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You:

1) Appear to be the only one affected by it.
2) Don't have exact steps to reproduce it.

This makes it very difficult for anybody apart from you to work on the issue.

> nothing has been done about it.

From the bug, it looks like lots has been done about it.

> This worries me.

I think this is justified for you, but has little bearing on others. Software projects are full of bugs that only appear to affect one person. These bugs make little progress but don't necessarily reflect on the general quality of the software. Admittedly it is more of a concern on something like a filesystem, but I am still skeptical.
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How have you been brainwashed into that being acceptable?
As I understand it, even if the builder is wrong and they can't sell at 500k (there are only 200k buyers), affordability still suffers.

Why? Because the developer won't sell the first flat for 200k even if that turns out to be the highest achievable sale price, because it would mean immediately having to write down the market value of the other 199. (A paper loss of 200 * 300k, not just the one lot of 300k). That's going to mean the flats sit there unsold for a long time, while the developer holds out hope of finding high value buyers that don't materialise.

Net upshot, for a significant period the developer has reduced the available housing by twelve 200k flats (the replacement two hundred are effectively not available for sale at the going rate).
5 years? How quickly we forget our history.

The Treo 180 was released in 2002. You connected to the internet by essentially dialing a modem over the cell phone network. It had a built in web browser.

And GPRS showed up in 2000/2001 and was arguably the real beginning of mobile data.
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Surely if Psy condones piracy, the RIAA should be going after him with their black helicopters, ricin umbrellas and polonium pills. Wait, I've confused them with the NKVD, haven't I? Ah well, it'll do.
It comes from the term "disruptive innovation":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation

"A disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market."

So the thing being 'disrupted' is the old way of doing things, the old telcos, the old money markets etc.
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fwiw acquihire means fb gets your investors some money back and you get a decent offer when Craigslist sues you and things go south. as car search is not particularly relevant to social media, we were pretty happy to turn over the IP to Ark as another Cal grad search company and can't wait to see what they do with it.
Indeed - I can imagine, with so many english keywords everywhere. The code I've seen from developers who speak other languages tends to be in english, with comments in their language - frequent use of google translate to understand what's going on! :)
They make them in china for $50

Anybody who stops to think about it for a little while probably marvels far more at the technology and innovation that actually makes it possible to build such a device for a mere $50.
Would there be money in machine vision to recognize fixed-layout outliers on regular patterns (i.e., fallen chips on the carpet) and scouring casino floors for a night?
Thank you, American man!
Although I had the same initial reaction, in the comments he explains he willfully used malloc/memcpy/free to demonstrate the underlying behavior.
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Almost all top-grossing apps nowadays are IAP games. I'd say these are the natural successors of subscription scams on J2ME dumbphones. If you'd allow these companies to bill you through their website, you could probably forget about ever cancelling that subscription again.
I think the author would have written a rather different article had they appreciated that not all humans experience gender in such a clear-cut and binary way.
Does anybody know the name of the song in the first trailer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_...!

I have checked the page of Zoe Blade, but do not think the music is featured on here list. thank you.
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If it's a serious bug, you can request an "Expedited App Review"[1] that can take between hours or a couple days.

If you abuse it though, I think they'll ignore you from that point on :)

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/appstore/contact/appreviewteam/i...
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I think you can even point out the url in plain text, like

"Subscribe by visiting www.myapp.com/iphone/subscribe"

(i.e., no link - user has to type that in Safari herself)
I did not mean to imply you were suggesting something negative. Quite the contrary. I meant your positive view was a helpful antidote to my personal experiences.
I've been using VLC for years... time to contribute back.

Cheers guys
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This is why I said "modern smartphone". The windows mobile phones were always a niche product for tech-savvy people and the blackberry was always highly optimized for people who cared about being able to access email 24/7 for business reasons.
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Which probably means Apple is not scared of its competition at all. Otherwise they'd be happy to have Office on their tablets...
Being one of the really classics, this papers is now too old and the techniques almost obsolete (non-executable stacks etc)
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Wow very nice. I want to read what it says but I have a hard time keeping the whole thing still! I have some wicked ideas for this.
I can see the potential here.

I guess the barrier to signups would be how useful is the site for visitors. Is the site useful in functionality? (the way quora.com is) Or more of a fun way to read light-hearted content? (the way 9gag is). To get the first 1,000 users, it might be useful to target a niche segment, rather than a catch-all segment.

