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One problem with Zippy would be it contending with a myriad of laws stemming from whether Zippy is a vehicle, especially a motorized vehicle on a sidewalk. Let's ignore the unmanned part for now.

"Having small items delivered to homes by robots gives us near zero cost per delivery, "

You would still have variable costs like fuel, which would be incurred on a delivery by delivery basis. Then how high is Zippy's fixed costs?

I suspect that Zippy could only work in certain very densely populated areas, where users are willing to make concessions. In a suburb, Zippy because it using a sidewalk, would be too slow, but could do front door delivery. For an apartment building, Zippy could only go to the lobby's front door, hence requiring a concession from the customer that they may not want to make. Also how far can Zippy operate from the restaurant in question (it has to travel back)? What is its payload?

When I come to think about it, Zippy would be analogous to a person in a wheelchair making deliveries.

I suspect one could use computer simulations and some what-ifs on a spreadsheet to figure out Zippy's feasibility. I would wager that a person in car is simply more flexible, cost-effective and provides a more satisfying experience to the customer.
IANAL but the kernel _code_ is GPL. Nothing forbids you to implement from scratch some functionality with a different license. As long as you don't copy and paste GPL code.

A system call is a function entry point. The code executed when those functions are called is GPL licensed, and Microsoft wrote that from scratch.
Echoing toyg, this can't possibly make sense for a government. In the long run, they'll obviously pay more in rent than the buildings are worth.
Yeah I can see where you're coming from here, the Android example does resonate with me. Perhaps I'm not seeing the forefront of this movement because I'm using Linux so much nowadays - I guess I saw the bootstrap example and left it there.

It is odd how we're getting more and more screenspace to play with, phone screens and computer screens are getting larger with higher resolutions regularly, and yet we're pushing to remove functionality in the name of simplicity.
One downside to this vs SDF is that you would have to distribute font with your application. With that you have to license/buy that font properly. With SDF you're creating an image out of which you derive fonts and for that you don't need to license the font for distribution.
Just saw your reply. The app has export (& import) features to convert anything to (or from) an indented plain-text outline.

Thanks for the suggestion. There are screen shots under "about" then "what it is today" then "screen shots". I should probably put them on the top in a side frame or such.

The FAQs have in them somewhere, links to a discussion of a more detailed comparison with org-mode.

I could use web design input, maybe via lists or at the site.
This has the potential to become a cool app but I think it should differentiate from other offerings in the features it provides to the user and not in the way the backend is implemented. You might want to tell people s.th. along the lines of 'look, my deluxe new AI gives you annotated solutions for hard math problem X which no other app can help you with...'

I am sure you are aware of http://math-42.com which is quite similar (developed by high school kids, afaik). They claim to use their own math AI, too. It might be very tough to compete with them without offering additional features.

Could you modify your AI to cover math problems which I cannot practice with math-42? Or maybe add features such as formula recognition with your smart phone, etc.
Kik interactive never sued NPM. Kik tried to strongarm azer via indirect threats but NPM gave Kik the package name at their own discretion (arguing that it might confuse people looking for the kik packages).

Also, the "trademark means you must sue" myth has been debunked by the EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
Unless it's vim and the good ol' terminal. :-D
It depends. If you spend some time writing in Lisp, you'll learn how it is to write in AST, including navigating and editing it as tree and not strings of characters. And you'll see that the keyboard is still the most convenient interface we have for that. Touch, gestures and speech lack both speed and precision to be effective at this job.
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No, not really. FPGA's by definition are massively parallel. There is no way you can simulate them on CPU's with any reasonable speed (think: 1ms cpu time for simulating one clock cycle, so your simulation maxes out at a few kHz max). That sucks all the enjoyment out of it.
Isn't this a great opportunity to compress text. I wonder if there are algorithms that use dictionaries.
This new Microsoft is open sourcing everything, maybe this own underlying implementation is on the way to be opened (maybe it's open somewhere already).
Those are effectively "header-only" and clearly documented as GPL. This is the basis of the entire movement!
What does the contract say about 3rd parties wrapping it in PDF?
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CFC push prepaid customers or active international callers to using CFC app and stop paid. CFC using advertisement money to cover user expenses and gives them the possibility to avoid payments.

We are 4M users on board, $350k advertisement revenue iOS and Android app, which makes calls for free.
Which is not always a bad thing. It allows comments on community websites without getting most spam, trolls, sexist abuse and so on. Which is a large part of why things like community websites have moved there.
It's not verified but I'm missing the obvious clue as to why you think it's fake. They seem to post genuine tweets and link to official marketing websites.
The new Microsoft is the same one that has been continuously and recently involved in copyright litigation. That didn't just go away overnight because they started a PR campaign.
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Hmm, I guess I'd assumed that I'd be able to use bash scripts to automate Windows functionality (that was probably the most exciting part for me!). You're saying that's not currently possible?

