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1. I fail to see how using an arbitration clause in your contracts results in only disputes that would be resolved without court.

2. It means 146 countries have signed the 1958 New York convention.

3. The 96% is a CIArb statistic.
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...so that it helps me write the function, but "hard-wires" a particular order?

Use assertItemsEqual.

http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCa...

The way I do it:

In the doctest, I include a few toy examples, stuff I can verify by hand, and which helps the user understand what I'm doing.

In the unit tests, I try to do things in the style of Haskell's Quickcheck (the greatest testing library out there). Generate some random values and test properties (e.g., len(permute(x)) == factorial(len(x))).
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Ah I thought these features would be implemented outside of the WebM files, like on DVDs where menus and subtitles are separate from the mpeg2 files that contain the movie.
Yes, construction and real estate in general is a major area for arbitration.
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Sure, but with Dropbox you aren't getting additional functionality - you're just getting more of the same.
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app development on symbian used to be a chaotic affair till nokia brought in signed apps. after that the apps started to dry up. it became a hurdle for lone developers that wasn't worth the effort.

i'm sure apple would organise it better but it is still another hoop to be jumped through to get an app developed.

as to openess i still have an iphone 3g. i had the cash saved up for a prepay iphone 3gs and was to go and pick one up the following weekend when apple banned google voice. it was an indicator of control so i spent the cash instead on android. the iphone 3g will be my last purchase from apple thank you very much.
but don't you still need good lower back support? If you don't mind sharing, what chair are you using? I'm genuinely interested.
An AMOLED RGBG pentile display with x pixels may not be as good as a similar non-pentile AMOLED display with the same number of logical pixels but it's better than a non-pentile display of y pixels. (I will graciously let you choose your own values for x/y, as it may vary by person though I'd suggest 2x = 3y as a starting point).

Dismissing it out of hand, particularly when basically every camera sensor, and every encoded video and jpeg does similar things with color, just seems odd to me. It's an engineering trade-off with lots of in-and-outs for each specific decision, not an unholy or unclean technology that contaminates everything it touches.
Whoa, are you sure about this stance? No creative task should ever be done unless your willing to work for free?

By your logic, I would be condemned to waiting tables for the entirety of my life whilst providing every line of code I write for free.

I don't think this is fair to people that want to pursue a creative path in life.
Apple is pushing people to the App Store to create a better user experience, but they also have made decisions that protect their 30% cut at the expense of that same experience (for recent examples, see the Dropbox API rejection and the inability to buy a book through the Kindle app). If the money wasn't at all important to them, they'd drop their cut down to a level closer to a payment processor.
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Well, Nokia is not for sale either since it was semi-acquired by Microsoft.
All of the developer certificates are ultimately signed by Apple. Outside of the Mac App Store they don't restrict your non-App Store API usage and they don't inspect each release of your application. Nevertheless, if Apple decides Mozilla doesn't get a certificate, that's that - installing Firefox with a warning becomes the best-case scenario (more or less).
So cut your rate, but track your time more aggressively. Every email read, every call - all billable. Be a fuckin lawyer.
You think they are just a payment processor? How about all the services that you have access to when you put your app on the store? Distribution, in-app purchases, notifications, game center, iCloud sync and storage.
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HTML/JS aren't first class citizens on iOS when it comes to API access. You can't take pictures, get reliable sound playback, create notifications, etc.
Wouldn't it make more sense to make the alarm send out a standardised frequency a la DTMF tones?
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Unite was awesome. The problem is hardly anyone used Opera. A company like Facebook could actually do something with it. Imagine the possibilities for apps and games if a big chunk of Facebook users had it.
they are happy to provide this without your app supporting in app purchases, and they get no extra money at all.
You're not dealing with big corporates or government. If you are, you're not doing so in a way that the budget weenies notice you.

Big orgs are consolidating, and part of that consolidation is cutting off the ability of "rogue" business units to contract with any vendor who isn't on a select list. (And the vendors on the select list are under orders to rat out rogue initiatives to corporate HQ)

Survival for small business folks stuck in this world is becoming a "partner" for IBM, Cisco/EMC/VMWare, Microsoft, HP, Deloitte, etc.
One process per tab is not a feature. It is (or should be) invisible for me, the user, and from my experience it creates more problems than it's worth (first time I tried Chrome it simply stopped my computer dead by running 10 heavy processes on a single-core CPU - so much for performance). It's a bad design decision that will only pay off when I have a 20-core CPU.
Sandboxing for individual tabs? Just about the same.

