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Ditching X and breaking legacy support for existing apps does have the added benefit of forcing developers to accept a standardized look & feel and maybe rethink their GUI layouts. If Google imposes some strict UI design guidelines and offers a good UI toolkit they may be able to really raise the bar on OSS UI design for ChromeOS.
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I was being sarcastic :) I totally agree with you.
When I was at a conference in Tokyo, a lot of people had 2D bar codes on theirs that encoded their contact info.
How bout this for a business card service:

1. I create my "virtual business card" online and upload 5 pictures of myself

2. Someone meets me at a conference, takes my pic (in 5 secs), then uploads it (via mobile app or web)

3. Facial recognition confirms who I am and they get to download all my information to their address book
You implant the skin in the eye and after two months "it acquires a blood supply". Surgeons and doctors do great work, and especially in this article, but they deal in stuff that heals itself. From an technologist's point of view, I say it's indistinguishable from magic.

No such force assists the programmer.
Not at all. I have long had the same belief and the Google Chrome OS only reinforces my belief. The sheer amount of data that Google collects only increases with the ever enlarging ecosystem of products they provide, _all_ of them tied at the backend and all the data connectible.

For another take, read http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10282312-2.html?tag=mnco...
Business: the word of choice for people who are too busy separating customers from their money to care what other people think they should be called.
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I could really go for a sane caching load balancer. My experience with stuff like pound,squid and nginx so far leaves much to be desired (and chaining them isn't exactly desirable either).
Why do they have default maximum url lengths less than IE that can only be fixed with a recompile, its madness I tell you :p
he probably means as a desktop OS. UI for a complex system like the OS is incredibly hard to nail
Possibly better driver support.
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Already run linux :)
I meant Chrome OS.

If MS Windows is given away for free on new laptops, by filling the OS with banner ads and then bribing manufacturers to bundle it, would the EU still require IE to be removed?
Before Broadcast.com, Mark Cuban had multiple profitable businesses and a hedge fund.

People often put him on a pedestal or tear him down because they're misinformed.
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They need to merge the two.... I mean, they spell it out: you're allowed to use 2 separate accounts, one that's cheaper for < $12 and one that's cheaper for > $12.

Obviously they make big money off of payments in the wrong bracket going to the wrong account, but the honest way of doing it and making it work would be to just choose the correct commission rate based on the value of the purchase (donation) made.
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I agree - when unit testing is working well for me, it feels "free". I realized I've always been "unit testing", in that my approach has usually been to write a bit of code, test it with a short main(), write a bit more, and so on. Unit testing, when it feels natural, is no different. I just keep the tests instead of throwing them out. This is more of a parallel testing approach than a TDD, but it seems to lead to good code coverage.

The part where I start to feel like the benefit isn't worth the cost is when I feel like I'm unit testing a framework rather than my own code.
If Apple would let the bluetooth built into the phone actually be USEFUL then you could do this without any need for an intermediary.
Well, I requested to be notified / receive and invitation, some time ago. When the launch seemed to be beginning, I checked the site and made another request. Still no invite. So... once again, Google seems to be taking a haphazard approach to fulfillment. (Or they just don't like me.)

This, despite pointing out a few recent flaws to them in other areas; one eliciting a direct response of "thanks" and an immediate correction (it was high visibility).

Voice has a feature set that will be useful to me. I'll get in eventually. But I wish Google would pay a bit more attention to prioritizing customer requests vis à vis chronology and also reciprocity.

Then again, maybe I should be comforted that they don't show more interest in me. ;-) And here I am, about to "give" them my phone line.

Anyway, Googlers, can't you get more invites to those who've shown the most / earliest interest?
...which is why Safari is also not very popular in the mainstream.*

* http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/05/since-march-internet-ex...
This author's previous post was discussed here two days ago at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=690656

There seemed to be some controversy with that post, and as I am far from a database expert, but required by my work to know something about them, I am wondering if this subsequent post clarifies or further substantiates the author's points in the first post.
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So, I was reading about this doctored photo in the NYT Magazine:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/07/fakery_in_the_times.shtml

And I recalled seeing this blog post and python script a while back:

http://code.google.com/p/coding-experiments/source/browse/trunk/Python/detect_copymove.py

I grabbed the script and image in question from the NYT. I ran the script, and sure enough, several blocks of pixels came back as being copied.

Problem was–the script took almost 5 minutes to analyze the image.

