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I've had a Transformer Prime for several months and have been enjoying the supposedly unobtainable Android tablet experience that everyone is waiting for. It runs stock ICS and has a 10.1" screen, and I actually wish it had a bit more of a bezel. I really don't understand why people are ignoring the Transformer Prime.

And the Transformer Infinity is coming out tomorrow, with a 1920x1200 screen, fixes to the Transformer Prime's GPS/Wifi issues (which I have not personally seen), and a micro SD slot & HDMI out (two of the things missing from the Nexus 7).

Ignoring good products seems to be a big issue with Android - with phones, people are complaining about skinning and lack of updates when the Galaxy Nexus is just sitting there waiting for buyers (I've already got Jelly Bean running on my GN).
Sorta, but all rockstars also have in common that they all have a band, practice a lot, tour a lot and make lots of decent songs...most rockstars played in 30 seat dive bars at one point or another. The Goo Goo Dolls dwelt in obscurity for about a decade before making it big. Radiohead has a similar story.

What did they do? They plugged on, practicing, writing, throwing stuff against the wall until it stuck.

It's the same for programmers, start building a body of work, learn from every line of code you write, take on hard and high profile tasks, don't fail often, and in the end, maybe after about 10 years of hard work, you'll make it big and people will recruit you rather than you having to hunt out jobs.

Some examples:

John Carmack went to boring State School and made decentish but not well known mail order games for underpowered computers before finally making it mainstream with Wolf 3d (seriously, anybody remember Hovertank 3d? didn't think so).

Tim Sweeny went to another boring state school and made such unknown shareware gems like Jill of the Jungle and Brix before hitting it big with Unreal.

Brendan Eich hammered together JavaScript with a small Jesuit school's undergrad education and a state school's Master's and did it in 10 days, before that he spent a decade writing network and dsp code and porting GCC in obscurity.

D. Richard Hipp went to his local state school next to where he grew up and after about 20 years of banging around at a phone company and going back to school, bouncing around a bit looking for work then doing software consulting for a bit, ended up writing the most popular relational database on the planet.

and on and on....Alan Kay, Phil Katz, Ken Thompson, etc. all didn't go Ivy League, and most even went to public, state schools. But they all produced and in the end that's all anybody cares about.
The best lies incorporate as much truth as possible. I believe you're suggesting the same thing I am -- that the US propaganda machine is much more subtle, and therefore more credible.

A false narrative is a false narrative, regardless of how skillfully it is intertwined with truth.
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You got me wrong. I mean he has razor-sharp wit as a satirist. He's an intelligent comic whose mind works quickly. I don't think it puts him on a pedestal to say he deserves some credit for being extremely good at what he does. Hitchens made several appearances on TDS and I think it resulted in great conversation.
Thanks for the link. Love your story. Can't wait to hear about the next chapter.
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Storage space is not really a big problem with most major mail services offering >5 GB, but I wonder where all the static content would be stored, and how it gets updated when there is a change (eg. user profile picture). Surely, one wouldn't store those outside the mailbox?
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Jelly Bean added a bunch of stuff that I'm very happy to see as a developer. But it will take a long while for that to trickle down to the user level, even for people who get on Jelly Bean quickly.

On the other hand, this translates into bucketloads of low-hanging fruit if you're an Android developer.
This is true, the flexibility you get form being able to reconfigure things does result in less efficiency (speed, size, power) than some dedicated hardware. An FPGA can be more efficient than general processor if it can be tailored to the specific computational task, but it will still be slower than if you made an IC with the specially tailored hardware.
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As your comment shows, "the best way you know how" when applied to yourself includes the realization that a PHP solution might be better for a PHP shop. Throw in another bunch of such realizations and a life long effort to actually come up with such realizations and you will understand why Paul Rand's approach is acceptable. He set out to solve Apple's problem. Not his initial and naive conception of their problem. He first made sure he understood their problem.
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There doesn't seem to be anything specific to a "Perl Shop" on the list.

Perl specific maturity items would be:

1) Do all packages have documentation (pod) stored in the package file(s), and is it up to date?

2) Are there tests built using TAP (e.g. Test::More), and is this built into some kind of continuous build/test server?

