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Ha, I post a cynical complaint like this once every few months, hoping someone will prove me wrong one of these days.

MIDI IO where the keyboard is connected to the server is nifty; not what I meant, though. :)

But I can do without that (or only offer MIDI-in support for people who can run a bridge Java applet); still, the thing I keep looking for is reliable timing for on-the-fly audio (constructed MIDI works for me, I can do that!), and responsive changes based on user input.

Put another way; if you had the spare time, could you fix Vexflow playback[1] so it would actually play on tempo, the first time, in more than just Chrome? (Even in Chrome, it's not reliably solid...) Next, what kind of response time can I get when someone clicks on the UI (a keyboard, or whatever)? Is there a way I can play a MIDI note fast enough that it reliably sounds immediate?

I implemented this stuff in Java 11 years ago, mixing audio samples on the fly, not using MIDI, but I'd be happy to use MIDI if it can mean playing multi-voice audio cleanly and w/o loading a library of audio samples; I've spent enough time working with MIDI as well (as part of handling MIDI input).

I didn't try your phon2 yet (should I?), though I notice the latest checkin comment is about battling with audio choppiness. ;)

[1] http://my.vexflow.com/articles/53?source=enabled find "playback"
This is a really great point. I may raise it on one of the CoreOS mailing lists.
I'm sorry but maybe you are confusing "football" with "American football"? In "soccer" (ahem), the game is completely subject to the ref's discretion. If the ref gives a red card in the first minute, it will affect the game. If the ref chooses not to give that red card, it will affect the game and how it is played. There's no other logical way to view it.
VMworld 2014: 6 more announcements that had the conference buzzing
Is anybody else impressed that this is basically better in technical specifications to the netbooks of yor, in the size of a phone, for <$180 off contract?

Yeah I know hardware always keeps getting better and cheaper, but still when you stand back for a second, and think about it, it's kind of wow. I guess the innovation here is making a decent device that's cheap, but the fact that it's cheap and small and has good specs and battery life? Wowzers.

Yet, I almost wish these devices did a little bit more to work in non-handheld modes. I'd be happy to ditch my laptop for most things if I could get better interface access to the hardware in a modern smartphone, even if the interface wasn't optimal, an impromptu computing environment at a coffee shop would be pretty nice. Hell, I just got a Note 3, and it's just about as powerful as the desktop I replaced at the end of last year. I'd wager it's too powerful for most of the mobile junk I do with it. Plopping it down on a table next to my coffee and just turning it onto "computer" mode would be pretty amazing.

Something like what's outlined here with pico projectors.

https://pdf.yt/d/J5nSHPu5dzdpWwvn

Another issue is that, when phone shopping, it's hard enough to tell what are the newer devices vs what are the models on the way out (and on the way out of being supported). $180 is just about at the price of phones that are on the way out vs. ~$300 for phones that are current models. It won't matter to many people, but unless the phone sales guy tells you, or you're up to date on current phone releases, you might give this a pass.
Agreed on the first point, I didn't mean to say honoring the contract is up for debate.

On the second, yeah I'd want my helpful early investors to continue to be meaningfully invested. But what about unhelpful ones? I guess I'm asking why is it standard to promise this right before you've worked with an angel. The angel took a risk, but that risk was priced into the valuation in theory.

I'm in India. A ROFR was also once considered standard here. "We took the early risk, so we should get first dibs on the whole round." That went south because it was jeopardizing fundraising and angels didn't have deep enough pockets to do whole Series As anyway. I guess I'm applying the same logic there. If a pro-rata jeopardizes fundraising and causes all these headaches, why not just take it out and adjust the angel round valuation accordingly.
This coming Tuesday has a strong chance of being the day :)
I really wish it had the new Cortex A53-based Snapdragon 410, instead of the exact same Cortex A7 chip as last year. For me that was a deal-breaker.
I would really love to go with a $199 off-contract phone and switch to Straight Talk. Sprint MVNO's are terrible where I live. Then again I'd only be saving $50/month...
I used to do the ACH files for a large cellular provider. The thing that surprised me the most, and which you won't find by reading the spec, is that very clearly some banks present a fixed-width text field to their employees and the employee can then key in whatever the heck they want with no further validations about whether it conforms to spec when they are done. We would routinely get back returns where the reference #s to correlate back to the original transaction had obvious typos and now referenced transactions we had never sent, or where the date field was off by 1 and partially in the account field (somebody hit delete), or where the name field ran over or started early. It would always be some small bank you had never heard of, and the only conclusion I could come up with was that I needed a better manual reconciliation interface than I had expected I would to handle letters in numeric fields and fixed-width fields not starting and ending in the right place.

