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IMO, the problem is that the guaranteed short-term profit strategy (MBA?) has infested Hollywood. These days they will only make a movie that has already done well. That means sequels and remakes. Every time you think your seeing an original Hollywood film in the last "I don't even know how many" years you're actually just seeing a foreign remake (e.g. Shall we Dance, Departed, 13, 3 idiots, etc.). These days they're waiting less and less time to remake popular foreign films. 3 idiots is from 2009 and they're already copying it.

Some people are saying "but this is what makes the most money!"... weren't we just complaining that revenues have fallen? They may make the most money of any of their other offerings (which are just more of the same!) but they're making less over all.

People still try to have the movie experience as we have for so long but then why pay so much? I can watch a well made series on free TV and then I only need to wait a week to see the next episode instead of 2-3 years.
Indeed. My current favorite version of this Apple "trick" has to do with the power consumption of many recent MacBook Pros. In ordinary usage (e.g. browsing the web, editing simple documents) they have good battery life, but when running flat out they can drain their battery even when plugged into the wall because Apple doesn't supply a strong enough power supply:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3182887?start=0&tst...

And here's a good example of people thinking it is their fault until they learn the truth:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2802084?start=0&tst...

I happen to have a Lenovo W520 with similar specs and I'm struck by Lenovo's approach to the same issue. Instead of letting the battery drain while plugged in, Lenovo decided to provide a heavy, strong "brick" of a power supply that can keep up with the laptop no matter what.
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What's wrong with my comment? Yes, python has a very confusing landscape of package management tools and practices, and indeed it's a quickly moving target. But documenting this mess is not the best solution because than the very documentation becomes a quickly moving target. Package management is not the most difficult problem in the world, is it. The python community should just be a little bolder about breaking backward compatibility.
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It is part reputation, but beyond that, a loud fan is normal when the user is doing extraordinary tasks. Of course the circumstances of operation are going to come into question first. If you had a flat tire, the first question is going to be what did you run over, not what manufacturing defect caused it. There's no trick here.
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I didn't get the impression he took personal offense at all. He was also clear that he was not running CPU intensive tasks, just Safari with a Google Spreadsheet open.
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It doesn't represent data or a function - its just an illustration that borrowed from graph lexicon. Had it been styled as 'serious' graph it would have actually been misleading.
Sadly I was the same, they lost me at that second graph. Even if I was to excuse the ability to go back in time, I just don't believe that really illustrates how failed products go (ie. very strong growth and then just as fast decline), most wouldn't have the level of traction indicated there.
Sometimes you have to show people why their way is wrong by using it on them.
To continue using your metaphor of a real world safe:

I also blame the manufacturer of the safe because the safe was not as secure as they claimed and because it's not like securing things correctly is an unsolved problem or even just np-hard.

information can be stolen more than once, and if it can be stolen by these people, then you can damn well bet that it can be stolen by people who might not want to let you know that they took the information. how long has that data been sitting there unsecured? how many times has that data been stolen through unauthorized access? is it even reasonable to ask to be able to run a pen test against anyone who wants my information, so that i can actually know my data is secure?
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Instead of calling out hearsay with your own hearsay, why not cite the relevant pieces of the legislation?
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The adult thing would be to act responsibly in the first place. Simplicity describes that spirit best: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Or another sentiment is: would you do/show that to your grandmother (any beloved elder)?

So if it would in the slightest bother you, then don't bother doing it.

The MG criticism is over the top, as expected, since G+ is far more "public" out of the gate than previous networks it needs to be more proactive rather than reactive. As FB becomes more public they will begin to grapple with the same issues, it's only a matter of time...
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No, this is not a Apple trick. This is a cheap PCs trick.

It's because you're used to all that cheap hardware. If something feels wrong there, yeah, the first thing you try is look for a problem between the keyboard and the chair.

We, who are used to Apple hardware, are not used to problems like that, and if there's a problem like that we know it's not just 'us doing something wrong'.

