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This looks quite cool, a bit daring to come out with two different form factors immediately. I can imagine that an application designed for the digital watch's 96x96-pixel screen doesn't port naturally to the analog/digital hybrid (a.k.a. "grown-up watch", heh) model's dual 80x16-pixel screens.

Haven't checked the SDK though, perhaps they've handled this split and abstracted it away.

Personally I also find the "whoa we're revolutionary, clearly that means we must have a fake-Russian design" thinking quite tiring.
"In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week."

Are not they gaining two days in the 5 day week. Just like US-India, there is always somebody from the company working and available due to the 12-13 hour gap.
Cool name! Read it like run-it, and it just re-inforces the fact:D...
It only has value if people accept it as payment. Cryptography is only part of it.
Thoroughly delete all traces of software that you no longer use.

This is just a waste of time. Do you really care about 70KB that some lib that some other lib that was used by a program that you only used for a week used used?
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This is a good point and is one of a large number of challenges BTC faces. Right now, a small transaction fee ensures that your transaction will be processed quickly. This distributes the cost of validating the transaction. Eventually, we may see the transaction fee structure become less of an option and more of a necessity.

BitcoinJ (the Google 20% time project) uses a very compressed and less comprehensive block chain to make transactions but is not intended to be used to generate coins.

In other words, the problem is being mitigated. The level of innovation in the BTC community is jaw dropping.
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Sounds more like you treated the symptoms of atypical cystic fibrosis than the symptoms of aging.
Never got the emphasis on laptops, unless you travel (a lot) and/or tend to spend a lot of time in coffee shops/college lectures/meetings. You'd want a good, large display (or two/three) anyway, and you usually have less troubles and more options with desktops. And for those times when you need to move around, a small auxiliary device will do, too (ipad, tablet, netbook, old/cheap laptop maybe even a smartphone).

Less true for the current crop of Macs, of course, where decent expandable desktop systems are way too expensive and laptops have a high entry cost. It would probably still be worth looking into getting a ipad/imac combo over a MBP.
So if this is an unstable, unregulated market that shouldn't be used for anything more serious than pizza at what point is that going to change? What magical thing is going effect to change?

And if that thing doesn't exist, what is this apart from a more complicated way to waste electricity than Seti@Home?
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mining has to be worth the returns, because without mining the network will not work. It is not about generating BTC, but about estabilishing verifiable historical record of performed transactions. It is expected, that when value of one block will go down, miners will make profit from transaction fees.
Similar problems are for people doing business in Europe and the Middle East. Some countries have Thursdays and Fridays off, others have Fridays and Saturdays. In Israel, Friday is a half working day.
I don't think that's true. Clients just need the latest block (and a few blocks after) to verify that a transaction has gone through, only nodes (which are meant to be quite computationally powerful) need the whole block chain.
I have a grandma in Jamaica that I spent a summer with. Since she handwashed all our clothes she got my white shirts really white. Like so white once I got back to the US everything else looked yellow. I was never able to find what she used at home once I came back to the US so I thought it was this, TSP. Turns out that adding a little bit of blue dye to whites makes them extra bright. And I do remember the blue box next to the wash.

So your clothes aren't dirtier, they are stained. They naturally stain since white isn't a natural color (just ask Apple).
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Sorry, I thought this was Hacker News, not Libertarian Rants.
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You sound as if "giving out information" is a secondary goal of data visualization, while I would argue that capturing the user's attention and interest are.
Surely it's not about who does your R&D so much as what they produce?

Most of the MS R&D papers I've read have been very good, with excellent ideas. Let's also not forget that GHC is maintained at MS R&D.

The problem lies in converting research into product. One example is the data mountain[1]. The data mountain was way before its time (3d desktop in '98, which is still struggling to make inroads), it's a bad interface for a mouse-driven UI, but a good one for a touch-driven UI (probably not on a phone, but maybe on a tablet and definitely on a 20" or larger screen). But they haven't done anything with it.

I don't think the right stuff from MS R&D is transported to the product development people, which is sad, but highlights one of the differences between Google and MS. At Google a lot of research papers are driven by actual solutions (cf. BigTable, GFS etc). At MS there's more 'pure' research going on and as a consequence the divide between the research people and the product people is larger.

That's what it looks like to me anyway. I don't think there's any problem with the quality of the research being done at MS, quite the contrary.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/dcr/work/datam... (The video sadly seems to have fallen off the web.)
The link ignores most of the arguments made in what it purports to reply to:

No response to the Great Depression argument.
No response to the governments will declare it illegal argument.
No response to the offline argument.
No response to the potential hackability of bitcoins.

