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And cancel the last 20 year copyright extension. Better yet, overhaul the copyright laws, leave copyright to 10-20 years only, just like it was originally, and strengthen the fair-use laws. Allow anyone to take any creative work and remix it however they want as long as it's for non-commercial purposes.

It's time to get pro-active rather than re-active every time they come out with a new bill. Let's change their laws before they change ours.
"Bullshit" is generally a messy combination of lies, misdirection and words intended give one impression but have a different meaning.
While these specific challenges are trivial now because of increased memory and CPU, user expectations have increased too, requiring more advanced features which are not trivial to implement across different platforms. Users now expect good auto-suggestion when doing text entry on mobile platforms and laugh when it fails ( http://damnyouautocorrect.com/ ). I just launched an iPad app to improve communication for speech-disabled users and nearly everyone I talked to wanted word-completion and next-word suggestion, even when offline.

While it seems trivial for Google or a database backed server to provide real-time intelligent suggestions (e.g. suggest 5 words that follow: Harry), implementing such a feature on iPad took me over a month even though I knew exactly what I wanted to make and had all the necessary data beforehand. I had a list of 1 million words and phrases with frequency of usage (16mb of text data) and wanted to suggest 3-7 words in real-time as the user typed each letter. And implementing this on iPad required quite a bit of engineering and optimization.
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Yes. This whole article struck me as the spell checking equivalent to "I can build Map Reduce in 5 lines of language N" meme that went around a while ago.
We use google apps for email, but it's all routed through a server of ours to have a backup and to be able to immediately migrate away should we have to: all mail that's sent to our domain and which is sent by us is not only in gmail but also in maildirs ready to be served over IMAP by changing one config file entry.

All application mail is also sent over that server (a Ubuntu VM hosted on physical hardware we own). All installations of our product are hosted on VMs on more physical machines we own.

Hence I voted the top option, even though we are also using Google for convenience.
I know it would be relatively small but can anyone wager a guess as to how much each of the 2gb freemium packages costs Dropbox? At 50 million users it has to add up--I've always wondered about Dropbox's conversion rate (free to pay) but it must be relatively high to support the current monetary system.
That's a really cool suggestion and I would love to see some sudo-standard on this.
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If you try a Google search for "such a schlep" you'll find plenty of cases in which the meaning has expanded to an arduous task in general.

"If you are one of those people who has always wanted DSTV, but never actually got down to installing it because it seems like such a schlep..."

"The first time I minced my own meat but it was such a schlep..."

"I'm getting all my books from Diesel e books and i just find it such a schlep to remove the drm's."
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1. In general usage, when people say 'average' they almost always mean the mean, not the median.

2. Pointing out that something is on Wikipedia does not prove how un-arcane it is. I'm sure there are plenty of topics on Wikipedia that are only understood by a small group of people. Wikipedia doesn't require that all pages be common knowledge to the general population before being accepted.
I hope for your sake you never say anything derogatory about the Thai monarchy.
Is it really a "costly" situation? Really?
Yes, 4 sets of 8 to 12 reps. Takes, say, 1.5min to do the reps. 1 minute of pause in between. Four exercises per muscle group. Two muscle groups per training session.

So you're looking at (4x1.5+4x1)x4x2 = 80 minutes == 1 hour 20 minutes minimum. Without counting the time to move from one exercise to another, without changing your clothes, without falling into a conversation with a fellow gym member, without waiting for anyone to free up a machine/weight-set/whatever.

Face it, if you're bodybuilding you're spending 2 hours a day at the gym.
> As far as I can see, there's no way to reliably detect the situation at alarm time. Less and less as the time between setting mute and the alarm getting off increases.

Using the GPS, it can tell when I'm at home or work, when I'm driving or commuting, and when I'm at a theater, hospital, or funeral home. So technically, it should be possible to make the mute button work one way in certain locations and another way in other locations. Whether this will improve the user experience or not is another question.
This is the most encouraging thing I've read yet. The defensive tone shows they can sense things have turned against them. Keep pushing.
If that were the case, it would render the alarm totally useless for people like me who frequently or always silence the ringer.

