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Apple build quality is terrible.

Why:

You can't remove the battery without a screwdriver. That's dangerous, especially with LiPoly cells. We had a 2010 MacBook Pro which had an electrical fault on the logic board which caused a fire with no possibility to remove the battery i.e. stop the short. It basically got thrown out of a second floor window into the street to stop it taking the building out.

Apple stuff is designed around appearance and not durability and maintenance. Metal doesn't make it good. Lenovo particularly concentrate on the latter two. My T61 has a titanium chassis, titanium screen protection. You can throw it around and stand on it quite happily. The plastic around it protects everything from shock. My T61 has been down a flight of stairs, has been fallen on and had 2 drinks poured in it - it's fine. I can also replace ANY part inside it in about 10 mins flat. HP EliteBooks are what you are referring to - they are poorly designed like the MacBooks are and suffer failures regularly. They are a copycat machine. I cannot count the number of times my colleagues have had to take their MacBooks and MacBook Pros back to Apple for failures. None of our (35) Lenovo T-series laptops have EVER been taken out of service for maintenance or damage.

My T61 was made in 2007 - it's still fine. It's had memory and an SSD chucked in it (which took 5 mins each).

Apple hardware is for penis enthusiasts. It doesn't give you anything over a quality non-Apple laptop other than smugness.

Basically, your argument is based on comparing a MacBook to a shitty netbook, spending all your money on Apple love and not having enough cash left over for a Windows license which you're too cheap to pay out for.

Idiot.
No - but it seems like that figure is wrong on two counts - greater than the actual number of ships of that size lost in that timeframe (142), and those ships weren't sunk by rogue waves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave#Loss_estimates
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I wrote a few small scripts to test this out. Each contained a simple print statement, then looped it 5000 times and timed it.

There is ~2.1% overhead when using env.

This doesn't matter in most cases, but in a Google-sized company with standardized environments it's worth it.
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exactly. It is extremely unlikely that there will be a full scale war between India and China; perhaps only border skirmishes. A ballistic missile deterrence can only help to "balance" the stakes and make the region more stable.
I also wonder whether the OP and others who post suggestions for getting rid of poverty really mean? These are rocket-scientists, not social scientists. The resources allocated for poverty reduction programs is already quite staggering....pouring more money cannot solve the problem; it is a social and economic change that will occur eventually. Meanwhile, one can secure the territorial integrity of India and build expertise in missile systems, among other things...which surely can't be a bad thing, especially since it looks like there is gonna be a space race sooner than anybody thought about.
I was looking for a similar solution and you will find your usual suspects:

* https://github.com/klen/python-mode
* http://code.google.com/p/vim-python-ide/
* http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide

In the end ask yourself - which problem are you trying to solve by changing your IDE? If it can't be fixed in your current IDE, try something else.

I ended up going with Pycharm using Vim key bindings as it was easier for me to work on different machines and OSes without having to worry too much about setting up my environment.
It's not the language that they took, but the whole platform. They don't provide a compiler from Java to whatever bytecode Dalvik is using, but from Java bytecode to Dalvik bytecode.

Now I'm not saying they're doing anything illegal or in breach of any contract - I really don't know - and I don't know whether or not you could own a language in the legal sense - I have no idea about that either - but all of Google's actions seem to be in bad faith.

Whether or not it has any legal merit, the Java licensing was specifically meant to ensure compliant implementations. In addition, Sun didn't want other mobile implementations and tried to prevent that. Then Google went ahead, forked Java into a non-compliant implementation (and that would have been fine, too), but built their entire tool system in such a way as to allow many compiled Java libraries to run unmodified on an inferior JVM - sorry, a 'non-Java' VM - that they'd bought with the sole intention of circumventing Sun's licensing.

I don't know if Sun had a right to license Java as they did, and I don't know if Google did anything legally wrong. But what is clear that they've tried to stay as close as possible to Java (the whole platform - not just the language) without breaching the letter of the law in Sun's license. In fact, most of their technical effort was directed at precisely that - circumventing Java's licensing.

Now, I don't know why people are rushing for Google's defense as if they've been acting altruistically or something. Everything the did, or do, they do for profit.

