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why are phones still so delicate?

The screen kinda has to be made of glass, and even Dow Corning's finest will break if it hits a hard surface. I believe synthetic sapphire is available for watches and smartwatches but not for any actual phones?

Best solution is a case with rubberised corners.
These lefts and rights take a bit of parsing because UK drive on the left so their signals would be different.
Yeah it looks pretty good there alright. Like I said, I'd be happy to be proven wrong but a few things spring to mind.

1. Once fully extended, the door seems to protrude out from the car a bit which may cause a problem if you're tight against a wall. I'd be curious how they have solved this? It may be that we just can't open the door similar to a regular door when you're forced to park too close to the wall?

2. Similar to above, since the door protrudes a bit, what happens when there are Xs parked beside each other?

Other than the door questions I agree it looks like a superb SUV. If Tesla can manage to convince people on the door design and it reviews as well as the S did, then they've another great product on their hands.
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Still, the forced transition is PITA for anyone who has had a successful app on the AppStore for several years. Essentially, you are being forced making a new app every other year, just to have an app, in spite of the fact that the old one(s) work perfectly well and everyone is happy with them. In my book, that is throwing money - it's cost us half the price to keep three other competing platforms afloat.

And I find it disheartening that most developers seem so accepting of unnecessary costs to their time and health. Much like the worker class before the unions - any work conditions go. I for one am pretty tired of years of iOS-update introduced incidents and overtime work to manage new products, while juggling undue maintenance on old products. I also find it disheartening developer companies don't take a good look at costs and demand improvements, instead of accepting a steady trickle of punishment for success.

If it is for the platform's good, I wish the platform ended so we can develop for platforms that deliver better working conditions and less motivated uncertainty, fear, and doubt.
The problem with Evernote is they lack vision. Or maybe focus. Not sure which one. I understand selling socks makes money but ...

I was under impression that Evernote will evolve into something like RealTime+Word+Powerpoint - but no :(

I think Evernote is done. They lost their mojo and there is no way to get it back :(
Not quite. Like Simulink, it's a general computing platform. It is often used to process real-time measurements (for custom laboratory instrumentation), to construct industrial automation system; but you can also build rich GUI applications and business logic with it.

It's easy to program in, but a mess to debug and reason with (same can be said for other visual languages). Great for code-and-forget prototypes and for smaller throwaway projects, as a replacement for scripting languages.
As a pedestrian in paris I'd say the presence of bicycle is a BIG reason I feel less safe.

Most of the cyclists are unaware of the rules. pass on red and on pedestrian way carelessly. worst ones are the users of the free bikes (mostly tourists who never biked since they left the 90s and listening to nirvana) who are the most dangerous drivers on paris streets.

I'd rather have a city center as it is now than the one i experienced during free car day where it was like the far west with cyclist not respecting any rules and biking between buses and pedestrians
i dont know what the financial situation is with simplenote or how it works but after the whole springpad thing im not in any rush to get into bed with some service that might not be around in a few years.
Depends, looks like some RER stations have parking available, from a quick googling

But lots of people live in a walkable/bikeable distance from a station
I had a Huawei Ascend P1 LTE for a while, and it was rubbish: flaky wifi and screen delaminating.
+1, their exception aggregation is lovely
Nokia screens were glass and it was unusual to crack those.

Extending the bezel to the edge of the phone means there's no "crumple zone" to absorb energy of impacts - that shock goes to the screen.

Personally I think a mobile phone that looks lovely but has little chance of surviving metre drop is a design fail.

Modern phones are stupidly flimsy.
"It's entirely possible to understand that the programming languages you know aren't as important as what you've built along with your knowledge of software engineering and computer science fundamentals, and yet still want input on the next PL you'll learn in your free time."

I get what you mean, but it still makes very little sense to me. If he had said I want to make a client/server chat system, then we could make a real suggestions between elixir and scala. He also wants to be able to write concurrent systems, the best way to do this is of course write concurrent systems, not learning concurrent lang structs in scala or elixir. Only when you write a distributed system are you going to encounter all the networking and data integrity problems that arise at those lower levels and these are the things that are important to know and will give him reasons to choose elixir or scala or erlang or golang or whatever works best for him while building that.
I've had a love/hate relationship with evernote since forever. The idea of storing everything in evernote really appeals to me (invoices, receipts, warranty, contracts, ...) but yet scares me too since there are wild stories of evernote just loosing stuff.

On the other hand for simple note taking evernote really sucks, it's too cluttered and it's editor is subpar.

A few years ago I was an avid springpad user before they shut down, but they suffered from the same issues: too bloated, not really good editor. But it worked beter for me than evernote.

