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I find it fascinating that, with all the talk about new and creative ways to do ad business, the only ads that I find myself interested in are Youtube ads, which are, in some way, a very old school and tv-like technique.

I tune out ads on Google search, on websites, and ads on Facebook are about as relevant to me as the spam I get in my inbox ([0]). But, on Youtube, I'm stuck with them, so I might as well try to enjoy them. The fact that they are somehow relevant also helps.

[0] Facebook (or advertisers) seems to infer that if I'm in Sweden, I'm interested in ads in swedish. That's kind of unfortunate. Plus, even ignoring that, just like spam, half of them are just referrals to AdultFriendFinder or the likes.
Perhaps something à la the KDE Free Qt Foundation? (http://www.kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p...)

The agreement between the Free Qt Foundation and Nokia gives them right to release the latest Qt version under a BSD-style licence if Nokia stop releasing Qt versions (GPL+LGPL).
stop != pay != contribute
If you are referring to micro-transactions whereby readers pay content authors, tipjoy and others have already tried the "e-tip" model and failed.

Also, paypal's donate feature has existed for some time now but it doesn't seem to be able to replace ads. If anybody could implement the safe, seamless microtransaction model I'd think it'd be paypal as they have the existing infrastructure already. Either they have overlooked it or they've decided that the model wouldn't work.
like in Serial Experiments Lain, where "The Wired" (the internet) eventually becomes indistinguishable from reality
Bots
Could someone give me a decent explanation to what these "bots" are?? I see there are several folks making them into several different, very, different looking softwares, that does different things. I have found a place that sells different kinds of these "bots", but should I go for it, Im totally "newbie, greenie", when it comes to programming, and have no concept, as earlier stated, about these "bots. But if I would/could, be able(as the website states that I easily can)to make a nice software that I will sell as a product, I would really like to buy one of them "bots", they come in three different prices, $300, $500, and $999, depending on the stuff the bot can do, and how much you can make etc.
Im excited and awaits an answer if possible.
Thanks Yours Sincerely,
Alexander Torp
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How to work with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in HTML 5
If you're on-boarding into an existing Java project and want to be productive in your first week, I think using an IDE is the only answer.

I would argue if you're using Java, using an IDE is the only way to stay sane. Context aware class navigation is pretty much a requirement on any sizable project. Intellij can make Java almost enjoyable to use.

Your comments on agile and standups are spot on. Where I work now we do real standups. The group makes everyone actually standup and keeps the people who can wander during their turn on topic. The meeting is also strictly 15 minutes or less. It's the best daily type meeting I've ever had at any job and it works pretty well.
They are legally obliged to for any sales to the US territories. So if you are in the US and buy Minecraft, then they are exporting software to the US and have to comply with relevant law and any trade agreements between Sweden and the US.
You have to add investors in the equation who want to earn something from their investment too. This may add pressure to sell on the developpers.
This article suddenly reminded me of another link that was on front page a few weeks ago. That one was on how to incorporate a company in another country without being there. People wanted to incorporate their software startups in the US due to ease of payment processing and stuff. After seeing these kind of patent trolls, I wonder if anyone would even think of incorporating the the US.

If your product is international, and you're incorporated in the US and then a patent troll fucks you up, you'll have to waste so much time on all the procedures in addition to the money. And if anything goes wrong, then you'll have to pay hefty penalties/fines/royalties or close shop.

If your company is incorporated outside the country, granted you might find it a little hard to get your payment processor set up, but atleast you know that patent trolls [which, unfortunately seem to primarily originate from the USA] would be able to only shut down your business in one country. And, as long as you had a website up, people will find ways to bypass the country restriction. [Hint - Amazon's free app of the day isn't just being enjoyed by people in the USA]
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You're thinking too hard. He's using "blend" mode and he needs to use "dodge". Or maybe it's "burn", or "dissolve".
A more likely explanation is that that the paper expands at slightly different rates. People who had no trouble, like you and me, received the package after it sat in a hot UPS truck all day. The sleeve was slightly larger than the box due to heat expansion.
But the %^$ thing still cannot be set to send just plain-text emails. Why, google, why? Good technical mailing lists all know that html email is just spam or marketing people, and auto-delete html crap. Just give me the option to send text-only, ok?*

I have the opposite problem: My Gmail app only sends in plain text, and I have no way to change that on my Galaxy Nexus. Perhaps it's taking the default from my web Gmail sessions?
People already lie to themselves and are lied to. Millions of years of evolution have given us a brain with a remarkable ability to heal over any damage to its worldview. (See _Phantoms in the Brain._)

AR is not the gating factor here.
Actually - Quicksilver development is alive and well. And I still use it in preference to Alfred et al.
> An example of this is Quicksilver on the Mac. It's considered to be one of the best Mac apps ever and the developer who made it, decided to open source it after he decided to take a job at Google. Quicksilver development fell apart afterwards.

