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When thinking about the pricing model, you should compare us to a combination of PhoneGap's cloud build service (which is also fremium and restrictive) and their support packages:

http://phonegap.com/support#support-packages

The main difference with us is that you do not pay to raise a support tickets: you get direct access to our developers on any plan. And we charge per-app with no restrictions on the number of developers.
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My nine year old has never been entertained by cable or broadcast TV.

On broadcast TV there is nothing but the e|i junk that is so unwatchable that the category must have been invented by the author of "four arguments for the elimination of television".

On cable there's an amazing number of channels, but the only sure things are Spongebob Squarepants (yuck!) and those live action dramas by Disney about impossibly rich teenagers who have no discernable problems.

At least kids in Japan get to watch animated shows about cute girls who beat up the bad guys that are formulaic but have a level of art, writing, and voice acting that make American TV programming look like the stuff I make with a cheap camcorder.
DT770s are one of the "standard" studio monitoring headphones, and seen pretty often among touring sound techs (esp the M version which is the one meant for drummers due to higher volume and isolation).

I've used a pair of them since 2005 for office work and for serious front-of-house mixing. They sound great and hold up great.
Running out of gas doesn't "brick" a car. You can either push or tow it to a gas station, or you can deliver more fuel to it, and it will continue working without missing a beat. Letting a Li-ion battery discharge completely damages the battery, which means you have to replace the entire battery, not just fill it back up. This is physics; Tesla can't change the laws of chemical reactions.
I did have mine "break" but I can still use it. Somehow the screen cracked from the inside. Speculation is the battery was overcharged and swelled. I looked it up on the Internet and pretty much every discussion about it was filled with people claiming those with broken screens must be lying or had damaged it somehow. Microsoft doesn't acknowledge a problem.

Oh well. It still works, and I have my WP7 now. The Zune is just for biking.
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Pretty mingtastic API for a first attempt, it's not safe, and is sure to suck performance wise, since all interaction must involve parsing an expression, and coercing any return value back to a PHP type, and with no way to maintain references to native JS objects.

I wouldn't object so much if only the PHP community weren't already known for their tendency to take a bad situation and make it worse: can't we learn from the history of mysql_query() and friends? Decades of SQL injections! There's no reason they couldn't provide a nice "JsObject" type supporting __call() and __get() to allow integration without resorting to interpolating bits of JavaScript code with (probably originating from a user) data, this way at least web developers would be safer from themselves.
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Sounds like you knew all along that the Tesla battery could be bricked by running out of charge? That would make you one of a very small minority.

The original story got play because it was a surprising, unknown, and frankly, sucks.

If all of my fuel-injected laptops had never been damaged when they ran out of fuel, I would be pretty shocked and disappointed when it was a problem with the Kugelfischer. Much like the Tesla owners this affected.

Tesla isn't a "cause" it's just a product. So whatever happens to Tesla one way or the other has a smaller influence on "the rise of EVs" than you can imagine. Mahalo.
I used OSM data with a sprinkling of NYC government data. If you're interested, I blogged about the process:

http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/17554554409/i-had-no-idea-...
Wizards are certainly never late.

In seriousness; all job postings should be written by a member of the department hiring for the position.
Great story.

I think this is the same reason Microsoft Office is so popular when there usually are "better" alternatives. Because Word is like pen and paper with spell check. You can add whatever shit you want wherever you want with zero effort. But you don't realize the technical debt you will have to pay for later because nothing is consistent, diffing is a nightmare and your data is everything but normalized.

Want a header, just increase the fontsize, Is that really a header?
"Hmm, it's thick and big, whatever, did anyone say lunchbreak?" Save exit.

For small temporary documents like party-invitations this is fine, doing anything else would be silly. But companies actually use word for serious documents like 100+ pages technical specifications valid for years with tons of versions of each document. It is scary how much mission critical information that is stored in this form, at one of my previous jobs if changes happened outside our division, every document depending on this data had to be updated by hand because it's just plain text in word, nothing is connected or autogenerated. It's grunt work but it actually gets the job done sooner or later. I've seen this in several places. Word and excel keeps the world spinning even though it at the same time requires much more manpower than is reasonable.

Someone has to make an alternative to word that is as easy to use but doesn't allow you to do all the stupid stuff. Enforce styles, make references and other data-connections easy, smooth and reliable and provide a good diff.

