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In my experience at present, comparing Chrome Canary with Firefox Nightly, SpiderMonkey and V8 both win on particular use cases now (sometimes quite dramatically).

V8 tends to win on stuff that depends on garbage collection since they have a generational collector, and SpiderMonkey only has incremental.

SpiderMonkey wins on some computation workloads because V8 still has a huge limitation where they often have to store floats as individual allocations on the heap (that's the best explanation I can come up with, at least; impossible to tell for sure from the Chrome profiler)

V8 also wins on some use cases that make use of new ES5 features like Object.defineProperty, because their optimizations do a better job with them.

IonMonkey is definitely a big improvement over the previous generation of SpiderMonkey, though. They're closing the gap.

P.S. It's a little hard to measure this stuff because V8 has some optimizations that happen to be perfect for benchmarks but provide a much smaller win for applications (Loop invariant code motion, for one). Nothing naughty going on here, you just need to be aware the numbers are lies.
The geography of cybercrime: Western Europe and North America
Just post the link of the course builder https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/
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HTML5 is fine, but it's for developing web UI's not mobile apps. Sure it would be nice if all the main mobile OS's used the same language and frameworks but they don't, people need to get over that and start developing natively.
How would one make the difference between frighteningly ambitious, crazy or stupid ?
That's a 'trivial machine' that you have to design, implement, test and most importantly maintain.

Humans don't have those sort of problems.
Totally agree, /tmp should be wiped at the end of each session.
Having spent some time playing with VR (in goonfleet, I was part of his initial corp of diplomats), this was a shocking way to wake up. The guy was super dedicated to both Eve and his job. He used to share stories about the State Department (obviously, only what he was allowed to share) and explain various aspects of diplomacy.

It might seem silly, since this was just an internet spaceship game, but his knowledge of real world diplomacy made Eve very exciting. He was a lot of fun to play with.

Goonspeed Vile Rat, you were a pretty awesome guy to shoot internet spaceships with :(
I love this site, I use it all the time. My feature request would be for the site to recommend films for me to watch next. Sure you can see what friends are rating, but I don't have any (friend me? http://goodfil.ms/user/4221 ). And sure you can use the "find films" feature http://goodfil.ms/explore However, both of these lack a "based on your ratings we think your going to love Memento" or a "sure lots of people loved the Avengers, but your not going to like it"

Nevertheless, I will continue to use this site as a way to catalog all of the films I see and how much I liked them, and IMO there is no better service out there for this purpose.
Nice, I wan't to exit for 2 Billion, but will settle at 1.5 ;)
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None of the above. They want work. And this is work that is much better than flipping burgers at McDonalds.

Remember that some of these people might end up designing and producing the products of the future as well. I know if I was 18 I would jump at the chance to take a job like this.
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...Here, an accountable algorithm would require the authorities to commit to a specific searchlist, but without telling the public what it was. Then the accountability mechanism would ensure that, if you were selected because you were allegedly on the searchlist, you could verify that the searchlist to which the authorities committed did indeed contain your name–but you could not learn anything more about the contents of the searchlist. This kind of accountability is possible, using cryptographic methods...
Anyone who has significant issues with this needs to stop buying anything marked made in China.

There are some interesting bits in there from the perspective of understanding the manufacturing process, but in terms of the worker conditions and so on, it's nothing new and anyone for whom this is news has presumably been hiding under a rock for the last couple of years and making a concious effort not to think about how certain countries can make things this cheaply.

That's not to make light of the conditions, just to say that we're all somewhat complicit and any outrage needs to be matched with action, not just against Apple but against anyone using Foxconn or their peers.
Can you provide some more detail on how Apple "copied a lot of features (Notification Drawer, Interactive Lockscreen, Social Network integration, etc.)"? None of these features seem to appear, at least explicitly, on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.
Unit testing is a very very expensive operation. Consider the following: The developers add unit testing at beginning for specific results. Later on, after product is released a new design or feature change happens. Often times unit tests will have to be rewritten else they will fail.

This can be very expensive and take developers and QA engineers extra time when they try and figure out what's wrong... "Is the test failing because the test is out of date? Or is our program causing a bug?" I know for a fact HP deals with this issue constantly.
Not saying unit testing is bad (I think it's usually good) but I don't think it's always good.
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What you're referring to is called cultural relativism [1], and is willfully ignored in most media reports of working conditions in foreign countries.

