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FSF membership drive--final day
Hello, hackers! Have a link: https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=10428

TL;DR: The Free Software Foundation could use your help meeting a fundraising goal, and they are awesome. https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=10428 will take you to the join page.

After SOPA and PIPA, I think it's in our best interest to try and support any organizations that help us fight for digital freedom. In fact, the day after SOPA fell, I joined the Free Software Foundation as an associate member.

Well, it just so happens that they've been having a membership drive! Their goal is $300,000, and they only have about $20,000 to go. Let's make this last day the best they've had yet!

The FSF, in the coming year, will be defending our rights in the UEFI secure boot case. They will be continuing their efforts to bring more people to stream free formats like Ogg Vorbis. They will also, of course, be hacking on cool software like GNU Social, GNU MediaGoblin, and GNU Emacs (though I'm sure some of them use Vi)!

Consider making a donation this year, to support this great organization through a difficult time.

It's $10/month, or $5 per month for students. You can also pay yearly if you prefer. You get some cool benefits, including five email addresses (forward only), a USB membership card with Trisquel GNU/Linux, and access to the members-only forums on my.fsf.org.

Once again, head on over to https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=10428 and donate today!

Feel free to remove my referral information, but I don't mind taking credit if you don't mind giving it :) also, if you can forward this information through any channel at all, please do so.

Thanks, everyone!
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...allow people to add a flatr button to their content?

Just one thought.
Is Android designed for such cheap phones, tho'? Is there a minimum hardware spec that's capable of keeping the phone responsive?

I just wonder if there's much difference between Android and Symbian once you get down to the $50 point. It's not like you're going to have any amazing hardware features at that point, so it more comes down to software, and how well that software is tailored for the device.
Agreed. "To put this into laymen terms, HTML determines the semantic structure..." doesn't sound like laymen terms to me.
Stop and think about charging an 85 kWH battery pack in 5 minutes. Assuming 80% charging efficiency (no idea if that's what it is, just a guess) you will need about 100 kWH * 60/5 = 1200 kW. 1.2 million Watts draw for 5 minutes. 5,000 Amps at 240volts. Totally impossible with our current grid and generating capacity.
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I pay $370/month to cover my wife and I, and that's on a company-subsidized plan. The actual cost is at least twice that much on a group plan. If you try to buy insurance as an individual, the cost is even higher. And my plan requires me to spend $10-$75 for prescription medicine, and doesn't cover more than basic care from eye doctors or dentists.
I feel like the sentiment portrayed in these posters could apply to almost anyone in any profession that happens to be feeling a little undervalued. This is not unique to design. More importantly, there is very little in useful advice. Disappointing this made it to the front page.
Although I agree with many bits of this article, I find it misguided. First of all, I think everybody knows by now that we are using a product and are not the costumers. Thinking that people do not know that makes this article have a "smarter than thou" feeling.

Secondly, I think Google, as most other companies out there, do not just focus their energies in one revenue stream (although it may be the biggest one) and do not create products for a single reason. So, thinking Google+ is just a way to make directed ads easier is oversimplifying things. That may be part of it, but not letting Facebook create a Walled Garden is another part, and create loyal users is another one.
Smartphone vendors delaying launches to avoid competing with iPhone 4S
This is a weirdly emotional appeal that ignores the fact that Rails is not Struts, is nothing like Struts, isn't standing still, was more or less rewritten not very long ago by assimilating its best competitor, and that the next ORM or gem that isn't popular today on Rails is very likely to be bootstrapped and implemented in the context of Rails --- unless its key distinguishing value is "a not-Rails replacement for something Rails already does", which many people on this thread are pointing out is a seductive trap.

Rails is good. For an alternative to be compelling, it probably needs to be more than just "different"; it needs to be better. What I see people saying here is, yes, "stripped down" is different, but in practice that difference turns out not to be better. The parts of Rails you really can't get around using tend to be parts you're going to need in a Sinatra or Padrino app, and rewriting them just for the sake of it isn't a win.
Yehuda Katz made a good point in this episode of ruby rogues http://bit.ly/w7PJ0o about how he uses rails even for small projects.

I use rails for everything, there is so much going on for you behind in the scenes in the way of security and configuration that it doesn't make sense to go back and roll your own on a minimal framework.
One of the new memes is that sociopaths are good at business.
Tesla is probably requiring different manufacturing processes, different equipment, which can dramatically affect costs (esp. fixed costs).

