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I'm interested in the good internet options in Maryland that you speak of. My mom lives in Montgomery County and is looking to switch from RCN.
I have been to Africa. Its quite big. Most people have the regular nokia phones. But there are still a large number of people (tens of millions) with smartphones. And the most popular smartphone appears to be the blackberry. It completely dominates. Maybe because the networks bias their dataplans towards the blackberry and maybe the messaging, I don't know. And there is peer pressure. My android phone was looked at with scorn and there were many helpful suggestions to switch to the blackberry to which I had to constantly explain that I was happy with my phone. The android tablets fare better though.
Which movies were these? I find Rotten Tomatoes a decent indicator of quality and most mass marketed movies get very poor ratings. Even the "amazing" movies (90%+ critics and 80%+ of audience liked it) can have some slow parts you could consider "boring".
Is there any way to disable or at least make the silent SMSes show up in Android or jailbroken iPhone?
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How does this compare to resque? (Ah... answered my own question - resque seems to be ruby only).
If you were, for example, a cross-dresser who loved wearing women's underwear - and only women's underwear - would that be tolerated by the general public if you were roaming around a mall?

No, but one can disagree with both Google and the general public.

It's Google's playground, and you either play by the rules or suffer the consequences.

That doesn't mean we can't publicly disagree with the rules.

You wouldn't berate mall cops if they had to remove offensive people from the premises.

Mall cops don't decide the rules, they just apply them. It's different.
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It's funny to see how bradfitz's projects other than memcached have fared over time. Didn't realize this one was still used by anyone.
Hm? Are the nightly builds out already? Or are you on Koush's builds?
More than anything, the comments section from that article makes me sad.
The Art of Readable Code is excellent.

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You can actually get decent effects and explosions these days for "cheap". District 9, one of my favorite Sci-Fi movies, had a budget of $30 million and was amazing. If they made movies around that size, they would lower their risk profile, while still having enough effects punch to make a blockbuster.
If you want to argue, then tell me why you want to see people flicking you off on G+ and why you think that's something that should be OK for everyone.

It has nothing to do with wanting to see people flicking someone off, but with not wanting to see Google take the role of moral censor and deciding for us what's "offensive" or not.
We tried to use this in our last project and ended up writing the mother ship and workers from scratch because there didn't seem to be a community behind gearman. As soon as the nda runs out, I'm going to open source it as a competing framework.
While we're at it, don't forget the new NDAA, that allows any American to be arrested for as long as the authorities please...
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detent...
One thing customers should be aware of: when carriers change the terms of your contract, you are normally free to cancel your service without paying an early termination fee. For many people, this can amount essentially to a massive discount on your phone.
This is a god damn outrage. To what point will corporate america keep pushing the envelope until consumers revolt?
I hadn't taken the time to learn anything about SOPA (mostly ignored the protests) until this. This article was great because its a straightforward account, and it prompted me to write a SOPA letter to my representatives.
SCC works great for text files. In my Dropbox I ha e Excel, Powerpoint, PSD, Keepass, Installers, PDF, MP4, MP3, etc...

Of you have a smart merger for all of these integrated into Dropbox, send me a link.
FWIW Apple received lots of hate for making the updater install other software by default, and changed it promptly.
Just another way for them to milk us dry. One of the reasons I had dropped AllTel in the first place was they were charging my a $5 fee for paying them upfront with cash. Bullshit!!!

I might as well just start sending them money orders in $5 increments every month for my $200 bill. And we'll see how much a convenience it is for them than.
Much as I like to jump on VZW, I don't think that Verizon should be vilified for this one. By my back-of-the-envelope math, Verizon is passing on the cost of credit-card processing to their customers, and no more (2% CC processing fee on a $100 phone bill == $2).

I would much prefer to see customers realize how much they are gouged by credit card companies every day. Some small businesses (e.g. gas stations, the deli on the corner) already do this, and I'd like to see other large businesses follow suit. It's time for people to realize the sorry state of payments at-present, perhaps opening the way for a better alternative. Some are saying that Verizon is abusing their captive customers, but I see this as Verizon trying to escape captivity as a customer of Visa, MC, and Amex.
And we can choose to criticize them for that choice. Ain't free speech wonderful?