What about more basic things, like moving files around, etc.?

I'd be happy if I never had to write a (Windows) batch script again...
> Only if you want to keep them illiterate

You sound like a guy who teaches his kid to swim by throwing him in the stormy sea.
Length of time isn't necessarily a good indicator. Google Reader ran for 7 years when they decided to shut it down.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader#Discontinuation
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Graticule allows you to share your precise (GPS) or approximate (network) location with anyone you choose to, in a very "get out of my way" style.

Features:

- no registration required

- you get a private web tracking link that you can share with anyone (they don't have to have the app installed)

- the tracking code is disposable, change it any time you want

- as easy as technically possible on battery/data usage

- no identifiable information sent from your device (except your location, of course)

- encrypted communication

- passive mode (piggybacks on other active apps, like running/cycling ones)

What can I do with it?

- give peace of mind to your family or loved ones when travelling

- showing off while paragliding/flying/??? (assuming you still have enough signal for a data connection)

- putting a cheap android phone in your car, on your pet, or anywhere else and track it

- guide someone remotely to a location

- no longer have to answer "Where are you?" or "How far are you?"

What do I need?

- an Android device

- data connection

- GPS or Wi-Fi turned on (depending on what kind of accuracy you need -- precise or approximate)

If it seems like it's trying to be too many things at once, you're probably right, since you can use it in a lot of scenarios.

Actual real-world usage so far (from people that have taken the time to say thanks)

- driver in Norway giving his family peace of mind when commuting on icy roads in the winter

- same as above, only also for cyclists, hikers and other outdoor types

- an unnamed police department using it for bait cars

- truck driver with a youtube channel giving his viewers his approximate location

- ground crew tracking a paraglider pilot for easier recovery (when doing cross-country flights)

- parents showing their children where they are when travelling for business

https://graticule.link
The DVD mailing is really a separate business from the streaming. Netflix were right trying to split it off. Unfortunately they did it too early and there was a big backlash. Had they waited a year or two longer few would have cared. Qwikster would have been a separate company with its own leadership and its own app, focused on those who want plastic circles in the mail. Ok, you would need two subscriptions if you want both services, but I am sure there would be a cross-promotion package deal.
Like 'Zecc said, maybe they don't care about the third parties present. Or maybe they want everyone to be a part of the conversation, which is often fine. Or maybe they talk about emotional matters.

But text is a pretty fine form of communication and I find myself using it very often at work (and at home I often talk this way to people not in the same room, but in the same flat). It's fast, it's convenient, it's less disrupting, and the only reason to avoid it are some silly preconceptions that digital communiction is somehow "worse" than spoken words.

Also, you never passed papers to your friends while in school? That's pre-smartphone equivalent of IM.
One could argue that the Linux syscall interface is closer to an ABI than an API, since you don't directly code against it. Don't know what implications that has in this context, though.

One legal thing that I'm also wondering about is the "Linux" trademark. I thought the Linux Foundation kept close tabs on how you were allowed to use the trademark, and one requirement was that the Linux kernel was actually involved?
Sometimes I feel like Microsoft is spying on me. I've used Windows since I've used computers, a few months ago I 'upgraded' to 10. Sure it was slower and unstable but I figured I'd give Microsoft some time to fix it and struggled on. Then one day I come home and my lock screen is a ad. Right then I downloaded Debian, made a usb drive and said goodbye to Microsoft on my personal machines forever. I'll never look back. A week or two later they announce this. Sorry Microsoft, after you get a taste of the power, customization and flexibility of Linux you never go back.
Well, that more people in California "voted for Mitt Romney than people in Georgia" might not tell the whole story.

Are the people in California traditionalist, religious, backwards, or even racist, etc, as the people in Georgia? They might not be, regardless of who they chose to vote for -- which takes into account many factors and policies.

That said, California is also traditionally regarded as conservative (at least by us in Europe) -- it's places like Massachusetts or Vermont that we'd count as progressive. Especially since California is regarded as hardcore pro-money/big-business, which is large part of being a "conservative" here.
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Microsoft has always been great at naming things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Content is rarely/never designed specifically for a games console. Game engines are always mostly portable and the porting costs are quite low. Video game exclusivity, when it happens, is nearly always a business decision to try and boost the popularity of the platform.

