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The problem with Flex wasn't its design, it was how buggy all of the edge cases were. Sound files randomly being replaced, weird compile errors that go away once you reset, code generation errors fixed by adding comments, occasional minute long compilation times, out of memory errors (again, reset the computer).

Frankly, complete rewrites under these circumstances are a cop out. It's an easy but ineffective path. What they should be doing is unit tests, isolating bugs and strictly controlling quality. Common bug reports should be triaged, rather than ignored (it's not uncommon to have a bug, and find a set of posts years old discussing workarounds). All it would take to fix Flex would be the will to do it.

The rewrite will have a whole different bunch of issues, and be similarly problematic. It's not like Flex was a bad apple in a bunch of well engineered Adobe software.
I'm a Mozilla employeed, and I think it's fair to say that Chrome's presence caused us to increase the focus on Firefox performance. E.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy.
Yes. I suspect Samsung felt he would "see through the bullshit" or whatever. Dangerous game to play.
Try the "Tree Style Tab" extension. It puts tabs on the side, so you can fit many more of them, and you can even collapse and expand sub-trees.
I use Street View probably about as much as I use the Maps themselves. Any time I'm going somewhere, I'll map it, then Street View it, so I know what I'm looking for.

Street View is one of my favourite things Google has done in years, and I couldn't imagine life without it these days.
ahhh please don't give up on openexchangerates.org, it's an awesome service which I'd be happy to pay for.
Tweet Marker becomes Watermark
It was worth the wait if you ask me :)
I've been using Mint the past few weeks and it's been solid. I'll stick with it for the time being (but the new SusE sounds awesome and I've always preferred RPM over DEB).
I don't care if you are progressive or conservative, dem or repub, if you are running for president I want to see a full disclosure of your business and financial dealings, years of tax returns (which can be forged anyway because 3rd party cannot authenticate with the IRS) and even a drug test.

Yes, a drug test and full physical beforehand. This is the most powerful office in the land, not some book promotion tour.
better than ESRI?
When you say "mobile", what segment do you refer to?

AMD has a pair of processors, one named "bobcat" and one on the way that was just announced named "jaguar", which are supposedly aimed at light laptops and tablets. I haven't heard of any AMD products aimed at cell phones, though.

Intel, on the other hand, does appear to be looking to get into the smartphone market, so you may see some Atoms in future smartphones trading paint with ARM.
I think real ideas guys get stuff done too. You can;t get good, practicable ideas without doing stuff. That;s the nature of the beast.

I get lots of good ideas because I do stuff. Many of those ideas I will never be able to follow up on and so I share them. After all, if my ideas help someone become successful, that is better than letting them die because I can;t get it done myself. Moreover maybe it helps build relationships with other businesses.

Ideas without hands-on experience invariably suck.
With crimes which are lightly prosecuted, I wonder if having infrequent but very high severity punishment works comparably to having consistent but moderate punishment.

In China, they do "Strike Hard" campaigns, where crimes which might normally be gross misdemeanor level (shoplifting, assault) are punished far more severely (sometimes by execution).

This might be a way to raise the expected cost of committing the crime, while not raising the cost of anti-crime enforcement that much.
please, keep talking jury foreman. this thing is going down in flames on appeal at this rate.
Wow I will definitely take a look at this.
CyanogenMod releases Google Wallet competitor
Related to this: It drives me up a wall when someone responds to something someone else did with "Wow someone has too much time on their hands." And just what were you doing that was so important that you hardly had enough time to put that person down? Or are you just jealous?
If all your candidates must be squeaky clean, you're probably ruling out some of the most able. The most law-abiding, unquestioningly tax-paying, physically-fit candidate is probably not the person who has the best understanding of and instinct for foreign affairs, the most ability to inspire, cajole, and back-scratchingly motivate Congresspeople to cooperate with important ideas, and the most ability to quickly to make difficult decisions in no-win situations.
Oh man, I'm pretty sure I would have had an aneurysm if that were true.
Right. I get annoyed by articles like this because they get so excited by the technology and the product itself that they ignore the basic issue with Higher Ed - it's not in the business of education, it's in the business of signaling.

I did undergrad at Columbia, a supposedly "elite" institution, and it was a joke. Classes weren't what I would describe as educational - a better image would be some big corporate bureaucratic job where the solution to every problem is obvious but you have to spend a lot of time time figuring out just how, precisely, to flatter your superiors. Maybe if you're being cynical you could say that's the best education you can get, but I wasn't impressed.

What Columbia does give, and what apparently holds a lot of water, is an semi-official grant of being Better Than Everyone Else. It's ridiculous that kids who learned nothing are rented out by consulting firms for a quarter million a year to come into a company they have no familiarity with and have all the answers to everything, but they get away with it because they're Better Than Everyone Else. Of course a piece of paper doesn't make you competent, and the compiler doesn't care where you went to school, but there are so many times you rely on someone else's positive appraisal of you (hiring, funding) that brand name has a massive impact. It's turtles all the way down, too. The University of Illinois is more prestigious than Illinois State, but who actually knows which is better at teaching?

