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Is "Documentation" just an implementation detail for what you really need: "Communication"? If I can have a smooth learning curve and a well-understood contract, then I'll have an API that developers enjoy using and integrating into products. Now granted, I don't see how this can be done currently without proper documentation (even if that just means naming the routes well, and providing illustrative examples), but that doesn't mean it's not possible.
AFAIK, Nokia and Microsoft don't make laptops. Portable music players are comparatively cheap and disposable in comparison to a £3000 laptop.
I saw none. Are you really still browsing without an adblocker?
Also, if you follow REST closely your APIs should be self documenting.
Liberty creates risk. Yes, the terr'ists may get a few of us from time to time. It's not, IMHO, worth giving up our civil liberties to prevent that.
I gave GNU as an example of one userland that is commonly conflated with Linux. As you note, there are others. The main point is - Linux is not an operating system and it is misleading and incorrect to refer to it as such.

RMS's shrill remarks about how Linus is "stealing" credit from the FSF are misguided. I try to maintain the distinction between kernel and OS primarily out of a desire to be accurate about how I describe an operating system. Android and Ubuntu are clearly different and describing both as "Linux" is not particularly helpful to anyone.
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It doesn't work for me either, but http://ac./ does.
Look elsewhere in this thread re: the Zenbook issues. They're mostly fixed now (maybe even entirely), but at one point it was possible to damage them with certain combinations of settings.
"Consider the famous 2-note guitar solo in the Buzzcocks' "Boredom": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoYiQ8Qsozk&t=1m15s. The rest of the band was rolling on the studio floor laughing while the guitarist played it because nobody believed it was possible to do a guitar solo that insane, let alone stick with it for that long. It's as far from complicated as you can get but still a great creation."

If he hadn't spent twenty seconds hammering out E-B-E-B, the ending Bb wouldn't be special at all!
My office moved to Time Off Manager just a couple of months ago! I'll keep you in mind if we find they don't fit our needs.
Wow.

The temptation to take the money and run in a situation like this is high.

I hope they get widely recognized for acting with the highest level of integrity.
Interesting.

To the author: I'd definitely want the blunt, unvarnished and harsh truth. No joke! The only way to get better is to get the truthful opinion of people that matter.
I've been job searching since moving to SF last month. As a junior-mid level guy with a pretty generalist background (non-web ruby, iOS, JS, even some flash games), I've gotten a ton of feelers from recruiters and companies alike, but most are looking for and even desperate for more senior people.

With a sense of impending doom, I got onto oDesk to do some consulting myself. What a humbling experience that has been! I must have gotten outbid on the first 10 jobs I went for, and finally had to take one at ~ $10/hour. With that experience it became easier to get a 2nd. I find myself a lot more impressed with the OP's first month than I would have before my own experience looking for freelance work.
CCG = collectible card game. Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, YuGiOh, etc etc etc. The mechanics translate to gaming well and many video games still use card mechanics with varying kinds of digital 'cards', usually mixed with other game play mechanisms.
That doesn't sound right to me. There are 10k clients, each sending (and the server echoing) one small timestamp record per second. An AWS medium instance has access to half a DRAM pipe (frankly this test should fit entirely in L3 cache, but let's be conservative). The back of my envelope says that the RAM bandwidth can handle about 100kb of data copying per send or receive event. That's a staggeringly large amount of copying, literally thousands of times larger than the size of the record.

Honestly I think CPU or syscall overhead is a more likely culprit.
‘Digital Bill of Rights’ gets positive reception from entertainment industry
Let me know if you need any help. I don't have time to clone the entire app, but could certainly contribute a screen, control, planning, etc
Yeah, I agree with you that it's questionable to apply that label to Jobs and Feynman - Goethe and Da Vinci deserve that much more (it's a bit unfair though because humanity's knowledge was a joke at that time, compared to current-day's). I included them with a question mark because the article mentions both of them as being able to dive into multiple domains very quickly.
I would definitely be interested in this as a consumer, as the typical Utility's payment site is painful.

If you push forward on this, please include the abliity to pay my town which handles water and trash, and I think that is quite common (at least in the US). Perhaps it would be best to offer small cities an easy way to get setup on your site. Also, my town likes to include adverts for local upcoming events (10k runs, street fairs, etc), so maybe include the ability for cities to show this kind of info easily.
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But privately pointing out that "I know I can make a fuss like this guy so let's just save each other some time and cut to the point" very well might.
Average consumer I don't know, but I upgrade RAM and disks on my MacBook Pros. Disks get slow and memory gets cheaper.
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@showerst: there are unquestionably partnerships and other confounding variables which can act to skew the data, particularly when the sample size is smaller and/or the context is narrow.