I think this is one of the greatest challenges in software development, allow freedom at the same time as you have a strict data model that can be analyzed, processed and generated by a program. Something that paper will always beat, regardless of what kind of paper you get you can always write and highlight on it, with software that is very exceptional.
> The evidence is that sitting down for hours per day is extraordinarily destructive to various aspects of your body

That's a bit of an exaggeration. Each day, hundreds of thousands of people sit at their desk for hours, and it's been going on for decades. If it was that destructive, the developer population would have been decimated by now.
Well, why don't they just let the car contact the owner directly then?
Woz made himself a victim in many ways. I think particularly of the anecdote in _iWoz_ about Woz and the hedge fund guy - there was no reason Woz gave him millions in shares or whatever, there was no contract, and Woz clearly knew all this, but he did it anyway just to preserve his self-image as a naive innocent tech wunderkind.
We solve this by having most everyone use jabber to communicate, so minor interruptions are less frequent since they are shifted to IM.
I love my 280s. However, lugging them around is a bit of a bother so I usually leave them at my desk.

When I'm on the move, I pack in-ear buds. Skullcandy makes the best: inexpensive and really great bass. My favorite are the Titans (http://www.amazon.com/Skullcandy-Titan-S2TTCB-047-Black-Chro...) but even the entry level Ink'd are a huge step above any other buds at that price point.

And people actually use the white Apple buds? I can't even keep those in my ears as they just fall out constantly.
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> JavaScript is an object-oriented languages; use objects! They make async painless.

In the example above, you're unable to use ''this'' in the ''dataGot'' function (when invoked as a callback).

Object orientedness is very easy to get wrong in JavaScript, if you're coming from C++/Java/Python background.
I imagine it's probably possible. The trick with flash drives though I think is the size. You could easily swallow a micro sd card without anyone even noticing.
With a bit more background (on lambda calculus) I think this would make an interesting intro to lambda calculus for Python developers.
I don't really see the problem with "show your setup" posts. I like looking at great designed workspaces. Inspirational, at least for me.

What I just do not get is how they all can only work with a laptop, sometimes an Air. I think the screen space would be to limiting for me to stay productive.

Favorite: Sam's desk. Clean, minimalistic, lots of light,...
I have V-Moda Crossfades LP2
They have been fantastic so far. They look awesome and sound great.
During my research I found that the headphones you buy really depends on the type of music you listen.
I'm still a bit astonished that they didn't implement a deep-sleep in the roadster, but it's good to see they will do it for the Model S.
That would be the context that the term "bricking" is most often used in but the term itself simply means the object in question has been made just as useful as a clay brick.
Congrats!

My dentist is next to their office. I love mountain view.
From Nick Bostrom:

"A technologically mature “posthuman” civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true:

1) The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;

2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;

3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one’s credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).
Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation."
If it is PR mastery (not convinced) it's in the tone of the writing.

It reminds me of a notice of late payment I received from The Economist magazine some years back. It was so darn polite and diplomatic, I kept it in a shoebox ever since.

Now, whenever there's an outstanding payment issue with a client, I read the letter for inspiration.
The Wirecutter is an excellent no-nonsense website to use for purchasing suggestions: http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/headphones.
Tomorrow, Hacker News will be discussing a story about a 14 year old boy who discovered that some rats prefer raspberries.

If you'd like to discuss something else, try using a different web site, that will also be discussing one and only one story.

TV is "broken," because it doesn't give you the choice to watch what you want to, doesn't let you pause, doesn't let you rewind, doesn't let you watch something you missed.

People buy devices to mask these problems, but they really don't solve them.

Hulu is slightly less broken. Netflix Instant Watch is even LESS broken.
I'm very much looking forward to (and hoping to help build) thick-client frameworks with the same level of polish and maturity as Rails 3. Obviously there's a long way to go, but I think it will happen.

I'm not a Node expert, but I'd be willing to bet we end up with at least one Node framework at the head of the pack, if for no other reason than it enables easy sharing between server and client-side logic. (E.g. write your validation rules only once.)

