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The US has been doing extremely half-assed Keynes. It's not working because the bills haven't been large enough to have a measurable effect. Fundamentally I think the problem is the US has been too risk-averse. We've been hamstrung by our inability to accept that we have to take big risks to solve big problems, instead we're neutering any sort of solution to the point here it doesn't present a risk, and consequently can't present a true solution.

I think there's a similar issue with this economist article. The assumption that there is a "correct choice" I think is wrong. There are a variety of bad choices, and it's probable that extremely risky choices are the only ones that have a chance of solving the crisis.
Though I see your point I have to say, you probably cannot drive a Nano in a snow storm either :)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on.

And good luck with fixing the hack!
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I really want to know what the plan is? How will poor people who cant afford a decent computer have access to WiFi? Its not like India has free Wifi spots in many of these locations. Is there a plan to provide Wifi in the schools where these kids go? I wish this article had more information regarding the whole plan
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While I generally abhor taxes, I really like the idea of a financial transaction tax. It would effectively eliminate the profit margin for high frequency trading and remove a LOT of volatility from the markets. IMHO the market volatility is causing the average person to doubt the stability of the economy and hurting the entire ecosystem.

Even a small transaction tax... Say, $1/EUR per trade would remove the incentive for High frequency trading and encourage some more productive market dynamics. I mean, really, who wants to IPO in a market like this? And that removes a pretty significant source of funding for new businesses...
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someone who can write FizzBuzz in functional and OOP would be better.

How would you write an OOP implementation of FizzBuzz? I genuinely don't see how this would be done, short of something really contrived like fizz.Print(), buzz.print().
I can see this as being useful for asking customers to record bug repros. The fact that it's a chrome extension doesn't bother me nearly as much as installing third party screen capture software.
They are not branded so, though.
> I could see it in some tiny contrarian subset of the population

Tongue firmly in cheek example:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2039931/Jamie-L...

You're right about the internals, but this discussion was about external design cues. Even so, to the casual user (the majority), software use on iPhone 4 will not be "considerably less functional" than on the iPhone 4S so in this case an external cue would not signal any particularly important functional change.
I think you're right, but I also think that this strategy is dangerous: as PG used to say (maybe quoting somebody else?), don't let anyone fly under you.

If you want to pursue the strategy of the very high end, you have to be innovating all the time, in a very big way, which is not what yesterday's event was about.

Or you can count on a core of very loyal customers who will buy your products no matter what, at any price; those people exist but there aren't enough of them to fuel Apple's growth forever.
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It's funny that you should bring that up... During this whole back-and-forth I can't help but think that Apple's libdispatch solves most of the issues brought up by both sides:

* Use a dispatch queue and dispatch_async a block to handle computation. Since the queues work from a shared thread pool and are managed at the kernel level, a long-running Fib calculation won't hold up other blocks from processing on any concurrent queue (it would still hold up a sequential queue...obviously).

* Use dispatch_sources to do your IO. Now you don't have to worry about clumsy callbacks, and your IO operations are perfectly happy co-existing with your long-running computations.

* Use dispatch_read/dispatch_write to persist to disk and you don't have to worry about different latency and throughput characteristics of files vs sockets

...and to the point about signals:

* Use a signal dispatch_source to do things in response to signals that you would never have thought possible. This is possible because libdispatch sets up a trampoline to catch the actual signal and then turn around and queue your dispatch_source block. It's not a complete panacea, but it's close...

...now if only Linux would implement kqueue
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Heh. "ohh, and by the way, $20/hr at least".
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I think we all saw what we wanted to see. I wanted an iPhone 5 and journalists wanted to write about an iPhone 5 so that was the story we all focused on. Looking back there are multiple signs that the 4S was going to be the only new model introduced, but just like Fox Mulder, we all wanted to believe.
The problem for big (and small) media is that hype (and its counterpart FUD) drives page views. Even good writers are more apt to fall for the "big" story even if they know it sounds fishy. Wishful thinking and greed (for clicks) leads to speculation run rampant.
It's not that simple -- this can quickly turn into a PR nightmare. If you read the article, the consumer reaction is largely negative. If they were to open stores around the world, it would be incredibly detrimental to Google's brand because the average consumer will not understand the value proposition of the Chromebooks.

