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Yes I have to agree with the two of you. That was my first thought upon finishing. It's odd Dalton doesn't define one or two solid examples of what this successful cloud API could be.
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
OR "How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age" by same Author
I think that's called HTTP. Then all you need is a place to search the content, where hosting that is easier than hosting all the data. And that's called google.
Could someone create a TOR-like network using mobile devices connected to various WiFi networks? Flunkies could be hired to place and retrieve these devices.
You would only need state installed CC-cameras to spy at loners.
Take care of the people component for cloud success
There appears to be a lot of FUD in that article which is unjustified or loosely cited. For example the following paragraph:

"Standardization is slow, so proprietary platforms are the first to solve problems. Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX offer desktop like frameworks but carry technical flaws: the iPhone doesn’t support them, vendors may break things at any time, and the runtimes are often slower than JavaScript."

Most of it is rubbish.

However, I'm a firm believer that if you're going to build desktop class applications, you do it in a desktop class runtime, not JavaScript.

If you have Java installed on your workstation, click here to launch ArgoUML (UML editor). This is what I expect from a "desktop class application" from deployment to usability:

http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/jws/argouml-latest-stabl...
Apple lands preliminary ban against Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the US
I disagree that "all them ___ should be shot" is always impotent ranting. That's ignoring the influence people can have over other people.
Kodak Gallery goes dark tomorrow, Shutterfly works a massive data transfer
Agree that there are privacy implications, but don't believe they'll be quite as drastic as you make out.

From what I understand, Google Glass connects to your mobile phone, so it's effectively outsourcing a mobile phone's camera, video speaker and microphone to a pair of glasses. So the answer to a lot of your questions is the same as if you were asking them about mobile phone technology. I wouldn't think anything differently of someone wearing these glasses as I would of someone using a mobile phone to take photos or video in a place or at an event. (And importantly, I would assume the same battery life constraints around video'ing and constantly taking photos would apply to glasses just like they do with phones.)

The key difference is that it's very obvious when someone is using their phone to do this, where it's not with glasses. This could be bad (being video'ed when you don't want to be), but could also be pretty good (taking photos of a fantastic meal at a great restaurant when you don't want to disturb anyone else.) The product people behind this need to understand where those lines are and design to them.
This would be problematic if there was not rampant corruption in China.
Apple did purchase Chomp [1] to help with their app store search, since that (relatively recent) purchase they've changed their search and ranking algorithm at least twice [2] to generally positive response.

1 - http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/23/apple-chomp/

2 - http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/29/looks-like-apple-has-change...
The main question is whether people in those neighborhoods will be treated differently. Written off as second-class citizens, denied rights like privacy rights or protections against stupid warrants, or unwarranted force becoming the default choice.
The only thing that I find sucks is that the pipeline is slow as snails.

This is because CreateProcess in Windows is slow. It's the reason that run make on Cygwin on Windows for not-that-large Makefiles is really, really slow. The same Makefile on UNIX and Windows differ in startup time by a wide margin. It's really painful to type "make ..." and sit there for 30 seconds on a fast machine.
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I think jottit's approach is quite interesting: Let anyone create a site/wiki, but require a password to lock it.
You can add a consistent random pattern.
Looks cool, but the hybrid structures created in the video don't look very impressive. They look like something kids made (it probably was made by kids).

I think if the video included at least one 'sexy' structure it'd attract way more customers.
Well, but that's hardly a binary choice, is it? You can encourage kids to develop their talents without putting them on a hamster wheel.
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So I'll step up and blow my team's trumpet. It's the end of a long weekend hackathon on buddycloud. It's also great to see the rumblings of what could be next.

Where we stand: The server and webclient are mostly done. We're now working on distributed media storage and a distributed API (https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_HTTP_API)

For an example of buddycloud in action here's our hackathon channel from today: https://beta.buddycloud.org/hackathon@topics.buddycloud.org
We need some "Laughing Man"-style jamming devices when these are out on the streets.

But well...we have cameras all over and nobody cares. I guess we lost already...

