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The problem is that C and C++ do not implicitly parallelize well. To get maximum bang for the bunk you want to extract lots of parallelism. Which requires a different kind of language.

The interesting flip side is that if you design for easy parallelism, you are better able to take advantage of multiple cores in standard CPUs. Also you can then turn it around and also distribute the same program across a cluster of commodity hardware on the cloud.

But yes, the toolchain matters. A lot.
Markus Frind works one hour a day and brings in $10 million a year (2009)
Well, Google even decided to bundle Flash into Chrome, so Flash is far from just being a "fallback" solution to them.
It'll be interesting to see what the reviews are like and how many people play down the occasionally poor UI performance that seems to plague the 15" model.

I'm itching to replace my MacBook Air with a machine that sports a Retina display, but as it stands I think I'll have to wait for the next generation with better performing graphics that can do the resolution justice.
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"Success that is not sustainable is not success"

I guess you think everything ever invented is a failure then?
It's good to see the Facebook stock finally hit bottom (for now at least.)

There's still so much revenue potential locked up in Facebook and if Mark can find a way to unlock that tastefully without alienating his user base they might have a bright future ahead of them.
When you say CC captured up front, do you mean just requiring a credit card to activate your account, or actually automatically charging when the trial is over?
Carbon credits.
BigML is now open for business
I would be willing to bet a fair amount of money that all of those fancy heuristics would be easily beaten in almost every case by a simple adaptive cache which was based on how often and recently sectors on the disk were accessed. The disk drive knows more about the actual data layout on the platters than the OS does, and that's what really matters here.
One of these hardware startups would grow into an YC of its own. If a hardware incubator can solve the problems of inventory, distribution and shipping, it would pump out products at a much faster rate, with a higher chance of success. You don't doubt Apple's newest product for a reason.
No text button! :,( But yeah my posh grandparents had a pretty posh telly!

>> "And now, some pages from Ceefax," in the afternoon? My cue to go outside and play...

Kinda reminds me of this: http://imgur.com/AlzRd

Weather on Ceefax: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02196/map-ceefax...

Turner the Worm: http://www.yoursinclair.co.uk/pics/anims/dinosaurplanet.gif
This is obvious for me - no news.
However, I just talked to my friend working as a teacher in school here and it is kinda a big news for him. The teachers there had expectation that if you log out from Google on web you can lend your laptop and that person will not be able to read your emails.

I just can imagine how many other security holes people create by not understanding technology they use.
Over time, you are probably right. I think an OS-driven approach could have quicker time-to-steady-state resolution though.

If you have a large document (a few hundred MB) in an editor, the HD may SSDize parts of the document over and over again until the entire document is moved/cached. An OS-driven approach could move the entire document in one go.
Come to some meetups here in Austin. I can't get through a meetup here without a company announcing that they are hiring. Especially the more niche meetups like the Python Web Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/austinwebpythonusergroup/events/880678...

My startup is based out of Capital Factory, and if you even just walked in the door during Friday happy hour and announced that you were a developer here in Austin looking for a job, hungry funded startup owners would descend on you like wolves.

All that to say: You have nothing to be worried about. And also, come to more events...especially ones held at Capital Factory. :)
Its a show obviously. Picking a fight is one of the most basic marketing tricks but I applaud them for pulling it off in such a smooth manner. Even Steve Jobs badmouthed Android for marketing purposes.
Perhaps, but we don't know yet. We don't know if "Hondo"(AMD) will compete with "Clover Trail"(Intel) for Win 8 tablets because they might really be competitively priced. Further we don't know why those two are Windows 8 only currently. There might be a Linux tablet in the future for "Hondo" but "Clover Trail" might not because of the PowerSGX graphics core.

Also I've spent most of my evening reading reviews of the new AMD CPU they released and it is looking good for budget enthusiasts.
I don't think Itanium was Intel's attempt to kill x86. They legitimately thought its architecture would represent an improvement and a good way to move to 64 bits.

Like Bulldozer, it was taking a risk that didn't pan out as hoped. Thank goodness CPU companies are still taking interesting risks.
I have the funny impression that, before, hardware was taken for granted, i.e., people bought the Comodoer64 to code in BASIC.

Now seems that software is taken for granted, e.g., you download TCP/IP Arduino implementations to connect your circuits to a LAN.
"So, who loses? I'm not sure anyone is."

Well, if you factor in the opportunity costs of the capital and talent allocated to unsustainable companies, then there's a good argument that the US economy loses. Every dollar invested in Zynga or Color is a dollar that could have been invested in something productive over the long haul. Every talented programmer that goes to work at a flash-in-the-pan, overhyped startup creates opportunity costs and economic inefficiencies by not working at more productive enterprises, creating real value. The wage and equity inflation created in the job market by overhyped startups leads to similar inflation across the industry, raising operating costs for everyone in the business.

