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They know by context. "Metallica is a great band" is obviously a subjective opinion and unprovable. It's the same as "I think Metallica is a great band" but with fewer useless words. This isn't misleading.

If I say something potentially provable that I am unsure of but claim is a fact ("Metallica is the best-selling band of all time"), this would be misleading, and I would be taking advantage of my audience.
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Personally, I think that unless you foster a community that'll self-police the quality, nothing else those "in charge" can do will help much in the long term.
There are other ways to achieve the same distinction. Consider "I conclude / posit / propose that ..." In general though, that distinction can be made from context. I would usually assume that content is an original thought unless stated otherwise, e.g. with a citation.
Cite? I know CEOs, and I know factory workers. They wouldn't be able to do each other's jobs.
What kind of games are you working on now? Android, iOS, indie?
But Thunderbird proves mindcrime's point - even though Mozilla-the-company has decided that developing Thunderbird is no longer aligned with their interests, community-driven development will continue, because it's open source. Yes, development will be diminished, but it won't die outright like Sparrow or other closed-source software would.
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I'm curious; how much did that earn you all in all in the end?
They mention 256kbps in regards to that, at which point all of vorbis, aac and mp3 (lame) are 'perceptually lossless', so it wouldn't be much new. While it is hard to tell (because tests at higher bitrates don't really work out/ produce winners), it seems that any sonic advantage held is at the lower bitrate end.
Agreed. Oh wait... but... but... being "unprofessional" or having "poor boundaries" is a far cry from "sexist". Labels matter... getting them right does too.
One thing I loved about sparrow is they charged for their product. I thought that by paying money I was supporting a business. There are loads of similar calibre apps out there they could have tackled with the same gusto they approached email.

So, what are the alternatives?
For most consumers it's the same. I'd rather pay someone a few dollars than maintain Thunderbird myself (for example) and most people realistically do not have the option of maintaining it themselves.

On the other hand I use a lot of OSS on servers and in the past on my workstations, and have modified them and fixed bugs and such. There are definite advantages but this particular one is not that useful on a large scale.
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This one gets my vote.

But I honestly don't see what's the problem with such a technique. Of course it would be better for the employees to get a raise. But it would certainly be worse to get nothing at all.

If they get something (money) and the company gets something (loyalty), it's a win-win. Could be better for the employees, I agree, but that's a bit unrealistic these days for the reasons you mention.
The CSS part is particularly interesting, and has a ton of potential. But frankly, I don't like nor would I use a proprietary library like this.

Also, I don't see why they need Kickstarting at all. If they are going to sell the product, then sell the product. They appear to already have a product that is finished or near completion, and are in Y Combinator and thus have funding. It doesn't make sense.

My real hope is that one day we get an open source tool like this for writing native UIs in CSS.
Would it make sense to lead with "Pinterest for xxx". Would the order of the words have an impact on search results placement?
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I would say I'm not bad with math, being a physics student, but I have to admit I had to stop and think about 50% more and 33% off being equivalent. 50% more gives you 3/2 of a product, giving you a price per unit of 2/3 the original price, or 33% off.

