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Avoiding GC doesn't equate to "manual memory management." Objective-C uses reference counting, which is only manual in Objective-C for historical reasons, and they're trying to overcome that with ARC. I'm pretty sure most popular scripting languages use reference counting instead of garbage collection. C++ with pervasive use of shared pointers shouldn't be characterized as "manual" either.

Also, as of a few years ago, the only performance-related reason why the JVM wasn't a popular language for desktop GUI apps was startup time. (In the mobile space, it might be true that Java isn't fast enough on current hardware. My experience with Android hasn't been very inspiring, for sure.)

Keep in mind that desktop GUI frameworks take a HUGE amount of time and labor to create, and almost all of the excitement has been in web apps for the last decade. The status quo in GUI frameworks is heavily colored by history. All of the major GUI application frameworks are ancient and reflect the linguistic realities of the year 2000 much more than they reflect current technology.
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You are not Samsung's customer.

Phone manufactures sell phones to carriers, not consumers. Success in the phone industry depends entirely how well you meet the demands of the carriers. RIM knows it (or knew it), Nokia knows it, Samsung knows it.

Android is merely a platform that allows Samsung to tailor their devices to the carrier's requirements, in a way they couldn't do when they were selling Windows Mobile devices.

So how does Android 4 help Samsung better meet the demands of the carriers?

It doesn't. Carriers want devices that show off their network, they want devices that compare well against the iPhone, and they want you to buy a new phone and sign a new contract in 2 years. They obviously have no trouble selling Samsung devices with outdated software to the unsuspecting public; it made Samsung the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

Neither the carriers nor the manufacturers will spend a dime to rush out Android 4.
Bonus points if the number is so formed that corporations can extract the age, race, sex and nationality of the product, er, users.
GFischer: duckduckgo is a good example, and I like his blog http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/
It doesn't make sense to concede that there is a high supply of lawyers and still argue that cost is driving up prices. The price of a service depends on the supply of the service and the demand curve. At a given level of supply, it is irrelevant what the cost of providing the service is, that will not change the cost.

It's valid to make the "guild" argument and say that the education requirement is driving up prices, but only if you argue that the education requirement is artificially restricting supply. When ABA-accredited schools are graduating about twice as many students as are getting hired, that's a difficult argument to make. Would salaries really go down if you added an entire category of potential hires below the current group that already isn't getting hired?
Why does Explorer ignore seconds when sorting by Date Modified?
A look at Visual Basic 11
dangrossman, that is true. I thought it would be nice to have a place putting them together.
I've updated the license. It's still CC-BY, but the only attribution required is in human-readable code. That means it could be commented in your html, css, or wherever. No need to have it visible in the webpage itself, unless you're feeling generous.
drwerv, thanks!
The pundits also panned the iPhone 4S for the first couple days when it came out. And then, after it'd been out for about three days, they changed their tune and started raving about how great it was.
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...so what if they get images from four sides instead of two. Doesn't that defeat the "side" method demonstrated in the video?
Popular videos stop having their view count immediately updated at around 300 views. There's probably some duplication / distribution that kicks in to spread the load, and reliable statistics then requires aggregation. Happens very predictably on new videos in some of my YT subscriptions.
No one is hiring cops. Listen to this week's This American Life; small-government fetishists are firing public workers, and for very good reasons.
Yes, that's just fine. License updated accordingly.
There are enough fans of the brand and the device that they will lap up even a marginal improvement over an existing product.
sixQuarks, I am just looking for some successful stories for inspiration.
Is your reputation recognized across the 4 different corner harmonic 24 hour Days rotate simultaneously within a single 4 quadrant rotation of a squared equator and cubed Earth.
Dedalus: Datalog in Time and Space
"to me"
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It's possible lots of people are quick at closing pop-up/under windows.

