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I also think the size is an advantage for a whole bunch of use cases.

I don't have a tablet right now, but I do have a Kindle. I think it's about the same size as the Nexus 7. I find it to be very convenient: I can easily hold it with just one hand when I'm laying on the bed, it fits into my tiny laptop bag and I can even put it in a coat pocket (great for commuting by train). Anything bigger would be less convenient.
Couldn't agree more. More like 1.5-2x slower but it certainly isn't a speed improvement over Safari.

Didn't know about Nitro, but this app is a flop because it has to be on top of UIWebView.

Not sure there's any other way to build this app, Google has some bright engineers.
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Jquery does what most open source projects do not. That is providing a clear roadmap with 99% questions answered.
why should it blow my mind? its an accomplishment .. sure. but there are and have been far more complex systems written in assembler and/or much mor complex/confusing (from todays perspective of a run-of-the-mill ror/ios/webtech-du-jour programmer) technologies because thats all there was or thats what had to be used to accomplish the task at hand.
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Is the point of this that the recipient can only temporarily see it, and not keep going back to it?

If so, what's to stop the user doing the equivalent of “menu button and power button” on the iPhone, to take a screen shot?
I think your demo should be more than an example of signup page. Quite frankly, most signup pages look the same (e.g. resizable background image, centered box with text and maybe a logo, and a call to action). Where you could really differentiate yourself (over existing similar services) is better analytics that you get from your service, and a demo of the admin panel could convey that.

So for example, show that for every signup you know:
1. Where your users come from (e.g. referer)
2. Where your users are from (e.g. geo location based on ip)
3. User Agent, Browser, Mobile vs. Desktop
etc...

This information is not only "cool to know" but also useful to understand who your potential customers are.

A few more things. In your "sales pitch", you mention your competitors (e.g. LaunchRock/Unbounce). I wouldn't suggest advertising for your competitor, and loosing potential customers to them, especially if you're value proposition is weak.

Finally, I wouldn't suggest your "call to action" to be to see pricing, that's also a turnoff. Instead, maybe you ask for emails for people interesting who want to use the beta when it's ready :P
I use Mono on a daily basis. It's a mature full featured cross platform .NET implementation.
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I've found an even better solution for my LaTeX documents: I have several different sty files for different screen sizes. However, critically, they all generate PDFs. Why? Basically, it looks much better than an epub file (at least on my Kindle). The text is justified properly, it uses a nicer typeface and math looks great (actually, I have no idea of what math looks like in epub form).

Also, (once again Kindle-specific), epubs are bad for languages that are not English. Particularly, I'm thinking about Russian: I have some Russian books in epub and they look horrible. The problem is that words are never broken between two lines which leads to an absurdly jagged margin. Since Russian often has longer words than English, this is actually a big problem. I think something like TeX's automatic hyphenation would make the experience much better.

However, generating epub files also seems like it has merit. I'll have to try it some day. Is there some special tool that just extracts the content but not the style information, or do you have a special style for epub files? It would also be great if you could provide some relevant links.
If someone wants to do a talk about how to get as close to this as possible in a language like C++, I would watch it.
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Unfortunately, while the reddit post seems authoritative, it contains a multitude of errors and ends up somewhat misleading. The most significant error is:

"What the front half of a jet engine (the intake/diffuser, and the compressor blades, i.e. all the stuff that happens before fuel is burned) does is; it heats up the air until it's hot enough for fuel to ignite" ...etc.

The heating up of air in the gas turbine cycle (Brayton cycle) is an UNDESIRABLE, but difficult to avoid consequence of the ideal gas law. A higher efficiency and power output would be possible if this heating did not occur, hence measures such as water injection or intercooling on large stationary gas turbines.

There are a number of other more subtle errors in the post.
There are probably conditions on the use of the feeds. I notice that on a lot of the big sports websites they bring you to a page showing conditions of use before they will let you see the RSS feeds. Could be the same thing here.
Case in point: their toolchain remains good ol' Hammer, vis, rad, and bsp. They're stretching lightmaps to the limit with a toolset from Quake that's constantly being pushed. God knows how long it'll be before the returns from refactoring start diminishing... it'd make a good case study, actually.
finally a solution to open more than 10 tabs. I was quite excited to have a way to open those 30+ news to read while traveling on the underground.... sad news, when I switch tab the browser reload the page and lose the content... wtf! back to safari :(
Have you considered at trying something like the Swype keyboard? I don't know if it's available for the Fire, but I'm sure there's a tablet version, and it should work on the Nexus 7.