By not providing any context to the local norms, we tend to compare conditions to our norms and see it in stark terms, while the reality is more nuanced. FoxConn's compensation and work conditions may be imperfect, but are good enough relative to local alternatives they have sufficient supply of willing workers. The "exploitation by US consumers" is an effect of globalization.

Most criticism and remediation efforts should not be directed at the various firms, but at the country that allows it to occur.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
How would you even know? Sometimes the most ambitious ideas don't require more than a few hundred lines of code. It's often how you want the rest of the world to use your product that makes it ambitious, not the product itself.
Even when HTML5 will be ready for prime time it could never compare to a native app. This isn't a new issue, cross-platform solutions have been around for ages and they always fell short.
It's probably true and there's nothing Apple or anyone can do about it apart from stop selling things.

I dealt with several Chinese manufacturers in the late 1990's who were doing custom PCB runs for one of our products. They treated their staff like shit then and hid it all under the rug when you went to see them. They wheeled out the turd polish in double-quick time.

I don't think it's changed and I don't think it will change unless people on the production lines just say "no". This has happened in the textile industry over there (according to my cousin who is an importer of textiles) and staff are earning great rates now. The cheaper staff are in Mexico and India now.

Regarding the money - the cost of living is pretty damn cheap over there by their standards.

Note: I don't like buying products myself which are responsible for this sort of thing, but I'm not that sympathetic.

As for the journalists - they are as full of crap as the factory bosses are.
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Thanks for the suggestions. And you should have a new follower as of me, now :)
This was just a strategy for Mark to downplay Facebook's troubles. Avoiding talking about Facebook's other problems by pushing HTML5 as their biggest mistake and saying how it's now fixed. This gives them more time and calms investors down.
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> The biggest problem is the teachers, they are not as tech-savvy as the kids and introducing them to a completely new operating system has done nothing but slow them down and cause problems

it's a chicken and egg problem. the only way to solve it is to make the first move, otherwise in 10 years we'll be in the exact same situation.
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The main issue I had with the Android Facebook app wasn't that it was particularly bad in itself, it was just that it depended on a perfect, always on mobile data connection.

These things need to work on an asynchronous basis, more like email, to get status updates, post to walls etc.
"We want to make our own rockets and spaceships from scratch. But that's just the beginning, to pave the way to settling Mars and making it affordable for middle-class customers to relocate to Mars." I imagine if Elon Musk had pitched SpaceX for YC, it would be a strong candidate for this.
Because OS and application support scales in ways that reduce marginal costs, claims that desktop rollouts of Linux ultimately entail a substantial financial benefit are dubious. The pool of Linux expertise is smaller and thus basic support tends to be more expensive than an OEM version of Windows. For example, Ubuntu or Redhat support starts a $70-$100 per user per year versus $150 or so for OEM Windows.
Ha yeah context is not needed. HTML5 is nice but betting a billion dollar business on it does not seem like a great idea.
Wow, what industry? Healthcare? Telecom? Can't think of too many that could credibly claim a $1B exit.
How Internet influences research and academia (Terence Tao) [2009]
Surely thats what /var/tmp is intended for.
Agreed, I would focus on hiring shit hot testers and automating end to end testing if possible. Unit testing is useful for a small number of examples like a method that does complicated calculations,but I see TDD zealots writing them to test a method that simply forwards data to another layer, all designed around dependency injection.
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> are these two things really issues?

Yes - every app is light grey on grey on dark grey in OS X (Mountain) Lion. The theming of some apps makes it easier to spot them in Mission Control.

Though I'd rather have 10.6 back where windows weren't all gray to begin with.
I don't know Michelle Kwan's story,

She has won a couple of Olympic medals for figure skating(98 and 02). He is probably referring to the fact that in 1996 she came in second in the US championships(which usually gets you on the Olympic team), but they gave Kwan's spot to Nancy Kerrigan. This happened because Tonya Harding(who came in first at that championship) had Kerrigan beaten so Kerrigan couldn't compete.
It's my understanding that "overdosing" on Vitamin D is very difficult. I take 5000 IU every morning. Do you have links to the research you found?
Protip: set up http://tunlr.net/ and use the American Netflix without a VPN.
This feels like a false dichotomy. Is it really abandoning the truth to make the effort to give equal or greater weight to "something is wrong with the company for not hiring me" as "something is wrong with me for not getting a job at the company"? In this case, you cannot know the actual truth (unless you really did screw up, but I've never seen anything about CBT that says "ignore your mistakes"), so why should you take 100% of the blame?

