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This is the major move, much bigger than just boosting sales of Kindle and Amazon Prime. Amazon is testing a books by subscription service. They're using Kindle owners with Prime to limit their test market to good loyal customers. They're limiting the number of books you can check out to control their costs during the test, but it's likely the copyright owner gets some payout per read. With this limited test Amazon will understand the business model and technical requirements to roll this out on a much larger scale.

I expect we'll see an Amazon book subscription service for all Kindle readers with a payment plan based on the number of books you can check out at a time and the number of books you can check out per month.
China completes first space docking test
The link title is ambiguous. It's the first time that China has docked two crafts in orbit. Good for them.

The first time that two spacecraft have ever docked in orbit was, I believe, the Gemini/Soyuz joint missions in the middle of the previous century.
So day 0, went to the gym. Paid all my bills online. Gonna read Beej's guide to networking (http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html). Write some networking programs using C.

Objective is focus, so I will keep at the C networking, until I have some cool app from it.
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Sandboxing is great since less and less control is in the hands of the app. I am sure apple will keep rolling out features expanding sandboxing, this is just the default impl. This also means that basically it will be harder and harder for apps to be malware in an already hostile system.

I wish android had this. Android needs this much more than iOS.
navigating the internet and reading through some basic documentation seems like a pretty basic requirement for a 'programmer'. It might be unintelligible at first, but a little struggle is a better teacher than constant hand holding.

The old cruel IRC days of RTFM made me a better, more independent problem solver.
Yep. Best path through is via SeMeWe3 to singapore which is fairly fast. Most people end up with bw through PPC1 or SX which both end up in the US. People mostly do this because SeMeWe3 is stupidly congested and expencive compared to say PPC1, and most traffic goes through to the us rather then europe/asia.

Also remember that PPC1 when it stops over in Guam can end up coming back into asia via Asia-America gateway/etc. I'm not sure if any of the major providers actually backhaul through there.
Same here, Vista / Chrome as well.
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Could it be, possibly, that the roads are broken not because Indian government is lousy but because India as a whole is dirt poor?
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Yes, I use it all the time.

Using a real debugger is great, and it gives FAR more power. It also allows me to wander around and check the values of various things without having to re-compile, re-deploy, and re-run the application up to the point where the error is occurring.

But getting the debugger to work takes a few hours of setup. If I'm at someone else's desk helping them debug a problem, it will take hours to get the debugger working, and only a few minutes to add the print statement.

If I'm working at my own desk and I briefly need to make a small change to another application that I don't normally work on, it would take me hours to get the debugger set up and only a few minutes to add the print statement.

If I'm fixing a problem that only occurs in QA (or worse yet, in production) then I have to use logging or a print statement because it would take days to get permission to attach my debugger to QA.

If I'm working on my own usual project, then I use the debugger because it is many, many times more powerful. Unless it's Tuesday, or for some other random reason the environment gods hate me and my debugger isn't working today. Then, depending on how much of a rush I'm in, I invest another few hours into fixing it or I just add a print statement and get on with my work and fix the environment later.

PS: I'm writing this while waiting for my IDE to recompile the world in my 4th attempt to get my debugger working again because my environment broke for no known reason.
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I think your referring to the apollo soyuz project, but that was not the first time two spacecraft have docked.

I can't remember specifically the first time that two spacecraft docked, but in terms of manned US, I think it was gemini 8. But I'm pretty sure unmanned spacecraft have docked before that and the russians may have done it before the americans have
Isilon has damn awesome tech, albiet stupidly expensive. Atmos is absolutely horrific in most senses of the word.

iirc. Ninefold has a bunch of "cheapie" Dell EMC units, hence their troubles awhile back. Don't quote me on it though.

CloudCentral did in fact build a ZFS San, which they used to great effect.
The ATUS asks about work done for pay (or for free if it's for a family-owned business), not work you do beyond the hours you actually get paid for.

False.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.tn.htm

[edit: can't reply to your reply, but:

"This category includes time spent working, doing activities as part of one’s job, engaging in income-generating activities (not as part of one’s job), and job search activities. "Working" includes hours spent doing the specific tasks required of one’s main or other job, regardless of location or time of day. "Work-related activities" include activities that are not obviously work but are
done as part of one’s job, such as having a business lunch or playing golf with clients."

