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I’ve had this idea for a few years, although I’ve been calling it a virtual country rather than a cloud country. Not sure if I love the name cloud, but I’m biased! Help
My first introduction to this was Connections^2 in the 90's (back when TLC was "The Learning Channel"). It blew my mind then. They showed the original series to us in our engineering classes later on, using his book as the text for the course.

This is a fantastic series for entrepreneurs to both watch and understand. None of the big ideas are borne from the vacuum - they all stand on the shoulders of ideas from others before.
I can place the buy button all over but felt that placing it at the bottom of the front page was sufficient. There isn't much on the front page other then the gallery and a paragraph of text.

Would you suggest having it on other places?
I want an Android tablet / embedded computer on my dash with full screen Google Maps and Navigation. That would be so awesome.
Taking your suggestion. I placed it in the sidebar and I'm looking for other places to place the buy button that makes sense.

Thank you!
What statements you are reading as equivocation? I can’t see where the author makes any comparison between the two at all, but perhaps I missed something.

Also, it seems like you have just dismissed the author entirely as a ‘type’. Again I don’t see how that helps.
I find that the search results from Github are often useless - sorting by relevance is hard in terms of code, I suppose.
"(And before you sneer at Waterfall, go build me a nuclear power station with Agile)"

Or a sudoku solver.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_rights
I agree that people who approach App Engine for the first time get quite confused about how to make Django "work" on GAE. There are too many options. Even after evaluating, developers may not understand how round-peg/square-hole the problem is.

I like some of the basic infrastructure that Django gives me, so I make use of `use_library()` Django 1.1 on App Engine. It's not "full" Django but I find it more palatable than WebApp and the parts of Django that fit GAE fit it well. Models, etc should be done directly on top of the GAE APIs, in my opinion.

I think Guido's rietveld sample app is a good place to start if you're new to App Engine and want to use (the useful bits of) mainline Django.
I hope so. $11,000 is a fine price to pay for a well written story about personal freedom. Hell, why aren't there dozens of Kickstarter journalism projects for this?
Instead of forcing users to "install file" and "install path," which is bound to cause frustration, you could probably just have an "install stdlib" meta-package. Or at least an "install list stdlib" command that showed people all of the packages to install if they wanted stdlib functionality, which would be completely clear and allow for cherry-picking packages. Or install all packages in stdlib by default and let people remove them if they want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

When any law enforcement officer in the USA starts asking you questions, become EXTREMELY cautious and serious (even if they do not explicitly state the warning, which they might just say afterwards to cover themselves). People often think they can "talk themselves out of it", and almost always discover that is not the case.
99 Designs has actually worked pretty well in my experience. It's like Derek Siver's strategy to have a bunch of people do the work you want be done, and then hiring the best.

Except this site does all of it for you.
I've read it two times through. The first time, I thought it was one of the most brilliant books I had ever read (I read it the first time in the early 80's). I became especially fascinated with Godel's Proof and the thoughts of E.O. Wilson on whether an ant colony was in reality a single organism. I was very, very excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence and especially natural language processing.

The second time I read it (somewhere in the 90's), I enjoyed it tremendously but I was surprised by how excited I had been before. The second time through, I caught a lot of additional insights but somehow, it felt less revolutionary.

I plan to read it again in a few years. It's been over ten years since the last time I read it. I have no idea how I'll react to it.
Well, Miranda refers to Miranda Rights, or the Miranda Warning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning

However, Miranda rights are mostly about the right to avoid self-incrimination. In the article he seems to suggest that the officer must present identification or credentials as part of Miranda, which is not something I'm familiar with.
I made an attempt to read Hofstadter's more recent I'm a Strange Loop about a year ago and didn't make it all the way through.

After being told (a few weeks ago, actually) that GEB was a bit more accessible, relative at least to ISL, I started reading it, and have thus far been blown away.
very cool! although I feel more comfortable with using jQuery for posting.
You can use yourgithubusername@users.noreply.github.com instead of adding a fake email, and your commits will still show up on your contribution graph and be linked to your username.
The only logo that looks pleasing to the eye is Mailman's.
A friend went down to Central America with a group to do basic construction stuff. They were all from the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, where the majority of construction laborers are from Central America, so it seemed odd. On the other hand, the volunteers did have passports to get back into the US.
I enjoyed it too. It didn't teach me anything new. Apple's focus on the product is old news. I enjoyed it because it reminded me of what a great performer Steve Jobs was on stage.
This is a perfect example of the 'AI effect' in action:

>"It's part of the history of the field of artificial intelligence that every time somebody figured out how to make a computer do something—play good checkers, solve simple but relatively informal problems—there was a chorus of critics to say, 'that's not thinking'." AIS researcher Rodney Brooks complains: "Every time we figure out a piece of it, it stops being magical; we say, 'Oh, that's just a computation.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
the search functionality on the site is really inaccurate, I searched for ruby and the first book recommended is Raspberry Pi Media Centre, nothing on the first two pages had ruby in the title.
Relevant Question regarding this in UX Stackexchange, http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/52336/why-is-the-mouse...
very cool. Looking forward to watching this develop.
And now I'm running WSL daily on my Windows Workstation. History rhymes with itself
I've had my own domain for something like 22 years now, but it's been a long time since I used it to actually host stuff. Email in particular I gave up over a decade ago and pointed at a hosting provider. I still read that email with mutt over ssh.

I suppose I should have another go at a blog.
2) MobileCoin Inc. intends to maintain an extreme minority of the coins once the dust settles.

a.k.a. we intend to sell all of our vast stacks of pre-mined coins onto gullible users. This is exactly how a pump and dump scam works.
That's great! I appreciate the full transparency here. I'm a GitHub sponsor for $5/mo, not because I actually use Zig (yet?) but because I'm interested in how this experiment goes.

Andy Kelley has been doing a lot of development very publicly (check Zig's issue tracker!) and I feel I've gotten some value just out of watching his process unfold, in terms of community interaction, prioritization of features, brief exploratory experiments, etc.

Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste" in language design (though I realize this is very subjective), so maybe Zig will end up somewhere great.
It will most likely be "non inferior" to the standard of care, since that is the bar for new drugs to clear in any disease area. The issue with that designation is the FDA could compare it to stimulants or to the non-stimulant atomextine, which like Viloxazine is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.

Atomoxetine was preferentially used in those cases with added anxiety, since it was found to have anxiolytic effects. Stimulants were sometimes not recommended for anxious patients, since they might contribute to anxiety and sleeplessness for some kids.
Call it whatever you like. The MTA spends $17 billion per year.

And we get rickety subway service and piss stained stations that make you feel as if you’ve traveled in time back to the 80s.

How much does Germany spend per year on rail?
Interesting, I will try it!

But it will have to be pretty good to replace mc for me. It's not that mc is very good, because it's not. It's just that its keystrokes are deeply ingrained in my muscle memory :)

But this looks good and quicker to use (navigating the menu in mc takes a lot of keystrokes)
That looks like a great project, thanks for sharing!
Person from Germany here. The 42% is the top rate so that on 100 k$ the effective rate would be less than that. Healthcare costs come on top of that.
Free college is included.
One thing I hate about such articles is this "((use)) a managed database service" hint. Many if not most readers' data are confidential and storing them on a machine managed by unknown people seems foolish to me. Am I paranoid?
If the top .05% have 30% of the wealth their taxes are too low. No sure what the actual numbers are, but it would be interesting to find out.
d) Explain to my boss why I think it will take four weeks rather than two.

We'll then have a discussion and come up with a hopefully more realistic estimate. This might include finding a different solution to the problem.

Sometimes it has to be done in two weeks, and then the issue is what we can do in two weeks. Other times it's just a bigger problem than what my boss assumed. And yet again maybe I'm overthinking things and it can actually be done in two weeks.
Scottish? I always hear Switzerlandish.
I'm not sure that this would have big market outside USA regardless.
Siberia is gonna be a great place to grow food after the climate changes.
The ability to encrypt messages that's easy enough that non tech professionals can use it - or even tech professionals.

I'd like to be able to read mails simply by sorting them into filesystem folders and reading them like text files. The need to understand mbox and mdir and emix or whatever other formats are out there is annoying. I want to be able to read them with or without an app, and for different apps to read from the same data without reorganising it. Why should I have 3 different stores of the same emails on my laptop because I installed 3 different mail clients?

If you're really coming up with a whole new system then clarify your terms - what's the different between an MTA or and MRU or an MDA… I remember physics lectures easier than this.

I could go on all day. Good luck, I genuinely hope you manage it.
How isn't that the case with just about every vehicle on the road? well, Unless you have a smart car.
> I love the fact that Tesla are moving away from the boring

Yeah that's for Elon's other company.
Fastmail support are slow but excellent. I asked about an obscure IMAP oddity that I was seeing in Mutt. They escalated to an expert who said it was doing things the old way and cited relevant RFCs about how to do things the new way. I managed to patch Mutt default behaviour in handling IMAP the correct way - all thanks to FM support.
Doubt they're even going to try to introduce it on the EU market, there's very little demand for pickup trucks here...
Because: murica.

