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In my opinion reviving meego just to be able to ship unusable and half-baked drivers is evil. I've written this at least 3 times on HN now, I'm not against using PVR chips, I'm against Intel not shipping related consumer ready drivers.
You do not have to pay any money to run G-WAN.[1]

G-WAN is not merely a "hello world" server. See [2] for the API features and [3] for more details.

[1]http://gwan.ch/download

[2]http://gwan.ch/api

[3]http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf
There are several such videos on Youtube. Was it this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAO3QTU4PzY

I enjoy listening to these old recordings as well.
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you setup directories named in certain ways

I was intrigued by this and had a look. One level of the hierarchy requires directories either named with a starting # or $. !!! Possibly two of the worst leading characters to use if there's ever a chance one of these file names is going to hit a shell script. Or the command line. And since the point seems to be you can adjust the config by pushing things around with mv, seems like that's going to happen a lot.

Rule number one when putting your metadata in a filename is to not use shell metacharacters.
It should be noted that the author of this blog (Tomi Ahonen)is an ex-Nokia executive with fierce, irrational support for Finnish (mis)management of Nokia and a strident detractor of Elop.
Very little to none - accelerometer packages also handle some power management themselves, typically with various 'modes' of accuracy and sleep/awake states. There are a number of embedded devices (my FitBit, for example) based around MEMs accelerometers and tiny batteries with a charge that lasts days, if not weeks.

Compared to everything else that's going on (backlight, CPU, WiFi or the cellular modem) it's peanuts.
I'm willing to believe it when I see it. Can you offer tangible proof that there is detail available in the final image that would not be possible of the image were being generated at 1920x1200?
Gotta love their "insurance": http://gwan.ch/insurance o_O
The license can be found in the manual[1] and is included with the software.[2]

[1]http://gwan.ch/archives/gwan_linux.pdf

[2]http://gwan.ch/download
Judging from the article's comments, Tomi and his fans somehow believe in their hearts that Meego and the N9 would have saved Nokia.
Yet another red flag I just noticed in the instructions here: http://gwan.ch/download

sudo ./gwan
Now go to localhost:8080 to try the demos!

But wait, I don't need root to open port 8080. So why sudo? Maybe some weird install procedure runs.... No thanks.
A game AI server running on 1st generation iPad
So just when other OSes (WP7, e.g.) ditch the physical metaphors realism in UI in favor of more minimalistic/reduced graphics style Apple comes in and doubles down.

Personally, to me, it's superfluous, but I can see some people liking it --however, I think it has to eventually retrench.
We had to set the A-Jays One+ Earbud packaging on fire
We had to set the packaging for these A-Jays One+ earbuds on fire to get them open. Worst packaging ever
Fun fact: this was originally done in Square's Card Case (by Robert Andersen, who coincidentally used to work at Apple). The hologram on the credit card used to change with the angle of the phone.
I wonder what Yammer's revenues are.
"In the case of an acquisition of G-WAN's Copyrights, the new owner would be the best promotional player of parallelized architectures, and therefore a desirable partner for Intel, AMD, ARM, IBM and Oracle. This fact alone should sustain the disponibility of the product – whether TrustLeap or someone else maintains it"

.. right.
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I work for a group of venues that recently opened a film screening room that can handle almost all digital formats, 16mm, and 35mm prints. And we in fact ship our prints almost exclusively by FedEx. I had to take a canister to the local shop on a dolly just the other day.

Though, they are super expensive to ship. Maybe it's a regional thing, the delivery? Here in Mass you need to be a licensed projectionist due to the flammability.
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Yes, thanks. I found a few other recordings this time searching Google (http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html), so who knows why it failed before.
Apparently he was the Superintendent for the Richmond RCMP who was appointed to the transit police in 2008-10: http://www.policeofficerleadership.com/rcmpdreamweaver.html

And I agree that the evidence certainly is not widely available.

edit: And oddly enough when I googled "ward clapham recidivism" your comment was the first result.
Is this a long troll? I'm amazed that a server billed as performant and designed for "real programmers" needs to put gems like this on their product pages:

> You have to change the PATH variable if you want to call programs without specifying their location.
UW has historically capped its CS program at what seems like an absurdly low number of students. When I was there, they accepted only 80 students per year (40 more for computer engineering). The stated reason for this is to keep the student/faculty ratio low, and to maintain a sense of community in the department.

