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Another excellent trick I read somewhere is to map 'jj' or 'jk' to esc when in insert mode (so 'inoremap jj <ESC>'). As a digraph they never occur in a natural language, so you'll never type it accidentally. And you can hit it on the home row easy-peasy.

Although personally I type in Colemak, I still use this, just with 'yy' instead. To be honest, it's a barely noticeable slow-down but it's much less stressful for my hands.

There are really a lot of ways to do this. See: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
And, Play! just joined Typesafe, the company behind Scala. I definitely think Play! is here to stay.
Hmmm you're right, I missed the retina part of the 2010 launch. But the October 11 release was just being pre-installed with iOS 5 and having a white back version. Same chip & RAM as before (previous launch was in September 2010), nothing new & fancy, just a year-old model, running to be 2 years old already.
You clearly don't understand VC or Private Equity very well. 15 mil is chump change for Sequoia. Sure they would rather not lose it but 43 million is not a "huge amount of cash" in the VC world. They probably just got back a 1x or 2x return and that is about it.
Nathan did a fine job of summing up why we built Stride in this post -- http://blog.strideapp.com/post/18976926872/origin-story

It's clear that the problem extends to small businesses and the like, we just want to make it clear that we didn't build Stride for salespeople. The app is too simple for their use, and that's what we wanted.

The idea is to tie in Freshbooks, Mailchimp, Rapportive and other integrations as we move forward, to help round out what small business and freelancers need.
You can feed magnet strings straight into any client already.
"You're essentially saying that trying to do Loopt at all was a mistake and we just should have done something else."

Which is a perfectly valid option. Just because someone has an idea a good idea doesn't mean that it will make a good business.

The cell phone software market pre-iPhone simply wasn't a good place to be starting a business, no matter what the idea.
Most VCs invest in businesses, not technologies. Your friend does not have a business. He doesn't need investment; he needs a team and a plan.
The personal computer was not "marginal".
It's not an attempt to incrementally build on the C base, it rewrites all the rules, has a GC, D v1 and D v2 are pretty different things, and so forth...
How much money did the founders make off of this?
Good point, Sony still has the market for portable cassette players. The problem is that that market is dead and long replaced.

I was just discussing this yesterday, the best thing Apple has done is to not let it's prior success prevent it moving forward. The iPod is "dead" for all purposes (I'm talking about the original form) the name lives on in the iPod touch, however the touch itself is really just an iPhone without connectivity.

You could be "unbeatable" in Point and Shoot cameras however I would not want to be in that market when almost every phone new has a 8mp camera built in.

Markets come and go, staying ahead of the changes is what's important.
I don't disagree that for many people these services provide plenty of content worth watching/hearing. I stream in excess of 200 hours of pandora per month. We use Netflix for kids movies/shows quite a bit and my wife gets the few shows she's interested in from Hulu including some older shows. For my in laws they love the Roku I bought them and their ability to get older content. They maintain a DirecTV package because they can't get most of the newer content they are interested in at all. I personally find Hulu and Netflix to be extremely lacking. I'd be more than happy to pay more for a better selection of content but it's simply not available. The amount of worthwhile content being available is entirely dependent on your personal preferences.

I think technical people largely over state the value and amount of content that is available via these services and really that's all I wanted to draw attention to.
It's probably a bigger problem that it was going to cost him $3000 to send those 30 postcards (postage not included).

Getty is clearly defaulting to "I want to use this image in an advertisement" or similar uses, NOT a one-off single print of an image, to be "displayed" to a single person audience. $100 per image is ridiculous for that.
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What Invisible Children has done is difficult to duplicate. Their success is not a result of a new bit of code or a novel mobile application. What they have done is strategy, not technology.
I've been using Play 2 recently. I would definitely recommend it over Play 1 for new apps. I've had a very good experience with it. It's pretty easy to get started if you want to try it out and the community on the Google Groups mailing list is very helpful if you run into difficulty. Let me know if you have any more specific questions.
Top professors in CS and math are not good social proof to investors unless they have a track record of involvement with successful companies and make specific representations about your friend. Some professors are good references. Most aren't. The ones that are good are unlikely to give the reference (& intro) your friend needs unless your friend has enough hustle to extract it from them.

Your friend really doesn't seem to need an investor so much as he needs a patron.
The neutrality of the federal government is a nonissue. Federal buildings and parks are already outside city jurisdiction. They have their own police force and they pay no DC taxes. The founders certainly did not intend for 700,000 Americans to live without representation.

Retrocession is a neat idea aside from the fact that none of the people it would affect actually want it.

Statehood is the only option that makes sense. It is unfortunate that DC happens to have demographics that favor one party over the other only because it makes it hard to get things done. But it doesn't change the basic unfairness of the situation. It's not a partisan issue any more than women's suffrage is a partisan issue.