3) Have a set of perlcritic rules been set up for the shop? Are these checked as part of code-review or scm check-in?

4) Is there a consistent set of rules for how external packages are brought into the current build? How are local changes to CPAN-originated packages handled?

These are the kinds of policies I'd expect to see implemented in a mature Perl Shop. The policies listed in the original post are those which I'd expect to see implemented in a mature software firm.
I figure with free, you've always got the opportunity to say "Hey, that's as much as I can afford to do for free" in response to unreasonable requests. With cheap, you then have to deal with the added "but I paid you money" argument as well. I'm sure it differs on how the job is presented and how you outline your responsibilities as well.
Agreed. It doesn't go with the rest of ST2 ease of use. I was shocked that people think this is whining, but then remembered that programmers are used to putting up with the obviously-less-than-ideal:

"Computer people generally design terrible computer interfaces because they are not only willing to cope with something bad, they're pleased to."

- Alan kay, Personal Computing Historic Beginnings
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As much as a I love the idea of a 7 inch tablet, there's just one thing that I really really use my tablet for and that's reading PDFs and old scanned comic books (guilty pleasure). The size of a ~10" tablet is more or less perfect for this despite the difficulties in handling the size of the device while in bed vs. a 7".
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Karate and exercise. Twice a week I help teach the kids class and attend the adults class at my local dojo. Its all of 2km from my house, real easy. Friday nights, if I am not burned out from an intense day at work, I'll do the weapons class. Sat/Sun will be hitting the gym, with a decommissioned iphone, acting as an ipod, with it in airplane mode. Other weeknights, its an hour on the stationary bike, with an ipad usually watching a movie ... though sometimes its Netflix.

I've come to really appreciate these down times.

Yeah, customers call, emails come in. But being able to put it aside and not think about it allows my mind to clear up. And I am more productive for doing so.

Of course, right now, its Monday morning at 1am EDT, so ...
This doesn't seem to do anything for me, (on mountain lion)
I have to disagree on this. 7 inches are so much better when you want to read on the crowded NYC subway. I already tried with an iPad and it's a whole lot more inconvenient.
At least MS backed down from calling their smartphone platform "Windows Phone 7 Series" (http://gizmodo.com/5471805/windows-phone-7-series-everything...). What the heck does the word "Series" even communicate in that name?
This is a google device, not a run-of-the-mill Android device (most of which are not on ICS much less JB).

This point is very important - it makes the device more like an iOS one - more likely for updates, more fine touches as Google's cred rests on it.

If we see other tablets of similar calibre to the nexus7, then yes - you can say "Android" compares/best iOS. But for right now, it's nexus7 vs. iPad or Kindle Fire.
I'm just concerned that the size of the text will simply be too small (regardless of DPI).

7" is definitely a good size for tossing in a courier bag/coat pocket though.
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PDFs with images - ie, technical manuals or papers - still don't see it for a 7" screen. Reflow don't help much here.
They could integrate with the storage / media service provider of your choice i.e. Dropbox, iCloud, YouTube, Flickr... Etc!
I'm not sure about the recorded-message-then-hold thing, but Android 4.0 has a feature where when there's an incoming call, the user can hang up, answer the call, or quickly choose from a few configurable text messages to send the caller (which also hangs up the call). You could set one of those canned messages to say "Hey, I can't take your call at my present location, I will call you back in 1 minute." Not perfect, but pretty useful.
Most FPGAs store their configuration in SRAM so they don't have any limitations in the number of programmings.

