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I've used them and they are quite performant. Definitely lives up to its promise.
I just want to punch some holes in your reasoning:

0. I agree that if you want to get native look you should use native tools but there is market for apps that don't have to look native (e.g. games). Actually I see bigger demand for custom looking apps.

0.a. Your screenshot is for pure Qt but Qt strength in mobile landscape is in Qt Quick. That includes writing UIs that adapts to different screen sizes and densities. It is actually sad that Qt Quick which is pure gold might be eliminated by HTML5. While I hope that open source nature of Qt will help here. We will see.

1. There are more platforms than Android and iOS. While those two make majority of smartphone market but why we should forget that they gained popularity in recent 5 years and might lose it in the next 5. While I doubt that this will happen but who knows.

2. Even if exclude older Android models we still have huge market left.
> The main thing I notice about fat people is they eat very often

Probably because they're hungry a lot. The more weight you put on, the more food you need to eat.

The funny thing is that snacking can actually help you lose weight, and is actually recommended by many fitness gurus and bodybuilders. It helps keep your energy levels constant during the day, and also avoids hunger pangs, plus the associated over eating at appointed mealtimes. This will happen if you're working out a lot, since your body is processing your food faster because of the energy you burn in the gym/track/wherever

You just have to make sure you're eating the right stuff. nuts, protein shakes, fruits (minimize the ones with a lot of sugar for really strict definition).
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High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2
This has been a long time coming, but AWS has consistently been improving their service (as long as you can ignore the particularly bad reliability as of late).

It's telling that they have only enabled this for a huge (quadruple extra large) instance type. It's probably hard to make this work for someone who just wants a 10GB disk with great IO. The problem at the low end is that disks are larger and would thus have to be divided up to make proper use of them, leading to IO contention..

The high IO options will probably only ever be available for pretty large instances.
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The problem is, you do need to be a millionaire to be an angel investor. IF not you open your investments up to liability unless you really are "friends and family".

This industry is regulated and McClure sorta completely glossed over it.

I would be an angel investor if I was allowed. I would have been doing it for the past 4 years, and I would have much enjoyed doing that. I had 6 figures and 20 years of startup experience and was ready to write checks.

I just never found a way around the need to get accreditation. (Note when you have a successful exit you have cash in the bank, but that doesn't mean you necessarily have a $250k a year job, or $1M in the bank!)

Maybe in the bay area there are lawyers who can set you up to do this even despite the regulations... I dunno.

But this seems to be a glaring omission on his part. Or maybe the law has changed recently and that's why his program could now work.
Our policy is: if the conference is beneficial for either building skills or gaining clients, go.

You're obviously not going to attract A-players by setting arbitrary limits on your developers and not trusting them to make good decisions.
NFC - once NFC becomes ubiquitous, it'll be a lot easier for developers and manufacturers to integrate solutions. The problem at the moment is that we don't have critical mass of readers.
Greenwashing is their primary mode of false advertising, here are two examples:

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http://www.care2.com/causes/shell-tries-to-greenwash-frackin...
There's a tool called Pencil[1] that runs on the browser, but works offline. Haven't explored a lot, but does simple tasks well.

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Indeed, I can't find the link to the video where they show many different brands of cycle helmet splitting into pieces when heading a football (soccer) dropped from a certain height (which causes no injury for someone heading it without wearing a helmet).

(Pro-choice and anti-compulsion on the helmet issue. I choose not to wear one. I cycle 5,000 miles a year - 10,000 miles in a good year - cycle commuting in London, UK and leisure riding or touring.)
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It seems like they could spread a bunch of smaller instances over an array of SSDs, maybe just offer less space at a higher price? SSDs are naturally better at concurrent access, so while you might not get 150k+ IOPS, you could get at least 10k or so, with the expected low random access times. Imagine an SSD-backed EBS.
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It's telling that they have only enabled this for a huge (quadruple extra large) instance type.

My guess (not based on any knowledge of EC2 internals) is that they don't have any way to do fair I/O sharing between guests. If they did, they could split these boxes into 32 small instances with 1 ECU, 1.7 GB RAM, and a 60 GB disk with 2500 random reads / 250-4000 random writes per second.
Said laws are pretty flexible, I wouldn't rely on them giving you a significant boost of certainty in many products you buy. But apart from actual lies, I believe the intent of the phrase "drown out" is supposed to convey that they can just put so much noise out there it's not feasible for an average Joe who doesn't really care to be able to detect the signal. Noise doesn't have to be false.
I begged my parents to buy me a piano when I was a child, there was something amazing about being able to produce sound that would have an impact on people.

