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The margins on the iPad are rather substantial. I don't see why the Surface can't give up 50% of the margin and still be OK (although they don't have the economy of scale or supply chain infrastructure as well understood).

I'd like to see the 16GB RT come in at $429 (why is +8GB so expensive on tablets and phones, but cheap when I go price it in the market?).

The Surface Pro should find some way to start at $699. That might be a no frill version.

And they should make sure that they sell the cover/keyboard separately. That way it keeps the "price" of the device down.
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I'm not so sure. I just logged into my account (which I have rarely used) and the setting had a value of "Yes" for me.
Google should be pushing Portable Native Client, not plain Native Client, which is by implication Non-Portable. NaCl solves Google's problems, but is a damaging standard for the rest of us.

Nobody should be pushing CPU architecture specific executables as a web standard. Yes, you can compile is for x86 and ARM, but that's incredibly short-sighted. What about PPC? MIPS? Some future architecture that hasn't been invented yet? Do we have to make a virtual machine then? Yes, you can also compile as LLVM bitcode, but then why give prejudicial preference to x86-32 and ARMv5? (Note the specific versions there) You might as well just ship as PNaCl and skip NaCl altogether.

PNaCl is an amusing evolution of web scripting: we've come full circle from a JVM thru Javascript back to a solution which is almost a JVM. To be cynical, it seems like an awfully huge project just to avoid writing Java.
Who 'likes' my Virtual Bagels?
Having gotten one of those, with a disk drive (when all my friends who had a computer had the tape drives instead), and having only a few games at my disposal as a consequence, is what led me to programming. Literally changed my life.
Do you use them on uneven surfaces? I use mine on my bed, and any pressure below or above the connector will make it disconnect. On a flat surface, it's probably okay.
I think your generalizations are ridiculously broad here. Some women are golddiggers, but those relationships are, IMHO, not worth having anyway. Why do you think such a relationship is going to contribute more to your life than spending time on things that actually make you happy?

Even if all women wanted was power, we are playing a zero-sum, I-got-mine, race-to-the-bottom, everyone-loses game if we demand total devotion to status, and I don't think most women want that either. Already 25% of stay-at-home parents are men. The majority of women are now in the work force. Egalitarian marriages last longer. Things are changing, and we can help them change faster by opting out of that self-destructive game.

That doesn't mean giving up on being able to find a romantic relationship, however. There is a difference between being a bum and not seeking to dominate the people around us to get ahead at all cost. I'd recommend reading http://postmasculine.com/ for the dating advice that worked best for me. Much like weight loss, there are no short cuts to becoming capable of having satisfying relationships. It is hard work to move from desperation to a place where relationships are one possible way your life could be a bit nicer, but certainly not the only one. On the other hand, I found it worth the energy.
This is exactly what I thought when I saw this on the front page. I'm wouldn't be surprised if they eventually add a kitchen sink library.

Choosing a monolithic framework doesn't encourage separation of concerns and clean interfaces. It also makes scaling horizontally more difficult.

So many ruby gems are built around rails instead of being built as separate discrete libraries. This means that once Rails get really long in the tooth (it has already started to) that it's going to take a bunch of libraries that could have been timeless along with it had they not been so deeply integrated with Rails' architectural features.

The fact that a document like this exists...
https://github.com/radar/guides/blob/master/sprockets/sprock...

This is a detailed guide to the internal workings of Sprockets. Hopefully
with this information, somebody else besides Josh Peek, Sam Stephenson,
Yehuda Katz and (partially) myself can begin to understand how Sprockets works.

... that connects so many parts of rails isn't a good sign.

node.js, or more specifically npm, got things really right by making the inclusion of libraries really trivial and easy to separate concerns.

I can't begin to imagine the complications with trying to do proper async around a framework that wasn't designed from the ground up to be async. I'd expect that you'll often have to dig into the internals of Rails to discover where something is functioning synchronously where you didn't expect it to. Don't get me wrong, I love the opportunity to dig into other people's code that I rely on, but that is only fun with libraries, not frameworks. When digging around in frameworks you often spend tons of time having to investigate glue code between parts to even understand the part you need to understand.
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Bounds checks were just an example.

Another example: When you get bufferData in WebGL, it doesn't just call glBufferData with those arguments. It carefully checks those arguments for validity, including against the current state (currently bound buffer, its size, etc.). This ensures that the GL driver only sees calls with valid, reasonable info. It does incur a performance hit, but as you can see from WebGL demos on the web, it isn't terrible.