But as you say, it was great to see them release this data, because the more companies that do this, the more complete our picture becomes.
Flash is really great in theory, but in my experience with intel and sandforce controllers, it isn't reliable enough. I've bought 2 flash drives and had 4 failures already.

I've seen both drive controllers get themselves wedged to the point where they just shut down and go dead. This happens because they aren't doing a straight 1-1 mapping and along with wear leveling (which is necessary) they're trying to compress (sandforce) and optimize (intel) the way data is stored but their algorithms are too complex to be fully debugged (as of last year, anyway.)

I've gone back to spinning rust as a result. I'd love to move my servers to flash, but not until they go back to really straightforward controllers (I hear the samsung controllers are very reliable, and this is why Apple chose them for their laptops) and don't do anything more than wear leveling.

For performance in servers, I'm going with a lot of RAM.

Right now the drive failure rates of SSDs are way too high in my experience, and reading between the lines and user reviews on retailer sites it seems that my experience is not unusual.
Glad they've finally changed courses, but that was a bad idea. Collecting money "on behalf" of publishers they have no affiliation with... ick.
That's really a chicken-egg problem, no? We learn by doing (as children), and knowledge is better stored in our brains if it's supplemented with "doing".
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Do you have Applecare? Or is this just service that you have gotten?
There's a specific check to see if it's running on an Apple system and the installer halts if it detects that it is not. It does not merely "lack support" for other systems, they are deliberately not supported. Apple (I think wisely) have not wasted their time on complicated license validation schemes, but that doesn't really change anything. As with Windows activation, it would eventually be defeated anyway.

Regardless, it's obviously unsupported, strongly discouraged by Apple, and at least one US court has found it to be illegal.
I'm not sure how you meant to map this onto a situation of replacing the motherboard because a RAM chip died. You don't have to replace the whole engine if your car battery dies, even in a BMW, regardless of warranty status.
Unfortunately - they can't.
There is a continues effort(by the company own the tech, and by the teams that are currently using it) to make it a standart in the league.
At least in the previous season there was a sharing agreement between the teams that use the system(all the teams get all the data).
Yeah... honesty is certainly the best policy here. The people who don't have what it takes will either give up and go onto something else, or cause them to plug the leaks and turn the startup into a successful venture. It's win/win here for the founder I think...
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LTE and NFC are two biggies. The chipsets in general are getting better in terms of both performance and power usage. Ditto for displays.

If you want a new battery in your iPhone, it's $79 away from Apple and cheaper not from Apple. No need to upgrade.
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This. And all the other same replies below.

My manager just "upgraded" his old Mac by installing an SSD and gave it to his wife to use. Said it prolonged the life for another few years.

I just upgraded RAM and HDD -> SSD on a friends computer. He had no clue what I was doing, but his computer ran "better than new". All he does it surf the web, use Outlook for email, write Word/Excel docs. Extended life for another few years for him. He certainly doesn't need a new computer (which is was about to go buy). If users themselves can't or don't know how to upgrade, they may well know someone who can. Or some small local indie shop who has the skills.
I think Linux played an important role in providing a free and Open Source Unix at a time where the BSDs were fighting demons both internal (segregation of their community) and external (with all their lawsuits). Linux was the turning point between Unix being a very expensive commercial product, and a hobbyist tool for the wannabe hacker.

It also, and this may be a personal impression more than an absolute truth, was the Unix to play the most insistent role on the desktop. I, like many, got introduced to Unix through Linux (Ubuntu to be exact - the year was 2006). Sure I fell in love with Unix and quickly moved on to other distros/unices, but at the end of the day, I still believe that I, and a lot of people my age, only discovered Unix because somebody somewhere fought for the desktop, something neither Solaris nor HP-UX deemed "profitable" enough.
> That is an accusation, trying to backhandedly hide it behind "I'm not going to do exactly what I am doing right now" is just as disingenuous as people who say things like "not to be a dick, but ..." as they proceed to be a dick.

No, I'm saying that you sound like you have an axe to grind. I don't know if you do. Do you? Whether yes or no, your post still sounded like you did.

If I thought you had an axe to grind with them, with evidence, I'd have said so. Given your continued posting in the same tone it's difficult to tell whether you're just inherently hostile, have a general "business bad" mindset, or specifically dislike Newegg, but at this point it certainly does seem like you've got an axe to grind with somebody. Nobody acts like you're acting without at least some reason.

