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I wasn't saying that Google can only impress by firing people out of airplanes, I'm saying that if their products are good, that's enough, they can stand on their own, and people can be excited by the products themselves.

Let me map it out:

Steve Jobs, professional product demo, no parachutes or BMX bike acrobatics == Good

Nexus 7 and Jelly Bean, professional product demo, no parachutes or BMX bike acrobatics == Good

Google Glasses, no real product demo, several parachutists, pathetic BMX stunts, lame high-five at end == Sad
I think eliminating the need to set up a SVN repository for very small projects is a major boon.
$500 is the price of 16GB tablets, Surface's minimum is 32GB.
Hey I'm happy to live in a world of honest assholes.
Should you write it? Absolutely. The fact that you're not a ninja coder could actually work to your benefit: if you have difficulty in the places most people have difficulty, you might be better able to hold their hands there.

Should you charge for it? Maybe. Money is great. The counterargument being that putting up good writing can itself help you make a strong name for yourself, and people are still skittish around ebooks (in my experience).
I almost completely agree with this post.

However, if you spend a huge chunk of your time as a CEO (or founder/owner/whatever) performing a single task (or multiple rudimentary tasks) that could be performed better and more efficiently by a hired employee instead of using your experience to grow and propel the company, then you're doing something wrong.
In all fairness, the LevelDB guys made the comparison first: http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html

Maybe outperforming LevelDB is a design goal for SQLite 4?
Don't really understand what you are saying. What prevents you from changing the JSON data that you display within a native screen at any given time? HTML is not the only way to transfer data out there and interpretation is totally upto the app.
> MySQL VSZ ends and peaks at 6 gB, RSS ends and peaks at 2GB. For MemSQL, the RSS and VSZ end and peak at 18 gB and 19 gB, respectively.

So the RSS of MemSQL is almost 10x larger than that of MySQL's.

Is that going to be generally the case - that MemSQL will consume about 10X more memory than MySQL for the same dataset?

What causes this difference? Is it because skiplist requires more memory than B-tree?
But, last I checked, you could PRAGMA foreign_keys=off temporarily, which would also inhibit the automatic handling of foreign key constraints in other tables when the target table is renamed or dropped. Then you can create a new table, populate it, drop the old one, rename the new one to the old name, and turn foreign_keys back on, and the constraints will now target the new table.
What if you already wear glasses? I wonder if they'll offer Glass with corrective lenses...
> The "obligation" I am speaking of is an expectation...

Obligation is a legal or moral term -- you can't use that term otherwise. An expectation is not an obligation. If you expect free cookies from me because I've been giving you free cookies every day for the past week, that's fine. But I'm not obligated to give you free cookies today. If Bob gives you free cookies and I'm now sitting in Bob's desk, you might expect free cookies but I'm not obligated to give them to you.

Microsoft provides updates out of the goodness of their heart. You might expect them to continue giving updates forever. They're not obligated to do that. And because they give updates, Google isn't obligated to do it too.

If you'd like your expectations to be met, find Bob and he might give you some cookies.
True. I'd love to see where this stands after 3+ iterations rather than just forming in opinion after the launch. I feel this is a viable new platform rather than just being a fancy gadget. How often would I use my smartphone if I use a Glass?
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I think they noted that it is designed to work for people wearing normal glasses. not sure if it's a lesser experience or not though.
Enough with the articles with curse words in the title. Grow up, little boys.
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My grandmother and parents all have iPads. No, they wouldn't be able to download an app unless it was blatantly obvious (see: app store).
I am using the Xperia Pro from Sony, am very happy with it. Bought it unbranded and unlocked, has a great hardware keyboard, and was updated to ICS two weeks ago. The only downside is the rather small amount of builtin memory.
Steve Jobs talked about looking in the mirror in the morning and thinking about one's forthcoming day, and that if what one was about to do that day, would not be what one wanted to do, were it the last day of one's life, and if that scenario played on for too many days in a row, it was time to do something else. It is true, I think, that if one really loves what one does, one would not want to "retire", and hence, "leaving" is the only thing that occurs, not "dying". Good post, and condolences for your loss.
Personally, it's both. The application stutters for me constantly. I use my thumb to scroll, and the application does not respond for a second, then quickly catches up to what I did. That I assume will be fixed by going native.
"Support for the original iPad was cut off"? What? Isn't the current version of iOS 5.1.1? Doesn't the iPad 1 run it?

