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Needed? It looks to me like a terrible idea not very well implemented. It's easier (and more WYSIWYG) to style controls in Interface Builder using the properties. It's probably just as easy to write NIBs by hand.
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I'm not sure why SO feels the need to delete posts like this. I get that the "question" isn't keeping with their stated objectives, but I find the answers to be enlightening in some respects. I've learned about many new technologies and frameworks from the "What is the best X to use for Y" questions that get posted frequently. I don't see those as detrimental to the community like the SO mods apparently do.
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How about an extra core site that isn't required to follow the "every question only exists to educate those who end up finding it through Google" pattern of the rest of the StackExchange network, but simply serves as a StackExchange-powered community forum? Of course, It would only really make sense if whole topics could be pushed there with all their comments and votes intact; otherwise it would just be a ghetto to shove overly-gregarious users into.
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In a couple of minutes of hunting I found the Kaguya data archive [http://l2db.selene.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/index.html.en] and the Chandrayaan-1 data archive [http://issdc.gov.in/CHBrowse/index.jsp]. So, uh, yeah, both countries released the data.
"I think you're seriously overestimating the quality of the model. This isn't particle physics -- it's not as if there's an equation that precisely predicts the results of any particular molecular interaction. We don't even know if we know the full set of possible interactions in a system of this size. How can we possibly simulate it?"

(Edit: there was a whole bunch of stuff here, but it's pretty much irrelevant given that we seem to agree on the basic points.)

"This is an example of "we ran the fancy machine for a while, it spit out some data, and we cherry-picked 'interesting' results from the output. Some of them even show up in experiments!" These sorts of breathless announcements are common in computational biology, but they usually don't amount to much. The best work is extremely reductionist. As others have already noted, it's easy to spend 10x the computational resources simulating a single protein on timescales far, far shorter than the ones simulated here."

That's fair enough. I checked your profile and saw that you have a PhD in computational biology, which is not my field of expertise, so I'm inclined to take your word on that one. In that case, my comments do, of course, not apply.
Before correcting anything, you must first write out everything on twitter.
> It's ironic that this good enough browser was IE6, which we know view as the worst impediment to web progress.

On the contrary, if any browser killed Netscape, then it would seem to be IE5. (Scary, eh?)
What Theil seems to be saying is that Google seems to have no clue with what to do with 50 billion in the bank. Can Google just hire a lot more programmers and give them something to work on? Can they just gobble up a lot of startups and with the cash horde turn them hugely profitable. At least from what Schmidt says in the interview, it looks like there is no easy answer to the question of what to do with the money. I guess even companies like Apple will have this problem. Lots of money, no idea what to do with it. Even things like self driving cars and google glass are really peanuts in terms of investments when it comes to googles finances.

Things like Space, energy seem too risky and biotech, medicine etc. seem to be too regulated. While I have no idea who is right or wrong, I was certainly surprised that Schmidt did not dismiss Thiel's comment about not having a clue about what to do with the cash.

I am not an economist, but I feel scared when the wealthiest people have no idea how to rapidly grow the money they have gathered. Coz they own most of it... and if all they can do is slosh it around from account to account and not directing it towards making employees/machines produce "stuff that matters", we will rather stagnate quickly. Once the developing countries catch upto the west and we automate whatever we can easily automate, the whole world will be left with stagnant economies. A whole planet with nothing much to do apart from fighting over depleting resources.

I desperately want google to be able to spend that cash heap on making something people want. Something that will give it a good profit so that it keep this going on until it remains competitive. Else I want capitalism off the face of this planet. I hate to live in a world where money keeps leaking out of my pocket in mysterious ways and the guys who get it from me, stop doing anything that will indirectly improve my life.

And please do not buy 50 Instagrams with that cash horde :(. Open question to the hackers over here... If you were chairman of Google what would do with 50 billion dollars to create maximum new wealth(http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html)?
These developers worked hard to ship the best Gmail client on iOS or OS X. Why is everyone angry about their comeuppance?

Software is a business, just like any other. Every project -- even open source projects!! -- needs money to operate, and many times these projects -- yes, even open source projects!! -- organize around businesses or foundations. See Enthought and Continuum for two examples: they exist, among other things, to support development of scientific computing libraries for Python.

Does this hurt for people who bought Sparrow? Not really. You paid them $10 for their app. Google offered them up to $25 million. You still have a functioning Sparrow app, and once that stops working you'll return to Mail.app until a new amazing mail app comes along.

Perspective, people. This is a website focused on tech entrepreneurship, and you guys are flipping out over a company sale?
I guess what is going on here is that WordPress owns the copyright to WordPress, and doesn't have any GPL dependencies, so they can do with it what they want. No one else is allowed to make a Wordpress app for iOS, however.