> That's wonderful for you. How does it follow then that everyone else should also just accept your belief in them on blind faith? The question was "why is this not good enough?". I explained why.

The standards you expect Newegg to reach are absolutely insane given their size and the triviality of this issue[1]--and that, given the very widespread amount of goodwill toward the company, that you're absolutely flying off the handle. And that the ridiculous standards you want them to meet are a large part of why it sounds like you've got a personal beef with them.

[1] - I mean, c'mon--as stated elsewhere in the thread, the original complainant went public while Newegg was dealing with the RMA appeal. They have a process if you think a RMA was denied in error (I've used it before, and they got it right). If they'd said no to that, I would give the complainant significantly more weight, but given that Newegg has a nearly-universally-positive public opinion in geek circles, it reads like a huge stretch to paint this as some gigantic failure rather than an individual issue of process. Getting the pitchforks and torches out before confirming malice is stupid.
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honestly don't have much value to add here (not really much of a gamer) and from reading other comments, clearly there are some points of contention around the issue, but my takeaway from the post.. that sounds awesome.

again, not a big gamer here, but i think that sounds like a totally reasonable way for the studio to minimize the negative impact of cheating on the majority of players who don’t, and while keeping those who do cheat (i’m assuming all of whom would have to be super-hardcore gamers/fans) engaged with the game and loyal to the brand (rather than being kicked-off outright).

also, and more importantly, i’m just imagining how cool it would be, and what a rush one would get, in having to compete with other like-minded hackers in a never-ending arms race to dominate in a (game) world of cheaters!
Great, thanks.

WRT the giftcards, I'd suggest you remove the best buy gift card from the example images on your site if I'll never receive a gift card, as this is where my question came from.

Also, in my review of the site, I missed the "guaranteed .
value of $125" I'll take a look again, but that is an important piece of info that I totally missed in my review.
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I'm not arguing that it's legal, or that Apple is thrilled with it. But DRM implies something pretty specific and (in theory) harder to defeat than an "if" statement.
You're absolutely right on this! It's the biggest pain in travel: fluctuating prices. All OTA's (online travel agents) have the exact same price (excluding deals) so you're scrambling around searching a futile objective. 85/90% of us at the time of about to press 'book it' decide to check elsewhere; 42% of us spend 4 weeks hunting travel; 52% of us look at 4+ websites. It's a total pain. Which is why we created www.mytab.co - directly with this in mind. By saving travel cash &/or having friends contribute to your trip, you're now not focusing on the price at the time of booking because you're cash rich (it's like monopoly money) and a happier booking experience. AND since we run a gift card platform, we can negotiate exclusive deals on your behalf. For the first time ever, the customer will be empowered yet this is also amazing for the travel industry who can now stabilize their slow time/long lead bookings. We created myTab for people like you who never have a decent search/book experience :)
"1. The game really highlights the malleability of numbers. For me, this was the deep revelation about algebra, and it took me a long time to get there. The way the game is designed using touch, lets you fling numbers around and place them on top of each other and such, and doesn't let players get hung up on numbers or placement. We get to the understanding that algebra requires very quickly. You seem to see that as a loss, but I see that as a really big win."

This. One of the things my eldest daughter struggled with early on in Algebra was the variables. She kept insisting on having a 'value' for the variable up front because the abstraction bothered her. And math was about numbers right? (when you are 10 math is always 'numbers' it seems, even when that is arithmetic). One she got rid of the notion that math was 'numbers' rather it was a sequence of mutation rules against things which were infinitely mutable (within constraints), it went much better for her.

This program elegantly sidesteps that issue by starting of with boxes. Boxes are the real world equivalent of variables and they aren't numbers so they don't trigger that association per-maturely.
:-) Your post nicely shows why having a top level domain 'Berlin' could be good idea: without it you would not be able to find those German bike tours. Germany has top level domain de for 'Deutschland'; ge = Georgia (the country)
Well, I tend to think the iPhone upgrade cycle is maliciously artificial. My iPhone 3G used to run very well on iOS 3, and utterly fails on iOS 4. I can't help but think that's intentional.
If only people would not downvote instead of voicing disagreement; just because someone is actually mistaken, or worse, simply not going along with whatever fad might be the issue, is hardly justification to waste their time like this. The rationale is that a non-troll/spammer can simply realize they have intruded on a circlejerk, instead of wasting their time making posts nobody even sees.

