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so many times i had to -1 the answer and even more than that i had to -1 the question. there was a question about PHP basics and a claim that author could not find any tutorials for PHP beginners - how ridiculous is that? -1s are not the problem of SO - it's the influx of low quality questions and answers that is. SO is not the tutorial collection, more over it's not the place where people should expect someone to create a tutorial upon request. you do have to google your question before asking on SO.
Given that it took them something like 5 years to make a 64-bit version, I would imagine that Flash is such a mass of spaghetti code that, yes, they did find Linux too hard.
I think you are right about the major car companies - Nissan, GM, Mitsubishi, et al. They are definitely doing it right and aiming at a good segment.

I think you are wrong about Tesla's segment. I know a couple of Tesla owners. All of them have a stable of cars. I would bet the average Tesla owner has >2 sports cars, and absolutely has more cars than the number of drivers in the family.

The whole idea of 'range anxiety' is BS when applied to someone who owns a Tesla as a fun car they drive on the weekends.

I was at a racetrack a few years ago and there were quarter million dollars cars literally littered across the place. Ferraris, high end Porches, etc. You know what car had the most people standing around it? The Tesla roadster. At the time it was new, it was hard to get, and it was a prestige symbol.

Tesla is is getting car collectors to subsidize their R&D. And their R&D is going to be a big reason why in the future mainstream electric cars are succesful. Ultimately Tesla's tech is about batteries and efficient motors - the car itself is an afterthought.

That said, it makes this problem EVEN WORSE. If it is a daily driver, there is no way it will ever sit unused for 11 weeks. But as 1 of 10 cars in a collection, it absolutely can sit there for weeks on end without being charged. So I think this is a huge problem for Tesla and probably less so for a daily driver like the Leaf.
Isn't everything in politics a disgrace to democratic principles?
soon after that there will be law for everyone that is found to be requesting items to download of certain hash, will be in trouble.

anyway this is cool idea and probably can be used for other thing besides pirating.
So, much the same as at the moment where if there isn't a version of Flash (or Silverlight) for a particular platform then you can't watch Netflix/Hulu/Whatever.
My cycle:

1. Use Sublime Text for a few weeks.
2. Get annoyed at a tiny issue. Ugly icon, window UI, font rendering, etc.
3. Consider switching to TextMate
4. New version of Sublime Text fixes one/all of my issues.
5. Use Sublime Text.

I'll never learn. Incredibly impressed with the dev cycle and how far it has come in a matter of months. At this point, Coda 2 might not even be enough to pull me away.
I'm down to 47 plugins[1]. Only 27 if you don't count the language additions and Vundle. I've whittled it down over many months of scrutiny. I do actually make use of almost all of the plugins daily.

[1]:https://github.com/mutewinter/dot_vim
With the except of Chrome due to a new API

This is what's hard to understand: they are not dropping NPAPI on Windows, so it's not like the Chrome API is the enabler here.
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Have any TextMate users out there tried Sublime? I'd love to hear a comparison.
I was thinking the same thing. It's a matter of your definition of sport.

The vast majority of developers I've worked with display competitive traits:

* They form strong opinions and care if they're right (in other words, they're happy to argue with you)

* Ever heard a programmer speak well of another programmer's code? Take an old project and hand it off to a new dev. What does the new dev have to say about the code? Chances are they'll jump straight to what they'd do different, and many times deride the code for some lack of sophistication.

* Lots of geeks play video games online, which is competitive by nature. Why do you think games like Modern Warfare and Battlefield provide leaderboards and stats portals? Because many players care about how they perform.

Competitive individuals enjoy sport (unless they're losing). It's a means of exerting yourself through a structured outlet. Many would scoff at referring to video games as "sport", but it has all the elements of a sport, less the physical exertion.

Geeks love sport!
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Adobe never declared desktop Flash dead, they're just hedging their bets with HTML5 tools.
But it does work for images, maps and youtube.
nobody wany yo watch h264, they want to watch video, its up to the site to accomodate them
League of Legends still uses AIR I believe.
I feel like you can answer nearly every post like the OP's with "Go read The Innovator's Dilemma and then come back and talk about what metrics this disruptive company is competiting on rather than talking about the old metrics of the industry". Every one of them is making the argument that hard drive makers made each time a newer size came out, except with miles of range instead of Gigabytes.
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This is very cool. We are working on a website for a complex workflow. This could take all of the business logic out of the web application (done via rails state plugins) and move it to the amazon service. Then just make semi-dumb forms to accomplish each state. I think that is the goal of this, you just have to code individual pages which coordinate with your database models and hit the API as the business layer.
> My interpretation is that Google is "un-training" users from using this valuable piece of screen real estate for a useless no-op function, (...)