And, oh yeah, it's not called a "mute" switch on the iPhone. It's the "ringer" switch.
3 way switches are terrible design.

It's not conflicting is the switch is referred to as the "ringer" switch, as Apple does.
So maybe the solution is not related to improving the drugs but improving the packaging. How about a packet that allows tablets to only be released at the correct times and records when they are not taken. Then require the patient to submit the packet to the doctor after the course. Draconian I know, but the alternatives are worse.
I wish they had

1) Find highest rated videos from a given date range (by given keywords and/or tags).

2) Sort comments by rating (should be the default)
I assume you're aware of this? It might appeal...

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One guy's iPhone accidentally goes off and people think Apple made a horrible design decision?

Andy and his supporters are wrong. The iPhone (and Android apparently) does it right.

First, it's not called the "mute" switch. Apple refers to it as the "ringer" switch.

It works the way it must for the alarm clock to have any value at all.

Andy's Case A (oversleeping) would be all to common and potentially disastrous. Andy's Case B (an Ebay alert during an "important" meeting) is silly, contrived and inconsequential.

3-way switches, bedstand modes and sound profiles are all idiotic.
I've read it. Daniel Kahneman says something very different than what Paul Graham says. Graham is making an unsubstantiated assertion about a very specific hypothesis for which he has no evidence: that people generally fail to see ideas that would require hard work. That's not one of the many very specific biases and cognitive illusions pointed out by Kahneman which he substantiates with studies and experiments.
Well, hopefully someone will now devise a way of removing thedamn thing from a machine with one-click and without multiple reboots.
This is stupid for a few reasons

1) There are only a few types of questions, a bot can be programmed for all of them.

2) You don't need to program a bot for all of them. Even if you cover 1%, it's enough to break through and spam (attempts are cheap).

3) I don't think I've ever seen a captcha on a login box. Most of the time captchas are used for submitting anonymous (or semi-anonymous) comments, or verify a human if there are too many actions from one account.
There is one tiny issue with this approach.
Your method forces storage of the password cleartext on the server which is strongly discouraged.

You should always store the password on the server as a hash of some kind to protect your users against breaches on your side.
Actually yeah I experience problems. My wife and I enjoy watching funny YouTube videos—fail compilations, tv prank shows (eg just for laughs), cats falling, etc.

Problem is, the most viewed and top rated sections are littered with soccer plays and these hacks trying to do funny pop culture monologues(completely unfunny IMO). The related videos you get after viewing something are usually crappy remixes or not related.

Our dream is a never-ending playlist of videos based on what we like ... "Pandora for funny videos" would be the best analogy.

Also, we watch everything on AppleTV so whatever you build needs to work well on the iPad so I can AirPlay.
The original and the version with the added preposition are both correct. If there were a real ambiguity you'd favor the preposition, but that isn't the case here.
You can do this by creating a 'cat video' board on Pinterest.
Yeah, I've run into all of those at times. There are some problems that are just inherent to working at a big company.

Most of the really frustrating ones are fairly avoidable if you (or your tech lead, if you're not leading the project) are reasonably adept at playing the big-company game. My usual reaction to deprecation of critical infrastructure is to complain loudly and persistently, and I can usually get a stay of execution for 6 months to a year, enough for someone else to be the early adopter and work out the kinks of the replacement, then move my own project over to it once it's stable. I've saved many hours for my team by continuing to use deprecated software until the replacement has been deprecated, and then switching straight to the replacement's replacement once it's stable.

The massive codebase is reasonably easy to navigate once you become adept with CodeSearch. Build performance problems are persistent, but I solve that by getting a new machine every time the opportunity presents itself and using them headless for builds & demos. I also open them up to my team so that other frontend engineers I work with can use them...I've got a mini server farm under my desk.

The legal/political/PR stuff can't really be helped, but I find that exhilarating in its own way, since you get to see how those systems work. I've learned to hate the Chinese government since working at Google, though.

BTW, all of these are potentially problems at a startup using open-source software and doing interesting things. It's just that there:

1.) Instead of worrying about your OS libraries being deprecated, you pull the version you want into your own source tree and never touch them, at least for several years. Any attempt to upgrade to a new version is met with intense pain, and so you push the problem off and hope that either your company will go bankrupt or you'll get bought by some big company and the programmers there will rewrite your software entirely.