Personally, I don't think the value proposition is high for the consumer right now. The value largely lies with enterprise, where company's want computer to do specific functions with increased security and lower IT costs.
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Thanks, this is very useful!

* maybe coloring the names red/green (behind/ahead) would solve this? (hovering the names shows a popup with info on hovered person's balance)

* shift-tab went straight the todo-list

* date fields..
* and uneven splits: yep, in certain situations both could be very useful. Maybe a "more" button that shows extra options like these when recording a Payment/Transfer would be nice.

* auto-complete should actually work already with names. I'll add it to the "for what" field also.

* this splits opinions I think. for me it's more natural to add new stuff to the bottom than to the top. The page scrolls to the bottom when new transaction is recorded, so it shouldn't make a big difference anyhow.
No, not at all. But that's the problem: to my knowledge, they haven't disclosed much about their methods of collecting data, nor how they've come up with their percentage numbers. Since Microsoft seems to be ruled by politics and pet projects, I'm extremely suspect of the objectivity of their statistical analysis.
It depends a lot on what company actually do, but lets be honest - not so many companies out there need some tricky algo implemented. Most stuff already invented and you, as programmer, have to know when to use what, how it should work together and what is approximate complexity of two or more algos, which could be used in particular situation..

Why I am saying this... In most cases (unless someone interviewing me for position where I will be developing "nanobots to build house on Mars"), if interviewer will ask me to write actual code on real white board.. i will pass this position no matter how big or cool or both this company is.

My memory and attention have better use then memorizing particular syntax of particular language, particular code of particular sorting algorithm, etc.
When I read articles like this, I'm amazed at how much some people misunderstand what I like about my iPhone.

I develop a mental picture of a squirrely, mad-scientist type who has just developed a cyborg lover and is frantically pitching it to a passer by on the street:

"Her lips are 8.6% larger than the average woman's! The width of her hips exactly 1.61803399 times the size of her waist size. The golden ratio! Her face is constructed using geometry indicated to be most appealing to the largest number of males in our thirty-thousand member clinical study! She's... um... ready & able to engage in intercourse using a synthetic lubrication dispersion system that contains real human pheromones up to 8 times a day! Try that with a real woman <laugh> <snort> !"

The passer by is confused and disgusted. As he walks in to his home, he grabs his girlfriend and holds her tight, breathing in her scent, and basking in the warmth of her embrace. Her measurements, nor the proportions of her face, enter his mind as he looks in to her eyes and tells her he loves her. The way she makes him feel cannot be attributed to any "specification".

====

I don't mean to say that I feel about my phone the way I feel about the woman I love, but that in similar juxtaposition, the reasons I feel the way I do about my phone can't be expressed using specifications.
When banks start failing left and right, people start getting scared, taking their money out of banks, causing banks to become insolvent, causing more banks to fail, etc. When a bank fails, you lose money (absent depositor's insurance), potentially lots of it. This is not a good thing. It caused a lot of pain in 1929/1930s in the U.S., and led to the creation of the FDIC. Even 80 years later, we sort of have a cultural memory of bank failures as being a large part of causing the Great Depression in the U.S.
For those who have no quicktime on their machine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEqpfaRaWxU
This patent madness calls for some kind of localized troll-defense. Maybe a fee pool? I.e. startups (especially the underfunded) in cityX share potential legal costs by contributing to a fund which will be used to hire lawyers to defend any member sued by a patent troll. Maybe get local govt to chip in too (support startups as future employers and economic growth contributors). ...A local startup guild? Union? Or should insurance firms develop anti-troll coverage packages?

It's just crazy that aside from 100 other challenges of being an early stage company, you now have to contend with the increasing possibility of being hit by a troll. Any change in legislation will be a long time coming and in the meantime, trolls should be pushed back in some way.
Google Talk supports Video chat across a wider range of devices than FaceTime.
Download speeds and camera response speeds aren't really tech specs. It's the difference between the gigahertz of your process vs. how fast you can launch an app. One is a spec, the other is a measurement. One gives the user an idea of what the experience will be.
I doubt this person has any leadership position. His views seem too harsh (see his website: http://dadapop.com/)

Here's a quote from "We're All Black Now!" (http://dadapop.com/black.html)

"Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially stolen the 2004 presidential and congressional elections it can be officially declared that the South has finally won the civil war. It took a 150 years for the proslavery, segregationist, white supremacist movement in America to accomplish the task but they finally did it.

