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I'm starting to feel this is what is driving the Android fragmentation argument with some iOS users.

iOS's design is much more dependent on Apple implementing core features and interactions (I suspect this is partly by design). The benefit of this is that when Apple does implement them, they are incredibly well done and have that glossy Apple finish that Apple does best.

Android's design allows heavy integration—or sometimes outright replacement of—all sorts of core OS features by third party developers.

Case in point: Google Maps on Android is just a regular app. It's not built into Android (though it does ship by default on basically all Android phones). It receives updates regularly from the Play Store outside of Android's infrequent OS updates. Just being a regular app, however, doesn't prevent it from connecting itself into all sorts of actions throughout Android. You click on an address in a third party and it'll open in Google Maps (or any other third party app that registers itself to handle the "map an address" intent). You speak "Navigate to Starbucks" into Voice Actions and Google Maps will open.

If you want to use a different browser on Android (Chrome for instance) you just install it and make it your default browser (which is an option you get the first time you try to open a link after you have installed it). Want to open reddit links in a reddit specific app? After installing your favorite you'll get the option to always open reddit links in that app (apps can register to handle specific url patterns).

People talk about how you can Share using third party apps on Android but that's really just the tip of the iceberg that the Android Intents system allows. The Intents aren't even just a limited set defined by Android itself. You can create new Intents that the Android developers never envisioned and now your app seamlessly integrates with any number of other applications making use of those Intents. It's a beautiful system.

So while iOS users sometimes have to rely on Apple to add functionality (like Twitter or Facebook), Android users often don't require anything but the third party developer to implement it. I believe this is why fragmentation seems to be a lot bigger of issue to some vocal iOS users than it is to many actual Android users. That's not to say that it isn't an issue, just that it isn't as big of an issue as they might expect from their experience with iOS.
You realize that v6 with a public IP vs v4 behind NAT on mobile data makes no difference for law enforcement, right? Carrier NAT keeps a record of who was using what ports when so they can trace it out.
I always wonder wether an incorrectly configured ubuntu kernel or drivers could actually damage modern computers. I remember viruses from the 80's that supposedly could kill the machine by asking the bios to increase and decrease voltages or hdd spin in such a way it would deal physical damages to the machine. Might have been a computer legend though.

Note: When returning laptop, desktop, smartphone or anything I always tend to be anal retentive and put everything back in place, including software and OS so there are no arguing wether the problem is software or hardware (obviously I only need to send back hardware defective devices).
Does any one know where to get access to the raw data? Does the NBA provide them "upon request" or did the author compile them manually?
Feels like just yesterday I published this first blog post:

http://blog.hipmunk.com/1/post/2010/08/hello-world.html

I can't believe how much the site & company has grown since - it's a testament to the fabulous product and team. Onward & upward!
It doesn't cost the credit card company any money to to a chargeback, they just shaft the merchant whether the chargeback is legit or not. It's not like the merchant is ever going to stop taking Visa or Mastercard -- they'd lose way too much business. On the other hand, consumers are much more likely to switch credit card vendors if they get a better deal or better service elsewhere.
FreeCiv has diverged quite a bit from Civ 2 by now.
From their FAQ:
Does Newegg.com pay the return shipping cost for defective merchandise?
No, Newegg.com does not pay the return shipping cost for defective merchandise. We are not responsible for product defects, because we do not manufacture the products we carry.

However I had the same experience as you when trying to return a defective mouse:

Me: I'm not going to pay return shipping.
CSR: Ok, we'll send you a shipping label.

It's confusing and arbitrary.

What's worse is that you have to return it to their CA facility and wait a couple of days for them to decide to ship out a replacement, which is a two week turn around time for customers on the east coast.

Overall Newegg's level of price competitiveness and service is slipping; I see no reason to order from them unless avoiding the sales tax on that order is worth it.
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"This is why I don't play civ. Total war AIs are a bizarre choice in a strategy game. I dislike it when games are setup in a way where I'm the only one thinking strategy and the AI opponents are there to give me a sense of action. Total war in the real world is rare."

Agreed 100%. To me, it seems silly -- not to mention cynical and fatalistic -- that the sole purpose of diplomacy in Civilization games is to add a strategic dimension to warmaking. That's what it is. The game is basically in a constant state of war, and peace only exists if something is going wrong: i.e., the powers are (momentarily) too evenly balanced to attack one another, or someone's just biding time to sneak-attack someone else, or everyone's spending a few years recovering from World War XXIV before gearing up for World War XXV.