I only have it on my phone (a Galaxy Nexus, coincidentally), but it's really great there. I think it would be very good for a tablet as well.
They shipped QNX on the PlayBook in early 2011, with a Flash-based UI. For BB10 they are moving to a whole new app framework (Cascades).
A bunch of redditors did in fact pick up on this, but their comments are buried deep down in the pile.
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What do you mean by "design language"? A programming language, a programming language used for design (like HTML, CSS), a the style of language used in their websites (e.g. Lorem Ipsum), or something else?
I would like to do this but I've found that YouTube's HTML5 player is terrible. Buffering is always erratic and just loading the page causes my browser to freeze for 5-10 seconds (it usually starts working again once the video is loaded into the player). As much as I want to see Flash go away it's still the best choice for web video on a desktop machine (at least on YouTube).
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The problem comes is that the older versions that we've fixed have the fixes integrated in later versions.

We really don't want to have to maintain the versions that we've fixed as that kills the entire value proposition of using it in the first place.

It's nothing like the 56' Chevy / Volt analogy. The technology is the same - they just can't be bothered with supporting one vendor's product any more.
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> No, Groovy is used in many other places than Grails. One can think of the Gradle build automation tool (http://gradle.org/), for instance, which uses Groovy as a DSL.

Gradle's the only provable specific example you gave of Groovy being used as a DSL. But is Gradle used for much more than building Groovy, Grails, and Griffon?
I fell in love with Metro the minute I saw it. I bought a Lumia 800 on day one. I'm all for chromeless interfaces. But I'm starting to think I was mistaken.

1. They followed design principles too well. Strong constraints: check. Simplicity: check. But Metro is too constrained, too systematical. App designers are left with too few breathing space. Apps look all the same and feel too cold. I want my gradients back.

2. It doesn't look that good on big screens. For instance, launch screens of Windows 8 apps : it's too minimalistic to have big white icons on a flat monochrome background.
I agree that static typing would helps for such bugs.

However, not "in general". The general problem is that bogus data leads to an irreparable situation. To fix that bug, you have to find out who broke the data. Consider for example, a circle in a linked list. You would need quite an expressive type system to prevent that statically (dependent types might suffice? Theorem provers are the ultimate hammer).
Well the lighter solution and more Pythonic solution is strong typing. If a Unicode string and a byte string could not be combined then the problem would not exist AFAIK. For example "a" + 1 is an error, why is u"a" + "s" not an error?
Google will not do that. Chrome doesn't support Flash at all on Android, and since Adobe plans on stopping support for mobile forever, I don't see why they would go back to supporting it in the future, unless Android becomes some sort of mega-successful desktop OS by then, and somehow Flash is still popular on the desktop by then.
The proponents of tau that cite the ubiquity of the 2pi factor in maths seem to forget that it's an exceedingly huge swath of knowledge and thus any notion of ubiquity might as well be moot, or totally dependent on the region of maths this person frequents. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some domains of maths where even natural numbers are used rarely or almost never (formal logic springs to mind). That's why it's possible to cherry-pick favourable examples which support either side of pi-tau debate.

But you might say, of course, that those fields of mathematics which tau makes "easier" are the ones important in early math education (especially below the university level). Hence adopting tau would make them substantially friendlier and more intuitive to many people. While the idea of "fixing" math concept to make them more bearable to laymen should not be dismissed automatically, I would like to point out that the question of tau vs. 2pi is by no means the only issue of this kind. Indeed, there are a couple of more "warts" in everyday maths that could also warrant "fixing". Consider:

* The direction in which positive and negative angles on two-dimensional, Cartesian plane are measured [1]. Counter-intuitively, the measure increases when going counterclockwise, while going clockwise decreases it.

* The main diagonal [2] of a matrix goes from upper-left to lower-right corner, which coincides with the shape of backslash character.