Other then that it's a slam dunk.
As much as I hate random xkcd links turning up in discussions, he has a point. Stop building your infrastructure on other people's proprietary platforms (that are known to be notoriously fickle) and acting surprised when you get burned.
> It is therefore rather "symbolic politics" with politicians trying to get a "greener image" on this issue, rather than actually fixing the environment.

I'd be surprised if this is actually the case. I haven't looked up the actual regulations/laws that control TSP, but I would guess that it's done through the EPA as executive regulations, rather than specific provisions in law. In that case, it seems unlikely to me that the political pressure on the President would significantly affect the EPA's findings on all but the most economically significant pollutants.
Nicely executed! Thanks for the laugh.

Edit: Why the downvote? The author clearly states that it's a troll:

"See, a bitcoin rant is almost too over-the-top for me. Asking why I think bitcoin won't work is like asking why the sky isn't red. I mean, wait, you think it is red? You actually took that seriously? Oh boy. Where do I even start?"

"For the record, I'm stupid and trolling. That's why it was hard to tell."
"That's a market that includes slaves, child pornography, assassination contracts, etc."

Yes -- but by definition only if agreed upon mutually voluntarily.

But you're probably still right when saying that (almost) "nobody wants" that.
> The GPL grants you that permission so long as you follow the terms of the license. In other words, it isn't "your products", it's a joint product, and the other contributor wants a say on how the joint product is delivered.

I've already responded to this in another comment.

The GPL doesn't "simply grant you this right". FSF think this right is essential and that it's unethical to not grant this right. If RMS simply wanted to give you a permission, he could've used a variation of the BSD/MIT licenses.

> but they stay well within copyright law to change the system from within.

But they still think the system is wrong.

> Have you considered that perhaps it's copyright's temporary monopoly grant which is "at odds with certain capitalistic ideas"?

I've heard this argument, and I don't think it's very compelling, but really what's the point? Why should anyone feel compelled to make such an argument? As if capitalism is the religion of the state, and every ideology must be compatible with it, or else!! So you have to go around and make these interpretation about what "true" capitalism is all about.
Yup, 80 MS Points is $1 USD.

Also, he gave the numbers for total sales, total dollars, and the MS split (70/30), so you could also calculate the cost from that, which is right around $1 USD also.
As an aside, a way to do old things that haven't been done yet is to do them on a new platform.

So, old games got rewritten in flash, then javascript, iOS and HTML5. Every other app got rewritten as a webapp - and I bet the same is happening right now for iOS.

Maybe not appropriate for every beginner.
It looks like it could do with some polish but I've not tried it yet..
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No. They actually hit on the real problem halfway down: The official Android Market sucks! Finding new, good stuff is almost impossible. New, yes. Good, yes. New and good? No.

Google thought that letting sales/downloads/popularity was enough to drive the market, but it's not. That's why 'marketing' exists in the first place.
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We only have "like" buttons on our content, and on Friday we implemented FB login. We can survive without this (we ware around long before FB became relevant in our region), but would rather not be locked out of FB.

And yes I get it, FB is _insert whatever here_, but the sad truth is that they are a big player on the market and ignoring them is, simply put, stupid.

And the point is that we are a paying customer of FB and this behavior is unacceptable. Pointing the way FB operates is one of the points of my original post. They need to change, and if no one is pointing fingers that won't happen.
The assumption/hope is that it will stabilize as it grows, but this will take time. It's not gonna be a magical thing/moment.
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Interesting. Perhaps I'll try this out for my display

http://emit.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/skyview/tab=results...

of light levels (an early-stage project designed for high schools).
Oh look, it's there near the end in one dismissive sentence, and comes along with two wrong "facts":

1) the household contribution to algae creation is negligible - That would be the good result of this policy limiting the use of harmfull chemical, and not a reason to remove it.

2) the scientific evidence on the issue of algae's effect on fish runs in all directions Piles of dead fish are not a subtle effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

and the whole thing is filled with this bizarre idea that the sole purpose of governement regulation is to hurt people. I'm sure that there are lots of good, bad and trival drivers of policy, but pure sadism is unlikely to be among them. If anyone wants to understand what's actually going on (ecologically or politically) this article has absolutely nothing to offer.
They're not contradictory though I see how you could read them that way.

