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IE9 is bad. Lacking CSS3 features is not "OK". Lacking WebGL is not "OK". The only reason it runs web sites to your satisfaction is due to the hard work of developers beating their heads against the wall to make IE9 perform correctly. IE is the worst browser on the planet and always will be.
Does anyone have experience wrapping a jQuery Mobile web application in native web view? How does the performance of that stack (HTML5, JQM, native WebView) compare to PhoneGap and Titanium. From previous articles, my assumption is that the performance from slowest to fastest is: JQM > PhoneGap > Titanium > Native.
Yep, and my criticism of your suggested approach wasn't intended to be particularly strong by any means. I could definitely be sold on the idea. It just felt like a workaround to a problem that could probably be solved in a nicer way.

I think my main objection is that these query methods should conceptually be on the QuerySet, and so defining them on the Manager (the "wrong place") and magically copying them to the QuerySet (the "right place") feels somehow worse than the opposite.

I appreciate that you raised the discussion on the mailing list, as it highlights the fact that this is a common problem in big Django codebases. Even pulling something like PassThroughManager into core might work (perhaps with a nicer "manager_with_queryset" API, as suggested by Aramgutang).
Flash is dead. They've dropped it from Linux and Android, etc.

Now is not the time to learn it.
You Are Not The Right Founder For Your Pivot
Breaking the rules: Doing right means sometimes ignoring the law
Yea. There is no way java/rhino could beat c/v8.
I'm working on a little community where people with projects and mvp's can showcase their links, progress, mix with others working in their space.

There would also be a lot of opportunity for people to test each others projects so it could be really useful.

There will also be regular blog articles looking at progressing products on the site & the achievements/challenges the team building it faces.

Hopefully the blog will be a good resource for early tech adopters to learn about new things to try and will be a good source of genuine users!

We've had quite a lot of interest so far, especially from teams that didn't make it to YC this cycle but are carrying on regardless.

If you think this would be interesting, let me know. Feedback on it would be appreciated and I can be sure to drop any of you a mail once it's time for folks to sign up!
This vulnerability hasn't been seen in the wild they say. And yes, the likelihood of someone opening a TIFF file they received by email in Photoshop is low. A lot of work to create this virus for very little payoff. The people who open email attachments are not the same people that have Photoshop installed. And in this case, you'd probably need to save it to disk and specifically open in Photoshop since most people won't have TIFF associated with PS automatically.

It's a tough call to fix for every possible version of Photoshop affected when the likelihood of it even happening is very very low.
Japanese scientists use particle accelerator to create salt-resistant rice
Ah.. why MS keep embracing Apple's stupid ideas
CoDel buffer management could solve the Internet’s bufferbloat jams
Haven't read through it, but it definitely looks like it was inspired by the FreeBSD Handbook, and aspires to it.

I'm glad it's out, I'll need something like this when I eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian.
Yeah, I'm struggling to see how a browser could possibly be implemented in another browser and expect to have competitive performance. Especially when Gecko will be running native code, and any other browser would not be.
500 cores is approximately 32 cc2.8xlarge instances (16 cores/instance). If you are running a highly utilized cluster, i.e. you are going for a one year heavy utilization reserved instance, the compute part is going to cost you ~$262,000. If you went with a 3-yr RI, it would be $183,000/yr.

Or to put it differently, ~$0.04/core-hr prior to any volume discounts.
There are "adobe cleanup" programs on site like The Pirate Bay. I hear.
What's RTP?
You have to meet certain technical expectations to be allowed on an Apple box. Microsoft just blocks you and will never let you in without a court order. Big difference.
Name dropping doesn't prove anything.
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Have you read Drew Curtis's book?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_News,_It%27s_FARK:_H...

This is a filler piece, and nothing more.
Facebook's new 'App Center' allows developers to sell Facebook apps
That makes a lot of sense. In fact - if you had a parallel extension running in gmail (like rapportive) - you could see the same information in both places AND see when you're meeting your email contacts next.

Don't know if it has wide appeal, but I would love that.
I've been living in RTP for the past 2 or 3 years and continue to get surprised by how many well known developers are in the area.
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Yeah I actually had to learn this the hard way. Clients complaining about things not looking right in IE7/8 when I tested using IE9 in IE8/7 mode. You need the actual browser to be sure you've tested everything.
Research Triangle Park

It's the area where Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, NC are.
I'd be curious what the market share of Safari is for Windows. I'd say it was so niche that it might not be worth the bother...
This is well said (and, perhaps, a similar story could be told about Steve Jobs). But I think there's at least one point in the article that holds true: it's very tough to evaluate the credibility of a "business" co-founder until he's achieved success. A developer's talent can be measured and normalized; a business person -- before he becomes successful -- is a much riskier and more unknowable commodity.

