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You're correct that brand proliferation is a Microsoft problem (actually Cisco is a bigger offender here - but they don't sell directly to consumers all that much).

But it's not like they have to be like this. Make the business brands profligate and ensure the consumer brands are simple and to the point, and cut out weak brands (mac.com? me.com? all getting thrown away).
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The comparison is to piracy, not to lousy retail stores.
Very nice, really clean and well commented codebase. I love what you've done with the deferred and accumulator wrappers. Thanks for releasing this!
That may be true, but it's orthogonal to the point I was responding to, which was "You shouldn't need to read a manual to drive a car." The only reason that statement holds with gas-based cars is that the things one needs to do to take care of them is common knowledge. New technologies have new quirks, and those who adopt them will have to read the manual. Eventually, when the technology becomes common, how to take care of them will become common knowledge, and then no one will read the manuals.

You're making a point about what is best for Tesla from a marketing perspective.
7 looks a lot like 5 actually. You could say it's already happening in Cloud gaming (Gaikai, OnLive), but for general purpose application I think we need to have either:

- new types of (underpowered) devices: body augmentation?

- or much larger UI and processing needs: Photo filtering is more and more back in the client... video processing a-la Animoto? Siri? 3D UIs so favored in SF?
No, I truly believe it's the client. The phone app. The desktop app. It's the lynchpin that makes all this stuff a breeze. I don't have to tell it anything. Put photos in the photos folder and they become a photo gallery. Share a folder and it's just shared. And I can invite as many people as I want. Or kick them out. Or remove myself from a folder someone shared with ME. Or shut down the whole folder if I own it. Put something in Public and right click for a link. Immediate, no questions asked, effortless workflow.

If I had to change anything I was already doing to use Dropbox, I wouldn't have even given it a first thought, let alone a second thought, least of all my $10. And in your example it is the "client" that makes it so easy for the "customer" to get them to share files with you.
I've always read about these techniques but it's way, way cooler being able to see them actually done. I don't think I would have gotten nearly this far, so such a detailed explanation of every solution taught me a lot!

Thanks a bunch
I hope it's as good as Color!
Other EVs have the same warnings in their manuals.
Another question is what percentage of that $60B actually funds TV content and how much is spent on producing ads and other advertising-specific overhead that would presumably vanish if we payed for completely ad-free TV.
> "AT&T forbids them from consolidating their claims into a class action or taking them to a jury trial."

How is that even legal in the US? Is customer protection really that bad that companies can take away these rights?
Thanks! that made my day. However you forgot about the cute illustrated animal logo like hipmunk and mailchimp.
I thought this was what Jotly was supposed to be. And then, like magic, Jotly was real. I think they had to go one vaguer to prevent this from materializing into reality as well.
If you make this an editable template, I can guarantee you people will use it for their startups. :-)
I think it was a Supreme Court case related to arbitation.
...which in turns reminds me of this classic incident of regular people trying but unable to login to Facebook:
http://ryankuder.posterous.com/facebook-users-think-readwrit...

[Update: I'll submit this as a link. It's a classic.]
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I prefer the Blue USB mics. They're still pretty cheap (I paid $40 or so each for a couple Snowballs on sale), and you get a lot better audio quality (mic positioning, if nothing else). Andrew Warner uses one for his podcast, which is why I originally got mine. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/413696-REG/Blue_SNOWBA... is one.
You could hire a team of corporate .Net guys who sold their souls for a safe salary and even they would make something better than Color.
Video games and the internet killed TV.

Going from 3 to 300 channels did not help. What really cut into their budget was a steady drop in viewership over time as new toys simply become more compelling than TV. Reality TV is simply what happened when keep cutting the budget.

PS: Seinfeld reportedly turned down a $5 million per-episode offer to continue the show for a 10th year. You can put on a full season of a reality TV show for that.
I would love for this ruling to stand but ultimately AT&T can't let it or there will be a flood of people hitting them in small claims court. They will appeal.
The main reason why they don't allow you to tether your phone is not because they just want you to pay twice, although I'm sure that has some play into it as well, but most people won't pay for it anyway, but because they don't want people to actually use the data amount they were given.

Right now part of their business model is that most people do not use the whole 2 or 3 GB of data that they are given. Allowing them to tether, even though it would bring them more money if the user goes over the limit, means a lot of people will start using all the data they received.
It is interesting but its not clear that the robots are actually ArrowOutlet's. There are a number of ebay 'sniper-bots' which take your actual maximum bid price and will enter that price precisely 1.0 seconds before the auction ends if the price is currently lower than your max.

If you sell stuff there it can be fascinating to what 30 - 100 bids arrive with 1 second to go. But those snipe-bots are being 'driven' by humans who are trying to minimize the price they pay for something.

