The 2DS is cheaper because it lacks that hinge and includes the ability to build the two "screens" on the 2DS with one LCD panel and a plastic bezel. The cost of manufacturing the 2DS with a single LCD panel and a single enclosure is certainly less than the cost of building a device with two LCDs (one with glasses-free 3D) and two enclosures connected by a hinge.

Labels: nintendo

And forget the products — so far Yahoo has been unable to attract top quality talent to the company. Not one 20-something I have talked to in the past six months has wistfully talked about working for Yahoo. And even those who have joined Yahoo from Google are joining the company thanks to mega-million dollar contracts, not because they want to work there. When Yahoo becomes the desired job-spot for a fresh, new tech tinkerer — that will be the time I will lighten up on Yahoo.

Labels: business, yahoo

Apple is trying to make a lot of money on the device. Amazon is trying to make it all on the back-end. So is Google. Rather than say the model is FOO or BAR, the model is to deliver these incredible, high value experiences that will span hardware innovation, operating system, consumer experiences and enterprise experiences...

Labels: microsoft

Labels: firebug, firefox

Searching

To search for content from a field in your website and display the results in your website, you must create a search field that passes a fully-qualified URL content request to the iTunes Store, parse the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format returned from the search, and display the results in your website.

The fully-qualified URL must have the following format:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?parameterkeyvalue

{
    "resultCount": 5,
    "results": [
        {
            "wrapperType": "collection",
            "collectionType": "Album",
            "artistId": 481547798,
            "collectionId": 481547797,
            "amgArtistId": 3688,
            "artistName": "Black Crowes",
            "collectionName": 

"Stare It Cold (Recorded live at Greek Theatre, Nov. 1991 in L.A. CA, USA)",
            "collectionCensoredName": 

"Stare It Cold (Recorded live at Greek Theatre, Nov. 1991 in L.A. CA, USA)",
            "artistViewUrl": 

"https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/black-crowes/id481547798?uo=4",
            "collectionViewUrl": 

"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stare-it-cold-recorded-live/id481547797?uo=4",
            "artworkUrl60": 

"http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/089/Music/09/30/87/mzi.osaekjzf.60x60-50.jpg",
            "artworkUrl100": 

"http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/089/Music/09/30/87/mzi.osaekjzf.100x100-75.jpg",
            "collectionPrice": 10.99,
            "collectionExplicitness": "notExplicit",
            "trackCount": 11,
            "copyright": "℗ 2011 Akarma",
            "country": "USA",
            "currency": "USD",
            "releaseDate": "2011-09-20T07:00:00Z",
            "primaryGenreName": "Rock"
        },
        {
            "wrapperType": "collection",
            "collectionType": "Album",
            "artistId": 2969371,
            "collectionId": 278116879,
            "amgArtistId": 3688,
            "artistName": "The Black Crowes",
            "collectionName": "iTunes Originals: The Black Crowes",
            "collectionCensoredName": "iTunes Originals: The Black Crowes",
            "artistViewUrl": 

"https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the-black-crowes/id2969371?uo=4",
            "collectionViewUrl": 

"https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/itunes-originals-black-crowes/id278116879?uo=4",
            "artworkUrl60": 

"http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/034/Music/62/91/e9/dj.bbvgvohe.60x60-50.jpg",
            "artworkUrl100": 

"http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/034/Music/62/91/e9/dj.bbvgvohe.100x100-75.jpg",
            "collectionPrice": 9.99,
            "collectionExplicitness": "notExplicit",
            "trackCount": 27,
            "copyright": "℗ 2008 Silver Arrow Records",
            "country": "USA",
            "currency": "USD",
            "releaseDate": "2008-04-15T07:00:00Z",
            "primaryGenreName": "Rock"
        },
...

Labels: iTunes, noteToSelf

Labels: fail, Skitch

Constructors are not inherited in C#, you have to chain them manually.

Labels: c#, noteToSelf

Responding to the controversy, the tech lead for Chrome's browser security team said that they had found that "boundaries within the OS user account [to protect passwords even when a user is logged in] just aren't reliable, and are mostly just theater."

Think of these barriers as an obstacle course that people have to run before you can count them as your customers. If you start out with a field of 1000 runners, about half of them will trip on the tires; half of the survivors won't be strong enough to jump the wall; half of those survivors will fall off the rope ladder into the mud, and so on, until only 1 or 2 people actually overcome all the hurdles. With 8 or 9 barriers, everybody will have one non-negotiable deal killer.

This calculus means that eliminating barriers to switching is the most important thing you have to do if you want to take over an existing market, because eliminating just one barrier will likely double your sales.

Consider the case of someone malicious getting access to your account. Said bad guy can dump all your session cookies, grab your history, install malicious extension to intercept all your browsing activity, or install OS user account level monitoring software.

... the conclusion we always come to is that we don't want to provide users with a false sense of security, and encourage risky behavior.

Labels: fail, Google, privacy

click: function() {
    var dialog = this;
    if ($('#deleteProcessReason').val() == '') {
        alert('请输入原因!');
...

Remember, the design criteria of different languages are different, and therefore the decisions made are different. On the C# design team, we highly value a language definition which makes illegal patterns that look suspicious; since there's no meaning to passing an instance as the receiver to a static method (unless computing the receiver expression causes a side effect) then why allow the user to type meaningless code?

On the VB design team, they value the code working the way you meant it to work the the first time you typed it; if something looks a bit dodgy, maybe give a warning, but allow it and move on.

Labels: c#, design, VB.NET