2.) Instead of complying with the legal problems, you ignore them. If somebody pays attention to you, you're sued out of existence and all look for new jobs. If they don't, you go about your merry way and hope nobody looks too closely at you.

3.) Instead of your dependencies growing out of control....aww hell, every company I've worked at that's more than 6 months old has had dependencies that were out of control.

4.) Instead of being on a misguided project that in practice failed but didn't die, you're on a misguided project that will fail and die spectacularly. And then you get to do it again for the next startup.

Startups can be a lot of fun too, but understand, you're screwed regardless of what you do. :-) Engineering is hard. Let's go shopping!
Poll: Would you pay a developer who is 3x as good as average, 3x the salary?
If a single person can accomplish everything that an average team of 3 programmers/designers can, in the same amount of time, would you compensate the single person at the combined pay of the 3 average employees? The single developer will provide the same level of documentation, testing, communication as any average team of 3 would.

Certainly there is a lot of benefit to having a team of 3 (basic redundancy, knowledge transfer, mix of ideas etc.) and just as many headaches (management, HR issues, conflicts, communication problems). However, if the final product (code, presentation, documentation, delivery etc.) from both the single developer and the team-of-three are similar, would you consider hiring the single developer at 3x the salary of others?

And why or why not?

Edit: I should add, this is not a rant/complaint/request-for-job/rockstar-rage but just a question that came up while discussing labor market, economics, startups, and above-average skills with a friend.
In an environment obsessed with iteration, this article highlights the value of confidence, follow-through and focus.

Doing one thing really well is always better than doing a bunch of things half-assed.
> It'd be disastrous if I accidentally muted my phone, failed to wake up, and missed a morning.

It'd also be disastrous if you accidentally turned your phone off and failed to wake up. It'd also be disastrous if you accidentally unplugged your alarm clock and failed to wake up. Or if you accidentally pushed the gas instead of the brake in your car.

There's only so far that a device can go to protect you from yourself. If the harm done by this "helpfulness" can be great (like interrupting a symphony performance for hundreds of people) it's better to err on the side of adhering to what the user actually did. In the case of a "silence" switch, that means being silent. Otherwise why is there a silence switch at all?

FWIW, a lot of people (like me) can wake up to a vibrating phone, especially if it's laying on a hard surface like wood. So an alarm isn't necessarily useless just because the phone's speaker isn't making sound.

> Really, you want a "don't annoy me or people around me" button, but that's context sensitive.

No, what I want (really really) is a switch that turns off the phone's speaker absolutely.
I think its for 2 reasons

1. Clutter. Majority of users dont bother to browse and click on the popular videos. ( With recent redesign its fixed to some extent )

2. We cannot/do not share all the videos we find good with friends.

http://www.kiwifruut.com is trying to solve these problems and make video discovery easy.
We run our own server because we like to be able to set up testing / staging / all kinds of development.

However, our core platform is actually supposed to be able to run anywhere, so once it's finished, we may very well run it on a cloud setup.

More than that, though, we plan to open source it and make it distributable. Do you think we should put something on Kickstarter? If so, any advice on how to get as much buzz as Diaspora* did?
I do the same. I have bought one 50GB account for me, one for my partner, and one of my companies have bought a Team account.

The plural of anecdote is not data. How many people did you refer to get the free storage you needed? How long do you think it will be before you need more and pony up?
People do often use the word "average" when they mean "mean" - but they also often use it when they mean "median". It depends on the context. For instance, when I say "the average family has an income of X" or "the average man is Y cm tall", the concept that most reasonably applies is the median, not the mean.

The simple fact is that "average" is a general term which is only used correctly once you've clarified what your exact measure is.
> Just be mindful of this feature and check the alarms before the concert starts

As I mentioned in another comment, this is no help when you pocket-play some music (the music equivalent of a pocket call), which has actually happened to me at one of the worst possible times.
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Thanks! it sures works on iPad!
Video playlists are curated! As it is crowd sourced,Videos are added by people who know lot about the topic.
No company would choose to have any competitors.

But in a viable market, there will be competition.

