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I've been using it more and more, but still use Coda for larger projects just so I can use the code navigator to get my head around the larger code base. I haven't seen anything like that for sublime yet...
I guess this is being mean, but that page looks like everything wrong with teaching programming. Buzzword filled nonsense. What's with mentioning every programming language in the world? Why the hell would you mix 10 or so different skills that are mainly unrelated and some incredibly advanced concepts into a single course?

I know it's free and commendable and all that, but seriously, no wonder there's a shortage of decent programmers if that's what university lecturers think is involved in real world SaSS programming.
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You pay $100 for the book and get $15 back, say, as your 30% cut. Then they buy the book from you for $90 ...

/jk
Point taken.

It just irks me that people often use the myth that they must maximise shareholder profits at all cost as a reason for why companies act evil. The Harvard Business Review article, that a still can't find unfortunately, also talked about how this myth is pervasive in management circles, and leads to bad business practices and corporations being socially unresponsible. I got the impression that you were insinuating this.
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Stack Overflow: How to cope with those -1's.
An MPEG standard for adaptive streaming (DASH) has just been ratified:

http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Arti...
http://dashpg.com/?page_id=25

Firefox and Chrome both seem to be working on implementing it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702122
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109652
Is this the worst idea ever? A digital book printer for the home?
I've been using the logo-without-link UI for about two months, and I no longer even think about clicking the logo. It no longer registers as something that would make sense to do.

The designs of the individual applications provide stronger action buttons than a generic "reset" button would. This encourages users to be more efficient; instead of "returning home" after reading an email, you'll click "Archive" and have less clutter in your inbox. Similarly, Google+ provides many choices for what to do next. Maybe you want to look at your circles or photos instead of your stream. The new UI makes them all equally easy.

I feel like people use the logo as a "I'm bored, show me new stuff" button, but that is pointless because the Google apps automatically update as new stuff becomes available for you. Save yourself a useless click.

I wouldn't have made this change, but it makes a lot of sense if you think about it.

(As for the + going missing in Chrome... I can't even begin to explain that one.)
It is only in the UK. Nobody else uses miles, and the cutoff age for using gallons is something like 40-50 (and rising).
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I never used Coda so I don't know if this is what you mean. But Sublime has "projects", you basically add a folder as a project and then you get a nice sidebar that has your folder's structure displayed, and then you can open files from there. (http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/projects)
> Remember that Apple pioneered the unibody laptop chassis on > the backs of wealthy early adopters with the (ludicrously > > priced) MacBook Air...

Wow, I don't know if that is a good comparison. It's not like they were $5k-$10k laptops or anything. "Ludicrously priced" seems a bit strong here..
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If I understand correctly, this is to protect the content during delivery over Internet. But the user agent is free to do whatever it wants with the content once it gets the decryption key. I suppose servers could decline to give the keys out to untrusted user agents.
Also odd: You can keep giving "kudos", refresh the page and repeat, the counter doesn't mind. Can't seem to take your vote(s) away though.
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From the proposal's abstract:

No "DRM" is added to the HTML5 specification, and only simple clear key decryption is required as a common baseline.
There was a site called hearablog.com (https://twitter.com/#!/hearablog) which narrated some of the more famous tech blogs. Jason discussed it on This Week in Startups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTn5qNeHny4

I personally think that this is a neat idea but VoiceBunny isn't the ideal tool. You pay about $70 for 400 words which is about the length of a short-mid sized blog post. If you just cover 5 posts per day, you will need to invest about $10k per month in VoiceBunny. At this point, looking for your own voice actors is probably cheaper.
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Cue the inevitable "what happened to Steve Mann's EyeTap glasses" comment. Now there was an opportunity 'missed'.
All you have to do is define "good for shareholders" in terms of setting up long-term growth (finding less-local optima). I feel like a lot of people here know that -- no one is going to be suing amazon over its very liberal return policy, because it keeps customers very happy. Yes it needs to end up being profitable, but not necessarily on a case-by-case basis. Some customers may end up being a net loss, but it's worth it for giving customers the overall feeling of safety in making a purchase from amazon.

Google actually explicitly put something like that in their IPO report ("focus on the user and all else will follow" as facebook helpfully brought up recently).

Now, Mark Zuckerberg also put similar statements in his letter to investors, and you could certainly make the case that these statements don't guarantee that the user will be put first, but investors have still been alerted that decisions they don't like may be made if they're deemed important for long term growth (google's voting shares scheme also helps in the regard).

