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And then there are media articles like the Independent[1], which compares the Winklevoss twins the to Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Oprah Winfrey, and suggest they're modern American heroes.

This whole saga is an media circus. They already made $140MM (current value of previous settlement in escrow), fu money for anyone. 80% of that $140MM (post lawyer fees) is straight up $$, without payouts to VCs, seed investors, or employee options.

If they are serious about being entrepreneurial, maybe they could start an angel fund with $20MM?

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/is-there-anyth...

[2] They are probably making more straight up $$ than the Mint or Heroku founders. Who deserves it more?
Looks like resque (or pyres, or other clones), but maybe a little bit easier to integrate?
So the logical next question is are the battery paks in the band safe? What sort of safety cert was done on them?
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Thanks for not keeping quiet.

If they kept quiet and someone were injured or killed due to a known defective product wouldn't they be open to lawsuits?
it is stable. v0.3 can have breaking changes at any point. v0.4 will be the next stable.
yes the batteries are safe. we believe that the chargers are spitting out a noisy electrical signal, which is causing the battery charger IC on the WakeMate to overheat, thus causing the problem. We have only seen any incidence when the unit is plugged into the black USB charger bricks we shipped with. To date we have logged over 20000 hours of sleep on our system, so we're certain that sleeping with the Wakemate is safe, and that the batteries on the WakeMates are safe as well. This is in addition to the testing and certification we had done on the unit as well before we began shipping units.
That looks like the wristband itself caught fire, not the charger? Perhaps the charger put out too much power, causing the wristband to catch fire?
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Yes, these points are exactly the ones you have to pay attention to when running -nw. For instance, I run

gnome-terminal -x /bin/bash -c /usr/bin/screen

instead of

gnome-terminal -x /usr/bin/screen

directly, or else I get less than 256 colors (although more than 8).

Copy/Paste works fine for me in so far as that is one of the few things I use the mouse for. (I guess, in a lot of case you use the mouse anyway to select the text you'd like to copy.)

Remapping some keys is indeed necessary. In particular, GNU screen's standard escape key sequence is C-a, which in Emacs a lot of people probably prefer to be bound to (move-beginning-of-line). But also within Emacs some keys may need to be bound using input-decode-map.

As for your launcher, one thing I did differently is that my start script does not automatically re-attach to a detached screen session, but will show me a dialog window where I can select the one thing or the other. The reason for this is that I often keep a few Emacsen running in parallel for a long time, each of which is dedicated to a different aspect of my work. If I detach one session it is not always the case that I want to continue there the next time I open a new Emacs. Also, if more than one Emacs is detached I'd like to be able to say which one I want to re-attach to.

I looked at wanderlust a few years ago when I was looking for an IMAP-compatible email client for Emacs but in the end I wasn't convinced by it. Can't remember, though, what I didn't like about it, perhaps I should give it another chance.
I'd worry about this more if my WakeMate would actually arrive... :(

This is pretty sad, though... I've been cheering for WakeMate since the beginning, but it's getting harder and harder... Are they at least sending new charger bricks at some point, perhaps a year or so from now (har har har)?
We sent this email tonight within an hour of hearing about the first issue. One of our goals as a company is to increase people's quality of life -- starting with sleep. It was immediately apparent to us we had to tell our customers, especially if their safety was at all at risk.
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Going on a HUGE side tangent here b/c working out, fitness and overall health is a huge passion of mine...

people don't know how to workout....and people don't know what an 'athlete' does when they workout. I've been around professional and collegiate athletes for quite some time and I think most people would be amazed to see how little they actually workout.

The basic thought the past 20 years was 'more is better' when it comes to the body; more working out is better than less working out. What we are learning and something good trainers and athletes have known for some time is that the amount of working out takes a huge backseat to doing the right kind of working out at the right intensity level.

It is more mythos created by the sports industry when we hear that someone is 'in the gym' 10 hours a day. This might be accurate, but the time they are actually working out is minimal (or, rather, it should be if they value their asset aka body).

Now, to someone like you working out 5-6 days a week for (guessing) an hour...I guarantee that if I changed your routine and intensity levels you would become an athlete you never dreamed you could be. I could probably do it in literally half the time as well.

