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Well, the product is a LEGO-compatible case for iPhone 4/4S and iPhone 5, available at smallworks.com.
It was my then 12 year-old son's idea.

The first mold, for the iPhone 4/4S) were made in China. The second was for the iPod Touch (4th gen). We've modified the second here in Austin for the iPhone 5.

We use Solidworks to design the part, and then outsource the actual mold design. If it was a two plate mold (just cavity & core), then we would probably do it ourselves, but all three (actually, 2.5, I guess) molds have 3 sliders as well. These require a semi-complex mechanism, and need to be hand fit (with bluing, very old-school/traditional) in order to hold the pressure of the injection molding process.

The pieces for the third mold were all done with EDM, rather than traditional CNC machining.

We do the injection-molding just outside Austin, though I'm considering moving it to Houston.

Duplicating LEGO is about as difficult as it gets in the injection molding world.

Though my degree was in ME, I'm really more of a software guy.

(We're about the same age, btw.)
wow, that factor notability discussion was a depressing read.
The battle is that usage 2 is relatively young (being only a few hundred years old), and some people object to it.

Lots of words change meanings, and hundreds of years is usually enough time for a new meaning to become totally unobjectionable. But I think the main issue here is that the word so clearly derives from the Latin for "ten" that it just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Wait, what? What does "binary lob" mean?
They need to figure out a way to persist these games. Either sell them off, or open source them or something. It makes me rage when companies lock in users to a game and shutdown the servers.
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But "blob" is a real word, isn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob
This would waste something like 250 million person-hours (or about 350 lifetimes) of riders' time every year, more than the total number of annual deaths. It would also add to operating costs and decrease capacity on overcrowded lines.
XCode has a setting in a new project to prepend to all class names. The necessity of that sort of feature indicates a failure of linguistic design (by which I mean the necessity of clearing up symbol pollution--there is also an argument for their use for explicitness, which I reject because the world has shown us its obvious failure).

Even just aesthetically--vomiting out half-line identifiers every time I have to refer to a class is, for me, painful and stupid and makes me hate reading what I've written. One of the worst feelings in the world is looking at code you've written and hating even looking at it, and for me there are only three languages I've spent time with where that's the case for reasons beyond me fucking up: Java, Scala--for reasons entirely unrelated to its Java heritage, it makes its own mistakes--and Objective-C.

As for Objective-C++, it's useful in a limited capacity but often requires unscrewing your object model in pretty stupid ways just to provide inputs that the Objective-C side won't barf on. It's an "ehh" hack with painful edge cases.
You learned a lot from your failures!
I don't think the "blob" in "binary blob" is the same as the database "BLOB" type. Rather, the word "blob" is chosen for its negative connotations and has the typical layman meaning.
slight oversight there. From the comments:

Should be 76.7%. 3.52% was the amount it was down on Friday,
December 28th, 2012.
I hope this helps to bring more attention to the hunger strike and to First Nations issues!
I would prefer not to see every single blog post from every single person I follow. I'd much rather see blog posts organically, by following people who find interesting things and then seeing the things those people found interesting enough to manually post.

Basically, I don't want to get a link from the author to her own post, I'd rather get a link from someone who read her post or article and found it interesting. I realize it doesn't involve a sexy machine learning algorithm, but it sure does work well for me.
1. Quora - To participate in discussions and learn new things
2. http://zenhabits.net - Minimalism and Better habits
3. Reddit/r/Science
4. Techcrunch, GigaOm, Engadget - Tech Trends
5. Fubiz.net - For daily dose of inspirations
Binary Large OBject.
Aside; It's funny: I never though anyone actually used the word "za" seriously (for "pizza") until I saw it used in an episode of "The Office." When we saw that, my wife and I burst out laughing. Now we use it all the time ironically. In any event, I love the two letter words. For me, they give the game strategic depth.
I shouldn't have bitten. This is like arguing over why a Phillips screwdriver is better than a flathead with someone who particularly and angrily hates Phillips screwdrivers because he doesn't like their appearance. They're tools, bud.

I'm pulling my rip cord on this discussion based on your tone, the nearly guaranteed futility, and the complete lack of any realizable benefit in my own life of carrying on. Good evening.
I'm largely saying he's arguing more to confuse than explain. And that he might not actually be aware he's doing so.

I think this sort of thing is important. Most people think this sort of thing is annoying. It's true that arguments like this are usually a waste of time, and this seems no different.
As an ardent DWM/dmenu user, I'm ashamed I didn't know about this earlier.