* The established order of indices for matrix' elements is row-column, so that A_xy refers to element in x-th row and y-th column of matrix A. This goes against the habit of specifying the horizontal coordinate before the vertical coordinate when talking about XY planes [3].

* Definition of convex [4] and concave [5] functions (for R->R ones) do not agree with the intuitive associations based on plots of those functions. Clearly, the convex one looks like a valley, and the concave one resembles a hill or mountain.

I'm sure there are many more examples of such unreasonable, counter-intuitive conventions, so we really have a lot of work ahead of us. So, anyone fancies writing the Slash Diagonal Manifesto?...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle#Positive_and_negative_ang...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_diagonal
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system#Car...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_function
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concave_function
That it has, but it has still been very buggy for us. We use a number of commercial and open source products and it's the worst supported, least reliable of the lot. The developers don't seem to take defect reports seriously, there is no consistency between releases and the plugin ecosystem is like a landfill site (full of poorly written crap with a few gems here and there).

I genuinely wish at this point that we'd written our own smaller, tighter framework. Unfortunately, a huge amount of lock in is present now, so it's a case of trashing it entirely.
how cool to read one side of the story and draw conclusions based on that. Maybe they just get what they are paying for?
http://saucelabs.com/ provides this setup as a service. And theirs is much more sophisticated, with screenshots and videos of failed tests.
After so many years. That's great news.

I remember when I started to use GNU/Linux and they were talking how great will be grub 2.0. It took maybe too much time, but it's a great tool.
Just out of curiosity, what makes Quicksilver more powerful than Alfred?
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You could call it a PR stunt and be right. For me it was inspiring. After watching the video I fired up trello and put in an idea for our service, minggler, on how we could leverage Google Glass. No it does not include extreme sports. Google gets railed so often for doing terrible marketing. They got this one right. Let them have their win and keep thinking of ways this new platform can be leveraged. We are.
But b"s" + "a" is an error in Py3.
There are insecure people everywhere, not just in the valley
Good Luck! Waiting to see more of this... Cheers from Germany.
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ICS has had this for a while now.
He means Metro[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_(design_language)
From wikipedia: A design language or design vocabulary is an overarching scheme or style that guides the design of a complement of products.

In microsofts case it's the "metro" style, with lots of bright (almost cartoony) colors, big blocks filled with lots of light-weight, sans-serif fonts.
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The books describe portable concepts with examples in the languages of the time.

Much as SICP is applicable to a lot of languages that aren't scheme.
Or click on 'horizontal' and then on 'fullscreen'.
What about it? You didn't finish your thought.
I honestly think "coming up" in drug-dealing or as a rap-star are analogous to running a successful startup. In both professions the system is trying to quell/control your rise to success and it takes an extraordinary amount of willpower/talent/luck to overcome it.
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Unless I'm mistaken Nitro is actually enabled as of iOS 5.
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It's not full featured. It's a pretty small subset. The most powerful things in the .Net platform are the big chunks of code which take on large business cases and make them go away.

For example the following either don't exist or are half-baked:

WCF (WsHttpBinding in particular), WWF (entirely which we use for WCF correlation), EF (not a biggy but would be nice), WPF (the best part of .Net), MEF (buggy and missing bits).

If I wanted cross platform, I'd go Java.
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Unless users of oldIE versions contribute more revenue than it takes to support them (which is obviously app/site-specific), screw them. It's simple economics.
I do not know the back-story but I think of Groupon as being a startup composed of "hustlers." They created a tremendously successful yet obviously fragile niche in online retail. I think they knew from the beginning it was not sustainable because they drew a huge amount of investment and simply kept the money as I understand.
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What kind of advice does everyone have if your not a web freelancer?

