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use an english keyboard, problem solved :o).
I know, there are special keys ( I am german and we have special keys too). But that is solved with a handy tool named ukelele, that allows to change keyboard profiles. Very useful.
Have you ever seen such a thing on linux?
Hypocrisy. My least favorite sin.....
A friend of mine was doing them for posters to give feedback on them. Don't know how that's going to work.
I've believed that building a payments platform is the road to riches for Facebook for a long time. They have such a headstart on the fraud and identity issue, and they have both the merchants via FB connect, and the customers (obviously).
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If you lied to facebook about your birthdate, your friends will get incorrect birthday notifications from facebook. This surprises you why?
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Ok, done:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill-ii
Agree the article is naive (and a bit trite too); of course that's the attraction. Rebellion is the attitude of youth. It's not only harder to keep it up later in life, but with the addition of perspective it all seems far less necessary or even meaningful. If you think about it carefully, you'll probably find that you (like myself) are the establishment, to a fair degree ;)

But there's no reason one can't keep taking measured risks. Speaking for myself, some of my goals and dreams involve an element of risk.

What really frightens me is spending the next 10 or 20 years being a slave to convention, toeing the line so I can be 100% sure of meeting all my obligations, all the while dying on the inside and letting down myself - and those I love - in a different way.
Yes, I may be going to preprocess the graph using Gephi and/or see what I can do with sigma, it was my 1st project with this library.
Thanks for responding!

I'm talking about dividing the map into multiple channels so that users only receives updates from those around them, and hopefully make it more responsive.

So for 1000x1000 areas, if I'm at "x":3033521.3,"y":-3025356.4, my client subscribes to /xkcd_x3033_y-3025

And adjoining area/channels if they're close to a border. (but only sends updates to the current area/channel.)

...IF it's easy enough for the client to dynamically change channels, and be subscribed to multiple (up to 4) channels.

Then combine this with multiple spawn locations at other interesting locations when demand is high. But they can still explore and meet others.

So it should more responsive and less data sent than everyone getting updates from everyone.
If you don't quote, it's not a pull quote, it's a heading or an aside. The example given is a bit of a miss, yes, because the same words appear quoted immediately; normally you'd pull something a little deeper in the text (like from the middle of a paragraph).
Usually, though, they're quotes from other people, not the author's own writing (maybe possibly if you have an editor, like in a magazine, it's not so bad). Doing it with your own quotes seems kind of pretentious.

And it's usually not placed directly below the actual line of text where it appears in the article.
You sound like you need a holiday! Come to New Zealand and build something great with us (we're about to launch our first iteration)! I'm low on cash too but I'll cover your rent and food :)
There's a limited market for Google's services in China (if only because the government generally blocks them), but Motorola sells plenty of phones in China and makes even more.
Is SAP really taking any real advantage of Hadoop?
Great step from california.
Hoping that some `indian` politician read this :-)
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583263 for comments though it links straight to Kickstarter, and not Ars Technica.
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Maratd did not say Apple was a monopoly, he said Apple was a monopolist. Having the behavior of a thing and being the thing are two different things.

Technically, Apple is a Monopsony, in that they control the app store market. If you want to sell your app, you go through Apple, and they in turn sell it to their users.

The move by all the major vendors to control the market is great for the company (who wouldn't love to take 30% of every sale simply for being the middleman,) but it flies in the face of a free market economy, stifles innovation, creates barriers to entry, and encourages scammy behavior (I am rich app, "freemium" apps, paying for reviews, etc.)
Well, the expectations in terms of delay and scope grow to match the ease you gain by having better tools.

Sure 30 years ago you could waste hours on a trivial problem because you didn't have Google and Stackoverflow, but your boss was happy when you spent a month on something you would have a week to do nowadays.
As I see it, commercial companies already develop learning tools--high school and college textbooks. These coursebooks are already required reading in classes. There already exist companies that profit off of universal education.

That's not to say that there should be, but I think the situation will get better. With higher quality free educational texts, the for-profit companies will have to produce much better material or lower their prices to keep sales up. Either way, it seems like the learners benefit.
You can have a provider that requires no auth. Try entering whatever@mockmyid.com as an address.
PHP is a small node, according to the data source it has influenced only 2 languages.

The fact that PHP is widely used doesn't make it influential on other languages, in the case of PHP the opposite may be true.