Where is my burka?
That doesn't seem "right" to me, though. What if you have a variable in your calling scope that conflicts with a parameter in your function?
Ha! I attempted this yesterday, after I saw the article in TC. It was a really fun challenge! Good job guys! Hope I didn't cost you a lot of money.. by my estimates i sent you something close to like a million requests .. give or take.
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Sorry but I agree with the parent poster. I bounced immediately when I was taken to sign-up page. Show us a demo or let us do the actual thing before you make anyone sign-up.
" So like the Turks, the Americans are not important because of who they are, but because of where they live."

To make a sweeping generalization like that in the article, you'd have to ignore the timeline of the founding of America and the massive influx of people who wanted to be here before anyone even knew about our great resources or how to use them in a modern sense.

America was recognized all around the world at the time of its founding (and a bit before, even) because it was a grand experiment in personal liberty under the rule of law. The resources were a nice bonus, I think, but then again there have been many counter examples where countries/societies have had tremendous resources and failed to rise because of it (oil in the Middle East), or had very little resources and dominated the economic or geopolitical landscape at one time or another (Japan, Hong Kong, Great Britain, etc.)

If anything, there is a lot of evidence that resources are actually not helpful or even counter-productive to progress in a society http://dean2004.blogspot.com/2009/02/zakaria-on-curse-of-oil....

Look at the historical dominance of societies that were farther away from the equator vs the most lush areas of the world closer toward it.

The necessary traits for survival when you have a winter (planning for a shortage of crops, living in close quarters with others by following rules, reduced tolerance for corruption) combined with the unique (at the time) notion that individual liberty and free enterprise trumped the tyranny of a central government played a far greater role in the importance of America than acreage of contiguous croplands.

Fear not, those of you who think that America's success was all resources and geography, not discipline and philosophy... America is being brought low quickly enough. As we've pretty much thrown away most of the restraints on the Federal Government spelled out in the Constitution, America will be the next century's counter-example of a nation with great resources but little importance on the geopolitical stage as we destroy Liberty and the Free Enterprise system that was the true engine that originally brought America to power.
> if everyone spent their money to benefit society as whole, then there would be an extremely strong correlation between how much a job pays and how much it 'matters'.

if it was possible to determine ex ante what benefits society the most, it wouldn't even be a contest, of course we could all agree to do that, it's almost tautological.

the problem is that in 99% of the cases we don't know. should i pay 50 cents on a banana, or is 1 euro a fair price. will 2 euro maximize aggregate welfare?

and who actually is "society as a whole"? is it just the most people, or should we stratify? is one group better or more worthy than another?
I think author meant not from one's home, office, friend's home/office, or local star bucks.
I heard a couple of cops mentioning that people ask them what the best places in a city are to buy drugs, or pick up hookers etc. They really don't know! They only know the best places to get caught for that stuff :)
what would the example of a successful advertising company have been, before google?

in other words - isn't this kind of the point? google is the big advertising company. everyone else is a copy. the big api company is still open space...
It's pretty negligible in the scheme of things. I was abusing PHP reflection a while back to add decorator support (https://github.com/chriso/Request) and used this pattern to reduce the cost:

switch (count($args)) {
case 0: $method(); break;
case 1: $method($args[0]); break;
case 2: $method($args[0], $args[1]); break;
//etc
default: call_user_func_array($method, $args); break;
}
OK, that's reasonable, but the company is ALSO motivated to dump as many pills on the market as possible, since their profits go to almost zero after generics are available.
Immunizations are, ultimately, subject to the same problems of evolved avoidance as antibiotics.

The current approach to treating diseases reminds me of the story of how the Yugoslav army shot down an F-117. They had spotters telling them when the F-117 got close, they operated radar that could almost, sorta see them, and they relied on a proximity fuse, a generous damage radius, and a helluva lot of luck. We may currently be able to determine roughly what an infection is, and how it's likely to behave, but we're far, far from being able to determine any of this with sufficient accuracy.

What's really needed is a combination approach, but even a combination approach is useless until we understand more about how bacteria evolve...
Why would that sensitive information start flowing to people's @facebook.com email addresses automatically when Facebook changed the email address shown on the site?
> Can you think of examples of any open source standards that emerged from pasting on an open source strategy later? I ask because I can't think of any, but I may be wrong.

