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Either way, it's nothing to get worked up over.

Oh, I agree. My language was for emphasis, not representative of an emotional state. It's interesting to talk to someone who thinks that the same process can save a bad team and make a good team better. That though had certainly never occurred to me.
WebSockets could easily end up doing terrible things for scalability of a service. However, so can misusing Comet, improper database structures, etc. At the end of the day, developers need to make an informed decision about what technologies to use and not use; in many cases, that'll mean foregoing WebSockets in favor of other solutions, but sometimes they're simply the best tool for the job.
I'd like to see the version of your site which displays ads.
i'd keep it in my bag next to my towel. :-)

but it would be really useful. have used the metal detector in the android tricorder app to find metal in places where we were planning to drill.

if somebody builds them in bulk the price will come down. even an expensive version will sell to geeks, nerds and hackers.
Great post on something that affects me. Partially why I'm creating Skim.Me (http://skim.me). You tell us how much time you have and we curate your routine in one feed. All the content in one ecosystem. Not just news and social but all applicable verticals in the future. For those that are ok giving up their browsing history for us to analyze. Probably not everyone.
No, that's it. Strangely enough, we were basically agreeing the whole time.
If everybody's blogging, who's left to read?

The Internet is a billion rock stars on a billion stages. It used the audience up, but we felt important.
This is just one of many examples of how the global immigration system is completely failing to stay relevant to today's globalised society. I'm a global citizen...If I want to go on holiday, or a business trip, I don't want to have to apply for a Visa weeks before. I don't want to have to carry a physical passport about with me that expires when I have too many stamps. As a country, all you really care about is that I'm not a security risk, I'm not an illegal immigration risk, I'm not a criminal, and I'll pay whatever taxes are due. I'm ok with that, but surely there's a better way for both of us?
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It's ironic how "what everyone says" is often still the right advice. Maybe this is one of the things you need to learn from experience, no matter how smart you are and how many blogs of smart people you read.

I am thinking maybe the reason that there is so much more competition in these markets you listed, for a big part is that they are much more addressable. We "technology people" almost have a reflex "I have a problem, I am going to google the solution.". That reflex might be much less developed with spa owners and other small business owners. They might be more inclined to ask a fellow business owner, how they handle problem instead. Maybe you would need to run ads in spa-owner-magazines (I don't know if that exists) to reach them or something like that.

EDIT: I don't know if you agree, but maybe another lesson is: just because a market is big (US), that does not mean it's the best business opportunity. Maybe you should have started this in France first and then scaled to other countries when and if you had a working business model. [I am just thinking out loud, I think if I would have worked on the same idea, it would have turned out much worse.]
You were treated wrongly.

A good lawyer who specialises in immigration will know what to do next.
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And a much better read. Thanks.
The core concept is an event we can't predict beyond, so claiming it means any specific benefit (such as immortality) is misunderstanding it, and so is claiming some specific people won't be affected, and so is claiming that the outcome must include 'benefits' for living humans.
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NOAA is the federal government and is pretty important. Unless issuing tornado warnings and forecasting hurricanes is not important, that is.
I'd pay $1,000 for another Monkey Island game. I can't get enough of the series.
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Sophistication wasn't what made GoldenEye great. I think the four person multi-player and control accessibility are what made GoldenEye such a big hit. There was something very fluid and "easy" about the controls in GoldenEye. Many of my friends that never played FPS made the jump for that game, and we spent countless hours swearing like sailors as we killed each other in the archives.
That's the one operating at the moment :-)

http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com
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Keep going! It's more fun to compete with no funding! It frustrates competitors with deep pockets.
Hrrm, being that cartridge space is absolutely premium, and the size of the games affected their profitability, I wonder if this code was left in there with the space trade off of other features. (Golden Eye was a 96 megabit/12 megabyte cartridge.)
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While I agree that the page by itself is not very useful, it still does give access to two huge sources of data that Google has on you: your Web History, and your Google Dashboard. Obviously it would be more useful if they were integrated into the page, but imho providing a link is sufficient for the moment, as this is the first iteration of the page. I'm sure we will see improvements made over the coming months.
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Great news! It also seems to me that his has improved the rendering of SVG, although I don't know if it's actually hardware accelerated now or just faster.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/SantasWorkshop...

