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> How many more staff can they get rid off?

I'd really suggest starting with upper management this time.

edit: it crushes my soul to know they'll eventually leave what's left of the company they ruined with more money in their pockets than many of their best employees will earn in a lifetime.
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I don't see how that works logically. A 7" tablet is just about exactly as much bigger than a 4" phone as a 10" tablet is bigger than a 7" tablet. Why is one quantum more important than the other?

I could just as well say "Double the size makes it really hard to argue that the iPad is notably better than a 7" tablet." with exactly the same justification.

I think it's very much taste-dependent. I've used an iPad and been broadly unimpressed with the form factor; you have to "put it on something" to use it, it's too big to hold for long periods in one hand. I've never used a 7" tablet but it seems like for simple browsing on a plane or whatever like it might be a better fit.
OUCH that's with the price they have making the company so ripe to be brought and broken up appealing that I doubt that it wont happen now :(.
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I'm Canadian and I honestly believe this is a display of the terrible management that exists in Canada, especially in the tech sector.

Examples: Nortel, Corel
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Unless they work out a miracle in 2013, RIM's best bet is to get acquired. And actually they could be a good option for Oracle considering they plan to explore new enterprise avenues.
By looking at Google Adwords. In senior care, there are a bunch of referral companies that get big commissions when they place a senior in a private facility. They bid up the price of advertising.
I also enjoy this. I have started putting an additional partition on our product that has a clonezilla iso and some restoration data of the primary partition, which allows us to very easily deploy self-contained restoration procedure. A lot of our customers have been able to field repair our product this way, and since the tools are all open sourced, the cost difference was only the development hours (which are small; once the pattern is understood, it takes about 4 hours to create it from scratch).
Sort of? I mean, if you're using models and collections to store _model and collection_ state, then essentially yes, you'll probably have a global variable that namespaces the state of data in your application (or closure-wrapped modules, as the author suggests).

At a certain point (and fairly early, really) keeping the state of an interactive application as HTML nodes is not what I want.
If you don't actually care about cross-browser testing you can use phantomjs which is considerably nicer.
After hours price pegs their market cap at a mere $3.8 billion. Their all time high was $148.13 / share, on June 19th 2008, so almost exactly four years ago they were worth roughly $76 billion (95% destruction of value).

That averages out to losing nearly $50 million in market value every day for the last four years.
I have just started using them and agree its a solid signup process. Love the contact sorter game as well. Saw them present in NYC, spoke with the founder and think there is a strong enterprise play here.
Give them time, I'm sure they'll add that soon.

Although having to use UIWebView might constrain them.
Anyone know where the datacenters are going to be?
Certainly there is value in facilitating the "world's money flows"? Agreed that using taxpayer money to gamble is "disgusting" but surely the companies that do the things we all know and love (google, apple, etc) have benefited from the capital markets, and thus big banks like JPM. Without being public companies could google and apple have become what they are today?
Thanks for asking this question. To help understand what's being alleged by the DOJ, you'd probably want to know what they found in Mega's email; for instance:

On or about April 23, 2009, DOTCOM sent an e-mail message to VANDER KOLK, ORTMANN, and BENCKO in which he complained about the deletion of URL links in response to infringement notices from the copyright holders. In the message, DOTCOMstated that “I told you many times not to delete links that are reported in batches of thousands from insignificant sources. I would say that those infringement reports from MEXICO of “14,000” links would fall into that category. And the fact that we lost significant revenue because of it justifies my reaction.”

* "We have a funny business... modern days pirates", said one Mega- employee to another. "We're not pirates", he responded. "We're just providing shipping services to pirates."

* When an outsider complained that MegaVideo's hosting of the Showtime pay-tv series "Dexter" had desynchronized audio/video, instead of taking down "Dexter", Kim Schmitz fired off mail saying that fixing the AV problem was a priority.

* Mega employees themselves uploaded copies of major motion pictures to the service, such as Luc Besson's _Taken_.

* There are Mega emails, on which Kim is apparently CC'd, in which employees enumerate the specific files uploaded to certain high-performing affiliate members, noting (approvingly) that they include copyrighted movies and TV shows. For instance, one line item in an accounting mail: 100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)

Remember: there are two sides to claiming "safe harbor": complying with takedowns, and not operating your service with actual knowledge of infringing activity on the service. Mega obviously operated with extensive actual knowledge of infringement. The operators of Youtube obviously knew that piracy was rampant on the Internet, and even on their service, but no prosecutor or litigator was ever able to show that Youtube's operators knew of specific, actual infringing activity on the site.