There are no good guys in this story. There are simply two huge conglomerates in a business war. Oracle is trying to take advantage of Android's success where they've failed in the mobile arena, and Google is trying to take advantage of Java's popularity. Both companies are simply trying to exploit each other for their own benefit.

Whatever the legal outcome, I think both developers and consumers would benefit greatly if Android were to become a compliant Java implementation, and could take advantage of Oracle's superior VM.
I think it would be interesting indeed to see small distributed shops like what Etsy has approach the efficiency of Amazon. I'm certain it's not possible to quite match it because of inherent limitations, but I'm very curious about what can be done.
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Yeah, AWS Marketplace is great. But why does the design/ux have to be so second rate? It could be so much better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue

There are actually a lot of companies with more than 100.000 employees... I think it's just natural that there aren't more... you need a very big market for them
FWIW if you are an intellij user you can install the jetbrains python plugin, which offers much of the same functionality:

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/PYH/PyCharm+vs.+Inte...
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You need to write a full Python parser to get similar intelligence in vim - and it would be difficult to do smoothly given that vim plugins can't communicate with a long-running process as the code-assist emacs plugins do (which is my biggest complaint about modern vim).

Alternatively, PyCharm has a vi plugin which isn't too bad (depending on which features of vim you expect).
Thanks for the links. Googling some of the ships listed as casualties led me to this page http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/News/Home.html

So it looks like the ships are not necessarily lost, and some of them aren't all that big...
Oh, I must have been thinking of something from when gmail just launched.
As others have pointed out, passive non-controlling ownership in a closely held company is worthless when your relationship with the controlling parties is adversarial.

Simple advice: Startups fail. What you will gain by walking away as amicably as possible and getting on with your life is worth far more than the shares. [1]

[1] 10% with 2:1 dilution requires a $150,000,000 exit to provide the FU money minimum of $7.5 million.
The problem is (probably) that you are watching github.com/yourprofile, which doesn't show the dropdown. When you go to github.com itself you will see the dropdown for selecting organisations in the top-left.
Sweet! I hope "keeping the devs happy" trend continues in Sony. Maybe this way someone will freak out when s/he sees unencrypted passwords stored in the database and does it in the right way.
Seems to be a Google-ism. I haven't worked there, but all the ex-Googlers I've worked with do this. It also makes it easy to grep for all your TODOs in a tree, something you can't do with cvs/svn/git annotate.
As long as the first settlers are not chinese, that's pretty likely ...
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Maybe it is deliberate?

There is some thinking that beautiful is not always more effective:

http://sparknlaunch.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/keep-it-simple-...

Craigslist, POF .... Maybe Amazon know something we don't? Or they have too much legacy code that they cannot change?
The main site uses ASP.NET MVC. It's just this style guide, which was probably never meant to be public, that seems to use old-style *.aspx files in some areas.
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Hey all,

First time coming here for advice.

Back when I was running my consulting company last year I booked off my Lead Dev and put a lot of money into a startup. I designed it, he developed it and I finally got it done.

I then spent a good year battling the banks. Once that was finished, I lost a lot of my excitement. That cross between being unsure how to launch, I wanted to approach the main thing bugging me.

Social Proof. We all know that if we see a site with plenty of members, it makes us think that the service is good. And vica-versa.

I know a blog with about 600,000 subscribers who are willing to review the site. That helps. But the issue I'm having is: My startup is city-based. What can I do to avoid the "There are no people in this city" and thus the thinking that the service isn't worth it.

The few ideas I have is to:
* Turn it into a positive thing. "Be the first!"
* Launchrawk it. Get emails, and then slowly let people in.
* ???

What have you done? What would you recommend in my shoes?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks guys.
That could be easily spoofed by requiring just some username on the server side, assuming you set up your web presence such that these links always include some username. The HEAD request won't help you there.
Good luck making money selling apps on the Nokia :)
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No. Facebook could have taken the risk of trying to develop a space program, with a potential cost less than the price for Instagram.

Before it began, there was no guarantee that SpaceX would be successful, or that it would only cost $800 million in expenditures. And on the flip side, I expect the current value of SpaceX is higher than $1 billion.