How about when your kid/elderly relative does a search on google and sees it?

If I believe my kid is too young to see that, I wouldn't let him search on Google by himself. As for an elderly relative, I'm pretty sure any of mine can cope with a picture of someone flipping them off.
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Thinking of the differences between the situation in the U.S. and western/central Europe (which I'm somewhat familiar with):

Cellular, and anything else to do with physical infrastructure, might be the few cases in technology where the size of U.S. market works against creating value for the consumer. In most everything else, having access to a common market of ~300 million people is awesome; it's not so awesome when you have to be able to service a substantial amount of them to get critical mass.

Wondering: in Canada, we have upstart cellular operators competing by offering lower prices for service covering only the largest urban areas of the country. So if you're in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary (and a couple of other places), you have more choice, in Flin Flon not so much. Anything like that in the U.S.?
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>That even include "to be accepted at school", mind you. (just like you didn't have to smoke back in the days, but also you were gay if you did not, no matter how wrong that reasoning is).

Sorry for disagree, but I think people should have more personality and do not take decision affected by what the majority is doing.

Maybe I am being too naive, but if I can't find an online community that fixes with my way of think then I am going to build one... Isn't that what Internet is all about?
I transferred mine today without any problem.
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asinine fluff.

NK imprisons millions of people. Now why is the minor cosmetic alteration of a photo such big news?
I have no idea what I just watched but I thoroughly enjoyed it. More esoterica on HN please!
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html

Link to actual guide
To learn Adobe illustrator, I was a 3D artist and simulation developer for a little while, before going back to web development and am pretty good at Photoshop as well, but for some reason, I never took the time to learn Illustrator. It's pretty sad actually 16 years in the industry and have never used the app. I am on lesson 3 in the classroom book, if anyone has some good tutorials I would love some recommendations.

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Are there charges for debit transactions, and if so are they comparable or less? If so why hasnt someone come up with a way to debit vice cc online.
Thanks a lot for sharing your story. I don't feel like I'm alone now :)

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In my experience, speed of filtering ("is this thing I'm reading cool enough to continue reading?") and fear of being filtered ("is this thing I'm creating cool enough for other people to read?") are 100% orthogonal. They are simply not related even a tiny bit, which makes this post seem kind of hilariously inane.
There are far more elegant, insidious ways to destroy SOPA using the powers that SOPA opponents possess than something as cheap as a blackout.

I do like the idea of PR hype surrounding the threat of blackout though. Just publicizing the potential threat of the 'nuclear option' in the press for a week should be enough to get congress to back off.
In short, Gearman is multi-language, multiple different backends, possible to do RPC-style synchronous processing. Resque and friends[1] are single-language, exclusively async, but also extremely transparent because they're just JSON blobs in redis. Resque has a huge following as well.

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If that is the case then this change would have to be a 2 dollar increase to all bills and then removed if you pay not using a CC. In which case this would be a material change to the contract.
Not even a "Don't panic!" on the first page of the guide? (http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/index.html) I'm disappointed.
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$7.8 billion is the total budget. The increase was a more modest $153 million.

I'm all for hating on the TSA. I'm just a stickler for accurate hating. :P
I want to see more research on this topic. If this is true, I'm happy to do it. I pay every month online via credit card, which was a PitA as it was...this is flat out silly.
I found your reasoning so wrong it left me momentarily at a loss for words. No, sites don't ever become subject to a different set of rules just because the majority of people use them. That kind of thinking leads down a very dangerous road.

And if you still care about "to be accepted at school", grow up. Speaking as a "four-eyes" and a nerd, some of us never bothered caring about that in the first place. Unfortunately, the people that did care grew up to form "the majority of the population", leading to quite a few of the social problems that currently plague us.

Free speech only applies to governments, and it applies there specifically because there you truly do have a "whether you like it or not" situation when it comes to governmental policies. It does not, and should not, extend to speech made on someone else's site. That remains entirely subject to the policies of the site owner, who may set them however they wish, keeping in mind that any choice they make may gain them some users and lose others.