I found it easier to cite my comments from the last big Mega thread here than to go back to the indictment, which you can find easily on Google. The indictment is hilarious. The craziness at Mega just goes on and on. If you can think of something a lawyer would tell you not to do if you were going to run a file sharing service, Mega probably found a creatively terrible way to do it.
btw, this bug is probably a regression from my "fix" for http://bugzil.la/755517 where some keyboards produced key code ALT+7 instead of SHIFT+7.

Sorry! <:)
They spent a whole section talking about the Nexus 7 GPU and another talking about software improvements to FPS. They're obviously not taking it lightly.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Different OSes and devices have completely different requirements. iOS have no true multi-tasking like Android does. So Android naturally is more CPU intensive since you'll usually have more stuff happening in the background. The new iPad has a larger resolution. So it's understandable it needs a powerful GPU for smooth graphics.

You can't just compare the bang for the buck you get from CPU vs GPU looking at different OSes. The optimal point will be different for each. I'm sure google tried different setups that would fit the $200 budget. At the end of the day. All the matters is whether it can display smooth UX with a long battery life and good price. And it seems they got there.
Hell, there were laws that had to be passed just to let you hook a modem in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterfone#Landmark_regulatory_...

Before this, you could only hook in an AT&T phone into the jack, and you had to rent that from AT&T.
Queries on hundreds of TB in seconds?

Anyone know what powers this? Is this custom SQL optimization on top of BigTable and/or Map Reduce?
The difference is that Lehman's Bro's liabilities far exceed their liquidable assets or access to credit. JPM has sufficient liquidable assets to cover their losses, and is in a far better position to raise equity or access credit to cover any shortfall.

JPM also owns debt and securities in other financial institutions. Consequently, if they play hardball with JPM on this matter, it will simply return the favor at a later date.
Has a law been broken? I don't agree with all the people stating a law has been broken without saying which one. Smells like smearing someone. Accusing someone of committing crimes is very serious.

He was still the President and founder of WakeMate when he sent an email about a new thing he was getting into. He didn't hack into an account he had no access to - it was his account. The article claims he didn't "get permission". Get permission from who? It was his account.

Claims this is "criminal" are absurd, ridiculous, and libelous.

On the other hand, the story discusses that the code that is owned by what is left of the company is going to be open sourced, essentially given away to the general public. This code is the real value of the company and likely cost millions to develop. Was this move approved by the shareholders? It does not say that it was. This move is something that the company owners could object to. It's blatant theft of company property and transfer of it to others. Have the VC owners of the company and thus the code signed off on it? Even if they have, it might not be relevant. Since it appears they are out of money, is the company in bankruptcy court? Do they owe suppliers? Are they going to go through bankruptcy or not? Transfers of the core company assets at this point should not be done without the approval of a judge, not even the VC "owners". If they have debts and assets (the source code) and reallocate those assets to others knowing that they are going to have to declare bankruptcy, that is fraud. The code usually would be sold at public auction and the money then used to pay off debt owned by the company, which may include unpaid bills, but may also include salary owed to the principals to wind down the company in a way so that assets can be sold for a reasonable amount. I see no indication that anyone involved in preparing this code for open source release is going to be paid for it. They are under no obligation to do so without pay even if such a move was approved by VC owners and/or a judge.
Don't worry too much about that, it's only slower for javascript execution. The other features, including Chrome sync, unlimited tabs, "Request desktop site", more than make up for it.

The real stumbling block, IMO, is that without jailbreaking, links from other apps will always open in Safari.
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation; New Zealand is in the South Pacific.

We haven't allowed any naval vessel carrying nuclear material (be it for weapons or power supply) to enter our waters since 1984. It's always been quite a point of contention with the US. It also happens to be a point of pride for the grand majority of Kiwis.
Took me 3 months of hallucinogenic youtube videos for me to discover that.
No but there's always that little part of me that expects it to be.
I initially thought this was a competitor to The Elastic Beanstalk, I would have been much happier with that kind of service then another Cloud hosting service.
I keep reading, there is no tablet market except for ipad. Why is that not considered monopoly?
Considering they started it, there is still more scope for Google to leverage Map-Reduce paradigm and probably build more products around it like the Hadoop ecosystem has done. This looks quite useful to start with.
>Our app was primarily mobile, with some web. The web guys had a great looking product done, along with our backend, in about 10 hours.

Really? "Primarily Mobile, with some web" doesn't sound like a web app to me. Sounds like a app that runs on a mobile phone, that's not android.

Perhaps he meant what you think he meant? It's unclear.
Honestly, none
Can you give some more examples?
Luckily for me, the main reasons I am using it is desktop to mobile and password syncing and stuff.
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As someone who has been in the industry for about 10 years now I can say with certainty that the shiny new technology of the week will no longer be the hot new thing next year. Most of them will simply disappear in the 3-5 year time frame.