(I didn't check and am not familiar with the WP source code.. if they do have any GPL dependencies they might be in violation. Likely their app just presents an interface to communicate with their server stuff, so things like databases or anything else the WordPress server depends on don't count as dependencies for the app--so as long as they wrote the app from scratch they are okay.)
I don't understand the down votes here. Other than the snark, it's right on point.
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Rhodes doesn't create 100% native apps. Your compiled app has a web server embedded in it.
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Microsoft actually helped with the development of Opus according to the article. :)
Exactly. What a depressing array of responses here. This is precisely why this needed attention.
There's a reason the frat house isn't in the middle of the classroom on most college campuses. Because it'd interfere with learning.

Frat row is, y'know, over there. Slightly off campus.
In that case, they should be delighted on their return from this acquisition!
Is it the low level part that you like, or the reasoning about every detail in a precise analytical fashion? Opportunities in both directions abound! Endless endless opportunities for the right combo of capabilities and insightful understanding of market need.
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My only takeaway from the Sparrow acquisition is that I wish Apple had done it and put them in charge of Mail.app. Can't fault them for taking a payout for a lot of hard work
see http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...

It's possible, provided you're careful about how you do it and thoughtful in your approach.

Basically, if a question can have (and will eventually accrete) infinite answers, that's a problem for a Q&A system, unless it is Q&A in name only.
No, it's as I stated initially. If you're unable to keep track of the rules of your native language, something that should be second nature, I have severe doubts about your ability to keep track of the rules in Scala, Ruby, or whatever else. If it's simply that you don't proofread or don't care to, I have no reason to believe you'll do so when dealing with code. That problem is exacerbated in dynamic languages where typos won't be caught until runtime. Both writing natural language and code are forms of expressing ideas, problems, & solutions cogently -- you just have different grammar forms for the various languages, each with their own rules. The two are even merging with things like Cucumber.

No, I don't have exhaustive studies on this. That neither proves nor disproves anything. I never stated any of this beyond my own opinion, which has been formed and reinforced by 15 years of working in open source, running & working at startups, and working at big companies.

That aside, code is typically only part of your job. Documentation, blog posts, interacting with customers, partners, team members, etc. are all part of engineering. You don't have to like it or think it's just, but people do and will form opinions about you on this stuff. Many times it won't be other engineers, which you may be fine with, but engineering alone often doesn't make a successful business. You can disagree with it or be flippant about it, but it really doesn't change reality.
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> some women say that even small things like these can wear you out eventually, but I don't know.

"Death by a thousand cuts", and yes, it's very real, and yes, this (and the resulting discussion around it, even moreso) is very much a "cut".
Pedantry is inevitable when programmers are in charge ^^

Seriously though, there's not a good argument for deleting it. There are plenty of terrible, off-topic, garbage questions on there to be closed. Why focus the few that, while probably off-format, result in entertaining (and sometimes) enlightening results? Sure, if the site was flooded with posts like that, then maybe. Maybe.

But its not. Its just one group deciding to be pedantic. Nothing more.
I agree. I spent about a few weeks cobbling together a prototype, but most of it was spent trying to get it look and feel native. That plus debugging is a nightmare.
Node follows a even/odd version scheme where even releases are stable and odd releases are unstable. v0.9.0 is just the first release of the unstable v0.9 series.

The versioning scheme is unfortunate because it confuses people. After Node 1.0 we'll switch a less confusing version system.
I just have to add that we've solved the second part of the problem - being able to measure web marketing - and for free. http://blog.tapstream.com/post/27658813582/apple-wont-stop-a...
I remember when MS participated in MPEG-4 development and then fought MPEG-4 for years.
The money speech helped me get over an irrational, subconscious distaste for money but at the same time I recognized it for the capitalist fairytale that it is. So I suppose it helped me in a way that "The Automatic Millionaire" and other books helped jaysonelliot.

Gruseom has apparently never read Rand, but manages a brief, wonderful analysis of Rand's flaws and absurdities above that captures the essence of what I found more absurd as the novel progresses to its conclusion.

However I still keep the concept of moochers and looters in my head, and think of them as we lurch from one global financial crisis to another.
Better jsonpifier checks callbacks to make sure people don't put arbitrary javascript in the callback function and then memcache the results to keep up the speed. It also dont serve any invalid json file. I built this baby with speed and safety in mind and hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do.
I think the general source of frustration with Sparrow's acquisition is the feeling that something beautiful just got end-of-lifed. And of course that this is just the latest in a line of could-have-beens like PushPopPress, Tweetie, etc.

