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Yeah, but did BoA buy actual fiber in the ground? You can have your own non-Internet IP network easily if you lease dedicated physical circuits from telcos. (This is how the military does it)
If you have a legitimate patent, you'll want to be able to sue people who are infringing on it. Not all patents are frivolous.

This whole document is rather bizarre.
I don't know much about Smalltalk, but this IDE/VM approach must be damn substantive to make up for not using Vim.

The thing about the IDE, is that there's hardly any of it there. It's all just objects that each effectively have their own REPL, and you're directly manipulating all of them.

You can actually start writing a debugger in most Smalltalk environments, and you'll have something that lets you browse a stack trace in under 5 minutes. (If you know the API for dealing with stack traces. A newb or someone out of practice will take longer, but most of it will be reading the API.)

An engineer I know was bored in his "Intro to Smalltalk" class and spent 10 minutes writing a tool that compiles and evaluates code. The exact same code made it into the production "IDE" and was there for over a decade.

The thing is, there's such an amazing amount of "integration" in the environment, you'd think there was tons of ingenious code written by teams of geniuses, but there isn't. It's just that a lot of unnecessary stuff has been removed and made runtime, so everything is available for you to see and change.

It's one of the best examples of how minimalism can work very well.
This way, they could use a patent covering A as a weapon against another party that is attacking based on an unrelated patent B.
It sounds like you are saying that you want Apple to be forced to do what Google has already done. Doesn't this mean the the precedent has already been set but Google?

That leads back to the original question: Why is it so important for Apple to be forced to operate like Android when people are free to just buy an Android phone if they want that kind of environment?

What's wrong with Android in your opinion?
Answer on Quora to: What's it like living in a rainforest?
Twitters version allows defense against trolls like Apple.
That depends a significant amount on if you're interested in the "I want to work for company X" crowd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callback_(comedy)
Interesting analysis, but with one flaw - Assuming 1-2% conversion rate, and $1 on avg on google ads (thats what I have seen at least for most keywords with decent frequency), your formula is yielding $50-$150 for everything you build.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=0-13&q=wget%2...

You can do everything you can do with wget - and more - with curl (though it seems to be tending downward on that graph... not very sure what may be the reason for that).

Nice text on HTTP scripting: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

And a total aside: http://ifconfig.me/ is extremely awesome. I probably end up using 'curl ifconfig.me' about once a day at least.
Change the employment contracts to reference the restricted IPA instead of the free and clear one.
I think it would be pretty easy for Apple to allow apps to be installed on their devices without having to go through the app store. You can already jailbreak to do this so the capability is there Apple just needs to allow it. Not sure what legal damage you think they would incur except whatever they would pay to fight the suit.
I also didn't like having to give my email just to see what you're selling, but did it anyway. And then found out that you're "full up", but you'll get back to me when there's room. I'm annoyed that that I'll now get email from you and so far you've provided me nothing.
The problem with digital design tools
They do. Cable modems are provisioned with multiple service flows much in the same way cable digital phone service works. I've seen this setup in a lab being run from one CMTS. The modem has a service flow for Internet (say 50Mbit/sec) and another for the eSTB (say 30Mbit/sec) which can handle the IP VOD and IP multi-cast video. It is possible to have multiple CMTSs for this however both Cisco and Motorola are investing in VDOC (video-over-DOCSIS) scale solutions that allow you to put all your eggs into one huge basket. One cable modem / gateway will ultimately be feeding every cable service in your home and some portion of it will be provisioned for plain ole' Internet traffic while the rest of it will be allocated for MSO services. From what I can tell this is not how Comcast is delivering IP VOD to the Xbox today. I would expect them to make the transition fairly quickly though. This stuff has been up and running in labs for the last 5+ years. MSOs are just very slow to adopt new technology.
It seems as though ASICs are the method of choice for every high performance system. The examples that come to mind are supercomputer interconnects and the completely engineered from scratch Anton[1] machines that DE Shaw Research uses for very specific computational chemistry applications.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_%28computer%29
Dart's new Isolate API
I have a page for my podcast. I want my podcast's web-site to automatically post about new episodes to G+ the same way it does for Twitter and Facebook. If people don't want it, they can just unsub.
I think that's a big stretch.

I agree that the language is pretty broad (particularly the idea that ayou can use it against someone who has bought action against anyone, not just to defend yourself) but I don't think you could get away with getting your retaliation in early the way it's written.
I don't really want to work with people who are unmotivated and just "Do their time and go". I've done it; I've worked in crappy jobs. Those jobs were, e.g., cashier at fast food joint. Or stocker at department store. Everyone wanted to leave. No one wanted to be there.

