"A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media type(s) used for representing resources and driving application state, or in defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-enabled mark-up for existing standard media types."
- MikeAmundsen
from Bookmarklet
Amazon.com: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition) (9780136042594): Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Artific...
We sent the final pdfs of the new edition of this book off to the publisher. The market reacted by gaining 2% on the day.
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
I'd hope there'd be some kind of strategy to it! Though, if I were to take the "obvious" path, it's because people want less computer for their computing these days. And, as the video says, more people are spending more time in the browser, so...! why not just rid of all the other stuff that gets in the way?
- Chris Messina
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Chrome OS runs them even faster. Faster means more users on the web. More users on the web means more users using Google. That's a pretty simple, and highly effective, strategy.
- DeWitt Clinton
Well, I think the coupling of Chrome OS to specific hardware reqs is one of the more interesting things here. It gives Google a "hand to reach out into reality" in a way that it only previously had with Android/G1 devices.
- Chris Messina
(As always, speaking for myself, not Google) I assume the coupling to hardware specs is the only reasonable way to guarantee sane behavior. Encouraging people to install it on arbitrary hardware would open it up to all the problems that any non-Windows OS (and sometimes even Windows) has on arbitrary hardware -- driver hell and unpredictable performance. Very similar to Apple's approach, but without the overpriced hardware.
- Joel Webber
"In 26 out of 27 European Union countries, Mr Buffett’s plans [to leave most of his fortune to charity] would not just be shocking, but illegal. The exception is Britain."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
"In continental Europe a big part of an estate (often around half) is reserved for the surviving children of the deceased and must be equally divided between them. ... Finally, “clawback” laws in many countries stop parents from dodging forced heirship by giving assets away while they are still alive. This applies to gifts made in the last years of life (two years in Austria, ten in Germany), or much longer: in some countries, no time limit applies."
- Paul Buchheit
I bet the Europeans think it's crazy that we reserve half for the IRS :)
- Private Sanjeev
I thought only millionaires had to reserve half for the IRS.
- Gabe
As of 2009, it's 45% for estates valued at over $3.5MM, with exemptions for small businesses and farmers. It affects less than 1% of the US population at present. It's set to revert to $1M in 2011, but there's pretty much no chance that Congress will let that actually happen.
- Joel Webber
@Sanjeev: In Europe the inheritance tax rates vary, but can be similar to the US, and the exemption limits are often much lower: "[2007] France if you are inheriting from a spouse you receive up to €76,000 tax free. Anything above this limit is taxed at between 5 and 40 per cent, depending on the size of the gift. But the rate for non-relatives is a hefty 60 per cent, with no...
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- Simon
@Simon: Interesting -- I had no idea it was that high. It's also telling that, as the Economist article suggests, (continental) European law seems to strongly favor blood relatives (especially children) over the wishes of the deceased. I'm not sure which is preferable, but it's an interesting dichotomy.
- Joel Webber
Serendipity is becoming more and more important. You have to be able to find things you didn’t even know existed — it becomes more and more critical to your success. From my perspective, it’s more about serendipitous encounters with people, though, than information. - http://factoryjoe.tumblr.com/post...
and (against most intuitions) we can engineer more of it into the world...
- Dan Brickley
"You have to be able to find things you didn’t even know existed" - a statistically unlikely people finder would be cool instead of all these reinforcing algorithms and graphs ;)
- Bill de hÓra
When you see the mistakes Friendster, MySpace, Friends Reunited (UK) made that led to their irrelevance, it makes sense to keep pushing the art forward. I believe Facebook realise that and thus keep taking the best aspects of Twitter/FF etc. However they still need to retain their innovative edge, which I believe they have kind of lost over the past year.
- Jamie
Golden rule in software: you can't satisfy all your customers all of the time. So, in order to improve there is no way around pissing users off.
- Rene Wirtz
"However Play is a very unique Java framework. It does not really rely on the so-called Java Enterprise standards. It uses Java but tries to push all the good things from the frameworks based on scripting languages like Ruby On Rails, Django, ... etc. to the Java world. We really tried to get the best of the Java platform without getting the pain of traditional Java web development: slow development cycle, too much abstraction, too much configuration..."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
And Bret is probably the first reasonable evaluator of existing Java web frameworks I see. Because 95% of those are in fact unreasonable. Bret! I will appreciate if you also try to find some reasons in HybridJava - http://www.hybridserverpages.com/ Alex
- Alex Serov
"The experiment has important implications for the eventual development of a technology to create false human memories. We could one day “learn” by having experiences directly inputed into our brains."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
You would be amazed how many large corporations still do this.