I think I generally am quick enough to close a pop-up before the page has loaded, which sometimes/often would mean the Google Analytics script hasn't loaded (depending on how Analytics was setup - the new async loaded at the top of the page would probably have caught me, the older syncronous one at the end of the page would probably have missed me).
So noted. So I don't forget, want to add a couple of issues to request the icons on the GitHub project?
https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues
Imagine the accounting headache due to being hit by such a revision.
steventruong, thanks!
pinboard.in is a good one too.
I can only give my opinion. Feel free to disagree or add something to the discussion.
If someone created a teleportation device that could beam you to any location within a 1000 miles it would cause mass hysteria. When the next version was released a few years later, extending the range to 2000 miles, it would be "meh".
How does having consumer level devices deployed to a school help educate people at all, regardless of things like platform fragmentation?
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The point is that "authority" or "influence" without context doesn't mean much. Your friend is Vice-President at Google. So, how influential/authoritative is he in the world of sports? How influential is Roger Federer in the tech world? Would you rather have Ashton Kutcher as an investor or, say, Paul Graham?

One number won't tell you the information you need to answer these questions.
>85% is good enough to have someone buy your crap,
>but it's not enough to make them loyal to your crap.

I get tired of the fanboistic comments in a lot of these threads. There is a big, strategic, complex, technology game going on and, apparently, a bunch of smart hackers think phones are like simple breakfast cereals (and even those aren't simple).

A big battle is afoot. Act like it. Stop pretending that one side wears white and the other wears black. I always hated Microsoft's products (aging myself: I used OS/2), but they understood the game that was afoot. I'm not anti-Apple. I'm anti-blinders and so many of my friends who use Apple products seem to employ them...

To their credit and only in limited ways are Apple finally acknowledging that network effects are important. But they're doing so in a world quite different than the one in which Microsoft thrived. As I said, I hated Microsoft's strategies, so I hope Apple will not emulate them too closely.

EDIT: I appreciate the lack of downvotes... I was hesitant to write such an opinionated bit, but was frustrated.
Thanks so much for taking the time to critique!

1 & 2: Great ideas.

3: We obviously dropped the ball on Windows QA. On the Mac, the Downloads window is cmd-shift-j, so I figured it was similar on Windows. Ideally we should make the keyboard shortcut configurable, but could you suggest a good unused Windows shortcut for the meantime?

4. Absolutely. It's on our list!
"This paper posits a simple but novel answer to this long-puzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are unable to discover the patents their activities might infringe."

Novel? Puzzling? Really? If this answer is really considered novel or this question the slightest bit puzzling, then this might be the best unintentional example of the actual problem I've seen.
I think human nature is hard-wired in people and hasn't really changed since the caveman days.

While I agree it is a sad existence to give so much control over your happiness to others...I think there is a hardwired element built into our social interactions that revolves around being accepted by your peers, feeling needed, feeling like you are contributing, and that is satisfied by peer affirmation, especially so when you have "Bragging Rights" over your peers.

My point simply is that people are looking for peer recommendations to satisfy this emotional need of "not looking like a fool" and to help defend their purchase to others who will questions their decision and "want them to fail"... and not to actually find out if a product or service is actually good, or actually will solve their needs.

I believe that search plus your world, and all of these startups and features focusing on having our friends curate the web for us, are missing a crucial understanding of how and why we might care what our friends think, and are many times self-defeating.

Just for the record, it is a common truth in the direct response copywriting world that you not only need to sell your target audience but you have to give them the tools to defend their purchase to those who want them to fail, and will question their decision. This fear of making mistakes, and looking like a fool in front of your friends.

Just think about the last time you bought something and told someone about it. What details did you share with them defending the decision that you wasn't really relevant.

A perfect example is YCombinator explaining the percentage they take. It's a bit expensive for the money, but the networking, the doors it opens, and the validation it offers, so it's a great deal.
You don't need to sell me, I wouldn't be applying if I needed to be sold. I need to defend that decision to my brother in law, or my wife or friend, who will ask me why I took such a bad deal. (I really took it because it validates me, the extra benefits justifying the decision, that is to defend the decision.

Just to be clear, I do think YCombinator is very much worth it, and a very good deal... my point simply is that it is likely an emotional reason for taking the deal, and the value it offers is what lets you sleep at night and face your friends.

I think this is a fundamental in all purchase decisions. There is the emotional triggers, and than there are the justifications. You buy because it satisfies an emotional need, but you won't buy without a way to defend your decision.
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From the perspective of an app developer, I was motivated to build Android apps by the section about lack of quality apps. It seems the Android app market is bigger, has fewer barriers to entry, and is more easily penetrated because of lacking quality competition.
Failure to report a crime is a crime. For everybody.

