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I read all my comics on my tablet device. it is the perfect size screen / interface. I have the same marvel/dc app on my iphone and it's not the same experience. It tries to be, but the real estate makes it impossible to enjoy in the same fashion.
Optimisation algorithms are used widely in all sorts of industries. That antenna was used in 2006. If you read the "History" section of the GA article you linked it talks about developments made since the fifties. Certainly it has space applications, but the technology wasn't developed for space uses. The photo was probably used because space is interesting to people and because NASA photos are in the public domain.

You can't simply say that all exploration gives value for money. With finite resources, we have to direct spending to where it will result in the most benefit. Funding of human spaceflight means that there's less funding available elsewhere. I'm not familiar with who funded Amundsen's expedition, but I'd imagine that it cost a lot less than the trip to the moon did.

There has been innovative developments in the space industry. Some of those spin-off technologies are definitely valid (although the question of whether the return they provide given the absolutely huge R&D budget is worth it) but others are less so. Freeze drying was apparently initially developed in 1938, long before the space program. I find it hard to believe that, in the absence of a space program, nobody would have invented the portable vacuum cleaner.

There are benefits from a space program. Government R&D, when spent well, has a huge impact on technological progress (just look at the absolutely incredible technological step change that wars bring). What I think needs to end is the absolute idolisation of the space program. It's an investment, and one which has often shown a poor return.
Why do things have to be boiled down into winner-take-all narratives? I feel that the public has no capacity for nuance anymore.

Look, the tablet has its place - usually situations that don't require high-bandwidth HIDs such as keyboards. The computer user of the future will have many devices spanning many different form factors. It's OK.
Yes, and the superior battery life of a tablet enables this casual consumption very nicely.
I would love to be able to easily invite friends to events via SMS. I have a group of friends who come out to a regularly-scheduled hang-out, but we change up the location each week. It would be awesome if I could see who plans to attend.

I haven't been able to find anything like that yet (at least for iOS). I feel like it could probably be done with Twilio's API, but I'm a front-end developer and haven't really looked into it that much.
I would venture to say that the average consumer doesn't take part in online discussions about the behaviors of average consumers.
Also, I'm surprised at the response to my OP since my original complaint was about the misspellings.
I like it.

I don't know if you can use this kind of test on fresh-out-of-college hires, because a lot of professors don't teach security, and there may be plenty of other bad habits to break anyway.

But on any experienced hire -- even someone one year out of school -- it's perfect for screening out the codemonkeys.
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This seems like a weirdly narrow experience to base writing off tablets in general on. It also is contradicted by the massive volume of android tablets being specifically sold as tv replacements.

Seems like he's been deluded by taking numbers out of context.
Media's love affair with tablets is probably over. They have tried everything and not able to continue/recreate the monopoly they enjoyed with paper. Not on the web. Not on tablets.

For the rest of us, it is so getting started.
> Have you ever seen a child use a tablet?

Or your mother?

Seriously. It's actually kind of amazing.

I got my mum one a couple of years ago and she's hooked. She literally doesn't leave the house without it if she's going anywhere that involves some manner of waiting. Touch input is something far more intuitive to someone in her generation (so it seems with my meager sample size of one) than mouse/menu-driven input. Granted, I still have to occasionally show her how to perform certain actions on the device, but save for the first few weeks, that's now quite rare.

I think the thing with tablets is that they function for some adults as a replacement for casual use--browsing, e-mail, videos, etc; a consumption device, as you stated--but not for content creation. My mum still uses her computer to send e-mail, for instance, but everything else she does on her tablet. Maybe it's because she's a touch typist, but I suspect there's something about a keyboard that's a very difficult thing to replace.
We just need to disrupt the term disruption with a new word.
The march of progress continues!
This is exactly how I use my tablet too. I use my computer all day writing code, so when its time to relax with some Netflix, or an ebook I grab my tablet instead. Its perfect for laying on the couch or in bed.

A phone definitely works in that case as well, but the tiny screen isn't as nice for reading and watching video. Not to mention by the end of the day my phone is usually mostly dead and its time to put it on the charger for tomorrow. So trying to use my phone in bed while its attached to a charger is annoying. The tablet meanwhile is charged up (and usually lasts a full week for me between charges, even during heavy Netflix usage).
They make a reference that the NSA may be actively using a quantum computer to break mainstream encryption (or that it may happen soon).