I'll leave you with this...which do you think is more effective as a workout: 60 minutes on the treadmill or elliptical or 10 minutes of sprinting intervals @ 75 max effort? Did you know you can get one of the best and hardest workouts of your life if you just did 5 minutes of Tabata style kettlebell swings (20 seconds swings, 10 sec break for 5 minutes)?

Knowing the body and being able to hack the body are so foreign to most folks they literally have no idea what it means to workout like an athlete.
Everyone hates change and with good reason.

Assume the doctor has a working system that enables them to do their job, without being distracted by having to learn new, irrelevant procedures. Any new "better" system has to provide really tangible benefits to be worthwhile learning. If that new system has been designed by administrators, for the benefit of administrators, then it's little wonder that the doctors are resistant to change.
> This seems to be a constant battle when going the Chinese route.

is the savings really worth it? and how can one tell that they aren't getting scammed? seems like win-win for chinese companies to cut all possible corners. either they'll save a buck or they'll get caught and just have to get paid to make more.
see my comment above about noisy electrical signal form the USB charger brick.
Actually what would happen is taxpayers would have to pay more to recover the data and go through the physical copies.
So in reality we would be in more debt. Life isn't Fight club. (Movie not book)
Wow... Seriously? Is this the issue WakeMate emailed about (I'm guessing it is) or is this another?
yes, but we will have to source new bricks first. We went with these black bricks because a) they looked cool, b) we could afford them, and c) samples of the bricks passed electrical surge and signal quality tests we had performed here in Mountain View. Maybe there's a reason Apple charges $29 for theirs...
I could actually hear my charger audibly buzzing when I plugged it in for the first time today. Glad to hear it will be replaced!
I am curious, does your certification and testing involve anything with the FDA?

I worked at one of the big sleep companies before and we always had to adhere to FDA regulations even though we were careful to be 'monitoring' and not 'diagnosis/treatment'. The FDA also occasionally randomly popped in as a part of their standard monitoring process.
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It's rather remarkable how able people are to tolerate a borderline existence until a concrete metaphor for its inevitability and hopelessness - like an unpayable loan - is thrust into their faces.
that is arguably true, but the reality is that drawing that many rectangles is not the right way to use a drawing api.

i am actually really shocked that i could not find a way to do all of the draw operations on a buffer.
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I stopped using mine the day I got it because it emitted a annoying loud whiny noise the second I plugged it in. I immediately thought "cheap Chinese manufacturing" and started using my white iPhone charger instead. Glad I did.

What makes this more serious is that the WakeMate seems to be really power hungry and needs almost constant charging - I've noticed that it usually can't go 2 straight nights without a recharge. Since that's the case, I imagine most people just plug it into the defective charger each morning, so it's plugged in for about 16 hours per day. But maybe my battery is also defective ...

Not sure how these two are different technically (both probably have similar accelerometers), but I also have a FitBit that I wear all day long - yet I only need to charge that guy maybe once a week.

Hoping the WakeMate guys get through this, though ...
Bill Gates is, in my mind, a phenomenal businessman who also evidently was a pretty hotshot coder before MS got rolling.

I see Gate's/Microsoft's genius as being able to bring a usable computer into every household. Of course there are other factors, but, man, it's impressive what Microsoft helped bring about. Think of it! We live in a SF world today, and Microsoft, for all their flaws, helped it come to pass.
Are the Apple bricks an acceptable replacement until you guys ship new ones?
If you compared Lenin or Stalin to Hitler, sure, but comparing Marx to Hitler is pretty strange. If anything he's notoriously silent on how exactly one would organize a communist society, and was politically ineffectual. He spends most of his time as a theoretician of how capitalism works, with some pretty vague ideas of what would replace it. A closer analogy might be comparing Marx and Ayn Rand: theoreticians most at home critiquing the social order they don't like, with some very idealized notions of how their preferred version would work, and a flair for manifesto-writing.
Yes they are! In fact any Mini USB charger is. You can also plug the included cable directly into your computer.
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I usually enjoy reading RethinkDB blog posts -- it's unusual for a company with such smart people to write about technical issues they come across -- but I got as far as the first sentence before being disappointed this time.

