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I've found that building a relationship is crucial. I think a company blog can help with that a lot. If you're already publishing things, commenting on others' blogs and getting your name out there, bloggers are going to be much more receptive to you.

If you don't have time for all that though, targeting bloggers whose readers would be interested in your product is great. It's a win-win for both of you.
That's fine if you're storing only small files, but sparkleshare is based on git and absolutely chokes on large files. So photos, home movies, and the like which live happily on Dropbox are a disaster on Sparkleshare. The main reason seems to be that it wants to buffer the entire file in RAM during the sync, which rapidly kills most consumer-grade machines.
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It became an inconvenient statement once Apple conquered the known universe. As is so typical with power and success.
The two biggest issues with HTML5 apps are hardware acceleration and (on IOS, because Apple likes to fuck developers) lack of JIT compilers.

There is no reason why these things would be missing on a Firefox phone.
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I think you have democracy backwards. We are not to serve our politicians, they are here to serve us.

They dont care what a small group of nerds and tech companies want and think. They care what average people think they want.

Symbolism, accessable tone of voice .. Thats extremely relevant.

You shouldnt compare it to lobbyist webites. You should compare it those of political movements and politically oriented charities.

The memification of the message is brilliant marketing, because its funny, accesible and honest.

Rescue the lolcats from the evil clutches of the internet hate league! So load up your meme gun and blast these seniors out of congress.
It's because Safari and Chrome both use WebKit and webdevs are addicted to animated gimmicks and all only use Macs.
I get tired of "X-Year-Old Does Such and Such" posts. If the accomplishment is newsworthy enough on its own, why can't it stand on its own merit?
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Reading a post from a fellow user, I've decided to ask this anonymously.

I'm looking for a change in my career as a web developer.

The problem with my current job is that the company is too large to change quickly and I see technology evolving outside while we are stuck to old stuff and innovation is rara avis.

I have 6+ years of experience in LAMP environment with large websites (+500M page views a month).
Although specialized in PHP and MySQL I manage myself in C and Java and don't mind to pick up a new language.

Do you know any company in Barcelona (Spain) that could offer a challenge and a competitive salary?

Contact me at: developerlookingbcn@gmail.com
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> It really feels like a little club of geeks trying to have an impact in the world and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It kind of is though. Also some of these "little club of geeks" have extraordinarily deep pockets and any Senator/representative worth their salt knows how much that matters. I don't want to make demean important movements in the sixties by making comparisons of their oddities but money/power worked then and Senators/Representatives know it.
Most of the patents they've granted look to my highly un-patent-lawyer-like eyes like things I had on phones 5 years before Apple jumped into the fray. I'm not really sweating it too much.

Multi-touch is big though and I at least have no recollection of prior art.
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More information about this can be found in their press release [1] from a couple weeks ago. It appears that they are having to do a writedown [2] on their purchase of aQuantive [3]. The original purchase was to be more competitive in the online advertising marketplace when they lost out to Google in acquiring DoubleClick [4].

Unfortunately, there is little information about this will actually affect their financials. The single-sentence blurb from the source doesn't shed much light on the situation.

[1] - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Jul12/07-02Co...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-off#Writedown

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQuantive

[4] - http://www.pcworld.com/article/131991/microsoft_to_buy_aquan...
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> It really feels like a little club of geeks trying to have an impact in the world and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Yeah, there's nothing worse than geeks trying to have an impact. What a bunch of ass holes!

I'm curious, what impact do you have on "old style Senators"?
the patent office doesn't give a fuck. as long as you pay the filing fee and fill out all the right checkboxes in the right color ink, the mindless drone in the cubicle will rubber-stamp it.
The Chrome trademark is owned by Google. Webkit is BSD and LGPL [1], and Chromium is GPLv2 [2] and virtually identical to Chrome except for branding and some proprietary plugins Google doesn't control the licenses for [3].

So yeah, while you're technically correct by your wording alone, I'd argue you're wrong in spirit.

[1] http://www.webkit.org/ (see bottom left)
[2] http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/licenses
[3] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog...
A similar story is told from a somewhat different perspective in Beggars in Spain, an excellent novel by Nancy Kress. It won both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68333.Beggars_in_Spain
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The hyperventilating in this article is ridiculous. First, patents always issue on a Thursday - and any large company usually has a number in the pipe. There is nothing unusual about a company the size of Apple getting 25 patents issued in one release.