For companies in general, though, the reality is that the judge will almost immediately throw these cases out unless there has been a major stumble (see, for instance, all the thrown out stupidity around demands for a documented and public Steve Jobs-succession plan). Even then you pretty much have to prove that the actions made were negligent without any kind of foreknowledge of how the market is going to behave. In other words, the only people that end up making money on these suits are the ones in cases where the company settles to avoid court time.
I'm a member of a computer forum, and the forum members there sometimes send each other stuff as either random acts of kindness or as thank-you's. But because of the group being in to high end gaming computers, everyone has Steam, and so most of the gifts end up being Steam gifts of games (sometimes things are physically mailed, but those are more spare parts exchanges; the seller doesn't buy anything for that except shipping)

I don't think anyone there would rather go through the hassle of setting up another account on this website so that someone could send a gift from Amazon. There's lots of PC games out there, so it's not like the pool of available items are lame.
These issues are best addressed on the Sublime Text forum, but for the first one at least, .py files in a subdirectory under a package won't be loaded as plugins, so you can place libraries there (this is done for Packages/Default/send2trash, for example).
It's too bad they just show a reconstructed image of what the forest looked like. I would really like to see what the fossilized remains of an "almost perfectly preserved 298 million year-old forest" looks like rather than an artist's rendering.
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Positive they are Google ads.I'll try deleting the double click cookie as magicalist suggested.
First thought: D'oh, why didn't I think of this?

New resolution: consider everything I do from a cloud based perspective.

My Experience: A few years ago I considered windows workflow and built my own simplified version for a project. WF tooling at that time was still evolving. The requirements were all over the place and I thought it might be prudent in this case to build something to expect the worst.

As Murphy usually does, the worst never came almost 5 years later. The workflow engine works well, and simply enough for a simple event based system. It's more of a routing system and I'm fine with it.

Where ASW catches my eye is the admin tools. Like most apps the admin tools are among the most complex parts of the app. In ASW, so far I'm recognizing a certain simplicity.. in a generalized sense for a workflow system.

If I tried to do the same in another workflow technology, I would almost certainly be running into more configuration upfront, and the admin tooling to create and manage workflows from a UI perspective would likely be either too basic or to overkill for what I needed.

That's the crux of generalizing a solution to a problem, it risks being so much bigger than we need that it adds overhead to what we were liking to simplify.

ASW initially strikes me as being much simpler. It could be useful to managing state simply across distributed applications, specifically in the cloud. Not sure how the pricing would work though, that seems like a lot of money to pay for logic gates and a state machine, but I could be trivializing.

Now.. just to think up a simple fun utility or project to try this out with.. :)
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One Night Stands happen, at least according to popular mythology. So obviously women can be convinced to have sex. But I think what you describe would be a completely different experiment. For starters, would you assume that any men would be able to "create some sexual tension" with any women? Otherwise your setup would already contain a lot of bias.
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> At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft shill (I'm not), you can already have your cake and eat it if you use Windows Workflow on top of AppFabric.

I've been researching/demoing App Fabric at my job for a few weeks now to possibly use for our new SOA layer, and that was the first thing I thought when I saw the SWF email from Amazon this morning. Of course anyone not working in IIS or Azure (ie Linux or AWS) would get no benefit out of App Fabric, and this could be an excellent alternative regardless (judging by the high quality of Amazon's other services I mean).
Title change please. The article has a much less sensational one.

And no, this idea has merit. The number of things I have wanted to print, but not wanted to use a printer to do so, is non-zero. I would gladly pay to print copies of public domain/CC-licensed books.

Though, this has it's own implications for Creative commons by itself. Now that it's not outlandish for someone to print a real (That is paperback quality.) copy of your book, are we going to see a drop in the number of books that authors distribute under copyleft licenses?

I mean, it was easy to justify it to yourself when any paper copies people produced of your book were likely to be no better quality than a stack of printer paper. Now that theres the potential for individuals to use something with output closer to that of a printing press, how can authors expect anyone to buy a publishers copy?
Please consider working with a product designer (note: not visual designer) as soon as possible. The entire site gives off the vibe of being built by geeks for geeks. I understand that this is a MVP but still, there are massive product level decisions that could make this dramatically more user friendly.
Cerery doesn't do workflows with dependencies, just tasks. This is more like Storm: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm
Summary/background: DragonflyBSD split from FreeBSD (partly) over multicore strategy, FreeBSD going with threads and fine-grained kernel locks and DragonflyBSD going with a microkernel and multiple processes (not entirely dissimilar to GNU Hurd.)

This post shows a standard PostgreSQL benchmark on a big machine (2 cpus * 6 cores/cpu * 2 hardware threads/core, 96GB RAM) and the news is that Dragonfly is approaching FreeBSD's performance (while hopefully being more flexible/secure due to the microkernel design).

As an aside, Scientific Linux handily destroys both FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD in localhost benchmarks, but crashes rather a lot. (This seems odd, but the focus is on the DragonflyBSD / FreeBSD comparison anyway.)
Near the end of the show the reporter asks a Foxconn executive whether they would be happy to let Apple pay each employee double what the currently received. He responds positively and says this is good for the Chinese economy. One must understand that Foxconn is competing against products that could only be produced in an advance economy such as the US. It gained it's status through low wages and now has won the market.

