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Current Google Docs functionality comparable with WordPad, like it or not. Same for Live office suite, Zoho, etc.
They are just unusable for complex documents containing multiple columns, continuous sections, multilevel lists, multiple page layouts in a document, etc, etc, etc.
The basic stuff such as saving character, paragraph and table styles is not there yet.
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Thanks for the suggestions! We are fortunate to have some great advisors including practicing physicians, medical informatics specialists, and health care entrepreneurs. We're part of Blueprint Health, a TechStars-affiliated health startup accelerator.

You point to a challenge for any patient-facing patient decision aid -- getting the language right. We are building on the work of the U of Utah and building a robust consumer health vocabulary based on query data.
Google says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental
LoseThos has a document format "Ltf". The format supports local file links and graphics and trees and colors and page settings. It's kinda like an HTML language.

This file converts to HTML.

http://www.losethos.com/LTHtml/Adam/ToHtml.html

Your small minds cannot imagine something besides html or what? Short circuit?

Don't get me started on arrogant Indian airheads. I tell them I wrote a compiler and they start talking down to me clearly having no clue they should be talking up to me.
Fixing the SVG Problem on Android 2.x
I couldn't even figure out what the word was til about 20 seconds of staring at it. It would be better as info-veganism, I was trying to parse it as in-fov-egan-ism, or in-fove-gan-ism and such.
Office runs into tens of millions of lines of code. Porting it to webOS is a laughable proposition with the amount of devices it sold. And calling it an 'app' is disingenuous, it's a full fledged suite.

Microsoft is right in waiting for things to settle down before wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on such excursions. Do you know there they aren't already working on Office for the iPad? After all, they seem to be actually bundling Windows 8 ARM tablets with Office applications.
I'm not going to lie--if I could get a job where I flopped out on beanbags and did all my work on a tablet, that'd be pretty nifty. I just don't see using a tablet for content creation and having to sit at a normal desk.
To be honest, when you start designing generic icons like Messages/chat, things start to get pretty hazy. But I like how Hipchat is taking this as a chance to create a better icon.

Also to play devil's advocate, the blue is the an evolution of the Hipchat blue, and the stripes an addition from the Messages/iMessages icons on iOS.

iChat icon: http://ituh.in/dW6U
Android Messages (ICS) http://ituh.in/vBy8
By "sustainable" I'm getting at the point that if you're already doing 50/50 Ruby/JavaScript ... it makes you wonder which direction that ratio will tend to go in the future. Will Basecamp Next Next still be rendered as chunks of HTML that are sent over the wire to be inserted into specific spots on the page in 2015?

Either way, I'm very much looking forward to using the new version.
Where was the part where they created controversy? They stated that several of their users noticed the similarity. Article just states that it could create confusion for users, nothing more.

Do I think they copied us? Probably not (but as a designer, I’ll take the compliment).
I like GWT as well, but its development history makes me a bit nervous about its future.

It is open source, but doesn't have a developer ecosystem outside of google employees (in fact they outright state that no one else can be a committer). That in itself wouldn't be the end of the world, but unfortunately google has a) reduced resources devoted to GWT dramatically in the last year or so (many team members were reassigned to the dart project), and b) has a history rapidly changing 'paradigms' and semi-abandoning the code and documentation for the old way of doing things.
Price of the iPad Name: $55,000 to $2 Billion
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Yeah, I hate the name.

If you want to stick to food, I'd go with "whole story movement" or "slow story movement" or something. This seems to be about putting personal effort into getting a better result for yourself, vs. making sacrifices for the good of others (largely the point of veganism, as far as I can tell).
But these rights haven't actually been established as 'rights' - which might need to change - which makes them just consumer demands on your part.

Like I said before, I'm not arguing the legality here. I'm not sure what prevents the big shots in other industries colluding to treat their customers like crap, but I don't really care whether it's laws or something else.

You can see why I don't choose to be a part of this cycle.

Of course. That's your decision. I wasn't objecting to that. I was objecting to the tone of moral superiority and implied accusations.

Besides, the reason artists sign contracts is the same reason game developers go work for companies like Ubisoft who then make their games use repressive DRM that they completely disagree with - that is the industry we have, and they'd rather be a part of it, making money and exercising their talents, than standing on the outside struggling to get by while they rage against the machine.

Smells like a false dichotomy.

It's not their fault the current institution is set up the way it is.

Not my fault, either. Let's face it, both artists and pirates have choices and a wide variety of reasons and motivators behind the choices they actually make. Yet pirates are invariably branded as bad guys, parasites and criminals, while artists are generally perceived as having no other choice. Why? On the surface, it's because piracy is not legal. Scratch a little deeper and you'll see that the real reason is because it's easy to just shrug and say "that's the way things are".

