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Hi mooism2,
(a) We paid the company $5625.00 in March 2011. They have not delivered us a single bit of data as agreed. We are now over a year down the road and seeking a refund, but have been told they wish to complete the project they overshot by almost a year, (More stalling for time).
The company refuse, outright to issue a refund.
(b) By linking to their site and in turn backlinking to this post, we hope to be able to get visibility for their company name, "Fornova" in Google SERPs and warn other companies and startups of their business ethics. Specifically we intend, over time to oust both the company and it's management. Amir Freund, Dori Stein and Michael Rubanovich.
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"We should be teaching users cookie control, plugin and request blocking as part of using the web, not an 'install once, forget forever' solution that doesn't work."

Doomed to failure. Users shouldn't need to know this stuff, and the vast majority never will. Even if it is taught and tested at school. There are plenty of things we could do to improve privacy, but much of it will cause the major browser vendors to make less money, so is unlikely to happen.

1.) Tie all cookies to the domain in the address bar. No more third party cookie tracking.

2.) Tie all cache entries to the domain in the address bar. Gets rid of numerous tracking tricks at the cost of increasing bandwidth usage a little.

3.) Get rid of HTTP referrers. Completely. It's none of your business which site I was on before yours.

These three things alone would make a huge difference. It's the low hanging fruit that we need to get before we tackle the more difficult problems.

I think there's too much money involved though. The above improvements would definitely hit Microsofts and Googles bottom lines. But hey, there's no problem with insanely rich advertisers controlling the major browsers right. No conflict of interests there.

EDIT: I agree with all of your other points regarding DNT. Just not the user education one.

EDIT2: Another one:

4.) Make all cookies, session cookies. I configured my browser to delete all cookies on exit ages ago, and the web still works fine. I might have to type in my username each time I go to login to sites instead of having it auto-filled, but that's a good trade off. Besides, browser plugins like LastPass solve that problem better.
Microsoft launches So.cl network
Well back when SQL was first created, there was a superior alternative named QUEL. Fast forward to today, and with the proliferation of programming languages that easily support high level concepts, it doesn't take that much imagination to think of better ways of dealing with large relation-values. linq for example. Going along a different direction, the language Prolog, and its much improved derivative Mercury take the concept of query languages to really amazingly awesome places. The quite well done software package PrinceXML was written in Mercury.

Edit: I also want to add Datalog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog

and list comprehensions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehensions
... with ISO8601 intervals you can express this as a string format, rather than using something ghastly like seconds or milliseconds:

'P6Y4M4DT3H45M15S'

To me, that is absolutely no less "ghastly" as just saying the period is 3600 seconds (or whatever...)
All Google products are released as experiments as well. It's just another buzzword oriented way of launching products and invalidating any negative or positive criticism of said product. Experiment = Beta.
How is managing the development of something that is totally open source "controlling everything"? That's like claiming that you don't want to use Linux because you don't trust Linus.

The code is there. If they do something you don't like, you can always fork.
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Thats from an advertiser perspective, not from a user perspective.
Maybe the group will be discovered and shamed, maybe it won't. I'm guessing the vast majority of Bittorrent users will never be affected.
My understanding was it was a 'fake' in that it offered 0 more than vanilla chromium in terms of separation from google/privacy (although chromium is a pain to update- and even somewhat difficult to find downloads for).
> 2012-142

Does that represent the 142:nd day of the year? Isn't that ambiguous when you can specify a year and month in the same format?
Changing the basis of competition in the marketplace from price to convenience (i.e., ease of use) is exactly what disruptive innovation is. Not all disruptive innovations are low end.

Stripe is actually more like a new market disruption because it is bringing in non-consumers who might not have even been able to setup payment processing without their solution. The same is true of Gumroad, or Shopify.
We also welcome Fornova to defend their name here.
I'd agree, that alone would not indicate that someone is a great journalist.
The issue isn't the airframe, it's the systems. Take the Cirrus SR22. A fast, modern, relatively efficient aircraft with a full avionics suite capable of instrument flying. It's even got a ballistic parachute so that if anything goes wrong you can simply float to the ground. It's really, really dangerous.[1] Cirrus SR22's crash something like 4 times more often than Diamond DA40s (a similar aircraft).

[1]: http://sr22.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/general-aviation-safety...

Why? Pilot error. A combination of Cirrus marketing their aircraft as a transport solution (which attracts relatively inexperienced pilots) and the comparatively unforgiving airframe leads to high accident rates.

