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No. Tech moves slowly. I've been writing software for 28 years, professionally for 20 years and as a full-time entrepreneur for 10 years. Also spent the first 5 of those 10 years getting it wrong in terms of biz model.

There are two things that are hurting you.

1. Corporate marketing: It's very important for every tech company to give the perception they're ahead of the curve, that they know magic stuff that you don't, that they're so smart it's not worth even trying to compete with them, that you better buy from them or work for them or you're completely screwed. You're believing this bullshit.

2. Geek obsession with shiny new things. Most of the new languages, platforms, storage engines and dev tools that come out are 5+ years away from being ready for production. Many of them are a solution looking for a problem. Many of them are proprietary or pseudo-open-source looking to create vendor lock-in or opportunities for monetization for a specific company. What most profitable companies use is old school to most developers, especially on the west coast and especially in the Valley. So just don't use new stuff until they're main stream. Read about them (in an article of 800 words or less), figure out what they're about and move on until they're ready for production - and even then decide whether you really have a need for the thing.

You can sit down today and spend a few months writing a kick-ass web application using Linux, Apache with Nginx, PHP and MySQL and generate thousands of dollars a day in revenue or raise millions on the back of the product/service.

Linux: Created 1991.
PHP: Created 1994.
MySQL: Created 1995.
Apache: Created 1995.
Nginx: Created 2002.

There are few innovations that are really game changing. A few that come to mind:

Nginx: Solved the C10K problem and lets you have over 100,000 concurrent connections to your web server using only a few megs of memory. Put it in front of Apache web server and divide your front-end hardware costs by 100.

HTML5's web sockets: Now you CAN have push communication via HTTP. Previously long-polling was the only option.

One thing I do agree with: Doing customer service if you're a developer does suck. However if you learn to love your customers and stay on top of it, it ain't so bad. And it's exactly what I'm about to spend my evening doing.
Just my 2 cents. The carousel presentation for both smart watches are really disappointing.
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It's the accessibility options in settings
I'm not sure where to buy the lenses in China. Would these work?

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=38928988190
Fisher Price should release a version that takes a smartphone instead of a picture disc.
There are many varieties of OpenDive in Thingiverse . I am glad there is a chance that this might become a commonly used interface. Looking forward to using libraries that support displaying on it.

http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=opendive
I was in this space for some time. The competition is very high, buyers are not aware, the industry isn't organised and is very much dependant on whimsical tax laws, product pricing is very low, and pretty much all companies are giving away the main product for free under the disguise of special-limited-time-offer.

In retrospect, quitting it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I can't compete against this..

I'm out.
One man's "cultural bubble" is another's linguistic community.

I'm an American in America, and here in America, in this here linguistic community, America is shorthand for "the United States of America", and has a family resemblance with other shorthand forms of the same, such as "the US", "the States", and "the Greatest Nation in the History of the World."
I think you have made a good point and possible solution here. But I am keen to see if researchers can quickly address this issue with NNs. Someone might find an easy fix to this problem.
Don't you feel the same about college grads needing formal mentors?
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There's nothing especially odd about it, there are lots of non-violent reasons to have an automatic assault rifle in an urban environment. /s

The point is that trying to arrest a drug dealer who has an assault rifle provides more potential for being shot than trying to arrest one that does not. To mitigate the chance of being seriously injured the police tool up in order that they might, if not strike before they are hurt, respond with appropriate force to a violent attempt to evade arrest.
Snapchat's decision to turn down $3B now looks like a no brainer
just turn off the noise
I have a Pebble and it lasts several days (whenever I go on holiday, I don't bring the charger) and yet because it is another device I find myself charging it daily anyway. I plug my phone in, my tablet in, and then my watch in every night.
> Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet.

Bummer. Can't see anything.
I know this is completely unfounded, but the tagline "Always with you, always-on." is a little unnerving in this context.

But this is coming from a guy with a bit of Post-it on all the front-facing cameras he owns.
The niche you're in matters a lot.

Just as a thought experiment, if you pulled a C programmer from 2004 through a time machine into 2014... they probably wouldn't take that long to acclimate. There are new things, sure, but there are still a lot of the same APIs, same tools, and so on. The basics are the same. Make, GDB, Visual Studio, the language -- it's evolved but it's not unfamiliar.

