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> It's a shame because they are by far the best value :-(

If you are buying on kit/price and don't need a lot of CPU umpf then the cheaper unmanaged servers through OVH's value brand (kimsufi.co.uk/kimsufi.com) are fairly hard to beat.
>> "The new operating system includes major enhancements to the Finder application such as tags and tabbed browsing modes."

This would certainly be a welcome improvement.

However, not sure this ranks as a "power user" feature so much as a "fixing a really broken" feature. The finder in OSX ranks up there with the single-button mouse as among the most nonsensical stubborn non-features Apple has clung to over the years.
Doesn't work for me. Entered my site and then gave me a 404 after some seconds.
The US has certainly not closed its gates on immigrants for good. Immigrants as a percentage of population is close to the highs of ~15% seen in the late 1800s and early 1900s and has been steadily rising since the 1970s.
That has been my experience as well. Once I reached the age of obligation to work, I noticed that my midnight pirating/release week pirating has dropped to zero. Subsequently, losing the 'I must have it right now, and deserve to have it no matter what' attitude has actually saved me money and frustration (with over-hyped games -- Diablo 3, I'm looking at you).
How is browser JS closed source?

Without auditing, calling a server open source is meaningless.
I wonder how many other programmers could make the same claim.

Probably a lot more than you think.

I've seen estimates of 1-2 million COBOL developers worldwide.
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I use Alexa API.
Depends: maybe they used something like Ejecta (https://github.com/phoboslab/Ejecta) which doesn't use the standard webview but re-implements canvas on top of opengl.
Did you read the original post? The players that get stuck are not playing the same game as the players who paid $8. They are playing a version that is deliberately frustrating and almost impossible to play due to rampant piracy in the game. The normal version does not have this frustration built in and is probably a lot more optimised towards an optimal challenge / reward balance.
Thanks, I'll use it if I do decide to go back!
I agree with you. I think the physical motion of writing is involved in the process, activating neurons that just flicking fingers doesn't.

Would be fascinating to see it in an fMRI.
Having a community of morons who clutch onto stupid make believe things like a few letters in a word that make up something when intentionally taken out of context didn't help either.
Newcomers to the tech world read these posts and assume it must be true when in fact these statements are just one person's opinion based on a handful of experiences.

Then shame on them. One shouldn't assume anything is true, just because somebody argues their position vigorously. If people are actually doing what you describe (which I doubt, to be honest), then they need to develop better filters.

If you're going to argue from experience however, you have to have compelling experiences to argue from.

Bunk. All of our experiences are compelling in their own way, and everyone should share their experience and opinions. The onus is on the receiver to parse, filter, analyze, synthesize, etc. and form whatever conclusions - if any - they might form.
Glad to see this coming to iOS, the more users, the more feedback Google will get on how to improve the service for everyone.

Hope Apple can try their hand at creating some cross platform applications as well.
I honestly did not expect to see Google Now on iDevices. For me it is definitely the "killer app" on my Android phone.
Awesome, so their monetization strategy is to undermine the whole product and say "trust me"
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The idea that a kernel-level process sandboxing system getting confused could freeze the GUI seems pretty legit to me.
This website uses Google Analytics to track not just the page load, but individual elements being clicked on and such. It attempts to fire off a tracking event, but if GA isn't loaded, it fails, and the page itself fails to load. The author really needs to include some sort of fallback for when this happens.
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What kind of data points do you have for a trajectory to 4.0? There's no plan for a 4.0 kernel.
Wait, it's one thing for someone to take photos of their friends and post to Facebook or Instagram. If anyone were to use them for profit however, do the people showing in the photos have no rights? I'd think that it's not actually as simple as you put it, but that the people appearing on the shot have no reasons normally to go after their rights, but in reality they usually didn't give written consent for being shot (I don't think posing for a photo qualifies as legal consent for the photo then to be used however the photographer wants, much less by third parties.)
The silence switch is intended to silence alert sounds. It doesn't silence audio initiated by the user. For example, playing music of video in Apple apps will still play out loud even when switched to silent. With no way of automatically telling what is initiated by the user and what isn't, it's left up to the app to decide.

I tend to always have my phone on silent so it's not a distraction if I get an email or text while talking to someone, but if I play a video I want it to actually make some noise. Google's YouTube app doesn't play audio if switched to silent, and it's frustrating having to frequently switch silent off.

Whether background music is initiated by the user or not is debatable. I'd say it isn't.
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Indeed.

> They found that an individual’s reputation increases with age, at least into a user’s 40s.

