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Totally agree. I bought a Galaxy S3 recently and my only major regret is that the thing is freakin' huge. I don't understand at all why this is desirable. Even in the rare instance where I want to watch a video on my phone, the slightly large screen doesn't really noticeably improve the experience.
I don't remember apollo astronauts, but Wikipedia does.

Hopefully our records will be better preserved than those from the Mayflower.
Just out of curiosity is there any difference with "Chrome Developper channel" and "Chrome Canary" in term of available features ?
It's not that hard to become a US permanent resident. SpaceX doesn't hire many PhD's though, they're quite manufacturing/design oriented. The guys I knew who got in were all bachelor's and master's holders with hands-on experience building stuff that flies (mostly via student projects) and high gpa's (3.7+) from good schools.
Perhaps it's interesting to think about what the actual 'idea' here was. Did Xerox ever have the understanding that using mouse-windows computing would usher in a new era of computing? If not, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the real idea here was Jobs', and that it was built in part with building blocks created at Xerox, which is true for most progress - it's always built on previous progress by 3rd parties.
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Great quote from the lobby of the San Jose superior court lobby, "Lawsuits are like handguns, when you pull the trigger someone is going to get hurt but its not clear who." I don't know if the lawyer was trying to dissuade a client or just kibitzing with another lawyer but it was a great comment.
That's not true. If the business has been running 5 years, that tells you quite a bit. You can mine all sorts of activity information from the site, and you can get more through user interviews.

Moreover, startup investors are completely happy to invest based on estimations of total available market. It's pretty easy math to look at the number of kids, the average cost of sitters and nannies, and typical consumption of caregiving services. If you can also say, "And these guys have been running for 5 years despite [flaws A-M]," that's just gravy, even if you don't know any of their internal numbers.
I've read rumors that the reason Jeff Bezos started Amazon was to fund his dreams of space exploration.
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So you agree with the OP that there is no danger in sharing your ideas before you have traction, etc.?

Also, I have seen plenty of posts talking about these types of situations and the person, just like you did, never explains their business or provides a link to it. I would be curious to see what the actual idea was to better understand your situation.
Isn't that how Valve does it? I seem to recall some articles here about that...
This is awesome, Danny. Now get on that 30-page version. :)
I already have an iPhone, but am considering getting one of these with an extra number on a T-Mobile prepaid plan.
Are you sure you're not on 4.1.2? The Galaxy Nexus, never mind the Nexus S, doesn't have 4.2 yet.
The 'big problem' with callbacks isn't the callbacks themselves - it's the resulting difficulty to the developer to keep track of the flow of control.

This is analogous to goto's - programming with goto is a nightmare, but all code 'compiles to' some sort of immediate form using goto's. The goto is not the problem, programming with goto is.
Thank you for posting this. I actually spent a considerable amount of time searching for similar benchmarks a few weeks ago.
The killer use case for large screens: make sure you're using Google Chrome as your browser. Then select "request desktop site".
YC is at the beginning or early stage of most startups, acquisition is usually years later and there's a million things that stop a startup reaching that point.

Just worry about your startup not someone else's.
This is pure nonsense. Please, please, please stop talking about ideas. What people steal --and the only thing with huge value-- are MARKET OPPORTUNITIES. Ideas are easy to generate. Everyone has loads of them. When an idea is combined with the work necessary to identify if a market opportunity exists it can become invaluable.

Ideas are not stolen because an idea, all by itself, does not identify whether or not anyone wants the thing or the service. If I told you that I had an idea to make a dish-washing sponge in the shape of a smiley face you, more than likely, would walk away laughing. So would I if someone came to me with that idea. How would you react if I actually manufactured them, sold a bunch and showed you that people want them? Right. You'd pay attention. You wouldn't laugh. And you certainly wouldn't walk away. Well, I saw exactly that happen at the Shark Tank show recently. I think the guy got a $300K investment.

$300K for the idea for a friggin smiley-face sponge?
Nope. $300K for the market opportunity he uncovered.

If you present someone with an idea and that idea is so good that it identifies the market opportunity without further work, well, it might get stolen. With most other ideas they'll listen and nod and possibly even think you are a moron and completely forget what you told them.

If, on the other hand, you show them an idea coupled with your work confirming that a good scalable market exists, hold on! The market opportunity will either be stolen or you'll have someone all over you wanting to become an investor or participate in some manner in the opportunity you identified.
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The article tries not to draw a conclusion but Cassandra's numbers look pretty good to me...
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This is a little map made by sgruhier, which I helped to deploy.

