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> If iTunes launched in parallel with the theaters we would buy all movies.

If iTunes launched in parallel with the theaters, the PirateBay would have a pristine copy of all movies in the theaters. If you were a movie maker or a distributor, is something that you would do given the current marketplace? That strikes me as bat-shit crazy.

That being said, I think it would be best if the top 100 films had a global release, and were all available on iTunes globally 10-14 weeks later. Hollywood is forced to compete with the PirateBay. At some point, they are going to have to start selling on iTunes as soon as the pirates get a quality copy.

I personally love going to the movies, and frankly I think it is a bargain. I spend about $200/year on movie tickets and enjoy it most of the time, and I spend about $1000/year on broadway shows and fucking hate it the majority of the time. There is nothing that gives me the creeps more than when someone breaks into song for no apparent reason. I do love comedy clubs, and $5 admission plus two overpriced drinks is the best deal around.

When I have kids and move to the suburbs, my perspective will likely be identical to yours. I fully understand your perspective, and a I think hollywood would be well served to cater to the future myself.
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How about you need your people to make an iOS 4.x compatible app. Oops, suddenly they need Objective C including all its memory management nasties. This is going to be so much harder if you have never seen pure C.
The difference is that Microsoft intentionally uses incompatibilities to marginalize the competition (a fact well-documented by the DOJ trial). "Embrace, extend, extinguish" is a phrase that Microsoft itself used internally to describe this strategy.

When you're trying to use your extensions against your competitors, you do things like file patents on the technology, keep the internals undocumented, and tightly couple it to the rest of your platform. When you're trying to innovate in a way that others could adopt, you do things like release open-source implementations, publish lots of technical detail, and grant patent licenses.
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I thought the three way merge tool was independent of the source control system. I'm pretty sure that's true for the four systems I've used: hg, tfs, perforce, and the horrible horrible SLM. I can say however that SLM's default three way merge just seemed to always do the right thing.

Tools for managing real conflicts seem more interesting. Most conflict resolution tools seem to 'help' in a way that leaves me completely baffled. They automate the creation of unintentional edits rather than helping you understand the history of the changes that lead to the conflict, and tracking and reversibility of what you are doing during merge.

I've resorted to temporarily overlaying another source control system to track dealing with resolving large complicated merge conflicts.
I think your claim about fraud prevention is fair. However, because compliance and regulatory issues have dramatically shifted, Dwolla might have a competitive advantage in this area.

If you believe that recent regulation (Dodd-Frank, et al.) ensures better outcomes for consumers than past-regulation, you'd think it'd be easier for new entities to comply because they're not hindered by institutional baggage and said entities will share the sentiment and spirit of their regulators. If that's the case, it's a win for consumers.
The problem with keyboard or menu cut/copy/paste (hereafter c/c/p) is that it’s a mode (or at least a sort of quasi-mode), and modes are a fundamentally inhumane user interface approach that shift cognitive burden from computers to humans. The traditional c/c/p includes no visual feedback whatsoever, is an extremely overloaded concept (many types of objects can be copied, the result of pasting depends on context and there’s no way to tell precisely what will happen from past experience with other applications, sometimes a copy instruction only places a link to the content (for performance reasons) so that closing a document or application alters the paste behavior, c/c/p between applications is often brittle, especially when dealing with rich text), and is very limited and inflexible (no way or bad ways (depending on the implementation) to copy two things and then paste them back, copying another thing destroys the user intent of the previous copy operation and can’t be undone, no visual/spatial context is provided for the operation, etc. etc.).

C/c/p is better than what came before it (it was invented at PARC in the early 1970s, and the alternative was much more mode-ful, something like vim), but is still too unfriendly for novices and too limited for experienced users. Unfortunately, it is so ubiquitous that it has forced all users to learn it, forced all software to implement it, and crowded out alternative approaches, even in contexts like file managers where the concept doesn’t really make sense. The best we can typically hope for is extensions of the typical c/c/p interaction which work like other implementations in the simple case but have some extra functionality for experienced users. These are usually entirely undiscoverable, and still share most of the problems of the traditional c/c/p.
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I've been using OSX as my primary OS for about a year (other than using Linux exclusively on every machine I SSH into for dev), but I just found out from your post that caps lock + shift doesn't make things lowercase on Mac. So, nope, I have no excuses :P
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She is an egocentric person who could not handle the fact that he wanted to help both her company and TC, the brand that he spent many years of his life building. So she kicked him off the board in a completely immature way.
If a furniture company is unable to function without having an in-house fleet of trucks...then they are really a logistics and transportation company...