Also, I know quite a lot of UW CS graduates who headed down to the valley to do startups. While they could have conceivably found the talent to do it in Seattle, they perceived the environment as better down South. It's not that students from other schools don't do startups, it's just that they go to the Bay area in order to do them, and the culture perpetuates itself.
> "Android and Ubuntu are clearly different and describing both as "Linux" is not particularly helpful to anyone."

except they both run on the Linux kernel, so it is, nevertheless, accurate.

personally, i think it is helpful. there seems to be an ongoing criticism of Linux that it hasn't made much progress as the basis for a desktop operating system. while that may be true, talking about Linux in relation to android helps raise awareness that there's another kernel out there not put out by apple or microsoft that's responsible for running a large percentage of mobile devices on the market.

as apple frequently states, we're now living in the "post pc era". who's to say that the desktop and mobile spaces won't continue to merge, at which point your "not particularly helpful to anyone" use of the word Linux to describe both will become more relevant.

indeed, ubuntu is already trying to push things in this direction. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
php > var_dump('9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808');
bool(true)

This made me cry.
I've spent over 400 days in a closed environment with "special" group dynamics - the armed forces of Switzerland. Service is mandatory. I was made a NCO against my will.

I've made some valuable unscientific, personal observations during this time. One is, that most people (I'd say 80%) do not speak up for themselves or others when it matters in groups with strict hierarchies.

Not only that, I think that most people don't have any basic moral convictions. Group punishment is highly effective.

I've learnt that sadistic, manipulative and narcissistic people thrive in such environments and if left uncontrolled, alike to a malign tumor that spreads rapidly to other parts of the body, they can impact the entire organization quickly.
to cheat who?
Probably a negligible amount. The accelerometer in HTC phones uses only 200μA when active, and only wakes itself when there is motion. I don't know exactly what part an iPhone uses, but it'll be similar. Compared to the CPU's power usage, which will definitely be running if the screen is on and the app is in use, that's nothing.
I don't get it either. As I said, that's a non-feature.

In a typical production scenario, you deploy a specific version of Redis and you don't care if it's outdated or not. That's the tested and production-ready version at Company X.
Sure, you can do it, but CGI is pretty much dead as a "fire up a process, do something" method of serving web content. If the request processor isn't also your HTTP server, you'd generally start up a FCGI daemon that handles requests.

At that point the amount I trust 99.9% of C and C++ programmers to not screw the pooch (between dealing with HTTP requests, database interaction, string templating...) trends very close to zero. What you describe might be workable in the small, but at that point you might as well fling up Apache and mod_php. It'll probably be faster.
On the one hand, digital distribution has many advantages over film distribution, but I can't help but feel it's being rushed when it's not quite ready.

DRM muck-ups like this are, of course a problem. However, the quality of the product isn't up to snuff yet either. e.g. Digital IMAX is terrible. The whole point of the IMAX format is to project a massive image with incredible detail. It's supposed to feel more real because so much of your peripheral vision is engaged while you're still able to focus in on one spot and see very fine detail. Digital IMAX gets the size right, but the detail is lacking. In every digital IMAX theater I've been in I was able to see individual pixels on the screen. This of course, leads to all sorts of digital artifacts like shimmering (especially noticeable during credit crawls).

IMax film is still breath-taking and superior to anything digital. I hope it sticks around in at least some theaters until digital IMAX gets its act together. I also hope to see some of the great 70mm classics (e.g. Lawrence of Arabia) on film before it's too late.
This is fairly standard. As mentioned down thread, an "air gap" is a huge safety measure for production computers. Lowers the likelihood of a virus infecting the machine, and if a botnet does get on there somehow, it still can't talk to C&C. You can't just have anti-virus running on your Watchout display machines or your SFX playback machine, that CPU load is awful. So we disconnect!
Ah; browser elitism continues to pervade the web platform. Perhaps one day developers will realize how to develop working pages for static, decade-old browsers. It's not as hard as bloggers evangelize it to be.

HTML and CSS gracefully degrade. Host objects (DOM, etc.) require some care, but can degrade as well.

On an open platform with open software, we continue to punish and castigate users for their choice (or lack thereof) of environment. How infuriating is it for a user that's stuck on IE < 8 at work because of paranoid sysadmins?

Moreover, version detection is moronic. Twitter does this by banishing IE 6 users to a "mobile site" because the "desktop site" is poorly written. Browsing in IE 5 yields a broken version of the "desktop site" (CSS and all).
This guy definitely seems to have an axe to grind, this decline was going to happen regardless of the memo.
Here are a few reasons:

* A small, yet useful set of core APIs (http://gwan.ch/api)
* Applications are recompiled on the fly when a change is made
* A "no compromises" attitude to performance and software design
* It supports legacy applications written in CGI-style without the cost of CGI

See this article for an interview with the author of the project[1]

[1]http://salem-news.com/print/19923
Also I suppose I should explain why I see inspiration as so critical and what I mean by inspiration.

A lot of people have this idea that inspiration means you come up with a bright idea and everything else kind of falls into place. I don't see inspiration this way. Inspiration is the ability to engage in work in a higher state of consciousness (described below) and having fun doing it. I don't think you can separate inspiration and perspiration. Inspiration makes perspiration not only possible but fun.

