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Actually this is in interesting point. One that, I suppose, XHTML was supposed to fix (but never did).

Developers are getting more and more into (it seems) semantic content. I like that - but I never really bother because, as this article points out, Html is too locked in anyway there is little point.

(incidentally it took me a while to take the article seriously... the image they used looks, well, like a penis...)
While what you say is correct, it would be good if Apple did something about this.

Sometime back HP had employed an agency that used illegal means in the US to trap peoples phones etc. While the contract agency committed the crime, HP did take responsibility for this.

On similar lines Apple could investigate take action on their outsource partner. It should also see if its own staff gave such expectations to the outsource partner.
That's quite funny on a site mostly dealing with startups, where typical company is also not older than "a few years at most".

Also, I really don't understand why this should be a job for some _manager_, who doesn't even need to ever see the phone, and not the engineer who needs to work with them. Managers are more important and trusworthy than engineers? Oh. Why.
Bush usually worked from notes except for large speeches, like the state of the union address. Obama's reliance on speechwriters via his teleprompter is so significant that even the MSM has commented upon it. It's not a secret.

http://www.google.com/search?q=obama+teleprompter

Sarah Palin is an interesting phenomenon, even if she herself is pretty unimportant (in the scheme of things). Consider: Why is the GOP is pushing such a mediocre figure? Why is the entire left in a frenzied and permanent two-minutes-hate concerning her? Don't say, "Oh she was nominated for the VP, blah blah, and she's dumb blah blah". Joseph Biden is the actual VP and he spends his days and nights trying to come up with new and improved oratorical outrages. Yet nobody hates Biden, and everybody hates Palin. And they probably hate me just for pointing it out. It's very strange.
cheers, added to my reading list :) (I might have read it - not sure)
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It's surprising what people are impressed by. A lot of people were impressed by Bush's speaking ability -- something that even as a conservative I never understood -- and a lot of people are impressed by Obama's.

Personally, I get annoyed by the low information content of everything he says. Completely standard for Presidents since Carter, I know. But I find it bizarre that otherwise intelligent people can stand the information-free drivel Obama's speech-writers have put down just because the same people agree with the emotions behind it. Case in point, his seminal speech on race and Jeremiah Wright.

Demand information from your politicians, not emotion, not empathy.
If you have differentiated between greed and need and follow it, then its fine. Problem solved. But the problem is that it doesnt stop at 'a little bit of greed'. Lets have some more!

Its not about avoiding mines. We could go about drilling mines on the moon.

The point is this - 'Consumerism thats out of control. A need not unlike that of a child and that too which is ever growing (fuelled by ever-growing population). Its about growing up to be true producers - like nature'
If authors don't want their content to be reformatted they should present it in either a locked down format (ex. PDF) or provide it in a way which is reasonably well formatted.

One of the biggest problems with mobile web browsing is that there are so many fixed format sites which have content for which it is not necessary. I would love if I could just take a badly formatted site, pass it through this on my iPhone and actually have something I can read without scrolling around all over the place.
OK, sad, but the problem here is identifying yourself too much with your job (which is always interchangeable and finite, as opposed to identifying yourself with the real value of your person, which is always infinite).
Antitrust law is fundamentally flawed and was created to fix government granted privilege in the train system. Antitrust law is ill defined and basically puts anyone who is successful at the mercy of washington. An activity can be legal at 50%, 75%, 80% market share and then boom at 81%, or any percentage, they deem you a monopoly and that activity which was formally legal is now illegal. It is unjust and and makes a mockery of the judicial system.
heavy music can have the same effect. (as an aside; if I have to concentrate hard silence tends to distract me, I will get up and make noise to stop it being silent :) so I had to develop these technigues).

Death Metal or Screamo type stuff can wash over you without engaging much of your thought process.

I dont have a study to back that up :) but I know Im not alone in experiencing this (and I think it actually backs up what your saying too).
I wonder if it was actually suicide?
lucky you. I always struggle to concentrate. I usually listen to white noise - helps me getting in the zone without the effort.
I wouldn't even go as far as to say she's a moron. She clearly only cares about hitting her talking points in her speeches. As a result, she has absolutely no concern for depth and nuance.

This single-minded demagogy is the most disturbing part of the Palin saga. A huge portion of the American voting public likes her all the more for it. The less she says anything beyond G.O.P. talking points, the more people are enamored with her.