I don't use a Mac, and don't even know what Quicksilver was until I checked, but this was posted 17 hours ago:

http://blog.qsapp.com/post/27644282840/ss69-release-quicksil...

Maybe development didn't follow at the same pace as before, but to say it "fell apart" when they are very close to releasing 1.0 seems not very accurate to this outside observer.
Audio compression is generally not used for production audio (film sound, television etc), but on occasion they'll use MPEG2 for remote transmission. This is a lossy codec but sounds better than the example provided, albeit at 128kbps so I'd need to hear the Opus codec at 128kbps to compare.
Yes but worst case scenario is you are forced to switch to a different client not that you lose any data. So actually not that critical.
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Silly? It's a well known design requirement - the shuttle has to be able to enter the atmosphere, slow down and deliver a nuclear bomb over any target on Earth (e.g. Moscow).
Lenovo certainly does compete on quality, it just aims for a different set of quality seekers.

Apple targets people who want their computer to look pretty. Lenovo targets the people who want to get stuff done.

Want to quickly scroll through a document? page up/page down/home/end buttons? Lenovo's got it. Want to change the volume easily and still have access to f1-f12? Lenovo's got dedicated buttons for it. Spill your drink? There's a good chance your drink harmlessly poured out through holes in the bottom (damaging at most the keyboard).

Need more battery life? Buy a second battery and swap them when the first runs out. Need more ram? Just open it up and put it in. Same thing if you want a new HD/etc.

Combine this with great linux support [1] and Lenovo is a clear win for me.

[1] At work we have macbook pros, getting it to work with linux was a disaster.
There's also the very basic disappointment that a piece of good software won't grow to maturity. I finally found a mail client that restored my faith in SMTP as a communications medium; a mail client that had me managing email exclusively on my iPhone. A mail client that broke away from email as a metaphor for paper envelopes with written messages on pulp.

I liked handling email in Sparrow. It felt modern, and now it won't get any better.
Opus, A lot better, it is a rather strange beast that it nearly manage to outperform in every category. With a bit more tuning work for a year or two it could properly be on the same level with AAC @ 256Kbps.
Review of "Rework" - a nice book about startups
> independent software developers tend to be less entrepreneurial than startup founders

Why is that? Because they have a working monetization model when they launch?
I think github would be the exception that proves the rule, because the github investment isn't a typical "Venture" investment- it was much closer to a late stage hedge, or hedge fund investment.

This was a company that was profitably growing like crazy and thus could effectively dictate terms. Whatever A16H's exit expectations are here, I'm pretty sure they are rather long term, and on the order of "github goes public" rather than "github is shut down after an aquihire."

Yesterday I was watching a presentation where Steve Blank said that the pyramid has shifted-- the big VCs have replaced IPOs and private equity, and everyone has moved up the stack. (So now instead of needing VCs for your first investment, for instance, there's accelerators like YC, then angels, then super angels.)
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That's exactly what I had in my mind immediately after reading the article. I'm no Mac user, but seeing loyal users let down, I just wish the app was free software.

I don't think Google will release it as free software, but if they made it open from the start, maintaining it would be a possibility.
Could it simply be that Google is willing to so overpay for engineers that it makes sense for Sparrow, which, in previous times would itself be a nice successful small business (like eudora used to be, etc.)

Back in the day, Sparrow might have grown over 5-10 years to be a big company to get swallowed up... but now, companies like google are so desperate for talent that they cut them off too early by making absurd offers?

As much as I hate working for big companies (and refused googles constant, persistent pursuit to go work for them) I'd be tempted by a $25M "Signing bonus" (or whatever a Sparrow Founder's split of that is....)
> it sure sounds like predicting a demise to me.

He is. Of Facebook.

Facebook is not cheap to run. If revenues fall and costs do not ...
FWIW, I was an early employee at a startup that was acquired around 1998 for around this amount of money.

In those days this wasn't considered an "acquihire" but a "successful exit" or a "base hit". (e.g.: not a failure but not the success that pays for all the other companies in the VC firms cohort that year.)

The VCs got about 5X on their money and because of liquidation preferences and other shenanigans, I, and the other employees, pretty much got screwed.
Well, I suspect they talked to their legal department which _might_ have reasoned like this (IANAL, btw):

"Opus is a hybrid codec that internally uses both, SILK and Celt.

