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I'd be curious to see the data if iPads were consider e-Readers. Then also to see it if iPhones were also added.

I own a kindle, but rarely use it b/c between my iPad and iPhone (with the respective kindle apps and other e-Reader apps) there is rarely a reason to carry along the Kindle.

One exception might be if I were going on a long trek in the wildnerness where the extra battery life of e-ink and the kindle offered a significant advantage (along with an absence of network connectivity which would diminis the advantages of the IOS devices).
"There are 5,27 million of unemployed in Spain... which leaves 43% without any sort of benefits"

Sure, but how many of those people were unemployed before this mess? I live on the mainland, and honestly there are a lot of people "working", if you know what I mean. No benefits, no real job, but money comes in. The worst part is when they admit to it (or working illegally and collecting benefits) and laugh it off, then follow with "we know its wrong, its just the way we are". THEN they complain about the politicians? Who are... Just like them, but at a bigger scale?
So is the NY Times best seller list though. People will be people whether they read regular books or ebooks.
Never argued that Kickstarter is a bad thing. Like I said originally, it is a very good thing and as you stated, it is great for certain types of projects (too small for VC's, not large enough return, etc.)

VC's have to judge if there's a market and Kickstarter helps with that. But VC's also try to judge whether the founders have the ability to succeed, whether their business plan (costs vs. revenues) are sensible, etc. How does one do that through Kickstarter? I'm sure you'll agree more than 50% of the people who've funded the project on Kickstarter didn't even bother to figure out whether the startup is set up to succeed. (For additional evidence, see "Diaspora")

Btw, when you say Kickstarter campaigns can be 100x smaller, I'm assuming you meant to exclude ones raising upwards of $3.8 million right?
Excellent points.

We work on the idea of different stages in the test and development pipeline. At different stages mock objects make sense, and at other stages having something like Fake S3 makes more sense.

For testing, the first stage would be unit testing. At that stage it is best to mock out your S3 interactions (with something like VCR or WebMock) and use an OO approach to wrap your persistence, so you could swap out S3 with another persistence engine without breaking APIs.

The second stage for us is integration testing where you might have multiple machines testing across the network. In this situation, I think it is great to have real network requests happening rather than mock requests. Also you can deal with real files (especially important with media files like images and video).

The last stage is taking out Fake S3 and using a true S3 connection to ensure that everything does work on a production environment (cuz Fake S3 could be faking you out, especially on things like authentication and versioning). We do that by launching a stage cluster and running a set of integration tests on that before doing a production release. Ideally, the first and second stages catch any errors before you start doing tests against the real AWS services.

As for the development pipeline, being able to work with real assets while you are making mobile or web interfaces is really useful, as well as simulating latency to see how interfaces respond when under a slow network connection is something that would be difficult to truly mock.
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Agreed - I've been waiting for a built in light since the first time I saw a Kindle. Although making it this easy to read in bed probably means I'll get even less sleep :)
I have another suspicion about the validity of the metric. Maybe people in bigger metros just buy more "stuff". For example you can't buy a subway ticket in Ann Arbor.
What "various hacks" does submitting an HTTPS login form require?

For what it's worth, if you want real HTTPS security, you can't serve pages from your "regular site" over HTTP -- especially pages with a login form on them -- doing so is an invitation for a man in the middle to step in and phish your visitors.
You're missing the point: You wrote that "The government does not tax GDP." It does.

Also, anything that the gov't spends then counts as income for the other party = more income for the gov't.

It is why debt-to-GDP is a very important ratio. It is also why the PIIGS were obvious candidates for financial meltdowns.
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I think so. Walrus is S3 API compatible.
So Facebook is about a half a percent of the US GDP:
75000000000/15094025000000 = 0.4969%
I too think that Facebook will trade around 100 billion, at first. My gut feeling is that eventually the stock will settle down to its true value.

Think about it, a lot of people do believe that Instagram had a real chance of taking Facebook out.

To put it in perspective, I do not believe there has been a startup that google has bought because there was a chance it would take them out. The main thing that google does is search, and they still do it better than anybody else. Facebook on the other hand seems to have a lot less moat, as evidenced by this purchase.

If their moat is that weak than 100 billion is too risky. It could implode at any moment. The next startup or the next hot new thing could take them out.
Sure, I enjoyed working as a clerk at a grocery store. It was fun. If it paid as well as programming, I'd probably be content to still be working at a grocery store, and doing programming for fun in the evenings, as the grocery work comes with built-in physical exercise...
VC's are working for their investors, and this startup is probably more apt for Kickstarter funding.

But my salient point is that average consumers cannot and usually will not do their due diligence on whether the people who are raising the money have a good chance of succeess.

