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The distinction will remain on iOS until Apple opens up mobile webkit for UIWebViews. Until then, I'm just left with wrappers, bridges, and perfectly documented API's that I just can't access easily or readily (WebScriptCallFrame, WebFrame, ScriptDebugger, etc.)

I guess I'm really really looking forward to implementing yet another iOS HTML5 modal dialog... there are similar but different problems on android.
Diablo III’s “Error 37″ sends the Internet into a meme-making tizzy
The thing I don't understand is how can they say facebook ads don't work and even be sure of this, given that, as others have pointed out, they aren't going for a "conversion" as the purpose of the ads is branding, so that people think of their brand and eventually may buy a car made by them. They do other forms of advertising for branding, including TV ads, radio, billboards, etc so I don't know how its possible to pinpoint one channel of advertising (facebook) and say its not helping them with branding.

My guess is that they have an expectation of having more user feedback and involvement from this form of branding (people clicking the ad, filling out some bullshit form so they can bombard them with marketing material, etc), however the nature of the product may preclude itself from this sort of consumer behavior because people don't buy cars very often they may not feel compelled to engage with the brand, however seeing the ads on facebook could potentially have the same "branding" effectiveness as TV ads yet they really have no way of measuring this.
There is no such thing as a surefire ad so saying Facebook ads don't work as a broad statement is misleading. Facebook ads don't work for GM the way they thought it would to accomplish their goals but they certainly work for many other companies. The problem GM has as well as most marketers is that they are comparing it to their traditional marketing channels and using those metrics to judge Facebook ads.

You also shouldn't use the number of followers as the addressable audience for the brand, the whole point of social is that messages are amplified through the network effect out towards a much larger reach of users. One user who likes one of your posts or comments on it may mean hundreds of friends seeing it show up in their subsequent feeds like "YCombinator reader just liked GM's Blah Blah".

Everyone's right below that if you're using it as a direct marketing channel, you'll most likely see failure because people want to stay on Facebook. Think of it as a way to stay engaged with your audience and as a one time investment for the ability to message to them again and again in the future. Facebook ads also work much better when you tie them to your Facebook presence vs. trying to send someone off Facebook to your site. GM should have thought of more creative ways to leverage the Facebook app platform to promote on-Facebook activities that drive brand value and help promote their new cars/trucks. For example, how about a contest on Facebook using an interactive car designer to design a GM that also allows you to upload custom patterns for the paint job. If it's two things people like on Facebook it's self-expression and contests.
This is completely bogus. Fry's has grey market imported these phones. They also sell GSM Galaxy Nexuses from (I believe) South America.
Yes, why? I'm shocked and disappointed. The keyboard layout was a big differentiator for Lenovo. What happened to the argument that escape and delete should be larger because they are used more often?
How about learning to read code instead?

How about learning to distinguish bad code from good code?

How about learning to look at Atwood's code with a view to answering some questions: 1. How does this guy's mind work? 2. Can he think clearly or does he add needless complexity to everything?

Then making a decision whether you want to use his work or not.
Microsoft is only as good as the people paying allows it to be. If/when Windows refunds becomes popular, and people get the next-door kid to install an OS and LibreOffice. Then MS dies fast.
Actually that demo sounds awesome.
Did you check the actual numbers on that? I was impressed with the speeds I was getting, and figured it must be because they were using a P2P mechanism, but when I looked at the download statistics (in the downloader, there's an option to show network information), and was very surprised that it was almost entirely directly downloaded. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was something on the order of 1-2% of the total download.

That said, as someone else alluded to, maintaining that CDN with that bandwidth is probably crushingly expensive, and is something only Blizzard and a few others could pull off.
> One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things. Efforts to explain that this is not necessarily true are often met with hands clamped tightly over ears, accompanied by "I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA."

When has this actually happened? I don't know of anyone who has said that bittorrent is inherently illegal, they've just argued that it's mostly used for illegal activities. It's not that bars are illegal, it's that 80% of the people in that bar meet to smuggle things on the black market. That invites attention toward the medium.

It's a valid complaint. Bittorrent is abused for piracy a lot. It's silly to pretend otherwise. But this is a case where you can't shut down the medium just because it's abused. In some cases it actually is a perfectly valid solution, but this just isn't one of them.

I think that they might come to understand that, but I don't think they assume bittorrent is itself illegal. They just see it as a medium for copyright infringement. Who wouldn't at least consider attacking a widely abused medium?
Quadrigram: New visual programming environment launches
Thanks for posting this---this is a much better rundown of the full background for those of us who haven't been following very closely.
Is Facebook a Passing Fad? Nearly Half of Americans Think So
15 Days of Waking Mars sales data at $2.99 (after 4.99 drop)
Simple Interactive Pitch Deck, Open-Collar
Of all the ways Googe+ sucks, Hangouts are the one standout win. They're something I really think ought to fly as a standalone offering.
My (anti-)take on database schema version management
Intent is huge. I've never been one to click on Google Ads except in real rare instances. Only once I observed my mom using Google did I realize the full value of intent and google ads while searching.