A streaming daemon collects all the tweets containing "obama" or "romney" and shows the geolocalized ones on a map, using the Maptimize clustering engine.
What am I missing about that quote? If you're wielding a handgun, it's pretty clear who will get hurt when you pull the trigger, barring rare events like a misfire or a ricochet.
"Nearly flawless" - more like DOA considering it doesn't work with LTE, or have any of the other usual non-apple advantages (expandable storage and swappable batteries)

LTE is the one big innovation that is giving smartphones a whole new arena for new apps, high speed data is the cornerstone of mobile.
There are ideas that big companies will never execute - because throwing 5000-20000$ per month might be simply not worth that.

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If you're just at the "idea stage", then no one is going to steal your idea.

If you've progressed further and have some traction, some lessons learned in customer acquisition channels, etc., then you should be cautious about what you share because your information has real value.
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> what would stop people from traveling there to work for a year or so and then returning home?

It might be cheaper and easier to deliver sustainable life support to Mars than the fuel, oxidizer and engines to return (or the machinery needed to harvest it in situ).
Good point. I think that's what GOOG's looking for with their 20% time. Basically being a VC fund and supporting 99% go-nowhere for the odd Gmail or Google Maps outcome.
Anyone got magnet for windows version? I got 15KB/s from the site
This isn't like mongodb's non-durable-by-default writes. No, the "buffering" here is done client-side. So it really wasn't hitting the database at all (until the client teardown phase, well after the latency that is being graphed here was measured).
I wonder why they picked MyISAM for MySQL, since basically no one sane is using that anymore. It isn't even the default anymore, so that can't be the excuse.

"MyISAM caches index blocks but not data blocks."
No, Blogger also has a feature that will automatically post messages sent to an email address. Here's an example email from Facebook that was posted to a blogspot.com url: http://weight-loss-information-123.blogspot.com/2012/08/misb...

If you look at the bottom of that Blogger post, it says "This message was sent to <a gmail address>." So an email from Facebook got posted as a web page to this blog.

There's no need to suspect some virus that's intercepting emails. Plenty of people have set up their systems such that email messages get turned into web pages.
>That's the flirting I speak of, the same sort of flirting/friendliness that was originally mentioned

I was responding to the idea that being single or not has some effect on the scenario. Flirting (whether deniable or not) is neither exclusive to single people, nor required to affect the social status of men you interact with.

>It's foolish to assert that female approval matters, but darn it, no one knows why!

It is foolish to assert that the universe exists, but darn it, no one knows why! We observe things, then we develop hypotheses to try to figure out why they are as they are. Then we test those hypotheses to see if they are accurate. The observation does not cease to exist simply because there are no hypotheses that have made it to proven theory.

>In my experience, female approval matters because of the perception of sexual and romantic prowess that it grants to the receiver, especially in the eyes of other men

That may well be the case at a subconscious level. But that doesn't go away because any or all of the people involved are in relationships. I have been married for over a decade. I do not actively seek the attention of women as a result of this fact, but I still treat them the same way, and they are still able to coerce me into doing what they want even though both of us are fully aware that there will be no sex rewards happening.
This is a solution to a problem I have. I am a procrastinator.
No matter how much I "want" to do something I always rationalize why it could be better left till later. The way I combat this is by making the tasks I need to complete in a day small and easy so that doing them becomes insignificant. I normally have nothing against the actual tasks I need to complete. In fact I usually enjoy them. But the idea of tackling a giant problem gives me anxiety. If I start with only working for 5 to 10 minutes in mind it will usually extend to hours. If you are a procrastinator I suggest you try this strategy.
Even if you don't remember their names, though, you can recall the fact that there existed Apollo astronauts, men who were brave enough to go on those pioneering missions.

DHH put it very eloquently in an essay 4 years ago: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1437-put-a-dent-in-the-univer... -

"The key is that your efforts would be missed, your customers would have a sense of loss, if you stopped doing what you’re doing."

Imagine if history said this about Apollo: "The technology was there, but in the end, we lacked people brave enough to risk the voyage. So the project stagnated, the rockets languished on the launching pads. And America moved on, a president's promise forgotten."

I'd say the nameless astronaut makes a pretty big dent.
This is true. It led to some bizarre situations though: my partner, wanting to transfer money from her American BofA account to her British Barclays one, would've had to pay a fee to do so directly. But walking two paces to the ATM machine, taking the money out as cash, and then depositing the cash and you can avoid fees. Always seemed weird to me.
Thank you for your insight. I realized many of the profs I took in my intro classes also usually teach a 400 level class and this will certainly help me decide what to take.
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The various visual effects seem to be render-time transforms, so I suspect the speed change is propagating instantly across the gameworld.

Can you think of a way to model a non-instantaneous propagation of this change that doesn't involve simulating oodles of photons wandering around the world?
The same reason that pie charts are not very effective - it's relatively hard to make comparisons between angles instead of lengths like in a bar chart. It's probably even harder with a doughnut.