I really hope that's some bad paraphrasing, because I take that to mean for user X at time T, rep(X, T1) <= rep(X, T2). Unless you're very actively malicious (for which you'll get banned) your reputation should never go down by a meaningful amount over time.
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For my grandmother, Wordpress suits perfectly.

Indeed. Wordpress is a very easy product to use, and adding tech-community loves like markdown will do absolutely nothing in the general community (how can markdown be superior to a WYSIWYG toolbar-formatting model when dealing with generalists?).

The project -- while looking good -- seems somewhat confused in focus, as it seems to strive to pander to the hacker community (node, express, etc), yet argues usability benefits that I don't think really hold water.
He called them "free advertising", so he does believe they are making him money. And as an indie developer that could very well be the case.
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I knew the original post left a bad taste in my mouth but wasn't sure of a better option. I really like this way better as it easily translates across any language.

My only issue using this with things like JS, won't all that code still be loaded into memory giving a misrepresentation of the memory profile of your app?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I thought the Galaxy Nexus wasn't on Verizon? I also thought that it didn't support LTE? Is that correct?
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AHHH, I knew I had seen this thing before!
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I want to respectfully disparage your statement. Doubling zero is zero. Doubling a small amount is likely still a small amount. They need to sell somewhere like 10k units to make this effort worth repeating, let alone a profit model. That means they better get working on getting this in the hands of 150k pirates.

7% of freeloaders is no small or easy task and compare time and energy trying to convert the sinful vs. pandering to the pious. Stop trying to fix culture or people and make a good product that makes life better and/or easier for paying customers.

This thread would be a fine place to enumerate the devs and studios that had success converting pirates to payers. That's a short list.

Given their platform, you would think progressive crippling of game play hits the correct balance of try before you buy and allowing for player investment to the point where they could be nudged in. Or, why not sell in-game DRM for $8?
I have a question for our Android-using brethren who've had the opportunity to play with Now. I've read a bit about it over the past few weeks, and I've been excited about a port to iOS, but now that I have it, I'm not sure how or if it'll fit into my life day-to-day.

At first brush, all I see is a weather widget. I know there's more to it, but where exactly does the magic happen? What have you done (if anything) to maximize its value?
Feel free to use it in the blogosphere.
Maybe Apple should think bout allow other apps to open from holding or double tapping the home button?
I remember playing around with machine instructions on the 6502. I wouldn't call it hand assembly; it was more like copying and groping around. I probably wrote less than 200 lines in my life.

But what a neat feeling! There's something about putting in these numerical codes and seeing a graphical result that I haven't experienced since then. Yes, higher-level languages rock, but dang, this is coding next to the metal.

After learning a bit about logic gates and playing around with the theory, there was an incredible feeling of discovery. Somehow I had deciphered the code of computers, and was finally speaking their native language. This brought back great memories. Thank you.
I think the N64 also had this walled garden system :)
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It should also be noted that there's pretty much zero evidence that piracy actually hurts the sale of a game. Any research done by third-parties on the subject has shown that piracy generally helps the sales of the products being pirated due to:

A) Raising awareness of the product and giving the product exposure to a larger group of fans raising awareness of the product and studio responsible for the production.

B) Converting a minority of pirate-based customers with limited financial resources into paying customers for current and future projects.

C) Establishing in the player community's mind that the media being pirated is a worthwhile competitor to other forms of entertainment.

D) Finally, the most important factor: The majority of pirates pirate material because they are the highest-paying and most discerning group of purchasers of media (Source: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Another-Study-Pirates-Are...).

So fighting against piracy is a losing battle. DRM punishes paying customers and sure, some games might suffer as a result of piracy. It's just that if more people are pirating your game than buying it, then nine times out of ten, your product probably wasn't worth purchasing to being with, which is a cold reality that the data supports that indie studios really don't want to hear. No one wants to be told their baby sucks, especially when they see what they perceive to be a "large number" of people playing it.
Similarly, iOS builds are named after ski slopes.
Being at least an average coder is a prerequisite to leading a team of coders.

A team lead that can't code is like an Army officer that can't pass his physical tests or clean his rifle. He will not have the respect of the rank and file. A team lead (as opposed to a project manager) that can't code is doomed.

(Notice I don't mention language, a good programmer can be coding in something new within a week or maybe two and after a couple of months should be completely fluent.)
OS X works extremely well on a laptop, which has been Apple's primary Mac focus for a while now. Flicking between virtual desktops/fullscreen apps on a multi-touch trackpad is a wonderful way to use a 13" screen.

