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I don't understand why the market hasn't shifted to placing more importance on Android. Android has a significantly higher marketshare in the US and abroad it is almost 3 times as prevalent (59% to 23% according to IDC). Why would a startup with a mobile app want to limit themselves to two thirds less potential users? The only real argument I can understand is for paid apps which in some case studies have been shown to have higher revenues on ios.
That Apple used those resources to steward a successful open-source project themselves rather than just sending patches back to KDE makes the point, though.
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yeah a lot of our big events have been canceled due to the city :/

Friday at 7 is a good time to come, we all drink.
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I have one of these devices, also got it from Jim Brain; worked wonderfully, until I sucked the (way too long) power cord into the vacuum one day when I didn't notice it was hanging down off the desk. Still need to figure out how to put it all back together. In the meantime, I just use my C64 with MSSIAH as a MIDI synthesizer...still need to install the SID2SID so I get six channel stereo sound.

Old machines have so much character and charm. I find myself browsing old-computers.com pretty regularly, and if I don't stop myself, I go searching eBay for the more interesting ones.
They seem to have some really generic games and a truly horrific site. Maybe the brogrammer thing helps them get much needed attention, but it doesn't interest me at all.
Here's a serious and legitimate challenge, find me a concrete example of bias in any of NPRs news programs. (Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Top of the hour news updates).

The more editorial programs on public radio (This American Life, On The Media) are more opinionated, and the quality of local news is only as good as your public radio station, but NPR News is as clean as an organization as there has ever been.
Did you read his post? He said exactly that. Put them in a config directory of some sort.
Two things I can think of that may be factors, whether or not they make complete logical sense.

1. Fragmentation

2. Prevalence of Mac Book Pro as dev machines.
As I learned to do phone screens, some people made it past me into an onsite interview that really wouldn't have come close to getting a job. After meeting two or three of us, we just told our internal recruiters that they weren't suitable and would just be a waste of everyone's time to hold their interview schedule. The recruiters just come in and end the interview, being relatively noncommittal. It's still after at least three interviews, so it's not like they're being chucked out on their ear after a few minutes.

I felt pretty terrible about it since it was 100% my fault that they wasted their time by coming in, but time is too valuable to throw good after bad...
iOS is the most successful Flash blocker ever, in fact.
Negative. A lock or shield will convince a user that they're not to touch it, ever... Unless they are too dumb to understand the connotations, in which case they'll simply break it anyway. Hidden files are a good way to go - Out of sight, out of mind for most people, but not impossible to show them when they do need to touch.
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Isn't PHPStorm 4.0 still in beta? Or just come off beta recently? Last time I used it, it was quite buggy, and that was only a few months ago.

Now there is 5.0, Firefox has messed up our release versioning.
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Yes. I'm not talking about his post. I'm talking about a few other comments here and on G+.
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That's not something the forum can control, though, is it? Nor anyone else who's the target audience for Authy, for that matter.
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Yay, I am one of them.
I don't have pay TV and use netflix/amazon/iTunes streaming a lot. I sometimes have multiple kids watching distinct video streams on different devices at the same time.

I haven't hit the bandwidth cap with my comcast internet-only service yet. I can imagine you need to get seriously into torrenting HD movies to go over the edge.
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It's huge in Brazil too. Their stores are most popular among small business owners (or very large families), since you get better prices buying in bulk. They're also usually located in somewhat remote parts of the city.
From a usability perspective, the start screen is faster than clicking items on the start menu. MS wrote a very convincing blog post on the matter full of statistics (which i agree with mostly).
Similarly, the ribbon interface in explorer allows for quicker access.

It also has lower requirements than windows 7 IIRC, so that indicates it should be snappier, and it has faster boot times.
Another vague thing is, how do they define "key employee"? The article describes it as, "those notable enough to make it into the tech news". How does one get to be so notable? Having a high-responsibility job at an important company probably helps a lot. So by the term's own definition, you're naturally going to find that big companies like Google are where "key employees" are grown and exported.
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I think the case of hidden dot files is a good example of 'convention over configuration'[1].

