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Yep, the inline images seem to have disabled my mobile browser's magic reflow thing. On the other hand, that suggests that the article should have narrower rows of text even on desktop (95 characters per line is on the high side of recommended widths for legibility; not unreasonable, but suboptimal), and usually I prefer to read desktop sites since zooming is actually a nice way to navigate around content - better than dealing with usually buggy and often limited mobile sites. In the example in the post, I would have much preferred to double tap once to read the text on Cats who Code than to have to scroll all the way down to find awkwardly laid out sidebar content.
Would that task be supplying the international space station, or building an EV charging structure?
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I'm making a very limited point. Corporations exist only because we, through the law, allow them to exist. Groups of people (with or without guns) are not corporations. Pablo Escobar ran a drug trafficking organization. No one calls that organization a "corporation."

We could, if we wanted to, and through the law, eliminate corporations. In that case, you could still have organization run as partnerships or other means. This does not require anarchy in order to achieve.

If there were pure anarchy, with no government, then we would de facto have no corporations. That because we wouldn't have property ownership, limited liability, contract enforcement, and the other aspects which make corporations "exist."

That's why I suggest that getting rid of "immortal amoral virtual [corporations]" can be done without anarchy.
How hard is it to find a library with WiFi? Or are consultants expected to have 3G?
Exactly. I spent $50 just for a car dock for my phone because I could then use it for nav just like my old Nuvi (only waaay better). If the maps/nav sucked I never would have done that.
I'm sorry about the reply I made a few days ago -- it doesn't seem to address what you wrote.

>>limited utility<<

I don't think there's anything on the website that suggests the benchmarks game provides some sort of perfect, definitive and ultimate statement about anything at all.

On the contrary -- "Here you'll find provisional facts about the performance of programs written in ≈24 different programming languages for a dozen simple tasks."

>>useful toward real software development<<

That would be depend on how well informed the "real" software developers are, and there seem to be plenty of programmers with strange ideas about languages they haven't used.
It's only been a few days. If they still haven't released an app in a few months, then yeah, I think that's a mistake too.
1 reason would be that you can reset your dropbox password with your email, but you can't get your email password from dropbox (unless you store something silly like passwords.txt in dropbox)
The user experience is so different, I think using it would push users away from the different experience.
Every time I see this, I try to imagine what would happen if Microsoft forced IE to be the default browser in Windows. I'm guessing there would be quite an uproar.
IT internal controls and audit support.

Also, I don't just work for a CPA firm, I am a CPA. Subject to all the CPE requirements set by the state society if I want to maintain my title. For me this year, my requirements were satisfied by six paid days of learning but I could have done it through a series of one-hour online courses if I hated myself.
Almost all physics papers (not just particle physics papers) are posted on arXiv. Papers on arXiv are usually updated to the final published version, although the peer review process rarely produces significant changes.

It is unfortunate that university libraries will be continuing to send money to publishers who add almost no value to the scientific process.
I agree with you. Those big names, for better or worse, became the identity store on the internet. Most websites tend to support at least one of them if not all of them.
Totally agree.

I would only add a lack of thinking on the part of developers who jump on the NoSQL bandwagon for the buzzword without understanding the implications of not having a relational database.

I'm not a RoR fan but the ActiveRecord model is probably enough for 75% of people to get their projects started without having to dig too much.
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I am sad that WebOS didn't make it. Not only was it a credible alternative, it was also well thought-out and fun to develop for and hack on. I'm curious what Jolla will turn out to be exactly, but I also wish someone would just go and revive WebOS already. Someone with hardware pull. Someone like the Nokia of old.
This was already answered in my big comment. There is no trend towards any unemployment at all; there never has been any unemployment associated with tech growth; tech growth is smoother and more iterative than people are conceptualizing, so it's not like there's any technical reason that this would change; and the current tech is no revolutionary exception to the trends of tech growth we've had in the past. Basically, you assume that a certain level of tech growth implies that people who can't keep up with it will be out of a job, but we empirically observe that there is no reason to suspect this. The sorts of events that could break these patterns are singularities, not mobile apps.
I dont mind talking to a recruiter if he/she is paying me $10/min to talk to me. In fact I can talk all day :)
I'd be interested in this, if still available.
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Your presumption of what constitutes a viable third alternative is flawed. Most people (mass market) don't care about openness.
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So where is Bing?
Yup, for the same reason that hand-crafted assembly is usually faster than compiled code. A human can just do more creative things to optimize a layout than our current algorithms can.
Yeah, I have a copy of the print version (not at hand though..) and I can confirm this.

