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Why not show the result in real time as you adjust the sliders? You can still show the preview off to one side or whatever. It would help develop a tighter iterative loop for experimenting and save the cognitive overhead of trying to remember what was wrong with the one before. Have some image 'troughs' which you can populate with screen grabs including the settings you used to allow quick reference to settings from previous results. If you did that then there would be more of an argument for using this rather than just picking up a DSLR and fiddling with the controls.
I really like the idea. But I agree that instead of asking for bank/cc info. right away, why not have a email signup page as a potential user.
Also how do you plan to list recipes/items ? For the $15 or $9 pre-ordered meal, what will be included ? Is it based on what users choose ?
I have to admit I forgot they put they switched over to magnet entirely (I'm not actually that bigger torrent user).

But yeah same effect - although links may need to be shortened - it wouldn't be hard to knock up a quick redirect service to make nice friendly short urls.

They would then have extra space for number of seeders, leeches and any other descriptive info.

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So did I. Though not as insane as RMS. I wonder though, why would he hate 16:9. Personally I like more width as I split Vim buffer vertically or tile more windows in that direction.
Interesting they don't hire any technical talent it seems, or am I missing something?

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If that's the case (which I'm now doubting considering what they teach) I can only see the bottle neck being onboarding. It can take a lot of effort and time to get one developer up to speed, never mind dozens of them in a matter of months.
Hi Ryan, I've never worked at a place that had a 4-day week and I'd love if you could one day do a blog post about it (forgive me if you you've already done this before). The things that changed, adjustments that needed to be made, how it has affected productivity. I would like to run a company like that someday, but it feels so scary to lose 8 hours of paid work a week.
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I signed up about 2 months ago and its really a please to tap into it over the weekend, scan through it see what I missed.

Said that, I was wondering what you guys think about similar idea for a Drudge Report. I know there is tons of archives for Drudge, but the stories change so often that its hard to follow later on, and most archives are not as easy to scroll through as HNewletter form. It would be great, I think, to have a weekly Drudge in the similar form as HN.
Not trying to defend the viability of FB ads here, but this analysis seems a little shallow. Falling within a certain demographic may not "make" you click an ad, but the same could be said of performing a search on Google. If circumstance Y makes one want to buy a product, then as long as falling within demographic X is correlated with being in Y, targeting X could be a good idea. It is (obviously) the reason why toy commercials air during children's shows and not during basketball games.
That's my point. Isn't getting the private AirTunes key equivalent to the DeCSS case?

If Apple had just made a proprietary undocumented protocol, that'd be one thing, and I'd agree that Apple wouldn't be able to force licenses on people. Absent the private key, there wouldn't be anything to stop you.

However, they made a proprietary protocol, sold licenses to use it and implemented a key enforce the license. Isn't circumventing the private key equivalent to circumventing copy protection? They obviously intended to restrict it to licensees, the way the DVD people intended to restrict CSS to licensees.

Wasn't there some case where printer manufacturers were doing something to stop 3rd parties from making cheaper ink/toner? How did that go? Maybe it's a more apt comparison (for the record, I honestly don't remember how this case turned out, so I don't know if I'm helping or hurting my argument).
Its a contentious point if the RQ-170 was shot down or just malfunctioned or run out of fuel or whatever.

That's the most famous drone.

But there have been other, tactical drones shot down on the Afgan and Iraqi borders and over the gulf.

Also, the Americans have shot down Iranian drones over Iraq.

Its best to Google with custom date range before last December so as to avoid all the RQ-170 stuff clogging the results.
CityHash doesn't have a 32-bit variant to participate in the benchmark.

http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/issues/detail?id=2
Whereas the "OMG, ESR manages to be productive with so little" worship thing wasn't?

How about just answering the question then?
Interesting trends, which likely match reality wrt the the decline of visual basic and perl, and the rise of python
http://radar.oreilly.com/upload/2012/03/Lang_allYears.jpg
It also shows the ruby market cooling off, which is consistent with recent stats for open source commit numbers.
I get the impression this is meant for more practical drop-in use for your hashtables - in which case the latest research is doubly unacceptable as it's still new and unreviewed, and there may be no suitable implementation (eg. a C binding in your distro's stable release).
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I've spent seven years of my life at Opera, quitting just a few months ago. I've reached the exact same conclusions as ppk.

Owning both a browser and the applications running in it is an immensely powerful combination, as demonstrated by Google. It makes perfect sense for Facebook to want to do the same.