She wanted to watch an episode of The Good Wife that she had missed so she searched in the Safari omnibar for "watch The Good Wife" and the first div under the search bar is an ad to some site that was not CBS that had the Good Wife available to watch via streaming video. To you and I, it's obvious that this "first result" is ad and we would skip over it to the first result. But to my mom, she thinks it's a search result and clicks on it. When she arrives on the site she thinks she's on the CBS site because they naively assumes like many consumers that the site showing the content would be CBS. She doesn't even think twice about the identity. When you are used to TV, you blindly trust that the site/channel showing the content is the correct one.

The only reason I discovered this was because she asked me to pull up The Good Wife to watch on CBS. I, being a savvier internet user, just navigated straight to cbs.com to search there. I got to their Good Wife site and lo and behold, there is no streaming video available on CBS, only teasers and behind the scenes content. I told my mom that "No, CBS doesn't have it on their site" and she was like "Yeah they do. I watch it all the time". I then asked her to show me exactly how she found it on CBS and that was when she showed me that she in fact was clicking on the ad in Google Search between the search box and the search results thinking it was in fact the first result. That's the power of intent and Facebook doesn't have that.
So true. Facebook ads and Google Ads are essentially different.
Finding Out What They Think: A Rough Primer To User Research, Part 2
No, because that is an idea and not a specific, fundamental expression of an idea. Only a specific software is copyrightable.

Is the portion of software that "write[s] value X to byte offset Y to switch the device into state Z," copyrightable?

Well, it would depend on how unique the source code was, such as pushing a VGA card into Mode-X or making an Arduino do something spectacular. But only that specific source code would be copyrightable.

Given the fundamental nature of the idea, the copyright likely won't stop you from writing another piece of software along similar lines, though someone may patent the idea of controlling an Arduino to steer a hovercraft and prevent you from going to market.

[edit: spelling of Mode-X]
What we call physics is not math. Math is how we interpret them. Just like code is how we interpret ideas in a manner that a computer can process.

Quantum physics is not even aptly defined because no one understands them. Sure, we may have some insight into how some things work at the quantum level but we have not a clue.

My point, which I reason you missed, is that people find math hard yet they manage to learn how to program. These days, one can make a reasonable living as a coder without knowing much math.

I'm not even going to pretend to be a genius, not even smart. But I can sure understand that programming is not what fellow engineers make it out to be.

It is neither Quantum physics nor hard. It is, in my opinion, simple (and beautiful).

Discouraging people from learning how to code is akin to discouraging people from learning how to speak.

In a world where the Internet is the only mass medium of communication, knowing how to code enables freedom of thought, and speech.

A freedom we cannot let die.
True, but my impression is that most Facebook ads feel like performance ads and not display ads. I don't recall seeing GM ads on Facebook, but I would bet that they look and feel like performance ads and not display ads.
That same strategy made my brother a full summer of wedding photographer bookings for ~$130 (circa 2009).
To be fair, people should read AND understand what they're raging against, BEFORE they post to the net. Is it too much to ask that bloggers actually comprehend what they're raging against?
I've found I like almost every aspect of Clojure. I've yet to try to seriously replace Python with Clojure for any large project, but I plan to try it soon.
What legal outlet distributes music via Bittorrent?
I like some of Apple's products. I don't disagree that design is important and that the interface should hide the complexity where the complexity is meaningless to the use experience.

However, that has nothing to do with the point I was making.
Dave's party was awesome.

:)

This is very true. I only go to Facebook to use Facebook.
How did Facebook reach 500M users
>With Facebook there is zero helpful intent. The only intent when you're on Facebook is to use Facebook.

This might be the case right now, but what about in the future? I think that's what Google et al. are scared about. If users spend 90% of their internet time on Facebook, and Facebook figures out how to serve users with "What they are looking for" 5 years down the road, then users will have a very low barrier to trying out the Facebook "look-up" service.

Right now, my use of the internet is (1) sites I already know exist, or (2) Google, in order to find things.

What if this becomes (1.1) Facebook, to look at things served from other sites that I like, and (1.2) Facebook, to find things that I don't know about?