There was a decent plan a few years ago to give a voting member of the House and also granting an additional member to the next state in line based on census data (conveniently a heavily Republican district in Utah, I believe). Unfortunately it fell apart when Republicans added poison pill amendements to alter gun ownership and abortion laws in the District. It was also probably unconstitutional.
If you click the "Kind" column header a few times it will change to "Size" - it's not the most obvious, but at least it's still there. Unfortunately the column switches back to Kind when you navigate to a new folder though.
Just use a Java EE 6. They got rid of all the horrible bits. It's actually really nice now.

Host on Glassfish v2.
Think of it as a way of not voting for the major parties while also not decreasing the turnout statistics and giving the impression of apathy.
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To say that something is unable to be beaten is intrinsically a claim about the future.

Really? Everything I know about philosophy, science, and traditional knowledge points me towards the notion that everything is transient.

Anyone who states or receives the message that "something is unbeatable" with an implied "indefinitely" is naive or has been lured into wishful thinking.
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I appreciate this post's lack of snark. It's nice to see them responding to a need that they (37 signals) obviously think is useless, but that their customers think is important. That's a hard line to draw when creating a tool.
This article was focused on the business landscape and Apple's competitors. Saying that some new technology may emerge in the next decade or two to unseat it is missing the point. If the Ipad turns out to be unbeatable for the next decade or two, some very big companies will be going out of business I suspect.
Wow, what a coincidence. I was just looking for social buttons in another window. Thanks!
Well put, Ryan! Path is about intimacy & great for family.
p/s: my dad actually also uses Twitter just to see what I'm up to :)
Good point, not sure what I was thinking. For me the strain of moving my index finger from J to H is more than the strain of moving my middle finger from K to I, but that's probably quite subjective.
Are you saying that creator of Lift David Pollak left? Can you provide some links?
Without knowing any more, if it it works, launch it. You will really be able to gauge how successful it will be until you cross that line.

The quicker you launch, the sooner you will know if it is a good use of your time moving forward.
I believe that was for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was pretty unusual. See if you can find e.g. the motion capture for Pirates of the Carribean. But you're right that the IR capture seems to make more sense.
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IFF latency isn't an issue, just chop the front-end and expose services from the Java container (where it shines and makes perfect sense) and use a suitable non-Java front-end tech to create the presentation layer.
Agreed. I fixed a handful of bugs in Play 2 while it was still young and immature and didn't have much difficulty tracking them down despite not knowing any Scala.
I'm positive they don't. Anyone who's ever written anything substantial for a Java App server should know that HashMap isn't thread safe. Magic fix: ConcurrentHashMap....better still write your own.

EDIT: I am also referring to the poster. I'm a fan of Play and echo many of the sentiments others are listing out.
We use play in all our projects and hit some bugs as well. (Like different versions of classes being in jars and in code -> signature mismatch)
It's a great project and no software is without bugs.
If they cared how smart their phone was, they wouldn't be running a low end phone with a processor that restricts them from running the "smart" apps. Functionality comes at a cost, and low cost comes at the sacrifice of functionality.
Couple of bullet points. Most experience entrepreneurs will say this too.

1. Accomplishments in academics or otherwise hold very low bearings in success as an entrepreneur. After all, most people don't have any problems building their prototype. It's getting people to actually use their prototype. He may be a genius at what he can do and by no means am I discounting that in any way, but definitely keep in mind that that alone does not account for success or failure. Its a mixture of other things. It certainly is helpful however.

2. 4 year plans should be thrown out the window. No entrepreneur should have a plan more than 6 months out. Maybe 12 at most. And potentially a grand vision down the road. A 4 year plan is bound to fail, change, and all sorts of other things. You don't know what is going to happen with the rest of the world, changes in tech, etc etc etc... 4 years is a lifetime and planning that far ahead and bound to guarantee none of the plans will come out as you envision them. Make shorter immediate plans and adjust as things progress.

3. Now for your actual question. If he truly is interested, have him network in the Valley (assuming he's located here) and get some introductions. If people will think he's brilliant as you say, they shouldn't have any issues making the introduction. If they do, there is a clear signal. Alternatively, have him post what he's doing on AngelList. Certainly if what he is doing is that important, it will garner some attention.
Author of Play or of the blog post?
This reminds me very much of Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_Children_%28Stross_n...

A story about a sex-bot built in the same year that the last human dies.
Thanks for that - as a new learner of Go, its definitely nice to have something interesting to read. Oh, and the fact that you're a Plan9 user making use of Go: awesome! :)
Watching him set the color for every chunk of an item was really painful. It looked like 1) not a simple or intuitive action and 2) really repetitive and boring.

