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> Re: think tanks, isn't it something that even in supposedly less rigorous fields like, oh English literature, such upfront results-orientation would be considered the badge of unserious scholarship?

Nowhere near as fishy as how think tanks work, but how scientists and academics think about hypotheses is actually very complex and you'd be surprised at how often unserious scholarship is tolerated.

E.g. it's not uncommon to first write a paper and then tag on a hypothesis that just happens to agree with your conclusion, to change the hypothesis when your own research proves it to be wrong (it's hard to get research published about things that didn't work), or to try everything you can to prove a hypothesis, rather than to try and falsify it.
The important question: Besides writing text, how does it feel writing code? I'm very used to my english-setup apple keyboard, and I'm wondering whether coding is as pleasurable.
In addition to klochner's comment, this is why economists rely on exogenous variation. Any applied econometrician worth his or her salt would not say "the gas pedal has no effect", but that the data doesn't rule out the hypothesis that it does.
No, the book doesn't really focus on individual libraries (EF, MVC, etc.) as much as it just tries to focus on the language itself. I wanted to drive home the point that if you use C#, you can target all the major platforms :)
The market it cyclical, where it bubbles like it did in the .com boom, people try to push past the current technical limitations, some succeed in doing so while others are just too far ahead and the technology never materializes in a usable way. Take mobile for example, it's been around since the Apple Newton, but it took a whole lot of unrelated technologies maturing before it became the market it is today, along the way there where several mobile booms and busts. When the PDA was coupled with a phone and wireless access got to the speed of at least bearable, then the market finally saw the expansion some of the early believed was there but unable to get to.

This has happened with the PC, Internet, Mobile, Webification of Applications and now it's happening with infrastructure and SaaS. The market will stagnate again, just as it did after the .com bust, but that is the time in which the innovators work to tweak their ideas for the next big push.
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Oil at $60 or $120 Doesn’t Prevent U.S. Supplanting Saudis
We have a similar roundabout in Colchester where your driving instructor would take you if you were being cocky. It is actually incredibly easy to use if you treat it as a load of mini roundabouts.
I'm glad you posted this because I just realized Audiogalaxy does something very similar to the side project I'm working on. I want to solve the same problem of streaming music from a desktop (or, even better, a Raspberry Pi with large USB drive) to my laptop, tablet and phone on the go. It's just a personal scratch-an-itch project, but this suggests there's a market for such an app.

How well does their implementation work? Are you writing this in the past tense just because AG is likely to close soon, or did you already find a different solution?
Definitely don't agree that the voice is any better. I'm still impressed by the improvements we've made with synthesized speech (anyone remember the PowerPC AVs?), but both Google and Apple have work to do here and I actually prefer Siri to the voice on Google Maps. They both are really funny attempting to pronounce certain street names. There should be a feedback mechanism to help improve that.
Couchbase 2.0: This means war
The idea that markets usually produce a optimal outcome is certainly austrian ( examples for this is the washington consensus). On the other hand, there are serveral proposals from 2008 - 09 on the size of the stimulus, eg [1], which argue that a stimulus should be something like twice the size of the actual stimulus. ( And additionally bailing out car companies is not exactly Keynesian, since aggregate demand is not about one specific industry.)

[1]http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/the-story-of-the...
> If apple is able to partner with a company with better data, these types of problems should not be nearly as bad.

There is none. As far as I know, there are two major providers for map data. One is TeleAtlas, which is now owned by TomTom. The other one is Navtec from the US. TeleAtlas is considered slightly better in terms of quality, as far as I know.

Google Maps used to use a combination of both providers. However, now they also have their own data from street view cars in many places.
Hey - this is Dave Knox and I'm actually one of the co-founders of The Brandery.

First off, I'm glad you had a chance to stop by our program. Hopefully you saw the fact that we're trying to not just talk about it being great for technology entrepreneurship, but actually deliver against that as well.

Now, in terms of your point on support for business / startups, that is the very reason we started this program in 2010. We are at the beginning part of the journey but there is a real change happening in the town. If you ask any of the companies that have gone through our program, they will tell you that our support of them doesnt end when they graduate from the program. We can't help all of the companies in town, but we're there for the 26 that have gone through The Brandery and are making a real go of it.

Give me a shout (dave@brandery.org) and lets grab coffee. I'll share whats made me decide to make Cincinnati my home and a place where I really believe in the technology opportunities. We have a long ways to go but we've taken the first steps that I am confident will get us there.
I'm down the same road. For me the amount of time in Lua is negligible. Rendering is the long pole which is mostly off in the graphics card.
It may be a win in a similar way that the Chrome browser was a win. Google kicked browser competition into high gear in terms of performance and ACID compliance when they launched Chrome. Apple Maps may have had a similar effect. I hate to use "killer app" but a great GPS makes the phone a more valuable device.