GL drivers in general are pretty complex. But the very small subset of GL that WebGL uses - both in terms of the commands used, and the content it passes in those commands as just mentioned - is much simpler to secure. Browser vendors have been working with GL driver makers on safety for a while now to improve things further.

Again, are there security risks? Sure, any new technology has them. JavaScript engines and video codecs have them, exploits for those are discovered all the time, but without those our browsers would be much less useful. The same is true for WebGL.
Just use 'git push heroku' to deploy then. Legit doesn't break existing git commands.
For those who haven't seen it, JPL has a nice animated simulation of the landing. It operates in realtime, with a button to advance to just before the time of the landing:

http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov

It requires Java, and you'll need to grant it permission to run.
Most of the developers have forked Nexuiz and created Xonotic. You can read about the split here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xonotic#Development
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> You guys should consider sending her to a quality daycare.

In my area, that's an extra 20-30K a year. I intend to have more children. With 2+ kids, it becomes cheaper to hire a full-time nanny.

That might make sense if my wife manages to land a job that pays 50K+, but that's not a certainty especially since I'm pretty sure she doesn't want to ... any job that pays in that range will mean long hours and very little time for anything else.

And that's just the $$$ talking.

I would much rather my parents raise her. They're in that retirement age zone, they want to, and frankly, since it's their grandchild, they would do a better job than a stranger. That's how it's been done in my family for generations, anyway. Parents go off and make the $$$, while grandparents take care of the day to day.
This is similar to the webOS pre pricing issues, and the HP webOS tablet pricing issues.

IIRC, someone from HP was quoted as "The market has determined that the price for tablets is $499". Couldn't be more wrong. It's determined that the price for iPads is $499. Effectively there wasn't any other 'tablet' market to speak of at that point (still isn't much outside the iPad even today).

What happened during the HP touchpad firesale at $149 - they flew off the shelves. For various reasons, of course, but many people would love a decent 9-10" tablet for under $200 (I dare say even under $300). The HP touchpad at $299 would have been selling at a loss to start with, no doubt, but HP (or palm before them) could have figured out a way to monetize that space outside of just hardware sales - content sales, app sales, etc. Getting, say, even a few million sold in a quarter would have demonstrated it as some competition to the iPad. Instead... everyone is focused on pricing to meet the iPad (or playing around with $20-$50 differences), which will doom these to failure.

Surface looks neat, but they can't sell these at $499+ and make serious inroads in to the tablet market. $299? Sure, but even there, we're going to see a smaller form-factor from Apple in the next few months (according to rumors) which will probably be at that price point.

Re: the Zune debacle - I don't understand why people didn't realize in 2007 that Apple already had 5+ years of an entire ecosystem built up around their device - cables, chargers, add-ons, etc - hotels with ipod docking stations, etc - trying to compete with something that entrenched in society by matching on price? Without any other intangibles on your side? And with a history of already ditching your previous 'plays for sure' campaign leaving earlier adopters high and dry? I really really really don't understand big corporation groupthink, and this Zune fiasco was just one example in a long line of ipod-competitor-wannabes.
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Except that feminism is a social movement that only works when it is widely understood and religion is a personal belief structure. The two are nothing alike.
I completely agree with your edit.

The meta-meta issue here is that the 'policy change' (in the example) is a way for some (maybe all) managers to avoid an actual conversation with folks who work for them about what they are getting done. But that is what managers are supposed to do, have those hard conversations, its part of the reason the job is 'different' then being just a technical leader.

The hypothetical CEO has a real problem, things that need to get done aren't, or they aren't being done in a timely fashion. The managers that work for them (in a small company it might be one layer in a larger company two) need to talk with their teams about what they are doing and how they are doing it. And if someone on the team is spending a lot of time at home, and the manager isn't seeing them getting stuff done, then they need to have a talk with that person. Another scenario is that you talk to one of your people and they keep getting road blocked trying to get something done and the person they need to work with isn't in the office. That discussion is also straight forward, you tell the person who works at home that they either have to make it as easy for the people in the office who depend on them to work with them as if they were in the office, or they have to be in the office.

Most employees get that the company is a 'for profit' concern, and if you are straight up with them about these things I find the ones you want to keep respond the way you would hope they do.
He certainly brings up good points but he completely ignored the fact that the Zune was never aggressively marketed.

Is it fair to say that the Zune may have done far better if people even KNEW how it was better than an iPod? A lot of non-tech people probably hadn't even HEARD of the device!