The statistics work was very nicely done though in the paper.
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If you use luajit, it ships with bit operations out of the box. Not to mention far faster performance and a way better FFI.
So the theory is that this is the web-based OS, that Java and Netscape et al. threatened MS with. The key isn't technical in itself (the cloud), but marketing (whose cloud).

My own theory was that dropbox must be secretly headed towards a general cloud solution to justify those valuations. But this story puts it into perspective: dropbox is a competitor to MS and Apple.
Networking is a good thing to do, but not good enough
Excellent comment, though I have a slightly different opinion.

But Re: Apple/Google/Microsoft not permitting Dropbox to invade the "office": it used to be just Microsoft. In fact, for many companies, it still is.

Google is trying to carve out a piece of the action. They don't want to always be a search company that has some other red-headed step-projects. They've got their office suite, their OS, their browser, and their plan for world domination (ok, maybe).

Apple is trying to create their own walled garden. But in "the office," that just means things like VMWare. In many ways, Apple positioned themselves where Microsoft was trying to go. Now they are faced with the difficult challenge of out-Microsofting Microsoft to capture the hold-outs.

So will Dropbox "kill" Microsoft? No. (To clarify, none of Microsoft's competitors are going to be the stake to the heart.) Dropbox is a sync+backup service. I'm not disagreeing with the article: there's plenty of room for them to grow.

But only Microsoft can kill Microsoft.
And yet it's not enough to catch Apple. Even Google's products are better integrated now.
How to hack a Polish winter
The is a simple solution for hacking a Polish winter the winter, the solution is simple, purchase a Mod Fishtail Parka, and it will shut out the winter.
I wonder how much the designer got paid who chose the texture for the yellow section.
> Unlike Apple, Microsoft made a lot of it's employees rich (probably more than any other company, ever). When your critical talent has fuck you money, a top down "implement the leader's vision" management style is probably less appropriate...

That's not the problem - the solution to that has been known for years - stock options/grants and bonuses tied to corporate performance.

The problem is that Microsoft continued to grow rich by stagnating. The company got so good at milking it's cash cows, everything else had to be tied to those.

Furthermore, there was no vision at the top for over a decade. Ballmer may be many things but visionary is not one that most people would agree with. Vision is what allows you to see the iceberg looming in the distance, or the opening into a golden opportunity if you steer properly.
That's kind of cool, thanks.
That's a tactic many businesses use. Oversubscribe services and profit from the limited use of the product. Punish the few who actually try to make full use of the service.

See any cheap, shared hosting service. They'll promise unlimited so long as you don't try to take them up on that offer.
I was really disappointed when I got a warning in January when I was only at around 2GB for the month on my AT&T iPhone "unlimited" plan. On the one hand, I like unlimited because in theory it means I never have to think about my data usage, but the warning and apparent immediately subsequent throttling I experienced for the rest of the month (~7 days) was painful enough for me to consider switching my $30 unlimited to $30 3GB (and freeing me up to change providers when the next upgrade cycle rolls around–previously I wasn't willing to give up my grandfathered unlimited plan, but I never expected "unlimited" to mean less data for the same money [and the throttling is so severe that there would have been no way for me to reasonably reach 3GB data usage]).

I'm not going to go to small claims court over this or anything, but I had goodwill towards AT&T even when the rest of the country was bashing them (coverage has been reasonably good in areas I lived while on AT&T) and that's gone now.
Discharging a Li-ion battery completely chemically changes it so it can't be recharged and can set on fire if you try. And they lose charge even if you shutdown all circuitry and just let them sit.

To fix this problem you need your car in a garage, a replacement pack of 6000 high-tech niche market batteries shipped from wherever they are made, mechanics skilled on a niche sportscar, and responsible disposal of of the old battery pack.

To 'fix' your problem, you need to pour easily available cheap liquid into an empty container. There's no comparison and it's not a Tesla design flaw, it's a battery technology limitation which applies to other li-ion cars, laptops, etc. too, if left long enough to drain past the controller reporting 'empty'.
I have this exact pair with those pads. Really great but they get warm after a long while as all over-the-ears models do. Great sound though and very portable.
Anybody who puts a column graph showing billions and overlays a downwards trend in red showing slowing growth is essentially lying.

It's irrelevant that they have a point with regards to high P/E ratiom slowing growth and missing targets. Anyone who makes a graph shaped and coloured like that is belittling their readers.
Sorry, threads get hard to follow after a while.

I did a pretty popular blog-post about how Redis is crazy for this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3620712

The post is mostly about style and mindset.

But in the comments I do take to task the whole technical merits of Redis for this:

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-...

