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Mamma mia tickets
A Fantabulous musical, first premiered in 1999, Mamma Mia is combination of a perfect story and enthralling performances. With over 1,500 performances, it is the 24th longest running and the most successful Broadway musical of all times. About 20 million people as audiences, this musical has been performed in 9 languages, each one of them being the best performances in its own way. Not only this, but its film version will be out in 2007, which will be directed by Tom Hanks and produced by Benny Andersson.
The link to the free cards doesn't even work now.
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GMail is without doubt one of the most popular online email services. What makes it so interesting is not only the functionality that it provides out of the box but also its extensibility.
I just so have to agree with you!

It took me a week to figure out what in the world was going on in Paypal API land - they have a number of products, but they are all so poorly explained and described.

So, a week to figure what was going on, only a few hours to mould it all together once I realised what I really wanted.
Venture capitalists have started pumping their remaining capital into hundreds of seed and early stage deals, looking for the next big thing...

...Large limited partners in venture funds, many of which are government affiliated like CALPERS, are starting to complain about the 2 percent management fees and 20 percent carry (the share of profits received by VC partners) that firms earn, so, like the big banks, venture capitalist pay cuts are on the horizon in 2009.*

Assuming these the first is an actual trend & the former a real pressure, how do those two react? Aren't seed rounds more 'expensive' to run?
And here is Jason Scott's (BBS Documentary, textfiles.com, Get Lamp, etc) mail exchange with Gizmodo after they asked him to contribute: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2079

Here is the "article" he could have been part of http://gizmodo.com/5316206/the-desperate-times-before-intern...
How Co-working Is Working in Portland (Y Combinator mention, too) - BusinessWeek
I think you should stick to dedicated servers for now.

1. Don't do premature scaling (or optimization). You might be wasting time that could be spent working on the actual service or app. I feel that even with a dedicated solution, the scaling thing is a non issue until you reach a certain critical usage.

2. The cloud solutions(Amazon for example) are not cheap at all, even a small instance is 10 cents an hour and multiply that by 24x7. On the other hand even a VPS from say slicehost for the same config would be around 20 bucks a month.

3. The datastore based cloud options like AppEngine etc, are too restrictive for some kinds of applications.
You are allowed to watch it with your friends though, of course that might depend on the country you live in. In Germany you are even allowed to give copies to close friends and family members (but you are not allowed to break copy protection).
Not sure if I understand this. The title of each RSS item can be purchased as a tshirt?

Also, how do you get the tshirts printed? Do you do it yourself or outsource to another company? (curious for my own tshirt needs)
I trudged through the registration on my iPhone 3gs (that city drop down felt like it was going to crash mobile safari... Perhaps zip code field instead?) only to find out that there were no results within 200 miles of Philadelphia. I'm not really sure what makes your site any different than the other dating sites out there. For what it's worth I do like your brand but I actually think it would be better for a trendy little vegeterian cafe.
Well if you're willing to sacrifice a bit of speed I think I have a pretty good heuristic algorithm you can use:
Step 1: Find a maximal point, by this a mean a point `p' s.t. no point has x >= p.x and y >= p.y. (such a point clearly exists).
Step 2:
Now it shouldn't be too hard to see that for a rectangle to cover `p' it would have to have `p' as one of its corners, so we set one corner as `p' and then grow the other corner until it runs into walls.

This is just off the top of my head so I'm haven't really done much analysis. You could make it a bit slower and actually get the rectangle that takes up the most area instead of just growing until you hit walls. Not sure how much that actually improves it.
Upon closer inspection I noticed the bunnies appear to be going at it... Maybe not so great for a cafe, heh.
I'm afraid I'm not a purist. You cannot deny the fact that windows is ubiquitous & for any software claiming to support it, it is 'huge', I repeat its 'huge'. Just check this report (http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql_on_window...) from MySQL itself on how 'huge' windows platform is.
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Nokia unveiled a new cell phone that balances eye-catching design with the latest in mobile functionality. The compact Nokia 3710 fold handset adds a personal touch with an artistic pattern on the cover. Its diverse features are effortless to find and use. The Nokia 3710 fold cell phone smoothly opens to reveal the bright screen, ideal for displaying the pictures and videos taken with the 3.2 megapixel digital camera. The memorable moments can be shared online or stored on an micro SD card, which is expandable up to 8GB.
Did You Buy Intel? May Be You Should Have
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Perhaps a well-defined subset of Wave? Wave is to EtherTextEditProtocol as XML is to Atom?
I lost over 100 followers today.
Twitter Unveils A Live-Updating Search Widget
we are over in Berkeley, though we might just all meet in San Francisco if there's a big enough crowd at a cafe or some other nice venue with wifi =) The location will have to be tentative, though I'll pick a spot by tomorrow afternoon so you guys have a heads up.