SILK was created by Skype (now Microsoft) and its patent license includes this gem: '5.1 Skype may terminate this License Agreement and any rights granted hereunder in the event that you or any of your Affiliates (i) materially breaches any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement; or (ii) asserts any patent or patent rights against Skype, its Affiliates, or its or their successors or assigns.'

So lets assume Motorola (owned by Google) tries to (counter)sue MS over some Android stuff: Suddenly the patent grant given by Skype becomes invalid and Google might have to remove Opus from Chrome. If it's popular by that time, this is a serious competitive disadvantage.

So better not help making it popular in the first place. "
As an impressionist myself, one has to see the subject as often as possible to grasp it spirit and feel. It is all about momentum. The goal is to "capture the moment". So it is more about the "concept of the moment" than the subject
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Super cool AI/CV mashup there---I've always loved watching GAs at work. We're thinking of coming up with a bunch of cool demos like this to describe different aspects of Computer Vision to those just starting to learn. For example, visualizing Principal Component Analysis or training an SVM for image classification.
For me it's as simple as knowing a product I like is not going to be developed anymore, and having a complete lack of faith in Google to use them to turn out anything near as good.
The reason sparrow had to sell is because they didn't have a recurring revenue model. This is what limits all "pay once" desktop (and mobile) software: either they have to charge prohibitively high amounts or they have to get you to upgrade frequently. The former limits adoption and the latter is tricky and encourages feature bloat.

I now want to pay for the desktop software I like as a subscription: it keeps the developer fed and on call, and doesn't put undue pressure on them to add features, while still keeping their revenue from me contingent on the continued usefulness of their product.
If the Gmail app becomes good enough thanks to the Sparrow team, then I don't see any loss for the user.
Nobody outside the developer community will ever pay for any software on a recurring basis, especially if free alternatives are available.
> Phonegap is nothing more than a stopgap for people that can't afford iOS devs. I can think of no benefits for the end user.

Getting the product sooner. After all, if getting the product sooner isn't a benefit, then the product probably isn't worth building.
People are used to having a Facebook id. They go there to hang out with their friends or their old buddies. They're not used to needing to log in to search google, and I doubt they are going to want to. Google is increasingly making you need to have a google account to do stuff, but I find that it is making me use the services less and less. For instance, I use youtube less now.

Google+ may well be successful, but having learned my lesson with Facebook, I'm going the other way. I'm slowly shutting down all my gmail accounts and migrating it to my own domains and servers. My app engine app is going away, and my google apps accounts have migrated. Google docs etc, have been replaced with another solution.

Eventually, and pretty soon, I'll have no more google accounts.
> Yesterday I was watching a presentation where Steve Blank said that the pyramid has shifted-- the big VCs have replaced IPOs and private equity, and everyone has moved up the stack. (So now instead of needing VCs for your first investment, for instance, there's accelerators like YC, then angels, then super angels.)

I agree.

An additional value which VCs provide that hasn't been eroded that much is credibility to enterprises. It's a good guess that Github took the investment so they appear more credible to enterprises, i.e. they are going after Perforce and ClearCase
A thousand times my sister has facetimed me from New Zealand laying in her bed, chatting incessantly about her new life as a mother, then all of the sudden she flips the camera (not the iPad) to show me her little angel sleeping in her cradle.

Thanks Apple.
> But can we cut out approximately 90% of the fury?

You have to realize this app existed in the apple-sphere. The user base is part of a very entitlement based generation for the most part. That's why there's so much rage.
I've downloaded Sparrow on my iPhone and used it for a bit but then later switched back to the native email app, primarily because of the lack of push notification at the time of its initial release.
I wonder how much of this sale has to do with the updates to email in ios6, such as the ability to attach photos directly from the mail app.
Can they differentiate enough to continue to keep an active user base? if not its hard to beat a native app.

Can't comment on the Mac, haven't tried it.
I think the military use-cases will pay for hard AR anyway (think Deus Ex HR-style 'see through walls to find targets' or 'target leading' AR), and we'll start to discover the consumer use-cases after the fact.

Actually AR laserquest/paintball/airsoft games immediately falls out of that - now you need to be able to move silently, because a microphone array processing impulse noise superimposes your location on the blacked-out bunker walls. I'd pay to play.
I think facebook should try a groupon style model. They have locations and intentions of users. They should just have a deal feed, or some type of email listing with possible low prices they could get if they join in a deal. To filter it better, maybe ask each user for a list of things they want cheap.
"My recollection is that people considered the search engine market pretty much stable when Google was seeking funding. Your list certainly does nothing to prove otherwise."

