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I often have a discussion about that with a friend whom is a bit less capitalistic than me, and we always argue about if growth is absolutely needed or not;
I think the first thing is that this article might mix productivity and growth, and I don't think lowering and staying at the same level of productivity means less growth;

The need of growth mentioned by the article comes from the fact population growth, inflation, etc., brings the need to have en economical growth at least equivalent of the prior to let us keep the same level of wealth.
But in that case, it means no evolution; no research; no development; stagnation.
It means we will never cure cancer. Never go further in space anymore.
And I mean, if people are ok with that, it's a way of thinking.
But I personally think that the human being is motivated by evolution/revolution and that's what makes us search for better. We always want better for us, for our kids and next generations.
This is what differentiate human to animals. We have ambition, a need to create and to reach better, all the time.
Maybe sometimes we do too much, and we could decide for a max growth, a max productivity increase, etc.
But stopping growth or productivity wouldn't be good I think. At least not in our economy, lifestyle and culture.
> with no evidence either way, I am guessing that US intelligence (and others?) are loudly saying this is happening not because they can prove it in silicon but convincing human intelligence has told them

My instincts would be that in the absence of real evidence they are 'loudly saying this is happening' to beat the war drums, declare it as proof a 'cyberwar' is happening, are using it to get more funding and preparing for new draconian measures to control it both domestically and internationally.
When you do not have any facts to back-up a preposterous claim, you just make up stuff as you go along.
This is (somewhat predictable)from Microsoft after their initial efforts to break the standard.
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Yes, Google Maps interface comes to mind every time I get reminded about this issue: "Still loading? Use the basic HTML version or click here for help"

Although I wonder if this really is the best solution.

Problems:

User has to explicitly select a change.

Once you change it might go faster, but it's no guarantee and makes you wait a longer total time to get to the first complete view.

Benefits:

It does not depend on directly measuring bandwidth (wasteful and still would take longer)

Relays information about the problem to the user and not just a bad experience.

Although, short of dynamic loading of less intensive interfaces until it ends up rendering a "basic HTML" view, I fail to see one. I haven't seen this implemented though.
Hey, if you read what Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was writing you will have known this for at least 2 years.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/slow-learners/

From reading his blog you'll also know that:
- Spain had surpluses and was lowering public debt before the crisis
- The catastrophe that austerity caused and how the idea was very bad in the first place
- How the crisis was made worse by the 'euro straightjacket' (ECB tight money policy).
- How the euro caused trade deficits in the southern countries that were compensated with German and French capital.

The weird thing is - its not even unorthodox, unconventional economics. Its the basics that everyone studies, but no one remembers.
JSON does not define a date type.
That is typical product development these days.

Adding features is all you can really do if you want to look like you are competitive.

I'd rather people just left it and say "it's done".
Part of what makes Silicon Valley work is the synergy that results from a very high concentration of technical professionals in a small region.

Yes, and it's not physical density but time-to-get-there that matters. That said, it's impossible to provide the latter without either (a) making living arrangements more dense, or (b) providing an efficient rapid-transit infrastructure, which usually leads to urbanization.

Silicon Valley is also helped enormously by California's extremely strong protection against exploitative non-compete agreements.

Bingo.

but none do, typically in an attempt to be employer-friendly.

I agree. That's bizarre but quite interesting, because kowtowing to employers on microgripes means they miss out on something far more important (to their long-term interest) than whether they can enforce noncompetes: whether they can find talent at all.
As far as looks go it's as you'd expect, a grid of letter and symbol buttons, and a list of predictions. I don't think it's a good idea to disclose the few interesting features until I have something on sale (right now they're a competitive advantage), so sorry, no screenshots :-P

I'm not sure that there's much more to it than what I've already described. I think what it's got going for it is refinement driven by nine years of dogfooding day in day out, and that refinement isn't easy to describe as it's just many tiny little choices.
You have a funny definition of "isn't as bad as it sounds." I live in Indianapolis and that's about as close to Chicago and all points north as I wish to go during the winter.
I had a similar experience with amazon and digital downloads. Region restrictions on the Internet? Really? It baffles me to no end that they do it even though it's obvious why they do it - suits are still thinking we live in the 18th century (which they probably do to be fair to them).

