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It's absolutely shameful that it has taken this long. In fact this is the same thing we've been told since it was released. I gave in and did the manual update in February. I just received the update a few days ago on my 1st Gen Asus Transformer. It's really ridiculous how long it has taken to update their own phone from just the previous generation. It makes me apprehensive to get another nexus any time soon, especially since the one reason I did not go with Samsung and Motor was because I thought that Nexus phones would be first in line. /rant
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Go for Jekyll-Bootstrap [1]. I think it's pretty much what you're looking for and is a breeze to use. I use it for my blog [2] too and here's why:

1. Static blog generator = blazing fast and no more managing databases.

2. Hosted on Github for free.

3. Love writing posts in Markdown!

It's pretty easy to set up and has nice documentation. In case you have trouble using it I'll be happy to help. (You could even fork into my blog's repo [3] if you like and get started.)

[1]: http://jekyllbootstrap.com/

[2]: http://blag.diwank.name/

[3]: https://github.com/creatorrr/I-Blag-Too/tree/gh-pages
> The reason behind labor standards is to cut off the the distribution curve at a lower limit.

The people below the limit do not magically increase their productivity above the limit. It simply becomss illegal for them to work. They are the American untouchables, farmed by welfare agencies for grant money or simply discarded.
It sounds like you're misinterpreting your own advice here.

We do in fact have a product that's ready to go. We have all of the features I listed, plus a hundred others. However, once you get to having all those features, the product is no longer something that you can expect people to download and just install. Sure, there are people that can do it, but it isn't the majority, and it isn't the sort of pain we want our customers to have to experience.

In short, our product requires both the software and the consulting. Not for lack of features, or lack of documentation, but for ease of integration. If the software already costs millions, then the user shouldn't be objectionable to another couple hundred thousand for a team of integration consultants to make their experience a smooth one.

All that said, it honestly sounds like you don't have a lot of experience in this arena, so I'd really appreciate it if you'd stop looking down your nose at me for meeting the needs of our customers in exactly the way they expect them to be met. We're doing a fantastic job, and have stellar relationships with all of our customers, partners and vendors. Just because it isn't the way you'd prefer it isn't reason to be snide, especially as it doesn't sound like you're anywhere close to the size of our target customer.
Yes, Barcelona has great tech/online sector. + you have Andorra only 2 hours drive which is a tax heaven :)
The compatibility configure flag seems to be used to also install the crossroads library as libzmq.so.
They won't, because you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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What about Open Mesh Project, Open Source Mesh, B.A.T.M.A.N., Roofnet, GNUnet, Dot-P2P, SMesh, Coova, Babel, SolarMESH, WING, Daihinia, P2P DNS, Digitata.org, Netsukuku, Tonika, We Rebuild, Freifunk, Athens Wireless Metropolitan, wlan ljubljana, The Darknet Plan, the connective, Meraki, Open Mesh, firetide, guifi.net, OLPC, Iridium constellation, Commotion Wireless Project, Serval, and IEEE 802.11s?

http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/02/11/16-projects-initiativ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
I deliberately avoid planning any trip to the US because of this. The only reason I'll travel to the US for at this point is if I have an overwhelming business imperative to do so. For example, I'd probably travel to the US to be interviewed by YC, if I ever applied. For pleasure? Not a chance.
Thoughtbot isn't actually a VC backed startup. They have always developed products by building tools to fit needs in their consultancy work and unfortunately not all the products were successful enough to keep going.

The reality for Copycopter is that it's a really useful item in the Rails developers toolkit. It didn't find a wide enough audience within the community which is what eventually doomed it as a SaaS. The cost of spending even 5-10 hours a week working on it burns more capital than I imagine it generated as a SaaS. That's why I think it's a perfect fit of an OSS project.
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Last time, I had to 'step aside', presumably because my passport was not all-new-shiny (though I'm from Germany). Of course, nobody tells you that. You have to wait in a room for one hour (I was lucky!) without anybody telling you what the issue is, how long you will have to wait, or what is happening at all. You understand that I have different associations with this kind of treatment and 'legal' or 'friendly' does not cross my mind in this situation.

This treatment makes me angry, but you have to be treated like this yourself before you can understand that anger. I won't visit the States as a tourist anymore as long as this ridiculous setup is in place (which includes your TSA madness). I'm afraid of the day my employer asks me to travel to the States. I hope I can decline.
That's a fair point indeed, and if I seemed to represent the entirety of enterprise sales, I misspoke.

