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the trouble is that the alternative is a pile of different solutions. it gets worse when 3rd party libraries dream up their own approaches. if everyone used the standard life would be much easier.

the advantages of a consistent log interface across an entire system outweigh the poor implementation and irritable maintainer.

i guess what we really need is a new, better implementation of the same api...
It's one of the ways to be able to work 6/7 months stress free on your product, with a real budged. It doesn't increase your success rate, but gives you a longer runaway and an amazing experience. It will connect you and you'll make a lot of important friends.
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I wish there was at least one more - "OK". As in, I didn't "like" it, but I don't regret watching it.
There's a few pics of my cat Baily for ya ;)

(Not sure why some of them went in upside down)
Your specific claim would only make sense to me if I could think of an actual reason (other than a systematic mindset problem) they it could take 3 years for Apple to change improve these things.

Sure, the Internet community is a bit impatient, but it's also true that it's quite possible to make drastic improvement in a lot less than 3 years.
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My parents have been traveling to Costa Rica for their dental work for years (from the US). My dad usually stays with a local family through a language-exchange program, stays for two weeks, and takes Spanish classes at their local university.

He says he's saved tens of thousands of dollars (he doesn't have dental insurance here), and gets awesome, educational vacations out of the deal.

Even my mother, who is not adventurous at all, loves it. The dentists speak perfect English and have top-tier practices.
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The author echoes many of the same reasons I really dived into Node - I'm a strong C# back-end developer but really hadn't had much experience designing web UI (HTML5/CSS/JS.)

I can say without a doubt that my experience with Node has translated to some upside in terms of my front-end JavaScript abilities - being able to really master the ins and outs of JavaScript language itself has made it much easier for me to work with even some pretty nasty front-end bits.

In addition, you pick up a lot of tools in Node that are translatable to client-side JS development. Many of the unit testing frameworks work just as well at testing client-side code as they do server-side.
The ironic thing is, if any legislator who supported SOPA was exposed to the complexities and realities of copyright/IP legislation as this guy was, I'm sure SOPA would have never seen the light of day. Sadly, like most legislation that our elected officials pass through, their understanding of complex issues are never more than what their (unelected) staff has debriefed them on, and what (unelected) lobbying organizations pay them to believe. I'd love to read the internal MPAA memo concerning this.
That's right the average speed between NYC and Boston is around 60 mph. It's not high-speed rail, which is 150mph+.

Beijing to Shanghai, for example, is currently averaging 186mph, and if they get back to initial goals, they'll average over 200mph.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_High-S...

In short, NYC to Boston should be 90 minutes by train.
There aren't tens of millions of people living in the Channel blocking the path the train needs to take; digging the Channel tunnel was simple compared to putting straight rail lines between Boston, NYC, Philly, and DC.
>"It was a turning point I happened to catch at its birth."

Really? Because I'm pretty sure myself and many others caught it when the T-echo Chamber was trying to sell us on this new message board system that was going to make a lot of money and change the game.

Quora was an online community that happened to be "cool", so it attracted intelligent people which made the content fantastic. But nothing they were doing, in my opinion, was especially original. And as has been pointed out, if you try to scale up an online community, you deal with more and more noise. Predictably, that happened.

I apologize for the past tense; I realize Quora still exists, and nothing I or the author says has any real bearing on where it goes from here, or whether or not it is successful in the future. But I do know that I've gone from using it occasionally to using it never.
Just curious... when does down voting become an option? At 223, it's not. (The FAQ refers to a "certain threshold", which couldn't be less specific.)
I used to use XSLT for a lot of things. I switched off it because it's just too damn slow and can be a total brain melt to do complicated stuff in that's fairly easy in just about any other programming language. The few things I liked about XSLT can be done fairly easily with Scala's pattern matching.
But we're not talking about a bank robbery here and we're not talking about a sack of dye-stained bills that was found on the passenger seat of the getaway car.

Megaupload is a business and data storage and file hosting services are not inherently illegal. Clearly, Megaupload has some baseline amount of business that is not the subject of the complaint. However substantial the infringement and related charges may be, it's entirely possible that a large amount of Megaupload's business is completely legitimate. But this a question for the court and there's no purpose to be served by the destruction of evidence en masse.

To find that all of Megaupload and Schmitz's assets are forfeit as proceeds of criminal activity is to foreclose any possibility that the defendants might be found innocent.

To seize the entirety of a business's assets on the basis that some as-yet-undetermined portion of their revenue is alleged to be infringing is not only disproportionate, it is a violation of due process.