The second most surprising thing was that we'd get back returns after a full year had elapsed. Most return reasons have time limits, but banks will push through the fraud reason without apparent limit and you'd better be ready to handle it.

The third most surprising thing was the account verification system - you 'verify' by sending through a special transaction and waiting a week. If it hasn't returned to you after a week, must be good! I don't think anybody designing a system today would come up with such a mechanism, but that's what we have for ACH...
The other replies to this aside, I think the assumption inherent in your question is myopic.

I know for myself, my motivation to get capital (profits) is so I can build things that improve decision making, increase longevity and in the end expand knowledge worldwide. Perhaps Bezos has motivations that are along the same lines and this is how he is achieving them.
Keeping those rules up to date for all 50 states would be pretty difficult. Seems like, in most cases, you could just use the expiration dates.
> When signing a contract, are you ethically obligated to follow the terms of the contract, or are you merely agreeing to something which can be enforced by the terms of the contract, including penalties and lawsuits.

Ethics have nothing to do with the likelihood of getting caught or any potential penalties after being caught.

Some people do do business in that way, sure, but that doesn't change the ethics of those actions.
I will do what the founders tell me to do. If I am making their lives more difficult then I am failing.

Sometimes they ask me to please do take the prorata for optics' sake, too.
Curious about the downvote. "spin it any way you want but they are not making money" is incorrect.
How much usable space is there on the 16GB model? I'd pay an extra $49-99 for 32GB
Scaling Redis at Twitter [video]
...and I may also be overly sensitive to perceived pedantic comments. Can't rule that out :)
Yeah, it's an interesting comparison. For the Oyster card, you just need proof that you live where you say you do. For bit coin you just need to not lose your key. Similar purpose. Different execution.

note: lose as in someone steals it.If it's totally lost the money is gone, as we know.
To paraphrase, "this prompts the suggestion that X is the case. However, it is not". It's a rhetorical question.
yes that's how I top up my oyster card (the uks equivalent) if I need to top up I put whatever change I have with me on the card gets rid of all that heavy 50p's and pound coins
new Moto G: 70.7 x 141.5 x 10.99mm, 149g

Coolpad F1: 71.5 x 141 x 9.3 mm, 151g
Do financial houses even refer to any of IT staff as "talent"? Usually when they say "talent" they mean traders and senior staff.
The most hardship, from experience, comes from the apps, especially the home-grown ones.

Let me back this up with an anecdote from experience in dual-stacking the websites at my employer (a curious reader might notice that cisco.com, download.cisco.com, software.cisco.com, tools.cisco.com, cisco-apps.cisco.com are all dualstack. The last one is interesting because it hosts the ordering portal, with IPv6 being a transport for a non-trivial portion of the hardware orders).

While the main cisco.com was dualstack since v6 launch, the rest of the properties required more work, because there's bazillion different apps there, so were launched just a ~year ago.

And yet despite all the testing, once we've gone live post-testing, we realized there was one bug that slipped through. The name of the error quite especially ironic and the bug, while in a somewhat infrequently used portion, was very visible for IPv6-enabled users.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nsp/ipv6/47796 for the full externally visible recount of the matter.

