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How can a anyone trust Google Spreadsheets when it can't do simple calculations?
Entering the following formula in to a Google Spreadsheet cell:

=300-10.49-25.90-40.96-9.99-9-11-60-10+50-59.95-1.99-22-10.49-5.49-16.99-40-5.49-10

Results in this answer: 0.260000000000014

When it should be 0.26.

If it can't do something so simple, how are businesses (or anyone) supposed to trust it and take it seriously?

By the way, it seems like it's a JavaScript error.
I think that this might also be the sweet spot for copyright!
The other issue is who is readily available to discuss this if it happens? How do I know my emails don't just go to someone who barely speaks the language? If my Microsoft ID was locked out that's quite a few services I wouldn't have access to.
If google tried to invalidate this based on prior art, or use it to argue for reforming patents, I'd 100% agree.

But if apple has a patent on it because they were the first to invent it, then it became ubiquitous because others copied apple.

To say multitouch gestures like (inch/zoom, and slide-to-unlock are "essential" shows a lack of imagination in what a phone could be. Apple didn't make a fundamental discovery, they just made a cool product feature.
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Not a scientific test by any means, but for a quick and dirty take on the matter, here's the Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment courtesy of Coding Horror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/concluding-the-grea...
The additive pixels are taking a separate optical path, combined in at the last second by either a beamsplitter or a waveguide.

In current commercial HMDs, the additive pixels are statically lensed to a fixed focus distance (not infinity, as a sibling comment asks, but rather a best guess of where the user will be focusing most often, e.g. 1.25 meters).

Using dynamic lenses to put the additive pixels at any focus distance is an exciting topic of current research:

http://www.quora.com/Volumetric-3D

Dynamic lenses could also be put on the forward-facing / physical-reality optical path both before and after the subtractive pixel layer, to put the subtractive pixels at any distance as well, solving the problem. (This would incidentally also allow lensing physical reality itself to any distance too, creating perfect / hyper-real vision correction.)
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Google's solution for touch latency: https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons
GPL depends on copyright, so you'd be eliminating enforceability of that too.
Exactly that Apple Island with their industry standard H.264 and AAC files.

And Google with their proprietary WebM.
There are indeed two GCSEs but crucially we had only one type of English lesson. We studied literature, poetry, wrote stories and poems of our own; did presentations, read plays, memorised Shakespearean monologues and such. But, barring that one poem in primary school I was never taught what an adverb is for example.

In French we'd look at past-participles and different tenses but never was it discussed what the pluperfect or future perfect was in English. In Russian we looked at locative and genitive, accusative and nominative cases (and others I'm sure) but in English there was never once a mention that anything such as a grammatical case existed. In school there was never a lesson on the apostrophe - reading Truss's tome [Eats, Shoots & Leaves] recently made me wonder why on Earth I couldn't have been passed something like that as a kid (I was a quite avid reader for many years but alas of course it wasn't written until 2006).

We did look at literary terms like onomatopoeia, alliteration, spoonerism and related concepts - metaphor, rhyming and timbre - that allow for analysis of poetry and prose.

Our English language classes, and exam incidentally, were about English usage and not really the language itself - the construction of language using English as the subject.

Grammar was just not in vogue at the time I feel. I've always felt however that being taught English grammar would have helped foreign language learning immeasurably.

FWIW I got high marks in both English exams (though I felt I was robbed by my teacher confusing me with the boy I sat next to!).
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It has nothing to do with that.

And everything to do with VP8/WebM being a proprietary, non standard at the time that the world consolidated on H.264. That and the fact that H.264 had hardware support when the iPods and Zunes were taking off.
I think it's more to do with making it "cross-platform", the code-once-build-multiple-platforms aspect of PhoneGap, etc.
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What if the "other projects" include the Gmail client for Android? A great, cross-platform, Gmail experience is something we can all relate to.
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Needs better definition of 'anytime soon': 3 years? 9 years? 20 years?

Also, arguing that something isn't possible seems risky for a practitioner in the field. It invests identity in the negative proposition, potentially biasing perception against new possibilities. (When a 'Hard AR' breakthrough does occur, it will come from a researcher who thinks it's possible and imminent.)
'Net relative to other course of action' is the tricky bit. I find it hard to believe that investing in 15 people at $15 million, or 150 at a million, or however you want to break it out, would not be a better alternative.
The issue of CEO pay boils down to how skewed you view the distribution of talent among a population and how much a single person makes a difference in an organization.
Personally I think success is more of a function of collective or distributed intelligence, and perhaps if a single person is so pivotal compared to nearly everyone else in an organization that is more of a reflection of poor organizational structure that is not distributing responsibility and power sensibly. At the very least that sort of corporate structure could hardly be viewed as a robust system.
Thats not criticize this particular case, but highly skewed compensation in general.
> Why is everyone angry about their comeuppance?

