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Well, strictly speaking the Cortex A9 is supposed to be 1mm x 1.5mm, but that's:

1. According to ARM's promotional materials. No corroboration from licensors, as far as I'm aware.

2. Without caches. If you look at those pretty pictures of Intel chips, those huge swatches of regular rectangular stuff are caches, and they take up space.
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Thanks Jason I'm glad you enjoyed following the story. It's definitely not a huge exit but I'm happy to have turned a profit and there's more where that came from :)
Totally agree with you, it was the same in places I've worked.
I got tired of this and other VC games after my tenth startup a couple of years ago, so I guess it is possible that attitudes have changed. Even if Fred is one of the good guys, though, I'd still bet that he's in a small minority. That's the real point, which of course has been missed by most of the responses. Pick a random startup and go look for patent applications. Most of them clearly are pursuing that strategy, and most of those are likely to be doing so at the behest of their investors. This has been going on for many years, so why is it suddenly evil when Yahoo! does the totally inevitable? Is there seriously any reason to believe that Etsy or Twilio - USV companies for which I've already found applications - wouldn't? This kind of thing won't stop until people like Fred refuse to invest in companies that are pursuing patents without a binding commitment to use them only in defense, and for all their strong words they don't seem to be doing that.
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This is called the Collatz conjecture, and it still hasn't been proved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
Common wisdom is that it creates a bad environment, but I think it has a lot to do with your personality type, I have accepted counter offers before and it has been fine, but I am a pretty open and honest person, people know where they stand with me and they know that I will take a significantly higher compensation package if all other things are equal. I usually lay that out in the initial interview, I tell my potential employer that I expect to be compensated at market rate, and to remain compensated at market rate, that I will occasionally check the market to verify and that I will always give them first right of refusal should I find a discrepancy. I think educating people on how to maintain your loyalty has a lot to do with how the situation turns out.

On a slightly tangential note, when I worked for other companies, I was generally regarded as a loyal employee, all things being equal I would rather stay with a company I know, as there are a lot of unknowns in switching companies, I was always upfront about this fact, but I was also upfront about a large discrepancy in compensation being a factor that could compromise that loyalty. Giving people the tools to maintain loyalty helps employers clearly see what they need to do to maintain personnel.
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These also often break Page Down on desktop browsers as well. After paging, I always have to scroll up a little bit to see the line of text where I left off.
This story definitely has a "Dan Brown"-type of intrigue to it: a small flag within an existing painting contains the words, "Cerca Trova" (or "seek and you shall find").

Those words lead Dr. Seracini, an engineering professor[1], to investigate whether or not Leonardo Da Vinci's unfinished masterpiece is hidden behind by that painting (containing the words, "Cerca Trova") using some very technological advanced equipment and techniques.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/science/06tier.html?_r=2&#...
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Can't you mock out the calls with something like http://code.google.com/p/powermock/? Or introduce an intermediate object? Or use Spring? Or test using groovy which i think you can redefine methods.
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You're kidding, right? It's kind of hard to tell with all these trolls nowadays.
I'm not sure it'd be possible given how much power would be drawn by the peripherals: screen, wifi, hard disks / SSDs, USB ports if used... although I do wonder if there are computers with netbook processing power and laptop batteries/form factor.
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Sorry to be shocking :)

I defend them because they're paid to do beautiful work and lack of layer names was never really an issue for me. Maybe just a couple of times. If the mess they left would be too big for me, then I'd complain. As long as I can deal with it, it's their decision whether they name layers or not. I definitely don't need every layer to have a name.
Easy solution, registration for the first 2 weeks should only be through a rest api call (whose required params change every day)

Should weed out the cruft
If you wanted to unit test this I'm confident you could do it using JMockit [1] without changing the code. JMockit allows you to mock just about anything (static methods, final methods, constructor invocations). The unit test might look something like:

@Test
public void checkIndexRenders()
{
final List expectedforums= new ArrayList(asList(TEST_FORUM));
new NonStrictExpections()
{
@Mocked Forum forum;
@Mocked Topic topic;
@Mocked Post post;
{
Forum.findAll(); result = expectedforums;
Topic.count(); result = 5;
Post.count(); result = 10;
}
};

Forums.index()
// your assertions ...
}

I come from a DI background, but the JMockit framework has changed my view of what untestable code is.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/jmockit/
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I hope it's OK that I go of track and rant a bit about Rands in general, instead of specifically this post. Because Rands reminds me so much of both Joel and Yegge, in a very specific way. All of their posts make sense, I agree with them and I like them. Most new insight is often just provoking enough that I find myself arguing with it for a few moments before buying it wholesale. Nothing that pushes me far away from my existing core of values and ideas. At the same time it's very well written and hard to dislike. The rands test, for example, I circulated to my managers the second I read it, much like the Joel test.