If anything, we can just do this remotely on Chatterous. In future events, if this becomes popular enough, we should probably setup a venue for it =)
I think Linus is right in that there is a priori no reason to not accept the code. However, I think he'll change his mind once he actually sees it.

If any of you had actually looked at the code, you would have seen that it's crap. Even though they removed the weird Win32 coding conventions with lots of CAPS LOCK, UINT32 #define's and stuff, the functions are large and they are simply poorly written. If you look at "native" code, it is much more clean and written in an organized fashion. The MS code looks to be written in a haste, without properly thinking about the problem being solved (in this case, the writing of a driver).

That isn't to say that the code will not be useful, it could be rewritten to be obviously correct instead of it having no obvious bugs.
Not a start up, but Tim Bray's in Vancouver. He mentions local start ups very occasionally on his blog, and I seem to recall he's been at least peripherally involved with or has dialoged with one or two, at times.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
ChaCha Search ribbed by Arrington over "exclusivity" request; scores $4M anyway
Who cares ? it's just a number in some database.

Your interactions with real people are what counts, not how many packets get pumped around on some serverfarm. If you think it matters how many 'followers' you've got then I would suggest the following businessmodel for twitter:

- 10 followers extra = $1 / month
- 100 followers extra = $5 / month
- 1000 followers extra = $25 / month
- 10000 followers extra = $125 / month

That way you too can be te envy of your neighbourhood.

By making the number public they're inviting gaming the system because peoples egos are involved. Why not capitalize on that :)
Key West Mug Shots displays arresting images
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Thanks. Perhaps I'll ask about this on their mailing list.
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Non-iPhone Carriers imply they can offer iPhone apps
That search term digs up some stuff I hadn't seen before that might be applicable. The particular paper you mentioned starts with a polygon rather than a set of rectangles, though.
Maybe, could you pass me the links to the bugs you filed for bugzilla? Maybe I could help you and fix firebug. If your only problem is the whitelist thing, then yes, it's no big deal.
mine didn't either, but you can just:

cpan[1]> install URI::Escape

and you're done.
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Me and another guy both upgraded to 1.4 on FF 3.0 and we've been loosing access to console.log randomly. The only way for me to get it back is to restart FF. This is really annoying as we use it for work. Anyone else seeing this problem?
Startup ioBridge enables Twitter-based control of home monitoring, control
This raises the question of exactly how to grow the rectangles, i.e. how to pick out the ones that have adjacent space to consume, what to do with the leftovers after a merge (since the union of two rectangles may not be a rectangle) and so on. It's too slow to examine all the rectangles every time you want to answer one of these questions, so you need a way of arranging them. I've written code that is vaguely similar to what you suggest (but is too slow). It sorts the rectangles in one x-coordinate and then one y-coordinate, which still leaves a lot of searching to do. Perhaps keeping four sorted lists of the rectangles would help, but that's costly too, since as you coalesce rectangles you need to insert and delete from the set.
More information on the development of the setun ternary computer:

http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm
Does anyone know if this new interface is utilizing any JavaScript front-end library? I'll assume safely the answer is no, since each public pad instance (http://etherpad.com/qT6VIf0T1j) also generates a css file (http://etherpad.com/static/compressed/031904e16a8466d1d48452... ~2000 lines) and a js file (http://etherpad.com/static/compressed/d0537b549791338e55ba31... ~8000 lines), not to mention the developers founding this venture are ex-Googlers and probably preferred defining the front-end from scratch.

If you're in for a trip, copy and paste the JavaScript into a beautifer (http://jsbeautifier.org/) then clear your mind because it's gonna get blown.
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Issues with Co-working spaces: The example of Portland, OR
working on
http://mosambe.com :)

It will hopefully get some traction soon.
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if 0 is false and 1 is true then what is 2 ? (conspiracy ?)
Hehehehe :) , it is true that lying/forging is one of the most creative activity (unless people die / get hurt because of it).

Good one !!!!
Just wrapping up new home and pricing page for our photo sales app: http://www.nextproof.com/pricing/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/23/microsoft_open_sourc...

Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like actual people. Corporations can exercise human rights against real individuals and the state

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

Yeager said Stanford's lawyers asked him to review a copy of Cisco's
software. He found his own work in it.