To find PHP in this random layout restrict the paradigm to "Interpreted language" and move your mouse over Python, the PHP label will show up.
The app allows purchasing. If it didn't, that wouldn't benefit Amazon (see: iOS).
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Will Windows RT (aka Windows [8] on ARM) not allow .NET apps to run then?
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There is so much hype and talk about this it's making me sick. Too much tunnel vision. We need a drastic innovation.
As in a streamlined system built for our age. It needs to be agile.

We do education like we build products but we all know that after a four year degree more often than not we don't have 'product/ market fit'. We should train, test and iterate in small time frames.
Up until a few years ago I was a full time Flash developer, working in ActionScript3 which is a strictly typed, fully OO language which conforms completely with the 4th edition of ECMAScript. I used a great IDE (FlashBuilder) that had full code introspection, static analysis, amazing auto-complete and all sorts of great features built in. Unit testing was not uncommon, as was continuous integration, automated build processes and version control. I, and many others, were doing "real" programming on the Flash platform and felt totally understood as a developer by Adobe.

I'm not going to defend Flash's continued relevance on the web because like most people I think it's had its day but from about 2003 to 2010 the Flash developer community was massive and thriving, people were doing serious programming and Adobe was doing a pretty good job of understanding them and supporting them. It's this wealth of experience that I hope Adobe brings to bear on its HTML5 developer tools.

I feel like the relevance of Flash (and Adobe) is really quite poorly understood. A lot of the expertise and good practises from the more serious elements of the Flash community flooded into the JavaScript community and I feel this is one of the reasons JavaScript has developed so quickly. What's more, a lot of the "web2.0" style dynamic and interactive elements of websites that we take for granted now are watered down (and much better) versions of ideas that were conceived during those frenzied years of UI experimentation in the Flash community.

Granted those years of Flash threw up some UI abominations, but it was also a melting pot of ideas and creativity, the like of which we don't really see anymore, which is a shame in a way. Even though Flash was my livelihood I was happy to move on because I could see it was for the best, but if you ignore Flash your understanding of the last 10 years and the current context of web development is impoverished.
I completely agree with this. I think it stands for any language that frameworks create developers who only know the framework, not the language. This was my gripe initially with jQuery - it's responsible for a new generation of developers who know a little JavaScript but know jQuery.

The argument then goes: does a mechanic need to know what a computer diagnostic machine is built or what materials a shifting spanner is made of.

Frameworks create lazy developers, don't get me started on database abstraction layers! ORM's especially in PHP create lazy developers.
Why? Not many people remember many peoples' birthdays: I know that because of Facebook I don't need to proactively ask for and store most friends' birthdays because I'll be actively reminded of them.
It looks like it loves ears on an upright cat. If the contrast between the angle of the ear and the background is clear it will eagerly draw boxes around them. I have lots of photos of my cat :
The one problem will be that once you're established in the clouds, access to resources down below will still be difficult. You'd be living in a desert. Whereas if you're set up on Mars, all its surface resources become available.
Sounds good. I have an issue with the "45GHz" claim though - it's kind of like saying your collection of cars can go 2000 mph - you're not actually getting anywhere faster.
Actually a bit. I wouldn't be able to connect with a bunch of people and it would be a huge tax if it was cut. It is a valuable product. It owns such a strong signal for so many people
Yeah, I have seen people do this, definitely will get a lot of messages still. Facebook limits the amount of times you can change your birthday, likely because of this.
>I think Notch is overreacting in this case because he's already supported Microsoft's platform monopoly with Minecraft on the Xbox 360 (which is completely closed), so this stance seems kind of contrary.

I only think it's contrary if you require people to have simplistic opinions. He wants an open platform when it comes to PC, but isn't that concerned about consoles. I figure he thinks that as long as he has one major open platform he can develop for, he's happy. Microsoft is making moves that suggest they want to move away from an open platform for the PC, so he's understandably concerned.
That's fascinating. Where did you learn it?
Frightening to think you are among a generation of computer users that doesn't view a platform on which anything can be installed as the default. I remind you just a few years ago, the idea of an OS vendor restricting software installation would have been confusing let alone normal as it is now.
"(...) but for now it’s a little underwhelming for those of us who use the outstanding Sublime Text 2 every day".

Wait what? I've used Sublime Text 2 for a little while... but I have the impression that it's a fancy Notepad with a cumbersome configuration system. Is it more with regards to web page editing? Can someone enlighten me?
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Yeah, I think you can be reasonably good friends with someone and not remember their birthday. Unless you are really focusing on it you are going to have a limited bandwidth for remembering birthdays and likely have more people you genuinely care about sending your best wishes than you can remember.
The good programmers today are just as good as the good programmers of yesterday. The challenges they face are just different as the tasks they tackle are different.

