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I don't see this as the browsers fault (as a person that does graphics outside of the web space). If you're blending something it's important to be clear /what/ you're blending to, and the RGB matter just as much as the A. "transparent" might be a part of the spec, but its tragically imprecise.

Its kind of like saying math is hard, so its up to the browser to fix it for you. Math is hard, but there's always a right answer. If you're blending things, there's a right answer too, and it's up to you to come up with it instead of asking the browser to fix things for you. That's just how computing is. Just because IE and chrome are clever enough to fix your own problems for you doesn't mean you should feel entitled to expect that. If you're saying "blend to (0,0,0,0)" you're literally saying "blend to black and transparent equally". There is no ambiguity there. It's what has been asked for, even if it's unintended. In a sense, I would say firefox is the only browser that has gotten this right.
Certainly, no offense taken :) I recognize that there's often a knee-jerk reaction when thinking about startups that attempt to address social issues in the developing world: it's not easy to separate out work that is ethical and impactful from work that is well-intentioned but harmful, particularly when the technologies involved are as new as crowd computing is.

You might be happy to know that we actually do offer opportunities for advancement within the system, and that it's one of our long-term objectives: there's a nascent system of skills and certifications that workers can train towards and develop, and workers can advance from doing very simple work to sophisticated work.

Eventually we expect that our workers will be able to develop enough certifications to transition up out of MobileWorks and into the traditional economy -- or better yet, to get to the point where they can build their own business around MobileWorks, as some workers have done. More on our philosophy here: http://mobileworks.com/fairtradework
I think it's a bit more complicated, since mammals without consciousness (ouh, vague concepts ftw) still show immediate reaction to visual stimuli, where as patient TN and others can react and act upon to visual stimuli, although the traditional "chain of command" is broken.
Look, she worked hard for this accomplishment. You should see her FizzBuzz implementation!
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I think google are handerling this extremly well. They had a product that was about to launch and pretty much good to go. Go some feedback that they thought, hmmm maybe we should look at this again and are doing it.

Then ontop of that they are not only honouring all preorders with the product they were advertised, but also doing it for free with full refunds as well.

That is how you do marketing and deal with feedback.
Still not as much of a pinterest copy as sex.com
Twilio's new international SMS is roughly comparable with Nexmo's. Nexmo's is slightly cheaper in our comparisons. Twilio's docs/dashboard/etc. are far better. (I used to work at Twilio and am a happy customer of theirs at IFTTT)
I wonder how much of this is hardware versus software. Keep in mind that end-to-end latency has a number of possible sources:

- touch digitizer
- CPU to do something with the input
- GPU to start rendering the result
- display to show the change

In particular, I worry about the first and the last. Apple can get away with using extremely high cost parts in the iPad due to vertical integration (look at the physical size of A5X, for example), whereas Android vendors generally can't. Considering that CPU and GPU are generally selling points whereas touch digitizer performance and display response time are not, it would be tempting for a margin-sensitive OEM to cut corners on those two things.

There is plenty of precedent for this: look at the grey-to-grey response time of the original Xoom.
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Hold on there. Do we have the full context for the Best Buy quote?

Just because it was the most common reason for a return doesn't tell us how significant it was. What was the overall return rate? Of the devices returned, what fraction cited confusion with an iPad? Depending on the range of possible return reasons that might be large or small.

Beyond that, there's the question of how many customers are telling the truth why they're returning something. Plenty of people don't, for all sorts of reasons. Especially if they'd had any exposure to Apple's lawsuits, I'd expect the easiest way to return a Galaxy Tab would be to say "I thought it was an iPad", even if you had known the difference and just decided to spend the money on something else or whatever. Sadly, we can't figure that out from Best Buy's data, but is a possibility worth noting.
On my iPad, magazine layout via Flipboard is the only way I consume my content now. Because it is non-linear like Google Reader, I actually pay attention to each headline rather than skimming for key terms or phrases.

This layout for digg fits in with casual consumption and discovery, rather than a structure that encourages seeking out specific articles.

I do agree with you that this is a beautifully simple site and will also revisit on a regular basis to see how it progresses.
Can anyone tell me what goes into Fanatical Support by rackspace?