You could of course write the backend in any language, and you could even have some code sharing if you automatically generated JavaScript from your backend language. (E.g. ClojureScript.) But I'm attracted to the simplicity of just using JS, and not having to worry about all the weird little things that can happen when you compile one high-level language to another.
It's still a better word than 'HATEOAS' (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State), which has to be in the running for worst acronym ever.
What is wrong with you people?

You are really trying to kill off cars because you got a horse carriage at home. The horse can when coupled reproduce itself, all it takes is some food and water to keep going, its unlikely to break down, you can be flexible by changing from a one-seater to carrying raw material in the blink of an eye.

Obviously, the horse is vastly superior to its new "car" competitor. Only a moron would invest in further developing the car, given that it was irrefutably shown to be inferior.

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On a more serious note, I really can't believe this. This is supposed to be a technologically informed crowd, but you are instead acting as if we've got an infinite amount of oil "somewhere down there" and that it's unacceptable to deviate from the three ton monster SUVs that roam the streets in the USA.
Almost all my big screen watching is through Roku of mainly Netflix streaming. I cut cable over a year ago and very rarely watch network TV (NFL football games are main thing I watch over the air).

I feel like the young girl every time I'm at a friends house and trying to navigate whatever cable/sat guide they have. Seriously, it's 2012 and I'm paging through this endless list of "channels" labeled by NUMBER and a CALLSIGN? 1006 WKOW-HD. 12.1 ABC. Try to watch Jeopardy and get assaulted with denture paste, hearing aides, and adult diaper commercials! What the heck is going on? It is truly astonishing how bad the UI for these set-top boxes is, combined with the process of finding out what and where the correct ESPNx channel (HD or not HD) is to watch the game.

Huge potential for serious changes in this industry. I don't like to throw such a vague word like "app" around, but that is the future. ESPN will have an app that will deliver their content in the best way. The closest thing I've seen to this is the work Major League Baseball is doing on mobile and TV. They're able to provide the video/audio, but augment it with other datastream. For sports this makes so much sense.
What happens if you leave a gasoline car for 6 months without driving it?

That is the comparison I would like to see.
Agreed, though I've always thought the pressure from the DT770 was fairly light - maybe I'm just used to heavier stuff. Isolation from outside sound is about as good as you'll get short of specialized headphones, or ones using active cancellation.

What I like most about them is that they don't touch my ears at all, so for me as well there's no long term discomfort whatsoever.
http://www.playderecord.com/images/P/sonymdr7506.jpg This is the best headphone ever made. I've 3 of those.
Exactly. The first article didn't attack the fact that the "bricking" occurs nearly as much as it attached the cost of replacement.
Your assumption that I have no experience, and have therefore based my statement on hearsay is incorrect.
Why does it have to be like this? Why the distinction between Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise?

If Windows 7 Ultimate is the same thing sa Windows 7 Enterprise? Why the distinction?

Window 95 was just...windows 95. Windows XP was simply "professional" and "home".

99% of people (including work people) use their computers for checking their email, surfing the internet, using office, and playing media - this is why other companies (Google, Apple) are kicking ass and stealing MS's "home" customers.

The pervasive MS integration with everything is MS's only defense on the corporate enterprise. Their advantage in the home market is eroding. People just don't need to buy PC's any more.
Ah wasn't he the last original editor at TechCrunch, or is Alexia still there?
I understand what you mean but I'm just making the point that phones were a lot simpler and in my view much less useful. It's obvious that somethings might have been loss since then like how my phone reacts less well to me answering the phone or pressing number but the amount of new functionality in my view more than make up for that small annoyance.

Real-time as in real-time computing isn't as big a selling point today as it was pre-iphone. RIM is making that mistake. QNX is awesome for what it does but I don't think people care about it's strong points as much as they do with the strong points of Android and iOS.(And that's what I meant when I twisted the definition of real-time to fit my syncing example. It's a different unrelated concept to what you were implying.)
How often was Albert Einstein wrong?
Cubes are the norm in the Xbox division, and I hear that office sharing is common in Bing.
Um, because maintaining a gas/diesel/lpg vehicle (or a laptop) doesn't include keeping it continuously fueled up at the risk of $30K damage.

You don't keep your laptop or phone charged on penalty of battery replacement, so why pretend that you're not surprised at the Tesla result?
Of course you have to pay if you are stupid. Same thing if you destroy your gas-powered car on purpose using some other method. It is not a 'fail', which implies a manufacturing error or similar.
Very interesting. Although, the last release is more than a year old. That does not bode well...
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The real issue with TV is that the audience is aging and eventually dying off.