To give credit to Amazon, the "restriction" put in place is purely a token gesture and they do their best to not enforce it in any way. This is smart. They have to do it because unlike amazon the publishers live in some fantasy-land but they do their best to let you get around it if you want to so they can still make a sale and you can buy what you want. I'm not saying Amazon is in any way benevolent - they're just not stupid and they want to make the sale.
So this is what MS presented to the UK government and the UK government didn't hear a response from an open source representative?
Ooops, I might have obsolete information. The grammar on json.org does not define a date type, but ES5 seems to define a Data.prototype.toJSON function. Oh well.
I think it's one of the best songs I've heard in a very long time.
Bloody hell, I am on super-fast Japanese broadband and that still took about 10 seconds to load.
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Ann Arbor has absolutely no nightlife that doesn't involve young kids and drinking too much. Chicago's bar and club scene is full of the hyper-douches that (for the most part) weren't smart enough to make it to the coasts. And almost every major urban center in the US requires a car to live.

I grew up in Detroit and spent a lot of time traveling and working around the midwest, and those kinds of places are exactly what I envision when I think of unlivable American cities. They simply don't have the density to support the kind of scenes that make living in a city fun. Chicago is borderline, but the car thing and the snow thing totally ruin it. The parts of the city that are close to anything fun are expensive to live in.

Fact is, any state with a default 2AM bar/club time is at a severe disadvantage.

I think the list for the US at the moment is NYC, SF, and perhaps maybe Seattle or Portland - but I haven't been to the northwest so I can't comment directly.
You nailed it.

I've always been against "the cloud" for precisely these reasons.

I've considered offering "de-clouding" services over the last year i.e. move your stuff to internal services and moving to a managed model i.e. I'll manage your internal systems remotely.
I'm not the one making extraordinary claims.
> This is one of those classic denial-of-reality cases that give Americans their famously low opinion of government.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this amazingly focused and insightful comment you've written.
I get paid, but I'm feeling the squeeze by everyone for lower rates (I do freelance web design, writing, social media management).

When not doing client work, I experiment with new ideas, products and so on, and so there are time and development costs and more misses than hits.

Admittedly, I'm not a materialist guy, but my point is knowing a lot of tech stuff and working long hours doesn't guarantee wealth. I might even be better off financially if I didn't know this stuff.
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Great post and really useful. Would have come in handy about a year ago when I had my own startup!
Forget physicalism.
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Nice job, just a small suggestion to maybe center the content ... on my laptop's widescreen its mostly over to the left hand side.
cool feature: "Smart stay. The screen refuses to timeout when you're looking at it, based on face recognition via the front-facing camera. There's nothing worse than a screen that switches off just as you're starting to make sense of the content it's showing you, and this feature nips that problem in the bud."
Someone should take responsibility for letting Bankia go public. You can't let IPO a company knowing that it will sink eventually (12/18 months!).

I see all this as a multi-billion euros scam
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I've always wanted be live my life as a dilettante mainly for two reasons. 1) I'm genuinely interested in learning things that i find interesting as an outsider and would love to be taught my someone passionate in the area. 2) It would provide fantastic insight into their daily problems that usually could be easily optimised by someone with a programmer state of mind, perhaps spawning a business opportunity.

So yeah, perhaps run with that? Its one of the things i'll hopefully be doing in the next year.
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Earth is case-sensitive:

iOS == Apple's mobile OS

IOS == Internetwork OS (Cisco gear)

Further:

Mac == Macintosh

MAC == Media Access Control (Address), common in configuration of Cisco equipment...
Try to find out what the licensing is for Creative Cloud.

I spent a couple of hours on their help forum - which is manned (and womanned) by frustrated users and some adobe employees (probably contractors) who don't seem to understand the questions.

I finally succeeded in finding a pdf document containing all the terms and conditions in N (where N is large) languages. No index, toc, or hyperlinks. English language (actually attorney-eeze) was way down in the doc.

Ordering isn't the only thing Adobe has screwed up. Their CS6 documentation has no index nor table of contents. I've wasted hours simply trying to find answers to simple 'how do I . . .' questions.

This is a real startup opportunity - if you can negotiate the IP nightmare.
Had a similar experience. Only it was for a band from my own country! They're shooting themselves in the foot, with shotguns.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4018774
Great article, but the bit about Web Development vs. Software Development threw me off for a bit. It seems like a pointless distinction.