]
Eclim [http://eclim.org/] does this for Eclipse.
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I can imagine the GPL-inspired first line of the AMI license. "Most software is designed to let you do various things with your computer. Software licensed under the terms of the AMI (Apple May I) license is different. It is designed to make sure you can't do anything useful with your computer at all, at least not without asking first."
Hrmm...I like these, but just looking at the first two it doesn't give me much information. Or rather, not much information that a recruiter can use.

It's like it is talking, but not saying anything.
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I don't think that this is a good way. I recommend just starting up the vim and using it. When you find that some task annoys you and is too repetitive find a way how to do it better. I don't really use vim so I know only a few commands but this worked for me for other things. No need to read manual or a tutorial beforehand.
The IPC mechanism is XPC, and my memcpys run at a few thousand megabytes per second, why don't yours?
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I must admit that this one does give a bit more useful info about Obama than the others give of themselves respectively.
I have seen the Samsung Galaxy S, and the hardware buttons on the front have several problems:

1. They are capacitive, so there is no tactile feedback ever

2. They are made to be near invisible, so you can't see them in dim light

3. The icons on the buttons are not immediately crystal clear to me

My HTC Legend has none of these problems: I can find the buttons in the dark by feel, and the iconography is clear. To me, the back and menu buttons (and to a lesser degree the home button) are helpful tools that I use all the time.

I am planning on getting a Galaxy Nexus as soon as I can. The only worry I have about this phone is the lack of proper hardware buttons that I can locate and use by feel alone.

I love (some of) the hardware buttons.

So maybe it's just Samsung's implementation of the buttons that is broken, and not the concept of Android hardware buttons. I don't know :)
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Comparing to current Euro rates (which I know), they look about right at today prices.
Can SQLAlchemy core do arbitrary, non-ANSI things, like create a Postgres user-defined type or a SQL function?

And if so, can I use SQLAlchemy as a standalone pre-processor? My app's in Rails so I can't exactly go integrate it..
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"strict realtime requirements" and Mac OS X (and most other off-the-shelf operating systems) do not mix and never have. Either these applications don't belong on the platform in the first place, or you are misunderstanding their requirements.

It doesn't matter anyway. What is it Apple has done recently to give you the impression that they place great importance on niche markets?
I think these rates are low (and probably old). I worked for a systems integrator over 10 years ago and our bill rates for similar levels were higher.
There are 2 things being discussed here:

1) people being confused by the back button because they don't realize it will always pop the current view of the navigationstack, which is systemwide.

2) the fact that the back, menu, search and home buttons are dedicated hardware buttons.

Explaining how 1) works does not mean that 2 is not broken. Personally I find 2 to be the interesting discussion.

Seeing how these hardware buttons are being changed to be a dedicated part of the Galaxy Nexus' touchscreen, and how not all vendors actually put all 3 buttons on there, it's not too hard to argue that something about the hardware buttons is at least flawed, if not broken.
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I think so. Not sure. This officially makes me a terrible brother in law.

As for Adelaide. You guys seem to have more funeral homes than churches. Surely that's a sign.
I thought 1Password 3.9 (the MAS version) was already using App Sandboxing and I don't feel limited at all. Dropbox syncing works fine like before and browser extensions works better than before (without all the ugly InputManager hacks). Basing on this one app I often use, I'm overall happy with sandboxing so far.
I used to use a debugger more extensively when I was writing Fortran. More recently, writing Python, S-Plus and VBA I've mostly used print (or MsgBox) - easier to do with interpreted languages, stepping through code is also easier.
Depends on the goal of this. If the goal is to get publicity through sites like HN then I would suggest its a success.

If the goal is to inform users about the business, then I would say its a fail. I personally spent about 1 minute moving my mouse around the page and couldn't be more uninterested in what it was about.
Exactly... AudioUnits and VST plugins literally must be loaded in-process of the host to be useful at all. As long as vendors aren't forced to use the App store for distribution I don't think anyone in that scene will care much about Apple's changes. In the digital music / VST / DAW scene I think the app store's initial launch amounted to a single "oh well, guess not" blog post on CDM and then everyone moved on. (I'm exaggerating a bit of course).
good for them.
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Let me just put my best Admiral Ackbar impersonation on, here: in the light of the recent patent wars, do I see a patent lawsuit in the future? "We kind of gave them a part of our functionality, but we didn't intend it and they're thus infringing on our patents." Yes, this is patently absurd (pardon the pun), but so are 99% of the patent cases out there; but even should it be brought to court and thrown out, it would be good fertilizer for the one core MS competency: FUD (see the current Android patent craziness).