It's not an useless no-op function. By going to default/main page of the service it reverts you to a known state, simplifying navigation and enhancing user confidence. I personally rely on this behaviour of main logos and get terribly annoyed if someone breaks my expectation (which, rarely, happens).
Will Network DNA Sabotage Your Journey to the Cloud?
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Much better than TextMate. Faster, actually actively developed. Just cmd-t and cmd-p makes it worth the switch.
That's great you lost 30 kg.

>Felling hungry is inevitable, sure you can eat veggies until you are bloated (like the article suggest) but you will still fell hungry when you see someone eating a pizza.

The idea is that when you get a pizza craving from someone eating pizza, you're in an environment where you don't have pizza available to you.

What kind of things did you learn when you lost all your weight?
After the full roll-out of Gmail's new UI, which was seemingly obligatory, my UI reverted to the old interface within a week. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I opted-in to the new UI when it was still in beta, and then opted out after quickly becoming dissatisfied with it (I just really can't get over how laggy the mouseover animations are).

In any case, I've noticed that my Gmail querystring looks like this:

?ui=2&shva=1

Perhaps adding the ui=2 parameter to your own querystring will cause it to revert to the old interface?
Basically there is nothing preventing the lion from reaching the tamers' coordinates exactly, i.e. it's not a case of the distance only closing "in the limit".

The paper linked elsewhere here gives an illustrative example where this happens in what is clearly finite time.

(This is if the tamer is on the border as parent claimed - the paper also shows that the lion can't win if he doesn't do this)
Once someone builds a fusion reactor then there is "oil" on the moon - He3.
My assumption is that among {NPAPI/Windows, NPAPI/Linux, PPAPI/Windows, PPAPI/Linux}, NPAPI/Linux provides the least value for the work required.
I had to sign out of my Apps account and sign in with my Gmail account. Switching accounts didn't seem to work. I'm assuming (perhaps naively) that Google is synthesizing all my history into that one "primary" account.

I hate that Google Apps accounts are second-class citizens. Especially knowing that you can pay for corporate accounts... seems backwards.
Summary:

For a $1,000 laptop, Motorola is demanding that Microsoft pay a royalty of $22.50 for its 50 patents on the video standard, called H.264.

Interesting turn of events! So, everyone supporting patent-free codecs was saying that H.264 is dangerous. H.264 defenders were saying -- "no, you're okay -- we have reasonable licensing terms". Now, Google purchases the codec, gives a free patent grant, and then makes sure H.264 is what it is -- a patent-encumbered standard -- by requesting the allegedly unreasonable license terms, to push a patent-free codec.

Now imagine that Google will [ab]use this whole licensing thing to push for other H.264 patent holders to give a free patent grand similar to WebM.
He called in opinionated... So this allows such opinionated description of his tools.
Great content. Scientific, only presents the facts, and doesn't take the typical "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING" sensationalist approach. Good on the author and the NYT for reporting actual science.
I have actually been using your dot_vim repository as a base for my configuration. I like how you have things set up, but I don't do things like RoR development (I do still have vim-rails installed, though...). So, thanks for making everything nice and tidy.

Also, I know this isn't something you should have to answer, but is there a way to close buffers with LustyJuggler?
TechAmerica Foundation: Governments Need to Get Into the Cloud
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Yeah right, websites really care for the Linux user on Firefox and are willing to go to extra lengths to accommodate him.
Oh my God. This could change my life.

One lifelong problem I've got is sleeping. I have great trouble falling asleep, and my sleeping patterns are very uncommon: some days I sleep 12 hours, some 5, but I'm usually very tired because of this. However, I used to think I had a "gift" of being really creative and having my best ideas just before sleep, just waking up, and during insomnia episodes. However, I've discovered that many suffer from this phenomena (anyone here?). This article could explain a lot!
now corporations want you to work more than 9 hours per day.
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Point me to a platform without Flash support.

EDIT:

I meant, show me a platform where users can't get Flash for free easily. AFAIR on Windows, Unix and MacOS (I used only the first two) you can just download a free player...
what a stupid company they are bleeding customers...how frigging disconnected and dumb can you be. CUSTOMER IS #1, you dipshit GOOGLE MORONS. I use DUCKDUCKGO NOW for 80% of my searches b/c they are ethical. YOU ARE EVIL. DON"T BE EVIL!!! HAAHAHAH U LOST ME NOW BABY and U ain't ever getting me back. I am the masses. I DECIDE. I CHOSE AND U LOSE!!!! STOOPID GOOGLE....GOOODBYE.
This is great, I've always worried about being or feeling awake for long periods at night. What doesn't seem clear though is whether I should be setting aside 10 hours a night for sleep (two 4 hour cycles + 2 waking hours in between)
Apple's initial third-party app system in the iPhone was web-based.