Back then the % of IPv6 users which was accessing the erroring function was low enough that we did not roll back the entire set of changes, and just had the fix developed and deployed, and the whole scenario was relatively painless. (Besides for some semi-friendly beat-up during IPv6 workgroup in RIPE meeting, where this error showed vividly since we had an IPV6-only pilot WiFi SSID along with the usual dualstack)

If the same story were to happen with 50% of IPv6 adoption ? That would hurt way way more.

The moral:

If you're a big shop - start auditing your apps now even if you do not think you need it until 3 years from now. If you're not sure - there's bazillion resources and people available to help, but for free and for money.

If you're a small shop and don't have any apps - RTFM, assess, and JustDoIt(tm), in a staged manner, of course, all disclaimers apply, etc. - the sooner you get a (small) chance to make your mistakes while doing the first steps with IPv6, the cheaper those mistakes will be. Of course best to avoid them, but.

Ok, I'm officially off my "IPv6 soapbox" on this thread, hopefully these were useful to some folks. ;-)
well, you are betting that you will get a dividend at a much later point in the future because of the growth you think you will realize. if Amazon makes $100 it can either give it to you now, or reinvest it and give you the reinvested result much later. It makes sense to give you the $100 now, if they don't see any good investment opportunities. But they think they do, and market agrees with them, hence massive growth in stock price over the last 3-5 years.
GSM arena claims hsdpa. Considering it's the same chipset as the 1st gen means it's probably whatever the 1st gen was, ie no lte
Next week in Wired: How Newton taught my dog to catch rubber balls.
Everyone in this subthread needs to go click on an album at GhostTunes.com and then discover that they do in fact sell individual tracks. Just because they say they want to emphasize album sales doesn't mean they're "forcing" anything.
> The first Moto G had no NFC though. Don't know if this one does yet. But NFC will very soon be a 'must have' feature.

I used NFC some on my Galaxy S3, and when I was buying the Moto G, I was a bit hesitant about going to a phone without NFC. But I have not once missed not having NFC. NFC has interesting prospects, but I have yet to see a real "must have" use for it.
Great write-up, really piqued my interest in Rockefeller. Any good reads you can recommend?
REST:SOAP::RSS:Atom::Markdown:CommonMarkdown

I suspect this pattern will continue into perpetuity because such a large audience will never come to grips with the fact that "better" isn't always better.
That URL has a # at the end: this one doesn't hence it missed the dupe detector.
That's frustrating for rare users (tourists, etc), but seems optimized for the regular traveler.

The rare user might prefer to buy Exactly One (or two or four) tickets, as they know they won't use the excess. This is similar to the frustration of a first-time user at the bay area ferries, where the process of registration, app installation, etc, is much less convenient than most parking.

The regular user, however, doesn't care as much about the initial overhead, as the convenience outweighs the overhead. A remainder balance on the card is less frustrating than for a tourist, as they know they're going to fill it up again.

That said, it would have been nicer if the transit company had phrased pricing in terms of Number Of Rides, rather than dollars (dollar amounts made up):

4 rides ($10.42)
10 rides ($21.37)
50 rides ($90)
100 rides ($180)
I find this comment confusing. Do you hold the phone in your palm?

I use my fingers to support my Nexus 5 and have no trouble reaching any of the corners.
Yes, they are. I know both personally. They love Meteor and know how to explain stuff in an easy and concise way.

We invited them over to our first Meteor Meetup in Düsseldorf, Germany :)

http://www.meetup.com/Meteor-Dusseldorf/

Can't wait to read their book!
It seems to me the reason there was no evidence of quantum speed up is because there is no quantum speed up.. ie quantum physics is a statistical method and not a description of reality.. does no one else see this? When will the bubble burst?
This has traditionally been the role of unions and why YC has morphed itself into a de-facto founders union to better negotiate terms like this across a collective of founders.
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The write up is about an engineering problem (comparing two large data sets) which is not evident from the title "Making a Big Difference" .
What kind of "computing environment" do you want that a phone doesn't have? Just a bigger screen?
Yes oyster on the tube is a LOT cheaper than actually buying a ticket - I just have one for the odd occasion I need to make a tube journey.