Now, that said, I think better solutions existed for the particular issue at hand (so to speak) than immediate deletion without notification (such as hiding potentially offensive profile pictures for people who don't have that person circled), but that remains entirely up to Google's policy. I personally think that policy ought to change somewhat, but I'd never argue that anyone other than Google has the right to determine that policy.
Why would you subscribe to users that post gore or porn to your feeds?

Tumblr has plenty of porn, but you can certainly use it without ever getting it on your dashboard. It's just a matter of, you know, not following the people who post it.
Thanks for the reply. I launched my first website when I was 15 but it was a failure! I'm 22 now. Would you mind sharing what resources (books, methodologies, strategies etc) you referred to when making a profitable website with 100k users? Wow!

"you'll eventually be hiring other people"
True. But I don't think It's the right moment now.

Cheers!
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While I will disclaim that I am not a young earth subscriber, the proof offered in the article is flimsy and could be explained by a single shower of asteroids causing multiple impacts in a single episode are a series of those episodes. While I don't subscribe to that explanation, it does show that the authors argument is not as slam dunk as he may think it is.
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The more the merrier. We now have a website and a Google Group.

website: http://www.startuporshutup.org

Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/startup-or-shut-up

edit: added links.
If Google had the guts to pull out of China, why not threaten to pull out of US?
A lot of media have compared SOPA to the Great Firewall of China. While they are quite different in my opinion (and not the point of this post), I wonder why Google doesn't threaten to pull out of US because of SOPA. Google could then ignore this non-sense and find the "Hong Kong" of United States (maybe Canada?), and recreate the free web there.

Maybe we can get enough sites behind this to send a message to Congress.
Oh, there's still money in it. Just not at the margins that Verizon has grown accustomed to. And I think this sort of commodification is still a long way out. The capital necessary to build the nation's largest wireless network is only available to a handful of companies.
This is something we struggled with. We eventually figured out that being the Airbnb of the market we're addressing didn't translate well and we moved to a different model.

Unfortunately, I still hear people describing us as "Airbnb for X". Comparisons like that stick, and if your business changes, it's hard to change a facile comparison like that.
Sorry, but it is censorship, which is "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable."

It's just not illegal.
Then there's the second way they get you. The $300 phone you just bought for Verizon only works on Verizon... :(.
Who says they would be required? The question is whether we should participate in their network considering these rules.

Of course, if enough people decide to leave G+ due to them (which I doubt), these rules might actually becomes themselves bad for their business.
Sad and enlightening.

Theatre only works if there's an audience. The comments shows that there are plenty that wanted the theatre.
It really doesn't say much for either of us that we both remember that 78 day-old comment, does it?
Koush isn't building for the Galaxy Nexus (sorry, I didn't realize the OP article was about a N-S build), he has builds for the Nexus S, though someone else is building from his work, he's back on his own awesome projects.

The CM team is working on CM9 and you can build it yourself (with cherry-picks from gerrit/github if it fits your fancy). Fitsnugly and winner00 are maintaining builds on rootzwiki. (Fitsnugly is a bit more stock and winner00 includes more, what I would call, non-kosher bits).

The CM team used to let the build bots run pretty early on in the development cycle and stopped doing so for various reasons. Fortunately their code is all open source.
Same here, four times.
So the dates of the first "extra week" would be Dec 32-38, 2015?
Humbug! CC fees, while annoying, are a cost of business which should already be included in the math they use to determine what I'm paying them each month.

If they had to mail out a paper envelope & invoice and then pay somebody to handle my check back to them, do you think that would cost them more or less than $2 each month? I'm thinking it would be pretty darn close to $2 to deal with that.

Should they be adding fees to my bill every time I visit their website, so that they can cover those costs too? Should they be charging me every time I contact a customer support representative?

This is as indefensible as Bank of America's ATM fee.

I've been a 5-line Verizon customer for at least 4 years, I've been out of contract for at least a year, and I'm calling them in the morning to express my extreme displeasure at this. If they don't reverse course on this I'm switching to Republic Wireless.
Ruby was cutting-edge and trendy for startups several years ago, but it's definitely mainstream these days.
>-The new widget features are great (can add a homescreen icon to call/text a specific person, play a playlist, navigate/open a map for a specific location)

The widgets you listed here are identical to their GB counterparts.