Puh-leez.
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Sitting upright at a desk with a reasonably sized monitor placed at arm's length is much more ergonomic than curling over a tiny glossy screen.
This is just a rehashing of the netbook. As phones get bigger and/or something else replaces the need of casual consumption in a different or more appealing form factor, we'll say bye to the tablet as well.
Yeah, the CSS OM is really horrible too. CSS Animations is another area where you end up feeding huge generated strings into the DOM -- in theory Web Animations is meant to improve this, though personally I feel like the API too high level and ends up being really large because of this :(.

In your example, I think it'd only be a small patch (for WebKit, where my experience is) to optimize "elem.style.transform = new WebKitCSSMatrix(a,b,c,d)" without intermediate stringification. Mozilla doesn't expose a CSSMatrix type unfortunately. I've done some similar things for other CSS properties in WebKit -- have you considered submitting a patch? I've found the WK guys super receptive to small optimizations which don't change observable behavior (i.e.: you can't tell if the WebKitCSSMatrix was stringified or not currently) like that.
The more subtle point here about phablets being the death of tablets is, in my experience, dead on. People still addicted to their 7inch+ tablets simply haven't used a phablet.

I spent last year being much more impressed by single purpose devices anyway. Stuff like the latest eink Kindles, the Chromecast and so on. Curiously they all follow the same push style of content delivery, where it is pushed from the network to the device for focused consumption, and I can't help thinking this is the future.
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A team of 15 software engineers (of which I am one) has been given a mandate to hire 30 engineers in 30 days. Some of the guys have been using CollabEdit.com and it's proving unreliable.

As a Front-End guy I am using c9.io and it's working out very well (and I can see them doing git as well which is a plus) but the back end guys were hoping there was something better.

What are you guys using that you like?
This is an updated version of Eliss, an update to a early App Store hit: http://toucharcade.com/2009/03/10/eliss-a-puzzler-thats-perf...
I remember John Carmack saying something along the lines of game engine development being harder than rocket science.
I'm having a really hard time trying to stomach anything Tim Berners Lee is saying these days, when I know he's such a big proponent of bringing DRM to his "open web" (and inevitably turning it into a more "closed" one, in the end).

Also, isn't this decentralization? Not having the data in one mega-American-cloud? Seems to me that Tim is doing a lot of PR for big companies lately, masked as a benefit for the users, just like he's doing with the whole DRM thing, which he actually says would be beneficial for users.

But let's assume he's not trying to be malicious here, and that he has a point. Here's the thing. Yes, I agree that having every country demand companies to host the data locally is going to make it very hard for innovation to spread, and therefore, progress will slow.

HOWEVER, right now it seems we only have a choice between this, and allowing US to get their hands on all the data. I didn't even see Obama mention anything about NSA not being able to tap the world's fiber cables anymore.

So until US gets serious about not doing shitty stuff like that to the world's users, then I absolutely think all the other countries should try to force companies to host the data locally.

There is one other solution to this, that will allow companies to keep the data wherever they want, and that's encrypting everything by default, and even them not being able to decrypt the data without the user allowing it. So stuff like OTR for chat systems, DarkMail/PGP for e-mail systems, and so on.

Make it so the web is completely trust-less, so other countries don't have to trust Google or the American government to not get their data, because they could be assured there's nothing for them to get other than strongly encrypted data.

Unfortunately, this option isn't even on the table right now with the big companies, and the US government will push against companies trying to do this, too. And the only way to get this option on the table, is for them to think that other countries are going to inevitably force them to store the data locally, and build data-centers locally. Only then they might start preferring this "encrypt everything with the user having the key" solution, as an alternative to storing data in every country or region.

So until that happens, I absolutely support countries demanding data to be stored locally, because I know that minutes before that will begin to happen, US companies and the US government will agree to letting the data be fully encrypted and trustless. But not any sooner than that. So in the end, we'll get what we want, and the Internet will be safe.
I have an unshakable belief that the (iPad style) tablet market is almost completely driven by married men with young children at home, or who hide the fact that they masturbate from their wives.
The difference in screen size between tablets and phones is much less apparent now than it was 2 or 3 years ago.
Just look here https://www3.orau.gov/NPDoc/Catalog

NASA does quite a bit of Earth Science and Aeronautics
I understand the etymology, however using that as a basis for reasoning is unhelpful since it's the legal and economic consequences in real-life that actually mean something.
My iPad is the my primary device for reading technical books, RFCs, and other PDFs. It is often an accessory to when I am working on my laptop. Rather than two different screens, one for development and one for reference info, the iPad fills that role.

