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iPad will do to personal computers what iPhone did to smartphones. Let's not worry about iPad or iSlate but think of it as a new mode of computing. I can see schools, hospitals, first responders (police, ambulance, fire department) adopting (or moving to) this kind of device. Question is what will they need on these devices to do their jobs better?

Most of the time it's that question that bothers you more when you're using something GPL. If I do X should I release the code or not? BSD eliminates that nagging question from the back of your mind.

When your team sort of grew up with FreeBSD (or any other OS) you want to lean that way. Also, when you're shipping an appliance you don't have to think about licenses. Those are the two reasons we stick with FreeBSD.

True, but "people" you talk about are like you and I who wish we could poke around with this device a lot more. Most people just consume and hardly produce anything-- other than, perhaps, emails, todo lists, & recipe notes.

I think the relevant verdict would be delivered not by the Pogues or Mossbergs but by mom, dads, and the 4-5 year-olds who see this device for what it is. Because, for the first time we (as in majority of the general public) can look at a computer as a consumer device as oppose to a general purpose device that needs training or learning. I think most reviews I read missed this aspect.

Yes. iPad is for consumption not for production. Don't know when some of these guys will realize it and stop making a big fuzz. I don't see the point of it.

At the above link, you can comment on this draft even if you're not a member of an ISO national body. Herb Sutter's post: http://herbsutter.com/2010/04/02/how-anyone-can-comment-on-t...

Is it work in progress? It seems very thin because most of what the book is covering is in Boost documentation. I only checked out the on-line (HTML) version. Nevertheless, I do think Boost can use a new book.

I wonder whether earlier pricing ($49) was chosen to only have serious users before opening up the app to everyone. Perhaps an effective method to recruit beta testers who care.

Anyone looked at the source yet? Is it just multi-threaded or actually using parallel frameworks like ITBB or OpenMP?

This may not be very useful for most startups who don't develop for IBM ecosystem. Similar program by Microsoft, called BizSpark, is very useful. If you haven't already check that out.

Thanks for reading between the lines. That was my poi t too.

Hope it's still in a sandbox.

If you're not going to use spell check, please turn your autocorrection off. Otherwise, I don't know how one can explain confusing "their" and "they're."

Has anyone tried advertising on Facebook? Is the CTR and conversions better there compared to Google? I lose money on Google adwords.

How about solving related or similar problems? The way one may approach those problems may give insight into incremental steps necessary to solve the hard problem.

It is unfortunate this is happening. Be aware, however, that the solution is not just a technology solution it is probably also a business solution--dealing with various agencies of the city and their processes. I bet most money is spent on meetings and business process consultants... [Edit: not to say it cannot be done cheaper, but may not be trivial.]

Too bad no one went after Chrome. Perhaps prize money should be in proportion to difficulty of compromise from previous years. Otherwise, it seems like everyone is grabbing the low hanging fruits-- relatively speaking of course. (None of these exploits are "low hanging" in the traditional sense of exploits)

Note that this is not a jail-broken iPhone. This is a regular iPhone with latest OS with code signing.

I see something like Dropbox using it. Any other examples?

Abundance of data sources and collectors can usually increase data quality. For instance, when we post something on mechanical turk we can ask multiple users to repeat the same task thereby scrubbing the output better.

(I also wish TC crowd-sourced grammar checking of their articles prior to pushing them out:-) )

How old is your oldest (current) domain?

I give you a point. I think Andrew can improve the titles and make them sound less like informercials.

What he does is good & valuable work. Note that the archive is the only one that he is charging money for. So, we still can get on the juicy stuff within the week.

Searching on Twitter yields quite a bit of results for "ipad pre-ordered" May be someone can use the API to get an exact number.

Part of being a C developer (or C++ template) developer is in fact understanding what the compiler spits out. So, this did't convine me enough because "two or more data types" made me skip right a head to the definition of Point. :-)

My point is Clang is good but friendly error messages is not the only reason I would change to Clang.

Data, data everywhere http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displayStory.cfm?sto...

Might be a relevant read too.

Good point; This is something I wanted to see discussed but the paper didn't touch on it at all. It just focused on tools and vulnerabilities in the tool and didn't dip into the process surrounding the tool.

'advanced persistent threats': Also means having the discipline to use just the right amount of force. "Advanced" in APT could just be the mindset of the threat not necessarily the sophistication of exploit.

Let me just say just because we have lot of ideas doesn't mean they all need to crystalize. I've learned that I might be thinking of an idea for a month or some whereas someone else might have thought about it for four months, tired & failed so they will criticize the idea and drive it in a different direction. Not every idea needs to crystalize.

I do agree that blogging every other day is not going to help either. I would say blog like Dustin Curtis. Treat every post like a book.

As for my street cred: I quit blogging in 2001 after 3-4 years of blogging. Now, thinking of doing what I just proposed above. :-)

Yes, I understand that. And that's why "people" (which I thought referred to the majority) don't care about this stuff and these stupid policies get through senate & house. Those who benefit from these policies know how to make the majority care-- everyone cares about child exploitation, and terrorists-- but we haven't quite figured out how to make majority aware that this is a double edge sword or propose better alternatives (the hard part).

They can perhaps take dual roles of other government agencies too, like US Census.