Runs significantly faster and smoother for me now.
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For the record, I don't find it meaningless when someone wishes me happy birthday on facebook (or using any other medium). For me, saying the actual words "Happy Birthday" is my preferred method of being wished a happy birthday...
You may want to re-word the first line of your post.
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Once we reach a stable population, can't most metals be recycled indefinitely?
You're incorrect about several things in your claim. The only overlap that Apple's filing and your app are that they share a teleprompter element.

If I read the description on your app correctly, you use it for teleprompting while video recording the person doing the talking. You mention several use cases such as perfecting a speech, or recording a good version of yourself giving a speech.

The Apple patent filing however, is for a completely different use case. It details specifically the use of doing voice-over audio recording of a previously recorded video.

So just because you both support a teleprompter element, doesn't mean you're covered by this patent filing OR that Apple "stole" from you. Patents are taken as a whole, and not all their individual parts that go into it.
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This next statement is probably going to get me nuked, but:

I think people have accepted the walled garden model and they like it.

In a perverse way, their success is partly because of the PC era itself. The lowered expectations people have of computational devices from windows makes. Having something that "Just works" such a blessing, for such a ridiculous portion of all consumers, that their "walled garden" translates into "sanctuary" for most human beings.

IF in the future mature market, other tablets have also reached a stage where "it just works", then its an even playing field.

At that point,the walled garden will be just another field to walk between.

Edited for clarity
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I've only ever once actually used this skill on anything other than my own locks. My upstairs neighbor was moving out of his apartment and managed to slam the front door shut with his keys inside and the movers and himself outside. I opened the lock for him after fiddling around for about five minutes helping to get his move moving.
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> sign in with Facebook

I don't have an account, so I basically just closed the tab

First impressions, your product allows me to give people e-gifts that are actually worth something instead of pixels

But, the whacking great "Facebook" button makes me kinda close the tab

Give me the ability to import my iPhone's contact book (Protip: iCloud is a single page app backed by some client-side MVC framework, so basically a free JSON API once you've got the login stuff worked out), then overlay reminders x days in advance on my iCalendar to go to your service and buy a gift, then you can handle everything from there

But, I'm always an edge case :)

Good luck, I hope you work everything out OK
One job gave me a 10K relocation bonus. Then with no notice whatsoever they deducted that bonus from my year end bonus. I was so mad. They claimed it was official policy but couldn't they have told me that up front when I was evaluating job offers? It was certainly never in my offer letter.

Edit ... I guess your stories are a lot worse. I'm so sorry :-(
That would indeed be a bad argument. I'm glad I didn't try to make it. The iPad is a superb browsing/reading device. But sometimes people insist on using the wrong tool for the job. You want LaTeX on your iPad. But you don't have it and won't get it, because it's not a computer. That was my point. You want to take notes and use LaTeX? Why didn't you buy a used Thinkpad for $100 from ebay and install linux? That's what I did. I don't have the excellent iPad screen (or the battery life - I certainly see your point there), but I don't have to say "I wish this could run LaTeX / Gimp / gcc / python / ....".
Tip: Instead of writing the articles via your keyboard, get a good voice-to-speech machine (like the iPad) and simply free-talk about the topic. In 30 minutes, you can write on quite some topics. Totally unique content.
nanijoe, agreed, some can be meaningful. Changed to boring.
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Curtis' abilities surrounding marketing, PR and his brand has and will continue to drive this product. Not the technology.

Copycats can build the technology, but that's it. All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.
I invest and do well with it. However, that came with a high price of "learning". I do not recommend that the average joe just buy into random stocks hoping for the best. Yes, people have made a lot of money doing that - however, far more people have lost a lot of money doing it. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a great read. If you want entertainment value to invest in something like activision blizzard with disposable income, go for it. All in all, I'd invest in bond-funds in about 1 year from now for the long haul. FTBAX, for example, has a tax-free annualized yield of about 7%. If you are really looking for aggressive growth, go jump into an equity position in a promising startup that doesn't know their value. Watching companies like Microsoft and Amazon IPO and grow 100x just doesn't happen as VCs are getting all their returns from that actual IPO and not the growth post-IPO.
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Great looking site and clear focus, but your Facebook Connect permission requirements caused me to give up before trying your product!

Getting past the home page requires connecting with facebook and providing the following info:

Your basic info

Your e-mail address

Your birthday

Your relationship status

Your photos

Friends' birthdays

Photos shared with you

This app may post on your behalf, including status updates, photos and more.