There is a state that I can be at for periods of time that I call "inspired." In that state, problems that come at me are ones where I can immediately see solutions or at least where I can look to find solutions. Problems are all surmountable and my productivity is very high.

In a normal state I may approach a problem methodologically and maybe a bit linearly. I may analyze it, pick it apart, take baby steps, etc. I do all this when for some reason I can't access my inspiration. But in an inspired state I approach problems non-linearly, my task queue seems to move in semi-random order but it is usually the right order, I don't analyze problems, and I move in strides, sometimes large strides. Large problems when I look at them immediately fall to pieces and I can map out what needs to be done fast enough I can usually just do it, and when that doesn't happen it's usually just faster to move on to another problem, let it sit, and come back to it with a different perspective later (they all fall to pieces within a couple of days). Everything just kind of flows. I can keep that state up sometimes for months before hitting a "normal" point. These aren't depressive episodes or anything (I don't feel worse off mood-wise for example, and I am not usually a lot less productive than many other programmers I have worked with in this state) but can be usually shortened by paying a bit more attention to balance in life.

Of course it's possible for some people to find inspiration in every day problems, to look for ways to be inspired in this way. Maybe that's what you are thinking of as talent. I see it as something that can be cultivated within oneself and transmitted to others.

I have seen this happen with so many other people I have known it's a wonderful thing to watch. Resistance turns to heat, and eventually the flame springs forth.
I wasn't thinking of scale. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't hiphop VM essentially expand PHP from just being a web language into something more?
It is claimed in the documentation that the way to optimise G-WAN for speed is to run it as root, it can be run as a user, but then its slow as molasses or something.

It's also claimed that this is the only optimisation required or available for speed.
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Perhaps you missed this passage on a first read-through:

What would happen if we lost SfY? I have no idea. As I’ve explained
before, we have tried other communication apps and didn’t find any
that were a good match for Maya. Interestingly, we also carefully
considered purchasing a communication device from PRC, and met with
one of their representatives in November, nine weeks before a post
on my Facebook wall introduced me to SfY (and seven weeks before it
even existed in the iTunes store). We examined PRC’s devices and
were disappointed to see that they weren’t a good fit for Maya.
For us, this wasn’t an issue of an expensive device versus a
“cheap” app. This was an issue of an ineffective device (for Maya)
versus an app that she understood and embraced immediately. The
only app, the only system, that she immediately adopted as her own
way of communicating.
I'm pretty sure there's something similar mentioned in one of the Red Dwarf novels (with the experience ending in the use of genetically engineered players).
In order to get an accurate prediction whether the presentation is going to work or not, the key must be valid for decrypting the whole movie. If it is, then it can provide no more piracy protection because then you would use it to decrypt the movie independently of the projection system.

If the key is only good to decrypt a random part of the movie, then the test says nothing about the success or failure of the key to decrypt the rest of the movie.

Tangentially related: what is to stop a technically inclined projectionist to use the key during the time it is valid to decrypt the movie?

I would assume that at presentation time, there is enough of decryption key material available to the projection system to cover all of the movie, otherwise a presentation would have to be interrupted as the cinemas internet goes down.
G-WAN does not require any installation and you do not need to run it as root. If you run G-WAN as root, it will automatically apply certain optimizations such as giving itself access to more than 1024 sockets.

Remove sudo and the examples still work.
While you may be right about browser elitism your tone suggests coder elitism. Yeah, we can often allow sites to degrade gracefully but the old web is dying. The days of static sites are almost totally behind us. We're entering a new era in development and sometimes supporting those old browsers is more trouble than it's worth. Penalizing users of older browsers gives them incentive to upgrade. It really is a win win situation. They get a better experience and we get another user. We can't support these old browsers forever. Ten years doesn't sound like much but on the web it's a lifetime. It's like suggesting reserving one lane of our highways for horse and buggies.
Do you have Firebug for Firefox (press F12 to bring it up) or the Developer Tools (Ctrl-J) for Chrome? They make it trivial to toggle/edit CSS attributes on webpages.

In GWAN's case (using Firefox) the rule was:

p, h1, h2, h3, h4, ul, ol, legend, label {
-moz-user-select: -moz-none;
}
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> I've been working with PHP since 1996 and rarely see eval being used.

For some reason most of the major frameworks use it, hence their incompatibility with hiphop; then again I could be wrong.

> 1. cheap shared hosting to get started

One can argue that all of the major languages have access to this. PHP doesn't have an edge in this area.

> 2. most hosts offer one-click installation of any sort of application people need on the web (blogs, shopping carts, calendars, social networking, file hosting, etc)

With the rise of the cloud hosts and automated config, as well as more automated tools available (e.g. Chef, Puppet), this is a temporary advantage. Deploying on Linode and Heroku and (insert cloud host company) are getting easier and easier.