When my fan is on, I usually pop up Activity Monitor just to find out I left something with Flash running. ;)
One advantage early employees get is the possibility of promotion. If the company succeeds, they have a fair chance of getting a more senior position than they would otherwise be able to get. But this is true of any fast-growing company, not just fast-growing start-ups, and there's no guarantee.
Even some Apple enthusiasts have noticed heat and fan noise issues with recent MacBook Pros:

http://www.marco.org/2011/09/20/heat-and-fan-issues-with-201...

More generally, I think you're underlining the author's point. I'd say there are three obvious causes for the unusually loud fan noises:

1. The author is doing something that is causing the noises (e.g. running an unusually large volume of CPU intensive jobs, letting too much dust collect in and around the laptop, ...)

2. There's a manufacturing defect with his laptop (e.g. poorly applied heat sink, damaged fan, ...).

3. There's a design flaw with his laptop model that causes the fan noise.

The author is saying that Apple's trick is getting people to focus on option 1 to the exclusion of options 2 and 3, exactly as you do here.
Debunked here: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/dichloroacetate_a...
Can never count Gearman out, and it is winning new user such as Instagram. Great for simple work queue. I recently switch from Celery to Gearman to reduce headache.
> author [...] interprets [...] mac users have all been brainwashed to say that

I don't know who pulled this trick of making some people think fruity-branded device owners have seen their reasoning ability hampered in some way. In some contexts just pulling out your MacBook makes you flagged like you're part of a cult, and regularly brings all sorts of bias, noticeable even if not outspoken.
This is why I love reading the comments pages.

+1 for the scientific breakdown and well-reasoned arguments...

From the debunking: "The simple summary is this: that claim is a lie. There have been no clinical trials of dichloroacetate (DCA) in cancer patients, so there is no basis for claiming they have a cure; some, but not all, cancers might respond in promising ways to the drug, while others are likely to be resistant (cancer is not one disease!); and there are potential neurotoxic side effects, especially when used in conjunction with other chemotherapies."
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> From the debunking: "The simple summary is this: that claim is a lie. There have been no clinical trials of dichloroacetate (DCA) in cancer patients"

It's worse than that -- after that was written, there WAS a clinical trial, and DCA not only didn't cure anyone, they got worse.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/05/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid#Results_of_...
Closures, closures, closures. Also, know how JS handles floating point arithmetic, type coercion, threading and the difference between async and sync.
As the Wikipedia page linked to by the article points out, "over long periods of time a calendar based on the sidereal year will drift out of sync with the seasons at the rate of about one day every 72 years."

Even more annoyingly for fans of modernist rationalist calendars, the length of the tropical year varies depending on how you measure it (from one vernal equinox to the next? or from one autumnal equinox to the next?). More long term, the Earth's rotation is slowing even without the aid of government support.

(Yes, I realise the article is a satire, but the challenges are greater than those it refers to.)
"""That's turned out so well for Facebook that all they kept of PHP was the syntax (too much of it to get rid of it, and esay to find people that know it) and threw away the rest."""

For one, PHP (any language actually) is it's syntax and libs.

So, that they "threw away the rest" is not an argument against PHP. People also run Rails on different rubies (JRuby/Rubinious/Ruby EE etc), so what?

And they "threw" those for performance reasons, not for some better, purer language. If they had enough problems with PHPs performance to write a C++ compiler for it, you think they would have faired better if they started with something like Rails?

Second, yeah, with multi billions revenue and nearly a bln users, yeah, I'd say it turned out pretty well for them. Proves that you can get pro --it doesn't get any more pro than FB in the web business-- without using expensive tools or the language du jour.

"""And the other 40% of the web ... well, it's cheap and has low barriers to entry. That does not mean it's great."""

There are Drupal/Wordpress sites that are among the best of the world...

I don't know what you mean by "cheap" in this context. Is whitehouse.gov cheap?
Here's another good quote:

"Single-car garages, hidden in backyards and alleyways in the early 20th century, doubled in size by the 1970s and moved onto the front lawn once cities began to require two residential spaces for every house."