The current problem with higher ed is that for most purposes in the current economy it just functions as a class system. You're the kind of person who went to an Ivy League schol, you get this kind of job. You're the kind of person who went to flagship state school? You can't get that job, but you can get another that's no so bad. You went to University of Phoenix? Let me tell you about this one weird trick housewives are using to make money from home.

Education is a secondary concern right now.
Well this is stiff competition for Parse and the like. However, Parse still has seamless ways to query location data. Not sure if I'll be able to do that with this Azure backend.
I'm generally against all in one tools/silver bullets, but haxe is getting so much good feedback I think I will give it a try at least!
This theme is really, really good. I like the elimination of the stupid header images that no one used and the greater focus on type and large images. This theme, more than the other twenties is really a good starter. It comes with all the support you'd expect and not a ton of layout-related styling. I could actually see myself using this as a base to edit in the future.
African research identifies possible single-dose malaria cure
A suitably sociopathic individual could probably have a beneficial effect on the bike theft rates in a city by just going around to the places where stolen bikes are sold and beating the sellers mostly to death with a baseball bat. That'd be an intriguing experiment for an economist with the right sort of anti-social personality disorder (which is all of them, so I feel silly making the distinction).
They don't have to be squeaky clean, they just have to have full disclosure.

Heck, look at the lineup before the final nomination this year - every candidate (and the final nomination) had serious issues and people voted for them anyway, so squeaky clean is not the problem - full disclosure is.
Nights And Weekends - Diary of a Vampire Stripper Review
unquestioningly tax-paying?
I thought nuance was just a mac based GUI over IBM's dragon speech recognition engine. (IBM bought dragon naturally speaking a few years ago)
You might want to try reading posts before commenting. I was clearly pointing towards startup time and general app respnsiveness, not actual speed browsing websites. But thanks for saying please.
> They only measure how much energy is produced burning the food. Bodies don't burn food, they digest it.

You need to review your biology. The most common energy extraction process in the body actually IS, at its essence, oxidation - a.k.a "burning". And that's why people did the calorimeter burning measurements. The other common process is essentially fermentation, but in a healthy human, the vast majority of energy is obtained from food through oxidation.

> So measuring calories doesn't say anything about whether a particular substance can be used by the body.

It puts an upper limit because (as far as we know) oxidation is the most efficient process the body uses, but not a lower limit.

The body may flush out anything without any form of digestion, fat conversion, or oxidation (thus no energy extraction), even if it is pure sugar. Furthermore, the enzymes used by the body for oxidation are very specific. The most abundant carbohydrate around us, cellulose (wood and paper are examples), cannot be digested / oxidized / burned by the human body.
If the police used a Ford Pinto as a bate car, could they be similarly at fault?

I'm cracking up over here! I guess it would have to at least be a Pinto, nobody would ever steal a Chevette or Yugo...
Reasons why I don't like NDAs
Show HN: Simple weather app for iPhone
This is a throw-away account. I've meet Shirley a handful of times, through mutual friends and founders here in SF.

Every time we hungout, she would tell elaborate stories of meeting so and so, or being friends with Sean Parker, or Justin Timberlake. Almost immediately, the first time I meet her, I was super skeptical; always felt like something was really off with her.

She mentioned she knew the founders at Dropbox, and even said that she had stock in Dropbox and sold it, and made quite a nice sum of money. Again, all the while I was super skeptical.

It is kind of sad that this information had to be released in such a public way on TechCrunch. In fact, I am not sure it is TechCrunch worthy.

At any rate, the valley, and SF are a much smaller place then people think, word get's around, so be yourself, stay honest, and be humble.
Right on. I tried to understand startups and funding for the longest time and in my head there was always this creeping intuition that it was all just bullshit and way simpler than people made it seem. Don't get me wrong, I know there are legit startups out there but they are the true minority. These days everyone whos heard the word "startup" seems to "have" one and that's just ridiculous.

I don't think I'm too far off the mark in saying a lot of this is just a big circle jerk. Money is just changing hands between VCs, they get paid no matter what, and the founders get to work harder than any person should just for the ego boost that comes with calling yourself a startup founder even when you walk away with nothing.
Warren Buffett's been telling all his managers for decades that they shouldn't base their decisions on what is "this side of the line of legality" but rather on what they wouldn't mind "seeing printed on the front page of the New York Times".

I'm sure the idea's been around for even longer than that, though. I bet Benjamin Franklin (a publisher, among other things) must've had a choice quote about that...
thanks! very helpful.
Sorry, I assumed you were in referring to people who have dietetic advice in general, but I now see you referred specifically to the morbidly obese.

