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The truth doesn't have to lie somewhere in between. Look at the last paragraph:

Even for ISPs running their own network, such as BT, [ISP CTO] Davies claims the figures of €0.01-0.03 per GB are "rubbish". "It's an order of magnitude greater than that," he claimed.

This is coming from a guy claiming that the "existing smartphone data tariffs of around €10 per GB" are too low. They're profit-seeking, and relying on their regulators to be as bad at math as they are.
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Nice logo and clearly most people like it, there are always some haters.

I grow raspberries every year and there are wide variety outside of the sterile and often flavorless red that we see in grocery stores. http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg

Also, thanks for that bit of trivia (Bibendum).
"but it definitely enhances Steve Wozniak's stature."

Because he worked on a side project during working hours at HP?

This is far from an ethical high point for Jobs, but Woz, too, does not come over as a saint.
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The same way you would when employed by any other type of business.
> Even for ISPs running their own network, such as BT, Davies claims the figures of €0.01-0.03 per GB are "rubbish". "It's an order of magnitude greater than that," he claimed.

Right. So let's start seeing those prices get in the 0.10~0.30€/GB now shall we?
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There have been many great tributes to SJ, but I particularly liked with one by Jeff Bezos. He said something to the effect of: “Steve created three companies in his lifetime, the first Apple before he was ousted, Pixar and the Apple he resurrected when he came back to an almost bankrupt company”.
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I'm actually surprised that businesses till use PayPal after all the incidents like this. They've made it incredibly clear that their policies and actions are arbitrary and they don't care about their customers at all.

And yet, companies still use them.

I can understand customers using them... The customer almost never gets screwed, that I've seen... But anyone with a balance is taking a risk that it'll be seized. And if they feel like it, you won't get the money back.

Google and Amazon now both offer excellent payment systems and I've never heard these horror stories about them. So why don't people switch?
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In other news: "water wet", "pope catholic", "bears shit in woods".
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If you just want full-screen, it's ":set fullscreen" on MacVim, or ":set fu" for short.
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> How such a flawed laptop could pass quality control is past me

Every manufacturer has a few lines of lemons. Apple for instance had a few generations of iBooks where the graphics chip would come loose (since it was placed unprotected under the wrist rest), everyone who I've ever known with a plastic MacBook (5+ people) had the front plastic crack, one generation of MacBook Pro 15" had an issue where the LCD would randomly turn on with every other row of LED lighting turned off (so it looked like stage lighting), and then of course the classic "mooing" MacBook.

This is why anecdotal evidence is difficult to take to heart - it's always black and white.
The Visual Basic style Type declarations are cute - you would think that the C style would fit better.

Seriously folks - JavaScript is just fine and needs very little help.
I would think it's more of a demo for features that they're adding in anyway, PeerConnection, Native Client, etc.
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> Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers. I'm not worried about ever hitting that cap

I'm still under a 100GB softcap right now (hardcap is 160GB, but I have to pay more for everything inbetween), I had to reinstall a machine and wipe out my Steam folder due to corruption.

I have about 300 games in steam, I blew through my cap once last month (in two nights, which are 50% off on the bandwidth counter) and this month I'm already at 96.8GB due to leaving Steam unattended for two nights again. And I'm nowhere near done re-downloading my games.

I don't normally come close to exceeding the cap, but once in a while in freak events it's very easy to blow through a few hundred gigs in a month. I miss uncapped connections.
Marginal upgrades to the camera and processor, with a new app for voice commands, and they can't even make them fast enough.

Seriously, I'm just at a loss. I honestly don't get Apple. I've used their products and just don't see what others do. What am I missing?
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A lot of Ruby is kind of like the traffic circle. Circles can be a superior intersection of 5 roads (if traffic volume isn't high, you never have to stop), but they trip up nearly all new drivers.

I've found that Ruby is a very right-brain language in the sense that when you analyze it at a low level, things don't seem to make sense. But at a high level, it often does exactly what you'd want. Variable hoisting in 1.9 is the perfect example of this.

OP claims to have been a "Rubyist", but it sounds like he's still fighting the system and hasn't embraced it yet. It's like when people who are new to Lisp complain about the parentheses or prefix notation. If you just go with it, down the road you may find that these are some of its best features.
Regarding the money that Jobs seemed to withhold from Woz, I believe I've heard Woz say either in his book or interviews something to the affect that Jobs turned him into a millionaire so what does he have to complain about.