I suggest you allow me to browse more of your site while not logged in, limit the initial permission request to just my basic info + email, and/or provide alternate login method.
If the only way to sign in is with Facebook, then I guess I'm not signing in.

Edit: I realize you may have done this because it makes it easy to just quickly slurp in your friends' birthdays through the Facebook API. But I am willing to do more legwork on my behalf because I have other special dates I might want to give gifts for, and I am willing to manually key those in myself along with my friends' birthdays.
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The zoomed out view reminds me of the microsoft courier. Why hasnt anyone made that into an app?
> Something is going on here and it's not based upon rational prioritization of targets, going after the loudest and most powerful purveyors of misogyny. It's quite the opposite: going after the weakest.

It seems rational to me. I don't know Jessamyn Smith, but I personally don't listen to rap, I don't meet rap stars, and none of my friends like rap. I don't hear rap.

Co-workers? An IRC bot on a channel she's logged on to every work day? A rational response would be to target the things that are affecting you, constantly.

On a larger, societal scale, sure, stopping to misogyny in rap would help more. And it contributes to a culture where it's okay to create an TWSS bot. But it wouldn't help that situation in the short term.
I did a lousy job of tracking my time for this project. I worked on this website from February to June, but nowhere near full-time of course (it's still quite small). I did spend lots of time on SEO which would have been better spent outsourcing to someone else on oDesk.

I wish I had solid statistics about time invested to give you but I don't :-(

I outsourced creation of the certificates, and parts of the site design for a couple hundred bucks.
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Lol I thought much the same. The basic example she gives is a problem for me.

I know where the restaurants I like are. I've been going to them for years. The type of place I would search for is when I need somewhere, maybe more upmarket, to take a client to.

The last thing I need is for a search engine to point me at the same-old.

It's trying to turn out of ruts. You turn the steering wheel like a madman, but the tyres don't bite and you just keep going where you don't want to go.
If you're trying to transfer because your manager is giving you crap, you'll find it harder than you think to get the transfer approved.

At Google, the not-so-nice managers are the ones who use low ratings to decrease their reports' mobility. You can actually see this on a Perf graph. 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.0, 3.5, 3.5. The step discontinuity is because the number itself isn't reported to employee. The bucket is. (3.0 to 3.4 is a huge range, from the 3rd to 65th percentile of the company, but any number in this stretch is reported as "Meets Expectations".) The 3.5 jump happens because the employee gets sick of "Meets Expectations" and the half-step semi-promotion is used to perk him up a little bit. But again, "Exceeds Expectations" is a huge range (3.5 to 3.9) and the numbers are still put in the low end of the range. 3.5 will very rarely get a person promoted.

What the numbers are supposed to represent is a probability that the employee would succeed in the next higher level. 3.x is an x out of 10 chance that a level-N employee would be successful at level N + 1. 2.9 and below is cause to start the PIP/termination process, with a recommendation of timeframe (2.9 = 60 days, 2.8 = 45, 2.7 = 30); 4.1 to 5.0 represents various degrees of consideration for various (sometimes very lucrative) special awards. At 5.0, you might see an EMG award that would impress even bankers.

The ones who overuse 3.0 and 3.5 are the not-so-nice managers, not the evil ones. The evil managers are the ones who use PIPs to block transfers. Those are the 4.1-to-PIP cases where the target has to get a VP override in order to make the move.

In the meantime, your manager can sandbag your quarterly performance rating and taint your compensation and chances for promotion for a long time. A bad manager at Google is still a bad manager.

Bingo, and Google has plenty of those.

Google is a pretty great place if you have a good manager, not because the executives know what they're doing, but because you're getting paid to hang out with some brilliant, creative, curious engineers. A lot of them are really good people as well. So if you have a good manager, you can do very well at Google, but like any company, it's bad if you have a bad manager.

Promotions are decided by committee with input from your peers. But without strong performance ratings from your manager and appropriate projects to work on, you won't get promoted no matter what your peers say. The committees are very reluctant to override the manager.

