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Amazing natural phenomenon where two different seas meet
Apple posts revised Samsung statement
Note that no one had to be given a $5000 tax credit to buy a PC, a modem, and an AOL account.
PR101 for startups
Java is great, but JavaScript gets lumped in the same bin with C? Strange priorities...
The guide seems to approach API design from the perspective of big players. It would have been nice to point out what to focus on first for fledgling services that want to take baby steps with the right foot. Rate limiting and metrics are way less important when you're happy someone is even using your API in the first place.

In other words, what makes a good API MVP that doesn't get launched only to have to deprecate stuff soon after?

I think that'd be a far more substantial contribution to the SaaS web, since there are far more people starting out or with no API at all than there are companies with pressing demands for a thorough service, and those can more easily have someone experienced on board anyways.
Tópicos da Semana - Grua Gigante Colapsa em Nova Iorque
Lessons from the Ultimate Safe Houses
I think you might want to look into amazon aws
Did this kill anyone else's Xobni? Mine no longer shows up. Tout works just fine though!
Conweets, app to track Twitter conversations is now available on the App Store
I'm curious, but what advantages does that bring?

The advantages of pure Linux are:

- tiling window managers (xmonad, dwm)
- only need to learn/administer one OS
- works without network connectivity OR doesn't require an overpowered machine to run both OS's in one
- plus all the other advantages of Linux, like apt-get being a first class citizen
I was hoping I'd see some discussion about this here. Does anyone think this is a good idea? If so, do we have a real shot at actually making this happen?
> But you're being hyperbolic

Not really.

> there's absolutely no reason you couldn't have multiple implementations of the VM standard.

If you define a bytecode standard, you greatly restrict the flexibility of VM implementors and the possible outputs. A stack-based bytecode will preclude register-based VMs, V8 doesn't even use bytecodes, it does all translations straight from source via two different JITs.

> My only thought here is that having a bytecode standard to work from might give a little more flexibility and power to folks who want to experiment with alternative client-side languages.

It doesn't. It might provide them more a little more simplicity because they merely need to generate binary bytecode streams rather than text, but it adds no expressive power, and as I noted it severely limits the flexibility of the runtime implementors.
Sdhash - Forensic Similarity Hashing
Perhaps you could explain why you feel this way? That might make it less trollish and make this into a productive conversation. If the only response you can anticipate is downvoting, you're doing it wrong.
How can you say that the EC avoids deadlock, and then immediately start talking about Florida? The popular vote in that case was not a deadlock, and would have made for a clear winner with no disputes. The EC is the only reason that Florida's mess even mattered. How many times has the popular vote been close enough to cause such a mess? Zero. How many times has the EC caused such a mess when none needed to exist? More than zero.

Plenty of other countries use a straight popular vote and they somehow manage to avoid all of the problems that EC proponents say the popular vote would cause. It seems obvious that if we were building the country from scratch today, the EC would never even be considered, let alone enacted.
I agree. For me code swapping is such an important feature. I can't imagine how people are doing game development without it. On the other hand, there are a lot of games for mobile devices, so I guess it's not impossible...
I've been using http://www.foobar2000.org/ for almost 10 years now. Though most of my music now is in the cloud, I always keep a heavily modded version of fb2k on my PC.

This is BY FAR the best audio player available.

I had some respect for Amarok when I was on KDE 6-7 years ago. Nowhere close to fb2k though. Nowadays on Linux I prefer just plain old mpd.
Disaster and the Cloud
Businesses for Veterans - Edward Sklar
Google can't, yes, but who can (genuine question)? Even control-freak Apple can't stop all the noise in App Store reviews (even though they all have to be screened by someone at Apple before appearing online). App Store reviews are literally 98% noise and 2% signal (all buried in 43rd page)...

I'd love to know who has been able to do this. Maybe Yelp? (I don't use Yelp as it's not available in my country, so I don't know).
Please change the font. The word "meme" looks like "mcmc".

As a developer that is much closer to 50 than many here are, I can say that it's a crapshoot whether I will be programming when I'm 50. I tired of it after a handful of years, but decided to stay on with it because I can't afford the paycut, and am still am going with it, getting close to 15 years now. But everyday, and I've tried another employer, I still can't stand it. I enjoy the freedom and art and creativeness, but when things don't work, which happens a lot, I waste time on it and feel stupid and depressed. Feeling smart 1% of the time and stupid 99% of the time and worrying about whether you will be able to continue it without getting fired is a horrible way to live. It has affected my health, my attitude, and makes me drink more than I should at times. But, we justify this with "we are making a good living".

