"Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications." This is it. This is the big one. The full Android source release is here! - DeWitt Clinton
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Congrats, Dion! It is with some sadness too, of course, as I will sincerely miss you as a co-worker, but what you guys are going to do over at Mozilla is great for the open web, and we're all cheering for you! - DeWitt Clinton
@Dare That's right, no longer at Google. Fortunately, they have some great people over there and I am looking forward to working with them in the future (also looking forward to working with your company!). - Dion Almaer
@DeWitt Thanks. It will be fun to see great products come out of Google and not have the inside scoop. It will feel like Xmas again :) - Dion Almaer
Another one leaving Google... hmmm.... Congrats Dion! If it makes you feel better you're still getting paid by Google indirectly. - Jason Carreira
"Strong pre-sales of T-Mobile's G1 smartphone have prompted the mobile carrier to triple its orders for the first smartphone phone powered by Google's Android software." -EWeek - DeWitt Clinton
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"They aren’t attracted to the field of computing because of the money (though that doesn’t hurt) but are terrified of getting stuck in a job where there’s nothing left to learn. People in other careers speak of a “seven year itch” phenomenon, but these guys have a “two year itch.” These guys will change jobs not so much to get a raise… but to keep from getting bored." PEGGED it!! - Lindsay Donaghe
"The thing is, most people really never think. At least, the concept of what thinking is to this programmer is radically different from that of “regular” people. Most people just go to work, do the same old thing, and go home. When they leave work, they leave work at work and go do something totally different. Our programmer guy can’t seem to *stop* thinking. If he’s trying to solve something difficult, he will not stop as long as he’s inspired." - I feel so exposed. :) - Lindsay Donaghe
"To most people, “it’s just words”… but this guy spends so much time in his own head, he doesn’t really differentiate between ideas and reality. Ideas *are* reality to this guy!" - Last quote... I LOVE this article! - Lindsay Donaghe
is it really helpful to create these imaginary people and regard them as real -- in marketing, serial killer profiling, or programming? or are we just over-generalizing and ignoring when the model breaks. - Whitney Sorenson
Spore gets mostly 1-star reviews from people complaining about DRM. - Amit Patel
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I just bought the game but the post prompted me to do a quick search on SecuROM. Their official FAQ doesn't inspire much confidence. For example their uninstall instructions are written without much care: "To remove all SecuROM related files [...] type 'cmd' and press on the keyboard. Please type enter the path to the protected executable, e.g. C:\Program Files\My Game\game.exe
Add the following parameter and hit : /uninstall" http://www.securom.com/support... - Simon
They're up to 535 1-star reviews. Sheesh. - Amit Patel
"Big news for the Mono team today.
Linden has started the roll out of their Mono-powered simulation servers." -Miguel de Icaza. - DeWitt Clinton
This is really cool. In the past you might be able to script with a language like Lua (or in SecondLife's case, LSL), but as far as I know this is a first for enabling support for a powerful VM that can theoretically support any number of language front-ends (C#, VB, IronRuby, IronPython, etc). Also a good show of support for the Mono project itself. Congrats all around. - DeWitt Clinton
It is interesting. As someone who cut his teeth doing MUSH coding in LISP-ish it still strikes me as a bit odd it took us this long to get here. I have more to say on this topic, but my new employer would frown on it at present. I will come back to this sometime soon. - Robert Cooper
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"I was at the University of Minnesota when Gopher, the Internet protocol, was in its prime. It was created by a professor at the University of Minnesota you see, and I had to help implement gopher services.
When the Web kicked off, they still tried to hang on, but made the fatal mistake of not having it totally open, and it quickly died off.
But now it is back!
Cameron Kaiser has updated the Mozilla code with the good ole Gopher protocol implementation. Ah, old times." -- from http://ajaxian.com/archives/go... - Dion Almaer
"Checkout by AmazonTM can often identify Amazon.com customers shopping on your website (before they login), and offer them the 1-Click® experience. When customers use their 1-Click® settings, they complete their purchase instantly and without leaving your website. " - DeWitt Clinton
So now I guess I can have a 1-Click(R) experience without running afoul of Amazon's Patents. :P - Robert Cooper
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This is a direct competitor to Google Checkout, which is a good thing. I'd really like to see more and better options for online payments. - Steve Weis
Here's to a world where I never have to enter my CC# into another site again. Between PayPal, Google, and now Amazon, I think we're almost there. - DeWitt Clinton