My point is that saying "Chrome came and shook things up introducing features no existing browsers had" is a bit of a stretch. When it came out Chrome was basically not very different from Internet Explorer 6 (feature-wise), and it seems to have stayed that way (I like full page translation but that's it).

We should be fair and say that Google Chrome has a large market share because it has Google behind it. It doesn't have much else going for it.
The writer is mentioning the charity, because this case involves that charity. What do you suggest as an alternative?

You could remove all mention of charity for issues involving charities, just to make sure that no-one is being emotionally manipulated by the fact that charities exist, but then articles about things happening to charities would start to resemble redacted missives from some government ministry of truth.
Going by just the subject, maybe a perfect hash function
generated with eg. GNU gperf?
As the guy who runs Cydia, your analysis of the money involved (or really, money not involved ;P) is spot on, but can be made even stronger: it isn't as if these things distributed by Cydia are things Apple would distribute in the first place, so even if that "lost" revenue were a meaningful amount, Apple has no mechanism to get it anyway.

(Honestly, if you could distribute something in the App Store, and are coming to Cydia instead, you are going to get some funny looks on my end. Cydia is not about accepting the App Store's rejects, nor is it about competing with the App Store. It is a way to distribute things fundamentally unlike the things in the App Store: extensions, not apps.)

Frankly, every time anyone--the EFF included--makes the argument that this somehow comes down to sales numbers and revenue competition, it just undermines the cause. :( That really sucks, as I think this is a serious issue and there really are good arguments to be made, but instead everyone just latches on to this simple-but-wrong direct revenue idea.

(For those who then ask "ok, what are some of those arguments?", I will direct you to the comments I sent to the copyright office for this year's round of exemption requests. I focus on things like cross-market control and the stifling of non-app innovation. You can also, however, make arguments about consumer control, purchase longevity, and security.)

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2012/comments/Jay_Freeman.pdf
If the argument is that they need the 30% to recoup costs, then fine, I can agree with that. But that means the 30% isn't just about protecting the user experience, which is my point.
There's a difference between a design that you use the first time and a design that you use all the time. It doesn't make sense to change the buttons just so you can figure them easier on the first time (I had no problems by the way with it). When I'm spending large stretches of time reading I actually enjoy having the buttons on each side go to the next page. I'm not staying in the exact same position as I was an hour ago, or maybe the same side. If you're lying somewhere you want to spend as little effort as possible just to go to the next page.
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Matt does not bring up a valid point, there has always been ways for people to distract themselves. The ability to concentrate has always been important. If you can't concentrate it will be very hard if not impossible to learn.
Discipline is the key here, the discipline to turn off distractions. Turn off distractions wether it be notifications, games, reddit, HN, etc. Notifications are not ground breaking or required. Wordpress notification cannot destroyed the world. You can turn them off.
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With Fermi and newer (i.e., Kepler) hardware, there's not as much to be gained by using texture memory. On previous hardware, the texture cache helped to speed up some kernels that had non-uniform memory access patterns; the Fermi/Kepler hardware has a larger on-chip L1/L2 cache which serves the same purpose and does so without requiring the programmer to write extra code for working with textures.
I'm preparing an ebook launch in July. I am self-publishing and distributing the ebook DRM free in multiple formats via Gumroad. I looked at Amazon and others as outlets but I didn't see much advantage. BTW, I have a day job as well and don't expect to make much money but at least I will have full control over my product including the ability to send out updates to customers as well as refund if someone isn't happy with the product.
Also tired of simpleminded gripes in the comments section about blog posts that other people have found interesting.

Your feedback amounts to "hey it happens. that's how business goes, it may suck, but learn to play the game. and if you're any good, just walk away".

Discourse is the first place to start a meaningful conversation about how to change bad/unpleasant practices. There are good clients and bad clients (I'm a client, and I'm a good one).

Patio11's comment is great because it outlines a way to engage the client in a discussion that has a better probability of leading to a mutually agreeable strategy than "just walk away".

Generally a developer walks away from an existing engagement like the one the OP talked about and partially hopes that the client will find someone worse and realize they've been punished for their behavior, but in practice, $BIG_COMPANY thinks they care about costs, are stupid about how they try to cut costs, don't know how to evaluate quality, and never realize they've been punished, so the developer just has to find new work and $BIG_COMPANY isn't worse off in any impactful way.