And as much as I dislike Facebook, I believe a buyout like this is the only way for Opera to survive long-term. They have a brilliant engineering team, but it's dwarfed by its competitors. The Presto engine is maintained by a team of just ~60 developers and ~30 testers. They're doing amazing work, but can't keep up with the faster pace of Webkit or Trident development. Combine that with the current level of mismanagement, and you're in trouble.

Without backing from a bigger player, Opera will dwindle to irrelevance as the use of its proxy browser fades away.
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"They will." (tm)

Why wouldn't they do that? What's in your refrigerator and how long it's been there has been discussed almost as often as flying cars, within an order of magnitude.

Once checkout of items is commonly done with NFC or RFID or similar, then it's a mere matter of engineering for GE to accomplish exactly that, all taking place on the internet of things.
I'm not sure and I suspect not, however you can do these things on Android with your own app and not requiring app approval from Google.
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This doesn't really work when a longer commute is involved. The morning (without waking up early) starts at 6am already for me. I suppose it works differently for everyone, but I have way more energy/focus immediately after work and late at night. I guess it just depends on if you are a morning bird or night owl.
You can't rotate most desktop monitors (though its easy to find one you can rotate if you look), and I'm not aware of any laptop that lets you rotate the display.
Remember the last two-wheeled, gyro-stabilized future of transportation? The one that was largely a commercial flop, and which the company president (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heselden) _drove off a cliff_.
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Presume this is a tool for point and shoot guys to figure out what a SLR feels like. If you can add a shutter half-click simulation - have an out of focus element and bring that to focus with the shutter half-click, that'll be awesome.
This is off course a legitimate question. I tried to really summarize it by saying: "loosing one level will cause the collapse of the others".

The browser is for the end user an important base because that is where they get directed to surf and target ad spending etc. By inserting functionality like a start page or search engine, the behavior is influenced a lot. You can also push own services and products directly.

The current status of the browser is also that it can replace the OS. (See Google Chrome OS)
Well, once I was done with writing code to cache a Subversion repo, it was clearly visible how much faster Clojure is.

Basically same loop to go through all revisions in a repo was 15-20x times faster in Clojure than in Ruby. Very similar calls, pretty much same algorithm. But something that Ruby does inside the bindings was not very efficient.

For Git the problem was a bit different. Internally Grit (the Git API library for Ruby) tries to read huge pack files (potentially hundreds of MBs) in pure Ruby. This just can't be fast.

There's also additional overhead of not using any ORM for operating with our caches in Clojure version. That probably contributed to overall performance improvement, but 20x for svn / 40x for git measurement was taken even before we got to saving the results into DB and it stayed that way later on.
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Don't let "perfect" be the enemy of "good enough".

A flawed-but-functional system that ships is empirically better than a perfect system that never ships.
Sorry, I misrepresented it. Opera checks domains (every one except local) while google gets only what you type into the address bar (by default).
Why not run as an independent team as it is?
Will this need redundant gyros? Otherwise isn't it too risky if one blows out while you are driving?
>or press the depth of field preview button, but those are becoming rare on consumer grade hardware

I bought a Nikon D5100 last summer, my first SLR since a Pentax K1000 I had for decades. The lack of a DoF preview button was a little hard for me to adjust to.
An alternative: have two separate interfaces, one for everyday settings (= simple), and another for "powersettings" (= configurable). A good example are the web browsers: some have a settings dialogue, where settings are presented logically, and they tend to simplify these dialogues, and then you have the about:config or about:flags page, where you can access a bunch of other settings as well.
>Apparently, many programmers derive the major part of their intellectual satisfaction and professional excitement from not quite understanding what they are doing.

This is one of my favorites remarks from Dijkstra, but I found it in a video interview with him. I had no idea there's more context to this. Thanks!
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I bet the future of transportation will remember that many people have children they want to transport with them.
Can someone please explain "database scaling" to a non-DBA?
I'm mostly a front-end developer but I know my way around relational databases well enough. I'm constantly seeing posts and articles about databases and applications having "scaling issues." At this point I just write it off as an arbitrary catch all buzz-phrase for a database can't do what the developer wants it to. Could someone get into specifics as to what this really means and maybe provide a few real world examples?
Why would FB buy Opera, except for scenarios similar or exactly like you list?

If I'm a frog in a pot, and I see you turn on the gas, I'm jumping out, because I know ahead of time that it's going to get hot. By the time the water boils the (subjective) damage has already happened.

