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You're right in that we're mostly closed at the moment, with our command line build tool open here:
https://github.com/trigger-corp/build-tools

We think the biggest barrier to adoption of a platform like ours or PhoneGap's is complexity. So to keep the API and dev process as simple as possible we decided to keep control of the whole experience for our launch. Now, we're considering opening up more than just our command line tools, and will likely start doing that soon.

But being closed for now, people will hold us to a higher standard of simplicity, performance and customer support to give them a reason to change. We work hard to live up to that.

What you consider the 'main' thing is subjective, just wanted to point out the difference in how we support our customers and the pricing for it in the previous comment.
I don't know.

I really like being able to Google for a product's name and get mostly-relevant results.
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See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550059
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> TV viewership in hours per week is pretty stable because as boomers retire and become disabled and unable to do anything else, they watch more TV. Young people, like under 50, are turning away from TV.

Proof?

>Generation X and younger people have been falling out of love with TV for a long time

Proof?

>TV for kids just sucks these days. The audience isn't kids, it's grandparents who imagine that their grandkids will be entertained by it.

Proof?

>Much like the music industry, the TV industry has been losing it's audience for a long time, and one day they will wake up and realize that their frog has been boiled -- and find somebody else to blame.

Not watching tv doesn't make you cooler.
This is a good release, however there is a better way to present it.

By now, gasoline powered cars have been around for a hundred years. Everyone knows they are complex machines with lots of movings parts, and that they require regular maintenance to keep in working shape. What Tesla is putting forward here is the fact that the same principle applies to their electric cars: they need their own kind of TLC to be kept in good shape.

However, there is another point Tesla fails to get across. Over those hundred or so years, not only has the need to care of a gas-powered car entered into the public psyche, but also how that care must be carried out. Everyone knows that cars need oil changes and exhaust checks and all that. It's obvious by now.

However, that sort of awareness doesn't exist when it comes to electric cars. Saying they need care is great, but Tesla is missing an opportunity to develop the same sort of intuitive public awareness with regard to their vehicles. It's not just 'these cars need care,' it's 'these cars need care, and its of a kind you don't expect, that's OK because you haven't need raised on these vehicles since you were young.'

This way, the message would move from being an ever-so-slightly condescending implication that you forgot that electric cars need electricity, and refocuses on the need to augment the way in which people think about maintaining their vehicles.
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I screwed up once and my car ran out of gas. Had to walk 3 miles. Didn't cost $40,000 to fix.
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Judging by your comments, I think you should take a look at MoSync 3.0, iPhone/Android/WP7 and supports NativeUI/OGL and everything phonegap/titaniun does plus much more, it comes in two flavors, a JavaScript SDK called 'Reload' and a Hybrid SDK (JavaScript and native C/C++), beats the others hands down. But don't take my word for it, see for yourselves.
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Google Plans To Launch TV Service With Online Access To TV Channels
I made nachos for my niece once. Put Doritos on a cookie sheet, smothered them in cheese, and put them in the broiler. She thought they were weird and broken because I didn't use the normal plain-style tortilla chips. Her mom made her a new batch the right way.

Young children have a tenancy to think that the rest of the world is exactly like their home, because that home is their world. Then when they experience the outside world things seem strange.

Like the above anecdote, I remember thinking it was weird when a neighbor made Taco Salad with Frito's instead of Doritos.

I remember how weird my grandmaa's house seemed all around when visiting. The food was different, the board games were different, it was all strange.

I think this anecdote is the same. Its not so much a case of the wisdom of the children, but just another example of a child not understanding that the entire world isn't like their sheltered existence. [I don't intend sheltered as a pejorative here.]

I'm sure there were plenty of other things on the trip that seemed broken, but none happened to be as evil as commercial TV.
This a million times. I spent a better part of the last year optimizing the hell out of an HTML5 app and the bottlenecks are almost entirely in initial rendering time (CSS stylesheets and HTML Parsing/Manipulation and coaxing the memory management to not explode on you with a lot of images).
Are you guys serious? The article clearly says that these are merely suggested defaults.
As a Zune user since the first gen I'm pretty disappointed it didn't take off. I honestly can't imagine having to find another decent portable media player that works so well. Now I just need to keep my Zune HD functional for the rest of time.
Absolutely agreed - phenomenal. I also have enjoyed the additional content they sometimes add for HBO Go users.

Showtime has started doing this thing where you logon to their website while the show is premiering to do/see something but I've never done it because I DVR Showtime shows. Showtime had a press release that they were going to launch their own version of HBO Go but I've not see anything.

I'm excited. I think premium channels like this are going to be the change.
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I don’t think you can allow yourself to think that way as a company. Fussy debates about whose fault it was – when your customers didn’t do anything outrageously unusual – lead nowhere, just to bad PR.
The point is that the cost of repair an EV seems way more than a fuel-injected vehicle. It has nothing to do with stupidity
> the new My Little Pony

Which is extremely entertaining, by the way. Also, oddly enough, it has formed quite the internet cult following. I think it's quite the cute show.

It's annoying that my kids and I can only watch it in letterboxed SD. I've torrented HD versions (from an HD stream of the same channel, no less), and it looks great.
37signals recently posted about using PJAX and server-side templating to rebuild Basecamp.

Theres a counterpoint of linkedin moving towards client side with dust.js: http://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/leaving-jsps-dust-m...

But I'm also interested in hearing about twitter/githubs change of heart.
At the same time, Facebook seems to do a pretty good job of building reliable systems.
Well, the ASP.Net MVC 4,0 beta, released a few days ago, has better support for "Web API" (i.e. Data endpoints) and for Single Page apps so it seem that they are aware of these trends.

Links:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/02/19/asp-net-mv...

http://www.asp.net/single-page-application
I'm in the UK.

Until a few years ago I didn't really mind ads - I would happily sit through them until my show came back.

Then in mid-2009 gocompare.com launched their ad campaign (with Wynne Evans singing.) They pushed it really hard - it was on nearly every show on every channel. The song was so irritating that I got into the habit of muting the TV during the commercial breaks.

If I had been a TV network executive, I would have refused to run those ads. They are so awful that they encourage viewers to avoid ads, and I'll bet it has decreased revenue from other advertisers.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-9QFvhQWo&noredirect=1
I haven't hard anyone talking about that, but with 92K employees, I obviously don't talk to everyone. I wonder what percentage of FTEs are actually in a cube or office sharing situation, though.
That number is wonky from today's earnings report.

According to GAAP rules, CRM's EPS was negative, so their P/E is undefined.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:CRM

http://www.webpronews.com/salesforce-earnings-company-beats-...

Probably not the place for this, but I wouldn't touch CRM with a ten-foot pole. Read through the earnings report and look at all the fancy, non-GAAP accounting tricks they use, like booking deferred revenue. Remember when Zynga played those games? Pretty shady, in my opinion.

But, I'm no expert.
But it’s new and unusual. If there are really only these vague warnings in the manual (manuals tend to have all kinds of crazy warning that you usually don’t have to take all that seriously) then this is absolutely Tesla’s fault and they have to own up to it.
Hmm. I ride the connector with an SDET in Xbox. I'll have to ask him if he's in a cube.
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Hey, sorry it took me so long. HN was giving me a "you're submitting too fast" error for some unknown reason. Had to open up another account.

Anyway, here`s the link: http://www.picamatic.com/view/8244745_economist-invoice/
It will lose its status as the "paper of record" for Silicon Valley. It won't actually die for a long time.
Native JSON in 9.2: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/native-json-fea...
Google May Launch A 7-inch Tablet This Year
I never heard of a battery warranty that wasn't prorated over the life of the battery. You know, if it fails 1 month before the end of a 5 year warranty, you get a credit for 1/60 the replacement value, often redeemable only as a credit towards purchase of a new battery of the same brand from an authorized dealer.

I am sure you have heard of prorated battery warranties and are familiar with them, aren't you? Granted that, why would you make such an intentionally misleading post suggesting that warranties are prone to abuse when this is a solved problem?
These days? That's what we called them in 2001. ;-)
The Primary System is Dying; The Internet Will Kill It
What we are seeing now in the Republican primary is a system that is dying. Within the next 3-4 election cycles, the American political "primary" system will be made irrelevant. Candidates for POTUS will run internet-based campaigns aimed directly at the American people, and will bypass the party primary system.
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>Back when he was young (three) I could never get him to sit still in front of that stuff.

Have you considered that it may not be the quality of the TV, it may be him? Some kids don't want to consume, they want to do. It's not bad, but trying to get a kid like that to watch TV will be hard no matter how good it is.

You're right though, that is a tough age. Part of the problem is that kids in the 9-12 range don't want educational. You can grab DVDs of the old Batman animated series or similar, but if you want educational you are stretching. Most local stations have to purchase e/i programming themselves to meet their requirements, so the production qualities tend to reflect "local budgets". There is some good stuff out there (Aqua Kids used to be pretty good, but it's been a couple of years) but it's so hit and miss. If you think what you've got is bad, look through the catalog sometime and see what your station rejected...

That's one of the reasons I like PBS so much. He could still do Arthur, WordGirl, Cyberchase, The Electric Company or Fetch! (which is not my favorite show, but I bet a nine year old would like it). If he's not digging those, have you tried Nova ScienceNow? That one has the added benefit of Neil Degrass Tyson.
So you agree, as we all do, that if you do what the "blogger starting an unfounded rumor" describes, then you will brick the car, as he claims will be the result. So you agree the blogger is telling the truth and the PR release from tesla is a lie, correct?
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'Nomad' planets could outnumber stars in the Milky Way
Interesting. Do you have a source for that?

When visiting DVR-using friends, I see them watching some commercials (especially, if it's interesting, the first one of a group). And I know that some people who get their TV over the Internet end up seeing ads (e.g., Hulu, YouTube, network sites).

So I suspect that a fair number of ads still get watched, but I can't quickly find any data on how many versus past years.
It's as old as Plato's Republic; it's hilarious how people (starting with Socrates's fictional debate partners) get sidetracked into "no, if the city were like that you would need [...] for it to work" while forgetting the fact that it's just a metaphor for exploring justice.
I have a small phonegap app in the app store. It was approved without any problems.
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>On cable there's an amazing number of channels, but the only sure things are Spongebob Squarepants (yuck!) and those live action dramas by Disney about impossibly rich teenagers who have no discernable problems.

>At least kids in Japan get to watch animated shows about cute girls who beat up the bad guys that are formulaic but have a level of art, writing, and voice acting that make American TV programming look like the stuff I make with a cheap camcorder.

Weeaboo
I wonder, is running the batteries down when driving an electric car with a very limited range and general unavailability of high current outlets more, or less likely than running out of gas in a car with a very large range and widespread availability of refilling stations?
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Do they test the drivers and put the better ones in the more expensive headphones? Or do they just make two different headphones using the exact same driver?
They did not add any content whatsoever. facepalm

It's simply a mind trick to get a much higher percent of users to add their skills to their profile.
No, if you pay good money for something, you expect the product has good feature to pamper its user. It is more true with a car where if you pay good money for a car, the car should take care of you more than the other way around. If not, it is not worth the money to buy in the first place.

Your way of reasoning is pretty much the same as when iPhone 4 first came out. You pay good money for something that shatters easily. At least, in iPhone case, Apple came out, admitted faults and tried to make its user happy.
> Surprisingly, almost no one wears their headphones all the time while coding.

The author should try reading Peopleware. Here's an excerpt from Chapter "Bring Back the Door":

"In response to worker's gripes about noise, you can either treat the symptom or treat the cause. Treating the cause mean choosing isolation in the form of noise barriers -- walls and doors -- and these cost money. Treating the symptom is much cheaper. When you install Muzak or some other form of pink noise, the disruptive noise is drowned out at small expense. You can save even more money by ignoring the problem altogether so that people have to resort to tape recorders and earphones to protect themselves from the noise. If you take either of these approaches, you should expect to incur an invisible penalty in one aspect of worker's performance: They will be less creative."
Where I am it seems like the commercials are synchronized across stations so you can't flip through radio stations and listen to music.

I've switched to Pandora and my mp3 collection on my phone. I pipe that to my car stereo, which works well enough.
It does raise the question "What is Facebook's Killer business model?". They have defaulted into ads because that's what Google did and that's what works for many other businesses. But I've never clicked on a Facebook ad and I don't know anyone who has unless it was research. I'm seeing highly targeted ads based on my interests and demographic and I just don't click because I'm too busy social networking. Whereas with Google my intent is "search" and so I occasionally click.

After recently starting to use them again I'm blown away at how useful and engaging the app is. But the revenue just seems to be hobbling along considering their scale.

They've tried so many models and none really stuck like AdWords for Google. Long term I just don't see the same kind of revenue growth that companies like Google and Amazon have had and continue to have. For any investor in public companies that's kind of terrifying when it's not clear how revenue will grow.
If you wait for 9.2 you can say

SELECT query_to_json('select x as b, x * 2 as c from generate_series(1,3) x',false);

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archive...

I can't find the link now, but the reverse (insert, update from json) I remember also to be possible.
yeah, OpenTable is solid. I have experience in the restaurant industry as well. It does a very good job of mimicking the most efficient offline systems. Good software designers have to understand the real world experience of a problem to address it well.
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And then you get served mobile version of the site because you are using Opera and some incompetent web developer[1] decided that it's a mobile browser. But you got a point. However, deciding what to show should be based on the device (resolution, size, orientation, input methods, ...) and not the browser.

Now, just for fun and laughs, check out what user-agent string is sent by Chrome. I guess Google assumes everyone is like them and their poor browser would get blocked if they just said it's a Chrome.

1. https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/d/topic/...
Quite a fleshless piece, but surprisingly easy to pick at.

> Authentically digital interfaces.

The linked aside that was meant to qualify this blander than twilight statement really doesn't qualify anything. The linked article has plenty of quite tasteful screenshots of things that bear no resemblance to the gaudy morris dance that is the metro interface. And the brief and unsatisfying technicalities only serve to highlight the confusion and uncertainty over where Microsoft wants it's developers to be investing.

What does "authentically digital" suppose to mean anyway?

> Simplified Windows 8 branding

Well this is not really a simple problem. I think pretty much 90% of the online world assumed after a while the window's logo was a flag. The wavy pixelated contrails, the "flag" screensaver, the flag-like symbols across it's products for years. To claim that it was not a meant to be a flag is understandable and perhaps quite correct, but to then make the logo look more like a flag than ever before just screams mixed metaphors. I understand the Shetland Islands are both delighted and horrified.

And the colour? Mine eyes doth protest.

I think Microsoft have been making great strides to address the stagnation that was prevalent for so long in much of their product range, but their marketing & pr is letting them down. I would love to see the billing for that design: "It's not a flag, make it look like it's not a flag", "how about this flag design?", "OK, looks cool, can you make the blue a little brighter? My kids love bright colours".
and it supports the Konami code...
The reason for that is simply that expectations are already factored into the stock price. If expectations aren't met then the stock is overvalued.
I've done this plenty of times. It's a common risk in cold climates when tractors, cars and lawnmowers are parked outside and one forgets to drain the tank. It gums up the carburetor. So you rebuild the carburetor, which takes 1 hr and $5 to do at home, or $100 at the dealer. Not $40,000. It also doesn't "destroy the engine". There is a high probability either don't know what you are talking about and made that claim up, or you are intentionally being misleading in order to promote a viewpoint using false claims.
Thanks guys for the links, one of the references in the Wikipedia section was this one: http://www.gpbatteries.com/html/pdf/Li-ion_handbook.pdf which has a bit more information.

According to the GPBatteries guys LiON have no self discharge if they aren't being drawn down by a monitoring circuit. But they also mention that embedded safety circuits can run the batteries down a bit until those circuits stop working because there is insufficient charge in the battery to run them, and then the battery can't be charged (aka its a brick).

Of course you could charge it if you could get around the safety chip in that case it would just require a bit of cleverness.

Again my experience with LiON cells is that once they get to about 3V if you don't put a load on them they don't discharge any further on their own. That would seem to be supported by the chemical energy needed to absorb the anions but I am not a chemist, just an aging EE. Thanks for the links.
That's actually a long and complex discussion, but suffice it to say that, overall, health care costs a lot less in Italy than it does in the US. The "waste" is elsewhere - people retiring at 59/60 and then living through their 90ies.
Facebook hasn't missed any earnings estimates. This is just a rumor, reported by a company I've never heard of, that they might. You can presumably find rumors of that type about almost any company.
In my case I love the dark theme.

A better solution is not to compromise as you propose, a better solution is to make this easily customizable, so both of us can use what we prefer.
Look at the Sennheiser X i series: http://www.sennheiserusa.com/sport-headphones-earbuds-Sennhe...

I've been using the Sennheiser MX series earbuds for years. They're waterproof, durable, inexpensive, and have good sound quality for the price. Regular earbuds fall out of my ears and these are the only ones that stay in.

That said, I've been using the MX680i's for 4+ months and I'm disappointed compared to the MX85's I had before. The insert that holds them in your ears isn't nearly as good as the old style. I often have to adjust these and they fall out at times. The MX85 never fell out.

The mic and controls are good though. I use them for calls daily. The volume buttons don't work on Android devices but the play button does.
In a way I think this is less intrusive (and clever). These are merely "suggested defaults" that never actually get displayed on the user's profile. Actually using bad defaults may have the undesired effect of people not changing the bad default.
I downvoted you, because:

1. You didn't provide any source for this (and I can't find anything online to back it up; granted I only searched for a few minutes). Facebook isn't listed in their portfolio, for example: http://www.carlyle.com/Portfolio/Alphabetically/item8774.htm.... And I couldn't find any mention of the Carlyle Group in the Facebook S-1 filing, either. You could be right, but I'd like to see the evidence.

2. The Carlyle Group is a huge private equity firm that owns all or part of hundreds of companies around the world. Suggesting (without any evidence) that they own these companies as some shadowy method to share private data across them is ridiculous. Your edit makes it even more clear that you're more interested in some kind of conspiracy theory than the obvious truth, which is that the Carlyle Group either didn't invest in Facebook or did so because they thought they'd make good money. And if they invested early, like you say, then they were right.
The biggest reason Facebook has a 100 Billion valuation is because people expect ad revenue to grow rapidly. If there are signs that's slowing down now, before they even go public, it has a huge impact on their valuation. 100 Billion is a very generous valuation, even if you expect Facebook to have tremendous growth, it's an outrageous valuation if you expect them to stay the same (or shrink).
My thoughts exactly. Very bad response, indeed.
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