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I can actually get quite close to the world record for typing a text message on a Motorola Droid, to the point where I have (in a pinch) done some emergency programming / server configuration on it. With a little more work I can see me getting up to 40WPM on a mini keyboard... but that's never going to replace the 100WPM I can hit on a full-sized one!

For me the big issue is screen location and ergonomics. Touch screens are fundementally incompatible with good ergonomic practices.
Wow! Good job. I think Django should make this official. I like reading PDF but I believe ePub seems better for portable reading devices.
The issue is not new(s).

Showing a screenshot with lots of phone numbers that are less distorted than your average captcha image seems just as bad though..
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Good luck with that. Did riots occur before Twitter/Facebook existed? No? Well, then, carry on.
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Yeah, that's on my todo list- there is just so much stuff to do!

Thanks for the input!
The Patriot Act does not trump EU law here, because the Patriot Act is not in force in the EU, it is not the law of the land in the EU, and is not legal.
PCs are definitely not going to disappear, but most of the people that don't have a professional need for them will no longer have them in the future.

This is because the majority of the population (that is, everybody except geeks, developers and other people that use PCs for work) don't really need a PC. It's just that, until now, there were no devices other than PCs that would give them everything they wanted - the ability to communicate, play games, watch videos, listen to music, surf the web, read mail etc. - all in one package.

Now, as smartphones and tablets get more and more powerful, it's very likely that people will sooner or later abandon their PCs in favour of devices that offer those same features at a lower price, and that are both simpler to use and more portable than PCs.

PCs will survive, though. It's just that they'll no longer be used by average consumers, but by professionals and enthusiasts.
Or you can use fields filtering:

curl -s "https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/eAfyFTzZDMM?v=2&#...
Avoid using that terrible tiny font for online articles.
To anyone who knows the Finns this seems exactly how a typical (and I am on thin ice here for grossly generalizing a country of 5 million people, but let me continue) Finn would talk. Self-deprecating, modest and humorous in a very dry manner.
"Why does a developer need to upgrade ....?"

Because while development might be a use, or even the primary use, of a machine, it doesn't mean it is the only use.

Some people will want to watch videos, some play games, some just want the newest hardware to feel good about themselves, there's a bunch of reasons.
Based on your recommendation, I think I may have to try a gaming mouse.

However, the model you mentioned is currently listed as $71.99 on Amazon. Were you thinking of a different model, or have prices just dropped since you bought it?
Nice! I do remember having to install a crapload of packages in order to generate PDF docs, though if one uses a lot of software with Sphinx docs, it's more than worth it, IMHO.
So this issue has gotten to the "it just happens and we're not sure why?" The below comment (same depth level) is kind of the intuition I had, your post gives some reasons why, but I wonder if anyone knows the ground causes, or if that's as low level of abstraction possible at this point.
Adii definitely makes a lot of good points here. Recently, I've been speaking indirectly to people that are in the industry my product relates to. While the discussions are exciting, I've noticed myself trying to creep more and more features into version 1. It's a bit of a distraction and requires a conscious effort on my behalf to prevent it (i.e. more work). That being said, I do feel there is some value in speaking with customers before v1. Knowing whether or not there's a demand for your product and learning what's really wrong with what's available is a great thing. It's up to the entrepreneur, though, to make sure that those ideas don't cloud the focus of your current work, or make you feel as though they have to appear in v1. Take notes, not action (just yet).
The problem is that I'm not sure it's even possible to get it running properly (e.g. with hardware acceleration) on every flavor of linux out there.

It's a real can of worms that one...
Awesome, glad I could help! Puppet is really nice, once you see a few examples of how it works
Thank you. You expressed that more clearly than I could have expressed it. Unfortunately, even starting to go down this path can cause misunderstanding.

Your thorough breakdown of that part of the issue -- as good as it is -- is still only a part of the problem. Wrapping our heads around the whole thing would require making as thorough a breakdown as yours on all of the other factors, as well.
You don't hang out with many American middle class people do you?

Most have 2 weeks of savings or less.