While WebOS stuck with the open technologies, the next Apple phone introduced closed-source binary application as the main third party extension platform. If WebOS could make the open web technologies work as primary development method on a phone, why did Apple go back to the installable programs of the last century?

Google's Pepper is at least open standard with an open implementation, while I don't have any way to run iOS apps on any other platform than those tightly controlled by Apple themselves.

Strangely, we can look to Microsoft for providing an open standards HTML5 based version of an app like "Cut the Rope": http://www.cuttherope.ie/ -- imagine if iOS devices ran HTML5 apps well and this game (which sold 3 million copies on iOS!) was HTML5 from the start. You could run it on the iPhone or any Android device or your desktop right from the start.
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Very interesting idea. We have a real estate photography platform and people ask us about voice all the time. Interestingly, almost no one does it due to the expense and the PITA factor.

The idea of an API to attempt to automate that is interesting. Will have to check it out!

[Edit] Question: if I have a single "tour" but want it in 10-20 chunks by the same talent is that possible? We would tie each chunk to a single picture.
The real reason it'll not be much of a problem is that the current Flash 11.2 plugins won't spontaneously disappear when the next version gets released. Indeed they'll have 5 more years of security updates.

So the only thing non-Chrome-using Linux users will miss out on are things that use the new features of Flash introduced after that date.
http://www.apple.com/ios/

However - I don't think Apple would implement these extensions in Safari...
I'm betting the distro packagers like Canonical will solve the problem for end users.

They might simply shift to Chrome as their default browser.
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Windows 8 To Include Cloud Data Storage App
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Uhm... maybe if Microsoft stopped exacting its software patents taxes from Android manufacturers, this pledge would be more valuable.
They're free to try, though, as we all are. It's up to W3C to find value or not.
tweetdeck was hugely popular and written with AIR, but I believe they went native some time ago.
> First, before Tesla people thought of electric vehicles as ridiculous DIY golf carts driven by treehuggers. They were utterly uncool and stupid. Post-Tesla, electric cars are among the very coolest cars in the world.

Really? I never heard of Tesla outside of HN. I think a large proportion of the 10s of thousands who have bought electric cars in Japan don't know of Tesla either.

No doubt the very existence of Tesla might have accelerated the development and actual production of electric cars by other makers. But I suspect they aren't that well-known by the general public.
I only found out recently (well into my adult life) that I am hyper-sensitive to caffeine. One cup of coffee in the morning will keep me up till 3 am at night.

This tricked me into thinking that I'm an extreme night owl, and it kept me from ever getting really good sleep.

Now, I've quit caffeinated beverages entirely, and I get tired around 11:30 pm every night, and I sleep fantastically well. I wake up naturally around 9:30 every morning and feel great.

All that is to say ... consider caffeine and other "drugs". You might be surprised how much they're affecting you.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep has some interesting links
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"Ignorance"? I don't understand this righteous indignation people have towards online companies who would dare to try make money off the awesome free services they provide. Some of us are completely aware of what Google does. Seeing some personalized ads in exchange for access to all the world's information seems like a fair trade-off to me.
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Some people (like me) just don't mind. Tracking is not inherently bad, and they use that data to provide some value for users. If you had to inform everyone and provide opt-ins for every single feature that someone out there might not like, nothing would ever be done on the Internet.

Also, running analysis on this kind of data must be pure awesomeness, from scientist's point of view ;).
Five known cases out of 2,200 sales is a quarter of a percent. As a conservative estimate, let's say it's more like 1%. At $40,000 per replacement, adding $400 to the cost of the car (a 0.4-0.7% increase depending on model) seems nominal to then offer full coverage.

Granted, the problem gets worse as more "consumer-level" customers purchase their cars and don't take as good care of them.

Which then raises the question of why this is even possible. Why on earth will the car's systems happily destroy itself? Where's the "if BATTERY_LEVEL < CRITICAL: shutDown()" line?
Actually it gives you plausible culpability, not plausible deniability. This idea that people actually don't get charged/tried/convicted because the evidence is a little flimsy is completely false.

What you say: "I did this cookie thing. I never searched for any sort of kiddie porn on the internet."

What the jury of your peers hears: "Child molester trying to pretend he didn't do it."

What the judge does: Extra time in prison because you aren't taking responsibility for your crimes.

Enjoy your prison sentence.
> 2. There are a lot of "low quality" questions that could be answered by reading documentation (also see 1)

This is a problem that plagues virtually all discussion media. All new discussion systems that are focused on Q&A trend toward what can only be called a knowledge base.

What the citizens of these forums overlook is that the very design[^1] of these sites attracts individuals who are either unwilling or incapable of finding the answers on their own. Thus begins the vicious cycle toward user hostility that results in a closed community.

