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Makes me wonder, Steve Jobs never needed to have someone jump out of a plane to get people excited about a product.

I was far more impressed with the Nexus 7 and Jelly Bean than any of the rest of the demos.
Agreed, this is definitely not surprising. In fact, one of the biggest broad distinctions between the harmonic rules of classical music and pop music is that classical music tends to use authentic cadences (V -> I) and pop music tends to use plagal cadences (IV -> I). (If you're curious, in jazz the cadence you see all the time is ii7 -> V7 -> I7.) Of course I am speaking in large generalities; there are millions of exceptions.

The canonical classical music harmonic progression is I -> IV -> V -> I, whereas that famous four-chord sequence that underlies hundreds of pop hits pretty much runs the same sequence in reverse: I -> V (-> vi) -> IV -> I.
So have I, he seems like a great guy, is really concerned about the users, and is committed to taking it open source very soon. Sorry he's been dragged into this mess.
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You know you have been working with IE too long when this product brings a smile to your face.

NO MORE GIF's for me!
Certainly journalists will be a huge adopter of this technology as well.
i can very easily see younger kids, live streaming , recording just about everything they do. They already text constantly, facebook and tweet everything.... seamless sharing of video is definitely the next step.
This, in addition to knowing that a commit may have multiple parents (a merge commit, for example).
I haven't used eclipse in awhile, release notes: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.2-2...
From a strategic point of view I think that one of the main goals with Google Glass is to map and store information about areas that cant be reached easily via car, plane or other transportation method. I am pretty sure that as soon as we see Google Glass in the public Google will have software that can combine photos and videos with GPS-data so that we get Google Street View even in areas such as the himalayas, forests and other areas where a person can reach but no vehicle with advanced photo equipment. It is a big crowdsourcing experiment.
I've never understood this ridiculous "it's the carriers" argument.

Apple doesn't have a problem with releasing timely updates. So how come the Android OEMs can't ?
kisielk got it right, but to add:

A commit knows about its history via its parent(s), thus the arrow pointing to the parent. As far as I know no commit can (or for that matter should) know about its descendants.

Does that help?
The 90% of last salary isn't correct. The rate is about 50% of an average salary, or slightly less than minimum wage.
Laptops get much better integration testing, cleaner power (fewer cheap crappy power supplies), and fewer user-installed parts. I'm not surprised.

I would agree with you that desktops built by a major OEM should exhibit less of this behavior.
That's true, I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab. My girlfriend have an Acer Iconia tab. Same Android version, very similar hardware. I droll every time I use her tablet, it's so smooth compared to mine. It's a shame Samsung does this.
It was cool because it was live streaming from four separate devices at the same time into a hangout, and they were switching views between them live. Impressive that they all somehow had a stable enough internet connection while flying through the air.
No. I just don't see the point, unless it is "get overloaded to the max". And some additional space for google ads?
Mostly pngquant (the new version), optipng and advpng. We are still tuning parameters and swapping in and out tools based on our benchmarks and testing suite.
I'm referring to the "shrinking at will." If you can back, well, anything you're saying up about how Glass isn't impressive beyond "lol open up a phone," I'd love to hear it!

> I’m sure Project Glass will eventually be interesting, this demo was really cool, but hardly a technological achievement. You can do the same thing by strapping a phone to your helmet.

Yeah... you don't see any technical challenges going from the latter to the former? Sounds like you made up your mind a "years ago" when this apparently already existed.
Does anybody know the details on cluster.autoFork()? http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html has it in a couple of examples, but not documented - is that supposed to be there?
The PC hardware industry profits are already razor thin, while the laptop industry is marginally better. This doesn't mean an ecosystem can't exist.

Amazon retail / grocery stores are another example of an industry that survives off volume to make up for razor thin profit margins.
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Yep. I've got the Old Transformer 101, and the Galaxy S2. Both are totally smooth which is why I was confused as to what you were referring to.
If anyone hasn't watched this BBC show: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/

I absolutely think this is the kind of show (3 episodes so far) that's aimed at the HN crowd. Completely blew me away.
The JVM isn't relevant to Android's responsiveness, only Android is. Android wrote Dalvik and the Android UI framework from scratch, it's performance is entirely in their hands.
more hand waving nonsense. so how many times faster is it this time?
Nexus One, S, Galaxy, 7 and Q

Pretty confused branding I think.
How is it different from http://cpypst.me/
Doesn't that mean Google also didn't need to have someone jump out of a plane to get you excited about a product? It was just a bonus.
tl;dr - 128kbps CBR audio has such bad quality nobody should use it, but all options of higher quality are indistinguishably different to the masses.
Do you mean the Silicon Valley? But that doesn't explain the other places on the East and West coast.
Good tutorial for pull to refresh in IOS
This may not be a productive response, but from my past reading including both of her bio and of her more recent actions, IMO Espinel -- the ostensible author of the post -- is a complete tool of entrenched and over-reaching IP interests.