If you give somebody money who is already a saver and who already appreciates the virtues of saving -- like myself or probably you -- yes, I'd save it. But that's because I spend a fixed amount, have no debt, and save excess income.

If you give a small windfall (I dunno, $100 to $5,000) to most american families, that money will be spent. Probably a good chunk towards paying down household debt, and the rest to fixing things that have long been neglected. That could be the family car, a leaky roof, etc.
This story is the first related item...

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/871800-twitter-users-rally-to-jo...
I think you are spot on. Just like big sound system aren't really dead in an era of miniaturisation, or vinyls aren't really dead in an era of digitalization, PCs or laptop won't really die in an era of cloudification.
Happy Birthday Steve, his inovation and mentality is inspiring and his Segway's are awesome. (Gotta love Segways).
Please don't use the Metro as a source of news. For reference, it is a free paper available around the UK rail network that consists largely of news deemed not worthy of being put into a tabloid with the odd major story spun into nonsense.

Even then, what he said clearly hints at stopping the users using it to organise crime from having access rather than blocking it in general, so the title is somewhat inflammatory.
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Half cheek in tongue answer:
The difference is that in the US people believe that they will be making more and more every year while in Sweden you don't. So they think they will own tomorrow the money to pay back what they spend today.

Are they right? Well, from 1970 to 2010 US economy has grown at an average of 2,9% per year, while Sweden by 2,1% (1). This is a huge difference, almost 50% more. So yes, they are both right :)

(1) Figures are GDP growth at market prices, source: OECD
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What's annoying is that if you disable it, it also disables syncing the other way, so you don't get photos automagically in your contacts.
Personally, I would think unknown objects in the air over the U.K. would be a matter worth investigating regardless of what they could be.

What if they were some crazy Soviet nuclear attack airplane or something? Or some sort of weird spy plane? Or, well, aliens.
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A lot of the backend infrastructure can likely be reused, and by using javafog.com, rubyfog.com and so on, they can keep each brand/site independent without confusing end-users.
For any non-Londoners, the metro is a rag.

I hate Cameron and would love a new thing to rant about him on, but there isn't one in this story. His quote specifically said "people ... when we know they are plotting violence".

If somebody is plotting violence and their twitter/facebook gets suspended, I'm fine with that. But no, The Metro had to lead off with "whether it would apply only to individuals or could see networks shut down entirely".

Terrible, terrible journalism - but you get what you pay for from free newspapers.
Very nice job, this will be very helpful . Congrats.
Disclaimer: I'm biracial (Black and white).

People misunderstand the issue at hand in these conversations a lot so I figured I'd chime in a bit. Is there a difference between blacks and whites? Yes and no, it's complicated. The real differences at hand, as I think some commenters below pointed out is the difference between affluent and those that are less so. These are cultural differences and tend to manifest themselves as racial differences because of the disparate wealth numbers for the different demographics (25% of Blacks are in poverty and the median income amongst blacks is about 16k less than that of the national average).

It would be more correct to refer to this group as a sort of sub-culture, the group includes people of other ethnicities also. Sadly, this doesn't answer the original question. We have a subculture in America, one made up of primarily African Americans, that the glamorizes drugs, violence, and a victim mentality; While simultaneously villainizing education and success. Is this a trait of "blacks"? No, absolutely not. It is however the traits of the culture many blacks have aligned themselves with.
Does wealth lead to less empathy or does empathy lead
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I believe the latter.
I think I know exactly what you mean - restrict the highlighted letters to be in a single direction.

Something I was considering was changing the selection mechanics so that you click at the first letter and then drag to the final letter before releasing. I think that would be more intuitive.

Yes, I agree it's raw, almost embarrassingly so. Still, release early and iterate!
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Looks very promising. Congrats for the imp of the idea. Now I'll try to get out javascript/browser from the performance equation and see how it rocks.
OK. I am also from India and looking to move to the valley to join a competent start-up.