With this in mind, I fear Redmonders bearing gifts.
Ronaldo nets his 100th goal to thump Lyons in Champions League
In a group D clash of Champions League, between O. Lyons and Real Madrid, Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 100th goal for Spanish giants to thump the hosts in fixing his team’s knock out stage entry. Real Madrid with 12 points from 4 wins out of 4 played; has cruised into UEFA Champions League knock out stages.
The Sandbox makes me sad.

Remove exploits of a single poorly written app spreading to the rest of my Mac and taking over make me sadder.
Knowing Apple's achievements in pwn2own, this most likely won't increase the real security... Whatever you do, security always boils down to aware user, thus it is in fundamental contradiction to this company philosophy.
Users Lash Out At Buggy Gmail iOS App Causing Pull Down
Google rolled out its long awaited Gmail app for iOS on Wednesday but pulled it back within hours following the unpleasant response of the users. The iOS users declared the app unimpressive, useless and buggy.
I code Perl at my day job and I use print statements. I'm in a terminal coding, and I've never really learned how to use the Perl CLI debugger. Normally I suspect what's broken and I just need the print statements to verify.

In Xcode I use the breakpoints because I'm practically already in the debugger, and I did similar when I had to hack on some C# & VB code.
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Alittle OT, but the thing that struck me while reading is that organizing should be a means to and end and not the end itself.

If you organize to speed up your "real work" great. If you organize to organize, that's shit work.

I'm not sure what category g+ circles are in though..
I've had some bad experience with consultants. So much so that I'm hesitant to use them now. They'll have a plane to catch to fly to the next client's site. And they'll rush to catch that plane and make mistakes on your project, etc. They have the mentality that this is "not their baby".

If you do hire one, make sure you have a maintenance agreement with them so they can't just set it and forget it leaving you with a big bill and problems.

Just my experience.

Edit: I've never used an Oracle consultant. My comment is meant at technical consultants in general.
This would be great. I have to use Excel every day at work and it's pretty annoying that 36+ keys of the keyboard basically just enter insert mode.

A solid, trustworthy vimperator-style plugin for Excel would be amazing.
Trademarks are fairly limited, but Apple does have a trademark for Apple Cafe not just Apple.
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Yeah, I don't gamble. I'm willing to commit to kickstarter because I'll get my money back if the thing falls through.

But whenever they say my money will go towards a discount (or a charity) if the deal fails, I never go for it.

I'm not sure I've ever seen one succeed in that situation, actually.
CNN isn't news, it's reality television.

The same applies to MSNBC, Fox, etc. And to be clear I'm not saying that what they report is fabricated, just that the content is sliced and diced in the most attention-getting way possible - just like reality TV.
Looks good. I signed up to play around with it. One thing that confused me at first was the resume link appends a random string of letters after your account. So my resume is at http://resume.io/gabe/staujevooc.

I thought "Staujevooc" was a last name and my account got confused with someone else's.

Can the randomly generated string be numbers instead? I don't want to send out that link to someone and have them ask, "Who is Gabe Staujevooc?"
I'm curious how Apple Inc. missed the AppleBee's restaurant chain.
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XPC services must be located within the host app's bundle [1]. They must be appropriately code-signed. How do you propose to use this mechanism for 3rd party plugins?

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX...
The same here. I do not think I would use a Mac OSX if they said that app store was the only way to get software.
android does have it.. each Dlavik VM instance is its own sandbox
These photos seriously look more like underwater photos than space photos. That supposed space-walk China had clearly showed bubbles coming from the spacesuits. ... Bubbles. In Space. Mhm...
I like it! It is nice and simple. I hope you keep it that way. I think it will be replacing my Google Reader. Two features that would make it perfect for me:

- Get rid of the sidebar completely and just allow to navigate through feeds with j and k keys.

- Ability to save posts for later.
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There are hundreds of cafes called Apple, Big Apple, Red Apple...

There are cities beiing referred to as Big Apple...
It would be nice if Gnome 2, worked without crashing gnome-panel erratically on my desktop!
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Studying in London is quite expensive so I thought I have to save some money. There are some price tracking tools out there, but they are limited to a few shops. So I've built a little tool to track prices everywhere on every shop.

