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This is a actually a great, succinct review of jonny_eh's short review. Short, compact and does a nice job explaining the components that will make the review helpful to readers.
Skype used the SILK part of Opus to replace iSAC quite a while ago. (SILK is in fact their second iteration of their own codec to improve upon/replace it)

I couldn't find any direct comparison, it looks like the IETF standardization work didn't even consider it worthwhile comparing to iSAC as it was judged outdated and "being phased out". (For example, Google participated in the tests, but they only tested against iLBC, not iSAC)

So it's likely that Opus is way better. It can certainly scale to much higher quality than iSAC can just by the format alone.

Qualitywise, Opus outperforms the state-of-the-art high-latency codec at music encoding while being a low latency music & speech codec itself. The only case where another codec outperforms Opus anywhere seems to be AMR, when encoding speech at very low bitrates (<= 6-12kbps). But AMR also has higher delay.

You can read the summary here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-results-01
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Glyn Moody, does a lovely wrap up of tech news.
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How about this as another example;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/247621/what-are-the-corre...

Asked and answered by your number 1 user, John Skeet. Basically he had specific detailed information to share, and he did it by asking and answering his own question. Something encouraged by Joel on the old podcasts if I remember correctly. Hugely upvoted, so the community thought it was great, but one of your moderators closed it as "not constructive". This is endemic at Stackoverflow. As SiVal points out, the best material on the site is routinely shut down. How does this make any sense? I have 2k8 rep points and used to visit often, but I find the excessive moderation hugely off-putting and I now rarely visit.
Google apparently participated in the listening tests and concluded Opus outperformed the GIPS codecs they had just bought for 68 million USD, sometimes by wide margins.

I guess they're still hurting over that? :)
I'd almost buy one. No HDMI out, no SDMicro slot, and no USB support, has put me off until the next thing better comes along. I'm annoyed that Google has crippled this device.
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You'll be glad know to that the arrogant Googlers are still talking about you in their internal mailing lists long after your departure.
My Aunt is in love with her iPad, and mainly uses it as a camera, and image viewer.

I personally think people look more like dorks trying to thumb text into their phones and tablets.
Indeed there is no right or wrong in thus case. Just different shades of grey. The scale you're aiming for is an important factor though (and I don't know what you're aiming for so I provided ours for context). And perhaps even more important is the ratio between tenants and actual users.

In all cases there is work to do of course - I've just found that the 'one db per tenant' model allowed us to re-use more exiting infrastructure than the other models. For us that's a win. As always the devil is in the details - some of which do not become clear until after you've run into the corresponding devil.

With respect to security/isolation consider the following.

Case A: one schema per tenant, one db user shared across all tenants. Anyone with the ability to manipulate going to the database (e.g. a hacker via a sql injection vulnerability) can access all schema's and all tenants data.

Case B: one db per tenant, one db user per tenant, one app process per tenant running under its own os user. In this case an attacker is far less likely to be able to access any data from tenants other than the one to whom the compromised process belongs to.
Of course if the processes of other tenants are also aproachable by the attacker it is very much possible that the processes of other tenants will be compromised through the same vulnerability. However in our situation that is not the case (well, I should know better: it will be very difficult for the attacker) , hence we benefit from the extra isolation.

Your assumption that Postgresqls authentication or even OS level authentication provides extra isolation is wrong - unless you use one db user per tenant and set permissions carefully. But as stated before, in that case you better double check if you still benefit as much from the schema-based multi tenancy as you may think. And even then the level of separation is still lower.

What isolation level you need depends on your audience of course but from a security point of view I do not consider a schema based approach as much better than 'all tenants in the same table with a tenant_id field'.
They can stop the distribution in the United Stares. In addition, Swedish courts would probably honor the decision of the US court.
However, I do know of three non-technical people who have said they're never getting "an android" again because their [Froyo/Gingerbread] experience was so bad. But as they're on 24 month contracts they have had (and still have) a lot of time for this dislike to grow. I have recommended Windows Phone to the one whose contract is almost up.
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exactly!!!
It helped me too, to put money in its place, I had a problem with spending money.
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I'm surprised there isn't a readability style plugin for PDFs specifically tailored for small devices.
You might also be expected to take some measures to enforce this, such as a State drop-down box, with an "I agree" EULA/ToS.
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You don't need to have a large screen for reading. It's more important that it's easy to page back and forth through the text - and that it reflows well and is easy on the eyes.