If you replace the awful Finder with something usable, I'd argue that it's the best OS (desktop environment) for that particular form factor. For a proper workstation...well, they haven't even bothered to update the hardware for years. No surprise that the software has been neglected as well.
Are you referring to MVC in iOS programming? I would attribute the current popularity of MVC to Rails.
Well, I hate to admit it, because I am an ex-iOS user that ran away from it because of the closed ecosystem, but seeing that it keeps aggregating the absolute best applications, even from Google, and with the goodness everyone feels is coming from the Ive-influenced iOS 7, I might have to fall back into the walled garden.

Apple is really good at this stuff.
I can often do that on code I've written or am intimately familiar with, but tons of the code I work on is code that someone else wrote and that I rarely interact with. As a result, I love my debugger.
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Since they have proven that they are awful at targeting, I don't want it.

The fact is, 90% of advertising exists because the product is not worth buying in its merits. Word of mouth recommendations and independent research studies are where good jnformarion comes from. Targeting doesn't help that.
I like the idea of an easy-to-use blogging platform, but I'm not completely sold on the use of markdown.

I'd rather see another syntax language that allowed me a few more controls, like the ability to add classes to elements in case I wanted to switch up styles a bit (maybe I don't want all blockquotes to look the same, or all lists, etc).
Except that prejudices aren't always developed so much as taught/learned. The standard trope that "the young folk get technology" is accepted as axiomatic, and passed down, regardless of actual experience.
Semi-related question: I noticed that on the website, there's an animation of the scrambled wheel. Rather than using a .gif, it's using javascript to sequence a bunch of .png files. Just wondering what the motivation for doing this is? These guys clearly know what they're doing, so I'm guessing there is one!
As far as I remember (SimCity 3000), you start out with taxes at like 7%, and you can get away with 9% when your city is small, but when you grow, you have to /lower/ taxes (down to 1-2%, eventually) to keep things stable. Which makes sense from a game design perspective (there are enough hard things when you're starting out, without having to deal with obscenely low taxes), but doesn't have much to do with real life.
If I have to launch the app is it really Google Now? Or do I not need to launch the app?
I'm more concerned about what large feline they will name 10.9 after. Do they even have any left?

OS X 10.9 - House Cat FTW
You're wrong. I'm on Verizon, and I get excellent LTE speeds with the GNex. (It's possible you can't currently buy the phone on contract, but it certainly works!)
Eh, sales are just classic market segmentation. By periodically dropping the price of the game towards some minimally profitable number, they can divide the market based on how much you're willing to pay. People willing to pay the "full price" will do so in the first day/week/month, and then people who are willing to pay less and less will do so more and more months later.

To put it another way, they never planned to sell 10 million units at $60. They planned to sell 1 million units at $60, 2 million units at $30, 3 million units at $20, and 4 million units at $10. Price drops are the only effective and legal way to do that.
It used to be an useless time to commute by car to home (and I used to take the train) and the weather thing. Until I went on vacation to Germany and it started popping places to see, German translating widgets and other goodness. Not that useful still, but I believe it can grow into something really useful and quick.
We did not use Ejecta, but the standard ios webview. You can read this article for more details on how we built it :

http://www.scrambledapp.com/articles/for-developers/
The magic happens in the best way. The idea is stuff only appears when it's useful and like "magic". For instance, when ever there is a bulls game it shows me who is playing with in the next day and the score when it's over. It'll tell me my time to get home or if I just googled a restaurant then it will tell me how long to get to the restaurant. I love it, but it's very subtle which is even better.
I've used personal assistant like products before. But google now is the only one I keep going back to. Personal context is critical for a working personal assistant - you need to know the whereabout, the calendar, the habit, the preferences about everything. That's the power of Google streamline of products.

Google better not be evil.
Ok well an initial install I like that its a lot simpler than WinAmp, but one major problem is an initial scan of my local music library and it only found 784 songs when in fact I have 4733 showing in winamp. Now they are a mixture of mostly FLAC but some MP3 and WMA, also a lot of in sub-folders. Does it not handle sub-folders do you know?
It comes when you use GMail and Google Calendar a lot. Having it let me know that I need to jump on Muni to make a date on time is a plus. The most mind blowing was when I went home, told me I needed to leave for the airport because of traffic, pulled up my boarding pass (United), and showed me what gate the flight was and any potential delays.
At that point, you'll have this: http://xkcd.com/810/
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I never liked this kind of code practice, makes it very difficult to read!
It's good for cutting and pasting into human-readable text:

Hey guys come to the launch party for my new startup! 9pm Saturday, at the Mumblefrotz office: http://maps.google.com/united-states/california/san-francisc...