To me it feels like evernote tries to solve 2 separate problems: taking simple and small notes, archiving and indexing important documents. Unfortunately it fails at both for me :(
I had an issue with my 2013 X (random reboots, repaired within two days), but the X 2014 has been very solid for me. Upgrades weren't as fast as I would have hoped (still waiting for the Stagefright fix in Germany), but hearing about issues that people had with the N5 (constantly crashing camera app, no voice during calls, etc.), I am a happy camper :).

I currently have no clue what's next. The Style (Pure) would be the spiritual successor to the 2014, but the Play has a much larger battery and can be purchased with dual-SIM in some EU countries. I was also looking at the Nexus, but I am a bit underwhelmed by the 5X (the 6P is too big for me). I guess I'll look how Motorola is with updates the coming months and then go with the Play.
I just remember back when I was visiting/"sightseeing" Shackspace, the hacker space in Stuttgart, Germany.

They had built a door lock whose bolt was driven by some microcontroller with a web interface. So they could give out permissions and open the door with their smartphones (important because very large and diverse set of people who want to enter – physical keys would have been impractical).

I was really surprised when there was a glitch and some guy couldn't open the door anymore. The door was bolted, and for a minute or two noone could enter or leave.

I think that was the most blatant (and scary) violation of just about every fire code in existence that I've ever experienced first hand.
> For my own browsing habits, Firefox is very sluggish, and Chrome is completely unusable: it just can’t handle the load and brings my whole computer to a crawl.

Any example of those pages that brings the computer to a crawl?
Removing non-helmet related deaths fails to take account for any changes in attitude from helmet wearing. Could it be that little hunk of plastic makes people feel safer and thus helps lead to a small increase in the number of accidents?

It's entirly possible that's bullcrap but it's the kind of thing that's missed if you're only compare head related injuries.
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No, it is because Clojure is badly implemented.

Don't blame the JVM for Clojure's quality of implementation.

http://blog.ndk.io/2014/02/11/jvm-slow-startup.html
Changing our attitude towards failure
>> And Amazon search isn't terrible because...

Amazon may not be intentionally malicious. When you make decisions only on a metric like sale conversions, you will be optimising other factors you are not even aware of. Nothing necessitates that the best UX and happiest customers will be the most profitable.

For example, I recall a story about Amazon trialling infinite scroll. It had positive customer feedback and users viewed more products compared to pagination. However, sale conversions dropped so obviously it was never rolled out. Was it a better browsing experience? Possibly, but that isn't the metric Amazon is optimising for so it just doesn't matter. I expect that there is a threshold where any time saved for a user searching Amazon is not spent buying more products from Amazon but spent on competitor sites.
I used Evernote for a few weeks & it lost a bunch of my work. I can't believe they are still around.
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L'oligarchie (dont fait partie Anne Hidalgo) continue de prendre le taxi, les riches bobos habitants de Paris peuvent, eux, prendre leur voiture. Les immigrés eux, vont dans le centre de Paris grâce aux transports en commun qui ont été financés par la France entière. Au delà des banlieues parisiennes, la France périphérique, blanche, qui est maintenue en dehors de Paris et sa Banlieue.
Some people do pay for AOT compilation tools for Java. Startup time just like any C coded tool.

http://www.excelsiorjet.com/
I've made a few, they're extremely easy to do since it's just a basic webpage.
'Most of us already get far more than 30-minutes of far more vigorous exercise.'
[Citation needed]

I mean it's great that you're doing nearly 2 hours of exercise a day, but many people I know drive to work, sit down all day, drive home, sit down all evening. It seems to be pretty common at least across the UK:

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/10/uk-exercise-l...
Gold is in all of our electronic devices. There doesn't appear to be any way to tell if my devices use clean gold or if they're full gold mined and processed by children in dangerous conditions.
But you have to communicate with the server and if you are outside of the door you can do it either through 3G (Internet) or WiFi.

Which means if users WiFi password is bad anyone can walk in or if your product isn't 100% solid the server can be attacked and security disabled.
Is the US system better in that regard?
We have been trialling http://squash.io/ at work as a aggregation for our errors and it's working out well so far. Next step is to integrate into our ticket tracker.
Because if they did it would contribute the the view that they are not much more than yet another commercial TV station...
I was thinking about something like:

http://www.kurtmunger.com/sony_nex_20mm_f_2_8id345.html

Sure, we're definitely talking something bigger than a standard iphone. So maybe not possible in a general market smart phone (I'd love to have the possibility of changing lenses on my phone, even if it wouldn't quite fit in the smallest pockets any more...).