The last few pages have a large number of references in them, and made me think for a few seconds that the book was longer than it actually was :)
Awesome. I can't wait til they license Google's DriveSense (or whatever 2 word name they'll come up with for their automatic driving technology).

It'll feel weird having my car drop me off at work while it goes and gets charged up, picks up my groceries, takes itself to get washed and shows up again when I'm ready to go home, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
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I like the concept of MongoDB. My main problem (which perhaps is not totally clear from my post, linked in the article) is that there are certain historical conventions about what a database should be. In particular, a database will not have the following default behavior:

- return from a write call silently, when the data wasn't written and will not be.

If you are going to break conventions on a multi-decade tradition, there should be warnings everywhere. Not just the Downloads page, but during installation (which is harder to ignore, as the Download page is not seen by people like me who use package managers).

The 32-bit issue is worse. There's no excuse for not warning people that the server they just started is a crippled data store limited to 2GB.

Again, I like MongoDB. Given my experience with software development, those issues are telltale signs of a product in its infancy. Hence the "10 years" title of my post, which of course is hyperbole. But it will take time for Mongo to be user-friendly enough.

By the way, those who say that a piece of software has no need to be as user-friendly as possible, and you should thoroughly read the manual before even experimenting with it simply live in a different world. The more of a head start the software can give you, the better. The fewer the gotchas, the better. That was the philosophy of IndexTank, and it worked.
Now might be a good opportunity for Nokia to release an iOS map app. They have their own nap tech and they could pitch it an introduction to Win Phones.
I had assumed that they were mostly doing that for .apks but had just turned it on for everything.
I definitely know quite a few small projects that this could be extremely useful for. However, I think some people are right that Munin works better at tracking these things long term.
s/monopolies/professionals/

You picked a strange list of examples. None of them are monopolies, they're usually individual professionals or small practices.
The self-signed cert is from alexsmolen.com, not nopassword.alexsmolen.com.
I'm not a consultant, so I wouldn't know about 3G expectations. With that being said, in my state (MD), it's not difficult at all to find a library with WiFi.

My reply was offered as an explanation to: "Why would you want to work from the library or coffee shop instead of working from home?"
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I think its interesting to hear people constantly challenging this technology.

Fist it was it couldn't be done. An electric car? No way.

Then Telsa Motors comes out with an electric sports car. No way! Too expensive! Top Gear made a mockery of the car. Not feasible, what happens when you run out of charge?

Then Tesla Motors figures out a way to create "re-fueling" stations for their cars. No way! 30 minutes to charge my car? WAY too long! Stupid.

Whether you know it or not, each step this company takes, it's answering every one of the doubts people have about this technology. Affordable completely electric cars are a lot closer than most people think.
I was looking to buy a N900, but now Nokia is dead to me.
I had a trackball blackberry (Tour) for two years, and I was fairly satisfied with google's native Maps app [1]. While it doesn't include 3d navigation, it has routing, layers, transit, traffic, street view, and places -- just about everything the webapp provides. At the time (2010-2011) Google updated it every month or so with new features -- in that sense it was vastly superior to the iOS Maps app which google didn't control.

[1] http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/
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I love the comments on The Verge. People complaining about there being too many gestures, and who's going to remember all of them?

Do people really think Android's inconsistent back button, and the home button on Android and iOS is better? If so, stay with those devices. For me, I like gestures better. Different paradigms for different people.
My friend's aunt's milkman's neighbour once sweeped the floor for a few years at Microsoft in Redmond in the early nineties.

These days, he hates Windows Phone.

Microsoft is doomed.
"The thing is when I used internet cafes, the first thing I would always open would be email."

Seriously? Intenet cafes are the least secure computers to give your email and password to. Sure for junk and spam-email accounts, that you dont care about anyway. But logging in to your personal email account on an internet caffe!? Thats madness.
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We know Google is at least doing a similar stereophotogrammetry technique to dynamically render the world in 3D... they talked about it coming soon to iOS during their presentation in June, "The Next Dimension of Google Maps" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBJ2Hu0NLw). Though upon rewatching, they might have just been talking about Google Earth.