Ultimately I think the Zune failed because few people knew it existed, and fewer still knew how it was better than an iPod. If everyone knew it (a) existed and (b) was better than an iPod then I don't think the pricing of it would have been a big deal.
Indeed, every person is different, and every job is different. Corporations already create a huge diversity of jobs that can't be equated across companies. I can hire 100 programmers and say "your job description is to do whatever you want," and there is nothing inherently anti-capitalist or post-capitalist about my company. If I can make it productive by virtue of cultural and social pressures alone rather than bossing people around, that's great.

As the OP points out himself, corporations are "islands" as far as the larger economic system. There aren't really inherent constraints on how you organize them internally. There are handed-down "best practices" for management that are probably long overdue for rethinking; for example, perhaps the notion of today's "boss" or middle manager will come to seem antiquated. But no company runs like a free market. The OP spends a lot of time identifying "traditional capitalist corporation" with bosses and hierarchy in order to paint Valve as less capitalist, but really it is just less "bossist."

To say Valve is "more radical" than a co-op with distributed ownership is ridiculous, and misses Valve's own hierarchy (as my parent points out). Owning and running a company is not just a matter of telling people what to do. It includes hiring and firing, leading through culture and other channels, making executive decisions and generally keeping the lights on. As a Valve employee, can you fire the janitor if he isn't doing a good job? If the building is hit by a tornado, is it your responsibility to get it rebuilt and eat the cost? Being an owner isn't all peaches and gravy.

Could you decide you want a non-wheelie desk or to telecommute full-time from the beach? Hopefully you don't want to. Could the owner decrease your compensation or relocate the company offices to Kalamazoo? Hopefully he doesn't want to.

The best management is invisible.
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> That's the problem. We aren't even sure what attacks exist against the graphics stack

That could be an argument against new JavaScript JITs, too, or new video codecs. But we add those to browsers all the time, because they are important. So is being able to render 3D, I would argue.

Furthermore, of course we have an idea of the risks here, and the ways to prevent them. A huge amount of effort has gone into that, but in speccing WebGL and in implementing it, and in collaboration with GL driver vendors. And security experts have been poking at GL and WebGL for a while, just like they poke at JS engines and video codecs.
I agree with your sentiment about what feminism is at its best but you're sugar coating the historical facts. 2nd wave feminism approaches gender roles as a zero sum game. They systematically marginalize any perspective on males that doesn't frame men as oppressors.

Yes, there are authentic strands of feminism and yes they can be inclusive of the male perspective. But these strands also co-exist in the context of hateful ideologies. Worse, good feminists form in-group social cohesion with hateful zealots in the hope of "supporting their sisters". There's really no room for men in such a hostile environment.
Same here. I fact, in two weeks (when I brought it) is has never fallen our.
What kind of things are you interested in?
"You will occasionally get someone who says they turned out fine"

Hyperbole much?
The dream chaser mounts on an Atlas V. Its a completely expendable 250 million dollar rocket. Not sure if there's substantial savings as opposed to mounting a existing (or soon to be existing) capsule on a smaller rocket.

> use the shuttle to transport them around them in space.

What LEO destinations are there other than the ISS? I guess you have edge cases of Hubble repair, but a whole delivery system just for that seems like overkill.
It's a problem now, but imagine how much of a problem it will be when we all have google driverless cars...
I assume it's patented.
Could you give us a little more context? It's hard to make recommendations when we don't know what kind of product you're building, the potential size of your audience, the industry involved, the importance of it, etc. etc.
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> Now, tell me how that is any different or less insulting than telling a women the opposite: "Sure, you're a good mother, but you're not cut out to be a CEO."

This is disingenuous. The answer is because modern men don't aspire to become good parents nearly as much as modern women aspire to holding top-level positions.

I do agree with the necessity to change the stereotype of the clumsy dad, but to bring that to the same level as that of women fighting for equality in the workplace is utterly unfair - it is by far a much Bigger Deal for modern women.

PS: If you have never seen a competent woman having frequent nervous breakdowns after putting in a disproportionate amount of work just to climb a ladder that most average men do with ease, you probably won't understand the difference.
You'd wonder if pogue (who I usually like a lot) tested multiple units or just one. For a mechanical critique, its probably worth testing multiple units. Although with apples supply chain maybe Im totally off here
Not only that, but Pygame only runs on CPython, which is about 10X slower than the JavaScript engines in FF or Chrome.
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how is overusing the word "dice" being spammy?
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My guess is that SpaceX is confident that they can fulfill their end of the contract for only $440M, so why ask for more?
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I recently quit cable. I mainly watch sports, and I discovered that various web feeds along with espn3 gives me enough coverage that I don't really need cable (I'd say it's about 70% of what I want to watch). I do miss some soccer/tennis, but overall it's worth it - coverage through official web feeds is still good, and full digital cable is really expensive.

