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InstaFetch sucks in a lot of ways. I bought it on the Kindle Fire and it has a couple huge flaws.

Pagination hides text behind the Fire's little menu bar.

You have to click a button (or wait a minimum of an hour) to sync. The sync process takes minutes.

Not to mention it cost more than Instapaper for iOS.
I love driving car.
Only problem that I have and this could solve is parking in zone where it is expensive and somehow park car somewhere else.
But I could possibly solve this problem NOW by paying students or someone to park, and get your car for you. The prize has to only be cheaper than parking expanses.

driverless car cost will be higher than this I imagine.
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Interestingly, TerraPower was launched by noted patent troll Intellectual Ventures [1], a company which Microsoft might have a stake in [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures
Exactly. Anyone who has fought for control of a television with two remote controls knows exactly how this works out. You both start pushing channel-up and channel-down in response to what you think is the other persons action but may be in fact be your own.
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I'm looking for an alternative to Quickbooks for my accounting and customer/vendor contact management.

Wanted a more user friendly and better UI/UX for the future. Their QB Pro version is obviously very robust and great for an accountant or book keeper but I don't have really have the time to figure it all out. Plus it's such a boring software to use haha.

thanks
But, what would be taking those hyperlocal windspeed measurements--at the same altitude and within a mile or two? I can't think of any way at all to accomplish this short of a satellite with an incredible new method to measure many slices of moving air.
You just explained why nobody should play with guns.
Yeah, Rails gives beginners a big advantage by generating a huge scaffolding. It clears up a lot of ambiguities about where things go, and as a beginner it lets you explore different things that you can do in Rails.
My problem is not with Android. I was merely using Android phones as an example of how bad Best Buy was showcasing their smartphone lineup. If they had done the same with iPhone demo units, I would have lambasted them just the same.
Can someone take a savegame after killing the scorpion from original copy of the game and load it into the cracked one?
If you haven't tried Spool on android, then you'd understand why instapaper is not needed for Android. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spool&hl=en

Saves everything for offline reading and viewing of videos and text. Reformats pages, for text only. Great chrome extension to make it easier.
" Pinboard is a service with about 15,000 active users (defined as people who get up in the morning and actually make the little lights on our servers blink). "

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/09/the_costs_of_bookmarking/
He has an additional cost you aren't factoring into the equation: opportunity cost. This is the money he loses by not focusing on iOS. He isn't saying the app isn't worth building, he's saying the app isn't worth him building.

Seriously, these term are generous as far as these kinds of deals go, but I'm not sure you could make money on it. It would really depend on how good other existing clients are.
My understanding--I am not an aviator--is that the current Boeing controls behave this way and have for a long time. Apparently there is a lot of disagreement between the Boeing/US and Airbus/EU schools of thought, with a preference for greater mechanical (rather than electrical) interaction with flight controls on the Boeing side.
The largest unintended effect will be the massive loss of employment in the transportation industry.
Fully agree, just had the critic argument with my roommates about this. It doesn't really matter if everyone gets on board this plan, what matter is that with a 90% utilization rate and cars that can move themselves, someone like ZipCar/Uber or whoever can offer something like $30/month for unlimited car usage within 40KM.

It doesn't matter to me if everyone else doesn't get on board what matters to me is that a service at those rates may be possible in the near future. People still have phones that only text and call, but it's becoming a rarity.
The number of lines of codes, in this case, speaks to the amount of features in the framework. Rails is harder to fully understand than Sinatra because there are many, many more features, and it's possible for a beginner to get lost in, or confused by, all those features.
That's a good point. I still think public transportation would be replaced.

I believe the main reason local government provides public transportation is because to achieve low prices it needs to be subsidized. No private enterprise is interested in competing in a market where you can't make profit.

At the same time, you don't see local government e.g. opening grocery shops: this need is well filled by private enterprise.

The car rental business would develop despite public transportation because it covers a much bigger needs. However, when it reaches scale and the low price that comes with it, it might make public transportation no longer needed as it'll also cover that use case.

Even if it's slightly more expensive, would you rather pay $2, wait 15mins, not get exactly where you want to go and hope no one will punch you in your face and steal your iphone (true story!) or pay $5, wait 5min and get exactly where you wanted to go?

If enough people start doing that, at some point the fixed cost of running public transportation will be too high to justify low usage by public.

