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Except the work Steve Wozniak is most remembered for was done with Steve Jobs, so he did in fact work in a team. I think the quote is just a rant against the pains of pushing innovation in corporate environments, that any engineer could write just as well in a moment of frustration - anyone in engineering should recognize a familiar note as he starts talking about committees and marketing people.

Every engineer already goes through a lot of struggle designing the initial prototype of the thing being designed, analyses the constraints involved, tries out different alternatives attempting to find the sweet spot that will satisfy them all etc. Then, exhausted and in love with the product of his effort, he shows it to people at some company or institution and they all have something to say or add to something the engineer perceives as already perfect or almost perfect, some might have valuable criticism, but some might just have no idea about the constraints involved because they didn't put in that much time into analysis, some just want to have their share in the potential success, some have to think about how to actually sell it etc. That surely is overwhelming, but it is part of the engineers work and I don't think "Work alone" is advice of much value. You simply have to accept this is just as an important part of your work as the design itself - I think most people never do. Then, you can starting learning how to best deal with it. Also, find a team or/and organization that you actually like, or at least can tolerate.
How Similar is a Galaxy Nexus to iPhone 4S ? My question is , who is leading and who is following?
If any average Joe can make something that works, then the true and valuable skill is to make something that is simple, understandable, and maintainable.

I don't think modern tools help you with any of the constant decisions needed to hit those marks.
PS I actually came from a Python/C++/PHP background and started working on Perl.
Frankly there's not a whole lot of difference between the 3 languages in what they can do. All have reusable packages like CPAN/Ruby gems/ Python's eggs using pip.
The main difference for web is which framework u like the best and what language syntax you prefer.
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Spot on. However, I cant think of a single achievement which was not created from unfiltered group brainstorming. Then again, I do things differently.
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They're a bunch of aging hippies, they probably didn't know any better. Hell, they don't know any better than to believe in astrology.

Many techies are steeped in IP rights issues, these people likely are not.

But my main point is that lots of long, drawn-out, expensive legal battles are started by someone who "shouldn't have done it in the first place". Society would be a lot better off if people would back down quickly and gracefully, as these people did.
Absolutely. Google couldn't possibly have been doing anything with full-screen touch-based smartphones. They were a software company and weren't working with anyone who'd built such a device before.

</sarcasm>

Sorry, for all that I wasn't personally a fan, I remember how amazing the O2 XDA (and its its immediate relatives) were at the time and I have to stick up for them (and HTC, of course).
Keeping your options open is also known as indecision. In many, if not most, cases, committing to something - and necessarily foregoing other things - creates the highest probability of having impact.

I note with interest that Cal, having chosen academia over a career in the "real world", seems to have become an expert in gaming academia in itself, its tests and admission hurdles, etc. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that; many people need a college degree for their own ends, and may be helped by what Cal provides. But navigation of the academe is not a large niche, not large enough to avoid making choices for. So the value of following the Cal's rule here is far from self-evident.
To be fair, the P800 had a 150mhz processor and 16 MB of RAM and could display a whopping 4,098 colors. It came out around the same time as Windows XP SP1.
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It was actually termed "breakfast club":

http://www.maxpreps.com/news/WpxTIZzCckWkptFeAcuDrw/how-mich...

Don't know if it was actually at 4AM or not.
1.7 billion per day is a fraction of US texts and phone calls. Rough numbers I can find are:

* 5B texts / day
* 3B phone calls / day

(better numbers appreciated)

I would have expected the fraction to be either less than 1% (because they're targeting intelligently) or more than 95% (because they store almost everything).
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Humble Bundle, Steam, and most app stores solve these problems for gaming.

It's too bad some titles from Steam include some really horrible DRM from their respective publishers, namely Ubisoft. Whenever I somehow lose a connection to Ubisoft servers, my game pauses with a 'Waiting to connect to Ubisoft servers' screen. The only way to get out of this screen is to quit the game. Based on this experience, I will never buy another Ubisoft game again, and yes this is post Ubisoft PR release about lightening up their online connection DRM.
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> Each of the individual differences is small, but when taken together the feel of using them is quite different.

