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I made the first animated "under construction" icon! Here it is!

In 1995 I had a site called the "Micro Movie Mini Multiplex" (MMMM). It originated as a collection of push animations. Push animation isn't used anymore, but it involved feeding individual animation frames through "server push", which means that a connection between the server and the client was kept alive while individual frames were fed through the connection. It was resource intensive, but when the site began it was the only way to do animation on the web. I collected every example I could find on the web and built a site that aggregated these animations. I tied the individual animations together through (what I thought was) clever commentary. The site was relatively popular (it was Spider's Pick of the Day, who remembers that?)

In December of 1995 I was searching the web for more push animations when I came across an unusual reference to a new form of animation. Netscape 2.0 was in beta, and it could handle a new form of animation. Someone had hacked the GIF image format, tweaking the interlacing so that individual frames were displayed at regular temporal intervals. There were only a handful of examples, but it was obvious to me that these "animated GIFs" were a major improvement over server push animations; you didn't need to keep a connection alive and, more interestingly, the animations could be treated like any other image... you could save the image and reuse it. I realized that these animated gifs would replace server push animations.

I rebuilt MMMM. I'm not an artist, but I spent several feverish weeks animating. I took icons that were already standard on the web, imported them into Photoshop, then modified them pixel by pixel, frame by frame, until I had a bunch of animated icons. My total output from that time is here. (The rebuilt MMMM used a couple other Netscape 2.0 innovations; frames, image maps, and Javascript.)

And people loved it. They saved the animated icons and put them on their own pages. For a very short time my site was the major supplier of animation for other people's webpages. I had given the GIFs somewhat distinctive names, so I was able to track their dispersal through Altavista searches (Altavista returned pages that contained images with specific filenames) and at one point, estimating the traffic on these pages, it occurred to me that my animations were seen by more people daily than any other animation in history.

I did all this anonymously and without monetary reward (which made sense, somehow, in the early days of the web). Eventually animated GIFs became commonplace, annoying even, and my anonymous 15 minutes of fame faded. But someday I'd like to record the moment for posterity, even if I have to do so in some forgotten thread on some community weblog.
In retail checks are not needed thanks to debit cards that have the same transaction cost as checks and are even faster to use than credit cards.
Apple’s iPhoto Makes It Way Too Easy To Delete Your Entire Flickr Library
Scribblenauts game developer makes a risky bet on being original
The statement of the problem says that, after evaporation, the bag is now 98% water by weight, meaning that the solid matter is now 2% (100% - 98%) instead of the 1% it started out as.

Per the problem statement, the 100-pound bag was initially 99% = 99 pounds of water. The non-water part (which we'll assume for simplicity was non-volatile solids) was therefore 100 pounds - 99 pounds = 1 pound. Solids don't evaporate, so even after evaporation, the 1 pound of solid matter remains. That 1 pound is now 2% = 1/50 of the weight, per above. The total weight after evaporation is therefore 50 pounds.
Can Apple Spoil Microsoft's Day?
The blacklisting you experienced, could have happened with any other host. I've seen this happen with dedicated hosting companies, where a server was previously used by spammers and the ips allocated to a new client. When they try to send mail, guess what they're on all the major rbls. As far as sending mail out from the EC2 environment, that's an on going problem. Take a look at this http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL79954 . I think AWS users would be willing to pay for clean ips that are rate limited. Maybe an EC2 SMTP Service. Your block is using a browser bl and I don't know how those are shared by http filters.
From the comparison matrix it appears to be missing quite a bit. Since it is open source though, I don't see a reason why someone can't develop the missing feature(s) that they need. Then again you have to value your time at something. Buying a license may be cheaper in the long run.
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On the contrary, I don't think Flash/Air will ever be on the iPhone.

They have the upper hand over the whole situation and have invested a lot in Flash alternatives including HTML5 (via WebKit) and video with MP4. In addition, the battery suck will ruin the (already short) battery life, and I don't think they will compromise the user experience for Flash
That's a cool idea for getting people more involved. I have no idea whether its an issue, but I think we'll have to take a closer look to make sure we wouldn't run afoul of gambling laws.
"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com
Intellij has a few features that I would have a hard time living without. Code inspection is probably the number one feature that is pretty amazing. You can configure it to check everything from warning about null pointers to unused variables to questionable practices (like an assignment in a conditional). When you have a green light, you can be reasonably sure that the code is clean from most basic problems. The autocomplete is the best I've seen in any IDE, and it allows matches on CamelCase by just typing the capital letters and brings up choices based on type inference. The version control integration is also pretty amazing; I think they could sell the change management and merging portion as a stand alone tool that would do really well on its own. Overall, IntelliJ lets me get into a flow with programming by making a lot of the warts of Java melt away. Sometimes it feels like it's almost writing the code for you and you are just giving it some direction. I know that some of these features have been implemented in Eclipse, but the way they all integrate so seamlessly makes IntelliJ a fun environment to code in. I miss these features in other languages that don't have an advanced IDE.
Meanwhile, you need to becareful about the timeline widget. We used it before but it did not scale up to couple thousand points. I think at the end, you need to write your own timeline widget.
You can try something like http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx , it checks a bunch of RBLs all at once.
I have an iMac here too, to me it is not just another computer. It's a 20" G4. The one with the dome stand. To me that's what a computer should look like. It's a daily pleasure to work fronting her. When she must retire, she will be staying around close.
your probably aware that clicking on the 'test' activity seems to cause some sort of exception?

