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Perhaps I should rephrase my statement. I'm not suggesting that iOS should provide full access to the entire root directory tree in the way that OS X, Windows, or Linux do. The default setup of these systems literally leaves tens of thousands of files sitting around on the hard disk in a complicated directory hierarchy that no user should ever need to see.

What I'm really referring to is the ability to organise your music, photos, videos, and documents (all of which are files) in a way that is based on topic/project, not application. For content consumption I think the current approach is fine, but for content creation it's often necessary to deal with multiple types of documents (e.g. a spreadsheet, word document, and some photos) and it's really awkward to deal with this in the current model.

If you are working on multiple projects, you want all the stuff for project A in one place, and all the stuff for project B in another place. This is especially important when A and B are for different clients, or you want to collaborate with someone on B but not on A, and easily send others a copy of everything relating to B.

I've seen first-hand how novice users can sometimes get confused about the location of their files, e.g. my documents vs. desktop vs. whatever, and I definitely agree that we need a better approach than currently provided on desktop OSs. But I think iOS goes too far in the other direction, and we're still yet to see a solution that scales well with user skill level and needs.
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1. A timestamp (ie. number of milliseconds since midnight on 1 January 1970 GMT)

You know that's not unix time, right? Unix time doesn't include leap seconds.
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Well the cisco route i would go for second hand Cisco kit 2600 with a pair of ADSL WIC's comes to mind.
I think it's pretty important to figure out what you expect from a framework.

If you want to make it easier for other people to come on, perhaps open up to an ecosystem of open source contribution, you want a framework with broad appeal. Yii or Drupal would be good choices.

If you want a solid foundation, that you personally will benefit from, you either want something that is well engineered (perhaps even slightly over engineered) or something really minimal, that doesn't get in the way. Depending on you own experience and/or taste.
BTW, how difficult is it to integrate with legacy store systems | POS systems?

Anyone had experience? Some war stories?
I don't think I'm stopping in the middle of the street just to scan a QR code...
Do you have any programming experience, if you do, in which languages?
What do you think of Riak (basho.com)?
True, but that still is not going backwards.
That sounds ... sensational. I've never used any of the open firmwares (so I don't have any deep motive) but I would really really hope that you provide this information to the developers. Preferably as a bug report with some kind of measurement data backing up your description, of course.
In the 2D world, Moai now runs in Linux too. I started working for Zipline recently (working on the docs ATM), and (shameless plug) the more I become familiar with the engine, the more I appreciate its simple yet powerful programming model and its architecture.

Each graphical element (a "prop" in Moai parlance), when moved, rotated or scaled, defines its own coordinate system, and other props can be added as children and share some or all of the new coordinates. It makes it very easy to compose elements. People familiar with 3D graphics would know this as affine transforms and UV coordinates.

For example, you can tie the position and scale of a text label to a sprite, but not its rotation, and tie the scale, rotation and position of the sprite to the background. You can then zoom everyting in one command, rotate the wole game world or and keep the label next to the sprite and rotate the whole scene or the sprite relative to the map while leaving the label straight. You don't have to track the relative angles, the engine does it for you.

Similarly, every object whose properties depends on time ("actions") can be attached or detached not only to the root action (which provide a tick each frame) but to other actions as well. When you detach an item, its descendants are also paused. Actions include animations, coroutines, physiscs worlds, you name it...

Both trees are defined declaratively in Lua, and implemented in C++, giving the best of both worlds: expressivity and speed.

Moai's biggest flaw at the moment is the sparse documentation, and we're tackling it. Right now, the main focus of the dev team is the cloud offering (which is our revenue source, after all), so it does not proceed as fast as we would like, but come back in a few weeks and you should see a vastly improved documentation.

http://getmoai.com
simply no
Well, MS provides Visual Studio for this - which isn't a bad toolchain, in my opinion.
I don't think any one person would be ready for this idea.

I wouldn't judge how lucrative or feasible and idea is without examining the domain and talking to domain experts.

A simple example would be the taxonomy of a product. In terms of commerce, the adequate description for a product would be the minimal required to identify its price and perhaps track its quantity (for FMCG). Ex. Clover 2 litre low fat milk.

On the other hand, some mass retailer clothing stores might settle for categorising products into pricing ranges. Ex. Shirt 20$ and therefore you wouldn't be able to uniquely identify the stock.

