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Sorry to add to my rant but I get really tired of hearing the "X methodology killed my business" story. There have been hundreds of thousands of successful businesses created and operated by people without formal training in any strategy so why should having read about a business strategy destroy your business? Did it remove your ability to talk to customers and respond to their concerns?

People often fail to address internal issues like limited domain expertise or limited business skills. It's not enough just to see a problem and be excited about solving it, you need some skills (either present or learned) and you need resources.

Lean is focused around learnings. If you had focused on learning rather than whether or not you completed a task (MVP, demo, etc), you'd realize that you've gained a lot from the experience but it wasn't until you reflected that you realized you failed to incorporate those learnings back into the business.

Also, failure to understand that your first customer wasn't an early-adopter really hurt you. If someone isn't willing to jump through hoops to use your product, it either 1) doesn't solve a big enough problem or 2) they aren't an early-adopter.
Agreed, unless eBay's terms of service includes a grace period for sellers to cure these kinds of breaches of the sale terms. Otherwise it does not bode well that the plaintiff's attorney admitted the review was truthful(as truth is a defense to defamation/libel claims). I tend to agree Defendant should not only win but recover her attorney's fees and costs for Plaintiff's "failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted".
> Great that they want to release it as open source as well

That is indeed good, but I was worried to see

> Duetto is based on the LLVM stack, and uses patent-pending algorithms to ensure the highest performance.

on their site. Not sure how it could be open sourced if it's patented.
Converting to SSA form is comparatively easy. The interesting question is how pure a particular SSA variant actually is (hint: almost none are in practice).

Just the fact that a language is closer to SSA form doesn't make it interesting. If a compiler is able to turn pretty much every source language into SSA, then why should I bother to do part of its work by hand? Much more relevant is how easy it is to express my intentions as a programmer and how much of that ends up helping the compiler and the CPU to execute the code faster.

I really don't want this to turn into a flame-war about the merits of functional programming. The Wikipedia article has a nice list of the typical concepts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming#Concepts ... and the particular mix simply doesn't appeal to me personally.
Reading this title, I thought this post would announce that everyone could now use Medium :) However, new contributors are NOT welcome (yet).
>It doesn't avoid freemium it just means that the points/memberships have to be externally purchased. You just can't charge for the app

Yes, this is a good point.

I wonder if google would consider this a violation of the ToS since someone could offer an app that does not work at all except if you pay for a membership somewhere else. This would be equivalent as charging for an app but doesn't violate the letter of the law. I imagine google would probably decide on a case by case basis.

>App development as a paid endeavor is a very sustainable ecosystem.

It is a sustainable ecosystem for companies that have funding and know what they are doing but at the moment there is no doubt that a gold rush is happening is the mobile space. I think this gold rush has helped these platforms significantly, but I don't think developers are thinking rationally about their chances of actually producing a successful business(supply > demand). Once this correction takes place I expect that many app stores will suffer from a lack of new development which will hurt the public's expectations.
That is interesting contrast to czech (and probably other slavic languages). In czech almost any ordering is grammatically correct and does not sound unnatural, but the meaning is changed (usually only sightly). But because of slightly changed meaning the whole sentence often sounds weird in itself. And what is interesting for this contrast is that these slight changes in meaning are not readily conveyable in english, probably because of this fixed ordering of words and phrases in sentence.
This is the main thing I got out of this story when it first broke.

The firm was able to buy over a billion dollars worth of stock but was undercapitalized after incuring a loss ~5MM? Just doesn't make sense.
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Right. This was an intentional attempt to cheat the system that the seller fails at, repeatedly. They attempted to screw the USPS and the customer got the bad end of their incompetence.
I've heard folks say before (and I include university profs in that) that it's a computer design focused on parallel calculation and low-latency I/O.

Not sure if this machine qualifies under that, but that is at least one competing definition to just "cutting edge and very fast"
For the people going on and on about Kickstarter and crowd funding, note point #11: "The only way I would or could make another Monkey Island is if I owned the IP"

This seems more like a post to get the masses exited and perhaps help him get a license for or ownership of the Monkey Island franchise.

I hope he's successful, I was a big fan of the first two games (never got to play the 3rd). I'd certainly buy whatever he produced if it inspired the same awe of the prior games.

I do like the idea of starting fresh with a new story, ala The Legend of Gorilla Mountain, or something silly like that. After all, it was the wit of the writers and the artists that really sold the game.
Sorry, I was just referring to the plate in the street. I didn't know about this article and that there was a possible confusion.
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In the last twelve months, Med_Express_Sales has received two pieces of negative feedback. The negative feedback in question read:

"Order arrived with postage due with no communication from seller beforehand."

To which Med_Express replied:

"Sorry- no idea there was postage due. This has happened alot from USPS lately."