To fellow ArchLinux users, it's worth noting the AUR package is broken. I have uploaded a working PKGBUILD here:
https://gist.github.com/4417214
I didn't discover link hinting in my very short stint with Uzbl

Oh.. I figured that link hinting is the way of navigating links in uzbl, so if you did not discover that (the cheat sheet lists it!) then you really missed out. As for page scrolling, hjkl does that just fine IMHO (actually, I use AltGr+u/j/k/l because hjkl is not convenient on my keyboard layout).
Blizzard is an excellent example.

They are doing a great job at maintaining a balance between attracting new players and maintaining existing players, particularly in the recent Cataclysm expansion and Mists of Pandaria expansion.

The Cataclysm expansion was massive in that it revamped the existing world in addition to adding new content and I believe this is highly undervalued by existing players. Furthermore they have applied the same attention to detail to an entirely new expansion (MoP), and the gold-trim is really starting to shine through -- especially with regards to how well received the pet battles are (appealing to new and returning players) and how well received the challenge modes are (appealing to existing players).

Since Cataclysm was such a huge under-taking it took an astronomical amount of time and effort and they have adopted a policy of more regular intervals between expansions and patches, and in that regard Cataclysm was an opportunity to stream-line their entire workflow (from art design to player-facing content) -- an impressive feat in itself for which they are currently reaping the benefits.

The amount of over-head involved in making making new content and engaging consumers is expensive in all fields from offline single-player games to online multi-player games and from movies to music, and Zynga's shotgun approach to new games has been expensive and it's starting to hurt them.
The luck element is a result of the malapportionment that the OP mentions (it's good to receive the overvalued tiles, and who receives them is down to luck).
I think it would be a straight numbers decision as you guess. A lot of companies would worry about how this would impact those high value and long term customers and how it could effect retention in other games and future projects. I think Zynga is passed that point now though (if that ever was a concern for them, they have never really been a games company a rational person would have a strong connection to).

Pretty much all the big name MMOs released in the past 10 years have gracefully downsized and maintained maintenance for the player base.
Super stuff man, really. And that's a great idea, your son really got that one right. Amazing story.

I took the liberty of sending out a tweet about this, hope it will get you some sales.

I've worked with a professional moldmaker where we had molds made for the casting of the base/table for a CNC rig (very hard to make a stable rig, lots of interesting postprocessing for hardening).

Molds are fascinating, especially molds for high pressure/high speed injection, the precision and the amount of trickery to deal with warp and cooling are a lifetime of study.

I never quite realized just how much work goes into making molds until I saw it up close, those are very complex devices, far more complex than I ever imagined. Part of the reasons for using EDM rather than regular machining is probably the finish, the precision and the hardness scale of the materials used.

You might enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRRDIFNxoM

I worked for a company that built CNC conversion rigs and I never really lost the bug for metalworking.
Due to the earlier step, you should have more than one place to buy it from?

In other words, go to another dealer.
The yen has no fractional units (anymore), so when I added support for that currency but continued to use the same format string as all the others, prices like ¥1000.00 looked unnatural.
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> Anarcho-capitalism is ahistoric, silly, degenerate, and impossible.

So is anarcho-anything.
You don't need the word socialism to make me skeptical, I'm skeptical that democracy would produce better results in a business context. Also, I have a hard time believing you've read any Marx. You're not doing his work very much justice.

I don't even trust democracy in politics all that much, my state (California) is a complete and utter failure as an exercise in democracy.
The title made me think he was negotiating with a salesman who had took his co-workers hostage or something...
This is really awesome. Thanks for sharing it, it's a perfect example of a fundamental truth about life. Many happy miles ahead.
Wouldn't that be python?
Right, this needed to be cleaned up and clarified. The only thing you have to do is `lein koan run`, which was listed as an option but the ordering was confusing. I've reworked it a bit now, but feel free to open an issue/PR if things are still hazy: https://github.com/functional-koans/clojure-koans-web
There are other factors to consider.

Zynga had copied ideas from competitors, wasn't Cityville a Sims rip-off? Not only that but competitors were ripping off Zynga ideas as well.

I understand the need to constantly change the game to attract new customers and sell new items to the existing customers. I had played Playdom's Marvel Avenger's Alliance, but recently quit because the bugs were very serious and each new thing they added created problems in the PvP mode as well as more bugs. In order to be competitive in that game you need to buy gold to buy rare items on sale for a limited time. My problem was that they have a "Maintenance"/Refresh bug and after I bought gold and paid $20 that I was not given the gold by the game. I filed a tech support ticket with Playdom over it and gave them my Facebook account name and Paypal address. They just ignored it for weeks. Eventually I had to file a complaint with Paypal for not receiving goods that I paid for and was awarded $20 in my dispute with Playdom. Then a few weeks later Playdom had my Facebook account banned claiming "unauthorized credit card use" but that was not the case, it was failure to deliver goods paid for. After trying to resolve the issue with Facebook and Playdom, I eventually quit and removed the game from my profile. I refuse to play any more Playdom or any of its competitors because of bugs so serious that you don't get what you paid for, and they refuse to give you what you paid for or refund your money. I heard from other players that Zynga does that as well. Basically it comes down to this, if they ignore the request for a refund for 30 or 60 days, Paypal or the credit card/debit card company cannot issue a refund after a certain amount of time after the transaction.