Let's say your trying to market your skills as a big data expert or an algorithm expert or quant expert. How would you sell your services?
If you don't sign the conditions, they aren't legally binding. If you don't want people to use your RSS feed, don't publish your RSS feed.
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I remember a German or European court ruling that states that as soon as a measurable effort is needed to collect the data it might be protected by copyright--could even be the effort to create a management or collection software. At least, I think that was the case but I might be mistaken. Also, I do not remember what kind of data collection this related to in the first place.
Do you object to getting a Transformer (or similar) dockable tablet and then putting, for example, Ubuntu on it (either completely or a variation of "Ubuntu for Android" when that's an option)? Or is cost part of the problem here?
It's interesting how hard they are pushing this; there is still quite a lot of Flash on the web ... at least most smaller sites hosting / streaming video seem to still rely on it. I actually would have thought they could make a decent bit of revenue just by offering it to OEMs as a selling point. Perhaps they see even more revenue by forcing all the recalcitrant sites still using Flash to buy Adobe's tools as the easiest upgrade path to get onto HTML5.
That only really works well if the line you want is visible.

I've found searching to be much quicker, since I know class/method/variable names more than I know line numbers - we follow reasonably standard names for things in the projects we work on.
Different implementations for different use cases in different situations :P
Then they will be left in the past. It's unreasonable to expect me to hold my own product back because of lazy corp IT depts.

Unless they are contributing more revenue than it takes to support them, screw them. For me at least, this is not remotely the case and I'm happy to leave them in the dust.
Somewhere between selling 3 million iPads in 80 days [1] and selling 1.7M iPhone 4 [2].

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/22Apple-Sells-Three-...
[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/28iPhone-4-Sales-Top...
AFAIK there is no way in Windows to control hinting, which in my opinion is the thing that makes Windows' font-rendering unbearable, especially on displays with a high PPI count.

There's hacks out there, but they're exactly that: hacks. And they don't always work that well.
The Wikipedia dataset `publicdata:samples.wikipedia` is described here: https://developers.google.com/bigquery/docs/dataset-wikipedi...

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Exactly my thoughts. If you can't see past the fact that these are early prototypes of an experimental device, I'm sorry but if you consider yourself any kind of technologist or visionary, turn in your credentials.

There are three important things about Glass:
* It's an HUD w/ a webcam
* It's got some kind of wireless communication
* It runs Android

If you don't see how those three things are full of possibilities, that's sad for you.

"Am I the only one who's not impressed that we only got a man 100 miles up into the air? It's not like he got to the moon" (OP, 1959)
The important metric is how much of a chunk they are to your business. You shouldn't care if some other site (or all other sites!) have significant traffic from such old browsers. Measure your traffic.
Why do those fixes matter? Again if you're in a closed environment then you can surely control the versions of a JS library. So fix it until it works in your space then move on. Them dropping support for your outdated choice of platform isn't a problem. Your desire to use cutting edge software with your outdated platform is the problem.

Picking a platform and sticking with it is a nobel and occasionally needed position to have. Expecting everyone else to hold themselves back because you chose to do so is impossibly greedy however.
Yes, because even if they aren't that much used they do exist.

OS X drivers are written in C++, they are not wrappers over C.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/device...

In Windows all the new APIs since Windows Vista are mostly COM (C++) based, including the new Userspace Driver Framework.

With Windows 8 this will increase, as Microsoft is moving to have C++ as their official systems language, by introducing WinRT as the new subsystem, and dropping support for anything besides C89.

Just because C is used a lot, you cannot say that all (even 99,9%) operating systems use it.

Actually I failed to mention the amount of operating systems that you may have running on your watch, vcr, radio, microwave, etc, which summed together are much more that the OS X, Windows, Linux base.
I think all the outrage is that Python 3 behaves like a new language in how everything needs to be ported (albeit at a magnitude less complexity than going up the language chain or across the playing field, like C to Ruby or C# to Java) but it still incurs the new language cost, while being the new version of the old language.

If people just thought of Python 3 as the replacement to broken text model Python, like how XHTML tried to supplant HTML and failed, and then HTML5 supplanted XHTML with some quirks, the same thing happens here.

Also, I adore the comments about the GIL. I understand the benefits of using a single language in every circumstance, but (even) a JIT scripting language is not sufficient for all problems. I guess it depends on if a polyglot code base is more complex than handling multithreading and the corresponding memory complexity and gimmicks, and that is developer centric.

Still, I would much rather just stick processor bound code in openMP C functions and call those from Python when need be. It seems like the "right" answer to the performance problem, without losing much productivity.
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No, sorry it's not, for security reasons. Thus it probably won't be enabled in the future either.