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>This is along the same lines, except it is using a monopoly in the Operating Systems market to farther same monopoly.

None of the millions of apps written for DOS and Windows will ever run on Windows RT. How is that leveraging a monopoly? Doesn't your argument apply to Windows Phone too?

>There's a huge difference here; Apple makes both the software and the hardware. Microsoft makes software and forces hardware makers to comply.

Why would you want the government to exclusively punish the software OS makers who don't sell hardware with that software? So, a company making software that is open to running on hardware made by different companies should be burdened with additional restrictions that companies like Apple are not? Sounds like a nice way to kill the whole concept competing on hardware(which drove down PC prices in the latter 80s).

So the lesson here for MS is to go with Windows RT only on the Surface and follow Apple's model? After all there is Android for the OEMs(HTC and LG just dropped out due to bad sales).

>Microsoft charging $100 for certifying something is not malware is a joke. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, it is much more likely that they are after pirate OEM Win7 activations.

Perhaps, they're not mutually exclusive with rootkits.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/study-rootkits-target-pir...

And maybe you missed the memo that UEFI secure boot must be able to be turned off by the user? The pirates can simply disable it.

>If I was a malware distributor, I would make sure that I submit - directly and indirectly - hundreds of bootloaders and kernels, many of them exploitable through buffer overflows or similar tactics.

Good luck with that, I am sure the requirements will be like the iOS app store, requiring a credit card and a tax id which they can track across all your accounts. One piece of malicious software detected will lead to the keys of all your submissions revoked.

>I've been burned too many times with hardware that supposedly worked but turned out to only work well under windows (With bad ACPI kernel tables, and other such stuff), to trust the theory that everything will work out well.

Just turn off the secure boot? Too hard to go into UEFI setup and turn this off?

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/09/26/secure-boot.png

>The only way to fight this is legally.

I can understand why bright kids these days want to be lawyers these days instead of going into the tech space.

What are you trying to fight legally on what grounds? Windows RT secure boot or Windows 8 UEFI requirements too?

How is it Microsoft's fault that OS vendor don't want to bother to create a mechanism to sign kernels with their keys that the OEMs are perfectly willing to add and if not, the user can add themselves?
That is a wonderful idea. Knowing now if your stuff will or will not break in the "future" seems worth the investment. If anyone else is doing this, I would love to see details.
I'm not aware of any specific case-study evidence, but in general, free wordpress/blogspot/tumblr etc do not outrank self-hosted blogs just because they are a subdomain of the highly valued domain like wordpress.com. (Of course, maybe it's just because the root domain doesn't link out to those random blogs in the way that a self-hosted site and subdomain would.)
Thanks for the detailed criticism and the kind words.

All procedures are run in their own gevent thread.

Yes, we differentiate errors on the RPC layer - there is a builtin heartbeat system so timeouts can be detected even when the procedure returns an infinite stream (think logs or system metrics). There is no built-in retry mechanism.

On the philosophy question: we discourage "pretending" that a call is local. That lead to the demise of original rpc and as you point out leads to weak systems. It remains the job of the developer to be aware of the network boundary and design accordingly.
Are you still able to access the course materials? I took the course as well (and enjoyed it!) but I'd like to access the PDFs, especially.
I'm just getting a static jpg; did they take it down?

http://www.google.co.nz/logos/2012/turing-doodle-static.jpg
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I'm seeing the same thing. It says Bedford to Stamford is 45 minutes, it's actually about 25 minutes.
I think it's a very awesome idea, and I'm impressed with the visuals. However it seems that several people on here are claiming wildly inaccurate commute times, and I myself have noticed this as well. I think part of the problem is that it is hard to get a full understanding of what rush hour traffic is like, and that the actual volumes of traffic and slowdown differ depending on locality and road. Sever places, including my home town, have way overblown estimates, such as 40min commute on a road that never takes more than 15. and that's a two way, two lane road. However City driving can be much much different, and even dependent on end of day vs. morning. For example, my DC commute was 40min in the morning (it is reverse rush hour) but my commute home was always a hour and 15, on the same road, reverse commute both times.

edit: and if I could make any other suggestion, I would be to allow me to continue to zoom out. The zoom sticks at a certain point, and it is not zoomed out far enough for me.
I think the reason is obvious - why would Google want to treat blogs differently because of something so trivial as subdomain vs directory?

I'll buy that it may be a challenge to determine which subdomains should be treated as part of the main domain and which should be considered separate. BUT you can make exactly the same argument for directories (or pages for that matter). In the end, the selection is meaningless - either the site is meant to be an extension of the main domain or it's not. Figuring out which is which is an exercise in determining relevance. And given that Google has spent an obscene amount of effort on that very problem over the last couple years, I think it's reasonable to assume they've got this one licked.