If you pulled a webdev from 2004 into 2014 through your time machine? Outside of HTTP and HTML, pretty much all the things are different. And in two years and already everyone's onto the next language and the next "framework".
I think the service itself would need to be changed as well. I think if they explicitly rented antennas and that was reflected in both their marketing and their actual service (e.g. providing a raw bitstream for a user-selected frequency rather than providing a video stream for a user-selected TV channel) then they'd be alright. This is just what I've been able to understand of the situation and I'm not an expert and could be terribly, terribly wrong, of course.
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In the GNU version, that mostly is the case. You need to specify `--no-preserve-root` for it to work, which is obscure enough.
Building a app or company, depends on markets, it is independent of technology.
My Alma-Mater taught functional programming and outdated technologies, and I thought it was useless, but generally you can abstract away these ideas to be used in a new framework.
Be technology agnostic, I am pretty upset about swift too after dedicated many hours to learning objective-c syntax.
The most that swift would add to the over head is

1. new syntax
2. functional paradigm on top of the oop paradigm, and a new way of thinking.

Everything I know about oop stays the same and design patterns more or less the same!

Many of these companies started off small and built a market focused product before going full R and D.

As you can see these companies are looking to sustain their empires, so they have to "innovate" in someway, it doesn't mean you need to adopt new features.

I think your problem is your software design skills possibly need to be more TDD and at the same time hire some VA's to handle customer support tickets.

At the end of the day its a product in the market, not the product written with the latest framework, when you have market traction and a business case, and lots of funding, you can worry about catching up with the times.
> estimated delivery 4-6 weeks

Sorry, in the age of near-immediate gratification from Amazon, up to 42 days until I see the product I paid for is a huge turn off.

Cut that down to 5-7 days and I'll have my wallet out in seconds.
I really like: "Throughout, be prepared to defy precedent, question assumptions, and let a focus on content and functionality motivate every design decision."
Read Peter Thiel's new book "Zero to One." The solution to your problem is to avoid competition, and ignore the insane competitors.
As it stands right now, it seems to be highly misleading. If I hadn't read your comment I could be misled to believe that you are selling the 'Official' version for the following reasons:

1- Using Google's own images.

2- Nothing indicating that it isn't official.

It is at worse maliciously misleading, at best misguided. You should correct that.
Does Reddit not have [spoiler] tags?
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It is interesting to see how a community hardly using computers for reservations uses an app. I wonder if convincing barber shops or other similar businesses to use the app is difficult.
Awesome talk, but I think he got the language wrong (and not for bad reasons).
Wow, really glad I read the comments before I put in my credit card info. Four to six weeks, you must be out of your mind. If you don't get that one the site fast you're going to have a whole lot of angry people on your hands.
I've been looking at this very tech and getting excited about it. Thanks for the links!
I don't have stats, but I would think that the comparison function's definition typically is available at compile time.

Also, if the compiler gets the qsort prototype by including it from the system header <stdlib.h>, I think the compiler may assume that it is the standard qsort function. So, it could emit a custom qsort function that inlines the comparison function.
MaRS has a bunch of issues, but that piece is off base. He seemingly missed the part of that building with actual start ups in it...
It is. Plivo and TapToLearn are two others.
All of that copy in my comment is suppose to be displayed on the product page but Shopify seems to be broken at the moment. We are not trying to mislead anyone.

Google released all the drawings and is encouraging people to build these, we just want to help make that easier.
We are betting on the idea that a reasonably smart person would surprise themselves on how far they can get ahead if they can diligently work in a consistent manner. 2 hours per day may not seem much but over the course of 3 months it is pretty effective in hacking the interview process.

We will actually call/text the candidate before and after study period is over to ensure focus. Kind of like having a personal trainer for interviews.
Also just added unofficial to the title of the post to avoid any confusion.
recruiter: So, 1 year of experience?
I had heard rumors that regular use of Oculus can cure motion sickness that people experience in cars/etc through desensetization. Anyone have any first-hand reports on this question?

If so, I'm tempted to buy a kit like this (from these guys or someone else) and use that to self-medicate.
working on that, I think we should be able to deliver faster I just don't want to dissapoint anyone.
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I really think this is better describe as habituation.
If I were looking for a job, then yes, I would. A signing bonus would easily cover the 3.5k.