Just curious if it could be optimized or, better yet, easily rewritten in C to be much faster.
Why is everyone assuming that this is supposed to be a full computer? It isn't. It's an internet portal tablet. It is optimised for a purpose - getting the browser on the screen with the smallest amount of intermediate steps as possible.
Exactly. If you don't let the style distract you, Fake Steve is actually the most sensible and sharp tech journalism around. This is the first non-hyperbole analysis of Google's announcement I've seen today.

My bet is that Chrome OS will have similar impact to the Chrome browser - encourage everyone to step up their game, but not dominate the market. Google has a lot of money and a lot of bright people, and it acts just like a bright person with little financial concerns: It toys with a lot of ideas, many of them brilliant, but rarely bothers to execute them fully. An OS takes years of frustrating, boring work to mature, I doubt Google has the focus for that.
Community standards do not maintain themselves. If nobody at least sometimes says the obvious, well, the obvious goes unsaid, and before you know it, it's not obvious anymore.

Of course there are some ulterior motives here too, but then, there pretty much always is when enforcing community standards.

The idea that people shouldn't be congratulated for performing their basic duties in a community is incredibly destructive, a recipe for a community with lower standards.
Just another silly app. A whole company just to build this?
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> News is important, human lives are more important.

SOME human lives are more important. Others must be sacrificed to "if it bleeds, it leads".

There were other requests to keep quiet about kidnapping in the same circumstance for exactly the same reason while this was going on. They didn't get the same consideration.

Then again, they weren't reporters.
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That was my guess as well...geolocation, I mean.

A major problem, to me, would be that the GPS in your phone doesn't usually work so well when it is buried deep in a hotel conference center...

I'm sure that the app devs thought of this stuff, I just like trying to mentally work through it myself as well...
> It worked because it was a reasonable request. It wouldn't have worked so well for unreasonable requests

You mean "unreasonable" requests like wrt other kidnappings?

Of course it's unreasonable to keep quiet to protect "those people" - they're not reporters.
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No, it didn't. It still had a considarable length of common border with the russian province Finland in Lappland. (To be honest, that was my first reaction too, but as the GP wrote, Sweden stopped to have a border with russia only after Finland became independent in WW1).
I like the name "business" :-) But, I do think joshk is right that "lifestyle business" is a bit of a demeaning term nowadays. My submissions are "pasta profitable" and "leanstrapped"; latter seems to hit a nerve with people. Feel free to vote em up or down.
Dude, how long has each been around to grab marketshare? Chrome is absolutely meteoric when you divide by time.
He seems to also like the build beams that connect to form a triangle that in no way assist the ceiling.
>> And the relevance of [a local aw school] to startups is?

> It depends on how you define startup. If you are referring specifically to high tech startups, then the relevance is fairly small. If you use the term more generally for recently formed, small companies then many fields require immediate access to lawyers.

(1) Lawyers, yes, but you mentioned law school. I've seen plenty of "SV works because" stories that mention law firms, but I don't think that I've ever seen one that mentioned Boalt (Berkeley) or Stanford Law.

(2) Why do tech startups have less need for a law school, or lawyers for that matter, than other kinds of startups? (Generally speaking of course, as you were.)

Please be specific, because I don't see it.
I agree. This is ignoring the fact that there are hundreds of languages we don't know about and probably millions of texts unaccounted for lost through the ages.
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might have been a better idea to build this for the Blackberry. Not that I'd install it anyway. 15 seconds vs 1 second to exchange cards and I can do cards in parallel. Imagine how silly you'd feel in an actual business setting bumping iPhones with one another... A better idea would be to point the iPhone at someone in a mtg and it identify them using some form of augmented reality. we don't need tagging, there are much better ways.
I'm curious why the author says this:

"The filesystem (including distributed filesystems like GFS) and SQL blobs are both wrong for this, tempting though they may appear.

"For file uploads to a web application, or serving media like video or mp3s, an asset store like S3 or CloudFiles is the right tool."

Why is GFS bad, yet S3 good? Isn't S3 just a distributed filesystem under the hood anyway?
That sort of company would raise money by selling stock, not through debt. Until it was big enough that it could secure debt with something other than the founders' houses, anyway.
On using the kernel I guess I made an assumptions that I should have been clearer on.

My assumption, based on their limited press, is that Google won't be allowing/encouraging local applications (other than I'd assume Gears/HTML5 local storage apps). If Google allows for local apps then there's really no point to what they're doing.