Stanford officials in charge of licensing debated what to do. ``Cisco
mess'' was the heading of one e-mail discussing the issue.

Earnest urged a lawsuit and even raised the idea of criminal charges
against Bosack. He e-mailed colleagues: ``The fundamental problem is: how
do you negotiate an equitable agreement with crooks?''

http://www.xent.com/pipermail/fork/2001-December/007210.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
But a set of rectangles outlines a polygon, right? You pack them however they are and draw between exterior vertices. Voila, polygon.
Got energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.com

Does this count?

I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries:

http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-side

http://github.com/costan/imobile - Rails server-side
yeah these guys are rich. I need to get them to fund my poor company!
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A good way to end people's fears of your scalability would be to introduce an individually licensed instance of your service and inviting the client to keep things under their own control (if not in their intranet, then on a dedicated host under their control.)
Search for R-Tree and the many variants used for spatial indexing. You will find the papers very pragmatic about the tradeoffs between optimal coverage and speed of creation, update and traversal. Parallelizing with transactional guarantees is still a bit of a research topic. It would be interesting to do some experimental implementations in, say, Erlang.
You can actually open a new emacs window in a different screen. So the cool use is to have someone login to their machine on their laptop, open emacs, then have them spawn a new window in the running X server.

Yay emacs.
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one failed cloud (memcached) hundreds of wrong follower counts :)
Completing a redesign of http://www.localphone.com/ — a VoIP start-up I work for.
http://www.flowdock.com/, real-time communication & collaboration app for teams. Still work to do before open beta.
I think your comment would be perfectly reasonable if you were trying to argue against a rigid definition of a _Functional Language_. But I think it's off base to say 'There's nothing in "functional programming", as has been practiced for decades, that necessarily excludes mutable data'.

Functional programming DOES NOT PERMIT mutability or side-effects. Lisps such as Scheme may lend themselves well to a functional style, but mutability is not an element of functional programming. I could write in a functional style in C as well, by AVOIDING mutability.

If we're just splitting hairs about "how functional" a language has to be to be considered a "Functional Programming Language" then you're welcome to label as you like. But if you are suggesting that looping without recursion (i.e. with mutable variables) is in any way Functional, then you are just wrong.
"Decentralized" is the key word here. Back in 2000, the term Web Consultancy refered to a company with 200+ developers on staff, who would charge you $250/hr to build your site. Nothing ever cost lest than six figures, and any decent site would run you at least half a million dollars.

That is the industry that went away. A few of the little guys (myself included) survived the Mass Extinction, much in the same way that proto-mice survived the alien first strike that killed the dinosaurs.

10 years later, we still aren't seeing any of those giant Consultancies emerging again (at least not onshore). It's just a big mess of little shops. And many of us have product lines to smooth out the revenue curve.
From the page: "Void in Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan and the Province of Quebec, Canada."

Just curious, why is quebec also excluded?
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The "slow" traders had off-market places to find liquidity for a long time. Posit does a block crossing every half hour, with reports back to the exchenge.

If fairness is such a concern, they should just do a once-a-day crossing. That'd be much more fair, but much less liquid.
The late 90's was a great time to be alive, and it taught me one lesson that still guides me today:

The dot-com boom was a goldrush, and if you look back to the Klondike goldrush 100 years previous you can notice a pattern. There were two groups of individuals who got rich back then: The guys that got there first, and the guys that sold shovels to everybody else.

It's hard to be that First Guy, but it's easy to notice him and set up a shovel stand.
This is the line that stuck with me as well. Mention of children is a very clever technique; it removes the guilt of spending the kids' college money or inheritance; it makes shopping feel like an investment.
I think part of the point is that the products are high margin enough to promote that level of individual attention. If guys selling $5 watches spend that much effort per watch, it'd never pay off.

Carrying that over to software, these techniques would be most useful for the $100k per seat packages rather than the $5.99 packages. Although software is rarely sold on the notion of romance, so I don't know how sustainable these methods would be.
The perception of auras is a kind of synesthesia (emotions => vision). It can also be related to optical illusions (like contrast amplification).

Spontaneous synesthetic aura perception is very rare, and I don't know if you can develop it later on, or if secondary "aura readers" percieve the second kind, or if a strong emotion can trigger the phenomenon is someone who usually doesn't percieve it.

There's nothing magical related to that.
I remember having exactly the same experience.