I still have a standalone GPS in the car which we will definitely not need once we all upgrade to phones with turn-by-turn directions. I have relatives that pride themselves in not needing smartphones, but seeing turn-by-turn was very compelling.

My question which I haven't seen a definitive answer on is if Google had the ability pre-iOS 6 to do turn-by-turn? They already had it on Android. Were they slow on iOS, or were key APIs missing?
Startup Professionals Musings: Software Patents Have Become a Startup Nightmare
Offering a cash bounty like that seems to demonstrate a profound lack of understanding of how to go about pitching your idea.
Plugging into the Future of Humanity: Exploring the Human API
It is impossible to prove that there is any consistent dominant ideology. But to show that there are those advocating "Austrian" principals - look no further than the Republican think-tank AEI:

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/08/explaining-paul-ryans-austr...
I know but we are a really small team with our own code for UI behavior & rendering.
A Mac port will come but we have to finish the windows version first. ‒ᴥ‒
Apple has created and released loads of rubbish software over the years, but most people have forgotten much of it. Consider the short attention given to OS X Server / AWO, MobileMe, the ongoing security problems with Apple IDs, forcing people to have iCloud email addresses in order to sync the Notes app... not to mention the VERY long span of time where Windows absolutely kicked MacOS's butt in being able to multitask effectively.

Oh yeah, and iTunes. It's better-looking now, but it remains a monster. To call it sub-par would still be kind.
Couldn't you just use car/walking directions?
DIY cyborg cockroach
Nice job on the site design there. Feels clean, professional. I'm interested in learning more about the tools...will bookmark.
Is there any particular reason for the dickish tone? Are we in grade school?
If you need the user to visit the website of their intended destination to figure out how to search for it then you need to hit the drawing board.
kind of like Bauhaus style? I think that's where Metro was inspired from too
Awesome job! Loving the CSS Library section - http://roots.cx/css/
Technology issues that will shape privacy in 2013
What? Ruining nature and specifically groundwater with fracking and toxic chemicals is an "amazing breakthrough"?
Hey guys - project creator here. Would love to get any and all feedback - this project has been my passion for over a year and I'm super excited to finally release it!

Also, this website is open source in addition to the project. It's here on github: https://github.com/jenius/roots.cx
Title is misleading, $2,500 is payed to whoever gets Mark to contact businessleads.com
The first rule of Magic should perhaps become the first rule of 4Chan - "never do the same trick twice"
Embrace IPv6 but avoid migration risks
Okay thank you, I didn't really got that from the article, it makes a lot more sense now. As I see it now the author is saying using maths as an example that what the world needs is not programmers, but rather mathematicians, physicists, biologists, … who can make use of programming in addition to their field's knowledge to solve problems. This is true and I agree, but I'll add that to make programming advance as a tool for everyone to use, we also need computer scientists who can make use of programming in addition to their field's knowledge to solve problems, and that's what I was talking about in my previous comment.
"because we all know the Chinese government has had nothing to do with the economic boom they have undergone in the past decade."

No I do not know that. Please provide a reference.
What part of "consumer demand" excludes the source of that demand being educational programs? Your inference of a political motive here seems like projection.
Come on Amazon, bring on Airplay !
Hi There - This is OnPage!
Thanks for actually trying our service. Did I read a hint of compliment there, "Intrigued enough" :-) ?
Well, We don’t suck in your address book - What we do is scan it for contacts with emails suffix of "@onpage.com". Once we find these contacts we bring them to your OnPage contact book so it is easy for you.
So, we are not spam, we are not a game, we don’t have any worms, and nothing is reported back to us - All stays within your phone!! What we are is priority messaging application, an enterprise grade productive tool. Just like phone vs. smartphone, you may look at it as pager vs. smarpager
He's wrong about the middle class and the fact that we should pay cheaper wages. In theory, this sounds like it would be correct, however the middle class is born out of a balance between supply and demand. When Supply is too high or demand is too high, the middle class states to disappear, whether from lack of funds to buy things or from lack of a job. However, in a healthy service based economy, where people are needed to create more supply, then businesses are more likely to hire and train someone with less experience and take the risk because the risk may pay off. When there is a demand problem, companies will not take the risk (thus what we have now, people need experience to start working). Lowering the wage will cause a demand problem, and will simply put us in the same position we are in now because people will not be able to afford goods. It sounds good, businesses creating things cheaper, but that really only helps people who have money already, and they aren't the ones that need the help.
> Google Maps are vector based as well...