This sort of anti-intellectualism sends chills down my spine.
I don't think it was actually B+N's choice to not allow access to Amazon's reader.
I don't do much coding like others here ( I am more biz dev/ sales oriented now) but when I am hacking on something I will usually seed Pandora with Devin The Dude or maybe Trick Trick.

I will tend to listen to the same general artists/tracks because I don't want the distraction of new data, but I do like using music as a sort of click-track to provide a tempo for what I'm working on.
I still think the best thing BN could do right now is to put the inventory levels of every bookstore on the store pages. I know they have them all on their intranet, since they can do searches of near-by stores to see if any neighbors have the book you are looking for. I'd just love to be able to go to bn.com and have it tell me which store (if any) I can go to today to get the book I want.

As it is, I mostly just go straight to amazon if I'm looking for a computer-related book, a sci-fi book, or a fantasy book, since my local bn's selection tends to be a bit lacking...
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Can someone explain to me why this comment was modded to -1?
I would say we agree except to note that YouTube is owned by a public company, so it may make substantial disclosures at a future time that are subject to audit. That's not exactly the same thing as taking its word for it.
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I think they've only started looking at optimization and it may not be number 1 priority yet?

http://perlbuzz.com/2008/11/parrot-10-will-be-out-in-march-2...
How so? I don't think anyone needs to get permission from Amazon. There are a few formats that are compatible with the Kindle. I've bought a few books from The Pragmatic Programmers and they offer a .mobi version that works on the Kindle.
They're a great idea, but sadly no where near as nice as the iPhone, or even the Palm Pre or G1 for that matter.
"Nobody seriously intends screenplays on the web to have the same function they do in real life: getting read, getting optioned or bought, and getting shot. All of that happens on paper, not on Firefox."

Why not? It's pretty straightforward to paginate something or divide it like a physical page. In the case of screenplays, the 'page' was engineered around because it was a physical limitation. The author's example of Final draft and it's default format of XML is exactly what I am talking about - scripting that to be presented in HTML is not difficult.

I feel like this entire article is complaining about HTML and HTML5, while reaching for tenuous examples and not really accomplishing much.
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Both Borders and BN already have this info on their websites.
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I agree - at least in regard to material that should be immutable (e.g., approved minutes to a meeting).

But for blog posts... It's not a matter of locking it down ... it's a matter of getting the attribution included.

And for most blog authors... they are not responsible (or capable of taking charge of) the formatting of a page - since they use blogspot, blogger, or other 3rd party systems. So another way to ask the question would be: shouldn't those systems provide better services to their bloggers (or shouldn't bloggers be aware how awful their blogs print from those services) and offer more reader-friendly print css?
Can you think of any strategic value to the moon? I can't.
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This is true and as much as I like the project and am with the original commenter in terms of enthusiasm the statement might be slightly going in the wrong direction as there could be secrecy about hardware features as well. I think what our fellow hacker wants to point out though is the fact that there is a completely different culture around the openmoko project where tragedies like this would be a lot less likely to happen. Openmoko has less of momentum simply because there isn't as much money behind but still I would dare to say it might be almost a duty for the open (source) minded hacker to own one (EDIT: device, like the Neo Freerunner "GTA02") and hack around. For the sake of a new culture.
Money messes with your mind most when you don't have any. The NYTimes is starting to get a lot of first hand experience with that kind of "messing". Fortunately this sad and corrupt institution will gone before the next midterm elections.
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We are working quite a bit on email message handling. One specific area we are really focusing on is bounce email management. We have rolled some of the code on our own but we are evaluating if we are better of just relying on other folks bounce detection software.

I know Lamson has some bounce detection software (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=697826) but we are also evaluating Boogie Tools Bounce Studio - http://www.boogietools.com/Products/Linux/

I was wondering if anybody had used any of these tools before and have an opinion on the relative merits of both.
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> It doesn't look like there's support for any dedicated reader

its launching on the Plastic Logic reader.
Interesting experiment. I'm a purist at heart, though, and all this talk of accreting followers as a business process makes me ache a little. I still think this is the best way to go: http://increaseyourtwitterfollowers.com/
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Is that really the reason you like OpenMoko phones?