Also, I find it strange you get such poor battery life. The battery life on my Nexus is far superior to stock.
If you have personal experience with this please share it. The other people in this thread basically said it was great except for one individual who had a problem with a host that would not allow user serials.

> when there are equal-quality tools available by simple download

I suppose the keyword is when or if. I which case that becomes true.
> "If you had a T-shirt that said "I hate White People" and you walked into a mall wearing it, the security would probably ask you to leave, or ask you to cover up your shirt."

> And that's the problem with Google+ here. They didn't ask anything. They did the t-shirt in a mall equivalent of stealing his t-shirt while he wasn't looking.

And that's the problem with analogies relating the Internet to the real world: they often fail because the Internet doesn't work like the real world. (I will say that this does come remarkably closer to the concept of "stealing bits" than how people usually use terms like "stealing", since the original owner might not have those bits anymore, but who would leave their only copy of a picture on a site they don't own, particularly one whose policies don't include preserving your data no matter what?)

Another marginally more accurate analogy, though still potentially flawed if you try to read too much into it: if you rented space in a mall, and displayed offensive material there, they might ask you to leave, or they might just close up your shop for you and kick you and your stuff out, and either way they have every right to do so.
Privacy can be expensive. If you are in the US, you could try getting a PO box. Post offices around me have them for as low as $42/year. That is about three years of domain registration, but if you have multiple domains or want to keep your home address off the Internet, the cost can be worth it. Plus, now you have a different address for things and it's a locked box that's difficult to break into.
I think it began in the 1980s in the era of "corporate raiders".
Comcast in this area has exceptional customer service, and actually offers decent broadband speeds. It isn't the Fiber Optic internet that Verizon FiOS gives me, but it's certainly good.
Excuse my language, but that's fucking genius.

I am going to call my parents ASAP and connect this with the jamming of VOA back in the cold war by the USSR. They can probably understand that.
I believe it's because they (and many others on the second lists) emailed Congress supporting some sort of copyright protection laws, but didn't name SOPA directly, and then Congress (or some other shady org) had the cojones to put their names onto the support list. A similar thing happened with Gibson Guitars, story here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111222/16384317175/gibson...
I hate the TSA, I hate NDAA. They're a sick stain on America, they're a mockery of pre-9/11 America, and they're an insult to the tragedy and victims. That having been said, I'm kinda tired of seeing them on HN, much as I'm shocked that GoDaddy keeps hitting the frontpage one or more times a day for, what, a week now?

Really? Really? I understand disagreeing, but I'm so out of line for saying that NDAA/TSA has nothing to do with Hacker News that I'm actually downvoted for it?
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It's 'iPhone', not 'IPhone'. Using the latter dos not make you look any smarter...

And it's really annoying.
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Agreed... The change isn't even significant
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HN's gotten big. As bizarre as it seems, proggit is now probably a better place for hacker stuff, with a higher quality of discussion, as well.
That's turned out so well for Facebook that all they kept of PHP was the syntax (too much of it to get rid of it, and esay to find people that know it) and threw away the rest.

And the other 40% of the web ... well, it's cheap and has low barriers to entry. That does not mean it's great.
First, by that standard anyone's claim of openness is BS, because most users of any open source project don't actually use the source themselves.

Second, Android is "open" in ways that have nothing to do with source availability. Even with a closed-source Honeycomb device, you can run apps from arbitrary sources, access the filesystem, replace OS components like the keyboard and launcher, and develop your own apps without asking (or paying) for permission.
Moral of the story? Know who you are and ride the X for Y thing if it helps open doors but don't build your brand around it. "Mint.com for the Cloud" worked for Cloudability initially but we tried to limit our use of it early on so it didn't define us. Sometimes it still does though >.<
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When are these getting released?
Ah, a fine, growing, young security apparatus. The worst is yet to come. Some day, they'll be in charge of the Internet for no apparent reason.
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I'll do the same thing I did with godaddy and leave. Verizon was already on my shit list for tracking every website I visited via my phone.
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