I have never in my life seen such buggy software as these so called online social network games. I have never seen such sh*tty tech support as these online social networking games. I'll bet that this is what affects their profit margin, once users get burned in buying premium content they will either play the game without buying anything else, or they will like me quit playing from that company or all companies.
See also:
CLOB: Character Large OBject.

Most (traditional) relational database servers do not support arbitrary sized (often >255 bytes) fields in a single row. The solution was to have a separate Large OBject heap, and store references to those LOBs in the actual rows.

Starkey claims that he invented the term, and that the acronym is actually a backronym. I've heard conflicting stories on that score.
Exercises on http://www.4clojure.com seem like a much easier way to get your feet wet with Clojure. It's good when new users can try a language out right in their browsers, without having to install any additional software.
He's referring to the Roman martial practice of decimation, which I believe is source of the word. (As a Roman history lover, it is a word that bothers me as well)
Interesting that all of these except for one are consumer companies and startups. To me it seems like more of just a list of starups with consumer buzz than top tech companies. And why are only pre-ipo companies considered? What about Intel? VMware? Microsoft? Apple? Oracle? Google? Samsung? Am I really to believe that fab.com or ZocDoc is a bigger tech company for 2012 than some of the companies I mentioned?
Why not use her negotiation skills to turn her photography hobby into a money making venture?
That will be a legal nightmare. Couriers and post offices has so much paper trails for a reason. They are also absolved of the contents of the packages.

It could work in country but the moment you are out of the border you can be in deep fecal mater fast.
This isn't really related to this post. Also, this is just childish whining that your precious ad sense revenue account gets banned. Well, shit happens. 100$? That sounds like your first ad sense paycheck, so call me skeptical but you probably did click your ad, maybe without knowing or violated some other term of service.

Google can't answer the millions of cases like yours one by one specifically, nor should they since somebody who's trying to game the ad sense system shouldn't be told where they messed up anyway.

Why not start your own version of ad sense if you think you can do this better.
Any opinions on carsdirect.com?
I'm in the middle of reading Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman (again) and I must say there are many more short little anecdotes that leave you with the same giddy smile as this one.

In case it bears repeating yet again to anyone who hasn't read it, read it!
The Gmail native iOS app is really nice, so the flow of innovation isn't consistently pointing towards the web. But part of the answer to getting "desktop deployment right" is sandboxing. In essence, the native app platforms are making operating systems more like web browsers, while projects like Mozilla and Chrome are trying to turn web browsers into operating systems.
Yeah totally. I think he did a fantastic job. All of the transitions and functionality and design is gorgeous. Agreed, it was a little confusing with the home screen issue in the beginning, but I totally get why he did it, and after a few seconds everything was working like it should.

Really great work.
dwight is freaking awesome (in person).

Truthfully I think there is so much cool drama they could've shown:
- co founder fights (bring it on!)
- running out of money stress
- idea not working out drama
- users getting pissed off angst
- a large competitor (ehem google, facebook, apple) doing your idea 5 days before your release
- TechCrunch writing something shitty about you
- firing your first employee
- CEO getting booted
- Stress of meeting your numbers

Too bad they didn't capture capture the real drama of start-up life. I can't imagine that it wouldnt make for a good show.
I've recommended this procedure to several (a dozen?) people and never encountered this. My steps mention a concise and exact list. If they flub this up, they're pretty damned incompetent.

Also, an interesting aside, there's a limited inventory in any given geographic region, so if you match your desire list up with a given VIN, they're usually quoting you on the same inventory item.
Little known is the fact that Butts actually did some manual fine-tuning of the frequencies he obtained from NYTimes. E.g., he decreased the number of S's to four in order to mitigate its affixability to almost every singular noun and enhance the gameplay.
FWIW, the FBI agent's favorite car color, salsa red pearl, offered by Toyota:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p80/02limited/Picture002....
Shouldn't it be renamed to top ten web based companies?
I am in the same boat as you and all my fonts look fine.
Left my job. Crossed the country, on foot and catching rides. Returned to California. Mostly finished getting well. Made in roads into solving the big issue that I think holds back at least one of my projects.
"The list is based on exits, valuations by A+++ investors and rapid growth."