The other difference is that there are enough computers about that the bad programmers can get jobs as well!
It definitely makes sense to split the world up into multiple channels. That's what the guys who built http://wordsquared.com/ did. As you scroll you unsubscribe from channels that are out of view and subscribe to channels that are moving into view. You could think of it in a similar way to how Google Maps tiling works.
>It must be code and feature complete

At what point in the timeline of Minecraft did it meet this criteria, because when I started playing, this wasn't true, and yet he was still making sales and people were still enjoying the game.

And what happens when Microsoft starts "enhancing" the rules?
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I work for Packt and this campaign has caused huge traffic surges for us. Please be patient as we are working on the issues and the sign up is running until 8am Monday GMT.

The offer is for one of any eBooks for free, and can use the library PacktLib to browse and review books before choose. You only need to login/register before Monday but have a week to choose your book.
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Ugh. They keep using the term "gigahertz", and it does not mean what they think it means. Having 16 800MHz boards does not mean that you have anything running at 13GHz; it's nonsensical to combine it that way, as any high school science student could tell them.

This doesn't necessarily invalidate the product, but it really does put me off it. If they're going to market a product like that it's going to be to a pretty techy crowd and they should get their terminology right.
In my case it would still backfire. I wouldn't know what the response would be if I _had_ given them the password. It would make me think the person hiring me was being manipulative and dishonest. And that is a best-case scenario.

Secondly, it would be setting the bar way too low. I don't appreciate being congratulated for not being an idiot. Someone congratulating me and actually being impressed of that fact makes me think less of that person.

A pretty bad start to a supposedly long relationship, if you ask me.
Fear might be good to an extent.

> Personally, I would encourage failure and risk taking with limited downside and unlimited upside.

But isn't that sort of what she's doing? She is limiting the downside by setting a time limit. She is ensuring people aim high enough with the $100m number.

I worked in engineering in Yahoo 2003-2005 (I feel old - it doesn't feel like 7 years ago...), specifically the European biling platform (yes, Yahoo had multiple - on the order of 10 distinct billing systems at the time, for various reasons, some good some not so good).

I spent those years without writing a single line of code at work, despite a small team, because about 2/3's of my time was taken up reading product requirements documents from business units that wanted to add features tied in with premium services / billing and attending project meetings.

Of all those projects, maybe 10% went anywhere. The rest spent months in PRD hell. Whole business units where dithering back and forth as to whether they should even try selling stuff, when the resource cost of trying was substantially smaller than the resource cost of the endless project meetings.

There were probably no $100m opportunities amongst the ones I reviewed when limited to the countries in Europe that actually were actively involved with the billing team. But that was part of the problem: People were far more concerned with delivering stuff that was successful than with the big picture, and so we only got go-ahead for projects when the business unit were really, really sure they'd make a good amount of money from adding premium services to a product.

And then only market by market, with many markets remaining totally unserved because the local team didn't believe in the project enough to want to stick their necks out. While I was there, we kept trying to get Yahoo Italy and Spain to start billing for something - anything - for example; in 4 years that went nowhere.
There is something I don't understand. From the article it seems that this only provides for the creation of free/affordable textbooks, but does not force the use of them in colleges. Am I wrong thinking that affordable textbooks are already available? What is being done to prevent colleges and professors from using 150$, annual, nth edition of the same old textbooks?
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A shame that Packt's goodwill is repaid like this. It drives me nuts.
I'm surprised by the negative comments here. The idea of shipping a minimum viable product should resonate well with startup-minded folks. I believe PG himself once said if your project will take longer than 3 months to ship, it's too long.

6 months is a good target. It'll keep new projects lean and focused. It should sway the balance of power more to engineering while forcing the business-side / product management to work tightly with engineering... Or force the product managers to take a back seat for the initial release of a project.
The ability to fork only exists in theory. In reality, Google already uses its dominant market position to prevent mobiles from being sold with non-blessed versions of android. The only ones who can realistically do anything to challenge this are the huge players like Amazon who can deliver their own hardware. That's not really 'open'.
Is this new Windows "app store" the only way one can install software in the future, or is it just one additional way to deploy applications, which is more streamlined?

On ARM-based tablets running Windows "RT" (that is Windows 8, without the legacy, without the desktop), Windows only ships with Metro and the AppStore is the only place to get apps.