If the initiative has her name on it, I'm more than usually discouraged.

But... that's just an opinion. Maybe there is nonetheless some point to participating. (Although part of my mind can't get away from the refrain, "It's a trap!" Meaning, into useless action and/or unfavorable categorization for dissenting voices.)
Okay, I've spent the better part of the morning mulling this over while doing other work. Really, it's not as pathetic as it sounds.

This is a funny parody that highlights the shortcomings of the "wantrepreneurial" spirit. Everyone wants to be inspired by these posts, and many people like talking about how they're "living the startup life," instead of actually building anything.

Now, here's where I disagree with a lot of the responses, to some extent even edw519 (whom I greatly respect). I personally find legitimate "day in the life" posts inspirational. Are they sometimes silly? Yes. Are they sometimes just a waste of time? Absolutely. Do they spur drive to wake up earlier, be more productive, and create awesome products? It depends, but for me, they do.

I got a chuckle out of this parody, but I hope that HN posters don't take the general response to this post to mean "oh, no one cares about my daily life." If there's nothing unique in it, maybe you don't need to post, but just like I like learning how my coding heroes get their productive work done, I also like learning how founders frame their work/home balance.

Just my $0.02 :)
I've got an honest question. It seems Reddit owes a lot of its success to Digg. Reddit was popular, but it didn't really take off until Digg screwed up and users had an exodus.

At least, that's how it appeared to me, a Digg user at the time who also left for Reddit. I've wondered if Reddit would have ever been so popular if not for Digg's mishap.

Am I totally off base? Anyway, I'm a fan of Reddit and it looks like a good book.
ZangZing is shutting down
Received attached email from ZangZing today. No news on their site though.

Looks like you have until Aug 31st to get your photos.

=============================================================

Hi,

Unfortunately, we have some sad news to share.

On July 2nd, ZangZing will no longer accept new users to join or new photos to be uploaded.

On August 31st, we will be shutting down ZangZing and permanently deleting all photos, contact information, and account information.

To download your original photos, please follow these steps:
Sign in at www.zangzing.com/signin
Mouse-over the album you would like to download
Click the "i" menu and choose Download. This will create a Zip file of all the original photos in that album. Once each album is completely downloaded, then begin the next album download as simultaneous downloads can become corrupted on some web browsers
Repeat this for all your albums
If you have any problems, please refer to this Help article, http://zan.gy/Gzv1Qd.

Thank you for sharing our same passion for design, privacy, and group photo sharing. You inspired us.

The ZangZing Team
iPod HiFi? + video?
“Planned obsolescence” implies that a device is made obsolete to force people to buy newer devices as opposed to other reasons. Just because a device becomes obsolete doesn’t mean it’s “planned obsolescence”, even with total control over the whole ecosystem. That’s at least how “planned obsolescence” is commonly used and defined. “Planned obsolescence” as a term implies a reason (forcing people to buy newer devices), so not all forms of planned obsolescence (not as a term, notice the lack of quotation marks) are really “planned obsolescence” (as the term implying the reason).

Since we can’t read minds it’s definitely akin to reading tea leaves when you want to find out whether “planned obsolescence” plays any role for Apple.
Judge stops U.S. sales of Original Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
It seems that the main demo is a bit too busy for Chrome.

I had similar issues trying to spice up a presentation website with transitions and animations. The simpler examples[x] seem to be working much better.

In my experience, Firefox and Chrome tend to perform very flakey when CSS3 transitions/animations are in question. It's like a random performance profile is chosen every time the document loads. More often than not, the second time to load the transitions/animations work great, as if the browser performed some CSS JIT, but performance often drops again on consecutive loads.

I hope these features mature performance-wise, so we can start using them in meaningful ways (and also survive the 2001-style abominations that are bound to happen). I think it's sensible to use requestAnimationFrame[r] to determine if the animations aren't performing well, and disable them accordingly.

[x]: https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr/tree/master/examples#ex...

[r]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.requestAnimation...
Pff. I was expecting a remake of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvUYYUd-Ye0 - and then it's just another phone.
As an avid Android guy, I have to admit that ONE thing Apple got right was the aspect ratio on the iPad. Even though I have the TF101, it's way more convenient to use the iPad in both portrait and landscape as compared to the Android tablets.

And of all the things, I'd thought Amazon would be in on this. What with their Kindles being 4:3 already.
I think this is what the "Made for Play" thing is all about. It also leaves room for Asus and other manufacturers to come out with tablets with more ports.
Technically done-in-a-long-weekend (last Thanksgiving).