> but even the old one didn't endorse the empty calories evident in shopping behaviors (i.e, chips and pop).

But it made the (now) classic "calorie is a calorie" mistake, so it implicitly okayed them.
Even if the efforts of Coursera, Kahn Academy, etc "fail" and the incumbent universities are unscathed and continue raising prices, I would still consider them a huge success for as long as they are able to continue operations. School credentials aside, the education itself is very valuable. While education may not be the thing people most want out of school, it's definitely true that these companies are building something that people want... something I want, at least.
This spring I read Lost Moon, Lovell's account of Apollo 13 co-authored with Jeffery Kluger. There's nothing routine when you're surrounded by a couple of hundred thousand miles of hard vacuum.

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Moon-Perilous-Voyage-Apollo/dp/B0...
Figures. So I guess that, in the case where you both need to worry about fixing invalid data, and also need to do historical queries, you would have to add your own timestamp to the data to represent the actual time of the event, because the built-in timestamp is just giving you the time of the state of the database. Hopefully that wouldn't get too hairy.
What if you want to load JS asynchronously? How do you know that `doThis()` is defined?
Demo site: http://twentytwelvedemo.wordpress.com/blog/
But where is the app download link, or place to sign up?
I think the basic documentation of Lua itself, the reference manual and the PiL are great.

But documentation of 3rd party Lua modules is substandard, if I compare them to CPAN.
Digital IPA: The QR-Packing Open Source Beer
Yep. The only downside is that if a policeman is in a bad mood you may get stopped and checked to make sure you aren't a thief. Only heard of it happening to foreigners (not myself though) but it's a good idea to keep a card in your wallet or a photo of your registration (which is actually a really good idea for anyone traveling/living abroad: if you can keep them in a safe/encrypted place, carrying a photo of your passport, gaijin card, etc. is a pretty good idea in case you put on the wrong pants one day).
I would like to understand the thrust of this article, but honestly, I'm not sure what kind of floats we're talking about here.
I suspect that moving fast keeps flame wars and inside jokes to a minimum. It also encourages people to express their ideas clearly.
Sky Drive: Official Android App Released.
> the internet makes it very easy to pretend you're someone you're not

Not really. If anything, it is much easier to fact-check such claims today -- it's just that people are generally lazy.

Watch "catch me if you can" (or read the book it is based on) - the internet hasn't made anything about "faking it" easier. It just made hearing about it easier.
It wasn't a comment on the ER doctor's ability to extract value out of wikipedia. It was a comment on the fact that Wikipedia is the wild west. Far as I can tell, most erroneous edits on popular subjects are quickly caught. But I wonder how vigilant those wikipedia editors are on obscure medical topics that require an expensive medical education to truly understand.

I'd feel better about it if Wikipedia was innovating above and beyond the implementation of a wiki ... even if the solution is still crowdsourced. For example I would love to see the application of machine learning to the process of moderation, not unlike what Stackexchange is working on these days (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/08/stack-exchange-machine...).

Circling back to the topic at hand, I would actually love it if "Watson" eventually has all of the data currently available in wikipedia. But with each fact cross-checked for validity against everything else he already knows.
If all your candidates must be squeaky clean, you're probably ruling out some of the most able.

If more people came to see that perfectly capable people are often not squeaky clean in largely irrelevant matters we would all be better off.

Imagine a country where politicians don't live in fear that the public might learn they sometimes spark a bong, or once cheated on their spouse, or like people of the same gender as themselves from time to time.
Scansoft bought Dragon before merging with Nuance.
I'm torn over policies of targeting buyers of stolen goods. It's easy to think everyone buying stolen goods knows exactly what they are getting into.

Yet, not too long ago, I purchased a vehicle for a wholly reasonable price. I got the original pink slip. I got the keys. There were absolutely no signs of breaking & entering. Yet, I take it to the DMV to get registered, and what do you know- it's stolen property.

I lost my shirt on that deal, and it would have made it a million times worse if I was suddenly facing criminal charges.

Seriously, I hadn't even the slightest clue it was stolen- that is, until the police entered the DMV, looking straight at me. At that point there was only one thing that could be happening.
It actually happens quite a bit... I was just the slightest bit startled when even my fiancée suggested it like it was nothing. "It's better than being late, they'll get it back..."
I've worked next to Shirley for a couple of months in NextSpace last year. She was a nice girl who was doing some marketing work for Zaarly back then. She actually was one of the first organizers of the successful Zaarly Startup Crawls. To accomplish such a thing, you have to be connected. So there may be some fluff to it, but it's certainly not all air.

I'm actually astonished by how low TechCrunch has sunk by calling her out like that and ruining her future career.
JT did invest in myspace. Does it count?
As a long time user of VWO, I'm very impressed and pleased with their success.