That's not true. In the US the offence still exists, but:

This offense, however, requires active concealment of a known felony rather than merely failing to report it.[1]

In most other English speaking jurisdictions the crime itself has been abolished.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_felony
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Maybe punishments shouldn't be linear.
eGold was a centralised service. Once bitcoin becomes a major success, that's it, genies out of the bottle.

Also what you have just said applies to cash. In reality merchants who are not thieves will follow consumer regulations that all stores do.
Can't wait for a data structures class. And then, for an operating systems class.
To be fair, when iMovie launched (an Apple app) it only worked on the brand new iPhone 4. If you had a 3GS (i.e., hadn't upgraded yet), you were out of luck. It didn't matter that you had the latest iOS. You didn't have the latest hardware so you couldn't run it, although oddly you accidentally buy it through the app store.
A lot of book publishers now use facebook likes as a way of determining whether to buy manuscripts from specific authors--which is ridiculous because of things like fivver. I've studied this stuff for a while--I'm a bit dubious in that regard-- to see how such things can be exploited for benefit and it's a tremendous span--so many industries are trying to be web savvy and latching onto things like likes and views, and favourites--but all of these are as demonstrated in this post are fairly easily exploitable.
Why? Because many of the soldiers are their family and friends.
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USG is so powerful that it peacefully usurps other 'democratic' governments, and you honestly think that it doesn't have its position cemented at home? Elected officials are merely faces that give the gullible populace new scapegoats to blame. Just because elections can shift some priorities, don't optimistically extrapolate and think they're capable of changing the entrenched powers.
Buy a nexus phone?
This is completely unethical.
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I am a geek and I own two iPads (one for me and one for my family back in India), allow me to share my opinion.

My parents have a PC at home but my mom can't use a PC because she can't read English. My dad can find his way through but he will avoid using PC unless it's absolutely necessary. iPad is the first computer which my parents are able to use. I am finally able to video chat with them. I can easily share my photos with them. I have created a 'family' Apple account which syncs to iCloud and I copy photos on my computer and it automatically shows up on their iPad. My mom may not be able to read English but we could teach her the 'swipe' gesture to unlock the iPad and show her the 'icon' to touch so that she can see my photos. She used the 'flick' gesture to scroll through photos without any instructions from us.

If you discount iPad, you are seriously underestimating the potential of the device for all the non technical people out there. My parents have completely stopped using PC as iPad is capable of sending emails/seeing my photos/video chat.
I think we see this "disappointing" talk from many of the old-timers because they've spent 25 years writing about specs and that's the lens they use to look at the iPad. "It's not getting a quad-core processor? Android tablets have quad-core chips. How disappointing."

They don't care that Apple and third parties ship software that utilizes both cores (iMovie, GarageBand) and that hardly anyone ships Android software that utilizes more than one core, much less all four. They don't care that Apple may have tweaked last year's dual-core chip to get better performance and better battery life. According to them, since 2=2 and 2 < 4, the iPad 2 is a lackluster upgrade and is empirically worse than an Android tablet.

Meanwhile, 50 million people could care less what's inside an iPad. All that matters is that the hardware and software work well enough for what they want to do.
Irrelevant. Violation of a legal obligation is not the same thing as commission of a crime. An act may simultaneously be a violation of legal ethics and a crime, but usually not. Ethics violations are punishable by, amongst other things, civil sanctions, fines and disbarment, but not criminal penalties.
Calling everyone one who buys a samsung device "unsuspecting public" is patronising. There are real reasons to buy a non apple device. I have listed some such reasons on an earlier thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642152 . I also managed to miss one important reason in that list - 4G.
I laud your efforts against the TSA on the issue of body scanners. It was a huge waste, and they aren't effective.

But I think you'll be more effective against the body scanners if you drop the right-wing crankery at the end. The fear-mongering about terrorists isn't helpful. If they want to pull something off, they will, whatever kind of detector we're using. "Placing us all in danger" is Fox News rhetoric.

The fact that these scanners were a mistake doesn't imply that we should necessarily privatize the TSA. It needs a huge amount of reform. But there's no evidence that privatization wouldn't lead to the same kind of risk-taking and incentive problems that we've seen come to such spectacular fruition in the financial sector.