Fair enough, but now you're describing evolution, not revolution.
For both of you, were your solutions 100% reliable? I ended up with an exploit that required a little brute forcing (i.e., just run it a hundred times or whatever).
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"how worldwide was it really, running on the handful of NeXTs that had Internet connections? "

Especially when some of those Internet connections were UUCP.
It does, although IE 7 (and possibly 6) have a bug where they will double request the resource. But, honestly, if they're on IE6 or IE7, the web isn't fast for them anyways.
If you've already owned the box, why would you bother with MITM?
Doesn't appear to be available as source.
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> no app store

I wonder what Andy Rubin would say about that...
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. The parent comment didn't mention emails being in plaintext, but just "Gmail." I took that as meaning passwords.
Interesting post/numbers, but I have to say that honestly, I don't care that much about surveillance. I've resigned to the fact that on a statistic level, I'm being watched. I don't care. I have nothing to hide, and if I did, I'd use SSL/Tor...problem solved.

People forget that the interwebzzzz is a public network. Anybody can connect, and it's fairly easy to set up a sniffer and grab info from people. You don't need to be the NSA. Also, cell phones are sending their signals through the air. You don't even have to splice a cord. If you want private calls, use a landline.

People want to have the comfort of complete anonymity but also have the conveniences that comes with using the least private forms of communication. Pick one or the other, and understand the trade-offs.

Another thing, the NSA doesn't give a rats ass about you. They're looking for specific patterns/keywords that set off "hmm we should listen more closely to that call" triggers. They don't care what you had for dinner or that your grandpa just had a heart attack. In fact, very few people do.

People want to feel special and unique, which I feel like is the main source of the sensationalism around privacy issues, but honestly, nobody but your close friends/family cares about your secrets or what's going on in your life. I guarantee the NSA doesn't either.
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But the fast-website people still need to know what makes a query slow and how to improve it. They don't (and shouldn't) write their own database engine, but they need to know how their equipment works.
I haven't read that book but it seems, from what I have read online, that it contains a lot of bragging from Woz, and not enough details about the challenges he faced in the early days. Plus the title itself is misleading. Wozniak had no direct link to the Apple in iPod/iPhone/iPad era.
Developers perhaps not as well informed could do themselves a real disservice by reading your comment to mean this stuff doesn't matter.

I think we'd agree that yes, Model instantiation most likely doesn't matter.

On the other hand, Model materializaion and query-interfaces most certainly DO.

In fact, in your _average_ Ruby Web Application, there's a good chance that the O/RM and template rendering makes up the vast majority of your request time.

Not database calls. Not controller logic. Only the Ruby side of O/RM interaction and rendering templates.

It's impressive that 37Signals has gotten most requests to process in under 50ms for Basecamp Next.

The truth though, that you frankly don't hear often enough, is that that's not exactly any great accomplishment for many languages/frameworks. I've worked on ASP3 and ASP.NET applications that had the same performance using hardware that was easily five times slower than anything you could buy today. The kicker is that that kind of performance came with entirely uncached pages delivering hundreds and oftentimes thousands of rows of financial reports.

Back to basics, if you want it fast, it's a good bet that a simple DAL using Sequel Datasets is going to outperform just about anything else. Skip the models when all you're doing is dumping data for display.

After that, see what you can do about limiting interpolation and String instantiation in your templates. That's where all your Template time is going.

It's something you can build in a little bit at a time, and worrying about 5% here, and 20% there definitely will add up.
Fortunately the government can only take data you have. They can't force you to have data (yet).

This is not the state of affairs in the telephone network, where every phone company is mandated to have government backdoors installed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...). That law was passed under Clinton, by the way.
People are still bickering about the GUI, and that started at least forty years ago.
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There is a good chance Jeff doesn't know about the source, and generated using one of the meme generator sites.
Sure, but the scenario here is when you are not ready to make a commitment, but must, lest you lose all your options.
> Any argument following the slippery slope form - if you choose to do X then you must choose to do Y is fallacious. You have the choice both before X and before Y.

Well obviously. That's not the form of the argument here, though. The argument is that, once Tumblr gets used to censoring one view they consider harmful, they're more likely to censor others. The claim being made is not one of logical implication, but of conditional probability.
Those suggesting these big systems like Wordpress... lol. Wordpress is far from light. It does a lot, but it is also a monster of an application.

