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fpgeek - I guess, insofar that a Human and a chimpanzee are in the same evolutionary tree, the Palm Treo and iPhone are in the same evolutionary tree - but, (perhaps stretching the analogy a little too far) - I would suggest that would put the Palm Treo 600/650/700p in the same species as Australopithecus Afarensis (Lucy) compared to the iPhone Homo Sapien - an absolute disconnect. Do you remember what the Browser was like on that 650?

I think most people would agree that the iPhone 4S is an evolutionary upgrade over the original iPhone. Indeed, many, many of the Enhanced Browser/No Keyboard/App Store Enabled/Touch Screen smartphones today are closely related to the iPhone in a manner that that iPhone is not related to the Palm Treo - that's all I'm trying to say - that Apple did something completely new with the iPhone, rather than just iterating on a previous design.

I will _never_ forget the day I used the iPhone of a friend (I was among those who thought the concept of Apple getting into the "Phone" business was ludicrous, and was determined not to get one) - and used that browser/map. Within 48 hours I had an iPhone, and never looked back on my dear Treo.
> they properly wasn't even CGI then

I'm going to choose to pretend that wasn't a typo. ;)

Seriously though, there are some great older action movies out there. There's some pretty top notch new ones, too. It's all good.
The problem is that obviously some people have not been aware of the issue. Tesla has (supposedly) only given very vague warnings in the instruction manual, without much emphasis and with no clear description of the consequences of reaching 0% charge. Except for a "You may risk damaging your battery".

It's not reasonable to assume that ordinary people know the inherent risks in lithium ion batteries. As such, the massive risk should have extreme emphasis in the instruction manuals, be explained in detail by the sales people, exist as clear warnings in the car, and so on.
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"They" can also be used as a (gender neutral) singular third party pronoun in English, and has been used that way since Shakespeare.
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Patrick, thank you for your well-thought-out response. I appreciate your longer posts because you tease out things I hadn't thought of. From now on, I dub you the Dennis Miller of HN (apologies to those who don't get the reference). I think I have to re-read your posts 2-3 times to fully understand them.
You're misstating history. There are no "great works of art that are considered worthless in their time". They were considered valuable, if by no one else, by those that created them, and whoever happened to hang onto them, and pass them down through the ages. (After all, they still exist today.)

But in almost all cases, it wasn't just the artists who considered their works valuable: many other people did as well. That's generally why they were able to continue to produce art. Patrons, who did appreciate their work, even if the general public didn't, bought it, and supported the artists.
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Yes, but it could still be legitimately useful. Show me a powerful technology and I'll tell you how it can be misused, but that won't invalidate its potential usefulness.
Given that Microsoft still has a boatload of money, market share, and deep-profit products, you have to really give them props for realizing that doesn't really mean that much to the future. Their product lineup has always been confusing, they've been pimping that awful "Windows Live" brand for years, and their branding has been a mess. Worse yet, for a long time their products were not up to standards.

You can love Microsoft products or hat em but it's hard to argue that they aren't taking on all of these issues head first. Xbox is probably the premier home entertainment product on the market, Windows Phone is actually really good now, and much of the problems with Windows from horrible security to poor performance have really been improved.

No one should underestimate how hard it is to admit your company kind of sucks, especially when you are still raking in billions. They deserve a lot of credit.
It's good to know that you agree with the blogger who wrote the article, and agree that Tesla is lying when they say his claims are unfounded rumors.
Bose needs more love.

I have a pair of their older on-ear model (replaced by the OE1). At the time, they were the most readily available pair of head phones where the main cable separated from the head phones. Most of my headphone failures over the years were from the stress at the device end of the cable. I have fixed this a few times but it's easier to get a replacement cable. So for the 199 I spent on the Bose, these are the best value for money head phones I have so far.

Also they are more portable than most head phones, pretty comfortable, and they use a single cable rather than a y-cable.
Source code to the first webserver by Tim Berners-Lee's cannot be found
It obviously is. Just mobile companies thinking they can still gouge prices and corner people. But this time people have an comparison; they know that they can download 5GB over their home line in a matter of an hour.

And that is food for thought when your provider is giving you 5GB or otherwise limited plans _for a whole month_ while marketing phones with transfer rates well above (or on par) with most home connections.
The benefit isn't that big.

From the standpoint of writing quality code, I think it is better to use the background page instead of LocalStorage in that it lets you avoid writing to disk (which requires space and has worse performance than using memory, although at this scale the difference is trivial) and doesn't pollute your LocalStorage namespace as much.