While I get that there may be actual good uses for this, it is super silly to assume "they must be trolls/spammers, or they wouldn't be hellbanned". That doesn't follow logically at all. What is common though, you might even say well-reasearched, is that when other people get treated unfairly by our own peers, we route around the damage with neat little stories about fairness. It's sociology 101, nobody wants to be a tyrant, or in bed with them. We want the power, just not the shame, and how mediocre and small it makes us seem in the right light. So we tell stories, and sometimes those stories happen to be true, but that's just because we got lucky, not because we actually inform ourselves. It's also very convenient that those affected can not give any feedback, they're banned after all.

Also: dunno about trolls (except that assholes or ignorant people are often called that, when in fact "trolling" implies deliberate deceit and trying to play mind games, instead of just being stupid or a jerk; but who needs to think when you can have labels), but why would a spammer not simply use a new account for each post? It seems like that would be actually less effort.

Now vote me down or whatever, I'd rather be banned than suck up :P I'm aware it's kinda off-topic, because none of this applies to gaming... but those are the posts I'm replying to, hah. I just think that modding people, not posts, is highly flawed; even ignoring the moral high horse for a second, it doesn't produce good results either.
The approach you have suggested is actually very similar to what is used in the THQ game "Supreme Commander".
In this case they use a fairly P2P architecture and have clients exchange hashes of the game graph every so often and check that they match.

The problem with this is that the game needs to be fully deterministic and you'd be surprised how many games use random numbers to help determine outcomes like damage etc.

This can also cause problems when you have complex physics models, many physics engines are not deterministic and small changes between the ways that different CPUs deal with floating point numbers can cause the game to generate a completely different hash.
I'll be returning my Apple Smart Case
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/12/3080925/ipad-smart-case-hands-on
It appears to me that with hard drives the Thailand flood and Japanese earthquake are causing us to lose a generation. Thus instead of going from 1TB mobile drives to 2TB drives, we're having another year of them selling 1TB drives.

This will make flash more competitive as it cuts price per GB in half or by a third over that same period.... but I think it is a temporary effect.

Innovation in spinning rust has not slowed down in the labs, I presume, so I think that when the manufacturing sector is back up to speed they'll be pushing out the same innovations in 2013 they would have otherwise, and possibly skip a generation.

Which is not to say that the writing isn't still on the wall for spinning rust... eventually Flash will catch up in price/GB, though volumes will explode even when its still twice as expensive as the demand will ramp up dramatically.
Maybe we all should chip in on some SSD's for Hacker News?
You need a learning partner that will hold you accountable. Self study courses are a horrible fit for you, and traditional education is a great fit. Find a "hack night" and make a learning buddy, or enroll in programming classes at a local community college.
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FWIW, I didn't have applecare, bought a used macbook from craigslist, then had the case crack in the UK. Apple store on Regent Street (IIRC) fixed it in about 3 hours - they had to hunt for a US-style keyboard part. No applecare, no major hassle. I will say initially they told me to drop it off and I'd have it back in 3-5 days. I said that was unacceptable, then they said 'leave it here and we'll call you'. Got a call 3 hours later.
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"I can't say it any better than this: "Non .com extensions will leak traffic to the .com version of that domain name. Every business set up on a [non .com extension] domain will lose a proportion of their traffic to the dot com version of that domain name, although the amount of that leak will be difficult to predict.

The leak occurs because customers/ potential customers will frequently recall the name of the site and add ‘.com’ almost instinctively, unless they recall that it is on a relatively unusual extension .net, .org etc.

Inevitably, the more the [non .com extension] site is marketed, the more traffic is sent to the .com, however, the problem is that the .com domain may well resolve to a competing business’s website.

Some businesses are willing to live with that loss (perhaps because the [non .com extension] is a relevant, memorable generic, for example) – for them the [non .com extension] is a viable option.

However, without a compelling reason like the one mentioned above, I would argue that a business on a limited budget just cannot afford to develop a site using a [non .com extension] domain name. It is as simple as that."

SOURCE: http://www.domaining.org.uk/2007/12/10/spectacular-net-or-a-...

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Failure rates for flash drives seem to be driven by controller problems or bugs more than actually wearing out the flash. In order to avoid wearing out the flash they implemented very sophisticated software in the controller, and those controllers get wedged as a result (ironically.)
Intel is becoming more evil everyday. They did not learn from Poulsbo fiasco or they really do not care about Linux users.

By the way, isn't atom all about Linux
Not for now unfortunately, we are still experimenting.