Something is wrong with how we teach fractions, and it can be used to deceive people.
Very exciting if it can deliver on all of its claims, but noticeably absent is anything whatsoever about the patent status of the format.
It's a bonus, not salary, the fact that it is > 10,000x a typical bonus speaks volumes.
Similarly, the concept of democracy does work, but the problem is that it's reliant on an educated citizenry, which is unfortunately fading fast in the US.
trading companies love people like you - and in return for your expertise they'll give you lots of money and give you a look behind the curtain. behind this curtain you will find many problems you can solve for many companies (that are all kind of related) willing to invest absurd amounts of money in solutions.
Yes, different races vary more distinctly on different facial features.
There is also the question of whether the statements from Skype about patents are still true given their purchase by Microsoft.
Yeah, I think they should have used "equivalent" instead of "the same". "The same" has a stronger connotation and won't click with some people.
My somewhat educated take on that is that 'perceptually lossless' refers to quality at which the source cannot be reliably picked from the source/encode in any sort of test that would pass as scientific, possibly outside of a few very rare edge cases (sound samples, not people). This happens at lower bitrates than many people might imagine, IIRC v2 lame (~192kbps) has not been reliably identified, nor vorbis v6 (~160kbps). So their claim of 'perceptually lossless' at 256kbps is neither surprising or impressive. (it may be competitive/better at those high bitrates and they are just being conservative with the claims).
I was one of those 7157 that passed the course. Although I had to put a very large amount of effort into the course to get an A, I found it much easier to learn from a video lecture course than a live lecture course. The ability to pause, rewind, play at 1.5x speed, etc. allowed me to take a break when I lost my focus, speed through the sections I already understood, slow down and repeat sections that didn't make sense at first, etc. None of this is possible in a scheduled live lecture.

I wish I could have taken all of my college classes in this format, perhaps with the addition of 10-15 person lab sessions on campus. Best of luck, edX.
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I don't know much about biology or Matlab, but this seems to be a common refrain.

*XXXXXists make huge breakthrough on YYYYY*

"I can't believe they used programming language Z!"

Domain specialists generally have more market leverage than the random programmer geek that scoffs at their "primitive" tools, and the code they write is there to do a job, not satisfy the peculiar preferences of a specialist in some other domain (like programming).

Now, when programmers work to make domain specialists' job easier, that gets some attention; thus the tidal levels of interest in MDA, DSLs, and so on.
Great piece. As an entrepreneur in the CV/AR industry, it's interesting to see how a larger company examines the problems faced by technology that is about to converge. As a smaller company, we have to come up with a product that will stick in a related industry that will hopefully position us well when the time comes for true AR (hard or soft).

"skate where the puck's going, not where it's been"
Frankly, this article annoys the hell out of me. Firstly, what trend is he talking about? He gave me two examples - Sparrow and QuickOffice. That's not a trend, thats two apps, and if there really is one, then that should've been made clearer.

Now, assuming this is a recurring trend, it still remains to be seen whether its one worth dealing with for Apple. Even if this kind of poaching happens, its likely that its on such a small scale that it makes almost no difference to the ecosystem of the app store. Basically, the assertion that "Apple is depending on apps like Sparrow to make the iOS platform shine" is backed by nothing.

If nothing else, the points about what Apple could do to help devs make more money are useful. Even in this case, I don't see why apple providing support for subscription fees is superior to letting the app creators handle that through online accounts. If the subscription part were handled by Apple, that just means more of a delay when the app makers want to change the structure/pricing of the subscription and even less control over the statistics that they can gather. The point about providing detailed statistics is great.

As achampas said, acquisitions and talent poaching is simply an economic reality, and a good one for developers because it gives them better economic prospects and more freedom in choosing their jobs.

Overall, a personal disappointment over the fact that Sparrow will no longer be under development is completely acceptable("my favorite email application on both iOS and Mac OS"), but thats not a good reason to decide that some trend is bad and that it should be fixed.
I go for "I assert" because it sounds aggressive, but it shows that I know that I haven't made my case yet. In the case of "Metallica is a great band," I'd just say it, though. Musical taste is obviously subjective.
My S Corp. is not for sale. Neither is my 501c3 which will dissolve with my passing. Can you explain to me how "any" company is for sale for the right offer?

The diamond ring is a silly simplistic example of where some people don't have a price. If my spouse has a 5 carat diamond band, does she subscribe to some idea that if a 6 carat diamond ring were offered by someone else then that must surely be a better opportunity and "sell out?"

Some individuals don't have have a price for some things in life.
Interesting that this op-ed comes out after his executive order giving him control over telecommunication systems during a national emergency made the rounds around the blogosphere.
What was so much better about it? I tried it and was unimpressed. Search was slower and worse than web, for one. That surprised me.
"I actually agree with Google. On that note, I think their search algorithms have become essential for the industry. As much as I've tried switching to Bing or Yahoo, I keep coming back to Google's engine.