I'm attempting to turn it into a side-project to justify buying a Retina MacBook Pro, so I dusted it off, recorded the video, and updated a few bits.
Have you ever installed the SourceSDK? It's an AMAZING set of tools, all authored and regularly updated by Valve, and has been around for many years.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Installation

Granted, this latest announcement is indeed a considerable leap even from the offerings of the SDK, since it looks to be aimed at the more non-technical user.
Wait! I know I've seen this before:

http://www.8bitalpha.com/
I guess this will create a large market for assets which can be used within Source Filmmaker. Maybe Valve should open an asset store, like Unity's Asset Store, where you can browse & buy assets directly within Source Filmmaker.
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This is a fantastic argument against using my comment as law or judicial precedent.
There is always a heaviness in your heart when you hear a company is shutting down.

Anybody know if there were any specific reasons for ZangZing?
" Motorola have zero incentive to spend time or capital on maintaining old devices."

You are making a large assumption when you say this. Your assumption is that it won't hurt them in the long run. Maybe that is true, but it's a risky bet to make. I certainly won't buy another android phone. Maybe most normal users will, but I'm skeptical of that.

Here's how normal users will realize they aren't getting updates, because it happens to me often. Somehow they learn about some cool app they want and they go to the Play store to get it. But they can't find it. It doesn't show up on their search! It won't take long for them to figure out that they can't get it because it doesn't work for their old version of android.

This happens to me about once a month.
How many hardware crashes were not recorded? If CPU, memory or harddisk fails, OS can't always record the event, isn't it? Is the data backing this paper statistically valid? We have only subset of failures here, when failed system was partially alive after failure.
Absolutely, as long as they're in the Apple ecosystem. iTunes DRMed music and movies will play wonderfully on an AppleTV over AirPlay. That DRM capability is Apple's justification for the cryptography present on the AirPlay protocol, and for requiring device manufacturers to be certified and pay them money to get the necessary keys.

It sounds like Google have the same concept going on, but with the Google Play ecosystem and at 3x the device cost.
I'm just a user of Google's Android OS. My three-year old Windows and Mac computers still get the latest OS versions, as do my iPhones. I don't care about the particular reasons why my phone with Google's Android OS doesn't get updated. I just know it doesn't. Those are Google's problems, not mine. My problem is that I own an Android phone that is not on the latest version.

> be smart about which droid phone you get

My solution to this problem is to get an iPhone. Even the phones Google makes don't have the kind of update longevity Apple's do. The Nexus One did not get ICS, much less Jellybean. The 3GS is getting iOS 6.
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It appears similar, except your posts are tied to your Twitter account instead of just floating.
As an iPad 1, iPad 2, original Droid, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, and Kindle Fire owner, I have no idea what you are talking about. Our iOS devices have hiccups just as much as any of our Android devices do, and sometimes more.
Not trolling, but as a followup to my above post, I can't believe you think the S2 is smooth, have you compared it to an iPad 2/3?
For those looking for a desktop application with more options (for Mac at least), check out Image Alpha: http://pngmini.com/

(from the creator of the equally awesome ImageOptim: http://imageoptim.com/)
I used to work for WakeMate - feel free to ask me anything. This insane action from Greg doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
Perhaps you (or someone else with a better understanding of git) can fork https://github.com/MarkLodato/visual-git-guide and clean it up then.

I think that it would be interesting to reread this after it's been worked over by someone to better represent the way that Git actually works.
Just checked; 718 messages in my Inbox and I have only used the account for Google docks so they are 100% spam. I even double checked the top 20 of them and yep all spam.
Well, he's one of them, though there were 3 guys who were all in on the genesis: Burnie, Geoff, and Gus. <bragging> I used to work with them (Burnie actually stepped down as CEO of a tech company to pursue RvsB while I was still working there). All very cool people. </bragging>

Pretty sweet though that you invented the term, I always wondered how that came about...
Interesting, I didn't realize that I can't downvote replies to my comments. Not that I was going to here, but I did notice the lack of a down arrow.
Does that include the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus, since Google agreed to let Verizon handle the updates for that model?

If so, I'm glad to hear that Google is addressing the problem of not having their own devices be up-to-date (which was an embarrassment for some Android updates on previous Nexus devices).
I guess I'm the only one that gets spam with Gmail. I receive about 15,000 spam a month of which 10-20 a day get through. Unfortunately my email address is in the JavaScript of a lot of websites due to a plugin I authored.
This is as good of a place as any to ask:

Greg seems to be trying to charge not only a $150 fee to access the API (see price tiers), but also an unknown % cut of all app revenue: http://www.indiegogo.com/MiLifePlus

It's one thing for Apple to do this when they have a huge install base, but is this really a smart move for a product with an install base of zero? What would possibly motivate me to shell out $250+ plus my hourly rate plus a revenue cut for an unproven hardware device with a customer base that is (generously) 1500 people?

