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Do you want feedback? I'm probably not your intended audience. However:

I looked at it, and had no idea what it was supposed to be doing, analyzing, or conveying. I clicked the "What is it?" link and I still have no idea.

Closed it. Don't care.
It's becoming more of an issue now that we are growing.

We have had conversations with the YouTube guys about this and they have asked us to use API's instead of directly scrapping pages.

Quora is currently rate limiting us a ton as well. We again have to directly reach out to them.

Most oEmbed endpoints aren't rate limited because they are generally not resource intensive. They are also meant to be used client side and therefore expect more traffic.

Embedly also does a fair amount of caching that reduces the number of calls that we have to make. This limits us, because we aren't a straight pass through, but helps us handle spikes of traffic.
I can vouch that this exact scenario has happened to one of my small businesses. Multiple reviews from actual customers are filtered out, but a negative review from someone who has never interacted with our organization is displayed normally.
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I don't think all applications will work cross dock.. Some sure, all no.

And in regards to housing the GPU inside dock, thats exactly what I was thinking. I believe you may have missed:

"Once docked, a smartphone can unlock additional cores that would otherwise consume too much power, activate a more powerful GPU, possibly one even housed in the docking station itself..."
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> predictability of the generated code

To some extent, I hope the code that gets generated isn't predictable in the way you mean: I want the compiler to know all of the obscure ways to make string operations go faster by using SIMD hardware, for example. I want that kind of deep low-level knowledge to be encoded into the optimization passes because I don't know it and I likely never will. Isn't that why we have optimization passes to begin with?
The article mentions how property is the best savings institution the Chinese have, so they build even if there isn't a buyer yet.
Out of curiosity, what is the alternative? Just allow twenty five-star or one-star reviews to show up and say hey, if business owners want to scam the system by putting in fake reviews, then great? Or just open-source their algorithms?

I guess to me it seems infinitely easier to criticize the way someone else does it than to present a more efficient way of doing it.
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I don't know where I read this, but I always thought the EC/EU/Euro was an effort by the allied countries to tame a future German economy. If that's true, then Germany distancing themselves would surely defeat the purpose of the union.
What would be Germany's incentive to exit given they benefit from euro's low valuation?
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Both things can be true: that Yelp has and exploits a conflict of interest, and that this article chose a pretty bad example of a business harmed by that practice.
Higher operating expenses too: staff, store rental, etc.
Interesting, but not much different from the age-old concept of a "North"-Euro and a "South"-Euro.
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If you're using it for a real application, I'd move.

Sorry if that makes you feel bad.
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There obviously is a better way, because competitors in this segment do a better job. TripAdvisor immediately comes to mind for restaurants.

It's pretty well known that Yelp is a joke -- wasn't the #1 restaurant in San Francisco some hole in the wall taco place a few months back?
This article is obviously proposing something that Germany would never agree to, but in doing so the article lays bare an important truth: the adjustments necessary to save the Euro zone should perhaps come from everyone -- including Germany. Along with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and all other 'peripheral' Euro zone countries, Germany is partly responsible for the current crisis: it financed the consumption and housing booms in those other countries.

Let me offer a poor analogy which I find insightful: Germany acted like a rich neighbor who irresponsibly lends a ton money to his poorer neighbors so they can throw a really costly, drunken, all-night-long party, and then demands to be repaid the next day without acknowledging that he knowingly made a really stupid loan.

The main implication of the article: Germany is trying to force austerity and deflation unto the Euro zone's 'peripheral' countries, but the adjustment would be a lot easier and faster for everyone if Germany simultaneously forced profligacy and inflation unto itself. (A higher rate of internal inflation in Germany would have roughly the same impact as a revaluation of a newly reissued Deutsche Mark were the country to leave the Euro zone.)
That's implied in the law: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".

If it wasn't a yes/no question, you couldn't reasonably answer "no".
One glance at Redfly is enough to tell you why it wasn't embraced!

