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Can you go into more detail about the benefits of using a Wacom tablet instead of a mouse? I know absolutely nothing about Wacom tablets, but this sounds interesting and I'd love to hear more.
Gruber ranted about the iFixit's blog article on the difficulty of recycling the new Retina MacBook Pro on at least a couple podcasts - the implication being that the iFixit guy didn't really know what he was talking about with regards to the recycling element.

Let's see if he comes forth with a mea culpa, now that Apple is as much as admitting that their newer models just aren't easily recyclable - otherwise why else would they be pulling the EPEAT certification from their products?
2160p? Which tablet is this?

Also iirc, the Samsung Galaxy S2 tablet versions (i.e. identical to S2 but without the phone) cost around $200 bucks, and that can play any format you throw at it. Plus since it's DLNA capable you could directly stream content off your home server without breaking a sweat. The CPU/GPU are pretty capable being the Cortex A9/Mali 400 combo.
It won't help you with your phone, but isn't there a version of thunderbird on portableapps.com? These install and keep their data on a USB stick, so you can take it with you between desktop, laptop, work and friends' computers (no install needed).

Edit: might be windows only, though.
I don't think you know much about Oracle. Aggressively defending their assets through the courts is something Oracle has a long, long history of. Sometimes they win. Sometimes they lose. But they almost never just let things slide.

Pretty sure Larry is wearing his kimono with swords by his side when he's making the decision to "go to war".
The division I co-run at my company was created partially to ship product to market, and partially to ship culture as its other primary product.

We treat our culture as something akin to a shippable technology product, complete with user stories, implementation, measurement, learning, reiterating, etc.

Anyhow: http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2012/02/16/culture-is-a-produ...
Huge productivity benefit to not having a phone on your desk: not having to deal with voice mail.
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Reading this saddens me. Amazon is where I'm hoping to end up in about 5 years...
That's clearly true, but the following statement:

And this is why many of the poor stay poor, and many in the middle class stay middle class.

...does not follow.

The outlook for a typical working-class family living paycheck-to-paycheck isn't going to be materially improved by better purchasing options (because they don't have a lot of money with which to purchase things in the first place).

As a sort of reductio proof, imagine I gave you $500 to live on for an entire year. What good would better purchasing options do you? If you're merely trying to say that you'd be better off with more money, well, yes. But better purchasing options aren't going to move you into the middle class.
Agreed. I don't miss having a phone on my desk at all.
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It looks great! Most of these features like the added context in diffs, inline code snippets and request review seem like very good candidates for features to merged into GitHub.
That seems incredibly inefficient. Wouldn't it be better to simply just server higher resolution images for users with a user-agent that matches the third-gen iPad, MacBook Retina, or any other high DPI devices?
There is another comment on this thread, by a separate user that reads:

"both RequireJS and Browserify are not even good options. Browserify's implementation is awkward, incomplete and pollutes global scope a lot. Check out OneJS"

I think there may be an agenda behind these comments.
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Google doesn't even handle calls/customer support for paying users. Google Adwords/Adsense support is completely automated and also completely useless.
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Google has the capacity to make this really easy; the fact that they haven't makes me wonder how difficult it is to aggregate search and other data into one user profile, as that seems like the primary argument against easy Gmail (and thus Google) account mashups.

By far my biggest frustration as a 5-account, 3-OS (plus mobile) GMail and Apps user is the client. Two personal accounts, an academic and side project, and a professional one. Oy. Thunderbird provided some cross-platform consistency, but was far too clunky to last in my workflow - not surprised it died.

What I've done for the last six months (before recently experimenting again) was keeping the six accounts completely separate and using Sparrow on OSX/iOS as the primary means of access. It kept headers from getting all effed up with Gmail aliasing, but was a real pain when I would occasionally have to log in via web (signing in/out multiple times to check inboxes, etc.).

I've now decided to keep all non mission-critical forwarded to the same account (for me 5 Gmail/Apps accounts, for you would be your personal and side project accounts) and the professional account (Apps) separate. With Google allowing a max of Gmail and one Apps account at the same time, this works fine, so long as I'm willing to have my headers display stupid "sent by [me] on behalf of [my other email]" text. Which I am at this point for a little simplicity.

Agreed that an aggregator/navigator plugin would be killer (even if it just forwarded you to an incognito tab with your mailbox, to keep you from having to sign out of your main Google account) but the implementation details are onerous/likely impossible.
I think the point is that it is Oracle trying to exploit the situation. Not their lawyers.
1). Phones are really expensive to answer. Budget $7~12 a call for competently designed call centers staffed by Middle American housewives, probably 10x that if you have e.g. engineers doing things ad hoc. That's about an order of magnitude more than email support and, um, "a whole lot" more than a blended, scalable FAQ > self serve tool > email system. (You see this pattern all the time for a reason.)

2) "Insufficiently technical skill to use email forbids customer from successfully reaching support" is a feature not a bug. (For a software business.)

3) Ask me about the six calls I got from a customer a) arguing over the color of text on my page (grey vs. black) b) asking how to operate a third party's voicemail, c) confirming receipt of an email five minutes after it was sent... all happening on my emergency line between 2 and 6 AM.

4) Customers frequently perceive negative value from phone support. Think of companies with excellent phone staffing like banks or insurance firms. How happy are online reviews for those numbers? (Terrible, largely because the state machine on the phone is enforcing business rules that the customer does not care for. You know what the #1 call Facebook would get? OK, password resets, not a great example. #N? "Why does Facebook let X do Y?" "<That's a product decision>" "Can you change it?" "No." "It causes me social problems! I will now abuse you personally!" "Still no." "I have a lawyer." "No, in six minute increments." "Pretty please?" "No, I don't even have a button to do it.")
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Don't do it! Go find a small start-up doing something that interests you.
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That's the thing about "culture". It's defined very much by the people involved most directly in it. Within a company like Amazon you will have teams that foster amazing environments. You'll also have teams that hand out toy ninjas.

The trick is to figure out how to land yourself in the former.
Totally agree. CSS has media queries for that: http://blog.iwalt.com/2010/06/targeting-the-iphone-4-retina-...
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The problem with O_DIRECT is it pretty much puts each app in the business of doing its own buffer cache, which bypasses the ability of the kernel to look at the system holistically and make decisions about how to buffer data. Compound that with fairly inconsistent contracts around the interface and it's semi-synchronous behaviour... ick.

As to improve fadvise()? I'd like to see FADV_SEQUENTIAL (or perhaps a variant) not just double the read ahead buffer, but also dump pages immediately after they've been read unless there is another FD open somewhere else (you can keep calling fadvise with FADV_DONTNEED, but that's lame on several levels). I'd like to see semantics that make it clear to the kernel that data you are writing to a file (particularly if it is in append mode) likely won't be read for a very long time, so it can minimize polluting the buffer cache with freshly written data. I'd like to see fadvise() calls that specify a portion of a file only effect the portion of the file. What'd be REALLY nice would be a way to express "buffer part X and Y of the file, but if you are under pressure, dump Y before you dump X".
I can't imagine Oracle being too bothered by the sum itself, but it must be pretty embarrassing for them to be the aggressors in this case, and ask for billions in the beginning from Google, then to find out that they could only get like $35 million at most, even if they do win, and finally to lose the case, and themselves be the ones paying millions to Google.
"Dotcom having access to all of the evidence against him has no influence on the decision to extradite."

Then why not send him the files? It's not unduly burdensome. It's already all in electronic form. Maybe they do not want to enable him to start preparing his case?

There's little doubt he's guilty of infringement and he will suffer a punishment. What's at issue is whether he's being treated fairly, from a procedural standpoint. Why does that matter? Because the whole reason you're going after him with such force is to scare others who are doing the same thing - Megaupload is one of many similar sites. You're trying to deter others by setting an example. But you don't want to make him a martyr. You don't want to make him a hero by making the entertainment industry look even more crooked than the people running file lockers.
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'Why' could be as simple as 'the new CEO has different priorities than the old.'
I hate to say this but Palm was dead by the time they got it. And while I'm not a fan of Meg, I do realize that in order to save HP (which is a worthy goal) she has to kill Palm. To really make Palm work you'd have to make a huge financial bet on it since keeping it on life support won't help anybody. The problem is that if Meg wants to reposition HP as a services company it not only calls into question Palm, but keeping the entire PC division going. It's cold hearted to say this, but she has to not only kill Palm but quite a few other things and give that icon of the valley a new focus.
To the casual observer it seems the same as when you pay a hair under $5/gallon at the gas pump in California. (Way too much.) I'd imagine that is his basis. I doubt anyone walks away saying "man, I totally just paid my lawyer a fair amount for his services."
I had a similar reaction. I installed OneClick, but when I realised there wasn't even an options menu, I uninstalled it stat. I like the promise of the technology though. If anyone could run large-scale file/video distribution from any site, that would be pretty amazing.

I think BitTorrent (the company) need to address two things though:

1. Clarify the implementation. It's early days for Torque, but it should be clear to the user when they're uploading data and who can access that data.

2. Address the fact that the brand is (understandably but unfairly) associated with piracy and legal liability. Most people associate bittorrent with illegal downloads and most people don't know much at all about how the technology works. Even if they do, it's often obscured, which I guess brings us back to point 1...
(Did I misuse "plethora"? English is not my first language, sorry if I shouldn't use plethora)

> How do you know that intelligence cannot be implemented in a mechanism simpler than the biological hardware implementation or simulations thereof?

I don't know if intelligence cannot be implemented in a simpler way (I certainly hope it can), I am concerned here about understanding the biological implementation of intelligence. I say that simulations are useful because the models that we may make of the emergence of the mechanisms of intelligence in networks of neurons would be very hard to understand without being implemented and simulated.

However, if you are interested in the artificial implementation of the intelligent behavior of some organisms, you could maybe still benefit from understanding how this intelligent behavior arises in these organisms, and take inspiration from these mechanisms.

> Sorry to pick at you for this, but how can you be certain of the many claims you've made here?

