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Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further.

As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However, instead of commenting the application isn't exactly the way YOU would have done it and complaining try offering some constructive criticism.

If the app is memory hogging, not following best coding practices, or you have a cool idea of how something could be done instead share that feedback and offer better ways to do things. Not only does this benefit the developers working on this app but it helps others who may be working on becoming better developers themselves.

I myself am a naive developer. However I enjoy developing in my free time to keep myself thinking and I enjoy learning new things. I frequently visit this community to see what others are working on and looking at all the cool applications that people develop is a great way to pass time. If I had worked on something really hard, posted it, and then received some of these comments I would be extremely discouraged.

That said, if a Cerebro developer is reading, this looks like a really cool improvement on Spotlight (I use OSX). Keep up the good work and don't let the negative comments in here discourage you or your team!

Not necessarily a big bank but Visa also has a developer site with several APIs that include Payments, Data and Analytics, and Fraud. Their website can be found at https://developer.visa.com/

Just happened to me on Businessinsider.

Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a staff of 17 officers in the National Domestic Extremism Unit (NDEU) has been scanning the public's tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook profiles, and anything else UK citizens post in the public online sphere.

The HUGE difference here is the last three words of that paragraph, "public online sphere." They are doing no more then analyzing publicly accessible data just like any other company, specifically advertising and marketing companies, do on a daily basis.

I have one of these from Coca-cola

Wait, so there is a problem with MS helping out our government protect its secrets? I agree, PRISIM was bad an invasion of privacy but people need to realize that government agencies have more secrets and do more then spy on us. I wouldn't want China, Russia or some other foreign country getting its hands on the locations of weapons, R&D, or our defense plans because of a exploit in a MS program.

Hackers will always be faster to take advantage of loopholes then companies or the government are at patching them. Do people really see the problem with MS doing this?

This sounds like something straight out of Wayne Enterprises. I wish more companies could do things like this and see what can be created and achieved. An area that I could see being able to do something like this without having to face Shareholders, management, etc. that most companies have to do is Universities. University students should be able to take advantage of the resources that universities have and universities should encourage this. They could essentially have a new flock of minds every year to help innovate projects. I believe Georgia Tech started something like this a few years ago.

This is the most impressive "experiment" I have seen come out of Google in a long time. Hopefully others will start to take advantage of these new technologies and we will start seeing more things like this. +1 to Google. Pun intended.

On top of the simplicity, design, and overall awesome feel of the website, the greatest thing is the privacy feature. Having everything in the WHOIS set to private is awesome and I applaud you for that. Godaddy charges an absurd price to make the WHOIS record private. Thank you!

Not true. That would defeat the purpose of the new emerging companies that are trying to get potential employees to do webcam recorded answers to pre defined questions instead of the phone interview. You would see their faces and know their ethnic background easily.

Not perfect but nothing ever is the first time. Installed and love it so far can't wait to see some of the suggestions mentioned put into use in the future!

These are some of the best tutorials around as long as you have the time to watch them and act like you are actually in the class. Greatly helped me while designing an iPhone app my senior year.

I think its great the the university decided to change their IP policy. I know at my school it is brutal and discouraged a few students from doing ideas they think they could work on after graduating and maintain complete ownership of.

For example here is how my University defines Patents (or IP)

Inventions involving the use of funds, space, personnel, equipment or facilities administered by the University, but without any University obligations to others in connection with such support, are the property of the University.

And the income? Let's just say you dont want to make a lot of money off of something you create.

A.1 Schedule of Net Income Distribution

For the first $10,000 of net income:100% to the inventor.

For the next $500,000 in cumulative net income: 50% to the inventors, 25% to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Policy, 25% to the inventor's Institutional Unit(s)

For the next $1,000,000 in cumulative net income: 40% to the inventors, 35% to the Office of Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Policy, 25% to the inventor's Institutional Unit(s)

For cumulative net income in excess of $1,510,000: 25% to the inventors, 50% to the Office of Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Policy, 25% to the inventor's Institutional Unit(s)

I wish more universities would follow in the footsteps of the University of Missouri at Columbia and be more relaxed on there IP rights. It would encourage students to produce better work and could possibly give the university a better name if the students work becomes popular. For example how many times have you read an article where it say "John Doe, a graduate of No Name University, created product while a student."

$5000 to the winner? Wasent Facebook Chat developed my an intern? I would assume $5000 and a chance to work for Facebook would be a better price.

I agree, I use this for pretty much everything.

I for one would love this. Even if they just did it online for people to watch. It would provide a great way to get feedback on shows and would just lead to the networks making more money. It amazes me how shows like Burn Notice end up on TNT because network execs didn't think that it would be a good show.

More importantly at the end of the announcement. "Also, please note that the release of Django 1.2, expected later today,"

That University wouldn't happen to start with a D would it? I know my university definitly says that anything you do while working on your Senior Project is technically theirs and makes you sign a waiver agreeing to it. However, you situation seems to be a little different if your saying you have some sort of agreement to not use their property to create it.

The information they gather from this could be the best thing ever for Google. They are now literally going to see how people go from site to site to site and direct ads and content to them based on that. Good move buisness wise Google.

Save yourself some time and only read the last 4 or 5 paragraphs. The entire article will still make sense.

Great article, well above the standards of Techcrunch lately. I agree with the seven deadly sins being the best advice on there. VC's want to know why people wont stop using your idea not why they will want too.

1) I would start all over again. If I was successful once I feel I could be successful again. 2) I have an idea for a non profit I want to start and knowing that I could financially support myself and have money to start this I would get it rolling 3)Invest. I may not have the next big thing but I'm sure other people out there do and I would like to help them out because I will have known what they are going through.

Second version of the original book is available for free online too.

http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/

Aggregation support alone is worth the upgrade.

That was a very good read whether you are trying to be an investor or not. Really laid things out and lets you know where investors are coming from.

I blame the recession and rise of netbooks. Apple does not have any netbooks out in the market. Also with a recession going on people are not going to be forking out big bucks for a mac when they can get a PC much cheaper even if they do like the mac better. I wouldn't say its marketing MS new ads might be cute but they are not making me want a PC.

This is going to lead to a lot more revenue for developers and is a great idea!

I'm fully opposed to anything TechCrunch does anymore. I pointed out how they were wrong multiple times and instead of fixing them I had Arrington call me wrong and blame it on someone else. I was later blocked from their twitter account. TechCruch is just posts about whatever Arrington or someone chooses to biasedly write about and to me is loosing its credit more and more every week. I would love for it to go back to how it used to be when they were reporting on interesting start-ups that readers would love to hear about.

Last.FM FTW, seriously TechCrunch is getting worse and worse every week.