Exactly. It used to be an OR-gate between manager and peer feedback. Now it's an AND-gate.
As the raspberry pi blog comments say today they actually did find a misconfiguration of the HDMI port that was unintentionally transmitting on all sorts of frequencies. So the earlier than expected certification wasn't pointless.
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The ML language family does, other functional languages (the LISP family, Erlang) don't.
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Sorry, I meant with regard to e-ink displays.
great advice - Thank you.
Well here's another expression I like "Nothing is ever more permanent than a temporary fix."
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As an engineer, I don't have to work for you (where "you" is any particular manager or director). This is incredibly important because it puts strict limits on how much crap you can be given because (assuming you're in good standing) you can request a transfer to any team that will take you (within limits and your existing manager can delay you but can't block you)

True for Real Googlers. Real Googler status used to be informally conferred at Senior SWE but now it's somewhere between Senior SWE and Staff SWE. Real Googlers can pull a Yegge (quit their project in public). Peasants get PIP'd by their managers if they are seen talking to TLs from other teams (transfer risk) in the microkitchen.
Because growth.

Take a mature industry - what are the sources of potential upside?

Growth, more customers, perhaps from new geographies/product categories

Efficiency improvements and thence profitability

Occasionally new product innovation.

Being a mature industry though, the chance of a break out innovation, that changes the face of the industry, is low. So your growth path for the industry tends to be tied to GDP growth in the end.

With tech though, you can have a revolutionary product, which doesn't do it by redistributing power, but by increasing the share of the pie for everyone.

And while doing this, tech still keeps the possibility of growth through diversification/geographical expansion AND efficiency improvements which will be discovered over time.

Sorry I am a bit tired, so I may not have made the most educational of responses.
I really like this idea, but dont have a facebook.

Its frustrating that I can't get into see all the gift options without logging in. You should make that "... and may more" reveal the full list of GC options.

I do appreciate the short walk-through near the bottom though.
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> I don't understand this..

Well, I won't speculate on the workings of the Chrome profiler, but what I can say is that profiling in Chrome and Firefox gives different results (which may of course be caused by differences in the Javascript engines).

> I wonder if your RAM accesses are mostly 32bit

All accesses on the LM32 processor are aligned. Half word accesses have 2 byte alignment, and word accesses have 4 byte alignment. So in theory it would be easy.

I use ArrayBuffers for the RAM array (where supported). You can have different views for the same array buffer, so in theory I could have the ram ArrayBuffer with an 8bit view, a 16bit view, and a 32bit view, where each would be used for accesses of their size. In that sense, you're absolutely right and I think a good speedup would be achieved by that change (something like 2x speedup as most accesses are in fact 32 bit).

I don't do that for endianness reasons. The LM32 is big endian, and most devices nowadays are little endian. Unfortunately, the state of ArrayBuffer is still kind of chaotic, in that the endianness of the ArrayBuffer is the endianness of the host (they do this for performance reasons). So I can't do the v32[rpc] thing. Theoretically, I could if the programs have Read-Write consistency, i.e., if they only used the same size for reading and writing some data, which they don't. A program that tests the endianness of the processor, for instance, does not have read write consistency.

I could use ArrayBufferViews to access memory in an endianness-independent way, but I tried it and it's actually much slower.

To make memory faster, two things can be done either:
1) emulate a little endian processor instead.
2) have a fast byteswap operator in javascript, without a function call (never gonna happen).

So since 2 is never going to happen, the solution is to tackle 1.
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Whatever geek.com and extremetech are doing to "adapt" their site for the iPad is just awful! This one cut off the last paragraph and a half and my attempts to swipe to the rest of the content dumped me into an advertisement, then another article.

In contrast, the "desktop" article works just fine for me on the iPad, thanks. I thought setting fake browser info went out in the 90's. On Opera Mini, the whole site is just a blank page, BTW.
Hey reginaldo, for some reason I cannot enter any text on the terminal, hence, I cannot login. I'm using Chrome 18 on OS X Lion. Just in case, I tried downloading the code and running it locally: same result. Any ideas?
I have never been a fan of buying stock given the 1/3 probability of making money (you only make money when your stock goes up and lose money when the particular stock has no movement or declines in value). In my opinion derivatives present a better alternative and I am particularly fond of stock options, which can be used for either speculation (bet on the performance of a company) or as a safety net on your long positions (like an insurance policy). With options you can make money when the market goes up, down or sideways based on your position. Something to consider, is that your exposure with stock options tends to be a fraction of what it would be if buying the underlying stock. Your exposure is limited (you can only lose as much money as you paid for the contracts) and your upside is "theoretically" unlimited.
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