But I really wish someone had some data. Or even an anecdote. Because I could be totally overestimating Google's sophistication.
The cue app has search as a core, though secondary functionality. It doesn't seem to me that they will phase it out, though they may indeed change the way the app expects you to interact with its search interface which perhaps may run counter to your use case.
Engineer at Cue here.

The product that was previously called Greplin is a subset of Cue. The search functionality is not going away. We have no plans to get rid of it. It isn't an edge case, or legacy functionality - it's a core piece of Cue, and it is going to stay that way.
>and not in the context of the web at large (viewable to teachers, bosses, and random strangers).

But its not. Its viewable to your friends only (who may be browsing a third party site). This information is not made public in any meaningful sense of the word public. Only those who were able to see your like on facebook will ever see it in the context of an advertisement. Hence, no privacy violation.
> they can pay the PHP community (or someone in it) to change it back

The decision was defended on its own merit, so I would be really disappointed if bringing money to the table affected the outcome. Funding open source development is great as long as meritocracy is maintained. That's why Linus never accepted a job at a company that had a stake in pushing Linux in a certain direction.
A perfect example of a clean and simple Android application
We know that, and they know that, but its still crucial to keep up the mechanisms of being honest,etc.

Consider the jewellery chain in the UK that sold cheap junk. Customers knew it, and the company knew, but everything was profitable until the CEO explicitly said the wares were junk. Then the sales went into free-fall.
My SO is a active with Eagle Street Farm http://rooftopfarms.org/ and works with their partner CSA as well.

Perceived value is in fact an important part of CSA participation. As is the community aspect.

I'd recommend you speak with people active in the local food movement to see what gets them excited about your product. They may think of uses/benefits you're not anticipating, especially when it comes to community/shared gardening.

Annie at Eagle Street would be an awesome person to talk to.
Well crap, that pretty much ruins my dreams. Back to the drawing board...

New tactic:

1) Be a social butterfly and get as many FB friends as possible.

2) Sell profile pic and public bio placement to a company wanting cheap advertising.

3) Like every company on FB.
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This is not my site, but I like the idea and wanted to share it with you.
Thanks - it actually seems close to accurate for me - though I have an approximate 2 hour commute door to door so it's purely guessing on the remainder of the trip. Will the outer boroughs of NYC receive transportation options as well?
There are puzzles where it's very easy to loop it forever, while not straying from the prepreinted numbers. It's more likely just the number of iterations.

Here's an example where it loops up/down. It speeds up and then "burns out":
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/80052639/Screenshot%20from%202012-0...
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PHP has its shortcomings, but, as in any open source product, if it doesn't work for you, you have a couple options.

I personally think this guy should ask for a full money-back refund and then shut the hell up.
It's an interesting theory, but technically the thunderbolt port carries the display signal separately from the data signal (which speed he quotes).

Display Port 1.2 Spec allows 17.28 Gbit/s of bandwidth and 1.0-1.1 allowed 8.64 Gbit/s. It looks like the current thunderbolt is based on 1.1.
Does it? Entrepreneurs have to satisfy: investors, customers, employees, co-founders, and probably more people I'm not thinking about.

I'm not against entrepreneurship, but it certainly comes off as though you're positioning it as some kind of snake oil for all your employment ills.
I am in complete agreement with you on this. It is very sad to see the direction Apple has taken computing devices in, the blind acceptance by the public, and perhaps most disturbingly, the thunderous silence of the geeks. (Downvotes away! (assuming anyone is reading this far in.))
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Gosh darn gopher. Does anyone know its name? I tried Googling it but couldn't find anything.
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kudos to Daniel and Robby and the Cue team - having just finished our launch, it's always stressful in the hours leading up. Rechecking lists, re-reading docs, running through flows again and again.

The fact you did all that days ahead of schedule is amazing.

Really excited about Cue! Can't wait for the Android version =)
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Hi Sha,

Great work. I checked commuting time for Seattle, WA using public transit and most of your visualization are spot on. Is the public GTFS files you are referring to come from here: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFe...?

With regard to some of the earlier replies saying that the map is inaccurate, it might be worthwhile to use Amazon Turk to run some evaluation on how reliable the spatial data (or your algorithm for calculating travel time, rural vs local, .etc) is.

-Sen
If it was accurate, it would be very helpful if, say, I got a new job, or was looking to relocate areas for a job, I could pick out neighborhoods I'd want to live in based off of commute times to my new workplace. And if I knew where I thought I wanted to live, I could see if it would be too far to work.

or if I was on travel, and had a meeting at a client site at point a. but a hotel near my companies office at point b, I could see the travel times, and maybe even go for a hotel closer to point a (or hotels near point a are too expensive, how far would cheaper hotels be for my commute) .
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If someone is looking to relocate to a new (and thus unfamiliar) location and they need to figure out how far they would comfortably be willing to live based on commute times vs. cost of living.
"Clojure powered startup" post was an hour before this.

