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The reason I interpreted your question as a snarky one is that it seemed such a pointless one otherwise-- like asking, say, whether a boat can be called a boat at a stage so early in its construction that it wouldn't float.

But it sounds from your reply like you really did mean it seriously. Perhaps you believed that the guys who wrote Grid never intended to develop it further, and you were puzzled that they were calling it a spreadsheet. If so I apologize.

I think though that many of the people who upvoted you did realize that this post was an instance of a startup launching an early version one that they plan to develop further, and your innocent question thus became snarky in their hands.
That is all true. I probably live too deep within my bubble of DRM-free media :)
This might only work if it remains a camera; tactile buttons, a non attention-stealing screen, its own app store(custom camera apps), and the apps function more like plugins/addons than apps. Otherwise it'll be just another android phone with a better camera instead of a simpler CDHK.
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The Telegraph page that this is pulling data from is itself out of date by a couple of days. The official website might be a better source:

http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/
does it remain LGPL ?
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I get the impression that he is using the occasion of his failure to announce his availability for employment.
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For me India is the biggest disappointment of them all. They promoted the hell out of Indian athletes in Olympics before the games. They also consider China to be their biggest competition in every level (economy/military/living standard).

Whenever I try to get in to discussion with my Indian friends in the most respectful manner and try to tell them China is several orders of magnitude ahead of India in most things; I get ridiculed or brushed aside.

I have found that there are two things you can never reason with, religion and nationalism.
> In Windows this is done by dll injection, of which even a similar process isn't possible in any *NIX operating systems.

Actually, it's possible to do almost exactly the same thing on other platforms.

http://guiheneuf.org/mach%20inject%20for%20intel.html
Yep Smart Data Center.
Right, but what people are actually using on their work if they want to stay competitive and efficient? Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. Not theoretical concepts.
Hey guys Danielle here. Here's what I think we should do: if it makes commissions we can donate them to Room to Read through our charity program, and I will share all the stats in a blog post. Cool?
Had no idea this much was going on, but privacy is dead anyway, let them mine our data
Nokia bought the Qt company, Trolltech, and sold off the
part doing commercial support to Digia. The people actually
hacking on Qt stayed with Nokia.

Now the question is how much actual development Digia can actually afford to keep.
Some random camera stats:

The iPhone has a 1/3.2" sensor (9.7x crop factor), a 4.28mm length f/2.4 max aperture.

That's like a 43mm f/23 full frame (basically, apature scales with crop factor just like length); or a 26mm f/14.5 APC-C.

Compared to a 1/2.3" sensor (which the S800 is likely to pack) it's like a 6mm f/3.3 lens (43mm full frame, as they don't like to mention how apature scales). The advantage of a S800 will be the range (25mm -> uselessly long without a tripod and good light), compared to the 43mm prime iPhone; apature and image quality will be similar. Also, the Nikon will have niceties like vibration reduction, a flash (maybe), smarter focusing / metering, better processing (maybe).

The real question is, who would want one? I'd say - people with dumb phones who carry cameras; and hipsters who want to be seen with a camera while they play Angry Birds on the bus. It might be bigger in non-US markets, where phones don't appear so cheap (due to hidden carrier costs).
Having been heavily into Qt before Nokia, I see this very differently. Nokia had no idea what they were doing with Qt and the Mobilin/Maemo/Meego and now Tizen projects were a farce from start to finish. I'm sure as strategies they looked good in Power Point, but they clearly had no clue how to turn them/it into a credible consumer OS. They very much remind me of the bumbling, bullet point oriented aimlesness of the failed OS projects of the 90s - Taligent, Pink, Cairo, etc.

However, now Qt is in the hands of a company that does seem to understand the technology and has a realistic and executable business plan. That's a good thing.
What's wrong in starting programming with recursion? It is more intuitive since you learn about it in school...
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Wow, this is the first I've heard of the balloon mission. I wonder how long the balloons stayed afloat after the batteries ran down...
I think it might be interpreted as "throwing away" the ladder-based technique, not forgetting about it.

So, for example, I might learn to build a Rails app using the scaffolding system, but once I know Rails well, I wouldn't.
Why not adjusted the ranking by GDP? Sport investment has more to do with money than population.
Probably not, the key to making 250,000 connections work is not doing a lot for each of those connections, or doing it very infrequently.

Once you're rendering views, etc it's hard to maintain 50,000 req/sec. (250K connections @ 5 req/sec)
That sounds like good news but the selection process is a bit strange. If I understand correctly, my app needs to be voted into their store by the community but how is the community going to evaluate it before it is in the store?