And I had a similar train of thought as the OP: "I wish Apple could make the App Store even more profitable, so we can have more great independent developers like Marco and TapTapTap that continue to make great apps without being gobbled up by large companies eager to put talent into unrelated areas."

I don't know if it's possible, and of course no one can fault Sparrow for cashing out. But there it is.
Yes, except that tidal forces are "renewable" in the sense that the energy comes from outside our eco-system. Thus if one is using such a method to "reset" the system the energy moved in to the local system is effectively free. Such energy acquired does not need an equal amount of work [from the local system] to drive as is moved in to the system.

That's the and. In short, in the same way solar energy brings energy in to the locality such a system could theoretically work thus being so down on it (as to say it will never be made to work) seems counter-logical.
Effective communication is important for every job position I've ever encountered. Whether it was when I was a porter at Dunkin' Donuts, a research assistant, a cog in the wheel at Cisco, or running my own company. At the very least, you need to be able to communicate effectively with the rest of your team and usually across departments.
You could, but it would get really clumsy pretty quickly, especially if you were trying to ship multiple versions and only unlock certain ones. I'm not sure if Apple would even approve that.
Me too. Hopefully they will use a font big enough to see while I'm driving.
Again, the thermal protection system was delicate because of weight issues. If the shuttles design goal was to get 20 people to LEO safely and they had anywhere close to the same budget to work with they could have used a few inches of titanium as part of the thermal protection system vs just glued on tiles that are less dense than Styrofoam.

PS: The surface area to weight is directly related to reentry heating. A person can do reentry in little more than one of those old style space suits and a parachute, the shuttle needed something that was barely possible to build.
No safer than any other method of running arbitrary code under your user account, or than any other package management tool with reasonable conventions about where it installs software.

If your goal is something that can easily and obviously be uninstalled completely, the App Store version sounds like exactly what you're looking for; Apple is pretty strict about what an App Store app can and can't do outside its sandbox.

Otherwise, I've been using the binary installers from PostgreSQL.org on OS X for years, and they work fine. They install everything into /Library/PostgreSQL, so they're self-contained, and the server starts/stops/can be set to auto-start easily with launchctl.
Potentially yes. But Microsoft and Apple not supporting VP8 & WebM probably has more to do with these companies being part of MPEG LA (a firm which sell licenses for H.264 related patents).
So let us ask some related questions. I am just being curious. Are such cash piles common? Does Google's cash pile signify anything at all? Do other companies like Apple have such cash hordes? Has innovation become so cheap that we will have a lot of innovation, but will need very little capital, to produce that innovation?
I guess I kept mine in tact by studying other languages and having to deal with people internationally. And my fondness for "The Elements of Style" and "On Writing" fostered it natively.
As ppt behind your discussion this might be good, but for itself there is nearly no content. What a pitty.
> If it's simply that you don't proofread or don't care to, I have no reason to believe you'll do so when dealing with code.

Really. So all past experience on a person's resume doesn't count toward that? Every other aspect of your interview with that person cannot possibly lend anything to increase your belief that they proofread their code? That is quite irrational.

It's also irrational to assume that because someone doesn't keep track of grammar rules, that they are unable to do so. That's a pretty big mistake of an assumption.
I think another challenge with this approach would be marketing/awareness. With app updates, current users are notified that there is a new version. If you put out a new version separate from the previous one then your existing user base is unaware that there is a new (and better?) version of XYZ app. It's just messy. Paid upgrades directly supported by the App Store/OS would be much better IMO.
I've always liked this: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
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Not sure your analogy holds up as "frat row" is often right on the main green of many notable campuses.
But, and I shouldn't have to say this it's so obvious, there wouldn't be demand in the labor market for CEOs if boards/shareholders didn't think elite CEOs provided value. There has to be a strong correlation there or the inefficient company paying a low value CEO too much will be out-competed by another company with more sense.
If that was the case then why has the 60s 'faking' not been discovered? If a 1960's faking is undetectable in 2012 then I expect a 2012 faking would be even more convincing. Thus there must be some other reason for not faking a mars landing.

PS: The exact name for my line of argument is 'begging the question'. Yes, that 'begging the question'. The one grammar nazis internet wide have been referring to since 1994. Bet you thought you'd never see it.
Our numbers are getting out of hand here: Elop doesn't make close to 10,000x a typical engineer at Nokia.
>Do other companies like Apple have such cash hordes?

Apple does. Last year, people were talking about how Apple had more cash on hand than the US government (http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-29/tech/apple.cash.governmen...)

> Are such cash piles common?

This link shows the cash balance of Apple, Microsoft and Cisco are also over $50 billion.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46737290/Apple_s_Cash_Hoard_Now_Nearl...
Yes, yes! Sorry to over simplify it. I guess my main point was mostly the first one, there's a lot to it, heh.
Sparrow isn't Instagram. Most acqui-hires lately have been, essentially, large signing bonuses. Six figures per founder. Not "FU" money.
can you give some insight as to what specific issue you were having?
Was it HTML5 that was the real culprit? Or javascript performance? Did you try smaller javascript libraries, etc. etc.
You are right, but conjuring up an article like this is no easy a task.
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The channel capacity depends on the amount of noise present, not just the bandwidth. Specifically for a AWGN channel, bits per second <= W*log_2(1+SNR), where W is the bandwidth in Hz and SNR is the signal-to-noise ratio. For example, 5 Gbps has been demonstrated using only 100 MHz of bandwidth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_Advanced
Ogg is a container format. The Opus support in Firefox is Opus inside the Ogg container. You probably mean "why isn't Vorbis good enough". Even the article has this error when it says that Opus compression is better than Ogg. They mean Vorbis there presumably.
I would label the Nexus 7 as Google's competition for the iPod touch. For the price, I consider the Nexus 7 to be a great devout media player.
Lots of money, no idea what to do with it.

Simple: give dividends to stockholders.

Unfortunately, as I understand it, the peerless geniuses running our country make it (a) more expensive, tax-wise, to do, since the profit is taxed twice, and (b) make it difficult/expensive to even bring back foreign earnings so that it can be given to shareholders.
Agreed. On the left I saw an app I'd use, and on the right I saw an app I wouldn't use. Nothing wrong with the project, but a bad example.
If you mean its built-in standard library - in some cases, it's just a place for code to rot and stagnate. Ubiquity comes at the cost of massive friction to update.
I think you're missing the point. It doesn't matter whether or not I like big boobs, or whether or not I like childish humor. If I'm interacting with people in a professional or collaborative context, and I employ childish humor, it's totally reasonable for people to consider me unprofessional / a person with poor boundaries, and to find me difficult to work with. And so they probably aren't going to work with me. That's the issue, and most of the research on retention of minorities in industry supports that people leave or choose not to participate in the first place due to behavior like this.
I don't think that would work. You don't need copyright protection for closed-source code, because it's closed; no one can see it anyway.
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Ha, I doubt you are an iOS developer at all :)
That can't possibly be right, can it? Do you have a source for that?
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Ignore Sparrow. Let's build real companies
I prefer CamelCase vs dromedaryCase.
If Apple was opposed to Vorbis, I imagine they would be equally opposed to any new audio codec. http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-Dec...
I'm not referring to just the standard library. I'm referring to all the libraries in the ecosystem.
This talent acquisitions issue is also fueled by angel investors and VCs telling entrepreneurs that (i) they should not focus on revenues/profit, and (ii) grow fast quickly.

This advice is some of the worst advice to give entrepreneurs, because revenue/profit is fundamental for any company's survival, and growth does not translate to long-term success.

Then again, investors are in a constant conflict of interest with owning a piece of a long-term profitable businesses, and their expertise is not close to knowing how to manage a profitable business. Having said that, VCs are good at flipping startups to cash-rich companies, who seem to care little on value dilution. How many acquired companies have Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, New Corp, etc shut down?

Which makes me think: what is the net value of Venture Capital flips to the economy?
It baffles my mind that anyone would fall for all these companies being altruistic.

This isn't as simple and one dimensional as calling a company "evil" - this is about the long term.

Startups in the valley are getting acquired earlier and earlier in their existence as google and Facebook and eventually overlap in their services and audience appeal.

The acquiring of the teams is defensive in that they take that team and their IP etc off the market from their competition. It is offensive in that it squashes any possibility that whatever service it was the startup had would compete for their similar service.

In cases like instagram, it was an obvious choice for Facebook as Facebook is the largest picture sharing service which also wraps all sorts of meta data around the users who are viewing those pics.

Thus, with instagrams reach it fractures attention from facebooks services/user. By acquiring them and ultimately layering the instagram features into facebooks pic offering the attention is not diverted from Facebook.

Attention is the resource that social services are harvesting from their users and monetizing.

If you're not looking at it from this perspective, then I don't believe your critically thinking about what it is that the Internet is, or how to build something that will last.

Companies that provide features, utility and services that keep the attention of users (especially when providing no physical product) are those that will have longevity.

So, capturing those that would build things that direct user attention away from your product is critical to these huge companies.
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