Common things I think about doing are (1) buying and running a bar, but then I would have to deal with the alcoholics, prostitution, drugs, and other crap that goes with it (not worth it) and would feel that I was contributing to an evil in our society even though I love beer and good times, (2) selling old computer equipment and games (there is little money here, and I'm not a hardware expert, so screw that), (3) getting involved with my church (but they don't need more IT, I'm a developer anyway not IT, and I have no idea what else I have to offer), (4) helping humanity get into space (but I have little to offer there also), (5) developing Indie games (which I've done in the past to some extent, but I think that writing games just means that people will waste time away from their family and solving problems playing them), (6) going to work for a non-profit development group (but I'm a conservative, and I can't work with tree-huggers even if I have a very liberal opinion that software should be free or open source, which I realize is not the same). So instead, I take care of my family.
How do I back up a 20-node Riak cluster as easily as a Postgres cluster of any size?

Disclosure: I work for Basho, makers of Riak.
Well, I'm 16 now, and I'm writing a chatroom/game thing in HTML5 with WebSocket (http://ponyplace.ajf.me/)

But when I was 14, I was programming a TCP Minecraft server. (http://github.com/TazeTSchnitzel/SchnitzelCraft0)
Like we always did.

Compile, re-deploy
40 Mac apps with great, eye-catching designs
An easier scraping?
3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers
cletus is proposing that individual states' elections switch from FPTP to AV or a similar system. This would make it possible to vote for "minor" candidates while still having an impact of which of the "major" candidates gets in, but it would not, even a little tiny bit, stop the election being decided by the results in a small number of swing states. It would certainly not mean that "all states would suddenly be roughly equally important".

The solution downandout is proposing is not at all like the solution cletus is proposing; the two did not arrive at "the same conclusion" and the difference between them is not only one of words.
You're just translating the problem one level, you're not actually addressing the root problem. The problem isn't that money is allowed to be spent in elections, or even that corporations can outspend individuals or truly grass roots organizations (unions are a big part of the top political donors, for example). Ultimately, buying a TV spot or radio advertisement does not constitute "buying" a vote.

The problem is that the whole system is too shallow. And that starts at the electorate and extends to political pundits and the media. If you magically sucked money out of the system tomorrow then we'd be absolutely no better off. Neither individuals nor the media would suddenly decide that it's important to discuss the real issues and be open and honest. No, it would still be the same old popularity/celebrity contest and the same old "gotcha" game.
On iOS a system could be build to support some form of hot code swapping. Reason being that application can load NSBundle objects at runtime and NSBundles can contain (among other things) executable code.

Sadly, Apple doesn't allow apps to use this in release versions, as apps could more easily exploit potential flaws in the system this way, since one could bypass Apple's approval process.

More info on NSBundles here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Cocoa...

Apparently a more "low-level" approach is possible as well, but again not allowed by Apple: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10509453/250164
I'd like to have a video mixer implemented in puredata on one machine and route that video output via ethernet to a second machine into quartz composer and/or Resolume Avenue.

The purpose is a two person VJ setup where the output of one person can be used as input for the second person.

Currently digging into pdp_i/pdp_o and trying to somehow pipe a gem chain through pdp to the second machine where I'd pick it up with pd_syphon for usage in any Syphon ready software.
This would be much much helpful if you had a single timer ticking and would check to see which callbacks it should call on every tick. I would think the goal would be to minimize the amount of timers you have on a page.
I like the graph, but it's a pity that the weighted version is not available :(. It was the first thing I looked for. It's more difficult to explain, but it much more useful that only counting the number of branches.

(I don't mind if it would use only the naive approach and just multiply the probabilities. But it could be a problem if the final probabilities are very different when they are estimated with the correct method and the naive method.)
Is this an application for students and you are a student on the campus? And is the funding from the school or something else? If you can tie it into the school, perhaps you could host the server on school resources in their datacenter. At my school, the campus Linux mirror was actually run by a student group, and just colo'd in the IT datacenter.

If this is something that you're developing on your own and you're trying to build traction, you could also host it on your own computer on your internet connection. For as much as anyone needs it to be up until you're making money, that's fine.

You could start off with a cheap VPS or the free tier on heroku or Amazon aws and see how it goes.
Thanks for this awesome twitter account.
Yeah it's not easy getting people to create content. I hope you succeed! What I meant was to hide the summaries by default but have a button or 'more...' link that reveals them inline which is quicker than navigating to another page.
Is this actually for all 150M users? I guess they really want crawlers to go the shortURLs easier...
Well that's a problem with culture, I guess. Once you get used to a decent tiling WM (I'm using herbstluftwm at the moment), they're absolutely fantastic and useful. I think the experience easily competes with OSX, maybe not on ease of use, but definitely on usefulness once there's some investment.

It's like people using GUI applications for things when they really aren't necessary. I'm constantly helping out people who are using, for instance, the GitHub Git client (which is great), because it abstracts away the logic of using a system and creates more issues itself.