The only other option would probably be some kind of lightfield tech, say a grid of 8x10 VGA resolution cameras that feed into a single software or ASIC processing unit...
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Keeping a pulse on your investments and the financial news is critical, but with all the sources floating around it’s hard to tell which are relevant to you and which to leave for the birds. CityFalcon (http://www.cityfalcon.com/) wants to arm smaller scale investors with the information that is most critical to an individual’s specific financial situation, combining the sharing habits of financial influencers, news outlets, and “the crowd.”
This doesn't make any sense, mostly because no one reports crashes that did not result in cyclist death because they wore a helmet. I fell of my bike going 30mph and hit the curb head first - the helmet split in half(which is exactly what it's supposed to do) and I was absolutely fine. If I wasn't wearing it, I wouldn't be writing it - I would be dead. But I never reported my "life saving accident" anywhere,and I'm sure millions of people never report theirs either. While I wouldn't want to make helmets mandatory, I would certainly like to ban headphones while riding bicycles - it's so dangerous not knowing what's behind you based on sound that I literally can't understand how people can be so careless.
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+1, that's what I had in mind, by saying that those doors are overcomplicated, but was not eager enough to write more than two sentences. :)
I think you meant "unsafe", and I agree with you. I too am very annoyed when I stop at a pedestrian crossing (or at a red light) only to have the bike behind me zip past me, creating a VERY unsafe situation for people trying to cross. (I sometimes feel I betray pedestrians at crosswalks without red lights when I stop--they thank me, they start crossing, and are almost hit by a passing bike or motorbike that didn't stop! In this case, I have created an unsafe situation... in a weird way).

I think a lot of people on bikes disrespect pedestrians. I find it reflects very badly on cyclists who do respect other people with whom they share public space, and on Parisians in general. People have priority, not least because I as a cyclist have a machine to help me move about and pedestrians don't. There's also civility and just being nice to one another in general.

I actually think words like "pedestrian", "cyclist" and "motorist" create unnecessary conflicts of interest between people who live in the same city. Everyone is at some point a pedestrian -- we're pedestrian by nature!

Having said all this, I think people on bikes would be less likely to be as aggressive if cars were less aggressive towards them. (It's a vicious cycle, and in the end nobody wins and everybody is stressed).

I'm actually working on an article on this for the French press, to look at this situation from a UX pov.
For me the worst thing was not to see where in the article I am and how long the article is. I am using the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the text.
I get all 30 stories visible on my phone! .. in text which is about 1mm high.
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Glad to see new libraries for the new clipboard API! I was recently making a color picker website that would not use flash for copying color values (http://0xrgb.com) and I was really missing a library like this.
Anyway thanks, I hope it will replace zeroclipboard very soon!
"Pollution is much lower when traffic is fluid" - that's all very nice, but have you been to Paris recently? As in, within the last 50 years? On a usual day (i.e. one without a citywide car restriction), there's no such thing as "fluid traffic" there - you shuffle forward, meter by meter, in a massive traffic jam covering the city.

Also, you are severely underestimating the public transport network - "if you come from far away for work," you have probably left your car at a train station and rode into the city on a RER or a Metro train. Same goes for the other objections, strange as it may seem to USians.

In other words, your arguments seem to hinge on "if Paris were an American type of city, a citywide car ban would suck." Thankfully, it's not one (i.e. driving a car is an option, not a necessity).
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To be pedantic, Paris has been car free for most of its history.
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My favorite local junctions is the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, UK [1]. A traffic circle (roundabout with traffic lights) would have also worked for this junction, but instead they used a ring of mini roundabouts, one placed at each entrance/exit road, connected to one another by short dual carriageway sections.

This allows for traffic to flow both ways around the circle, while forcing drivers on the "roundabout" to slow down to navigate the mini roundabouts, while not forcing people to stop completely for lights. In practice it works incredibly well, maintaining a steady flow of traffic even under heavy congestion. IMO it works far better than a controlled roundabout, and it a lot more fun!

It's also a favorite for driving test examiners...

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Hemel+Hempstead,+Hertfor...
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I forgot to mention Badinter's law (since 1985, France) [1].

Among a general review of insurance code, it says a car is always guilty when involved in an accident with a cyclist or a pedestrian.

It's a different legislation than anglosaxon countries, which consider that cyclists and car drivers have equal rights.

[1] http://www.adjcourtage.fr/LoiBadinter.html
Just switched https://wakatime.com/ to this yesterday... it's so much better than ZeroClipboard!

1. ZeroClipboard has issues with Bootstrap tooltips on the copy button

2. This doesn't depend on Flash!

3. Gracefully downgrades to a "Press Ctrl+C to copy" message for Safari
For UX maybe you should change these things, they were kinda off putting to me. http://i.imgur.com/kYVMXnG.png
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It’s not any particular page that makes Chrome die. It’s opening more than 30 at a time. (I typically have anywhere from 50–200 browser tabs open at once.)
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I'm going to assume 100+ open tabs.
Well gee, thanks for clearing that up. Someone forward this to _why so he can realise there was no harm done and comes back.
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Yeap, it's a 1990s model. I had a discussion with a software salesman... I was explaining to him that, what is valuable is not the software it's the data I will have put in his software in 5 years from now and if I don't have raw access to this data, I don't want his software.