The big disappointment has been the olympics. But as a tennis fan, I'm not at all surprised that NBC has been a disappointment. I was really delighted when the finally lost their rights to wimbledon, because finally things were aired live and were accessible on line.

NBC has pretty much limited live web streaming to people who are paying for expensive cable packages. Essentially, they'll let you watch on the web as long as you aren't using the web to avoid paying for cable.

ESPN is still be a little crappy about this - you do have to get your web through a particular provider (though if you have a military or university account, you'll also get through). But nowhere near as bad as NBC, and no surprise there.
There is a standard for JavaScript, a spec to implement. And new features in the JS language evolve out of a standards process that involves all the browser makers (as well as others). As a result, you can write a new implementation of it, and people do.

There is no standard or spec for NaCl, PNaCl or PPAPI. Those things are still being developed, and they change a lot (talk to people that develop for that API to get an idea of how things can change with each 6-week update of Chrome). To implement those, you need to basically "do what Google's implementation does." Trying to track that large and complex - and changing - implementation is practically impossible.
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we already have triple figures of good operating systems and technologies for remoting out UIs

We only have one web stack, it may differ a little at the bleeding edge, but that the core its the same stack deliverable to pretty much every user and device in the world.

(disclaimer, I work on aforementioned Firefox OS :)
Maybe you are talking about Born's Rule?
With the exception of PR people everyone speaks for themselves. Before this post did you think Pogue spoke for mac enthusiasts everywhere?
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Not to disagree with anything you say, but it's not just funding. There's also an immense, yawning lack of consensus on what and how children should be taught.

For example, I would expect much, much more science to be recommended by the typical HN commentator than by the typical teachers' union.

The consequence is that the "traditional" high-school curriculum, which was invented well over a century ago, has barely changed since because nobody can get all the stakeholders to agree.
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Keep the meme crap out of HN.
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The hover media feature sounds extremely useful.

I like the hover pseudo selector. I like using it to add transitional color changes, and for menus.

This will allow me to have this capability, but also design for touch devices. Brilliant.

I'm guessing CSS4 will be where we stop thinking of responsive design as mobile/pad/desktop, and more like /featureless-small/feature-full-small/etc-medium/etc-large.
Rails works just fine for REST, but you've forgotten the other side of this and that is the part of the framework that handles the javascript assets, i.e. Sprockets.

The difference between handling the single page app in Rails and node.js is night and day. Sprockets is a nightmare to deal with.
There is also the velocity of money, which people tend to forget. MV = PQ is a tautology that tends to be fairly useless in understanding inflation because there's no variable there that is reasonably constant. So other approaches fare better, such as looking at the sources of inflation, e.g. imports, relative labor bargaining power, and aggregate demand vs. supply.
My school system spends the first 7 years teaching that "math" is arithmetic with some vague hinting at algebra, and the next 3 teaching that "math" is matching the problem to one of maybe 30 types, remembering the "correct" algorithm, and executing it on paper.

It's not until Physics and AP Chemistry (first accessible junior year) that anyone tells you what calculus is, much less lets you glimpse the incredible beauty of what it can reveal about nature. When Precalculus started to introduce derivatives, I had the same thought as binarymax: you could have told me that years ago. When we first started working with slop and x^2 in 6th grade, it occurred to me that a curve's slope must be an equation instead of a nmuber, but the school system wasn't going to develop that thought for 6 years.

I definitely agree with teaching math inside science. That's where a lot of it was invented, anyway, and it's a lot easier to stay motivated when you can what the skills you're working towards will let you accomplish.
Likewise, I became a full-time stay-at-home dad about 2 and a half years ago.

I still have people ask me when I'm going to "get a real job". I can write it off when it comes from my 91 year old grandfather, but it's often coming from 30-something women and men.

The implication is that you're not a "real man" if you're not financially supporting the family, and that your wife is not a "real woman" if she lets her husband watch the kids. I'm often surprised by how many people refer to our situation negatively, while they seem to view it as heroic when a single mom works and puts her kids in daycare.
I know it's a few days after the "Who's Hiring" thread, but for those of you interested in being a part of this stuff first-hand, we're hiring at Blue Origin: http://www.blueorigin.com/careers/careers.html

It's truly an amazing thing to be a part of and we're always looking for the best and brightest. I'm head of software development, but of course we're recruiting for other disciplines as well.
A very compelling anecdote, but as we start gathering more and more of this evidence it's painting a clear picture - Facebook ads are nigh useless.

I wonder: why Cairo?
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Postgresql has had a memcached extension for, um, 8 years. I haven't used it myself, but I think it is well respected.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgmemcache/