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I'm sure streaming is more profitable for them than dealing with physical discs. I'm stoked, if the selection is as good as I hear it is in the US I'll be dropping a lot of my cable channels.

You could try to get it featured on http://bigappshow.com/

It would be nice if the article actually talked about some new development. Like you said, this is hardly new, I worked on OOO crossconnects 10 years ago. The problem then was cost, plus the telco overbuild in the late '90s stalled anyone seriously deploying the technology.

Am I the only one that checked to make sure the date on this article wasn't from 1997? Use fiber optics to make the internet faster? I wish I'd thought of that....

Still have my Amiga 500 with 3rd party add on Hard Drive/RAM in a box plus 1080 monitor, extra floppy drive, modem, and lots of disks.....

Location search (or at least sort) would be good. I'd love to see a set of icons that give extended info for each job (i.e. willing to hire remote workers, maybe funding stage or approximate company size)

I agree, Rationals Purify is quite well known. If you weren't playing in the software development space I wouldn't think it was an issue, but in this case I'd consider a rebrand if I was you

I think the EFF has bigger battles to fight: net neutrality, fair use, freedom of speech, etc...

And preemptive to the reply I'll get: apple rejecting an app doesn't infringe on free speech anymore than not getting your letter printed in the NY times.

Exactly... People should vote with their wallet. Why should Apple be forced to conform to what the EFF thinks is right? If enough people cared about these issues and stopped buying Apple would take notice, but until that happens this is all noise few will hear.

Interesting analysis, but I'd like to see the numbers for apps that are actually maintained and marketed vs. some guy who hacked up an app and never fixed any bugs or improved it based on feedback. I suspect the number get better if you filter out the crappy unmaintained apps (but of course, this isn't an easy data set to obtain)

I like to read my copy of 'Atlas Shrugged' in the morning...

The counter arguement would be that it is silly to reject sonething because it is new. I've written. Lots of C++ to test SOCs at a lower level than the linux kernel. Discounting OOP techniques because of complexities in C++ is shortsighted.

Isn't this an obvious marketing angle designed to get people to come to the site more often? Somehow I doubt they are really giving people less matches based on this. Anyway, assuming an even distribution of matches, matching "ugly" top "ugly" and "attractive" to "attractive" will result in an even match distribution.

Are you implying C++ isn't widely used? I'm sure that isn't what you truly believe...

Great way to edit my comment, what I actually said was:

> Linux will never evolve if the programming paradigm stays in the 60s

C is a great language, but I firmly believe that OOP creates more maintainable code that is more robust. Sure, a simple C program is easy to understand, but the kernel isn't an easy program. Don't get me wrong, C++ has major downsides, but C isn't a magic bullet.

Excellent point, git is certainly innovative. It's a great example of someone smart seeing a problem with his workflow and fixing it (although this isn't 100% what happened, the whole bitkeeper/closed source debacle played a hand). I guess my point is that I haven't seen too much development in the core kernel lately, especially wrt helping use multicore better.

Linus has a touch of what I think makes Steve Jobs great: the ability to say no and stick by those convictions. No argument from me that Linux is wildly successful and one of the most important tech developments in the last 10 years.

However, I always cringe when I read some of his comments that seem to reject any element of forward progress. While C++ certainly has its share of issues, Linux will never evolve if the programming paradigm stays in the 60s. My gut feel is there is a lot of opportunity to do better over the next ten years.

I'm not saying that, in fact I agree with you. However, 6 giant corporations all trying to align themselves to a common strategy doesn't work. Most contributions to open source by big companies are self serving: they enable profits for the company. I can't see TI doing work to enable Freescale to expand its marketshare.

In the best case the outcome will be the lowest common denominator: something so abstract its of no use to anyone doing real work.

I'd be happy to be wrong, but I don't think I am.

Way to many massive competing companies involved in this for it to succeed. Bigger isn't always better....

Isn't the whole "pay to apply" the business model of http://localbacon.com

Edit: seems that localbacon isn't what it used to be... http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/22/jibe-localbacon-relaunch/

I watched the clips on my iPad here: http://video.allthingsd.com/

This seems like an obvious sign to me that iPhone 4 will not be AT&T exclusive. The June 7th timing makes it pretty obvious that AT&T is trying to pull in as many subscribers as possible before the news breaks.

It didn't work out too well for these guys: http://www.ferrethandjobs.com/

Disclaimer: I currently work for Freescale (for the next few weeks at least). I don't work on anything in this area however.

Great advice for people raising angel money for the first time towards the end of the video. Definitely worth watching just for that.

Sorry, I didn't write the blog post, I just submitted it here.

That's a bit of an odd opinion. Microsoft is a company and companies have one goal: generate revenue for shareholders. I suspect IE generates significant revenue for Microsoft, if for no other reason than the default search being Bing. I wouldn't hold my breath that they're going to discontinue a product that still has 50% plus marketshare.

Now this was an interesting article until I read this line:

"Of course Apple users will probably not notice the subsidy as they will end up spending most of their salary on the machines"

Whatever happened to unbiased writing? While there is a kernel of truth here, what does this have to do with the article?

Is it just me that thinks it's a little creepy that Amazon knows what I highlight? (Well, theoretically anyways, I don't own a kindle)

$1500 seems like a lot to charge to filter an application. Let's say it takes an hour to read one application (which seems high to me on average, I suspect the bad ones only take a few minutes to weed out), that's a pretty steep rate!