My reading of what he's saying with the three points is:

* Don't just go installing and using a bunch of stuff for the sake of it. Make everything justify it's existence on your machine and in your processes.

* Multiple individual tools which do things well are better than general tools which do many things badly.

Probably also worth distinguishing between amount of software and number of applications.

For instance, Eclipse may be just one application but it's a lot of software. It is admittedly a slightly abstract measurement but I think there would generally be broad agreement on the scale of most things.

In terms of your specific issue, it may be that 4Gb is not good enough as much as you'd like it to be. It will depend what else you're running, how big the project is, what it's doing and so on... Plus, Eclipse is a pretty chunky tool itself.
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Thats pretty good!
Add some textures and weapons and you should be good to go.

Good luck!
Two anecdotes in favour of using a nom de plume:

1) Some time ago, I decided to use my real name on the web, to build my professional presence. I wasn't quite unique, but any results that came up for a search on my name were pretty inconsequential. Since I made that decision, two more prominent people with the same name have come to the fore. One of whom operates in a fairly close field to my own, and the other is a film actor. This makes it very difficult to build a personal brand. If you search for my real name online, you get pages and pages of the actor. If you add a bit more context, you get the other guy first, and eventually you might find me, but you'd have to know quite a bit about us to be able to differentiate, and I know I've. If I had a sensible nom de plume, I would not have had this problem. Another mitigation would have been to try to build my personal brand a bit more aggressively at the start.

2) Before I signed up here, I started working for an organisation that requires me to explicitly dissociate my personal web activity from any activity I might undertake in the name of my employer (i.e. my opinions are my own, and do not represent...). If I'd had the account here before then, linked to my profiles elsewhere, then I'd have to add that kind of guff to my profile here. Personally, I think that making it unlikely that anyone would link what I say here to my employer is better than explicitly highlighting that I don't speak for my employer.
im sorry samoa but, thats ridiculous. Whats going to be the date? are they also gonna skip a day like that? and a day isnt just some thing. its a pattern that dates back thousands of years just for them to disrupt that pattern
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It's not the size on disk that is the problem, I guess. Some software leaves other kinds of stuff behind such as links to it in the registry, license services and startup/taskbar apps which can drag the speed of everything down.
Simples - just add some nice urea salts to your was and, hey presto, UV flourescence is your friend..

(BTW - even a 2% reduction in phosphates going into water is a Good Thing(TM) )
"as close to capitalism as it gets" is not necessarily a good thing. As someone else pointed out, in a pure capitalism, we'd have slaves, child porn, thugs for hire, assassination contracts, etc.

I just got this idea right now, but I think a pure capitalism will deteriorate very quickly into a dictatorship. All it takes is for someone to accumulate enough military power so that he can take over. Assuming you can buy/sell groups of armed people and/or hire them.
You might be surprised at how easy it is for non-nerds to hack on HTML a bit.

Here's my guide:

1) Use CSS! Hide all that confusing color and placement code away from them.

2) Emphasize readability in the code. Spacing between sections, everything on it's own line, comments that tell even non-programmers where to put things (header, content, footer, etc)

3) MVC. Especially templating. Keep real code away from the stuff they'll be changing, like text and images.

Having said that, is it worth it? Only the parts that help programmers (including yourself) as well. Most clients will not get their hands dirty in this stuff out of simple fear, and they certainly won't pay you extra for it. (Assuming you gave a single quote up front and aren't getting paid hourly.)
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I managed to get an initial patch up here:

http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/detail?id=2
Did you miss the sarcasm tags around that statement?
Two years ago Samoa switched from driving on the right to driving on the left, to fit in with Aus/NZ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8243110.stm

This continues the broad change in foreign policy.
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Excellent points and solid article. Good to see some cohesive, realistic thinking on this.
Here's a picture of the date line in that area: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Internati...

There's one spot where you can cross the date line 3 times traveling strictly west to east and not changing your latitude!
I have started to believe that networking online like networking in the real world is something that comes with practice.

I am not exactly in the right time zone so perhapse I will have to be online at some odd hours but that shouldn't be much of a problem since I often have insomnia when I am woring on something exciting.

Thank you very much for a very good answer to my question, I will definitely take your advice and try to be in real-time and have patience.

