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Can't believe i'm even replying to this but here goes.

Your'e exactly whats wrong with Apple, instead of looking and hoping for innovation and risks your essentially saying don't bother, it's been done before. Maybe this device will be 'crap' but who knows? Maybe this device becomes the best selling 'tablet' over the next 12 months and Apple changes their game.

This is a fantastic, cheap piece of hardware with an elegant ecosystem, with lots of potential might I add. If you don't find that exciting - I feel bad for you.
I do native development as well as web development. It's easier to get a performant native app than an HTML5 app, no question. But you can create a native feeling HTML5 app that really only the trained eye of a developer would be able to notice the difference of. Most people don't even know the difference between a native and an html5 app. Devices will continue to get faster, and just like on the desktop native applications will be relegated to hardcore apps like 3d games and content creation programs like iMovie, etc.
In the UK we tend not to use CEO, we tend to use the term director or managing director.

In my day job I'm the technical director at Mandalorian. It's a cool job, but I'm generally pretty overloaded and usually underpaid. I don't do it for the cash or free time, that's for sure, but I do love making a difference for our customers. In a strange way I took this approach to 44Con. Everything I do at 44Con is about making sure the delegates have a good time and learn something. If we need to put leaflets on seats, I'm out there. If a delegate has a problem, I want to know so I can fix it.

A large part of startup success seems to be sales, but we shouldn't undersell the delivery and relationship aspects. If your customer is struggling to deal with you, then you're doing it wrong. If your customer has problems that you just can't fix, you're doing it wrong.

I'll be the first to admit I've failed on both parts on occasion, sometimes simultaneously, but it's our ability to learn from these things that sets the smaller guys apart from the bigger.

I'm the equivalent of a CEO at Mandalorian, but I'll proudly clean toilets if it makes for a better experience.
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Nothing, that's the point. Did you read the article?
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> Would it be wrong if Windows 8 would not run on a computer I bought this year.

So now you think Microsoft is morally obligated to design their software so that it runs on older hardware? Your expectations are clearly pretty extreme.

The interesting point here is that Google's software does work on the hardware we're talking about. So is Google or Microsoft obligated to give you software for free? Obviously they are not. But even more interesting, Google's software is already free and available! So the question then becomes are the manufacturers obligated to modify it to run on your hardware and give it to you? Well are they? If they are, take it up with them. I'm not sure what Google has to do with it.
No, we tried it once with web applications, and it worked brilliantly.
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The fuck.

What is up with this opinion? Fuck means sex. Why do we call these words obscene? Do you honestly think those words entered daily use? "Grab the fucking milk" said without any emotional meaning. People would actually reason more.

It's a prohibition on words, that makes them mean more artificially while contributing no logic to the discussion.

How dare ye try to elate an emotion in me! How dare ye!

Edit:I'm an idiot and wrote an argument to something you didn't say, but I'll leave it here cause it took me 5 minutes to write on the phone keyboard.
You mean diesel is more energy-dense. Gasoline has about 114,000 BTU/gal and #2 diesel has about 130,000 BTU/gal (varies somewhat by season due to different blending).
This is coming out just after Google unveiled their Google+ native app for Android tablets and the iPad. Competition is good.
He/she meant the iPad app.
I did. The comparison seems to imply that being a CEO is not all that it's made out to be. It's like being the fucking janitor. Which is why I ask what is wrong with being a janitor.
Well, as a classically trained musician, I certainly would expect V-I to be much more common than IV-I, as a cadence. (Defining "classical music" as music roughly from 1650-1900ish). But it sounds like the author didn't really limit his analysis to cadences. My impression was that he just counted every chord that precedes a C chord, which even in classical music would include lots of non-cadential IV chords moving to I chords in the interior of phrases. For non-cadential chord progressions, I'd expect IV-I to be fairly common, though it's unclear to me that it'd be more common than V-I. I mean, just the coda of any Beethoven symphony alone would probably skew the stats in favor of V-I, generally. ;) So, I'd like to see the author clarify that.

As for the explanation, I thought it might have something to do with rock's origins in 12-bar blues (I-VI-I-V-I), though I know that pop has moved away from that considerably.
Good post Zach. In fact, even though the CEO is company leader and the vision, if you got a startup of five I'd say everybody's the janitor! Titles mean very little in the early days when you're trying to launch a product. Everybody needs to be marketing, sales, product development, finance and legal - and of course the janitor crew. btw, good content outweighs format any day...
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Actually, no. My Nexus One was less than two years old when Google announced that it would not receive an ICS (Android 3) update.
In that case it would be nice if people would stop bashing janitors.
I would be very surprised if the average Joe feels this way. To double check my theories, I just asked three engineers where I work and they all seem to believe that Microsoft has an obligation to support new, high-end laptops in a near-term OS bump.
I have two children in the back of my Skoda Fabia (VW Polo Platform), no problem at all. They dont need leg room - they are strapped into their seats. They also never complain about it.
Hi all,

this is a new release of my HTML5 animation app for the Mac. Radi is oriented towards canvas animation and video rendering capabilities.