That said, Civlization can still be an immensely fun and rewarding game. It's not the game I want it to be, but I enjoy trying to squeeze every last ounce of emergent gameplay from it.

"Why can't more games have rational goals instead of just being a more advanced form of Pacman?"

I suspect because there just isn't a big enough market for games of that nature. Maybe there is a handful of us out there. Maybe a relatively small handful, but one that's willing to pay a fair amount for a really great, truly strategic global power game. I dunno. Maybe it's worth organizing, or Kickstarting, or what have you. If any game devs out there are reading this and are interested, know that there's a niche crossing its fingers for you.
Yeah, that sounds like it would do it. On the bright side, maybe they just have to double their offscreen buffer size.
A little pad of paper you keep in some drawer somewhere that no one is likely to stumble upon. Satisfies all 3 corners of the CAP theorem and is infinitely scalable!
You see, my feeling is that trying to guess the progress of genetics by extrapolating the complexity and insecurity of the computation chemistry is wrong. As far as I understood, genetics today is a lot about (but not only) identifying which genes (portions of DNA) are responsible of which phenotype (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotype).Therefore a lot of resources are and were allocated to create a dictionary with genes as keys and phenotype as values. This dictionary is being populated at a quite fast pace and this combined with the possibility to take genes from some organisms and implant them in the DNA of a cell of other organisms and see the resulting phenotype is already a great achievement (imagine undergrads cutting and pasting DNA daily). They are not inventing new proteins and worry that they will not "bind" enough. They just take the DNA known to produce proteins in some organisms and place it in other organisms and suddenly proteins which have a known effect in different organisms, appear in a new organism. Yes, there is a long way from here to engineering genes that will produce and deliver a medicine inside an organism but I wouldn't call this primitive at all. Sorry for the simplification and possible errors.
More accurate headline: How (most) companies use statistics in their favor.
It kind of sucks from the vendor side. But, yes, there's a lot of power to the consumer.

Please be sure you legitimately feel that Newegg violated their return policy before exercising this power.
It only works with WebKit. What features does it need that are supported by WebKit but not Gecko?
True, but in this day and age - if you are running a tech company and you are not paranoid as hell about Apple/Google/Facebook farking you over - then you're unfit to run a tech company.

Now more than ever should everyone be worried about the famous question: "So whats to stop [Apple/Google/Facebook] from doing this?"

You need to take the OMGPOP route: build something very well and very successful that the Zyngas cant just steal it - they HAVE to buy you.

(Lets just hope the post acquisition health of the acquiring company is far better than Zynga's :)
cough... Patriot Act... cough

Not to mention the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
I also think the US education system is "broken" or close to it. Remember the recent polls saying 40% of Americans don't believe in evolution? Something is surely wrong with this picture.

It is not until college level that the US performs better than other countries. And then (for the majority of people) you would need a scholarship to be able to go.

K12 education has poor results and above that it is economically broken.

e: I don't mean this as an attack, I just want to say I can see where the grandparent is coming from.
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The lack of inspiration, willingness or innovation on Zynga's part is still baffling.
I would definitely shop monoprice over newegg for cables.
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P2P is much slower than CDNs; e.g. Joost only got 1/3 of each stream from P2P (hardly seems worth the engineering effort).
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I wonder how much the quality of the shots he takes are a function of his teammates and their offensive sets. Would be really interesting if shot quality could be completely decoupled from the environment.
Note that in your scenario above, Sally never just said "I'm sorry Ted, I don't date co-workers" or "I have a boyfriend" or even "Sorry, but I'm not interested." That's all it takes, and there's no reason a conversation like that needs to be awkward, or cause problems going forward, or result in anyone feeling uncomfortable or crying in their pillow.

It's a perfectly normal, routine thing and mature, well-adjusted adults should not have a problem with something like that. Truth be told, it strikes me as disrespectful to women to assume that most of them are like your Sally, and are emotionally fragile as to be unable to handle a situation like this. Now if Ted kept making repeated advances after being told "no," then you're in a whole different ball-game.
I have known a few Swedes and have owned 4 Saabs and none have them have ever behaved like this. There's always 5% of a population that can make the other 95% hide in embarrassment.
I like how it shows where a player is comfortable and good (red clusters), and where a player is just comfortable (light green clusters).
In other news: sky is blue, grass is green.
Oh, no way. I'm a H1B holder myself, but I'm just saying that there is a LOT of abuse of the visa going on.