Feasibility wise - creating software that's 'free' to lure the market will bring in a lot of headaches. If your idea of accountability is 'It's free, so it's your problem if you lost all your data' - it probably won't work.

Honestly, the idea behind creating an all-in-one solution sounds much more feasible. Mini ERP software is becoming the norm nowadays.
But it's still consumer grade kit with all the limitations that implies if your running a proper business you need to go for proper kit that you can set and forget for years in my opinion.
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Pop-up ad. I didn't even bother reading.
That price was to get 10.6.x users used to visiting the Mac App store and paying for an app.
Still unexpected error occured lol..
And it was a "bold move" the last 3 or 4 times they've tried it as well. This move just convinces me that MS is a one trick pony.
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This is Microsoft's third or fourth attempt on a tablet PC, the earlier attempts all pre-date Apple's creation of the market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XP_Tablet_PC_Edition#Tablet_PC_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_PC
Hi rfergie, you're right, on the analytics side, there's a lot to do to educate analysts on how to perform customer-level analyses at web-scale. Hadoop and Hive are a new toolkit for sure - we're writing a load of Hive analysis tutorials (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Analysts-cookbook), but ultimately we're going to need to "go up the stack" and start building some UIs. Web analysts in particular expect GUIs (general business analysts in BigCos are more comfortable with SQL, R etc).

At the moment our early adopters are more on the technical side - people who want to embed SnowPlow into their adserver/social game/analytics tool/whatever. SnowPlow is kind of the only game in town for this (because it's webscale and costs scale predictably - they're just AWS costs).

If you have any other questions, feel free to shoot me an email - alex@snowplowanalytics.com
The fastest non "black" system you mean :-)
How about some calendaring issues I'm sure any Israeli is familiar with:

1. Weeks start on Monday.

2. Days begin in the morning.

3. Re: 2, holidays span an integer number of whole days.

Explanations:

1: In Israel, the week starts on Sunday. Most programs have support for changing the "start of week day". Most programs.

2-3: In the Jewish calendar, the day starts when the moon comes out. This means that holidays that most calendars write as "Wednesday" will actually start on Tuesday night, and last until Wednesday night.
Yes, they're discouraging Win32 use overall (even in the x86/x64 space). But that does not mean you can't build native apps (ie non .NET) for WOA - you can use C/C++ out of the box. You are just bound to use MetroUI and WinRT as your primary APIs - both of which are native subsystems.

Steven Sinofsky: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windo...
Poster in my train station: "Our timetables are being updated. Scan these QR codes to download them to your phone."

Below that were eight pictures of timetables, showing their color-coded covers so you could identify them from the paper timetable you might already have, with a QR code on each one. Below those were instructions on how to download a QR code reader if you didn't have one already.

QR codes for info are awesome.
If CLOCK_MONOTONIC goes backwards your platform's implementation is broken. As defined in POSIX it does not ever go backwards. It counts the time since an unspecified point in the past that never varies after system start-up.

If your process is rescheduled to a different CPU, it must still go forwards regardless of TSC variance between the CPUs.

Of course if your uptime hits 68 years or so, the clock will wrap. If your app can't have any downtime in 68 years though I hope you've got the budget to think about this sort of thing :)
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Just as a data point on the Tomato firmware. I've been running it for about 2 years now, on two different hardware devices. It hangs every once in a while, the intervals range from several days to several weeks. I determined the culprit is QoS: if I disable all QoS, the device will run fine for months. Enabling it shortens the uptime to days or weeks at most.

Since I know this happens reproducibly on two different devices, I am certain it is the software. And unfortunately without QoS the Tomato firmware loses much of its appeal.

Unfortunately this is one of those "unreportable" bugs: there is no way to properly report it, much less have it debugged by original developers.
Try indenting by a few spaces (I think it is four).
This is really good news. I think the second most important thing holding Linux back in taking over the desktops (after OEMs) is gaming. But if you look at Humble Indie Bundles and kickstarter (so many projects using Unity and/or promising Linux support) - things are changing for the better.
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I have a cloudfuji like business where I let people create custom instances of a particular software.

Currently I give them *.myhost.com subdomain names but then I see a business opportunity in giving tlds. I want this process to be fully automatic since I am the only one working on this project.