Are there pirates who are mere parasites, who just want free stuff? Of course, there's a whole lot of them. Would all of them still be pirates, even if there was a really good, cheap alternative? My anecdotal experience of human nature makes me incline towards "No, a lot of them would buy their stuff without thinking twice." But that's just me, of course.

Thing is, what pisses me off is the way entertainment industry treats people who would like to spend money and be respected in return. And yet pirates are the bad guys, just because there are laws that need to change.

Also, I'm pretty sure if Honda sold a car that only worked on Route 66, people would just not buy it, but I feel the comparison doesn't completely do it all justice because we've long argued that physical goods are not equivalent to digital media, otherwise piracy would be stealing instead of... well, piracy.

Missed the point. The analogy was "Route 66 accepts only Honda", not "Honda can only run on Route 66" and the point of it was that such nonsense would not be acceptable, even if all of the car manufacturers got together with the government and made that kind of stuff legal.
Businesses deploy internal wikis all the time, they just quickly get abandoned because the managers who decide they are needed don't actually use them themselves.
I read it as saying that the trade secret has to be "related to" a "product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce". So if their trading platform isn't "a product", and isn't itself "produced for or placed in" interstate or foreign commerce (but only used internally), it may not apply. Depending on what exactly "placed in" means; it seems the court interpreted it to mean that the product had to actually be put into commercial channels for sale, not merely used internally for commercial purposes.
Can't all modern Android tablets connect to all modern peripherals? The first one to ever exist (Xoom) can connect to a display, wireless keyboard, and can act as a USB host to connect to arbitrary USB devices. I imagine the most recent tablets are far more advanced in that area already.

Connecting to peripherals is irrelevant in the tablet takeover. In fact, tablets are irrelevant in the tablet takeover. What's going to happen is that the tablet OS and app ecosystem will reign while the form factor becomes whatever is convenient for the task at hand.

Media consumption? Tablet. Work? Unknown form factor, but with correct input/output attached and running the same software as the media tablet.
I went to a large state school, and I have several friends who ended up at investment banks in NYC. You Don't have to be an ivy league rockstar to get in, just a decent education from a reputable school, show a work ethic and decent social skills. Banks hire tons of people every year, lots burn out after the first year or two (either because of the 12 hr days, or they didn't make the "up" in "up or out"), so the bank hires more next year.
Actually, it is acceptably straightforward to include a custom header in org-mode. Basically you can create your own latex class in customize-group org-export-latex and then add a

#+LATEX-HEADER: \input{stuff.tex}

to your file to include the appropriate header magick. I'm currently using this approach to prepare my thesis in org-mode.
OTOH, the HipChap loco is awfully close to Apple's original iChat icon: http://www.google.com/search?q=ichat+icon&num=20&hl=...

In fact, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of diversity when it comes to chat icons in general: http://www.google.com/search?q=chat%20icon&oe=UTF-8&...

I really don't think there's a controversy here.
You are looking for the old-country-doctor AI. That is the one that would also catch, unlike this site, my dry throat and itching eyes as probably being me not drinking enough water so far today.
Yeah, huffing and puffing about this would get them some short-term buzz. This move, in my mind, earns them long-term respect.

Move on, and focus on the product—not the logo.

Love it.
Interesting post. This isnt quite the same but wanted to mention i created a project, http://ribbot.com, to let people create their own Hacker News style site on other topics.
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> The very act of packaging code in a function is one that hides information about what that function does.

"What a function does" is encapsulated in that function's name. So for example you could have:

GoToTheStore();

If you want to make a function more generic, you can make some aspects of the function's behavior depend on arguments. So an equivalent call of a more generic function could look like:

Go(store);

Both of these are equally explicit; the first has its behavior fully specified by the function itself, the second has its behavior fully specified by a combination of the function name and its argument.

Once you have default parameters, the behavior of the function is no longer fully explicit, because some of the function's input comes from somewhere else:

Go(); // Goes to the store by default.

This is both unnecessary (both of the previous options are very usable alternatives) and needlessly implicit. It makes program logic more difficult to follow because you need to be aware of the implicit defaults to fully understand the data flow.

Also, code itself is the most reliable documentation, but looking at the implementations of the functions involved won't reveal this extra input; only cross-referencing the header files will, which requires more mental effort for your reader.
You can do anything you want. But you can do anything you want better, with a big salary.
I remember when I first started to learn C in university - we had a (relatively) large project due and I had yet to start. I convinced myself to program for something like 30 hours straight.

It seems to be a bit of a badge to pull all nighters, but I can safely say that 80% of the time I spent in that stretch had no impact on my code at all. I would make stupid mistakes, and introduces more bugs trying to fix those mistakes.