The last few days I've rewatched a bunch of my favorite West Wing episodes. In a sense, reading Rands reminds me of that. It's well written, I agree with it and I enjoy it and recommend it, even though it might not teach me anything new.
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To be fair, that's what I would sell a mediocre domain for.
Many people have tried contacting them through multiple support forms about this march payment issue and they're not managing to get any humans to answer them.
Yeah, it does make me wonder some about the ethicalness. Back in 10k Apart 2010, one of the top 3 apps compressed nearly their entire app into a .png and then eval()'d the result... Which ended up being pretty innovative I suppose, as they wrote the compressor and bootstrap themselves.

Then again, Closure Compiler is accepted even though the advanced mode may rewrite some of your code. And the crushers are available to everyone free of charge, so...
It's insane though, I just went through an issue approving my adsense account that took over a month. No replies, info, nothing. This is the life blood of the companies and they have so much money you think they would get on top of it better.
Did overall Groupers scheduled also go down once people realized they couldn't cancel without having to do it themselves? also, is the no-show rate still 0.2% after implementing this policy? I find it hard to believe these other metrics didn't move at least a little bit.
I'm confused. I just put in a pre-order for three of these via Newark. Has that changed?
We made this interface for a hackathon and the surprising thing was that it was REALLY easy.

As far as the javascript code is concerned, all we do is add and remove classes and if there weren't vendor-prefixs the CSS would fit in 20 or so lines.

If you want to animate something but it's not critical, use CSS3, it's fun and easy.
There are companies which will have a security guard escort you to the door the day you give notice, and there are others which will want to retain some of your services on contract after you leave.

The amount of notice given should be appropriate to the circumstances.
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Firstly, an analogy to people is going to cause a lot of emotional load for no reason, so this is flawed from the word go.

More to the point, these patents are objectively BS. Go look at the claims. There is not a single, novel claim among the whole lot, and you could probably pay a college kid an hour's wage to find prior art on every single one of them.
I don't understand the connection on why we need such an efficient chip for implementation in devices which are plugged in.

If the economic benefits were so strong for those devices being connected that should have already happened.

What am I missing?
"resort to another framework to reach a goal that I expect to be easy"

is a perfectly good reason to state something is a "serious annoyance".
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These days big pharma has outsourced all their early stage development to startups, purchasing compounds in the late stages through acquisition. They do pay for research, but it's not going to look that way on their balance sheet.

Their primary function, as you say, is shifting far towards the marketing end.
I partially disagree, especially with backing from Typesafe.

The "engine" benefits from Scala, as a highly concurrent and transactional heavy system. The choice of language for building MVC applications & services on that engine is left up to the developer. The 2.0 mindset, and you see this in everything is very much a best tool for the job balanced with flexibility and choice.

It's going to take a little while for a language like Scala (or any JVM based language) to fully penetrate the market. A lot of Java developers are not there yet, and by a lot, I mean most, who are we kidding. I see more shops embracing the JVM as their "stack" and the right language for the job mindset on top of that foundation. It's flexible, conservative, and forward thinking at the same time.

Play fits nicely into that space and is something that the core team appears to be mindful of. In fact, if they're smart about it, Play could end up being a bridge for Java developers interested in making the transition to Scala, at a pace that makes sense for them.
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What you're quoting is not about fragmentation. It's that the Android Market and Google chckout payment fail. A LOT. You get a lot of transactions declined because Google apparently doesn't trust the credit card, AND a lot don't go through because of an Android Market "internal error" (some have said as high as 10% for this latter issue).
Do you not believe these are actually problems for people?
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Sorry to be picky, but there's a typo on the site. The author of the site wrote "harverst" instead of "harvest" in the second sentence after "Overview". It kind of sticks out to me.
The cache can be cleared via `/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`.

http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches
Sorry, but that's way too far into linkbait territory. Take it easy, folks.