Is there any ISP who sells domain names through APIs ?
Maybe sweeping bitter generalizations are not actually very useful except in pretending to be wise.
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Windows 8. They plan to ship two models: one to run full Win 8 Pro on Intel with Metro and traditional UI, and another ARM-based with Windows 8 RT.
> Here’s the idea: create a beautiful, easy to use, inventory application for brick and mortar stores: then give it to them for free.

Here's the catch, the vast majority of retail businesses aren't going to be willing to risk a critical aspect of their infrastructure on something that is "free".

As a hypothetical small business owner, I want to know who I'm going to be able to call at 8 PM Saturday night when my inventory system breaks, and how long it's going to take to send someone over to fix it.

As a hypothetical small business owner, I want to know what happens when I need to upgrade my systems in 5 years, and whether your company will still be around to support me.

As a hypothetical small business owner, I want to know that if I commit to your inventory system and retrain all of my staff, that your company won't go bust in the next 18 months, forcing me to repeat the process all over again.

As a hypothetical small business owner, when you offer something to me for "free", I see red flags all over the place. The cost may no longer be up front, but there's no such thing as a free lunch.

P.S. While consumers may like things that are free, business owners by and large do not. They understand that businesses need to make money in order to survive, and that extends to the services and infrastructure they purchase.
> My question to you is, how does Apple make ads that appeal to the rest of the world and something like 75% of the hackers?

When it comes to successful marketing, companies like Apple literally manage to mess with your mind:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/17/bbc-loving-apple-looks-like-a...

Here is the documentary about this topic. It is fascinating:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011fjbp
It's amazing to me how often people get tripped up on the behavior of colonial insects like bees and ants. Because all reproduction is done by a queen, it makes little sense in most circumstances to think about the sterile workers as individuals.

A better way is to think of the the workers as body parts. Some of the parallels are pretty direct. The movement of ants is strongly influenced by chemical scent gradients, much like our muscles respond to ion gradients. This puts insects' seemingly-extreme altruism into perspective. Do you consider your skin cells altruistic when they are burned by excessive sun?
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Is intercom.io legal? It requires publishers to send customer PII (email address) in a JavaScript to a third-party. It would be trivial for Intercom to join that PII to an ad network tracking cookie, for example. Seems like a huge no-no.
Does this mean something or are you being sarcastic?
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> Interesting. However, operators and functions present very differently when writing c# code.

Aye, but that's more of a limitation of C#'s syntax

> However, if you want to do that to an operator such as "+", the first thing to do is to wrap it in a lambda - e.g.

That's pretty much what a section (the parens around the operators) does in F# or Haskell.

> I know that the language has no way to specify that the type T has a "+" operator so that's not going to work

Well it's not so much that "operators and functions present very differently when writing C# code" but that "methods and functions present very differently when writing C# code" and that operators are (static) methods more than functions in C#.

Also that C# has no numeric tower[0] so there's indeed no way to say a type is a generic number (whether that number's an int, a double or a decimal). If there was a root `Number` type you could write something along the lines of:

public T AddNumbers<T> where T:Number(T value)
{
// works because all numbers have a `+`
return value + value;
}

which is exactly what you write in Haskell:

addNumbers :: (Num a) => a -> a -> a
addNumbers a b = a + b

[0] Haskell has a pretty complete/complex one, starting from Num[1] which implements only a few basic operations: (+), (-), (*), negation and conversion from integer.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/...
This may be a previous discussion of Intel, but it is certainly not a discussion of the Xeon Phi coprocessor.
Hm, I already see one of this annoying Kickstarter emails - "Projects we like: iPad case that is also stand and, ah, keyboard!"
Actually, this is something different.

Your link is an Intel chip in research that's being designed to mimic a human brain, built with memristors.

This one is about the commercial launch of Knight's Corner, an add on card by Intel which essentially stuffs 50 Pentium cores with enhanced vector instructions onto one chip.

This is the fruit of the troubled Larabee project, which aimed to build a GPU using x86, but even with Intel's extreme process node advantage, it could not get fast or power efficient enough to even come close to modern GPUs (it was several generations behind, and so was never released commercially).