In this release, it's getting on the WebGL action: you can now apply filters to Canvas and Video elements and have them render in realtime in the browser using WebGL shaders.

You don't need to write those shaders manually either -- Radi includes a node-based effect editing environment that's completely visual, so building filters is a drag'n'drop affair.

Here are some demos:

http://radiapp.com/webgl
I am sympathetic. I have cystic fibrosis, as does my 25 year old son. Came up with a new mental model and treatment paradigm. Got us both off all medication and healthier than is supposed to be possible. I get called a liar, charlatan and snake oil salesman. I occasionally say to my kids "You would think they would be more receptive to one of their own. They act like nearly dying was a publicity stunt on my part, some diabolical plot to get rich." (And I am not rich. In fact, I am deeply in debt and homeless.)

I wish I had some words of wisdom for you. But that would no doubt grow out of solving this piece of the issue, and I haven't done that.

Best of luck.
Not really sure what you mean by "not in the class of the iPad".

For less than half the price you get more than half the performance. I don't think theres benchmarks out there yet but I don't think its fair to say that a Tegra 3 Quadcore is 'low-end'. It's on par with the A5& A5X technically.
You can look at iPad prices too... and people still get it.
Didn't they say that about the iPad? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tr-out-loud/why-the-ipad-wi...

Or the iPhone? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/23/iphone_will_fail/

Or the Internet? http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1995/02/26/the-interne...
> Edit:I'm an idiot and wrote an argument to something you didn't say, but I'll leave it here cause it took me 5 minutes to write on the phone keyboard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...

EDIT: In other words, it's even more idiotic to leave it here after you've determined it was a mu post.
> Your expectations are clearly pretty extreme.

They are the expectations of typical users of Windows and Android software. I am not sure what you mean by extreme but whatever it is, it's not what I typically think of when I hear the word.
Lameness of boss is a bigger factor than company size. This story is of a 80 person company.

I had a job working for founder and president. Primary product was very complicated, requiring lotsa training and effort. Think purpose built Adobe Illustrator for creating manufacturing production plans. Kudos to him for making a capable, dependable product that had 80% market share. He was very proud.

The growth goal of the company was to "automate" our customer's workflow. After a few years, I understood the problem domain well enough to take a crack at it.

I wrote forms-based app that automatically generated the production plans. You spec a couple variables and style of work, and viola, production plan.

Took about 1 month to implement.

I show my new app around the office. Lotsa excitement. Time to demo to the founder. I show him what's what. He asks me to try a few tricky scenarios. No problem. He then walks out of my office. No "good job". No "I gotta take this call". Dude never spoke to me again. (Our offices were adjacent.)

I then figured out that founder didn't want a better solution. He wanted other people to fail trying to find a better solution, thereby validating his awesomeness.

My advice to anyone with a game changing idea: Shut up. Figure out an exit strategy. Capture the benefit / reward for yourself.
Microsoft has no such obligation; but you might certainly want that. But we all want stuff. Do a bunch of engineers want Microsoft to release an OS that supports their new laptops -- of course. So what.

The thing is, this happens all the time. My Dell laptop came with Vista and it doesn't "support" Windows 7. You can't get 7 drivers directly from them. It runs 7 just fine (in fact better) but you're on your own to get it working.
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I thought it was a wonderfully written tribute, and I agree with all your points - why stop if you're enjoying yourself.
Other than JS performance being downgraded when the app is built this way. It appears that the actual facebook servers that serve the customised content are also slower (read: much slower.)

The speed experienced can't be attributed to JS alone, there simply isn't enough JS being processed when many of the 'slow' encounters are being felt, additionally the speed fluctuates through the day/week which would be consistent with server load rather than a small JS not loading and running quickly enough.
Why didn't he randomize which order the samples appeared in?
But again: the latency is coming from downloading the assets... you are not going to get a 100ms latency from using a web view unless you are doing something wrong. I use web views in my app, and the views that can be built from local or cached content are honestly native performance (if you feel spinning up a webview itself takes a while: just keep a pool of them, it really isn't that hard), but the things that require talking to a server are considered slow (to which I respond "duh").
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Are there any specs for these specs?
I wish the marketing text under "Want to be the best" wasn't obscured by / obscuring the product photo -- it's very off-putting, and I'm not even a design nut.
That's not what I got from the article. I think it says that titles are bullshit, and that you do what has to be done to make a company succeed.
A good 90% of the people I know have linked in profiles. You look at their titles. See who is a friend of the top cheese on facebook, sort by universities. Github is self explanatory, I hope.
>Edit: That said the difference is so vast, that combined with these announcement details I'm also inclined to believe no to-date Android tab is as smooth as iOS prior to this release

Yeah, iOS has been smoother for awhile. Android improved a lot in recent generations (to the point where Android was "smooth enough" rather than blatantly irritating), however. I've only used Honeycomb, not ICS, so not sure how much or if that release improved response. Hopefully this "Project Butter" will make them more or less equivalent in smoothness.
Seems pretty horrible to me. Why don't their users upgrade?
Half the problem was HTML5 being slow.