It is also typically what we use for watching movies at night while heading to bed -- we have a decent digital media library.

I don't see the affair as being over, maybe the tablets people have are good enough for their current uses.
The article is wrong in at least two ways:

1. The Bad Experience cited is with Windows tablets. This ignores how hard it is to move a non-touch system to tablets.

2. He cites Netflix "losing momentum" on tablets. If this was true for media use on tablets in general, Amazon would not be pouring as much effort as they are into tablets.

Google has done a bad job marketing Android on tablets. Apple has done a great job with iPad. YMMV.
Some factor of "Everyone who wants one - has one" applies.

And then there's this - http://thedoghousediaries.com/5608

Once you hit the "content consumption from toilet" first world problem, the rest of the market actually would like a smaller device with the same connectivity.

That said, I'm a recent tablet user because with a Nexus7 and a Chromecast, my screen is actually big, 10 feet away and doesn't need me to hold it.
I fucking love Dungeon Keeper. Why would anyone want to rate it anything but 5 stars? I have to side with EA on this one. ;) [Well, Bullfrog actually.]

Oh of course I'm joking. If the mobile app doesn't live up to the original PC game, then fuck it.
They are actually not using proof of burn. Counterparty is a decentralized exchange that sits on top of bitcoin. As such, I don't think it should be minable, not with proof of work and not with proof of anything.

Proof of burn was used during an initialization phase (let's call it distributed minting) which is over. Should really check it out more thoroughly, it looks like a pretty neat idea.
The average consumer is not posting on a website talking about their spending behavior. The lot of us may be "average" with things like, say, automotive purchases and whatnot, but given that this website has a tech slant, it's fair to say he's not the average consumer, at least not when it comes to consumer electronics.
Someone who is actually in the trenches can probably answer this but my guess is that a lot of the newest and hottest apps tend to be released for phones first and then later on a tablet version comes along. The lowest common denominator is going to be the phone since so many people have them and I have to pull it out to be able to use app X. It might not be available yet for my tablet or it is and it's not as feature-packed or as easy to use.
.NET applications should not just churn at random. There needs to be real memory pressure (was there?).

I wonder if something went wrong with the native image generation during setup? It may be trying to JIT it every time on startup. That could be quite slow and result in a lot of disk activity.
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I'm curious, what will that enable?
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Why do you say HTTP doesn't support it? If a browser doubled as a server, and each person hosted its own pages, how would that not be decentralized and P2P? Hell, it's been done: Opera Unite had just that model, with web pages and applications hosted by the browser itself: http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-un...
I am very much a Linux user and addicted to the CLI and my plethora of tools, doing heavy work (like compilation) on servers. I buy the lightest computing devices as I don't really need anything with a lot of processing power; so battery life and actual weight win it for me. I had a heavy MBP before I bought a Chromebook and I don't see me ever doing that again. As for tablets; I like to have them laying around for content consumption but for everything else I really do need a keyboard and I don't really know how that could be replaced. I tried the keyboards on tablets (including the surface 2) and they are a joke for coding imho.
Sorry, but an official program for creating entrepeuners isn't evidence of anything. Entrepeuner friendly governments normaly have less official programs, of any kind.

What's too bad, because Brazil is in exactly that same boat. We also won't have a thriving high-tech industry any time soon.
I don't accept your fiat of making BitCoin the one true coin.
It's great that Berners-Lee is saying this, but he'd have retained a lot more of his authority to pronounce on the future of the Web had he not thrown his weight behind the W3C's horrible plan to put DRM into HTML.
The author is right. No one wants to hold their computer for extended use. The phablet is the right compromise, it does everything a tablet does and more while still being light, small and always with you. Also, having 1 device is much less expensive and cumbersome than having 2.
Most people misjudge the value of their personal data.
Is Management Studio 2005+ written on .NET? Any reference on that?
The link gives an error now:

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Not to mention that curling up with a small laptop the size of an iPad (MacBook Air 11'') is even more ergonomic because it has a built-in stand and doesn't need a cover. Close to the same weight, same size as an iPad, but a full laptop.
The idea is good, however i think it could be abused quite easily. I.e. spoof a couple thousand Android devices and send fake statistics.
Oh god, it's beautiful.
Web apps are not an issue: https://unhosted.org/

The problem is not technical, it's social, political and economical.
It was already stated, but Imgur was created by a redditor, for reddit. Facebook already is an image host, twitter is too.