Anyway, I'm talking about the transaction itself, which they consider a net win, otherwise they wouldn't participate.

The only time a party participates in a transaction that they don't consider a net win is when they're forced to participate (i.e. they're being robbed or paying taxes).
Just curious - where/with whom do you host your VPS's?
Hacker News discussed this over a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679926
Siri is a potential solution: "Siri, do not disturb me for the next 2 hours."
How would you determine that in your hiring process?

I've done a lot of interviews, and I can tell you, with the exception of a few famous superstar developers, it's practically impossible.

So yeah, the answer is "yes", but the question is equivalent to "Would want to always have perfect health, if you had that option?".
Yea, you can always trade off some optimality for interesting if you need. Weight lifting isn't the only way to get in shape, it's just the most methodical & straight-forward.
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sure you can. but my product is a standalone video discovery app where you have a dedicate stream for videos. it is for video lovers to find only videos they want to see. Pinterest is mixed and it is kind of cluttered if you are only looking for videos.Thanks.
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It's possible that an ssl certificate may have that capability added, but in my experience they've always been sold as separate products. If you need a code signing certificate the cheapest I've found was through Tucows. It's hidden in their developer resource subdomain. We paid $199 for a 3 year code signing cert.
I've noticed the same. Did a lot of agency work last year where the agency boss got every client on MT to get the affiliate perks and was getting constant grief over slow sites, slow scripts and whatnot. I stuck copies of everything onto an old Dreamhost account I had and it flew.

In my experiences over 6-7 mo, MT had these speed issues roughly 50% of the time.
British English requires the preposition.
I'm not surprised, but it hardly seems like a fair comparison to look at a language with deliberately simple base concepts tailored for the jvm to a couple of languages attempting to implement a set of concepts which are not always a natural fit to the jvm.

Just trying to marry two languages subtly different inheritance models can be tricky, and it's those areas that Clojure so neatly avoids.

The bootstrapping point is interesting, I would like more of the language I work on to be implemented in itself rather than Java, but since the bulk of the runtime implementation is method lookup and other invokeDynamic stuff it would all start to get a little recursive, and I would want to take a very careful look at performance.
... and Java and C and C# and even PHP gets more complex as the code base grows. I am sure you don't pretend that naming one, or 3 does not send the message that that the others are not.
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Vendors have to make sure they build phones that they can sell, the phone being simply $15 cheaper won't do that. Apple sells more 4S than 4 and more 4 than 3GS, so it cannot be that the price is the only decision point
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I wonder. I run a website that has ranked on Google page 1 for the relevant search terms just behind Wikipedia for years now. But it's been on the backburner for some time; I've basically been ignoring it. A couple months ago a server migration that escaped my notice took it completely offline. Totally dropped off Google. Well, I just updated the DNS record a few days ago and within a day or two it was back on page 1, right behind Wikipedia.

So in my experience Google is remarkably forgiving.
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I don't agree. The way to make money is to do the simplest thing that makes money. Rarely is that the thing that you least want to do.
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It's a shame that solutions like Bob Morris's no dictionary spell checker[1] are left languishing just because we all have fast computers.

Getting better at a problem in one domain can spin off benefits in others.

Spelling is part of language, and language is something that computers are really bad at. Brute force helps a bit with that (auto-correct; siri;) but better understanding would be cool.

[1] (http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j20/spellchecking.ph...)

Morris, Robert & Cherry, Lorinda L, 'Computer detection of typographical errors', IEEE Trans Professional Communication, vol. PC-18, no.1, pp54-64, March 1975.
I have watched this phenomenon for years now as a devote gym rat. I always thought that a virtual gym would be perfect for those people who join the gym but never show up. They could simple go to a web site, join, pay $10/mo have a membership and never feel guilty about not going since there is actually no physical gym to go to.
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He said he wouldn't sign NDAA until certain provisions were removed and they were.
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Yes, in theory. But it's too hard to tell. I'd pay slightly more, in the hopes that the competition would generally be too dumb to give them even a slight bonus.

And if all the smart people think like I do (and there's enough dumb managers to keep productivity-linked pay from actually happening), that's an even bigger reason.

Sorry if that's not an encouraging answer.