Here is a PDF article by Stephen Few about pie charts: http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/08-21-07.pdf
Yesterday, I found an email from Jon Callas where he was giving advice on where SAML falls in the Chomsky hierarchy of languages:

"If it has backwards gotos in any form, it's Turing-complete. Loops, recursion, etc. are backwards gotos. If-then-else is a forward goto."

I hadn't ever thought of things that way, but I thought it was interesting.
I thought this was a great primer on Chrome Canary:

http://jtaby.com/2012/04/23/modern-web-development-part-1.ht...
I was freaked out the first time I saw that iMac photo, but as it turns out the angle at which it was taken is...highly optimized.

The difference between the Apple product line and the (Android) phone marketplace is that Apple hasn't stopped making the iPod Nano, likewise the paper industry didn't stop making small pads of paper when Trapper Keepers became more popular.
A more rigorous set of tests (including datasets that don't fit in memory, for instance) was presented at VLDB this year: http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1724_tilmannrabl_vldb2012.pdf
It is definitely a rare skill; I had to work to develop it. Even harder is the skill of getting other people and resources for your project. These two skills seem to be pretty orthogonal-the people who are best at identifying high-leverage problems are not necessarily the best at convincing others to work with them.

My point is really that there is a huge mismatch between the value of problems and how people's time is allocated, and right now many people can benefit from learning how to identify the best problems.
This is true in Japan. Trying to find an ATM that accepts foreign cards is a nightmare. Post offices or 7-11s are the only reliable places.
There is also a size limit of 5MB that you should be aware of.
Yeah, it could have been the best project ever, but the license is the first thing I look at. So I saw that then closed the page.
I've seen companies enter into a partnership with a Chinese company to manufacture niche products. A few years in, the partnership is stopped and the Chinese company copies everything, shows up on trade shows, etc.
There's nothing you can do about it. Patents don't matter in China. Customers buy the products in China.
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> Sounds like a niche to me.

The Nexus devices have been very popular outside of the USA, also in part because they have defaulted to being unlocked.
Please, keep spamming "ur a troll!!1" like a child, it is very productive and adds a great deal to the discussions at HN. As I said, the 0.001% of the 0.001% who actually want to verify can already do so. Several mirrors have widely known ssh pubkeys.
Honestly, the choice of HSPA+ over LTE is a no-brainer. The former is plenty fast and has better coverage domestically and all over the world; the latter is a smidgeon faster in limited cases and a battery hog.

LTE offers some interesting capacity benefits for providers, but is being seriously over-marketed, as your post proves.
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The characters are just made froms scratch, but roughly based on the proportions of Blanch Condensed. Considering making a whole typeface out of it now.
DOA? LTE is way overpriced and not available in most areas. I don't see how LTE is even a 'big' innovation for apps. YouTube HD works perfectly on HSPA+, I'm not sure what else you need...
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Thanks! That ITU note will definitely blunt my complaints about 4G-as-4G, knowing that the term is mostly a marketing thing.
The lawyers for Apple were holding the gun, pointing it in the general direction of both iFone and Apple.
Great example! Thanks for talking so frankly about your experience.

I think of that guy as the business equivalent of the "I could code that in a weekend" scoffers. A novice looks at something like Quora or AirBnB or Etsy, imagines the database tables, and says, "That's easy!"

In reality, they just have failed to appreciate all the subtleties that make the product work. It's the same sort of mindset that looks at a beautiful woman and says, "An inflatable vinyl blow-up doll is basically as good!"
Isn't `yield` the solution to all the problems? It makes things responsive and avoids the callbacks entirely.

For example: http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/gen.html
Multiple people have run controlled experiments like I described in http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/debunking-toolbar-doesnt-lead-...

The most common way such "secret" pages get crawled is that someone visited that secret page with their referrers on and then goes to another page. For example, are you 100% positive that every person who ever visited that page had referrers turned off on every single browser (including mobile phones) they used to access that page?
I don't like to envision big because I would be too intimidated by my big vision to start small. Starting with a modest idea helps me keep things concrete. "Envision big" causes me to start thinking abstractly prematurely. I tend to not write much code at all when I do that.
What about the weekend travel scenario? Instead of bringing a wire to charge your phone, you have to pack a charging station. Is that still worth not plugging in the phone?
I think quirks is understating it. The problem with appcache is that if you run into many of those gotchas the article lays out, it's often difficult to resolve them for previous users. For example, say you accidentally give the manifest a far-future expires (gotcha #4); users with the forever-cached appcache need to manually clear their cache in order to get things working again. And, depending on how you've structured your app, even explaining to users that they need to clear their cache could be difficult...