1 - Design as in structure and purpose, not design as in color, layout, etc
I was excited to read that Iconfactory did the latest icon, but quite frankly, I think the new icon is worse.

My favorite replacement is still this beauty by Daniel Matarazo:
https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon
I always use the following link to search google:

https://encrypted.google.com/?pws=0

And I have search history turned off.
I feel the same way about Sublime Text 2 as I do with Reaper (http://reaper.fm).

Both of these applications represent astounding value for money - Reaper is a Digital Audio Workstation, Sublime, a text editor. Both of these applications offer features found in much larger, far more expensive packages - but still, the author keeps them affordable (its an easy, easy buy when the price is right) and competitive. We get updates for free, and each update cycle I find myself almost squealing like a kid getting nintendo for Christmas, jumping in right away to find out whats new.

This is commercial software, done right. A great price, great features, and superlative relationship with the users. Well done Jon, and thank you for todays update excitement!
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Thanks Charlie! How did you find out that you were hyper-sensitive? In my case, I don't drink colas, but I love that hot coffee in the morning...
For a long time I've wanted to cut myself off and figure out a natural sleep cycle. Normally (for better or for worse), I sleep 5-6 hours a night during the week, then get 8-9 on the weekends, but that's definitely shaped to the work week.

Also, maybe interesting - two 4 hour sleep cycle with a couple hours between is what happens naturally to me after a night of too much drinking. I wonder if there's some reason for that.
Unsurprising, both products are provided free in order to facilitate the tracking of users, and I suspect that the vast majority of users do not turn off Flash cookies.

So long as Google's Youtube defaults to Flash, it's a case of mutual interests.
I cannot say anything about the sleeping patterns but are you sure that those creative bursts aren't happening just because it is quiet, no distractions, etc.?
I wonder what the field of view is? That's been my main problem with HMDs in the past. Maybe now I'll finally be able to build my wearable computer from COTS components.

Exercise: taking the hardware as a given, what would you do with it, what software do you need?

Steve Mann: 20 years ahead of the curve.
It's about daring to KISS. Only a select few dare to stand up against the hype.
Especially in Asian countries it is considered normal that your workplace demands more than 8 hours. Becoming like that in the USA as well for some.
I'm slightly surprised so much stuff doesn't work on your phone.

The Firefox issues were quite deep:

a) JIT code generation needed to be disabled
b) their custom linker didn't respect mmap alignment on 16K boundaries, which is required for the specific cache system of ARMv6
c) their custom ELF relocation compressor had a similar alignment bug

These are not problems that "normal" applications should run into.
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I find a very easy way to get your first X users if you don't care much whether they are in your core target audience (but they should be in same ballpark) is to do a giveaway for blogs with a decent-sized subscriber base. Give away $20 Amazon gift card but to enter you must sign up for an account, and do something. $20 for 50-100 users is in the realm of possibility.

The great thing about this is that it does 2 things: gives you those first X users for social proof and it gives you a head start in SEO by building "organic" links (though one might argue they're paid technically)
I bought Sublime as soon as I accidentally hit cmd-R and realized what it was showing me. ;)
I'm pretty sure EFF is wrong here. Google's Web History is basically a public version of your search history. You can turn on or off whether you want Google to rub your face in its knowledge about you. But it retains that knowledge even if you turn off the rub-in-your-face personalization part.

Google retains a complete history of your interactions with them, which is not subject to this Web History setting, not deletable, not removable, and will be shared across its properties.

Short reply: This doesn't remove Google's search history of your searches at all.
"The first enemy of performance is multiple machines. The fewer machines that need to talk to perform a transaction, the quicker it is."

That is not strictly accurate. He's taking one aspect of performance - communication latency - and expanding that to be a universal truth of performance.

Pixar's render farms are good. Google data centers are good.

When you're CPU bound, more CPUs can make you faster. Note the specific use of the word "can," as in "sometimes."
Interesting like batch projects? I think that VoiceBunny might be planning this at some point in the future :p
Similar here, but I've found that as long as I don't drink caffeine after 3pm, I sleep well. Any later than that and I wake at 3am or so. Made such a difference when I discovered this... I lost a serious amount of grumpiness.
Do you have defect id to burn the hours spent on code refactoring?
The journal article supporting information has pictures.

http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2012/02/15/1115076109.DCSu...

… don't despair at the little line chart, scroll down.
When I see a major corporation launch an ad as childish and desperate looking at this, I only think one thing: they're scared, desperate, and running around trying to figure out why things aren't looking so good on the road ahead.

I truly could only see Microsoft launching something like this. No other company would be so foolish.
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Hmm good point, perhaps the news issue is a bug! Nevertheless even more bizarre tho less severe
I've used Coda in the past, but I've found that Sublimes cmd-R and cmd-T/-P are all I need to be able to navigate around like a ninja.