What surprises me most about this article is just how dirty and weird Jobs comes off in his late teens. I look forward to reading his biography when available.
vertical split with three windows, adjust their size to control the margins, and set the border to the same color as the background. Put these commands on your .vimrc. Should work too.
Nope, Linux (Arch). I use other extensions like Instapaper, historious and disconnect.me.
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Merchants don't use google or amazon(or any other payment system) because they require a higher amount of reserve and/or fees. The loud complaints are from people who want their cake and eat it for free. People don't realize nothing is free.
I forget the SSD assist, but I'd have to see it in action before I put cash on it. Eclipse was tolerable with 4 on my last years MBP, but doubling made a world of difference.
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He's a joke.
It appears to be implemented using split windows, so the results if you try and use split windows normally are somewhat surprising.

(It also doesn't work well with my settings as it shows a statusbar on some of these split windows acting as padding, so the effect is ruined slightly.)
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The article mentions the same is possible in MacVim, but not how to do it. Any pointers?
How long until we get to peak and off-peak rates for data usage by ISPs, much like some electrical utilities?
Could this have something to do with protecting the rest of Amazon's corporate structure (AWS, Amazon.com, etc.) from patent liability?
> It's like using "my" everywhere for free.

Huh. Everywhere? Like, even in inner scopes where you mention the variable? If not, what exactly does "everywhere" mean here?

The nice thing about "strict" is that it forces you to be explicit about the scopes -- the compiler can't give you explicity with implicit behavior.
Someone at Reddit posted about having odd problems at PayPal where they are holding his money for 90 days and got a terse response from their help line.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/l4q2y/please_hel...
Fuck you RMS. I have been and still am a staunch believer in open source, but when I read comments like this from the person who's motto once was that everybody writing software should contribute the source back to the community, not because it delivers better software (due to the more eyeballs resulting in fewer bugs), but because it results in moving software forward quickly by virtue of helping each other out, I agree with the OP, it's time for a change.

Let me tell you something, free software or not, it was Steve Jobs, who told us what forward direction for software actually means, first by making GUI mainstream, then by making capacitive touch mainstream, and lastly by defining what a tablet form factor should and should not be.

If you think Steve's products hamper your freedom, I can argue the exact opposite, it was Steve who taught us ways to make technology more accessible by making groundbreaking innovations in user interfaces, which enables the non geeks of the world to use computers in the first place, I am pretty sure those users will feel more trapped in the command line interface that you envisioned for them, than they feel by not having access to the source of the painting app they have fun playing with on their ipad.

So if you cannot come out the frog hole that you have created for yourself, and give credit where it's due, then maybe you should shut the fuck up.
Sounds like G+ is settling for competing with tumblr instead of facebook.
Not cool to praise Jobs one day and next day accuse him in every disaster humankind ever dealt with. The guy just died, lets leave him alone for some time.
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Or adding yet another hike to your internet bill. Do you really think taxes prevent companies from going up on prices? Of course not. It won't affect their profits at all. They'll just charge customers more to offset the tax.
The problem, at least in Canada, isn't that the CRTC is bad at math, it's that almost all of the people making decisions used to be executives for the ISP and or Telecoms industry.
A spinout is an absurd and nonsensical level of speculation from the mere fact that Amazon filed some trademark registrations via a separate LLC.

Amazon is already a maze of separate entities for tax purposes, for example to tap-dance around 'nexus' standards for assessing sales tax.

Much more simple (and thus more likely) explanations for this 'Seesaw LLC' registration entity are thus:

(1) this allowed them to obscure the filing (especially as of the earlier, foreign, 'priority date') from people searching for Amazon registrations

(2) it allows some tax advantages from cross-entity IP licensing

I'd go with (1); clicking through to the registrations shows the marks first registered in Tonga ('Fire' in May 2011; 'Silk' a few days before the public announcement). I believe I've heard of Apple using a similar tactic to acquire registered trademarks without tipping off outsiders.
The published maximum RAM is usually just the number of RAM slots multiplied by the largest module that exists for those slots at the time the machine is released. Frequently, larger modules are introduced later on, which the machine will handle even though it goes beyond those published specs.

The MacBook Air is a different beast in this respect because it doesn't have any RAM slots. What you buy it with is what it has, forever, unless you're much more comfortable wielding a soldering iron than most people.
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"add features"?