All that hype-based investing does is swap money around between a relatively tiny cohort of people. It doesn't create real value over the long run, and all the real value that is foregone is opportunity cost.
Jailbreaking the neotv with only the remote using sh-injection
Funny, I sort of did this yesterday and it worked. In the act of planning my current week, I took a look at my log of time spent last week. The log was much more detailed than usual because I was auditing my time pretty carefully. After adding it all up and listing how I spent my time and what I got done, I had quite a list, much to my surprise - and just the neurochemical reward suggested in the post.
nothing even comes close to the balance of stability, backwards compatibility, consistency, robustness and flexibility

I was going to suggest XMonad as well, in response to this. Seriously, try it if you're using Linux.
Really? I've seen quite a few on here, and there is a ton of .NET work out there in the UK. If anything, in Bristol we're crying out for developers.
It's quite possible to broadcast teletext on digital services and that is done widely at least through Europe. The UK went for MHEG as a replacement. I found teletext faster and often fuller in detail than the equivalent digital services although the pictures are better on MHEG and it has the ability to embed broadcast streams (sometimes loops and sometimes live).

At least the TVs I worked on received MHEG if they were set to UK and teletext in other settings.
It doesn't help that they are clearly playing follow the leader now too.

Bigger phone, smaller tablet...yawn.
I guess acknowledging the issue is the first step to solving it. “Build a business” seems like a good message to repeat every now and then, just to make sure it sticks. I don't like the VC culture of planning for exit, rather than aiming for success.

I liked the article.
But do you think school should be relying on iOS/Android/Kindle?

Should they use something new? I don't want governments to pay (even more?) bazillions to Apple or Samsung, but making their own will also come expensive.

Ideas?
If I were them, I'd head straight to the bar. I'll buy a few rounds for anyone who got laid off in Boston because... that just sucks. I also recruit for 100+ local startups, and can help you transition.
You kind of have to try it to see why. i like the new "start menu" in Metro - its easy to move things around to prioritize and search easily for apps by just typing the name of the app.

I want to hate on it but its actually pretty good.
The sample space is all the startups that submit applications to YC--not the ones that are accepted.
Feels like we need an anti-trust law that automatically cancels "you cannot sell for less elsewhere". Does eliminating that solve the problem?
Layoffs are horrible when they happen, but 6 months later after the dust has settled and smoke blown over, everyone who was talented and laid off is now better off because the number of weak ties they now have to people in other companies has multiplied dramatically in a short time.
Posting for the author of Bifocals:

It's definitely not the easiest library to explain.

This does not explicitly use threads, but it will take advantage of any asynchronous systems you want to use.

http://bifocalsjs.com/#why-do-i-need-this-library is a more concrete example that might shed some light on the issue.

This allows you to run two database queries in parallel, and render immediately when the longest of the two queries is complete.

Most standard template systems have one large pool of data they provide to a template. You have to locate this data before you render a template, even if it is used by a partial.

Most partial systems simply combine two templates into a bigger template, that takes this large pool of data.

What bifocals does is give each partial it's own, isolated pool of data and render them separately and asynchronously from each other. This allows you to delay each partials rendering until it is ready, without waiting for the other partials to be ready.

Each function that creates Bifocals objects then can be isolated from the rest, with one sole responsibility. Render this template.

Your object might have parent objects, it might have children. Your function doesn't care, it just pumps data into a Bifocals object and marks it as ready. Bifocals then tracks your whole hierarchy, and sends it to the user when every last section is ready.
Failing to live up to your service commitments is exactly what quality and stability are about.
I use dexpot for virtual desktops. Very customizable. You can bind hotkeys, or screen hotspots (mine is top left pixel) for switching between desktops. I use it on an underpowered laptop with no performance issues.
This is not really a new idea, based on the info from the article we can inference what they are doing.

here is a paper on the principle at work: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165168405...

Strictly speaking you cannot compress data by expressing the data as a solution a to system of linear equations, but if you are willing to make the system under-determined (too few equations and too many variables) you can compress data. All it looks like is going on is that they are compressing and storing the current packet's worth of data this way as well as half of each adjacent packet's worth. This is slightly less then double the original size because we are compressing the data. This way if we loose a packet we can re-construct it using the data from the adjacent packets.