I wanted something ultra-light, so I made rant:

http://github.com/lrvick/rant
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Yes: using IPv6 IPsec everywhere, a web-of-trust model and a distributed method for key exchange (DHT?).

I may be dreaming.
That last alternative appears to be what Motorola is doing. I'm pretty sure Microsoft's executives are not confused on this point.
Insanely fun. :)
Actually, it would. Apple is asserting a patent (from 1996) against Android's "Linkify" functionality which does exactly that.

Other prior art would be Ward Cunningham's WikiWikiWeb (1994/1995) for turning CamelCase into links and, my personal favorite, Netscape Navigator 2.0b1, for "Live URLs" (that recognized URLs and email addresses in mail and news text and made them clickable).

I've been following this off and on, and AFAICT, HTC didn't bring up any of these piece of prior art, which makes me seriously question the quality of their prior art searches.
They think it's delicious. :)

It's much more affordable than you'd think. Extremely talented employees are precious. They should be treated so.
I always expected this to do the same:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/static4.scirra.net/images/favicon.ico" />

If it doesn't, then what does it do? Default to http?
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Serious Creativity" is definitely something that cannot be done in a group work. The process that allows to generate new ideas, new ways to do something, is basically the same one for each of us:

1) The starting point is always the observation of anomalies in an existing system or pattern.
2) You reason on those anomalies in your head, alone.
3) You come up with a possible response, alone.
4) You visualize in your head how this response would actually works. This should be practiced until you see it working smoothly from beginning to end. You do this alone.
5) Finally you set to work in order to bring this response into our physical world. Either alone or in a group-work

(The above needs some further explanation but this will bring me out of track now. If anyone wants me to elaborate more on those 5 points I will do it opening a new thread.)

Now, doesn't this process sounds familiar ? Mr Paul Graham & co. have set up YC on those 5 points. In his article "How to apply to YC" he writes:"...what we look for in ideas is not the type of idea but the level of insight you have about it...". So if steps 1 to 4 are well executed, step 5 would be to apply to YC (or any other start up incubator that has the same framework process for selection.)
Am I really the only one who started reading this thinking the author was going to discuss the paper's claim that dinosaurs, in popular perception, have a lizardlike/reptilian, splayed stance? I've been a dinosaur nerd for years, and the only times I've heard anything about such a possibility is in discussions of old perceptions of dinosaur posture - in every modern reference (intellectual discussion or pop culture appearance) I've seen, dinosaurs are always portrayed with nothing other than a mammalian stance.
Chill man. You have no information on the topic of whether or not I have "rational" reasons for making my judgement call; all you can say with certainty is that I haven't explained any to you. Give me a freaking break, dude. I posted like twelve thousand words today. I'm all out of explanation juice.
It's an inconvenient truth.
Am I missing something? What rule are those sites breaking? They are clearly a scam. If you sign up and play by their rules and give them your money than it's your fault.
"the prosecution already knows"

Sorry, you lost me. If the prosecution "already knows", then why does the drive need to be decrypted? It sounds like they already have the evidence.

And if they don't? Well, that's the definition of a "fishing expedition", isn't it?
OMG that's insane.

Well, our Windows builds may just have to move from 2005 to 2010 and plan to be stuck there for the forseeable future.

I was hoping I could use a C++11 compiler for Windows development someday. But it's probably more likely that I'll stop developing for Windows before my company's customers stop running XP.
The battle over slide-to-unlock is particularly ludicrous because neither Apple nor Android invented it. To the best of my knowledge that honor (in the context of a smartphone) belongs to Neonode with their N1m (though I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out someone had anticipated them, as well).
In the corporate world, it is used a lot for data loss prevention policies. It keeps employees from sending a file containing all their customers' social security numbers, addresses, and credit card to their home email account (or even one of them).
That's a relative URL. It would be equivalent to http://static4.scirra.net/static4.scirra.net/images/favicon....
http://blog.arc90.com/2010/06/07/safari-5-another-step-towar...

