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The truth is likely somewhere in between. Apple probably anticipated the demand for native apps. But they weren't ready, business-wise if not technically, to build the SDK and App Store in 2007, so they held off on it for a year.

Sometimes it's useful to pretend that what you were going to do all along was merely a concession to outside demand.
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Embedded payment widgets inspired by Baekdal
How exercise could lead to a better brain
Cool! So if you want to, for example, embed Sass compilation in a web framework in $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE -- Python, Haskell, some weird dialect of Scheme, whatever -- all it would take is a few lines of code to wrap a few C-style function calls.
I know exactly what you mean. When I started in my new job (Tier 2 system admin), everyone around me was so advanced that I felt completely out of my league for months.

That feeling is beginning to abate just now, almost a year later.

It kind of sucks while you're in the grip of it - and no amount of ensuring myself "Damnit, Karunamon, you like learning, stop herping the derp" silenced that little niggling voice that says "Oh god what have I gotten myself into here, I'm so outclassed it's sad"
Next I want to learn how to read and write the kanji in fifteen minutes. Okay, oaky. I'm willing to invest as long as twenty minutes.
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The console is great. It's basically a REPL for Javascript.
One of the key things with this is differentiating between the word "estimation" and the word "committing". I'm not sure if it was Uncle Bob's book (The Clean Coder), or another one, but those two words are frequently misunderstood by everyone involved.

An engineer's "estimate" is a project manager's "commitment", unless there's a serious discussion about what the probability of completion there is associated with the estimate. (The default assumption will be 100%)
I experienced this over the past two weeks when I was staying up 'til 4 AM trying to get this project to work: https://github.com/jlongster/dcpu-lisp

I knew it was possible because I could compile the program in my head, but automating that in to a program is a whole different task. Still, the concept was easy to prove. It was all in the details, and I constantly was reminded that I had no idea what I was doing. I've never written assembly before, and barely done any compiler work. Still, over 10 painful nights, it all came together.

What a rush.
Perfect timing would be yours and the parent account's registration times.
cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization#Japanese
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So, I wrote/write PadMapper, and I'd say not really. Thanks for looking out for me, though :-)

The map UI is clearly inspired by it, but the data sources are very different. If I understand correctly, RentHop mostly focuses on getting information directly from and making money from rental brokers, whereas PadMapper just tries to index everything it can (PadMapper takes direct listings from a lot of the top agents/agencies in NYC/Boston as well, but lots from Craigslist and other places)

As a result, there are data quality differences (RH's is probably cleaner in some ways if it is mostly direct), but also as a result RH necessarily has less selection and a larger percentage of RH's listings probably come with broker fees. Ultimately, which setup you prefer is down to whether you'd prefer to work with a broker, I think.
you can check this app http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html
It's a fairly well studied area, deriving unbiased randomness from a consistently biased source eg http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/abs/AnnProb84.html

The simplest approach I know of is to extract a random bit repeatedly until it transitions from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0, and then use the second result. 50/50 split, regardless of any (constant) bias in the generator.
This is quite fantastic. I think I'm going to make the switch very soon! I hope this'll save a few hundred milliseconds every time I hit `:w`. That happens a lot when I can stand the look of my ugly designs.

On the other hand, I don't see the long-term benefit clearly that would justify writing this in C++. Most of these open source mini-movements hit maintenance and motivation barriers after some time, not performance ones. Although this could mean Sass overcame the prototype phase quite successfully.

Also, at first sight it seems to me that the author of this library is the same as of Sass' itself. (Please correct me.) In this case, congratulations! Must be a real pleasure to see such a big improvement to what once was a pet project. :)
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The parable of the Happy Cog
Seems, not quite there yet. I like living in Somerville, which is one of the neighborhoods it indexes.

1) It only returns 19 results for Somerville

2) None of them allow cats (really? Every apartment I've lived in Somerville was more than happy to have cats).

3) There is no option to search for ones with garages (yes, there are garages in Somerville!)

4) There is no feedback as to where this Hop Score comes from (freshness, quality, manager? How do they know who a good landlord is?)

I'm not sure what this does for me honestly over other services. It looks nice. But 3 years, MIT developers and funding don't seem to add up here.

Fundamentally, the problem of indexing information about apartments is still broken completely, and no one seems to be able to fix it.
What makes it a business is that the skills and problems are more unnamed than not. If it was really that well-understood, someone would be trying to automate the heck out of it. The business only has to get far enough to deliver a product or service; its solutions are basically guaranteed to be 80% - instead of telepathy we have cell phones, instead of teleportation we have vehicles. Et cetera.