The LA city requirement that new houses must have parking for two cars, side-by-side, has pretty much made the only possible home layout like this:

http://image.americanhomeguides.com/cgi-bin/imagemgr/get_ima...

i.e., driveway straight up to garage, which is in front of house. This means the front yard is half concrete, and every (new) house front is dominated by the garage.

Even relaxing the requirement to allow tandem parking would be an improvement.
That would be optimistic locking.
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I was just using Gearman::Client and Gearman::Worker today... it's still used by at least me.
Android markets itself largely on "open". iOS... does not.

Android has a history of being managed in ways which are anything but "open" -- ranging from the opaque "chuck a bunch of code over the wall" development process up to and including the "we'll provide this release to some of our special partners, but none of you plebes can be trusted with it".

So criticizing Android on the ground that it contradicts its own marketing should be fair game; doing so does not carry with it an implication that any competing platform is more "open", simply the implication that Android does not practice what its hype preaches.
> 2. your fan may be faulty

Quite possible culprit is thermal transfer to the heatsink too. I've seen occurrences of thermal patches badly (or not at all) applied on the die. Five of the 8 PC laptops I owned suffered from that, and a cleanup + proper thermal paste cured it on three. The two others simply had bad design and just could not get the heat out for some reason.
I'm wondering why all the credits goes to iPhone/Android rather than Windows Mobile(Pocket PC) which is a great mobile os in it's time.
When downloading the file from the .onion URL given in the link, the archive contains a member "._stratfor_users.csv". Seems that this is some OS X metafile that also includes a UUID of some sort.

Anyone more familiar with the format? Does the UUID allow to identify the user that originally downloaded the CSV and/or posted the archive? (Assuming that you have access to Apple's or Google's data).
Yeah, good point. Personally I use Redis so I am tempted to add it just because I'll have something to say about it. Although my gut tells me that Mongo might be the 'hot' technology---seems to be popping up a lot of late.
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> Business people who don’t understand this make the mistake of emphasizing mechanistic metrics like the number of hours in the office and the number of bugs fixed per week.

And yet a good 30-50% of all employed programmers I've met aggressively waste time, and given the opportunity to be lazy will be super super lazy. I don't think this is a trait you can pick up in an interview.

So how do you deal with that if you give your programmers ultimate freedom? I guess in the US you can just fire them...
The problem there is that in a lot of cases you pretty much use timezones implicitly anyway. If you want to call someone in China from North America, for instance, if it's 3pm where you are, you might know that it's 3pm in China (in this hypothetical no-timezone world), but that still doesn't tell you if it's a reasonable time to call. You have to think, "Well, people in China usually work from time X to time Y, so their time X is my 9am, which means the offset is Z, which means 3pm in China is equivalent to my 3pm + Z, which means it is/isn't a good time to call."

You basically have to reinvent timezones every time you make any kind of calculation involving people in another timezone.
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The Gem system has endured its own share of controversy, but it's certainly helped Ruby that there's been "one way to do it" when it comes to package management for so long.
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Is this a very exaggerated example or does this thing exist out there, in the modern world?
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A recurring payment, though, is more likely to fail. For instance, if a card is at the limit, a recurring payment simply fails, and then you've got to find some way to notify the customer that they need to address the issue.

Someone coming to your site to pay his bill, on the other hand, gets notified right away if there is a problem and so can get right on addressing it.

Also, when people get new cards they often forget to update places that have the card on file, leading to much hassle for the vendor.

Another advantage of customers who are paying month-by-month at your site--you have up sell opportunities that you don't have with customers who are on recurring billing.

For a service that the customer considers to be reasonably high priority, I suspect that the combination of less billing attempt failures and the extra money from up sell attempts make the month-by-month manual customers actually cost less to deal with then the recurring customers.
I used gearman to replace cron. It's much more efficient, particular for tasks like queueing email to be sent out.
We had both (both the original TAN list where every number could be used just once and invalidated all previous numbers on the list and the iTan system).