But why not work with the companies directly as a recruiting agency? Or work with already existing recruiting agencies to train their recruits? There is a lot of money to be made in the recruiting business, you definitely could make much more than 3.5k per hire.
As a first pass, a "match whole words" checkbox should suffice. Eventually you might want a syntax that allows more flexibility, whether full regexes or something more scalable, but "match whole words" would solve a large fraction of the problem. (You might even want to make that the default, and have a checkbox for "match partial words" instead; for code search, I'd bet that most of the time you want the whole word matches.)
Don't --force it
Wy don't they make an open standard RESTful API which would be used across mail providers, just like IMAP?
I approve of the old school MacName.
The icons on your desktop do not have any physical existence or properties beyond what we assign them. It's not even a desktop. If you really want to experience the true self of your files, you'll see a visual representation of the zeroes and ones that represent them, for even then they are nothing more than ghosts frozen in electrical charges.
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The difference is that bulky cell phones and back-breaking Osborne portable PCs were tolerated because they offered something unique. You didn't already have a slightly different kind of phone or PC with you.

The current smartwatches are not like that. They're basically just additional screens for the phone that is already in your pocket. The convenience factor of not having to dig up the full-fledged device doesn't amount to much if the wearable is so bulky that it's an inconvenience in itself.
You don't need anything from Aereo's stack to do this.
Get a device such as a Silicon Dust HDHomerun.
http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hdhomerun-dual...
This box is 1 antenna in, 2 ATSC tuners, 1 ethernet out. If you want to stream on your LAN, there are clients for Windows and Linux. XBMC supports it. I can't see why you couldn't serve it over the internet as well.
Nice work!

What about Atom's markdown preview though? I found myself switching over to that from Mou.

https://github.com/atom/markdown-preview
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That's pushing complexity back onto app devs. Functionality like that is best solved once in the database for everyone.
It just seems like a second screen for your phone. I can't imagine anyone, Apple included, making something that isn't just that, a second phone screen/interface. Maybe my imagination isn't big enough, maybe the actual tech isn't there yet. This segment, touch-screen wearables, doesn't excite me yet.
I'd probably add it to my basket if it were under $120-150 and looked really nice. For $230 I can deal with the minor inconvenience of taking my phone out of my pocket.
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Sadly, the API doesn't support search, which makes it extremely limited for all but trivial apps.
I was about to do the same thing. App Engine sorely lacks those features currently, so I'm very excited for this (assuming it has good support for App Engine in addition to Compute Engine which I saw in the keynote).
It'll also force people to upgrade their browsers.
Shopular (YC W12) is hiring engineers – iOS, Android, Backend. Sequoia-backed
I wonder if these would work http://www.aliexpress.com/item/LED-44-5mm-convex-lens-optica...

They look close. I need something in Australia.

That thing on tabao looks so geeky, I am not sure which is worse the cardboard or the plastic.:)
I don't know the answer to this, but maybe moving to Xamarin would help? It will cost you some money, but may simplify trying to support your platforms. I think it's cool what you're doing, I'd love to learn from someone like you. But I purposefully limit what I work with technologically. I think there are ways to handle your business, without having to manage every detail.

I only work with stuff I can do in Python. If I can't do it in Python, I don't do it. It is nice, but I also don't make the money I'm sure you are either. So your problem is definitely self-imposed, but it's not like you're not properly compensated- you're just complaining / letting off steam. For what you're doing, I'd go learn C# and pay for Xamarin licenses.
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And if you havent already, check out the rest of his talks https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks
http://www.refurb.me/ is monitoring service for the official Apple refurb store. Because it's hard to know when the product that you want to buy will become available. RefurbMe will alert you by email or SMS to go buy it on the Apple Store.
60 hrs per week to 40 hrs per week in just 2 emails
But of course you could run it ten times and pick one of them. Or modify the instant answer to return ten or twenty. Not ideal or optimal, but there it is.
Close your news tabs.
Simple is not always good.

As the quote (attributed to Einstein IIRC) goes: "You must strive to make things as simple as possible -- but no simpler than that".

This is, I think, something "simpler" than simple ("simpleton"?).
I'm not trolling

Trolling or not, you're talking in short, low-context sentences, while avoiding responding to many of the points I raise. It's not really worth talking to someone doing that.

You're committed to the primacy of philosophy

Eh? Where did I say that philosophy is better than anything else? The whole idea that these things are in competition - or that one is 'better' than the other - is entirely within your head, not mine. Read my reply to mercer above.
Thank you. Much respect, sorry if I was harsh.
I guess what I find new is the how easy it has become to print stuff these days, e.g. via peecho.com or lulu.com. I'm all for eBooks, but there is something about the printed book that makes me more likely to want to pay for it...