Jealous?

run away
So accurately put. Smooth talker makes new law, spreadsheet nerds exploit law for fun and profit, works the same in EVE as it does on Wall St.
Things I still don't know because the site is just a solid black page with nothing on it.
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Indeed.

"PHP is full of inconsistencies! What a terrible, amateur language!"

fixes inconsistencies

"PHP broke their functions! What a terrible, amateur language!"

Haters gonna hate.
11. The gopher's name

Gordon? [http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/]
First of all, before pricing your startup it’s important to know what type of service it is as the multiples you can achieve for various monetization styles varies greatly e.g. Membership Fees, Advertising Revenue (with subsets of Affiliate/Adsense/Display – these also vary greatly as well!) etc.

Secondly, having used Flippa since it was part of Sitepoint Marketplace I know that Flippa actually sells a lot of sites around your $7500/month revenue (with $6k/month profit) margins.

In fact, sites have sold for over $1MM on Flippa e.g. https://flippa.com/2677949-planetrx-com which sold for $1.2MM. Likewise, https://flippa.com/102961-bloggersunite-featured-blogger-net... sold for $450,000

There are many other sales on Flippa in the several hundred thousand range.

Generally sites are sold for a multiple of around 12-18x monthly revenue (although this can increase to as much as 36X depending on your site & how stable these revenues have been over a period of time).

For some relevant comparison:

Inquisitr sold for $330,000 with $15,000/month revenue - https://flippa.com/138899-the-inqusitr-rare-opp-to-buy-15k-m...

A file host just sold for $300,000 11 hours ago on Flippa (at the time of this comment) - https://flippa.com/2747329-one-of-the-largest-and-most-valua... with profits of $XXXXX.XX per month
Depending on how some endeavors pan out, my wee company, WellPosed, is likely to be in that rarified category in the near future :-)

(strictly speaking it may be 2-3 distinct enterprises under the same umbrella, but same thing). Also some interesting stuff on the algorithmic & open source pipeline that'll be made available as those services come out.

(a vague summary of the pending products/services can be seen in this month's who's hiring thread.)
Hi, Talin from Trulia.

The times are calculated with a simple Djikstra's traversal, implemented in the open-source pgRouting (pgrouting.org)

Our existing local information pages were already using google maps, so we didn't go out of our way to create new base maps just for this visualization.
You probably need an HTML5 compliant browser.
Or well, blown up.

Evidently there was a massive Corp that was transporting a huge (1700 'months') amount of ISK and got blown up.

Tidy profit, for the ones who run the game.
The recording of this talk, and two more, are here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4

It's revealed at the end.
As a sysadmin pip and its ilk annoy me as well, although for a reason which is not mentioned in the article: It creates an entire package management system which is not the distribution's package manager. Ruby's gems tick me off for the same reason. As a sysadmin you need to decide to either manage Python and Ruby entirely outside of the OS's native package management or try and wrap every single Python egg and Ruby gem in an RPM/DPKG/whatever. Mixing the management between two packaging systems is just going to cause trouble.

There's a similar problem with Perl's CPAN, which is what I think all of these projects are aiming to emulate, but the nice thing about CPAN is that repositories like rpmforge or EPEL already have a large number of commonly used CPAN packages all wrapped up in RPMs already. It would be nice to see similar community efforts centered around Python and Ruby packages. Perhaps one day I will have enough free time to start one.
Nice article. The steps are basically how I approach learning a new language, and I imagine it's the same for most people -that is, if they are serious about making the language one of their 'languages of choice'.

And, while I agree video is terrible for learning a language, it can be excellent for abstract CS concepts. For example, an expert explaining the design and analysis of algorithms.
That there is a this kind of economy in TF2 is amazing to me. TF2 is the last great game I've ever played, but it's old in terms of video game lifespan and I feel that it's kind of a niche among shooters; you always hear of people playing Call of Duty/Halo...I can't think of a single friend or acquaintance who has ever mentioned TF2 in passing.