He didn't understand a word.
Another trick using clipboards (in Mac OS X): use pbcopy/pbpaste to copy and paste to clipboard
Not to worry, in a few more years they'll force you to put everything on the cloud. Who needs 32GB when 0GB will do?
Using the "Stylish" plugin or similar custom CSS injection, you can substantially change how vote links look, along with adding space between their placement.

My vote links read '▲sig' for up-vote (signal), and empty line of separation, and then '▼din' for down-vote (noise).

/* remove arrow background images */
/* XXX Bug in chrome/webkit requires padding or margin */
div[title="upvote"],
div[title="downvote"] {
margin: 0px !important;
padding: 0px !important;
padding-right: 1ex !important;
text-align: center !important;
display: inline !important;
white-space: pre;
background: none !important;
background-image: none !important;
-moz-transform: none !important;
-webkit-transform: none !important;
-o-transform: none !important;
-ms-transform: none !important;
transform: none !important;
/* width: 6ex !important; */
/* width: 1ex !important; */
/* margin-right: 10px !important; */
}
/* use unicode text arrows */
div[title="upvote"]:after {
content: '▲sig' !important;
}
div[title="downvote"]:after {
content: '\A\A▼din' !important;
}
/* color unicode arrow text green-up, red-down */
a[id^="up"] {
color: #009900 !important;
}
a[id^="down"] {
color: #990000 !important;
}
/* highlight arrows on hover */
a[id^="up"]:hover {
color: #00ff00 !important;
}
a[id^="down"]:hover {
color: #ff0000 !important;
}
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Did a little digging:

VIN 1: Elon

VIN 2: Steve Jurvetson, board member Tesla/SpaceX (also has Model S VIN#1)

VIN 3: Mark Templeton, President / CEO of Citrix (Owned one of first Roadsters)

VIN 4: Sergey Brin, ..Google, likes pink Teslas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22AQyWBSWrg)

VIN 5: ??

VIN 6: ??
And where did you got that data from? Because where I live dropbox is far and ahead in user-base compared to Google Drive. That's the feeling I'm getting, mind you, I don't have any actual data... But even the apps I (2do, 1Passwd, etc.) use have support for Dropbox while none of them has support for GDrive.
Because making membership of an organization illegal is a violation of freedom of association, as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution of Japan?
Anyone knows which non-core features will be affected by this?

Evernote Food was already shut down (https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/16/better-brainstorms...) a couple weeks ago.
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'However, if the attacker is able to take advantage of a kernel bug, they may be able to escape from the container environment. ... every container runs in a different context and SELinux will forbid cross-context access, preventing any further damage from occurring.'

In this scenario SELinux will only protect you from very specific kernel bugs.

SELinux will not protect you against any kernel bug that either gives you a memory write primitive or gives you control over RIP. (Since you can just trash all the SELinux protections). It is only going to protect you from logic bugs where the kernel accidentally gives you filesystem access you weren't meant to have or something similar. Bare in mind that some of the recent kernel bugs relating to namespaces have been logic bugs.
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The did describe it as a kindof hybrid SUV/MPV/XUV in previous announcements. Its sortof an SUV but then sortof a completely new thing too.
OneNote is a great MS product that they've totally failed to market. My wife uses it extensively; the drawing capture features integrate nicely with the Surface.
I have seen some fast charge stations in the UK, on motorway service stations where people usually stop for about an hour,these offer an 80% fast charge in 30 mins.
No Windows hate intended, I called all of them mongrels.

So is there a the mechanism in OS X and/or Windows that prevents a graphics card hardware or driver from corrupting OS state and enables robust reset of card and driver? Or if it's a 90% solution, it significantly better because of some microkernelesque features missing from Linux?
I was thinking to get an account (free one), but after reading many "negative" comments I'm rethinking it. Will probably give it a try anyways... At the moment I'm only using it as a FF plugin for "cleaning up" blog posts.
Sweden is shifting to a 6-hour work day
That's ok, scientific analysis of the impact of mandatory helmets has been done demonstrating that it would increase mortality rates. http://www.cycle-helmets.com/england_helmets.html
They've announced prices for the full loaded expensive models. And they're expensive. The entry level models are coming later. Elon said an X will be about $5000 more than the equivalent S (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/639170376186990592). So if they release a 70D version it will be about $80,000 before incentives are taken off.
Has London succeeded at the expense of the rest of the UK?
Except you are lucky if you can get even to 20 km/h in Paris, forget about 50 km/h. "Fluid traffic" is a red herring in such circumstances - those other cars always get in the way ;)
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