Perhaps, but we would still refer to them as a furniture company until they started selling something else. The author's point is that the term 'tech company' has become a meaningless distinction when the 'tech' in question has become ubiquitous.
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I hope they're not spending much time on all these surface changes. There is a lot of transparency for stuff that most developers don't care about. And why don't they have configurability of the themes? 2010 looked much nicer to my eyes.
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Do you think someone can be worse than someone else? That someone can be selfish, inconsiderate, have only interests in making things better for themselves, regardless of how it may negatively impact others? Do you think there's different degrees of how much worse someone can be? I'd suggest that if you do, then this also implies that people can be better than others to varying degrees.
Perhaps you can ask them directly? I know there are people who did , one example off the top of my head, someone asked how kickstarter got their initial projects, and one of the founders responded friend of a friend.
You've used PHP to augment styles (as have I), I've even used Twig, and have now been using LESS.

Version control is no different, and you typically compile on the server before sending to the client. The LESS.js shim is for convenience, like when you're editing a site over FTP with no access to the server.

CSS precompilers help DRY up your code and introduce structure. For example, no more repeating that hex value and forgetting which red is the error red vs the logo red, constantly retyping vendor prefixes, or maintaining a single gigantic stylesheet.

As a PHP developer, I prefer to "refresh to see changes", which is why using Assetic is a must for compiling both CSS and JS resources.
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Well then obviously you'd want someone who can deal with C. "DeepDuh" indeed.

But you're talking hypotheticals - I can do that too: if you suddenly need big data then "Oops", you're going to want someone who knows Hadoop or Erlang. If you need to launch a rocket then "Oops" you're going to want an aerospace engineer. But if you're looking for a web dev, then C/Hadoop/Erlang/Aerospace questions are largely a waste of time, and might disqualify candidates who are otherwise fine or who could figure out C given a couple of days.

Bear in mind that the original topic is talking about languages for learning how to program, not languages for iOS development. If iOS apps float the beginner's boat then by all means learn Objective C; their enthusiasm for the field will probably overcome their frustration with C. But I suspect they'd be better off learning Python or similar first, then starting on C.

Hence my original response: it depends. Python is a pretty good choice because it can do well in lots of different fields and is easy to pick up.
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While I agree it's a misnomer to summarize ACH as trivial (NACHA's Operating Rules & Guidelines are mind-numbing), a far-reaching near-real-time payment platform isn't impossible. Establishing such a network is obstructed by bureaucracy, not technology.
I mean, sure, those things could have happened, but I was focusing on outcomes that might likely have been impacted by Robert as the 2nd engineering hire - not random acts of god.
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This is less "AWS" and more "S3/CloudFront".

there are many other product features that EC2/R53/ELB/etc could use, but calling this AWS is a little too broad.
There are several inaccuracies here regarding Rust, unfortunately:

"Boxes, which can be owned by only one owner, contain the data."

We usually use "box" to mean "task-local data", which can't move. (Some of us are trying to drift away from the "box" terminology altogether, since it's potentially confusing -- "GC data" or "task-local data" is easier.) Generally we use the term "uniquely-owned data" for data that's intended to move from task to task.

"This is conceptually similar to mutexes, but with an orderly transfer of control and no option for waiting for a box."

The comparison to mutexes is puzzling; mutexes are for protecting access to shared data, while unique pointers are for transfer of ownership of data with a single owner. In any case, you can wait for uniquely-owned data to arrive on a channel; just use the blocking receive function.

"Right now, it appears to be the product of a single individual."