I watched someone trying to read Hacker news on their Android phone's web browser and it looked like the most horrific experience. Doesn't seem to put people off of smartphones though.
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In response...

1) Yes, also I guess they could order ISPs to block the website, but I don't know if there is any precedent for this.

2) No, patent infringement is not a crime

3) No, patent infringement is not a fellony (or crime).

If there was a Default Judgement against them then violating it may be a contempt of court, which may be a crime - anyone know if that's the case?

Edit: Wikipedia says "Contempt of court in a civil suit is generally not considered to be a criminal offense".
s/users/customers/ ?
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To be fair, some books can be difficult to hold aloft. The tech will miniturise in time (probably not long either.)
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I do not think that is a valid argument. If I gave you a house a hundred times the size of your current house, and then dumped the equivalent of ninety house contents of junk in it, would you be happy?

(Almost) every bit of knowledge that is on StackOverflow can be found elsewhere on the net, too. People go there not because it has knowledge, but because of its density.
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That's where we NEED to move toward some easier way of frictionless micro-transactions that are secure, safe, and ubiquitous... how to do it is unclear, but perhaps a mega-site like Facebook could create such a thing.
Abandon?

You bought the app in its current state for $10. Any further development + new features is nice but not something you are entitled to.

As long as they don't delete your copy of the app everything is fine.
Well

Unit tests are great in js/python/ruby because of the nature of the language

In C/C++ for example it's much more involved. In java it's bearable because of Eclipse/Netbeans facilitating lots of things.

But take for example the Linux kernel development:
- There are two widely used "IDEs": VIM and Emacs, pick one

- Patches sent over email (yeah, please try doing a pull request to see what happens)

- No unit tests

- limited use of debuging tools, mostly printk

And still is one of the most solid and used softwares out there

Tools and techniques (unit tests, CI, etc) are good if you want to have several developers "with their hands on the code at the same time" and you have limited trust on them
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I can, though. It's built into FB's newsfeed algo.

I interact with family and friends I don't often see for geographical reasons quite often on FB. Unfortunately, Zuck et al make the erroneous assumption that this means I care about their daily goings-on. I don't.

My FB feed currently consists of:

1) Instagram pictures from a friend I've known since birth

2) Location checkins from someone I have good banter with but haven't seen in 10 years

3) My cousin's wife talking about getting hammered tonight

4) An ecard

5) Somebody getting tagged.

Conversely, my G+ feed consist of:

1) The same photographer friend, but with better pics

2) Tim O'Reilly talking about MakerCamp

3) Zach Weiner posting an SMBC comic

4) Some random doing something I don't care about

5) Matt Cutts explaining a change in spam detection behaviour.

In short, G+ makes me want to come back because there's interesting stuff to see. FB makes me want to come back so I don't lose touch with some people I care about.
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You forgot the upgrade factor. Brands delay upgrades because they need to test their own customized stuff
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I went to a talk about this a few days ago - it's interesting how much genuinely good progress has been made on the problem. Just staring at the original statement might not get you far, but internalizing and then staring at the substantial work already done might trigger a breakthrough.

Mind you, that's hard work, you might not feel inclined.
SO wishes to remain a Q&A site, rather than a discussion site. They're intentionally limiting its scope. This is a very good thing.

There is a huge opportunity for a quality, ruthlessly moderated programming-centric discussion site. I'd argue that an aggregator is suboptimal over the long term due to the economic structure of the Internet favoring eyeballs over quality content.

I do agree that SO quality sucks at times, though.
I felt the same way. I think 5 years is way too soon if the problem is as hard as he describes. Until I can have a real-time conversation with Siri without any lag or a network connection and with her understanding nuanced colloquial American English, hard AR is still at least a decade away.
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Would it be a better fit for programmers.SE or not?
Some do prefer (some) of the skins. There are always active threads about reapplying the skins onto custom ROMS. HTC and Samsung skins are the most popular.
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Actually, I don't think it is that simple. Customers have the reasonable expectation that they should be able to use a product for a certain amount of time. In fact some countries have pretty strong customer protection laws, that require that products work for a reasonable time.