src: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-maps-is-now-av...
The Story Of Gabe Newell, In One Minute
Really cool--congratulations!
Would this be the book to get if I want to develop desktop apps for Windows?. Does C# 5 support Win 7 , XP ?
Changing a hypothesis in the face of evidence is good science. Guessing the correct hypothesis in advance is irrelevant narrative-building.
Disclaimer, I work on the project. Not so much the vm as the game engine part. The game engine is a Lua api but implemented in the host language. In this case js but we have a obj-c iOS implementation as well. For our use case the bottleneck is not the Lua interpreter but graphics rendering. The system is currently live and you can see it working if you go to www.jackpotjoy.com with an iPad user agent. If you have any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them.
It's the same in France. But the language is not necessarily Java, it may also be C, OCaml, Scheme, Python… depending on your university.
http://zotonic.com/ is pretty innovative (the event-driven model e.g.) and so is http://www.helma.org/ (elegant, server-side JS, heavily used by large websites like orf.at for many years, but not widely known).
FWIW it has been available on the iPad for some time, but I think the iPhone/iPod Touch is new.
Why would anyone trust that statistics released by Goldman Sachs weren't designed to manipulate the market in their favour?
So, I'm really disappointed. The thing I was most looking forward to was the return of public transportation schedules on my iPhone. But this new app simply says, "Unavailable in this region." They were there before and they are still available for my area on a desktop computer. I don't understand why they are missing.

EDIT: I take that back, as others have noticed, it's there... just unavailable from the sidebar. Not sure why.
Isn't this blogspam? The original source is https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2012/12/...
"will attempt to tie Kickstarter in through some theory of shared negligence and structure that demand such that Kickstarter's percentage"

I have the highest respect for grellas but I agree with what you are saying based on many years in business. (Most) Lawyers tend to evaluate things strictly from the legal perspective even taking things up to the "what would the scotus say if the case were brought to them?". Business people have to incorporate lawyers thinking but overall strategy is equally important. Kickstarter doesn't need a case that drags on or any publicity and something like this hanging over them (no matter how dubious a possibility) could easily effect funding going forward. They do have pockets (deep or otherwise) and there is a leg to stand on here (as you mentioned). It's not about whether in the end a case would succeed or not.

Another possibility: Some newly minted class action attorney will take this case solely for the publicity value not caring much even about the eventual outcome.
Except, it's not true regardless, that's the whole point of the criticisms.

First, we're not all shipwrecked, and I don't think trying to solve problems for those who are is going to be a valuable enterprise in the long term.

Second, the criticisms specifically circle around both an egocentric and ethnocentric view of psychology which has not borne out in testing. Different cultures in different contexts prioritize things differently.
I'll be the first to ask: Why not on Android?

What does this strategy get them? Are they afraid of cannibalizing Fire sales? It would seem to me that this would be a short-sighted concern, given the number of Android owners out there that would happily pay for Instant Video (myself included).

I don't think the higher-ups at Amazon are slow in the head, so I assume they have some reason for this, but I can't think of it.
Google has 'no plans' to build apps for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8
Why not? We are a startup. Growth hackers love the platform. What's your point exactly?
> has done the most to influence the events of the year."

That's exactly what I was referring to when I said it could become reality.
If you read the first letter of each name on the results list, you can see it spells "KJU Gas Chambers" (KJU being Kim Jong Un). There were 2 or 3 threads on 4chan about what to spell this year. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...
El Paso sues Texas Attorney General to keep records from the public
Two years ago there was lack of good Scala tutorial. I wish that this tutorial did not appear two years ago.
What did you think we meant? That we expect someone to off him for $2,500?
Building The Wisconsin Gameday Mobile App
Right, if you find yourself asking "Why has nobody else noticed this" you should always consider that the answer is "because it isn't there." But on the other hand, the idea that intentional behavior can remove correlation from causal relationships is important and deserves more thought than people give it. And since economics has something of a history of naming things for the wrong person, calling this "Friedman's Thermostat" and spreading it around might be a decent idea after all.
Haven't you kept up with the sub prime crisis? GS rated junk mortgage bonds with the highest rating AAA, and then bet heavily that the same bonds would sink. When they sank, they made windfall profits. This came out in investigations and they were given a slap on the wrist later by the government.

http://www.examiner.com/article/goldman-sachs-sold-sub-prime...

"As a result, Goldman made an approximate $4bn profit from betting on the sub-prime collapse, more than off-setting its own mortgage losses and ensuring that 2007 was a bumper year for the bank while all around are counting their losses."

