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>I think that granularity of message is important - and I think you can really excel here.
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>Rather than presenting the whole plan on PDF - tell them EXACTLY what they need to know BY ROOM/BY LOCATION that pertains to them at that moment.
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This.

In my former life as an architectural designer and project manager for a design-build firm, we experimented with creating document sets that provided this level of room-by-room information. The documents were color printouts on 11x17 sheets, folded and contained in a binder. 160,000 SF remodel. Labor intensive to say the least, and only possible at all because we were doing mostly finish work.

But an app could make this level of granularity practical. The advantages to all stages of construction are numerous, from takeoffs to punch lists and inspection.
Similarly, I've always found the description of the designers in agencies as "the creatives" as a weird and troubling siloing.
I only said that total apathy would be a precursor to appointed government in states that would normally be holding elections. Also, not all appointed government figures are despots, there have been some relatively benevolent kingdoms in history, Tuvalu is apparently quite nice.

Widespread political apathy can be a precursor to despotism as it allows a minority to seize and wield power more easily over a majority. This is arguably part of the current situation in modern Russia IMHO.

As for making appointments due to voter apathy, there's the 2003 Serbian presidential election, which was canceled due to voter turnout being extremely low and so the incumbent stayed in, despite not even getting the most votes out of those that were cast;

http://www.electoralgeography.com/new/en/countries/s/serbia/...

And here's an example from business;

"The International Game Developers Association has hand-picked five new board members after the process to elect had become void due to low turnout."

http://www.develop-online.net/news/37358/IGDA-board-election...
> but ~100 yards? Seems like a bit of a pain in the neck.

That's the point - to serve as a constant reminder of how much circuit/processor time is thrown away for every microsecond it sits just waiting
Hmmm. They must have something special planned because I doubt it's another console.

http://www.chrisnorstrom.com/2011/02/creation-the-steam-cons...

(above) What I predict Big Picture mode is suppose to be. But seriously, how is a $300-$600 console suppose to compete with a $800-$2,000 mid to high end gaming pc? And shouldn't Valve be working on bringing movie and music to steam first before taking this on? I don't know, but I'm dying to find out.
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I see that on your about page you mention only supporting PDFs.

As somebody frustrated by the lack of alternatives to Autodesk products, seemingly due to the lock in by .DWG files[1] not being an open standard, I'd be curious to hear your thoughts? Did you think about/try implementing the file format? Do you have plans for others?

Last week, I told myself I'd give the OSS CAD programs a try, downloaded LibreCAD and tried to open some architecture plans from my inbox. Could not open. Then I read came across an excellent explanation of the problem of DWGs in OSS[2], this is the most frustrated I've been for a while. The industry standard is a proprietary file format with no published specifications.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwg
[2]: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/whats-up-with-dwg-a...
For whatever it's worth, this idea is at least 15 years old; it was a L0pht project that Mudge demo'd at Pumpcon in '97. If I'm remembering it right, it was a Palm device with Ethernet rigged to it and a modem.
I don't know why anyone would bother with ARP poisoning. Internal pentests are invariably bloodbaths; you spend 3 hours getting shells on 2-3 systems, and then another hour getting shells on 200-300 more as a result of all the stuff you find on those 3. On internal networks, the admin password is always "admin", the database password "oracle".
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Not that many old things don't work, well in some circumstances even. I'm just having a hard time seeing how throwing away ACID and denormalizing data is "post modern" rather than "back to the future".

Denormalization? How about a materialized view to support common searches to reduce I/O from assembling data.

Aggregates? You could probably abuse and extend entity attribute values to (physically) cluster arbitrary / sparse / repeating field values around a common parent.

It's actually a pretty good article, otherwise, I should probably leave myself a marker to find it. Sooner or later, I'll end up having to maintain one of these things -- long gone contractors will build a "latest and greatest" app using a database system not unlike a 1970 mainframe. There are a number of good work-arounds in the article for dealing with systems with poor indexing capabilities -- a single key field to be filtered.
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For enantiodromes, I recommend 'anathema', which was once a thing devoted to the gods but came to mean accursed, and 'cleave' which still occasionally means 'adhere to' but more commonly means 'to split'.

It's interesting (and frustrating) when this phenomenon appears across different languages. The French 'pas terrible' means not very good rather than not terrible.
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Our approach is as practical as it can be - the actual builders need drawings and the drawings are usually delivered in PDF. We've found very few of our customers get the DWG files themselves, and even if they do, they are easily exported to PDF.
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The World Wars were justified in the eyes of the population, Korea didn't last long enough to get worked up about, and there were draft riots during the Civil War as well as federal repression of the anti-war movement.
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It sounds like a fake story to me... Like a story made up for entertaining readers. I mean it seriously... Just to much BS to be true :)
Why would Valve be interested in selling this to people with a gaming PC? Those people already play games on a PC, and are unlikely to give up their keyboard/mouse setups.

Your scenario is highly unlikely.
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We used SSL client certificates for the 2008 Olympics ticketing systems. What a nightmare.