There are utility applications that work for enterprise, though I think we could both agree that SurveyMonkey wasn't specifically written at that audience. In fact, it seems that they turned their nose up at it, which is and isn't shocking. Like you said, sometimes the sales funnel does shape the product, and it takes a certain kind of person to go after enterprise sales, as it certainly isn't for everyone.

Winzip is another one. It's certainly valuable in the enterprise, and perhaps even necessary but, to my knowledge, the last time I saw it licensed (many moons ago) they didn't have any sort of enterprise agreement. You just paid for the number of seats.
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I already looked at the possibility of incorporating in Delaware/Nevada. It's quite easy, but opening a "real" bank account and registering with Stripe will require an american SSN.

And for the co-founder, I do not search a soulless paperwork filling monkey, but a real partner to take charge of all the important non-technicals tasks, like marketing to the US, sales driving, etc etc.
No conspiracy, I just don't have access to these devices. I'll add a Sony Tablet S when I get around to it, though.

(Update: I've added the Sony Tablet S image.)
What's funny about this is just how distorted the pixels are. Ever since I've understood what displays were (and CRTs before that) I've always imagined this idealized array of perfectly round, very tightly packed red green and blue circles as the pixels. Even looking close (not under a microscope) they look like a grid of squares... not these rectangular things with lots of space between them.

They seem to be getting more distorted over time. Maybe when they're so small its less of an issue. I'm surprised at how the red and blue on the kindle fire are so much bigger than the green. The eye is most sensitive to green... yet on the PSP Vita the blue seems to be the smallest of the pixels (meaning the blue pixels will have to put out more light to compensate, or the screen will have a green/red color cast.)
Not really. Pricing gets complicated for enterprise sales so it can't be as simple as just signing up online. Furthermore, if it's a trial they are signing up for then they have to be put into the sales funnel (meaning they have to sift through a bunch of tirekickers to find the real buyers). Finally you'd have to worry about fraud, trial abuse and all of the other related pains of free and open signups.

There's a reason that basically every business in the industry does it this way.
I don't know how it's been going in the US, but I'm pretty used to seeing ISPs advertise their high-bandwith services towards downloading music, video and online gaming. They want to get the heavy users to pay a lot and then they punish them for being heavy users (not entering the whole piracy debate, just that they consume loads of bandwith - that they pay for).
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I'd say “personal differences” (regardless of the deal about trademarks and code review), but it still surprises me; I thought the zmq developers were a tight-knit bunch. Maybe the drama manifests itself in more extreme ways because they know each other so well, but it does seem dysfunctional.
On my recent trips to and through the US, I've been pleasantly surprised by how I've been treated at the border.

All of the staff were extremely friendly and helpful - they seemed as though they were actively trying to create a good impression and reverse this perception.

I'm a Brit, usually travelling via NYC.
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And how often did you have to rewrite those tests because you were drastically changing the architecture of your code?

Do you think the effort of maintaining all those tests might not have paid off? This question is very tricky to answer.
> I'm at the point where I wonder if I'm on a watch list.

At this point "they" have already won. It doesn't really matter who "they" is, but I can tell you that having grown up as a kid in a former East-European communist country the feeling that every sane person had on their back of their heads was: "The Securitate is watching me. Better not do anything fancy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitate) . Even though, of course, the Securitate was only actively "watching" a small number of persons.
[I'm British and unfortunately have to travel to the US about once or twice a year for conferences]

As others have said, it's an unpleasant lottery. Mostly you wait a long time in line, and then you go through.

But twice I've been asked to step into a back room while some very slow process happens (I wasn't questioned in detail either time, so I don't really know what was going on). That added about an extra hour on each occasion, and is somewhat threatening.

This year I'm not going to the US at all. Mostly that's because there aren't any interesting conferences, but there's also in the back of my mind I'm slightly glad that I don't have to go through this fandango.
I don't think American culture is as uniform as you're implying it is. I'm from the bay area in california

When was the last time the bay area was referred to as flyover country? And so far Santorum has won 10 and seconded quite a few other primaries. Crazy or not he appears to reflect the ideas of a large portion of the american populous. He regularly gets 20-30% of the vote.
Same with me: For pleasure? No. Really overwhelming business reason? Maybe. I don't need to repeat my last experience I had (and I'm from Germany), let alone going through ridiculous airport "security".
Thanks, I had never used the 'squash' option and was unaware of it. I think using 'squash' does helps to the history clean.
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What you're seeing is a bug. There should be an Earth that you can fly over/around. However, the reason you're being downvoted is that you're being an ass.
Not that I fly that often, but I don't mind filling out two forms when I'm on a plane. Knowing that I had to do an online application before getting on the plane... that was just a fluke that I found that out!