I've always considered them for my deployments, but they end up being 3x the cost of other managed hosts that I've been happy with.

So what exactly is it that Rackspace does?
You are right, I misread. Thanks for pointing that out :)
Stop pretending like you know what Facebook stock is worth
Amerteurish would be to blindly carry on launching a product and then releaseing version 2.0 that fixed all the issues and making the 1.0 unsuported.

No, what google did was to listern to feedback and respond in the best possible way. Those who ordered get the product and there money back and those who havnt get a chance to wait for the improved version based upon feedback. Realy can't fault that and to call it amateurish is perhaps overly strong. No power plays at work at all, mearly good PR/marketing and activly listerning to feedback.
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iOS devices use the same PowerVR GPU family as many (most?)
Android devices. Is there evidence suggesting they did
their own driver? I guess one could tell by comparing
what kind of GLES bugs exist in iOS vs Android.

edit: seems Apple's docs refer to Imagination's web site
for GPU programming details, which would suggest they're
using imgtec's driver. (http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/3DDraw...)
The term "recognising" is a bit misleading here. Blindsight is in fact a very nice case where traditional cognitive science and AI paradigms suggesting a hierarchy of processing (bottom up of primal stimuli until they end up as meaningful concepts, top down of thoughts until they turn into actions (roughly)) doesn't quite fit.
why did facebook need all that money from the IPO anyway?
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Articles about CSS quirks in certain browsers really bug me when the author does not also include a screenshot of the issue they're pointing out.
I believe you have nailed the shortcommings just right. It has half-way step to what you suggest and in that it realy should have those features. Also given the price of this and the ouya (also not released yet) I'd say some people were asking some questions about price also.

This and the opertunity to add google tv to the device from the start would of been to good a opertunity to miss that I feel that could be the main reason there stepping abck a bit and doing a rethink now instead of carrying on a unstable path.
I have an rMBP. I had been running it at the largest supported resolution (1920x1200). I just downloaded SwitchResX and set it to 2880x1800.

It seems to work perfectly. Everything is smaller, but perfectly proportioned, and there don't appear to be any weird issues like with windows via bootcamp (which has some things small and others big).

My eyes are good, and this screen real-estate looks amazing so I'm going to give this a go for a few days.
No he didn't; that was separate as we're discussing how to make it even shorter. His contribution was simply "Be concise."
What are some cultural faux pas when working at a tech startup?
Your right, that does sum up alot of issues and oversights and google listened. If only Google did the Olympics instead of #NBCfail.
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> Ruby also has the reputation of being much slower than Python, and speed is crucial in the scientific community when it comes to handling data-sets in the range of terabytes.

If we are talking computation speed, the difference between Ruby and Python is a floating point error.

> There is also no adaption of NoSQL or any other of the "modern" data-storage solutions.

NoSQL solutions are "modern", but that doesn't equate to being better. I am more than familiar with almost all major NoSQL players(redis, mongo, couchdb, cassandra etc), and for 99% of the cases, RDBMS is better solution. There is no adoption in scientific community(or most communities) because there isn't a clear benefit. I neither try to use RDBMS as a key-value store, nor do I twist my relational models to fit into a NoSQL offering(mongo makes the translation easier, but lacks things I need).
This is a company that just put $3.5 billion dollars of free cash flow into the bank for one quarter [1]. Lets say we pay each of these 40 people per architecture $250,000/year and we do it for 10 architectures. That is $100M in Salary. Lets say they each burn another $250,000 a year in benefits, extra 401K perqs, their own cafeteria with a chef that does special orders. Maybe that doubles the cost to $200M/year So let's buy them all a house as a sign on bonus if they get this done in 5 years or less, in the Valley that is 1 to 2M$ each for 400 people, call it 800M$. So 5 years of epic salary, a house free and clear, and 5 years of effort comes to about 1.8 billion dollars. One half of one fourth of the years annual free cash flow, so a bit more than 12% of the annual free cash flow.

In my opinion that is the difference between investing in something strategic and 'hoping it will be great.'

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2012/Q2_google_earnings....

EDIT: Never do math when your typing quickly.
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for me its the difference in how they sell your personal information.