Of course, Sparrow will continue to work with Lion and iOS 5. But how reasonable is it to expect that people continue to run iOS 5 if Sparrow breaks on iOS6, missing on all security updates, to get the expected lifetime of their purchase? Or what if it turns out that there is a grave security vulnerability in Sparrow tomorrow?

Suppose that you spend five Euro on a knife. Sure, you should not complain if it breaks after ten years. But if it breaks after six months during normal use, you take it back to the store.
Don't update to a new OS then if that's your concern?
really? half of the effort in painting is the actual 'seeing', not putting the paint to the canvas. In fact in art school we would do exercises where we drew from life without ever looking at the paper at all
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same feeling; you either develop native apps and deal with the provided options or you move to html5 and css3. why create a frankenstein solution by botching native apps together with a css engine; feels like an intermediate and futile attempt.
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Agree wholeheartedly. The tradeoff for cross platform is tying your fate to these guys.

Also code once run anywhere doesn't work for native apps. You usually get an Android app that looks like iOS. Barf. Or your have to use some new UI paradigm foreign to both. Chance of being featured in either market without conforming to UI guidelines: 0%.

This only really works for games and Unity has that covered.
> Where are the small companies that are building for sustainment?

Can't build much sustainment if you have to sell your flag ship product fur $9.99.
It annoys me more than just mildly to see .exe and .dll on linux. And that silly native stub!
I'm with Google on this one. Imagine if someone patented the checkbox/toggle button. Now imagine all the crazy ux/UI companies would have to invent to get around the patent. It's pure lunacy. I've seen this first hand, where the product development team is more focused on not violating software patents than designing the best possible user experience. It's "not invented here" syndrome to the n-th degree. If consumers already know how to interact with something a particular way, why are we trying to make them bend another backwards to do it another more awkward way.
Patent lawsuits are filed in federal court. There are jurisdiction rules, and even recent attempts to curtail the practice of forum shopping, but now that many patent trolls make their home in Marshall, Texas, it's rather difficult to avoid that forum. They will more or less say that due to the fact that the troll has set up shop in Texas, any other jurisdiction is as good as here, so you're stuck with Texas.

In short, the trolls do everything they can to make you fight them in their home court. Enough so that it makes the news whenever people find a new legal trick to escape. Many such tricks have failed. One example that springs to mind is that one troll who filed a day earlier than anyone else would be able to, because they used tricky local rules to get a cover sheet while technically filing just after midnight. But because they were first, they got to choose to stay in Marshall, TX.
Java allows a vast array of odd characters, including nulls.

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Actually that is no longer true (!!)

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Do you really need to see gmail ads, or does it suffice if they can associate your client IP address with your email content and show you suitable ads the next time you visit a site with AdSense / doubleclick?
Worth noting it is 'v2', which is a specific setting with a specific encoder (lame) that creates a variable bitrate file which averages around 192kbps.

That is very different to just setting itunes to 192 and expecting 'perceptually lossless'.
A dev can only override it for their session, not at the global level.
"some studies have shown that even our motivation, work ethic and conscientious drive is in fact outside of our control and can be affected by such arbitrary factors such as birth order. "

If that were true, then it would not matter if the system was bullshit. We would just keep believing in it anyway because that is what we were programmed to do. Nothing is anyone's fault. I am free, because I am the youngest of my brothers.
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It would seem harder to flood out the real traders if each person had to make tons of wallets. That would multiply the work required to have enough identities that you would end up trading only with them.
This posting is very true, and this is exactly why I prefer Free Software when it comes to sustainability.

Even if the developers' revenue plan (services, merchandising, whatever) turns out to not be sustainable, at least the remaining software is free (in the sense of freedom) such that others can fork it and can take care of it.

In that sense, Sparrow could have made a great move, since they don't plan to make any more money with their product: publishing their latest code base under GPL.

However, in that case Google might have hesitated to acquire them in the first place. On the other hand, MySQL has been acquired by Oracle despite being Free Software, and despite having existing forks such as MariaDB.
Hi Michael. I think that Apple in those days is a field that is well-plowed. folklore.org is a particularly fun site.

Start-ups? Business is business. it can be as high-stress or as peaceful as you decide to make it. Software development, these days, is often dysfunction practiced as an artform. :-) Give SCRUM a shake, and waterfall drops to the floor, quivering in embarrassment. Add your examples here. My best development advice is solve the hard problems first, not last. If there are no hard problems, look again. If all parts of the development process are equally difficult, then it should be fairly easy to estimate time to complete...to over-simplify...

