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The Web Audio API is being standardised as part of the W3C Audio WG (disclaimer: of which I am a member).

We have a number of browser vendors on board, including Mozilla, and have recently reached a consensus to push forward with the (webkit-proposed) Web Audio API rather than the Mozilla-proposed MediaStream processing API and Audio Data API.

You can find much more information here:
http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/wiki/Main_Page

We'd really welcome input from developers and browser implementers at any stage.
Some of that effect will obviously still be there. Vacuum is not fixed by any coating and the liquid is viscous enough for bubbles not to easily form.

So yep, maybe it will need a tap or two at the beginning to make it flow.
his advances weren't unwanted before or after (or, for
that matter, those times they were successful).

The successful advances were unwanted? Are you kidding? This is a reductio ad absurdum of feminism and may well be the most ludicrous thing ever posted on this site. Now no means no...and yes means no too! Now it's harassment even when she says yes. Retroactively, even if it wasn't at the time.

You sure you want to take that position?

Let's take it a little further. Suppose, as seems highly plausible, Nazre has steamy emails, texts, or pictures sent by Pao during that period.

Does that obviate the charge of harassment? Because I'd bet that will come out in discovery. I suppose the argument at that point will be that she was harassed into sending the pics.

This is like an annoying salesperson calling you
repeatedly and justifying it with the one time you caved
in and bought something from them.

Utterly wrong analogy. Falls down on every level. You don't sue Staples after you buy something from them. Staples didn't steal the money from you (rape), you gave it consensually. Buying something isn't sleeping with someone. Sleeping with someone "two or three" times isn't slipping up once. Suing them six years after isn't suing when the event happened.
Could you setup a mirroring system?

And then some manager will find out and fire someone for wasting valuable company time and resources hacking on some irrelevant side project or hacking the companies security system or something.

Some places are just broken politically and no amount of technical cleverness can fix it. At places like that your only option is to learn to live with it, learn to play the political game or quit.
Because we could near double the amount of amazing stuff we could achieve if we unlock the potential of the other 50% of the population.
It is embarrassing that a site visited primarily by technologists has such an amateur bug.
I have a friend who is under 35 and his hair is going nearly completely gray at this point.
If anyone has ever lived in California, they will know that trains obviously aren't a practical option for most transportation needs. Due to extreme sprawl, cars are required almost everywhere in California, and only the poorest of the poor go without them.

However, with automated vehicles, trains or something like them could be very logical ways to connect relatively distant urban areas.
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I didn't know Cloudflare was that harsh, that's frustrating, sorry about that :(
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It was cancelled in 2010.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
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> still, if you ignore the MDA and executable uml silliness, there's quite a few ideas that can be picked from that closed space, imo.

Thats what Light Table does, isn't it? If not it will at least allow you to implement these ideas in a simple way.
Not really. The 10% is required and disclosed, so it is no difference than raising the prices. Tips on the other hand are an imposition since they are both expected and discretionary.

Sure, the 10% could be included in the price and wages raised, but it doesn't make much difference. It's the difference between a VAT tax and a sales tax - in the end the amount is the same - sales tax is just more apparent to the consumer.
Hey man, love the chess analogy. Hope you truly are getting off the cigarettes soon and ready to channel that new found money and energy into your success.
I think as long as the price remains under $100, the manufacturers will consider the whole device a replaceable part on it's own.

It'd be a bit like sending out a hard drive component for an engineer to replace, when the drive itself costs $100, it's just not worth the effort for 99% of installations.
Do not remove VGA. There are a TON of old VGA monitors (LCD as well) just sitting around, and this is a perfect machine to use with them.

Force people to use HDMI and most of them will have to buy a new monitor.
I'm in South Africa too and see the same thing.

Facebook loads almost instantaneously even when I'm on a crappy connection.
Personally I wouldn't trust a microSD card for any production role beyond being a bootloader. You'll be paged one day only to find you had to make a time-consuming visit to your co-lo, and that all your data was irretrievably gone.