I get free access to a usenet server for being inside my ISPs network. Others have to pay to use the same server if their outside the network. It's the same deal.
The original Eliss was the first iPhone game I installed. The use of multi-touch was really inspiring - it really took advantage of multi-touch and did so in a creative way, very early on.
I'm currently doing their 'Math Degree' it is self pace and excellent.
I rarely use the keyboard on my laptop. The laptop is part of a larger setup that involves a larger external monitor (with the laptop screen being the secondary display) and a wireless keyboard and mouse. I would love it if the laptop was just a tablet "docked" to connect to the monitor and keyboard/mouse. Then I could easily undock the tablet and use it as a tablet when I wanted to. But then plug it back in for a more "traditional PC" feel. Obviously it needs to be powerful enough for me to get my work done... and it would need to run the apps I need to get my work done.
I got an iPad about 18 months ago. Since then I've not used a "PC" at home, with the exception of when I use my work's laptop for doing work (programming) at home. I do everything from the tablet: browsing the web, "social" stuff, paying bills, e-mail, etc.
> a tuned binary search function would probably not recurse and simply maintain a tiny stack of indices.

You don't even need a stack. Binary search is an iterative process:

int binarysearch(int a[], int k, int lo, int hi) {
while (lo < hi) {
int p = lo + (hi - lo) / 2;

if (k < a[p]) {
hi = p;
} else if (k == a[p]) {
return p;
} else if (k > a[p]) {
lo = p + 1;
}
}

return -1;
}
Love the music. What'd you use to do it? What's your music background?
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More and more people are switching to tablets only; almost all managers, sales people, account managers, project managers I know are not using tablets anymore but have iPads. Don't see it dying soon as these people don't need laptops and won't use laptops anymore. Then there is non professionals who all buy tablets instead of laptops; my neighbour who swore she would never buy 'a computer' now walks around with her E50 Android tablet all the time. I think sales will only go up.
but your a japanese-wannabe right? let me guess you love Asian women and you currently have a Japanese wife or girlfriend?
You wish you could fully integrate into Japanese society and not be looked upon as a foreigner. But that will never happen because Japan is very xenophobic. I'm going to get downvoted, but for everyone who has lived in Japan and is not Japanese knows what I'm talking about and knows it's true
"300,000 employees and 18,000 contractors"

Assuming you're talking about the '60's, it's the other way around. If you're talking about today, it's still the other way around but the number of contractors is much smaller.
No. If it wasn't for security issues, that might be a possibility. But Microsoft would not want an inferior product out there giving them a bad name.
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It was kind of interesting when the two big Brain-related initiatives were announced last year, first a European one and then the American one as a response. Now, the circumstances are completely different than they were during the cold war, but I kind of hope there is enough competition to propel both projects.
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And/or just regular people who chat with each other.
That's because they aren't satisfied that it's secure enough for the open web yet and they don't want to expose their users to risks they can't protect themselves from.
It makes for a nice story, though, doesn't it?
>I never really got tablets - too big to be portable and crippled by the lack of usable input devices.

Surfing and reading on the crapper. No need for input devices.

Well, and tons of other stuff besides, depending on your age and interests. Almost every niche, from astronomy geeks to musicians has lots of great apps for tablets.

Entry to mid-level director? Tons of filming assistance can happen on a tablet, from storyboards to digital clappers.

Musician? Guitar tuner, practice accompaniment, guitar amp emulation (with a small adapter), audio recording, synth engine, notation display and tons of other stuff.

Graphic designer? Tons of high quality drawing apps, from bitmap to vector to natural style brushes.

Photographer? Tethered shooting, library management and rating your shots post-shoot, etc.

The list goes on depending on your interests, work and hobbies. Those are just areas relevant to mine.

And of course the core utilities for everyone: writing, snapping photos, web surfing, reading books, reading comics, doing calculations, keeping notes, watching movies, office apps, etc etc.
In order to argue the author's point you would also need to be carrying around a 5" phone. He is pointing out the trend of more people using their phones for what they used to use their tablets for. I'd be interested to know if you have a 5" phone and whether or not you think it replaces the features of your tablet in any way.
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2013 was actually the fourth time (I've been one of the orgs before) :)

edit: And glad to hear you liked it!