Could you show me examples of Webcomics and/or Webcomics for sale? Are they in print or PDF? I'd be interested to check their pricing models.
Are there any other company design guidelines like this one that someone can recommend?
They could be useful for sport activities. For eg: I could maybe see it replacing my cycling computer if it provided a heart rate monitor + support for extra speed/cadence/power sensors via ANT+ or Bluetooth LE
First I'm ever seeing this. This looks awesome, thank you. I also love Texts: http://texts.io/
All languages that don't tie visibility rules to the name of the variable/function? Even C++ applies IIRC.
Will it be identical to the one from Google? I don't want to buy it blindly.
Someone should explain to them the difference between wealth and money.
I can appreciate the eagerness to get everything instantly. However I hope you can appreciate that physically cutting and shipping lots of stuff that was only announced to the world 12 hours ago takes time. I wish hardware was as easy as pushing something to Git hub but unfortunatly it is not.

You are always welcome to go order the parts and cut the cardboard yourself.
>I find this solution very Go-like.

As in "without deep thought", "ho-hum" and 30 years below the state of the art?
who in the hell is stupid enough to use heroku?
Leaving tech might be the right thing for you, but keep in mind that most of this is sound and fury, signifying nothing.
dwild, we will cut exactly from the same patterns Google provided. All parts will be equal or better in quality.
I've had the same experience with like all Markdown editors that have a preview function. It does indeed suck.
It could be, or they could push back every change into AOSP. It just seems like a very odd move to shift their networking API away from the open-source Android, even if it is for security. They probably didn't really have any other choice.
Having kids doesn't make you right about something.
I think the same thing we saw at the beginning of bitcoin would happen here - a GPU implementation would be able to run hundreds of the proofs in parallel. Changing the difficulty to compensate for this would be way too much of a burden on the CPU-bound JS implementation.
If you don't deliver before 4 weeks, chances are all the credit card pre-authorizations would be void anyways. With Stripe, it's even shorter.

Unless you plan on capturing the funds at order time instead of shipment time?
The site has a broken browser sniffer. On IE11 it throws a black layer at 90% opacity over the content and tells me that I should upgrade to a different browser...

What's the point of blocking out the entire content like that? If you really want to nag me based on some embarrassingly outdated user agent regex, go ahead, but at least have the common sense of offering a close button so I could still view the site despite your JavaScript competence.
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>Sorry, in the age of near-immediate gratification from Amazon, up to 42 days until I see the product I paid for is a huge turn off.

If you frequently find yourself angry that you can't buy a new package Amazon-style less than 12 hours from its announcement to the general public, I would suggest you seek professional help as you might be able to improve your impulse control.
Only in a very general sense. Dalvik's JIT really tries to minimize JIT compilation. Modern Java JIT compilers are oriented around the goal of extracting maximum performance from compiled code. That's priority #1, and there is no #2.
As a non-PhD who doesn't work at Google I'm having trouble reading between the lines. What exactly is the offered improvement here?

Decoupled (compared to Hadoop) systems with distributed data and JIT processing?
The rental of an antenna is not a public performance.
Offering a subscription streaming service including broadcast content to the public is a public performance.
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Indeed.

I know of more than one humongous application that still runs on Java 1.2. I wouldn't be surprised if the database was of the same vintage.

OTOH, there is absolutely zero chance you'll get to use Firefox, a Mac or deploy something on Django or Rails there. Ever. By 2020 they may have updated their desktops to Windows 8.

Since I am a retrocomputing enthusiast, I wouldn't mind working on a VT-200 or 3279 ;-).
Very few freelancers would do that. Also, stock is a very expensive way to pay people for one time services. you need to find a technical cofounder.
Look up hyper inflation and say that again.
Are you replying to me? Who's Brian?
This article is written by someone with the same partisanship as an extreme right wing Republican in the US talking about minimum wage or gay marriage. There is too much sarcasm and too much talking down to in there. The reality lies somewhere in the middle.

For example none of the Indians I know ever said their country will become rich if all the undisclosed wealth is siezed by the government. The reality is there is way too much corruption and the majority of the ill-gotten wealth is in India. In all but the biggest cities the real estate is not priced to market per the government and so the property is registered at 1/4th the value (for e.g.) and so taxes paid on only that amount. The rest is not disclosed and reinvested into the real estate market. There is a lot of that going on. What ever the Prime minister is doing about talking to Swiss officials is just posturing and he is also sure that not much is going to come out of it but some political victory.
I agree with you — I don't get the excitement for wearable stuff. But then, I've never worn a watch.

I think those who normally wear a watch will be excited by this, and perhaps that is a big enough market to make it worthwhile?
That article reads like it was written by a fifth grader describing reasons why dodgeball is better than soccer.
"a huge turn off" != "find yourself angry"

I agree the parent's attitude is a bit silly, but you are putting words in their mouth.