They basically threw their clients like AIG(which was a massive failure requiring a huge bailout) under the bus for their own profits.
Amazon Instant Video is the only advantage a Kindle Fire has over a Nexus 7. Without that, there's absolutely no reason to buy a Kindle Fire.
I like this move by the businessleads.com team. If they hear back from Zuckerberg, this blog post is the set up to a pr knockout punch. Nothing is better for customer acquisition than a visible demonstration that the damn thing works. If they don't hear from him, we'll all forget this in a few months time. They'll be able to try another approach (or find another big name).

I'm not entirely sure about the service. Successful people are constantly being approached with half baked pitches and appeals for financing. It might be interesting to approach it from the other direction, using technology to solve the problem of people always asking you for money.

I'd be stunned if they actually hear back from Zuckerberg, or anyone who knows him well. Who would risk jeopardizing such a valuable relationship for a measly $2,500?
True. But it demonstrates what we are offering. We've created a tool that can get you in touch with ANYONE you want to pitch to. And that's just one use-case.

Mostly, it can be used to get in touch with the people most interested in what you sell. So you can spend time closing deals instead of cold-calling.

But we hear your point. We've gotten where we are today the old-fashioned way.
Maybe Google will come to the rescue.
Thanks, sounds like a good demonstration for this business model.
I completely agree with you. But are they really selling enough Kindle Fires to make up for the potential purchases from the Android legion?
I do believe Apple will eventually have to conform and allow users to use other apps as the default apps, but I'm not really seeing this happening in the next 2 years, unless something unexpected happens that causes a major uproar. And that's too bad.
I've been thinking about writing a book in my spare time. Can you provide some details on your experiences?
> Sure, though the same can be said for drug cartels too.

This strikes me as an apt comparison, although maybe not for the reasons you intended. In both cases, the illegal services came about only because people wanted things that weren't or couldn't be provided legally. In both cases the laws are purportedly made for the public good, and in both cases it's not clear that they achieve the desired effect, and there are some decent reasons to think that we'd be better off if these things were legal. In both cases, there's behavior we wish wouldn't happen, but criminalizing it isn't really reducing it.
I'm not sure why you think that math is somehow divorced from design patterns (in the abstract sense, not GoF). Some systems just need more moving parts than others, and math won't save you from that. Design sense and mathematical aptitude are complementary, not opposed, to one another.

I think that "industrial get-your-boss-off-your-back-oriented development works" and "Complex work" is a false dichotomy.
I've been ridiculing it since they day I heard about it, rather than going through any sort of ghandi-esque three step process. I took time to understand exactly what it is and decided the crypto was interesting but as a currency it's not something I could ever adopt in good conscience. The rules, set in stone since the beginning, are not a recipe for a good currency.

What's more the Randian/libertarian fanboys provide no end of amusement. The various ponzi schemes and robberies are terrible, and the reaction of the community just as bad.

So to me BTC is an unworkable currency with a toxic community.
Omnichannel First
Mobile first, web second.

No.

Tablet first, mobile second.

Non.

Web first, mobile second.

Nein.

In less than 2 years we have seen VCs, CMOs, designers, developers, "social media experts" and the tech blogging illuminati proclaim that their strategy for the ever-changing landscape of internet-connected devices is correct, or at least more correct than their previous one.
Agreed- but that was the basis of my thoughts. Given the astronomical popularity of the Google Maps app, it could be the app to change things. But it would require Google kicking up a fuss, and I'm not convinced they would want to do so.
Language-wise, C# 5 comes with .NET 4.5, which is supported on Windows 7, but not XP. You can probably use Mono 3.0 on XP to write C# 5 though.
Releasing bitmapist.cohort - or how we saved over $2000/month
Inside NASA’s Mysterious Rubber Room
That's exactly the same. Vector refers to directionality, not number of dimensions.
Only if there was a way to set Google Maps as the default map/address-finding app. Anyone know how to accomplish this?

Right now, touching any addresses you have saved under a contact will open up Apple's Maps app.
Well, that is usually what is meant when someone puts a bounty on someone else. Though my first reaction was "that's a little cheap for assassination." But then again, I'm sure there's a charity hitman somewhere.
I think your definition is spot on. The reason you can define a computing device that way and exclude 600 ton airplanes and stuffed toy bears from this discussion is that the devices are embedded in the actual item. An airplane can't (shouldn't) be programmed by the user to perform tasks beyond what was initially designed into the device, but the FPGA's in the teddy bear can be. It's not reasonable to look at how many of today's planes are made by Microsoft, but it is reasonable to look at the embedded systems market as a whole and see how influential Microsoft is.