It's an extension. If you don't want it to run, you just don't install it.
Ask like an adult, without confrontation. Don't show achievements, demonstrate value. Request that compensation be in line with your contributions. While you're at it, relate to the corporate goals and your potential impact in future opportunities at the company.

Know what double digit is. It costs a lot to run a 25 person operation, double digit can be 10% (barely close to inflation-bad) or 30%+(good). Understand that most successful businesses, unless they are planning for a large acquisition, increasing cash reserves in light of major market movement, or the like, will budget a reserve for cost-of-living increases to salary. This amount is almost always arbitrarily given to high achievers or out-of-line comp, with the rest thrown back into general fund for unplanned capex.

Understand that you have the option of bringing up that you have personal goals (housing, greater education, financial responsibilities, personal growth) outside of work that you can use the extra resources towards. This shows initiative to grow and not just a move to make a point (remember: confrontation is not always a good move).
Doesn't really work for me, but there is already an issue on GitHub for this.
However, I don't really see the added value if you are using MacVim in the first place.
I wrote a color scheme/plugin to do something similar a while back (I think it's darkroom.vim on vim.org). Never really developed it fully. Ratings indicate people were underwhelmed :) Looks like this guy may have given the idea a much better treatment.
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Did you contact Nvidia for support? That driver you were installing was proprietary software delivered by the vendor. Why are you blaming the free software for it not working?
Also curious about this. Entering fullscreen used to do it correctly, but in the latest MacVim the document spans 100%, even if you have "Prefer native fullscreen support" unchecked.
> Google and Amazon now both offer excellent payment systems and I've never heard these horror stories about them. So why don't people switch?

I'll give the same answer I give whenever this question comes up - I stick with PayPal because of the instant access to the money from transactions via the PayPal debit card. Since I sell physical products, this gives me a lot of flexibility in terms re-ordering inventory, moreso than the "deposit to your account once per week/in a couple of business days" policies of other options.

That said, I'm no fool; I sweep my money out of PayPal ASAP and I have an Amazon Payments account ready to go in the event PayPal screws with my account, but as long as things are working with PayPal, I'm going to stay with PayPal (until something better comes along).
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Heh. We could revoke their right to use publicly funded wires and let them try to become a wireless ISP overnight or go bankrupt, and meanwhile give their cushy near-monopoly position on the developed infrastructure to a more worthwhile company.

I pay my ISP. This is all the funding they will receive. If they start to collect from others, for me, it won't be my service anymore and they won't be responsive to my needs.
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The problem here is that people are generally unaware of a potential 6 months lockdown if paypal raises a red flag on your account. Furthermore the reasons for red flags are also unpredictable(Im assuming that paypal doesnt want its fraud detection scheme gamed).
The biggest problem is a difficulty/impossibility of a resolution process other than waiting for 6 months to get your funds. I would definitely try to get somebody on the phone and escalate the problem as contacting email support will get you into an infinite ping pong of templated answers.
50 years ago the average person did more working out as a matter of just living his life than the average person today does doing half assed cardio on an elliptical machine.
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Rob Horning in his essay “Applegarchy” (http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/149640-/) raises some different questions and ideas regarding Steve Jobs’ passing.

"Part of me feels viscerally an envy with regard to Jobs that marks the degree to which I’ve vicariously participated in the myth that has been built around him, in the entrepreneur worship, the fantasy of power—of being able to alter others’ lives and still be regarded as benevolent. Technology is a perfect vector for that sort of power, masking the agency of those who develop it and program it and representing that as irresistible progress. (…) Jobs worship perpetuates the idea that proprietary technology is developed for us, for our improvement and our needs, rather than for profit or for the egos of venture capitalists and self-proclaimed visionaries."

I don’t agree with him 100% here (or in the rest of his essay, which as always is thoughtful and worth reading in full) as I believe there are very tangible social benefits to the technologies and products Jobs oversaw development of at Apple. I largely view the company as genuinely innovative rather than insidious, but Jobs did famously institute a culture there that is in opposition to open source technology.

Apple and Jobs notwithstanding, Horning’s essay mostly serves to remind me—particularly as someone who works in tech and has entrepreneurial ambitions—that not enough people consider the most important questions regarding technological advancements. Such as: Who will benefit and who will control? And what is the impact of previous technologies?
It doesn't translate to direct costs, but my speed is largely dependent on contention with other users, and drops heavily during 'peak hours'.