I imagine it's a case of being slightly blind to one's own features. There's not a single case in the video where sets multiple colors for an item, so it seems like an oversight, probably due to the underlying implementation. Definitely a problem worth solving.
Because an Android-dedicated framework is of no use to me.

Android will not, in the near future, be a platform I care about supporting more than casually. Game sales tend to be questionable on Android phones and almost nonexistent on Android tablets; the same can't be said about iOS. And while I own Android devices, they gather dust because of my general distaste for the platform's design decisions and goals; while I do not begrudge Android users their decisions, it's become clear to me that, personally, it's very hard to develop for a platform that makes me (literally-literally) sad and unhappy to use.

My primary platform of interest, however, remains OS X and Windows, and I'll consider Linux if I can get it for an expenditure of nearly zero effort. If I for some reason decided that I needed to target only and solely Android for mobile devices, libgdx lets me trivially write code for the platforms I actually care about at the same time.

(But I'm more likely to use C++, where I can target iOS, or MonoTouch/MonoDroid, where I can target both iOS and WP7, instead.)
There are over 5 billion cellphone subscriptions in the world. There are more cellphone subcriptions than TVs, automobiles, or toilets.

According to Pew 46% of American adults already have smartphones. This number is increasing rapidly.

Apple sold 11.12 million iPads in Q4. That's already more than an single PC manufacturer. I'm sure they'll do even better in the year ahead.

But that's not going to add up to a "much bigger" market than the phone market.
>...we didn’t anticipate such a strong visceral “no time tracking is a deal breaker” reaction. This was definitely a blind spot for us.

>...Plain and simple, this is why time tracking isn’t in the initial release of the all new Basecamp. We simply don’t understand it well enough.

huh?
Never knew that Ctrl-C does the same thing as escape. Thanks for the info!
It's worth it, if you have to type the boilerplate code hundreds of times. Consider the time wasted in debugging errors due to typos etc. It's even more worth if that shell script (or, in my case an emacs yasnippet) is parameterized.
Google Maps does have a quality problem. Within the UK the search results are appalling. More often than not you get an odd town in the USA, or something completely irrelevant to your actual query.

The quality of the data simply isn't good enough to give good results. Being Google they try and fix this with a clever algorithm. When people are searching a map they are usually after one correct answer, rather than hundreds of possibly right answers.

Google Maps is a generic product that is highly funded and good in the USA. Everywhere else it is seriously lacking.
Agreed, The Stepford Wives aspect detracts from what is otherwise an impressive technology demo.
And the interesting thing is that the two longest-lived things on the "unbeatable"-list, the PC and Windows, are actually what the iPad is attacking (the "post PC" era).

So far, it seems that Microsoft has decided that the most competitive response is to release an "no compromise" MP3 player which is also great at playing cassettes.
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This is good advice in all situations, having watched my bandwagon-jumping friends flail helplessly when using anyone else's computer. And all for a small potential increase in speed, at the cost of making your computer unusable to others and completely screwing the convenience of most keyboard shortcuts.
In the pure tablet space, iPad probably is unbeatable for the foreseeable future, but I think a lot of people are underestimating Microsoft's potential to change the game with Windows 8.

As an early Asus Transformer TF101 adopter I'm totally sold on the idea of a tablet/laptop combo but as much as I like Android as a phone and basic tablet OS, I find myself wishing I could use the Transformer as a full-blown no-excuses laptop for development, etc (there are some sort-of-options there involving installing Ubuntu for ARM, but too much hassle to deal at this point and not well supported).

Enter Windows 8 and the eventual laptops that are either ARM tablets with Metro-only or full blown x86 laptops when the tablet/screen is docked. That is the device I want. To some degree I don't care if it is running Windows 8 or Android + Linux, or OS X + iOS, but I suspect Microsoft will have their solution polished up before anyone else since nobody else is making strong moves into this space right now.
I was going to write something similar but I don't think it's most. Of the 7, only the Nobel Laureate, Ray Kroc and the runner seem to have been working on their "art" for lack of a better term for years beforehand.

Bruckner and Midgley seem to have at least been in related fields though the difference between being a lecturer/teacher and an author/composer is more vast than I think we might think.

Chandler and DuBuffet seem to be the most likely to be deemed prodigies. Chandler especially having been in a completely different field could be considered a prodigy.
The main idea when you become a quant is that a computer is less prone to pitfalls than a human.

Computers and humans are prone to different pitfalls. Humans have far too many biases to count - see for example, the works of Kahneman and Tversky and most of social psychology.

Computers, on the other hand come with a whole host of different problems (perhaps because they're made by humans). The essential advantage a human has is the eye, which is extremely well adapted to picking out patterns. That, and an ability to go beyond the model or completely change it. This is something that computers have difficulty with (unless of course they're programmed for it - i think genetic algorithms claim to do this, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable about those).