There comes a time when you realize that a lack of sleep not only reduces productivity, it can actually hurt your existing code base.
for a simple hack to keep exposure to novelty & variety i suggest just using negative filters to downvote the disliked content

thus the more novel the content - the higher up it will remain

unless it's an article about a novel completely revolutionary arrangement of old ideas which you never liked on their own :)
This is the most irritating design I've seen in a while. Please link to something descriptive, not a deliberately text-blurred/obfuscated page that requires you to select between various languages that I don't actually want to use.

As an aside, I'm not sure why I would use this instead of dropbox or a cloud-accessible version control system. However, given that I can't actually read the explanatory text, I will never find out.
Here's another good example of websockets: http://gary.beagledreams.com/page/go-websocket-chat.html
Could someone explain what motivates Microsoft to try and "completely reimagine" their OS every time they iterate? We're talking about an OS, not a video game. I get that they're trying to innovate, but it comes across as self-deprecating.

I love how Apple has maintained uniformity in their UI across the past few iterations of OSX. It's just one less thing to worry about relearning, allowing me to get my work done easier.
I actually like the Windows 1.0 logo...
Just do a search for the text in the email and the real company's job posting will come up.
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In this case, the difference is if Foozits were something you used to stop your whatzit from itching, the proprietor probably wouldn't mention that out loud in the company of others. Target, on the other hand, is fine sending you an ad for it - and I suspect when the day comes that they can announce that to you when you walk in the store, they'll use all the tact and grace they apparently used in divining a girl was pregnant without also divining her age.
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If Microsoft misses the boat it's not going to be because they didn't spend development time on unprofitable products like single-license Office for iPad. The winners of any movement are those who own the platform, Microsoft is correctly focusing their efforts there. The other option is to focus on software and become the next Atari.
> Who are these people?

The vast majority of the developing world. Many countries have never had wired internet but have 3G popping up everywhere. Hundreds of millions of people that have never owned and never will own a "desktop computer" are going to get smartphones by 2015.

Try to remember that the USA is less than 5% of the world's population. Most people don't have a desktop computer and never will. They're starting on smartphones now and as tablets become cheaper they will get those too.
Hopefully they open source their code after they finish. It would be fun to see what people could do with it (since it's probably unlikely they'll be supporting a game that's making them no money).
"Apple itself keeps saying that Fortune 500 companies are buying large quantities of iPads. They can't all be for consumption."

Not all, but you might be surprised at how low the ratio of creators to consumers is in more large enterprises.
Wall Street seems pretty meritocratic in the sense that they will try out anyone who seems promising and just fire them if they suck. (For anywhere besides Goldman Sachs and D.E. Shaw, that is.)

I had an easier time getting interviews on Wall Street than in Silicon Valley. (but the Wall Street interviews were harder)
In terms of client-side MVC vs server-side renderings, the ration is more like 90/10 or 95/5. We have one major section that's all client-side MVC, which is our calendar. We have one tiny section as well, which is a little invite widget. Everything else is server-side renderings.

To me that's like how we in the past used Flash to play sounds in Campfire. Or reimplemented a poller in Erlang. Or use nodejs for the development Pow server. Use all the great tools available in the niches where it makes sense.

But the bulk of Basecamp is exactly the type of application that makes wonderful sense to do in Ruby and Rails. We've been sending down chunks of HTML in response to Ajax requests since we started doing these types of apps in 2005. So far I haven't seen anything to make me reconsider that approach for the majority cases.
Who Needs SOPA When Sites Are Taken Offline Already?
I disagree. The operative phrase here is "by default". Which implies that there is some "non-default" option. The relevant question posed by the GP was this: "Is Apple really restricting you to install only app store and Gatekeeper verified apps?" That question is answered by the phrase "by default". Not entirely unambiguous, so why not take a moment to look in to it.

On the very first page of Google search results for "os x gatekeeper" is the official Apple page, with the screenshot of the preference panel:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html

That's 30 seconds of looking for anyone capable of typing two terms in to Google.
I think consulting firms have a bad rep with tech people because the demand for consulting firms is due to political problems in an organisation. my experience is that someone brings in consultants into an organisation because they want to carry out a plan but another group in the organisation is blocking them so they bring in consultants to bless the plan. consultants are glorified yes men.
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The problems which were pointed out are good ones, and they should be fixed. Fortunately, they are easy to fix.

In the grand scheme of things, though, this isn't as bad as it seems, since the vast majority of Android applications run in the Dalvik JVM. Hence the amount of code that is subject to weaknesses that could be exploited by the attacker to cause a jump into the non-randomized dynamic loader (for example) are much smaller.