With the entrenchment of the Right wing sponsored unverifiable touchscreen electronic voting system as well as with the Trident, Diebold and E&SS controlled optical scanner and punch card electronic counting systems primarily in the southern states, but not exluding Ohio, the Dixiecrats' that split from the Democratic Party when the Democratic Party went pro civil rights and that took over the Republican Party can finally claim victory in the civil war that really began in the American Revolution when rich propertied slave owning white men chose not to include the freeing of the black slave and not granting the vote to women in that so-called revolution.

Yes, we're all black now. Disenfranchised from the electoral process in America and soon to be purged from public life altogether. The great irony is that rich propertied white men in the U.S. Senate got to vote on January 6, 2005 to not only hand the South and it's white supremacist leadership the victory in the civil war but also provide them with a well organized fascist dictatorship as the crowning achievement of the complete and total subversion of American democracy. "
Yeah ironically the apple reporting site was delayed again. Not that it mattered because I didn't end up making sales :P
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What a joke. I could probably poke holes in just about every item they listed, but emphasizing the fact that the Galaxy S II has a larger screen while failing to note that the important metric - DPI - is worse is what really kills me. I guess they must feel awful about how superior iPad 2's screen it to the Tab: it's a whole 3 inches bigger!
It comes down to the Protestants keeping the Catholics in check :)
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Is it just me? I like the form factor of the 3GS much better than the 4/4S. I was hoping they would go back to that with the 5.
I see that the context is missing.
The alternative is two wheeled vehicles (scooters and motorbikes). In India a big percentage of people use two wheelers for commuting. Nano seems to be a slight upgrade from two wheelers. However with rising gas costs, moving from a two wheeled vehicle to the cheapest car does not make much economic sense. Also with Nano being branded as the cheapest car, it does not make much social sense either.
You're making economics sound like a religion rather than a science, there. If Keynesian economics hasn't worked in the US, then there's two possibilities:

1. It was too small or wrongly applied, or

2. Keynesian economics doesn't really work
That's rather the point. When presenting a view of the file system under some particular directory, it's nice to not have to hard-link every file into place, and instead include wholesale directory trees. That's my most common use case for symlinks.
No-one who has a 4 or a 4S is going to be annoyed that they guy with the cheap iPhone looks like he's got the same thing as they have.

Why would someone else be annoyed by another persons choice in phone? I guess I could understand if you thought the other person made a bad purchase, but how is it possible to be annoyed that someone else has something you agree is good?

Are iPhones really that big of status accessories for their owners? This explains so much.
I think wrists are as important as back. Of course that doesn't start with a B.
I got lost once I clicked settle debts. There was no visual cue that Expenses were accessed through the menubar at the top of the page. Once I hit "Record Transfer" I was left looking at the debt page with no where to go.
I agree that it's a pretty effective form of protest. In fact, I applaud the actions of the editors for bringing to light the issues that are being pushed in the legislature.

Most people are too willfully ignorant about what goes on politically in their countries, and it's only when they are personally affected that they take a stand in the matter. Other sites should have joined in and made it apparent to all italian internet users the effects this law might have on their web experience.

If anything the Google case should make it clear that it's not a safe bargain to simply ignore these types of issues.
The video threat against the NYSE included a call for Anonymous supporters to utilize the so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) voluntary botnet tool to launch a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against the NYSE's website on the target date.

Regardless of whether this is a threat from Anonymous or a fake, I really don't think DDOSing the web server(s) of the NYSE would have any affect whatsoever on their actual trading systems. I would assume (or hope) that there is no internal connection between the two.
That's what the Economist is all about, though - extremely well written and produced with a very predictable and consistent message and opinion.
One of these days I really must create a bunch of alter egos and make them predict different things. Then I can style the remaining ego that predicted the right thing into a prophet and make big money.
I showed my friends the iPhone 4S today without mentioning how some people online are disappointed and they loved it, they aren't geeks and were part of the group that said the iPad was useless and just a big iPod.

Most of the UK news outlets i've seen haven't reported it as a flop of any kind just reported it as an update.

People seem really excited by Siri, they thought it was impossible and I heard similar thoughts on the radio. Not sure if it's just the tech news bubble or that people love Apple.

I got all of the features I wanted but didn't get the design changes. I'm glad Apple didn't call it 4G as technically they can now as what makes 4G was changed once all of these phones called themselves 4G.
"Rational markets", eh?