Just because those sites didn't gain the popularity that Google did, you are assuming the search engine market was "pretty much stable"? That is classic survivorship bias. When Google started as a research project in the Computer Science department at Stanford, the goal wasn't to become a billion dollar company. They weren't even incorporated when they got the $100k from Andy Bechtolsheim. You draw from a fascinating version of history. Please do tell me more.

"Also, suggesting that Google's origin is somehow like cancer research is laughable; they were two CS PhD students playing around with basic hardware."

And this is different than cancer research, how? Where do you think cancer research is happening? I assure you it isn't at a mobile app company being run by Kevin Rose or in somebody's dorm room at Harvard.
Why can't Facebook start charging for its API, and for business pages? Banner ads were big in the 90s before people realized they were that effective. I don't see why Facebook would need to rely on them forever.
How about any user not using Google email?
Yeah, I see soft AR being somewhat common in 5 years, especially if Google glasses and its competitors take off. It'll be another 5-10 years after that until it is as ubiquitous as smart phones are today, IMO.

Hard AR might be an expensive toy at that point, though I'm not sure if the author is speaking about "it's possible and has been done" or "everybody is doing it."
I guess his point is you're more likely to have a phone 'always with you' therefor a tablet camera is sort of superfluous apart from in a few instances.
> or on a more serious note-CAD software used to make a living

Yes. Updates should be provided. Paid updates, of course. And the updates don't need to work on older versions. The issue isn't providing the same version working forever for free. It's providing an upgrade path. Adobe doesn't just release new software for a money grab. Professionals rely on Adobe to keep up to date, and Adobe does this.

> It was a one time payment, and I'm not sure I should 'expect' anything after that.

I'd hope for any tool you invest time in you would expect continued support for the product.

But, if a company doesn't want to release updates for this, there is a solution (which happens to solve your game problem).

Open sourcing the code is always a solution, and if Sparrow did that, it would, in effect, silence all the people with an issue.

I hope that better explains my point of view. I'm not expecting anything free. I'm not expecting long term support for old software. What I am expecting is an upgrade path. New version coming out that keep up with the times. That's software I'd pay for (and I do).

Note: I didn't purchase Sparrow. I just understand the issues.
Well, it took me long enough to get past the Flood Control Dam #3 in Zork.
On Ken Thompson:

Regarding his programming style ... hardly ever uses unit tests,
starts his projects by designing the data structures and then works bottom up,
with throwaway test stubs.

Sounds to me like he does use unit tests, but then throws them away after he's content that the code is working. I think this is what most people did for non-trivial code before unit testing became a culture.
> never attach a word or page count to any future assignment

Whenever I teach English writing, I never attach word counts. I tell them to write on one side of an A4 sheet. The students use less fluffy language, handwrite more legibly, and leave plenty of whitespace for me to write comments. It's easier to mark, as I just need to scan the sheets without turning them over, sorting them into order from best to worst.
> Apple targets people who want their computer to look pretty.
> Lenovo targets the people who want to get stuff done.

I'm no Apple fanboy, but this statement's ridiculous.

> Want to quickly scroll through a document? page up/page down/home/end buttons? Lenovo's got it.

Two-finger inertial scrolling on the amazing glass trackpad. Or, Command-arrow keys. Same effect. Not one-button, but it's not like the functionality isn't there.

> Want to change the volume easily and still have access to f1-f12? Lenovo's got dedicated buttons for it.

Macbooks have a "fn" key that can be held to modify the function key behaviors, and the unmodified behavior is a Mac OS X Preference option.

> Need more battery life? Buy a second battery and swap them when the first runs out.
> Need more ram? Just open it up and put it in. Same thing if you want a new HD/etc.

I feel the need to point out that these are completely valid arguments against the new Macbooks.

I have a Late 2008 Macbook Pro, the first unibody they made, and the only reason it still runs strong is because I've swapped the battery, RAM, and HDD (now an SSD). I love the new Retina Display Macbooks, but I don't know if I can put that kind of money down on a computer that isn't upgradeable. Not when it's my primary mode of earning a living.
I was actually quite surprised to read this on HN, I once met Ric Richardson the founder of Uniloc shortly after he sued Microsoft for infringing a similar patent, and I usually laugh at anyone trying to enforce software patents but this time I would take it a lot more seriously.
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And Holy Fxxk that is some awesome Hardcore Video and Audio hacker discussion. Great Stuff!!!!
Well, the number being reported in this particular case is $25 million, split between their 5 person team.
I think this hack is supported by a recent study (http://www.nature.com/news/why-great-ideas-come-when-you-are...) that working on a problem, then doing an unrelated activity that allows your mind to 'wander' can have measurable improvements to creativity when you return to the original problem. The author of this article seems to have stumbled upon some variation of this technique but I suspect that he could get better results if he applied the strategy more systematically.
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