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> Never leave anyone behind

I've got a mix feelings about this. I've stumpled on couple of cases where this would have been the "right thing" to do. Basically there was one person on the team who really didn't come along with the rest of the team. To top of this, the team also had some preassure from the management :) The combination caused heated conversations and then it escalated to a point that no one talked to the one person. Fast forward a year or so, couple of guys left the team before management decided to transfer the one person to
Does Lucene need the same Analyzer instance when indexing and when searching?
I remember someone telling me that certain areas around/near Palo Alto were considerably cheaper, yet all I see is red/dark-red.

Was that BS or is this map wrong?
> It's purely marketing BS.

It's worse than that. SSL certificates are simply just another racket, and they're a lot more expensive than domain names.

There is no added value from having a certificate from some authority or other beyond the knowledge that your bits are encrypted, the checks performed (even for the high end ones) are perfunctory and users put far more trust into little lock icons or green bars than is warranted.

That said, if your cert provider is hacked it can be a real pain.
Price is only part of the story. Because of rent control laws in SF, prices aren't the signals of demand/scarcity they normally are. Showings for average apartments (in older buildings) in SF often have dozens of qualified applicants showing up, making them crapshoots.
> Not quite sure what they're getting at there.

It's not like they have a choice. Since MPEG-2 is covered by patents (which are underwritten by customs, police and eventually armies), they cannot really provide an MPEG-2 capable product without permission from the patent owners.

And those patent owners demand $2/chip or so; So RPi, instead of passing it on to all users, whether they need it or not, pass it through only to those who are interested. It's >5% of the cost for the Model B, and >8% of the cost of the Model A. I'm sure if they included it as part of the base, there would be people outraged that they did as well.

Despite the best intentions, limited resources and (despite what some people who have no experience with actually producing and selling hardware think) spectacular success - there will always be people who think they can do better. To those people I say: I'm here to cheer for you when you actually do. Until then, I will join Eben in ignoring you (or even Liz in mocking you silly)
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IMHO you might want to reassess your idea of success.
Having a great family life, bringing up children, enjoying each day. Those are good measures of success.
Learn something and have a good time?
MS has a history of just not 'getting' it with Windows.

-- Win 95 almost killed AAPL (ie, it was like the 4th version, not the first)
You don't know where to find the backtick on your keyboard?!
Dani Fong was allowed to stop going to normal school at around age 12, because she hated it to the bone and her parents listened. After that she went on to an alternative track that involved programming, horse back riding and community college and shortly after, a physics undergrad that took 5 years.

That's what I gathered from her history. I know of a bunch of people that could of been like that, but stuck to normal school and the pace that it sets with it's busy work and so on limited their potential. I think there is a lot of kids where you could just 'skip the bullshit' and put them in some sort of college degree but instead they flounder in a school system where they don't fit in and is not suited for them.

She started her own company because similarly, she really doesn't like being an employee.

http://daniellefong.com/about-the-author/
Oh, I agree with you! It's just sloppy wording on my part.
This is probably not going to please you but I've seen worse than this. In production, at companies with big names. Programmers in isolation (no oversight or capable peers) will do the most terrible things.

And on a more positive note: he did write that code, is looking for help from people more capable and eventually will likely figure it out. Check back in a decade or so how he's doing, likely you'll be surprised. Writing terrible code and learning from it is a lot better than not writing code at all.

It's easy enough to forget that at some point in time we were all clueless newbies.
I'm guessing you live in the US...
I like image processing and cache pool feature in this JSFeat - really useful!
If you don't recognize the high privilege of working as an entrepreneur in the first world for 10 years, you are just clueless. There are people starving to death because of the first world economic policy that you advocate, or at least that you perpetuate.

I'm not an Occupier. I advocate meritocracy. And meritocracy doesn't happen when you deny opportunity to the majority through economic policy that keeps the plutocracy entrenched.

Occupy is a great example of how sad the underclass is. Look at how pathetic they are. They are completely irrational and lost and have no idea what to even do. Of course, they're just sheep. But if the Goldman Sachs of the world keep growing the numbers of that herd (and all signs point to yes) then eventually there will be enough sheep for a Fuhrer to come along and point them at the enemy.

BTW, pg doesn't bother yelling at anyone here.
They still can, no one is stopping them! All they have to do is compile ffmpeg in software only mode. It would be dog slow, but it's what you are after.