Not to mention I do expect for profit enterprise to adopt driverless cars much faster than government agency, hence giving them a cost advantage for quite a few years.
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Rails is definitely not for beginners and the code size is an indicator - there is a steep curve to understand everything that Rails 3.1 uses per default - especially the (initially) arcane handling of javascript runtimes to compile coffeescript...

But: Sinatra ain't beginner-friendly either, I also don't think thats the goal. Sinatra is basically a minimal base framework for matching HTTP requests, generating responses and building a Rack stack around the base class. But it doesn't give you a lot beyond that. As such, it requires deep knowledge of how to use HTTP and Rack to do more fancy stuff.

I also don't think that there are "beginner-friendly" frameworks beyond the most simple ones. The problem is that each feature that a framework encodes also requires the user to learn how it works. Most beginners don't even understand the benefits, drawbacks and best practices when it comes to HTTP - how would they understand all the things that Rails has amassed over the years?[1]

If any, I would recommend pure Rack: its a one page specification that can be read and understood in an hour.

As a shameless plug: if you consider Rails too feature-laden, consider Padrino - it is definitely worth a look. (Disclaimer: i have commit access to the Padrino repository and sometimes use it)

[1] I don't consider users coming from other frameworks (even in other languages) as "beginners" - usually, they already know the domain language - for example what CSRF is and what Rails does against it.
Exactly, that's why it reached the supreme court. The US has a COMMON LAW system. That means that this case will be applied to further cases in order to determine what the common punishment should be. The supreme court sets supreme precedent.
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Yeah, we've read enough already - connecting the dots with Seth Godin
A post by Seth Godin that connects with Ben Nesvig's recent post on deliberate practice
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I think part of the retail push back is hesitation to to display a product that has multiple obscenities on the cover. So short of an adult shop where you must be 21 to enter, most US retailers simply can't display this since folks of any age can be in the store, just as they can't openly display adult magazines. And its not reluctance to have a drinking game, I've seen many convenience stores sell 'beer pong' drinking game 'kits' (cups and ping pong balls).

Here's a thought for you to test for another try at retail - make a generic looking package or sleeve for the game, that simple says boldly 'The Drinking Card Game', put a "M" rating bottom corner saying you should be 17 or older to buy due to strong language, then on the back put the "*This card game comes with a ton of attitude." and maybe more about the content like you have on the website. This would potentially fix your retail display problem.

Then give a few retailers a few of these free to display to 'test' if there is demand. If they sell them, there you go ... (I presume there is at least 50% margin for them normally)
I am in for the challenge! https://market.android.com/details?id=com.codecarpet.reading...
As long as we're hitting this one out the ballpark we can imagine all the online services getting in on the action: like the OKCupid speed date commute, the Yelp surprise me whats for dinner restaurant ride, or the Groupon deal of the day carpool.
Because in PHP the return response begins as soon as you start non-buffered output, after which you can no longer modify headers, cookies, etc.
as a cranky old car owner (old? I'm 27 damn it!), I live in fear of the day that I'll have to give up one of my fun 80s/90s hobby cars and get a self driving toaster :/
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Curious tangent:

What's better, to introduce yourself to a VC or to be introduced to a VC by a gushing shared acquaintance?

(If being introduced, then this leads to the strategy of introducing yourself to those who mingle with the VCs, rather than directly to the VCs themselves...)
Just fork it and submit a patch / pull request.
Yes, cars may still sit around doing nothing at night, but the number of cars for peak traffic will drop significantly because of the gains in utilization. Imagine you want to ride share with your friends, one car will ferry people to and fro the highway which will be almost impeccably timed with your friends arrival at a waiting area just off the freeway. You'll get in the car and continue to work, after you arrive at work that car will go pickup someone in the city who works a bit later and grab a couple of their friends on the way.

When you combine this technology with social networks and mobile the improvements to efficiency, cost, and quality of life will be astounding. This isn't going to be an overnight thing but I see this kind of thing becoming prevalent probably 5 to 10 years after the first driverless cars become publicly available.

Driverless cars would be worth it simply for the reduction in drunk driving.
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Given the current (and undoubtedly soon aggravating) energy crisis, on the contrary energy cost will probably be the limiting factor in most human activities in the coming decades, therefore shared cars will be making even more sense.
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There's no such thing as a credit score (at least not in the US sense).