(last paragraph links to: http://twitter.com/chrisdary/status/15672452287)
The iPaq is a particularly direct predecessor as you could get a GSM/GPRS sleeve for it.
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Yeah, this is a bit of a pain. We have to something similar for facebook (https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150492832835766). There's talk of a meta referrer tag (http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Meta_referrer) that would allow overriding this behavior and making things a lot simpler, but afaik it's not implemented in any of the major browsers.
As if the law isn't arbitrary! Both are arbitrary, and both might be reasonable.
So I guess in 2 or 3 years not supporting XP will only cost you 50 to 100 million potential users.
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Patents last for 20 years in the US. To give you an idea of how rapidly the personal computing/internet boom has progressed, Mosaic is not 20 years old yet, Mosaic being the browser that marked the start of the www era.
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> In fact, very few people do.

This is an odd attitude. Just because few people want to commit a crime, doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried about crime.

And make no mistake, domestic spying is a criminal act.
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Might they take a while to visit someone who doesn't have undercover parking or a $2k power adaptor installed?

From the article, it seems that while the roadster owners aren't burger-flippers, they're also not so wealthy that they can take a $40k loss on the chin.
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I believe in team building over lunch, but free food is a terrible attractant and retention item.

People who are intrinsically motivated to do excellent work might be motivated to join due to food, but they really join for autonomy, mastery and purpose. Free food is none of these things. And ultimately you end up attracting people who are after the perks, and may not end up contributing to a passionate environment.
So basically, prosecutors need to lie (or get someone to lie on their behalf, aka an informant). And since they have immunity, there's strong incentive to do so, right?

I don't see how this ends well for We, the People.
"Except the work Steve Wozniak is most remembered for was done with Steve Jobs"

It was actually a common misconception. Nearly all the engineering work for Apple 1,2 was done by Woz alone (as per his book). And Apple 1 was completely done in isolation in his apartment. His book is such an awesome read.
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Yes, this is exactly what I mean. But this is going even further, when the search depends on the physical location, not only on my friends, it could really impact how a young person can find things online, and how their interests could be slightly pushed towards their local/social area.

The point being, I don't even think it's better targeting, because it doesn't really focus on the user but on where the user is, while one of the good things about the Internet was that whatever I liked, I could have had the same chances of finding what I wanted no matter where I was. Now the where changes things. For some topics it's for the good, for others I believe it's not.
The benefits of chef-cooked food (vs. delivery) are more subjective, but I can see situations in which an argument could be made for a net benefit to the startup. If you make an effort to restrict yourself to healthy food (along with other "healthy" lifestyle choices, such as consistent and sufficient sleep), you can realize significant productivity benefits in the types of white collar work that being part of a startup typically entails.
The what-if brain: Social pariah for developers?
You better start believing it, I've seen it... If you doubt my anecdata, check TheDailyWTF.

It seems to me that the problem is too many people see software development as linear and quality as monotonically increasing, i.e. just save your work and back it up.
I'll have to eat humble pie here. The kind of comment you made initially has always been suited to the criticisms I've raised, in my previous experience. It's unusual for there to be substance behind that style of claim - so I apologise for my abrasiveness.

Thank you for the links. It's a fascinating topic. Sleep medicine and the theory behind it is really, really interesting. Actually conducting sleep studies - attaching things, watching people sleep all night, then finishing off your shift smelling people's morning breath... is one of the most boring jobs in the world :)
"Because physorg.com does not have a sophisticated ad sales operation which routinely has steak dinners with ad buyers at Proctor & Gamble or any other large brand advertisers."

This is an exaggeration of how this process works. Most ad sales for publishers runs through an RFP process that is managed mostly by agencies, not the brands. There are a ton of brands looking spend money in this way, but ultimately you have to have someone that is good at closing, as well as maximizing the value of your inventory.

This person, of course, is very difficult to find for a publisher of any size.

My point however, I wouldn't make the mistake of thinking the online ad sales business is a bunch of modern day Don Draper types... it's much, much less interesting.
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It's interesting to see the transition of our written communication over time as technology improves. The trend seems to be going towards face to face communication, but with words; the latency is being decreased, and the intuitiveness is being increased. Also, it is getting more informal, perhaps because formality was primarily a function of the difficulty in communicating, a response is more likely to be refined if it is the only response you will be sending for a month.
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