As things stand now, we have a clumsy system and there hasn't been a major attack since 9/11. Focus on the ineffectiveness, and the invasion of privacy, not on making people scared or promoting bankrupt ideas about replacing the government with free enterprise.
I go through security an average of about four times a month. I opt out any time I'm not in danger of missing a flight. Some airports are friendly and expedient about it, others (most recently, Austin) had me wait for about fifteen minutes before finding someone to do the pat down (while I tried to watch my bag/laptop/phone on the other side of the scanner).
In case you haven't seen the videos of some of the precursors to cheetah.

Big Dog: http://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww
Littledog: http://youtu.be/CEQlZtCi7IQ
(I responded to the email address in your profile.)
Who do I write a thank-you letter to after an all-day interview?
I wonder if I've been doing this wrong all along. :-)

After an on-site job interview with multiple interviewers, who is it most appropriate to write a thank-you note to? The HR contact I've been working with, the individual interviewers, or someone else?

What's considered standard?
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60 minutes recently ran a segment on making kids wait before going to kindergarden - based partialy on Gladwell's work

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7400898n&tag=cont...
Such amazing art in that slideshow. Its amazing how tightly the live action scenes of the movie matched those pics. Were all of these drawn prior to the movie?
Agreed, but why not switch the language to Hindi(...) if English is such a problem?
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What if you worked in some sort of regulated, specialized industry and were unable to set up your own company? What if you worked in one organization for a long time, built up seniority and benefits, and suddenly they changed their rules and you had to either quit or let them view your private accounts?

It seems to me that this is clearly the sort of thing that should be illegal because there is a huge imbalance in terms of bargaining power in these situations.
This is one of the real mysteries of the article. AFAIK, and anyone in the bitcoin forums knows, and unless something changed in the last 12 hours, the bitcoin.com domain is still owned by Tradehill's CEO who's promising and planning to develop it into a prime piece of real estate. Which betabeat doesn't mention. So the only thing I can take from this is that he traded his equity in the dying company for the domain, and valued the equity at $1M, then wrote it off as a loss for the company and blamed Dwolla for it...? Go figure that one out...
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I highly doubt he was being serious when he was "fear mongering". In context it was likely him using the TSA's logic against the scanners.

Remember, this guy has been fighting long before this vulnerability was publicly known.
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Except that the refresh cycle for a mobile device is around two years, and word spreads more quickly than ever that you can't run the latest stuff. If that Android phone can't run the latest apps, lags, or can't do all the things that your friend's iPhone [1] can do, easily, and reliably, you're a lost customer. On the flip side, if you're a developer with limited resources and your app can't run on a vast majority of deployed devices without extensive and expensive testing, you're a lost developer. Neither of these things is good for a computing platform. Never was, never will be. These are first principles. Sure, there might be other factors, (which you haven't specified by the way), but all else equal users and developers want consistency in a platform for the sake of compatibility.

1) Top rated review for Path for Android: http://cl.ly/1P082D1L2D1k1O0i3K0J
I've been dealing with the fragmentation issue directly as of recently. I was completely oblivious to the situation until I found out I needed to test for 4 versions of the Android OS for a project (after the fact)! No fun!
Yes, but the steps from "understand HTML and JavaScript" to display that somehow formatted & execute the JS are big & somewhat important for a web browser.
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A lion Met a Tiger
As They Drank Beside a pool

Said the tiger, "Tell me why
You're roaring like a fool."

"That's not foolish," said the lion
With a twinkle in his eyes

"They call me the king of all the beasts
Because I advertise!"

A rabbit heard them talking
And ran home like a streak

He thought he'd try the lion's plan,
But his roar was just a squeak.

A fox came to investigate -
Had luncheon in the woods.

Moral: when you advertise, my friends,
Be sure you've got the goods!

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A few states allow this, but I don't think most do...

From

http://www.americangraduateeducation.com/articles/en/post-ma...

"In order to sit for the bar examination, most states require an applicant to hold a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an American Bar Association (ABA)-approved law school. For those individuals who have not earned a J.D. degree from an ABA-approved law school, bar admission authorities have developed varying requirements and criteria to ascertain if such individuals meet the minimum educational requirements for bar admission. In most U.S. jurisdictions, individuals who lack a J.D. are ineligible to take the bar exam..."
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