Disclaimer: I've had many bad experiences with WakeMate.
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As another person who spent money on WakeMate but never got it work properly, I couldn't agree more. WakeMate was fraught with delays and the product they actually shipped looked nothing like their concept art or "prototype". Heck, they even shipped power adapters that were a fire hazard and never replaced them.

Sad that this latest shadiness from a (former?) WakeMate person doesn't surprise me in the least.
I expect that trend to continue and increase further once Windows 8 ships with Windows Live authentication (just as Google's Android ships with GMail authentication).
Check out the movie Final Cut with Robin Williams. It's about a time when people have cameras embedded in their eyes that record EVERYTHING, then someone edits together a video of their life. It deals with the fact that these editors get to see literally EVERYTHING (sex, crimes, etc.) that the people do. Very interesting.
Just spitballing here, but maybe they could embed a side-camera in the device and display a real-time image to cover up your blind spot.
Great, thanks that's good to know, my company is considering developing on Android and the Samsung tabs are very off-putting :)
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GIMP already has an interface to reduce color depth, but it doesn't support transparency. (Maybe 2.8 does, haven't tried it yet.)

So this should not be a plugin for gimp, but rather a bug fix.

It would also be nice if gimp could open images with indexed transparency.
Do any of you use a 7 inch tablet as a distraction-free writing device? I have got a 10.1 tablet that I use for reading and writing. A smaller tablet will be more friendlier for reading.
The problem is that having user-serviceable parts significantly adds to the bulk of a device, and it's pretty clear that's not an appealing tradeoff to most users and manufacturers.

E.g.: just to have a removable battery, you have to put a protective case on the battery as well as an internal "case" to receive the battery inside the device (generally, another layer of plastic. Even on laptops that is becoming prohibitively bulks; on tablets, it's a non-starter (see the recent MacBook Pro redesign). You just can't pack the parts together tight enough and still have them be user-replaceable.

I love the idea of a modular mobile device as well, but it's pretty clear things are headed in the other direction: thinner, sleeker, longer-battery-life products sell better than bulky but more customizable products.
With the rapid advancements of SSD and RAM-drives, I wonder how that will shape the future of databases.

I'm guessing we won't need solutions like this anymore.
That's what you get for trusting your carrier. Luckily you can get Android devices that you have control over yourself.
wow, can you imagine walking around your house and having a 3D model built out of it? That would be so cool.
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Surely the killer app for this would be to turn it into a capable games console?

Elsewhere in google IO they showed the nexus tablet running a few games such as an FPS etc. The only problem is that I really don't want to play an FPS on a tablet.

One of these with a decent controller however..
Ah, I see. I wrote underclock. It's really undervolting that gets you the big win thermally. Underclocking should be done just as a means of achieving a greater undervolt. I just have these two things in the same mental bin.
> "Follow your passion" is not advice given in response to the question "What product should I sell?" Usually it's in response to "What should I do with my life?"

Unless you are okay with living off of handouts of one form or another, "what should I do with my life" and "what product should I sell" have substantial overlap. In modern society, you've pretty much gotta sell something to someone.
Have you used it? At this point, these are just opinions based on a demo and no hands on experience.
That's good to hear, but with the last post being over a year old, it's firmly in dead blog land right now. You guys have a fascinating collection of data available to you, and since (I'm assuming) you'd never release it, your posts are the only view the rest of the world has into it.

If you wouldn't mind, could you poke whoever is in charge of the blog and get them to start assigning some posts. I'm sure your employees would love a short respite from their current work to run some interesting stats.
That's what the RethinkDB people have purportedly been working on.
Similar results here, we're an university with about 16 thousand: 41% hotmail, 21% yahoo, 10% gmail.
There are plenty of HD wearable cameras already available. When creating a movie you don't need the ability to stream it on Hangout live.
Yay, more non-functional hipster bicycles.
And I hope your rate is doubled, at least.
You must be confusing me with someone who hates Google or Google products in general.

I didn't say Google couldn't impress me, I just happen to believe that really exciting products don't need showy fanfares like that and when someone compared that "spectacle" with a Steve Jobs keynote, I pointed out the obvious contrast.

For all his other flaws, Steve Jobs put the product front and center.
I'm a big fan of SQLite3, and fossil-scm is my weapon of choice for solo projects. '4 is looking good.