Thus, grit. The combination of building from what you already understand, and being willing to experiment with what you have, is usually enough to make iterative progress, and occasionally it results in an unexpected innovation.
I would like to remind you that when you open incognito, it specifically says:

"Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
- Websites that collect or share information about you"

Incognito only prevents information from being stored on your computer, not anyone else's.
I think you can see it if you are referred via social media, so . . . tweet it and click the link, or search for the title on twitter and click the link.

(I could post a link to my own tweet of the story, but I feel it would come off as more self-serving than altruistic.)
Thrillist looks like they've taken the garbage tactics of AOL and somehow managed to make them even more shit - the website the whole article about is linked only through a redirect-with-our-frame-at-the-top script at the bottom of it.
(Obvious) disclaimer: this is a user-hosted subdomain on GitHub. It is not an official GitHub page (even if the logo is two octocats snuggling together).
It depends on the technology of course but pretty much as fast as most of them move, most projects are going to involve new technology and a rapid learning curve to work with it. That being said, I think I am cut from a different cloth than a lot of developers, there are a lot of technologies that I do not know and have to pick up quickly but the part that I differ on is it seems that there are a lot of developers that scramble to adapt, where I never feel the pressure of that scramble. I can't explain it, but things just kind of fall into place for me. For any of you old enough to know the reference, I am kind of a Ferris Bueller like figure, where things appear to come easy for me. This can drive people crazy at times, my wife included because it appears that things are easy for me. While I do concern myself with adapting, I just don't stress about it, as I am confident in my ability to adapt. I personally don't feel that things are easy for me, rather I feel that things align for me a lot of times and I capitalize on that momentum. I never read stories from developers that have similar experiences, so I often wonder if my experience is an anomaly.
Why don't use the juice and link back to your territory if possible? Even if links are nofollowed, it might just help a person or two to find you.
According to the web page, New Gulim includes all of CJK, for Koreans this means Hanja, which are thousands of Chinese characters that haven't really been used to write Korean since the 19th century.

The actual Hangul (Korean syllabary) characters require about 30 consonants/clusters and 21 vowels/dipthongs which can appear in characters in 9 different layouts. It's much more work than the 26 latin characters, but most of the font design is going to be copy/paste.

So you could say the purpose of New Gulim is not to create a "Korean font" in the sense that a font you can write Korean with, but rather the sense that Koreans can use it to write Korean mixed with Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, and Greek characters with a unified design between scripts. That's a tall order.
Some scripts are surprisingly easy to pick up. If anyone is interested in the Japanese scripts (hiragana/katakan), this book[1] will truly teach them to you in 6 hours, total. I started reading it, and thought it moronic, but as I started writing a review of why it sucked, I realised that I could recall everything perfectly...

1: http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Kana-Reading-Japanese-Syll...
This is definitely true, though not such a big deal for basic understanding in practice, as the near-homophones usually have only subtly different meanings. I also don't often find myself having to transcribe stuff, and if I do, I can usually ask the speaker to check my spelling. On the other hand, reading something and immediately being able to pronounce it with some accuracy is very helpful, but attempting that with English words and especially names ("Cholmondeley" anyone?) often leads to unintentionally bizarre results.

(FWIW I speak English to a level that native speakers can't tell it's not my first language unless I trip over words I only know from reading - People ask me, "so where in England are you from" all the time. My French is just about passable - I can get by for basic everyday conversations as long as the other person doesn't speak too fast and they don't mind explaining/rephrasing the occasional sentence. I'd agree that perfecting your French is a lot harder than perfecting your English despite what I've said above.)
>>and then he showed me how he would have hacked it together in 1/10 the code by NOT trying to design it to be "extensible."

Hacks like this do come back and bite you in the rear big time when latter on you want to extend it. Unless you are planning to trow it away or never modify it, it is a really bad idea.
Does Amazon sell nanomorph mimetic poly-alloys too?
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> While libsass is primarily implemented in C++, it provides a simple C interface that is defined in [sass_inteface.h]. Its usage is pretty straight forward.
It's quite ironic really, that the article sneers over 'hype' and proceeds to do, unabashedly, just the same. I think Quora is a good product, it did not get the stickiness it deserved, and they tried well by adding features that brought in some sticky bits.