On x86-based systems, you can fool around in desktop-land as you are used to and install anything you like.

So the answer is yes and no, all depending on platform.
There's a big difference between major projects and adding features too.

Maybe this is not the right time for Yahoo to do 3 year products simply because they suck at it (I spent more than 3 years at Yahoo, and I spent most of that time trying to shepherd projects through to the point my engineering team would actually get a go-ahead; we were a service function without direct control of a product, otherwise we should've just gone for it rather than wait...), and practising on 6 month projects could still bring a ton of useful improvements or smaller services. One thing to keep in mind with Yahoo is that it has a vast array of sites and services just sitting there - I bet there's a ton of poorly monetized services that could get drastic upgrades in well below 6 months if there's just sufficient fire behind someones asses...

Then they can start trying to add the standalone world-changing stuff again later, if they're successful.
(Part 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4494316)
Depending on the country, they may in fact be more risky from a purely financial point of view. They could have children!
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My rough guess places it between FPGA implementations and GPU rigs. The only problem is producing the code.

FPGAs and (probably) these are harder to manage and set up but will yield better results per dollar and Watt.
You need something to stick in the users mind, a visual that they will remember. Although they can do better, at least with tent.io/tent.is you get the image of a tent in your mind which is something your subconcious can latch onto and remind you of when you are thinking about this kind of software. With Twitter in the early days the "tweet" and bird branding had a cognitive link with the product and helped keep it in your mind.

App.net is more or less an abstract title, it conjures no image in my mind, just a generic concept of software apps which has no particular generic image or symbol. So if they're going to stick with that name, they need to get some visual branding on the page to help keep user momentum. Because at the moment, press momentum is dying and they'll quickly become yesterdays news as people forget them.
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Car analogy is off.

Going from A to B is exactly an example of a task that can't be solved in parallel fashion. On the other hand, if you needed to merely cover N miles, then a pool of cars would work just fine.
That's a horrible strategic move for microsoft. Do you have any idea how many shitty homegrown apps their huge business customers use?
I'd prefer not to use a distro with ads on the whole, I had Mint during "special search" and it was not trivial to remove and it did degrade regular searches by a lot. Once bitten...

But this is a great point -- not only does a walled garden keep some flowers out, it keeps some weeds in.
Yossi, by his own words, is a whiner. The fundamental reason behind is attitude towards C++ is to stir up controversy, rather than to provide objective criticism. If his attitude was sincere, I'm sure he wouldn't have spent so much effort in mastering the language.
Silex is nice for APIs and such. Laravel 4 looks like it will be great when it finally arrives.
except their own.
In the US, the Jewish people were never disenfranchised the way African-Americans were/are. I don't think they are comparable.

Why can't we admit the problem exists and work to reverse it. i.e give discriminated against minorities a chance where we otherwise wouldn't. It's not about 'fairness' it is about ending discrimination.

The privileged class love to discuss what works and what doesn't as an excuse not to do anything: The problem is so complex what can I do? Maybe nothing is the best thing to do!
We try to aim for more constructive comments on Hacker News - if you didn't read an article, you probably shouldn't drop a comment, unless there's a tangible reason you didn't (such as - this doesn't work in my browser, I'm blind and it's not accessible, I'm deaf and the video has no subtitles - the pattern here is constructive criticism)
When we looked earlier in the year, the only way to get non-signed desktop apps to run from metro was to either have a signed metro app call them or create a fudgy work-around by creating a dummy file/protocol type, assigning your desktop app as the default handler for that dummy type, and adding a file of the dummy type to metro. They also stated in january, with regards to the first solution, "we're moving away from allowing an application to start any other application". Not exactly free and open (or ideal), and not one for most users to do themselves.

Has this changed since then?
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or go to legalreads.com and download million ebooks for free ;)
Congrats, but I cannot forgive the terrible name.
Automated calls, fraud and the banks: a mismatch made in hell
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Agreed. I thought they were some sort of virtual reality company.
Got all the way through finding a book I was interested in (whoever said check the reviews, thank you, a couple I was interested in were slated), then clicking for the download link and then...502 Bad Gateway.

Possibly demand has exceeded expectation.

(As a footnote I picked the Node Cookbook, as I was interested in either an Obj-C, a Node or a RoR book but the RoR stuff was published 2008, so maybe outdate somewhat)
Astonishing.
But notice that he is not wearing any gloves while going down ?? I thought its supposed to be too hot !!!