But a lot of it was the fact their HTML5 views were not well cached, used XML and a mix of other formats for data interchange, and in fact were generally poorly made.
He would be able to do only part time CPT from the get go. This is capped at a max of 20 hours per week. Once 9 months have passed, he can do full time CPT of 40 hours.
I doubt that's the case. Females in their 20's to 40's are because they usually make the bulk of the purchasing decisions.
Very interesting read full of good data and some interesting takeaways (especially about LinkedIn).

One thing I wonder about is given how boilerplate and sparse the honeypot's blog was, how little information there was to go on, and how uninspired the self-description was, I can't help but wonder if the good recruiters were the ones who didn't bother contacting him.

As a side note, I'm also confused as to why the metric for a good recruiter was figuring out that the profile was a fake (kind of in line with Peroni's comment above). Or was it considered good that he/she chose to use the phone as a recruiting tactic?
Well, Google can always display targeted Ads over wearer's eyebrows and make the glasses free.
In the UK we tend not to use CEO, we tend to use the term director or managing director.

In my day job I'm the technical director at Mandalorian. It's a cool job, but I'm generally pretty overloaded and usually underpaid. I don't do it for the cash or free time that's for sure, but I do love making a difference for our customers. In a strange way I took this approach to my other thing, 44Con. Everything I do at 44Con is about making sure the delegates have a good time and learn something. If we need to put leaflets on seats, I'm out there. If a delegate has a problem, I want to know so I can fix it.

A large part of startup success seems to be sales, but we shouldn't undersell the delivery and relationship aspects. If your customer is struggling to deal with you, then you're doing it wrong. If your customer has problems that you just can't fix, you're doing it wrong. If you're sat in an ivory tower and refuse to get out and fix it when these things happen then you're doing it wrong.

I'll be the first to admit I've failed on all parts on occasion, sometimes simultaneously, but it's our ability to learn from these things that sets the smaller guys apart from the bigger ones. Startups can make small mistakes, the established companies make far bigger ones without noticing.

I'm the equivalent of a CEO at Mandalorian, but I'll proudly clean toilets if it makes for a better experience for our customers. Hoops? I live to jump through them, and I expect that from everyone I work with.
With all the hate going on about WakeMate, I have to give my 2 cents.

I bought the product immediately after seeing the power adapter fiasco, and still use my WakeMate to this day. At times it does feel like you have to be an engineer to know what you're doing and keep the thing running (I can attest to timing issues leaving the bluetooth transmitter blaring full power at night and the battery dead in the morning), but as with any "bleeding edge" product you have to respect it if you want it to respect you.

Seeing the company at the end of its funds even though they have an awesome product, cries of marketing mistakes. Seeing WakeMate's marketing manager take off with the mailing list, confirms to me that Greg was a poor fit, and not the best person to watch over WakeMate's interests.

Arun if you're reading this, I sincerely hope you'll send an email along the lines of "the previous announcement was sent by one of our previous employees, WakeMate does not endorse that product". My mailbox still thinks WakeMate and Greg are "taking it to the next step", and seeing what I see here, it does not leave a good taste in my mouth. Best of luck to you.
When you underclock properly (with SpeedStep) it also lowers the voltage... probably to the same voltage that the lower-bin processor would use.
Loss aversion and the sunk cost fallacy
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Really? Why?

Imagine these in contact form that perform the same things. But also replaces your cell phone. You now see your messages when you want and can respond just by thinking (once we can essentially read your mind, if that happens).

Anything you want could be displayed there without having to check your phone or anything else. Obviously talking to it sucks but if it ever gets to the point where you can think something then this would be killer, for anyone.

Iono, seems to clearly be where things are heading. I don't want to type things to a person everytime I want to communicate with them, what is that? I just want to seamlessly send them a message I have on my mind and get back to real life. And this is the first step and whats possible now. But im sure they expect more.

I expect and want technology to get to the point where its not even noticeable. And these are what it is doing.
Thank you. I just had to sell my BMW 535 because the only way the infant car seat would fit is if I moved the front passenger seat all the way up, to the point where nobody could use it. And it's not a small car, either. And yes, I got an SUV instead. Now my wife can actually sit next to me.
Perhaps, but the better thing to do would be to write native apps for both users.
> Would it be wrong if Windows 8 would not install on a computer I bought this year?