I am not really up to dealing with the harsh cynicism and assumptions of uselessness of our work with someone who leaves as soon as possible. Doesn't mean I don't like going home early. I do... But if your goal is to clock in at 8:30 and exit at 5:01, just to do the bare minimum, I can't jibe with that. I've worked with people like that... and I don't want to do it again.

Regards, pity, etc.
I like that Google is working on both sides of the car traffic analogy.
Commuter trains increase number of "quiet cars"
I suspect that's more about Japanese celebrity dynamics; consider Naomi Campbell's famous statement on her album sales.
There does appear to be an unofficial way to do this, though - naturally - it may not last: https://github.com/mohamedmansour/google-plus-extension-jsap...
This is one of the reasons I like objective-c. Lots of people hate its verbosity, but I love that you can almost read it like english (assuming you name stuff sanely).
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Google+ will enable posting via its API. You can bet your 2 cents on it.
Some exchanges already do that. But the issue is also liquidity not latency. When you disallow fractional penny bids and match trades at set time-interval, this causes market-makers to widen their bid/ask spread because of the inventory risk. Ideally, as a dealer you'd like to buy low and sell high and move the merchandise on your lot before the prevailing market condition moves against you.

The spread even at highly liquid stocks used to be 0.10+/cents before the introduction of penny pricing and HFT; this saves money for retail investors.

Also, introduction of set-time matching also means that algo's will just be tweaked to new market conditions. New arbitrage algo's will be introduced to exploit how some exchanges will be slower to react to price-actions. Predatory algo's will exploit how some institutional VWAP orders cannot be canceled quickly against volatile conditions. It's anti-virus vs. the virus writers. Oh not to mention the exchanges are in on this game, more trades mean more revenue for them. Exchanges make money by volume of trades, not by P&L of their customers; and like affiliate marketers, they actually offer liquidity rebates to any traders that offer trades that get taken at market price to boost their volume.
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Twitter has an API, so you can syndicate your Foo feed through your Twitter account, and download your incoming Tweets to publish elsewhere. How is that different from SMTP, from the accessibility angle?
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I said specifically I'm not intending to undercut their motives. Even if that's true, I think it's worth understanding how it impacts then strategically.
I use the "Social Widgets" list subscription for Adblock Plus. Just add:

https://monzta.maltekraus.de/adblock_social.txt

...as a filter subscription in Adblock Plus and you'll stop seeing most of these sorts of "share" buttons.
I really don't see why this is a surprise: unlike many other projects this one shows a more or less finished product that works as advertised, not a "idea on paper" or pie-in-the-sky, and you can get the watch by backing the project, a win-win situation.

In a way this was more like a presale for the watches, which is not a bad idea considering these guys could've gone broke if they had built the watches and not sold enough to make their investment back.

This is a good way to test the waters before getting in.
Goat Invasion in GIMP
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Great post. Trello is amazing. We are also a Trello/Google Doc company, but not as fancy as Uservoice.
RockMelt and Flock are both browsers built with sharing in mind. I don't think either of them really caught on, but I'm not sure why.
The legal damage would be the fact that each design decision they made around the store would be under court scrutiny.

But so far, you haven't explained why this should be done given that Android offers what you ask for. What's wrong with letting people decide for themselves?
Adding to the problem, I think, is Kickstarter's TOS that absolves them of anything a funded project does after receiving funding. As well as not asking project creators to state what will be done with the money in the event the project fails to deliver.

Look at the ZionEyez kickstarter ($343,415 pledged, $55,000 goal, July 31, 2011), for instance. I'm not a backer, and I've only read the comments, but it seems the project isn't going so well. In the comments, backers talk about Kickstarter not being helpful in resolving issues. Backers are talking about class actions, FTC complaints, and small claims courts to resolve their problems.

If ZionEyez is 100% legitimate, and they deliver the product as promised, they've still shown countless others how easy fraud could be.
I Am Condemning Free on Principle, So Should You
Thanks for both the small note and the big suggestion. What did the debugger have that made it "well integrated"? In JavaScript, we have fairly good graphical tools in Chrome. One headache is debugging asynchronous code, and a good debugger could track not just the current call stack, but the deeper "reason" why this code is running, including timers, events, xhr callbacks, and let us jump between those levels as opposed to just the function calls.
I would certainly be using G+ more were the API for posting available.

I had an idea very early on in G+'s life that it'd work great as a sort of bookmarking tool (nb: for myself, not necessarily others). I wanted to create an extension that I could use to "post" articles to circles I created (e.g. tech, or food or whatever) when I came across an interesting article.