What does this proposal do to solve that problem? It's a novel airframe, sure, but it's not that novel. I can't imagine that it will offer huge efficiency boosts over something like a Velocity XP (which has similar construction techniques and can probably be used with the same Diesel engines).

This is solving the wrong problem. The issues are regulatory and electronic.
Did you apply yourself equally at both? Without making any assumptions, many people do sail through college hardly putting enough effort. If people half-assed startups the same way, starting work on the prototype two days before an investor pitch, say, that wouldn't be much of a learning experience either.

In your own startup, it feels like every stroke counts, and you are doing something you find exciting and meaningful. It's likely not that startups offer more teaching experience, it's just that you're bound to get more out of something you really dive into.

Having said that, most (all?) college curricula do not cater for people intending to do startups, but they still have a lot to offer.
I have an 8 year old, who is video game crazy. Lua is a tidy little language which I had a hard time deciding it against python and javascript.
The Löve 2D game engine for Lua eventually settled it for me.
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A webserver could easily figure that out, as long as it is configured correctly and with knowledge of the domain. I don't like using query strings like this, as it makes the URL point to multiple objects.
thanks for sharing the story, that was so deep.
i cannot imagine how frustrating it is to be different(deaf, handicapped) in a world that(mostly) is not, and how many simple things we take for granted.
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Perhaps, but you have to admit that it's a bit convenient to wrap oneself in the shroud of "research experiment" when launching a public-facing service or application. If the service takes off, MS can drop the "experiment" description. If it falls flat, they can rally behind it and claim plausible deniability over the fact that so.cl was ever truly in the social networking arms race.

It may indeed be an experiment, or at least have begun in the lab. But consider that it's got the consumer-facing web presence of a full product/service rollout. There are plenty of ways to get a true experiment, or learning tool, widely disseminated without making it appear to be a full-fledged product launch. At our most charitable, we could probably describe the insistence on the experimental nature of so.cl as bet hedging.

[I say all this as just about the last person who wants to hop onto an anti-MS bandwagon. I bear no ill will toward Microsoft in general, or so.cl specifically. In fact, I wish them both the best of luck in this endeavor. I think the world could use more options in social networking.]
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I would like to talk to you, about best and worst-case scenarios regarding the copy-paste element.

Why?
It's still the most prevalent form of collaboration and connectedness.

The survey requires an improvement. Feel free to format a query to suggest your experience. My sample survey on <opera-mini> interface :

1. Accompanying site/application - forward links from twitter apps and editing blog-posts.

2. Any suggestion to improve its context - contextual link on location bar :startpage may not require a copy. " I don't need to copy the protocol.

3. ...

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> hackers / pirates / terrorists

Some of us have been variously labelled all three.
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Well, 3600 seconds can be expressed much more simply than that: 'PT1H'. Which is more human readable than '3600'. The point in intervals is a compromise between human and machine readability - the point being that we can more easily determine long periods of time expressed in unit values rather than milli/microseconds.
Yeah, I was going to say that too...

> The nice thing about ISO intervals is that they are human readable

That P6 monstrosity is not human-readable. Not by 99.999% of humans, anyway.
Are most debuggers now equivalent nowadays?

All I need it to do is set breakpoints and inspect variable/memory values.
Just a note, the 0 (zero) in the page logo/title is (or looks a lot like) the Scandinavian letter Ø, which is in no way related to the number 0.
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AF447 was caused by a lack of systems understanding by the pilots. If they had simply done nothing, the natural stability of the aircraft would have kept it flying until the pitot tube de-icers had effect and the aircraft could return to autopilot.

The triggering cause of AF447 was the icing of a pitot tube. The reason the aircraft flew into the ocean more or less fully stalled was poor pilot training and poor human interface design.

I do agree with you that skilled pilots are a requirement. Systems are only as good as their sensors, and lack the flexibility that makes a manned system adaptable. However, AF447 is a fairly poor example of why we need pilots, as it was pretty much entirely pilot error which caused the crash.
This seems like the perfect case where the compiler should just do the right thing, instead of having the programmer remember tons of rules.

And aren't, like, 99% of Qt programs UIs? Since when have UIs been so sensitive to performance that they have to be written in C++?