That's scary for companies counting on the status quo. Sites' share of user time is important not for how they are now, but how things might become in the future. It's a huge about of leverage.
What all the Diablo 3 Error messages mean, and what to do about them
The varieties of Android Experience
Or why Fragmentation is a good thing on Android, a contrarian view?
Clearly this is where they're failing.. should also inject pre/post roll ads on all videos
The attack zed makes here on jeff atwood is short sighted and unfair heckling. If you actually read jeff's article, he only argues that coding is not a fundamental skill like writing or arithmetic. From that, zed posits that jeff doesn't want your kids to program. Yeah zed, that's why he worked long and hard on stackoverflow.

Speak for yourself next time.
Hey brogrammer, let's crush some code
Look up U.S. Copyright law and the case history on each of the suggestions you made. It looks like you may be surprised.

I am tempted to go through them all myself, but it is less fun and may make you feel better about the state of copyright if you do the research yourself.

Two for free: music is already copyrightable; DNA is not copyrightable.
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Both of these blog posts are stupid. They should both really be saying "Please learn more about the world in order to better accomplish your goals." Sometimes it's useful to learn how to code because it teaches a different way of thinking. Sometimes it's more useful to just learn how to think differently. These choices depend on a lot of things, but one is more optimal than the other for any particular scenario. If I could get everyone in the world to read a few articles on rationality, I would, because it wouldn't take long and the people who could understand it would really get something out of it. If I could get everyone in the world to learn how to code, I wouldn't, because it would take longer and I expect far fewer people to get value out of it. I can't do either of these though, so both are pretty useless to consider. People toss around information more and more quickly these days, so it might be useful to share a bit of philosophy. Tell people to try hard. Tell people to learn. Tell people to find out about the things they don't know, to see if they could help them. Tell people to reevaluate their goals, to find which contradict each other and to sort themselves out. Be kind or they won't listen. Don't be patronizing in your kindness, or they won't listen. If you want to help people become better, do it for yourself first. Learn more, become smarter, try harder, do better, and eventually the people around you just might see it and start doing it, too. Or maybe after a while you'll start helping other people become better. There are still people who suffer today. Sometimes you can't help them; sometimes you can.
It seems that it would be much better to hire less and better programmers.
The Unexpected
There's no mention of Free Software projects.

There are numerous instances, including very large projects with multiple developers (Apache, Linux kernel, Debian project) in which this works quite well, and arguably several in which it doesn't (I suspect some of the desktop fails of GNOME and KDE have a lot to do with an insular psychology emerging among the development communities).

There've even been academic studies of the groups, including those by Biella Coleman (University of Chicago / Columbia), Siobhan O'Mahoney (Stanford/HBS). Steve Weber's The Success of Open Source nails a few of the dynamics pretty well too, though with less focus on actual teams (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Success_of_Open_Sour...).

That said: many FS projects are highly modularized, an in particular, kernel development happens in large part by professionals paid to work at a given company on some aspect of kernel development. So the model is very mixed.

My own experience: maturity, individual dedication, group dynamics, and the absence of a "mothership" (and concomitant us-vs-the-world mentalities), as well as a dedicated effort to keep all communications on the group channel (as opposed to meatspace) is critical to success.
Risk is why not.

Theres a huge risk that would fail.
How smart people can make dumb games
To assuage your fears or maybe exacerbate them:

2, 3 are already copyrightable. (Rightly so.)

4, 5 are not copyrightable because they aren't fixed expressions in a tangible medium. 1 isn't copyrightable because a phone number is a fact.
I have no knowledge of programming.I downloaded Greenfoot to start learning Java in my spare time and I am learning from step one.
Three months since launch …
By the way: you can only copyright the expression of the menu. You cannot copyright the food. If someone wants to offer a straight up clone of the Whopper(tm), there's nothing Burger King can do (though trademark law would of course prevent them from calling it a "Whopper").
I wasn't complaining about the company taking the offer. Bravo to LightBox for whatever they got for their joining Facebook. I don't mind that they got acquired. I just wish is wasn't Facebook. The LightBox Photo app is a direct competitor to Instagram, hence why they had to shut it down when joining Facebook.

I understand that many startups in our industry have their sights set on being acquired. In fact, it's the reason many of them exist. Personally, I think that such objective is myopic and is rather toxic to the technology industry. If a product is so amazing, why won't people pay for it. I understand that something like LightBox or Instagram are so called "social apps" and tend to have a terrible time monetizing. Seems to me that something like these photo apps could make money via storage. "Free" is rather basic, small online storage. Perhaps a number of pictures. Perhaps a number of uploads. Something to that effect. Then offer "Unlimited" plans for a yearly subscription fee (includes all the picture uploads and storage) or you could do some kind of "credits" to extend your app. (Think, "you've run out of slots for your photos. Add 20 more slots for 1 credit") Then people could choose to have unlimited or to have a set of slots where they could remove certain pictures in order to put new ones up. (Just an idea here, IDK if it would be viable.)