So, yes, it appears their definition of "Tech Companies" is skewed towards web startups.
I'm planning on making a bio tab with an 'elevator pitch'. Is it really necessary to have a picture of myself?
How? India and Pakistan were the same country till 1947.
Games have a maintenance burden which you haven't factored into the equation. This maintenance requires effort, time and money. Sounds like Zynga was stretched too thin, and had bought too many companies without really working out what the ongoing costs would be.
There's nothing wrong with landing pages. Try to sell the product rather than just begging for signups though.

Bad landing pages will hurt sales, but you're all confusing the intent of landing pages with the quality of bad ones.
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Honestly, it's hard to say because I have had more success lately but it could be attributed to many things. I would say it has played a role in that but wasn't the single contributing factor. Either way, it is definitely one of the more useful business books I've read and I have recommended it and gifted it to several people.
Yes, yes, yes! This article matches the feeling I had when riding a road bike for the first time. The sense of speed and freedom is amazing, like rediscovering the joy of a bike without training wheels. If I can offer one piece of advice, it is to find a group of like-minded cyclists to ride with. Nothing builds camaraderie like toiling in the saddle with four other guys on a Cat-2 climb, and you will learn so much from their experience.
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You may be right, it's only a temporary fix. As for other browsers I'm not sure.
The internal representation of Unicode objects is an implementation detail (configured at compile-time, it's generally UCS-2).

So, for purposes of user code, no, you don't always have something in an encoding. You have some text (which is somehow stored in a way not exposed to you) or you have some encoded bytes.
Looking on Amazon I see you are correct in part, you can order a season pass for the current season of, e.g., CSI NY.

However, "TV episodes are delivered as soon as possible after the episode is aired by the network (usually the following day)" (Amazon's about-TV-passes page). That's not at all the same as watching it in its "proper" time slot on CBS via DirecTv or Comcast. If Intel offered show subs only on the basis of a 24-hr delay they'd be at a big disadvantage.

They could make up some of the difference by offering a really smart dvr-type system with a clean interface (pay for all the Tivo patent licenses and go beyond them), so their set top box knows what you want and gets it automatically with no fuss -- but they'd still be selling yesterday's TV today. And the cable and dish providers can play the smart dvr card as well, with current content.

And in any case, there are times when you want this minute's content this minute: news, commentary, sports. When Intel gets a contract to resell ESPN or Fox Sports Net, live, I'll be a believer.
Their games pretty much amount to marginally interactive spam. I don't think that too many people who are smart enough to code would be willing to put in the effort to continue developing them, because the games don't have enough depth to capture an intelligent person's attention.

Also, it's doubtful that the company would be interested in open sourcing them, because they don't really care about gaming or gamers, they just saw a quick way to make money.

There's nothing wrong with having money be your top priority (to each their own) but in Zynga's case it's obvious that it's their only priority.
One aspect you aren't twigging on is that the monetization strategy is tied to the game design. Even if every game, on average, took in the same amount of money once it hits critical mass, players aren't going to invest in games that their friends aren't playing, so splitting the audience up hurts Zynga. Their growth strategy was one of complete content saturation using fast-follow tactics. "If they aren't playing Zynga game X, then we want to make sure the other game they will be playing will be Zynga game Y instead." This worked during the explosive growth period, but it's very wasteful now growth is slowing or even shrinking (I'd need to look at the numbers more closely).

As was also mentioned elsewhere, players are always hungry for new items, and my guess is that Zynga has plenty of metrics to indicate that new items is where the money goes (a hefty dose of behavioral economics like scarcity is used on those ones). Simply leaving a game open, or closing it to new players, is probably leaving money on the table. That said, I think there's a big risk in teaching players that their virtual items really do just disappear into the ether.

My guess is it's the right move for Zynga to make, but Indiana Jones and Mafia Wars 2 is a huge blow to them. They were flagship products, and both of them are only a year or so old.
This might be better described as scenario-based command recognition, where a scenario is something like "Firefox", "Skype", and so on with commands specific to the scenario you're in. In other words, if you're looking to do automated voice transcription these aren't the libraries you're looking for.

Main site: http://userbase.kde.org/Simon
If I remember right he specifically mentions the insane hypertrophy bike riders get in their quads due to going well-beyond 50 'reps' in pedalling sprints, etc.
This is why I avoid using "this". Placing this comment next to any of the 9 points causes the comment to mean something different. However, "this" could be useful in circumstances where that is the exact effect desired. Even in such cases, the relevant object can be made explicit as an argument.

Some time back, I had to explain to some people how to think about "traditional OO" in JS, which I tried to make systematic in a post [1]. (Not trying to self promote here, but most other presentations I've seen start with the prototype mechanism. "this" is not brought in until much later in the post.)

[1] http://sriku.org/blog/2012/04/12/classes-and-javascript/

[edit: fixed typo]