The solution to this is to have one "real" PC acting as a NAS and serving iSCSI. You would have to divide the extra cost of this PC across all the ARM servers you have.
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I had to read your fine post from the google cache, missing on the pretty pictures:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hUwlhkh...
Is it just me, or can anyone else not find a single Summer Code Party event? I'm in California, and I can't find any near any of the main metropolitan hubs. Maybe the site just went up?
Huh? I browse constantly with third party cookies disabled in Safari and Chrome and never have a problem. I can see that site perfectly. And that's certainly not how CloudFlare decides that your machine is likely to be infected.

What are you seeing when you visit the site?
Did they actually make anything or is this just a "feel good" web page? I didn't understand.
Tips can't both be discretionary and an entitlement. That's a contradiction, and I think where the discomfort arises.

Either they are an entitlement - in which case they should be disclosed and added as a fee, or they are discretionary, in which case the servers wages should not be reduced because of the expectation.
Hmm, I might need to disable cloudflare then, frustrating really as it's a clever service.
As someone who has been hearing about Clojure for a long time, but largely ignoring it due to lack of need, I enjoyed reading your git :)

Thanks for the post.
I think a lot of that stuff can be done if there are JS implmentation. You want be able to use the importend functions from excel in a browser (or anywhere else) its just made for this kind of stuff. If there are JS you might be able to inlude them into the working process of Light Table. Lets see, its a nice idea.
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What do you think a SW person interested in creating hardware as well would be best served to learn? Is it just the results of the release cycles being so much longer, or is it deeper than that?
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What always surprised me: Amazon sells a (pretty nice) Kindle version, but all you get from 37Signals is this lame PDF.

(Maybe they want you to print it on really large paper and use it as your office wallpaper? That's a completely different strategy…)
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"Micro-SD card performance is highly variable, and generally rubbish"

Agree with that. I use a pandaboard as a build server and I felt it is a lot efficient to use NFS than running off an SD card.

Ewan, have you tried USB HDD instead of SD card?
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I cannot talk for the French, but in Sweden they usually handle special food requirements rather well. The children with special needs are all known to the kitchen staff so they get what they need directly from them.
Goodhearted? The guy is a bazillionaire. You'll be good hearted too when you have so much money that no amount given away is a sacrifice anymore.

FYI: You can't really tell if someone is genuinely goodhearted by watching them being interviewed by Charie Rose. It's what they do when they know no one is looking that will reveal the true nature of a man.
I admit to using the term "blowing up" rather colloquially. you're entirely right: it's not accurate. Even the first flight (which suffered an engine shutdown due to a fuel leak) didn't really "blow up" until it hit the ground; the latter two probably only "blew up" upon re-entry. (Although I'm not actually sure about the third flight; during staging, the first stage rammed the second stage at a low velocity, damaging it enough to scupper the mission. No idea how intact the second stage and payload were after that.)

All three flights would certainly have been survivable if equipped with a LES; all three would certainly have led to loss of payload if not launching people. In any case, five flawless flights since then have demonstrated that they've learned quite a lot from those early experiences.
Alpha was slower for fixed point, particularly if you factor in bang for the buck.
Here's a guide to the Google Doodle with the Knobs and switches labeled:

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...and that level of personalization requires that Google collects a lot of personal data about you. Happy to make the trade-off?
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I would have commented on your blog but on Firefox the "about me" floats over the disqus column so I can't.
I like the TR article and I like this comment. Both are the voice of reason. I also think it will fall of deaf ears. Too many programmers think they are smarter than everyone else, e.g. those in advertising. They believe they can control and manipulate people as consumers the same way they control and manipulate them as software end-users. They believe gaining a large number of users equates to success in business. It does not. And Facebook will be history's great example. The article explains what makes Google's business work (Overture; Yellow Pages style advertising) and points out Facebook has nothing comparable. But some programmers just want to pretend this does not matter.

I'm excited at the possibilities that will arise after the fall of Facebook and the decline of web advertising.
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Interesting... A lot of the "ahead of its time" features were those that have only made sense as various other factors in computing have matured... including multiprocessing. Is it possible that these features that were essentially not a good idea for a lot of the intervening time period?
Except that it's their rules that they're following, and with HFT those rules are generally rigged to help out the big guys. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the system wouldn't have actually crashed if there weren't a bunch of Morgan Stanleys and the like trying to make a quick buck on day one.
In the series of comments you linked to you indicate that you work at Google. Based upon the rest of your comment history, I'd posit that your resentment and distrust of Google isn't healthy for you or the company and that you should consider leaving. If I were your lead, I'd fire you (but refer you elsewhere, if technically savvy), simply because your attitude seems to indicate that a positive working relationship isn't possible between you and Google.

