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Can we use this opportunity to actually discuss what is involved in CE certification in this case?

It doesn't have any radios so electromagnetic compatibility directive shouldn't apply, and the low-voltage directive states it's for 'equipment designed for use with a voltage rating of between 50 and 1000 V for alternating current (A.C.) and between 75 and 1500 V for direct current (D.C.)'.. since it runs on 5v DC and has no PS it should be ok there too [?: If it shipped w/ an integrated PS, this would apply? would the whole device need testing here or just the PS??].

So what does that leave and what does this testing involve?? (E: it seems to be EMC testing from rPi.org, is this all, and what would it involve?)

FWIW, to me it sounds a little like F/RS want this to be certified as a finished product so they can sell it in bundles, and profit maximise that way.
Yes, of course! The master of this technique is here: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
Nice to see a bootstrapper getting some love.

Congrats, hope it keeps gaining steam while you get to keep tweaking it.
There are many products in this space on the app store, and probably one to suit every taste. Procreate is more capable - layer blending, design your own brushes. Then there's Brushes, beloved of David Hockney. Plenty of notebook apps too: Notability is particularly versatile, Autodesk has SketchbookX, SketchClub and SketchPad are fun, SketchShare is multiuser via wifi, ArtRage is .... OK better stop.

Paper has a pleasing feel but the minimalism won't suit everyone.
I've never been a good Google user, never looked at their ads, always used noscript to block them on other sites, and often searched for obscure, little known information on a multitude of subjects. Google used to be immensely helpful, but has become less so recently. Searching for somewhat obscure information now brings up many commercial results which have nothing to do with my search, which, BTW, is often considered to be a typo.
In the few times I've searched for consumer goods, most results were for outlets that do not ship to my country, so useless.
But I guess I can't complain, they're not making any money out of me, and I'm using them for free.
and Europe (ESA)?
What are your products? PCBs?
but the first few times it can easily be half a day lost just trying to get the environment working.

The above steps are reasonably robust and implicitly teach you things about your programming environment that you must learn (or at least have seen) as early as possible.

We should decidedly not dumb that down. There must be one canonical installation procedure for everyone and it must be as easy as above. There must not be "an easy way" and "a hard way". The above is as easy as you can make it without hiding crucial information from the user.

Rails has plenty of harmful padding already, we need less of that, not more.
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You could sort of argue that the relatively low level of break ins indicates that most locks are adequate.

I think the bigger problem is the way people think about locks. In a house with lots of windows, they pretty much only serve to make an illicit entry more obvious, yet people build up an idea of one setting on the lock being safe and the other not.
You may be interested in this question on ux.stackexchange.com - has been asked last year, and has interesting answers (including one from @joelspolsky, who was on Excel team when this feature was designed): http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/10135/why-are-there-th...
> You may have nothing against the Chinese or Chinese culture, but you may wish to simply keep your home city as is.

But I don't have any right to do that. I only own my own home/property; 'my' home city as a whole doesn't belong to me. Attempting to control what my neighbors may do with their homes and what kind of social arrangements they'll be allowed to participate in, to the point of trying to exclude entire ethnic groups from settling within some arbitrary boundaries - simply because I feel some personal sense of propriety over what doesn't actually belong to me - is the more direct and clear act of brute force here.

> Overtaking Nauru for your own purposes is a unilateral destruction of someone's home.

No, it isn't. Unilaterally destroying someone's home is a unilateral destruction of someone's home. Purchasing people's homes with their consent, and leaving alone those who don't want to sell, isn't destruction of anything.
Great. Enjoy it. :)
The thing about piep (and other such tools) is that they can make some reasonable assumptions that would typically be a bad choice for a generic language - things like having global variables for commonly used items, making assumptions about how certain return values should be interpreted, etc. Small things like this wouldn't fit well with most general programming languages, with the possible exception of perl.

Plus, it still doesn't solve the piping issue. constructing a command as a sequence of operations like:

p.foo() | len(p) | p + 1 | str(p)

is much easier to follow (and modify) than

str(len(p.foo()) + 1)

this is not a big deal for programming languages because we use variables, functions and other ways of structuring our code, but those don't map well to oneliners.
This is why I do not particularly like last.fm.