The big problem with the US system is that it gets you needlessly hooked on the whole idea of credit. As per this very example, you need to do things like get credit cards just to pay them off on time, or else you're screwed when it comes to things like getting a mortgage. In most of Europe the key factor for that sort of loan is simply whether you have a steady income that's high enough to make the payments, factoring in outstanding debts. A credit check will show up things like whether you've a history of missing payments on any existing credit, and that can certainly be taken into account, and most lenders have their own version of a 'credit score' they'll apply based on all that info — but it's not a centralised thing, and it's generally more concerned with raising past problems as a red flag, rather than with past good behaviour.

If you've a history of living within your means that should be a good thing, not a bad thing.
Gee, I guess it's worth about $500. The same price you'd have to pay for a mac mini.
I read the article, and while it is easy to see where he is coming from, I remembered the WTF the first time I encountered web programming more than a decade ago. The idea of GET vs POST didn't make any sense at all to a person who wanted to put something on the screen and capture its value.

Some of these higher level frameworks dispense with get and post. This means that to an old timer, there is suddenly nothing left to build on, and this is why the learning curve appears high again.
My first advice is, you should get a lawyer to do that (I'm not a lawyer).

If you're a C-corp, ideally you haven't issued all stocks you're authorized to. Usually you're authorized to issue 10M stocks and you then limit the number of shares outstanding. If that's the case (say you have less than 5 million shares), you can just make your co-founder sign a stock purchase agreement on the # of shares you want to give her/him.

If that's not the case and you own all 10M shares, the company will have to buy back shares and then transfer them to your co-founder (via stock purchase agreement). The downside is that the company will have to pay for those shares (usually we're talking about a few hundred dollars).
I am stunned at reading this. Its so awfully sad reading the narrative & detailed depictions of just how wrong things went; how wrong we can be.

What a sobering article.
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I don't mean to imply that iOS is objectively better. I think the preference is more one of priorities than one of subjective "taste." There are some objective differences. I think the biggest ones are this:

Android is more open, and its apps have a lot more power over the phone. iPhone is smoother and its apps tend to perform, look, and behave more consistently. There are probably also "killer apps/features" that could make or break one platform for certain users. If you need Flash, you need Android. There are probably many examples of apps that only exist on one platform.

I'm really not much of an Apple fanboy, but to me, smooth performance is an absolute necessity. Simply put, the abysmal performance of basic native widgets on Android is an absolute deal-breaker for me. It so happens that I also generally prefer the design of iOS and the Apple app ecosystem, but obviously those preferences are completely a subjective matter of taste. My first smartphone was a Palm Treo 650 that was extremely snappy, and maybe that's what initiated my mindset, but I won't ever carry a smartphone that isn't. If, at some point in the future, there weren't any smartphones that were snappy, I simply wouldn't have a smartphone (actually, I don't even have one now, but I'm considering getting an iPhone 4S).
This article lacks a lot of detail. Mozilla's proposal, as usual, is publicly available. See the link.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:...
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Some pretty childish and fanboy opinions you have there.
Of course, there's no reason to output everything all the time. It is possible to use string concatenation and output the result at the end of processing rather than 16 layers of ob_start(). That seems a bit excessive.
If the class-actions end a practice, that frequently closes off a path where wealth would have been illegally bled off from multiple parties.
That's a poor argument.

All it needs is for someone to take liability. If you own the driverless car, then you buy the insurance. If it's leased from a pool, then they buy the insurance.

The software vendor for their part take an over-arching insurance on software errors across thousands of cars. Done deal.

Today if you have a 20 year old your premium is higher. Tomorrow if you have a driverless car, your premium might be low even if you have a 16 yr old. Parents buying a first car might just buy a driverless car for a lower insurance premium & the safety of not having the kid drive!
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As a novice developer, I absolutely loathed scaffolding (IDE-generated header and source files) because I could never understand why all the code got there, how do those files relate and what does it do.

I tried to learn COM once but gave up essentially because I could not find any docs not falling back on IDE code generation (and that code was huge and absolutely opaque).

I always loved tools which let you to type in a small program from the scratch and run it. So, perhaps, sinatra is the way to go for beginners.
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Although Rails code can be straightforward if you stick to the conventions, many real-world apps call for something more than that. So in practice, it's usually necessary to perform at least some level of metaprogramming, or at least some more exotic configuration.