It's such a great, nuanced game that I thought it would attract the kind of players who would frown upon ingame purchases...and the fact that it's free also made me assume that most players would be the non-paying type. Glad to see that Valve's dedication to the game has some payoff to them.
It's an HTML5 presentation. I apologize if it doesn't work in your browser of choice. Try viewing it in Chrome, instead.
There's a conference in his honour this weekend in Manchester, where he did much of his work. On the list of speakers are Hoare, Knuth, Penrose, Cerf, Kasparov, Fred Brooks, Rodny Brooks, Shamir, and many others. It's quite exciting to get so many luminaries in the same event.

http://www.turing100.manchester.ac.uk/

Edit: It's also quite expensive!
Most people are missing some of the most amazing stuff here. First, how the slider works without refreshing the tiles. They have tiled the travel costs http://tiles.trulia.com/commute/time_map/data/driving/37.774... and are drawing these changes without having to refresh the map. That's cool. Secondly, they have used Openstreetmap for calculating travel time. I cannot imagine OSM having a street segment cost that is too accurate, so it was probably derived from pure geometry (think about it... traversing .25miles in downtown SF has a much higher cost than .25 miles on the 5 freeway). If instead, you used a Navteq or Teleatlas dataset for this, I bet the isochrone polygons would come out much more accurate. My hats off to the Trulia team, this is good stuff.
What I'm saying with my argument is that the odds that we ended up in a "set" of universes similar to ours is exactly 0. (Which does not make it impossible.) If the odds are 0, then it seems more reasonable that there is a better, more probable explanation that the universe is the way it is than chance.

It's not based on what I want to believe, or even something from self-selection bias. It is something that can be calculated and either proven true or false, probably with set theory of some kind.
I have one. Perhaps the site needs HTML5 compliant markup?
I had a bunch of questions about why it had "Zero" in the name, and why should I use this instead of just building RPC on ØMQ (zeromq). Then I went to the Github page.

You should mention ØMQ on the front page!
Well I can certainly answer the iOS Development one with a shameless plug: http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Edition-Guides/d...
Agreed. The visualization concept itself is really great, but the data seems wildly incorrect in places.
Well, if you could see the first slide you could use the arrows to navigate.
+1.

I'm the first to walk away from a PHP bash session, but a wise man once said, "the right tool for the right job."
Hi, Talin from Trulia here.

As many commentors have pointed out, our time-accuracy is not exactly 100% yet. :)

This is our first iteration on this concept, so we are using some heuristics to try to get times roughly close, and accurate relative to each other. We're also validating the user experience, value as a product, etc.

I'm still investigating a good set for nationwide traffic data, which will help give us a much more accurate picture of real-world commute times. Traffic varies so very much city to city :)
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His job here is done.
If you think having to answer to a boss is bad, then try and answer to a customer.
Guess who punched whom in the face.
I got the title slide and was stuck. Took me a while to find out that the space bar skips to the next page. Then I found the invisible 100px wide buttons left and right of the slide area.

Very annoying but I guess it looks better as a presentation. At least the mouse wheel should work, that was my instinctive reaction to skip forward and you could add that without affecting the visuals.
We retrieved a list of U.S. agencies with GTFS feeds from gtfs-data-exchange.com, which is a very excellent resource :)
Http://spys.ru/en/http-proxy-list/
(nasty) typo: junk = chunk

Fablo is actually one of the most interesting startups on the Polish scene regarding technological challenges involved.
As a not-yet-successful full-time entrepreneur myself, I certainly would not want to give the impression that it's an easy path, but it is one I find extremely rewarding despite the huge, huge risk, and I am very happy to have chosen it.
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Yeah, I'm seeing consistent ~3x times in my location outside Seattle (a rural, no traffic sort of place). Within Seattle, well, Downtown to Magnolia doesn't take an hour.

It really looks algorithmic based on street size, assuming some specific congestion level. I'm not seeing any indication of some of the known congestion points that I used to have to deal with.
> The logo program doesn't stop manufacturers creating similar unstickered hardware

Effectively, it does. Microsoft routinely audits OEMs' products for logo/MDA compliance, and if any product offered under the same brand name fails the audit, then the entire company could lose all of its MS 'discounts' (that they've already likely baked into their cost accounting.)

In other words, if MS audits you, and any of your products fail the audit, then your unit cost for Windows licenses goes up significantly across all of your product lines.

It's very difficult for an OEM to simultaneously offer some products which are covered by the MS logo agreement and some which aren't.

Source: I used to work for a large OEM, and dealt with MS logo compliance on a daily basis.
For what it's worth, your ability to post that is based on that they were actually near-extinction events.
There are updates and new content added all the time. http://store.steampowered.com/news/?feed=steam_updates&a...
Saying TF2 is old in terms of lifespan is a joke, particularly when comparing it another well-known Valve title, Counter-Strike, which has been continuously played and updated since about 1999-2000. It doesn't matter how old it is, it's still attracting players and making money for Valve. And it's still fun to play.
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It would help if you told me which one.
Because it leads you down a rabbit hole of unproductivity.
Or, in my case, entry-level Python/Django jobs :-)
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No. His name is not Gordon.