And x 2, they're using reference counting, which is about the worst form of garbage collection, and then worrying about the time taken to copy a string!
This is a fantastic rich text editor, easily one of the best I've seen. If I remember correctly, 37signals uses it in the note writing feature of the new Basecamp.
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Interesting that David would blog openly about setting up interviews. My first assumption was that it was an interview for another job - maybe it wasn't?
> The only way to escalate the ranks in chess is to become a living database.

This happens in any field with significant theory. A chess grandmaster isn’t any more of a “living database” than a mathematician, for example, who spends about twenty years learning theory (from elementary school to Ph.D.) before working on original research. And in chess, just as in mathematics, learning theory is not as simple as memorization.

> Once chess becomes "who is the better database" it stops being intellectually or practically useful as far as I am concerned.

A player who knows some theory will always have an advantage over an amateur, but when the difference in players’ knowledge of theory is negligible, as it is in the top levels, it is strategy and tactics that win games.

I do understand your frustration, as an amateur chess player myself. But telling yourself that you would be a better player if you just spent some time memorizing opening lines is just a cop-out. That won’t make you a better player, it will just put you on equal ground with your opponents.

Edit: heh, coincidentally today’s game speaks for itself.
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Being from Ireland myself, hugely proud of the Collisons and what they've achieved. But I'm rooting for them for another reason.

A few years ago when I was in college, I randomly emailed Patrick looking for advice on where to begin on the path to eventually doing a startup. I was only half expecting a response, I mean he doesn't know me from Adam and it was an email out of the blue from me.

Instead, he gave me his mobile number and told me to ring him to have a proper conversation. I had like a half hour+ conversation, about web frameworks, visa advice for the US, and so on. Incredibly guy, unbelievable generosity. I was floored by it.

I've no doubt Stripe will go public some day (unless it gets bought for a huge sum by Visa or someone), I'll be rooting for those guys all the way.
>>His point was that, unless your goal is to become a world champion and somehow earn a living out of playing Chess the game can very easily become a huge waste of time. You don't learn anything more than playing Chess. It is false to assume that good Chess players are really smart people. Yes, they might have the ability to achieve deep concentration and focus on the game. One would be surprised to learn just how bad some really good Chess players are about other things in life.

I realized this while playing Sudoku. During my college days I had become a super expert at solving Sudoku. So much so the I would just start writing number as I saw the puzzles. All my college buddies though I was a uber genius guy with special abilities to solve Sudoku puzzles. But internally I new I was just a 'Human Database' as you would put it. Soon Sudoku go boring and I stopped playing it altogether.

I find the same with programming. I have far too many code templates and patterns in my brain. For every problem you throw I know a bunch of code patterns that can be inter played to form a solution. So much so that coding has become typing now.

Its just not fun anymore!
Thank you Dirk.

I was looking in the PR book you suggested and also in many others I have found. Let me be straight, I find all of them dry, boring and useless.
I had little idea about PR, and I still have little, but I start to realize it is a different animal from what a startup would need. It feels like something mysterious and don't believe in mystery.

You did actually help me to the conclusion, that I will just skip learning PR now and focus on marketing, like rmATinnovafy said. I did need your input, thank you.
It's not good for either, but if this was an attempt at open source 'out reach' then they're kind of failing at delivering by not taking pull requests. That leaves it being a weak attempt at PR/recruitment.
I have one of the cheapest practical family airplanes, and it's so far from affordable on the average salary that the gulf is insurmountable, IMO. And mine is 1/5 or less the likely acquisition cost of this one. That difference in capital cost will take 2000 hours of operation (more than 20 years for most private pilots) to make up in nominal dollars.

If people today can't afford a Skylane (or even Warrior or Skyhawk), they will be able to afford this even less.

Putting the "everyman" in the air is better done with a partnership or club owning 60s/70s/80s metal airplanes, IMO, and that's not even that achievable in days of $6 avgas and $75/hour "dry rental" (everything other than gas).
I don't think this is accurate. As a deaf person you see when conversations take place, and when you are excluded from them. As a remote worker you don't get this consistent reminder.

You are correct, that it might be similar when trying to do small talk, though.

PS: I work 100% remote.
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For me it was Codea and iLuaBox. My son was stoked to know that he will soon be getting an iPad.
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Feature request - ability to add 'notes' to a document. I'd imagine these as toggleable divs that would be able to be inserted anywhere in the doc, then made visible or not by toggling a class. When 'on' the visible portion would just be a small box/space/marker that, when clicked, opened up a larger div with the full note.

