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This doesn't make any sense. Google doesn't make any claims about its search results. They have mathematical algorithms that try to do a good job for search.

How can anyone call this defamation? They link to websites that make associations. Shouldn't he sue those websites instead?

He's just asking for it by angering the internet. I'm waiting for 4chan to google-bomb him now.
It seems more baked in this time, with metro automatically engaging two different scaling targets (full hd and 2560x) as well as the baseline ~100dpi. So people will be in hidpi modes without engaging them, and a good number of them since 10" full hd is looking like a high volume form factor. All of the ui elements are vector, fonts obviously are, and there is built in support for switching out bitmaps for the 3 stated targets - even in css from the internet. Visual Studio 2012 has these dpis built in to its ui builder previewer along with the typical form factor previews. I guess time will tell but it certainly feels like the most credible attempt to date to me.
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if you multi-click the timeline, the current time will change to NaN:NaN. And why can't you change the current playing position?
Monk....Smash!!!!
I really like the required(name) solution.

module RequiredParameter
refine Kernel
def required(name)
raise ArgumentError, ...
end
private :required
end
end

Can't wait to test this code. :P
If I see an interesting pop sci story, I'll track down the original research that it's based on. Generally speaking, if the concept was interesting to me in a pop sci context, it's even more interesting to me in depth.

If I can't find the original research, I try to treat the information as tainted, because even honest and intelligent writers often oversimplify concepts when presenting them to a lay audience.
I don't disagree with those, but on the altruistic/patronage side I know of enough social ventures with transformative social schemes attached that I prefer to support, rather than just another business.

Now if they were selling shares (as well, instead?) I might be more interested.
The simplifications are nice, but the problem is that the language still carries all of the heavy syntactic machinery that makes it happen, and there's nothing that prevents people from dipping down into it.
Especially if the benchmark measured programming and debugging time.
"I am a fan of an old German saying: "Good intentions are the opposite of good actions.""

Except that good actions don't spring from malintent, so your folksy saying is of limited worth.

"Every tragedy in human history that I know of was born from good intentions"

Also every amazing pinnacle of human history and society. You also conveniently leave out the tragedies born from lack of good intention.

Have you never met a sociopath? Someone without empathy?
I saw both. May have started the work when he was 12 and published at 14.
Maybe there should be a dormant tab-space, like on the left side of the browser. If you drag a tab there, it disappears in. Then, you can drag-move or drag-copy (to not lose its place in the bookmark space) back to the live tabs. Maybe give it multiple rows, which you can label (or not).
I hate to pull this card on you, but what have you done? We're talking about a Debian developer who has also developed (and continues to develop) basically an open-source replacement for Dropbox (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistan...), by himself on an incredible budget. He actually Gets Shit Done, and does it relatively efficiently. I would not be surprised at all if a factor towards being productive is the fact that his daily Internet connection doesn't support browsing Facebook. And when you are a creator rather than a consumer (especially of the written word, be it code, essays or books), screen size rarely matters.
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Here in Slovakia, Asus sells it directly (without Google) and it is 229 EUR for 16GB version. The upcoming 32GB version is going to be for the same amount and the 32GB+3G version will be 299 EUR.

It looks like it is just retailers in Finland who are bloating the price.
I'm not sure how you expect this to proceed without at least some kind of foundation.
This really makes me want to try out putting DragonFlyBSD on some machine, as its swapcache[1] seems to be quite similar to that (and actually uses a proper FS).

1: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=swapcache
"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." - Blaise Pascal
For this purpose I prefer to use personal wiki such as tomboy (http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/) or notational velocity (http://notational.net/). They both let me quickly organize my bookmarks along with notes in a hypertext format (imagine that)!
Being happy isn't a selfish goal, in fact buddhism looks at this as a non-selfish goal. Buddhism totally advocates for happiness[1], it is only your perception that happiness is selfish that is in error.

[1]http://thinkexist.com/quotation/i_believe_that_the_very_purp...
"“I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness." -Dali Lama
Not to sound contrarian, but startups generally focus on their areas of expertise. I'm a developer, and while I try to do a good job of making designs that aren't horrible (or Bootstrapped), I am not a designer. Consequently, all the apps I build could definitely use a designer's touch, at least in the early stage.

If you're a poor startup, the objective is to solve a problem. You can solve a problem without great design, just as you can solve a problem without great programming, or great copywriting, or great hosting, or any of the elements of building and running a startup. The only thing a startup has to do exceptionally well, I think, is to solve the problem it sets out to solve.

I know some designers who have started startups and naturally, their pages are beautiful. I could make a similar argument about how development/architecture should come first. Their apps will never scale, and if they'd had a good solid architect in at the start, we could have solved all their IT issues. That may or may not be true of course, but it's easy for me to make the statement that I could have helped and I'm probably right more than I'm not (just as you are) -- but that misses the point that except where funded, startups should focus on the things they can do well until they can prove the market or figure out if the idea has legs. Once you've proven that there's a benefit, or a customer base, or a way to make money, then you can start to pay money for things to make something more well-rounded.