Pretty cool couple of days for Intel, news wise.
Looks like it does now: http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/news/mp4_mq/06182012_S...
I have no inside information, but I would speculate that there might be royalty payments Apple is required to make in return for licensing some of the voice and video codecs used in Facetime. On a new device or OS license, these will be rolled in with the purchase price, but when adding functionality to an existing device they're required to cough up $0.1 or $0.5 or some such to the licensees. Hence the need to collect more money.

(This used to be the case with QuickTime: the basic stuff was free, but if you wanted additional codecs you had to upgrade to QuickTime Pro, for real money -- but it wasn't all going into Apple's pocket: it was simply that if they'd bundled all the codecs with the basic application they'd have been liable for extra royalties.)
Ouch,mwho they are trying to fool? Open source developers?
The place where this could do well is people who want tablet computers but also need something that integrates nicely with active directory and the rest of the corporate Windows infrastructure.

The problem I have with all in one type devices is that they are competing with just buying one of each, at a time when hardware prices seem to be tumbling.

If your top sales guys ask for a tablet and a laptop maybe you just give them one of each, rather than worrying about whether you can save a couple of hundred $ with some all in one device that does neither especially well.

Also a lot of corporate workers do their work primarily using one or two bespoke corporate apps which may be either web apps or some .Net (or even VB6) app. In this case they want to roll out a lot of cheap devices but they may not really care about portability because they don't want the devices taken out of the building.

The other thing I wonder about is how good the paradigm of a keyboard plus a touchscreen really is without a mouse, especially considering how cheap a basic mouse is. One of the companies I do a lot of work for uses PCs that have touch screens in addition to mice, but in reality the touch screen is almost never used. I imagine this is mainly because the amount of arm movement required to move your right hand over to the mouse is significantly less than it is to raise it to a screen.
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I'm not sure I even got the point, it was a long text and the author seemed to ponder aloud more than underline the root problem. But what I got was that she was overrun by the representatives because she didn't set boundaries and didn't refuse to accept their help. A simple "No thanks" would've gone a long way.

There's no point in blaming the representatives: they probably try any angle they can find to approach you unless you decline. Suppose you go to a bookstore and the clerk comes over, asking "Can I help you?" and then you answer "No, thanks. I'm just browsing." They don't know you if you're a good gamer or a newbie, so you just need to tell them yourself.
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Does YouTube have any real time abilities? (Genuinely don't know). Photos are a snapshot of the past, but the time between shooting and sharing can be seconds; videos that aren't streamed in real time can't be shared until they have finished - so any video is therefore at least as old as it is long.
Even if restaurants collect an email for booking, automatically opting them into mailouts is probably on the wrong side of spam laws.
Or anyone living in the Arab Middle East where:
1. Weeks start on a Sunday
2. Friday and Saturday are the weekend, except where it's Thursday and Friday
3. Some countries have changed their weekends in the last 10 years to Fri/Sat to make doing business internationally easier
4. Not everyone has a two-day weekend
5. Religious holidays depend on moon sightings and cannot be precisely predicted ahead of time
Yup, they let you use C++ I think... which is nice since MS have been putting work into C++11 lately.
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Quite promising from someone who has bean dead* for at least 5 years. :)

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I was there when he gave that talk in Singapore Reddot Ruby conference and love it. Highly recommended if you use GitHub at all.

pro tip: be sure to go up to Zach and ask for rare octocat stickers after the talk!
I don't think that is what he is saying. He is saying he did this already and Facebook reverted his selection.
On this off-topic excursion, I must say: I have to give Unity another shot. I tried it and ran back to KDE screaming, but it occurs to me that it wasn't really fair and I didn't spend a couple weeks with it, to get over the "new interface aaaah!" reaction.
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+1 for tig. tig blame is also excellent, you can easily drill down to see who changed a line. Plus tig is a great replacement for git log since it launches in around 0.25 seconds compared to 1+ seconds for gitk and other graphical viewers.
As in any language that supports functions as first class objects.
I prefer to teach rather than scold and am seldom sarcastic. Self-deprecating and joking, yes, but not sarcastic.

As to whether an illegitimate apology means anything, that I leave to liedra's discretion.
Here's another simple "rule of thumb": Would she have gotten the same treatment after applying OP's suggestions (saying "No, thanks, I'll drive!") ? If not, then I feel that finally calling shenaningans is the right response.

And, again, quid bono ? She certainly did, a bunch of people who would never ever read her column now just gave her a bunch of pageviews.