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Wait until you find out how your OS gets updates, or your browser gets updates, or your certificate revocation list gets updated.
This comment shows a complete lack of understanding of what it takes to expand a service outside a given country (ie, the US). The final comment about VC money makes no sense at all.
How about that only one or two On Demand movies from Comcast cost as much as a month of all you can watch Netflix?
We figure because we are a month old company it's quicker and cheaper to change it now than to go through lawyers. We don't really have any brand awareness and don't really want to take a chance with dealing with this down the road. It's just a pain in the arse
EE only had the at content at the end of the human reachable page because google was going to stop listing pages that had content only for the robot. Or at least that is what I remember happening.
What I'm trying to suggest is that the point at which a schema is powerful and generic enough to work as a general-purpose web service API for an arbitrary use case, it has become more difficult and complicated to learn, configure and use than a much simpler, discoverable ad-hoc schema that closely matches the functionality of your web service.

Is RSS difficult and complicated to learn and use? Now think what a pain it would be to develop a feed reader if each blog had its own "simpler" ad-hoc schema.

Standards don't have to be complicated, especially if they use an extensible encoding like JSON or XML so that instead of having the kitchen sink they can remain simple and be extended for specific purposes if really needed, without affecting generic clients.

I'm happy to change a server's content-type from application/json to application/vnd.my-adhoc-service+json, but that won't change the client's need to read my documentation and play with the service before they can figure out how to use it. That's true even if I move the documentation out to an RFC.

The end goal is for different services to agree on standard formats for common resources. Using custom mimetypes is a step in the right direction because it decouples the format recognition and parsing from the service-specific code - it allows clients to use more modular code that works across different services with plenty of reusable code.

Is it terribly important? No. But since the costs are essentially none - changing a couple of strings here and there - not doing it seems unreasonable to me. You asked why, I ask why not?
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If this guy's writing is indicative of the quality of EE "experts"' prose, then I'm even less surprised that place went down.
Asus Transformer Prime should last about 15 hours with the keyboard dock. It's based on ARM. I have no idea if Vim can work on Android, though. Maybe this will work:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.aor.droidedit&....

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.touchqode.editor&#...

There are others, too. If you need it right now, this is the only one that can last that much. But if you're not in a hurry, you might want to wait for a larger screen combination, which I think will appear by summer or so.

Here it is, even lighter and half the price of a Macbook Air:

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Where is that service now?
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Can we get people to post their design ideas for this product to improve screen size and general sexiness?
why does that matter? I'm judging the content of the article, and it's just accusing another blog of something, just drama.. no valuable content here. just pointless, trivial drama looking for an ego boost.
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Oh would you like at that! I forgot to turn on the meter! Or "Oh the little bastard jumped out and didn't pay, so I had to write that fare off"
Hopes for $1k (it shouldn't be more, should it?), budget is up to $2k.

UK or USA (I could ask a friend to bring me one easily).

Size: I need a workable keyboard, that's all. As mentioned in description, there are 2 requirements: battery life and weight. In practice, I feel comfortable enough with 11'.

I don't like Macs for many reasons, one of which is I can't change its battery.
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> The constant mantra of HN is "ideas are useless, execution is everything". So why the hate against these guys?

Actually, my sense of HN is that, relatively to many other startup communities appreciation skews towards ideas.

And I'm not seeing that much hate on this thread.
Right, but he's saying that if Earth's own signals fail to propagate even outside our solar system, alien signals will have to be exponentially more powerful than ours to even stand a chance of being received. The distance from Earth to Saturn is tiny in comparison to the distance between planetary systems.
1. Languages and other standards

