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Huh? It is cornflower:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower_blue

Berkeley DB is an embedded database with no network story, let alone distributed story, so it isn't really a complete solution compared to the k-v stores people talk about. It can be a building block though, e.g. memcachedb uses it.

ASN.1 is hideously complex, part of the appeal of all those new wire protocols is simplicity.

SQLite is Berkeley DB's main competitor... it's actually funny that NoSQL on the server is all the rage, but SQL use is now really popular client side.

That's not really true, e.g. in the UK, Android is also gaining similarly:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/30/android-goo...

In-N-Out is also far more scarce than McDonalds. In towns where In-N-Out and McDonalds density is about even, In-N-Out has more marketshare than McDonalds.

How is this relevant to iOS vs. Android again?

A lot of places where prostitution is legal, pimping is not, e.g., Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. There's less of a trafficking problem in those places, since it can and does get prosecuted (though there still are problems, since here sadly is demand for underage prostitutes etc.)

In the Netherlands, pimping is legal though, which may contribute specifically to the problems they are seeing. I'm not the only one who thinks so:

http://static.rnw.nl/migratie/www.radionetherlands.nl/curren...

I don't think the ban ever happened though.

Personally, I think the offline play feature makes it worth it. None of the other on-demand services seem to charge any less for mobile either, which makes me think that the labels have put a price floor on mobile access.

A half assed service has the possibility of hurting their brand though, as well as driving people to competitors, e.g. http://twitter.com/garrettdimon/status/22824730445

So what's awesome and new in Ping that's never been done before?

6 month lockout is standard, maybe even SEC mandated? Which is plenty of time for initial IPO hype to wear off and the price to crater.

The US tapped an undersea Soviet cable in the 1970s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

In my ten year career, I haven't found there to be a correlation between having a degree and being a good developer. I've worked with a number of awesome people, most with degrees, some without, and plenty of bad people, most with degrees, some without. To me, a degree isn't a positive nor a negative signal for anything. You can talk about value of the intangibles outside the education component, but in my experience, a degree doesn't necessarily confer this either.

EDIT: Actually, thinking about it further, I haven't come across many bad developers without a degree. This is surely selection bias: bad devs with a degree can hide in the bowels of BigCo with HR departments who don't actually know how to hire good people, but absolutely require a degree. The bad devs without a degree can't get these cushy, hard to be fired from positions, and therefore don't last very long and probably find another line of work.

Actually, health insurance companies refuse to insure a band of neighbors collectively since they deem the risk of insuring everyone in the same neighborhood too great, due to everyone being exposed to the same environment (power lines, contaminated water, etc.) A friend actually tried to get insured for him and 30 of his neighbors and that was the rejection reason given. So collective bargaining has to fall to a more spread out organization like an employer or a union, with all the politics therein, instead of closer knit locals, which tends to work out better.

This is one reason I'm in favor of government health care: The profit motives of private health care favor denying care, since not paying out money is a good way to make money. So you have case where nobody will cover you for arbitrary reasons, or deny you payment due to a "pre-existing condition" or some other nonsense.

The p2p streaming and encryption is overengineering for this problem. RTMPE works just fine for this.

But RTMP was designed for this. This is totally possible using a web client.

Do you some concrete examples of some of these details where being native makes it far and away better or easier than a web UI?

I wonder why they haven't just made a web client already, instead of bothering with fat native clients for every platform. The P2P stuff isn't really worth it given that bandwidth is so cheap, and they otherwise don't actually do anything with a native UI that a web based UI couldn't do.

Yeah, it's horrible verbiage, plus it's really rather self-serving on Facebook's part.

Really this is "we noticed this user has stopped using Facebook, please trigger an action so we can spam their email to remind them that we exist." It's not about helping the user, they don't send these types of things for users who are active on Facebook otherwise, but not directly interacting with you.

"Reconnect" to a dead friend is pretty worst case, but it's also insulting to be told to "reconnect with Bob" when you go drinking with Bob every week. Facebook has incredible hubris to think that if two people aren't interacting on Facebook, it means they aren't interacting at all.

Yeah, but it seems like you rarely want to be radical when it comes to consumer focused web UX design, whereas when it comes to development itself, it could be justified a lot more often, because people are really dealing with tools for hours a day. So bringing up a dev example just seems weird.

Yeah, interesting article, weird conclusion.

The comparison of hotels to website design is pretty apt. A hotel is often just a place to sleep, and not the point of the trip (resorts are an exception), so even if it makes the room prettier, in the end it doesn't justify straying from standard expectations. Same with most websites, people generally aren't interacting with one given site continuously for 8 hours a day, so they don't have time nor inclination to get used to some quirks.

But for web development frameworks? Lots of people do work on web dev for 8 hours a day, so if some nonstandard framework trades a couple days of learning curve that results in productivity gains measured in months, it's totally worth it. E.g., Rails and Django fell out of such things, and they had to start somewhere.

The poster's main issue is not that people who didn't go to school are generally better than people who did, but that people who went to school aren't generally better than people who didn't. I.e., because of grade inflation and the trend to not make students do much work, people who went to school are just as likely to be lazy and stupid as people who didn't. A degree isn't a signal for anything anymore.

There was a lot of press hype about it, but global cooling wasn't widely accepted scientifically. The first paragraph of that Wikipedia article even says this.

One thing hasn't changed: the mainstream media's handling of science and technology was just as bad 40 years as it is now.

Wow. I know people at Facebook who don't know how to code. And that's fine, they are business types. Seems really disingenuous for Facebook to claim that during interviews.

> Facebook. A CEO that's proven that he understands technology. A team where every single engineer is brilliant. A company where every single person including sales, design, and business employees, can code.

Talk about putting Facebook on a pedestal. Especially that last sentence. Where the hell did that come from?

> it's to give people a way to communicate to the outside world that doesn't depend on anyone else.

Well, it depends on Twitter itself, which doesn't have the best availability record.

Frankly, Twitter is a poor place to actually have an extended conversation, which all your examples would really benefit from.

> Murdoch is wily and buys talent.

Eh, Myspace was an eyeballs acquisition, not a talent acquisition. Myspace's lack of a proper engineering culture contributed to its fall from grace; Facebook's faster load times, quicker feature additions, and app platform play all stem from a better engineering culture, and helped it overtake Myspace.

That's actually one of Myspace's biggest problems: they have a history of shoddy engineering and architecture, so they can't attract top talent.

Chrome has a process per tab and runs entirely separate processes for each plugin. So if flash crashes, the page does not crash. There is only one flash process serving the whole browser though, so if flash crashes, flash content on all open tabs stops working. The new Firefox plugin implementation works the same way.

It's not full, it's literally whitelisted to only kick in for Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight.

That circle has been squared since the 90s when webcams first showed up. VIDEO CHAT WITH LIVE GIRLS has been an Internet porn mainstay for a long time now. But the media didn't let that fact get in the way of playing up a new fad when they could.

The kangaroo thing is an urban legend. Think about it, why would shipping kangaroo all the way from Australia be cheaper than locally sourcing beef? Hell, kangaroo in Australia costs more than Australian beef.

Well, to make the analogy a little more accurate, suppose they weren't making as much profit on the hamburger as they are by serving the turkey...

Facebook and Twitter both have the problem that they have to justify the amount of investment they raised, and both are doing things that are unpopular with their community (users for Facebook, developers for Twitter) to make a bigger business than the original things that got them popular can sustain.