Those algorithms should be de facto standards and licensed under FRAND"

Came across the above comment at http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/151423/google-argues-popula...
I'd guess the display pixels are holographically projected into the field of vision at infinity?
> Now, it’s of course possible that Yahoo would have done well under Microsoft. It’s also possible that unicorns are real. There’s essentially nothing to suggest that Microsoft/Yahoo would have worked. Meanwhile, there’s plenty to suggest that the opposite would have happened — namely, what happened with aQuantive post-acquistion. And the fortunes of Yahoo since the rejection.
This is true and is one reason that free things these days are given "licenses" instead of simply being declared by their makers to be in the public domain. The public domain isn't what it used to be.
For 30%, you get: order processing, distribution, update management, and some marketing for your application. The order processing alone is is worth it in the case of a .99 app - the CC fees alone would usually be more than 30% in that case, plus you never have to deal with chargebacks.

Of all the problems with the app store, I think the cut that Apple takes is pretty far down on the list - in fact, I find it downright reasonable.
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Using Square is faster and more convenient than cell-based (Nurit,
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This comment was probably pretty glib and stupid, for what it's worth.
Probably, which is why I think a better idea is to watch the person's eyes and try to guess their focus. That combined with a higher resolution screen (maybe 3x?) would let you try to mask a diffraction mask to match where light should be coming from for that part of the person's eye.

At least I think this should work, combined with being able to control the translucency of the pixels would allow it to be fairly accurate.
I sincerely hope it is neither of the two.
Maybe software patents should only be good for a few years? I think that a current patent is good for twenty, but maybe it's only fair if a patent can last for five years? That might really encourage innovation...
Domain gentrification...
FYI, I heartily agree, and accidentally fat-fingered the down arrow on my phone. Sorry about that.
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So if I'm getting this correctly, a computer test (not a person) has to look at two clips of audio and tell which is the source and which is encoded?

I'm surprised that 192k is actually indistinguishable. I thought some humans could tell the difference there.
This is infinitely better:

http://vimeo.com/930917
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On drawing black: Maybe biologists will discover a way to use carefully timed pulses of light to cause rods and cones to emit a diminished signal, or maybe all incoming light will be polarized, with an inverse polarized all-wavelength laser that cancels out the incoming light. Or maybe simcop2387's holographic mask idea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4273811) on a contact lens would work.
The sparrow case aside, there does seem to be limited prospects for sustaining a business focused on producing high quality apps. There seems to be very few patterns for success; e.g. acqusition, serialization of a single hit game, or a store with an overlay requiring the least possible effort to produce. Obviously exceptions can be found, but the idea that the app environment could be modified to make other types of businesses more viable likely has some truth to it.
$5 million in the hand is better than $10 Mac App Store sales in the cloud, apparently
I'm torn on this: http://interchangeproject.org/2012/07/20/goodbye-sparrow/

On one hand, I think this could be great for Gmail and even the wider world of email by bringing Sparrow's great UI/UX work to a bigger audience and more platforms and experiences. Gmail's engineers and back-end technology + Sparrow's UI/UX team seems like a match made in heaven.

On the other hand, this is the end of the fantastic iPhone and Mac apps. Eventually bugs or incompatibilities with new OSes will end of life them, and Google does not have a good track record of making good native experiences for any platform other than Android. I hope that doesn't continue.