Want advice? Pick a problem and become really good at solving it. Know the theory and know the tech most people are using to solve it (Hint: It most likely won't be on hacker news). Ignore just about everything else.

Once you've got well above average skills, try to get on a team with people who know more about it than you. You can learn new stuff mentored in about 1/5th of the time.
Selling on Ebay sucks. If you want to receive payment fast you have to use Paypal. They set all the rules and the seller is at the whim of Ebay, Paypal and the buyer all three of which can potentially screw you over. Right now I have over a 100$ being kept by Paypal for 21 days, a standard ebay policy if you haven't sold a ton of stuff yet and the item you're selling is over 100$. That is despite having a 100% squeaky clean record with both Paypal and Ebay. Selling stuff for emergency cash is not advisable unless you do a cash payment with local pickup.

In the UK we have Gocardless which would be ideal for receiving payments, except there isn't a marketplace I know that supports it.
what languages does it support?
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There is a problem with this kind of ultra-rapid iteration when you start doing certain kinds of low-level stuff that can crash your development environment. I suspect that Jarvis avoids much of this by running in a different process, but there are certain things that might still cause a reboot.

Still, it just occurred to me that one could use integration with scm like git or mercurial to get the same kind of benefit as the Smalltalk change log+image.

What if every change to a function was snapshotted, and the developer could easily scroll/flip through these snapshots? Merging the change back to a main branch would then be like image saving in Smalltalk. This would give developers the ability to try really risky development, since they would always be able to quickly get back to a previous state.

(This can already be done, but by making the integration really seamless, it has a synergistic effect with development.)
I'm in a similar situation and just learning Python.

If you setup a VM with a Debian netinstall, it will let you setup Apache / Python / PgSQL right out of the box. From there, I would recommend installing mod_wsgi and following a tutorial for it.

It's more complicated than just using web.py or Django, but you'll have a lot better understanding of how the entire request works.
I don't think there's much question as to the legality here.

Rather, I think the degree of maliciousness is a bit unclear at the moment, i.e. was this driven by a conscious attempt to screw over his investors and cofounders, his desire to realize his vision, or some combination thereof?
contact@alexisohanian but I'm pretty heads down atm trying to get my real book done - http://withoutyourpermission.com
Well, how about putting in MobileSafari-specific APIs into iOS for marking memory write+executable, a necessity for performant JIT? :)
Only for Javascript stuff, though. If you're browsing mobile sites, it shouldn't affect you at all, as well as most websites on the web that aren't JS-heavy.
Check out Ray Wenderlich's iOS tutorials at http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-5-by-tutorials.
This has been my experience as well - you can't even run a tiny web service with a few users on it, anything more intense than serving static pages can result in the instance sometimes becoming unresponsive. It's fine for playing around with but not something you really want to use with anything serving users.
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Right, because disagreeing with U.S. government policy is equivalent to hating the entirety of America.
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Good. Please steal! I want that for Python. Back in the early 2000's, we Smalltalkers called that "winning despite losing."

Also let me take another moment to call you out on the "corrupted image" BS.
It's really quite interesting why Google would bother bringing this Mobile Safari theme to iOS.

Are they that afraid of being kicked off as the default search engine, after losing the position as the default maps provider? So much so, that they risk diluting the Chrome brand like this?
I don't understand why they are persisting with this BB10 strategy.

Blackberry's value is not in the core operating system. It is in the business apps, BB messenger, unique keyboard, enterprise features etc. It seems like they would be much better off adopting Android as their base and building proprietary features on top.

It just seems like they are spending all their time just to create a product that can barely compete with the 1st iPhone let alone the 5th.
Is iPad for production and Nexus 7 for consumption?
The problem is, apart from T-mobile, other mobile carriers don't incentivize you to BYO phone. It's buy a $600 phone for $99 and be locked into a 2 year, $70 a month contract or BYO phone and be on a $70 month to month contract. With BYO, you're effectively giving the carrier an extra $20 a month due to lack of subsidy. Other countries have much saner systems where BYO plans are $20 a month cheaper.
We have also had pretty great support from AWS. That comment was unfair.
I think everyone misfires a kudos on their first visit to a Svtble site. They could at least add an undo button.
This could be a nice "trojan horse" into the iOS ecosystem. Get Apple users hooked enough on Chrome, that they will want to switch to Android for the "real Chrome experience". I know a lot of people are not using iPhones because they can't live without the Gmail app for Android.
Don't forget they may also require the buyer to DESTROY the item and submit proof to get their money back. You should never sell an expensive collectible on eBay.
I have never been a big fan of "easy" data binding, and totally agree that data is not to be stored in the html. Same reason why you don't use your kitchen table as the pantry...
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I own a 10-inch tablet (Transformer Original) and a 7-inch-tablet (Nook Color with CM7) and I can say that the 7-inch form factor more beautifully fits the hand, and is easier on the eyes (and grip) for things like reading, light browsing, and email.