No seriously, trailer would be the sensible option if you only use the bed sporadically. Why ride around with lots of unused spaced and dead weight?
There's a difference between taxing property and taxing the capability to do a service - and it's that nobody is interested in doing the latter, because it's nonsensical.

This would make sense in a world where skills themselves were commodities that could be straightforwardly bought and sold...? But I think such a world would have a very different take on prostitution.
As a proof-of-concept experiment, I tried to do TiddlyWiki-like saving for Amber. So if you do some changes in the code, it can then save the whole "image" as a single HTML file without other dependencies. Only the Legacy IDE works: https://pavel-krivanek.github.io/amber/amber.html
I can't find it now but I read an article once with a title like "The $10,000 Shirt" or something like that, which argued that in medieval times, the amount of labour that it took to produce a single shirt would cost about $10,000 at modern minimum wage.

If you were a peasant back then you might have owned two shirts: your regular one that you wore every day, and a 'fancy' one for church, weddings etc.. When your shirt got too ragged you cut it up and tailored it into clothes for your children, or used the material to patch up holes in other clothing. When even those got too decrepit you'd use them as kitchen rags etc. until they literally disintegrated. Cloth was too valuable to waste!

We truly do live in a world of abundant excess in the modern era, and we should appreciate it.
Boycotted all att services 15 years ago, absolutely no regrets.
Your supposition is logical, but the reality is, budget directors, chancellors, and politicians are all under tremendous pressure to stem education costs in the public sector, and it has a lot of impact in what's done or not done. That's why laws guaranteeing the right to education, particularly special education, are important.
Ruby is hell to implement. To quote Matz:

> Ruby is simple in appearance, but is very complex inside, just like our human body
I find with these documentaries that while they often contain interesting factoids here and there, they meander and never make a significant and convincing point. Can't justify spending 8 hours on this.
What's a minsdk force? I know what minsdk is but the sentence doesn't compute for me

Edit: oh, randomly spotted this:

> A major factor was the API level requirement by Google Play. It required us to make changes to internals of the app in order to be able to publish updates via the Play Store.

I don't get the problem. Why not do a release? If google doesn't want the hard work and updates yet, fine, you can still tag a new release and people can use f-droid, download the apk, whatever right? (I'm using it via f-droid, thought most people would be doing that since it's an open source client with graphics from the 2009, the kind of thing you only use as foss fan).
This submission should be labeled (2016).

My whole brain is awake the first night in a new place. I just can't sleep.
I'm 99% sure this is the way to do it. You can't explain any field of math, much less category theory, without doing exercises.
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You know what else consumes heaps of electricty?
Your computer, your data centre, your AWS account the bank services you consume, your appliances and a large etcetera.

Bitcoin is the first financial break-through in a long, long time. Is designed to move control away from the few back into the hands of the people. In Argentina people love investing in Bitcoin because their currency is awful. It loses value because the government can print more. Just like in the US. No government can print more Bitcoin so the value keeps growing.

Bitcoin alternatives like Bitcoin cash (or regular Bitcoin but with a bigger block size) can be used across the border without censorship. Remember MasterCard banning donations to Wikileaks? Bitcoin cannot be banned.

Back to your comment. Now we have solar, we have wind power. All clean sources of energy. They are cheaper than coal and can power everything. Including Bitcoin.
Go isn't the same as the human mind, though. That said, I think you could argue it's just a matter of time until we have enough power to do such things. But, you could also argue that such manipulation may simply not be possible, brains perhaps are not deterministic machines.
Yes! This is a much needed thing. It beggars belief that moving through code in this manner is not standard.
It's also known as "swivel chair automation", replacing manual tasks with an automated process.
AArch64 is very, very late to the game, and has a lot to prove (beyond mobile).

The older architectures were much earlier (MIPS64 1991, SPARC64 1995, Itanium 2001, AMD64 2003, AArch64 2011).

Yes, AArch64 runs the top supercomputer, and there is enthusiasm; don't mistake this for market share.
> My reference on the 40 Acres comment is clearly off base and not what I intended, thanks for correcting. I thought it was primarily an American Dream relating to Manifest Destiny, but per the wiki it was a lie presented to African Americans after the American Civil War.