"you have options enough anyway" might be true, but encouraging the "f it, walk away" tactic out the gates doesn't help anyone in the long run.
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A programming language designer shouldn’t have to make accommodations for users of whatever other languages are popular at the moment. If “return” is the natural name for a keyword, then regardless of its semantics in other languages, that is the best choice in the long term.

Technical note: even in languages where every expression has a value, it is possible to have an `if` form that doesn’t require an `else` value: just return nil. See, for example, Clojure: http://clojure.org/special_forms#if
It does not say that at all, in fact it says:

"The upcoming version of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, will reportedly include warning messages that strongly discourage users from installing apps from sources other than the Mac App Store. Fortunately, it will be possible to turn this off in Mountain Lion and install apps from anywhere you want, but Apple is continuing down the dangerous road of making their products less open."

"Strongly Discourage" != "Disallow"
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I converted a game I had originally written in Java to iOS. In part because I wanted to learn Objective-C. With hindsight, and with the emergence of Android, I probably should have converted the game to C++.

With the games base code (engine) in C++, I could have written thin wrappers for iOS and Android and I would doubled my market share.

For this reason I would recommend C++.
If you work in a small team, especially a startup, knowing what’s going on and how your product works is valuable also to a non-technical business co-founder

Couldn't agree more! (especially for product people)

Can you give more specific details about how it helps you/the team? (no sarcasm here, I'm genuinely interested to understand this form the marketers' perspective)
sixQuarks made a good point. Here are some things I asked myself when I first visited the page:

- Where do I write myself messages? Just on the website? Why should I use this website instead of just writing myself an Email, use Simplenote or the Notes App? What are the benefits?

I would make these points more clear and emphasize the main benefit in a bold and big headline. I also really like sixQuarks idea. Why not put a note-field on the first screen and show them how easy it is to use your service.

Another thought: Don't give so much space to the sign-in-field. Most people who ll visit your website won't have an account (yet), so my advice would be: Place a big sign-up-field there instead – or an input field where people can send themselves messages already – and move the sign-in to the navigation bar.

As somebody who loves good design: You should work on the design. Use Typekit (Open Sans, PT Sans are very popular these days and make a big difference compared to all the Helvetica websites) and use a larger font-size in general.
I wish he provided the architecture he ran on. Nehalem and later cores have crc32 instructions that are quite zippy.
> As for hash tables, can't you guarantee uniqueness by using only reversible operations?

This is called a perfect hash and its appropriateness depends on the input data.

The problem is that the problem domains where hashes are practical are where a very large space of inputs needs to fit into a finite number of buckets such that lookups are fast.

For that to work with a perfect hash, you need an infinite number of buckets which needs infinite space.
How about not including support for the cheapest price plan?
It happens but not that frequently.
But the people who don't use VLC are able and willing to use python-gst, pywebkitgtk, and python-gtk?
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When they learn how to cut bed slats to the width required for the bed, so that they don't fall through when you sit on them, I will be a lot more impressed.
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I just recently launched a new product concept on Kickstarter (my first one). It is a low cost, simple AirPlay enabled receiver that is 40% cheaper than any other AirPlay device on the market. I'm not getting the traction I was hoping for, and I'd love some feedback as to why that is. Also, any suggestions or improvements would be greatly appreciated.
It's not hard to learn the difference, but the article's point in calling it a "false cognate" is just to note that there _is_ an unexpected difference. I don't believe the author's use of the phrase is correct, though. Cognates don't have to mean the exact same thing in the different languages - they just have to be derived from the same source. So a "false cognate" actually would mean words that appear to have come from the same historical roots but don't really. What makes "return" in Haskell a (true) cognate is something you mentioned - its name was chosen intentionally as a _metaphor_ for return in other languages, though it's not the same thing.

On the other hand, I think the article's point that it's tricky is valid. The way it is usually used makes it appear that it is causing the procedure being defined to exit. If a user thinks that's what it's actually doing (which they tend to do when coming from other languages), they will try to write things like "when (i == 0) (return x)", which does not mean what they think it means.
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Paying for more cops has its own problems. In a high-cop low-crime environment, e.g. most suburbs, cops spend most of their time harassing people for minor things or figuring out ways to increase ticket revenue.
I thought MD5 and SHA-1 were both designed as cryptographic hashes but now deprecated for this purpose - although SHA-1 is still used in applications such as git as a general purpose hash function.
Indeed - the same problems have stalled our attempts to make the rest of europe drive on the correct side of the road.
the anatomy of a great comment, provide actionable advice, in an example, of how to respond.

one extension requested -- MOST contractors for $BIG_COMPANY are not in a position where they have had sufficient ownership of a project to be able to attribute specific company bottom line gains to their work.

For example, if you're in the practice of doing conversion optimization work, split testing landing pages, or doing SEO work, you might be able to measure conversion or added traffic and make claims about how that impacts the bottom line, which puts you in a MUCH stronger negotiating position.

Do you have specific advice for contractors who might be part of a team or contributing in less measurable ways (writing internal code, building a new feature)?
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If he doesn't have the resources for providing support and can't help from being rude, maybe he shouldn't be providing subscription-based software products at all.

Software is support. Sure, there are ways to mitigate the cost and quantity of support, but once the product is built support is one of the primary functions of the business.
This is my first KickStarter project. It is a low cost AirPlay-enabled receiver. It's priced 40% below any other AirPlay device on the market, but I'm not getting the traction I was hoping for. I'd love to hear feedback on why you think it's not taking off and any suggestions/improvements you may have. The HackerNews community has more great minds than anywhere else I could post this.

Thanks,
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It'd still be interesting, particularly in a world where hardware is picking up the load for things which SSL uses. I'd expect the answer to be something along the lines of “more competitive as the data size increases” but it'd be interesting to know how great the margin is and whether the answer shifts significantly when comparing, say, a conventional hash to a cryptographic one on an embedded chip.
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No: these examples are much better explained by control over their competition (or even "user experience", which is arguable in both fact and morality), something which is much more easily evident when you stop using the irritatingly misleading term "their 30% cut".

Remember: Apple has costs in terms of payment processing, handles all of your complex accounting burden, takes care of district-specific sales taxes, manages currency normalization for worldwide distribution, and deals with any and all payment-related support requests (in numerous languages): they are left with a fraction of "their 30% cut", which is quite clear from their public financial reports.

So, to Apple, the amount of money they can make off of companies like Dropbox is effectively zero. Even their entire App Store ecosystem (representing tens of billions of dollars in revenue) nets them a profit but a few percent what they make off their hardware sales.

(Also, btw, as much as I disagree with Apple's decisions with respect to their platform, you are wrong about the experience issue: normal users would much rather have a single billing and support channel for all of their payments, and they get horribly confused when some of their purchases are direct to a developer and some aren't. It does not harm the experience of using an iPhone to have Dropbox bill through their App Store; it may harm Dropbox's experience, but that is irrelevant to Apple, as to them Dropbox's insistence to support multiple platforms is itself a mistake that will lead to poor customer experience of Dropbox.)
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Yeah, wow. He looks like he's about to cry. It really shows how much he wants this to succeed. I'm really rooting for the guy now, even though I don't know much about him and the SpaceX project. It makes me even happier to know that there was success.

He must feel on top of the world turning around a successful mission in the face of being rejected by his heroes. I know I want to feel like that.
Even though Ikea furniture is essentially disposable, it looks relatively attractive, can easily last for a few years (I have 2 desks going on 11 years with only minor laminate peeling), but one thing that makes buying their stuff a joy is the instructions.

I know that Ikea's instruction style has been intensely influential in the home furniture business when I go buy a set of curtain rods at a different store, or an "assembly required" vacuum cleaner at a garage supply store and they all feature copies of what look like Ikea instructions. Simple line-art, no words (saving having to print assembly instructions in 11 languages) etc.

And then when I set out to actually follow the instructions is the brilliance of Ikea's instruction design made clear. Curtain rod instructions? I have almost no idea what they are trying to convey to me, random screws and indecipherable brackets make putting them up a chore. Vacuum wasn't much better, I'm still not sure I have the right hose in the right place.

But put together an 1100 piece Ikea drawer unit? It's as much fun, and as simple, as building a Lego Millennium Falcon -- and they've managed to describe the process unambiguously, and in only as many steps as necessary (around 30). Each little connector is absolutely clear, the shape and sides of similar looking pieces are obvious, multiple steps (when absolutely clear), are combined into one.

The instruction manuals are virtually parts of a piece of audience participation performance art.
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