It was an interesting technological toy. But something was missing, and it sank quickly. I cannot quite figure out what was wrong. Most likely not on the technical side.
Space between rectangles make holes in the polygon. We can't cover any space that wasn't already covered.
Web Inspector does allow you to create new CSS rules, though it's not intuitive at all.

When editing an existing rule you can add a new rule on the same line.Once you hit enter Web Inspector will put the new rule on a new line.

If there is no existing rule for an element you can cheat one in by adding 1 pixel padding via the metrics panel, which creates in inline padding style. The edit that rules or and add new rules as above.

Again, not as good as Firebug, but might be useful for some.

It looks like this is being actively worked on:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18224

I agree the lack of DOM editing UI is a problem.
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Mostly working on the social interface around the pricing model, trying to get the subscription process smoothed out. It's a fun little puzzle, trying to get people from "this is cool" to "I should sign up for this" to "I should pay money for this".

After that, there are a couple new big pieces in the works...
So one of the reasons I chose to modify zentu.net's tagline from a "FOSS"-oriented tagline to an "OSS"-oriented one is precisely that . . . I admire Stallman's and Torvalds' benevolences and all, but people cannot work for free.

You do realize that "free software" doesn't necessarily mean "free of charge". As Stallman often said, when thinking of free software, think in terms of "free speech", not "free beer". You can, under GPL, charge the people for your software. As long as you give them the right to see and modify your code, that software is free.
Not completely useless...

Its pretty handy for disabling javascript, changing forms from POST to GET, viewing form fields and trying different browser window sizes.

Otherwise though it does have a lot of pointless options.
0 is not false; false is 0. If you really want a logic model here, use fuzzy logic with 3 discrete values.

An aside: why was the above comment modded down so much? I think it was simply a joke. Not a deep joke and not a funny one, but not offensive or anything like that. Folks, relax already.
Distractions are probably the biggest hurdle for telecommuting. Since I've been working at home, distractions have caused me to spread my work over a longer period of time. So instead of a normal 9 to 5, I can work from 7 a.m. until midnight.
http://webgeek.io/ - Shipped one day ago..
How on earth did you nail that domain name? .jp must be virgin lands!
You (and plenty others) need to stop anthropomorphizing Microsoft and painting them as some kind of single sentient entity. The reason they can be unpredictable is because they're so freaking huge. Even the strategy on their own products doesn't make any sense most of the time.
If you're doing this in Common Lisp, cl-who generates perfect XML to feed to twilio :-) I might have a cheesy, one-page cl-twilio package lying around actually :-)
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All I know about this incident is that Microsoft dropped some driver code into the kernel and chose to license it as GPL (they could easily have chosen BSD instead). Why have they been "forced to comply with the GPL to avoid being sued for GPL violation"? Did I miss something?

* edit: I did miss the earlier thing about them mixing GPL with a binary blob in an earlier driver. Though who would be suing them in this case? And is this different from NVIDIA's driver?
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I think the article meant that a deadly strain of E. coli first appeared in the early 1980s.

E. coli in general does not cause death, It is present in the gut of most mammals, including humans.
Except the shiny icons and Aqua, i don't see much difference in UI between Pidgin and Adium. Correct me if i'm wrong but from what i see, Adium is just Pidgin "localized" for Mac.
Bad timing for this to happen. Have you guys tried the script debugging in IE8? Wow.

IE's script error handling has been so useless for so long that it took a while to sink in that it's so much better now. As in, it's miles ahead of Firebug. Proper call stack navigation, break-on-error that drops you into the debugger. It just plain works.

For CSS debugging and network traffic inspection, Firebug is still the defacto standard. I don't think it's going anywhere, but it's certainly in second place now when it comes to JS debugging.
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For our startup it was the other way around, by releasing too early there was an extreme pressure on us. Not only by the users and their complaints/feature requests/etc but also by all the things we still needed to fix/develop/polish.

Looking back I think we were way better off when we would have released a 1.0 that was thoroughly tested and worked as advertised instead of a 0.2 alpha ready to be used by the public and introducing all kinds of extra stuff that slowed down actual development and introduced a sh*tload of other problems.
Hey kids, don't try this at home (the smashing fingers part of it)!
this has been said over and over again. The main problem with this is that:

1) the battery would not last as long as Apple wants it to

2) what if 2 applications receive a notification at the same time? how can this be handled (what if 7 apps at the same time?)

3) there is not enough ram available for apps to stay in memory, and when an app receives a notification it should than be started with this notification.
Won't this involve handling over the code itself? I am toying with this idea for my startup but the fear of code getting leaked has prevented me from fully embracing it.
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