And by your logic, the iPad was destined for failure too, no?

I'm not sure if this will fly, but I suspect execution and design will be major factors.
"To go back to an app that you were using do you really need to be able to see a screenshot of where you were?"

Yes. I'm absent-minded as it is. My smartphone lets me quickly move around between apps getting things done. So I'm "busy" with a game or reading news, I get a call requiring my attention, I change apps a few times gathering information and making changes and then ... what was I doing again? I could use that visual reminder.

Also, more choice for getting the information you need in a manner you want is a good thing.
From a security perspective it's good advice. I've never seen a shared web hosting provider whose boxes couldn't be owned by an account that could drop code and execute. Local priv escalation holes seem to be a dime a dozen and you don't know if they've even attempted to lock down their users' data.

Now, do you really care if some community bulletin board's database gets owned? Probably not. But I wouldn't run a shopping cart on a shared hoster.
I remember a lot of Germans were very upset about switching to Euro from the Mark, because for example if before a cup of coffee was 1 Mark, after that it would've become 1 Euro (~2 Marks at the time). I don't remember if they converted everyone's salaries 1:1 to Euro, too, though. If they did, I guess that worry didn't make much sense.
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Don't be afraid, we have no interest in fighting wars and shit. I don't think this will happen. Europe has a more social view on the world than the rest, especially the US.
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I am trying to make it work on my Ubuntu 12.04 VBox VM. I have mysqld Ver 5.5.22-0ubuntu1, which is the supposedly affected version. I can not reproduce it.

I thought at first it might be because I do not have a root password (it's a VM) so trying to use any password at all returns a failure before the faulty code is reached. Then I tried to login as debian-sys-maint and some other users that do have passwords, and it still did not work.
"Scandal" and "social crisis" are not very descriptive. Could you explain what you mean in more concrete terms?
It says that they are requesting the ability to share to your wall, yes, but most of our previous experiences have taught us that this means we will have an OPTION to do that in the app, not that it will do it automatically without you ever knowing.
Regarding your ad hominem statement, I've been running small businesses since my first in 1996.

I've not witnessed this scenario you present and I have no relationship to Yelp that might give me some greater insight than anyone else. I have no idea why this might happen; I'm limited to communicating based on my own observations.
Spam filtering is hard? You are a programmer, imagine trying to find a way to objectively and fairly filter reviews. Unlike with emails you don't know whose labels to trust. There are good business owners who will only report spam reviews as spam. Then there are bad business owners who will report negative ham as spam to try and boost their reviews. Finally, there are bad business owners who will use shell accounts to submit positive spam and then mark it as ham.

In general the labels from business owners are not trust worthy which gets them into these situations. Thus they try and create other ways of identifying spam: like user engagement on the site. However, engagement doesn't always work as a metric as spammers can cultivate spam accounts by posting lots of "legitimate" reviews on unrelated businesses and then sell reviews from the accounts to attack (boost) specific businesses. Finally, users who have a tremendous experience at a business and go on Yelp to give them 5 star reviews may have no history with yelp except as a passive browser. The engagement metric will weight poorly for their review.

So what is to be done? I don't have a good answer for that. This seems more like a human problem than a technical one. The best course seems to be: act ethically, serve your customers with compassion, write responses offering assistance to negative reviewers, and if you feel Yelp (and similar review system are a bad idea) put your advertising dollars elsewhere.
Very confusing article. The article actually means apps using the Dropbox SDK, not Dropbox itself, yet it doesn't provide any examples.

Dropbox is still available in the App Store.
Actually we do very much enjoy Swiss staying a strong economy, thank you very much.
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Where can I see live the WWDC 2012 keynote ? If there is no way to see this live do you know where can I see the record of the keynote later today ?
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At this point of time, i honestly believe that it was an open problem in the public domain, that any high school student could have solved (at least, when nudged in the right direction)... And I am pretty sure that a lot of people have come up with a lot more useful/interesting solutions.

And that's why I openly shared my work, hoping that it would be just an interesting little observation...

So I don't believe that the cat was ever hiding in a bag ...
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Who wrote this "report"? If the "reporter" would take a visit to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8 they should be able to download Dropbox for iOS.

OR is this just a rehash of the Dropbox SDK incident a while back, which seems to be resolved with the latest Dropbox SDK?
I can still see Dropbox in the app store on my phone. Anyone else?
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Are you suggesting that if Germany were to leave the currency union, a war would result? If not, then why bring up "long term peace in Europe"?
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jerf: I was deleting the old comment just as you posted this. I felt the substance of this comment deserved its own, separate thread. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
There's actually nothing to stop the EU declaring that all accounts anywhere in the EU belonging to a Greek national (say) get redenominated in Drachma.
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It's completely up to the developers here. You have to know that you are breaking the trust of your users for a spike in traffic.

As an example, I no longer use Socialcam or Viddy after they defaulted to "frictionless sharing". They got a really nice spike from it, but it cost them my trust.
If you assume more than enough energy, likely from advanced solar (a big assumption, but we haven't been to the future yet), then pumping water can serve as energy storage in addition to more direct use of water.
No, they didn't. And that price upscaling was only for small things, mostly rounding up to the next largest round number. Annoying, but it didn't make _that_ much of a difference.
Jobs attributed it to Picasso, but there's no record that Picasso ever said such a thing.

T.S. Eliot did write something like it:

"One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."

That quote was subsequently used in a biography of Picasso by John Richardson. Maybe that's how Jobs came to remember it as a quote by Picasso.

http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borro...

Hence, it seems like Jobs' version "Good artists copy, great artists steal" was an original.
I think Europe is a little bit more than an infrastructure to control Germany.
California, with its long coastline and big brain and capital pools, could transform itself into a fresh water sheikdom.
The bottom line is that, depending on your business, it can take a long time to build up a good list of non-filtered ads. After 4+ years of asking customers to write reviews of our service, our business has 63 5-star reviews and about 83 filtered reviews. We have a lot of happy customers and a lot of them create a Yelp account just to review us and then never use it again. I totally understand Yelp filtering these out.

Unless you're a restaurant or some other establishment frequented by the Yelping community, there's no silver bullet to getting a lot of great reviews. It takes time and probably more than half of the ones you get will be filtered.

That said, I think it's foolish of pretty much everyone to use Yelp ads. They're a complete scam but that's a different topic.
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Same. I was thinking an explanation of Flame that an 11 year old could understand might help Fox News figure out what the hell they're babbling on about.
At the moment I agree. But if the recession continues for a few more years I'm not so sure, in Greece extreme right parties are already picking up steam.
The upside to this approach is that you can still use the home as up behavior on a subscreen if you like. I don't see why the G+ app didn't do something like this considering there are only 6 main sections in the app and they continue to use home as up in some subscreens.
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That rounding up of prices by retailers happened in all member countries, including mine. But it was short-lived.
This euro debates show the silliness of countries dismantling their factories: Germany has a social market economy with high taxes and large social contributions. It also has a highly skilled knowledge-based economy. In spite of that, it retains manufacturing ability and continues to develop and export machinery - having moved from simple machines to more high tech machines.

That's what countries should do - continue building machines right at home. When there is competition from other cheaper countries, build more complex or better functioning machines.

The countries in the south of europe have not done that, and so they cannot export, irrespective of what the euro value is. Devaluation hardly makes any sense for these countries that don't earn their money by exporting.
First, an independent German central bank can more easily adjust the exchange rate to reasonable levels (to reality). It would be much better for German to have higher interest rates.

Second, a somewhat stronger currency would be the lesser evil for Germany than the alternative, which is being robbed blind which is what's happening at the moment.
I missed the part about the docking station and assumed you meant inside the phone, sorry.