Now, I haven't read all of the 25 patents issued to Apple, but this article makes the classic mistake of confounding the specification (which describes lots of stuff) and the claims (which describe what is protected). Here is what this patent is actually about:

1. A method, comprising: at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display: displaying a portion of an electronic document on the touch screen display, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical position in the electronic document; displaying a vertical bar on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document, the vertical bar displayed proximate to a vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein: the vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion of the electronic document that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and the vertical bar is not a scroll bar; detecting a movement of an object in a direction on the displayed portion of the electronic document; in response to detecting the movement: scrolling the electronic document displayed on the touch screen display in the direction of movement of the object so that a new portion of the electronic document is displayed, moving the vertical bar to a new vertical position such that the new vertical position corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed new portion of the electronic document, and maintaining the vertical bar proximate to the vertical edge of the displayed portion of the electronic document; and in response to a predetermined condition being met, ceasing to display the vertical bar while continuing to display the displayed portion of the electronic document, wherein the displayed portion of the electronic document has a vertical extent that is less than a vertical extent of the electronic document.

Translated from patent-speak, this just means that the little position indicator along the side of the display indicates where you are in a document. Further claims indicate that the position indicator disappears when you don't do anything for a minute. Anyone who has seen iOS (or Mac OS X Lion) has seen it.

If I were Google, though, I wouldn't care about this patent. Why not? Because of the words "and the vertical bar is not a scroll bar." These words were added to get around prior art. All Google would need to do is allow its position indicator to also function as a scroll bar and this patent doesn't apply.

I am annoyed by patents as much as the next guy - more, even, because I deal with them every day - but this kind of breathlessness helps absolutely no one.
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There is no rational thinking at all going on at the patent office. They reject your initial application a few times to make sure you're good and rich and then grant it figuring the courts will work it out.
> In order to issue a POST request to siteA from the evil page, the attacker only has to submit a crafted POST form using an iframe.

Yes, but requiring POST for anything that changes anything (especially bank transfers) is a best practice anyway, for how all actors involved understand HTTP verbs, and reduces the surface area of attack.

You can create a POST with an iframe, but you can create a GET with an image tag: `<img src="http://mybank.com/transfer?...>`
Wow thanks - that praise is too high - Omni is a really amazing tool!

Ian
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I agree, it probably won't get that far. But it would be pretty interesting if it did.
A new pancreatic cancer test is absolutely newsworthy on its own (especially if this one proves out in broader studies). The fact that it was done by a 15-year old makes it even more impressive. It's not unreasonable to applaud a young person for being way ahead of the curve.
Finally!

I've been using firebug for quite a long time and I can't even remember at what version things went off the rail. But ever since Firefox would consume 70% of my CPU and 2GB RAM which is complete nonsense.

Because of these memory leaks, I migrated to Chrome for browsing the web and constantly having an open tab for Gmail (because that was the only browser that wouldn't go banana on RAM), but still use FF for doing front-end development
Sure, if you're ready to 'handle' them. When you've quit your job and are embarking on this adventure, you're fragile. Depression IS common among startup founders. It's lonely at times. Those negative people can be dangerous.

But yes, at the right time, they serve to strengthen.
That "could" is doing way too much work in that sentence. Yes, all the other patent holders "could" file ridiculous suits and bring the tech economy down, in the same way that the US "could" launch a nuclear first strike against china.

The thing is, for the most part they aren't, and haven't, over several decades of detente. Apple did. I think that distinction matters, no?
Explains everything?

There are people working on alternative energy. They get less subsidy money from the government than the oil industry, which is plenty profitable on their own. You can re-read that sentence if you didn't believe it the first time.

It takes all kinds. Science and PR to protect the science. The political can be very connected to the scientific when the industry threatened with displacement is very politically active.
Anyone who thinks this is a death-knell for Android (especially any time soon) doesn't understand how patent law works in practice.
Except that designers then tread in fear of violating patents and produce much cut down versions, harming the consumer.

I once worked in a place that designed a CPAP pump, which is essentially an air pump with a humidifier. It has a removable water tank with a heating plate for humidifying the air. We had to use a removable plate to expose the tank instead of a door - because our main competitor had patented a hinged flap to access the water tank!