I'm a software developer, my platform is (usually) the web. Sometimes it's the desktop, or a mobile device. They all have their own very special pain points. But what I do is develop software for them.
While not C++ related, this category page on the Tcl'ers wiki contains links to several articles discussing event loops: http://wiki.tcl.tk/_/ref?N=8558

Tk has had an event loop based paradigm from its start, and straight Tcl also has the ability to explicitly enter an event loop.
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I can assure you that every person he talked to during the order process was in an offshore call center somewhere. The order processing is probably outsourced to a third party too. I see no other explanation for something that should be:

if (validatePayment()) {
emailCustomer(generatedSerial);
}
'this' is also the same as exports. Initially, they all have the same value, they all point at the same object. If you assign module.exports to a new object (vs simply adding properties to the existing object) it will ignore the value of exports and this.

It's incredibly confusing and they should have just picked one way to export data, instead of three.
If that was the case then anyone who used it would show a plain x@y.com, whereas some people prefer x (at) y (dot) com.
By adding the check box some people would have it in the about section and some would have it in an email section and it would be inconsistent. And inconsistency is just ugly.

Edit: A nice way round this would be being able to specify how your email is displayed.
So photoshop is 2x the price in the UK (where I live) due to cost of living, but my colleagues in the states earn 1.5x my salary also due to cost of living? Does not compute.
I think that basically he just always writes novels set in the sociotechnical landscape of approximately 2015, (space station and strong AI excluded).

As we approach 2015, his novels become less and less far-flung. In ca. 2005, I used to find myself in Gibsonesque situations about once or twice a year, now it's monthly...

Pretty soon we'll be living there.
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my $0.02: I think it's hard to really understand a pain point without having been frustrated by it personally. Hence I think real world experience should be your guide... i.e. what annoys YOU, what pain-point do YOU understand?
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> sorry about the reflections, it's a really bright day

This is offtopic, but I really wish phone makers would put more effort into making screens that are usable outdoors. Even in gloomy England using my phone outside is a challenge.

There are few efforts to improve this (Pixel Qi, Mirasol), and they aren't getting into smartphones.
Done. It wasn't originally intended to be fixed-width, but it ended up like that because of my CSS ineptitude.
Who failed? Pages show different time to launch:
https://www.cloudflare.com/ipv6-challenge
http://www.worldipv6launch.org/

Doesn't look too convincing.
It's still a bed, which is still hard to see from afar.
All of his books have been about fashion, insofar as that that is just a catch-all term for "culture that is not 100% ubiquitous".

He's solving for the general case.

(Please don't capitalize the C, there is no pun intended.)

PS: I know that you meant clothing, but I was trying to illustrate something. :)
I don't like replacing my gadgets all the time. My first, and only, smartphone is an original Galaxy. I hate it. I especially hated it when I got it, now I just...endure it.

However, when it dies, I'm definitely not buying a Samsung product, and probably not buying Android. I cannot scream the word "brand" loud enough. There's so much choice available, that when your customers feel ripped off, they'll go elsewhere.

GPS has never worked. Updates were very slow to be available. Using their official tool my phone bricked when an update finally was available. Until I put cyanogenmod on it, it stuttered and apps crashed. Even when it was still relatively new, there were apps that it couldn't run (Lionheart). My carrier put a porn-buying app on it (yes, I hold Samsung and Google at least partially responsible for that).

Brand, brand, brand, brand, brand. The fact that, 2 years later, I still get upset when I see the words "Samsung" or "Galaxy S", tell you something about consumer behavior...it isn't just me...US car manufacturers went through it too.
Under the same conditions, the SIII came out bottom of the outdoor test here: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/45801/which-smartphone-best-...
It's a terrible thing, good only for lawyers. Nobody understands what cookies are anyway, most people think they are tiny little programs that steal their privacy in some magical way.

And nobody cares about that level of technical detail either, and why would they?

If the gov't is so keen on regulating Web stuff, they should have a regulatory body that reviews and audits Facebook's and Google's internal handling of user data, to make sure thay actually don't abuse them secretly.

This cookie thing doesn't make any difference for privacy protection at all.
I had a bad time working with other people's word docs in Open Office, but I found Google Docs does an excellent job in converting them to a usable format.

In the end though I too use pdf and make the other people do the hard work for not using Open Office on their end :P

I could save the Google doc back to Word format, but I have no idea how different it will act and look.
"The most common delays in web development are when work passes between individuals."