The main problem is that the big audiences are still on the older platforms, not Netflix or equivalents (and if all audiences moved from older providers which are at least competing, to Netflix, would that really be better? Or just replacing the devil you know with the devil you don't?)
The software would be generating a financial plan for the user (clients different from users in this case) but it is not generating specific investment advice--we'll leave that up to the RIA. You might compare our algorithms to some of the various calculators that you can find on any finance site (http://finance.yahoo.com/calculator/retirement/ret02/) or some newspaper sites (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...) but more advanced as they feed off each other.

I'm not sure that our software will ever deliver advice along the lines of "Buy mutual fund X" and certainly would not even be able to do so before recordkeeper tie-in. An example of what it does now regarding investments is something along the lines of you and your wife have X dollars in retirement savings across three retirement accounts. You're making A, B, C in monthly contributions to each. Assuming age-based returns (your portfolio gets more conservative the closer you get to retirement) or account-based returns you will have Y dollars in monthly income in retirement which is Z short of your retirement income goal. (Often getting somebody to contribute enough is a larger challenge than asset allocation.)

Also, financial planners are not SEC registered.

I hope users come back over and over again! I'm hoping the budgeting tool, emails, and value we provide keeps them coming back. You realize the connection between life events and taking an interest in their financial plans and that indeed is when a lot of users will return to us.

Since everything is automated the only cost for heavy users would be server and bandwidth. And I truly do want to help people be financially ready for those life events so we will gladly accept those costs.

Thank you for the questions Karl!
This is great, I hope there are more Overtone recipes in the future!
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> Piece-mealing helps people remember the content better.

Chunking (in the context of cognitive science) does help with recall, but I rarely see pages being used to group relevant information... The tendency seems to be "fit as much as you can on a page, and only break to the next page early if you reach the end of the chapter". This doesn't apply to picture-books (where the use of illustrations is dictates layout more than the text), but it does apply to the _majority_ of published books.

I see "chapter (or header) -> paragraph -> sentence -> word" as the way written works are organized, with pages providing an index for lookup and marking progress, but not for denoting meaning. For example, I'll remember the story Contracrostipunctus and that it was at the end of chapter 3 in GEB, but I don't have a clue what page it was on and if the page numbers changed between editions (or were removed entirely), I probably wouldn't notice.

> It is there on mobile and tablets and people consume web on each differently

That's part of why pages are such a pain. On my phone (which is significantly smaller than a book) I need to scroll from the top to the bottom of the page, and then turn the page and scroll back to the top. On some readers that present fixed-width pages with a tiny font this is even worse because the pages don't reflow to the width of my device and I need to scroll left-to-right for every single line. Bubblin doesn't have this problem - it just crops off the left side of the page and refuses to let me zoom, but I write this with the assumption that it'll be fixed and will exhibit the aforementioned problems simply by virtue of having a fixed-size layout.

> You keep scrolling and scrolling and not even be at the middle of the article by the time you're done. In fact many people quit reading blogposts midway just after 2-3 downswipes and then they reopen it on their desktops.

Citation? I've never done this before or seen it done. I actually like reading books on my phone because I can lay in bed in any position and read till I fall asleep.
The minified bundle.js for the boilerplate is 600kb. I would recommend gzipping, and packing fonts to a separate bundle.
What I'm pointing out is the absurdity of the current state of law. It doesn't matter if Microsoft wrote all of the code from scratch, because according to them the definitions of the interfaces alone -- not code and not header files -- fall under copyright law.
Get a better editor - one that lets you operate on semantic units. And/or get a better programming language - one that lets you operate on code as AST.
A very very powerful thing that most of us forget when we start reading all the conflicting evidence about carbs / sugar / fat:

You can experiment on yourself for free!
Obviously this won't prove how everyone's body works. But it will teach you something very powerful about how your own body works.

Go off sugar for 3 months, make your mind and do it, and note the changes in your organism.

Or go off carbs totally for a few weeks, and feel what happens to you.

etc...

Make up your own experiments, the only danger is that you may end up lying to yourself about what you ate, or not be sure about the composition of the stuff you ate...
It's more likely the people at the top did understand the consequences, but chose to anyway because of personal gains.
To me the internet is supposed to be an open network to connect computers which means companies like Facebook can do what they want pretty much. I recently did some web presence for a charity and made a regular website, a Wordpress blog, a Facebook page and a subreddit. The Facebook thing got easily the most traffic but I was free to put up any amount of other stuff. I'm not sure trying to change Facebook would really be in the spirit of the open internet.
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Meh, overstating the obvious, then making it a sales pitch.
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Try the same equation but then with JSON, and see how it is even more terrible. Document Object Models as in HTML etc... are where XML is actually ok, as that was its design niche.