It works out to be a reliability to memory usage/processing time trade off. For wireless sensor networks (the specialty of one of the labs at my college where I ran across this technique) it is a really good idea. If you lose more then 1 packet then there is not any gain, so any situation where packet loss is bursty and tends to last more then 1 packet then this will not be of any use, so it's application to wifi and cellular are iffy.
What would be great is if Apple stops selling spinning platters all together and just sold SSD drives. This would probably drive the price point of SSD down further and more quickly. I put an OWC 6g extreme SSD drive in my mbp and it felt like a whole new 10x faster machine. I'll never go back to spinning disks.
We use iDoneThis and really like it. We tend to use it when the team is distributed. When we're all located in the same place, usage wanes (but it's cheap enough not to worry about). But during times that people are working remotely, it's the best way to keep everyone on the same page.
TL;DR They are using error correcting codes across packets to limit the impact of losing some.
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Joyent Lost, or how important reputation is
I think it has more to do with getting the cuts out of the way before their Q3 earnings report comes out tomorrow. Facebook just mentioned in their earnings call this afternoon that they've been hit by a 20% YoY drop in revenue from Zynga, so you know Zynga's results are going to be bad.
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Yes. The iPad 3 was significantly thicker and heavier than the iPad 2. It takes a larger battery to drive 4 times the pixels and maintain a 10 hour battery life.
Oh, come on. As someone who's developed for both platforms, and worked with plenty of other devs (who ought to neither be ignorant nor prejudicial about the situation at hand as their job depends upon it) make quips of this sort all the time. Android is near-exclusively the target of their mirth.

This leaves irrelevance, perhaps, but given the context of this thread I'd argue it's not that either.
Go to any developer meetup here in Austin and you'll find plenty of companies hiring. There are 50 startups here at Capital Factory (many funded) in downtown Austin and most of us are hiring. No one with decent talent at Zynga will have any problems finding another job here in Austin.
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Hope I can answer any questions you have.

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Well, if it makes you feel better, I had a conversation with a Zynga employee last night, who is pretty happy about leaving the company. In particular, he wants to go do something he believes in, and to quote him, "and i don't hugely believe in selling virtual cows"

So - to some degree, the crash and possible termination of Zynga's business model, enables these people to escape the company. If the stock had value, then they would be trapped in that really horrible (for some of them) career. When the stock has no value - they are all now free(er) to go - no handcuffs.
Representing and solving a maze given an image
Fusion Drive is just flashcache with some sort of adaptive caching algo. There's zero reason to care about what the type of a file is. The reason they showed it like that in the keynote was because normal people don't know what a block device is.
Right, but 802.11 has built-in acknowledgments, preserving the illusion of a reliable network to higher layer protocols (TCP being the one where it matters here).
Mixing tabs and spaces. :S

(Otherwise pretty cool)
This was how I got 'niche' news before we had the internet. Every morning before school I would hit text, type in the page number and get the latest F1 news. If I remember correctly when there were multiple pages it would cycle through them automatically which meant that if you didn't read quick enough you had to wait for it to cycle back around so you could finish the page. It used to stay on each page for about 30 seconds so this was a real pain on 4/5 page stories.

And, similar to browsing multiple websites to read different sources, I would use the BBC's Ceefax and then switch to ITV to read their teletext service.
I find not having user accounts drastically reduces how much the iPad gets used in my house. In my case, I'm sure this affects sales in the app store.
AMD has been second-sourcing Intel CPUs since the 1980's, and I've been hearing "how will AMD survive now?" for just as long.

Having a second source for strategic parts was said to be a requirement for US government/military procurement. My guess is that if AMD is really on the ropes, they'll get a DoE contract for a new supercomputer or three to hold them over for a while longer.
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Ugh where the hell does that happen?

My linter usually yells at me, I'll dig around and fix those up.
I'd agree that packet loss is generally zero. But dirty fiber, bad ports, bad device, congestion, etc are pretty dang frequent in a large deployment. And those "edge cases" are the ones that are going to kill your poor network block iops.

I do agree on the "why tcp?" point. Funnily everyone is running the other way and wrapping up IP inside another abstraction layer. Nvgre vxlan etc are slipping yet another complication under your "simple" block device.
Feel free to buy me a shiny new 27" iMac and I'll report back how their hybrid drive implementation works in excruciating detail.
Ipad Mini vs Google Nexus 7 vs Kindle Fire HD
dataflow languages like labview already market this, no idea how performant it is though.
> maximum bang for the bunk

That ranks up with "rear-window defrogger" and "string-loaded door" in my collection of amusing typos ...
This is great to hear, thanks. I've been using launchers exclusively on Linux the past few years and love not having to use the mouse anymore for that. Glad to see this isn't just a trend in the Linux world, but that Windows is now being built around the concept as well.
It sounds like they announced a loss of $59m but this was adjusted for tax payments they made pushing them to $311m gain. FB still seems toxic to me - I wouldn't invest a cent of my own money.
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Compare a MBP with a similarly built laptop. Dont pick up a plastic built or one with a shitty trackpad. Built quality IS hardware too.