Why would it be? I'd like to know the thinking behind this. Are all software makers similarly constrained? Is Valve obligated to make games that run on computers I bought this year? In fact, are they obligated to make games that run on my crappy netbook too?

Is Microsoft obligated to give you Windows 8 for free? Install it for you? Provide all the drivers? Exactly how much free shit do you want?
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> Microsoft has no such obligation

You and I are using different meanings of this word. Presumably you are referring to a legal obligation, or a moral one. I don't recognize the existence of morality and I suspect that, unless they have a "Windows 8 Ready" tag on the machine, no legal obligation would exist either.

The "obligation" I am speaking of is an expectation formed in the minds of average consumers to the point where they consider it a fault on the part of the software manufacturer when the expectation is not met.

> Dell ...

How old was the machine? There's a big difference in most consumers' expectations between failing to support N-year old devices and devices that are currently selling.
I found it interesting that ChrisNorstrom can be happy when he reminds himself that he does not matter.

It removed the stress in my life. I was at a point in my 20s when my failures started to surface and I started realizing that my desires and dreams were likely to never happen. That's when I became aware that I was not going to accomplish 99% of what I wanted to do in life. My idea of happiness was riding so much on "I have to accomplish ________" that it just destroyed me out when I wasn't able to accomplish _________.

After Sleeping Awake the relief was almost immediate. The realization that nothing matters, and more importantly nothing that you do matters or makes a dent in the universe somehow took away all the stress of failure. Failure was ok because it didn't matter, success wasn't all that important because it didn't matter.

When you live your life with the mindset that everything you do will affect someone either now or in the future, doing anything becomes painfully stressful. Because you're afraid of messing up someone else's life. Weather or not you have children now will dictate weather or not millions of people will live thousands of years from now. All of that puts a tremendous amount of stress on me. The realization that none of it matters takes away the pain. Weather I have kids or not, in a few billion years the sun will engulf the earth and everything that humanity has ever built will be destroyed. It'll look like we were never here. No one will care. No one will miss us. We truly will not matter to anyone because there will be no one to even notice we are gone. As depressing as that sounds, there's an upside to it all. Live your life and be happy because you're only here for a short moment in time.

Also we live in a very connected world right now. And the human mind just wasn't made to live with that kind of information. Every time someone dies or is suffering we find out about it. Every war, every conflict, every pain, every bit of injustice is broadcast all over the world. It's inescapable. The more you know the harder it is to be happy with that kind of knowledge. The realization that none of those events matter takes away their ability to deeply hurt you.

The problem is I care too much, other people's problems become my problems. I'm very sensitive and extremely emotional. Which is why I avoid making friends with people. Their life and mine start getting intertwined and it just becomes too painful to go on. Same with family. Sometimes I like to fantasize that I'm the only human left on earth, everyones gone. Because I hate seeing unsolved problems, criminals not brought to justice, people not achieving their dreams (like me) or going through pain.

So with that in mind, realizing that none of it matters, is the only thing keeping me from going insane. It allows me to let go and be at peace with existing in a non perfect world.
Do you think it matters to a company with a substantial mobile user base - and tons of money? HTML5 is for cheapos.
So, my kids will grow up to be what they will be, almost despite my parenting

I don't know whether to be relieved or shocked :-)

I still am unconvinced that 137 twins are a convincing
Trial size when epidemiologists usually think in millions.
I would at least like to see the data they already have from Goggles in a live overlay; that way it could at least identify and display information about notable landmarks/stores/etc, but I'm sure they're struggling enough with getting the hardware and the basic OS working that they probably have not had time to refine the content beyond basic camera/G+ functionality.
It's not the users, it's the manufacturers and carriers. Updates aren't available for most devices.
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Sony alone moved about 10 differen models released in 2011 to ICS about two weeks ago, mine among them.
Not true. Some colleges let you take full time CPT classes (3 credit) as part of their curriculum. However, if the total exceeds 1 year of full time work he will not be eligible for a year of CPT with no school after he graduates.

Where are you located?
I agree. However, G-Glass is a bigger cross between fashion and tech than regular smartphones.

IMHO the G-Glass should just be a monitor+camera for your phone. I think manufacturing it will be much easier and the the size of the system will be smaller which will allow people use G-Glass without anyone even noticing. Like people can go buy regular sunglasses for $100 and the G-Glass version would cost i don't know $200.
I feel like valgrind would catch this particular error though.
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I agree .. what I meant when I said 'web is dead' is the new web is made of services accessed through apps. Crappy front end technology and mega monolith browser are no longer required.