Find the music you love, and learn how to play that... it mightn't be efficient or thorough, but man it'll be engaging.. which is what I believe counts.
Huh -- I thought fabs cost billions these days. Particularly those making flash.

(ducks)
What are good use-cases for on-demand high I/O servers?

At $3.10/hr, these instances work out to $2k/mo.
There are probably many more cost-effective options if you want a 2TB SSD server.

Since the benefit of using EC2 is that you can provision instances elastically, what are the sorts of scenarios in which one needs to provision high I/O servers elastically?

[edit: A few minutes of Googling, and I can't find any dedicated servers with 2 TB of SSD.]
> I'm curious what kind of sensitive information you're concerned about exposing

+1. Secrets should not be in your VCS repo. I'd guess the parent is talking about user/pass or pub/priv key creds.

I really wish "we" had better tools for passing around config, and secrets in particular. Chefs data bags are close, but I still don't want the master knowing my secrets.
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> As if women are so weak that they all they can do is just sit there at the door, sobbing "please let us in your industry".

Aaaaand straw man. Citation please. You almost made it, too.

The complaint has never been that there isn't gender parity; that's an indicator, not the substance. It's about as valid as Gallup polls are for political issues: which is to say useful for making large claims, but not useful for actually understanding those claims. We don't change minds on political issues by mashing a button on a Nintendo controller until the number goes from 40% to 60%; we talk to people.

The complaint is that women who are in the industry feel like they're being forced out of it. See: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Othering And also the rest of the Wikia.

(And I'm obliged to note that, despite the faulty premise, you're on target otherwise and I fully agree.)
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I've observed rather different things. The people I know who eat the most meat are the Crossfitters around me. They are, in almost all cases, healthy.

I have a roommate who drinks fat-free milk and eats lots of salad and pasta, who avoids meat like the plague. He's been struggling with his weight for as long as I've known him. I drink coconut milk -- which contains nothing but fat -- and a meal usually consists of some randomly selected fatty cut of meat and vegetables fried in the drippings. That, or cheap canned fish. I lost weight eating like this. I fit in skinny jeans. I may with luck convince my almost-girlfriend to peg me. :3

But the important thing -- I don't advertise. I am not a walking bulletin of the health benefits of coconut and sardines. How do you really know about the diets of the people around you? I would say there are maybe four or five people around me whose diets I actually know well enough to analyze in any reasonable way.

Case A is a twenty-two year old recent Caltech graduate who is obsessed with freerunning and eats nearly-strict paleo. He can do a backflip. No further comments. We grew up together.

Case B is my roommate. He follows all the conventional advice to a T -- chicken, fish, whole grain, salad. Lots of "health food" products. Y'know, healthiest potato chips on the shelf. There is bread, there is soybean oil mayonnaise. It... doesn't seem to be working.

Case C is another good friend of mine. Eats a lot of processed cheap stuff; he's the sort that'll buy three pounds of animal crackers. When I first met him he was rather obese and said he was try'na learn to eat vegetables. He lost a lot of weight after we introduced him to ecstasy... and he's been eating healthier too. He's sloowly coming around; one of his recent facebook statuses involved making hard-boiled eggs. He looks better and seems happy. Score 281,443 for MDMA.

Case D is me. I'm kind of a dick, judging people like this. People who I like. I don't really know any other way to be honest about how I make decisions, though.

When I was eleven my parents tried to force me to switch from whole milk to 2%. I responded by walking two miles to the gas station to buy milk. I'm the only kid in my family who never had weight problems growing up.

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The article all but suggests that Shell actually do this. While part of me thinks Shell doing its own satire / misinformation campaign would be the most effective response (legal action would just attract more attention), I have a hard time imagining such misinformation campaign having anything but further negative effect on Shell's public branding.
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That is only one of the benefits of EC2. If you are not using elasticity, then you have to factor in the reserved instance pricing, which drops the prices down by 71% (as in, to 29% of the list price; and I mean even if you include the up-front cost: that's overall savings). You, like most people who comment on the price of EC2, do not seem to be taking this into consideration. :(
I think that google did a good job of providing chrome for almost all platforms, so I see it as a good cross platform deployment environment, now better than Java.