Note: I'm re-reading this before I submit, and I can't tell if I sound like a giant prick or not, so please be aware that wasn't my intent. Your statement is of course valid, and I would personally love for startups to be better in UI/UX; I just wanted to posit that startups can't be good at everything and still be quickly built / cheaply built / etc.
I've never been able to figure out dia. It's complicated beyond any other diagramming software I've seen.
I'd like to add my +1 to this, I felt pretty much all of those sentiments.

* "Webscript brings the simplicity and power of scripting to the web" Isn't that javascript?

* Oh I see, it's a server side language. But... this just sounds like a backend language for Getting Shit Done. Which I don't disagree with, but-- oh, can you excuse me a moment while I answer the doorbell? "Oh hi Perl, hi Node, come on in..."

* I personally do say I'm unlikely to use it because it's not instantly clear to me. I'm a sysadmin by trade so I don't think I'm the target audience, but I couldn't immediately tell what I'm meant to use webscripts for.

* I hate hate HATE watching videos. I'm sure this is a very personal thing and maybe I'm the 0.1%, but I always feel like videos are a waste of my time, or simply not the best way to communicate the message. We work with keyboards to write scripts, why would I want to see a video of that?

Okay, so I watched the first 20sec of the video. That gave me the "Aha!" moment. The first thing I thought of was the way you used to have CGI hosting servers, back in the pre-PHP days, because the majority of websites were completely static.

I don't mean to come off as mean or aggressive, but I really had trouble answering the most important question (to me): What problem is Webscripts going to solve for me? That's it.
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Compile in the cloud, or use a dynamic language or use Go?
I probably enjoy using whatever he writes, because it doesn't assume the latest hot.
I seem to remember a sockets library in progress for chrome apps, so it should be feasible.

But yeah, I hope the "unfulfilled" github repo doesn't become a trend.
How does that price comparison compare with what you'd normally see for tech products?

What would an entry level retina iPad cost in Finland for instance?

I only ask as I know in the UK we always get the impression that we're being shafted when we look at US prices but it's not that there are higher profit margins, it's more about higher taxes, lower volumes and so on.
Its unfortunate that the article does not do much to explain what "happiness" in this context means. These monks are meditating on compassion and the wish to benefit all sentient beings. The gamma waves are a byproduct of this type of meditation. The scientists are making the link between gamma rays and happiness, not the monks.
I like the idea of usesthis. But I'm a bit disappointed that most setups are boring and not really individualized. This makes a lot of the interviews uninteresting if you don't know (care for) the developer. "Spoiler:" 2/3 seem to be using a Mac Book and a fairly common configuration. Please don't misunderstand me. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that configuration. But it's not very interesting to read about.

I think Joey Hess is a major exception here because he has a very individual and interesting setup. Stallman, Russ Cox and _why are a few other interesting setups iirc.
The problem is there are just as many bad IPS LCDs systems out there as there are bad TN LCDs. The main problem seems to be either uneven backlighthing (especially on LED based LCDs) and really bad anti-glare coatings that make grey colors sparkle. I just returned an Asus IPS LCD because of the later case.
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4 millions Windows 8 upgrades, that's not much
Apple's fusion drive is not actually a single part; it's a combination of an mSATA SSD and a standard SATA HDD. The way fusion drive is implemented, both devices will need to show up with their own SATA interface for it to work.

Seagate does make single 'Hybrid Hard Drive' parts[1]: an HDD plus 8 or 16GB of flash to improve performance, but you won't see the performance gains that you would with a 128GB flash fusion setup. The flash cache is managed by the controller in those cases, so it's difficult to have apps or OS pinned there.

Alternatively, you can take out the DVD drive in your MBP and use an adaptor[2] to put in a SATA SSD. This would allow you to use Apple's fusion software. I've used this setup before, but its number one drawback is poor battery performance. Moving data lazily between HDD and SSD is fine in a desktop with continuous power, but could draw multiple watts of precious battery in a laptop. It turns out to be better to go full flash.

[1]http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-driv...

[2]http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ ($20 copycat on eBay works fine)
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Yes I know there's plenty of work in the UK but you don't find many .NET devs based in the UK on here.

Well, I can't move to Bristol and I don't want to work full time for anyone - are you hiring remote freelances and do you pay decent rates?
A startup called Ten's complement has a commercial ZFS implementation for Mac(not boot yet) that's rather stable and full featured as well.

http://tenscomplement.com/
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No way that I know of, but it is a good idea. Supplemented by "search on sites I visited about a month ago", that should cover it.