Early on, perhaps about 2 years ago, I reached out to Paras asking for an API so our internal dashboard could show the status and performance of all running tests.

Within a few days, there was a private (or non-published) API ready to go. Since then, my business and I have been using it daily.

Disclaimer: I even supplied a testimonial for their homepage after frustrating experiences with Google and Omniture. :)
A Visual Diff - AAPL / MSFT Logos
That doesn't bode well for Apple, then.
But if they ship on MIPS, they'll have to deal with all the SGI IP...

Better be safe and design a new processor architecture.
Does anyone know what the status of the new Australis theme is? I think FF is really in need of an update and the mockups of Australis that I saw looked really nice to me.
[Disclaimer: I'm not in software development.]

I require a retainer to be applied against final invoice for all but the best clients (and I still worry about those).

I don't turn over work until there's a check if I'm upside down, and I try not to be upside down.

Finally, I don't start a project until I have a signed agreement and a retainer.

In the past, I have not hesitated to use small claims court when I knew a client was intending not to pay.
How Secure your iOS Apps are?
You're right, that would be more sad!
The Case Against Sugar (And Its Lobbyists)
Years of tax returns that have a low percentage are an opportunity for attack ads even if they're strictly legal. It's politic but unwise to pay more than you would strictly have to.
If they didn't release their claim, it would be up to you to contest it, possibly through the courts.

How would a court help? YT makes the rules. It's a free service. Their rules may be stupid and biased, but I don't see any legal case.
Yes, sorry. Thanks for the correction. "Jury members"
It's sad in this case, but being unable to throw out the decision of an incompetent jury is the price of jury nullification. If judges could throw out jury decisions just because they disagree, there wouldn't be much point to having juries at all.
Could this be used to secure a majority vote by asking people to submit their chunk of one of two files? The only way to get either file is by having the majority of the votes.
I'm guessing this was her mantra "Fake it till you make it".
How Apple Geniuses Get Inside Our Heads
8 Internet Of Things & Sensor Projects on Kickstarter
There, I fixed that for you.

Please don't do that.
Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking for the growl graphic overlay that Padmapper had, plus a bunch of other bells and whistles, check out Fivepad[1].

https://www.fivepad.me
Le Groupe Francophone It Works  Global vous veut
I will be talking more on the security part in our next iOS developer meet-up in Singapore.

If you are in Singapore on 13th, September drop by and say hello to us. https://www.facebook.com/events/340285926062221/
Twitter’s relationship with the media: It’s complicated
Will what is revealed make a difference in how anyone plans to vote?
This is perplexing. A consumer will purchase a $3000 60" screen (eg, Samsung ES 8000) that is capable of stunning 1080p and run Netflix and Hulu on it. That's like taxying an F-22 down the freeway.

This more than anything proves that cheap and easy media is king.
If you use a google voice number you can just point it to a new phone.
Buy vs. Build: An eternal Dilemma
Obama Urged To Go Alone On Cybersecurity
There's a good Freakanomics blog article about trademark enforcement here: http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/06/26/the-summer-trademark-...

The takeaway in this case is that aggressive enforcement helps protect a mark holder from losing their claim to the trademark. It seems like you just need to TM those NPS phrases and add some legal notice in your global footer to be in compliance.
I think the point is that Samsung didn't patent "emailing pictures from a phone", but they did patent a very specific, integrated method of doing so. If somebody (Apple) offered the same function, but implemented it differently than as claimed by Samsung's very specific patent, they would be in the clear.
OnLive founder Steve Perlman exits struggling game streaming firm
This might only be vaguely related. It's an example of managing bank account balances using datomic taking advantage of transaction functions.

https://gist.github.com/3134849
I keep thinking that he's some sort of (witting or unwitting) plant from Samsung, put there to taint the trial and have the whole thing discarded on appeal.
Soon private investors will have DRM over their audited investor reports.
I don't think TechCrunch ruined anyone's career.
Why Apple-Samsung verdict is GOOD for YOU, your KIDS, TECH
I agree with regard to full disclosure. The unfortunate reality is that what might normally be considered a past indiscretion can shred a potential candidate's chances at success, mostly thanks to the American electorate's unrealistic expectations. I guess it all depends on what you consider an acceptable indiscretion, but without full disclosure you really can't know for sure.
> I find myself refactoring and going over best practices frequently.

I'm curious, what kind of changes have you adopted to as a result?
I think the HN crowd (as a whole) tends to underestimate what it takes to do just about any job aside from programming.
Old story from Aug 24, 2012, and the school district completely reversed itself Aug 28, 2012. Link at bottom of page:
School District Says Deaf Student Not Required to Change Name
http://www.1011now.com/home/headlines/School-District-Says-D...