I'd tried to do this with the YUI and Dojo editors a couple years ago, but my JS-fu wasn't good enough. I'm possibly better now, and maybe wil try my hand at adding that to this editor (which looks nice for a lot of applications) but someone else with better skills could probably lay the foundation for a 'notes' system much better than me :)
I'm a contributor to Aloha and recently project underwent a huge re-write to cut down the cruft. Next release, will use a light weight UI based on jQuery and also switching to a newer command API based on W3C's editing API will also make things more faster (and easier).

Main issue with the documentation was the rapid changes to the API in the past. Since the API is getting stable there will be more concern on improving the documentation.
The crash of AF447 was caused by the pilot, not the electronics.

If they had just done nothing it would not have crashed. Instead the pilot climbed until it stalled.
Google Plus is a research project into the question of whether or not Google can monetize the social web.
No, they aren't. With Java you can change code while the application is running and it will be hot-swapped after you have recompiled it.

I learned about this feature when playing a bit in Eclipse, forgot to kill the program between edits, and got a warning that the recompiled class couldn't be hot-swapped because its signature changed. And then I sat there in awe; I can just dream about this functioning reliably with C++.
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So you built 4chan without the user base.
Just some days ago I tried to sign up to Hulu on my wife's macbook and suddenly the input fields didn't work anymore. It's probably a bit of an outdated version (10.x), but still.
Sure, most Qt programs are UI based, which makes performance a sensitive issue. Even if you're running your UI on separate threads there's still a need for low-level aspects like strings to be as fast as possible. QString is used everywhere, the faster it is the smoother your application.
thanks for the post! (harry, the author)
University is very much what you make of it. You also get the opportunity to study subjects in a way that is impossible in everyday life. I studied physics. I am a very poor physicist, but the different perspective that it gave me was in my mind worth it.

Also, less education is simply not the answer.
Mozilla foundation > Google.
If anyone is interested in single data-points:

My business (professional assoc.) averages IE:55%, FF:14%, Chrome:12%

My personal site averages IE:13%, FF:21%, Chrome:40%

It's important to remember that while StatCounter results say something about internet-wide averages, browser usage is still pretty context sensitive and corporations are still largely IE based.
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I'm sorry, if this is off topic, but is it common to put your project files into version control system? I'm talking about .sublime-project and .sublime-workspace.
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thanks for the feedback - am not mad good at the old graphic design, but it's all too easy to just say "I can't be bothered with that stuff"... I'll try and make some improvements. I gather it looks particularly ugly on windows, must take a look...
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"The only use case I can think of is hackers / pirates / terrorists. I could see them running a computer which has the red button ready to go and taped to the outside of the case to destroy evidence as soon as police try to kick down your front door."

I'd imagine this was the manufacturer's intention. If you're going to the trouble of building a computer with an instant self-destruct feature, you'll probably put the button somewhere accessible.
Similarly, I have no issue with it, in fact I like it, a few years ago someone stole parts from a friends car - I was able to get the plate as they escaped. It was great knowing every time they went through London they were likely to be stopped.
Don't rightly know. I did it because I work on the project from multiple computers using SublimeText and found it convenient.
Like the author, I'm deaf as well. Real time captioning functionality using an improved version of Google's speech-to-text technology (the current implementation on Youtube is VERY hit or miss) was pretty much my first thought when I saw those glasses.

That's something I've been dreaming about for 20 years or so.
Take a look at bergie's Hallo editor:

http://bergie.github.com/hallo/markdown.html

He also has an interesting project called Create:

http://createjs.org/
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I'm not sure it could, if I have a resource with a URL:

www.example.com/foo

and it can arbitary sub-resources e.g.

www.example.com/foo/bar/raz

then how do I know whether bar is a different resource or part of the JSON returned describing www.example.com/foo

This would mean you'd have to restrict your resource names to ensure they don't clash with JSON names - which seems a pain (e.g. say the resource names are uploaded files and directories, so you won't have much control over what they are called)
I don't think you can compare MySpace and Facebook. MySpace never really innovated. They never had a platform or began to do what Facebook did. They got bought out and lobotomized.

Facebook started sprinting and never stopped.
Although this would be awesome, I don't know how we could isolate sound source and make it perceptible to the audio transcriber, on a street with lots of people walking around and talking this would be complicated.

Nevertheless this would be a great idea.