Making that work across multiple devices is another can of worms. Possibly a very desirable can for some people, who'd like to host the data.

Self-hosting would imply some data syncing service, but it should be one where data is encrypted before leaving home (and stays encrypted until it returns to owner - not the case with Dropbox and most other services). Though the browser or browser extension could take care of that.
Nobody would accept 2D-only these days. And in a world where people buy $500 PCs, you can't expect a $250 GPU to be the norm.
One place you might notice is with clearer fonts. That's why I want higher resolutions.
You can share significant amounts of code and design, but WP8 will necessarily require departures from the W8 app in UI design. For example WP8 uses panorama and pivot controls, which are not available in identical form in W8 (although analogs do exist).
Yeah I did.
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Yeah, "big news" is relative. Maybe it's no big news, it's cool, too! We just wanted to share what our focus is going to be. People seem to react well (=> twitter).

Why Railsberry? => it's still for Rails devs by Rails devs. And we love our name :D
You misunderstand the purpose of ord. The mp3 metadata uses one byte to encode an integer between 0 and 255, which represents genre. It is not a string.
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One of his comments far down the page just struck me:

"It's ignorant people like you that hold back the rest of the world. Please just disconnect yourself, move to Pennsylvania, and become Amish.

The world does not need another ignorant web developer that makes some fixed-pixel designs. But maybe you'd be a wonder at woodcarving or churning the butter?﻿"
Haskellers don't need a lot of screen space ;)
He might suffer the first installation of ghc/platform though.
I loved that book as a kid. It looks like they are finally going to release the movie version in a year from now. They've been teasing us with movie announcements for the better part of a decade.

I wonder if they'll directly mention quantum entanglement?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/
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Yes, it does. A great answer would have included a list of things that people use their computers for where they need this higher resolution, or where they do notice it and it makes a significant difference. Or maybe someone who has this extra resolution but who doesn't find it any better than a lower resolution, with a list of what they use their machine for.

Or perhaps someone has links to great information. Because while that stuff is findable with a bit of www searching it can be tricky to sort the wheat from the chaff.

If we're limiting the question to the specific "me" (rather than a general hypothetic user) - I do a lot of work with text. Text in web browsers and text in word processors. I do a little bit of film watching - just DVDs. I don't particularly care about battery life, but I'm happy with lower performance if there's a clear eco benefit.
My eyes just exploded! ;-)
Three friends and I have each did this, about a year ago:

github.com/itdaniher/itdaniher
github.com/alxjrvs/alxjrvs
github.com/sethwoodworth/sethwoodworth
He has a couple of follow-up posts too:

http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/34694173142/more-on-byo-fus...

http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/34700977027/fusion-drive-lo...
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If they do this for him, then that means anybody can successfully request that google return no results for their name. Even names that are also commercial products? If I was google, I would not want to be in the position of letting people dictate what results appear when their name is searched.
$25,000 for an editor? Am I too skeptic?
I think the point is that Disney will be behind the movies now. As a fan, I am more in fear of horrible, time wasting movies, Disney is known for making sequels to just try and make some extra money out of a series. Star Wars is a jackpot for that. While some more honorable fans will not see the movies, most fans will regardless because they have to at least see the new movies otherwise they wouldn't be fans anymore.
Distributed filesystems are designed with commodity hardware and traditional data-centers in mind. Why SHOULD it be distributed across local drives on all nodes? These are computationally intensive workloads (like supercomputers), not storage I/O intensive workloads (like mainframes or Hadoop clusters). If you're managing hardware on this scale and you don't need local drives, why on earth wouldn't you put your storage in a separate, central location?
The primary PC I use at home is a netbook with 1024x600 resolution. My phone (Galaxy Nexus) is 1280x720. Crazy world.
I sure wouldn't want to spend my whole waking life wearing glasses that slightly-pixelized everything I saw. And since I spend a large amount of my waking life looking at "glowing rectangles", I'd rather they not be slightly-pixelized either.
One of my pet peeve's in articles like this is to change the metrics midway. Specifically, all Nexus references are made to monthly sales. So you see things like "600,000 per month" or "nearly 1 million per month"

Switch to Apple sales and it's "15 million in Q3" Holy smoke that's huge compared to Nexus!! Yet imagine another headline stating "Nexus taking nearly 20% of marketshare from Apple iPad!" 1 million per month and ramping = 3 million a quarter which is 20% of 15 million and so forth.

I have neither an iPad nor a Nexus 7 so no dog in this fight (MacBook Air and Nexus S phone) I just wanted to point out the annoyance when you use different measuring units within the one article. It can really distort the outlook.