TV viewership in hours per week is pretty stable because as boomers retire and become disabled and unable to do anything else, they watch more TV. Young people, like under 50, are turning away from TV.

Generation X and younger people have been falling out of love with TV for a long time. In my case I remember sharply losing interest in TV around the 1990s. Even around 2000 I felt insulted by advertising that is aimed at people who don't have money -- only medicare benefits they can spend and the hope that they can hire a ambulance chasing lawyer to make a big killing.

TV for kids just sucks these days. The audience isn't kids, it's grandparents who imagine that their grandkids will be entertained by it.

Some day the last television viewer will die and the cable companies and networks will turn off the lights. Much like the music industry, the TV industry has been losing it's audience for a long time, and one day they will wake up and realize that their frog has been boiled -- and find somebody else to blame.
Obviously someone who hasn't worked at MS before.
Thanks!

I haven't got to the stage of approaching taxi companies yet- right now the app is really just a developed concept that I've entered into an app-making contest (http://2011.nycbigapps.com/submissions/5832-taxonomy) . It has VC investor judges, cash prizes, etc.- basically, I'm waiting to see what happens. If it gets a fantastic reception then yes, that's time to start approaching cab companies about direct booking etc.
What does this do to the whole "but art will cease to exist if artists can't have absurd monopoly rights over copyrighted material" argument, which the MAFIAA seem to love so much?

If people are willing to fund arts regardless of legal obligation. Then the number one pillar sustaining the copyright "morals" gets easily destroyed. Crowdfunding demonstrates that if we completely remove copyright laws: art will survive.
Perspectives always leaks information about which sites you are visiting to all notaries.

Convergence leaks information about which sites you are visiting for the first time with the current key only if your bounce notary colludes with one other notary.
Oh, and of any of you are in the area, every Thursday at 8pm we have a game night at our office. You should stop by!
I'd not think that at 52 I was anything that could be remotely described as a 'hipster'.
I had to use Appcelerator because I need background processing as part of the app- none of the HTML5-only frameworks offer that (AFAIK).

If you don't need background processing, I wouldn't recommend it- I'm looking for ways to move away from it.
Agree on the need for the mic (isn't that a big draw of iPhone buds?), but those are so bulky!

I need something pocket-sized for hacking on the go.

Any suggestions for high-end buds with an in-cord mic a la iPhone buds?
"... so many people working remotely."

I think that's the subtle point of the post. A huge part of their world view is "work where you want, when you want". And of course, they just happen to sell tools that help people work remotely from wherever and whenever. I applaud how much the Signals practice what they preach.
> The carbon based forms are not very durable (80 years ? c'mon), they break easily, and don't perform very well...

Actually it's hard to build machines to last that long (how many 1932 cars are still functional today?)

The real advantage of the machines is that you can switch them off, open them up, replace parts, re-assemble them and switch them on again. You can replace parts of carbon-based lifeforms, but they don't always switch on again and opening them up often results in them being eaten by other carbon-based lifeforms. It's not cheap to do this to old machines, but its fairly reliable.
If Facebook is down for 2 hours, you're not suddenly going to sign up on MySpace. By contrast, other companies can lose millions of dollars in that same timespan!
Such a good post. Tv is broken.
better yet, also Dijkstra, "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
IPhone Nirvana - Serious iOS wet dream
Plug iPhone into dock (e.g. Connected screen, keyboard) and run Xcode. It's big brother would be ability to run Xcode on iPad.

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android this is the only reason I can think of for buying an Android phone instead of iPhone.
That's awesome. I actually have a set of ear muffs, different brand. Compared to the Bose QC15's, they let in a lot more bass, where the noise-canceling gets rid of that. Coupling them with earplugs works really well though.

They're less comfortable to wear since they squeeze your head harder than headphones (maybe I could adjust mine by stretching the metal headband with two vice's or something), and they have a bit more weight. But for $20 instead of $300, and hack factor, you win hands down! :)
Non sequitur. While the circumstances surrounding the different engines and technology are wildly different, it doesn't change the root issue: if you neglect your car, it will break, and it will be a very expensive fix.