I hope you're not suggesting all a business needs to be successful is capital and customers. Because that's just plain dangerous.
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SMTP is only for sending mail to and between mail servers. Did you mean something else?

And no, 2-factor is not the same as a long password, because it is less likely that both factors will get compromised at the same time. However long your password is, a single software flaw could expose it.
I wanted a cross platform way to test slow connections with a single command line parameter. Whether it be Linux, FreeBSD, or OSX (maybe Windows (haven't tested :-P)), it is easy to setup.

iptables or putting nginx with rate limits in front of Fake S3 would be a more powerful approach, but also harder to get going.
Looking through Kindle bestsellers and print bestsellers, they seem to be very similar lists. I'm not sure why you'd expect them to be any different.

I agree that the assertion that ereaders are "elitist" is unfounded, but I also think that your assertion that the opposite is true is similarly unfounded. People will consume "popular" content (books, movies, TV, music) which is generally of "average" quality (where, by definition, most content falls).
It means their relationship with target X is strong, but your relationship with them is not. They don't feel like they can vouch for you, and it's unlikely you can get a genuine introduction/endorsement from them under any context.

IMO that is a sign to look for another avenue to talk to target X.
He's now added a $15 license option, so I changed my pledge. He hasn't responded about the longevity of the license.
this is what source control is for, right?
Even the source is not always obvious. Cocoa has a class called NSData, which is a container for arbitrary binary data (e.g. it basically holds a char* , a length, and a bunch of methods for looking at this stuff). If I write a function that needs to operate on an NSData instance, then I'm perfectly justified in calling the variable 'data'. For example,

NSData *calculateHash(NSData *data) {
char result[CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
CC_SHA1([data bytes], [data length], result);
return [NSData dataWithBytes:result length:CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH];
}
I agree, this makes me the most confident in the final product.
Brilliant for you, yes. But when does amazon begin to consider this a bug, not a feature? I worry for the day that some new feature is introduced in .azw files that will break legacy devices. Now that would be evil.
That last sentence you write exposes your cultural bias towards work and skills. Its not quite the same in Spain. Just ask the architect next door, who with 2 years of unemployment is sitting around, waiting... Well, he is fixing his house up a bit...

That said, another out of work neighbor started a small business and my wife and I built him a small website and bootstrapped it a bit with an adwords 75 euro card. I wish more folks were like him...
My twitter handle is @jubos. I would love to see how you approach it.
Interesting. Since I believe the underlying data for market share is for US re-sales of the hardware I would be interested in how adding international data would fare. Kobo is a Canadian company as is rumored to have a significant share of the international e-reader market.

I'm also curious if, since the stats are based on devices being for re-sale if the cities near the top have batter local economies and more people are selling old devices to upgrade to newer ones where in an area with more economic uncertainty folks might be holding on to their current electronics longer and not upgrading as often.

In the interest of full disclosure, we have three Kobo e-readers in the family (Borders liquidation sale $50 each).
Awesome, thanks for the extra info. I think your setup sounds really good :)
but those are filler names. i believe they are rarely used in production.
The website looks terrible on Dolphin (Android) (on the What's hot page, the up/down buttons take up the whole width of the page).

Nice project anyway, best of luck to you!
Well, there is always the unpleasant possibility that the person writing that code had a legitimate reason to call you a bastard. Perhaps you were seen as inconsiderate, or he was having a bad day where everyone seemed like a bastard and you were the nearest target.
Is it fair to say that NASA would likely require many times the amount of funding for the same result as SpaceX?

I ask because as someone who was previously unfamiliar with the amount of funding SpaceX had to work with, $800 million sounds like an incredibly small amount of money to do (what looks like) more than NASA does with its ~$18 billion budget.
trance (progressive, deep, acid, euphoric)? techno (industrial, hardcore, hi nrg, minimal)? rave? and all the various forms of euro disco...
If those two clones didn't exist, do you think your app would be collecting "their" revenue (i.e. $500/year * 2)? Maybe you three are splitting a small pie into smaller slices.
I hope that young entrepreneur will follow more steps of Elon Musk and instead of pursuing fast money start pursuing big dreams. Actually I think that is already happening...
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The trouble is many people who have phones don't even have computers. This never occured to me, being a tech guy, but it's apparently true!
Do they need a barrier to entry, beyond the difficulty of launching things into space at all? They seem to be going for the honorable strategy of running faster than everybody else, rather than trying to cripple their competitors.
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Is there an open-source framework or tool for creating a styleguide like this from a project?
There's also a Kobo app for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and I believe there may be a Linux beta floating around, or maybe not.
Over the years this has been a hobby of mine to colorize the shell on Linux or at least make it easier on my eyes. The best results I've had relied on the following features:

1. Screen. Screen allowed me to colorize the hardstatusline at the bottom of the page. You can also set the hardstatus line so it updates to show the open application. Watch the video at the bottom of the screen and when I open Vim and how it updates the tab name on the hardstatus line.