It's hard to know how much to blame on Windows & how much has changed since then, but they were a never ending source of pain. We had to provision & manage 1,000+ workstations, dispersed not only through Beijing, but all of China. We couldn't find a way to install the certs as part of the imaging processing, so we attempted to automate as much as we can. Only on Windows (XP, I believe) you couldn't automate the entire installation. So we had to print up instructions & try to make it understandable to bank tellers. (Olympic point of sales where located at various Bank of China branches.)

Additionally, each certificate was store with a specific window account. So either accounts had to be shared, or we had to provision each machine for the dozens of tellers who might use it. (As well as making sure the process was easy when someone new started. And that the certs were revoked when they left. Again ugh.)

BTW, did you know that Java on Windows XP w/ the Chinese language pack has a different default classpath than Chinese Window XP? One of the other joys we discovered.

Actually, maybe the morale of the story here isn't client certs, but rather that Windows does.
I was to point out that I never at any point suggested that SO would make the same mistake as EE and put up a pay gate. This was a very stupid idea. There are many less intrusive ways of capitalizing a community (I can think about a dozen off the top of my head). I would hope Joel et al are smarter than to make the same mistakes and kill the goose.

@Joel I think you need to learn more about EE's background (as do many here). It was more community oriented than SO is at this point. Hell the community even wrote large portions of the software thats still being used. They screwed up in their attempts at capitalization and alienated their community. The point of looking back at EE experiences has to do with their alienation of the community. I was perfectly happy to do it at the time and it was learning experiences. It was not also as you said "a customer getting an answer" any more than SO is, that model came later.

If you believe that you are more like wikipedia then by all means feel free to become a non-profit. Otherwise the stated goal of your company will be to grow your community so that you can capitalize off of their efforts. We can spin this in many ways but the stated goal of the company is to do this.

To the other people in this thread who think that SO is righteous. How do you feel about Facebook? Google? There are loads of examples of these styles of business models out there. The question with these business models is whether they can squeeze the necessary revenue out of a community without alienating it. Some have been good with it, some have not been so good at it.

Also for those who called me a hypocrite due to SO donating some money to charity the difference is CB donates ALL profits to charity. They operate essentially as a non-profit.
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Gallium does support DX11 with open ATI drivers these days...
I've been musing the same thing for a little while now. I think Zepto, Backbone, RequireJS and HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate makes a solid foundation for a mobile app framework, much more lightweight than jQuery Mobile, which is IMO unusable for anything but the simplest of apps. All that is missing is a CSS library to take care of the UI elements and perhaps transitions too.

One idea I had was to take the CSS from Sencha /KendoUI / jQTouch and combine with the components above to create a 'Backbone Mobile' framework. I just haven't had the time yet to figure out if this would work.
This article is oddly cheering. I wouldn't have thought it would take that much incompetence, or even close to it, to fail.
What do you consider offenses? I don't identify any on the first page of results, so it seems we mean different things.
"that being said" is often used synonymously for that kind of "but":
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22that+bei...
I like Joel & Jeff, but haven't they already walked down the evil road just a step or two?

I remember Jeff stating (correctly) that Google's "don't be evil" doesn't go far. That SO's philosophy was "do good."

However, when asked why they don't open source their code, the response boiled down to "well, we won't make money then."

Not that any of it's wrong -- and, again I love SO -- but it didn't take either of them very long to forgo their principals in favor of cash.
Really beautiful. Unfortunately, the scrolling effects don't work on iPhone/iPad, which is too bad, as this would make a really nice format for a tablet-based interactive magazine. I wonder what it would take to get this running in Mobile Safari?
That's a valid question, but it's just as applicable to any incidental details. I imagine other details like when or where you met the person are equally irrelevant, and yet including them is completely reasonable.
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Makes sense.

I guess I just wanted a place to vent out my frustration with DWG :D.

The other comments in this thread make it very clear, you have a great product. More industries need teams like yours.
You're assuming that the hardware will be upgradable. It won't be. As noted elsewhere, the Xbox basically was a PC.

This console cycle has been characterized by software and online, and that's how it will be from this point out. 360 has a very good OS and networking stack, PS3 not so much. This is why 360 is outselling the PS3, even though it's the weaker-powered of the two.

I don't see this changing in the next cycle either; PS Vita's software looks awful.

The Steam box will be no different; it's about the software, not the hardware.
Semi-related on Win7 (Pro/Ultimate/Enterprise only) you can use the group policy object editor to launch something other than explorer.exe as the shell.

In the past I've used this to launch directly into Steam. My friend has a spare PC in his living room mean for games with an open invitation for anyone to use, but didn't like people abusing it/his internet (We have data quota here, iirc his is 75GB a month then he gets throttled to 65Kb/s), so he asked if I could make it for steam games only. Now when you turn it on, you get a steam login prompt, and basically nothing else. All the installed games are available to anyone who owns them on steam, and work normally.

Hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del, opening the task manager, hitting File->New Task and running explorer.exe gets you the start bar back, so its not locked in or anything.