That Redis LRU and replies with node.js really baited me; I'm trolled :)
... and the 3rd article a gadget blog has written about some website, because they'll scab traffic from anywhere they can get it.
I'm not really sure what your trying to say but the stream is decompressed at the cable box or at the the over the air HD receiver.

HDMI 1.3 and 1.4 support up to 10.2Gb/sec bandwidth. The video is not compressed, the audio may or may not be. So why would you think that there isn't 720p x 60fps being sent to the tv?

The max video you can get through HDMI is 4096×2160p24 @ 24bit color completely uncompressed which is several times the bandwidth needed for 1280x720p60 @ 24bit color.
That is true in general, but in 30 years time, do you think the majority of people will be using traditional TV schedules, or will it be watch on demand?

The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
Neither of those are mobile social companies.
Glad to hear that AT&T is getting some heat regarding this issue.
> Someone has to make an alternative to word that is as easy to use but doesn't allow you to do all the stupid stuff.

Lyx? Maybe pushing it a bit on ease of use, though.
Facebook users think Read/Write Web blog is Facebook. Hilarity ensues.
You're not selling 160 bytes, you're selling >1 second of airtime in two geographical locations in licensed spectra for which licenses cost billions, with support infrastructure costing millions.

See e.g. http://www.cwta.ca/CWTASite/english/pdf/Ovum_SpectrumFees.pd...
lol dam smart!
I'm not going to go to small claims court over this or anything

Are you surprised that AT&T thinks they can treat their customers like this when almost none of them will do anything about it?
I very much agree with most of this post. Now, choosing names which are much less annoying than their old, tired, 1980s-esque names will not make their crappy products magically transform into good products.

But it's a start. Good choices beget good choices.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davethenerd

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jmartellaro

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=digiwizard

http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Semteksam
Great, just as I'm moving away from PHP and diving into Ruby (I've fallen for it's OO charm), they have to release such a wonderful engine. This is amazing though, well done.
Monitoring for the cloud is broken
> precisely because running a modern Ruby stack requires so much education

Education about what? Can you give some specifics here? I'm genuinely curious as my day-to-day ruby development is pretty smooth and I haven't been doing it very long.
The common officialist argument, for whatever it's worth, is that publishing the real values would induce panic and further inflation. Basically, they claim that it would be irresponsible to disclose the real values.
The last part about purpose-based pricing is what really scares me.
Just to satisfy my curiosity, have you upgraded to 1.9.3 yet?
I think you're missing the point.

Choosing ONE brand name and making it stick = good.
Choosing seven words where one would do = bad.

For instance, I just found myself browsing through a list of new Microsoft products. I found a mouse there called the "Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 Limited Edition".

That's just hilarious. Anyone can see that that's hilarious, and not effective branding.
This is generally not an issue with your TV (unless you using an internal OTA HD tuner) but rather a poorly made cable box. Generally the cable box is responsible for channel changing, buffering for decode and other things. The stream is sent, uncompressed, to the TV over HDMI. Now your TV may be trying to do some processing on the HDMI signal but that should not effect channel changing at all as the TV isn't changing channels, its just processing a stream. If the cable box borks the stream in the process of changing channels, that is the cable box's fault.

This really stems from relative non-existent competition in the cable box industry. The consumer doesn't usually get to choose, its just whoever got the deal with Comcast or whoever.

The solution to this, which has been and will continue to be fought adamantly by cable providers, is allowing CableCARD/M-CARD support. It lets you plug in a little card that will allow any device to decode the cable stream.

Its not a full solution though, most people just don't care and the cablebox is usually 'free', why pay for something better?
Yeah, but where will those ads appear? I have absolutely no data on this, but it seems people are spending less and less of their web time on "the open web", and more of it on medium-to-huge websites, and those usually sell their own ads directly. Facebook will succeed at what you're suggesting only if their targeting proves so effective that medium-sized websites (say the big blogs and online magazines/news sites) can make more money running Facebook ads (after giving Facebook its share) than from staying independent.
This reminds me of one of the musings of Charlie Munger:

"...Now there are huge implications from the fact that the human mind is put together this way. One implication is that people who create things like cash registers, which make dishonest behavior hard to accomplish, are some of the effective saints of our civilization because, as [B. F.] Skinner so well knew, bad behavior is intensely habit-forming when it is rewarded.

"And so the cash register was a great moral instrument when it was created. And, by the way, Patterson, the great evangelist of the cash register, knew that from his own experience. He had a little store, and his employees were stealing him blind, so that he never made any money. Then people sold him a couple of cash registers, and his store went to profit immediately.

"He promptly closed the store and went into the cash register business, creating what became the mighty National Cash Register Company, one of the glories of its time."
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Firefox Mobile supports WebGL on Android.