Also, this site seems similar to quora.com. People ask questions on quora, whereas you are soliciting reasons. Yes, I can see how there is a slight differentiation here. So it might be useful to actuall really make it more explicit, probably through sample posts, what kind of content are you trying to capture here that makes you different from asking a question on quora.com.

Probably the content can be more compelling. Asking questions like "why I should exercise?" may not really interest the average visitor. I probably already expect more than half the answers there. More compelling content could be questions like "why are people allowed to carry guns in the states?". And then users can try to frame these questions in the reasons2-esque style: "Reasons for allowing guns in the states". Such content sounds a lot more compelling, and might motivate users to sign up and participate in such a 'forum' of sorts.

There certainly is potential. But the differentiation from websites like quora has to be deliberate here. That's my two cents, hope it helped.
It is kinda impossible today (compared to golden days of iPhone OS 3.1 - I must've freed a good 50 iPod touches back then (for my friends)!). You have to wait a few months after any major or even point release, and jailbreaking new devices might take up to 7 months (I think that was the case for iPad 3)!
On the contrary, "Police" NOS no more means "American Police" than ".com" means "US commercial website". Similarly, from an international perspective, Apple is an Irish company. If you don't believe me, ask your local tax authority.
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Thanks for the pointer re: the kickfolio link. Kickfolio apparently "kicked" their app portfolio offering for devs (apparently without warning?). Bummer.
Presumably the parts of AOSP they modify are open sourced? Or do Chinese companies ignore licenses?
> even stuff that is considered a "poor subject" by conventional social norms. We're not that big on conventional social norms

Hmm, if you want to avoid conventional social norms, then NOT talking about porn on the internet is the way to go, I would say. The world is awash with people talking about porn.
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How long to follow-up?
I just recently started looking for my first full-time engineering position, and was wondering how long I should wait to follow up on leads.

Recently a startup I'm interested in contacted me through AngelList to talk about a position, so I quickly expressed my interest and the CEO got back to me pretty quickly. Unfortunately at the time I couldn't get on the phone to talk as he/she wanted to, so I told him that I would email him back when I had some more free time. Two days go by and I finish up a client project so I email him back to have that conversation.

It's been almost 4 business days and I haven't heard back. I'm hoping it just got buried in his inbox since I sent the email at 2AM, but am unsure. Should I follow up now, or wait longer to avoid looking creepy?
"So the thing being 'disrupted' is the old way of doing things, the old telcos, the old money markets etc."

I know that. And that's why saying "disrupting Africa", instead of "disrupting old African telcos", is silly/stupid. Good we cleared that up.
It's up to judges to decide if they have broken the law and if it's an actual commercial.

You can't just claim an advert is a parody and get away with it, it has to be an actual parody.
"But if you're looking for a female..."
The PSY scandal: singing about killing people v. constantly doing it
This dates from November 1996
next version will include collision detection (when to elements colide some custom DOM event will be thrown), so we can start to implement simple (to complex) game logic into the DOM as well.
(a) It's easy to reproduce. There are exact steps in the bug and in the mailing list thread. In fact, the steps are so simple I'll tell you what they are: (1) Run mkfs.btrfs, (2) Run any btrfs command on the filesystem. Put (1) + (2) into a shell script so they run immediately after each other. Put a loop around it so it tries over and over again. Bang => data corruption.

(b) It's a data corrupter. That should be an immediate "stop everything" red flag (for a serious filesystem at least).

Edit: Rereading this comment, I sound like I'm being very negative about btrfs. I just want to say that I really want btrfs to work, because it's based on very sound principles. I've also offered to help immediately testing any proposed patches for this bug.
At 100 million, it'll be closer to 45% than any other bracket.
Probably not, at least when Apple says "Hey, we sold Xmillion copies of Mountain Lion" you know that they're pretty much talking about how many people have installed it. Same with Android and iOS when they talk about how many activations they've seen, as a developer you instantly get the number of users you're going to potentially have as an audience. Juicing the numbers is not going to woo developers who can see right through it.
> If including a more reasonable plan for higher priced purchases allowed a greater volume into the store, then that could help make up the difference.