The real rip off in the UK is the rail season tickets nd the above inflation increases. For a lot less than I will be paying to travel 60 miles to London in Germany I could get country wide travel !
They're not "offering" anything. They're just using clever language and math to trick people into thinking they're getting a deal.
Reporting from London: no crunch here so far. Average IT salaries are still on decade-old £50-60k levels (despite the inflation and rising costs of living).
I'm running Firefox (32 I think?). I do have Ghostery running, but I tried disabling that thinking it was perhaps blocking something.

Could be the age of my laptop, though, I suppose.
Arguably the dependence of bending moment on shape is intuitive, but the geometry of developable surfaces is not.

Just like in Maxwell's theory of hills and dales: the location of topographic peaks, saddles etc. is "obvious" but the constraints on where you get saddles and how many, etc. are not. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_theory or http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/surgery/hilldale.pdf)

Or the similar territory of the Euler characteristic. You could know polyhedra very well from a physical, practical point of view and never notice it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_characteristic#Polyhedra)

Maybe?

Anyway, I am commenting because I'd be interested to hear your reaction to the problem stated here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36gOx3dguWs#t=17m35s
This level of discourse is completely unacceptable. Do better.
I believe we can all sit all day and come up with convincing reasons this will fail miserably - but when something seems so poorly thought out - I always think I must be missing something.
In what scenarios can this be successful? Why is this a good idea? What am I missing?
Thanks for your comments frobozz,

>0: How does the street algorithm work?

I will publish the algorithm hopefully next week on the website as public domain

> 1: Not everywhere can effectively be described as a point with varying degrees of precision. Some places are long and thin. How do I tell my friend that I'll be somewhere along a certain meandering river, but not the adjacent canal?

At the time you can also describe streets , or lines on space with Location Aware Street Names.

>2: Dumb IDs are good, they are stable, and even if they happen to contain some kind of hint, no one is relying on the hint and can still use them. How do you account for tectonics? Dammit! an earthquake! I'll need to tell everyone my new address!

You are right, floods, tornadoes, tsunamis and natural disasters can wipe out landmarks and leave addresses or conventional signaling unusable , Location Aware Names remains always unalterable.

>3: Internationalisation. RERI-NUCA and GASAVI-CALILO will be difficult or impossible for some, if not most literate local residents of those places.

I totally agree with you in that there is no way a single algorithm can produce pleasent result in every language, what sounds fairly good in Italian or Afrikaan might sound illegible in Japanese.

But even then, might be a little easier to send a SMS saying "Meet me at NALADU-MAMOKE" than "Meet me at 35° 42' 36'' N, 139° 38' 24'' E ".

If the resulting name does not work for you as name you might want to use, see it as a tool available to handle easier "35° 42' 36'' N, 139° 38' 24'' E "

The idea of different versions of the algorithm for different languages is something worth of researching.
One might be persuaded to believe that IT is actually something that provides a monetarily significant benefit to an organization... but we know that can't be true. Just because every iota of every business flows through computers and even minor software projects can multiply the productivity of employees by an order of magnitude, that doesn't mean management should be expected to value IT in such a way that they actually are willing to pay significant amounts for it!
Does anybody know whether this an AMOLED or IPS LCD screen? The Verge and a couple of other sites say AMOLED, and other places say IPS LCD.
I didn't understand that "greetings citizens of A.B.C.X !" was actually a post until I posted my own.

It had +1 likes. Did anyone like it, or is the default post +1ed by default?
I don't doubt that this is true, I've just personally never noticed the difference. Maybe I need to try a side-by-side comparison.
I just happened to check down here :)

I gave Papyrus a go. It's exactly what I wanted and I've converted to it. Thanks for the recommendation. It's really well thought out and super focused. It even uses the phone's ability to recognize pen from finger touches by turning your finger into an eraser. It's kind of brilliant actually.

For some reason I never could quite get into OneNote and other note taking software. I think I have just enough of a weird way of taking notes that they don't seem to work for me.