No sign that they were porting over Navigation to iOS.
That's a fair criticism and concern. From what I observed most companies are interacting on Twitter and some do it better than others. Do you have any ideas on how to improve the system? I know my way isn't perfect and I am always looking for ways to make it more accurate and representative.
If they did I wouldn't hesitate one second to buy it. I posted a comment on here recently about all the steps I had to go through just to try to get bus directions now with the Apple Maps app. Even if it worked the number of times I have to tap something else just to get to the directions is silly. And not well integrated at all. With google maps its just get directions, where from, where to, what type of transportation, and then the arrow button (go). With apple it's get directions, then choose bus, then where from, where to, go, wait for the App Store to open, find the routing app you've purchased in the list, tap route, hope that the app got the directions correctly from the maps app (this step I've never completed successfully). And finally get the directions.

There is a serious lack of integration.
This is how hi-games.net has worked for years, and it's a clever implementation, but I wouldn't want my bank to use it until we replace email with something, you know, secure.
I decided to try converting some of my site designs to bootstrap recently, instead of having one of our developers do it. I haven't actually coded the HTML/CSS design on an entire page in 3 or 4 years now (not counting simple stuff) and this was light years easier than I ever remember. If responsive design is hard, your doing it wrong.
Yes we know the context, and in quoting him it, it goes to support a passed history he has of passive-agression. Sorry you don't like it, but that doesn't mean it's not valid. In that case, Google was brushing responsibility for the 4th amendment and reporting them to the government, whether Google actually did have a responsibility is not really in question. The point is he redirected responsibility and targeted someone else. This similar to what he just did with Apple, dumping all responsibility for the maps issue in Apple's lap like Google 'did no wrong'. We don't know what actually happened but we know Google isn't as altruistic as some would want to believe and as Schmidt makes it sound.
am i the only one that finds this app idea a little... distasteful?
So I used to pull out Unibus cards from the PDP-11 and rub the contacts with a pencil eraser to get the corrosion off them. HP machines of course had literally gold plated connectors which did not corrode pretty much ever.
80 million subscribers isn't confidence inspiring? And that's on shitty legacy BBOS.
Reasons why i hate Mongodb:

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I agree. In some regards it is "oversold", but I also think part of that is from a lot of the marketing efforts we've seen with newer databases like Mongo and even Riak.

I am not saying those are bad, but with more established DBs like MySQL and PostgreSQL, you never really saw the same kind of marketing efforts towards developers, startups, etc. It is kind of a newer concept.
Right now it's very US centric. As far as covering other countries, possibly on other english speaking countries like the UK. I am not sure I am ready to expand into analyzing other languages, so that would be a major issue for expanding to many markets abroad.
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I've thought about this some times, it's a hard thing to wrap logic around, definitely...

but here's two things that are a bit unsettling to me on this topic:

- life is paid, you can't just go to some abandoned place, raise chicken and plants and live off of it and if you can't pay for your life you either turn yourself into a slave(living to pay to be alive) or you're made into the worst thing possible, with all your dignity taken from you(be a bum and face everything that's left when you can't pay for a life, even the ones created by the system itself)

- why can't there be competition? it made me remember this article: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678720/former-seasteaders-come-a...
what would happen if different state models were allowed to exist and they proved to be less corrupt, safer, fairer, happier and people just started migrating to this better states(from what I took they'd still live in capitalism)? I'm almost sure other governments wouldn't let it happen, and this takes me to another unsettling thought that is how, as much as people wan't freedom and dignity, governments want the power, they're barely ever accountable and they don't have competition, they own the game.

Well, just thoughts..
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I understand the idea, but I still don't think this is the right way to go about it.... There are many well organized and already established charities that help out the homeless. If you feel the need to help less fortunate people out, I believe it would be better to donate to one of these charities. It also helps circumvent the potential for the beggar to go use it for alcohol/drugs/unnecessary purchases and it makes sure that only the people that truly are trying to get help out of their situation get the money....

Edit: Playing devil's advocate here, but couldn't this be a way for some "pranksters" to harass the homeless easily as well? I certainly don't have enough faith in our fellow humans to expect this never to happen, especially since homeless already deal with enough assaults... Between 1999-2010, 312 homeless people were reported dead from these assaults and over 800 injured [1].