Does Java count, or did the recent Oracle lawsuits kill that one?
Your MAC will only be known to the router of the coffee shop and the router's MAC will only be know to their ISP's router/modem. The ISP MAC will be in the logs of all the servers you and other cafe customers access.
I would like to say thanks for the Day to Day section. I wish a lot of places would say what literally happens rather than "We use tool X and language Y to empower people to chase their dreams".
+1, I'll try that
You make some good arguments. However, one big difference, is that to take photos or videos, you actively have to point the device at people and make an effort to record. With Glass, that's taken out. You could be recording and no one would be the wiser --one might have to assume that anyone wearing Glass was recording. This could be a bit creepy.

Now, I know there is no expectation of privacy in public places --this is what allows photographers to photograph anyone on the streets (with very few exceptions). However, a photographer is very noticeable. If this becomes ubiquitous, there is no way of avoiding being recorded. Now, what happens on private property? What laws would apply there?
See Charles Stross' "Accelerando"; chapter 3, "Tourist". When heavy user of glasses is being mugged of them, they lose nearly all of their intelligence and identity. They stumble around like a blind idiot, trying in vain to remember what they lost and how to get it back.

The book is available for free from the author's website, and individual chapters make sense as self-contained short stories.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
The "lose" part is that officers in the area are predisposed to seeing suspicious activity where there could be none. There should be strict rules for the use of this information, but it's hard to prevent or stop human nature.
I don't see any problem with going with StamSted.

Google did not mean "search the web" until a company by that name improved search. America did not have an English word for glastnost until the Russians gave us their word for it. For the international market, I would just make an effort to adequately convey the concept. You might find that some countries don't really have a word for it because they don't really have it as a practice. In the U.S., that idea is kind of old fashioned and not the way most Americans think of their lives. To my American ears, it sounds like a delightful practice found elsewhere or that might have been around when I was growing up with my pet dinosaur and rotary phone. It sounds attractive but it doesn't sound like something we really have currently. I would be thrilled to have some foreign company teach my country such things.

Best of luck.
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Sounds like a lot of snake oil, but I've never learned more at a job before.
It is a refreshing point of view. We, the generation of city-dwellers, no longer understand the foundation upon which our city wealth rests. For us, the farmland is "an unimportant middle of nowhere" and we see the ultimate worth in some cities that, if looked from the article's POV, can be easily discarded without any change in the world power/wealth balance.

It seems that grain meant the same in 19 century that oil means today. And for grain, you need a lot of territory with population and transportation and security. With oil it's different, you have to be lucky and here it is: population isn't that important anymore, neither is territory per se.
Black Mirror Episode 3 is worth a look, if your interested in where this could end up going. It deals with ubiquitous interpersonal surveillance.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/episode-guid...
I do only easy things with Powershell and I found it much nicer than classical shells. It's more consistent in the command names and parameter passing. You also need to learn far fewer commands, because Powershell follows the Unix philosophy of small tools that do one thing well much more than Bash+Unix tools. For example if you do "ls" then you get a table where one of the columns is LastWriteTime. Want to sort by that column? "ls | sort lastwritetime". This works without hassle because ls returns a list of objects, and sort sorts a list of objects by a given property, instead of serializing everything to text that would need to be parsed first. I'm sure that Unixes' ls has an option built in to ls to sort by that column, but off the top of my head I have no idea what it is, and many commands that output lists of things do not have that option.

You even get autocompletion across commands: if you type "ls | sort _" where _ is the cursor, then you get a list of properties that you can sort objects returned by ls by (LastAccessTime, LastWriteTime, Extension, etc).
i certainly agree that design iteration is important at certain stages.

when you're going from "black and white wireframe" to "something userfacing" for example, you probably don't have to care; but with an established userbase that is USED to the product, you should care more.

if your product is transactional and there aren't good alternatives (people come to site X to send money to another person and this is the only one with an API) you might not need to care, vs "people spend time as a diversion on my site and explore photos and status updates of friends", it might be important to care more.