Regardless of how obvious prior art is, it's cheaper to make minor design changes than to spend years in litigation. Even though it's worse for the consumer, you have to avoid anything patented unless you have the ready cash that Apple has lying around.
Apple isn't immune to the patent game either. What if any of the countless assaults on Apple succeed?

Then Apple will simply license the tech, the patent holder will be happy, and life will go on. This is what they did for Xerox's GUI tech that got integrated into the Macintosh; it's what they did for that digital noise filter in the A5 chip, it's what they'll do if anyone tries to sue. Alternately, they could make a hostile takeover bid for Samsung. Think they won't? :)

For Apple, it isn't about the money, though. Stealing Apple tech is an assault on their prestige, so they are unlikely to negotiate licensing terms with Android handset makers, and those handset makers are doomed in this market.
Touché, my friend with a spare brain.
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This is basically the same method I use for laptop hard disk encryption. I don't remember the password, but I typed it so many times my fingers remember exactly the pattern to type. Kind of like playing a piano.

Several times i've been drinking and am unable to remember how to log into my machine, because I can't replicate the pattern and don't remember the password. After 15 minutes of concentration it comes back.
Well, the Galaxy Nexus was (temporarily) banned only in the US. That ban got people to stop and think, but few of those people noticed that the ban didn't mean anything for the rest of the world.
The same is true of any training method which has harmful side effects or risks.

How do you distinguish morally between the (completely natural) risk of death by heatstroke during summer training and the risks of performance enhancing drugs?
Wow, that's a great Kickstarter page. Really polished pictures and interesting descriptions. Not too much text either. They let their product do the talking.

One of the things I underestimated with mine was how important it is to not only have a video, but to make it look professional. I think the video is where products either shine or are tossed into the "mediocre" category in a potential backers mind.
Since SkyDrive no longer has a restricted list of filetypes allowed for upload. How hard would it be to only upload encrypted files?

A neat solution would be a client side utility that encrypts local files (or entire folders/tarballs) with gpg, generates checksums, splits them into 2048KB or 1024KB chunks and uploads those to SkyDrive. The downside is that there would have to be some sort of management/database locally (and on every machine you wanted to download the files to) that would keep track of which chunks make up which file and rebuilds everything when you download them.
Yes! Or thinking you can raise funds through Kickstarter without shelling out $/£ on product design, videos and pre-Kickstarter marketing.
I find myself hoping for an acceleration of the patent insanity. At some point, the absurdity of software patents will come to light and we'll all be able to move on with things.

Until then, it's a painful, expensive process.

So, yes indeed, bring on the reductio ad absurdum.
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Today a lot of mainstream media published articles along the same line on how Apple's new patents will kill competition; which makes me think, they do it to push the aapl share price higher in the lack of any major apple product announcements in the current quarter.
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Microsoft paid $6.2 billion in cash for aQuantitive. That asset is now worthless.

That is very real red ink, even though the actual accounting for it is occurring years later. It is a massive squandering of assets.
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I think it'd be interesting to put that assertion to the test: has Apple really been more litigious with their patent portfolio than Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Google (as totally random examples pulled from thin air)? I'm honestly not sure of the answer; but, I'm skeptical that Apple is "worse" than other major tech companies in this regard.
No.

Not owning valuable stuff is nice, too. Losing everything you own because of a basement fire is an eye opening experience.
Android won't be killed off. There will always be an Android.

"If you outlaw Android, only outlaws will have Android." - Anon.
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"because if they don't patent it someone else will"

AFAIK it won't be worth the stamps if there is some prior art. I.e. once release nobody can patent it. The above statement is false. They patented it to hinder competition.

Note: I'm not against patents (for significant inventions) per se.
Now we just need to have something like "css3 meet game of thrones"! :)
"I think the field of medicine is extremely prone to disruption by clever, process-focused laymen, whether they are 15 or 30-years of age."

But isn't that really, as you said, "man bites dog" thinking? How many "clever, process-focused laymen" are there out there exactly? Do people really think that scientists involved in research with their training are at some kind of disadvantage in solving medical mysteries? That someone with no training whatsoever is just going to have some thought that others haven't explored in anything other than outlier situations?

I mean if you take enough people of any age attempting enough things something is going to stick. This particular kid ignored his school work to work on this idea. How advisable is that in general? (We've seen that happen with people dropping out of Harvard as well who hit it big).

So the problem I have with this is the way the media portrays it which plays down what happens to the vast majority of people who either ignore their school work to pursue a passion (with a slim chance of success) or drop out of college and later wished they had finished.