[1]http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/hatecrimes.html
Physical Review D, the journal that publishes most papers in the field, negotiated a fee of US$1,900 per article “on the principle that we should maintain our revenue”, says Joe Serene, treasurer and publisher at the American Physical Society, which owns the journal.

The "principle that we should maintain our revenue"? I like that principle. Which box do I check to have that apply to me as well?

I don't understand why SCOAP3 isn't driving a harder bargain. They are anticipating a $10MM budget --- wouldn't this be enough to hire some good editors and publish online?

If the whole field is behind this, worries about "impact factor" should disappear. Or is the problem that salary/tenure/promotion is tied to an outside assessment of "impact"?
I don't understand why you downvoted me -- my point is perfectly valid.

"The concern is that in the 2 seconds it takes me to type the password in someone will intercept it and beat me to it?"

The concern is that someone will snoop the password before it even gets to your phone. SMS snooping/MiTM has been demonstrated before [1]. Time-Based One-time Password algorithms are safer because they are not vulnerable to the aforementioned probems -- they never touch the network.

"This is way safer than email."

I never said it wasn't?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
Yah, but those people won't be using refined gasoline. It uses alot of electricity just to refine a gallon of gas.
I understand that many organizations, even fairly large/respected organizations like the ieee work on a limited "IT" budget, but we've reached the point in our society where it's reasonable to expect these guys to do the bare minimum.

Just like everyone working in a restaurant needs to know the basics of food handling in order to avoid getting people sick, everyone who's operating a website with logins has a responsibility to:

a) Not send passwords over http
b) Not send passwords via GET (which is typically logged)
c) Hash their passwords

Anything less, and you're putting the public in danger.
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Citing the broken assumption upon which the model is (partly) based isn't enough to claim the model has no value, as you're clearly implying.

An example: A model of the universe is useful, even if it was developed under the assumption that it was created by supernatural forces.

Please don't use such weak argument tactics in the future, as they're just childish.
Another alternative to iOS and Android will actually sell more iOS and Android devices. While it's true that a small number people will switch for the novelty of it, the two natural monopolies will actually benefit more.

Whatever the alternative is, it should target the market which iOS and Android leaves out at first: regular dumb phones.
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The benchmarks of the processor performance show that it's twice as fast as the A5.

About 1/4 of that can be attributed to the clock frequency.

There's really nothing left but the IPC to attribute the remaining (~75%) gain in performance.
I bought a bunch of shares at 17. Seems to have been a good choice. If I were a serious participant in stock gambling I would have bought many more...

When it comes to this Bloomberg report, I read it and think, this very small production delay, and the reasons behind it, are all signs of a smart company doing the right things. The delay seems to have very little impact on the long-term success of the company. What really matters there is just whether people want to buy the cars, which this news does not have much bearing on (except maybe that people are more likely to buy the cars if they are perceived as paragons of quality... like the public perceives iPhones, etc).

The supercharger announcement was way above and beyond anything I expected. I own a Roadster and now I want a Model S because, as someone living in California, it fixes the one substantial issue with the Roadster: inconvenience of long road trips. The existence of the superchargers is way more of an upside than delayed production is a downside.... yet the stock goes down.

So, yeah... this looks like full-on market irrationality, just people being spooked.
Ah, but it's all local, with something like a compressed bloom filter doing lookups. So nothing goes across the wire!
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If it can help, no.

I certainly do see your point though.
I find it really sad that most of the comments here are disparaging. I, for one, do want something that isn't Apple's walled garden or Google's personal information hoover.

These are hardly the two best things we could come up with.
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We did this on Toptranslation.com as an alternative to the normal password-based login. The thinking is, since password resets go to your e-mail, anyone who has control over your mail or mail server can get into your account anyway. It's a tradeoff between user (mostly enterprise customers') convenience and security. Since all orders made through the system require another confirmation, we decided it was worth not having to handle the "I forgot my password" support tickets. Haven't had any problems with it, I think it makes sense for low- to medium-security authentications.
A lot of this article seems to be making the point, "My iPhone handles non-responsive websites well." Which is cool for your iPhone. My Kindle 2 is not as good at it.

There's progress to be made on both sides of the problem: websites adjusting to devices, and devices handling websites that don't adjust. That iPhone is good at the second half of that is cool and all, but I think it would be a big mistake to base your whole website's mobile strategy on just iPhone.