"nobody needs to kill themselves over revealing the details"

I completely don't understand that statement. Like anyone associated with the iPhone can say "someone needs to kill themselves over this project." Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder.
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Hi,

I'm currently with AgroUML, but it's still needs a lot of work :/. I'm working with my team remotely so important for me is easy sharing options with my teammates.

What do you use for remote work?
The plastic logic ready looks kind of ugly, no?
A friend of mine was a sound, power, and lighting technician for some pretty prestigious concert venues. According to him, the "green m&m clauses" of certain bands' touring agreements were a test specifically to see if someone from each venue had actually read the band's technical specification requirements. If you got to the concert location and the green m&ms were not ready, it was time to panic and start finding out where the power was going to cut out when you turned on all the kit...
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Did he just ask, in effect, "Why do developers develop communities, but testers don't?"

I can't resist answering, "Because testers would much rather test communities."

But actually, I'm serious: It takes a different mind-set (IMHO) to be a great tester than it does to be a great developer - and it probably is the latter that are inclined to build (develop) a community.
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We all support the Chinese way every time we buy a product made in China. A business supports these methods every time they sign a contract with a company that produces its goods in China. It's implicit. I am not sure how you can feign having your head in the sand. Apple is absolutely part of the problem. We are absolutely part of the problem. Yes, even myself. To say otherwise is foolish. Apple should hold Foxconn to high standards not only in protecting its secrets but how to properly treat human beings.
Some shaky statements in here. CouchDB should not be compared to these. Description of Cassandra is misleading.

He disses Tokyo Cabinet table feature which is in fact _not_ like typical tabular data but behaves more like a second level hash (hash of hashes) — which he raves about as an awesome feature of other storages.

"None of these really set CouchDB apart, because you could just encode JSON data and store it in Tokyo Cabinet, you can maintain your own indexes of data fairly easily, and you can build a simple REST API in a matter of days, if not hours."

Except you'd be missing the querying features in Tokyo Cabinet. He also misses the fact that Cabinet has real master-to-master replication.

Redis' batch-disk-dumping-from-memory strategy is interesting and theoretically allows it memcached speed with persistance. I'll be looking out for this one.

Finally the statement on using each one for a different use case is crazy. Feature overlap between Redis, Cassandra and Tokyo C/T is too big.
> My brother-in-law "Bob" (not his real name, because I promised not to identify him)

That sentence seems counter-intuitive. It's hardly difficult to track such a firm relation.....
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A guy who works at Foxconn here in Mexico told me that Chinese executives that come here are surprised and somehow annoyed but the difference in cultures. Here, people come to work, talk to each other, joke around, etc. In China, people just stay in one place, do not talk to each other and just look straight down even if the line is stopped and they don't have work to do. It sounds like one of those futuristic movies where we are just robots doing the same thing over and over. I do not know if they are repressed or if it is pure fear. I guess that can make you crazy. I know that he (Sun) was an engineer and it is not exactly the same, but still I can imagine a situation where he was extremely scared.
From the home, click on "Zope.org". Then click, on the top tab bar, on "Code". Then select one of the many branches, let's say, "lp:grok/trunk". Now click on the "Source code" pill.

Four clicks and you are browsing source. Not bad.
I haven't used either project so I can't comment on the technical merits, but they have very different licenses. I would imagine that could be a primary deciding factor.

Lamson is free so it would be easy to try it out. On the other hand, it's free under the GPL license. If it was LGPL it would be a clear cut case. Under the GPL I don't think you can use it without releasing your own source code. You probably want to find out for sure or inquire about other licensing options. Since you'd be dealing directly with the developer it may be negotiable.

Boogie Tools isn't going to require you to release source code, but they've got the typical annoying licensing scheme with multiple versions and usage levels. It looks like they have separate licenses for different operating systems as well. I don't see anything about a trial license.
If its a $3B/yr market your company, if it delivers what you say, could almost certainly make $50M a year even accounting for the market shrinking drastically, couldn't it?
I concur on the criticism of the statement but I wouldn't be so sure as to call every suicide a personal disorder. Obviously his environment(/his mistake?) put him under a lot of pressure which has been clearly UNBEARABLE to him. This is not happening in the US this is happening in a different culture, there are factors to be counted in we might not even know about. Not every suicide is a personal disorder.
There's always the "drop giant rocks on your enemies" approach, if you like the blunt end of things.