(Note: no actual party Saturday, and that's the example URL the post pointed to.)

In real world usage people will very often just cut and paste URLs directly into text, rather than figure out how to turn it into a link. Would you rather have this kind of link dumped in as plaintext, or would you rather have a lengthy machine-friendly link full of raw lat/long data, view choices, dbrefs, and whatnot?

Sure, fall back to a geolocation URL if it's not a point on a street grid. But I suspect that a huge percentage of the map URLs that people pass around are on street grids.
Yeah, that's why it takes a few months for a reasonably smart person to gain the skills to be able to call themselves a developer or a designer, whereas it takes that same person 5-10 years to gain the skills to call themselves a physicist or a chemist. Then after that they need to get a Nobel Prize in it too.

Clearly, the difficult in becoming a designer and a developer at the same time is similar to that of obtaining Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
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Well, as I said, the people in the pictures don't have copyright.

That said, they might have personality rights. These vary a lot between jurisdictions, even inside the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
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Set a work and home location so that it knows when you really are out and about. Start using G+ if you don't already (eg I got a birthday alert for someone yesterday, via Now, via G+). Set some data in other google applications (Calendar, Finance, etc). All roads lead to Now. (Well, some do)
Everything you listed is from data you inserted into Google's system, not bought from a third party. But keep digging deeper :-)
I am unaware of any technique that translates knowledge metrics into skill metrics. This leads me to question why no is discussing that this research is solely based on stackoverflow.

Knowledge != skill

To me, all this study proves is that people who have spent more time on the earth have accumulated more information, on average. Which should be completely unsurprising.
Again I run into the issue that Google doesn't seem to release their iPhone apps internationally. I'm in Europe (Iceland, specifically) and I can't download the Google Search or Google Authenticator apps because they're not available in our App Store.

Does this happen to people in any other European countries?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4696525
Similar:
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On Android, it often kicks off notifications when things are relevant to your situation. For example, it learns where home & work are (based on where I spend time during day or night). When travel time back home at rush hour is bad, it sends a notification to say I might want to leave earlier.

If you put a location in a Google calendar item, it will keep tabs on traffic and notify you when you should leave for your appointment.

If your search history shows you're searching for a sports team often, it'll have a standing card with that team's scores & schedules.

Google Now is connected to your Gmail and can pop up notifications for shipments, flights, restaurant reservations, etc based on receipts and boarding passes in your inbox.
Dude wrote in pen. We are not worthy, brothers and sisters. We are not worthy.
And this was just a small utility. Then think about things like the Apollo program being coded the same way (or more obliquely on punch cards).

There is a finite and limited amount of complexity this allows for. We've been given quite the catch-22: the ability to build increasingly complex system while needing to maintain those increasingly complex systems.

On whatever project you are currently working on, how much less code do you think you'd be writing if you had to hand write it? Where would the project be better for it and where would it be worse?
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Then I can ask Facebook to show me gifts and stores my friends like, and some general listings.
Things I use every day: weather; baseball and football scores for teams I like; approximate time to home and traffic conditions from wherever I am

Things I use when the appropriate email arrives in my inbox: current flight schedules (plus approximate time to get to the airport); package tracking

One thing that totally surprised me: I had a reservation on OpenTable, and my phone buzzed with a notification that it was time to leave for the restaurant if I intended to make it on time

And to be honest, I haven't "done" anything to get this value. This is all information that arrives automatically. That is, Google determined automatically what I needed to know by indexing my email, my searches, and knowing where I am at all times. Make of that what you will.
"For the first time anywhere in the world, the Act will permit the widespread commercial exploitation of unidentified work"

Someone really needs to study the history of copyright.
I'd appreciate if you'd have this discussion on Coderwall. That way I could 'defend' the post where it's due.

However though, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5626456 and summary is:

It is a trick, not a silver bullet.
It prevents code from being compiled to the binary, in a portable - yet hacky - way.
The attacker could have intercepted the email somewhere between OVH and the recipient unless the SMTP session was using SSL (which, unfortunately, isn't always the case).

Obviously this is highly speculative.
Makes sense. Good focus. As the masses flock to pocket OSes, OS X becomes more streamlined for the audience that remains; the creators.
At the moment - yes.
Dr. Murphy-Hill uses absolute StackOverflow reputation as the only metric. He demonstrates that older developers spend more time sharing knowledge than their younger counterparts, but I'm not sure about the jump to "skills improve over time."

I suspect high reputation on SO reflects (at best) either a developer's perceived confidence in her skills or her desire to share whatever knowledge she has! Perhaps the title should have been "older developers like teaching." Not as sexy, though.
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