One way to look at things is to say that great businesspeople are undervalued. Another viewpoint is that the valuation of businesspeople carries with it a much higher risk multiplier. Or that the valuation has far fewer knowable variables.

The article makes a variety of very unfair, broad, and naive generalizations about the role of a great business, marketing, or product person. It seems to conflate all business people into one bucket -- lumping the fly-by-night hucksters and phonies in with the true visionaries. And its point about how a business founder is 'only as good as his contact list' is a bit ridiculous. But unfortunately, that contact list is often the business person's best calling card. It's one of very few, knowable variables that he brings to the table. (A track record on paper is great, but can be unreliable, because anyone can spin a resume. Conversely, a list of impressive people who can vouch for someone, or even go to bat for him, is much more actionable).
Guys congrats on the launch! I was wondering what was taking you so long ;) Very exciting stuff!

I'm amazed that we're on the same wavelength - we've had to build very similar infrastructure for ourselves for Unipost (www.post.fm). Can't believe we didn't collaborate on this, we'd happily be your first customer :(

A few interesting differences:

- Our approach is more like Meteor - web only, no iOS support

- The backend is a python tornado app that handles validation and conflict resolution before saving stuff to dynamodb

- We have a JS datastore backed by websql/indexeddb/memory that syncs with our backend datastore

- We have "live" Backbone collections that update themselves when datastore queries return different results

- We have a Backbone sync adapter that uses the datastore to persist data locally and kick off synchronization

- We sync a subset of the data (eg 3 months of mail) - thats a core requirement for us

- We sync all of the tables at once, not per bucket, cause queries are joining tables so the
datastore has to be consistent at all times

- No operational transforms cause it doesn't seem to apply to us - pretty "notepad" specific I think

- No versioning as we didn't see benefits for us

- We'll probably open source this stuff when we're done

What do you use for storage?
That would be my concern as well. Without their brand and following behind the service, it would be hard to sustain it at that level.
So this seems to be about superimposing the relational model on ad-hoc data? It seems like an idea that has been explored ad infinitum. It also seems like it's for want of a use case, in its current form.

Like they say in the article, the main issue they'll run in to is that people really don't want to build taxonomies manually. My skeptic prediction: Unless they get some really snappy text mining to go with the product, it'll be dead in the water. When you want to ad-hoc mine certain data sets, it's usually because you've just figured out you need some specific query answered. Having to spend several hours structuring the data before you run the actual query seems about as laborious as just doing the original work yourself. Though I might be of limited vision, or just missing something fundamental here.
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In any case even if it was faster, it wouldn't be an order of magnitude faster. That kind of a difference should be an indication that something is wrong with the benchmark.
This is a geat productivity tool
Looking to develop this business. Mike<p>where's paul graham when you need him.
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It definitely predates emails. I'm 44 and I've always heard "carbon copy", never "courtesy copy".

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cc
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/carbon-copy.html
Very cool, definitely something I can use
It's held for three months, but only the first month is your window to rebuy; After that, the two months are an opportunity for the registrar to squat and charge you exorbitant fees.
yay! congratulations Tim
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What does it store the binary data in? A javascript string? If so, then if you have a 0x00 in the string then Internet Explorer will not look at any data past the end of this. It's an issue specific to Internet Explorer only.
> Which they do, they've been offering complete VM images with various combinations of Windows and IE for some time, the current offering is XP + IE6, Vista + IE7, Win7 + IE8 and Win7 + IE9

I've used the IEVMs project on github to install these VMs before; it failed. I'm trying it again as we speak, maybe it's a viable solution, maybe not.

> IE9's devtools are significantly better than IE8's: more feature and much more stability. They are nowhere near WDT/Firebug yet (or even Dragonfly), but they are a huge improvement over the POS that IE8's devtools are.

Obviously the problem here is that IE9 represents 25% of the currently in-use IE browsers and has (to quote rey bango, http://blog.reybango.com/2012/05/08/hey-paydirt-your-site-wo...) 35% world-wide Win7 marketshare, which as I saw somewhere (maybe arstechnica) only has 50% marketshare. So you're looking at ~17.5% give or take for other versions of windows running IE9, call it a conservative 25% adoption for all IEs across the web.

TL:DR; IE9 has a ways to go before it's new amazing developer tools are valued significantly. Until then, we're still stuck with IE6-8 ):

You make valid points; and the VMs available on their site should help testing availability. It's too bad that the debugging is still second-class and torture ):
Except Safari is built on an open source core that powers Chrome, AIR, Silk, etc.
Twitter is another business that has boggled my mind. There are interesting ways for them to monetize their users directly as well (without necessarily changing their user experience and focus, mind you), but they've been totally blind to the opportunities.