Because, as of now, a tool they've come to rely on is essentially done. It won't get updated, and should future versions of an OS that it runs on changes something, there is no promise of a fix.

This could be solved if the code base was released publicly, but that hasn't happened yet.

> Does this hurt for people who bought Sparrow? Not really. You paid them $10 for their app.

The people behind Sparrow were very public about features they were working on that will never get implemented. I know I almost bought Sparrow because of those public statement. There is also the expectation that buying into an app, it will continue to get updates so it will continue to work. Now, time invested into Sparrow is essentially a time bomb. Eventually it will stop working, and the user will have to switch.

Sparrow is free to take the money. However, how they handled this was a slap in the face to it's paying customers.
> I guess Square could be used creatively to solve the processing time problem: a restaurant could hand out mobile devices to all servers and just process customer payments at the table.

Pretty much every even slightly classy restaurant in Canada has mobile POSes the server brings to your table and you use to punch in your credit card PIN (or it prints the receipt for you to sign, if you have an ancient or American card).

It still takes too long and I wish the limit for RFID-authorized transactions was higher so I could tap rather than PIN, but at least the card remains in my sight at all times.
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I'm not sure you can say it's typographic. One still uses quotations in handwritten prose where there is no arrangement of "type" per se. It seems syntactical to me but perhaps is best categorised as orthography?
I can't help noticing how often I've

-- had a programming question

-- googled it

-- found the very first (most relevant) link to be to StackOverflow

-- jumped to it

-- found that some other programmer had also asked the same question

-- found that other SO members had given the question and its answers hundreds of bonus points (useful!)

-- and found that the SO mod-nazis had shut it down as "Not considered a good, on-topic question"

An example might be, what are the differences between git and mercurial, where the answer is not a line of code but may include informed judgments by the people whose judgments I'm most interested in. As a developer, I have to make a lot of decisions, and not all of them are about which characters to type.

So I have to live with whatever answers well-informed SO members managed to sneak onto the page before they were chased away and the gate was locked.

Does it seem to anyone else as though there might be something wrong when this happens over and over again?
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Google has a big NIH conflict of interest since they bought GIPS. "On the audio side, we will initially support iSAC, iLBC, G.711, and DTMF, with iSAC being the default. It is a royalty free wideband codec optimized for speech, open sourced at webrtc.org." http://blog.chromium.org/2012/04/chromes-webrtc-roadmap.html It looks like somebody volunteered to add Opus to Chrome and was met with silence: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/discuss-w...

Mozilla says "Audio codecs planned: G.711 & Opus. (Although royalty/license-free, we have no plans to support iLBC, iSAC and G.722)", so as it stands Firefox and Chrome could only interop with G.711 (aka uncompressed). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/WebRTC
At the end of the article:

> I’d be surprised if it was sooner than five years, and it could easily be more than ten before it makes it into consumer products.
To reduce line noise, you also want to avoid people worrying about whether or not such-and-such qualifies as a "complete sentence" in English.

N.B.: Requiring complete sentences in one-line summaries isn't generally a good rule, here or elsewhere, unless you like space-wasting filler. In describing a $memberType of $objectType, "This $memberType $actionVerbs the $objectType's $relation $relatedThing." is unnecessarily verbose. And I say this as someone who generally writes only complete sentences in SMS messages.
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Putting a time frame on the commoditization of particular technologies is really, really, really hard. Most of the big ASIC design shops (was at one for a few years) have to design a feature 2 - 3 years in advance and hope to god that it becomes standardized/commoditized to hit ROI. Even the big shops get it wrong sometimes. In which case they never ship it or just get surprised by someone who did it better or cheaper than they did.

But I agree, arguing something isn't possible is pretty short-sighted, but I'd like to mention it seems he's caveated these approaches with something to the effect of "today's technology and its trajectory." So in his opinion, the tech isn't being actively developed, thereby I think it'd be appropriate to say "impossible without intervention."
Partially agree with you. Seems this guys believe in a idealistic world.
And now getting sued by Google over FRAND patents defined in the H.264 standard.
You are correct. My algorithm is conceptually rather similar to a number of ones recently published. The work closest to mine in the literatures is [1], by Lafferty and Zhai at CMU in 2001.

That said, my method is somewhat different than these in the way that it explicitly treats unlinked documents as distributions over a graph of words and the theoretical framework (based on a theoretical process for document generation) employed to derive it.