Could have been a bit simpler but hindsight...
Appreciate your comments. A Staffing-preneur refers to any Technical Recruiters who are entrepreneurs.

Would you have considered the proposal if I simply addressesed them as staffing entrepreuers? Or what would you have addressed them as? Open to suggestions/ideas.

My goal is to democratize entrepreurship amongst Technical Recruiters, especially those that are just out of college and struggling to find a job.
"Shouldn't be able to get", not "can't get". I don't know how that business works, but it may be cheaper than having to legally establish that there has in fact been prior art.
i was just wondering about the distance between these vehicles, and if that really would add up to some amount of finite-non-zero fuel savings as well ? for example, the lead vehicle just pushes the air away, and the rest following close by in the "slip-stream" experience less overall air resistance...
Totally agreed. 11y OSX user, tried to give Windows 10 a chance as the host system on a $2800 tablet (Vaio Canvas). HiDPI still a mess, tablet mode is worse than ever because it doesn't automatically bring up the keyboard for most apps (and even hides the keyboard tray icon by default - wtf?), system settings are complete and utter shit compared to OSX or even Windows 7, touchpad is unusable as always. Only good thing is the nice looking hardware, especially the stand, but it's tainted by the hideous power adapter (and very short batt. life no matter how you use it).
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Well, you could do a double-blind test where you feed pureed lazy plants and pureed healthy plants to your test subjects and see if you can detect a difference.

But honestly just the metaphor of humans being like lazy plants is already deep enough, it's already a window into the human soul, you don't need a literal connection.
There are some "political" aspects too, in that AI and VR aim for maximal resource consumption—the more power, the cooler.
It amounts to the same thing - 'they can do some deeply convoluted, labourious thing for a few thousand nostalgic players' or 'they can focus on meeting the needs and collecting the payments of their millions of existing customers'. It's hard to see how the former makes the slightest bit of sense for them.
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The old https://rubygems.org used to include the steps to build a gem, and publish it[0], which was helpful.

But in their redesign they removed it, so now that info is hidden behind two clicks (Guides -> Publishing your gem), but that page isn't near as concise, and doesn't show you how to build the package.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140311091639/http://rubygems.o...
Good morning d--b!

Thank you for your comment! Yes, very valid! We've thought about this and if the model proves to be valuable, the same logic can potentially be extended to other data within a user's social feeds; we were hoping to first validate the concept through music, and then possibly extend the concept to other data within social media.

Or maybe we work in parallel towards building it as a social media mining tool, and then allow the users to figure out what data they'd like to focus on.
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Incorrect. This client knows both the WebTorrent and BitTorrent protocols, bridging the two networks.
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why wouldn't you do it free on github pages?
I'm not sure but try Anaconda. 'conda install numpy' works for me, while pip throws an exception.
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I couldn't get zsh to work (same errors as tallanvor) but other shells did work, like fish with oh-my-fish. I had to run bash in ConEmu to be able to display some unicode characters (those used by powerline themes/fonts) - http://i.imgur.com/JT8Zi5j.png
If so many people fail to do it, it's hard. If it wasn't hard for you, congratulations: you're different.
Can we please try to stop talking about this specific language ecosystem as an awful deplorable hell hole or whatever?
> and he still struggles with click/double-click distinction.

Have you tried teaching him that? I highly doubt an old person, especially one with engineering background, will have trouble with understanding the distinction if someone bothers explaining it to them.

Or in general - it's surprising how much non-tech people can understand about technology if someone bothers to sit down with them and explain the concepts to them. Usually the reason they don't learn this stuff themselves is the typical human impulse of "if I haven't figured it out in 3 seconds flat, it's too difficult and I won't understand it".
I'd say that this part of the ABI is definitely something people code directly against - so there's really no distinction between API and ABI. The parts of the ABI you don't are things like the function calling conventions, type widths, etc.
That, as well as a highly linked issue right now that people at the end of their careers are still hanging in the workforce because they can't afford to retire. I think normally if you didn't have 2008, that adage about "just get a degree" might have still rung true. It's not like kids without degrees are making out like bandits in the job market -- it's just that outside of a few lucky / strategic fields, the jobs aren't there.

Which is also why blaming kids sucks for them, because theyre about the least culpable members of society for the macroeconomic conditions that landed them in this predicament.
Even after reading this comment I still mentally classified that box as an ad and ignored it.