2. Server resources to host globally

3. Legal costs to maintain compliance with all laws across borders yet still deliver the same product everywhere.

It's not trivial to globalize a business, even on the web. Look at how much trouble Google is getting into every year from various countries.
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You should add: and then I also go to itunes or Amazon and buy their entire catalog legally.
this is TEDtalk worth.
Unbelievable.
Thom are you serious? of course Facebook solves the problem -- before it was hard to easily connect with others on such a broad spectrum. No, they were not first with social platform, "friending", IM, sharing photos, etc, but they did all this in the right time and place plus all the luck they had as a result they are the biggest social network which is a huge leverage on the market. My parents found tens of friends from military, schools, camps that took place 40 years ago, people that they lost connection with because there were no internet and no tools in place that time. So as much as I don't like Facebook and all the ongoing privacy issues, I would say: yes, they did solve a problem!
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No specific program, but I'm focusing on squats, dead lifts, bench press and shoulder presses (in that order). I'm lifting close to my one rep max, so my rep ranges are lower, 5-6 reps per set. No junk reps. Go heavy or go home.

Hope that helps.
That's not evil. Youtube is at the mercy of "big content
" and they have to comply with copyright claims. They're not in the business of judging whether a something can be copyrighted - that's a job for the courts.
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The emphasis on peace and on understanding and connecting to problems through experience rather than logic and doubt is what reminded me of him. He hasn't written much about these things, they come up more in his talks for long-time students. They're in A Trackless Path somewhere, for instance:

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/category/retreats/a-trackless-...

but that's approximately 25 hours of audio, and I can't pin it down more precisely that. (But the whole thing is good, and a concrete approach to the desiderata you outlined.)

Of his essays, probably the most conceptually interesting is his series on karma as an evolutionary process.

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-genesis-conditions/0

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-growth/0

http://www.unfetteredmind.org/karma-two-approaches/0
I will be able to run Linux happily on it. Looks nice. However, it doesn't have a nice-to-have: RAM.

However, really considerable. Thanks!
What a load of whining rubbish.

Anyone who thinks a short password is secure in this day and age is nuts - particularly as just such individuals re-use passwords across services.

This person would be the first to decry SO if there was any breach of security caused by bad password choice.
I think at first they showed answers. Later they only showed answers to GoogleBot and tried to get you to jump through hoops to see them. Finally, Google smacked them down and they implemented a tricky system where you had to scroll and long way to see the answers. The site was designed to try to get you to sign-up or pay to see answers.

Overall it was a sleazy site, IMHO. Occasionally I would find useful answers there but eventually I just blacklisted them from my Google results. StackOverflow is miles better than EE ever was.
Yes, this is exactly what CurtHagenlocher said.

>> Most of the memory used by programs are pointers

This is a huge generalization, may I add.

Yes, I will not argue that cache usage is less efficient, but I am sure you know that register access is faster than cache access, and we double the amount of registers in x64.
+1. The only thing funnier to me is Facebook shutting down or legally going against anyone that scrap their data and get any traction, while the major reason why there are where they are is in part because of the co-owner's hackers past...
Does this scare anyone else, at least just a little bit?

It seems so odd to me that now Flash is being de-emphasized, we're picking it up all over again. Yes, there are some performance benefits and cross-platform problems you can jump over... but isn't this just a proprietary, non-standards way to approach web design all over again?
but, but but. I already pre-ordered mass effect 3!
> I am curious how your Stack Overflow activity was used in the hiring process. Would you mind sharing?

I searched on the Careers 2.0 site and applied to a few firms that looked interesting. For one particular firm, my SO profile acted as my "code sample". I got the offer within a few weeks and have been happy ever since.

I'll note that most of the firms that advertised on your Careers site were very serious about software quality. The signal-to-noise of excellent companies was far beyond what I've traditionally gotten through a head hunter. I suspect that's because any hiring manager who actually knows what SO is has probably had tons of hands-on experience with coding.
This. I think SO is a great resource, and it has helped me answer countless programming questions. However, I participate less and less these days because there is a small group of overzealous users who have come to view themselves as the saviors of software development. The way they treat newcomers, and people who make innocent errors, is just not acceptable to me. I believe strongly that a community like SO can be run in a more user-friendly manner (literally, more friendly to users) -- and still be just as successful and useful as a resource of programming knowledge. I'm sorry to see SO going in the other direction.
Some questions in the early days were more like lists than questions; for example, "Hidden Features of C#/Java/C++", "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?", "How do you clear your mind after a day of coding?", or Alan Kay's question "Significant new inventions in computing since 1980". These really aren't a good fit for the Q/A model, so they've been gradually deleted over the past year or so.

Now it's true that some of them did collect some useful content. Some of this content can be/has been migrated to tag wikis. Some of it could be blog material, but we haven't hammered out exactly how this will work. The bottom line is that big fun list-of-x questions are gone and won't come back.

That said, we've just undeleted Alan Kay's question since it really should be visible somewhere in the interim. Here it is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...
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Well, I disagree. it is evil.

The argument they "have to comply" due to third parties and presumption-of-infringement laws may be true. If it is, that is beside the point; that doesn't make it a good action.
Except it's entirely standards based. Canvas is part of HTML5 and the apps are built entirely in JavaScript. And the whole framework is open source with no proprietary components. Not sure how you got to those conclusions.
I wonder what democracy in the country has to do with trusting the hardware company? Looks to me like some otherwise reasonable people have a democracy fetish: they mention it from time to time for now apparent reason.
Ask HN: Can phone apps have monthly fees?
I have been unable to find a phone app with a monthly fee. Is it possible, and if so what would be the major hurdles? I see this 30% in app purchase nonsense, I assume that would apply?
It seems more germanic/nordic (demark is both) thing than european.
I agree, I wish it came with 2 GB of RAM (not much more you can ask for in the ARM world right now). There are actually a couple of Lenovo and Toshiba tablets with that much RAM that have been announced, but they don't have an integrated keyboard like the Transformer.

As I said, you might want to wait a few more months otherwise. The next Transformer should come with 2 GB of RAM, 1920x1200 resolution, and might even have a 11.6" version (but just totally speculating here, based on how Asus might think for a future device).
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You could try looking for a larger netbook, those had fairly decent battery life, and you could trade out batteries. However, the screen probably won't be as nice.

You could also look at Ultrabooks (similar to the Air), but they'll have the same problem of changing batteries.
Wow, there's so much one could say on this subject. I'd post a lengthier response, but I don't have time right now, so I'll just say this:

Startup depression (hell, depression in general) is a serious problem. And while I'm no doctor or psychiatrist or anything, to the extent that just a "friendly ear to bend" can be useful, I offer myself up as such, to anybody dealing with depression. I've struggled with it myself to some extent, so I know what it's like. By all means, feel free to email me, call me, whatever, if you're ever feeling down and need somebody to talk to. If you happen to be in or near the RTP, NC area, we can meet in person over a coffee/beer/dinner whatever.

Also, if you're looking for other startup minded folks in this area to socialize with, definitely ping the RTP Hackers and Founders mailing list.
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Nice post. If an application on our computers would upload all our contact details, our bookmarks etc to their servers to make it "easy" for us, would we agree to that. Guess we are just using these apps without worrying about the security. Good that people like Dave are bringing it out to the open.
Managing iOS promo codes sucks.
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Because to survive as a business SO needs to sell your sense of 'comunity' to a third-party resource.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, just be aware that when you're participating on SO you're only a 'human resource', to be marketed and sold sometime later in the future. Hopefully SO is run by decent guys and the buyer will be ethical.
I imagined a complete jack ass at the helm,
and I am surprised to see something different.

Don't let the show put by him distract you. Of course he's competent. These things are never pulled off by incompetents.

I still don't see an argument for pirating music

I still don't see an argument for punishing people for pirating music. Sharing is in our genes, just as sex. Preferring free stuff is also in our genes. Wanting convenience is also in our genes.

The model of selling tapes or CDs was based on scarcity. Now that scarcity is gone, because with a few clicks and key-presses you can find anything.

And really, punishing users for pirating content is just like punishing them for having sex.
I'm trying to think how I would use it. I, like everyone else, use shallow DOF to emphasize different aspects of the image.

If I want to emphasize background and foreground in different shots I just take two shots at different focus points.

If I want everything to be in focus I stop down the lens.