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~nie/IFT6255/lafferty-zhai.pdf
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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. It's a sloppy solution. Better off just doing a mobile web app instead.
The wings WERE a military requirement but nothing quite that silly.
It was to enable a launch from Edwards AFB in California, insert or extract a polar orbit payload and land on US soil.

Importantly it allowed them to choose the orbital insert point while they were over US territory where nobody was watching precisely where it went.
She's a showboat, IMHO. This is based on personal observation and insider info. She's quick to yell about how great she is, but you don't see a lot of unbiased people talking about her contributions to technology or to Google. She has her own publicist; not from Google, mind you, this is the Marissa Mayer publicist. She apparently enjoyed keeping people lined up waiting for an appointment with her for hours. To summarize, there are a lot of signs of weak character, no signs of great leadership, and no signs of greatness at all. Yahoo's board wanted her, obviously, for the name Google. They will be disappointed.
Good of you to submit this with the canonical URL. All four of the previous submissions (none with any comments, per HN Search) were of noncanonical URLs with appended referrer strings or format-preference strings.

After edit: So the article's essential claim, which I guess we haven't discussed here on HN before (unless I missed a link) in relation to this exact article is that the Web is a fundamentally unfavorable environment, long-term, for advertising-supported sites. That's an interesting idea. I usually run ad-blocking software, so maybe I believe this already. I've never tried to monetize my personal website with advertisements--they just seem too schlocky.
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IMO there is a fundamental difference between pinch-to-zoom and slide-to-unlock. The pinch gesture

-) has quite a bit of prior art, most notably minority report

-) is similarly self-evident on a multi touch surface as drag-and-drop using a mouse or modifier keys on a keyboard

Meanwhile slide-to-unlock is a simulation of a real world object on a multi touch surface. I'd also argue that it's an idea Apple has clearly introduced with the iPhone with not much prior art.

Conclusion: Those gestures should be analyzed separately when one has to decide whether a design is infringing or not.
So be it; if we got rid of copyright and lost copyleft in the process, I'd consider that a net win. The Free Software Foundation has said on several occasions that they feel the same way.
Indeed... and as hard as the problem seems, what we think we see is already unlike what hits our retina - the mind fills in blind spots, balances color and detail, patches retinal irregularities, smooths motion, and so forth. The solution will probably use these qualities to its advantage.

(In Oliver Stone's 1993 miniseries Wild Palms, the near-future AR/VR experiences are sometimes enhanced via a hallucinogen/hypnotic called mimezine.)
That's exactly why they had to kill it. If you don't use the web app you don't see GMail ads.
My work is my life and hence my 501c3. Either I'm fulfilled that I'm able to "do what I want" or I'm just a stick in the mud. I also don't plan to retire.

We can substitute work/employment for anything that you value. Family? Religious/spiritual beliefs/non-beliefs? Are you saying you'll stand for some value/idea/principle...up to a certain price? Nothing is verboten?
Also we should point out that Google should NEVER be trusted.

Their disgraceful behaviour in blackmailing Microsoft over H.264 FRAND patents is of huge concern to anyone who cares about standards. Companies should be encouraged to get together and define industry standards with fair royalty rates. When that happens we ALL win. Clearly the ITC/EU agree.

Hopefully Google will see the error of its ways and change course.
My TLDR of this article is: Due to the additive blending, the "augmented reality" of the immediate future then is restricted more towards 2D HUD-like overlays and ghost-like 3D overlays.

True. Although, if you think about it, that's still pretty cool "sci-fi" tech, and opens up a lot of exciting futuristic possibilities. For example, you can still have a 2D HUD giving all the context-sensitive information you need, and you can still have ghost-like 3D images overlaying the real world to help you out.

In fact, I have no problem waiting for nonadditive AR glasses for everything except video-games, because in real-world use I want to be able to discern reality from augmented data.
Because, as of now, a tool they've come to rely on is essentially done.

I relied on Spool. They got bought, I was bummed, then I moved on. This isn't the end of mail apps as we know it.

Eventually it will stop working, and the user will have to switch.

To Mail.app. Or Gmail. Or any other number of email clients out there.