On the other hand, once you're out of Earth's gravity well, you're halfway to anywhere.
Cool that these guys have built a tool/stack to implement a complete hadoop/postgre layer (if I understood the article correctly).

But it brings up the question...
Why is data and data processing outstripping hardware capabilities at such an alarming rate? Is this whole non-relational database performance the right direction? or should we be focusing on new hardware solutions?
I can think of a few.

There's supposedly fuel on the moon. He3, if I'm right.

You'd be much more easily able to control space (orbital space), because you'd have fabrication plants on a place with about 1/6 of the gravity, making escaping that gravity much, much easier.

It would bring you a lot closer to the goal of space colonization.

Plus, lasers.
It would "prove" that Communism is superior to Capitalism and lead non-aligned nations into China's sphere of influence. That's what the original space race was about - impressing countries that hadn't made their minds up yet.
Does NASA even do that? I thought the USAF launched US military satellites?
By iteration, I mean one loop of my algorithm. I'm not brute forcing. There are a few other calculations I'm doing in addition to the hamming distance and the hash. I'm relying heavily on the random characters you get to append.
Does anybody other than me procrastinate by reading articles about avoiding procrastination? Ahh, the irony...
The biggest benefit of NoSQL dbs is the ability to add properties (i.e. columns) on the fly

Are you claiming that you can't add a column on the fly to a table in a relational database? Because that my friend is complete gibberish.
It's a nice trick, but I will probably stick to Ctrl-K-C (block comment) and Ctrl-K-U (block uncomment) in Visual Studio, just out of habit. I hate leaving big block comments in the middle of a module anyways: hurts readability.
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Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder.

I think in many cases suicide is an individual manifestation of a societal disorder. There's a reason Japan and South Korea have some of the highest suicide rates in the world. When death is seen as a tolerable or even honorable method of saving face, people will exercise that option.

(edit: The numbers I was looking at came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_suici... which is more of the list of "developed" nations. Japan and South Korea are comfortably in the lead there. If you go by all nations then the post-Soviet countries do rank highest.)
I'm going to Philly. My school provides wifi for students throughout the entire area of my college, which is pretty sweet.
If you've done testing, it's hard not to have some bitter comments. Testing, at the tail end of the development process, tends to catch all the sh-t as it's passed down. It's not a happy place to be.

Full fledged Quality Assurance, participating in the entire development and deployment process, tends to provide more control. That proverbial "second set of eyes". Unfortunately, it's a role that, at least in software development, is seldom truly implemented and supported (and properly staffed). Many may pay lip service to it; enter the organization, and you get a different picture.

The good tester often finds themself jerked around and disrespected. If they are good, they have options and move on. Which is a shame, as it's a much needed role (meaning particularly a proper QA role) and one that can be enormously effective, when supported and well done.
It's an interesting argument, if not a bit hyperbolic. It feels like book purchasing, but it's actually signing a contract for reading rights.
Lots of cheese.
The term "mine" was meant to be "landmine".
I'm going to disagree and say that what you just described is bad.
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I think he's saying that if you have a large database in an rdb, adding the new column 'live' can take a prohibitively long time and kill access to the server, whereas a NoSQL db can add the new column without any large initial expensive operations on the db.

(Disclaimer: not a db guy.)
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Wow, you could reverse all these and have a pretty good blog post.
Japan and South Korea have some of the highest suicide rates in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...

The World Health Organization figures on suicide rates around the world, conveniently gathered in the linked Wikipedia article, provide more nuance on this issue. Throughout our lifetimes, the top countries in the world for suicide rates have been in Europe.
What??

One of the first books of sociology was about suicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(book) .

A person is doing it of course, but all the circumstances and environment around count! Otherwise, exaggerating a little bit this kind of reasoning, one could say: "poverty is sometimes the result of outside details, but one can overcome them, so it's more a personal disorder."
Well, document management is free to move to the cloud.

But to the users it sure isn't (for many of commercial solutions). Consider (from the OP):

"According to the company's price list on-premise version of Knowledge Tree has an annual fee of $2,400 for a 20-user license at the basic level. The most basic SaaS version is $2,950 for 10 users, and is limited to 50 GB of storage"

What about small-time users? How about a small-sized offering?

Better yet: some open source solutions?
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