On my computer, the callstack of a new process is around 10MB.

I can't imagine what sort of thinking produced this sentence.

First, this limit isn't set by his computer. His computer might affect the limit; but the value is also likely to be affected by his choice of operating systems, his login.conf settings, whether he is root, and possibly environment variables.

Second, processes don't have stacks. Threads have stacks. And often the first thread gets more room than later threads.

Third, the stack starts out small -- like, a few hundred bytes or so, depending on the amount of bloat in his platform's crt1.o (or equivalent). It can grow, of course; but the size of something is not equivalent to its maximum permitted size -- you would never say "a newly created file is 2^64 bytes" just because that's the maximum possible size.

I'd suggest replacing the first sentence with

On my computer / OS / login environment, the default maximum permitted size of
the primary thread's stack in a new process is around 10 MB.

(Random side note: You guys have heard of userland threads, right? You seem to be doing an awful lot of wheel-reinventing here -- not necessarily a bad thing, of course, but I didn't find your "threads are too expensive" line particularly convincing.)
Never met Zuck, but, I have far more respect for him than I do for the Winklewosses.
USB power is standardized, so anything that plugs into the wall and has a USB port on the back should work fine.

I regularly charge my phone with my Kindle charger and vice versa (and they even both use microUSB, so I can use the same wire too).
There's actually a name for what you're trying to describe in this post. It's called Parkinson's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law), and it states that "work expands to fill the time available."

I'm not sure if you're trying to be self deprecating with that "overly simplified graph" line. Either way, I wouldn't panic about it too much. Kathy Sierra wrote some of the best user experience writing on the internet using diagrams that were just as simplistic.
Not to mention the jobs issue. 9/11 resulted in an entirely new govt. agency being created. I doubt many politicians want to axe jobs given the current state of the economy.
Can we ask what the safety issue is? I don't have a wakemate, and I understand if there is a legal reason not too, but I am curious. Is it bursting into flames...?
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I program for both platforms. A couple things that annoy me the most often, aside from devices shipping with old versions of Android:

- Resolution differences, and no real scalable interface APIs.
- HTC vs Blur vs Samsung's distribution of Android. They all dick with stuff their own way.
- Physical buttons on each device. Some are overly sensitive capacitive buttons, clicky buttons, or high latency. Each require model specific code.

You can verify this by searching the release notes for apps in the Market. There's commonly caveats for certain models.
Btw what does ESR have to do with Android? I don't see how reporting it to some random Linux enthusiast is going to help.
This is the first issue I've read about. What else happened?
All three of those are used by various web start-ups. So unless you have a particular employer in mind you'd like to target, just learn whichever you find most interesting.
This type of testing sounds like a huge pain, but makes a big difference for customer satisfaction to the point where a company can differentiate themselves by doing it.

A company called Yongnuo makes some fantastic speedlights (photographic flashes), which are inexpensive alternatives to the fully-automatic Canon/Nikon standards for strobist photogs. Think $40 instead of $400.

The trade-off is that many of them arrive defective, they are known for not having good QA. There are sellers on ebay who make it a point to test every one before shipping. Guess who I chose to buy mine from? Not a bad way to make a profit and stand out on an otherwise low-margin item.
Not like they really had a choice here. It's spreading like wild on twitter already. If they ignored it, it would have been a huge problem for them.

At least they aren't crazy and are doing the right thing. I'm guessing someone really regrets trying to save a few pennies on the charger.

It's a tough business no doubt. I think they'll make it through just fine though.
It took forever to ship.
The 14 month shipping delay, delivered in 1-2 week bites: "we'll be ready next week, for real this time!". So, lots of little things which added up to one big thing.
This is quite possibly the worst anti-global warming document I have ever read in my life.

He's got a lot of really bad arguments. His "Modern Human-Extinction Scares" slide is an ad-hominem at best. The very next slide is a blatant appeal to authority (in himself). And the very slide after that basically says "Scientists are stupid and get to be wrong a lot". And then he goes into the "CO2 is good for plants, so nothing we do with it could possibly be bad" gripe.

And the "this chart is intended to Inform, not Scare"? I've seen less biased charts from James Inhofe. And apparently, the decrease in deaths from lightning in the US is proof global warming isn't causing an increase in disastrous weather.