Extreme example of how risk distorts price: if I buy a lottery ticket for $1 and win $1 million, does that mean that some guy who bought a soda for the same money could have done the same instead of buying the soda? Was the money spent on the soda wasted?

Elon took a risk, and appears to have won quite a position.
What's next for tech startups?
only us/canada.. bummer
Do you know of any other manufacturers that let developers test on their phones?
I personally love CI. It's easy to use and very flexible.

I have used Cake PHP and Yii too. But they are not that modular and flexible when it comes to CI.
That's cool, but how many users will understand what's being asked for? If the user says yes (and users will always just click the "go on do it" button), they basically agreed to being tracked indefinitely :-(
Just to further extend this point, I feel that PG's comment - "closed -> negotiated" - hasn't gotten enough attention.

Think about this. Not only Zuck changed the rules on control (taking as much power as he could in his hands), he's also changed the way M&A talks are conducted, thereby helping all of us who are still working towards our first billion.

Think how often you hear stories of M&A deals fall through because large companies end up screwing entrepreneurs. Now, if the new standards for negotiation is 3 days, more people would be able to sleep at night. After all, you can now confidently go in, name a price, negotiate on it for an hour, and then close and go one with your life, building a stronger company. Isn't it what you'd want anyway?
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Yeah, I've been wondering the same thing. Here's what I found so far, but really nothing definitive:

http://demo.analytical-labs.com/

https://github.com/drkreso/cube

http://databrewery.org/cubes.html

http://exposedata.com/parallel/veggie/

http://square.github.com/crossfilter/

Some saas's:

http://www.metricly.com

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/

http://chart.io

http://www.gooddata.com

Another option is to use Excell. With an odbc data source and some materialised views, you can pull stuff into a pivot table and get pretty far on the BI front. Of course, you have to use Windows on the client and mssql on the server side (I currently just mirror my MySql database into mssql on a daily basis).

Interested in hearing if you found other options?
I'm sad to see epio go, it was/is a great tool and I always got stellar service from Andrew and Ben.

I've been using Ep.io for a number of apps, but one of them is http://laserey.es, which uses openCV. Andrew installed it on epio without a hitch, but I haven't found any other cloud hosting that offers it. Does anyone have suggestions where I could migrate it to?
Yeah I'd prefer one with bigjack outputs as well, or XLR. Like he says, balanced outputs aren't essential, but they definitely aren't snake oil: they are very useful at gigs.

Also, I'd like one with four channels please :)
Some of them have a license file or some info about the licence in an included readme. The others are not safe to be used in commercial products, imo. Adding reachable license info (like other sites selling themes and graphic elements usually do) is essential for this kind of services.
Also, it's Codecademy, not Code Academy. :)

They both exist and have both been in the news. Codecademy gets talked about more because its free and YC funded but Code Academy is also recommended by 37Signals, etc... See:

http://www.codeacademy.org/

http://www.codecademy.com/
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I appreciate the effort but that page, in itself, is a sin of webdesign... assuming everyone has an interface that supports hover, with mystery-meat.

I honestly had no idea what was going on until I came to the comments as I first viewed it on my iphone... came to the comments here for an explanation.
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Statistics about ship losses in this article are utterly wrong. The Wikipedia article below explicitly calls out the press release this article appears to be based upon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave#Loss_estimates
As well they should. People get paid to do a job. I stopped arguing with people long ago about what is best. If someone wants a site that does X, I might suggest that Y would work better but if they want X i do that. It's all about being professional.
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I agree the mentality of "just break 'em" is wrong. But it's not so black and white. What you described is the extreme end of the spectrum that Microsoft is on. Clearly this is a pathological case where you commit to support abuse of your API. The alternative in this case would have been to tell Adobe not to do that earlier on. I understand why Microsoft operates that way, and I do believe it's an admirable goal, but you don't have to paint yourself into this corner. There are alternatives that are more subtle than screwing the customer. This gray area is what the thesis of your article skips over.

It's still a great story though.
I've not gone through every one that's up but I've downloaded the ones I'm interested in and they fall under two categories. License file/Link to license file saying fine for personal & commercial, or no license file. No license file makes things somewhat more complicated.