I play a couple of metalcore band's and soon enough the only recommendations I get are 2 a penny metalcore bands. Yes, these bands are similar to what I want to listen to but how about some variance?

What Mayer is talking about sounds dangerous. I have a habit of looking for pizza places so this is what Google would prioritise.. I do not want this. It seems like it will skew search results.

I want Google to answer my questions and help guide me into asking the right questions to get the answers I am looking for. Beyond that.. i'm good.. I don't need anything else.

Sometimes I feel Google forgets its search is just that... search. An application to find things. It doesn't need to be anything more.
I think I've read every single of patrick's posts :-)

What I've done is to have a blog at www.giftcertificatefactory.com/blog - Each blog post was made after keyword research and attracts quite some long tail traffic.

However, I must say it's quite a boring job to do that (I'm not THAT passionnate about gift certificates, to say the truth). You might be fine outsourcing content creation, but for this first site, I wanted to know what it took to do it.

If I'd do additional content creation, I'll most probably outsource it :-)

Thanks for the additional ideas!
Only if the act itself were traceable to him. If he's the only one who knows how to do it, and it happens, then "of course" he did it. If everyone knows how to do it, who knows who might have been responsible?
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I have been (slowly) developing a chess engine in go [1] (still a long way to go, no pun intended!)

What I like most about go is its simplicity and cleanness while still allowing you to program somewhat close to the metal. In fact, it often feels considerably more like a higher level language than a systems language.

The go tool is quite fantastic too. My chess engine project folder contains 41 go files, including a number of files containing tests (named XXX_test.go) which contain functions named TestXXX. My entire test + build process is:-

~/gocode/src/weak$ go test ./... && go build

Go is like a very delicious trifle - the further into it you go, the more delicious things you find. The quality is clear throughout.

Go is very unassuming. You start by wondering what the big deal is + getting annoyed with the minor differences from other C-syntax languages before slowly progressing towards quite liking it, then eventually once you grok how simple + elegant and well engineered it is you come to love it.

[1]:https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/weak
That's the difference between being a participatory citizen and an inhabitant.
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20 years is like 200 years in internet-time.

Computers gets faster and cheaper. Eventually everyone affords their own Search-Engine. Flavored to their own personal needs, with 100% privacy, and with higher search-quality.

Spoiler alert!
Google Search dies.
I can assure you that new regulations are strangling growth. And that they will not prevent or avert some other disaster. No amout of regulation can prevent a bank or indeed any company making reckless or badly informed business decisions.

> Countries with stronger financial regulations didn't have to bail out banks in 2008/09.

That's because other countries didn't have retail banks or mortgage brokers dishing out 700k mortgages to fruit pickers on 14k. _This_ was the root cause of the banking crisis and this is the industry which needed tightened regulations (such as those seen in the UK or most European countries). Inventing punitive rules on banks' capital ratios and funding reserves etc doesn't help anyone or address the root cause of the 2008 implosion.
I was going to suggest this, it's excellent and exactly what you're talking about. He encourages creation as it gives you a focus and goal for consuming online. Great stuff.
For the ZX Spectrum! ;-)
http://docs.python.org/
When software tries to be smart, it always fails.
If software tries to be a leverage-tool for the users smartness, it works.

Google is on the wrong track.
Clickable:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Iy82YV21k&feature=youtu...
Just a wild shot in the dark here, but could it possibly be because of an increasing number of people have access to the internet?

"Programmers on the internet" has reached saturation, but the total number of people searching for things on google is increasing exponentially?
1. Install XCode and homebrew

2. sudo brew install {postgresql,rbenv,ruby-build}

3. Close terminal. Open terminal.

4. mkdir proj && cd proj && rbenv install 1.9.2-p290 && rbenv local 1.9.2-p290

5. gem install rails && rbenv rehash

6. rails new foo

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"hey, download this all-inclusive, up-to-date, guaranteed to work disk image straight from us!"

Wait, how is that different from above?

-------------------

Really? You really have to ask how those two processes are different?

"stop dumbing it down artificially"

If (sometimes competing) complexities weren't continually added, there wouldn't be a need to 'dumb it down'.