1. google is more like a sandbox, businesses just tell them who they want to advertise too, and they'll act as a proxy.

2. Facebook openly sells/hands over your information without any type of control (look at beacon or their special deals with certain api users)

3. Apple does it in a more devious way IMO, in that with IOS they know applications are taking personal information, contacts and locations and never notifies the end user this is happening. In IOS 6 they are making the changes to allow you to control this but this is only after they are losing some market share.
Nexus Q should have been considered a house-wide Android extender appliance; a compute node accessible by any and all authorized Android devices. It could be used to supplement the resource demands of phone apps, to serve as an autoconfigured caching HTTP proxy, etc. There are a lot of possibilities for an appliance like that (w1ntermute's suggestion that it double as Google Fiber's cable box is awesome) and I think it's sad that they felt it needed to be marketed as a $300 collaborative jukebox.
To be honest, a comparison with an iPad would have been really nice, as people seem to think it's quite responsive.
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This is hardly supprising at all and anybody who had a serious look at the IPO and facebook could clearly see that its value was based alot on hype. Not like FB would argue there price down and it was certainly not in the interest of the banks helping to launch this IPO. Only people hurt were those who blindly went and brought shares on day one when everybody else knew if they wanted facebook shares that they were better of waiting a bit until the true value was reflected in the share price.

Now sad part is that there now in a position were they have to do knee-jerk responses to maintain the hype and in that as many have said they are diluting there trust with there user base by doing adverts saying such and such a friend got this or liked this when IRL that friend will say they did not and is news to them. That is a level of marketing that is akin to fraud.

I do wonder what the advertising laws are like in comparision to TV adverts and online adverts - laws need to catch up to reality and fast or it will just carry on.
One of the big advantages of Git over Subversion in a teaching context is that, due to it's decentralized nature, every git repository is fully self-contained and stands on its own.

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"So is it because they're women or just exceptionally good at what they do?"

Both. Women are biologically known to diversify their risks much more than men. Both in life and in business. Companies started by women have a much smaller chance of failing and reach profitability much sooner. Female business owners are more steady and less risky. Male business owners tend to take more risk, thus getting ahead faster but at the cost of failing much faster as well. The reason we don't see big companies started by women is that taking "crazy risks" are usually a masculine trait caused by testosterone. And in order to win quickly you have to take a lot more risk. When women are administered testosterone they become more aggressive, masculine in risk taking analysis, and violent. In both men and women, the more testosterone the subject's body produces the more violent, aggressive, commanding, and confident the subject is. These findings from many studies over the course of decades. From testosterone injections in women to checking the testosterone levels of prison inmates (surprise! the most violent inmates had the highest levels of testosterone). Testosterone provides a boost in confidence and dominance but as a side effect a boost in violence and aggression. This also explains why men who hold children, even if it's a doll, had immediate decreases in testosterone levels. It's a sort of evolutionary response to try to prevent men from harming their offspring. Historicall, almost every war or genocide in human history was caused, planned, and carried out exclusively by men.

People don't like hearing those studies, they like to think that they're in control of their own life and are not slaves to their gender, genitals, or hormones. But the evidence clearly shows that we are not as much in control of ourselves as we think we are.

Too many men, like too much testosterone, is not a good thing. (see - testosterone's role in wallstreet's collapse http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-31/managing-wal...) In the old economy [More risk = higher rewards] so the men won that round. Of course the worldwide economic slump is changing that. Right now it's more important to slowly grow your company safely, plan for the long term instead of the short term, and keep the company you have while growing slowly. The only two groups of people that are more prone to follow those rules are 1) women and 2)men with low testosterone levels.

So in this economic downturn women are really going to shine, which is hopefully going to open the door to more opportunities in government and leadership positions. I for one am very happy to see this, we've seen what the men have done/caused, it's time to see how the women will handle things.
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Not clear that they needed the IPO money. I think they had to have an IPO due to SEC regulations.

http://www.pehub.com/146588/the-%E2%80%9Cfacebook-problem%E2...
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The 80s were awesome. The NSA will love this post.
I was under the impression Facebook replaced Cassandra in their stack with HBase.