I didn't make revolutionary claims regarding the functioning of biological neural networks. The fact that neurons are sensitive to relative spike timing is evident in mechanisms like spike timing dependent plasticity (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Spike-timing_dependent_p...). The "complex chemistry" that I mention is behind cognition is evident if you open any neurology book, for instance Principles of Neural Science by Kandel.

Then, I say that simulation (and in particular simulation of development as well as learning) is the right road to understanding biological neural systems, but I took care to mention that it is what I believe, not what I know.
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I think that's a shallow view of what makes a company enjoyable to work for in the first place, however.

Tight feedback loops not only keep people on track, they provide amazing feedback about what you are doing. That security in knowing that what you are working on matters and that you are doing the job well creates security. Nothing is more important to the morale of employees, in my experience, than feeling appreciated and secure in their work.

The same thing applies to vision. I've met very few people in my life who are ok with picking up a pay-check while working on projects that are failing for companies that are adrift. A company that lacks vision, no matter how amazing the team behind it, will inevitably be a terrible place to work.

At least in my experience. After all, it's not enough for me to really like everyone I work with. I need the satisfaction of knowing that I'm doing a good job (feedback) contributing to something of real importance (vision).
It doesn't though. OS X Mail uses Spotlight, meaning you can use Boolean operators and everything. It also has Smart Folders, for search queries you repeat often.

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The slippery slope argument is a straw man.

The primary diplomatic function of the U.N. is laying down specific guidelines for international conduct, so that there's no more arguing about what constitutes a violation of a specific treaty.

For example, suppose Ukrageria says, "But Zimbraqistan stationed 14 battleships outside of our port, that's an act of war," and Zimbraqistan counters, "But we just want them to lift the 200% tariff on Zimbraqistanian goods." The U.N. has specifically said that free access to ports is a sovereign right, so that resolves this dispute and gives Ukrageria international support for a declaration of war against Zimbraqistan.

Similarly, some countries have criticized Egypt for disconnecting its citizens from the global internet. Egypt in turn counters that their citizens still can express their opinions and speak freely so it's not a human rights violation. The purpose of the U.N.'s resolution is to resolve this dispute and clarify that freedom of expression must include international communication over the internet.
Yes, this is known as "Management."
Interesting concept, but it seems to slow at this point. My iPad lagged for several seconds (unable to interactive with the page at all) after the page had seemingly mostly loaded (but before the big background image appeared). Making a lot of requests at load time makes the page unresponsive, especially if you're not even making the requests asynchronously[1].

[1]: https://github.com/imulus/retinajs/blob/master/src/retina.js...
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>The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates

Market rates propped up by having the ability to restrict entry into the market controlled by other lawyers.
Not just the form of media, but also communication across sovereign borders. That is, Egypt can't make a media bubble and say, "Sure, our citizens are free to use the internet to express whatever opinions they like to other Egyptians. It just has to be on the Egyptian twitter on Egyptian servers."
The entertainment industry already looks more crooked than people running file lockers. Fucking it up for everyone so that they can protect their failing business? Check. Abusing power to achieve that goal? Check. Looks pretty crooked to me.
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I made sure to note the location because I'm aware that in the UK you guys have a bunch of taxes shoved into the price of your gas. We don't. We're paying all those lovely taxes and the expensive gas prices. Maybe it comes out to being about the same? I don't really know that answer. But the gas companies are reporting "record profits" while we're paying $50-$80 to fill our tanks each time (in California). I'm just using this to illustrate most people's perception of what they pay lawyers -- way too much.
I'd like to see more info about this. If true, it's very disappointing, but I could also see it being a case where government regulation has failed to keep up with a changing industry. It may be just as possible to recycle an Apple product today as last year, but I won't believe Apple, I won't believe Gruber, and I won't believe the first guy at the WSJ who is "grabbing a scoop".

As is typical in the media, I'm left with very few trustworthy sources.
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As a member of the same generation the first thing that hooked me on this story was that the interview subject was still alive to tell the tale. I also honestly had no idea that success in drug dealing is all about sales, marketing and keeping a clear head...
Wow. A mediocre physicist, some pointless graphics designer, a marketer and an "entrepreneur." This is never happening
'notification area' is a little bit more generic a label. If your OS has a global status/taskbar of any kind, it's usually on the right hand side of it.
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I have a bit of confusion about your situation so pardon me asking:

If you work in a team of four and your manager hands you a toy ninja and says "let's take pictures with it!", that is cool IFF there is no higher management?

Or, is it cool only if a peer thinks of it?

Or, the issue is that the idea came from more people at a distance more than X?

Or the issue is that they told you that you must take pics with it, rather than saying "you know what would be cool" ?

Or is it just a general "this doesn't feel right".

Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting next to you.

I understand and have experienced the feeling of looking at BigCo and thinking "boy, they are trying too hard to seem fun", but I am wondering how much of the judgement is the _existing_ notion that they are a boring corporate.
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Too bad really, but probably coming for a while now. I use Tbird on Windows (and Mail.app on OS X) with my email hosted at pobox.com. I have a gmail account but I've never been a fan of webmail at all.

I miss Eudora :( Now that was a simple, fast, clean email client.