MultipleObjectsReturned at /ev/startup-school/test/
get() returned more than one Activity -- it returned 2! Lookup parameters were {'urlname': u'test', 'event__urlname': u'startup-school'}
Request Method:	GET
Request URL:	http://eventgel.com/ev/startup-school/test/
Exception Type:	MultipleObjectsReturned
Exception Value:
get() returned more than one Activity -- it returned 2! Lookup parameters were {'urlname': u'test', 'event__urlname': u'startup-school'}
Exception Location:	/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py in get, line 307
We are lucky that Microsoft is not doing the same as Apple, otherwise, otherwise we would still be stuck with compuserve and Microsoft paint.
Thank you for the heads up - We've been looking at writing a more specific version of the timeline already, and it's useful to know there may be other issues with the timeline when we try to figure out what to work on next.
Support of Selenium scripts is great. I was afraid only Ruby/Python were supported from your description.

How can I delete or rename existing scripts?

it would be great to have more browser available: Safari on Windows & Mac, Opera 8 to 10, Chrome, etc., along wit hthe option to disable javascript, Jva, Flash, etc.
(ianal, but) you probably won't. there are other sites out there that do exactly this, except i've not found one that isn't messy/spammy/etc.. would love to see something clean, flexible, and easy to use.
Apple preparing for FM tuner in their iPod/iPhone line.
Ouch, thanks for the heads up, we'll take care of it right now.
"Just for my curiosity, I would love to understand how Adobe managed to get the specs of the iPhone byte-code."

It isn't bytecode, it is a binary on a commonly used platform (ARM).

But in general, somewhat a moot point seeing that Flash apps compiled using this method are already in the app store at present, as well as a variety of other applications made using things that aren't Apple's SDK. As long as you abide by their restrictions it doesn't look like apple cares what you program in.
"I know that some of these features have been implemented in Eclipse, but the way they all integrate so seamlessly makes IntelliJ"

Sounds as if it's just what you are used to, not that one is better than the other. Back then when I worked with Eclipse, it did not seem full of seams, either.
Looks really interesting!

The one thing I was missing, coming from an objective-c background, is named parameters in method calls. Definitely one of my favorite parts of objective-c.

Any thoughts on adding anything like that?
No, it isn't a bug. Unfortunately, telephone regulations allow some local carriers to get away with some unfriendly charges to the big phone carriers. Google made a choice to block those rural (not 900) numbers because they currently aren't as regulated as a "real" phone company.

I hope that this will change the rules for carrier charges, but I also think Google needs to play by the same rules as everyone else. Blocking rural calls is evil when the rural users have no knowledge of how the system works and are just innocent victims.
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Not sure why you where downvoted. Your story supports what I suspect: that it is just what people are used to, not the inheritent qualities, that make people say IntelliJ is so much better. Probably there is a visual merging thing in IntelliJ, just as the features people are missing in Eclipse are probably also there - if you know how to find them.
I agree with the other comments. Here it is with a different (no) background and different (no) logo:

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/392/ucompete.jpg
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Can't it be both at once?
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. (The requirement to provide telephone service to rural numbers falls under telephone regulation.)
It's Ramsay, not Ramsey.
Visualizing the Readable Volume in the Field of a RFID Reader
It would be awesome if they did! Thanks.
I've asked on ##java and nobody could tell me how to get visual merging in IDEA.
Sad.
Thats why I tried to stay clear of the whole organic verses non-organic debate.

I would agree that it's probably next to impossible to tell the difference between an organic tomato and one thats been sprayed with chemicals, but thats not quite what I'm talking about.

It's food thats grown 'normally' (in a field) and picked that day and sold to you, verses food that in huge climate controlled warehouses, picked way too under ripe and put in shipping containers with gas chemicals that cause them to 'look' ripe but taste like crap.
OMG! If you tell your software to remove a photo from flickr, it does! After first telling you it is doing exactly that and asking for confirmation. All you have left is the original copy on your computer, which you could just stick back up on flickr if you wanted to. Oh the humanity.

I look forward to the day when we can have personal source site downmods in Hacker News.
Before you launch something, surely everyone in a startup is the product manager, to one degree or another?