They are optimizing for the British education market, not for some ideal libertarian education market in Somalia that can ignore patents.

And licensing agreements are a bitch. It might be against Broadcom's license with MPEG-LA to give enough info about implementing MPEG-2 regardless of jurisdiction.
If you simply ignore the Metro thing and use the desktop, I find Windows 8 better the Windows 7 in every way.
You're arguing the old maker versus taker canard, which doesn't reflect reality at all. Taxation would not exist without the consent of a large number of economically productive taxpayers. If you think politics in the United States is run by poor people, or by mysterious forces that somehow nullify and overcome the economic power of a preponderance of American taxpayers, you are kidding yourself. You'd be better off engaging with American taxpayers who want the government to play a certain role and want to pay for it than pretending we don't exist. If you persist in believing that government is a conspiracy by parasites against the productive, then you are going to be perpetually confused and disappointed by American politics. Warren Buffet is trying to help you out, to clue you in to the fact that the politics surrounding government spending and revenue are not determined by the economic divisions you think they are. Accept that a large number of prosperous Americans (such as Warren Buffet) are willing taxpayers who approve of many forms of government spending, and I promise you, things will become a lot clearer. You might even be able to frame your arguments in a form that a presidential candidate wouldn't have to apologize for repeating.
What about StartSSL at $60 for two years for wildcard and multiple domains?

https://www.startssl.com/?app=40

Multiple Domains (UCC)
Wild Card Capability

Supported by all modern browsers.
I''l give you an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Italian.svg

edit: a couple of funny things for italian keyboards, if you are a programmer or use linux/unix: there is no backtick, there is no tilde, '/' is shift-7, '/' and '?' are on different keys, '{}' are on altgr-shift-è.
He mentions that biting off more than you can chew is bad, but all the times I've done well at hackathons, we've always felt like we were doing exactly that up until the last hour or two. Then we figured out the hard technological stuff and everything came together.

Crowd pleasers (movement, participation, vision, sound, lights) seem to do really well, generally.

There seem to be two directions you can take: solving a problem or being creative. E.g a scheduling app vs an online game. Sometimes being creative is easier to be flashy with. And as long as it's demonstrably technologically difficult, it can win.
This is a big issue. Annuity != Perpetuity. Its much harder to build the latter.
I've tried to sign up a few times and I've never been able to, either my browsers crashed or timed out forever. I believe they also offer free SSLs
One of the most annoying things about the metro interface is how they forced such a drastic change even on Server 2012. Metro may in fact turn out to be more usable some day but when we have work to do, we don't have time to play around with new toys. I recently had to get a 2012 server up and running quickly, but spent half my time learning all the secret and completely unnatural hovering places and clicks. I hate to admit it, but I actually had to Google how to restart in 2012.
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Given current costs its possible that the N4 is being sold at cost rather than at a loss, but again this is a halo phone meant to show how good Android can be, just like car companies launch halo supercars that are hardly profitable but make the brand stand out more.
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I agree, although having one from a trusted authority is better than not having one. And customers come to expect that you have SSLs installed. Never mind if the data at rest is actually encrypted..
Yes they definitely should have added the concept of going back.
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http://i45.tinypic.com/ljwnl.jpg

I read this comic when I was a child. I was appalled by the cruelty of this scene. It was about illegal artifacts from different time but I it really comes to mind when I'm reading the story of that girl today.
The educational goal of actually getting a usable product out? Your snide remarks about them being a PR stunt for broadcom do not change the facts that they are working with very little resources, and have actually delivered on what they have promised (and then some), with a delay that's comparable to many for-profit vendors.

And further - you may dislike Liz' handling of things. SO DON'T BE THEIR USER!. Linus Torvalds is about a hundred times worse to his users and fellow developers on public mailing lists. And you know what? He's gotten more and better stuff done thanks to that, compared to any polite project manager I've ever known.

Liz/RPiFoundation (and Linus) may antagonize people here and there - but I suspect that thanks to how they handle things, I think the gain (in users that can afford or find the product useful) to pain (antagonized user/developer) is well above 1,000:1 (perhaps even 100,000:1) which makes it totally justified - in fact, the preferred course of action.

edit: better wording.
What's funny is that moving away from full screen apps was the entire premise of windows in the first place, not to mention the reason for its name. We did full screen apps in the 80's and hated it back then too.
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Their site has them at $149 (single domain certs are $49). StartSSL offers the wildcard ones at $59. Like Comodo, not everyone trusts them (however, browsers do). Would be delighted to learn of a cheaper wildcard cert.
Way more information than is actually remembered : What must you remember of the song to be able sing it in the shower after one hearing? Maybe add the air guitar and other instrumentals after a few more hearings...