I have built some prototypes that can be readily looked at if someone wishes so. Sadly, it has never come to that level. There is an initial excitement from the other end that quickly fizzles out after they learn that I am Indian and they need to sponsor a H1B. I think the process might be bit more drawn out compared so someone from say, the EU. I don't know. Borders suck.
I think there is a misunderstanding of the intent of this provision of the PATRIOT act. It's primary purpose is to serve US based companies by providing cover from shareholder activism and negative press when they are outed for providing such information; and to streamline the process of dealing with such requests because there is little to be gained from resistance through litigation.

In other words, the PATRIOT act provides corporations with the least expensive option for providing user data and provides them with political and legal cover when they do so.
Why does Facebook treat its developers this way?
I have thousands. Maybe I should unsub from haskell-cafe.
You'd have to be very narrow in your online usage to guarantee your privacy. I wouldn't say privacy is dead but complete privacy is impossible. One could argue as well that the cloud was the major force behind the Arab Spring so it isn't all bad.

Regarding the laptop, I haven't heard this being a widespread problem with the Air. Once in a while, everyone comes across a device that has problems regardless of the manufacturer. What I take out of the story is the quality customer service. Good support almost guarantees that they will be a returning customer.
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The next time I need to code in C, I shall try moonscript first. Thanks author for this great piece of software.
The point of restricting the pool was partially as a filter for gaming/con. I agree though that this pool might not need it.
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No, I don't think it's great that his laptop melted after two weeks, quite the opposite. I do think it is a good idea to plan for failure though. One thing I like about Windows (from Vista onwards) is that it is really fault-tolerant. I've been using OS X for about 9 months now, and while programs lock up less frequently, when they do they do sometimes manage to lock up the entire O/S.

Windows used to do this, but programs on Windows go catastrophically wrong that it is now expected and planned for - it's rare that a user space program impacts performance to the point where I cannot kill it.
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Anonymity and social censorship in the UK riots
we'd love to live in a world where people pursue employment due to interest and/or a drive to make the world/economy better

We do, and in fact it is necessarily so. See "Invisible Hand": (the following is a quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand )

the invisible hand was created by the conjunction of the forces of self-interest, competition, and supply and demand, which he noted as being capable of allocating resources in society. This is the founding justification for the Austrian laissez-faire economic philosophy, but is also frequently seen in neoclassical and Keynesian economics. The central disagreement between economic ideologies is, in a sense, a disagreement about how powerful the "invisible hand" is.
> But I love OCaml, I don't why it isn't more hacked/forked.

Because it has a fucked-up licence - you're not allowed to "fork" it in the usual sense of the word, you can only distribute the original source, and your modifications in a patch. The "free-for-all" licence is only available to commercial users.
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As u said, when there is less connectivity it really makes sense.
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If you only want a top window for example, you could make gettytab spawn one of those. But that would make it impossible to input anything to it.

If you want input as well, you could make gettytab spawn a screen session that you could then connect to from Terminal.app. But this would force you to have a terminal window open showing the same screen as the VT220, which would somewhat defeat the purpose.

It would also be possible to write a small script that spawns on the tty that would take its input from a file, or even from a network connection (using netcat, for instance). This would of course come with some security implications as well. Especially considering that the tty process will have root permissions (at least unless you drop privileges in the script).

Edit:
I should probably make it clear: As far as I'm aware, you can't make the computer believe that input from the mac keyboard comes from the VT220. At least not trivially. But you can get around it using some other techniques.
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I wonder what kind of fail-safes are built into these suits, if it goes haywire it could bend you into a pretzel.
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Any language, as long as it has OpenGL bindings, really.
easy solution: use social media to sell money making things and keep personal stuff out
We could just borrow money to buy foreign debt, lowering the value of our currency to help our export center. Basically doing the same thing we always complain about China doing to us. We could probably earn a profit even if some of the countries we end up investing in default.
Government has the power of force, which includes the power to circumvent the price system by taxing or borrowing against future taxes, irrespective of the information the price system conveys about the efficiency of the actions undertaken with that money.