I've tried other bookmarking services in the past, but never had the discipline to keep going (or I forgot). I figured because I use gmail frequently, and am always logged in, it would work well as a place I could aggregate things I wanted to read, but didn't have time to read at the time. It would also have the added benefit of being a list, or collection of things I found interesting/relevant that I could then share with other people. Could even have communal bookmarking with my closest friends.

Alas, I haven't opened G+ in months.
"Cost more to build than they are worth" means "we built something in hopes of turning a profit, and in fact, we can't sell it for as much as we planned, so we won't turn a profit."

This isn't a mysterious conspiracy on the part of appraisers. They shouldn't have built those houses that aren't worth enough to cover the cost of building them.
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I don't see a lot of keywords where you can just assume they'll all be $1 CPC. Project management software: $14 a click. "iphone camera app" - $2.90 a click, "stop smoking" - $4.62 a click. And those are just the first 3 i looked up.
The penny drops at the author's conclusion:

"By updating its API to support posting, users of clients and plugins would start to actively publish to Google+. This would quickly increase the amount and quality of content available on this platform and in turn attract users and engagement."

No, it wouldn't. It would turn into Facebook, which right now is a stream of unreleated, unuseful junk. Why do I care if my friends on the other side of the state check into a bar? I don't. It's pointless, useless information.

What Facebook has built is a data dumping ground, songs listened to, bars checked into, and the always obnoxious comment from someone you know to someone you don't.

What G+ has tried to do, at least with games, is contextualize the notifications. If I'm playing a game, then I see the game notifications. They never appear in the main stream. I like this. I really hate the Spotify track notifications in Facebook, they're awful. I'm perfectly fine with seeing them in Spotify, because I've already made a decision to listen to music.

Facebook opened up the flood gates, and everyone is drowning. Google is taking the opposite approach, but everyone is thirsty. It seems a lot easier for Google to move towards more useful notifications than for Facebook to back away from them.
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Sounds like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. I have a hard time seeing how one can justify avoiding providing something that users of a service are desperately eager for, and which would undoubtedly help grow the ecosystem around said service, all because of one potential negative consequence. And especially one that, at the end of the day, people can simulate anyway by just posting the same content (by hand) to G+, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Those were my exact concerns, so I built a service to help: http://www.yourpane.com./

The low-down is that you install a bookmarklet and add some contacts. When you want to share a page, you click the bookmarklet, select the people you want it to go to, and click share. That's all.

The recipients don't even need a YourPane account, they just get an email saying that you sent them a link. It's basically very streamlined link emailing.
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Even better is the interaction between the test runner and the debugger. Unit tests are orders of magnitude more useful when you can just open a debugger on a failing assertion.
You can do this with +1 -> Share.

For sites that don't implement a +1 button, there are browser extensions (at least for Chrome) that will do it for you.
Agree with you 100% here, I was not trying to make a point about bullet points (no pun intended) but rather what they usually represent which is generally a boring laundry list of requirements and responsibilities.
Am I missing something, or are these lesson plans and projects not available on the web site?
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You must be a hit at parties.

I know this, because you sure as hell aren't spending that time doing something useful and worthwhile.

EDIT: [REDACTED]

EDIT2: In hindsight, probably not nice to make fun of somebody's product. I know I wouldn't appreciate it.
My first reaction was fear of death: http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/Electric_eel
Wget can do something which curl can't: recursive downloading, and in particular full site mirroring. It's not useful every day, but when I need it I'm glad it's there.
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Yes, that is what I am saying. Google has set a precedent but not a legal one. So leading back to the question there seems to me to possibly be a case that Apple has a monopoly of sorts and that it is not allowing proper competition because of the power they hold to arbitrarily delete a developer's app without recourse. I don't know if the argument would hold up in court of course and it's certainly not a straightforward argument for reasons you have pointed out, namely people can switch to Android, but I think it should be tried. As for what is wrong with Android - nothing really. I don't use it as I prefer the iDevices so far but if Android does at some point become dominant then what is to say they won't try and close off the market in a similar fashion?
The worst is when the "share" link links to the blog's homepage and not the permalink. I always feel like an ass when I do that to people.
Amputee plans to climb Mount Everest
Jaco van Gass, a British soldier from South Africa, lost an arm in Afghanistan. That’s not slowing him down a bit. He plans to climb Mount Everest, making use of a prosthetic arm that he helped design himself.
I don't see any reason why donating money to a company would be illegal, and I am sure Kickstarter did it;s due diligence. Also, keep in mind, many people are 'donating' money, but they are getting a functional product delivered to them. In essence, Kickstarter is just a method to get pre-sales for a product, with the understanding that their is risk that the product might not get delivered.
Evidently you have childlike trust in the capacity of the second-tier Russian mathematicians and physicists to get the boundary conditions right.
First off, I am clearly in complete agreement with the argument presented.