Quick : Think of that internet song with the Korean guy doing the horsey dancing. Heard it a few times? What's the third verse like?

We're not talking anything like lossless compression : Kind of the opposite.
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I see a different picture. One where they're desperately trying to kick-start their mobile plaform, so they're unapologetically shoving it under the noses of as many customers as possible, and the only way they can see to do this, is by shipping it as the interface of Windows.

Once they've got app developers making enough apps for the mobile platform to have a viable evosystem, they can uncouple it from Windows desktop somewhat.
The margin isn't just for profit. Buying potential manufacturing capacity and options for parts is also much easier with a higher retail price.
A distributed, transactional graph database like Titan (http://thinkaurelius.github.com/titan/) would be a more natural fit for modeling a social graph.

See http://thinkaurelius.com/2012/08/06/titan-provides-real-time...
http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/6/28/3122811/nexus-7-manufac...

The Nexus 7 is sold at cost according to Google.
Surely vitess (http://code.google.com/p/vitess/) would be one. Written by and for YouTube. (I haven't looked at that code too closely though.)
One thing I actually have trouble with is not being able to exit an application. You can tell me all you want that idling in the background uses few resources, but sometimes I would rather just exit. I blame Steve Jobs for that one, damn you Steve Jobs!
that is, a wildcard SSL
> What I am more intersted in is how can content producers be fairly rewarded

Well, the rest of the entertainment industry isn't so keen on this.
> It isn't the only kid on the block doing what it is doing, even when you consider price,

Can you point to others in the price range ($35) that come close? And from your intro above, I would guess "what it is doing" includes GPIO?
Yes, even RSA had it's share of breaches. From a customer perspective, it'll show the lock even on mobile devices, which I've found others to be lacking in (looking at you, RapidSSL)
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I am inclined to dismiss the language for this:

i++
Eventually this will just make people transfer to, for example, I2P torrents or something.

It takes one good effort that bundles the I2P codebase, the required plugins and an I2P BitTorrent client such as Robert into a single application that just launches with one click of the mouse and without any further configuration needed and provides a browser view to the I2P torrent trackers as well as the BitTorrent client itself (or the equivalent hops for some other onion style network) and you're pretty much set for genuinely anonymous BitTorrent masses.

These systems, such as I2P and Tor, are designed to be resilient against oppressive governments so the MAFIAA just don't have a chance if the traffic goes underground. What next? MAFIAA would try to make it illegal to use your computer for anything else than connecting to pre-approved websites with MAFIAA approved browsers? Gimme a break.
Apple definitely didn't start as a B2B company. They sold computers to individuals, and if businesses happened to buy, that was fine too. Apple had some limited success in the educational market in the 1980s, but PCs dominated the business market (and still do.)
> Some protected groups do worse on average on such tests.

Are those the same protected groups which tend to not have degrees or other certifications? Because "ban the IQ test, ask for a degree" might have a similar effect.
Aww, you managed to be offensive inside a compliment. Cute.
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I can also answer that as I've a fair bit of Rails experience. This time, we built our API using nodejs/expressjs for the first time, so we had to learn it plus the ins and outs of handling user login, sessions, CORS and a lot of small things Rails does for you. So we wouls probably have been faster with Rails.

If we need to build another product from scratch again though, we'll definitely be faster with nodejs. I understand that nodejs programming seems strange/hard to do in a non-spagetthi way to some people, but really, after a few months it is not hard.
Steve Jobs thoughts on life
It's supposed to be a new "BBC Computer". The excitement is trivial if you had ever used one (or it's peers of the era, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amstrad CPC or Oric Atmos -- though the BBC was head and shoulders above the rest when it came to learning to program and tinker). If you haven't - it might take a while to explain (and I'm not going to try in the HN comment box - read about the BBC Master, watch the show "Micro Men", and read about the history of Acorn and ARM if you are interested).

I think it can be summed us thusly: RPi is a project by people who grow up during the golden time of British personal computing - who are trying to reestablish the magic.
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> I was appealed by the cruelty of this scene.