This is simply untrue. We have about a half-dozen core Rust developers in Research and several community contributors. Most of us have other responsibilities, but Rust is one of the top priorities of the research team as a group. The commit logs [1] reflect this.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/commits/master
Not getting involved in blog politics, but Arrington/Crunchfund is an investor in Pando, TC is a competitor, the Pando Execs and board likely made a decision based on the competitive environment.

I can see for a generic company with investors A, B, and C; if B decided to get involved with a competitor, the board and execs might make plans accordingly. We've seen this in the seed VC world with express decisions to not invest in competing companies.
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Basically Sarah Lacy was upset that Arrington et al would still participate in TechCrunch-related events.

Here is Arrington's side: http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/

Here is a short blurb by MG Siegler:
http://parislemon.com/post/20832114453/pando
It's a good idea in general, but the reason that these automotive forums have persisted virtually unchanged since 1998 is because they're sitting on a tremendous knowledge base that you can search.

If you can figure out a way to get these forums to migrate to your platform (yes, make it a platform), then I think you're on to something.

The other option is to just create the communities from the ground up and let the users fill in the gaps in knowledge.

People tend to have particular tastes when it comes to cars, so I think it's good to form communities around makes and models early on, or more general categories like hotrods or european sports cars.

Of course, I usually only go to car forums when looking up how to do a repair or something on my own car. It's a classic Saab, so the forums are simply the best place to get information on repairs.
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Wait... I believe I just answered part of my feedback. I see it automatically adds a category once I add a car. That's cool.

In that case, that should be almost the first thing the user does. The form when you sign up is really scary looking. I would just have a modal that let's you enter the cars you own, and maybe a few that you would like to own, then let the user take it from there and play around in the communities.
It's worth noting that limits are usually balanced by availability.

I'm not familiar with Barclays, however, in my experience, many banks will process a transfer less than $5,000 USD in three to five business days, but take far longer to process a transfer greater than $5,000 USD. While it's understandable, I wish banks made this trade-off explicit.
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> Most obvious blockbusters are now globally released

Not true. Avengers is not even out in Japan yet. It wont be out until later summer (August). I can't believe they are delaying it for so long. And Japan is a BIG market for movies.
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I think a software-centric company is more in the "technology" company mold if they have secret sauce somewhere in their apps that give them an edge and the implementation of said secret sauce is not necessarily something that is obvious from the end effect of their app(s).

That is, you couldn't just hand a spec of the company's app to another group of generic developers with the full expectation that it could be reliably replicated in due course.

So some of the magic is in the underlying algorithms - this is what I call a technology driven company, as opposed to a market driven company, wherein the magic is in recognized some business opportunity in the market and applying rather mundane, if laborious, software solutions to them.

This is a spectrum, few, if any companies, are purely one or the other.

Another good test is whether the engineers are considered a profit or a cost center and how the company treats them. This applies more to bigger, established companies rather than smaller companies that may have been started up by engineers even if they are fundamentally market driven.
In all likelihood that's what they wanted too, but the IP is restricted.
He uses other AWS services but these are all of his major gripes. So I think it's fair for him to say AWS.

Also AWS is an organization (part of a larger organization), but S3 is a product.
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> I haven't been in a movie theater in 5 years - it just doesn't appeal to me at all. And I know for a fact that many of my friends who used to be cinema-buffs don't care much anymore either.

I have a decent home-cinema system too (projector and all) but I still go and watch movies. The screen is so much bigger and brighter in theaters, it's not really the same experience. However, sound-wise, I agree a good home cinema system is unbeatable. You can sit right in the center, at the sweet spot to get all the effects right, something you cannot achieve often in theaters.
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Try Beyond Compare (I'm not affiliated, just a longtime customer). I just went through each test case and had no problems. Resolving one of the standard conflicts involved using 'align with <F7>' to separate the changes at the end of the file. Most of the pathological cases were solved automatically and without even conflict markers, and when they weren't, selecting a hunk, right clicking, and choosing 'take left then right' worked.
I've spent the last four + years dragging stuff to that tiny little space in the bottom left of of my screen near the dock, switching to the app I'm interested in (sometimes after failing for 20-30 seconds of trying to get focus onto the app while holding onto my mouse button and hoping the "springboard" functionality of the OS gets to correct window) - and then "show desktop" - hope that I can find the stuff I just dragged to my desktop in what is usually an over cluttered screen, and then dragging it to the app that show (hopefully) be easy to get back into focus.