As for a company I owned being acqui-hired. Sure, everyone has their price. Were it to be Facebook, it would certainly be a higher price, than just about anywhere else. (This is entirely due to my issues with Facebook. They could buy my company out, but it's going to be expensive.)
Does Canada really have draconian shoplifting laws that put people in prison "for a very long time" for stealing something the cost of a CD?

In US jurisdictions, that's a misdemeanor.
This seems to be a trend. I have a Nexus S 4G that went months between the announcement of ICS and actually receiving it, while other phones were launched with it.

To me, Nexus means first in line, leading edge, and that expectation was not met. My trust in Google Android is shaken, and those "features" will no longer factor in to my decision when purchasing a new phone until Google proves themselves.
It wasn't until 11th grade phyiscs that anyone bothered to explain what derivatives and integrals are, let alone how to calculate them or what they might be good for. Let me reiterate: it took until high school physics, twelve years into my math education, before someone showed me that calculus is the best/only tool for answering questions about nature, and that all the algebra crap matters because you can't do calculus without it.

Fourth-grade me had intuitively latched onto the idea that a curve's slope must itself have a slope. Limits (at least 11th-grade precalculus level limits) would have been well within my grasp in elementary school. In "helping" my dad with a basement remodel, I had actually wanted the area of a shape bound by a curve, but had no idea how to proceed. I developed an elementary understanding of recursion in my PHP and Python-hacking days (elementary and middle school - no time for that now) and had no trouble with time-complexity, object orientation, or introductory functional programming. NONE of that was so much as hinted at in school until sophomore year.

I don't know why we treat these ideas like dangerous weapons whose existence can only be hinted at until one comes of age.

I am a much better thinker than computer. Because my experience with "math" was years of drilling arithmetic, doing long-form multiplication and division without a calculator (WTF?), converting between forms for lines and parabolas, finding the x- and y- intercepts, plugging and chugging the quadratic formula, simplifying/solving nasty algebra, etc, I hated it. Nobody bothered to show me the point, I got sloppy, and now I'm sitting here with A-es and B+es throughout high school math, 660 on the SAT math section, 26 on the ACT math section (not outrageously difficult conceptually but a high-pressure speed trial), and no shot at any decent university's computer science program.

I think society loses a lot by making elementary/middle-level education about drilling exercises instead of engaging students with ideas to think about with the mechanics treated as secondary. Especially at the elementary level when kids are still naturally curious and have time and energy left over after school/homework to think and process. If I'm exceptional, my grades and test scores don't show it - I think a lot of kids could have handled substantially more on the ideas front.

Also: Shortly after learning to read in kindergarten, I was reading well above "grade level." Either I was innately gifted or "grade level" is pathetically low. I don't mean to disrespect the education experts, but it seems I've been helped orders of magnitude more, even at 8 years old, by the ambient presence of public radio, reading "grown-up" books and news I found interesting, and participating on internet forums than by identifying subjects and predicates or regurgitating plots onto tests. (Forced practice of composition is good - I've seen it help good writers get better, but I've never seen a bad writer improve through schooling).
I don't think that it should necessarily be the case. Part of the reason why mathematics & sciences are taught by hand is to demonstrate the process and confront the complexity at hand. "Nobody is trying to identify problems, break them down, make hypothesis, and so on." This is not necessarily true. Sure, after you are first shown the problem you then trudge through multiple calculations and variations of the problem, but the purpose of this isn't to grind it out and memorize it, but to reinforce the process and underlying parts to solving the problem.

There's kind of a reason why at some point we teach certain elements of programming by hand too.

Maybe I'm reducing your question but I think it's important to note the intrinsic value of teaching by hand vs. always incorporating automation by programming.
Blizzard is a known BitTorrent user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29#Softw...
>"The stock market"

Microsoft isn't beholden to the stock market in the way Google or Apple are. The two largest shareholders are Gates and Balmer. They have about 9% of the company between them - that's more than the three largest institutional investors.

As part of Dow Jones Industrial Average, many index funds have to hold Microsoft stock and have a strong disincentive to create turmoil which might drive the price down. Unlike the tech stocks to which they are often compared, Microsoft pays dividends which keeps the stock price lower.

As for the stock market being the future, that future is based on speculation about the next quarter not long term innovation.
Due to the large number of people contacting me I wanted to post a link to my (now available) free eBook on eCommerce and drop shipping:

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Thanks! And yes, after much deliberation I decided on the underscore.
Testicle - it just leaps out of this name -1 I'm afraid