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If you're developing company-internal stuff, you can just standardize on one compiler and/or statically link everything.

Without commenting on Node.native, I'd just like to note that C++11 isn't your grandparents' C++ anymore. An experienced programmer probably can write code in C++11 that is almost as elegant as, say, the equivalent C# code. And for larger projects many people would prefer something like C# to JavaScript, if only for the static typing.

Something important that Marco forgot: The Kindle Touch is the only Kindle without landscape mode. I find that pretty annoying.

I have a hard time believing that you can't detect that someone has absolutely no clue about programming just by asking about his past projects, drilling down on some specific technical challenges he encountered during those projects, quizzing him about his preferences for programming languages, libraries and stuff like that.

If you've also got Firefox 3.6 or Chrome installed, compare the rendering side-by-side and you should see the difference.

There is also http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/791489 and some other web pages reporting this problem.

I hope they fix the blurry font rendering in Firefox 4 under Windows 7 (when hardware acceleration is not switched off).

Does disabling GPS actually save power if no app is trying to use GPS? I thought the GPS receiver only draws power if an app is actually using it.

Thanks for your feedback.

;-) Deal. You'll get 2.5%, but subject to a vesting clause: come back with a successful MVP for the promises variation, then you'll get your equity. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the compliment. The Android version of our mobile app is a top priority for us.

Thanks. That is one of the strategic decisions we face now. Integrate deeper with facebook to rely on functionality provided by FB or complement Facebook with our own functionality?

This is a clickable link: http://www.getupp.com

And for the app: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/getupp/id416103537

Here are the slides: http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/extradoc/talk/microsoft-jan-20...

It would be great if this shortened the wait for a Titanium JS debugger...

Spideroak.com works too. It automatically backups your data to the cloud (securely encrypted!). It synchronizes your data across multiple machines (and multiple OS) and you can access all past versions of your files. It's free if you don't need more than one or two GB. It's the ideal backup tool for researchers that don't generate tons of data and want a simple backup solution.

I had the same issue: Shortly before Skype went completely offline, my Windows Skype client suddenly started crashing every few minutes. The Mac client didn't have that problem.

Some bug in the new version is probably the likeliest explanation, but if someone deliberately attacked the Skype network, it would probably look similar, right?

My point was that in certain markets unregulated competition will naturally lead to a monopoly. The technical term for this in microeconomics is "natural monopoly", and the explanation at the beginning of the Wikipedia article is actually pretty good. Without regulation monopolists can prevent the market entry of competitors and can extract excessive profits from consumers, to the detriment of society as a whole.

> you take away the governmental protections that allow them to have a monopoly and let the market consume them when they refuse to change their shitty business practices.

How is that supposed to work? Have you ever heard of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

I suspect Google isn't doing this for legal reasons. They probably have to take care not to look discriminatory in any way.

So, that's about 5 cent per day then.

Really? Acetylsalicylic acid is available as a cheap generic drug in Germany.

Thanks for the pointer. I read the Wikipedia page, but I found the explanation of the general concept too abstract. The definition of a RESTful web service further down the page is much clearer.

However, does it really make any practical difference whether the API makes full use of all the HTTP methods (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE)? Sure, it may be a bit of an abuse of the protocol to encode everything as a GET, but since you usually don't want any caching when using such an API, does it really matter?

Could maybe someone give a concise definition of what makes an API RESTful and explain why the AWS Query API is not RESTful and how a RESTful API would be better?

Can maybe someone comment on the current reliability of GAE? What people write on this topic, for example in the comments on http://www.carlosble.com/?p=719&rewrite, sounds pretty scary. Apparently the status page at http://code.google.com/status/appengine doesn't reflect people's experiences.

Is it possible to work around the reported reliability issues? After all, what good is scalability without reliability?

No, the German data protection officials insisted on Google blurring the original source material and not preserving any unblurred copies.

IMHO, that might be appropriate in certain exceptional circumstances, e.g. when inadvertently something very private or embarrassing has been captured, but it is a bit over the top as a general policy.

Has anyone tried iOS 4.2 on the iPhone 3G and could comment on the performance?

Silverlight != Moonlight

I think you didn't get the point of jbjohns post. You're just restating his message (more clearly, though). Did you maybe overlook the 'hamstrung' and the 'why not give us an "assembler" option' at the end?

What about making the constructors protected?

Sometimes an alternative is to make the destructor in the base class protected.