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Other than the few non-standard pieces (At one point, I had a C shaped block, and another an L made of 3 pieces), love it. Nicely done.

I dare not make the attempt, but I think you could use regular expressions to turn their examples into valid C++ code.

I'm the same way. I often read articles that I would like to share with people, but since I'm more interested in the ensuing discussion, I'd rather directly link a person during a conversation (or as a way to start one) rather than throw it at my Facebook page or similar.

I consider sites like HN quite different, as that is their sole purpose :)

While I don't feel frustrated by it, per se, I found myself watching the panoramic view on the bottom.

This is a really good question.

One thing I've noticed when surfing around various Android forums is that people who build new ROMs or port them between phones often include a list of things that do and do not work.

He says in the video that pretty much everything works, which I'm inclined to take with a grain of salt.

I try to do the same, but sadly without seeming rude and asking friends to remove you from photos or leaving you out of messages, you leave it to chance.

For instance, I've never put a photo of myself online, yet Facebook has me tagged well over 300 times from going out to bars with friends. I'm ok with my friends seeing these since they actually know me, but I can't control the privacy settings on their albums -- only whether or not people can get to those photos from my page.

I don't walk around with the uneasy feeling that, at any time, I could be photographed and unknowingly put online... but I still think about it from time to time.

This wasn't an anti-piracy measure.

The game was free to play, but they uploaded it to sites such as The Pirate Bay to distribute it. They mention that people have been put off by the game due to the large file size (excess of 500mb, I think) which is generally not a daunting feature to those who use torrents.

The didn't really fool anyone, per se... they just took advantage of distribution channels.

It's odd to imply that the quality of something being a work of art is related to its level of interactivity.

> Facebook did the right thing by putting a kibosh on it and any others that might come up with a search for Facebook or spotted with a Facebook "f" icon.

Lots of people will come out and say that including the name and the icon is a minor thing, but this is exactly why it's more than that. It's similar to how searching google for "Facebook login" brings up a blog post with a few hundred comments about trying to log into facebook.

Edit: doing that search now has several sites right up top now for "Facebook Login Help" and such. I don't remember those being there before.

Along these same lines, Firefox users have reason to stay behind on upgrades. Speed is always a concern, but if an update breaks a critical extension (we all know how much we love extensions) then... might as well stay behind.

I'm going to leave this thought here, because I don't know where else to leave it without a blog.

Apple doesn't like Flash (or Adobe, depending on preference).

Adobe develops Flash to iPhone compiler.

Apple bans anything-to-AppStore apps that aren't "originally written in C/Obj. C"

...

* Adobe writes Flash to Canvas/HTML5 Apps ?

Apple has nothing to lose from that cornered last step to get onto the iPhone... The internet as a whole doesn't have anything to lose...

For once in my life I feel like an Apple fan. It's a shame it only happened under the influence of alcohol.

Edit: I feel very dirty all of a sudden.

I've had no qualms about multitasking on my Hero. Switching between my browser and gchat is a matter of holding down the home key for 3 seconds and pressing on whichever icon I want to go to. Things that run in the background, such as uploads, leave a notification on the top when it's finished.

What's so bad about that?

Incredible. Steve Jobs generates buzz just by walking around.

Outlook will do it to some extent. You can group your messages by conversation. I don't recall what annoyed me about it, but it wasn't ideal... I think it had something to do with the sorting.

I normally stay out of Apple related discussions, because no matter how often people say the contrary, they reek of Fanboy. Tonight, I've just had my share to drink and want to give my peace.

Apple is releasing a new device. With this, they are continuing a quite recent trend of hand(ish) held devices that oppose what we generally think of when it comes to computers.

On one hand, we don't look at most phones and wonder why we can't hack them to pieces. On the other hand, Apple can't stop touting Computer Revolution XYZ as the most incredible thing the technologically inclined have ever laid eyes upon.

The problem is they don't market their items toward us. They tell us these incredible things about how it does XYZ and does it so well... then they air commercials about how you can find a restaurant, or get directions to a movie theater, or (for the love of God) check your e-mail as you talk to someone.

As complete and utter nerds, we grok this device as a leap in handheld, touch-it-till-it-loves-you computing. Apple tells us it is... then they turn around and tell the rest of the world they can read books and download new ones for $10.

