countries, I think, but Amazon FPS is available only in the UK. Not in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, France, I think. Paypal Business Payments? UK Yes, rest of europe? Nope. Basically, for the table to be useful to people from the EU it would have to have a column for every EU country.

Also, the PCI compliance part is not very accurate. You can get PCI compliance by simply paying some certification company and filling out a self-assessment document. Techies always think that because PCI is about safety of credit card data in order to qualify you have to prove that you act responsibly with credit card data. This is not the case. It's strictly a legal matter. You're properly PCI compliant if you meet the arbitrary legal requirements.
It all depends on what you mean by "safe". It is certainly possible to create input methods that behave as spyware, that's why Android puts a big fat warning telling you so whenever you switch to a third-party input method.

I think what is meant by safe in this context is that an that is not an input method cannot pretend to be one. Likewise, the interface between the input method and applications means that an application cannot normally wire itself into the input method and monitor everything the user types.
If you're going outside their terms and conditions I'm guessing that means you're operating in a high-risk sector so your best bet is either to go with a payment provider that specialize in your sector (they'll have risk models that can handle your situation better) or get a merchant account directly (they'll probably ask that you put down a significant deposit to mitigate the risk)
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He perhaps should have said Posix, or "not-windows". "Redis is written in ANSI C and works in most POSIX systems like Linux, BSD, OS X and Solaris without external dependencies." [1]

So I think if you stack IBM, Oracle, HP, and everyone else Redis runs on without modification, his point stands.

[1] http://redis.io/topics/introduction

And, really, it hasn't, with the possible exception of web startups

Hello!!! You are posting this comment where??? And have you heard of this little web startup named facebook? They use linux apparently. Zynga? Linux. Oh, yeah, Google, they use Windows, right? Amazon. And the largest company in the US, Apple, they use windows too, yeah?

Oh. You mean those other, giant, windows-using companies we're reading about daily in the Wall Street Journal.
If the system were constructed such that it took two persons to make the decision to commit an abuse of power, perhaps it wouldn't be such an abusive system.
And painful for those starting with jQuery/plugins before they realize it's better to look elsewhere... :)
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I think that outside of larger enterprises with EA's, Microsoft is losing traction. So it's broader than just web startups.

But inside of many big corporate and government environments, Windows rules the roost. I think there's a good reason for that -- Microsoft enterprise stuff usually works. In big orgs, Linux/Unix is associated with "big iron" , "big dollar" nightmares from Oracle, CA, etc.
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"If you can't stand this situation you can always port it yourself, send a patch, etc, etc..."

Isn't the whole point of this article that Microsoft sent a patch, and it is being rejected, just to avoid supporting win32?
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Yes, you can run arbitrary code using the NDK, but you're still sand-boxed into your application's process. Android relies on the Linux security model where each app runs in its own process as its own user. As such, just like with a Linux application, you'd have to find some sort of privilege escalation exploit before you can start mucking around at will.
Very interesting. I agree with a lot of what the author says, and I think that aspects of Apple's case against Samsung are spurious, to say the least. However, I also see one major flaw in his argument.

If this design is obvious, why then do all tablets made trior to the iPad look nothing like the iPad? (Windows Tablets, Apple Newton, Specialist Medical Tablets, Grid Tablet, etc etc)

http://www.cultofmac.com/109373/what-tablets-looked-like-bef...
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Yes, exactly, it's very open to debate what safety in this case actually means.

I think what is meant by safe in this context is that an
that is not an input method cannot pretend to be one.

But is that really a concern? If you're putting together a spyware app disguised as a keyboard, why not just include a keyboard and "fool" this protection by actually providing the advertised functionality?

I also believe that the Android people in this specific case define "safe" as "safe from crashes" in the way that a 3rd-party external component cannot easily crash the foreground app because of the windowing and thread-based compartmentalization.
Mozilla did donate $10k to The Perl Foundation back in 2007. I think it was mainly a philanthropic action to help Perl6/Parrot. However they may also be eyeing a future possibility for hosting their Firefox languages on top of the ParrotVM.

ref: http://www.mozilla.org/grants/perl-foundation.html & http://www.parrotblog.org/2008/09/final-report-for-mozilla-f...
Sure. I am going through couple of documents related to this. As soon as I get some clearer understanding, I will surely let you know.
Too bad you didn't buy the Pizza.com domain name instead of an actual pizza, because it sold for $2.6 million! http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26...

incidentally, I don't see how the pizza.com owner is going to recoup his investment
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What "gross feeling" are you talking about? But yes, browsers will benefit from this - providing that the technology will be implemented by all of them, not only Chrome.
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The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do. The point is that it struggles with the the tasks it is actually used for today.
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Most of the cool/useful/nice web stuff is from
the Ajax/fast JS/jQuery etc era of late

Wikipedia, Blogger, Flickr, a bazillion forums on which I spent countless hours. Ajax/JS/jQuery are cool, however when it comes to usefulness many times they are superfluous. The old Twitter interface was a lot more usable.

web development is seldom CPU/Memory-bound

This is only an impression because the hard work gets done by the database or other external processes that are outside of your web server. Business logic is cheap if you can delegate the actual data processing and when you delegate, of course it's going to be I/O bound. On the whole if you count every component, web applications are the biggest consumers of these resources.

nothing stops you writing plain apps for mobile that
just do the same stuff you did on the web

I agree, you can also have a native mobile interface, while the whole logic is done on server. Like in the case of a chess game, you could have the minimax algorithm (or whatever) on the server, with a push mechanism to notify the client when the move is ready.
$15 dollar for every occuring charge-back nomatter what the outcome? Not thanks.
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Link to abstract of journal article:

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/20/6/373

The full article

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/20/6/373.full.pdf+html

may appear to you as well, if you don't encounter paywall restrictions.
Definitely. And after you back up, do a SELECT, confirm you're seeing the correct records, and only then change the SELECT to a DELETE.
Yes, it's too bad. And yet, when I find that a domain like "programmers.ph" is available for registering, I think to myself "who will ever be interested in something that generic?". It still is, grab it if you want.

Hindsight is 20/20, it is impossible to know now where scarcity will inflate prices through the roof.
Entire property paths can be described for binding, observer, and set/get ops, with the right thing happening in the case of null.

Examples:

1) .('MyApp.someObject*someProp');

2) .setPath('gomer.Sumer.firstName', 'Ra')

etc.
Redis is a server component you access through http. This means that there is no problem accessing a linux box running redis from a Windows (or whatever) application. So, really, the added value of a Windows port isn't very high, especially now that virtualization technologies are everywhere.

On the contrary, porting front end software between platforms makes a lot of sense, but that's a completely different story.
I got mine in mid- to late- November. I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far; good games coupled with a good media streaming app make it a nice device for me.
> How about the ability to install multiple versions of IE on Windows?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/04/testing-multip...

As you might expect it's using virtualization, but nothing that isn't included in Windows 7 Professional and up.
I think this may be intentional and not accidental to weed out obviously dated plugins. I mean if a developer cares enough about his or her plugin, then they will update it on the new site - is what my guess is about their reasoning.
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What do you mean? OS X is a POSIX-certified UNIX, with a damn fine UI, and tons of both proprietary and OSS for it.

I can understand people liking Linux/Solaris etc more, but are there people that really believe Windows is better?
This is great, I was shortly going to be looking for a 'Stripe in the UK' and this has saved me a lot of trouble, thanks.

Secondly, I think your product looks good, especially considering it appears you're wore all the hats during it's production.
That's an incredibly broad brush you're painting with there. I've used things like jqgrid and datatables for years now with great success.
> Antirez, if you could try and imagine how Redis could be used in different environments

It's this shortsightedness in the leaders of open source endeavors, of all kinds, that can be a deterrent to outsiders. Not that it's wrong or bad to do something the way you want because it's your project and needs to fit your needs, however that said if it's to see wider adoption you have to look beyond what it is now. If a project is to be more than a personal project then it needs to take into account needs that are more than your personal needs. If the best course of action is to develop two independent projects, then so be it, but it would be foolish to dismiss the whole Windows ecosystem if one wants to see a project more widely adopted (although maybe that isn't any kind of priority, it depends on your perspective and harkens back to the frustration some people have with one personality leading a project).
Yes, it is. But on mobile at least, I don't think there is much difference, is it?

I mean, if Windows Phone 7 uses DirectX, that is, compare to OpenGL ES.
Antirez, with this reasoning perhaps it makes sense for the official Redis project to support an official redis-cli (the command line client) for Windows.

I agree that installing Redis on Windows is kind of "doing it wrong", but the ability to easily access a Redis server with redis-cli even on Windows seems to be pretty important to the continued increase in user base.

Thoughts?

EDIT: I understand there is a redis-cli for Window at https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads , but a separate download that users must know about and keep up to date separately is a barrier to entry, IMHO.
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I have no idea how you got that conclusion from my comment. My point was that the academic attitude about expertise is pompous. I've worked with several academics and research labs trying to turn their research into startups, and you would not believe the attitudes prevalent in academia. The most common example of this I've seen is when professors bring up a potential competitor and state that the competitor does not have as much expertise (no founders with PhDs in the subject matter) as the professor, so the professor's new company should succeed wildly.

If the attitude present in this article was paid any mind by innovators, we would not have some things we truly love. My favorite example is ZFS. Built by prodigious hackers, not distributed filesystem experts by any means. I can't find the article anymore, but I remember reading that they felt their lack of expertise allowed them to approach the problem from a new angle, ignoring common wisdom.

My message to young entrepreneurs is this: Innovation doesn't work by experts expertly shaping the future incrementally. Innovation is messy. It works by lots of people - some experts, some not - trying to solve a problem. Almost everyone will fail, but you can't succeed if you don't try.
Why in the world i'm being downvoted? Fact is that plugin repository was deleted and everyone acts like no damage was done. It's perfectly valid to use more full featured js stack and do not depend on 3rd party code that can get unmaintained/disappear any day.