Does that mean that you should be forced to sell things for a price lower than you're willing to accept, or that you should be forced to buy things for a price higher than you're willing to pay?
I also dislike the Aeron. I have a Leap and it's not bad. I've never had a chair that's felt perfect. I'm curious if anyone out there has tried the Humanscale Freedom chair with a headrest?
I don't disagree with your main point, but camera responsiveness isn't exactly nonsense. For many people, it's possibly one of the most infuriating waits on current smartphones.
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But why do they keep putting in a smaller 800x480 resolution screen?
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Isn't this how most elected politicians behave around the world?

First announcement: "we'll do it".

Status update: "as announced it is on course and will be completed 'soon'".

Launch: "as promised here it is for the public".

Media just publishes each statement as major news item and people feel it's already overrated.
Click on the image. It should bring it up as a readable image.
yet another world's cheapest [insert gadget] announcement. time to step it up, waiting for the day i hear world's best...
Not to nitpick but i thought the quote was "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" ?
That would also tie more with what you are saying here, i think ;-)
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The author's superfluous use of words written in all capital letters and liberal use of exclamation points speaks volumes towards his credibility.
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Samsung previously said they would try this the moment it was released so far from a surprise. Big waste in time and money.
I'll change the menubar to be a bit more flashy (there is a subtle color difference between the selected page and the rest of the menubar. A bit too subtle, it seems)
Aside from the freeze while they're polishing a new stable release, debian testing isn't a bad way to run the "latest and greatest" on your desktop. Hopefully the "constantly usable testing" idea will gain traction and make it even better. https://lwn.net/Articles/406301/
Well, that's a fairly obnoxious article.

And even those spitting with fury at the disappointment will glance with envy at the guy who in a meeting quietly asks Siri to order him coffee for the lunchtime break.

Really? I think it's far more likely people will glance with annoyance at the guy talking to his phone PA app during a meeting. There are a lot of good use cases for smart voice input, none of them take place in a meeting.
Why do you think you could easily argue that the A5 is vastly superior to the Exnyos?
One thing I do wonder about is how the Galaxy S II's cpu matches up with the A5 after an overclock. That's one of the greatest things I love about Android. You have direct control over how fast you want your device to be provided you have a custom firmware installed.
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By drastically reducing volume it would also reduce liquidity and increase spreads. Sweden tested this in the eighties and abandoned after seeing the market substantially dry up (and the resulting taxes as well).
The lack of keyboard means that it is a terrible tool for students.

Without a keyboard you cannot create. (Ok you can draw imprecise pictures and type really slowly)

Without creating/doing you are not learning. You are just absorbing data.

Tablet/touch screen users never add new content to the world, they are just an audience.
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In dconf, try changing “/schemas/desktop/gnome/shell/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary” to false.
Your focus on that speaks volumes about how superficial you are :-)
Kind of a side-note: I found this comercial very difficult to follow. Not sure if this is only on the web, or if it's on TV as well, but a casual observer (i.e. comercial is on the background, not really paying attention) will find it very difficult to follow the comercial's message. Two different pictures for each set, two different statements popping up and rotating. A lot going on in this comercial.

And this brings up a frustration that keeps growing inside of me. I bought the Nexus One the day it was released. I now have the Nexus S. I'm a Google fanboy most definitely. But after two years of evangelizing Android, Apple just keeps wiping the floor with Android. Take the new notification center, for example. It is a virtual copy of Androids, except it's gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful. In my opinion, Siri offers a better value prop now than Goog's voice recognition. All we have to brag about now is the turn by turn navigation? (Which is awesome, by the way). Even Apple's commercials are better! I was never jealous of iPhone owners, but that is definitely changing. Here's to hoping the Ice Cream Sandwich packs quite a punch.
Wrist pain, the Dynaflex and powerWeb and wrist curl bar seem to have helped a lot of musicians, rock climbers etc

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http://www.amazon.com/Weider-Wrist-and-Forearm-Developer/dp/...
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I have two of those keyboards, and I really like the layout. And it's one of the only keyboards that gives you a negative tilt angle. But I wish they were available with mechanical key switches. I have gone back to flat keyboards with cherry brown switches, because as good as the layout on the ergonomic board is, the key action is unbearable.