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Not really needed now that PHP 5.4 has it by default (though in reality it'll be a while before 5.4 is default), but I'd use it if it let me do the following:

$foo = MyFunction()[2];

It's the one feature in PHP 5.4 that made me genuinely happy.

Another thing I'd love is a doctype of sorts for PHP. So I could go:

<?php
uses "5.1.2";
....

and then the PHP engine will treat itself as if it is PHP 5.1.2 or whatever. Yeah, not going to happen ever, but it'd be nice.
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Almost certainly. You could use another material, such as some clear plastic or epoxy, but the idea is still the same (and glass has the most desirable transmittance properties I believe).
It's an amusing post but if Cisco reads this: Please bite! After having spent hundreds of hours in WebEx conferences, I would kill to be able to use anything better (alas corporate mandates against it for conversations > 2 people). The key feature of WebEx seems to be the unique Shoe Filter, that makes everybody sound like they're mumbling muffled through their shoe, from several meters away.

I'm not belittling the complexity in what they do, but others do it better. And I would kill to be able to user others.
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I've tried to educate Oracle DBAs on why top is wrong and their memory really isn't being used. It's painful and they often refuse to believe that I know what I'm talking about, and that they should use the free -m command to see what memory is actually available for use.

Is there any particular reason why Oracle DBAs are less likely to believe this? Perhaps it's because most of them grew up in legacy UNIX environments rather than Linux.
I understand that; this this a superior method than switching on a taskbar? I say absolutely not.
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"How do you know the fees that big pharma pays are not because of similar over-oppressive laws designed to make the government money?"

Because I read the study.
If ridiculous comparisons make you feel better about holding strong opinions on subjects you're ignorant about, then by all means.

> The best lack all conviction, while the worst

> Are full of passionate intensity.
While this is nice, all of the demos are pretty impressive. http://js1k.com/2012-love/demos
> If you can't build me a complete cross browser HTML template, a skin, for a website, you aren't a web designer.

If you've found such people - great. In places I've worked it was different. And designers did exceptionally beautiful things which I really appreciate. I'm proud that I've worked with them, even if they left some mess to be cleaned.

There is some knowledge and experience needed in dealing with IE6, having CSS well organized, images optimized, adding even light JavaScript.

If I was hiring (I do not), I'd totally prefer to have two people who can together build something great, than look for one person and receive worse results.

And I'd prefer my people to do what they do best. The skillset required in designing rich graphics is different than coding.
I know he sounds old. I know there are more than a few inconsistencies in the article but try and understand him rather than just debate him. He has a different perspective than most of us and for me, it was interesting.
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Not much of a fan of the new Typesafe Stack. It doesn't seem to install the scala, play and akka command-line tools like the old versions did. Is there a way to get a straight Scala REPL, or does everything have to go through giter8 and sbt now?
What I'm curious about is Microsoft's position in all this. They are well known investors in Facebook and Yahoo search and Bing have been intertwined for some time now - must suck to be in the middle of this.
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"I wonder what a company like Facebook could build if it could treat its users as customers instead of products."

Not exactly sure that treating users as customers is better by much than treating them as products. How about treating users as users and let it flow from there?
Apart from the employees from posterous, does posterous as a business/brand make sense for twitter? Quite frankly, i don't see any synergies.. Any thoughts..
Look at it as very well-priced advertising, after all the BBC effectively promoted their product. They nearly lost out to Sinclair Research as well, but that's a well known story...
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This is not about being able to go for long periods without bothering to charge, but about energy usage, and being able to get a long period of actual usage from a machine without having to charge it from a reliable mains supply.

You do need years of battery life. Not by improving the capacity of batteries, but by improving the rate at which energy is drawn from them.

