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This is good news. I think SEOmoz does a pretty good job in a crowded field and it would be too bad if they weren't able to compete with the big boys. Whether you like moz or not, you have to admit that they help to push competitors to improve their products and we all benefit from the wealth of online SEO and online marketing tools available today (at a relatively cheap cost, too).
And what open file system is there for "web apps"? Dropbox and a cobbled together flash uploader / email attachment / webapp specific API which probably only goes to FaceBook?

Playing Devil's advocate, Google Drive has an API for webapps to access the user's files (with permissions only to files created by the app itself or that the user specifically opens). The webapp chooses the MIMEtypes it can open and then the user can just do Open With → App.

Sure, it's GDrive specific for now, but the API is fairly generic and if it's successful, I can see other online drives implementing it themselves. Well, assuming Oracle loses this lawsuit, I guess :)

Aren't webapps isolated? Funneled through a strict paradigm? And also at the other end of a comparatively slow link?

APIs de-isolate them. Both the proprietary ones that already exist and open, distributed ones like http://webintents.org/

And besides, aren't native apps on mobile isolated too?

And the link between the user and the app may be slow, but it only needs to carry the UI. The data will flow from "cloud to cloud" at very high speed.

We can't head to a future of everything we do in one portable device and from there to ubiquitous life integration when every app can read all your data and send it to anyone for any purpose, Android is falling fowl of that right now, we have to have isolation and sandboxing, different trust levels, restricted access to more important data (contacts, for example), to make a solid and trustable future platform.

Uh, Android does have sandboxing and isolation, and apps can only access your data if you specifically allow them to. iOS was the one which didn't require permission to access your contacts (though Apple has said it will).
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> We have never in the modern age in any modern first world country ever had an extended time WITHOUT copyright to see what would happen.

That's not an argument against copyright, really. As empiricists, we should be automatically skeptical of any social change that hasn't been tested or observed before, since we can't meaningfully predict its results.

The fact remains that while it may be unenforceable to use copyrights to restrict personal use of content, commercial use is a totally different animal. This includes things like film screenings in a commercial cinema, live musical performances, broadcasting, adaptation to other media, and use in advertising. It's not hard to imagine a future where content creators compete to emphasize these over merely selling copies of their work.

> Of all the industries, film has been subject to upheaval approximately never.

Not true. Television and VCR's were major upheavals comparable to the impact of the internet today.
What is "enterprisey" about .NET?

Mono is a real alternative, many businesses run it production, including the likes of Fog Creek.
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The thing is...do any of these types of tricks really work in the long run? Perhaps that is not the point and the architects of accounting tricks either think of short term gain. Or they think they can keep stringing together tricks indefinitely. The reality is that no company can trick wall street for long and in the wake of the last financial collapse I think there are more people out there looking for this type of stuff.
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I would gladly sell something under warranty rather than go through the pain of having to deal with a corporate. It is not a cost free transaction to complete a warranty claim, as our own time should be valued, and not all of us are that organised.

I did something similar with a MacBook Air after I broke its screen. I purchased a new MBA immediately, and eventually sold the old MBA to the repairer.
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Exactly agree with chrisacky.

That's why we all have to A/B test our own products. There's no one manual for maximizing revenue. We each have to do our own research to determine what our individual user bases feel comfortable with.
Hey Google - I already took your survey.
/rant

Like I said - remove the 'Take Our Survey' box from my Gmail browser window.

One would think that Google would be able to figure that out.

/
This is an art project called 'Standard Time' by Mark Formanek. In late 2007 he filmed a team of 70 workers constructing this clock through 1611 iterations (every minute) for a 24-hour period in Berlin's Sculpture Park. So when originally filmed it was done in real-time.

The flash video here is based on a screensaver that Formanek has made available which synchronises that video to your system clock, making it appear that you're watching the clock as it's being built. It's a clever idea with great execution and the effect is interesting enough that a number of galleries have put screens with the time-synced video on display.

Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built, though I'm not sure if any others have gone for the full 24 hours.

There's more info, including videos demonstrating how it was done, at the official site: http://www.standard-time.com/
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Lots of logistical issues with auto-reblogging. I could upload a picture of every color, flower, car, etc. and reap the reblogging rewards.

I also fail to understand how this edge case feature would generate revenue. Ads? Greeeeeat.
Things you only look at for a short time can still have a pervasive impact. I find art mostly works that way for me at least, and I think that will be the case here.
Looks to me like they hired a bunch of cheap workers on an "art" budget.
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Really nice work!! and free time to do that ;)

Ya the location seems Czech Republic!! cuz the domain and the builds..i guess
Do you think it was the board, or Karp?
That operation also needs to be async itself, and ultimately it needs to be implemented as running on a separate execution queue.

Yes, but this is the relatively easy bit. It's writing comprehensible code around and about that underlying async operation (such as a file read) that is the messy part.

Ultimately, `async` and `await` still are nothing but sugar over the Tasks API.