What manufacturing process are you speaking of? It's a single chassis and single production line. All the parts are bolted on the same way in the same places.

I've worked in a radio factory and it is a highly synchronized machine. All the parts arrive in the right place at the right time. For build cost it only adds a marginal amount which Tesla appears to be recouping.

to produce manual cars since demand is so low in the US and assembling them would require a separate line which would reduce efficiency.

This information is probably out of date. Most cars today are FWD. The gearbox is mated to the engine block and then dropped onto the chassis. They only have to select the proper linkages and shifter. It might be 1:10 US cars that are manual but I don't think it needs a separate line for this.
So I should pity all the mongodb users out there?
It seems you are right. The low color contrast on a small disabled part of this website seems to be the major shared point of view.

Sincerely, it wasn't a personal attack. I am just sad a short comment about the look & feel make the top instead of a comment about the content.

Even if in the end, I tend to agree with you that this color contrast is a design error.

ps: Also, if you visit my website, you will see I am fully aware of accessibility and try to take a good care about it.
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No we can't, no it's not, and no it doesn't. There are many other fun, comic-y faces that aren't terribly designed.
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"Smartphone vendors said to be delaying launches to avoid competiting with iPhone 4S"

We are taking the words of someone who can't even spell check, seriously?
I was in a similar position to you a little while back. I found the annotated source of the TODO app on DocumentCloud a good start. I then found it was worth spending the money on Recipes with Backbone by Nick Gauthier & Chris Strom.

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/examples/todos/inde...
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html
http://recipeswithbackbone.com/

That being said, I've always found the best way to learn, is to do. Come up with an idea for an app and build it using Backbone, with the help from the resources above. You'll learn a lot.
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True, public companies are driven more by quarterly results, but they can also be more accountable and transparent. Private companies can be as equally evil as public ones.

FWIW, I believe private companies tend to be better run and usually operate with a longer or more rounded perspective. In this sense, I would favour being a stakeholder of some sort in a private company over a public one.
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Partitioning has some security and performance gains. Different filesystems for different workload (e.g. perhaps xfs for database files and reisterfs for /tmp), mounting with noexec or ro in some cases.
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What you say is more than likely true but I think people underestimate just how many really do like Nokia and Symbian.

The 6300 series was always popular, especially in Africa, because they were pretty rugged. This is still a problem with touchscreen phones.

While many people have a problem with the hideousness of the Symbian UI, there are a lot who don't have this problem. They've learned how to use it and are comfortable with it. The iPhone, Android and WP7 don't necessarily improve their experience and there are also new things to learn.
I am 27, so my case might not apply to older people. However, for me in the US, I pay approximately $85/month for a high deductible plan as an individual. I am stuck with the first $5,000/year of medical expenses, of which in most years I only spend around $100-$200 for a checkup and labs, but I am covered 100% after that.

However, I can put $3,100/year into a HSA account. I immediately get to deduct the amount I put in from my taxes (which for someone with an income just about pays for the insurance), and I can grow it in the HSA and not pay any taxes on withdrawal if I use it for medical expenses (works kind of like a super IRA).
This feedback thread could be a lesson all on its own for your class - some really useful feedback and it showsthat (markup rules aside) the presentation of information is a hugely subjective area and not something that's clear cut Good or Bad. That should be an encouragement for anyone getting started.
I'm not familiar with the Backbone code or config. However, it sounds like you are setting an argument by specifying a function name in a string. If you want to specify multiple functions, then instead of specifying them in a string I'd say Backbone should accept either a string or a function as the argument value. That would let you define your event handler in-place, and you could define one that just calls a series of other functions.
Already is and will. Check out Shai Agassi. (BetterPlace)

EDIT- Israel, Denmark, Australia and some US testing. Why is this downvoted? My point was a solution exists and is being implemented on a large scale.
Sorry, but this is the farthest thing from real design. Slapping a (poorly typeset) font onto a poster with some commonly commiserated points is not design. They might as well have ditched the "posters" and just shared the quotes/anecdotes.
Dumbphones are underrated. Last year, when deciding whether or not to jump on the smartphone bandwagon, I did extensive research and ultimately came to the conclusion that it was just not worth it. Yet. If or when telecomms ever stop trying to handcuff customers with contracts, it might be.