> 3. 15+ years of knowledge about what works and what doesn't when attempting to scale PHP to large needs.

No argument here. My points only apply for people starting now, and not for PHP vets.

> 4. ubiquity which keeps a large pool of reasonably priced talent available, which perpetuates the cycle.

No argument here either. My points were being made for individual programmers who are just starting out, and not for companies.

Even from the point of a company though, PHP's current lack of flexibility lowers the chance of innovation imo. The other dynamic languages are just as easy to learn and they just offer more than PHP does.
They've raised $142M, and selling for $1B, so... probably not much in revenues.
The "development time" metric is superfluous nonsense perpetrated by lazy, loud-mouthed developers.

Here's a baseless graph that John Resig of jQuery fame included years ago in a speaking session: http://i.imgur.com/1OOcg.png.

Developers are inundated with "ugh; IE sux" propaganda, but the complaints are rarely quantified beyond "my site breaks in IE".
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Ha, that is a fun read. My favorite part, where one guy points out that the Google search for "g-wan web server" has 2,440,000 results.

The reply:

Google search results for:
"a-wan web server": About 8,030,000 results (0.29 seconds)
"b-wan web server": About 5,600,000 results (0.21 seconds)
"c-wan web server": About 4,010,000 results (0.28 seconds)
"d-wan web server": About 3,410,000 results (0.29 seconds)
"e-wan web server": About 2,770,000 results (0.25 seconds)
"f-wan web server": About 2,430,000 results (0.27 seconds)
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Why does most hotel wifi suck?
I just spent 10 days traveling around the US and staying in budget hotels which advertise high-speed connections.

They all use diverse but seemingly useless and often non-functional systems which appear to do something like:

-hijack the dns server to redirect your first http query

-get you to some webpage where you have to enter a password, or click on a button

-once you jump through those hoops provide access to the internet, most of the time through some sort of NAT gateway, adding latency to an already undersized connection.

This is a pile of silly hacks abusing the way the internet is supposed to be used and I fail to see what that layer of pseudo-security is achieveing, or even trying to achieve.

Why is it that the companies which sell those contraptions are still in business? Do the people who work in IT for hotel chains not care, or are they all stupid? Why is it this hard to offer a service that just works?
Looking at https://github.com/ericmoritz/wsdemo it seems
he's using his own erlang ws implementation and using a third party library for all the others?

If this is correct, then it's no big surprise that he
does well in his own benchmark that he's developing against.
I think this is not true. Apple doesn't let you change icons on the home screen. Apps dont have that kind of control. Does it?
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Let’s spread the awareness of donating blood. We restrict our self when it comes to donating blood but now break all the shackles and come join hand to donate blood.
> And we in fact ship our prints almost exclusively by FedEx. I had to take a canister to the local shop on a dolly just the other day

Huh. Go figure. Maybe things have changed. The only reference I've been able to find is on this page: http://business.highbeam.com/industry-reports/personal/servi...

Film delivery services, also known as film carriers, were usually classified under the transportation services industry, in particular SIC 4213: Trucking Except Local, but belonged under both classifications because of their unique services. Film carriers were specialized transportation companies serving the needs of motion picture theaters by delivering and picking up rented theatrical films. Film was transported between the cinemas and the national network of film exchanges, or film depots, or directly between theaters, based on their booking schedules. Metal canisters of 16mm or 35mm film were delivered to the theaters, usually on a weekly basis. Unlike other delivery services, film carriers had keys to the theaters they supplied so they could drop off and pick up film when the theater was closed. Most delivery was done by truck or van because of the heavy weight of the film canisters, which made them impractical for air freight, except in rush circumstances. Film carriers served only theaters, since other organizations that screened films tended to use the more easily transportable videotape format, or else had only occasional film needs, which could be handled by any non-specialized delivery service.
There were fewer than 40 major film delivery companies throughout the country that served nearly the entire theater market. Most served up to a couple hundred theaters, some covering a region comprising several states. There were also a commensurate number of smaller film carriers that exclusively served single theater chains of around 15 to 20 theaters. Films generally weigh about 62 pounds, and are often accompanied by large cardboard stand-up displays and other promotional items theaters place in lobbies.
As far as I know, shadow/silent bans only apply to users, not domains.

Does anyone know if reddit has tried extending silent bans to domains?
Reliable trackpads, multitouch, battery life, pushing SSDs, unibody enclosures, magsafe, reliable wake-from-sleep, keyboard illumination. And I hope you don't regard the display as a minor accomplishment.
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Note that while their margin on RAM is high, ther average margin across all products is, afair, over 40%

We nerds need to accept that we ate not apple's focus anymore. Just spec your machine high, pony up lots of money, enjoy the shit out of it.