Of course, there could still be bugs in native code applications, libraries, and system executables, so the ALSR should definitely be improved. Again, fortunately, this should be relatively easy to do.
Mac developers: Gatekeeper is a concern, but still gives power users control
They seem to do it in a very odd way as well. They might change "completely reimagine" but they don't change there decade plus old network, and other, dialogs to improve usability.
"As of the end of 2011 an estimated 20 percent of all e-books downloaded onto Kindles, Nooks and iPads were pirated. That's a 20 percent pay cut to authors, agents and publishers—a number that will only go up"

Not everyone that download something would have bought it instead if there were no alternatives.
Google Docs (and Zoho) does collaboration really well. This is important. MS Office does not even come close.

The article makes a valid point - we do not need bloated desktop software to produce documents. Some of the people already realized this - the question is how long it will take for most of the people to realize this.
They are only hard to support from advertising.

For any service which requires payment for access to the information, said information tends to be hard. Blomberg news and the Wallstreet Journal, are examples for this in terms of financial news.
It would be helpful if you could indicate what is missing or what you mean by correctly importing.

If there are no detailed Word error messages or diagnostics, perhaps you could ask your lawyer to send you a PDF or paper version, so you can tell if there are any differences.

I for one would be very attentive to the possibility of missing or incorrect information in legal documents...
Is Stacker a proprietary 37 Signals thing? It doesn't seem to pop up after several search attempts.
Yeah, pretty much, actually. If I've checked off a box that says "don't let this happen" and then it happens? Can't really say I blame anyone but the device maker.

Since you clearly can't trust app developers or websites to not try and exploit your information, you HAVE to trust your device to do what it says. The fact that this was exposed by the standard +1 button doesn't exactly mean it was difficult to do. It wasn't some 0-day exploit that they're using, it's a failure of the browser.
Could someone explain what motivates Microsoft to try and "completely reimagine" their OS every time they iterate?

They don't, though. Vista was, cosmetically, a big leap from XP, but in terms of actual UI it barely changed at all. Start button is still in the same place, maximise, minimise, etc. All still there.

I do really appreciate the little touches MS add, actually. Drag a window to the top of the screen to maximise, to the left to use 50% of the screen, shake the window to minimise all the other ones... I use that stuff every day, and miss it when I go home to OS X.
Wow and I thought I knew Javascript
>Apple itself keeps saying that Fortune 500 companies are buying large quantities of iPads. They can't all be for consumption.

Why can't they all be for consumption?

The IDG report refers to business communication, which I am guessing is reading and writing emails.

Regarding the doctors, the article states this:

> In fact, Manhattan Research found that internet usage on the iPad was more common that doctor's internet access on cell and smartphones (18%), but still considerably less than their web access on desktops and laptops (55%).

Where do you see them replacing laptops?

>http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-02-09/cass-county-boar....

Guess what they're replacing with the iPad. Paper.

Still, I haven't seen a single shred of evidence of a large number of people in companies with the iPad as their only device.
I think in the whole client-side rendering debate, a lot of people miss the fact that there is a one-to-one correspondence between JSON and a certain subset of HTML, that can be illustrated by the following example:

{"user": {"first_name": "David",
"last_name": "Hansson"}}

<div class="user">
<div class="first_name">David</div>
<div class="last_name">Hansson</div>
</div>

If, as 37signals basically seem to be doing, you restrict yourself to this subset of HTML and use CSS to do _all_ presentational styling, then honestly it’s all the same either way.
Probably both. I have a couple friends there and they're some of the smartest, most decent human beings I know. On the other hand you get stories like this, and the Fabrice Tourre's and whatnot. Grey, not black or white.
Are you sure your lawyer is even using Word? Many still use word perfect. I was just at the office of a state legislature yesterday and they are 100% a word perfect shop.
They start asking you to fill out the form first before giving you the card, and they give the cashiers shit if the cashier starts using their own card all the time. These cards come from on high, complaining to the cashiers doesn't do much, since the feedback doesn't go back to the decision makers.
That's one way to look at the situation. Another is that the politician "changes" his mind to gain popularity.
I agree, I don't see how we went from the headline in the article of "Google FILES (emphasis mine) for slide-to-unlock patent" to the one submitted indicating that it has "won" the patent.
I'm not sure how much damage being able to use computers without Microsoft Office by itself has done to people's perception of Microsoft. I'm more convinced that having, for the first time since the days of Amigas and AppleII's, major competing computer platforms has really dislodged the pre-eminence of the company in popular conception.
That would restrict it to big business.

But the requirement that two drivers need to be in the car will restrict it to no one who wants to invest in it to be more profitable.

Right now this is simply for experimentation and I wonder who'd drop one million dollars just to experiment?