So my theory is that it really will matter because programmers won't have access to the underlying OS.
Let's get this logic straight: I promote your songs 1 billion times to people, and I'm willing to give you 25% of what I make. Yet, you want more to the point that I go out of business and you get 0% revenue and promote your songs 0 billion times.

They wonder why we pirate songs and they're losing money.
We do this with one of our products (nextproof.com). We process print orders on behalf of photographers, take a %, then disburse funds to photographers on a weekly basis if their balance is > $100. Most transfers are done via ACH but we do mail checks to a small number of people.

We use BrainTree for all this and they were very helpful. The technical terms they used for this was "third party payments aggregation". Because this is riskier for them, our account had to be underwritten by a different company than they normally use. Also, a portion of our funds are held in reserve for an additional 30-90 days (I can't recall).

Anyway, if what I described is what you want to do, yes its possible and legal. Just make sure you cover all your bases with good terms/policies. Tell BrainTree what you want to do and I'm sure they will help you out.
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While correlation doesn't imply causation, I don't think that's quite what he's doing here.

To your first point: even though the rate of default of subprime mortgages is much, much greater, the massive losses that are bringing down banks are the problem. So his point is that the rate of foreclosure doesn't matter so much as the volume: so focus on what is causing foreclosures in the biggest category.

To your second: the remedies currently being considered by congress all focus on regulating the interest rate of mortgages. His point is that the rate, while a factor in determining foreclosure, is much less important than negative equity, and the remedies for preventing negative equity are different.
Change the question to "What browser do you use?" - in that very same video - and you get much better answers. Often from the very same people.

You can make a video asking people in Times Square what a preposition is, and get similar quality of response. That doesn't mean they don't know the difference between 'and' and 'but'.

As for opinion: people can distinguish between the fast one and the slow one.
I agree with you. But now I want to launch and release to several EC2 and Rackspace machines, in parallel. apt doesn't help with that. It also doesn't help with releasing to multiple machines simultaneously (including different types).

If I have 5 debian machines that need to be updated, I should be able to do that with a single command and it should happen in parallel. The same applies if I have 5 debian machines and 5 red hat machines (etc...). I'm advocating a tool that is aware of the existing system specific package managers rather than a replacement of them.
Daniel Davies once pointed out that much of the cost of maintaining the credit-card payment infrastructure scales by number of transactions, not their dollar value. It costs just as much for the issuer to process a dispute over a $1 charge as for a $100 charge.
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I'll definitely talk to BrainTree. Everyone seems to like them. Thanks!

I found a page they have: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/high-risk-mech...
Very nice.
It would be nice if it gives you the scheduled based on the time of the zip code given.
Replace "lifestyle business" with "business" - because that's what they are.

Instead, come up with a new name for the ones that VC's like to invest in.
Can someone explain the phrase "the obsolete Ogg Theora" thrown in at the end? Throw-away trollbait or valid argument?
Let me get this straight: you think the terms under which I'm willing to provide a service for are egregious, and I'm unwilling to negotiate, so you're simply going to take what you want.

Your critique of the industry would be more trenchant if it wasn't tipped with rationalization. Books are pretty expensive too. Authors --- publishers, even --- make virtually no money on most titles. And yet! They won't make them available for free download! Let's take the books, too!
If you don't care about companies taking responsibility, than none of the companies with which you do business will bother with it -- why should they? It exposes them to additional risk, takes more time and effort, and is a lot harder than burying their collective heads in the sand.

If a company works towards maintaining a relationship with me, the customer, then I do think that deserves the reward of my loyalty, to at least some degree.

Sure, they may screw up from time to time, and be a little more expensive, but if they care enough about my business to be honest with me about the situation, which in turn gives me a story for my customers, then they'll be keeping me as a customer.

This is how both CostCo and REI operate, and it serves them both very well.
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If promotion isn't sufficiently less valuable than the pay-for product, then the promotion isn't actually promotion. It's just free shit. You can hate the labels and the RIAA all you want, but at every single step along the way, they've made rational economic decisions.
If you select the text the password is clearly visible.
Plus the letters I type are slimmer than the mask so I can still see the password.

I say : just mask the bloody password the old fashioned way :)
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I am reproducing my comment on the article here as well:

Interesting Article. Though this is not exactly pattern recognition, but segmentation does reveal a lot of insights. For example, as you hinted, organic traffic differs in behavior from social media traffic, which again differs from your loyal visitors. Also, with this kind of analysis you can observe what is the most profitable/active segment of visitors and if they exibit any common characteristics.