- dthree
First off, it doesn't matter what the developer wants; decisions are made by the product manager and reviewed by the higher product review board and the VP of product. Then the UED team gets involved and the design has to be done, redone, pitched, explained, and revised. The change also needs to make it onto the next quarter's roadmap, where it can be evaluated in light of other...
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- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I'm not ignoring the fact that corporations go through a lengthy process to ensure the quality of their products. Of course Facebook does this too, and so do I personally. The point is, we are the ones who are qualified to determine when the app is ready. Apple is just a middleman, and they have a very limited ability to test the quality of our app.
- Joe Hewitt
A couple times Apple has caught bugs in our app and notified me of it, but they have also missed huge bugs that went through. The app on the store right now is orders of magnitude more buggy than the one sitting in the review queue.
- Joe Hewitt
I can only assume the review process is there for Apple to test compliance with their terms of service, and any bugs they find along the way are incidental. Thank goodness the web doesn't have a terms of service and a review queue.
- Joe Hewitt
With 40 apps per day per reviewer, I'm surprised the approval process works as well as it does.
- PXLated
Has any other company ever been faced with as many apps in such a short period as Apple - Just curious
- PXLated
If we developers always programmed everything to be perfect before releasing it, nothing would ever get released. ; )
- John Wang
it would look like an MMO they release half broken stuff every two weeks like clockwork
- Robert Higgins
Your question mentioned nothing of Apple and the App Store. I was merely responding to the question asked. Specifically, if, each time a developer wanted to change their site, it had to be approved by a committee with a 2-week delay, it would represent a vast improvement in the speed of delivery of site changes and probably a corresponding decline in the quality. Apple imposes their...
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- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Sorry, Glen, the context in almost all of my tweets relates to iPhone development :)
- Joe Hewitt
Of course, Apple can do whatever they want, and I can go elsewhere. I am making suggestions on how they can improve their flea market and prevent people from going elsewhere. I believe the web has set the precedent that big platforms like the iPhone can thrive even without a centralized quality control bottleneck.
- Joe Hewitt
But Joe, the iPhone isn't like the web as a whole - it's more like gaming platforms and probably more open then they are. Will be interesting to see what happens on Android and if in fact it is more open, and if so what kind of chaos may ensue.
- PXLated
Are you serious - "prevent people from going elsewhere" - Where? And pass up the iPhone audience/marketplace? Even if Android is a success, developers won't leave iPhone in spite of all the bitching.
- PXLated
The iPhone is not a "gaming platform" until they tell me I can't develop anything but a game for it. A significant chunk of iPhone apps, mine included, are basically iPhone-optimized websites written in Objective-C. I admit that I don't see anyone, myself including, abandoning Apple over this issue, but I do believe that the quality of apps on the platform is being hurt by it. Just because other platforms are even more restrictive, like Playstation or some mobile platforms, is not an excuse.
- Joe Hewitt
It's not an excuse but none is needed, Apple developed a platform and set the rules just as the gaming platforms did/do. I'm personally not sure the (overall) quality is being hurt either.
- PXLated
In fact, maybe Apple should be a lot more restrictive - 65K apps probably confuses the hell out of many users. Maybe they need a rating system and then start eliminating the poorly performing apps. Get it down to a reasonable (best of breed) 5K ;-)
- PXLated
"Apple developed a platform and set the rules" - well there's a news flash. I don't think anyone needed to be informed of that. I think Joe's just trying to make the point that centralized control isn't necessary for the good apps to rise to the top. Would you consider the web to be a success if there were 65k sites (please don't get pedantic and point out that sites aren't apps; the argument holds for any reasonable multiplier)?
- Joel Webber
"Get it down to a reasonable (best of breed) 5K" - And exactly from what larger pool would you take that best of breed? If the breed's too small, you can't *have* a best-of-breed. The web's an unholy mess, but its size and chaos are precisely what makes it successful. People still manage to find the good stuff.
- Joel Webber
It would look like the website where I work....
- Don Schuetze
What would the web look like if a developer could be shut down for an alleged ToS violation? Like FaceBook?
- Kevin Marks
That's a lot better than how web applications ship. Please allow a few months before we change it.
- Burcu Dogan
Apple is famous to put limitations at the beginning and then drop them ( remember drm?) I am pretty confident that the approval process will be easier and quicker in the near future.