100% agreement that evolving design to the desired spot is more educated -- I think that statement is indisputable, as it is essentially saying "if you can incrementally split test results with lots of different versions, you can learn more".

With a large "total redesign" you just get one fat multivariate test that can have conflicting results and you can't isolate the winning changes.

I was just stating that the time penalty for evolution might be too large for extremely small teams. its not just a design, its design, implentation, and testing the differences -- which takes a lot more time than just implementing the design itself. without testing results, incremental design is only good for "easing the user in" and you lose all the benefits of the "more educated approach" you're referring to (which, in my mind is the valuable part... users are forgiving, you can shock UI from time to time, but information gained can be priceless)
>> what would the example of a successful advertising company have been, before google?

??? There was a whole generation of successful advertising (Internet) companies before Google. Even Google went through an internal debate about how much/whether to copy the best of that generation (Yahoo). And advertising-funded businesses are decades older than the Internet.

Also, 1 exemplar >> 0 exemplars was my point.
His headset analogy is pretty accurate. It even goes one step further though: In China, some headsets have the mic and ground pin swapped. So before putting a signal on the mic line to see if it exists, you have to detect which pin is ground.
You know I hate to say this -- but I just can't get excited about either company. Although I guess that's indirect inspiration to make something better...
This is not a minor version bump but a proper new version - just that their version numbering hasn't increased by an integer point.

I believe their version numbering is in decimals to ensure that this upgrade looks like a tick-tock upgrade.
With your screenshots please show us the diff page and the history page, without these I'm feel like Im just previewing a blogging service.
CreateProcess is only being called once in this case i.e. to spawn svnadmin. The exact script does the following:

svnadmin dump d:\repo > repo.dump

The output from svnadmin has a lot of lines. Due to the fact that PS is written on top of the CLR, it reads each line into an immutable string before writing it to a file. So for every line it has to create a new System.String object and as another poster said GC it later. Also as lines are not predictable length it has to buffer them resulting in more overhead.

Effectively where *NIX shells use a fixed size buffer for pipe operations and operate on streams, PS has to convert it to lines first before writing it out.

That doesn't work when you have approximately 25 bytes per line and a 12Gb file which is where the issue is.
There are successful cloud APIs, I think - Twilio comes to mind. It doesn't mean that it would work for Twitter, but it's not impossible.
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Thanks! And I appreciate your insight. You must be rather battle-hardened from your experience over the years, and I know there are others who share your hesitance to use a system like this. In response to your question about examples, Linux and Android are examples of software that, as far as I can tell, only really opened up after conception and a good deal of development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#MINIX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Foun...
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Apple Legal is at odds with Apple Engineering, trying to litigate away the competition instead of innovating past them

I don't even... what do you expect Apple Legal to innovate? "Accept EULA to unlock?" They aren't at odds with engineering any more than having a good defense is at odds with having a good offense.

Have you used an up-to-date android phone in the last 6 months? Perhaps even gotten to play with an Nexus 7 or a Galaxy S 3? The competition is fierce right now, and Apple has badly mismanaged its money

That's really the heart of the matter. Patents were created to reward innovation by actually disadvantaging competitors that sat around and waited -- because the market by itself doesn't produce brand new things just by competition. Even though Galaxy-whatever today may be a better phone and the economy is hurt on a small scale by holding it back a bit, the economy is improved on a large scale by rewarding the big innovations.

The tech crowd doesn't get that a local meritocracy where the best phone wins optimizes existing things, like making a better keyboard or improved battery life, but it doesn't often lead to an iPhone or other revolutionary change. A pure merit-based market actually punishes innovation -- if you spend years and a billion dollars researching HCI, form factors, etc and your competitors just copy you then you are competing with a billion dollar hand tied behind your back.

Is this particular patent valid? Maybe, maybe not... it doesn't really matter. What really matters is that unless Apple's competitors need to compete much more effectively in order to make up for their lack of innovation then the market has failed.
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Windows 8 allows you to build native apps in HTML/JS. You would be very hard pressed to tell any difference at all.
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