For most developers who will use such a tool it's not a problem to install a webkit browser.
Ok, so how about we offer a deal like this:

1) Put in 130 hours of work every week except for 3 weeks vacation per year, and 2 months parental leave, and medical leave as required by law. Start when you are 20. When you are 40 we will give you a retirement bonus of 30 million dollars.

Is this exclusionary to women? I ask because I think the very clear answer is yes.

I don't think the key issues are in terms of an exclusionary culture. I think the key issues regarding startups are structural and expectation-based. I don't think it's any coincidence that Marissa Mayer waited until Google was a big mainstream company to get pregnant. So what do you tell a talented 28 year old woman who is thinking maybe about starting a family?
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It seems that the only real error made by Wheat Belly's author was bending the study by claiming its subjects were all obese with celiac disease. Apart from this, the comments contains many anecdotal responses from people who have dropped not only gluten, but all grain from their diet and had positive results. Moreover, take into account the blog's author who has published three books circulating around gluten-free foods -- something that Wheat Belly advises the reader to jettison altogether.
I miss the ZMODEM protocol. Resumable file transfers over 56kbps was the bomb. Made me feel whole again (pun partially intended) back in '89.
"Since the benefit of using EC2 is that you can provision instances elastically" That is certainly a benefit, but I think many would argue that its far from the only benefit.

And as with all EC2 pricing, reservations drop the price substantially. A 1 lease reservation for a "heavy utilization" instance comes out to $7280 per year + $0.621 per hour for a total of $12719
The pricing in the blog post is a bit unclear - the prices on http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ are ...
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$3.41 for linux and $3.58 for windows.

(Reserved instance prices are cheaper)
>Plus, if you're a linux guy, and the windows version is cheaper, just buy that
and get the ubuntu image or drivers from dell support.

This is not an option if you are opposed to the Windows Tax on principle. I am
extremely uncomfortable with artificially boosting Windows sales and indirectly
supporting a monopoly.

And no, this by no means not a monopoly. Windows comes preinstalled on the
overwhelming majority of computers today, and most of the time, there is no
way around that. Most manufacturers even deny refunds, even when they are
required to do so by law ("whatcha gonna do, sue us?").

For the record, I've been having "fun" with Lenovo trying to get my rightly
deserved refund. I'm actually not adverse to taking this to court, but I'm
a student and not exactly rich, so I don't know if I could afford that.

It's my firm opinion that forced bundling should be outright illegal, and it somewhat
already is. There's a consumer protection directive from the EU that forbids
"agressive or unfair practices", which this most certainly falls under.
The one that comes to mind is that you want to do a map/reduce job and need a large and fast working space to do the reductions.

Otherwise, as noted below, the most likely use case is in a reserved situation running Cassandra or Postgres or something.
closest i can find is Hetzner's EX8S[1] which is EUR99 for the box itself without disks, and another about EUR80 for 4 240Gb SSDs... This is a little less than HALF of what Amazon give, but costs about EUR180 a month and EUR150 for setup... but you do loose the elasticity of Amazon... Mind you, it is 1/10th of the price...

[1]: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex8s
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FWIW it costs $27,156 a year on-demand or $12,720 as a reserved heavy utilization instance.

For heavy analytics workloads I'd bet that Google BigQuery (https://developers.google.com/bigquery/) would be cheaper and faster and more reliable.
> There is nothing stopping women from taking that opportunity.

There's societal misogyny. The number of women I've met who refuse to try to do something technical because they're female or blonde has long boggled my mind. That's probably not the tech industry's fault.

But it does mean there aren't the same level of opportunities. If someone whacks your shin with a crowbar before you do your figure skating, that just ain't a meritocracy, no matter how fair the judges are.
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> $7280 per year or $0.621 per hour.

I believe that's $7280/year plus $0.621 per hour, or about a thousand dollars a month amortized over a year.
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Making this even more of a "put your money where your mouth is" situation. Women in tech fund, where are you and your gigantic returns?
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What are some of the other benefits, other than elasticity or on-demand ness, and not having to spend a huge amount upfront?
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Not the same :)
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I heard already several times that if you sell a full PC, then it was to be working when it is bought.

Computer parts are not full PCs.