- funkyboy
from iPhone
You would have [insert any corporate review process here]. For significant changes, this is understandishable. However, it gets insidious when everything looks like a nail ... even if it isn't.
- Joe D'Andrea
read it late though, but i would hate it, then maybe web might not be as popular, interesting and powerful
- testbeta
"Circle lenses are cosmetic contact lenses that have a black ring meant to enlare the appearance of the iris. Originally from Korea, these lenses were made popular by ulzzangs ("best-face" celebrities) and pop stars. They give the appearance of clear, doll-like eyes and are available primarily to the Asian market."
- Jess Lee
from Bookmarklet
never knew how big of an issue this was until i heard about "the operation" that's kept on the hush
- Cee Bee
k2g ♥ (*´ェ`*), the contact lenses are not prescription so the girls with glasses over the lenses are wearing the lenses for looks and the glasses for correction.
- Rochelle
Do some of those pics seem a little photoshopped? like, the whole thing is kinda artifacty, except the eyes are like super sharp and saturated? Odd..on the other hand... it kinda does work on me. :)
- felix
@felix: Actually, some of the lenses are designed to look that way. They have sharp flecks and bits of white & color to make your eyes look more sparkly. But yeah, I'm sure there is Photoshop in there. I can't believe the 3rd pic is a guy, he is too pretty.
- Jess Lee
That guy isn't half as pretty/girly as some of the Korean/Japanese male pop/rock bands I've seen. Especially in J-Rock. It's amazing how Anime/Manga has become like a cultural virus/meme, literally dominating certain standards of fashion and beauty. It seems the eyes mimic children, whose features are larger in proportion to their head, and fashion tends towards Victorian childhood. :)
- Ray Cromwell
I am so disturbed by how much I want these contacts.
- Heather
so the idea is a phisical alteration IRL in order to be similar to a manga cartoon? omg. out of the blue, the future suddenly happens
- Alberto D'Ottavi
"so the idea is a physical alteration IRL in order to be similar to a manga cartoon?" ah come on this is not new....beauty ideals never come form RL they come from the need to limit a selectionset (and by reduction of the pool you get a higher valuation of the winners) the rest is marketing.
- Chris Hofmann
When I saw the title in the newsreader, "Placebos Are Getting More Effective", I thought for sure it was an Onion article. It turns out, no, it is real.
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Have you tried the new Placebo XR extended release caplets?
- Jim Norris
First thing. There is a natural reason for depression. Second. Just the diagnoses and the that something is done is talking steps in rignt direction. What's more interesting is why one gets depressed. Its the brains way of saying that we need to change something. That we don't have balance. Most meds try to make ppl cope and keep status quo. Ie undoing and avoiding change. This is probably not helpful when they need a break.
- Jonas S Karlsson
from Android
This is really a fascinating read. I expected to see more placebo in nervous-system disorders, but was surprised to see things like Chrohn's disease listed as well. The real takeaway from this article for me is that it will always be difficult to separate variables in research on humans, because there's no escaping the giant feedback loop among the world, the brain and human culture.
- Joel Webber
On the other hand, it's also exciting to think of the opportunity that may exist here -- if the placebo response can really be this effective, understanding the neural and biochemical pathways involved could lead to more effective therapies, both at lower doses of drugs, and eschewing drugs altogether when we can find other ways of triggering the response.
- Joel Webber
Think for a minute about what the placebo response is. It is partly a reflection of "things will get better anyway." The rest of it is "someone is ill whose body had all that was necessary to heal itself." So if placebo becomes more effective, either (a) the spontaneous recovery rate is going up -- which I don't think it is because diagnoses require persistent symptoms -- or (b) more...
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- Daniel Dulitz
It is, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, all about Headology. :)
- Daniel Bruce
"An acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman is now freely available to the general public for the first time on a new Web site launched by Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates."
- τorƍue
from Bookmarklet
His books are wonderful as well! His brilliance spanned a much larger realm than just physics. My favorite is "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out."
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Thaths: have you looked on YouTube? I'm pretty sure they've been up for ages.
- Gabe
The lead researcher on the World Wide Telescope project showed us this a month ago when I was visiting Microsoft Research. I kinda forgot about it, cool stuff. I need to watch.
- Cornelius Toole
@Gabe: Thanks. I had not thought of YT. Still, I would prefer a means by which I could view it off-line.
- Thaths
Fwd: RT @lastfm: Last.fm Android Client 1.1 in market now! Less buffering, more media player scrobbling & desktop widget for easy access! (via http://friendfeed.com/jjmarti...)