I'm not sure what the discontinuation date matters; if you bought your Nexus One in the short window of time Google sold it, you got less than 2 years support. If you bought your 3GS in its first year, it's still supported today, and will be in Fall as well.
I somehow can't understand the positioning of the device. Is the satisfaction of urge for 'sharing wonderful moments of your life' really how Google sees the Glass are going to be used? No augmented reality demos, no business/production/field applications, not even an x-files-like process documentation or hot-news-like POVs? All this emphasis on the 'sharing' aspect feels really weak for the product with such a vast number of applications. Or maybe it's just the result of the Glass being in a very alpha stage right now.
Right but the post is about ceo's and their behavior. You're veering into a completely different tangent.

Not saying what your saying isn't true, but you might have misunderstood the message, nobody mentioned employees or how they should behave.
I don't understand why people are excited for JDK8(!!!)s lambdas when you can have all that and more with Scala right now...
How do you get the most from 6.5 mil (linkedIn) passwords? Just curious.
Although the company (wakemate) is deadpool, and the founder says they'll just open source the technology.
Virtually no-one implements bcrypt themselves. If you use a bcrypt library, you don't need to think about salting. Therefore, when someone says "they're using individually salted passwords", you can usually count on the fact that they're using a crappy password hash, but that they think they're doing something cryptographically sophisticated.
There's not just one voltage here. It's a curve. I suspect that the better the processor turned out, the more favorable your curve turns out to be.
Microsoft has been good at backporting their developer libraries? And we are talking about phone right? So...Windows Phone 7 (silverlight) to 8 (WinRT), or even from Windows Mobile 6.5 (WinForms, OpenGL) to Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight) . How much backporting was/is being done?
> There are certain powers that are useful for someone to be able to exert at specific, well-defined and controlled times.

I agree with that. But I don't think financially encouraging anyone to use a government-made currency is one of those powers that the government should be entitled to.

> Note also that the government doesn't actually force you to use their currency as a store of wealth. You're really only forced to use it to pay your taxes.

The capital gains tax is an effective way of discouraging anyone from storing their wealth in another asset. Say I had bought gold in 1981 because I (rightly) expected inflation to increase, then in 1986, when the currency had lost half of its purchasing power - and the gold I owned had consequently doubled in dollar-value - I would be legally required to give some of that money back to the government, making the protection of my savings' purchasing power very difficult (if I want to stay on the right side of the law).
So while the government doesn't directly force anyone to use their currency to store wealth, they make it less attractive to not do so. And I suspect these efforts would increase should we experience a flee from the dollar in the future.

Legal tender laws is another type of legislation that gives unfair advantage to the government's own currency. So forcing citizens to pay their taxes in the government's currency isn't all the government does wrt. hindering currency competition.
At my previous company (where I stayed for 7 years), I remember seeing our CTO doing the dishes in the kitchen/break room once. This wasn't just in the first year, but about 5 years in. It didn't surprise me, it was more of a confirmation of what I already knew about him. The company is pretty successful today.
Let's see, which events benefit most from being experienced live?

Yep - sports!

How about we give those glasses to some referees, for example?
Richard Bransons Virgin group does this, although their groups are smaller. Around 20 people if I remember correctly.
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With a large enough data set O(n^2) vs O(n^1.99999) be 43,000 times faster or 43,000,000 times faster. Which is one of the reasons that metric is next to meaningless. Looking back you can find plenty of great speedups but as I said it's in no way steady progress across all fields.

PS: Also Radix sorting is O(n) operation under conditions where mergesort is O (n log n). (AKA in practice merge sorting distinct strings is 0 (n * (log n) * (log n) as you need to look at an ever increasing number of symbols, or if your strings have a fixed max length or if your theoretical computer can compare infinitely long strings in a single step then Radix sorting is also O(n).)
Not really that much different to recording Video with a Smartphone.

I get that there is a difference in that you are always wearing it and are theoretically always on, and photos/vids of Smartphones are huge, but … seriously … how many experiences of your personal day today would you like to share? Nah.

On the other side there are certainly people who are burning to attention whoring the shit out of Google Glasses. Perhaps it would be like a more extreme version of Twitter were 99% of people are following a very vocal 1% minority. And if Sergey Brin would publicly stream his Glass video I would watch it and place the video in a corner of my desktop screen. It would be like having a pet or the first Justin.tv all over again.
I wonder if the product does exist or if the website is just a placeholder plugged to a google analytics account to check if there is any traction. However I think they are for real since the domain name must have cost a lot.
I think the 1614 Roman rite of exorcism was "updated" after this incident, i.e., exorcisms do still transpire, but in a different way i.e., not talking to "the demon" a la the movie "The Exorcist" but more praying for healing and so forth, reason being, if the subject is not really processed by some other entity, addressing said entity aloud directly might make the situation worse by the power of suggestion. So (to my knowledge anyway) I think exorcisms do still take place, but they try and be a bit more aware of the delicacies of those sorts of situations.
It's definitely an interesting topic and a nice high level overview of the problems of colour and colour spaces. I like the 4 point colour wheel in some way, but I don't entirely see the benefits.