We're not really talking about average day-to-day users here, we're talking about technical people (like Linus Torvalds), so the ability to spend time investigating a new paradigm isn't unreasonable.
I'm glad you perceived the humor in my comment. Sorry for the bad word.
You are combining two concepts here, though the overall point is a good one:

1. The starting current of a motor, which is higher due to multiple factors (e.g. no back emf, "starter winding" current, charging motor starter capacitors, etc.).

2. The concept of power factor, which represents the fraction of in-phase current traveling in the circuit (i.e. the current actually performing mechanical work)

Generators give output ratings in KVA to reflect the total amount of power that they can source from their prime mover without no consideration of power factor. Most larger generators also give a "real" power rating in watts that de-rate for the power factor. See this small commercial genset as an example:
http://www.multiquip.com/multiquip/DCA45SSKU.htm

Only the current and voltage that are in phase perform work on the device under power. If the power factor is 1 (i.e. completely in phase) then the KVA and KW ratings would be the same. This, as you say, is the case for purely resistive loads.

For loads with a reactive component, there is a current fraction that remains in quadrature is bounced back and forth between the source and the load. Since real world conductors and generator windings also have ohmic resistance, the quadrature current fraction is partially dissipated as heat, and lost outright.

Many municipalities mandate a certain power factor for the industrial customers. Typically 0.9 or greater. This is to minimize the ohmic losses in transmission lines from the reflected quadrature current. Industrial facilities are typically inductive in nature, because of the large number motors. So, at the outlet of the facility they will install some shunt capacitance to offset the phase angle of the motors inductive character and bring the current back in phase.

The worst-case power factor I've ever personally seen was on cruise ships. Since those things are essentially one giant mechanical plant (motors galore), and have multi-megawatt electric propulsion they have a power factor of 0.7, or even slightly less!
This is a good indicator of Obama's chances: http://election.princeton.edu/history-of-electoral-votes-for....

Barring external events, you can probably put a fork in it.
Or even worse, needing to cancel one pending callback but not another. No amount of syntax can save you from the difficulty of races and rollbacks.
> have never actually done any of this

I spent 3+ years on my startup without being able to secure funding, getting by, fully commited [1]. I wanted to succeed really bad, but made too many mistakes from the get go and ran out of time/money eventually. To reflect on the topic of discussion, when evaluating why my startup failed (or another one succeeded), whether the founders wanted it bad enough is not a good core metric, which is what the grandparent claims.

[1] http://github.com/scalien/scaliendb
Can we please stop making generalizations about women in tech and go back to discussing and upvoting articles about technology again?

Signed,
a female developer
AFAIK its only advantage was 3D authoring support, and Flash has that too now, so I see no reason to continue using it at all.
Not even close to 150M:

$ curl http://www.linkedin.com/sitemap.xml | grep -c '<url>'
47785

I wonder why were these selected. Probably the most searched.
Disk Utility (Fusion Version)— Cannot Handle Two Internal Drives in Mac Mini
They might want to consider using sitemap index files: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index

Edit: "If you want to list more than 50,000 URLs, you must create multiple Sitemap files." According to 'icebraining' they have 47785 urls.
Turn your creative portfolio into a marketing machine.
And yet they keep saying Europeans have nothing to worry about and they shouldn't fear the Patriot Act if they keep their data on the servers of US companies. Yeah, right.
All I see is an iPad mini.
Most likely security.

While this is handy for development work, the temptation to leave it in the final version ("Hey, it works now, why 'fix' it?") would be pretty high.
I think you're failing to take into account the author's thesis that an idea not put into action within a reasonable time frame "rots". From my reading of the article, this happens either because i) so much navel-gazing, planning and refining goes into the idea over time that it becomes intimidating to actually start, or ii) the idea is simply on-hold perpetually, and is never actually realized.

In other words, I don't think the author is saying "something now is better than something later". I think he's saying "something now is better than nothing later", or at least, "the certainty of something now is better than the slim possibility of something later".
Memory Efficient String Compression in C#
Just pushed out a few changes. You can now see all words plus filter based on word length.
Meta: The article itself is wrong as it was pointed out here. However, I learned a lot from the discussion around it. Should I upvote the submission or not?
I recently bought 2 different sites that makes some cash with adsense passively every month, problem is that they're written with horrible PHP code I can't stand, so the first couple of month I will concentrate to convert these to sites to Python/Django.
Internal Links – Only The First Link Counts in Google?
scroll down - it's the text in the footer, and the corresponding link.

it's simple, reasonable and, as far as i can tell, accurate. i have no idea why they did anything else earlier.

well, that's not true. i actually do have an idea. and it's related to wider issues i see in the us elections, and here on this site. it seems that, more and more, it is acceptable to simply shout one side of an opinion. that's no longer the preserve of "attack groups" in presidential campaigns. everyone is doing it. everyone from presidential candidates to web site commentators.

it's like being a spin doctor is the new cool. people don't want to argue with nuance, or to balance opinions. they want to say something extreme to give "balance" to whatever the "other side" is saying (which is obviously a self-reinforcing spiral downwards).

public discussion, accomodation and compromise are completely out of fashion. we're left with polarised, unthinking shouting matches. it's a fucking mess.
Motorola Releases Source for GPS Watch
They already have it: http://www.linkedin.com/robots.txt
That correlation does exist, but surely it's influenced by the voting model.
It would be helpful if an editor could provide some kind of warning of this in the title.