Because, ultimately, it's never been about the phone; it's all about the contract that Verizon / TMobile / AT&T wants to handcuff us to.

Net neutrality "lite" means that the telecoms have extreme incentives to keep us chained to contracts for as long as possible, no matter what advances in technology might make voice and data usage cheaper / bandwidth more efficient, or whatever.

Anyway, I ended up keeping my contractless dumb phone for voice only, and got an Android tablet for anything that would have otherwise persuaded me to want a smart phone. Unfortunately, I ended up needing to buy a data plan for it, which means I'm handcuffed to a contract anyway. But at least the tablet is optimized for "reading" which is what I'd want to do most of, had I a smart phone.

I guess that's where Verizon wins, spending my hard-earned money on lobbying for laws that decrease my power of choice, as a consumer.
We had multiple sites banned and my accounts and some business partner accounts banned as well. Almost all without reason. I mean ofcourse they 'have' some reason, they just don't tell it and no-one can tell me why either. Like acme.com; I have known the acme.com site for many years; how is acme.com a threat to their advertisers? It's a nice site.

Anyway; you cannot argue with them and it makes me upset that they would do this like this. I like their products, but their adsense and adwords 'policies' are insane; you are making them money both ways and with adwords you are a paying client, yet there is no-one you can call or mail. If you do you just get 'our decision is final, don't contact us anymore'. Is that an acceptable way to threat a client who did 100s of 1000s of $ in adsense (which means Google did how much % of that running over my sites?) or more than that amount via adwords?

And Matt Cutts is also showing the real Google in that regard; he is always helping famous / connected people out, while the rest of us goes out of business because some vague Google automated fraud blah. This goes for SEO too (the HN incident for instance).
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I only use Sinatra and have been developing, maintaining, and using http://PocketLoot.com for a year now.

I completely love Sinatra.
Can you be more specific? I'm curious. What are the bits of ActionView that get in your way? I ask because to me, as far as views go, both Rails and Sinatra are just hosting systems for Haml. If anything, it's Sinatra that got in my way (it doesn't have explicit partial support, so there were minor things I had to tweak). I can't think of many "features" of ActionView I used.

I generally agree that Sinatra was an easier sell in the Rails 1.x and 2.x era, before Rails ate Merb.
This is a neat idea for creating themes or CSS skins.

Imagine if it only included HTML elements with an ID or a class. It's produce something that could then be edited to ADD to the current CSS, instead of replace it.

If we wanted to export all the styles in play for a HTML page, i.e. all the computed styles, I'm sure there's a way of hacking Firebug to export what it thinks is the CSS.

Incidentally, I didn't get it to work with a HTML page saved from the internet - it uploads it then tells me it's a HTTP error.
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Aw, come on, nothing I said was critical. It’s a very good thing to be conservative in places. If you’re sitting down to write a new program, how many things ought to be innovative? Where should you be breaking new ground? You can’t pick up a new programming language, roll your own new framework, learn a new programming paradigm, use it to start a new company and go into a new market, all at the same time.

You pick and choose your battles, you pick and choose where you’re going to trade a little risk for reward. For the things Rails does well, there’s very little attraction in replacing it with something that is not-Rails if you already use Rails. Ergo, something not-Rails has to either do somethingRails doesn’t do well or appeal to people who don’t already know Rails.

Rails isn’t standing still but neither is Java web development. My ex-colleagues are constantly boasting of the great new things going on in my old ‘hood. But even so, the great new things are centered around the old things it already did well. Same with Rails, it does a particular thing well and “not standing still” doesn’t mean it will magically turn into node.js one day.

If we were talking about startups, nothing I am saying would arouse the slightest controversy, it’s the old “crossing the chasm,” “disruptive innovation,” or “innovator’s dilemma” mechanics, only for a free tool instead of a business or service.
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What laws? You mean the contract?
How exactly was your average user supposed to know that MU was anything less then legitimate?
You're right - Programming Pearls, column 8 "Code Tuning." It's not quite like this, and it's in some variant of BASIC, but when you squint, it's there.

Thanks.
As someone that has been writing production Rails and Sinatra apps for years, I have to recommend against using Padrino. Rails scales up and down pretty well, and I don't really see a need for Sinatra in anything but very small or single-purpose apps.