I'll check if I can find any example.
Those are not full PCs you buy in a consumer shop.
That's because it's not new. Read the comments on the original article. If a magic solution was enough, it would have been fixed already and no one would bother talking about the non-issue.
Other operating systems have similar issues as well.
From your 4-year-old article:

Shell had responded to the challenge that the accepted definition of the phrase "sustainable development" was "development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

Is that definition highly controversial now?

In any event, that certainly does not constitute a massive propaganda campaign against the public.
That's true. And anyone who doesn't believe that needs to read "Birth as an American Rite of Passage" by Robbie Davis-Floyd. What she covers will boggle the mind and challenge what folks think about gender issues generally.

>But it does mean there aren't the same level of opportunities. If someone whacks your shin with a crowbar before you do your figure skating, that just ain't a meritocracy, no matter how fair the judges are.

That's true too, but what I am getting at is that when we talk about women in technology startups (which is really the subject of the article and many discussions here on HN) I don't think that's what's really going on.

Rather I think that what is going on is that in the area of startups, the entry fee is much higher for women, and the lifestyle demands sacrifices of a sort that men don't have to make. The bigger question in my mind is how we solve that structural problem.
I agree with your sentiments, but we shouldn't be looking at death, but incidents of cancer. Either way, the sampling is too small, and I suspect can only lead to misdirection.
At the very least I hope they require some sort of cross-compatibility from manufacturers, which Google never did, and just let manufacturers do whatever they wanted with it. Also no one should be able to modify it but Mozilla. I'm a big fan of Android, but I feel Google could've taken a different direction early on, and it would've still worked out for them, considering there was no real alternative to the iPhone in the first 3 years.
Could you show me the differences? Those three excerpts seem to be saying the same thing to me.
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"Shortly after taking the job, Mr. Elop scrapped work on Nokia's homegrown smartphone software and said the company would use Microsoft Corp.'s MSFT +2.66% Windows mobile operating system. By doing so, he was able to deliver a new line of phones to compete with the iPhone in less than a year, much quicker than if Nokia had stuck with its own software, he says."

I keep hearing Elop saying this, but what the hell is he talking about? The N9 was available like a year before they even got their first WP7 product out.
Oh, I'm retweeting these quite knowingly.
Since we are talking anecdotes and make-beliefs, I'll add what I saw with my own two eyes ...

My grandfather was eating between 5 and 10 eggs per day, every day. He also drank at least 1 liter of home-made red whine per day, while being a big consumer of dairy products (also made in-house).

Of course, because my grandparents lived on a farm and consumed what they produced or traded with neighbors, half of a normal week would go by without them consuming any meat. However my grandfather was also a big fan of raw and untreated pig bacon, the kind you never find in stores. It was one of his pleasures that he indulged whenever he could.

My grandfather died at 99 years old, 3 months before his 100 years anniversary. He died out of old age, never having any problems with his heart. He was able to work his land until 98 years old. And in his village, even though people live a really rough life, it's pretty common to see people past the age of 90 with no serious health problems.

So really, your own two eyes are biased by the culture you live in ;-)

Nowadays it's a common belief that living a healthy life means preferring fruits and vegetables ... however, be careful when sampling because it's possible that people taking more care of their health are healthy because they care more about their health, not necessarily because they consume less meat.
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>This kind of thinking is simply not medically correct. The idea that eating a will lead to increase in b and then improve all these functions has no basis in evidence.

Well, sometimes it does, and I don't think the parent post made any sort of general point asserting that this was a universal principle. So if A is a necessary precursor to B and cannot be manufactured from more base components, we have a situation where low levels of B can impair some performance metric, and up to a point an increase in A will increase that metric. The body will maintain endogenous control of the various systems so long as it has the base inputs it requires. As an aside, even if A can be manufactured by cells e.g. cholesterol, there is the whole issue of whether the cells have enough energy/capacity to produce this compound in sufficient quantities at a given time along with all the other demands of them.

>Trust me. I'm a doctor :-)

You basically oversimplified the parent's post and presented it as a straw man, noting generically that we have low understanding of many processes in the human body without refuting his specific argument. That is not a well structured enough of an argument for you to be asking anyone to trust you just based on some imagined superiority in rank. (Hint: being an MD, even a PHD is not a refutation of an argument)
This would be very useful for elastic EMR workloads, will be good for killing I/O bottlenecks.
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