I have some amount of sympathy for the consulting companies as well. I've seen cases where my friends got CS degrees from University of Pennsylvania, who I know are very good, but can't find a job right out of college. (The day your degree is done, the US policy is to kick you out unless you get an intern with some company or a H1B sponsorship. No grace period.). At this point, you're forced to go to the consultancies, get trained in whatever enterprisey tech stack, fake your resume and then accept whatever ridiculous terms the companies throw at you, work for them for a couple of years and move on once you have your foot in the door.

So.. all I'm saying is the policy needs some change .. I'm just agreeing with my parent that it needs to be easier for grads from US universities.
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My thought exactly. I'm kinda curious as to what harm linux floffin off can do. Don't get me wrong, I still use and love Linux, but there is always a problem with linux, so far it's always in software/doesn't affect hardware, but I guess it's possible to do damage to the hardware?
Something about how "men like women and women like men and that's just the way it is" just does something to my internal moral compass.

So you don't think that men like women and women like men?
For a long time, there was no mechanism even to protest a charge on a debit card, so conventional wisdom has always been that credit cards were superior. Another poster here seems to be indicating that that's not the case any longer, but I haven't seen evidence of that claim yet.

From an outsider trying to reason why that's the case, this is what I've come up with: when you pay with a debit card, the money was yours, and now it's theirs: it's effectively an immediate transfer from your account to the recipient's account. When you pay with credit card, on the other hand, you promise the credit card company to pay some amount of money, and the credit card company promises to pay the merchant some amount of money. Credit card companies pay merchants in batches, not for each individual transaction, and so there's a significant amount of time before any money actually changes hands. Furthermore, even if you contest a charge after money has changed hands, the credit card company will simply withhold the contested amount from the next batch payment to the merchant, who is under contract with the credit card company to resolve the dispute appropriately or simply lose the money.

Credit card companies have a lot more leverage than individuals to lean on companies to respect their own return policies.
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Interesting. I'll definitely have to consider changing my online purchasing practices.
I think the Mac displays used to be, at least at the maximum size. I vaguely recall Mac monitors being somewhat "lower-resolution" than same-size Windows monitors, just because of this. Maybe it was Mac laptops? Not sure. Certainly the original Mac 128 was fixed resolution.

Nowadays, of course, it's a free-for-all.
I think they would most flip out over the number of fat people walking around. EX: Here is a pile of grain 1/8th as tall as the great pyramid of Giza.

http://artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/articles/09harvest.html
Even the post I replied to admitted that it would be a problem if there was a woman in the company who objected. If you assume that women are more likely to object to going there than men, and that men in the company enjoy going there, it's obvious that a woman would be less welcome to join the company than a man. I think you're seeking to interpret "unwelcome" as implying deliberate slights or cold shoulders, which isn't what I was getting at - I mean that the company culture would have to change more to accommodate a woman than a man, and that this would be obvious to the woman.
Sounds good are you enjoying it so far, compared to full time work? I am just starting up this month freelancing/contracting for iOS apps so hopefully I can find some work.
The only thing that I really didn't agree with was the slide about Adium. Adium is a great chat client that looks nice, is customizable, and supports more chat services than what Messages can. For instance, I sometimes IRC and MSN Messenger with Adium, and MSN Messenger is used frequently for communicating with some of my family.

Also, while Dropbox may have some more competition now, they've also had more competition from Google with Google Drive, and it doesn't seem to have affected them too much.
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Disagree that headline argues causality.

the same formula can be used with not correlation but simply timing:

"As Rome burns, Nero fiddles away."

"Detroit housing prices at record prices, even as millions leave the city."

"As the average salary in the City approaches six figures, those without a job are having trouble finding any job at all."

Does it make sense to set this backdrop, even without correlation? Of course - it's interesting.

however, in this case the author does a good job by setting this backdrop:

if the craze of playing games on Facebook has waned -- something the article hopefully establishes or reports on,
then it is an interesting backdrop to news that Zynga's share price is falling - wouldn't you say?

(If fewer people are playing Zynga's games on Facebook, which is where most of Zynga's games are played.)

Whether this is just a backdrop or a causal relationship with Zynga's profit and share price is for you to decide however you want. The headline doesn't force it on you, but simply set a backdrop of a macro-trend.