Revenue = (users) * (revenue per user)

A lot of services get the first operand right and fail to do anything with the second operand and effectively keep multiplying by zero.

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if, in the current economy, there are some investors suggested to the founders of companies with a large user based that they shouldn't signal a monetization strategy to the market via soundbites like "Right now we're focused on growing, but we've got some ideas on how to monetize our userbase". The general idea being that it will be the acquirer's problem to figure out the monetization strategy. The moment you choose a monetization strategy you effectively allow people to value the company much more realistically instead of optimistically.

It's the Greater Fools theory in action, and actually being actively exploited to generate returns on early stage investments.
Lived in Stoddard (B I think?) freshman year.
"discuss and decide what is true and what is BS"?!!

Do you honestly think that truth needs to be discussed and decided? The man - as much as I dislike him and his behavior - got it right. and it isn't the first time too. Sure some of his statements might seem too outlandish at first, but many of them happen. Anyone remember this http://gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html ?

I simply cant fathom the reasoning of people who are quick to ridicule any idea that does not fit in their image of how the world works.
Go to iPhone app store. Search for Opera.
Using this benchmark: https://gist.github.com/2652991

nodejs beats Vert.x for example. People shouldn't be so quick to accept these half thought out microbenchmarks.
You are standing on the thing you seek to criticize
I completely glossed over where he mentioned contractors.
> I'd say it was so niche that it might not be worth the bother...

From what I understand, it's there more as a testing tool for developers using Windows than for any sort of market share, even on OSX Safari does not enjoy a tremendously high marketshare even though it's the bundled browser.
Getting a 403 error on that link.
Made a pull request that supports arrow keys and mousewheel, which makes it more usable for finer adjustments: https://github.com/aterrien/jQuery-Knob/pull/3/files
There's an article on the 37signals blog as well:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3172-sortfolio-going-once-goi...
We'll see what Apples lawyers have to say about this but making a different design for the sake of being different would be stupid.
It seems that the text field accepts arbitrary numbers and then sets the knob to a rather random-looking position. It would make a lot more sense if these values were clipped to the range of the knob.
The books "A Year In Merde" and "Au Revoir To All That" are poignant reads.
Point conceded.

Though, certainly a +1 for choosing Mac as your primarily development environment; as it can run all the other operating systems you'd care about (:
Ignoring every about the product, the "Go Ahead. Sign Up for the Public Beta" caption on the sign up button seems like it's taunting or threatening me.
> but on a paradoxically hard page (like the HTML5 living standard, single page edition) with the wrong query, maybe not.

Yeah, I use that page as a crash-test too :)

Anyway, I haven’t dived in the source yet but I’m very interested in how this is implemented. How much can you hook into the browser’s selector engine / how much functionality do you have to duplicate? (I took over the cssselect project for WeasyPrint, but it is in Python without dynamic updates so the context is very different.)
There used to be a handbook at debian.org, are they the same thing?
As always, decent document is great for the project.
In the 1800s, broadcasting meant standing in the field and throwing seeds in every direction.

We've been adapting old idioms to new uses since long before everything turned into a computer.
Reference counting is the low-end of automatic memory management and garbage collection.

And about GC in kernel, of course you can. The issue is that most efficient GC needs giant locking and giant locking in kernel is something that you don't want.

In fact you can really live without GC. The burden of integrating it in kernel space out-range the benefit of using it.
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/28121/print
That's their stated position, but might not be their internal position. Microsoft sees that Apple has done it, and now they have a valid position to do it as well. Look at all the things Microsoft did in the 90s when they were dominant. They got sued for anti-trust and lost, and paid a dear price for it. Apple was not a monopoly in any market at that time, so they took a page out of Microsoft's book knowing they would not be sued over it. Apple could create vendor-lock-in, they could bundle whatever software they wanted, they could only allow their software on their hardware and anyone who tries to go outside that could be sued into bankruptcy. All perfectly legal since Apple wasn't a monopoly, and this helped them gain marketshare quickly.

Warning: speculative prediction follows.

Now that Apple is the monopoly in the mobile world, they are the ones who have to answer to anti-competitive practices. Microsoft is what Apple was in the 90s. Microsoft right now is where Apple was in 2001; making a clean break from the days of old, using the same tricks the dominant player is under legal investigation for. If history repeats itself, Apple will be pinned for the same things Microsoft was, and Microsoft will be able to leverage that for a fair bit of marketshare.

End speculation.

Whether or not the above comes to play, Microsoft wouldn't be pushing Windows 8 and WoA if Apple hadn't laid down the red carpet for this kind of behavior. Microsoft's internal position is likely more along the lines of "lockdowns are fair game again!"
This is gold.