Have a fantastic day :)
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It may have been difficult to leave, and it may be hard to settle back down after returning. But, it's probably no where near as difficult as this.
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No, it's a pattern that dates back to the last time they made the change, going the other way, 100 odd years ago. This kind of thing may be rare, but it happens. The world doesn't end.
As soon as you go electronic, forgery becomes trivial to do on a massive scale

So, does the author know anything about Bitcoin?
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You are comparing different things. OCaml strength is safety, it verifies at compile time that your program is safe, correct apart algorithmic errors. Once it compiles, you are almost sure it is going to work. Go does not give any such guarantee.

And among "safe" languages, OCaml is probably the most efficient, generating fast code running with a small memory footprint.

Moreover, although its development was a little slow in the last years, they have recently restarted working on it, on optimizations and soon multicore support, so I would wait a little before making more comparisons.
...a great disturbance in the Net, as if millions of Samoan sysadmins cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Managed to get it working last night:

http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/issues/detail?id=2
You need to get that sarcasm detector fixed.
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A gold standard is a tool used by a central banking authority to promote stable prices.

A bitcoin is actually designed not to be controlled by a central monetary authority.

So, of COURSE Bitcoins aren't the new gold standard. That's like comparing apples to giraffes.
I went to university in the West Bank for a year - we had Friday off, Saturday class, Sunday off. It was crazy.
It doesn't say which day they'll skip.

I'd pick a Monday.
Shouldn't the onus fall on the commercial sector to conduct business at the time that makes the most sense? If this means shifting the work week by a day for your employees so that you can do more business with your largest customers, then so be it.

This would yield flexibility, what about all the Samoan companies that still do most of their business with the US?
Capitalism means non-government intervention in your voluntary agreements and interactions with others. In other words, it's freedom.
" As someone else pointed out, in a pure capitalism, we'd have slaves, child porn, thugs for hire, assassination contracts, etc."

No you wouldn't. All of those things are the exact opposite of capitalism, since they prevent voluntary association and threaten body, liberty and property.
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Even if you don't understand the basic concepts of the International Date Line, bother to read the article: it's not "a pattern that dates back thousands of years".

The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction.

What's going to be the date? Again, from the article you could see that they will skip from December 27th to December 29th, missing the 28th. So the date will be December 29th.

As to "a day isn't just some thing", a day is a 24 hour period as defined by how long it takes a planet to rotate on its axis. They aren't changing that, their days will still last 24 hours. Dates, however, are indeed just some thing, purely defined by humans, and there have been multiple different calendars over the years. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars

Samoa sits practically right on the International Date Line, this is the line where GMT -12 meets GMT +11, so that you are travelling forwards or back 24 hours whenever you cross over it, depending on your direction. Therefore, whichever side of the IDL they chose to base their time and date on, the time will still fit the day as we know it (i.e. dark at night). And, whichever side of the IDL they chose to base their time on, there will always be other islands very, very close to them that are 24 hours (i.e. one whole day) away from them.

Ultimately, the only difference this makes is whether their weekends coincide with those of the Americas, or those of Australasia. Since, in the past 119 years, their businesses have moved from mostly dealing with the Americas to mostly dealing with Australasia, so it makes sense to move back to being in sync with Australasia.
The government doesn't really control the economy.
The main job of the central banks is to fight high inflation and stay the heck away from deflation.
The mere fact that bitcoins are deflationary is enough to suffocate the bitcoin economy, why would you spend money now when it will be worth more tomorrow?

The bitcoin wiki states that it has little inflation in its money supply, which misses the point that currencies should remain stable with respect to real goods and services and much less so towards its history.
A small inflation is needed to remove the incentive for money hoarding (saving), this provides a system-wide economic stimulation which keeps it stable.
The amount of money in the system doesn't matter, what matters is that 10k cash now is worth more than 10k of cash hoarded for a year.

imo, the real kicker for bitcoin is that it has no failsafe.
What happens when confidence in bitcoin is lost?
The gold standard was backed by real gold, the dollar is backed by the governments' ability to collect taxes.
The bitcoin currency is backed by what? cpu power?
The title is open to misinterpretation! I thought it was about how to compute happiness (which sounds ridiculous but piqued my curiosity!)
I think the technology is already beyond this, and that an ipod nano in a watch form-factor, with the power of one or two generation old iPod Touch, is just around the corner.

Look at the popularity of the TikTok/lunaTik: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...
Cool to know that there are Danish hackers on Hacker News :-) If somebody comes by Aarhus and wants a coffee drop me an email.
That may be true for Windows, bur he's also advocating using only MacOS and Linux/BSD. I think those issues are significantly less common, if not non-existent on those platforms...