With a little work, UIWebviews on iOS (4.2+) support WebGL.[1]

[1] http://atnan.com/blog/2011/11/03/enabling-and-using-webgl-on...
Yo Gabba Gabba is a phenomenal show, too. Plenty of really good cameos (Flaming Lips, Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, etc).
I've always just bought new batteries. They weren't expensive enough to bother with any redeeming a prorated warranty. If a battery goes out after several years, how much I going to get anyway? $10?

There are definitely car owners who have never dealt with battery warranties.
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> The idea that "If my work had become too popular I'd probably think I'd have to change" is terribly cynical.

Not really. For some people, the goal is to do useful work that only you can do. When your work becomes mainstream, that means there are people willing to take it and run with it. At that point, you've made a great contribution. Leave it to the next generation and move onto the next project. It keeps you from being complacent, keeps you moving forward and creating new things.

Case in point - how many new things has Steve Jobs created since he re-joined Apple? How many new things has Linus made since he started Linux? Two very different approaches to projects and work, yet I wouldn't call either of them cynical.
For a full sci-fi book of this genre, check out Permutation City.

Then go read everything else by Greg Egan!
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Nevertheless, human uploading could be tremendously useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
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> for people who disable JavaScript

I stopped caring about this long ago. I write database-backed web applications that require authentication, and in this context if a user has JavaScript turned off, that's their problem, not mine.
i just hired someone (developer) from INDEC. It turns out that they pay their people "en negro" - that means the official inflation group for the country doesn't pay their taxes - they hand cash to their employees and don't report it - or report a small amount and pay a lot more 'under the table'. Yet there are advertisements (paid by the government) all over the buses in Buenos Aires that say "Trabajo mejor cuando mi trabajo es en blanco" - I work better when my work is "in white" - in other words, when my employer pays the proper official taxes.

The level of hypocrisy in this country is staggering.
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Looks like it's a no-go, I just got this back from Leah:

Hi Chris,

Sorry, we aren't planning on releasing the Convore source code.

Leah

Boo! Oh well.
Author here. I spent a few weekends cooking up this simple little wishlist app to learn more about javascript on the front and back ends. I use MongoDB as the database, Node.js and Express to serve up api data, and Backbone on the front to present UI. Feedback welcome.
This
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He mentioned generating code for an embedded system. In that particular situation what you suggest may not be possible.

On the other hand what would be possible (and I've done this a few times before) is write a program or script (I like writing it in Python) that takes the .xls/.csv/.txt/.json file (which is pure data, can be edited in many programs etc) and generates the C/C++/whatever code from that. Basically the best of both worlds.
I used to unknowingly use the phrase communicated in the headline of this post until someone told me it originates from the era of black slavery and thus has a racial connotation.
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This will go into detail far more than I can in a post. http://www.subbu.org/blog/2008/04/nouns-and-resources but the tl;dr is REST nouns are a construct in which you identify all of your objects in a system, these become your REST endpoints such as User in which you have GET, POST, PUT, DELETE each of these verbs causing a specific action on the object or noun. This works great for a large portion of the application but there are some areas such as transactions where it is very hard to logically turn the action into a noun and make it understandable. Sometimes we need the back end to orchestrate multi-step actions and the noun construct just does not convey the workflow. When this happens some people choose to use verb systematic such as generatePDF while still maintaining the REST HTTP actions while others tend to strictly adhere to making said process a noun which can effect readability.
I'd call it an unsustainable-bust-waiting-to-happen.

The P/E ratio is growing because the share price is going up and they aren't making money. That's not a good thing.
Their survey doesn't let me select Yamaha as a brand. For years I've mixed with Yamaha RH5Ma headphones, so I've grown a soft spot for them. Most consider them a bit harsh like NS10s, but I find most professional recordings to be to warm and need harshing up.
Basically the way modern video codecs work is that they only fully encode every Nth frame, where N is some smallish integer - 15 or 30 is common. From one keyframe to the next, they essentially encode a diff from the prior frame. The idea is that most of the regions of the frame have very little change over short timescales.

It's a tradeoff. More keyframes means faster seeking (when you seek in a video, it has to start from a keyframe too, for the same reasons), but larger data rates for the same image quality.
>The problem is that this isn't common knowledge yet and it needs to be.

They definitely inform the owner that completely depleting the battery will damage it. Why does everyone seem to think they don't?

The newer Roadsters even come with a system to notify Tesla if the batteries are too low. What else could they do to educate the owners? Make them take a weekend class?
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Another tip - always set default profile gender to "Female".
Women are less prone to feeling alienated by gender, but guys typically get uncomfortable with being labeled as a woman and will change it
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