Which is to say, I'll leave fastmail before the ink is dry on a FB/Opera deal.
There seems to be a race towards the most exotic or revivalist programming languages.
As if programming languages were magic bullets of some sort.
You are mistaken to think that the search-engine show-people-what-they-were-searching-for-anyway kind of advertisement is the only kind of advertisement that can work on the internet.

I used to work for Hyves, which was until a year ago or something the biggest social network in the Netherlands. Hyves lost to Facebook in terms of number of users, but something that they did do right was modernization. Hyves had an in-house sales team and studio, which sold custom viral campaigns to cooperate advertisers. These campaigns could usually go together with a TV campaign and/or other media.

For some products search engine advertisement is the right kind of advertisement (parrot secrets, maybe cars, I don't know), for others not such much (food stuffs for example).
I was also surprised by the absence of cutting edge gear... and then reminded myself that it's not the gear but the mind behind the gear that counts. That's so easy to forget.
That's nice and everything except now they want to kill it and replace it with Dart. Basically Google hated Javascript (and rightfully so) but used it to gain market share, and now they can't really get rid of it. To add insult to injury, now you also have server-side Javascript.
The segway does what it's supposed to do. I think it has it's useful niche. It was marketed as a replacement for all transportation, but that is silly because only because of the cost.
Goal 1 of the financing was funds to accelerate r&d, to hire engineers to do things like the ones you mention above; in addition more r&d just pushing hard to maximize overall product quality, stability, etc. not sure if those exact things will get done and exactly when yet. I'd definitely like to see the solaris build get some attention. dwight/10gen
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For years intel claimed that developers would never port their code from x86 to a different archiecture. The recent wave of mobile devices for iOS and Android has shown this to be completely wrong.

In the future DBA's that only know how to use a relational database will be obsolete, because younger developers that know how to use mysql and various nosql solutions will take their jobs.
It sounds like the problem is that at the beginning it wasn't supposed to be "a very simple application." It started out complex and then got simple over time. Which screws up user expectations -- the people who were attracted to it when it was complicated aren't going to be people put off by complexity. So they may have felt misled a bit when the complex product they chose started becoming something else.

In other words, when he decided after launching FeedDemon that what it should have been was a simpler product, Bradbury might have been better off if he'd left the "FeedDemon" name on the original, complex product and then rolled out the simpler version under a different name. That way people who picked up "FeedDemon" wouldn't feel like they were getting pushed into using "SimpleDemon" (or whatever the streamlined version ended up getting called) instead. People underestimate the power of names in setting user expectations.

(An objection to this might be the increased difficulty of maintaining two product lines, but there's a simple answer to that -- just stop updating FeedDemon. Eventually the power users who appreciate the simplicity will get the message and switch over to SimpleDemon, and those who ABSOLUTELY MUST HAVE radio button #7,131 on the preferences screen can sit on their complicated, orphaned version for life.)
Product encompasses the overall engineering / design talent.
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I wish someone would finally create a choice-free mail client (web service): you just register and get an email address, and it answers everything with something vague and noncomital ('Just a note to say I got this. We'll be looking into it'...'thanks'...'Will get back to you.'...'could you call me?') etc. No need for the user to ever log in and make choices.

I think choice is often a veneer that divides us from a truly awesome application. Especially, but not only, when you're a pointy-haired boss. Screw the power users.
Server side includes might be a simple solution for this:

http://joshuajonah.ca/blog/2010/06/18/poor-mans-esi-nginx-ss...
I got the Emotiv headset a few years ago when the came out. It suffers the same shortcomings of needing neuromuscular responses. When I was training the model, it was just easier to get it to do things squeezing parts of my face.

That being said, I wonder if this shortcoming is more on the user. Their userbase are hobbyist and dabblers who have grown up with the explicit knowledge that you CAN'T move something with your mind (this is an entirely unsupported thought).

Instead of training just being 'think about moving the box', you could look into techniques like phantom hand therapy. Have the user go through a similar session where the application tries to elicit a response similar to the therapy as a way to get them to start manifesting a better response (maybe mix it with the visualization techniques athletes use) for training. While not optimal, have the user physcially do something X times, then make them visualize doing it.

Like I said, I think the problem is more in the user than the hardware (I've never had a problem w/ the Emotiv). If someone comes along with a better training method, then this would certainly help.