In August 2012, another user posted the following negative review:

"Items were listed as new and they were used, they worked good but used"

In this case, Med_Express replied:

"They were new, but you can return them. We'll even pay return shipping!"

Looking at this wholly from a customer service perspective, I think that the two replies are dramatically different. In the first case, their reply passed responsibility over to USPS and made no mention of any compensation. In the second case, the reply specifically disputed the buyer's allegation, but also promised to make things right.

I think that most buyers are sophisticated enough to weigh the negative feedback with the seller's response. And, in this case, I think that Med_Express_Sales damaged their own brand with a less than satisfactory response.
Which is also promoting the gmail unlimited domestic calls service, driving business to Google.
Not a problem for 5-10% (or more?) of the potential audience.
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I don't get the negativity either. If you look at the architecture manual, this is like a cheap Tilera. It's an interesting programming model (lots of cores in a shared memory SMP with weak memory ordering), and the CPU's are pretty vanilla RISC architectures. For $99, it's a great way to play with something that has the properties of the kinds of CPU's you might see in a future supercomputer.
>This was an intentional attempt to cheat the system

You don't know that. Say the seller has a faulty scale and does large numbers of transactions at once. 100 packages go out, and 100 postage due complaints come in.

Oops. Clearly the seller is a scumbag.
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I have a survey compiler that compiles to c++. Using this, I could compile the generated code to JS and get an html like app for free and in no time at all.

emscripten is something on similar lines. If you pass --html to the compiler, it generates and html file which when you browse will run your program.

Further, I have seen that you can pass a JavaScript file to emscripten. I asked on the emscripten irc, if I passed Jquery UI or Dojo toolkit as the JavaScript file to be embedded, could I have a UI Widget System embedded. But one of the logged in persons said, no one had asked about something like this.
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tl;dr - Periodically review the apps listed under "Manage Applications" > "All" (Android) to make sure either your carrier or some other third party hasn't added some form of spyware.

I haven't checked the installed apps in a while and did so for the first time in a while today. What I noticed were a lot of apps I didn't recognize including ones with generic sounding names and way more permissions then I'd expect. The two that stood out to me are "Account and Sync Settings" and "Music Visualization Wallpapers". I plan on formatting the phone later today just curious if anyone had insight on these or any of the other ones listed below. I'm really not that much of an app downloader and would NEVER download anything having to do with wallpapers so I'm unclear how this stuff even got on my phone in the first place. The ones marked (CL) I remember being loaded when I first got the phone (carrier loaded) and the ones marked (DL) I definitely downloaded myself.
> ladyboy

This doesn't mean what you think it means. Or at least I hope it doesn't.
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There seem to be two schools of thought here, both interesting to me. The author seems to think that his failure has something to do with problems associated with the "lean startup" model and other commenters (lean startup adherents, apparently) seem to hink his failure has something to do with failing to properly follow the tenets of the philosophy.

I suspect actually that the author adhered about as closely to "lean startup" as many self-identified "lean startups" who have succeeded in the past, and made a pretty average number of mistakes in the process. I don't think of 'lean startup' as a way to guarantee success, I think of it as a way to fail gracefully if you don't succeed. The author came pretty close to this, actually - it doesn't sound like they burned through enormous piles of venture capital money, it seems like they learned a lot in the process, it seems like they didn't spectacularly fail to make payroll causing half a dozen family-bound engineers to suddenly lose their livelihoods. The only less-than-graceful element of their failure was that it took two years, which is probably a little (though not a lot) on the long side. Frankly late in the process they came pretty close to scoring what sounds like it would have been a pivotal investor, and that combined with lessons learned could have produced a true MVP, product market fit, and a viable startup...

So, I think the author successfully followed a good chunk of lean software advice, made some mistakes, got unlucky, and failed. This is what most startups do - even most lean startups - and there should be no shame in it. Paul Graham himself has remarked he wishes he were able to bring himself to invest in more likely-to-fail black swans because that's the way you get to own enough vol to have a real winner in your portfolio - we all should be more comfortable with the risk of failure.
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>So we can expect a bunch of half-assed software with no support? Awesome.

Actually, I'd expect a lot of hobby projects. So far from half-assed (possibly very good), but yes, unsupported.
The F-Droid app is about as close as your probably going to get to this. Everything in there is Free (as in OSI / RMS free), no ads, etc.
Not reject, but kind of squint suspiciously at.
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"In all fairness, shouldn't Krugman be a "paperbug"?"