I probably do this three-four times a day - and it's one of the few miserable parts of my OS X existence.

The ROI for this app will be measured for me in about one day of frustration that I no longer have to deal with - the "shake to get clipboard" is brilliant. Just the toolbar drop alone would have been sufficient to make me happy.

Thank you so much - I don't recall ever being so pleased with something new. So worth $5. Brilliant.
I find that for most of my projects lately, we focus on HTML5 and there is less emphasis on supporting legacy browsers. The outcome is less of a reliance on jQ to abstract out browser inconsistencies. I basically only use jQ for selecting DOM elements and that can be handled with a microjs lib... So I tend to agree.
How did you go about finding that BigCo job?

Perhaps its down to the job market in the UK and .NET that everything is handled by recruiters that hide lots of details about BigCo jobs or make them sound dull.
Missing support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing headers is a big problem for some applications. For example, drawing images to a canvas from s3/cloudfront will unavoidably taint your canvas. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CORS_Enabled_Image)

Right now I'm proxying image requests to s3 through nginx, which is a terrible workaround.

The AWS forums has a topic on the issue started in 2009 (~200 replies so far...): https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281
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Totally.

Recently, an engineer I work with (I work for Simple) asked if we could add an image of the signature to transaction metadata in our web and mobile applications. I thought it was a neat idea, so I started asking around, but was dismayed when I found out that the whereabouts of electronic signatures was completely unclear.

Can any network or point-of-sales people tell me if the signature is being transmitted? Stored? Analyzed?
> They don't seem to need the money.

Oh no, they DO need the money, believe me. Most of their productions take years to just break even, and some never do. The reason why they are not actively pursuing international releases is linked to the way Japanese do business. Most of these media companies are very traditional and do not understand the opportunities outside of Japan. And even if they did, they'd need to get the approval of an old 社長 to proceed with such plans. This happens very rarely. They are missing a huge market.
The lack of CORS support have been known by Amazon for years, but they still have chosen not to fix it. There's a long running thread on their support forums somewhere where they start by saying they'll look into it. I believe this was years ago.
I see that git has been updated to 'pass' the indent-block test, because it produces the correct output, but the resulting indentation is not correct.

I have git.mergetool set to bc3 (Beyond Compare 3), so I tried running 'git mergetool' for each of the failed cases. In the adjacent case, bc3 merged things correctly, and all I had to do was accept its merge. In the indent-block case, I just had to fix (some of) the spaces, before accepting the merge. The only case where I had to do some real work was in dual-renames, but even then, it was fairly trivial.

So, I agree with you. To me, it doesn't matter that git (or any other tool) sometimes gets content merging wrong. It _is_ gravy, and can be handled by other tools (bc3 in my case). What external tools can't do is manage your history.
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I think Pixar is similar to Apple, who Alex addressed:

Apple is a technology company thanks to some of its lines of business (hardware, software), but is not a technology company in all of its lines of business (music, movies, books).

i.e. Pixar is a technology company thanks to some of its lines of business (e.g. RenderMan), but is not a technology company in all of its lines of business (e.g. Toy Story).
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I tweeted the same thing to that account and got no response. I'm glad you did. the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header has been a heavily requested feature since 2009: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281&...

One example of how fundamental this is: you cannot currently perform a direct AJAX upload to an s3 bucket from a web application hosted on an ec2 instance.

There is a postMessage hack that will work with small files, and of course you can use a proxy, but you'd think it would be a common scenario to want to upload files directly to S3.
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Quick feedback: while the demo video plays, the screenshot slideshow continues. In my browser, this was just beneath the bottom left of the video and was really distracting. Could you pause the slideshow when the video popup is displayed?
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When a diff tool is included with the scm, it's hard for the average user to separate the functionality even if it's possible.

And odds are you'll probably to be able to use different diff/merge tools to handle various file formats (plain text, xml, binary, etc.) so you won't have to rely on just one getting everything right.
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