I just don't like the whole "oh yeah, we have a visa waiver agreement with your country... you don't have to apply for a visa, but you do have to apply and pay to not have to apply for a visa..."

I'm sure it's not like that in reality, but that's what it feels like to me.
It seems to me that this whole endeavor is just a doorway for more control/censorship a couple of years from now.

Once the technology is set up and the practice is sanctioned, more and more 'bad practices' will start being policed and punished.
At Logan you have to do the forms and ESTA (at least, this was the case last year). It was something to do with the systems not being integrated.
It reminds me of what happened with Blender. Now it's a valid product with a lively development community.
Disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers of the new Copycopter.

When the announcement that Copycopter was to be shut down both Crowdtap and Iora Health reached out to Thoughtbot about keeping the service alive. Dan Croak facilitated communication between us and began the thankless job of putting the application in a state that we could deploy and maintain the codebase.

I believe this transition was a ton more than just opening a repository on Github. Dan engaged interested members of the community and has helped us get to the point in which we can carry the service forward. It was handled very well from my point of view.
> You did not take into account the energy to...

I also didn't include the energy (or cost) to create thousands of fluoro tubes, nor the human wages paid to constantly replace the ones that go... which is going to be far more than a couple of headlamps you can buy from the $1 store and some rechargable batteries.

> Depending on how much they use them (they probably last around 500 hours before being worn out) they may come out ahead or behind, but it's not a slam dunk.

I agree that 'how much you use them' is important. None of us really know how often they are accessed, but to me even for a very heavily accessed facility it does feel like a 'slam dunk'. If you feel the opposite maybe we just disagree here.

I'm not sure what wears out after 500 hours by the way: Batteries? LED lighting? Neither are going to cost an arm and a leg.
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Hi all,

I'm wondering what the state of developing RoR apps from an iPad is? I picked up a copy of Textastic, but would like to know what other tools are recommended.

Cheers.
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I use mine (I have two) for development mostly. Oh, a bit of MAME with my legal roms too, now and then ..
No. Read the article you linked to.
I'm British. I visit the USA 2-3 times per year and travel elsewhere quite frequently. I would rate the "welcome mat" as rather less welcoming than Yugoslavia during the Cold War (a Communist dictatorship).

One annoying note: my wife and I did not change our names when we got married. On a couple of recent occasions we've travelled separately via different airports/on different dates, to rendezvous subsequently. If entering the USA separately on such trips, she usually gets the third degree: "why aren't you travelling with your husband?"

There's serious institutional sexism at work in the immigration system. (Not just the discrimination against middle-easterners that we all know about.)

One point to note is that ICE personnel live and work locally. So your reception varies quite dramatically depending on your port of entry. At Portland and Seattle, for example, they're generally polite, friendly, and about as reasonable as it's possible to be while working within an unreasonable framework. On the other hand, I actively try to avoid entering the US at Newark. The least annoying US immigration clearance experience I've had was in Dublin, Ireland -- the US immigration staff screen travellers by special arrangement on Irish soil (as on Canadian soil) and they've pretty much gone native. Alas, that means flying via Aer Lingus or Delta, which add other drawbacks ...
People will never give a fuck. If they were going to, it would have happened already. Stop waiting.
I like the article, but the conclusion is wrong. Hiring even more border staff is not the solution. Common sense and logical decisions are the correct approach. Scrap everything else.
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Bottom line is: test code is code and you have to maintain it. If you write code that does not give you anything in return, or gives you more headaches than anything else, you wasted your time when you wrote it.

When you are writing any code, you should try to predict if what you will gain out of it will be worth it. In other words: evaluate the risks of anything you do in your life.
From ten inches (or less) away you can tell the difference.
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The behaviour of all british border agents whether actually at the border or at embassies around the world are a credit the country, in my experience.

They understand that the border is the public face of a country and likely the only contact with the state a visitor will make.
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A German id card is enough to enter/leave the UK. No passport required. I would assume the same holds for other european id cards.
Having used a retina screen iPhone and iPod I'd say in my opinion the new iPad (which I haven't seen) is going to far exceed the kindle's screen in readability.

Where I think kindle probably still has the edge is in ergonomics, specifically weight. The iPad is too heavy for me to hold like I would a physical book. (but I make do with this fact and use it anyway as one... and I've got the heavier first generation iPad.)