They lack the fanatical/evangelistic zeal, I don't see them as equivalents.
Hmm I wonder if there is a way to bypass your graphics card and use this as a GPU?
Why won't they just tell us the private key's passphrase, so we can judge for ourselves how secure it is?
With all of the bugs/costs associated with CF, it's strange to think of how many huge web properties made use of it (MySpace comes to mind), but the world was a very different place back then.
As you mentioned, the choices were far fewer and I think the comfort level surrounding open source also played a role. In addition...

1) It was most common then to go the cgi-bin route for server side, which wasn't pleasant. CF offered an alternative to that very early on and made webdev more "accessible".

2) ColdFusion was baked into a lot of GUI based web design tools (I can only think of the name of one, NetObjects Fusion, because I rarely used those sorts of tools). Even though they probably weren't using a GUI based tool, being baked into several meant that peoples' exposure to CF was pretty common. I did absolutely nothing with ColdFusion, but routinely ran into it with freelance work I did.

3) In a large "enterprise" shops, I remember losing a bid because a manager Google(tm)'ed PHP, saw that it was originally stood for "personal home page" and told me they needed to hire someone more professional (thank God I dodged that bullet). The comfort with the current offering of open source web programming languages, in general, made managers uncomfortable for various FUD reasons. Case in point, I remember on the Windows side CF jobs getting eclipsed, nearly overnight, by RFPs for ASP in VBScript. ASP, after all, was backed by Microsoft, commercial, and effectively free (included with their Windows NT/2000 Servers).
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> What he says is correct, the attackers now have the private key file

I will concede that this is highly likely, but they did not confirm that the private key was taken.
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That is in fact what was done in an application I worked on. We used ColdFusion for both the Front-End and the "Commerce Server" and the commerce server only took credit card information from the front-end and could not give it back. It was behind its own hardware firewall and any exploit in ColdFusion would have been hidden from the front end unless it could be exploited through the API methods we exposed through the gateway. To gain access to any other url endpoints you would need to access the server from within the firewall by connecting to a VPN gateway on a separate physical network that was only connected by a dedicated T1 to our office. We did this before there was PCI, because it made sense.

The whole system has now been rewritten in dotNET. It would be interesting to see if I can find that old CF app. It ran solid for almost ten years on the same 3 NT4 servers handling tens of thousands of users per day. And it could have probably run on one server except that we isolated the commerce and MSSQL functions from the front-end app.
This might be a really stupid question:

How difficult would it be in the practical sense to keep all of the cores on something like this "fed" with enough information to get benefits from its concurrency?

I mean to "feed" all 64 cores enough data/code so they can all "do something" concurrently is one hell of a job all on its own!
Here is the full app list:

Account and Sync Settings (38kb)
(CL) Adobe Flash Player 11.1
Android keyboard
Android Live Wallpapers
Android System
(CL) AppPack
AttendStar
Bluetooth OPP
Bluetooth PBAP
Bluetooth Serivces
Browser
Calculator
Calendar (google)
Calendar Storage (google)
Camera
Car Home (8kb)
Car Home (44kb)
Certificate Installer
ChargingTest (12kb)
Clock
com.android.svgplugin
com.lge.hiddenmenu
com.lge.internal
com.lge.model
com.lge.omadmclient
com.lge.phonetestmode
com.lge.util
com.logmein.rescue
com.logmein.rescuesecurity
Contacts
Contacts Storage
(DL) Cut the Rope
Dialer
Dialer Storage
Download Manager
Downloads
Drive
DRM Protected Content Store
(CL) EA Games
(DL) Easy Voice Recorder Free
Email
(DL) Facebook
(DL) Firefox
FlexProvider
Gallery
Gmail
Google Backup Transport
Google Calendar Sync
Google Contacts Sync
Google Partner Setup
Google Play Books
Google Play Movies & TV
Google Play Music
Google Play Services
Google Play Store
Google Reader
Google Search
Google Services Framework
Google+
HiddenMenu_SDCardTest
Home screen tips
HTML Viewer
Launcher
LG Debug
(DL) LinkedIn
Live Wallpaper Picker
LocMgrPD
Magic Smoke Wallpapers
Maps
Market Feedback Agent
Market Updater
Media Storage
(DL) Meetup
Messaging
Music
Music Visualization Wallpaper (Perm: Hardware Controls - Change your audio settings, record audio)
(CL) My Account (524kb)
(CL) My Account (1.46MB)
My Uploads (206kb)
Network Location (346kb)
News & Weather (704kb)
(CL) NFS Shift (648kb)
(CL) Nova (4.77MB)
OMAP3 Camera
Package Access Helper
Package installer
(DL) Pandora
Pico TTS
(CL) Polaris Office
Power Off
(DL) QR Droid Private
(DL) Redbox
(DL) Runkeeper
Search Applications Provider
Settings
Settings Storage
Setup Wizard
(DL) Shazam
SIM Toolkit
(DL) Skype
SmartShare
(DL) Sound Recorder
Status Bar
Street View
(DL) SwiftKey
Swype
(CL) T-Mobile TV
Talk
(CL) TegraZone
(CL) TeleNav GPS Navigator
(DL) Time Recording
TTS Service
User Dictionary
Video Chat
Video Player
Voice Dialer
Voice Search
VPN Services
(CL) WI-FI Calling
(DL) YouTube
(DL) Zillow
(DL) Zillow Rentals
(CL) Zinio Reader
ZSProvider
Interesting conclusion from the paper:

[...] for ordering prenominal modifiers, [...] a simple n-gram model outperforms position-specific models

This seems to imply that adjective order can be better described with common phrases rather than a set of definite grammar rules.
Any study of Linguistics will tell you that any known and repeated structure in a language is the observation of custom not of rules. There is no Congress of Languages that passes a Law of Tongues, no first principle of language that requires things to be conjugated this way or ordered in this way. Language is a temporary contract between the speaker and the listener. A protocol that if I use these sounds in this way, I have a pretty good notion that information will be transferred to the listener.

Over time, as needs change, the contract changes and what I need to say to transfer information changes. More importantly, I have to keep track of several contracts because not all listeners have signed the same one! This is called code-switching, and it's why I talk to my boss differently than to my much younger niece than to my mechanic.

Language prescriptivists don't seem to understand that and will refer to their favorite dictionary and grammar guide (usually published sometime between the 18th and 19th centuries and written by people of the same ilk trying desperately to coax order from chaos) as if they contained the great laws handed down from the God of Languages and will try and convert the World by force to sign the contract that they think all the world should be on.

There are no rules in language, only guidelines.
"Very few of the Austrians and Chicago types seem to admit to being wrong"

In the case of the Austrian school, they invent scenarios where they can't be wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology#Criticisms
You mean the new ASIC hardware? The FPGA are ancient in the crazy world of Bitcoin, although a Litecoin FPGA will emerge in the next few month considering Litecoins value.
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In small company, while you don't have internal mobility across teams it's much easier to work on different projects, since cost of switching between projects is not so expensive as in big company. There are no formal management rules, so you don't have to play politics to achieve this.

Even in companies with "open allocation" you are not given completely free choice where to work, because you first need to gain credibility. It's faster to achieve level of credibility, required full freedom on what to work inn smaller company with open allocation than in big corporation, even ones, which are pretending to have open allocation.
IMHO, the divide (at least in the US) is not between big and small but between public and private. In a private corp you get a chance to find an awesome work environment no matter the size and in a public, it appears, even if it had not been bad before, it's going to become worse.

PS. I am not saying that all private companies are awesome. Some are exceptionally bad e.g. Lucas Arts used to be pretty horrible. I am not saying that all public companies are horrible either - Apple seems to be all right.
Add a "/superclassic" which is like /classic but 24mo instead of 6mo. Or maybe several levels of /classic all the way back to ancient times.
Thanks for the references! I'll have a read over the weekend.

The problem with textual data-flow programming languages is that I haven't seen any that aren't ugly beyond repair.
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That's true and there will probably be some cool software built for it but there is a limit to the amount of investment people will put into developing software for it for free. There will be people with great ideas who need VC backing to turn them into products but they won't be able to get it without an obvious way to create revenue.

The problem will be even greater for Google when another company (Apple or Microsoft presumably) comes out with a simliar product which runs incredible new software that just isn't feasible on the Google Glasses due to this policy.
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I bought several of them. But it has no scrollwheel (I don't like them).
Dangerous because HR people and recruiters tend to switch companies and even industries constantly, and because any given company is obligated to keep your resume on file for a certain number of years -- inclusive of any remarks made by HR or the hiring manager about it. If you want to risk being essentially blacklisted for lying on your resume, I guess your risk tolerance is higher than mine.

I get the argument about the risk's being mitigated over time by the downside of being unemployed for 6+n months. Mathematically, sure, this starts making sense after awhile. But it seems much less risky just to invent (or hey, attempt to start) a fictitious company than to lie about having been employed by a real one, defunct or otherwise.
> Where do you get that from?

The article and the IRC log.

The IRC dude said flat out that the "bad guys" have the private key and the encrypted data. They also have made no claims that turned out to be untrue yet.

The Blog post infers that the bad guys have the private key by talking about passphrases. Why are passphrases on the private key even a discussion topic unless the private key has fallen into "enemy" hands?

Therefore the ONLY thing between them and unencrypted data is the passphrase protecting the private key.
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I think there might be a growing group that look at 'barbaric' as the classic latin variant of "them frrnrs", so the word changes from 'bad person' to 'slightly different person by culture' and diminishing the impact and altering the meaning...