Would be great if you could give me some feedback :)
Although choose 12 out of 5000 makes it not so bad.
Yes, I know about these different connotations. However, painting a sort of a symmetry between these two labels is - in my humble opinion - a step too far. Imagine someone saying Arrington is a socialist. Such "accusation" would have completely different weight than labeling him as a racist.
Correlation doesn't imply causation. Under-representation doesn't imply racism.

For the sake of argument, one could call the rock/metal music industry as favoring whites and the hip-hop, rap music industry as favoring blacks.

Whats wrong with my logic?
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I'm a bit wary of this, but it really does seem like a decent model for most things in the App store. It's pretty clear there needs to be some exception mechanism, since Xcode and Lion won't run in a sandbox, but there were already restrictions. TextWrangler in particular removed some functionality in its App store version. And things like TeXLive and the Haskell Platform and most other developer tools never appeared in the app store.
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Compressing socialism to USSR and bankrupt countries is really a cheap kind of rhetoric. I could respond with a brief history of Chile or a tale about bankers living on a crisis - but that's kind of misses my point, which is that a comparison between socialism and racism is greatly inadequate.
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You know what, you are a user too. The platform should perform well for everybody, not just the majority. This is what makes me feel Unity and Gnome Shell aren't the best way to go, not just simplifying, but totally removing configurability. There is a central ground, where an interface can be learn-able by a normal user, and not inhibit power users.

The thing with OSX appstore sandbox isn't that it hurts power users, it hurts the majority. It limits what developers can make applications do, preventing many types of applications that users would expect to be possible. Sandboxing itself isn't bad, it is just this implementation that is bad.
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I agree that Maps on Android is superior to Maps on iOS, just as native Gmail on Android is better than Gmail on iOS, but the parent was using iOS Maps as an example of a good Google iOS app – it isn't a good example because Google didn't write Maps for iOS.

It's not about whether Apple writes better iOS apps than Google does for Android, it's about whether Google makes any good apps for iOS.
I couldn't help feeling Rickrolled by that post, but I do agree with the sentiment.
Twitter links for the two guys on the left are broken. Also, no bios or expertise? It looks more like a contact page than an About page.
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Everybody wants us to sell it. We currently arn't aiming to, though.

We are wholesaling this though, and we are looking at massively stepping it up. If you're interested, come talk to us.
For $80, it's a minor luxury. I could certainly do without it, but it's nice to have since Amazon rarely delivers to here in two or three days without Prime. It's especially useful around the holidays where Amazon's free shipping may get slower, even taking a day or two to ship after ordering, while Prime is still fast.
Design by democracy doesn't work.

Ubuntu has always been about targeting the mainstream as far as I can tell. They do a good job of it, and there's plenty of other options for those who think otherwise.
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It would be an interesting merger I guess.
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Didn't Apple do this themselves back in the day?

Anyone else remember the story behind "sosumi"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Then you must be someone who accuses other people of being things that better apply to yourself.
It's not even 'poorly written', it's nearly every non-trivial C/C++ app, over a long enough time, turns out to have _something_ exploitable in it.
I'm constantly annoyed by this on twitter. 1 in 100 tweets are on the topic I'm interested in.

Two possible solutions:

Channels: You create a few outlets, for example "technical", "personal", "food-i-ate-today". Then I could subscribe to your "technical" channel and ignore the res. Guess this is close to what joebadmo posted.

Tags: Almost the same, but a post can have many tags.

The problems with these "solutions" is: what heppens when you create a new tag/channel? Maybe one should auto-subscribe to all of them, and then ppl could remove those they don't want. Might be shit work though.

joebadmo
If you wanted to get Moneyball on your Kindle, there are easier ways to pirate it than through this lending feature.
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And it's "free" 2 day (after paying for Prime). That completely changes my purchase behavior to favor more impulse and small orders.
But isn't there some tacit agreement, or expectation that long-time users and active members will not have to abandon years of investment in a platform -- on a whim of the provider? Of course, the designers are entitled to make their changes... but at the expense of the (supportive) user community? I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but providers would not exist were it not for the demand created by the community. It's true that displeased community members can abandon ship, but they have a right to be angry (in the understanding that they entered a provider-user arrangement upon a "gentleman's agreement" as stated above).
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