Most manufacturing businesses owned by the Chinese middle class are competing against other undeveloped Asian economies that have lower wages than China. Most of these manufacturers are against wage hikes because it runs them out of business. This is a very hot political issue in China as the Government has said in the current 5 year plan that it will be moving parts of the country away from cheap labour manufacturing. The Government's plan is to ban migration of labour to developed cities like Shenzhen and Wenzhou.

I wish some of this context was explained in the show.
To use science, reason, and logic to try to convince or correct a person who has based their view on emotion, fellowship or intuition is a huge mistake. (emphasis subtracted).

If you want a person who holds a crazy idea based on emotion to change their view, don't ask them logically or scientifically, go after the support structure of their view.

I see the main character there as projecting a lack of self confidence. Those unsure of their views usually get very emotional and try very hard to push it onto others.
With the "Kennedy" UI (codename for the recent cross-product redesign), many Google properties had their own logo replaced by a plain Google one. Now, to differentiate between products such as Google Voice, a red-colored product name is displayed right below the Google logo.

Also, when you do a Google search, the product name is now always "Search", even when you started a search in Google News / Images / Videos / Shopping / Books / Places / Blogs / Discussions / Applications / Recipes or Patentes.

With Kennedy, Google has actually reached its goal of becoming a 'universal search engine' and it can finally show a single interface for (almost) all types of queries (except for Maps, Flights and search for personal/private items like email and documents).

You can still access the specific homepages of Google Images and Google News, but Google is slowly convincing users to initiate all their searches from google.com, without thinking about which engine to use. Thus, every search from news.google.com redirects to classic google.com, with the "news" filter activated.

For personal searches (eg Gmail, Reader, Docs, Voice), Google hasn't completely switched to the "filtered results interface". Most of those apps need their own homepage with a list of items (messages, contacts, documents, voice messages, top stories, feed items). However:
- most of them have switched to the plain Google logo with the red-colored product title. You can stay in the app or refresh the item list by clicking on the product title instead of the Google logo, which would lead you to the unexpected Google homepage;
- most of those homepage (or "item lists") could be merged with Google+ and the new notification bar on google.com, so you could access all your personal things from a classic search. For social results, it's working pretty well since Google Plus Your World: all social items are shown on-top of other results in a classic search. Soon, every new email, documents update or voice message could appear in the notification bar and search results (just like social items): no need to go to mail.google.com, docs.google.com or voice.google.com.

Now (to answer your question), what result do you expect from a click on the Google logo in Gmail? - To go to you inbox? No, that should be the result of a click on the product title, Gmail.
- to go to the Google homepage? No, you're not familiar enough with Kennedy navigation.

So my guess is that Google is trying everything to get you to click on products' title to go to/refresh its homepage. Meanwhile, they prevent you from clicking on the Google logo because you wouldn't understand (yet) why you would be redirected to google.com from Gmail.

If this (presumed) strategy work, you would always go to google.com to interact with any kind of products/items, without having to "navigate". Just search Google or browse your notification stream, whatever the type of content (message, documents, web pages...) and its context (personal, social, public...).
Their critical product is their battery technology. It is second to none, in a business where the battery is everything.

vs

As to the article proper: it seems to me that running down your car is a pretty simple problem to engineer away.

So, on the one hand you say that their battery technology is in advance of everyone else... and on the other hand, you say that these fine engineering minds... haven't been able to come up with a 'pretty simple' solution yet.
ahh ok. schools are pretty good at that, but i bet you knew that.

here's a coaching service (which, of course, costs money):

http://www.aliventures.com/coaching/

i found that one by googling for "writer coaching service -resume" (the last piece gets rid of the plethora of people who will only help you write a better resume).

have you studied Strunk's "Elements of Style"? well worth it if you have not. cheaper, too.
Its not just Google - most 'UI/UX experts' are actually really poor. Look at the mobile phone world for instance - it wasn't until the iphone that most people realised that every major company had overlooked the possibilities....

Company owners need not just to employ 'experts' but actually take an interest in these things themselves, which is rare. Otherwise you tend to end up with these kind of highly qualified fools.

I miss Google's early (engineer-led) minimalism...
That's enough to make me hack my Safari Binary and setup Duck Duck Go as my primary search.
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The book suggests it might, but in general getting sufficient quantities of energy from renewables would require country-sized facilities.
The reason it is the worst idea ever is 2 fold:
1) It is completely unnecessary to waste paper and natural resources on a book that will only be read by one person.
2) There is a perfectly good medium for reading low volume books which is readily available.

Rather than printing a classic yourself, it makes far more sense to buy a high quality copy. This will really be targeted at low volume books.
If there's ever a TCP-based attack against the server, the non-standard port reduces the risk a little bit.