Even if said product is the startup itself, and the customers are angels/VCs/...
Yep, clearly! Sorry!
That's a shame. Was it easy to set up?
I don't think that is a failure though - that alone removes a lot of bots.
How Tech Startups become technology institutions
Thanks for this, I have it bookmarked now to check out this evening.
Absolutely.

I hate to come off like a fanboy, but I understand what Microsoft is trying to do with SharePoint and it makes sense to me.

I had another team that was just 2 or 3 guys working on a startup. We used basecamp and were very happy with it.

It depends on what you want and what your skill level is. If you're highly distributed and do a lot with Microsoft documents, then MOSS is a logical choice (and not extremely expensive). If you're just a couple of guys kicking around some code? Hack something together or use one of the simpler tools available on the web.

I'd draw the line somewhere around 4 or 5 guys, not 15 -- if you're doing something that's document-heavy. If it's just programming? I wouldn't consider it until I reached the 8-10 person team size, at least.
...or a sign that JetBrains is in trouble...

That might not be the case. One of their other products ReSharper, the .NET equivalent of IntelliJ IDEA, is popular in the .NET world. Perhaps that is doing better in sales and they are shifting their attention on what has greater growth potential.

Maybe it is another sign of C# supplanting Java as the more trendy development language for your average developer?
Nor is GWT, unfortunately. Then again, it's only $600 to get these features vs over a grand previously.
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It reminds me of ICQ...
It is much more fun than a captcha.
oh nice. Thanks for sharing this.
speaking of black body, here's another article I've read about it.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/ultrablack/
"Translate vision into execution." what?

Here's what I see a Product Managers Role to be.

1. Define the Product Features. Take input from all relevant stakeholders (Customers and execs) and translate this into a set of product features. Document and distribute. Clarify any concerns between stakeholders.

2. Clearly define features. An extension of point 1. Work with design and technical teams to make sure that the features are clearly defined for everyone working on the product.

3. Clearly Communicate Features. Document the heck out of the product features. PRDs, IA, UI Designs all need to be clearly documented. Then COMMUNICATE these features back to all stakeholders. If someone doesn't understand a feature its the PM's role to make sure they do.

4. Prioritize features. Even if you're not working in an agile approach at some point you will need to draw a line between MUST HAVE and NICE TO HAVE features.

5. Product Advocate. A PM is the champion for a product. It's important they believe in the necessity of what they are building and are willing and able to champion it internally and externally.
No, I don't think there is any Python support, but they do support some other languages.

Edit: After investigating further, it looks like there is an alpha-quality Python plugin, and eventually there will be full Python support, available in its own IDE or as a plugin for IDEA.
Amazon needs to check its IPs against the blacklists before releasing them back into the AWS pool.
What about the liability?...He contained the liability to his investment vehicle, Australian Style Investments. The A$4.5M was paid to an another entity of Bolton’s, Australian Style Holdings, to quarantine it from the $120M liability in Australian Style Investments.

I thought it was a great story until here. This just seems totally unethical. Am I missing something?

Certainly I can't just evade the liability of a risky short sale (for example) by making the trade through a shell corporation?
What is the average running speed of a man? Between 13-20 mph http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_running_speed_... If you define running as 13+MPH then nobody in the history of the world has ever run a Marathon. Yet, some people can run at twice that pace for short distances. So when looking at Intensity as in the instantaneous output, Marathons don't really compare.
Hack carefully around radiation: hospital unintentionally  irradiates patients
"Developers also must get the application approved by Apple in order to distribute it. Microsoft would not have even dared to dream of such a market scheme."

Yes they would. It's called Xbox and Zune HD.
That's exactly the kind of use case I have envisioned for it as well. Collaborative document creation where the conversation becomes the document.
I agree with this. Do not hire a PM who can't code, doesn't have design experience, and can't bring business in the door. Big company PM experience is not an asset here. I was a Microsoft PM before, and it did not prepare me one bit for the rigors of startup life.

All startups need three things: 1) coding, 2) product design, 3) hustle. Ideally everyone can do all three. The ideal PM can do both #2 and #3.
The author doesn't seem to be aware that there are already applications created this way that have been approved for sale by Apple. Given that it does not trigger any of the objections Apple has previously had about Flash on the iPhone--which universally revolve around the Flash runtime, specifically in the browser--I don't see why anybody should be surprised by that. It only seems improbable if you make a lot of second-guessing about their motives rather than taking them at their word.
>Fraudulent activity (at least in the US ) has similar liability

Not hardly. Until you can collect from someone who rips off your checking account (good luck on that), YOU are liable for the amount (at least until your bank puts a stop payment on the account). With a credit card, you are liable only for the first $50, the card issuer is liable for anything over that.
Gruber: Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7
I don't understand why installing an Tomcat on Windows could be a deal breaker?