2. Using zsh. Zsh allows you to set the right hand prompt and its color.

3. Using Xterm. Xterm allow me to launch it with any parameters controlling font, background color, foreground color, font size etc. The font I found that work the best was "Liberation Mono".

4. Colorize the prompt. Pretty standard.

HEre is a video making use of all these features except for zsh. This was back when I used bash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_44vs1WvY
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American notion? I blame Americans also, because I'm American and I feel I have the right. But it being a good idea to do something you're passionate about doing if you can be successful at it is not just an American notion. It's a fact. Were not Einstein, Gallileo, Newton and many, many others not passionate about their work?
This wouldn't bother me at all if I didn't think they still had the data. The transient nature of tweets is one of my favourite features of Twitter.
If you need any ammunition to get it looked at more intently, here: http://www.identityblog.com/?p=1201
Again, I disagree. I think most people will understand it in the way I said above, because for most people, "invest" does not imply "bought shares of." Because of your involvement in the startup community, you tend to assume a specialized definition of "invest" rather than the general definition that most people assume.
(This comment was overly strident; preface all sentences with "I think" and add an implied "we", because I've been just as guilty of this rationalization as the rest of us.)

The core point here: there was an old system with some control over distribution. There is a new system that dictates terms to artists, and those terms are "your content will be free to all comers online, and you can compete with other businesses to derive value from it".

When Apple applied the same terms to the app store, people freaked. And app developers had a choice of whether to deliver on the app store!
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That was awesomely inspiring and fun to read, actually makes me feel bad a little for pursuing CS :)
> But the thing is programming is a craft many people are passionate about and those people are an order of magnitude more productive than you.

No. No, they're not. Some of them, however, are an order of magnitude more pretentious than you.
In my case it's more often "this language makes tradeoffs that are counter to the way I want to work". E.G. I won't touch C++ with a 10 foot pole because I believe it's the compilers duty to track down and at least warn me about as many errors in my code as possible, and C++ seems to go out of its way to allow you to introduce subtle and hard to find bugs. I've worked in a ton of languages from nearly every paradigm (no logic languages yet) and in each one I've found at least one language that works best for me, or best in a particular problem space. Some of that choice is based on need (must be able to search text easily, must have a strong HTTP framework, must have a nice cross-platform GUI, must have strong matrix math framework, etc.), and some of it is based on preference (prefer strong typing, prefer meta-programming features, prefer garbage collection).
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My first reaction to Dart was "jeez, yet another c-like, java[script] clone". I hated it, I want a world without stupid braces and semicolons. It doesn't seem to bring anything new to the table and it looks exactly like java, c#, javascript, etc... and exactly for the same reasons (to be familiar for the average programmer). Syntactically, it's dull and unexciting.
However, on a second thought, I changed my mind a bit.
Like it or not, it has to be this way to gain wide adoption and, indeed, anyone with experience in java or javascript can get productive in no time with Dart.
But what's really interesting is the snaphot feature. Dart will load in milisecons in the browser, making startup times irrelevant.
It's also designed with performance in mind, and it will have some features that will make it ideal for large code basis and team work.

As for its boring syntax, this won't be a problem.
Coffeescript demonstrated that you can target a messy language and make it beatiful and fun.
Dart already has a "transpiler" for compiling it down to javascript.
If Dart becomes a good compilation target (and it looks so), people will start wrting their own transpilers targeting Dart. The best of both worlds.
As for the concerns about the null chance of other browsers adopting Dart, this is a battle they can't win.
Dart will run everywhere, either on its own VM or compiled to javascript. And it will lead to a situation where new applications run on every browser, but "work best on Chrome".
How long will the other vendors keep on pushing a mediocre, substandard language such as javascript when Dart is already making developers lives easier, and applications faster and better?
"In return, you must recognize that the success of the projects on which we work together depends largely upon the degree to which you treat us with respect, both as skilled professionals and as a diversity of autonomous living people."

It's probably this part.
Seems cool, but I have questions: What's the error rate like? Also how close do you have to be to your webcam to use this? If I have to be right at my computer like the demo video shows, it seems kind of pointless as I can just hit space or the pause/play button on my mac. Can I get more accurate readings if I hook up a kinect to my computer? Is it always watching or is it voice-to-activate driven?
A piece of design advice, until you get enough content collapse the different areas into one feed. That way you are more likely to get people to stay on board.
maybe it was from some kind of code minimizer? like gwt renames variable names to reduce file size when pushing for production.
Amazon are looking to make money off the books, not the device (they're basically the opposite of Apple). The Kindle device price is trending towards zero - a lot of good money is betting that Amazon will eventually give it away for free, making all their money back on book purchases.
I really don't understand why they say the stripes version "requires" javascript.