Point is accepted, that it came into being due to a lazy programmer. But surely early people might have just liked the unintended consequence of some files (dot files) being hidden. Just like most of us, whenever we learnt unix thought that it is by design.

If early users, had found the consequence a handicap, it would have been fixed long back.

Its similar to the use of hash-tags on twitter or the @for addressing which got adopted by users first and so became features (although the paths to them being considered features are different).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration

Edit: Grammar
my de-obfuscation attempt:

etc > e.t.c > edit to configure.

the .rc suffix has a nice history btw
Sounds like you agree with him, as he advocates a 'conf' directory at the end of his post.
This is huge. 2013 is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop. :P
Really? Do you have a source for that? Most of the deals I see are for things like restaurants, which have really slim margins. I'm having trouble understanding how they could give away 75% of their revenue and still come out ahead on the first sale, even with upsells and including customer acquisition in that 75%.

Regardless, it doesn't seem to be completely made up; the guy provides sources and math.
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Hiding is absolutely good design at every level. Not seeing UI controls, preferences, or anything that is not relevant to the task at hand can make that task simpler, easier to understand, and more productive. If you need to see dotfiles, well, you might need to know about man pages or at least that commandline programs take flags. It's not like they're invisible.

There are plenty of examples: video games slowly reveal more skills as you learn and encounter progressively harder enemies. A good app should be usable at first launch (or only require minimal setup). Configuration and advanced features can come later.

Another great filesystem level example are OS X app bundles- an entire directory hierarchy appears as a single file/application. If you need to look inside (not likely), you have to know about right-click or the action widget, but for 99.9% of the time, you see only what you need. OS X and Windows also both completely hide "system" folders in Finder/Explorer as well.

Yes, hiding things can be confusing if it's not done right, but the alternative of showing everything always is definitely not the way to go.
The main takeaway I think is that the reason we are doing things the way we do them is because that is how we have been doing them, not because of some kind of genius design. And actually the whole thing can start out as a mistake, and then later on basically becomes a religion. Its very funny actually.
Nice.

Suggestion: consider adding youtube.com/stratforvideo to your mix.
The most interesting point is that most of this isn't from Spotify or any other streaming service.

People use these services the same they would as if they owned the music. It is possible that total lifetime revenue from these services could be higher, but I doubt it.
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Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of my Facebook data and timeline. I won't use anything that only takes a Facebook login. Any plans for a stand alone login or is the Facebook data necessary for matching you up with people to chat with?
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During the signup, I wouldn't animate the progress bar. I waited for half a minute expecting something to happen until I realized you were waiting for me to fill out a form.

Other than that, let's see what happens!
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1. fragmentation is very real but not actually a problem and very manageable for 90% of apps.

2. The Android development sdk works just fine on Mac OS. I would argue that certain parts of the Eclipse+ADB combination are actually more developer friendly than Xcode.
And hitting return anywhere in the signup page just reloads the page and looses the form for me in Chrome Canary.
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Well, either way it's deep-fried potato.

It does seem really stupid though. Are you going to go to a fish-and-chips shop, ask for "chips but no fish", get told that they're not allowed to sell that, and then say "OK, we'll go to McDonald's instead"? That's never going to happen!
Could you be more clear about what exactly you will tell these "people I want to meet" about me?

Also, please clarify some parts of your privacy policy

We may collect the following information when your register on or fill out a form on our site, HubChilla:

3. Other information relevant to our surveys or offers

Such as?
And here I am building on Twitter again...
We tell all people three Pieces of Information:

1. Your Gender

2. Your Age

3. Your location (City, State)

Thats all! Everything else is private.
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Of course the forum can't control that and neither can your bank, but out of the two, only the bank should care and implement two-factor auth. It doesn't matter if your knitting forum account is hacked into, so two-factor auth is overkill.

Now, sure the password on that knitting forum might be the same as your bank online account. But the point is that only websites where your account is sensitive needs to add two-factor authentication.

I should have phrased my comment above another way: the solution to password re-use is not to add two-factor auth to a knitting forum, but to add it to the bank website, email provider, etc. anywhere your account's safety matters.