BRW, I hope it doesn't sound like I'm trying to convince you to give CBT another shot. I have a lot of respect for people who have found their "happy" place. I would just hate to see somebody else not try it because they think it means becoming self-delusional. As somebody who suffers from "if it went wrong, it's my fault" syndrome, I can attest that, in reality, I'm really not that important.
"Everyone must now be careful never to store a file in /tmp that might grow large"

If you're going to trash my /tmp with gigantic files please don't. Really

"it’s better to fix the filesystem to make it faster"

Yes, let's spend adding more complexity to the file system to work out every /tmp abuser out there. But his original point was avoiding adding complexity in the first place

So basically, he contradicts himself.

Mounting tmp as a memory backed fs is great (to which there may be better options than tmpfs), avoids (potentially) spinning up disks covered in rust for minor tasks.
As an andalusian, am I always surprised how the government manages to set Spain among the most important countries in open source with these kind of measures, yet no real developing force or user community. The (software) education quality and the very high unemployment should be a very good broth for entrepreneurial, open source and tech-creative initiatives, but it isn't (unless you are subsidized by the government). Such a waste of talent. I'd better not think about it.
Decent introduction, but should probably mention more about different ways to populate arrays. In these examples someone new to programming would think "Why not just do value1, value2, value3, etc..." Maybe showing how one can loop through items, or access items with variable. Or even how you can populate arrays with other values (talking about .push() would be a good idea)
Computers are in a state of maturing right now. No longer is it the rush to get the fastest, the best, the one that does the most. People are rushing to get the one that does what they want, that's easy to use, that has the features tailored to them. That's why people are buying the iPad over a new Core i7 machine.

Similarly, don't you think it's time for interfaces to mature? You claim it can't evolve, that we're going to see the same interface forever. Is this a problem? There were some wacky car designs in the early 1900s before you ended up with clutch on the left, brake in the middle, gas on the right, shifter in the center of the car. People wouldn't call that boring, they'd call that mature and standardized.

No one points to the iOS interface and says "That's fresh! That's exciting! That's evolved!" It's not, it isn't, and it hasn't. iOS is exactly the same as every interface that came before it. So your implication that the iPad is king because its interface isn't boring... I'm not buying that.
"One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined." That's a hint of how crappy those native facebook apps are. It's barely usable.
Linkbait headline. Thought it was going to be about a gotcha with tmpfs in general, but it's only about one specific use of tmps in one specific -not even release- version of one linux distribution.

I get that the guy want's attention for this life-and-death issue, but linkbaiting is just mean :(
In practice, I find I write code faster and with more confidence after the tests (usually specs) have been written. So, my productivity increases. I also sleep better at night.
I know a bit on automation, work R&D in a factory. There's no doubt that it's cheaper in the long run, even with costs related to programming, testing, maintenance, and tweaking. But rushing untested robotics into production will almost certainly increase the costs above manual labor. It's better to maintain the current line while you test out the automation, gradually train workers to monitor systems, and switch over one line at a time. This particular story (painting dots) seems like a great case for automation, so I'd suspect they're working on it.

Also keep in mind that sometimes, manual labor trumps robotics. Let's say there will be 70 million of these backplates shipped, and then no more will be needed. That's a lot of automation investment in a solution for a temporary product. Workers can move from one task to the next with ease, while robotics require a lot of development, logistics, and testing. For a company like Foxconn that will always be manufacturing different things, the investment in human labor might allow for more "pivoting" than robotics. Comes down to what makes the most business sense for them.
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the problem wasn't them betting too much on HTML5. Their problem was developing piece of shit apps that happened to use HTML5.

Yeah, MZ is not smart so it is not surprising that he would say not correct things...

Heh...
I don't think they make the backplate manually ... they're just putting some sort of pen mark on it ... probably in preparation for some other process down the line.
Huh? I have been assuming that a large fraction of VC-funded startups try for exits of at least $1 billion. (The more rational ones know they will probably fail, but that does not prevent their sincerely aiming for that target.)

I am almost certain their investors want them to aim at least that high.

Are you sure you're not confusing billion and trillion?

ADDED. I'm not trying to appear bad-ass or hardcore (and in fact, I've never been a founder because I judge that I cannot afford that level of risk of being left with a severely suboptimal monetary reward for my efforts). I am honestly trying to understand VC-funded startups.
Their mean IQs surely are. Know what else sometimes comes with smart people?