There also exists flash based FPGAs which have the normal flash wearout problem. One time programmable FPGAs also exist but I don't think they are interesting in this application :-)
In terms of density, it's between iPad 2 and iPad 3.
I was thinking about using one as a robot brain. I'm still looking for a cheap USB motor/servo controller.
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To whom it may concern... I am 25 years old, no job, still live with my parents and oh yeah I am a registered felon in the state of Pennsylvania. But more on that later. I have always loved making websites and was always a bit above average when it came to computers (which is nothing compared to what people actually do these days). I currently work with the usual web developers toolkit (js, php, ruby, mysql) but have found other languages and development methods come easy to me. After high school I decided that dealing drugs would be the best option for me. Unfortunately that wasn't the smartest idea. With that aside, I have served my time and have come to realize how many people love me and really care about seeing me succeed in my life. I want to show them that I can but also follow my dream at the same time. I dabble in a little bit of everything... which is my problem. I can't stay focused on one thing. There is so much to learn and think about when actually making something as simple as a website come together and actually work. My questions are about my felony and what you think I should do... should I just give up and become a janitor or pursue my dreams of freelancing and eventually being a part of a company when I do have a respectable portfolio to show, and my second question is how would I bring it up in a job interview whether it be for a freelance client or a potential employer?
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AFAIK, it's bigger in the UK and Australia than the US. I'm from Portland, currently live in SF, and know of a handful of bars in both cities (also Davis, CA) that do trivia, but not as many as in Sydney, where I studied abroad.
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Hell, there's an Android 13" tablet out there (toshiba?) - more sizes by far than Apple's offerings... that's never been a gripe, IMHO.
While it may no longer be a requirement of Visa or Mastercard that merchants not pass on fees on to consumers, I believe that there are laws on the books in several states (California included) that would still preclude this.

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we tested this heavily at mint. the verdict was

sign in/sign out is clearest to the average (nontechnical, mass consumer) user...

...but the problem is, so is "sign up." so when in conflict with a third "sign _" action, the preferred and easily recognized choices are "log in," "log out," and "sign up."

this is a generalization, but "log on" really only resonates with people who had modems.

there you go.
Also, it should be noted that PayPal's terms for merchants also state that surcharges are not allowed.
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The biggest problem with FPGA dynamic reconfiguration of today is that it is slow and not fine grained.

The vendors haven't really seen this as an area which their customers are interested in. Maybe this has been changing in the recent years with the military's interest in software defined radio, but they probably don't need very rapid reconfigurations so maybe not ..
iPad 2 has a dpi of 132, Nexus 7 213, and iPad 3 264.

Nexus 7, while not "retina", is closer to iPad 3 than iPad 2.
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It's easy to think of the political obstacles if you are expecting this to happen overnight. But it will be gradual. People will share the road with robots for a while, and when it's clear how much safer the robots are, there will start to be roads and then areas where people aren't allowed to drive.
As for "tak[ing] away people's privilege to operate a vehicle they own and paid for," they can feel free to drive on private property. Even today I'm not allowed to drive my off-road truck on public roads because it doesn't have proper smog equipment and mudflaps, and I own and paid for it with my own money. It's really not that unreasonable when it's a matter of public safety and the restrictions only apply to public roadways.

As for the automation stealing jobs argument, that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
Or, if you want to try to be a little more positive, let's be happy that we have here another case of science lifting people out of misery.
> Now if Google can just distribute it beyond the initial five launch nations...

That's still much better than the Amazon Fire which AFAIK isn't even sold outside of the US.

See also this article from The Verge: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/28/3122716/nexus-7-internatio... ("The Nexus 7's most important price is £159, not $199").
> I'm pretty sure small business owners have AmEx cards at a higher rate than the average consumer, though I'm not entirely sure why

Because they treat business customers like royalty and offer great benefits. Nobody else offered me cards with:

* Unlimited credit

* Trade terms on all purchases (1.5% cash discount for paying a bill early, or pay 10% and have 60 days to pay interest-free)

* 90 days to return any purchase, even if the store won't take it back

* OPEN network discounts (office supplies, hotels, cars, etc)

* An actual human being that you talk to the same day your FedEx'd card arrives, who wants to know about your business and how AmEx can help you save money and manage cash flow
This is true, and as far as I see - this is an inherent limitation. Dedicated, static ASICs will always be faster or more efficient.
However - I think there's some interesting work to be done in hybrid approaches. For example, besides FPGA cells, you can include fast on-board cache, arithmetic units, etc. So, this way, if you're switching between GPU and CPU cores, a subset of that can be reused.

For reference, a typical FPGA cell includes a 1-bit flip-flop and an LUT (look-up table). Flip-flops are memory, LUTs simulate the logic.
Am I the only one that thinks Asus isn't getting enough credit for the Nexus 7?
Is making otherwise innocuous changes which have a substantial impact on user behavior important to the startup culture?