(I was thinking more from the point of view of the user: if they start to get worried about their accounts getting hacked, two-factor auth on the forum is not the solution, a password manager is)
There seems to be conflicting copy on the site. Some places say the number is (408) 555-3938 other say 422 333 4737. And some places say the start command is #start and others say it's #play
Thanks for the feedback! We'll fix that right away.
I really hate the fact that you still can't buy it on iTunes...
Even with these rules in place, there must be millions of cellphones broadcasting packets in the wi-fi frequency, even if they are not sharing a 3G connection. I understand why you would want to avoid interference for all official event radio and data, but there are already at least 1500 wifi radios around. Not many people use hotspots, would it really matter?
I've looked and haven't found any. But it should be relatively easy and cheap to run your own specific throughput tests, since databases are metered by the second just like dynos. I just confirmed with Heroku support that you could (for example) spin up the $6,400 database plan, run the tests for (say) half an hour, then destroy it. You'd only be charged about $5 in that case.
1) They only get access to the information you authorize them.

2) If this isn't enough control, there are chrome & firefox extensions to give you more granular control over the authorizations you allow, though disallowing certain things can cause issues sometimes.
SMSroulette? Hmm...
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We use facebook login because its the easiest way for us to get the basic data to provide intelligent recommendations.

We have plans to roll out a separate stand-alone login soon, where you can fill out a profile with whatever information you choose to include
Pretty much!
Except with intelligent recommendations :)
It's only used by those few users that use SSH.
Not necessarily a bad assumption, but yes . . .
On the contrary, I seem to recall him saying something to the effect of "it's unfortunate than the U.S. government classifies spacecraft as weapons, so we have to do everything in house."

Found it: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/spacex-... (although his assessment of rockets being classified as weapons seems more neutral than I remembered it)

"rocket technology is ... considered an advanced weapons technology so you can't really [outsource] - so in our case manufacturing is necessary."
Fixed! Thanks for catching that.
One aspect of breaking up functions like described above, is that the operations involved are usually highly abstract and sometimes not very coupled to domain language. I find naming of those kind of functions very hard, and many times spend a long time and still not coming up with something I’m completely comfortable with. I don’t really have a solution to this problem right now.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" — Phil Karlton
I strongly suspect the record labels are still siphoning off most the revenue for Spotify et al.

Whatever deals they cut probably sap the lion's share of the profit, leaving a small pie for the indies to slice amongst themselves.

And of the share they get, I bet a large chunk stays with the label rather than passing through to Gaga and company.

I'd really like to see some numbers on that, but of course they'll never be made public. Which tells the tale on its own, really.
Cable/Sat is great if you love sports. If you don't watch sports, it really sucks that this is where most of your subscription fees are going, plus you have to buy ever larger packages just to get a few more geeky channels.

Better just to buy from Amazon what you can't get on Netflix. Cheaper in the long run.

Too bad the cable/sat operators refuse to regroup their packages, lest they anger the sporting gods. Well, good riddance, jerks.
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I really like it that G+ is becoming a "lightweight blogging" platform. There are too many of these around, and folding them into a "social network" seems like a good idea. I wish they would add more features that would make this easier, though, since in general I think it's in everyone's interest and will pull more traffic to the site.
What a fluff article.

You would think they have traction and tons of merchants on board. They don't.

Do a location search. Zoom out the map on http://www.fivestarscard.com/locations

There are only locations in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and literally a smattering of other places.

Then there is this statement:

"Since officially launching in 2011, FiveStars has signed up 400,000 customers across 11 states; those customers have purchased 3.5 million items and are on track to spend more than $50 million at participating locations this year — those same customers are earning about $100,000 in free rewards every month."

But when speaking of the competitor, Level Up and Belly, it says this:

"A similar service, called LevelUp, claims to have about 200,000 active users, who are spending some $2 million a month on its network. And Chicago-based Belly, which has an iPad solution, recently claimed to have 1,400 merchants and more than 200,000 active users."

Why is Five Stars numbers referred to differently than the others whose numbers are "claimed" throwing doubt on those numbers. Aren't the Five Stars numbers also "claimed". Or are we to believe they were independently verified?

And lastly, from the Press release (repeated on allthingsd) "FiveStars cards are currently available at leading retailers and local merchants across the country."

Not true. It's not available "across the country" and "leading retailers" is certainly a stretch.
After reading the Notes tab I naturally headed straight to GOOG, but was unable to unearth any "naked pictures [from] Burning Man."

What is this thread without pics?
Sorry about that, the correct number is 422-333-4737 and #play is the correct command, not #start. Fixed, and pushed live!
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What the other posters said. I would add that if this is disruptive you could try using a visually hidden field with a special value. If the field gets tampered with, you can flag it as likely spam. This works because the bot just traverses the dom and fills in fields that look like comment boxes (textareas) with spam.
So they are shutting down wifi hostspots because of FM band usage?
Tried to sign up, but it kept refilling the phone number field with the default value. Could just be a Firefox Beta (Android) thing though.
I would never deny that Jetbrains ui's are buggy, but a lot of the tools that the IDE provides are slick as heck. I've tried popular editors like textmate and sublime, and Jetbrains' tools' are far better in my opinion. Some of my favorites pieces are it's super fast indexed search, the diff engine for merging conflicts, file history with annotations, and nice version control integration. It makes it very easy to traverse through a large legacy code base.

Some downsides are different command shortcuts across the different products (command+shift+f vs ctrl+shift+f) yes I can configure this, but it would be nice if it was more unified. Also, for Rubymine, I would always go back to the command line for certain things ruby based.
How long did it take to build this? Fun idea!
Exactly and easier to report stolen as well.
>This is revisionist nonsense. There are certain things that supermajorities are required for but the regular business of the Senate was never intended...

Actually I believe pretty strongly in original intent as spelled-out in the Constitution. The original intent was and is that each House gets to determine their own rules. That does not mean the rules never change after the first Congress met.
This is a really interesting marketing campaign, not quite sure what their end goal is...better public perception of the company?
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"I think that's a smarter, more frictionless approach."

One thing though about Level up. It sits right on the counter and is a big ad for Level up. The reason I know about Level Up (don't use it just mentioning) is that I walked into the local coffee shop one day (in the middle of nowhere) and it was sitting plop on the counter with a smartphone lighted up in a cool color. It totally got my attention. So there is at least some value to that hardware in that it gets you "counter space" to promote Level Up.. That's not the same as a door label or cash register label (which is flat and doesn't really stand out much) which Five Stars will probably use. Of course nothing to prevent them from offering a gizmo to do a similar thing if they want (are you listening Five Stars?)
The fact that "." and ".." were allocated actual directory entries and were returned when reading the directory, rather than just being handled by the kernel when parsing pathnames seems like the original sin of expediency here.
Good stuff man, just signed up. Congrats!

My first conversation:
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Sounds promising :)
It's clear that Amazon is reacting to the Nexus 7. Once Kindle Fire sales slowed down, making more of their content available on iOS (note that Cloud Player has also recently launched on iOS) is an obvious way to make their ecosystem more attractive than Google's.

That being said, I doubt Amazon and Apple are working together. There still aren't any buy buttons in any of Amazon's apps (Kindle, Cloud Player or Instant Video). I'd expect Amazon to insist on some flexibility there as a condition of any partnership.

More importantly, there are also serious antitrust implications to Amazon and Apple working together against Google: They're established players in digital music, digital video and ebooks and, especially combined, are dominant in all three. Ganging up on Google (which is a relatively new entrant in all three) would be a sure-fire way to attract the attention of the DoJ. There isn't even an argument that the DoJ wouldn't find out or wouldn't be able to gather evidence. They're already pursuing a case against Apple for facilitating agency pricing. Any new arrangement Apple makes with Amazon would inevitably come out as part of that. I'd be shocked if either company's general counsel were stupid enough to let talks even exist, let alone go anywhere.
Whether or not that reddit post is correct in this situation, they are banning regular wifi and 3g hotspots created by personal cell phones. Which IMHO isn't really draconian but pretty dumb. The olympics should be about athletics, communication, and celebration. Not brand recognition.

http://www.zdnet.com/london-bans-3g-wi-fi-hotspots-from-olym...
FYI: there's a typo on the homepage screenshot: "you to to"
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