Also, if you're using Rails library, you'll notice the hipster aspect of the Ruby/Rails community, which is to say many libraries are active for 1 or 2 years before the developer gets bored and someone else comes up with a hotter alternative. That's cool, it's quick evolution, but it also means real-world Rails developers have to spend a fair amount of time dealing with libraries that are either no longer maintained or are not yet mature.
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And I assume you will install and deinstall the carseat each time? A huge portion of cars are used to transport kids, and it's not practical to remove the carseat each time.

You can't have a car with a loaner carseats either since they have to be individually adjusted to the kid.

Every single time people talk about cars, and public transportation they always forget about kids. I see it over and over. Come on people - expand your worldview a little.
The lawyers are often "picked" because they are the only ones willing to invest many hours of legal effort out of their own pocket.
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Since you decided to nitpick: travelling salesman problem (i.e. finding an minimal route) is a solved problem as in "for decades we have known algorithms to find a minimal path and we teach them to CS grads".

What you refer to is the fact that the computational complexity (i.e. time to finish it) of known algorithms rises exponentially with the size of the problem and exponentially is a code word for "really, really quickly". It just takes too much time to find the minimal path if your graph is big.

What I meant, however, is that the problem has been solved in practice. When you ask Google how to drive from SF to NY, it'll give pretty good answer in milliseconds. Is it an optimal answer? It might be, it might be not, but it's a very good answer. Getting slightly better answer is not worth the computational time because it won't make a difference in practice in your trip.

Similarly, a car rental company doesn't have to schedule things optimally, they just have to schedule things really good, and that's possible with much less computationally expensive algorithms. The big win is when you go from "no optimization" to "good optimization", not from "good optimization" to "perfect optimization".
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Long term, if the class action changes the practice that led to the case, than all the future customers benefit too. It's hard to calculate that kind of benefit, but it's a nice benefit.
He's going further than saying it's not worth him building, he's saying it's not worth building at all. If it was worth building, he would hire someone to do it for him. He's saying he could accept it if it falls into his lap, costing him exactly $0.
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Not sure we can say that we "deserve it", but I see your point...there are always bound to be some greedy assholes who don't see the bigger picture. It's really fascinating (in a morbid way) how much less innocent the startup scene is today than just five years ago when YC was in its infancy and PG's startup essays were considered controversial.

There are just _so many sleazebags_ involved in startups right now. Of course this reflects the rest of the world, but it really pains me every time I see a naïve or just unlucky nerd get shafted by some unscrupulous authority figure. Maybe a crash would actually be a good thing, because it would scare off everyone who isn't in tech for legitimate reasons.
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If I'm reading the PHP source correctly, in 5.4 this is changed to 16kb (this entire code block seems to have been rewritten):

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/main/output.c?vi...

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/main/php_output....

#define PHP_OUTPUT_HANDLER_DEFAULT_SIZE 0x4000
Yes. Or some kind of haptic connection
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the other similar incidents are Birgenair Flight 301, where the pitot tubes were blocked because of insect nests, resulting in pilot confusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birgenair_Flight_301

and Aeroperu Flight 603, where the pitot tubes had been covered by maintenance workers and not removed prior to takeoff, also resulting in pilot confusion and lack of confidence in instrument readings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroper%C3%BA_Flight_603

With these similar incidents you would think that air crews would have learnt from these disasters. If you read the reports on those two accidents, the similarities to the AF disaster are remarkable.
I haven't played all of the new Zelda games (specifically, any after wind waker) but Majora's Mask definitely seems to be the most different. If you just play it straight through the standard zelda part (that is, just go dungeon to dungeon), its easy to miss how it was unique. However, when interacting with people, the ability to rewind time made some really interesting and totally different (from other zelda games) puzzles. The thing to focus on wasn't the form changes, or the "slow down time" ability but the "rewind to the beginning of the game and start over, but with knowledge of what you did last time". That game was unique in zelda games because one of the currencies the game used was player knowledge about what events happen when in the 3-day time frame of the game.

Zelda is a series that is established on certain traditions - you go from dungeon to dungeon, and in each one get a new piece of gear that lets you explore the world more. Looking just at that part of the game, every zelda game looks the same. But I think as a series it's generally good at varying a little bit from the formula.
I'm not sure it makes commercial sense to offer trials on $1.49 software, you could loose a lot of impulse purchases.
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