You really need to plan ahead carefully if you're using the appcache, which I think changes the definition from "a nice tool, with some quirks" to "a complicated feature that you have to understand completely before implementing."

With that in mind, I think bootup.js is an interesting alternative if you can work around its other deficiencies.
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Along with a trampoline, callbacks can be used to implement continuation passing style (CPS), which is more or less a fully generalized goto - not just static goto, but computed goto. CPS is sometimes called "goto with parameters".
Right tool, right job? I also don't see anything on that website saying "C++ is the right choice for any problem domain".
Who would implement in their browser a VM no website used, and who would use a VM no browser implemented?

I'm not sure who you think "we" are, who should specify a VM and bytecode standard. If we wanted a bytecode standard, there doesn't seem anything deeply wrong with Java, and we seem to be in the process of phasing that out of every browser.
Yup, happens to me every once in a while. As recently as a few hours ago. Canary completely bonked and I couldn't get anything to work in it. Had to close it and use FF instead.

At work, I test in Chrome and do the rest of my normal tasking stuff (check email, listen to music) in Canary. At home, most of the stuff I build, I use Canary exclusively.

But I agree, sometimes the updates tend to be sketchy at times.
No, you don't want to wake up one day, find out the company went bankrupt, and after the month is up your source code is useless because the license isn't renewed.
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When I flip my phone around the top becomes the bottom!? I thought this was universal?
So you pull the trigger and kill someone. You get put away for murder for life.

It's more about the unintended consequences of a lawsuit than outright direct effects.
The people behind the standards will tell you that JavaScript is the VM and bytecode standard.
Just came here to post this.

It's frustrating, because a configuration like that makes the numbers completely irrelevant, unless you don't care whether your data gets persisted or not. I'd much rather see a more like-for-like comparison, and perhaps an unsafe configuration included for interest's sake.
Sure. Elon Musk is a heroic man. His car company is a marvel, and his space program is spectacular. His unfettered ability to speak without a mouth full of funder's cock or a PR minder sitting in the room is refreshing. His visions are grounded in technical and physical reality, his powers of observation are keen, and he has the personality and resources it takes to organize people in service of great accomplishments.

Sanely priced two-way trips to Mars will change the course of humanity by enabling us to colonize the solar system and perhaps ensure a longer story for all mankind. This is the most interesting thing I've read all day, and he deserves every bit of attention.

Now back to your regularly scheduled pessimism:

Humanity has a long way to go, and a change of scenery isn't going to do all that much for her. The United States of America with her vast resources and impeccable pedigree in advancing Enlightenment is operating a torture camp for political prisoners in a subtropical shithole.

What exactly happens when we send a thousand of our best and brightest and edgiest and most ambitious to live in what is essentially an submarine entombed underground for a decade? Do they live up to the Star Trek ideal? Or do they do what people in confined spaces tend to do?

Can we provide a reasonable quality of life for colonists? Beyond maintaining air pressure and food, can we provide for them spiritually and emotionally? Can we provide a -life-? Geology only gets you so far. Even on Earth it's kind of an obscure trade, and geology is about all there is to -do- on Mars.

What does a day to day life look like there? Do the children go to school? How is conflict handled? Who participates in what activities? What if there is too much to do? What if there isn't enough to do? How do you settle transplanetary custody battles when it means mommy or daddy taking the kid on a potentially lethal trip to another planet? How do you handle disease when everyone's in a thousand foot wide sphere? How do you bury people on an igneous planet? What does suicide mean for a Martian civilization?

There are a billion things to consider, and Elon has the first five thousand handled. I am delighted that we get to think about the rest now.
The engadget review (http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/02/nexus-4-review/) complains of very bad battery life. TheVerge (http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/2/3589280/google-nexus-4-rev...) indicates it is ok. I wonder which is actually true?
Keep in mind that PHP itself is implemented in C ;)

But seriously, should it matter? I'd be worried if the website was written in C++. It's a good thing that they can recognize that C++ isn't the right tool for the job.
Why is it that nearly everytime some coding blog writes about something interesting you've got lots and lots of people criticizing the entry and saying, basically, that "the old way of doing thing is just fine, it's just you that are too stupid to understand it".

I'm sorry but that's not how it works. I've been coding for 20 years or so and I'm always open to new things. The first time I heard about using immutable objects in Java nearly everybody was laughing at the idea, making fun of it. Nowadays it's the contrary that is true. Same thing for using composition instead of concrete inheritance: everybody was there, ten years ago, saying that there was no problem with Java's concrete (implementation) inheritance. Or checked exceptions. Etc.

It's nearly always the same thing: a concept that is not mainstream but that looks very promising is explained in great details and yet people come here, bragging: "You're too stupid to understand ${common way of doing things}, there's no need for ${less commonly used technology}".

This really saddens me.
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