Does anyone know what are their current fees?
I tried using that page, but they were resisting about automated bots by giving "Forbidden Request" reponses. I'll try to find a better source though.
I seem to have the number 1% as the success rate in my head.

Doing some Googling gives a number like 10% success, but it's not clear whether these figures are only for companies that received VC-funding.

So actually, I'm not sure. Point taken.
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That's true, there are risks, but at least Digia's finances are directly tied to the commercial success of Qt, so their survival depends on Qt being successful. The problem with Nokia was that Qt and Maemo/Meego were internal political footballs that most of the people doing the kicking had no vested interest in.
Don't be fooled by the title. This is quite a good article about some of Google's early key engineers.
I enjoy photography a lot, and own a m4/3, a DSLR, and an iPhone 4S, several film cameras and polaroids.

Most of my "everyday" shots (ie. shots of friends and family at events, etc.) are taken with my iPhone. It performs better than would be desirable in all situations. That's what people care about.
Thanks for the idea, here it is: http://moshayedi.net/london2012/ranking-gdp.html
No there is no hindsight, it's just obvious.

Your examples are not very good comparisons. We can't breath Martian air, temperatures are extreme, radiation, etc, etc.

This is vastly different from "Oh, that's a strange plant" or scurvy or whatever you're coming up with.

Deep ocean exploration is an interesting point, we haven't really done much of that and I promise you Hernando Cortez didn't either.

The fact is, comparison to early explorers is misplaced, at least as put in what I responded to. I mean it's sort of funny. The explorers were going places that humans already lives. The inhabitants were more impacted than the explorers. I can poke holes in this all day. No hindsight, just common sense. :)
You can't un-LGPL something that's been LGPL'd (edit:though you might have to fork). Plus Nokia made a legal covenant with the KDE folks that guarantees Qt stays open, and has failsafe clauses that auto-BSD licenses it if the terms of the covenant are broken.
You would be using a connection pool instead of opening one for every client.
The magic is in javascript. How many people can write Erlang?
Often, however, google does use the meta description as the search listing description. Keywords related to the phrase searched are bolded which helps to increase click through rate. The click through rate does have some effect on the search engine rankings.
It seems we've spent just as much on preparing our athletes for London 2012[1] as the Phoenix mission to Mars [2]. So when are we launching a space probe into space? :-)

[1] $380 million - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/No_surprises_for_sport_in_2012/2...
[2] $386 million - http://www.aerospaceguide.net/mars/phoenixlander.html
anyway you look at it, GB is doing fantastically well :)
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Of course not, but once you have edge cases like a dispute, there needs to be a human who can view both videos and check who is right, instead of just starting another automated system. There needs to be a system in place to punish those who wrongfully claim videos, and that probably needs human overview.
If you're going to pre-ship products and customers are going to leave home to pick them up, why not just stock them in a conventional retail store?
His series of pages on the Venera program[1] just blows all other resources away, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

He mentions on his copyright page[2] that he studied Russian books/papers, befriended & interviewed Russian scientists, dug up rare photographs, and even processed original spacecraft data with custom C++ code to create some of the images!

I look forward to his book; does he have an ETA on the publication date?

[1]: http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm
[2]: http://www.mentallandscape.com/Copyright.htm
The Finnish stock exchange press release also says
the deal has a "neutral effect" on Digia's earnings
so seems they got it for a pittance, or maybe did some
kind of more complicated hedged deal?

Url is http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/porssi/tiedotteet/porssitiedot... if you want to hand it to Google Translate

Edit: I guess it's an accounting trick where you don't
categorise acquisitions as an expense. But still
leaves the 125 salaries...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries
Could anyone who knows about optics say how this compares to Nokia's 808 PureView camera/phone?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_808_PureView
In India - it is just not possible to make a living out of athletics. It is largely true and partly just a perception problem. The only sport where you can make a comfortable living is basically Cricket and thats about it.

I know few of my friends who were state/national level table tennis and Badminton players but decided to let that thing go and opted for engineering degree because of pressure from parents etc.

Heck, I along with my friend are running a startup and one of the things my friend's dad asked is - "who will marry their daughter to you?". And this was for a brilliant embedded programmer who quit his regular to do this thing.

I can't imagine hardship (and hilarity) involved in finding prospective bride/groom for someone who "runs" for living. This thing is a no go clearly in Indian society.
A Todo app, with a timetracker that opens up on the mac status bar would be perfect... I have faced the same problem for a long time, let me know if you are working this app, I would like to contribute
A different take on this [1]:

> The human and financial costs of that, I believe, are something we as a nation can ill-afford.