This has worked through-out history. Alexander The Great attacked the enemy line at its strongest point, with well-rested, fired-up troops, who knew the battle would be fierce but short. Ditto Patton and Colin Powell. And Karl Rove perfected going at an opposing candidate's greatest strength; a lesson learned by the Obama campaign…thank goodness. :-)
I don't think internet advertising ever has actually funded that much news. For the 1990s and 2000s, non-subscription news on the web was mostly cross-subsidized by print subscriptions. Taken purely as an online operation, sites like wsj.com and nytimes.com didn't make nearly enough money from ads to pay for the cost of their reporting.

It's only recently that newspapers seem to be trying to make the online business actually fund the reporting, and the NYTimes, at least, is going back to a quasi-subscription model to try to make that work.

Now there are some sites that are purely ad-supported, but imo most of them don't produce particularly high-quality news. Stuff like, say, TechCrunch or Gawker.
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Also, frankly, I think people chose Sparrow because they weren't happy with the big boy's applications (Apple's Mail.app on Mac OS X, Apple and Gmail's apps on iOS).

It's a case of "We don't like Google or Apple's apps, so we're going to _pay extra money_ to get something we like."

So when the Sparrow team gets picked up by Google _and_ we hear that Sparrow.app is becoming abandonware, many people think "the bad guys win again."

Of course, I hope the hue and cry about this will suggest to google that Sparrow might be worth maintaining after all. A mail app that people like? That can't possibly be a bad thing, can it?
It's a fair point, but I'd suggest the main reason people get upset is it feels like they've somehow wasted time getting attached to it.

People such as the OP get excited about having this pleasant thing in their life and the implicit relationship in that as long as you buy it, it will continue to improve.

For me it's the same reason early adopters back certain tech products, why fans will follow film directors and why we sometimes get disappointed when they don't follow the path we hope they would take.
> selling Minecraft in the US

This I don't understand. Mojang sells Minecraft in Sweden. You come to them, not the other way around (unless they have a US-based webshop).

A person from the US can fly to Sweden and buy a bottle of Absolute Absinthe (made-up) and then bring it back to the US. She may not succeed getting it through the customs, but it will be the US customs who enforce the import restriction, not the Swedish liquor store. Similarly, Mojang is a liquor store, Minecraft is a bottle. Why should Mojang be enforcing US e-com restrictions? This doesn't make any sense.
Here's the core problem as I see it: the old (advertising) math no longer works, and that's getting people into trouble. For traditional advertising in print, radio, or television the math is simple and it's been refined over decades. Generally speaking you take the number of eyeballs or ears, you multiply by a certain factor which takes into account things like demographics and whatnot and then you're done. In large part it doesn't matter whether someone is watching murder she wrote or magnum PI or reading the paper, for each format there's a degree of effectiveness of advertising and a degree of lucrativeness for the target demographic. There are of course complications, but in broad strokes this is the way things worked.

Those assumptions completely fall apart on the web. Because the web is not just passive. It's interactive. And that changes the equation tremendously because it means that the effectiveness of ads can vary by an enormous degree depending on activity. When people are searching, for example, relevant ads (not just random eyeball hijacking brand promotions) are actually useful, and thus highly effective. When people are trying to communicate with their friends there probably isn't a good advertising context at all most of the time and almost all ads will be seen as useless interruptions and thus vastly less effective (they won't be relevant and can't as easily be made relevant). And there is a huge variety of other activities on the web that don't fit into convenient molds.

Now, does that necessarily mean that advertising revenue is a thing of the past? Obviously not, as in some cases there are circumstances where the potential for effective advertising is even greater than with traditional media. But it does mean that the math is far more complex. And it might mean that just because you have a direct line into a huge amount of eyeballs you may not be able to monetize that traffic to the same degree (by orders of magnitude) as an equivalent amount of traffic of people engaged in a different activity.

Additionally, we've seen the writing on the wall in terms of "eyeball hijacking" highly interruptive advertising in the modern age, it's just out of date and out of touch. Monetizing web traffic effectively requires a much smarter approach. In the ideal case advertising is so well targeted and so effective that it is welcomed and often not even seen as an ad.