As far as extenisbility goes... There are loads of plugins available for free. Giving you an ability to extend your Wiki with social oriented features, different UI customisations, you get remote API, you can add widgets (they are going to make the Shindig an integral part of Confluence) or embed whole pages.

If you want to pay a reasonable price you can buy payable plugins: Gliffy, Sharepoint Connector, Balsamiq,...

Did I mention that Atlassian products stack together super nicely (being able to view your JIRA issues on documentation pages in wiki is superb).

Using the stack mentioned above will basically give you all the tools you need for all your documentation creation and collaboration needs costing you about 10.000$ for a 500 man company.

From what I've seen so far it's the Atlassian that are driving the whole WEB 2.0 Enterprise collaboration game - with IBM and MS trying to follow - but Atlassian is just too fast so far IMHO.

And I don't even work for Atlassian :)
Yep.. nothing wrong with canned tomatoes. They are usually picked when they are ripe. I use them and they're great.

However I'm partial to fresh food as well, salad/sandwichs/salsa.
Hard to believe hospital procedures allow them to change the power settings on an x-ray device without doing any regression testing.
Post-Hype, Wolfram Alpha Turns On Its API And Preps An iPhone App
At MSFT, were you "program", "project", or "product"? My understanding, three very different, frequently confused roles there.
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There's a quandary here. If someone is, say, a medical equipment VC, they have to invest in technologies they can understand only in outline, since no one is going understand everything about them.

But finance is different in the sense that any investor has to understand things down to where the money is coming from. You correctly reason that "innovation" in finance is simply a system for gambling with other people's. That's indeed more or less fraud by your reasoning.

But the tricky part is that an investor in technology has to know where the substantial engineering technology ends and the insubstantial "financial technology" begins. It's OK not to understand the first but deadly, over time, not to understand the second. So the problem can get tricky despite the underlying situation being simple.
I've often wondered about this. I always suspected online reviews would tend to skew high. I think there's a couple of factors at work.

First, people are pretty good at predicting if they'll like something. If it looks like they're not going to like a movie, they don't watch it. Hence, the majority of people who review something, are people who expected to like it.

Second, 5 star reviews are kind of pointless for something like cotton balls or artificial sweetener. Either you got the product and it's the right thing in the quantity you wanted, or it's not. There's not a lot of room for subjective discrimination between one box of Splenda and another. Since the product lived up in every way to your expectations, there's really no reason to give it less than full marks.
Seems like this points to a longer term problem with blacklisting by IP address as they continue to become more transient with respect to the hosted service.
From what I can tell, list of bullet points aside, the difference between a good PM and a bad PM is that the good PM is constantly talking to customers and relaying what they say. I was and have worked with the "other" kind of PM that is very good at documenting and advocating for things, but that's not the job. The job is being on the phone.
Civ II isn't AAA? Sid Meier is one of the biggest names in gaming.

Look, you're taking games that belong on any Top 100 of All Time list, and calling them "decent". What is an exceptional game, then?

And the experiences I've gotten out of games like Far Cry, Thief, Civ 2, etc., have been infinitely more memorable than the gameplay I've had from WoG.

I can accept that perfectly well. Of course it's not everyone's cup of tea. It's when we start trying to define "value" that things get a bit hairy.
They did that at a company I worked for. Really big "X", guy was incredibly smart. Ended up doing absolutely no work because he was "the guy who wrote X" and could get away with it.
Every two weeks when Amazon deposits my Marketplace payment into my bank account (electronically) it takes five working days to clear, the same as if I had deposited a paper check at the bank; the only advantage is that at least I don't have to wait for the mail to get the check to me first.
I hate showing my ignorance, but what is "CD"?
This brings back memories of developing websites in the late 90's. Some people would purchase domains and want to setup a website just so they could put this animated construction worker on the site. It was enough for some businesses to look like they were cutting edge.
Disposable servers
Ah, I see. I'm slow.
Customer development :)
China Cracks Down on Tor Anonymity Network
MIT Develops Fully Autonomous Indoor Helicopter [vid]
Actually you don't know much about ASIMO if you think it is closer to being sentient than the rubber ball. It is a dumb mobility platform with a few sensors that aren't really used.

There was nothing in the music that made it ominous to me. It was trying to show a dynamic mobility platform. Electronic music != robot apocalypse.
I recently found http://sendgrid.com/ which is designed to solve the email sending problem from EC2, and includes a REST API.
Continuous Deployment

That being said I think the smartest people generally don't care about asking a question when they don't know something. Cue feynmann.

Edit: oops meant to reply to someone here. iPhone failed me.
I think it could also be continuous deployment.
Twitter's really cool in that it gives you its logo in .png and .psd and other formats, free for you to download and use.

http://twitter.com/about#download_logo

jacquesm is right though. beware using this if it's for a commercial application.