[1] http://greatbong.net/2012/08/07/some-thoughts-on-the-olympic...
Why Emacs Lisp and not a CL? SBCL actually performs on par with more popular languages for server workloads. Emacs Lisp? Not so much.
The messenger application should do it no? It is available for desktop and smartphones
BTW, adjusted by GDP per capita would be very interesting as well.
Scraping 101: Set you user-agent to mimic a browser, for example: curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1" http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/
I think this post is an odd response and just proves my point. Most of this is an appeal to how amazing ancient people were. That's great. They were.

You claim stone age people did a lot of exploration .... But yet you say early exploration was harder than Mars exploration. I find this humorous.

Stone age people could never explore Mars, we can explore Europe and Asia just fine. Which one is more difficult? I'm being serious ... You could say "oh but it was hard because they were stone age" or whatever, but the fact is, though it was hard, it was not so hard that it huge economic factors, advanced life support, contend with temperatures very extreme, etc, etc. When you say "it was amazing what they did in the bronze age with just sails," I say "Yes it was amazing and all they really needed was sails." Well, it's going to take much more than sails to explore Mars.

It is just an entirely different thing. It doesn't seem like a very controversial view.
The most difficult situation I find for a camera is taking a picture of people on a stage in poor lighting.

They are far away, so your telephoto cuts down the light, and it's too far for a flash.

That's my test for a camera.

Any camera can do well in good lighting, or with a flash. But take a picture in poor lighting and see how well it does.

This http://campl.us/posts/iPhone-Camera-Comparison finds that an S95 in ISO 32000 is equivalent to an iPhone 4S in ISO 80. That's a pretty dramatic difference.
i remember seeing this on HN back in April
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Why would you give it a name with such negative connotations like Quitter?

Yes, it has an API. Even MG's article mentioned it.
The concept of "privilege" as used in social justice speak is merely a tool used to discredit people who are in the wrong demographic/social/cultural categories without having to address the content of their arguments. And pointing this out is labeled "derailing", to avoid having to address that line of argument either.
Linux's LD_PRELOAD system lets you replace some executable's dynamically-loaded symbols with your own implementations, and the OS X "dyld" manpage mentions "DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES" which seems to be similar. Is that close enough to "DLL injection"?
You can use the speech API of google but if you plan to build an app/product on it you'll be detected/blocked quickly
It's really cool to see how this site has matured over time. This is a huge leap forward from the first iteration of Swole.me
> What have they been waiting for all this years?

Nokia bought Trolltech in early-to-mid 2008 (initial offer announced in January, purchase finalized in June). The iPhone SDK had been announced in October 2007 and been made available in February, Android 1.0 would only be released in September (though the beta had started in November 2007), the Windows 7 RTM would only happen in 2009 and W7P in 2010 so the Windows world was still "old windows" (on which regular Qt worked) and Windows Mobile 6.

One can easily assume that, as soon as the deal was announced and likely to go through, Trolltech had little reason to work on porting Qt to non-nokia platforms (out of the 2 months or so they'd have had for the Android beta, and negative 2 months for iOS).

And once Trolltech/Qt was part of Nokia, why would Nokia fund Qt/Android or Qt/iOS? The original plan was to build Nokia's own "next-generation platform" Maemo with it after all.

As to third parties, they did attempt porting Qt (ultimately fizzling out, for the most part):

* qt-iphone (Qt/Cocoa Touch) http://www.qt-iphone.com/Introduction.html

* Necessitas (Qt/Android) http://sourceforge.net/p/necessitas/home/necessitas/
Absolutely agree on this one with you. We are working on similar product http://elastic.io and it's clear that in this business (IFTTT, Zapier, elastic.io, FoxWeave.com, etc) you need to work on two customers - business customers who pay and developers who are platform multipliers. That's the reason Zapier and IFTTT are trying to open up. Important is however business users (who pay) do not need 'developers' view on things, they don't need the 'flexibility' and complexity that developers needed, so essentially it's two different products. Think AppStore/App - Xcode.
It's not even always relevant in painting. The impressionists (who invented the hatred of black, AFAIK) were obsessed with painting light effects, so to them it was important. Their academic colleagues and to the painters that preceded them didn't care about photorealism and so used black liberally to emphasize depth and contrast.
How much of your codebase is only understood by one person?
Don't put the blanket statement out there. In the case of China, they can be very nationalistic, but you only need to look on their weibo network to see how dissatisfied they are with the state of affairs inside China, whether on infrastructure safety, government corruption, wealth disparity, etc. edit: I mean to say here that nationalism does not necessitate blindness or irrationality.