Especially when it's completely unnecessary. Some of my recent work has taken longer than it should b/c I'm having to debug my work through my supervisor. By through, I mean that he insists on watching the error logs on a remote server for me, and then telling me what the error is, and then I can adjust my code. My request to gain access to the entire stack so that I can debug my work on my own was met with defensive arguments.

"This has been described by Douglas Crockford—the inventor of JSON..."

He didn't invent it.

Source: Douglas Crockford @ 0:55 - 1:10 in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc8BAR7SHJI
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You shouldn't require using the extension.

This gives you the flexibility to transparently change the file into a folder + index.*, then break functionality up into pieces that live inside that folder.
10 minutes expected time on an extradution that is unecessary. I think they have already made up their mind. The best case scenario is that he will never be seen again, the worst? they will kill him.
(I used to live in Allston, currently living in the "greater Boston area".)

"If you look even remotely like your 25 or younger and not dressed 'like a business person', your presumed to be some random college 'kid' who doesn't know anything. If you live anywhere nice this is often immediately followed by awesome questions like "your parents pay for you to live here?"."

This is purely personal experience, but every single one of my friends when I was living in Allston was, at least, getting money from their parents monthly, and none had any kind of full-time work to speak of. FWIW.
At least a significant percent of the population, if not the majority, is said to be lactose intolerant:

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The pain with finding user pains is organizing. Everybody will talk/search things differently. Pains can also be slightly different but on the same topic. Then theres the marketing problem, finding enough users in a certain topic/pain to justify the pain. Consider how biased the content on quora is (relative to availability of content, not the content quality itself).
One of them is on summer time?
I guess nightclubs are important - if you are the club-going sort. I've never made a deal in a club, solved a problem in a club, or even actually held a decent conversation - its too dang loud for that.

As for a break from codeing or whatever, I get on my bike and ride. Builds me up instead of tearing me down, physically and emotionally.

I'm just not sure the bar-hopping sort is whom I want to meet/hire/work with. Probably makes me puritanical and staid; but I get things done. The best developers I know get things done; none of them frequent/even care about the nightclub scene.

In fact the nerdy, knowledgable deep-think architect/designer crowd I hang with would look absolutely ridiculous in a nightclub.

So I'm thinking, no, its not a lack of clubs that keeps a city from being a tech hub. Its more likely an accident of history, not yet reaching critical mass, some missing tax incentive or something like that.
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Does anyone else find this extremely fucking creepy?
What's needed to have IPv6 support? Hosting with IPv6 support, right?
We can hope this will persuade some percentage of
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Social tag. When you first take a photo of someone, the phone asks you to name them. From then on, it does all the hard work of recognizing that person again in future snaps, and linking up their social networking profiles so that you can share your photos faster.

Is that done on-device, or using a remote service? I wish reviews would make this distinction. And I wish developers would put back some of the processing (another example: speech analysis) on to the devices themselves, now that they've got CPUs that put my netbook's to shame. I guess there's still the issue of draining your battery by actually tapping into those vast computing resources.
It looks like CloudFlare are counting down until 2012-06-06 00:00:00 in your local time, while the WorldIPv6Launch site is counting down to 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC.
The EU privacy legislation is supposed to prevent
tracking of people without their consent/knowledge.
This is widely considered a worthy goal by consumers.

Fiddling with browser cookie settings is bad because it's
opt-out instead of opt-in, opt-out just doesn't work
since users have to be technically clueful and spend lots of time and effort on it. Compare to opt-in vs opt-out in email spam.

edit: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive#Princ...
When it's such a hassle to buy a legitimate copy, they wonder why the hell people pirate. Don't blame you!
Is it a Nexus line device? Is it running stock Android?

No to both? -- Do not buy.

Why is it so difficult for hardware manufacturers to refrain from putting their poor attempts to improve stock android on their devices. Do they not realize they'd actually be able to more effectively differentiate themselves if they just left it stock?
Think about it on an individual level. Suppose the economy is such that there's only demand for 21 hours/week worth of your labour. Would you rather a) work 21 hours/week b) work 40 hours/week, badly? Because that's what choosing to lower productivity amounts to.
Fantastic post, I recommend printing this out and putting it right next to your monitor so it's always there to remind you.
So let me get this straight. You're interested $100+ shoes but prefer substance and functionality over style only when it comes to the website that sells them?