I'm pretty sure you were appalled, not appealed.
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I thought rent control only applied to existing tenants, and landlords could charge whatever they like for new tenants?
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I agree that retention is a key metric in a time when everyone is talking about growth. Retention isn't going to be sustainable for apps that aren't core utilities. The biggest problem in mobile is the amount of resources invested in developing apps that just clearly aren't core utilities.

Photos (Instagram), messaging (SMS, Beluga, Twitter, etc.), voice, maps (Foursquare?), email, web browsing (Chrome), and music (Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, etc.) are the only core utilities right now in my view. Notice the omission of video (too early) and games (trends and time wasters).

The only exception I can think of is Uber, an episodic utility that is doing very well. I'm sure there are others.

http://cdixon.org/2012/05/21/four-use-cases-for-mobile-apps/
Someone yell at me if I am wrong (self taught - with all the ups and downs implied), but to me these are not good names. A few points on this:

* 'code-as' is a bit of a strange statement as it implies two-steps from an original object - as you are taking something encoded ('code') and translating it to something else ('as').

* 'code-as-text' should be 'code-as-representation' at least (you needn't represent anything as text if you dont want to - it could be coloured geometric shapes...)

* I don't understand what 'code-as-procedure' means either. Is this an abstract-syntax-tree or just platform-executable-code?

* 'code-as-data' is meaningless because everything is data, both the text and procedure... Does the OP mean something platform-executable? Or something within a type system?

Good topic to launch discussion on though....
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Had similar problems with RapidSSL (not the wildcards, the regular ones) and it turned out you have to include a cross root CA that chains to a Geotrust intermediate CA (my terminology may not be quite right, but it certainly worked for me). Its been a while since I did it but there's a pointer on how to get it done here: http://support.servertastic.com/rapidssl-and-geotrust-certif...
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A few tens of KB usually, and can be compressed to just a few KB.
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1. Set up a booth outside Yankee Stadium, display the Boston map, and sell coal-powered anything.

2. Repeat at Fenway Park with the NY map.

3. Profit!
Parts of East Palo Alto are cheaper (but not necessarily somewhere you'd want to live...) but this is broken down by zip code, which isn't granular enough to show major differences (though you can see the Palo Alto area is very dark red compared to everything around it.
If the number of people on the internet isn't growing (and it has pretty much plateaued in the US, at least), and there are more competitors, then yes, I would say consumer is "getting harder." Good ideas will always buck the trend, of course, but I think there is going to be some consolidation in this space.
The "debacle" is in the way the back orders were handled, not in the fact that it sold out in the first place.
In terms of this, I've thought of a joke to get people more aware of global warming.

Sell a piece of land a few kilometres in for a lot of money, citing it's major benefit as future beachfront property (put ads in local paper, etc). If anyone actually decides to buy it at that price, cover your losses and donate the rest to WWF or Charity:Water.
Google hasn't stated how many units they have sold, unfortunately.

There was a post on XDA developers from a guy claiming to work at the US UPS shipping centers that stated that Google shipped out 17,000 units for the US launch (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=34430979&...). Whether that figure is accurate or not is anyone's guess.
LG must be making a profit on it, otherwise why would they do it?
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What percentage of people who are not successful entrepreneurs but fit the other criteria i.e. middle or upper-class background, 40 years-old on average, high academic performance, are married and with children? Is it more or less than 60%?
StartSSL uses client side certificates to authenticate you. Last time I checked this only worked in Firefox. Perhaps that is the reason for your crashing.
I'm drawing a computer-sciencey blank on how to construct a proof (I should really browse through some old textbooks.) But intuitively, the first part of the constraint (the second is redundant) says that each employee must speak a language that each other employee does not. Taken for all employees, that constraint requires one unique language per employee. 70
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Sure; if consumers start buying lots of Nexus phones, presumably they're doing so in lieu of buying the flavor-of-the-month phones from Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, etc. And that's an incentive for those manufacturers to rethink their phone strategy, and figure out how to improve their lineup to cater to the type of people who purchase Nexus handsets.
Mmm. As others have said, developers solve their own problems. What I like is Developer To Designer.

Designers work with the same tools as us sometimes, and every day we make them trawl through the command line or install gems. It's fun to be able to solve problems that other developers have created for designers.
English is not my first language, yet I am sure I expressed myself clearly. I said it is subjective to say the USA are more destructive than China, not the other way 'round like you seem to have understood, or wanted to understand.
That's it. I'm doing a startup after med school.

...so what's the policy on using investment money to pay back loans?
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