I think it's a very interesting and well-written headline. It's better than most of them.
Reference? This contradicts everything I've read up to this point and I'd like to verify it.
ah, thanks - i will try appcode.
Search rank losses can't "be" libel. They could, theoretically, be damages caused as the result of libel. In order for something to be libelous though, it must be false, and in such a way that an average person could believe it. Satire is not libel. Writing about how you don't like Pepsi is not libel. I don't believe Pepsi could successfully sue you for expressing an opinion about their product, no matter where it ranked in Google's search results. I doubt their lawyers would even try. Of course IANAL, etc, etc.
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There's money to be made in providing the best experience for purchasing computer equipment, which is what Newegg used to provide. Newegg has lost the focus necessary to maintain that experience; e.g. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA01200095...
Agreed. Surprising response from Newegg - we've had no problem returning machines that were defective here at work. Filing a chargeback appears to be the best solution in this case.
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Check out this story about a new self publishing platform called Populr.Me there are a ton of use cases for this
Then get a google phone?
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your product's documentation?
Are there any good CMS's for documentation?

How do you keep track of slightly different versions of a text that are served in different places? (eg. I might want to tailor the wording or add a few paragraphs in the Setup Guide to be a bit less terse but still use the same code snippets.)

Or just what do you use to manage your product's documentation?

(I'm not interested in "projects" that might just have a file somewhere on Github but products, with sites dedicated to selling them, with setup guides, api references, tutorials, etc.)
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A couple thoughts:

This is a neat idea, I think the price is right, but:

Are there categories of "stuff" that I can reject? What if i am not ever interested in cologne picked by these guys.

I do NOT think they should be including things like gift cards. I am paying you $40 per month for these guys to pick great stuff and a best buy gift card is on there? WTF. Unless that gift card is worth more than my $40 bucks - thats a hassle to convert my subscription fee to a gift card that I then have to spend time and energy converting into stuff, without the ability to convert it back to cash! Thats retarded. (I have a $100 best buy gift card in my wallet I have had for 8 months because I cant think of anything to spend it on that I absolutely need and that is <$100)

Aside from these guys having a ton of money, what am I getting by subscribing to receiving their picks, they have money - most are young, what sort of taste do they have? Am I not just subscribing to a selection of stuff picked by an army of assistants and paying some % premium to have these guys celebrity tied to the service?

How much time are they spending actually evaluating this stuff? Do they get 5 minutes a week with the assistant to say "Tim, pick one pair of socks from these 5 pairs"

Or do they all get the stuff they pick and are using it and then say "yeah these are great socks!"

Otherwise, a hell of a twist on the idea of endorsements.
Pipelining the server calls in my example above to limit round trip traffic greatly improves performance, but the nature of my question is not to a specific language or database.

I am interested in exploring platforms for ETL that offer performance for both machine and developer.
I don't know Civ4's AI routines, but it might be such that after a certain year passes, it decides that the only way to stop the human player is total war. Before that it can be less aggressive.

I have a game of Civ1 somewhere where it takes about a half-hour to get through each turn because each city demands attention. I'd love to modify the ROM to skip the animations.
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It annoys me that a trick is missed with the secure fob. Imagine that: the challenge screen includes the amount you are authorising and you type that amount into your secure fob along with the challenge code

That's basically how the auth works on with my online bank. I get a small calculator sized device that reads my debit card. I have to enter the card pin, a challenge code from the online transaction, and the amount - which then gives me a code to authorise the online transaction.

(The downside is that the devices are all identical - so anybody with one + a cloned card + my stolen login info can auth transactions - hey ho...)
Is there anything in the returns policy to prevent you installing your own custom drivers under Windows? From the quoted bit, it didn't look like it... If that's okay, why shouldn't installing Linux be okay?
Are you essentially saying that if you listen to your customers you'll build a faster horse, instead of a car?
Really? My last Saab was a great car, but showed an odd racial insensitivity sometimes.
I think you're going to need to be a little more clear in your question. Do you mean a CMS with version control over content and attachments?
I've used an "Instant Online Chat Support" for TurboTax (answering questions) and at my auto repair company (to schedule appointments). Worked fine for me. When done well, it can be vastly superior to phoning in. But like you said... the people on the other side need to be empowered.
During that same decade, the population of SF grew by about 60,000. 25K net new units in a city with 60K net new residents (and one of the lowest percentages of children in the country) is effectively no growth in housing stock.

Additionally, a lot of those 25K units are not market-rate housing (they're for low-income) which means that for market-rate housing, the numbers would look even worse since most of the new residents are not eligible for low-income housing.
I've read these types of posts hundreds of times, and they never seem truthful, but here is mine:
I just want to say thank you for that image. I would like to hear your thoughts on your note, why do you find the message is debatable, and if you know where the image is from? It says the text is from "Amusing Ourselves to Death" which has just made it to #1 on my to-read list.

I found the apt summary of Huxley's points (plus the jarring images) resonated strongly with my current views on my life, which prompted me to really do some self-reflecting and organize myself. In addition, it vibes very strongly with the "create, not consume" mantra found here on HN.