Just as a note to the creators of the service (and it is gorgeous and thank you very much for the extra resources! Bookmarked and I shall return), it might be a pain but you should specify that each pack contains an actual factual copy of the license file. Web links come and go, but the .txt remains strong.
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> Or they have too much legacy code that they cannot change?

Changing the css isn't some legacy code that can't be changed.
Don't forget all the mass surveillance and control that "we nerds" made possible.

The picture of the last 20 years is not rosy. Computer technology has advanced a lot, sure, but when I read things from the 70's it seems that there was a more enlightened society back then. I heartily agree with rohern's sentiment.

It's a societal problem. Even though a lot of people would love to work on really new and bold and innovative things, it's impossible to do if society doesn't enable it. For example if your project is immediately shot down due to legal reasons, or not financed out of fear or conservatism.
Agreed. I saw "turnkey rails" in the sidebar and thought I'd take a look into it. It's very unclear what versions of software are included. The last changelog entry on 2011/12/06 says nothing about ruby or rails versions. The last mention was 2011/01/27 claiming REE 1.8.7-2010.02_i386_ubuntu10.04.

To give a perspective on update frequency, according to the same page (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/rails), two updates before that was Fri, 2009/10/23 - 16:35. This update claims to have ruby 4.1 installed. It seems that their VM image also includes a time machine.

Not getting a huge feel of confidence from that being featured on their landing page. An open market can be good, but when it comes to supplying an image for my production env, that type of thing could leave me feeling a bit uneasy.
Interesting -- my dad went to school in Ireland and had tracks similar to the previous commenter, the A track being the most math intensive (although everyone on that track also studied Latin and Gaelic). Where was your high school?
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Thanks, this is the probably best advice I got. It looks like entering an unexplored niche might probably the best route right now. My own niche developer/geek is probably not for me. I appreciate it.
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Add Google self-driving car to that list. Reducing alcohol and speed related deaths to zero within our lifetime, getting rid of car parks (fleets of autonomous vehicles move onto the next customer), cheaper delivery of any physical product currently delivered by road, reduced CO2 emissions (cars know when they need servicing), more productive workforces- you can sleep during your commute, the list of benefits is mind boggling. I would love a kit that I could snap onto my car today that could do this (laws notwithstanding). It's going to be a massive game changer for societies.
So, it's the users fault then?
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I've been in this field for more than a decade and I couldn't agree more. The tools, and even the underlying theory is stuck in the past, and every project I work on is hampered by the technology not meeting the expectations of (business) users who demand a much more intuitive way of working - because that's what the experience every day on consumer devices.

There are issues though with getting consistent and accurate measures that are not easily solved by just looking at the data - albeit at a very high level of detail) for example when customers move or change details, it's easy to lose track of where you should be reporting the facts. And depending on the volume of data it's not going to be a long term solution to recalculate everything every day - which is the mistake a lot of companies make when trying to cope with this.

The problem is in your question. The Cube. This is a construct that assumes that the underlying data is typed allowing it to be re-arranged into facts, characteristics and attributes, and unless you have the foresight to think of your db like this before you build your web app, it's hard going to squeeze it into the dimensional model.

In fact I'd go as far as saying that the dimensional model is no longer a suitable model for dealing with event based data generation, and that may be why you ask the question.

It's one of my personal goals to solve this, I have some thoughts but it's not quite my priority at the moment, but I'd love to hear what others have to say on this.
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My corporate firewall won't allow it, or I'd be doing it now. :(
If the basic research was done by the Germans, what was all the research at NASA about?

Libertarians virtually never have valid points, private industry efficiency is one of the most common urban myths. The incentive for efficiency is valid, but the efficacy and safety issues almost always outweigh it.

I'm excited for the future of private spaceflight, but I am hoping that this allows NASA to contract for cheaper launches while maintaining their scientific research ability.

What private company could survive the Hubble debacle, for example?
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I'm never that enthusiastic about these kinds of ui element designs. Maybe it works in flash but the user experience when translated to html/css/js is really hard to get right. Just look how much effort bootstrap is taking.

The icons etc. are great though.
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