The article is completely elusive on the numbers, and mostly claims provided to a journalist that ate it up without question. As Steve Jobs once said, 'If you sell a lot of something, you'd want to tell the whole world about it'. Using this hype to fuel a better-than-you valuation created out of thin air is sad. Hardly relates to the noble cause that Quora is purportedly after.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "money-based lobbying"?
Jebus that was simple! I wish I'd thought of it.
I agree with your observation but I still disagree with the conclusion that we should protect people from themselves for the simple reason that people do not have a responsibility towards the economy. If half Silicon Valley stops going to work tomorrow, the economy will unquestionably take a massive hit. Should we have a law preventing people from stopping going to work? If Zuckerberg decided not to build Facebook, should he be held accountable for all the jobs he could have created but did not?
Keeping a truecrypt container (with built-in hidden container, naturally) synched with dropbox is quite easy.
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Your initial thought was partially right. Though it's not used as often these days, Korean does have hanja[1] which uses Chinese characters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja
Now you mention it: yes, probably.
However, I am interested in seeing how their business diversifies over time - Google has both stability and revenue from expanding beyond search. Additional features such as SSO and analytics are increasing the value of Facebook beyond just friend-to-friend interactions, and I am curious about how their business plan will support long-term stability.
This is just some advertisement for Samsung Mobile?
there's still a chance that you'll be stuck with the just-before-latest-stable version.

Is that so bad? Does python really change that much from release to release?
I'm still using a summer 2006 one! I think next year I'll be able to both rationalize and afford a complete upgrade of my desktop - I was waiting for it to be worthwhile to drop a large amount on a stupidly crazy gaming desktop, so a top of the line haswell-based cpu, a reasonably high-end graphics card or two, an SSD and bucketloads of RAM... yeah!

(We'll see if that actually comes to pass.. more likely I'll end up replacing my laptop instead of my desktop, despite that the desktop is what I use to play games and its starting to show its age now.. reasonable graphics card, ancient everything else)
The first thing you have to do to understand why bubbles happen is to stop believing everyone in it is being 100% rational.

The reality is that for most investors the vague notion that they might be missing a great opportunity far outweights any well documented evidence that they are walking into a sinkhole.

Many investors from the dotcom bubble simply left the market and new ones took their places. If there's money to be made some people will always be there, it doesn't gets more complex than that.

So basically you shouldn't stay out of tech right now just like you shouldn't stay out of tech in 1998. You should've done that in 2001 when everything started to collapse. Funny that Justin mentions Amazon because that company took a nosedive back then.

Question is, how long we have until the next 2001?

When that happens many people, including "negationists" and wantrepreneurs will GTFO from tech as fast as they can rip the copper wire from their office walls.
The hangul script was also successful because it was a state-sponsored improvement over using the chinese characters for the Korean language. Sometimes it helps to have someone abruptly enforce adoption of a better method.
Here’s how Facebook paid for Instagram
Super inspiring. Sounds like every startup founder needs to take a lesson out of the Code Academy founders' playbook. They hustled their butts off and made something great. Congrats.

There are quite a few "learn to write rails" schools out there, but the thing that excites me about Code Academy is that they seem to have an amazing focus on community.

The students, alum, and mentors seem to hang out with one another socially and go out of their way to help each other technically.

Very cool.
can anyone tell us if any of google's lobbying prevented the web from being less free and censored? do they support CISPA which is using cyber security as an excuse to stifle free speech on facebook twitter and others?
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http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.
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English is very difficult to learn to pronounce from the writing, or to write from the pronunciation because the different words stem from a large number of roots, each with their own pronunciation and conjugation peculiarities.

Writing in French is difficult to learn because there are many more verb conjugations and tenses, and nouns have often seemingly arbitrary sexes. The silent consonants are fairly consistent and systematic.
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So I can't go down two lines?

I did inoremap q, which is not too bad if you're typing English prose. But still.
If I recall correctly, the Linux Kernel is about one million lines of code, while KDE + LibreOffice + Firefox is more like 200 millions. Meaning, we could expect the kernel to be about 200 times cheaper than the rest of the software stack.

Even if they do use their miraculous 100× process (they partly do), it would still be a bit slower than a kernel in C.

My guess is, in about a year or two, we will see languages and programs based on their stack, and if it delivers, I think there's a good chance of total disruption before 2022, provided we push for it.
Hi, I'm one of the RentHop founders. We love what Eric's done with PadMapper. Our focus is primarily sorting on quality. We see most of the messaging and scheduling activity so we can reward the responsive and trustworthy managers while penalizing bad behavior. For example, if an apartment is still available after 15 renters have looked at it over two weeks, that's a terrible sign.