I have to agree with the dpreview: what artistic problem does this solve?

I can think of a contrived example where there is no time to make two shots (a basket ball player shooting a hoop) and where you want two parts of the image at different distances both in focus and the rest blurred. You could do it with this device, but I would just use image manipulation.

What I would really like is the blade runner camera (or rather dataformat) since the blade runner picture seems to be a composite of many shots.
Doesn't the using the application cache (e.g. the manifest file you speak of) cause a user prompt? That's a deal breaker in many situations.
No, I'm aware of that. What I am saying is that uploading data to an app, no matter what that app may be, is not the same as posting it publicly.

When you upload to an app, the makers of that app have access to your data. Don't get me wrong- that's a bad thing. But if you upload your data publicly, anyone in the world has access to your data. Drastically different.
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I want to support this sort of movement, but it seems a little naive. Sure, not going to a movie is going to have some impact on the big movie studios and companies, but I happen to love listening to music. And I still want to support the artists themselves, many of them not superstars...
...and Dave response's point is that there's no way to guarantee the privacy policy is obeyed, unless it is enforced one way or another. User expectations with regards to the private data were supposed to be guarded by App Store approval process and Apple's iOS access restrictions, however this and now photos somehow slipped through.

Pando's mocking of the situation with clipboard example is off the mark. User's expectations from the clipboard is to actually share data (between the applications). Yes, there's a chance that app will publish the contents of your clipboard, but I don't think many users will store sensitive data in the clipboard anyway. In other words - vulnerability of the clipboard is an acceptable trade-off, however accessibility of contacts, photos, other private data is really not.
I think spolsky hit the nail on the head with "answering questions is about learning". If I profit from it and the site owners profit from it as well, so be it. This is a very rare case of win-win.
Building the site is not the whole execution. There are other business processes they may be introducing and improving upon.

I like the "art" of building businesses and I'm nos sure I'm OK with what they do They are turning the art into an assembly line - all their ventures have high commonality - from information technology to business processes - and that should make them very efficient.
I'd argue that ven if they read the security policy they wouldn't understand it anyway. When you're surrounded by hackers it's easy to think everyone has some basic understanding of computers but in reality most people are lucky if they know how print a damn Word document.

This really is a false comparison. Accessing an address book for the app's use only and accessing the address book for public publishing are so far apart it's ridiculous. Security policies don't mean anything. If data is stored digitally there will always be a way to compromise its security no matter how much encryption, SSL, etc. you use. Security, especially on the web is a total misnomer. All you can really do is make it inconvenient to access.

Trusting a company isn't about their data privacy and security policies. It's about their brand to a large degree. Their track record and other peoples' experiences with the app. I'm in the camp that understands these policies and what they mean but thats not the reason I trust the company behind an app. I trust Google with my docs because they have a good track record. Facebook I trust as a necessary evil. Scratch that, I don't trust Facebook but I use it anyway because I'm banking on the odds. I think that's what it boils down to for most average folks. If the odds are that they'll have no trouble then that's a risk they're willing to take. If there's a breach of security and a bunch of people have their data exposed (but I'm not affected) well that makes me think twice not because of the breach itself but because of all the pile-on press coverage.

I'm one who firmly believes that people don't make their own minds up about this stuff. The average person's view of this whole app uploading address books thing is based purely in whichever side of the manufactured debate is the loudest and seemingly most expert-y. After watching how people use the web, their computers, and their smartphones for some time now I've become really cynical when it comes to this stuff. People don't seem to care until someone writes a blog post that tells them they should care.
I don't mean to overreact, but so were <object> and <embed>, which were what Flash used. If they're creating their own canvas-based way of rendering a UI, it's not really using HTML5... it's just that HTML5 happens to be the container.

And just because it's open source, doesn't mean it's standards-based.

I'll have to dig deeper, but things like "HTML and CSS independent" feel very proprietary to me. It just feels like you're losing out on the shared semantic value of HTML, etc.
The key is encrypted with a long and key-strengthened passphrase, so the Universe will run out of energy long before their computers get the key.
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