Nobody has to agree with everything an employer does (ever), and I certainly don't agree with everything my employers do -- sometimes, that disagreement was public when I posted comments here under my real name. This was always a passing phenomenon, though, something like this:

> I think we could do better at X, and I'm definitely hearing what you're saying.

You, on the other hand, have months upon months of comments that betray a, to steal your word, insidious resentment of the company that you work for. You are semi anonymous, which is good for you but a terrible representation of Google; there is only one comment that I found where you forget to say "their" and you instead say "our".

I'm genuinely not trying to be an asshole, but I've seen you for a long time be negative about Google, and I don't think continuing to work there is going to make it any better for you or the company. There's a legally-questionable comment in your history, too, regarding ongoing litigation, which at my employer would be an immediate termination.

EDIT: I went back far enough to find that you're not anonymous.
On the right, you can play and record compositions.

When I tried opening someone's saved song in Firefox, the Play button did nothing. But it worked in Chrome.
Quite nice attention to detail, and also some interesting subtle hints:

- an arrow pointing to keyboard if you didn't pressed it

- a flash of light going through the mixer panel if you haven't used it

And also you can play by using keys from 1 to 0.
When I was a kid (30 years ago) there were zero "special dietary requirements" and zero "food allergies"; if kids didn't want to eat the food then they didn't eat it and that was fine (frowned upon, but fine) -- but there weren't any special menus for religious reasons or medical conditions.

Now things have changed a little; you can specify that your kid doesn't eat pork or is allergic to nuts -- but that's about it.
Not only does Apple not actually make very much revenue from iTunes

Really? I guess 6% of it's net sales isn't a huge amount i guess, but when that equates to £6.3 billion I wouldn't regard that as small fish.
They had a "Safety Driver" in the drivers seat at all times, ready to take control.
duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4011929
I like this book, very inspirational.

About 'Less features' I've mixed feelings. In lots of markets (for example I am building a markdown editor for windows) you have lots of free competition, and one of the most important competitive advantages of paid applications is feature-completeness. Just too much people build 'minimal' free applications nowadays. 'Minimal' can get in the way of monetization easily.

Also 'Build software for yourself' is a good idea, but if you are a programmer, and all your ideas are developer tools be extremely careful because you will have an extreme amount of (mostly free) competition and a crazily hardly monetizable user base.

But still, there are very good thoughts in this book, and of course I try to not put any unnecessary features or options into my product.
And imagine the wide variety of people that he interviews. Being a good interviewer like that takes talent and intelligent because he has to become a quasi-expert in pretty much everything, within a week.
E-mail is a low price for "Getting Real".

I'm just surprised that 37signals are using techniques of "six-pack in a week"-kind of sites.
Also from SA, and while Plus is fine for me, Youtube has become unusable. For years it was perfect but now I rarely get through a five minute movie without it going belly up. Vimeo and others, no problem whatsoever.
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I run a Dreamplug pretty much 24/7, as my "homebrew" backup and NAS solution; the SD is used to boot and then mount an external RAID enclosure connected via eSATA, which holds the real data. Works quite well, in a fraction of the space that a "real" pc (or even a MacMini) would need.
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Micro SD are notoriously bad for server usage, they are designed to store infrequently changed files for a while, like mp3 collection, cameraphone snapshots, apps etc... Going with a brand name might help.

In order to extend their lifespan, you might want to minimize the writes by disabling some logs and the "last access" updates on files (`noatime` for "no access times").

Some examples:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-usi...
I wonder how difficult it is standing up to the bullies.
For the record, LShift are the creators of RabbitMQ among numerous other clever tools and products.
You're probably right, it's certainly the component I'd be least surprised about if it failed.