Same for iMacs. Don't compare an iMac with a clone in a tower. Compare it to a similar form factor: all in one, quiet, low power consumption.
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IMHO Apple learned the lesson of aspect ratio for watching video with the iPhone 5, then forgot it again with this device. They missed out on a huge opportunity to start kicking their entire lineup towards the new aspect ratio and slowly eliminating any sort of Android-like fragmentation that will induce in their lineup.
Can't speak for the 13.3" retina, but I recently upgrade from a 2010 13.3" MBP to a 15" retina. The retina was a bonus from a client for finishing a big project ahead of schedule. The speed was the major selling point for me. In fact I almost didn't want the screen, but since it was free I went ahead and got it. The speed is incredible compared to a spinning HD, but the screen is simply amazing. I look at my old MBP and the screen is harder to read. The strain on my eyes has been reduced as I get far fewer headaches with the new screen.

TLDR; Going from a spinning HD to SSD is worth it. Once you have the screen you will wonder how you dealt without it, but I still wouldn't pay that premium out of my own pocket.
Holy cow, how did I miss that Kixeye story? It read like a horror story. I guess they weren't exaggerating when they used insanity wolf to advertise for jobs, talk about a toxic environment.
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You clearly haven't hung out with my grandmother.
Schlep can definitely be used as a noun, and commonly is by native Yiddish speakers. (As in "Oy! What a shlep!" or "Picking you up during rush hour would be a shlep, how about you just take the bus?")
Yes of course those are considered and the results may surprise you. One of the beautiful things about tapes is that you can store them unpowered. All you power is the robot(s) and the drive(s). 100 tapes sitting idle in a silo will last much longer than 100 hard drives spinning at 7200rpm. SSD's failure rates are even higher than HDDs.
Look for designer or ux meetups near by. Excellent place to find several good and/or hungry designers.
I find virtual desktops to be most useful on small screens. So on my laptop which has limited screen real estate I have a text editor on one desktop and by moving my mouse to the top left I switch to my browser desktop - v.useful

Only problem is that this has become so ingrained that I keep doing it on computers without this setup!
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Zynga CEO Mark Pincus Confirms Layoffs: 5% of Workforce
I get mixed emotions. Yes, companies that do 'bad things' ideally are corrected out of existence by the market. I never like to see anyone lose their jobs, because at some level the rank and file of the company is the blood coursing through its veins. And as Marissa Meyer and others have re-iterated over the last few months, companies don't do thing people do things. So people who are getting things done and fighting the good fight, its always painful to see them go.

On the money thing though you really need to come to terms with the fact that there is way more random chance than there is earned riches in the tech business. For every person who got rich being the most brilliant mind on the problem at the right time, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who got rich just because who ever was sitting in the seat they happened to be sitting in also got rich. The folks who just happened to be at Sun when it founded, or HP, or Google, or FaceBook. Randomness, not skill, plays a huge role there. There was a guy at Sun whom I helped manage out of the organization, he landed a job at a start up that two months later got bought with a full vesting of everyone. He walked away with several million dollars. It took a lot of thinking about that series of events to let it sit in my head without pissing me off.

Different people exploit their opportunities differently. I know that if I both knew how, and could have, shorted stock I held but was locked up but worth 'millions' I would have. I would have said "That's enough for me, sell it all, and when it dribbles out via my acquisition contract timed unlock I'll hand over the shares." That would have made me 'evil' in the eyes of the shareholders who bought stock during that time (and later sued the company) but my motivation would have been quite pure (FU money is a good thing). But I don't think of myself as an evil guy, and generally am pretty nice.

Bottom line is people with large holdings in a startup will look to 'liquify' a chunk of that to diversify and allow them to activate the wealth 'ratchet' (that is where you solidify your position by converting equity into real goods). If the value of the company continues to grow nobody ever remembers, if the value plunges, they get the short end of it. But its mostly randomness at work.
It still works. I can verify that from having seen it done first hand as recently as yesterday.
No NFC. Less screen resolution than a Nexus 7. Lame.
I tend to grip my Nexus 7 with my left hand and use all the fingers on my right to type. It's faster than typing on a phone and I find it easier than trying to grip with 2 hands and thumb-type.
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Don't you see how that defies the notion that it was a pump and dump? Why would they (with tens of millions of dollars) stick around?

No one can force them to stay. They're already obscenely rich. Think about what their motivations must be.
This is an old story (2009). POF now has around 70 employees.
I think Freshplum is a YC startup trying to solve exactly this problem for online retailers / subscription services: https://freshplum.com/
The display is on the outside.
If you full screen a video on one monitor in os x the other one blanks out. It doesn't stretch the video or anything, it just blanks it. I think vlc can prevent that, but it's still annoying.