However, this is just the first step. Once you infer patterns in your traffic, the next step is to leverage that knowledge. For example, having information that visitors who visit your site by searching 'computer problems' are more likely to signup for newsletter does not really hold any value unless you start targeting such visitors with a more prominent newsletter box.

And this is where analytics software such as Google Analytics fall flat. You have to do custom coding in your site to do such kind of fine grained targeting. And since there could be tens or hundreds of such segments, the whole activity of targeting becomes cumbersome and starts to look ROI-less.

We, at Wingify ( http://www.wingify.com/ ), are trying to develop a solution to help websites setup exactly the same kind of targeting that I have written above. Not only does our solution has more advanced segmentation capabilities than GA, it also gives you freedom to target those segments on your site. Moreover, you can also setup split and multivariate tests for those segments to see how much is targeted content/UI/adverts better than non-targeted ones.

We have limited number of private betas available in case you or your readers are interested. Buzz me at paras@wingify.com.

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What if one device has a switch on the side: 'locked-down terminal' or 'open general purpose computer'? And via virtualization, the two sides are sealed from each other, but instantly switchable? Why not the best of both worlds?
What I meant to say was that a capital-intensive startup would need venture capital to take off, but in that case the VCs would own the company. The founders would not exactly go into debt.

You're totally right. Going into debt is something one should definitely avoid.
"Are there languages that force you to write code in a way that is crabbed and incomprehensible?"

How about TECO?
any hints on level 6? I am not a developer. But I made it this far!
In that case, I'd go with your suggestion: "Business".
From what I've seen on the inside of the company I would disagree. It's more likely that feature was so low priority that it never made the bar to be looked at seriously. I'm not bad mouthing the company. On the contrary they have some of the best minds in the world there. It's just the way company culture is at Microsoft. Much more than code goes into making their software which to say the least complicates things. I can elaborate but I guess I'll leave it at that.
Yes, contacts are added to the iPhone's address book. Future versions of Bump will let you easily add a note after receiving a contact and show you the location of where you met someone.
That jarred for me, having grown up in the UK where -- famously -- almost all piano tuners are blind. It's almost a cliche, and even schools for the blind were of the opinion that this was historically the best chance its students had of a 'normal job'.

I hope that this is no longer the case, but it certainly still was when I was at school in the 80s.
If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS
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I don't think it would be socially awkward, because the 2 people involved are not just standing around doing nothing for the 25 seconds; they are both busy tapping their phones.

You'll probably be able to cut that time down if you don't use a pin code (I don't), and if you put the app in the bottom row of apps.
Business cards are a pain if you ever want to use the information. Most people don't type them up so if you ever need the information you have to scramble to find the card so you can call/email the person. Once you factor in the time it takes to store the information on a business card Bump is more competitive time wise (but of course I am biased).
Wow, hadn't seen that link. Good analysis.

Google is "accidentally" doing what DARPA set out years ago to develop with their "Total Information Awareness (TIA) Program", eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

I swear I don't wear tinfoil hats to bed.
How in the hell do you eat 6000 calories a day? That's the equivalent of 6 double-patty burgers, plus 3 large fries and a 3 large sodas, at most fast food restaurants.

You burn roughly 10 x (your weight in pounds) calories at rest, plus an additional 10% (of that number) for each activity level (office/couch potato = 10%, moderate exercise 4 times a week/average (1 hour each session) = 20%, strenuous exercise 4 times a week/average = 30%, dedicated athlete = 40%. The percentages increase with muscle mass, but not by much. These numbers are for base calorie burn; calories actually expended through physical activity are in addition to these numbers.

Hell, you'd have to be an Olympic or professional athlete to come even close to needing more than 5000 calories in a single day.
I've read that the ability to discriminate between "vivid red" and "vivid green" is actually very important for parts of the US military... I'm not really sure why though. Maybe for airborne jump signals?
Bluetooth is surprisingly difficult to get working between different phones. When phones actually do recognize each other it takes a long time to pair. Once pairing is completed (even between iPhones this takes ~45 when it works) transfers speeds are fast. Communicating with our server in the cloud is a compromise, but it eliminates the cross-platform compatability and pairing problems of Bluetooth.
Also the complete opposite of my experience. I used the nightly builds almost exclusively for over a week on Ubuntu 9.04 and I had no performance issues. Things are certainly incomplete but I was slightly disappointed to go back to the poorer performance of Firefox. I should probably place that blame on the Flash plugin but I think Chrome will handle this problem much better.