"(and stuff always breaks later)"

Wow. Most other web framework communities don't have that much problems with 'stuff always breaking later'. Maybe Rails has reached a tipping point?

"There simply is no other way unless you plan to re-invent homebrew and rbenv along the way."

Or until someone else does 'reinvent' one of those, and all the cool kids start using it, leaving everyone who learned the 'legacy' way out in the cold without an upgrade path beyond "start over".

with different behaviors and errors from what the "big guys" are using

I think part of the purpose of the kickstarter project is having one of the 'big guys' behind it. Supposedly that would mean at least one (or more) of the 'big guys' would indeed be using the same process as the 'newbs', reducing this chasm.

Sounds like you're threatened some by this - it was hard for you, therefore it should always be hard for everyone for now and forever.
Looks like a video of this in use can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJtqf2lIIM
In my experience it is the cyclists who are trained to keep a careful eye on everyone else on the road and anticipate what others are going to do, because if they do not, they die. People who are always driving are much less aware of what their high speed air-bagged (only on the inside, of course) steel tanks can do to a human body, especially if the thing they might hit is just 70kg and not a 2 metric tonne object.

Speaking as a person who has had several accidents with cars while biking and zero accidents while driving.
Just to address a single issue in your post here.

Your "priorities" excuse is exactly the same as other peoples "first world problems" excuse. Saying nobody can ever have a problem because someone somewhere is dying of something.
It's just ridiculous to assume that everyone should stop caring about everything because there is a much bigger problem somewhere. If that was the case nothing would ever get done/changed.

Little things matter to people. You can't just ignore them.
Even if you think someone is overreacting when they come complaining to you. If you're their boss and it's about a workplace issue then it's your responsibility to make things better for everyone. Otherwise you're just going to be left with unproductive, resentful workers.
And that ignores the possibility that you might listen and understand why they are concerned. (Which you know, you should do...)
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Hey man, thanks!

I'm the first surprised here! As I said in the blog posts, RPMs are way higher since I started tweaking the ads.

RPMs were 9.75EUR last month ($13).

The best performing ads are the one in the template gallery (horizontal banner) at http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com/templates/personal/

People on french forums didn't actually trust me when I gave them the numbers ;-)
I worry about Apple. They've had a great run, but where can their next $billion market come from?

To an extent, the current share price will be factoring in future growth on the same trajectory as we've observed over the last few years.
What stylus are they using in their promo video?
I agree with one the commentators on the linked article, I'd rather had Microsoft support Mercurial instead git.
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1) Most people in Switzerland will like it 2C warmer. Someplace will benefit (or not suffer) other will suffer.

2) Whats a global collapse? Break down of transportation? Breakdown of communication? I don't think either is like to happen to many people profit.

"Productivity growth is wonderful, but right now is not used the way it should be. It makes us richer, and make us work less, but those gains are not reasonably distributed, hence poverty and unemployment."

You don't get 10 productivity growth points ever year that you can throw at whatever you want (that would be nice). Its not an equall distribution but people are generally speaking better of then 50 or 10 years ago all this while the world population grows very fast. Economiclly an politiclly speaking things get better slowly.

"investigate what actually works and do that, simplify and localize the means of production"

Well we clearly see is that what works is to grow the food where it grows the best and bring it to where people want to eat is. If transporation gets much more expensive localization of will be cheaper and it will happen.
I remember the legality of emulators being rather spotty until this ruling was made: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._Nint.... Since Nintendo are against emulators: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emulator I wonder what they think about the ZX Spectrum emulator and the roms that it contains that the player did not specifically buy..
Lost man-hours of Google employees driving to/from work.
And what about IronPython, IronRuby? they are mentioned in the article
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Congratulations. A related question, and something to open up to others here in the thread, what is the current state of ad networks for low-to-medium volume sites?

I am still mostly using adsense, and haven't had a chance to checkout other options. Are there any other networks worth investigating or implementing or is adsense still the gold standard?
IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network
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Maybe in a future version then? It seemed like it could be quite easy to sort out with open street maps which I think is already possible to do through canvas.

