I still find the amount Zynga copy game concepts mind-boggling. Related to this, it looks like Zynga employees love the game they shamelessly ripped off:
When Zynga came knocking and wanted to buy up NimbleBits, developers of Tiny Tower (which Apple recently named one of their games of the year), it didn’t take a genius to figure out that if the deal didn’t go through, Zynga would rip-off NimbleBit’s games anyway. And — shocker — it turns out that’s just what happened.
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, on the future of the web.
I worry about the independent web. I worry about the content creators, and I worry that if 100 percent of the distribution of everything starts to go through just a few websites, that kills the vibrancy.
The Raspberry Pi is an amazing little device. It’s a tiny, cheap yet reasonably powerful Linux PC. Having seen the recent videos of the system running XBMC and an AirPlay client, I’m convinced they are not merely toys.
The aims of the project are laudable: the founding aim is to provide a perfect device for teaching programming and other computer skills on a very affordable device, particularly for a school environment. I think they’ve succeeded: the cheaper variant of the device is just $25.
MG Siegler: Why I hate Android
So that, ladies and gentleman, is why I hate Android. It has nothing to do with the actual product (which continues to improve every year and is quite good now). It has to do with a promise that was broken and swept under the rug.
You’ll have to read the full article for the reasons—and a fun Harry Potter analogy.
I was getting an error loading any pages in the Solr admin UI:
What this is supposed to mean is that you have a multicore Solr setup and have not included the core name in your URL used to load the admin UI. However, I don’t have more than one core; a single one is fine for my needs right now.
It turned out that the problem was quite a far cry from that which the error message implied. I had a solr.DictionaryCompoundWordTokenFilterFactory filter loaded with a dictionary text file that was not UTF-8. The filter assumes UTF-8 and so was choking on my file.