Snark, arrogance, responses that come flying at you. Mainstream people don't want to post on Quora. They're intimidated. One of the insecurities of dumb people is to have their dumb-ness pointed out. In their philosophy to ensure quality answers, they've driven away a lot of potential users.

There are some really intelligent, insightful answers on Quora. There's also a lot of attitude.

The sad thing is, Quora is a wonderful niche site. But since they've taken VC money and there are so many expectations in the startup world, they've put themselves in a tough situation in regards to growth. Though they should probably stick to the 'intelligent professional' niche, they probably need to pickup more mainstream users to justify valuations; but it's hard to go mainstream now with the userbase they've built up.
Training, QA, lunch breaks, maximum daily working hours, overtime, etc. There are benefits and losses on both sides.
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I can't decide if you're serious and misguided or just joking.
I'm afraid the bipolar diagnostic is probably right. I would say the recurrence of the depression is a sign of that. Correlation with season variations is the most common, but not the rule.

Medication efficiency and side effect are known to vary individually.

In the end, the only thing that matters is that you find a treatment that helps you to feel and live better. I have heard lithium could help smooth the mood changes. Did you heard of that ? Unfortunately, some people have too bad side effects with it.
Sure, if you're comparing like-for-like experience and performance. But HTML5 provides advantages with rapid development, cross platform, distribution etc. over native apps. The debate is whether these advantages are enough to sacrifice the quality of experience and performance provided by a native app (or rather, whether the gap is sufficiently small enough to justify going for HTML5). Zuckerburg's opinion appears to be... yes, but not quite yet.
Thanks for the tip. The payment provider we're currently using is expensive and their order pages take between three and ten seconds to load. And since Stripe probably won't come to Germany any time soon, this might be an alternative.

I wonder why I've never heard of FastSpring before, even though I head my eyes open for information like this for a long while now.
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I agree w/ Mr. Atwood's assessment that people are, have always been, and will continue to be the weak point.

I strongly disagree w/ his statement that no attackers still attempt frontal assaults. Thinking that way promotes a dangerous complacency, not unlike the complacency that I see created after a company spends a large sum to install some security product. "Now that we have <firewall / security scanner / NIDS / SEIM / log aggregator / patch management> product we are 'secure'!"

In my work I continue to see Internet-facing machines with shockingly poor security posture in companies large enough to "know better". Those vulnerabilities are, of course, still "people problems" at their heart (sysadmins who end-run good security process, developers who won't allow patches to be installed, etc) and they're still out there en masse.
No, the context is irrelevant here because Techcrunch got it right. It's a direct quote.
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>That's not to make light of the conditions, just to say that we're all somewhat complicit and any outrage needs to be matched with action, not just against Apple but against anyone using Foxconn or their peers.

I presume Apple has the largest clout with Foxconn and can essentially demand better worker conditions from them. Other companies may not have as much leverage, though I agree there needs to be more awareness about things like laptops, XBox, and PS3.
I think you are completely correct. I think @evbn is, well, not wrong, because you can get the 100k views. I just don't think those views are going to net your (incredibly high) 5% conversion. The value of a view from a bored redditor is generally less than the value of a well-earned, targetted view.
" I can't watch films multiple times"

Really? None of them? There are many films I wouldn't watch again, but there are also some that I watch over and over. Just watched Amelie for the 10th time!

It really depends on what makes the movie great.. If it's the surprising storyline, rewatchability is low, but that doesn't make it a worse movie.
Ah, the old 'Argument by Dismissal'. Still just as bold, and still just as unconvincing.
I'm not talking about the rest of this site, I'm talking about journalism in particular, and how it changed compared to 1-2 decades ago. There's a huge difference between startup blog posts (which are for example other items posted here) and journalism, as a fourth constitutional force: Responsible for educating the people in an objective and truthful way, so they can form their own opinions, express their ideas, and thus participate in politics (by that I do't mean working in Washington. Lookup Habermas). In short, journalism should rinse democracy.

I fear that this function (actually the only relevant function that journalism enjoys, imho) is less and less fulfilled. I just took the doubts I have about this article as an example of that.

A working journalistic system shouldn't have to fear really hard economic pressure, otherwise it can't work correctly anymore. This relates to all other contents on this site as well, as long as they're journalistic and not public relations.
I find it amusing that everyone tries to "interpret" what Zuckerberg is saying. It is in pretty clear 3rd grade English folks. Don't try to spin things too much. Of course there are always agendas, do you think that Steve Jobs didn't have agendas? I did not hear much reinterpretation of his statements in his latter years...