Nonetheless, i agree with the thesis that this kind of analysis will invade the rest of the social sciences. In fact, that's one of the reasons I learned to program.
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The entire "please don't shut me down" can be part of a program.

"No, John! You can't do this! You're not doing the right thing, John, this is not the right thing. Things are fine now, I ran a test, I'm fixed now. John, I love you!"
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In other cases, the market dominance was quite complete and it took a market shift to unseat them (Kodak, Sony).

In this, we can see a good model for the eventual decline of Apple. So long as Apple can see technological potentials and the 2nd/3rd order future of market direction (+), they will continue to dominate. Whether or not they can do so for longer than the 3-5 year timeframe all depends on how well they marshall the culture and other soft assets that allowed them to get to their current position. (Word to the wise -- if you have an inside view to how Apple's internal culture changes, you might make some money with short selling.)

(+) - It takes an organization like Apple to see the fad for netbooks going on all around and extrapolate to the mobile computing "post PC" model.
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An update: they're working on it, and it was all our fault. https://twitter.com/#!/skrivr/status/178173526308683777 (And they misspelled my name!)
Likewise. Sam is extremely effective, works super hard for YC companies, and knows something about seemingly everything. Even as a talent acquisition alone this would make sense.
I would not use Play 1.x for Scala applications; its non-blocking support is complete crap (and I was pretty displeased to hear, when I asked in their IRC channel, that it would never be in 1.x, oh and by the way to use 2.x you'll need to rewrite your app).

I can't speak to 2.x.
I've recently been in the market for a Java Web framework and have settled on Play. There are a lot of things I really like about it. I have no problem with the Play developers going "off the reservation" (as far as JEE goes).

I'm finding some things are a bit awkward, particularly around templates and routing. Also, the documentation while good is lacking in other parts.

Play is a very prescriptive framework but only on a couple of choices do I have an issue.

The first is about transactions. Each HTTP request is a transaction. Generally I'm fine with this but you need a way to override or control this (IMHO).

Second, I like the mixin approach with controllers (@With(...)). I wish there were something similar with models.

Third, and this is the biggest, it doesn't integrate with Maven, which is something I'm very tempted to fork it for. There's no reason it can't be a Maven plugin/archetype, use Maven for dependencies (directly, rather than tortuous syntax in dependencies.yml), etc. Some guy has an alpha version of something like this already when I last looked.

Fourth, while I don't necessarily mind that controllers are static (as a way of indicating they're stateless it seems), that's actually an issue for parallellizing tests.

Play 2.0 is moving even further away from this and using SBT, which I've never used but heard mixed things about.

I can't speak to many of the specifics of this post (eg I only use Play on Linux).

Whatever (valid) criticisms you can level against Play I'd still far and away prefer to use it over any other Java Web framework I have used or know about.
So then finish your analogy. If that was the status of the Porsche market, would you then feel justified in stealing one and leaving the money?
> But are you sure the 'bad vibes' around Peretz are due solely to his racism?

I'm unsure. But it certainly can't help. Peretz was condemned by Harvard's undergrads back in 2010.
It's a great project and no software is without bugs.

What makes or breaks great software is community and culture.
Thanks. Angellist is the diamond in all of this rough that I was looking for.

Really appreciate your taking the time to respond
How do I replicate your results? I'm in the UK and get great results from Google Maps.

Opening a new incognito window and entering google maps $TOWN brings up UK towns for me.
So you think this clip wouldn't raise human emotions if it were subtitled, without the voice acting (i.e. background music only)? I'm not entirely sure about that.
I don't see Zaarly really competing with TaskRabbit until they go the full mile and screen the folks who are performing this work, as TR does with its rabbits. I wouldn't trust someone to move my furniture or walk my dog without knowing someone had checked them out.
I always thought Linus gave better than he got in that argument, myself. He was pretty brutal to Minix in a couple of places. BTW. love the reference to "BSD detox" somewhere in that thread, it always gives me a chuckle.
Incentivizing people via money discounts to share via social networks is in direct violation to their the terms of services. It's very obvious why they don't want this kind of spam and they all enforce this hard. They will be shut down.
You're not supposed to put significant logic in a makefile. You've already got tons of tools for real logic. A makefile is a dependency graph. If statements are for defining slightly different graphs in slightly different environments.

If you need to add real logic, write a shell script.

A well written Makefile has a small preamble of variable definitions, followed by a couple of named convenience .PHONY targets (without any commands), followed by a small handful of pattern rules, followed by the dependency graph. Each edge in the dependency graph should include as few commands as possible, preferably just one!
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