An advantage of the LocalStorage approach is your readers can write code in a way similar to how they would if you were not writing an extension and it makes the material more accessible in that it requires less understanding of how Chrome extensions work.
While I agree with this ruling in terms of privacy protection and right against self-incrimination, I believe that this effectively means that, for example, all TrueCrypt containers can never be forcibly decrypted.

For example: if you have 13_year_old_girl.jpg.pgp, it could be reasonably argued that the content of the encrypted file is "known," and decryption can be forced. If, however, you have a TrueCrypt partition called "images," there is plausible deniability due to the very nature of a TrueCrypt container - so everything within would be considered protected.

It's an interesting case, with serious ramifications - for example, if a hacker stole source code and put it in a TrueCrypt container and was subsequently raided, it would be significantly harder to prosecute without incriminating evidence.
Dropbox stores a local mirror of your account on every device connected to it. If you lose network connectivity you just run off of your local mirror and sync changes when you reconnect.
People were doing TDD for sure (at least I can tell so in .Net and Java) before Rails was released.

IMO though, Rails moved this from "something done by advanced programmers" to "something done most of the time".

The most brilliant contribution for me was: the migrations.
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> You don't mean "no one would pay", you mean "no one would pay enough"

Fair enough, but that distinction only makes a real difference if the NEA commonly does "last mile" funding (the last 5-20% to reach a threshold of viability, say). Is that the case?

> No one would pay enough to build a nice mural or sculpture in a poor neighborhood, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

1. The fact that someone has not yet paid, by some date, to build a nice mural or sculpture in some particular poor neighborhood, is not a proof that no one would pay to do so.

2. When I have participated in such projects, they were municipally funded in addition to neighborhood donations of time and materials, and I doubt any expenses were recouped from some NEA "hood aid" package.

3. If you think it's worth doing, do it.

> The straightforward corrolary to what you wrote is that the artistic desires of the wealthy are inherently more valuable

Artistic desire is a universal to which all humans are entitled. The power to commission other people of talent to create physical manifestations of my artistic desire is something I am only entitled to if I can afford to pay those people for their time and materials.
Hard to argue with that. I like their moves but where is the messaging? Other than launches, I don't see MS ads anywhere.
awesome. is that something you normally test out?
TV is even more broken in The Netherlands
Functional reactive programming for the web, or: where’s my Lunascript?
I used perl for about 5 years for general scripting tasks. It's not about there being too many ways to do something for me, it's that you need to know the subtlety of each one and cryptic abbreviations.
I have a TiVo and TV works just fine for me.

(It's hard to fathom now, however, how I ever coped with TV before getting a TiVo, which I've had for more than a decade now.)
Bashing? Nope. Rails is simply not how people write web apps anymore. Most people write a UI-independent API layer, and then write the UI in Javascript. This makes Rails largely unnecessary; you still use the individual pieces, but the framework as a whole no longer makes sense.
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My favorite experience is when the iPad runs out of batteries (blessedly more frequently now) and the kids realize they have nothing to do but read.

Throw away your TV? So 2006. You want to take care of your kids? Cancel your streaming video accounts.

I like Shiela Ash's question about cigarettes: "Why would you pay for something that goes up in smoke?!"

Modified for streaming: "Why would you pay to rot your kids' brains?!"
Customers don't care about 'generations'.

If it works for them, they will not break it.

That said: XP will eventually fade off, but not because of MS official support or extended or whatever. It will fade because end users will eventually stop installing and using it.

Our company only recently started the full roll out of Windows 7, and some computers still require Windows XP (for accounting applications).

These few computers will use Windows XP for the foreseeable future, official support or not.
Fully agree. X10s are so comfortable & tiny that they almost feel like an implant, without compromising sound quality or noise isolation. It's amazing how much bass such a miniature speaker can produce, when fitting properly.

Only disadvantage is that people don't realize you are wearing headphones and you don't hear them yelling at you.
Thanks for the reply. I'll try to look up connections, but for right now it seems to be impossible with Google SERPs including Facebook mentions of Carlyles the world over. That is, search for anything "facebook" on Google and you'll get a million FB pages due to the word "Facebook" in every page title.

Sigh, Google.
* Half the users didn't configure their skillsets

* Coderwall set "suggested defaults" of "Loving IE6" and "Visual Basic" (which kind-of look like those are the skills set for your account)

* After that, 92% of users have configured their skillset.
If you considered using FTP to share files, why didn't you consider HTTP?