Once you have put the GPU inside the docking station though, people will start to say "hmm, why not put a faster CPU in there too" "oh, and a bigger SSD so we can cache more stuff" at which point the phone starts to become redundant.

As with all of these things , I imagine it will be cyclical.
Yes, I wrote something similar (a Rowmap object)... But I have to admit it took me a while to realize that I could break that pattern.
You presumably work at Yelp? This isn't a case of killing the messenger. This is a case where the company wants business owners to conform to its way to dealing with spam rather than have its engineers come up with a better solution to the problem

Read this very well written article on the problem and possible solution and maybe you'll have a better idea of the problem at hand.

http://justinvincent.com/page/1874/yelp-you-cost-me-2000-by-...
And technically I imagine those damages would / should be transferred to those who illegally took them down and are holding the data.
And indeed, which should the countries of the south do this, given that the north in general, and Germany in particular, have been giving them money for free? It would be highly irrational to do this.
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Batching the C calls means that you all lookups are delayed by other lookups. This isn't very good for concurrency especially since it's reliant on network traffic.
If you had a few lookups in the queue, you could end up having goroutines waiting a few seconds or for lots of lookups this could balloon out to minutes for a lookup.
This is the trade off. In general most programs aren't making thousands of concurrent DNS lookups.
I think one big difference is right there in the word "company" that comes up in each of those examples (or the equivalent "site"). Companies are inherently profit-motivated, so every one of those examples is something done to make money, and we often draw a moral line at profiting from something.

Just starting from the idea of individuals rather than companies, it's easy to come up with a bunch of competing examples which are just as clear cut:

1. A person loans their copy of a new single-player video game to a friend.

2. A person goes to a gallery opening, which is funded by art sales. They look at the art, but it isn't that interesting to them, so they don't buy anything.

3. A new movie comes out. A person likes the story, but they already read the (public domain) book, so they skip it in the theater. A couple months later, a friend gets the DVD from the library and invites everyone over.

I won't belabor the point any more, I'm sure you get what I'm saying. This isn't to justify piracy necessarily, just to point out there's more going on here than pure cognitive dissonance; yes, there is a clear double standard around intellectual property, but it's because intellectual property is a complex issue to people.
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Yes, it's a bit disingenuous to suggest that Yelp is filtering fly-by-night reviewers "for no good reason."
The Swiss central bank has demonstrated complete control over their currency. It's been fixed at around 1.2 to the Euro ever since they announced the peg. And it'll be immune to speculative attacks when printing presses are infinite.
I'm not sure that he is suggesting it, but it is a reasonable worry. Not in the near term of course, say over the next 20 years or so. Within that time frame, a war within Europe is almost unthinkable. However, combine the geopolitical situation in Europe with a new generation or two for whom the disintegration of the Euro is the defining event in their perception of Europe, and mindsets will change.

In the face of declining European integration, our best long-term hope against wars would be the declining size of populations combined with a relative dearth of resources. Some people are hopelessly optimistic that this is enough, but I personally wouldn't count on it.
One of the main drivers for closer European integration was the second world war.
All the debate about the pros and cons of a Greek exit from the euro area is missing the point: A German exit might be better for all concerned.

No, this idea has been part of the debate for months, if not years. I hate that he makes it sound like it's his idea.

Germany is partially benefiting from current situation because capital is moving from Greece, Spain, etc. to Germany. Also, cheap Euro helps German exports. If Germany switches to Mark it would hurt exporters a lot.
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It seems like social networking could be used to good effect to try and filter reviews, or at least let me see review from people I trust first.
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It makes imports (energy, materials, goods, ...) cheaper.
So in other words, Nokia is now stuck in a world where they can't be competitive with other smartphones because of the software engineering decisions made by someone else. How do you think that is going to work out for them in the long run?
I don't know if this is a good idea, but its surely better than waiting around for a death by a thousand cuts, which is all that seems to be happening right now.
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