Then again, I suppose you could argue cost per GB = integral(download speed * time) / cost per month, so 1GB at slow speeds is costing me more in terms of time-bandwidth product at peak rates than otherwise. Soft data caps and peak-time QoS might also be happening behind the scenes, skewing matters more.
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Aah, I hadn't really considered the case where you're actually using the VM for something more than browser testing...
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And some of them don't even understand basic arithmetic: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...
I wrote an xmonad layout manager that will make any application work like this:

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It looks something like:

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Thanks for the honesty pepeto.

I've been struggling with this today. My gut just tells me to break it off, knowing I was too impatient when jumping to ask him about this. I usually think everything through and I just didn't do that here.

I think it ultimately will be better for both to not go through together. If he is still serious about entrepreneurship or coding, he will go along with it anyway, on his own. And anything I learn on my way I'd be willing to share with him. Hopefully something like that can happen..

Again, thanks everyone. If anyone else still agrees with this proposition, please let me know. The more support I can gain, the better I'd feel in letting him know. Thanks!
I have used Cygwin for a while, yes. However, I found it to be slow and just... alien, from a Windows perspective. My main gripe with it was a different thing though: Its package management is atrocious. Packages are outdated and there is no simple way to fix them. Also, it installs its own versions of common software, that are only usable from within Cygwin, but not from CMD. Honestly though, I never bothered to investigate further after being annoyed by it a few times, and just used a Linux VM instead.

Gvim works fine on Windows, though. Also, ViEmu has had my love for many months. It's not like you can't work productively in Windows. It's just that I am more comfortable elsewhere.
It is implemented using splits, so you're right: if you're already using split windows then your results will be a bit off. :)

Regarding your settings, would you mind filing a bug report with some detail? I'm happy to try to fix things if there's a bug: https://github.com/mikewest/vimroom/issues
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but Jobs did famously institute a culture there that is in opposition to open source technology

Considering how much use they make of open source technology (OS X is built on BSD, and they were the major force in turning WebKit into what it is), that seems a little exaggerated...

I don't think Apple is opposed to Open Source technology in any way - they're fairly neutral about it. Microsoft called the GPL a cancer - I don't think any such statements ever came out of Apple.
And the firing squad for jaywalkers!

Seriously though, this is something probably the majority of HNers do. Those in the minority probably used to, but got burned when the higher ups found out and either fired them or appropriated the tech.
Now this could be an extension for JavaScript http://blogs.intel.com/research/2011/09/pjs.php
Bloat? It's an extension.
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> I find it painfully slow, and inefficient

There's a reason why it's still beta.
Regular merchant accounts are actually not as bad as people think. One major difference is that merchant account providers make getting started a pain. That's when they do all of their analysis to determine if they are comfortable processing for the merchant. PayPal on the other hand does little vetting up front, making the signup process smoother, but can come down unexpectedly later in a merchant's life when it detects risky activity.

This also affects how each implements reserves. While merchant account providers may institute a 5% or 10% reserve over 3-6 months, it is more of an insurance policy spread across all of its accounts since it doesn't have a good handle on which individual account will blow up. Whereas PayPal implements reserve only after it has detected risk, it immediately places a larger reserve.

It never ceases to amaze me how negative the sentiment is towards PayPal from an audience that I would expect to be much more understanding of how difficult it is to process payments in real-time. And that PayPal became successful because of its actions, not despite them.
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Agreed. Without the extreme left, by definition the moderate viewpoint will slider further and further to the right.
But can you install any new extension? I'm on Ubuntu with dev and installing any new extension is broken too.
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RMS is clearly on the autistic spectrum, probably far enough on it to be regarded as having a 'learning difficulty' in the rather twee PC UK-ism.

There is IMHO, an interesting litmus test where people who share his monomaniacal obsession, or think it 'reasonable', probably have the same issue.
> This is kind of like wanting a "toned down" PETA.

Is that so horrible a thing? It seems to me groups like the Humane Society have done a lot more for animal welfare than PETA.
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would anyone mind explaining how this works? I'm confused as to how this would help.
Yes, you can parse XML that way, but you shouldn't. It's more work than you originally thought.

Example: I've tried two parts of the xml syntax, <?xml version="1.0"?> and namespaces <foo:bar />, and it didn't seem to parse either. (At least if I understood the output right, it doesn't say "parsed" or "not parsed").

So it's the typical "author's idea of xml" parser, not xml parser.
No - my point is that RMS isn't.
-1 Seriously, a fantasy story about a man taking a walk in a park? is that it? 732 upvotes. sigh...
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