I prefer the token thingy my bank gave me. Insert your direct debit card, enter two numbers from the screen (usually corresponding to your transaction in some way, to confirm _again_ that you're really trying to send money to account X) and generate the TAN. Done.
The author is referencing his own iPhone when discussing the 3GS's sluggishness: "Sometimes I benchmark my iPhone, to discover that opening the settings app takes 13 seconds."

Absent significant evidence to the contrary, I expect that the author knows whether he has a 3G or a 3GS.
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>[Clojure] .. example of the emerging trend of evented, asynchronous backend languages.

Clojure is not a great example of this, and certainly doesnt have any event loop magic or async IO libraries built in. There is some in progress such as Aleph etc.. . But hey another great example of people promoting shit they know nothing about.
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>Although my gut tells me that Mongo might be the 'hot' technology

Better put that on the list with all the other gut feeling..
Actually they warned people a few days ago.

But yeah, I agree with you, you're much better off when people hack those accounts, steal the money and not do tell anybody, so they can keep stealing from it from time to time, and since you don't know about it, you're secure!

Plus I guess it's only ok to see collateral damage when it's poor people getting killed by the army in other countries, on TV. Cause yeah it's TV. Feel sad for 2 min and go grab a coffee.
Heck in this war all you have to do is switch credit card. Not switch a leg for a plastic one.

Oh I know this is not going to be popular.
Forth Haiku, linked in the comments, is also interesting:

http://forthsalon.appspot.com/
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People are lazy creatures. If something happens that inconveniences them in some way they will first hate the thing that caused the block (i.e. Facebook itself), but once they see that the initial target won't move they will hate the other party (i.e. SOPA)
I though you were talking about banks for a moment.
> And now I have to cancel my credit card and deal with fraud services. Thanks a ton, Anonymous.

Just an FYI -- you probably already know this -- but Stratfor is offering credit protection. Link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/12/30/stratfor-of...
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At least according to http://pastebin.com/8yrwyNkt , Anonymous didn't do this. They claim that they like Stratfor, and wouldn't attack it. (To the extent Anonymous can coherently claim anything, but it makes sense.)
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Imagine the policy scans you computer and it contains dozen of valid CC numbers, or something that links to that.

You'd be in troubles. Thus I'd say, while it may or may not be illegal - it's probably a bad idea to get and store that stuff.
Nah, it is properly some snafu by the journalist -- they properly said Java backed iOS apps. (Which is still weird -- why choose Java for the backend of a green-field project?) and the journalist 'improved' on it.
It is a scary prospect to be left with nothing but your own mind. If you have to read on the toilet instead of just focusing on getting things done it is definitely time to realise something is wrong. Are we happier because we can be entertained constantly? I am pretty sure the answer is no, and that actually it tends to contribute to stress. I say this as someone over-stressed and always concerned about being productive.
So you want little guys who are struggling for market share to risk it all for a fight they may not win in the end (and if they even survive, this losing stance could be held against them)? Companies like Google and FB could shut their entire US sites off for a week and wouldn't lose more than a few percentage of market share if anything at all.
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Anonymous doesn't really have centralized power though.

So technically it can still be people "from Anonymous". It can even be just a few who decided to say "its not us!".
In fact, it can be anyone. It could even be US agents.
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I am not so sure about the canvas thing.

Basically everywhere you currently see flash being used, you need HTML5 (and canvas) so that it will work for people with an iPad.
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The "average" is the mean of gross revenue ($10.6 billion for 2010) over audience numbers for the year (1.4 billion). This would include both 2D and 3D movies, plus matinee and child ticket prices. It's not clear if they include 3D glasses "rental", but my main assumption is that NATO has always calculated the average this way and they are always truthful with their totals (could be a big assumption).

I agree that a mean loses a lot of information about how ticket prices are distributed. It would be very interesting to see how these numbers trend over time for various percentiles - 5th for cheapo tickets, 50th for median, 95th for high end...

Sources:

http://www.natoonline.org/statisticsadmissions.htm

http://www.natoonline.org/statisticsboxoffice.htm