My Netbook is still trying to open this over dialup, and xPUD has ground to a halt.
Gray-on-white on the very bottom of the page, just below the copyright information, ToS, privacy policy and all the other things people instinctively ignore unless they are specifically looking for such information. They did put it in a decent font-size, but I doubt many people not looking for it will notice it.
A colleague of mine who is 62 has, in 6 months, become incredibly effective in C#. He has learnt it faster, and his output is better than the 24 year olds who had to make the same switch.

He has been there and done it all: punch cards, assembly, VB6, managed a development team and worked for 20 years as a Project Manager.

He told me a few weeks ago that he never wants to retire. Work less - sure - but he doesn't want to stop. And with an ability like his, he won't need to.

In 30 years, when I'm 62, I want to be like him :)
3D Printers Are Not Like 2D Printers: A Rant
I agree. Open rates are a bit wonky. If your list is more or less static in size and domain distribution then looking at open rate deltas can be informative.

Regarding click rate, here's some cool research I got to do recently: http://blog.mailchimp.com/what-good-marketers-can-learn-from...
Many thanks. My plural-of-generator comment meant only that I am investigating for parents and friends too.

The smaller Honda 3000 (wheels are good) seems about right. 57 dB (A) is 1. advertised (hooray!) and 2. very acceptable. Ordering such beasts from the web gives me a case of the willies, hopefully I can find distribution nearby.

Thanks again for your answer.
Doesn't seem to work for me either on Windows 7 64bit.

Just installed direct X from microsoft's site, still no joy.
Crashes just after intro.

Any other libraries I might be missing?
Why Great Sign Language Interpreters Are So Animated
"Judgement" in the URL and link text, "Judgment" in the actual statement - does anybody proofread these changes?
To be fair to Apple, at least they made some form of effort this time, though it should really have been done this way first time around.
Found in robots.txt link to Sitemap: http://partner.linkedin.com/sitemaps/smindex.xml.gz
Ah, ok, strange that they have /sitemap.xml in addition to that then. I would assume any robot that would understand sitemap also understands that it can be specified in robots.txt
The pain in programming is that we have this 21st-century superpower but the only way we can make money is to suit 19th-century industrial masters who don't understand what's possible with technology. They just want us to point our magical tech wands at their existing machines and make them run faster. If we do this kind of thing for too long (and it's the only way to get a reliable income) we lose that "superpower" and become ordinary due to creative atrophy. Then we're fired and replaced by young idiots who think the all-nighters and low autonomy are paving the way to millions, and who will therefore tolerate more bullshit because they haven't seen yet that all the suffering leads nowhere.

Markets and capitalism are supposed to fix this fundamental problem (archaic, stupid leadership) by reallocating resources where they can be best put to use, by this isn't a problem that mere computation (as in a market) can solve. The problem is that power is held by the wrong fucking people, most of whom are total imbeciles with no vision, and the runaway feedback loop where power and wealth beget same is too far gone for talent to break in and change things.

US-style corporate capitalism is an outright disaster but, while EU-style socialism makes life suck a lot less for average people, it doesn't solve the underlying problem either.

Eventually, the discrepancy between what's possible with technical creativity and what's being actually done out there will reach a critical point and, like an insulator breakdown, sudden and powerful change will happen. I have absolutely no idea when that will happen, though. We have to purge and recreate the whole industrial ecosystem in order to get to the kind of world that people like you and me want-- a world driven by creativity and challenging problems rather than subordination and nonsense.
Nice! What dictionary did you use? Do you know if it's the same one that LetterPress uses?

I've been thinking about coding a player for LetterPress. Longest word mixed in with some endgame logic would actually probably do fairly well against most players, but it'd be interesting to see what other strategies would come into play.
Incredible how bad a loser Apple is. If you're ordered to do something like this make it plain that you got the message.

So: Above the fold, in a font no lighter or smaller than the rest of the page. No tricks or gimmicks (resizing the ipad mini image? Popup links??) to hide the text.

All they're doing is to risk yet another do-over which will hit them in the middle of Christmas shopping.
AMQP 1.0 is now an OASIS standard
That's a lot of legalese mumbo-jumbo. They should have written in plain English: Samsung kicked our sorry arses. :-)