I actually don't care too much about converting to text either, I'm happy just transcribing the cryptic notes and arrows and diagrams and such into longer form communications to my team, or into trackable actions or something as needed.
Explain. The tail typically flies with negative angle of attack, so it seems like pulling back will require more downforce from the tail, making it more likely to stall.
Yup, pretty much. I would not buy an album until I wanted at least 3 songs on it (yes I've got a number of 'greatest hits' albums :-)) The dynamic that song 'x' can be worth $1.29 to someone and song 'y' from the same album is not worth $1.29 is hard for some to grasp. I believe Garth has just enrolled in a very expensive class on "Information Economics." :-) We'll see how it turns out for him (and others).
>The opponent in this scenario is the shareholders, they're the ones who want to take the money away from Amazon.

Take the money away from Amazon? The shareholders are Amazon. It isn't Amazon's money, it's the shareholders. If/when they want dividends instead of re-investment (which doesn't seem to be the case yet), they are entitled to it.
And if your Series A investor denies pro-rata rights to your seed round investors, then it should expect to have its pro-rata rights denied in Series B. Which gives this Series A investor a perverse incentive to set up the company to look better in the short term to get it to Series B, rather than it acting in the IPO-timescale long-term interest of your company!
That announcement may or may not benefit Android users.
Provo was looking to get out of the fiber infrastructure they owned after a failed attempted at state-wide fiber left them holding the ball. Utah has a very strong tech sector, of which Provo is one of the hubs. It basically gave them a nearly free entry into the Utah market, a market that tends to be much more business friendly than, say, the Bay Area.

I fail to see how it could be anything other than coincidence (with the possible exception of good connectivity to the rest if the world).
The LTE variant is shipping from Amazon also including a microSD socket.
I'd actually be pretty happy if it just projected a reasonable-to-use keyboard on the table. I could work off the screen on a Note, it's big enough and high resolution enough for lots of work.

edit I'm thinking basically of this use-case, but with the projector in the phone.

http://www.brookstone.com/laser-projection-virtual-keyboard

edit apparently this is as close as is available (almost)

http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk300-iphone-docking...
My understanding is some (most?) of the water is being reclaimed for city irrigation.
Worked for Holden Caulfield...
I've got NFC in my current phone, never used it, never needed to. Even with both Google and Apple backing contactless payments I suspect it will take a long time before it's the norm.
Turn your cookies off.
FWIIW, if you turn off cookies and Javascript, pretty much all "subscription only" content becomes available. This probably makes me an evil hacker who should be dragged away and beaten with rubber hoses, but I noticed it when trying to get Firefox to run reasonably quickly.

TLDR: many American megacorps, like FedEx and Wallyworld, insist on calling their employees "contractors" so they don't have to give them as many benefits.
You should and I would not be surprised if you did not like it. The meat taste completely different to me, and not necessarily in a good way due to my life long acclimation to the industrial chicken meat we get from the store.

The eggs also taste different, much richer and a different color yolk from what I remember.
According to the vfmd spec history[1] the first version appeared in july 2013. According to the other project[2], they started "about two years" ago. It would be impossible for the former to discover the latter, given that the work was behind closed doors. The people in the latter group probably did not bother to look at alternatives while they were pursuing their own solution.

[1] https://github.com/vfmd/vfmd-spec/commits/gh-pages?page=7
[2] http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...
Budget allocation is really the thing to do - this way on the code side, or dummy sound file, dummy texture, dummy big model on the art side.

It's been done this way, and it'll be done in the future.
Blimey. Fascinating. Sounds like a rather frightening and ruthless individual.

Am curious. What would your nominations be for the Rockefeller of the tech (software/hardware) world? Ever thought about that?
Nokia had a prototype with a projected keyboard that kinda sorta worked. Wonder what ever happened to it.
Have we considered there's actually a hiring and management problem? That we have organizations ill equipped to find and train new employees and thus they only go with proven candidates?
So do the implementations of functional programming languages.