Since the government's actions may not be subject to the pressures of the price system, a government solution is less likely to reflect economic reality as described by the price system. In more than a few ways, this means the government's actions are not likely to succeed, because the primary motivations for experimentation won't be economic, but political.

Individuals and groups without the power of force must create solutions that can stand up to the pressures of the price system. In this model, shifting experimentation to the scope of individuals and groups by liberalizing (if necessary) or fine-tuning economic policy is what works.

Of course, this explanation requires an well-functioning price system, and making the system function well is a subject in itself. There's also the question of how often actors in the price system actually act rationally, given the information they receive from the price system.
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I think the audience here tends to be capitalist/libertarian/objectivist. This means that for many, your assumptions about what is moral/"on shaky ground"/etc. are seen as somewhat baseless and irrelevant.

Maybe a better topic to discuss would be the ongoing debate over the proposed Harvard MBA 'oath' (http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/blog/2010-02-19.html). Actually, I think a quote in that article answers your question quite succinctly:

He concludes: “Rather than focusing on pledges, businesses should make sure that managers comply with their fiduciary and ethical responsibility to maximize the wealth of the people who pay their salaries, i.e., the shareholders.”

Lastly, it's not common to have these kind of open-ended discussion topics.

Good luck.
For those who don't like Metro, the Guardian has the same quote from Cameron: "We are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/11/uk-riots-day-f...
People are rightly questioning the reliability of this newspaper, however the same statment & quotes are on the official website for the British Prime Minsiter ( http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/pm-statement-on-disorder-in-... )

Mr Speaker, everyone watching these horrific actions will be stuck by how they were organised via social media.

Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill.

And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them.

So we are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.
Indeed - in a hurry it is very much possible indeed to make a mistake (also, an average mom or pop would not necessarily know the difference between the "wireless" and "broadband"...

Mind if I steal this pic for a blog post ? (Or if you planned a write-up, I'd be interested in a URL. It's worth making a bit of noise around it so the MS guys think of it as a problem worth solving.)
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The plane probably tried to send a signal, failed, then tried again an hour later, eventually succeeding after the third try.
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I've been doing this for years on sites that allow long passwords - "pass sentences" - but I also throw in a number or two.
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If you're afraid of the system being gamed then no answer will suffice other than the tax code being re-written. Let's not pretend there's a practical answer to the cluster-fuck that is our economic incentive. I would like to challenge the basic premise that revenue should be taxed. If you want to incentivize spending, the answer isn't to make money dirt cheap by means of QE infinity. We've tried that trick and all we have to show for is a series of bubbles. The challenge isn't spending money, it's knowing where to spend it that counts. Propping up mid-sized corporations isn't that place IMO.
I think he means that it broadcast it's position every 3 hours and presumably navigated by autopilot in between.
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He he, reminds me of the password generator I made concatenating 3 words from the list of the "500 most common passwords": http://www.mrspeaker.net/2009/01/09/make-secure-passwords/

The top 500 list has an awful lot of naughty words - so the phrases are pretty easy to remember ;)
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I've also been doing this for years, but with bits of my post code thrown in to fulfil those edqe cases where complexity requirements are needed.
Yeah, bbedit has tons of ways of running scripts and stuff. It just sucks at editing text. It doesn't know how to indent code, or even format stuff like bulleted lists in plain text.

That's the problem with Mac editors, they have fancy sidebars and think opening a directory of files or running a Unix pile is hot stuff, but they're not much better than a text box in Safari at actually editing text.
"The other danger would be all offshore https sites getting blocked."

Fine by me. "No benefits of the information access for your country unless you also allow dissenting opinions" would be quite a win for any project of this kind.
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I haven't ever seen that in OCaml. Probably an F# extension.

If you're going to complain about OCaml's syntax, I would start with having to use different arithmetic ops for int vs. floating point (+ vs. +.) and different indexing operators for strings and arrays ( s.(0) vs. s.[0] ).

You get used to it pretty quickly, and OCaml more than makes up for it in other ways, but it is a bit annoying.
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