As the old saying goes, if you lose money on each sale, you can't make it up in volume. If it is indeed true that Apple makes no or very little money from the App Store, it would require a huge, order-of-magnitude-shift, 10x, 100x, in purchase behavior to translate into raising $2b.

> I also question the assumption that they continue to need this level of revenue.

You and I can sit in our comfy chairs and question it, but unfortunately neither of us are in a position to run app stores, and the people who do don't provide a lot of transparency about how much it really costs. I do think if it was possible to do it for less, that Amazon or Google would undercut Apple (Amazon, in particular, has an incentive to run their store below cost). Seeing as how they don't, I'm inclined to believe 30% is very close to the actual cost.

I also think that solving the multinational billing/legal problem is much more difficult than many developers realize. The iOS app store recently opened in Chad, which is consistently ranked as one of the most difficult countries to do business with according to several international organizations [1]. Forget "formalities" like it taking 63 days to start a business or an effective tax rate of 65% that takes 732 hours per year to calculate [2], and worry about "informalities" like the government officials openly soliciting bribes to get electricity turned on to your office. Or try operating in India, where it takes 1,420 days to enforce contracts [3] or in the Congo where it costs 7x what it does in a Western country to import a shipping container [4]. I have customers in all of these countries through the iOS app store.

I bring up the cost of doing business in foreign countries, not only because it's expensive, but also because it's the factor to which Apple attributes its 2011 App Store growth. In a SEC-audited filing, the line item including the app store went up "primarily [due] to increased net sales from the iTunes Store, which was largely driven by App Store expansion into new countries that contributed to strong growth in all of the Company’s geographic segments." Basically, Apple's growth in the App Store is driven mostly by selling the product of first-world payment transactions to second and third-world countries. For this reason, the legal and accounting infrastructure behind Apple's various stores are probably among the most complex business processes that exist anywhere in the world.

[1] http://rru.worldbank.org/BESnapshots/Chad/default.aspx
[2] http://www.doingbusiness.org/Custom-Query/chad
[3] http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/india/#en...
[4] http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/congo-rep...
[5] http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/2215124066x0x610...
I don't know about other systems, but on Plan 9, where UTF-8 was invented, troff handles it just fine:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/1/troff
One strange thing about the house prices is that people can opt out, especially in the US. You don't have to live in expensive places. You can live in perfectly nice places where house prices are 30%. One would have thought that the internet would have eased some pressure on the most desirable addresses, but the discrepancy seems to be getting sharper.

Another way of putting it is that if house prices are harming innovation, you would see more entrepreneurship in lower cost of living locations.
Why is psychoanalysis a problem in the humanities? Humanists aren't doing brain surgery. American psychology departments don't give them clinical psychology PhDs.

Psychoanalysis isn't popular because it gives an accurate depiction of reality. It's popular for an opposite reason. It helps talk about things that aren't present in the world. How do you propose the laboratory to account for that?
I think the Lego Girl products are unfairly maligned. They're not Technics or MindStorms, but from what I can tell they have similar amounts of building as similar Lego sets for that age group.

And my 7 year old daughter, who loves pink but also has a punch bag, loves them.
No, more like arguing for something. Then you can agree, or argue against it. Neat, huh?

If you're unable to argue against something, but resent it anyway, you may project your wish to dictate your conclusion even though you don't have the arguments for it. But people rarely do that ^^
It isn't, because apparently you cannot advertise payment options in any way ... so a link to a web page where you can buy storage or where you can purchase features and so on is not allowed. Even though the app itself is just a gateway to an online service that exists outside the iTunes Store. And even though you make it impossible for the user to purchase anything by using said device, telling them something like "go to a desktop to make purchases".

I have Google Drive installed on my iPad. In my profile it does say how much storage I have left, but provides absolutely no link or hint on if I can or how I could increase that storage.
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Yes, that's where it started. :-)
It's perfectly normal, or should be, to present ones opinion in a discussion without having to endure rhetorical questions. I'm pretty feed up with all the nitpicking here, this isn't a literary forum, if you have an opinion express it.
$50 Android smartphones are enhancing the lives of millions, maybe?

Why don't you give up all internet/communication access and tell us how much of an impact it has on your life (yes that includes any laptop/pc at home).

Or do you think African people are special & different from us Western people and don't have the same desires?
That's a great solution and a great starting point for further optimizaion in the future.