For now we had to seed our initial reputation using priors from our data partners and our own observations about a firm's listings. As time passes the scores should differentiate based on individual activities, similar to our NYC rankings.
Don't fall into that trap: it's dangerous. Twelve years ago AOL was doing just as well ($1-2 billion each quarter, $300-400 million in earnings), and was the largest portal/ISP around. Blackberry and Nokia were kings of the mobile mountain five years ago.

You are only as good as your current product: Facebook's commodity is people, and people are not as loyal as you might think.

Facebook could very well be around a long time, but 'forever and ever and ever'? Smart people have lost a lot of money thinking like that. I certainly wouldn't gamble on it.
Startup claims 'Holy Grail' of SoC design
One would think - but the obligation is not there (nor should it be really, this would only hamper its further adoption even more than it already is)

Agreed it's the right thing to do, but if I write a GPL module which is later used in say, a Microsoft product, I don't have the desire, the time, or even the money to take them to court.
yeah... that's a bit more difficult. i picked up the korean alphabet in an afternoon, and was able to read out loud almost any korean text put in front of me. after studying the language for a few more months, i was still only at a very low beginner level when it came to recognizing anything i read. i think it's one of the more difficult languages to learn.
Such people are useful if you can stand them. Avoid them while you work out your idea, but let them tear it apart after you've developed it but before you commit serious resources to implementing it. It can only make your plan stronger.
Not quite true -- Chrome Canary is just a daily build from the Chromium repository.
The other thing interesting about the Korean alphabet is that the symbols take "notches" also have the same mouth formation. The notch is an indication to use the same mouth shape, but to use a "harder" sound. So the G sound and K sound have a similar mouth shape, as well as the D sound and the T sound, the J and CH sounds.

My understanding, also, is that there are no exceptions to the rules, so it makes it very easy to read and write, which is awesome.
Hi there, I'm one of the RentHop founders.

For now we had to seed our initial reputation using priors from our data partners and our NYC models. We'll be sure our scoring gets smarter and better fit to Boston over time.
It will definitely be interesting to monitor how Google will continue outspending on lobbying....for good and bad of internet, free speech, etc
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>nor does it "infect" anything.

Yes it does, which is part of the damn point. If you incorporate GPL'ed code into your app, your app is now subject to the same terms by default.

I understand the visceral reaction to the word, but it's generally accepted that the GPL has a viral nature.
I agree, putting links back to your homepage helps, and these days it shows up as the first result with my name. But still, I want the other results to be relevant: such as my papers, any press we have got etc., not some random product I have tried long time ago and never even liked it.
Loved this quote: “Mind your own business; own your own business and run your own business.”
They're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but it's hard for me to trust an app with my private files if an errant click somewhere might open them up to the public web by mistake.

Previously on Dropbox, I knew that if a file wasn't in my Public folder, it was not shared with anyone (unless I had manually created a "shared folder"). Now, I can never be entirely sure.
> On the other hand you do have languages like Chinese where learning the written language actually is the majority of the work. Spoken Chinese is probably one of the easier languages out there for a person coming from a random language.

As a student that is currently learning Chinese, the first sentence is true, from a Chinese perspective. The written language is extremely important for Chinese nationals; I've heard of all sorts of arguments from expats at my school, saying stuff like: "I just want to learn how to say X; when am I going to write it!?" Practically speaking, reading is much easier than writing (I can read way more than I can write) and once you hit a particular threshold of characters, you can read 90% of the text around you.

As for the second sentence, for a person with no background in tonal languages, learning the tones in Mandarin is extremely challenging. I assuming that the parent is a native English speaker. According to the Foreign Service Institute, Mandarin and Cantonese (you didn't specify what kind of Chinese) are among the hardest languages to learn for a native English speaker.[0]

I think Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) is difficult. And this is coming from a native English speaker with a background in Cantonese (my parents are from Hong Kong).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_difficult_language_to_lea...
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. This drives me crazy every time.
Nobody knows yet - they haven't taken a public stance on CISPA.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/23/google-admits-to-lo...

Personally I'd be shocked if they supported it..
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I wonder who'll get it in their next bankruptcy.
Not really. In that situation you're telling people you know how to do something you don't. In this situation you're telling people you have no idea but can probably figure it out.
Miranda IM (nee Miranda ICQ) didn't become usable or popular until after I gave up on it. I think it's been abandoned at least once again. Several complete different sets of people have been working on it.
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I wonder if this has something to do with environment or just personal insecurity.
You shouldn't randomize at all if you want to remove information. Instead, set everyone to a single, common UA to make everyone look the same.