As the article quotes:
"Every developed nation country has a graph showing electricity demand is going to outstrip supply at some point in the next 20 years unless we do something different,"

You are inconvenienced, just not in the manner you highlight.
Not that it excuses Google's notoriously bad/nonexistent customer service, but I suspect you could quite easily get the attention of the relevant people on G+.
I agree with author whole-heatedly that the software-development industry has shifted from manipulating machines to manipulating people. Writing software today is more about the content that the software provides than about figuring out how to make that actual software work.

Any modern web-based business must think of themselves as a media company. The software designers must ask themselves not how can I make something happen, but what content should I deliver to my users. There has been a paradigm shift in the industry. The code and how it works is irrelevant, and what matters most is the media that your service offers.

The author seems to wish that this weren't so, but unfortunately it is. I wish it weren't so, but it is. There does not seem to be any way around the issue.
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You can still store extra energy to buffer those gaps. Where I live, pumped-storage hydroelectricity has probably a great future. Thermal storage seems to reasonably efficient too, although I'm not quite sure how much of what I've seen is a little "too enthusiastic".
Or just read the play documentation https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki/Iteratees
This may end up hurting India not helping.

In order to get a drug approved in India, you need to run clinical trial on Indians. You also need to go to through the regulatory process, which isn't cheap.

If drug companies fear that the millions they spend on getting a drug approved in India won't be recouped because the gov't issues a compulsory license, then they simply won't do it.

I mean think about it... if introducing your product to a new market resulted in a net loss, would you do it?
The idea that solar, wind and geothermal energy can replace nuclear power for electricity generation in my lifetime (the next 35 years) ignores the reality of how much electricity we consume and how it is currently generated.

Here's a link to a graph created by the Lawrence Livermore Lab that quickly illustrates the miniscule impact of doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling the three primary alternative energy sources.

I wish we could all live in a world powered by solar cells etc, but it just isn't going to happen.
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The crazy thing here is that Salescrunch really does an awful job of what Webex does primarily: Screensharing.

Salescrunch's screensharing is awful to the point of not being useful. I think this whole PR stunt show just how little Salescrunch understands about the market that Webex is so entrenched in.

It is a classic scenario of a startup not understanding where they are creating value. I suspect that is why Salescrunch seems to have such terrible conversion rates (deduced based on their recent pricing shift).

Webex does suck, but if you are going to start swinging your d!#& around you should at least have something comparable to offer.

Last thing: Salescrunch does require a plugin. They keep saying they don't, but I tried it and they do. It's a Java app you have to download and it executes client side.
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When you feel another team mate has done something good or worthy, you can hit a button which gives them a sweet!

...but of course, you can not give yourself a sweet!

Genius!
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SCO tried this crap to the tune of 45 million. What a stupid use of time and effort.
Jester won't get caught because he's pro-government. He attacks Wikileaks, the AnonOps servers, and a bunch of other people that the FBI doesn't give two shits about protecting. I suspect if he was of a different disposition, he'd be no less likely to get v& than anyone else.
Could the back of your skull sustain the impact? Might you bundle up your coat and use it as a pillow?
I totally agree that the best case scenario is Play 2 lowering the learning curve and providing a bridge for java devs trying to get up to speed with Scala.

I just think it will be hard to justify play2's use in java-heavy organizations if Java support is a second citizen to Scala.

I loved Play 1.2.x, I think it is the only framework that really provides a way forward for modern java web dev, and I strongly hope Play 2 keeps things moving.
The margins on generic drugs are razor thin. Most of the recent drug shortages are due to a lack of starting materials or manufacturing problems. Both of these can be traced back to the fact that there is very little money to be made in generic drugs. They are basically commodities.
> Or only burning coal at night.

Coal power is a base load technology. Spin up time for a coal plant is too long for it to work well for night time use only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load_power_plant
Yes. There's a temptation, because they both "make CPUs" to view ARM as the "next Intel", but it's not like that at all. Intel is an industrial manufacturing company. They happen to manufacture CPUs that they've designed, but "what they do" (or at least, where their money comes from and where the bulk of it goes to) is manufacturing. In the ARM world, all that cash flow goes through TSMC, Samsung, TI, Global Foundries, Fujitsu, etc... Basically none of it goes through the UK.

ARM's model, of course, is absolutely the future of semiconductor design. But it's not going to bring an Intel-sized industry to the UK.
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