As mentioned here before, I was surprised to see that this is no shipping/inventory solution for small businesses. I've searched a lot and all I can find is high end solutions for large enterprises.
Why vim and not emacs? Why OS X and not Debian? We all have the tools that we end up using, when we end up using them. When I first came across Bootstrap it was at a time when there was plenty of people using LESS as well as SASS, it's only as time has gone on that people have started using SASS more, but there's still plenty of people I know that use LESS as well.

There's plenty of SASS based forks now though, so the community uses the tools as it can.
Again, I'm fine with that. Now what?
The circumstances which lead to that are probably pretty complex

The main one being the massive desire and need of human beings to communicate with each other, and to feel empowered about their lives. Don't downplay that, there is nothing irresponsible about that.
Except the $8m figure included iTunes sales too.

Source: TFA.
Do you think VLC will be the better for it?
That would be incredible. When do we think it will be able to do that?
A non-profit with $15b in total assets and endowments.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/institute-endowment-figur...
Depends what you mean "having electricity". Here's 3 cases: (a) Have electricity at home (b) No electricity at home, but have access to charge a phone at a shop/workplace/friend/neighbour (c) None of the above.
But what if somebody invented some kind of flexible and detachable tubular device, perhaps housed in a durable rubber, that contained some type of metal filament that was capable of transmitting electrical signals from A to B?
Looking at a usual Lego Girl package it reminds me far more of Playmobil sets than Lego.

For example, there is no 25-step manual like there is for the cool spaceships, police stations, or castles that my 7-year old son gets to work through...

My 5-year old daughter loves pink as well and might love Lego Girl, but I prefer getting her "normal legos" to help her come up with her own creations, even if she then does make little wedding ceremonies and what have you. :)
The main thing they get access to is the Internet. That's a massive thing right there.
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Internet access. That's the killer app for smart phones.
Property protection is amusingly tenuous when you expand the playing field to the entire globe. In my opinion; live minimalist and have insurance for what you have. Has worked for me through Vietnam and Thailand and I am about to try Cambodia.
Your analysis is incorrect because having to spend 25k + inflation 30 years from now is not the same as spending it today. To calculate properly, future expenditures need to be discounted according to return minus inflation compounded over the duration. So unless you're claiming that you can't safely get a return above inflation, his parents will come out ahead.
depends on the pull-requests and bug-reports that will hopefully start now (i want this code battle hardend for production use), they will take precedence over new features, but latest january / feb.
Somebody please make a bookmarklet out of this.
Or just "Psy makes $8.1 million and has ignored copyright infringements of Gangnam Style" which states the facts without putting a spin on it.
A) If you accept this argument premise, then you violate the assumption that PSY is "ignoring copyright infringement" in the first place. B) Using the music verbatim but changing only the video content to make a parody would probably not hold up as "fair use".
It was a shame that just as the cassette recorder/player was "perfected" (Dolby S) it was also made redundant by a brief flurry of new technologies (mini-disk, digital tape) and then finally killed off with cheap and cheerful mp3.

I still have one in the hi-fi rack but it is never used.
I don't understand... elaborate?
This was a pretty good presentation of two-phase locking, but I would have liked a discussion of the pros and cons of each approach.
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> Taking a 30% cut on a $100 purchase is not economically viable

The market for a $100 app isn't very large, and that price point is also a target for fraud / scams / accidental purchase complaints. This risk is offset by additional review scrutiny, but the cost for that additional scrutiny is amortized over a small number of potential customers.

The result of all this is that $100 purchases are expensive for Apple to run, and Apple as a rational actor should discourage them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the whole $50+ market runs at a loss that is covered by the cheaper apps.
Wasn't there a lot of "innovation" in jazz in the early days when it was very popular, because no one copyrighted their jazz songs? I remember watching something about this. I might've seen it in one of the Everything is a Remix videos:

http://www.everythingisaremix.info/everything-is-a-remix-par...
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What is wrong with gender stereotypes?

You must accept that our bodies are different. And we have different hormones. It is clear that there is an actual difference between the sexes.

Why do you have such a hard time accepting this? Gender stereotypes are perfectly normal because we are different.

What I do know is that male suicide rates are climbing. I'm not sure fuzzy gender roles have anything to do with it, but we can all make wild claims without a single scientific article to back it up.