All the other things the iPad does have a big impact, but as a pure reading device (iBooks is my killer app) the iPad is working out great for me, so I look forward to getting a third generation.
You shouldn't be proud of having 1 gazillion tests if all you do is rewrite/fix regressions on them.
No true, I travel to the UK very often and I only show my ID, which works as a passport inside EU countries.
I really, really want Netflix in Germany. What politician do I have to bribe?
They do make your exit the security zone on layovers though. That's the reason why I try to avoid CDG if i can.

Side note: All google servers are reachable for free over the wifi. (you can e.g. set up an app engine proxy)
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The problem, Ryan, is that when you have a huge super-secretive military government organization whose people "make some effort to obey the law", there's absolutely nothing stopping them from, one day, with no fanfare, choosing to start ignoring the law when and where convenient.

There are no checks or balances on their power and the potential abuse thereof. They operate in a legal vacuum, with carte blanche to do whatever they decide is necessary. Even THEIR BUDGET is classified information. We're not even allowed to know how many tax dollars they're spending to do illegal shit they're not telling us about.

You can support their mission 100% (I do), and still think that they should be entirely disbanded for this reason alone.

Only criminals would operate in this sort of LEGAL environment.
Sorry to say that, but use the right tool for the job. Some kind of PC with Linux or OSX on it.
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The kindle has only two things that make it competitive enough to be worthy of discussion- e-ink and lighter weight. In every other category (ok, excluding price) it fails compared to the iPad.

on e-ink there isn't really an advantage to my eyes. I've never gotten eyestrain reading on my (first generation) iPad. The image quality of the e-ink display is worse than even the first generation iPad (to my eyes), in large part because the e-ink display is not responsive.

weight- I deal with it on the iPad. The kindle is better in this regard, but not enough to make it compelling.

Amazon had a great product in the original kindle, but it was a single purpose product. It hasn't kept up (or e-ink hasn't advanced fast enough) and its losing the race.
I do simple output and performance testing. I md5 the output produced by our programs and test their run time, memory use, etc. so that when we change the code, we can verify the output is the same and performance is still OK. I try to do some unit testing too, but do not have time to do that as much as I'd like.
Enterprise Ireland just announced their "New Frontiers" scheme which is going to give 15K euro to 100+ startups. It does seem that the government is working hard to support new startups.
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I keep seeing posts like this, especially "how to use your tablet like a PC" or "how to run Windows on your tablet". Just buy a computer! It's not as sexy but you'll be more productive :-)
I'm an American living in Britain, and the difference in border crossings looks the same from my perspective. I dread trips back to America at this point. That said, the border control on the Eurostar can occasionally reach American levels of paranoia for some reason. At the airports it's always very pleasant, although the queues can be astonishing.

In fact a large part of the reason I left America is because I wanted to be able to participate in globally-networked businesses, and America's border policies were making that increasingly difficult. This doesn't just impact tourists -- it effects business travellers and academics even worse. Britain has always been much more open in that respect, but recent policy changes are sending it in a very American sort of direction, which I find quite distressing.

I don't know what, if anything, America can do to reverse this. The Obama administration doesn't seem to be actively beating the drums of xenophobia the way the last administration did, and yet the growth of these kind of institutions continues unabated. Why?
Through the "rabbit hole" effect I read pg's start.html page.. some great insight which has given me more confidence with my own endeavour. Thankyou.
> In Europe everything is so much simpler. If you are inside UE all you need to show is your ID card and your are set.

Simpler than that. Inside the Schengen zone, there are no borders at all; you can travel by car from France to Italy or Germany and back without being stopped anywhere.
If a site doesn't want to allow people to "view on one page," they can disable that feature.

I think going through multiple pages is a huge PITA, even in the case of Wired. And I think your "many devices" point is probably too much of a corner case to matter.
To be fair, my travel outside of the Schengen has still been a lot more pleasant than the way the US border is described...
Wow. I have to say: if you opened the page and then left immediately due to all the spammy looking stuff up the top, GO BACK. This was a pretty good read.

It's basically about startups from the point of view of an artist but every point translates perfectly to software.
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Having read all the 140+ comments, this reminds me of the hooker/girlfriend dilemma.

In the first case you know how much you ought to pay upfront and you [mostly] know what you will get. No need for call backs, conf calls or multiple meeting...

In the second case, the price to pay and the promise is unknown. But! things can go both ways - (1) good or (2) bad. And yes, you will know the outcome only after many call backs, conf calls, meeting and flirting period...

Looks like the everyone's conclusion is that those are different use cases [or market segments], so it's better for your own sake not to mix them! :-)
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