I've experienced the "irreplaceable" business person as well, though not on that scale. I was at a startup where a guy was almost singlehandedly bringing in a few million in revenue, which was crucial to our survival.
The shift to mobile has potential to be a major issue for any web service that currently relies on display advertising in the browser. Sooner or later these companies are going to need to find a way to monetize mobile app users.

Third party mobile apps will also become an issue as consumers shift to mobile. For example Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all have very popular third party applications that bring in zero revenue for them. This is fine when the name of the game is all about increasing the number of users, but eventually they are going to need to increase the revenue per user.
I cant see how anyone could say it is too difficult to test windows on a mac. Bootcamp serves exactly that purpose, and you can use windows on a nice piece of hardware. IMHO, developers are payed a higher than average salary, precisely because it can be hard. If everyone could do it, there would be no reason to pay more. Having built some web apps in my day, I get that its a pain in the ass to support IE 6, 7 and to some degree 8. There may even be a reasonable use case where not allowing a feature on a certain browser version is reasonable. I didnt, however, see a compelling argument made by Paydirt to that effect.
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When they directly contravene the point "Nobody uses them", it does.
Gamification: More companies are applying game mechanics to internal processes
History is full of hackers that built a product and changed the world. It is less full of business people who taught themselves to hack and changed the world.
To be fair, Apple originally wanted web apps to be the only form of third-party software. There was a huge fuss, and that brought us the App Store.
Thanks, I've spoken to my boss about it (WFH today) and we're going to discuss when I'm next in the office, but I think a laptop stand/proper keyboard are things I'll be getting (I do all my work on a laptop, on a desk, using the laptop keyboard) plus I've got 4 days holiday starting tonight in which time I'm going to limit my keyboard usage severely and hopefully this will let them die down, and then start with the new ergonomics etc. next week and gauge what effect that has on them.

Good shout on the B6, I'll have to try that too!
I think red/green buttons should certainly be A/B tested
I assume the downvotes are for the bubble comment, but I agree with you on the other point. Social seems like an inherently fickle business to be in. The ficklest. So much of it is basically style and fashion and trendiness - things come into fashion and things go out of fashion. MySpace did, and imho Facebook will to. I mean really, what's to keep people there if something else that all your friends were using came along? I think a lot of people like joining something new, and social web apps scratch that itch. There's almost zero cost associated with leaving - maybe figuring out what to do with that chunk of your day that you have back now.

Anyway, not surprised at all to see this report.
It seems to about 10% of the cost of other CDNs... Where's the catch ?
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I think paying for eyeballs is a stupid strategy as well that undervalues the network of users dramatically.

Advertising is largely the art of throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. Yeah, with a lot of tools and the information Facebook has about their users, we can perfect the art of how to make shit stick.

This is the classic failure of big media: treating your users like an audience (eyeballs). Facebook understands its users interactions, designs around them and is doing brilliantly at keeping them engaged, then they bring in people from the advertising world and treat them like an audience.

They should be monetizing the edges, not the nodes.
They paid a lot in cash ($300M) and with the stock being public soon, the two companies won't be valued together for long.
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to Tunisia, the company found itself thrust into the
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So Tunisians are to France what Mexicans are to us?
Humiliation in Startups
JSR-310 naming poll
>I wonder if Windows 8 will be the death of the Windows platform

tl;dr: no.

I see this as another instance of the Windows Rule in effect: Skip every other release.

I will say I'm in the minority of people that likes the way Metro looks and acts even on the desktop. They'll get more apps come release time. Keep in mind, what we've all played with isn't even beta quality software.
and, perhaps, a similar story could be
told about Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs started as an engineer and had Wozniak as his best friend.

And if you think you can find a Steve Wozniak that can design a usable computer from a minimal number of chips, with a design that's extensible, with colored graphics, that can also write the software for it and that you can convince to quit his job for you ... good luck with that ;)
What is Instagram was to be the replacement? Can Facebook, with a lot of cash from the IPO, avert the same fate as MySpace buy buying its supposed successors?
Samsung definitely didn’t copy Apple with the design of this phone
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Brainfuck? Erlang? Coldfusion? Visual Basic (6/.NET)? Those are just a couple right off the top of my head.

It is quite cool, though, to see a common problem solved in such a wide variety of languages.

s/all languages/lots of languages/g
Correct

But several execution details come from the idea guy

Technical people can, of course, come up with execution details (this is not use RoR instead of node.js kind of details)

It's one thing to have an "idea" like "Sell cat food on the internet". That's a dime a dozen

The real idea that investors are looking for is all the nitty-gritty details on how selling cat food on the internet can be a good idea (is it customer acquisition? sales structure? pricing?)