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I recently started using http://www.browserstack.com/ , after finding out that my web app did not work properly with touch devices (e.g. the iPad). They let you your any browser and OS you can think of (including iPad Safari), and surprisingly, the latency is actually not that bad (they're basically giving you a remote desktop by streaming video).

If you want to Do It Right™, and have the time to set it up, I think the best thing to do is to set up a Selenium (http://seleniumhq.org/) grid that has either VMs are standalone machines running all the browsers that you want to support. Then you can write tests that automatically verify that important features work everywhere. This doesn't completely obviate manual QA testing, but it can help a lot.
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But there are celebrities and that hot girl from high-school within that walled garden.It sucks and i wish the products were better and more open but the bar for entry is mostly user draw, and T&A is what draws them in..

*edited for spelling >_>
If SOPA/PIPA would have been ineffective, why did they push it so hard?

I can think of a couple of things:

1. They didn't really push it all that hard, the RIAA thought they could just slip it through with a little help from their "friends" in Congress. They were genuiely surprised by the upwelling of opposition.

2. They've got some ulterior motive than just externalizing the costs of copyright enforcement. A "feint within a feint", maybe, or maybe the RIAA is a tool of some other, greater, force.
I would be very surprised if 90% of vehicles use drum brakes on the rear wheels (at least in the US). Every car that myself, my parents, my wife, her parents, have ever owned (except for one) has had disk brakes on the rear wheels. While I know I'm using proof by anecdote, I'm just saying I would be very surprised if it were even the majority.
Build a product/service you can sell to customers. Nothing focuses like money. Start with a free beta product and move from there.
To where does Mr. Fogus go? I'm dying to know.
Ask HN: If you were not in IT field, what other field or Job would you choose?
Just curious if anyone has ever thought of doing anything other than IT job? If yes then what would that job be?
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I think he meant "I read about ML, by default you must install [it] from Mac App Store", "it" meaning Mountain Lion itself; which is true. Now I don't agree with most of his points, but you
Well apparently so!

I have to say though in 12 months of using Lion I've never seen or even heard of this behaviour, and reading that article it sounds like it's got pretty minimal chances of making a situation worse, especially for the OP who is complaining about memory usage.

Has anyone actually seen this behaviour first hand?
The court's don't agree with your loose definition of civil rights and neither do I.
To over-generalize: one-on-one teaching results in results that are about 2 standard deviations better than normal. Home schooling results are about 1 standard deviation better than normal.
Khan has a fairly extensive testing/data analysis system. He puts the material out there, measures whether students correctly answer the problems, and iterates from there.

While it's not controlled experiments, it's about as close as you can get in education.
The compression quality is typically rather poor (meaning you get artifacts). The graphical quality as of a few months ago was also poor in comparison to your own rig. It's also got latency issues. They get 80ms or higher on average. So, for fast-paced gameplay, that can be an issue. Also, the stream is only 720p, not 1080p or higher. It's amazing for what it does, and I'm sure that some budget-restricted gamers/families use it, but it's not a replacement for powerful hardware 2-3 feet away from you.
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As a gamer - I was excited to use the beta as soon as I got access, was keen to order the box as soon as possible (ended up getting sent one so didn't need to buy it, but I definitely would have), and I think the entire concept is incredibly cool. Truthfully I've hardly played it and the box is mostly gathering dust in between showing friends "look how cool this is", but then I haven't played any games for a few months, and even when I do play games I'm a PC guy, so take my thoughts with a pinch of salt. For me the performance wasn't quite good enough - could be my internet, might not be, I'm not sure - but it was good enough that it made me think that at some point it will be good enough. (And I have pretty high standards when it comes to FPS and latency.)

As someone who's talked to the company a fair bit through work - I don't have any figures to give you (not that I could say if I knew them, but I don't know them), all I can say is that I haven't heard of any problems or any negative news from them. As far as I'm aware they're doing pretty well so far.
Great article. Loaded with links to things I need to learn and many good points.
Eating lunch at work right now, I'm not sure how to search for music on iTunes. It appears I can search on the Apple website, which might give me a result (found "Modest Mouse;" did not find "Black Sabbath" or "FFF" -- looking for music), but it keeps asking me to download iTunes, which I can't do at work. (Do I need iTunes to buy music from Apple?). Amazon MP3 does actually have one album by FFF, but if I click on the artist link, it keeps me on the current page showing results by relevance -- which are not very relevant to my search, I might add.

So here's why I don't buy music online, in order of importance -- 1) lack of selection 2) unknown information about the bitrate. I don't see any information about this; I have a strong preference for v0, but I'll accept 320 or FLAC if I have to. 3) poor user experience.

To be fair, however, I doubt my reasons apply to the majority of the population. In the meantime, I will continue to spend my music money elsewhere.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1657/_index.html

According to this page the external accessory framework can only be used if the accessory developer is participating in the MFi program. I couldn't find any "Made for iPad" logos on OnLive's page.
MMOs have lots of potential actually. They are built to deal with lots of lag on input, and hide it well.
When I was hired for my job in information security, Linux skills weren't required or even spoken about. After I started, I automated some of my work with shell scripts and wrote other shell scripts to clean up my data for me. Now any new employee that comes in will see "Linux shell scripting recommended" on the application.

"Linux jobs" might be rare, but jobs where Linux skill comes in handy are abundant.
Note: according to an article at http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21172515/obrien-micro... published today in the San Jose Mercury News, Scott Cleland "gained funding -- to a degree that he won't disclose -- from Google's competitors, including Microsoft."

If you read Cleland's writing, he's pretty consistently anti-Google, to an even greater degree than Florian Mueller for example (who also receives funding from Microsoft, as well as from Oracle).
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And, it's worth noting, it has largely worked. Used to be that just about everyone I knew pirated music. Now, in my circle of acquaintances, its only a couple techno-anarchists and some kids who couldn't afford it otherwise. I doubt they hurt the RIAA's bottom line much.
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Whenever we participate in on-site interviews, candidates have been vetted enough through phone interviews that you should hardly have to face a very bad candidate that you want to reject right away on-site. However, even if that is the case, the perception of a bad candidate could vary from interviewer to interviewer. If I was personally called for an on-site interview and rejected early just on the basis of couple of interviewers, I would be upset at that moment but probably be glad later. Interviewing should be collaborative and if you have scheduled a candidate to come on-site, the least you can do is to give him/her the chance to speak to everyone who is supposed to interview and then decide. Otherwise, it reflects bad on your culture. Just my personal opinion.
I presume you're joking and therefore don't need a proper reply to this, but figured I'd check..
Cause Foursquare are the only ones using the features in question. NO way that any larger companies will side with Foursquare to squash this before it gets traction.

I hope.
The problem with education in the US is cost - quality is almost as good as it possibly could be (holding the inputs fixed).

In 2010, the US government spent $900B on education. If Khan can reduce the number of teachers needed by even a few percent, that's a HUGE savings.
When you say "the next Minecraft", are you referring to the some innovation on game dynamics or to the fact that it is an attempt to mimic Minecraft's gameplay style?

PS: Betteridge's law
"We" may well be used instead of "I" and at the end it reads "By Valerie Strauss". The attribution is placed in a random way all through the article and that threw me.

The abbreviation is terrible because in the article it is used in reference to "the numbers to the right of the decimal point"; "decimals for short".
>"I hope you don't actually think that the lack of being charged with crimes means no crimes were committed."

For the most part, yes, I do. I believe the justice system works.

You don't think there are politicians out there just itching to perp-walk some of these bankers? That there aren't some hot-shot DAs dying to make a name for themselves? It happened with Enron, Worldcom, Tyco. The public is frothing at the mouth to put some of these guys on trial.

So why haven't they? Because, like it or not, there hasn't been as much legal malfeasance as some would like to believe. Sure, if you look hard enough you'll find rogue employees doing bad things. That's a fact, and I won't deny it. You'll find the same in any large institution, be it government or Google. But this idea that the banks are directed from the top down to defraud people on a mass scale is complete and utter nonsense. Sorry.

We, as the public, like to create a narrative for why these massive deleveragings happen every so often. The reality is these cycles occur naturally when credit overextends. Suddenly we start blaming the bankers for people taking out loans they can't afford to pay back.

The banks and bankers have been taking an absolute beating for years now. The US essentially legalized the concept of buying a house and heads-I-win-tails-the-bank-loses. They've been forced to shoulder massive loan write-offs, simply because people refuse to pay back money they agreed to via contract. Every media outlet on the planet demonizes them. Stop and ask yourself: when has the mass media been right about anything?

Oh well. It can only go on for so long. Banks act as the bellwether for the economy; until they're making money again and lending resumes the economy will stay in the doldrums. You don't promote wealth creation and economic growth by stiffing creditors and putting the owners of capital in jail.
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If the argument about installing from the mac app store is indeed in reference to the OS itself, I think this argument is even more moot than any argument about installing unsigned apps.

The only people I see complaining about this are a) those wishing to avoid paying for the software, and b) people without internet access.

If you're in camp a), fuck you.
If you're in camp b), how do you run a blog?
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Of course, but no other ISP is any better (at least that I know of) and THEY certainly don't offer gigabyte unlimited internet for 70$ a month.

Google being the lesser of all evils here, we can only hope that they will drive the market into a much better state and that if their priorities ever stop aligning with ours, something better will have emerged (just as Fiber is emerging to change the status quo now).
A friend of mine lost a 50 page script (written in TextEdit) because of app termination. He didn't save the document (a VERY wrong thing), and it happened in 10.7.0 days (and was fixed in 10.7.1, about 10 months ago), so it's not really something we should worry about anymore.
don't (at least some people) do both any more? does industrial sponsorship still exist for university students?

i got sponsorship from british aerospace. they paid part of my fees and in return i worked for them for a year before university (in the apprentice program) and over the summers.

i'd recommend that approach for anyone - even if (like me) you go on to an academic career (i continued for a phd). and i should admit that although i was on the apprentice scheme, as a future university student i wasn't held to the same standards as the people who would be working in the workshops (for example they had to get closer tolerances when machining things).

BUT the college courses we took as part of the apprenticeship (at the local polytechnic) were pretty bad. i don't know how anyone would have learnt much there. so it's not all perfect. it seems like the ideal world would have both university-quality courses and practical experience (and don't vocational university programs include industrial experience anyway - at least for engineers?)
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Regarding bitrate for Amazon, it looks like they do variable bitrate that targets ~256kbps (I believe this the same as v0)[1].

Also, while lacking in selection, Google Play Music has become an attractive alternative for me for music. Can stream from a browser, or download to my PC. Works and syncs across all my Android devices wonderfully. Bitrate is 320kbps for purchased music, and you upload up to 20,000 of your own tracks. I think the user experience is one of the better ones. Also, they usually have sales every week where a bunch of albums are $3.99 (this week appears to be only down to 6.99, but still).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...
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app termination should only happen when there are no windows open - so how did he "lose" a document?

Edit:
just noticed you said it was "fixed" - so he was affected by a bug, which happened to be in the app termination system. That is not a fault of the concept.
Uh, DNS is too hard for most people. So is maintaining a web server. If you want any kind of reliability you're going to have to spend 10/year on domain name, 15/year on good DNS server, and 10/month on web hosting. That's $145/yr. Users can use twitter and facebook for free.

Besides, the general public can't even use HTML well, so what chance do they have with xml?

The other compelling thing about twitter is that 140 characters thing. Blogs enable people to train-of-thought-rant for pages before making their point (if at all). Tweets, on the other hand, force people to think and condense before writing. That's an awesome feature for readers. Also, twitter makes it very easy to follow and unfollow.
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An apprenticeship isn't a generalized education like going to college is. Even though I majored in computer science, I still took physics, chemistry, english, psychology, and more classes.

If I did an apprenticeship, I feel like my career choices would be limited to that one field that I worked on.
I bought Arma 2 during the Steam summer sale just so I could play DayZ. I haven't even played Arma 2, only DayZ.

I am really enamored by the game play. It's just so....different. It isn't about just blazing away, it's about strategy and stealth and most importantly, SURVIVAL. One of the more "interesting" ways I've died has been losing my backpack while swimming. I, of course, was kitted out pretty sweet. Let me tell you, when you're in 3rd person view and you're swimming, then notice your backback gone, you're like "uh, wat?" Then you're like "nah, can't be", then you turn around, swim back and see your pack underwater, which you can't pick up. Then you're like "you have gotta be kidding me!" Then you end up dying of either starvation or thirst while trying to scavenge for food/drink.

It can be frustrating, but at the same time, that's sort of the appeal because you have to be conscious of everything. And when you start over, you really start over.

I've only been player killed once so far, which has surprised me. I've only been playing for maybe a couple weeks, though, and I'm not sure I'm even getting to the big cities. I've been in a couple, which seemed fairly sizable, but not sure if they're the biggest. I'm also not googling for a map because one of the best things for me is the discovery aspect of the game.

THE BAD: The engine/game seems a bit buggy. A city I was in last night had some rendering issues, might have been an isolated incident, I don't know, first time I've seen that kind of bugginess....My gun sights don't even seem on, I have to aim a little up and to the left before I hit my target. Believe me, when you have a zombie chomping away at you and you have a friggin' shotgun and it takes 6 rounds to kill him, it sucks. By the time you kill him you've lost 1/2 your blood points......I personally think the controls suck and should really be simplified. It took me a couple days just to really figure out basic game play. I still think I could improve my control/play, but I'm just at the point now to where I can play for a couple hours before permadeath (in whatever fashion it comes).

If you're looking for a game that's a bit different, definitely check it out. I can see a lot of people getting frustrated and hating it, it's definitely not for everyone, but it's certainly very interesting, IMO.
Selection is much better than it used to be, but there's a lot of stuff not on there. Can't buy Rebecca & Fiona's single "Luminary Ones" (in the USA).
http://jackpotbuddy.com We haven't started monetizing on the ad revenue yet but it is generating enough page views and traffic to cover the cost of hosting.
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Here's an excerpt from a recent Wired article at http://www.wired.com/print/techbiz/it/magazine/17-02/ff_kill...

"Over the past couple of months, several AT&T allies have spoken out against what they describe as Google's disdain for privacy. Scott Cleland, who serves as CEO of a telecom-funded consultancy, has turned his widely read blog into a Google attack machine, with posts titled "Why Google Is the Biggest Threat to Americans' Privacy" and "Google Protecting Its Privacy to Invade Your Privacy." "

That whole article is pretty interesting. It also mentions how Microsoft-hired lobbyists succeeded in getting the American Corn Growers Association and the Dominican American Business Network (!) to weigh in against Google. Here's another article about that: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9965555-38.html
That depends on the game and the feature of the game that requires the randomness though. True... pure randomness over spawning points for enemies in an action rpg game, might kill the experience. But if I am playing poker.. I do expect something close to pure randomness when you are dealing my cards.
Is it possible to send raw bytes as WebSocket messages or are we forced to use MessagePack. I can see the benefit of sending structured data but for images or sound, what's the benefit of a intermediary serialization format vs chunked binary?
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The bigger problem is that if I select a single album, tell it to shuffle, and click play, it hardly EVER plays the entire album. I've had it play two songs and stop.
You could say that, but it would be wrong. A tangent is an equation of the form y = ax + b at point P, which just happens to have (well, by definition) a value for a that equals the rate of change at P (of the original equation).
Marriage is a fundamental right according to the supreme court.
You could support existing RSS readers by putting the entire microblog post in the title field. And if you're worried about it being truncated, then duplicate it in the body.
My point is, I am not Haskell expert, but I know that linked lists aren't an efficient data structure for what we're doing. You didn't use lists in your other implementations, so it was just weird that you did for Haskell (originally, and then sort of again for life-array.hs).

For your life-array.hs implementation, you replaced the Grid with an array, but not the "surroundings" with one, even though you used Vector for both in your SML implementation.

Built with -O2 option:
https://gist.github.com/3189306

Sorry if I came off a bit assholish. People have been saying that you need to be a Haskell expert to get good performance forever, and in my experience this just isn't true. I will admit that there is clearly a problem with how things are introduced, as it is common that new Haskellers think they can use lists for every thing. I am sure part of the problem is that this is one of the few data structures available from the Prelude.
OnLive has been amazing to me. I've bought a few games on it and rented a handful. I live in San Francisco, so my internet was fast enough for good graphics. When I bought Borderlands, there were plenty of other people to multiplayer with.

I'm kind of hoping to never build a gaming PC again.
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I completely agree. There are obviously degrees which teach useful skills, but the majority of people studying humanities at a large university shouldn't be there. They're learning very little which is applicable to their life, and they're not bright enough to continue in that area of academia. The actual useful skills that you learn doing an english degree could probably be covered in a single semester.
This. A few times at Apple a real disaster would make it through the phone screen, and there would be a panic about what to do. Usually we just went through with it, but it always seemed to me to be more respectful to the candidate and the interviewing team to just pull the chute as soon as it was obvious.

The real answer of course was to fix the phone screens, but that requires actual energy be put into thinking hard about the hiring process, and the hiring process is deeply, fundamentally unsexy.
I found quite a bit in the original article that seemed to point to a misunderstanding of the site for someone who hasn't used it. Karim doesn't even mention one of the most valuable areas: the practice area. It isn't just about watching videos, and maybe I'm alone, but I use the practice first and the videos as supplements. Furthermore, the actual videos seem to often feature explanations in a clear way that does not merely point to following a series of steps (see "why division by zero is undefined")
> Unbeknownst to me, iTunes triggers a reshuffle when I do that, and the very next track to play is the one I was trying to get away from.

What are the odds of this happening?
You just made me think of something. The common folk may as well continue using Twitter, and you're right about the bar to entry. We few, the vanguard of openness and reliability, can use approaches like Dave Winer's to provide an open, durable parallel "Twitter-like ecosystem" that integrates with Twitter—and once Twitter goes away (and Facebook and Google+ and even SMS) we will integrate with its successor—or hopefully, ideally, help create it's successor on top of the open web. It could be a durable base for future work, and a safety net for now.

Also: any time I consider using identi.ca again, it's with this view. Even if it doesn't gain popularity, I can at least provide my own guarantees that it will be around (so long as some few others use it) even when Facebook or Twitter go away.