The tone here implies that sugar is not an important thing in programming languages. These keywords do a great deal for you, under the bonnet. After all, everything is 'sugar on top of machine code'.
Packet-snooping attacks are also "extremely rare" by most metrics [...]

Really? NSA boxes in AT&T (and presumably other) switching stations suggest that for US traffic it's extremely common.
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Isn't turntable.fm a video game? Most video games have a fad cycle. Game developers realise this and cash in on their hits immediately. The 'gain users first and patiently monetise' strategy has no place in the world of gaming.
.NET is very "enterprisey". It seems to be designed to make creating line-of-business applications easier.
Because it's easier to charge for apps. And actually get paid.

Also, these are phones -- performance is still important.

Also, can't do infinity blade in HTML 5.

Also, the UI and experience are better in apps.
Quotation marks indicate my skepticism of the term due to its use by DOJ in building their case.

Engaging in questionable behavior which others with similar skills forgo is what distinguishes black hat from white hat hacking.
1.8 million regular listeners to a US science and philosophy radio show?
Just hosted my movie recommendations app on Chrome App store. Feedback please.
Reminds me why Java has the reputation for being over-engineered. Google actually shipped a version of Java that was sane to code with, and Sun is just jealous they didn't come up with it first. Android is the first time I could actually say that I enjoyed coding in Java. Couldn't say the same with Sun's complicated over-engineered stuff.
If you cared to read the given links, or even search a bit yourself, you'd see that, for example, Twitter has replaced the original Ruby architecture by Java.
>Formanek has since staged a few live re-enactments of this clock being built

I will never understand people that appreciate this kind of art. Call me classical, but I really don't see watching a clock interesting.

Someone at the Boston MFA made a 24 hr movie where they compile different bits of film that includes a clock into a real time clock (so if it was 10:23 it would show 10:23 in a bit of the clip). It was interesting until you realize that besides being a neat art project, it's really difficult to understand.
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Pardon my "naiveté" but when Android first released, I always assumed Google legitimately licensed Java from Sun. How could Google not see this problem coming? Why didn't they pick Python for Android? Or JavaScript?
cool project. Website feels a bit slow.
I did something similar recently to learn coffeescript. http://currenti.me
It won't happen, as long as the government still allows private hospitals and doctors to work. Because then the private sector needs to compete with a functioning healthcare system that's essentially free for any citizen. If the expensive private clinic doesn't give you better care than the free government one, you'll never use them. Having universal healthcare raises the baseline above which private health companies have to be, in order to compete. And sure, government healthcare sucks. Sometimes the doctor doesn't even smile at me when I see him. Their equipment is frequently not the absolute latest possible. But they'll see to your cough, set your bones, fix your teeth, check your sight and more for essentially free. Which forces the private hospitals to do it better, faster and for a reasonable price.
I'm sorry, but throwing around vague pejoratives like 'enterprisey' is lazy as hell. Please formulate an actual argument.
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One great example is Eminem. Despite the hectic tour/recording schedules and all the, um, perks of being a star, every moment he can he's obsessively scribbling in his notebook. When filming 8Mile the crew would have to yank it from his hands to get his attention back to acting. As a kid he'd scribble lyrics on his wall as he went to sleep.

People much busier than us find the time to write. Computers, from desktops to smartphones, make it incredibly easy to write & publish. If you don't, you don't want to.
A 30 day trial period with user engagement at the end of trial asking them if they need additional time to evaluate will work better. Offer them 15 day extension if they need.

There are two advantages to this approach:
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> it would have know way of understanding that the version was already included within the standard library

Other than by introspecting which packages are installed, that is. Most of them will have a VERSION, __version__ or _version attribute which tells you.
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ran into too many idiots needs more instructions for some people..

Also maybe text communication for said idiots?
I guess that with text communication, it would be too easy, right? The gameplay will change within the next days... like more levels in a row with the same team and stuff like that.
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> Not true. Television and VCR's were major upheavals comparable to the impact of the internet today.

And they fought both as if the world would end and, when they failed, they got wonderful profits from both.

What they can't stand is another player controlling distribution channels. They realize they are not in the content creation business - they distribute content.
In the US products with switching frequencies faster than 9 khz are supposed to be tested for FCC part 15 compliance but you are not required to have CE or UL testing.

However most retailers will not carry a product that does not have a CE or UL mark
I hate PHP's standard library - I find it to be weird and inconsistent, arguments are in a random order, etc. and Python to be not so bad. I suspect this is because you have a lot of PHP experience, and I have a lot of Python experience :)

Virtualenv and PIP go a long way towards fixing these problems in Python, similar to how PEAR and CPAN work with PHP and Perl.
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Why would a consumer even know or care about that? They'll use whatever is easy to find, "install" (even if it means just a button that links to an URL), use and looks nice. They don't give a fuck if it's written JS or Java/ObjC or if it's HTML or XML or code rendering the UI.
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I didn't say include every possible option. But it sure is handy when I modify one and there's a nice comment telling me "hey, if you change this, you absolutely must go change this other value too, otherwise all hell is going to break loose." I'm much more apt to screw up the config if I have to look that up every time. That aside, it's really helpful to communicate to other people on the team that "this value is 768 MB because that's roughly 1/2 the total memory on this machine."