I expected more from someone of his background. With opponents this stupid, it's no wonder climate change is generally accepted. I'm generally inclined to agree with the general premise that while the earth is warming, there's no strong evidence it is doing so catastrophically as a result of human interventions. But I'm ashamed to say such a thing in the face of such a dreadful slide deck.
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What else happened?

For a long time, as far as shipping was concerned, nothing happened.
Not a biggie, but still doesn't work on Android 2.3
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Microfinance is capitalism. Without it, none of the good you speak of would be available to anybody.
[I was involved in a project for SKS Microfinance in a previous job, and I've gotten up-close and personal with their numbers for a few months, all pre-IPO]

A majority of the small-ticket loans are given out under the umbrella called IGLs (Income Generating Loans), which is basically capital for asset development and/or small-time business building. (e.g. the spice shop woman in the article) These are the loans given out at 24%.

One of the issues is that a lot of borrowers take out IGLs and, once they have the cash in hand, end up spending it non-income generating activities, like weddings, or funerals, or baby births, or girl-child-attaining-puberty ceremonies.

There is another class of loans called ELs (Emergency Loans) that are interest-free, and meant for 'unforeseen emergencies' - typically critical medical treatment and funerals.

So yeah, when you take a loan at 24%, but spend the money on a 0%-loan-activity, problems abound.

There is a fairly large amount of education and training that has to take place amongst the local populace in terms of fiscal responsibility, and significant cultural obstacles to overcome to teach it to them.
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Probably you are using x selection buffer for copy/paste. But if you want to pick up stuff from X "clipboard" buffer, you would need xsel or something like that.

Wanderlust is quite usable now. I use it everyday(I have my gmail and exchange server(imap) accounts managed in it). You should give it another try sometime.
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14.000 suicides in 74.000.000 people (about 19 per 100.000). Too much, but not way more than to expect, there are western countries with higher suicide rates.

I'm sure there are too many suicides because of micro-loan depts, but I doubt that this part is significant with regard to all the other issues we need to solve.
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Living in a society where you have to pay taxes and obey the law, matches the Stockholm Syndrome characteristics. Society, the political system and its forces (police, army) is the abuser that threatens if you don't pay your bills, taxes etc., isolates us from different perspectives, occasionally shows a little kindness, and it's seamingly impossible to escape that situation.

The difference is we get to choose who's the abuser going to be.
If you mean to run this benchmark across different browsers, you should know there might be some problems with the time measurement technique you’re using. Read http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/bulletproof-javascript-b... for a detailed explanation.

Why not use Benchmark.js https://github.com/mathiasbynens/benchmark.js for your test case? This library will take care of all the issues mentioned in the article I linked to. Or just take the easy road and use http://jsperf.com/ which uses Benchmark.js behind the scenes :)
Way to handle this WakeMate. While this may cost a lot in the short term, history has shown that companies can bounce back from costly recalls like this and dominate the market down the road with the increase in credibility and trust they gain:

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The other article you’re talking about is this one: http://ejohn.org/blog/accuracy-of-javascript-time/

Note that some interesting information is missing from it (e.g., in IE the smallest unit of measure isn’t always 15 ms — it all depends). If you want to know all about it, check out http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2010/bulletproof-javascript-b....
Or like the tablet computers released throughout the 90s?

The iPad is cool, but it's only cool because it went the extra mile and released something polished and thoroughly thought-out from a user experience perspective, whereas its progenitors of like form factor targeted specialists (serious digital artists, et al) and they basically worked, but they just required more work, as one might expect when comparing a high-end specialist's tool with what is essentially a portable document, web, game and movie player.

It's all about repackaging the technology in a format that appeals widely to the general mass of consumers and allows them to do things consumers want to do.
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My dad used to work for an NGO that ran schools in northern Karnataka. He told me unscrupulous microfinance lenders used to badger rural women into taking loans at ridiculous interest rates and then harass them when they couldn't pay up.

The only real solution to this problem is empowering and educating women to be financially responsible and making sure that they have the social courage to refuse these loans. Unfortunately, this will take a few decades to happen and more than a few lives will be lost unnecessarily until them.
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