You can even write a Sinatra clone in very little code on top of Rails: http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/26/how-to-build-sinatra-on-rai...

If you already know Rails, there is very little reason to build a substantial app in anything "smaller". The reality is that for any moderately-sized app, you will end up using many of the parts of Rails that you think are unnecessary in the beginning. Especially as your app grows.

I tried using Padrino for an app a year ago, and while the framework has probably matured since then, I moved back to Rails fairly quickly due do a lack of polish/documentation/community/benefit other than being different.

There is a common tendency to find a part of a framework that doesn't work exactly the way you want, and in turn throw the entire framework out and seek out or write something new. I still prefer the way Merb and Sinatra handle responses, where the controller action return value is the response sent to the client. But the benefits that Rails provides so outweigh many of these kind of preferences that it's usually best to just embrace the way the framework works and move on to actually building an app that does something.

It's also short sighted to discount how valuable the wealth of existing documentation and extentions exist for an established framework such as Rails.

The presentation makes it sounds as though by using Rails you have to use SASS and Coffeescript. This is not true, you can easily use plain JavaScript and CSS if you want.

The majority of developers will be more productive in Rails.
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Ugh. That's nasty :( If that works, how come Google doesn't know that?
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I agree. I was an addict 2 years ago, a frequest user a year ago, and now rarely check my stream, and never post anything.

For me personally, I'm kind of over social networks entirely. I don't find them interesting any more. I'm hoping to see a revival in personal home pages, where you can share your thoughts in a place that you own and control. We just need the mechanic that makes it dead simple for others to consume the content (Wordpress is not it).
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Not everything needs to be monitised. The guys are MA students in Northern Ireland - they are promoting themselves and their skills. They will earn money from this.
I am not sure if you heard of another cheap mobile maker called Micromax, Manufactured mainly in Chaina and marketed in India,Brazil, and many more countries under the brand name Micromax. Its just matter of time before they reach nearest store.
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I disagree. The main reason I dislike Rails is that it is too complicated. When working with it every day, I regularly come across issues with it that require that I delve into the source code. More often than not that is a depressing venture.

I would love something more simple, that operated with less magic, and had code that was easier to understand. I'm not sure if Padrino is the answer, but it certainly merits a second look.
I mean lack of laws. Net neutrality lite protects consumers only in the realm of hard-wired ISP service, not mobile broadband.

The regulations ban content blocking and require transparency from ISPs. They also require network management and packet discrimination to be "reasonable," but they exempt wireless broadband from all but the transparency and blocking rules.

source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/its-here-fcc...
I ported my current app from Rails to Padrino and found the performance, in dev and production mode, generally faster than Rails. I made the switch when Rails performance in development mode became unbearable on my machine, although I believe Rails has gotten faster in development mode after subsequent releases. I am quite happy with Sinatra/Padrino and have no reason for switch back anymore.
Not true, I said I would used an alternative to Apple if all tech companies did not produce computers in similar or worse factories. The bulk of the blame, not all of the blame, has to fall on Chinese government. The government is in the business of protecting it's people from foreign dangers. These multinational companies are allowing things to happen to foreigners (the chinese people) that would be illegal in their home nation. The Chinese government has the bulk of the blame because Chinese government approved these companies, the Chinese Government approves of every single foreign entity, it's not hands off. Immediately the abuses would stop if the Chinese government ordered it to. The Government can not protect it's own people from foreign harm, (foxxcon is not a Chinese company) then that Government should be blamed. No China is not using its power to stop this because if it did it won't happen on such a large scale. Moreover I never said American workers are not exploited, it happens, but what is happening in China is far worse.
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Two years is a lot of time in mobile industry. E.g.:

* Angry Birds released for the Apple's iOS in December 2009 (two year ago)

* iPhone itself is 4.5 years old.

I can completely see $50 Android after two years but Nokia is not sleeping either.
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Even though I agree with you in trying new things out, I think that never settling with an established tool is pointless. We are trying to get things done here.

My point is, I like trying new things, but I prefer to stick with tested and supported tools when working in a job, and leaving these new things to personal projects or hobbies.

Rails has not only a huge community, but a huge support of third party libraries that while they may not be the best performance-wise, they allow you to accomplish the project's goals.
Ryan and Isaac were both hired by Joyent after becoming established in the node community. Everyone seems happy with this being an open-source project.
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