Remembering Ron Kovic who was portrayed by Tom Cruise in "Born on the 4th of July". Wanted to go off and fight for his country like dad did based on all those romantic movies from WW2. Came back in a wheel chair.
I actually do believe the law changed recently.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/04/...
It is not supposed to be a lobbyist. It is supposed to be a poltical movement.

Its political marketing aimed at voters. It should target the type of teens on facebook, that you and i may look down upon.

As far as im concerned, they dont even go far enough. We need a comic. We need memes.

RESCUE MONORAIL CAT FROM THE CLUTCHES OF THE EVIL INTERNET HATE LEAGUE. FIRE UP YOUR MEMES AND BLAST THESE CORRUPT SENIORS OUT OF CONGRESS.

That kind of stuff!
I just throw sensitive stuff inside a truecrypt volume. Dropbox works pretty well for that, as long as you don't leave the volume open on one pc and then log into it from the next. Even then you just have a second copy you have to reconcile with the first.
As if an "old style Senator" would base his support for or against a bill on a website's design.

This is about engaging young nerds and non-nerds, average citizens and making an impact on main stream media. It's a marketing and PR stunt. It will trigger media coverage and thousands of phone calls... politicians fear at least one of those two things like the plague. And it's probably not the phone calls.

We already have a formal projects such as the EFF. They are the backbone of all this.
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Without wishing to rain on the kids parade...

There are two aspects to the reported work. The first is the use of carbon nanotube biosensors incorporating antibodies. Google shows they've been around for a while and are reportedly more sensitive than previous methods. The second is using the levels of mesothelin to diagnose pancreatic cancer, this is less widely established, but was also recently reported by a different lab (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...).

Putting the two together seems to be the work of Jack Andraka.
The HBO show The Wire would refer to this as "keeping the devil down in the hole."
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Exactly. You beat me to it. See source here, namely Tables 2 and 6: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42364.pdf

Also here: http://ycharts.com/companies/XOM/profit_margin

Note that it was closer to 5% in Q2 2009.
> It also gives you deniability: If a judge or policeman orders you to hand over your password, you can plausibly say that you don’t actually know it

The UK law requires that you make the encrypted data intelligible. Since you have encrypted data there's a pretty good chance you have the software to decrypt it. "They" don't want the password, they want the data.

Failing to make the data intelligible (whether that's failing to provide the passphrase or whatever) carries a 2 year prison sentence for some people, with possibilities for a 5 year sentence for others.

tl:dr - this does not prevent law enforcement from getting the password.

Also, using this to guard against rubber hosing is stupid. People prepared to use torture will do so, whether there are laws preventing it or if it's going to provide any useful evidence or not.

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Extremetech articles are really lousy. The self-posting by the author of a poorly written article is a problem; the heavy ad load is another problem, but I find it hard to believe that there isn't a vote ring up-voting these lousy articles.

A quick glance shows that about 90% of Mrs Ebastian's subs are to articles that they've written, for their employer.
I agree. I put random garbage in the security question answers, a password so hard to crack that even I never remember it. ;) In other words, I opt out whenever I get the chance.
I like your theory. Now if only a neurologist could chime and and confirm!
Yeah, I can't take them seriously unless they embed a video; maybe Piano Cat playing a slow, ominous melody, or a call-to-arms.

Piano cat plays

Prepare for battle soldier

Evil is afoot
So what online backup service does Marco use?
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What about encrypting your 'secret' password with normal password? So you get assigned this 30 characters password, which you learn. Then you use normal password (like 'password123' :) ) to encrypt that string. Then when you need to log on, you first type in you normal password to decrypt your 'secret' password, which is then used to authenticate you further. I know, sounds ridiculous, just thinking out loud.

edit: yes, i know, encrypting the key with another string makes it just that tiny little bit secure, technically it's still plain text...
I totally agree with the "negative people" part. I once gave the groupon elevator pitch to a relative who knows nothing about what's going on in terms of start ups or anything internet. His response was it was the the stupidest idea ever and he thought I should focus my efforts on something more worth while. I then told him they started 4 years ago and it's a billion dollar company. His reaction was priceless.

I mention this story because everyone will always be negative if they have never heard of what you are doing. That's just human nature. As entrepreneurs we have to keep plugging forward amidst the criticism and build our dreams.