And not being able to pocket the thing, thus necessitating a bag only raises the question of: is this thing good enough to justify bringing a bag when you otherwise wouldn't?

It fits in a purse, so that's only an issue for us guys (unless you're man enough to carry a man-purse and not give a fuck what people think).

My NC can slide into some large coat pockets.
This is part of what I find amazing. Google and Amazon and every other 'EC' vendor looks to 'lock in' the price per 'equivalent compute unit'. What that means is that when Intel gets 50% more performance the EC vendor gets 50% more profit as they don't lower their price. For a user of cloud services it means that your cost to deliver your product will only go 'up' with features. In the past a large number of players have been able to deliver additional features at the same cost because they just upgraded to faster hardware.

The economics of this move starts pouring dollars into the EC providers and puts upward price pressure on web services. This 'price ratchet', if widely adopted, it going to put a huge kink in the productivity gains we've seen over the last 10 years as folks have ridden the commodity compute bandwagon. We've seen previews of that when people who used AppEngine got bit by the big price increases. Its like commuters who are forced to give up their income to the the gas pump, elastic compute resources are the 'gas' of the 21st century.
Wow those are insane figures.

I'm wondering, why didn't they try more crazy stuff? With the amount of capital they had, I'm just so surprised that they didn't release some super advanced crap that was impractical. Anyone know? Nothing jumped of the wikipedia page for me.

All I remember is their usage of QNX, but they did a terrible job with growing the community.
Not me. Google Wallet won't accept my credit card.
No, I'm pointing out things that were wrong back in the late 1990's and early 2000's are again wrong just for different languages. It's an opportunity, in other words.
We don't have immediate plans for other VCSs.

None of the people who built Barkeep use other VCSs on a regular basis, and we initially built it around our own needs.

Right now our code is tightly tied to grit (https://github.com/mojombo/grit/). We plan on moving off of grit at some point (perhaps to libgit2/rugged), and that would be a good time to abstract our VCS layer, opening up the possibility for use with other systems besides git.
Claims to be Mustache on steroids but misses one of Mustache's most important feature - support for most server side languages.
This would be great if the best frameworks and APIs were the most popular. But they rarely are.

Most people are too lazy to learn which APIs are actually the best.
Actually this is a really interesting suggestion.

Oracle definitely has the money, patience and will to go against Android and iOS in the enterprise space. And BB does have a Java story which suits Oracle.

The question is whether Oracle needs to get into the mobile space. They could just as easily sell apps for iOS/Android or add better mobile front ends to their eBusiness Suite.
Thank you! I keep seeing these kinds of comments and feeling like I must be the poorest person ever to post here. I have yet to make even $15 an hour (which is a mere tenth of what adamjernst apparently gets paid).
Anyone who invested in this company post-iPhone 4 and post-"co-CEO" RIM deserved to lose their money.
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Dremel, as described in http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36632.html
Their argument about the normal distribution is completely off though. There is completely no reason to group the two with the standard deviation.
Their biggest argument seems to be that the area of unit circle is exactly pi. Sadly, there is absolutely no need to work with fractions of areas of the unit circle, while if you're working with angles the unit circle is a most natural standardisation. The normal distribution has been a lot clearer to me since I've understood the two should be grouped with the pi.

Their argument about trigonometric functions is completely wrong and obviously so. Trigonometric functions work with angles and it's already shown (and pimanifesto readily admits) that tau shines there.

Their argument about Euler's identity is as inane as the tauists' is.

They don't understand quadratic forms.

I'm guessing this site is sarcastic.
Vim sometimes chokes on long lines, and very rarely on long files. Both of these are caused by the plugins and settings you have enabled though, not by how the editor works.

If you have a plugin that scans through every line in a file (yes, some are this stupid), a large file will take ages to load. Some syntax highlighters that use inefficient regexes have a similar problem, but with long lines.

You can test this by opening your giant file with `vim -u NONE large.txt`. That disables your .vimrc.
There's a place for thin-band broadcast-based human interaction. Me, I think that's Twitter.

Facebook tries to pretend its more. Its not.

If I want to hold private dialogues with people from across the country - long, intense, and thoughtful - I prefer email.
Yeah, but who would acquire them? I can't see anyone out there with an appetite for RIM. It's a bit too far out of Oracle's comfort zone... maybe you might see someone like Moto or Samsung acquire them for their software and then port things over to Android. If nothing else, it might establish some "business-cred".