jacobscott

From techcrunch:

"We had guessed earlier this year that Microsoft would choose the Silverlight platform to deliver Office online, but Microsoft will instead be copying the Google approach - the applications will be 100% HTML and Javascript."

This article says that it will be Silverlight. Tempted to trust TC on this one.

Is it clear that this isn't just some kind of alternate reality game? I mean, if he can find all this guy's info, he can't find his parents?

Sorry, the key point is that the assertion:

"Therefore, P is not equal to NP, is true and provable in a simply consistent extension B" of B"

does not necessarily imply P \neq NP (the caveat being the B" and B stuff). I'm not really a complexity theory guy, but I would say WHP that this either

(a) does not apply to the most general forms of computation (e.g., what people mean when they ask P =? NP)

(b) is wrong

There's a fine line between irony/parody and wasting everyone's time...

I like the interface of reading certain things in physically better than online. This includes, for example, the New York Times as well as Edge Magazine.

I think it will be a while before non-PC devices are the primary way people get their electronic news (at least five years).

This is really interesting in the context of recent news about the New York Times cashflow issues. Internet killed the print newspaper star?

This was actually really annoying (rickroll with java script popups).

Saving $30 is cool, but remember the majority cost of this phone (and other smartphones) is in the contract.

This is just a design, right?

A couple of things that might be relevant:

* How many people who want to do X but haven't yet would choose your site over established-X-player?

* Would you expect people using established-X-player to switch to using your site? Why or why not?

* Does X involve substantial lock-in or network effects that established-X-player can take advantage of?

I've been seeing lots of articles (recent calacanis death spiral email, for one) saying that this economic climate will not be friendly to smaller clones (don't mean to imply that your idea is a clone).

"The best articles are voted to the top by the community, but in a way that makes it difficult to game the system. Instead of being able to vote up your own articles or those written by your friends, readers are given a random sample of articles and asked to compare them in pairs. This A-B approach filters the best articles to the homepage."

This is cool; variations are used by recaptcha, etc. I wonder if this could be used by digg? Increasing the quality/reducing gaming of community-based ranking seems like a very good idea.

Yes.

Thanks! Assume six months is a reasonable amount of time to have passed for me to dupe.

A windows stack in the cloud makes my head hurt. Is this just my anti-microsoft bias? Would anyone seriously consider developing their startup using a C#/azure stack?

Maybe salesperson shouldn't be a dirty word then. I think the burden is on the creator (and or proponents) of software to explain to others why they should use it. Would you argue otherwise?

Why is advertising the only way to gain traction in a recession? Do you not understand that the startups on the Internet have many options for revenue? Do you need a stern talking to?

(above is tounge-in-cheek if that wasn't clear)

I use mostly is.gd, haven't had any problems yet. It's also the shortest :)

Why run any CentOS at all then?

"The Linux kernel source code used to be maintained without the help of an automated source code management system, mostly because of Linus Torvalds' dislike of centralized SCM systems.

In 2002, Linux kernel development switched to BitKeeper... "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Revision_control

Bizarre(-ng? just kidding!) but true.

What large and successful open source projects have done fine with no source control? Did any of them chose consciously not to use source control? I'm really confused as to why a multi-developer project of any kind would ever not use source control.

For me, there's a modest amount of activation energy associated with trying a new SCM. For work, there's an INCREDIBLY large amount of activation energy to move all of the developers, scripts, etc, off svn (although we don't develop open source).

I think "you just need to try it" is the wrong approach. I want to know /why/ I should try it. I want to see my work flows called out and the minutes/hours I will save by switching from svn to git explained clearly. Svn certainly has its pain points, but I haven't seen a concise, easily digestible outline of what git (or its ilk) will get me.

If you're a college student, a great resource is are the librarians at your libraries. Their job includes having a grasp on where to find this kind of information.

For one off questions of this type, I find yahoo answers and ask metafilter to be great. I personally don't know where you would start, but someone on those sites probably does.

I think this is a pretty good list. I would add:

* Don't pander -- be careful about pushing emotional buttons

Why are you running on two different OSes?

the iphone has outlook integration, yes. But the /brand/ is overall, a luxury consumer brand. People pay (or used to pay, depending on which sites you read) the "apple tax" to use OSX and etc.

Apple uses style and design as key selling points and differentiators. Hence, the upscale nature of the brand. Apple will never sell anything that resembles an eMachine.

Does a hundred year programming language make sense at all? Is it possible to have the faintest clue what people will want to be programming then? Feel free to point me to prior responses :)

"...humans have a limited cognitive capacity for reasoning when searching for a solution within a problem space. Given the relatively small size of our brain’s working memory, we can only consider a few aspects of any situation and can only analyze them in a few ways... The first step in any problem-solving episode is representing the problem, and to a large extent, that representation has the solution hidden within it (pp. 8-9)."

Always love a good economics quote -- behavioral economics, cognitive costs and etc are, generally speaking, awesome topics. See recent edge posting: http://edge.org/3rd_culture/thaler_sendhil08/class4.html

Not a designer so the rest of the article doesn't apply to me as much...

Better presentation -- screeen shots, demo site running, etc. The "about" page is a little vague, I don't know anything about TeachMate, and I need to be convinced it is cool before I'm willing to go to github, etc.

A fast and easy way to get familiar with this if you aren't (and don't want to watch the OCW lectures that cover it):

Look up all the common data structures -- arrays, linked lists, hash tables, vectors, heaps, trees of various sorts, etc -- and chart out the big-oh for the operations they support. You should probably also be familiar with amortized analysis, which is what people mean when they say that hashtables or vectors have O(1) insert.

The Javadoc for java.util has interesting details on concrete implementations of these concepts; see TreeMap for example.

Fair point. Switching gears then, how about:

Apple is a luxury brand and Microsoft isn't, so I think the current economic troubles will hit them harder.