I'm sure some customers are disappointed. But at some point it's not about the customers--it's about you. If you want to sell your company, you're going to do it no matter what customers want. Customers can't know whether a company is the "sell now" type a priori, and that sucks, but it's also the nature of business.
I'd love to see complete or nearly complete software on kickstarter. One could finish a software project, then recoup all of the development costs plus profit and then offer the final product for free since you have already made all your money. This model allows the people that are most interested to fund the entire development cycle of the software and pay for everyone else to have it too. It also avoids all of the immoral intellectual property laws.
>how do you draw black?

emit antiphotons, duh.
I'm sure they wouldn't mind the G diaspora going out and documenting all of the Secret Sauce at great length, then. After all, the things which prop up all of that web searching, web indexing, and all of that "original stuff" inside is pretty great. So, come on, share them.

"Indeed, many of the same interoperability benefits that the FTC and others have touted in the SSO context also occur when one firm publishes information about an otherwise proprietary standard and other firms then independently decide (whether by choice or of necessity) to make complementary investments to support that standard in their products. "

I mean, that is, before those people get hired by Facebook or whatever and then make a newer version of the same thing and open source it. What happens when the secret sauce isn't secret any more, and the people who made it have moved on?
> No one will care that a couple years ago the same people sold awesome software for really cheap and lots of people used it.

People remember when you screw up their workflow. Devs love to ignore that but it's true. The price, at least after the purchase is complete, is near irrelevant. I paid $10 for a Better Finder Rename and they've been around for decades. I paid $10 for HyperDock, I paid $15 for SoundStudio. $10 for Printopia. None of them have abandoned their app.

You disagree and think it's an over the top reaction. That's fine. It also makes it blindingly obvious that you're a dev first and a user second. As a user first, especially an OS X user, I only support devs that support me. Not worth getting used to a new program otherwise.
The following is just an inexperienced guess, so feel free to ignore it and seek other counsel, but . . .

I think the most important thing is to realize that negotiating pay takes a totally different mindset from programming. When programming you're trying to be creative and cooperative.

When negotiating pay you should have a competitive mindset. Your employer is to some extent your opponent and you're playing poker with him. The thing is -- that's OK (or at least it should be). If a potential employer is making it feel like you're pushing against him personally when you ask for higher pay he's being the jerk, not you (this is of course situational -- things might be different if you've already committed to work for X amount of time).
> I really shouldn't drink and comment.

Indeed.
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> I didn't get that from Marco's post at all.

What didn't you get? Both Macro's post and the parent are reasonable and non-contradictory. Marco says "I was only able to reject those offers because Instapaper is a healthy business" and the parent says "Well, congrats to Marco for having a successful and sustainable business".

My point is, you are disagreeing with two people in agreement. What you "heard" is a miscalculating brain that projected sentiments that don't exist.
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A few points:

1) The app store pioneered the 99c app. Windows shareware was usually $30 before that(think WinRAR, WinZip). A $5 price is considered outrageous now.

2) Apple does not provide a way for developers to charge for paid upgrades
So you mean the game (or on a more serious note-CAD software used to make a living) I bought for Windows 3.1 should keep getting updates that make it work with every version of Windows that is released in the future? Sorry people, and app is a piece of software, plain and simple. It was a one time payment, and I'm not sure I should 'expect' anything after that.
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I hadn't heard it before, but it's a great term!

I know one multiplayer Flash service has a problem where their server clocks had drifted apart, and it caused all sorts of crazy issues. Took them a couple of weeks to figure it out and fix the problem. Not quite a Heisenbug maybe, but close. (http://playerio.com/forum/multiplayer/room-disappears-from-l...)

I've had bugs before that have seemed to come and go for absolutely no reason - I think they involved corrupted incremental compilations, but who knows.
Thanks, I'd missed that. 'Hard AR' - with opaque and dark solid-seeming objects - within the next 10-20 years would feel very 'soon' to me! So from my perspective the author's concluding paragraph shifts 180' from the tone of his headline and list-of-unsolved-problems.
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Oh boy Jeff, I love your work, but you are so way off beam with this one. The over zealous moderation of StackOverflow is insane and it's killing the site. Seriously. If the community votes up questions and/or the answers to those questions, then that is all the indication you need that the material has real value and should not be shut down. You've just proved it yourself. There's a ton of educational value in the material you've reposted. The fact that there's comedic and entertainment value also is just a lovely bonus. And you think deleting this is the right thing to do ? Really ? Please rethink this before it's too late.
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What happens when the secret sauce isn't secret any more, and the people who made it have moved on?

Sun Microsystems happens: a decade of stagnation followed by a quick and brutal collapse.
I love a good pricing discussing so I wish I knew what you were saying when you say:

The only way to make that stuff is to sell it as some kind of "cloud" service where you make your money on eyeballs elsewhere.

And

No one will buy this stuff at the $50/seat the developers would have to charge to avoid the Google and Facebook buyouts.

Can you please re-state? For some reason I can't follow.