That being said, India is taking some especially big kicks to the groin right now. What with the starving people due to inability to distribute an abundance of food, the massive power outages that have gained global attention, and disappointing economic performance compared to the other BRIC countries, maybe your Indian friends are more defensive right now precisely because they're hurting so much?
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That's no answer. As far as I can tell, the product is people willing to pay for their message updates and then a rev-share between the apps that allow them to do it, and Dalton's service.

If that's your idea of a product... good luck.
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Big online company in the UK do something simular to Amazon, never tried it but looks a good idea. Basically they have collection points around the UK where you can have your parcel sent to instead of your home addresses and you can pick it up at your convenience. I checked my local postcode and near me it looks like mostly "off licenses" (simular to 7-11in US).

http://www.littlewoods.com/web/en/collect-plus.page

Dave
Speech->Text conversion is really harder than simple Voice Recognition. There are not a lot of companies doing this right now the most famous being Nuance and Google of course. Nuance has been acquiring a lot of companies the last three years that were doing a lot of improvements to the technologies (SVOX, VLingo, etc.) and powers Siri technology.
> if I create two filenames that are identical except for normalization, how can the "human" layer possibly handle this?

The "human IO" layer is responsible for normalization of strings sent to the rest of the system. Therefore, your scenario cannot occur in normal operations. If it does occur, too bad. Some part of the system allowed an illegal operation, and you now have two filenames which may display as identical, but which are stored as different "buckets of bits".

Your other scenario is the same. The issue of composed versus non-composed characters doesn't come up, as all input is normalized. If your human input layer can't normalize it, then tough. The system is broken.

What happens when you create a filename on a "new" system, and then mount it on an "old" system? What happens when you add new code points to unicode? What happens when you create new composition rules?

In your design, the answer is "oh, crap". The older file systems will make different decisions about name comparisons than a new file system. This leads to exactly the inconsistencies you're worried about.

In contrast, the IETF design means all file systems always make the same decisions. "memcmp" always returns the same results. Old systems cannot create file names using new code points, because their "display IO" layer forbids it. Again, if such a string are created, then the system created a string it can't understand. The system is broken.

It seems you have strong opinions here. These issues are being worked through in all internet protocols. The answer is not "fix every protocol to do string normalization and/or i18n".

Wait 5 years. You'll see this design take over every internet protocol, and (IMHO) every new file system. Nothing else is workable.
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How is this not obvious? It's right there on the iTunes page.
Big Brother for your own eyes :)
Does aperture scale with the crop factor? I don’t think that’s the case. f/2.3 will always let the same light in. As you (hypothetically) scale up the focal length (the numerator), you also scale up the pupil size (the denominator), so the aperture remains constant.

The effect on DoF is different, sure, but not on light – and I think with those kinds of cameras you are more interested in their ability to let in light than their ability to produce shallow DoF (that’s pretty much a given for any small sensor camera).
Unfortunately, I am not in that part of the population. I sweat quite a bit, always, and it does smell. It's quite obvious if I forgot to use an antiperspirant one day.
But the project wasn't started in order to sell ads on wordpress.com hosting

I think the point from reply above is that the line about all successful projects being 'for-profit' projects is clearly bogus, and I would totally agree with that.
There was a similar app called PlaceMe which was a little more creepy and was eventually taken out of AppStore
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Great work man. I've always wondered why this didn't exist. Seems like a very good MVP. I will use it.
My sentiment is more extreme.
I'd rather die as a failed enterpreneur face down in the mud with mouthful of kicked in teeth than to live a cozy life as someone elses employee.
The DMCA, flawed as it is, would have saved YouTube's existence. They created ContentID to mollify the Content industry into playing nice and creating the dumping ground that is Vevo and letting their products appear in the Google Play store. Without Content ID, they surely would not be playing along with Google's media store plans.

YouTube the site is clearly and plainly within DMCA safe harbor and has absolutely no need for ContentID to continue operating. It is the other things Google wanted to do with big Content that required this asinine system.
I use to be a press photographer (now develop mobile apps) and I can already think of some really useful apps I would love to have had on my camera to help with the job.

Dave
I normally don't use a card for less than £5 though.
I'll second that. The first release with Unity (11.04?) was dradful. The second fixed some major issues, and now it's perfectly usable (unless you're particularly set in your ways). I run 12.04 on an older Eee, and it's not noticeably faster or slower than when I was running Xubuntu before.
The parent might be referring to further development, which could perhaps be closed if Digia owns the copyright.
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