Yes, I forgot about Netflix! Not only do they use it, but they've provided tons of excellent tools for it (Astyanax, Priam) and blog about it very frequently.
Maybe one of your friends innocently grassed you up regarding that new email address. Your name is the same, DOB the same. Would be a fair guess that not many circles of friends have two with the same name and DOB, so the sugestions would be easily done upon that basis perhaps.

Ask facebook as it is somewhat concerning though I'd imagine.
Reading the comments on the blog, I can completely understand why commenting wasn't the first thing to be implimented. They probably wouldn't put it this way, but I think they needed time for some of the less desirable user base to flee the site in order to start up again and be respected. I remember what happened after v4 was launched, and you couldn't read the comment section of any story without it being about the redesign. If you have a bunch of people complaining about a redesign instead of focusing on the content first, no one's going to even consider coming back, let alone joining for the first time.

It's no secret that the community needs a reboot, and content-first development might work for a site that through any other implementation might just strike people as a poor version of Reddit (regardless of whether or not that may be true).
I've had a syncope like that before when I was younger.

I had the flu at the time, and one morning I immediately got out of bed and went to the bathroom. On the way back to my room, I started to feel dizzy and noticed my eyesight fading. First it seemed to go black and white, then to tunnel-vision, as if I could only see what was directly in front of me. My hearing faded as well - I was on the verge of collapsing (unbeknownst to me) and I could hear my family shouting out as if I was listening to them through a poor AM radio signal and speaker. My father grabbed me before I collapsed and hit my head on the corner of a desk.

After going to the doctor, we determined the causes:

* Standing up too quickly (jumping straight out of bed)

* Low blood pressure

* Possible dehydration

* Going to the bathroom

The trick to prevent passing out when you start feeling dizzy is to get blood flowing back into your head. The easiest way to do that is lie on your back and lift your feet high in the air. And of course, keep hydrated and avoid standing too quickly.
That would not look good.

I think everybody sees the value in facebook in the tech world, for all the data they have, but the general public does not.
I thought samsung manufactured large portions of the first iphone. I am sure apple spent more than a few months testing, designing, and working with manufacturing partners to build parts to spec, etc.

I make no assumption on whether they did or didn't, but couldn't samsung have cribbed some notes during that timeframe?
The best way to make a small fortune selling records is to start out with a large one. This is a great story, but there is a value proposition here most ads don't have.
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You raise a very interesting point. The aspect were a employee's motivation is two-fold. One were it is stock-option motivated and the other were progress in the company is the motivation. Now they should and you would of thought that they would be one and the same. But from personal experience they are seperate.

Gets down to the classic: it's not what you do but how you are seen to be doing it.
Yes, Beacon was a shit show. However, anything recent?

Also, tell me more about #2...

You and I can both create an ad and see all the data that is shared, which really is none because it is all general targeting.

APIs are publicly documented and I'm sure the Europeans (and FTC) would crack down on them if they had any special deals.

If anything, Google allows re-targeting, which shares a lot more data than Facebook seems to.

Also, I didn't know about #3.
It's the email addresses. When you friends share their email contact list with Facebook, Facebook the list to find connections between people and suggest friends you might know. It's VERY intrusive especially when you have 2 online identities, a profession one and a personal one and Facebook keeps trying to tie them together with complete disregard for your privacy.

===== HOW IT WORKS =====

If someone has a Facebook account and shares their gmail or yahoo contacts with Facebook. Facebook will crawl through the email contact info and see if any of its already registered Facebook members' emails match the contact list. It will then put those matches up on the "People you may know" sidebar and suggest that you friend them.

That's what happened to me. I had 2 identities, one for family and relatives and one for my personal life & friends (goofing around, joking with friends). Facebook revealed my other identity to all my family and relatives. Some of them added me to their friends list and asked about my other name. I worked so hard to keep them separate but made the mistake with the emails. As soon as I changed the email the suggested friends recommendations stopped.

That. Really. Pissed. Me. Off.

I will never forget that, nor will I ever forgive Facebook for it. It was creepy and disrespectful.
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what about companies with no men on board?
haters gona hate, really?