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> But how would you feel if you ran into your neighbor at the mailboxes and they were getting magazines with swastikas on them?

Depends. If it was the actual red/white/black Nazi design, I'd definitely ask about it and he'd have to come up with a reasonable excuse as to why he is receiving these magazines--and then I'd believe him knowing that actual neo-Nazis never apologize or make excuses but will be frank and confronting about their beliefs and the ones that aren't also tend to make sure their neighbours don't see their propaganda mail.

However, you can't compare that to a cartoon devil in sneakers. If that computer screen had displayed Powered by <image of a pentagram with a goats head in a circle with occult symbols> then, yeah, I couldn't blame anyone for at least wondering if they might be Satan-worshippers :) And if fundie Christians want to get all offended and freak out at Satanists, I'm going to say, have at it. While actual Satanists are generally rather harmless, they are also generally enormous pricks. It might even give me short pause and wonder whether I'd reconsider staying at that hotel, but in the end the potential for hilarity would probably win out.

No, this is more like: Your neighbour receives a magazine with a swastika on it that doesn't actually have anything to do with Nazis, like maybe he is a Hindu. Just like the BSD logo doesn't have anything to do with the devil or satan, but is a play on the word "daemon". In that case, maybe you don't know it, you ask him, he tells you, and since the magazine says Modern Hindu Magazine (health & lifestyle for the modern Hindu!) and the swastika is yellow with orange, you figure that he's probably not a neo-Nazi.
I believe it's meant to be ironic, in other words taking a poke at the so called "facts" that people generally toss around (although that doesn't make it less annoying).
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The demo video should tell a story. "John has a donut company and is having trouble keeping track of his team's tasks..."

Instead, it's literally a feature list.
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Turning on hardware acceleration doesn't cause all Android views to be FBO-backed. You still need to toggle the layerType to LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE on each view, as far as I'm aware. I think the G+ post is a little disingenuous in that regard.

Google suggests toggling between LAYER_TYPE_NONE & LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE pre/post animations. This need to actively manage view cache behaviour probably leads to developers being unaware of what to do.
Thanks for the comment!

I have to wonder where you think the money will come from? What will be the motive to donate?

If this is a question about the crowfunding site itself, this is a non-issue. Any running costs will be covered. Donations are not required. If the service becomes meaningful to a lot of people, there will be motivated people to support it in different ways.

Do you have experience with the not for profit model?

Some, yes. I don't mean to brush aside your valid concerns for the long-term financial health of the project, but the initial costs will not be unsurmountable.

I have serious financial problems and could use the money. I wish I could find a way to crowd fund what I do. If I do, most likely that won't be called "crowd funding". It will be called "sales to the public", perhaps in the form of t-shirts, merchandising, etc.

So this is part of the reason why I want to do this. A lot of people creating content have to just throw the content out there and hope it sticks and is monetizable. The crowdfunding model however is a good "sales to the public" model, I think, especially when used as a pre-demand and pre-order model. The biggest projects on Kickstarter for example have been pre-demand projects, where someone has created a wriststrap for the iPod Nano or a tripod mount for a camera phone and sold pre-orders for these.

We know that digital content is distributed freely, and this will not go away. For a writer, for example, this can be a serious problem. Say you create a non-fiction how-to book on something very specific and niche. A couple of people buy the ebook, and finding value in it, want to share it with the people they know in the same niche. They (at least many think this way) get more social value out of just sharing a digital copy of your work, instead of pointing their friends to buy it. If you flip this model, and ask for money upfront for the upcoming content, the same person who has donated will now be more inclined to find others to donate too, so that the content will actually get created (this is why Kickstarter's pledge minimums work to motivate sharing). Of course, in addition to getting the content among the first, they can get other perks. By all means you can consider this pre-sales or pre-demand instead of crowdfunding.

But that's going into the CF model in general. If people benefit from a new platform like this and it creates more copyright-free content while supporting the creators of such content, as far as I'm concerned it's successful.
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Yes I read the same thing elsewhere. Also I stopped reading the article when it started to sound too much like propaganda.
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But your point boils down to this:
- Follow the rules regardless of them being unfair or illogical.
- Everyone needs to be a good little rule follower just like me.

Who are you trying to impress?

- We've all illegally downloaded software to try it out.

- We've all hauled ass past the speed limit

- We've all jaywalked.

- We've all bought thousands of dollars of products online and NOT paid the sales tax on it like it is required by law.

- We've all taken money under the table at some point without keeping track of it to see if we have taken enough to qualify for paying taxes on it.

- We've all slowly driven past a stop sign instead of fully coming to a stop.

- We've all BROKEN rules. Because RULES are stupid. Literally, they don't look at one's specific situation or view point, rules are blanketed over everyone. Despite them being dumb as fuck like "speed limits". Study after study shows that when speed limits are removed, accidents go down. (State revenue from tickets does too).

Did you know that in many cities you have to pay $25 and fill out a form to get a permit to have a fucking Yard Sale. No body even knows, or follows it, but it's a law.

These ridiculous rules have created imbalances in our society. People/businesses who HAVE money can easily apply for permits and licenses and continue making MORE money. PEOPLE who NEED money can't afford these things.

"Well that's spam" some people say. And what the fuck is ADVERTISING (billboard, junk mail, posters)? State sponsored spam. So rich people can spam and make money but poor people can't?! Those with money can advertise on billboards on the side of highways that distract you from driving, they can advertise on TV commercials, they can advertise using Junk mail which cannot be stopped because there's no "do not mail" list. People with money are allowed to piss us all off. But when those who don't have money try to advertise using plastic signs on the side of public roads, that's "illegal" and they get taken down within 24 hours by the city. There's no place for people without money to get free advertising or a place for them to sell their products or services. Hell, we can't even start businesses in our own homes because of zoning laws.

And we're going to sit here and talk about rules... Fuck the rules.
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Somehow I don't think this would be on TC unless goldman wanted it that way. I'm fairly sure Goldman Sachs can keep secrets when they need to.
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Fun I had a similar idea on April this year, I thought about using streaming png's (nodejs) as information source, first I was thinking about using some qr-code technique to make transmissions secure. Then I thought, I could use something better like qr-code multiplication inside of a png stream that looks like a video with some qr-codes that flash from time to time. A smart-phone application would make the data readable again (decryption). You would need to whisper a secret key personally into your friends ear, so he can enter the sequence into his smartphone app. All-in-all it was a concept to use png's like videos with "cut-scenes" a-like qr-code's that get multiplied and cross-checksummed afterwards. Might sound stupid, but think about it. I wasn't approaching to solve your post-apocalyptic scenario, but to make something speedier+secure than wifi/bluetooth/infrared.

What do you think? A friend who's exceptional at maths (I'm not) told me it's not possible, however I don't like when naysayers come and tell it's impossible. Still it demotivated me. Do you think it's possible?

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Nice one - could work. I'm afraid that could add needless complexity though. Person pledging now is pledging for a particular project, which is meaningful to them. Making them think of another future project via a voucher or credit can confuse them. If there's one thing I've learned, it's never get in the way of what is meaningful to your users at any given moment.

Could be a future use case, though.
Yes, I have also read the similar story about Steve jobs taking picture of visitors with their iPhone in front of Apple
> I was surprised that you invoked Godwin's Law on a first level post.

Not "invoking Godwin's Law" if it's actually relevant. It'd be different if he'd have said "these fundie Christians are like nazis".

And the actual Godwin's Law is even different and isn't "invoked". Look it up.

I think comparison with a swastika is perfectly reasonable and not at all gratuitous, for being an icon/imagery that evokes strong emotions in many people (myself included). BTW that doesn't mean I agree with the comparison, because I don't, for similar reasons as you state. But referring to "Godwin's Law" in a discussion where the swastika actually is a relevant comparison pisses me off.
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I have heard that the admissions procedure is similar for top UK universities, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Except that they have a policy to openly discriminate against privately educated pupils. You need better exam results to get through the first filters if you come from a private school than if you come from a state school. This is because private schools drive their students harder, have better facilities, lower staff/student ratios, less problems with disruptive behaviour etc. However, they also tend to produce lots of stereotypical 'public school boys' (A British cultural meme). Universities prefer diversity. So, if you are privately educated, to do well in the admissions procedure you need good grades and a distinctive resume / personality.

But this is quite different to discriminating on grounds of race, as patio11 describes. If it's really true that Asian pupils are discriminated against purely because of a tick box then this is clearly racist even if it's because of the supposed 'hothousing' effect of Asian attitudes towards studying. Is this kind of discrimination not illegal in the US? In Britain and probably most of Europe it is illegal to discriminate on grounds of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation and disability.
even better, but I know there were huge efforts to detect these type of transmission and block them entirely. If you're with comcast you probably know about it. Many providers use deep-packet inspection now! :(
Relevant to this discussion is this video:

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Same here, it failed to catch Google and I am there almost daily. (Mostly for the doodles.)
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It's not similar, it's literally the exact same story.

Also, who the hell would want to get photographed outside the Facebook offices? Do people really set out to visit Facebook HQ?
It blows my mind that people can't understand that scrolling "feels right" is a show-stopper feature for a touch interface.

Meanwhile, at Apple, they would have got it right in version 0.1, and Steve Jobs would treated that as prototype quality and made the team do 10 better variations.
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HuBot is part of the github culture and they have fun hacking with it. They even open-sourced it so that other people can hack on it too. I hate how this guy demolishes this project..: "This is a fork of GitHub's Hubot that's substantially less shitty." I find it kinda ironic how he forked github repository, hacked on the bot and then called it shitty.
At one point, didn't about:ie or about:msie or something display a blue page in mozilla?
Considering that SPDY requires SSL/TLS and therefore the webmaster will have to get and set up a certificate for his domain, I bet most websites will use HTTP for years to come.
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Almost all VPS hosts have login keys to your machines.

All colos have physical access and could gain physical access to your machines.

Once the server is out of your possession, trust starts to become an issue.
True. This is a more accurate description of the biblical Satan:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/GustaveDo...

Only difference with an angel is that the feather wings are replaced with bat-like wings.

I was going to say that the horns (and goat-legs) came from "demonizing" the Horned God/Pan/etc deities from Paganism. But looking it up (check Wikipedia on Satan, Devil, Pan, Horned God for references), it turns out that this demonization occurred mostly in the late as the early 19th century, while the image of a horned Devil occurs at least as early as the 13th century. Interestingly, the image of The Devil in the early 18th century Tarot of Marseille seems to have branched antlers, not horns.

And that's just a cursory investigation, the complete story is probably much more complicated than that :) There's some stuff involving the Knights Templar vs ancient Pagan imagery, but I'm done with Wikipedia for the moment :-)
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Yeah no, it's both really.
This lack of senior developers also leads to the chronic amnesia our industry has, that includes reinventing the wheel every 10 years (same wheel different color). The more the things change the more they stay the same.
Currently reading this on Galaxy Nexus. No need to throw at wall in my view. Feels much like the iphone 3gs i had before...
I'm a dev, having moved into product management quite recently.

Essentially, yes. But with a few caveats:

- The customers doesn't communicate in "requirements". They communicate in "I want to achieve X". When they do seem to communicate in requirements, it's always because they want to achieve some X, and there might be a better way of doing that. Uncovering X and mapping it to something that's feasible and coherent with the direction the application is going is an essential part of the job.

- Ensuring consistent communication, including providing a single point of entry for the customers. Making sure that customers always receive either a firm commitment or a firm non-commitment. No "I'll look into that" which is interpreted as "It's done". No playing developers out against each other ("But your colleague promised me, I really need this tomorrow.").

- Responsibility for the big picture. If keeping the big picture is trivial, you probably don't need product guys. But after a certain degree of complexity, being able to tune out everything but the task you're working on is good for developer productivity.

- The buck stops here. A while ago our team wanted to remove a screen from the product because it carried some legacy dead weight. They went to the PMs and got the go ahead. Now, it turned out that PMs were wrong, and the screen had to be put back in after some loud calls from users (which went to client managers and PMs, not developers). Developers were held free of responsibility (and PMs did a root cause analysis). I imagine that if developers were held responsible for this error, it would increase friction as everybody would scramble to make sure they have their back covered whenever something changes.
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Of the many, many people using Facebook it's unsurprising that some tourists who were nearby thought it would be cool to get a picture infront of the Facebook sign. I'm sure the same goes for Google and other internet businesses.
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Very interesting.

A few of these I considered already but couldn't because I'm PHP illiterate and wanted to stick with a one page site with ajax but I originally wanted to give each session it's OWN page with full image background, instructions, comments, and share widgets. I decided against it because I wanted simplicity but in the future I DO want to A/B test these ideas.

Another thing would be a free signup that allows you to keep track of your meditation minutes each day. I think it'd be fun to see the minutes rack up.
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No, that's 15M people who work for companies who are paying users. SF claims to have 3,500 customers.
i think this is probably the most accurate thing that can be said. thank you for posting this, do you think the linux scheduler subtleties / server-process-optimization may add to this?
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> I suspect there is at least one person who thought it over and genuinely thinks their font rendering is the better choice.

Basically, the OSX font rendering is as close as they can to print, where the Windows font rendering gives primacy to on-screen font clarity. This leads to a "fuzzier" OSX look, but a much better match to the actual typeface where windows's renderer "breaks" fonts to make them "clearer".

This, of course, comes in no small part from Jobs's background in loving the written/printed word. I'm sure it's also helped by the Mac background/history in design and print.
If you want to enjoy both smooth scrolling and responsive input method in a webview, you need to juggle between those layer types.

LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE enables smooth hardware-backed scrolling but glitches badly when the soft keyboard is visible (no resizing/panning of the webview, multiple seconds of delay between key type and text updates inside textfield forms).

LAYER_TYPE_NONE makes scrolling in the webview unbearably stuttering, but at least the soft keyboard becomes responsive, the webview pans correctly to show the field in which you're inputting text, and the key types are instant.

On top of that, there is the problem that you don't have access to keyboard show/dismiss events, so you have to inject javascript code to catch those in every page you plan your webview to display. This is at least the case on the Motorola Xoom and the Acer Iconia tablets running the latest versions of honeycomb.
I've never been reliably productive for more than 4ish hours of code per day.

When stuff is exciting or trivial it's easy to get list and spend longer, but in general I consider it a good day of I wrote for 4 legitimate hours.
In the sense that if each person removes a bit of information from the spot of the internet they're on, they're improving things for themselves and their friends, while if enough people do this, the internet as a whole is reduced in usefulness for everyone. In this analogy, censored information is the resource, but I realize it's not a perfect match with goats and common fields. :)
> With this progress (or lack of) in mind

IBM once produced 204dpi desktop screens (T220/T221, 3840×2400 in 22.2")
Apple makes compromises, too. On the original iPad scrolling can be really laggy (probably only after installing a couple of apps, so you won't notice it in the store).

Meanwhile, the current generation of dual core Android phones have hardly any lag issues anymore.
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This was more of a sandbox to play with Raphael and Flot than anything else but I think there are some interesting statistics in there. It'd be awesome to do this over time but I really don't have the spare time required.
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15 years??? How the frakking fsck do you guys endure writing boilerplate, filing TPS reports, going to meetings, and listening to PHBs for that damn long?

I'm not even 1 year in and I'm already busy executing my plans for freedom (by starting my own business, for instance).

Then again, I guess I don't have a single lick of salaryman in my bones. Others may relish the thought of a holding down a comfy desk job and not having to make your own decisions about what to work on.
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