No, no at all.
but my monitor does not have the real DPI the label on it's back says... configuring by DPI is moot.

i read a little more on the link you provided... and the closest to the gimp old way of doing that is putting the width and height of the viable area of the monitor in mm. think that might work rather well if it's correctly implemented.
> People who have never tried to scan a brain say "oh it's totally doable, why haven't we done this with simple organisms?"

Who are these people? Certainly not Chris Hallquist in the post linked by Myers.

And where does Myers say this? I don't see him attributing to anyone the claim that the scanning of simple organisms should already have happened.
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Most places using those software solutions are e-commerce only places, and only accept credit cards. This will have pretty much no effect on them, as they should already be taking into account those fees when they set their prices.

The merchants affected by this are those that accept both cash and credit cards for products sold through a given sales channel. Generally, that will be the brick and mortar shops. They'll now be able to advertise the cash price for the item, and tack on a credit card fee at the cash register.
Have you been to a Unitarian Universalist church? Definitely not right-wing.

I've also read about left-wing Catholics and Baptists (two cases where the main organization is generally seen as right-wing, but there are significant left-wing groups within them). I'm not a church-goer myself, so I don't have any suggestions on how to find a church you're comfortable with.
That's actually why I brought that up. I'm quite interested in ideas that have never been done before. (Hardware examples are non-typical FPGA use, modern trinary processors, using PID-like "overdrive" to speed up digital transistor switching)
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Probably because Apple has sewn up all of the suppliers of high-quality 10" LCDs.
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^C cancels the current command, where ESC exits insert mode.
I can see a 10" being a little too heavy to hold after a while. A 7-8" is at the right weight / size to hold with one hand then switch to another without getting to tired too quickly.

Browsing is tricky as clicking on tiny links take more work, I find I need to do a lot more zooming in on the 7".

Another advantage of many 7"-ers is they can charge from the USB port. If for some reason you also have your laptop with you, you can often plug the tablet into it and it will charge (albeit much slower than from the wall charger), most 10"-ers cannot do that.
So their tablet will be at a higher API level than pretty much every Android device out there. You still can't use the latest OS features as a dev unless it's OK for the Nexus 7 to have exclusive features.

Or maybe Google has another go at direct handset sales, or they withhold updates to maintain parity across their flagship products.

At the moment being a "Google device" doesn't actually guarantee you anything.

Edit: I didn't think that through. The OS version is already out of sync! I guess that is what they will do.
While I get screwed a bit for almost exclusively using debit over cash I am very excited to see the holdouts of "cash only" start accepting cards under this ruling.
This shouldn't change anything on the web where only payment methods with transaction fees were accepted all along. Why would you want to break out the fee into another line-item?

In the offline world, this settlement only offers a new label for an existing practice. Cash discounts were already legal, and a credit surcharge is just a cash discount by another name. I don't expect anyone that wasn't interested in advertising cash discounts to want to start advertising a credit surcharge. That sounds much more offensive to customers that want to give you their money but also want to use their credit card.
I'll echo what Dan said for their consumer accounts as well. I always get excellent, fast, friendly, competent, empowered customer service any time at all I have the slightest problem with a transaction on my American Express cards. So, I use them for everything.

I imagine their higher discount rate helps fund that customer service center, but if I saw a place charging more for Amex cards, I wouldn't shop there; I'd just go somewhere else. Amex customers are (at least, statistically,) more affluent and have a higher propensity to spend; you pay more for being able to access those people.
Note that this only applies customers who elect to use a credit card in lieu of cash or check or similar. For online transactions where credit cards are the only payment method accepted, that section does not apply.
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This is a google device, not a run-of-the-mill Android device (most of which are not on ICS much less JB).

I think almost all brand name tablets are on ICS now.

This point is very important - it makes the device more like an iOS one - more likely for updates, more fine touches as Google's cred rests on it

Have you actually used something like the Asus Transformer?

It's very, very good. I have a MBP, Linux Laptop, Windows Laptop, iPad2, iPhone 4, Galaxy S, an old 7" no brand Android tablet and the Transformer with a keyboard dock, and the Transformer gets the most use for general email/web browsing use.
lets just say im looking for a real job as well?