In general its pretty useful if you have a Windows box that's used for basically one thing, like XBMC or Steam.
So just to be clear, I didn't just sit there and spout "Ruby! Wordpress! Html5!" and wait for them to give me a cookie. Obviously they want to try to find out if I can solve their problem. But when they say "I want a slider that shows the part being taken apart and put together," they don't need wireframes, they need to know that I can translate their "vision" into code. I can talk about canvas and JavaScript APIs and whatnot, but I might as well be talking about klurblats and snorgflerms, for all they know. They have no way of evaluating whether I can turn their vision into code, unless I have done something else exactly like it in the past.

So my question is, on what basis are they making their decision? Gut instinct? Or are they just likely to wait around until they find somebody who can point to a project exactly like theirs?
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Sorry, just saw your response. I need to use a PO for most any one off purchase over couple of hundred pounds and always for anything that involves a recurring charge.
css transitions are now typically hardware accelerated, so yes, I'm guessing they would be more performant (especially on mobile).
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I think what he is actually doing is taking a loose interpretation of "commodity". That is to say, if consoles are built on "commodity" hardware, that implies different consoles will come from the factory with different hardware that is only partially fungible.

I'm not sure what it is really called, this sort of "fungible but not fungible"- for example, x86 processors are fungible in the functional regard but not in the performance regard.
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It seems more and more like the concept of 'local law enforcement' needs to die. Open everything up to everyone at large, and harden all men, women and children to the realities of violence.

We should disbanded corporate, local, state, federal and country law enforcement. there should be no countries, borders or walls anywhere and you should also leave your house/apartment/car door unlocked because we have all been hard ended by carrying loaded assult weapons and heavy armor 100% of the time, including your 5yo school kid.

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A guy can be a trained martial artist, kick-ass in tournaments and still loose big in a fight because - away from the mat - he utterly lacks the will to fight.

Well of course, and a guy with a gun may still lose to a kid if he tries to operate it with his feet. In other words -- I don't accept your premise. If he has no will to fight, he will not fight. If he is forced to fight, he's at least no worse than someone who's not trained.

People trained in martial arts are more than capable of kicking ass, because, well, that's the whole point of martial arts. I suggest you to go to the martial arts training and see for yourself what kind of fight can trained people give.

And the whole gun talk only proves the fact that if you live in US, you're fucked and nothing can help you.
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Somewhat related to this subject of the link between concepts and words/phrases, the utility of clichés, etc., I strongly recommend Douglas Hofstadter’s lecture, “Analogy as the Core of Cognition”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk
The cost of a quad-core SoC isn't so high that it's worth only having one of them, and like you say, you can just connect via HDMI anyway - although that leaves you with a controller problem. Separating people from their phones - docking over by the TV and playing on the couch - is a big hassle, especially if you get a phone call mid-way.

IIRC the mobile RAGE is essentially an dumb on-rails shooter. The PC version is significantly more vast, complicated, and graphically impressive.
Rage on iPhone is a rail shooter, it's not the same game as the PC/console version. It's been stripped down to the exact minimum it needs to support that predefined path through the game, and while that's great fun on a mobile, I don't think everyone would be totally impressed if that was the direction the next generation of consoles took.
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That's quite a strange argument - it's like meeting someone who says that they care deeply about being a good person and saying "well why don't you give all of your money to charity then".

Not releasing the source code for StackOverflow is absolutely not a "step down the evil road". If they decided to relicense everyone's existing contributions under a less open license I'd be worried.
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Why is Linux not plausible?

1) There have been several leaks indicating that Steam for Linux exists, or at least has been prototyped. I imagine that pretty much the only reason why it hasn't been released is because it's a small market with large support requirements.

2) Porting games to a Linux with decent video drivers is no harder than porting to the Mac. Once you've done one, you're 95% of the way to doing the other. The largest task is porting to OpenGL which you have to do to port to PS3 or to Mac anyways.

3) The largest problem game makers have with Linux is supporting a large variety of hardware along with a large variety of distributions. If you can say "We only support SteamLinux on SteamBox", that problem completely disappears.
Why do I care that he was your high school friend?

I don't mean to be rude, just saying - people use such descriptions intuitively (because it makes the story flow better), and it's not always because they are prjudiced towards some group of people.
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Checking it out now - good stuff so far!

Edit: Do you guys have an API?
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Why not just set up your own resolver? If they start to filter out root servers they literally break the Internet, which is bad if you're in the business of delivering said Internets.
This is so true - this article is so true. thanks.

..(vitovito) a comprehensive lack of professional support in all areas. People tend to only hang out with their friends and their coworkers. They don't meet people from other companies. Those companies don't support the local community and don't work together with other companies to share resources and solve problems. There's no community......It's to provide help and be a mentor and give guidance. (vitovito)

I have experienced the same story here in Germany. But I beleive it is not possible when you are an outlier, to do much on your own individualistic style - there must be a supporting system with you to push things through. It is wishful thinking that you can build community with few entrpreneurs. That is the reason that innovations take years and years, at least 10 years to reach market readiness.
This is a sentiment I also have had a hard time sharing and even understanding. The adulation and worship of the military that has risen in recent years is a strange bird indeed.

It's essentially unpatriotic to not consider every single service member a "hero", or fail to thank them for their service. It doesn't make sense to put the military on an unrealistic and imaginary pedestal.
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Ira Glass has a great take on this:

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