I had this exact same misconception as well until a few weeks ago. I wonder how common it is! And where it comes from. Also worth noting that UT-Austin has a "40 acres scholarship" as their ultimate tier of endowment, which is a reference to UT-Austin originally receiving 40 acres on which to found their University (from the government as a land grant).
Philly is the best. Everyone should come to Philly!
A great example of such a range of bounds is the problem that Graham's number was an upper bound for :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

"Thus, the best known bounds for N* are 13 ≤ N* ≤ N''." Where N'' is ... really hard to type, it's so large!
Very nice product!

That said,

> Partial submissions

> Collect answers from people who filled in a part of your form, but didn’t click the submit button. Capture data from lost leads, find drop off points and improve your conversion rates.

From a user point of view, I really hate this. I’d say collecting data about drop off points is fine, but secretly collecting answers not intended for submission is a dark pattern that violates an implicit social contract and users’ privacy. Hell, people often accidentally paste in private stuff, including passwords.

I can understand that as a form builder product you probably need to offer this feature or lose customers. Add this to the long list of depressing “features” of the modern web.
And the answer to that is regulating? Of course not. Regulations like these only work out for the powerful.
Both Alan Ford and Martin Mysteré shaped me up. Alan Ford is extremely useful in business settings. They've described it all, business world operates on its principles. Martin Mysteré sparked a sense of wonder in me that never left. Italian comics were (are) the best!
Fair enough. For the reason you pointed out, prices of ownership are not the right metric. Replace "home prices" with "rent index" and my point still stands.
You use SSH port tunnelling on a Windows Server to access MS SQL? I'd be surprised if that was "simple." But go ahead and explain it.
What does it mean with "Specialized Knowledge". I'd like to know.
I'm not sure the experiences are that different. mmastrac says his spike was during the broadcast. But the author of the post didn't own the domain during any of the broadcasts.

He watched the show a half an hour after it aired in his time zone (Central Time Zone). Meaning by the time he even watched the show it had already aired in every time zone but Pacific and he was watching it concurrently with that audience. Assuming he looked into it, registered the site and got it up within an hour or so he MIGHT have had it up for Alaska and Hawaii but that's about it.

And even that's unlikely since Hawaii (http://www.kitv.com/index.html) starts their primetime at 7pm and Alaska (http://www.kitv.com/index.html) has only one station that airs programming from ABC, Fox and the CW.
They are both about control of data, yes, but privacy is about you controlling it, and centralisation is about someone else controlling it.

Technically they have some resemblance, but in human usage they are practically opposites.
There seem to be a few sub-standard Android tablets around at the moment. A high-street clothing retailer in the UK recently released one for £180, which was also entertainingly panned by the press:

“All in all, a disastrous piece of gadgetry.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010...

“If this were a car it would be roughly in the category of a Robin Reliant from a couple of decades ago.”
http://www.pda-247.com/wordpress/2010/10/next-10”-tablet-rev...

A common concern is that these products will damage the reputation of Android as a platform, and I suspect that’s true.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: Next time a spotify ad comes on, set your volume to zero. It stops. Now hit the spotify play button. It starts the ad again, muted. Now just remember to hit the unmute button when the ad finishes, (watch for the growl notification.)

Keep this one quiet though, lest spotify find out ;)
Here's how you can check if the update is available: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/21/ios-4-0-firmware-release-expe...

It's for iOS 4.0 but can be changed to check for 4.2.

However, my experience is that downloads are pretty slow in the first hours, when a new major version becomes available. Patience is needed.
Well, the Altair was the first of its kind. Despite its flaws, it was a revolutionary product that sparked an entire market. This tablet, on the other hand, comes after the iPad and other less shoddy Android competitors. If there's innovation in the tablet space, it's not going to be kickstarted by cheap knockoffs.
I'm saying that I believe her problem to be a unique consequence of her very unusual social situation. It's not a problem that most women have.

Incidentally, how do you think a man would be treated if he finished his degree at Stanford Business and decided to be a homemaker? would it be different than a man who graduated from another school in another field?
actually, Imgur.com was announced with exactly the same title at reddit some time ago...

edit: found it http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to...
I agree that there are some pretty bad rich apps out there that you run into once in a while, especially ones that were contracted out to the lowest bidder.

The pet theory is wrong, by the way, it was not mobile that led to the rise of rich clients. When I worked on AppJet and EtherPad in 2007-2008, the rich client wave was ahead of the mobile wave. Round-trip latency is significant when interacting with a UI, even if it is just 100-200ms. It was obvious that if you could deliver a desktop-quality app that worked on every platform and didn't need to be installed, that that was the future.

I think it's worth focusing on the actual harm of certain ways of writing rich apps (e.g. breaking navigation).