Re: transmitting annotated data. All I can say is not every application of JSON is for APIs for mobile devices. When I have a connected gigabit network and gzip data, I may not be that concerned about an extra 50 bytes of annotated data. But, again, that even presupposes that its only application is for computer-to-computer communication. The value in comments are human-to-human.
I will never understand how people that don't understand something don't understand how other people have the capacity to understand things not understood by them!
I don't really want multiple data structure primatives though, just the one. And have the language built up around it.

I have been mulling over better support for immutable data structures in Lua, but I haven't figured out a good and clean design yet.
It's seldom necessary and often impractical to have full-blown shared-everything everywhere. There is a yawning gap going from simple key-value to the relatively rich constraints and transaction processing SQL standardizes that is probably not necessary, and I think will be addressed with more programming (rich constraints and data models can exist over a smaller amount of data without trouble). Consider Cassanda column families vs. simple binary-string-to-binary-string systems, and it's already a significant advancement. I think that's the direction growth is going to take.

Most of these large -- and particularly, global -- systems you speak of are eventually consistent also; they use the relational database as a potent backend member of a distributed system, able to check and deal with a great many constraint problems that can be localized.
Local or global by default is the wrong question to ask, because implicit declarations are a bad idea either way.

Io - another minimal language - avoids the issue by having different operators for definition (:=) and assignment (=).
I don't think Microsoft profits much from their Android extortion racket. It exists mostly to generate FUD around Android and Linux and thus to protect their Windows cash-cow.
Glad to see somebody paint the counter-point to all the hype. I don't believe that there is no substance to the 'big data story' but these points hold up well.
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The actual build is documented at the submission here:
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The top reason I'd think of? Most companies build the iOS version first then port it to other platforms. That's usually under tighter deadlines than the iOS version had and there's not much design flexibility. Just make it work almost identical to the iOS version and it needs to be done tomorrow.

It is funny to hear that rounded rects are still an issue in 2012.
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I don't know what revisionist history people lived in where they actually thought MySpace was a good idea with staying power and that News Corp's purchase was a smart bet. I remember distinctly how bad MySpace was and how ripe it was for disruption by a better alternative. People didn't use MySpace because it was good. People used it because everyone was currently on there. I also distinctly remember that News Corp bought MySpace right when all my friends were moving to Facebook. Anecdotally, no one I knew talked about MySpace positively and couldn't wait to switch to Facebook. No more ugly profile pages with animated GIFs and obnoxious music? No more slow unreliable website that seemed to be down all the time? No more ads? No more awkward user experience? Didn't take a PhD to see where the market was heading.

Which is why I'm stupefied that people nowadays continue to use MySpace as an example of "it could happen to you" bogeyman story for startups. It was destined to fail or be replaced. There is no lesson there except don't make a product that sucks and hope that people don't notice. They noticed. They found Facebook.
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What better way to accomplish that then to remove comments from the spec? There's nothing stopping a non-compliant parser from allowing them anyways, it's just that now it is abundantly clear that such a parser is non-compliant because it is "impure".
I had the misfortune in the past to maintain C# code that kept everything as strings; whether it was an integer, a floating-point number, a guid, a date or a boolean. Lousy developers can abuse anything, in itself in my opinion this is not a reason to not have it included.

(I have a the same opinion about goto and operator overloading; clearly the folks at Microsoft agree with me here.)
Sounds like an array of custom data types with phone_number, phone_number_label columns, then. PostgreSQL can do that.

I think applications overspecify things like cell_phone_number because they would like to query for all cell phone numbers, and because they're stuck in the obsolete mindset that 1NF can't include arrays.
And yet they can somehow pay for 100% medical care when nobody else can?
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I've never used Mathematica and can't find any good comprehensive explanations of the workbook paradigm. From the little I have found, it's basically a text editor interface where you can execute previously typed commands by hitting a shortcut and the output is appended below the command, while still retaining the ability to move all over the page, right?
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Have you noticed that this keeps happening on different forums? It seems to be an effect of a population threshold being reached and (possibly) the time the forum has existed (separate from the population size - how comfortable the members are and, therefore, how loose they are with their words).
I'm not sure what the point is? This is trivial to do with any local mail server, as described.
Didnt have flash can't see on mobile. I am still curious if "creatives" still got stuck between Adobe and Apple, the two top "creative" tool producers.
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I see artists as seeding the "Cambrian explosion" of ideas for every new generation. They start with the world as it is and just try stuff. Sometimes it strikes a cord with many people, becomes part of our collective "culture," and is entered into the canon of acceptable "art." Most of the time it is just forgotten. So artists are just out there trying things - if it makes you see the world in a new way or sparks an idea then it is art to you, if it doesn't then who cares?