Regarding your comment: Don't be afraid to try this. Those who don't cook often tend to see items like this as a little gross... but just consider how often you ask a chef how your meal is prepared.

There are rice cookers you can purchase which will finish the rice according to a schedule. They're more expensive than the the average, but if you're going to use it frequently and you want rice ready when you get home, it's top notch.

Essentially, you measure you rice, clean it (as always) then add the water, leave it in the cooker, the the timer you want it to finished, and the cooker does the rest.

Edit: A thought on top of this: Sushi is often a mix of rice, vinegar, salt and sugar, then seaweed and a meat. If you have the rice cooker, most of the time for prep is taken out.

Wow, congratulations.

If you ever doubted your business, you can feel affirmed now. Being bought out by the largest social networking site with a sizable portion of their site dedicated to photos... well, you obviously did it right.

Get out there and do something else right, now :D

I admire Google's ability to provide so many specialized views to GMail. There's one for the Android application (which, realistically, just syncs information and store it locally for display), one for the iPhone/Android in a browser, one for desktop Browsers (+ basic HTML), one for mobile (non-awesome) browsers (+ basic HTML), now one for the iPad, and of course POP3 / IMAP for use with native mail clients.

They've really covered all the bases here.

How about the dark twist at the end?

-- "Or your new house in the Chicago suburbs seems absolutely perfect for you and your family—till the first hot day of the year sets in and you turn on the A/C. Some sinister combination of ill-conceived vents and over-tall foyer begins to rope together winds—pulling in air from the living room, from the basement, from the kids' bedrooms—and within a mere twenty minutes a tornado-strength twister takes visible form.

It then spins for days, suffocating the residents in their sleep by robbing them of oxygen, and lifting their limp bodies into the air, where they turn in lazy circles like pirates drowned at sea. Their bodies dance aloft, as if caught in an aero-spirograph, eerily lit by dim suburban lamplight and visible through the front door windows—a vision of the vortex—accidentally killed by HVAC." --

This is why we can't have nice things.

Maybe it's just me, but maintaining a task list is about as troublesome as finding one that does just what you need.

I get e-mails for business related tasks. Outlook flags posts sent directly to me (as in, I'm in the TO: box, not part of a group or CC'ed) and I'll check them out.

Anything else is stuff I want to do. I don't often forget that I want to do something, thus no list necessary. If I do miss something... well there's always free time in the future.

The page on GOTO actually includes a nice XKCD comic that illustrates both sides of the argument rather well.

http://us3.php.net/goto

[Direct to comic] http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/goto.png

Think of it as an artist's code sample :)

On top of this, has everyone really being "going Gaga for game mechanics" ?

I had no idea the noted sites have had achievements. Upon noting this, I still have no inclination to venture to them.

You can use whatever base you want. Realistically, end users don't even know when they're low on space anyway. Even if they do, it's a system of "deleting unused files" not finding the closest file size you can.

Yes, this was pretty much my thought. I guess sarcasm doesn't come out well in short sentences, but no big deal.

There's no reason for Apple or anyone to oversupply on opening day. In Apple's case, by shutting down preorders they generate press just because they're declaring it full. If you open a site to beta traffic with signup, then get coverage at a place like Techcruch, and shut down signups with only 10 users but don't delcare it, the press will think you're a hot item if you don't provide numbers.

That isn't exactly the case with Apple, of course -- they are a hot item. Without numbers, though... they could have sold 10 or 10 million. I'm sure the other estimates made in the thread circling 250,000 are close though.

Are you pining for the days of embedded MIDI files? :)

It's almost like they plan on this issue...

Excellent idea, looks like a good implementation and very clever.

That being said, I'm skeptical on the fun factor lasting more than the time it took to watch the video.

It's an excellent idea, I can give it that, but I do not see how this fleshes out into a full game. We're talking about Person A tries to find Person B in a crowd. Person B has stuff to do, Persona A just has to find him.

If you're playing on the same screen (as the article indicated) Person B can't have an interesting interface because it's shared with Person A, and vice versa. Likewise Person B can't be doing anything interesting, because (as indicated in the article) his possible actions are easily investigated by Person A.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for new concepts in gaming. I play far too many games right now... I just don't see how this extends beyond a Mario Party / Wario Ware style mini-game.