Final note - more impressive to me than the total number sold is the ramp. This is significant month over month momentum since launching. I suspect the iPad Mini - now that the wait is over- will either a) drive sales higher based on the price/value differential or b) knee cap momentum. Based purely on a sample case of 1 (me) I held off the Nexus 7 until the iPad Mini arrived. The iOS and ecosystem still beats Android but based on the price differential I'll go with the Nexus 7 now. The gaps that exist between the two are continuing to close due to where both are in their respective life cycles.
When you owe someone 10'000 Eur you have a problem.

When you owe someone 1 Billion Euro, they have a problem.

With the european regulation protecting interstate commerce, the Double Irish even with a Dutch Sandwich seems legally fine. It will take multiple lawsuits to try to do anything against it.

Note to north american readers- there's a huge political effort in europe, instrumented by the french and german government, to create a new kind of copyright for indexing new articles, ie arrange a special tax scheme to divert money from search engines to the european media companies.

It's just yet another case of entitlement from companies whose business models have mostly been made obsolete.

So this news seems to be just part of the smear campaign, maybe to put more bargaining chips on the table and strongarm google into accepting this. The lows in google stock also frequently made the news these last few weeks - it's more than a coincidence when you consider the emerging difference between french/german newspapers and other news sources on this same fact, and who owns the newspaper.

Good luck to France- she will need it to pull something out of so many shenanigans.

(But deep inside me, I'd love to see the negotiations break, with google removing all french newspaper from google news and see how long the european media companies will last before giving up in their stupid demands while other french-language news source eat their cake - from Quebec or North Africa. That would send the right message to the government - stop messing with the economy)
I can't bring myself to take photos of my meals in restaurants, no matter how beautiful the food it. It just seems too impolite. And in a strange way, I feel bad about this.
WARNING: Off-topic ZFS blathering just because I like spreading the gospel. ;-)

I don't think I've heard of writezillas.

Not sure the origin, but a Readzilla was just a (rebranding I guess?) STEC Mach8 100GB SSD used as a read-cache. In fact, the Readzilla name is rarely used anymore. The technical name if L2ARC, or Level-2-Adapative-Read-Cache (Level-1 being the system memory ZFS consumes for caching). In operation, this will almost always be used close to capacity as long as you have that much data in the disks behind it.

A Logzilla was a STEC Zeus IOPS (18GB). It operated as something similar to a RDBMS transaction log, aka the "ZFS Intent Log", or ZIL. This is a Write-Back-Cache. Even if you're only running HDDs the ZIL is still there to ensure consistency. If you have SSDs to spare, you have the option of moving the ZIL to those to increase write performance (up to the point you fill up the SSD anyways, which doesn't really happen in practice, though it's possible).

If you lose an L2ARC device, no worries, it's pure cache. Even if it's your only L2ARC device, the worst that's going to happen is things slow down because there's no SSD caching your data anymore. With that in mind, I usually deploy two SSDs for an L2ARC, in a striped configuration to increase IOPs. If I lose one, I still have another, just half the IOPs. If I lose both, well, back to just the performance of my disks, but all my data is safe.

If you lose your ZIL, you've lost your zpool (the whole logical storage array). This means you must MUST MUST always have at least two drives for your ZIL, and they should be mirrored so if there's a failure your data is still safe. Moving the ZIL off to SSD increases performance, and is absolutely something you should do, but similar to the Fusion Drive (though for entirely different reasons), the SSD isn't simply a performance booster, you're actually moving a critical part of your storage system to it. It needs to be protected.

More Trivias: Since the ZIL is part of the storage, this is why the Sun Storage clusters had the ZIL inside the JBODs and not on the 1U server heads. If you failed over from one head to another, you needed to make sure the ZIL went with the backing disks. The heads did contain the SSDs used for L2ARC OTOH since cache is cache, after failing over the new "array master" would just populate it's SSDs as data was read.
one big kick, since haskell is pure functional you don't have state (okay, in terms that imperative programmer use that term) and all data are immutable.
The quality issues really fall on Asus, not Google. Asus is the hardware manufacturer.

Besides that, I agree. My first Nexus 7 had the "wobbly" screen, but only on the left-hand side, about mid-ways up.
I wrote this post.

The program is I/O-bound, so the only speed improvement comes from not having to start up the Python interpreter.

If the task was CPU bound, you would get a great performance boost (sometimes 100x over CPython), but that is well known.

There can be other reasons than performance for writing in C++. Used well, the strong static type system can catch many bugs. I suspect (but I cannot prove) that it could be almost as good as Haskell.

I use Python for most things, though, so I don't really advocating switching to C++ for every little scripting task.
I for one hope that the trend actually continues:
https://github.com/jonathansadowski/chrome-moneyprinter/
A lot of good ideas, but I'm not entirely sure why it had to be on Slideshare. The interface wasn't really intuitive to me right away, and I would've liked a paragraph for each heading; either to justify the point or provide examples. In general, being able to scroll down a page is better than clicking next, to my mind.