The worst thing for me would be if Google took this talent and only improved the Web experience, while also no longer delivering a good iOS experience. Good should take the Sparrow iOS app and make it into the official Gmail app for the platform. They should then take parts of it for the official Android app. After that, the Mac Sparrow app should become the basis for future Mac and Windows Gmail apps.
I really shouldn't drink and comment. Sorry.
Really? Most ceo's get great performance based bonuses.
$300 could be a lot depending on where the employees are located.
What about RSS feed? Is it finish			
Most of the website owners claiming that the use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has Really Simply Stopped.
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I currently use this on my 3270 emulator ;)
So if some company you really admire offers you a billion dollars and total freedom to do anything you want, anything at all, you'd turn it down? Why?
I think I would write "Fixes bug foo".
Trouble is that by ignoring Objective-C, you make the rest far more than 5% harder. Like it or not, it's the native language of the platform, and all of the documentation, sample code, and community help assume familiarity with it.
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Where is Google in all this? They must surely be aware of all such IETF projects. I can understand why Apple wasn't mentioned (Apple Island is a world unto itself to the maximum extent possible), but Google has usually pursued the opposite strategy. This seems like the sort of thing they would get behind unless there is some issue I'm unaware of, and it seems as though Mozilla would mention Google in this infomercial if they were backing it.
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Frankly, and I realize this might be a radical notion (said with tongue firmly in cheek), but I think none years is about right.

Yes, none years sounds good. Shall we go with that? ;)
Maybe we won't be using biological eyes any more. Maybe we'll be interfacing at the retina or neural level. If it's not any time soon, it may not be using any simple solution we can think of right now.
That's what Apple originally planned with the IPhone. Make the browser as awesome as possible to support web apps. I guess people aren't that into it. :P
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The question is, why does the CEO get 3 Million USD as a bonus in addition to his pay, while the secretary makes only about 300 USD a month?

Its a good guesture of the CEO, no question. But it highlights the perverse difference in income between the different levels of employees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done calls these "next actions", things you can just do instead of having to decide (probably at the last moment) where to start on them. You may like more of Allen's ideas if you weren't already familiar.

Thinly slicing a software project is also the only way I can produce a schedule that is remotely plausible, since easy task (half day) + easy task (half day) != easy project (half day).
On drawing black:

LCD glasses that "darkened" at specific points do have the problem that those spots would be blurry, yes.

But if the spots are big enough, then they will create solid block spots at their middle. And the display can then "fill in" the darkened blurry spot proportionally with the "same" pixels from the camera, altering the ones it wants.

It would look bizarre for people looking at the person wearing the glasses, with strange black dots flitting across their glasses... And the syncing would have to be perfect (very difficult).

But it's an engineering issue, not a fundamentally physical one.
> Perhaps, except that hypothetical code-hungry orcs are imaginary and have nothing to do with anything while the value of any of my very real examples is well understood by pretty much anyone.

What does this even mean? I don't see any real examples, and all you are doing is throwing more claims around. I missed the memo where you, and whoever this "everyone" else is were appointed authority on the value of anything for everyone else.

> Edit to explain why I'm so dismissive:
I think that it's a fairly accepted axiom that specified and documented projects are easier to maintain than the alternative.

So a project with beautiful documentation and totally retarded code is easier to maintain? Documentation, more often than not, is for the end user. As far as code maintenance goes, the most important factor is proper abstractions and encapsulations. If you wrote a 5000 line, well commented method, it doesn't help me at all.

And a very specific set of projects lead itself to and require beforehand specs. Majority of the real world runs on "code is spec". Where is the spec for linux? Here is a little unknown someone's views on specs http://kerneltrap.org/node/5725 Where are the specs for rails, sinatra, django, flask? And how would it help if suddenly a rails specs came into being? You are confusing your little well with the world. Most projects design interfaces, not specs(activerecord, rails 4 queuing api etc)

Even your axiom holds(it doesn't, at all), how does that imply if you're writing more code than natural language (documentation, discussion of specs, interaction with the team, etc) something is extremely wrong.?

> Deriving my claim from these seems reasonable enough, to me, given the context of the discussion

> Not everything is science and while it might be nice to have 5-sigma data to reinforce my opinon, it fortunately doesn't need to be so reinforced in order to be valid, or even valid to be worth sharing.

I didn't ask for 5-sigma data. I asked for data which isn't personal anecdotes and viewpoints presented as truth.