That said, now that this case is live and in the media, it should be noted that there's a certain deep irony in it. Andy Rubin directed all GPL code (all that was practical, anyway) to be removed from the Android userspace out of fear of IP purity concerns. And in the process of all that forking he did deep harm to the open source community. Not just code was forked, but infrastructure was abandoned: compare the level of robustness and transparency of Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE packaging to that of the "I cooked a ROM, download it here!" culture in the android world.

Yet Rubin allowed the use of the developer tools of a clearly proprietary product from another company without batting an eyelash. And no one called him on it. And now they have to have this ridiculous fight. So what was the point of forking Linux again?
No, it wouldn't. It would turn into Facebook, which right now is a stream of unreleated, unuseful junk. Why do I care if my friends on the other side of the state check into a bar? I don't. It's pointless, useless information.

It's pointless and useless to you; you can hardly claim that it's pointless and useless to everyone. And this is exactly why I'll reiterate what I've said over and over again before... the solution is to give people better filters. You can't control what other people publish and trying to do so is pointless... but giving people filters to decide what to include/exclude in their streams it totally reasonable, and it's what Facebook, G+, and all the other "social" sites need to get better at.
Ah, you're right.

Here's a nice page detailing the differences between the two tools -- apparently written by the creator of curl itself:

http://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html (and a more comprehensive chart with additional tools: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html )
Google Buzz had a lot of import sources available at launch. There was so much noise from automated cross posting that I didn't even know that several of my friends were actively using the service until months later.

In contrast, Google+ is almost completely signal for me right now.
I love reading introductions to languages. But holding them up in comparison to just one other language is often problematic. I don't think this article does ruby much justice (e.g. the syntax stuff, and especially the bit about ruby's lack of debugging tools: https://github.com/pry/pry). I found myself wanting to defend ruby. Which is very distracting, and entirely beside the point, because really I just wanted to learn a little bit more about smalltalk.
Yes, going from a general purpose CPU to an ASIC will generally improve performance per watt by two or three orders of magnitude.
There's not many facts or statistics in this article, more of an anecdote. I highly suspect it's more of a "we're mad because we can't sell houses for insane prices like we could in 2007 so we're going to paint ourselves as the victim."
How do you type a reversed semicolon on a Mac?
Thanks.

Can you designate a circle to send to?
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One of the first things I do on a linux system is install curl. Wget only outfeatures curl in very obscure ways, and I find it more annoying to use on a day-to-day basis.
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What did the debugger have that made it "well integrated"?

It's more what the environment didn't have. Everything, including almost all of the meta-level (and by almost, I think it's just 3 Classes that are treated specially by the VM) was just an ordinary object. Even throwing an exception was just Smalltalk executing as usual. Basically, there were no barriers.

(EDIT: An example mentioned elsewhere -- the integration between the Debugger and Unit Tests. It's not rocket science. You just catch an exception and pass an object to the Debugger.)

One headache is debugging asynchronous code, and a good debugger could track not just the current call stack, but the deeper "reason" why this code is running, including timers, events, xhr callbacks, and let us jump between those levels as opposed to just the function calls.

It wasn't unusual in VisualWorks for us to have multiple call stack open at the same time. (In fact, some people would put code to evaluate in comments, which could be executed in the midst of another debug session.) Timers, events, Semaphores -- these are all just Objects, subject to the same kind of manipulation. This isn't to say there wasn't some pain around concurrency, because there was that. But a competent programmer felt confident about dealing with it, because she/he had such responsive tools and no barriers to what they could do and see.
You should probably have a "Careers" page on your website, because it doesn't cost anything, but it's not damning not to see one. We have a pretty good "Careers" page; we get very few inbounds from it.
It's worth noting that when we were in our last "building a big new product" push over a year (for our Helpdesk product) we were doing sprints because we had harder deadlines to work within. Having said that we still hated the overhead required to properly plan a sprint so even if we were in that phase again I'm not sure that we'd go back to sprints.
better link, http://www.tonynoland.com/2009/09/ode-to-semicolon.html no need for the html and it's .html apparently not .htm
It's basically done. It's all the way on the right of the hype cycle. Is tcpdump in decline? Is dig in decline?
Can anyone provide a suggestion on what to use to learn Smalltalk under Windows? The article mentions both Squeak and Pharo, of which only I've used Squeak briefly in college, but there I really had a hard time with the interface. At least I felt like I completely hosed my Smalltalk VM more than once. I have not tried Pharo. It appears that there is also Dolphin Smalltalk.

Thanks!
This is exactly what happened to Google Buzz.