Lastly, I don't think neuromuscular training is entirely a bad thing. It lessens the 'ooo' factor of controlling something with your mind and alienates people who'd actually want to use this (quadriplegics), but as an able-bodied person, I see no reason not to be able to use them.
What is your contention to their choice here? It seems that are simply choosing the best tool for the job, it is not as if they are rewriting their whole web frontend in Clojure too.
According the article, they were using ruby to bridge to a svn module that had git capability. They replaced that module with a native git library, called from Clojure.

In summary: benchmark, profile, find hotspots, optimize. Works in every language. >:3
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Release announcement:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F17_release_announcement

Download:
https://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options

Changes for Desktop Users:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_...

Changes for System Administrators:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Release_...

Gnome 3.4 Release Notes:
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.4/

F17 Feature List:
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F18 Planned Feature List:
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Yeah, but that is because of deliberate choices on their part.

An alternative product model for Dropbox would be to partition the product on one or more features. Something like the ability to share files is an obvious choice, as is things like selective sync.

In retrospect it seems obvious to give all the features to everyone, give away a base level of storage and sell storage upgrades.

Before anyone says who'd be stupid enough to sell backup software any other way look at things like Norton Backup[1], where the license is limited on both the number of computers you can install it on and the size of online storage available.

Good ideas often are obvious in retrospect...

[1] http://buy.norton.com/mf/productDetails/listPriceGroupId/0/p...
The problem is that every user thinks they are a "power user." So if you put a bunch of options behind a screen that says "power users only," the effect is kind of like building a treehouse and then tacking on a sign that says "NO GIRLS ALLOWED" -- the girls will climb the tree just to see what it is you're hiding from them up there.
Awesome, I hope this gets off the ground.

It would be ideal to become an autonomous vehicle. Most people drive to work by themselves and use a car instead of a motorbike for protection from the elements and collisions.

Imagine how much more efficient the road network would be if it was filled with autonomous gyro-stabilized motorbikes/whatever this is.
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I've been playing with 4clojure[1] in my off time for weeks, and it's been a great introduction to the language, although it obviously doesn't help with learning how to package and deploy an application or service. How did you make the first steps from playing around in the REPL to writing production code?

[1] http://www.4clojure.com/
Could you elaborate on the mismanagement part?
Thanks for the tip, will keep it in mind next time. And FYI I did upvote.
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> We have no direct contact with reality because everything we experience is an abstracted version of reality that has been through the processing machinery of our brains to produce experience.

This is very true.

It's been said that our minds create the whole of our reality at every moment, everything is a thought (an action), from the color, to the shape, to the relationship, to the idea.

It's also been said that if you drop that reality and simply exist in the now, a point where you stop "doing" (action) and start "being" (no action), you'll remove that separation of the "self" from the rest of the Universe and shed everything that's false, temporary, and transitional.
Yeah sure you could waste all the space you want why in the world would you do that? Using a linked list is slow and inefficient with memory usage especially when you can do the same thing with a byte array.

Look up an algorithm called a Bloom Filter.
That's correct - product for us includes development, design, and support.
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Apple is a hardware company. They make money selling computers and other gadgets. Those computers and gadgets happen to run software, but that isn't what they make their money from (it's akin to a loss leader, even if it might not actually lose money).

Those customers you speak of, who stay away from the Macintosh because of the price; how much more money do you think Apple would make from them if they chose to buy a clone sold by another manufacturer? And how much money would they cost Apple in effect by taking advantage of software development subsidised elsewhere?

Killing the clones was (from a business point of view) one of the smartest things Steve Jobs did when he returned to Apple, and I can't see that decision ever being reversed.
I don't think the 4-day week makes sense. Once everyone switches to 4 days, what then? 3 days?

I think limited hours per day makes more sense. People can be laser focused for 5 or 6 hours per day if you give them a good work environment. Once you move to the usual 9 or 10 hours per day, personal life gets in the way and people goof off, achieving as much productivity as in the focused 5 hours.
Yeah but it feels like staring into a light bulb, doesn't it?
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You could say the same for Google - why would they need a browser?
Apple don't display any license information when purchasing an app so I think all OSI approved licenses are off limits since they all have a clause that requires the license text to be included by the distributor of the work.
That sounds familiar; electric car
How much force would it take to knock the C1 on its side? According to Lit, a small elephant would have to hit it broadside to put the C1 on the ground.

So… a car hitting the side then?
"It's also been said that if you drop that reality and simply exist in the now, a point where you stop "doing" (action) and start "being" (no action), you'll remove that separation of the "self" from the rest of the Universe."

With all due respect, that sounds like bollocks.