Firstly, they're relying on javascript to do the striping effect, applying a class to even rows. If someone has javascript turned off this effect will degrade even in modern browsers.

Secondly, .stripes tbody tr:nth-of-type(2n){ background: #f6f6f6} achieves exactly the same thing in all modern browsers, and degrades just as well as the javascript version (even if javascript is off).
Exactly what I was thinking. People who love to read can get cheap, physical books everywhere in cities, and often from appealing local stores. I remember walking past quite a few cool bookstores in Seattle when I visited, and I know Denver has an awesome one. My college town had several.

The city I'm working in now doesnt even have a B&N so I am finding new love for my Kindle.
yeah agreed...I mean Yahoo bought Flickr for 35 million...so how is Instagram worth 28x that.
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Doesn't seem to be available for Windows users yet. Post title should mention this.
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> it has to keep large fleets on standby for vague secret military purposes, it has to show huge losses on projects to hide military black-projects

Please elaborate. What are your sources for this?
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We're probably not disagreeing as much as you think. I started off by saying that GDP has problems. My favorite example of the problem with GDP is that Apple charges $100 for $27 worth of ram and they have magically added $73 to the GDP, when really the only thing they've added is a gross inefficiency.

What I objected to way back in the initial post was your example: A person spending the money giving someone a job vs. not spending the money. That doesn't illustrate why GDP is messed up at all.

Saving money is great, because it allows you to more/better goods+services for your buck. Getting more stuff is what the economy is about. But you will help the economy much more if you take the money you saved and buy more stuff, or invest it, or whatever, than if you put it under the mattress.

A boom is when the money is in motion. A recession is when the money isn't. Even if the size of the economy shrinks, the number of actual dollars hasn't. They've just stopped moving around, causing the prices of things, like stocks, or labor (wages), to plummet.
Why are you working under the assumption that that was his issue with the term data? Especially when he specifically described his problems with it.
If the $75 billion was revenue rather than worth, sure. Otherwise you're comparing a static number (FB's valuation) to a per year "flow" (GDP).
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The reason China can't beat us is that they don't yet have the resources. If anything, this post will just make them want to beat us faster. But, hats off to SpaceX! We need more space entrepreneurs to produce technological innovation and rid us of government cruft.
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In the crude sense of collecting all your posts and sending them all to an advertiser, of course not. In the sense of selling your interests, friends, social position, age etc to advertisers as a datapoint, yes they do; that's how they target ads and make money. They also tried to harvest purchasing habits from other sites like Amazon (with Beacon), and give broad access to developers, some of whom abuse the privilege and have been caught selling data on. I'd expect that sort of activity to increase post-IPO. They're not alone in this of course - gmail does the same, without the data lock-in.
I misread the title "it's like cheatsheets for your terminal" and now I can't help wondering if such thing exists. I know there is man but it doesn't exactly have a cheatsheet format. Anyone?
There could be other time-based methods to encourage students, rather than hard deadlines. For instance, suppose the class had a bag with unlimited (or large) number of question, and required each student to score 100 points to pass. Students would have unlimited number of attempts at quizzes/assignments, but their score decays with time (think HN submission ranking decay). That is, if you worked hard and scored 70, but then you were busy/away for a month, your score drops to, say, 50. So you are encouraged to finish the questions in a timely manner, but on the other hand, you can also make up for that missed month by putting more work when you are back.

With this method or a something similar, you do not "lose everything" when you miss a deadline. IMHO, "losing everything" for missing a deadline is part of the reason for the (exponential?) decay in the number of students participating in Coursera's PGM class[1,2].

[1] Based on PGM's "quiz's highest score" statistics, the total numbers of participating students are 6950, 3500, 2650 for week1, week2 and week3 respectively (other weeks' stats are not complete as of this writing).

[2] Another interesting stats is the ratio of perfect scores to all other scores: 25.2%, 34.3%, 49%. This could suggest that the deadline system filters out most students but the very top ones (assuming uniform difficulty of quizzes, and uniform quality of lecture videos/slides, etc.). This may not be what you want from an educational perspective. And, yet it may actually be what you want to support a business plan similar to Udacity- discovering talent. (see my comment below)
Actually, it is possible to remove the field entirely, which I'm grateful for as a non-gendered individual.

But yeah, I do wish you didn't have to even select anything.