No one can argue against that it's extremely well supported on the client-side and pushing files to a server (with ssh for example) or hosting a small http-server locally (twistd for example) is usually no big problem.
In Garry's Mod the default name was "Mingebag". That's very much reflective of Garry's sense of humour...
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In England we have Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) :

(http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/contents_

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investigatory_Pow...)

And does this apply to people crossing borders?

(https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/protecting-yourself-su...)
That isn't the same as leaving your car for weeks without doing any upkeep.
> Once you begin using Dropbox, you become more and more indifferent to the hardware you are using, as well as the operating system on that device. Dropbox commoditizes your devices and their OS, by being your “state” system in the sky.

I strongly disagree with this. Dropbox is great, but it only affects a subset of my experience on any given hardware/software platform. Dropbox cannot change the aesthetic of Android in a way that would make me chose it over iOS. Likewise for OS X and Windows. Dropbox cannot change a cheap, plastic Acer laptop in to a unibody MacBook Air. If you care about these things, the statement above is proven false for your use case.

"State" is plumbing; Dropbox is plumbing. It's damn good plumbing, but it's plumbing none the less.

I think maybe the author is struggling with how to frame the disruption. I know I am. To say that Dropbox is damn good plumbing is not an admonishment. I don't want to live without damn good plumbing.

The best technology is transparent -- no, invisible. I use 1Password. I have two laptops, an iPad, and an iPhone. I don't have to think about syncing passwords between these devices. It "just happens". I don't see Dropbox working in the background with 1Password to sync my passwords, but I know it's responsible. Here's the rub:

Apple isn't the facilitator of this magic, and that is the disruption.

What do we call this though? It's not the OS. It's not the hardware. It's something new. Some call it the "platform", but what is that? Everything is a platform.

Apple created iCloud as a "platform". iCloud provides the plumbing for my contacts, calendars, apps, music, etc. Everyone expects them to expand this to include third-party services. Google has Gmail. Windows has (had) Live. The trouble for Dropbox is that Apple/Google/Microsoft hold the keys to the user's data. These three players have to individually agree to allow Dropbox in to their ecosystem, and they all know that this act would commoditize their platform. I think Dropbox is going to have a really tough time making inroads there. I don't see any of these vendors making the "cloud platform" interchangeable on their respective devices/OS.
Eh, if your revenues are up 30%, you're probably coming out ahead even if you used to evade tax on 100% of your revenue.
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My father has some HD650s and I found that they make my head too hot :(
Zephyr: Glad it's useful. It's actually super simple, and github would be overkill. It simply extracts the active query from the open page and redirects to scholar. The complete script is:

"javascript:location = 'http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q= + escape(document.forms[0].elements['q'].value);"

I made the webpage with a description and drag-able bookmarklet in order to help non-coding researchers easily add it to their browsers.
As usual, assuming that corporations are competent but lying about their motivations is helpful.

In this case, the observed effects of throttling are:
- customers paying more money for overages
- customers with grandfathered unlimited plans sticking around even if they might be better off elsewhere
- customers reducing usage
- customers paying more for higher limits
- customers at the right edge of the graph looking elsewhere
Is it true to say that other battery only electric cars don't have the same potential, sorry, to become a brick? If so, this PR response is pure fluff.
And that's exactly what we're discussing: a rumour. You're right that this may prove to be completely out to lunch. If so, I'll eat my hat.

That said, Facebook is, for better or worse, the biggest thing this industry has seen in a while. So that fact these rumours are being discussed in earnest, rather than "Facebook is still on such an insane revenue growth path that anyone who claims otherwise is an idiot" is substantial.
It is statically typed and non interactive. I'm not sure I could get on with that as a scripting language.
That reminds me, I'd really like to see an official wiki (or just a simple pastebin-like thing like the Flask snippets site) for Redis scripts, use cases, best practices...

I've seen quite a few blog posts that highlight some amazing way to use Redis and it would be very helpful to have them all in one place.
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A web app is a browser for your business domain. When implemented on top of a REST/HATEOAS service, it should be a layer that knows how to interpret and present interactions to work with the business objects coming across the wire.

URIs and hypermedia just turn out to be a really good way to structure this kind of architecture.
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What abstractions in particular? I'm interested from the perspective of resolving any issues in that space.
Just by looking at the images in the article, I do agree with those findings.