From a computer vision perspective, this representation still has problems (as do all colour spaces). Look at how massive the green space is. There's 4-5 greenish slices that are close to each other, yet only 1 slice for yellow and 2ish for red. Red is the colour humans see "best", physiologically it should have the largest representation, whereas blue should be smallest.

From the simpler side (i.e. a basic colour wheel application), I'm not sure if this makes it much easier or faster for me to find a colour.

In any case, the article is very nice high level overview of a fascinating problem.
As primarily a web developer, it saddens me how much truth there is to this statement from the article:

The current version of the app is essentially an Objective-C shell with a Web browser inside. When it comes to speed, this is like putting the engine of a Smart Car in the body of a Ferrari.
This is a fundamental difference between hardware and software. You can release beta SW. You can't release beta HW.
It's called the Dunbar number, and it varies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbars_number
This.

I was disappointed there was no HUD showing GPS data or any data really. In hindsight the streaming was impressive, but I just couldn't get over that I wanted to see more from the concept video.
No, they're talking about the desktop OS. Look about 2 or 3 levels up and you'll see the context is fragmentation between XP, Vista, and 7.
Agreed. I had a color nook before my transformer and the difference is night and day. The 7" is essentially a super ebook reader. Its useless for comics, magazines, non-mobile web, tv/movies, etc. My phone is almost 5". Not sure why I need a non-4G device that is merely 2" larger.

I suspect google knows it can't reach that nice price point with a 10" screen and knows the 7" market is ripe for stealing from Amazon. Its sad that its conceded the 10" market. I'd love a $299 10" google tablet to replace my aging Transformer.

The really awful part of this situation is that perhaps Google is ashamed at the lack of apps that can make use of a 10" screen. A lot of my apps are simply phone apps that look terrible on my tablet.

Its a shame there's no real pricing on the MS Surface yet. I could really see myself with one of those if they're $499 or less. I'd rather spend $499 on a super tablet than $199 on a media consumption device with little storage and not a lot of ports.

Google is gunning for the Fire/Kindle crowd here and I think its going to work. I prefer reading on an LCD where I can control the color scheme and where I can dip into using a proper browser now and again. e-ink is more than a bit over-rated and the Fire is just poorly engineered.
I guess we have reached an impasse. We'll see how well this approach works out for Google in the long run. I'm inclined to suspect it is hurting them as it would probably hurt Microsoft if they started breaking backwards compatibility with every OS release. But reality will have to be the arbiter of whether this theory is correct.

Also, IMO, the term social obligation is pretty well understood. It's an expectation of your behavior by others.
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The fact that the Nexus 7 has access to the Google Play store is a selling point for the Kindle Fire? Huh?
Iirc, according to "The Tipping Point", the company that makes kevlar does exactly what I suggested. Their method: They build a building and put 150 parking spaces out front. When people start parking on the grass, time to build a new building.
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Which has not that much to do with the founding idea. Instead tons of gamers are streaming/watching playing League of Legends or Starcraft.
Can you explain what this means? I'm not understanding.
It has more to do with how much data is stored. MemSQL stores more than 30 times as many rows as MySQL by the end of the experiment.
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Very cool! About your video demo, you should mention on the page that it is not just a pre-rendered video, but actually THE live demo itself :D

Took me a while to realize that you can actually apply effects to the video element!
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Diego,

Your post just knocked me on my keyster. Beautiful writing. It is absolutely relevant to hackers because all of us have parents, and we need to look at how they've lived their lives and figure out how we will live as we age. The prospect of retirement is terrifying; I expect that the concept as we know it is dead; we have to come up with another model that befits the time.
That link might not work for everyone. Click on the title in the Google search result to see it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+prepares+to+curb&...
I find it interesting that the site hangs waiting for stumble upon. Here's to putting a reference to someone elses javascript in the middle of the page!
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This is true, but that is my point. Most people don't want control, they want a phone that does the latest and greatest. This makes the iphone a much better choice for most, including myself.
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Yet you're just feeding the same beast you claim to dislike.

Yes, the post has a bait title, but it's not entirely irrelevant and -- more importantly -- the article has real substance. It's structured lazily as a list but the overall point it's making is coherent, the arguments are fairly convincing and the writing appears to be mostly original.

You've managed to distract away from all the content and draw attention instead to the meta-trash -- all the while complaining about the existence of said "meta-trash" ! (At least you've generated a nice bit of irony for me to feel clever about spotting)
Proof? Is it slower simply because they have to deliver more information (rendered UI in the form of html as opposed to json)?
I have been following the wakemate story since the beginning. Ordered a wakemate (with the $5 deposit) from almost the beginning. Waited anxiously for months for the device. Luckily, when the time eventually came for shipping, I declined to complete the order.

Great idea. Trying to solve a difficult problem and break new ground. But obviously the execution problems were evident from the first few months of missed deliverables and poor communication.

Good luck to Arun and the team on the next great idea. Kinda scummy that a co-founder went and started a company in the same space, stealing the twitter and email list in the process. How is this in any way going to get consumers to trust him?
If you do this that would mean that you could have no shared locks safely on the SQLite database while you have a reserved lock, that is, if one process is planning to write to the database, other processes cannot even read it. Even then, you would have to be very very careful if you want to avoid losing data.

Basically, unless you can (and willing to) write your own SQLite VFS that is designed to handle this safely, I wouldn't do it.
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Thank you. That is why I said things like typical human brain and about 150.

As I understand it, Napoleon inspired such loyalty in spite of how he treated his people because he could greet everyone by name and ask how their wife Elaine was doing, etc. It made everyone feel he caredabout them personally. I had similar talents when I was younger but never really knew what to do with it as I was a homemaker, but I am familiar firsthand with the types of emotional responses it inspires from people.
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This is one thing I've wondered wrt the current FB Apple app. I wonder if they pool/cache their UIWebViews or if they're instantiated each time.
Apple owns both the iOS platform and devices. I think Apple supports their older hardware because they want to reduce fragmentation of their iOS platform. Apple plays the long game.

Google owns the Android platform, but only a few Android devices. The carriers and device OEMs just want to pump 'n' dump devices. They don't care about the long term health of the Android ecosystem.
> It seems as if it's designed for situations where you're doing a lot of table scans.

This is not quite true. Lockfree data structure work exceptionally well for a lot of small concurrent reads and writes. If you look at the benchmarking code: https://github.com/memsql/bench/blob/master/sql_database.py you will notice that there are a lot of queries like "fetch by pk/guid".

The trade-offs are: taking a hit the first time you run the query, being limited to the amount of RAM, limited set of features for this release. The benefits are throughput for "fetch by pk/guid" transactions and predictably low latencies.
"look at how massive the green space is..."

This is why, in non-symmetric color coding systems, Green is given the largest share. For example 16-bit image formats give 5 bits for Red and Blue, but 6 bits for Green. The Bayer color pattern pattern used on CMOS sensors (basically all sensors on consumer devices) has interleaved rows of Green and Red and rows of Blue and Green: twice as much green as the other colors! Finally, green represents more than 50% of Luminance!

From an evolutionary perspective, it makes sense to be more sensitive in the green spectrum: we were surrounded by green plants. Better catch the nuances to better identify predators or prey!
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You could be right, but that is a risky gamble to take for the manufacturers and Google. I think most people will realize they have a substandard experience because they use their phones in social settings and will easily see that their friends have apps that won't work on their phone and they will have a friend that can explain why.
In the S/M/L chart (this one http://asmartbear.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads...) you can see that at the right-hand side, the M (green) activation is pretty low and goes to zero where L (red) is still strong enough to be visible. But there's no frequency on that graph where M (green) is active all by itself. So you've probably never in your whole life experienced a pure "green" sense input!

CIE takes this into account when defining visible color spaces. Since you have 3 "primaries" you would expect the colorspace to be bounded by a triangle, each corner being a pure input of each primary. But you can see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Commission_on_Il... that the top green corner is missing. That's because there are no frequencies of light that would let you see any color that is "greener" or further toward where that corner would be.

OK one last thing before I get to my proposal :) Your eyes gradually adapt against the colors you are looking at. For example if you're wearing red/blue 3d glasses for a while, when you take them off things will look greenish out of the "red" eye and yellower out of the "blue" eye. You can play tricks like this http://wxerfm.com/blogs/post/jfrieders/2012/jan/25/picture-c... In fact it's possible to exhaust some of your photoreceptors, like the "spot" from a camera flash or the streak from a glare of sunlight.

So here's my idea: if you strobe a really bright red & blue light, enough to temporarily blind the S & L receptors in your eyes, you should be able to see a green that is more pure and intense than you have ever experienced, right off the CIE chart of visible colors! Who's up for experimenting? :)