Perhaps another idea though would be to make your own stylised maps with Mapbox http://mapbox.com/ with OSM so you could print out more stylised maps ;)
what do you want to know? For example in February it was:

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No. I chose the tool because it did what I wanted it to. It was implied there are automated tools that, say, upon an SCM push with a given tag, can instantiate Windows VMs, deploy and test the app with no manual intervention and report any issues encountered. I never did that and I'm curious about how would you do it.

I imagine a combination of Buildbot and Microsoft's VM container could do it and be automated with a PowerShell script, but I'm not very sure how. Has anyone done something similar to this?
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This is not a company, is just a pet project. I've a lot of friends looking for a job, I thought that the best way for helping them is to create a website for developer and product manager positions, and this is the result, I hope it's useful for you as well.
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If you work in the tech industry it probably makes sense not to invest in it. If there's a tech crash that damages your employability then you don't want it to damage your investment portfolio as well.
You mean this one?

http://www.yacy.de/en/
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The main problem I see with this is how unimaginative it really is. The things they talk about Google can basically do right now.
I think you severely overestimate how much water an average desalination plant can process.
It looks really nice and well designed.

I really want to see a MacOSX version of this, there are not really any good minimalistic drawing programs on the Mac app store yet..
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Thanks for the reply. And Glad to know I am talking to the Nasdaq CTO :-) Anyways, I thing the consul officer did not have much idea about how tech companies function and she must have expected a CEO, CTO to be an aged guy. In that case, is she not aware of Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter???
Thanks for your reply michael. But can you please elaborate how will consulting a lawyer help my case?
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Searching isn't perfected today, so no one at Google should have or articulate a vision for 20 years in the future?

That attitude must make one a real buzz kill around 13 year olds. "You haven't mastered your classes for this semester yet, how dare you spend any time dreaming about what you might be when you grow up."

Thanks for encouraging Google to stay the same forever.
Yes, for some phones it takes a lot longer or some never get an update. But I think the discussion here was about how fast can an ICS update come? Gingerbread updates and Froyo updates started rolling out about 2 months after they were released. It took 4 months for ICS to upgrade from 2.3, but about 2 months for Honeycomb tablets. Plus there's the whole issue that manufacturers wanted to renew their skins as well.
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Udacity courses and Google python is also a good source.
And yet this is a natural progression for Google. I'm really interested to see how/when the public begins to resent the algorithms that control their lives. Perhaps privacy will be a feature then.
What's your number one traffic generator, then? The blog? If so, kudos to you!
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Or allowing people to text and drive safely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3x7K3EOTk
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Thats impressive. Would love to know how you went about promoting the website too. Did you do any SEO / link building / other kind of marketing?
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Seemingly everyone just does

git push to heroku

and that's been heralded as the best thing ever, so people don't have to futz with all the server setup/management.

But with regards to people looking for similar ease of use on the desktop for local development, they're all blithering idiots who shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer because they don't understand the intricacies of rvm vs rbenv.

There seems a bit of a disconnect here. Most people are proud of all the hard-won knowledge (sometimes through months or years of experience), and feel that everyone else should have to go through similar hell to attain some magic level of guru-ness. But... don't take away my heroku account!
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Index funds. You can't beat the market consistently. Maybe you can get lucky for awhile, but if you're relying on that, might as well go to Vegas and have more fun at it.
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Definitely true for single companies (ie don't hold only your employer's stock...), or for short term.

For a retirement fund, I still think tech gives the best 50 year returns, as a sector.
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Ask HN: How to limit Facebook Timeline visibility?
I have resisted that timeline for months now, but it looks like its gonna be forced on users pretty soon. How can we limit the profile visibility? even to friends. Facebook provides some mediocre mechanisms to deal with this problem, like going back in time and deleting posts from the timeline.
My last option will be to delete my facebook account all together. I was just wondering how people are dealing with this problem, if they see it as such.
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I think that would be a good idea. When I see that it's a video, I skip it -- can't skim video and see if it merits more attention, and I'm not willing to invest the time to watch the full thing.
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The question with AAPL is really do you think smartphones and tablets, as product segments unto themselves, have reached market saturation? I think we'll still see massive increases in the sheer number of smartphones and tablets sold, and I think AAPL will manage to retain a significant (not necessarily a majority) market share.