(I do compile with VS, but edit my files in SublimeText)
Which is why it was a good move to modularize Rails as much as they did.
MS's strategy hasn't produced a noticeable return on investment over the past decade. Argue with the business logic all you want, but all logic supports a theory that MS should be split up into various businesses.

The big problem at MS seems to be an unwillingness to cannibalize existing products in favor of new ones. This has led to new products only when its too late. Microsoft had a virtual insurmountable lead in phones, and it took Apple and Google creating revolutionary devices for MS to come up with a decent offering.

I own MS stock, and I have seen it pretty much stagnate. The company had tremendous potential. It is mature in its space, but its ever-looming shadow in its dominant space (windows) has prevented it from nurturing new products.

Most of it's revenue generation comes from products developed in the early 1990's. It's track record over the past 15 years for new products is terrible (with the exception of the Xbox).
I am only slightly less amused by the idea that one needs a gender-neutral pronoun to refer to Greg Egan. :-)
First of all, the warnings in the manual are anything but vague.

Second, again you're proving the point. If EVs were the norm and suddenly internal combustion engines burst onto the scene, people would be breaking those because they're not used to what you can or can't do.
Then why is Dropbox still a lame excuse of a remote backup system?

Seriously, if you think this is "a major disruption" (gosh, I hate that word), give us the functionality and services to make up on that promise.
Original interview, in German: http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/webwelt/article13881492/Das-In... and machine-translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
Why not exclude facebook.com from the results? "facebook carlyle -facebook.com"
They use and recognize the 2010 icons.

I don't use either, and I think the 2011 are easier and faster to recognize.
Seriously?

TL;DR version the 'unlimited guys' use the same total bandwidth as the 'limited' guys.

This is extreme proofiness[1]. You notice that the 'average' is much higher in unmetered plans while the median is the same? If you know your maths you will recognize that data hogs hog a lot which results in a higher average. AT&Ts throttling on the other hand keeps the 'median' about the same.

The real issue for the carriers is that they have a fixed amount of bandwidth within their system which is difficult (read expensive) to increase.

Network bandwidth is one of those commodities that exists all the time, whether or not it is being used.

People don't predictably use the bandwidth so its hard to sell "all" of it for money.

So you end up with bandwidth that is sitting there unused and losing money (it has a constant cost of ownership which is an amortization of maintenance, depreciation, and licensing fees)

Their solution was to offer an 'unlimited' plan which, for an extra fee, lets folks go over the max tiered plan. This allows them to 'sell' bandwidth that might have otherwise gone unused. But if they drive the total use over their hard stop EVERYONE runs out of juice.

So their 'fix' is that if you're pushing the average up they clip your usage. That keeps the median in line with their highest rate plan while allowing them to sell the excess bandwidth they have for those cases when everyone asks at once for it.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Proofiness-Youre-Fooled-Numbers-ebook/...
Thats certainly not how it works on mobile phones.
I can see differentiation based on features - iPhones are differentiated on space.

A user can distinguish between an iPod Touch, a nano, a classic, and an iPhone.

I do a big WTF when I look at the Dell website. It's literally insane. It used to be so easy to configure a computer, and now they've made it incredibly complicated.
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What other icon do you propose?

(hint: this is much harder than it looks)

(hint 2: ask Susan Kare about it)
My money is on #4:

4) The fraction of post-human civilizations that can build a simulation of a human-level civilization is very close to zero.

Simulating a human brain is many orders of magnitude beyond the capability of present-day computers, and Moore's Law isn't likely to continue forever. It is my belief that all of humanity, or even a single human, is much too complicated to be simulated by any current or future computer.
Netflix is quite profitable without commercials.
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>have to manually change the aspect ratio because it wasn't able to figure it out on its own.

For HDMI connections, this isn't the TV's fault (actually I think my TV doesn't even let you change the aspect ratio for HDMI inputs.) For SD component/composite, there is no aspect ratio information in the signal so the TV cannot determine it correctly and generally defaults to assuming 16:9 because most people stupidly prefer 4:3 content to be stretched to 16:9.
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I could imagine a similar and opposite article, "Netflix is broken", written from the perpective from an older person instead of a younger one: Why do I need to sign in? Why do I have to choose something to watch – why doesn't it just let me start watching immediately? Why is it so hard to change channels? Why do I have to watch things on my small computer screen instead of my large television screen?
Golly, I wish I understood what this is about...because if it means getting rid of MVC, I'm all for it.
Why do remote controls still exist?
I would find it very hard to tell real humans from bots if we limit environment to YouTube comments.
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