I do nightly backups off the box, and if the machine does die, I'll post down a newly configured micro-SD card for insertion before doing much investigation.
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The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that the insistence of the C++ designers that basic data structures could be defined in the language itself was a mistake. Only now in the most cutting edge C++11 compilers can you actually initialize a C++ vector directly like you can now in Obj-C, and the template machinery it takes to make that possible is truly terrible to behold. You still can't properly inspect most of the C++ containers in a debugger.

If instead they'd gone the Obj-C route and made the common data structures part of the language maybe they would have lost a little flexibility but the gain in programmer productivity would have been worth it, IMO. Hacking the Obj-C compiler instead to introduce a little more syntactic sugar results in much, much simpler language to use and understand.

It's a pity Obj-C doesn't really exist outside the Apple ecosystem. It gives you transparent access to native C code but also lets you get almost as dynamic as Smalltalk if you need to without all the baggage of a fullblown VM.
You can disable most of the extra stuff... I think all the options make these devices much more flexible.

If you wanted a dirt-cheap, more modular component you'd be looking at Arduino or Raspberry Pi, not a plug.
This 'problem' is old. Even the Hackers in the 60s didn't often do anything 'real'. The made tools to make it easier to make other tools, and so on. The think is that WHEN you want to develop something real you want to have these tools ready to go.

With your aditued there will not be that much progress, since everybody would have just said 'mmhh lets not develop a good compiler for C lets write assembler'. In my opinion as long as people develop better tools (languages, IDEs, compilers, debuggers) there is need for them. If one guy spends a couple of month on a Tool, how long will it take until the time saved is 'recoverd' by the users of that tool? Making tools yileds economic benefit, just like in the real word a maschine that does something better or faster will result in economic benefit.

That is not do say there is never mal-investment. Somebody might spend a long time developing something and nobody will use it, programming related or not. This however is not an argument for no innovation.
Perhaps, but for now, it's cheaper to make a data center out of traditional commodity hardware.

Let's say that a hard drive (or whatever storage device) has a failure rate of 1% over 1 year. With traditional hardware, for every 100 computers you have, you'll replace 1 hard drive. A new hard drive will cost a fraction of the machine's initial price, let's say 1/5. So maintenance costs for storage devices are 1/500 the initial costs per year, maybe a bit more if you factor in the cost of the labor.

Now if you make the same cluster of servers out of ARM hardware, let's say you'll need 4x the number of machines to get the same processing power. That's 400 machines. If the storage devices on these machines have the same failure rate, you'll need to replace 4 machines per year. However, since you're buying a new machine, you're don't get to pay for just the storage device. It costs you 4/400, or 1/100 the initial cost to maintain the storage devices for your ARM cluster per year.

A huge assumption here is that both types of hardware have similar initial costs. So the point here is that it'll always be cheaper to compartmentalize your losses, unless ARM devices are much cheaper than traditional commodity hardware. Intuitively, throwing away a whole machine when something breaks is going to be a lot more expensive than just replacing the broken part. I don't imagine that it's extremely difficult to make parts replaceable on ARM boards, and it would definitely save some money, so I don't see why it shouldn't be done.

(Also, I realize that the Beaglebone uses SD cards, which are cheap and replaceable. But imagine that instead of storage devices, I'd used memory for the example)
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As good as their intentions are, they do a terrible job at explaining them. It took me a few clicks to get to the meat [1]:

> "Mozilla Webmaker is a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks  of the web."

So it's not a piece of software, technology or service. It's an effort to wrap existing tools and projects into a common program and get communities involved.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker
The am3359 SoC on the BeagleBone supports (dual) gigE, but the PHY in use is 10/100 only.
"[...] ARM servers are a big part of the future [...]"

Has anyone actually compared x86 and ARM doing some sort of comparable task, and measured how much power they both consume performing the same task? I know ARM uses a lot less power than x86, but if it uses 10 times as little power but takes 20 times as long to do the same task as an x86 server chip, it still uses more power. I'm not saying it isn't more power efficient than x86 (it certainly has that potential, because of all the old cruft in x86), but I just haven't seen any evidence that supports this claim.

Or am I missing the point? Is power efficiency not the main reason for ARM servers?