Where does this end? If a collection of infringing files is found to be hosted on Amazon's servers somewhere does that allow the government to seize all of Amazon's assets, cherry-pick the evidence and destroy the rest, to the point that Amazon are unable to mount an effective defense?
We learn English first.
It seems that a customer has no control about specific departure day or time? So it's less of a "fly to Santa Monica on Tuesday, come back on Thursday", and more of "give me the next available flight to Santa Monica, whenever it comes up, which could be a week from now"?
After reading so many negative things about nodejs, I'm completely surprised to report that it is actually pretty damn cool.

Most of these negative things were (are being?) written by people who target Node's shortcomings without giving due concern to the areas it shines in.

Good Parts is definitely a good read. If anyone is looking for more reading materials on JavaScript, I had written a post about it recently: http://kishorelive.com/2012/02/23/my-javascript-reading-list...
You need 500 karma. The limit is increased every once in awhile, but this seems to still be the threshold since I just crossed it last week.

Interestingly, after I hit 500 the downvote option didn't appear so I wondered if the threshold might have changed, but it fortunately became available later that day.

Edit: ceol is right. That matches my experience, too (verified by looking at older posts).
How about google voice ?
You can write free versions of paid apps and release the paid version after you have hardware, or just release apps that would've been free anyway.

I think it's a good deal and I'll be taking advantage.
You should really submit this to Reddit (if you haven't already),. This is exactly the thing that the Reddit community would die for.
Ah, I understood that SSL encrypts the data, but I always assumed there was still a risk of it being intercepted (before encryption) if I was on an open WiFi network.
I think this is a bigger question of backwards compatibility. Surely Apple could find a technical solution to downloading Retina assets to non-Retina devices, but at the end of the day, what does this accomplish? It means that users of older devices will have a slightly better experience, at the expense of a nontrivial amount of work. Were such a scheme to be implemented, the developer would likely have to mark Retina files manually and Apple would have to add infrastructure on their servers. All this for something that will be pointless in the near future when Apple stops selling non-Retina iOS devices.

I don't mean to assert that Apple shouldn't attempt to separate out Retina assets, but I think it's worth considering the opportunity cost. There are a lot of other things Apple's engineers could be working on. Should this be their top priority?
If you're in the Silicon Valley, the Hacker Dojo has Windows Phone hardware you can do testing on.
He says he's receptive[0] but then dismisses every con listed with either, "Suggest an alternative,"[1] or, "Give me some form of evidence that I won't dismiss."[2] As another user said,[3] there's just far too much going on when it should default to stderr and let the dev worry about delivery.

[0]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LoggingPackage#line-101

[1]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LoggingPackage#line-32

[2]: http://wiki.python.org/moin/LoggingPackage#line-50

[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3812945
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From what I gathered from the article and the linked post on cnet. He was hired for side A and sided with A. Now he was hired for side B and sided with B. Am I missing something?
I use google voice for everything, I find it important to be able to receive text messages on my Google Voice account. (I don't have a text messaging plan)
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Also, requirejs (http://requirejs.org) is great. It's AMD (asynchronous module definitions) based, and it's worth knowing the differences between AMD and CommonJS (which is what Browserify is based off of).
Wow only $260 round trip? That is so much cheaper than paying $1000/month for unlimited trips.
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import logging
logging.warn("something happened")

I think all the complaints are overblown... maybe it could be modularized some more, but of all things, I've never had any problems with logging. All the advanced features are there for a reason and work well.
Vitamin D deficiency is a symptom. What is missing is not vitamin D but sunlight. Giving superficial vitamin D is doctoring on ONE symptom not on the cause of multiple deficiencies.

A correct therapy would be for example:

* Do short ways (<2km) per foot.
* Do medium ways (< 20 km) per bicycle
* Do longer ways as a combination of public transport and foot.
* Do programming in parks, outside cafe terrace or in the garden
* Get a dog and go with him every day
* Start jogging
etc.

There are lot of possibilities to change your modern life to a for the human race suitable lifestyle.
Swallowing a pill instead of getting sun, fresh air and exercise is one way to burn out.

It takes effort to change your live instead of swallowing a pill and costs more time in the short run, but it extends lifetime and saves illness time. Therefore it saves time in the long run and makes live happier.

"I have not time to hurry", Igor Strawinsky
Many a time my (not really) fat fingers have flagged an innocent post, same happens on Reddit too.
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One possible solution is having apps ship with 1x graphics with an optional download to have 2x. That solution, however, is not something I would like as a developer or as an user.

Over the next few years, we'll probably go back to having just two screen sizes (Retina iPhone + iPad). This is just a side effect of the transition to retina, and it will go away soon.

Though from Apple's perspective it would make more financial sense to have you go buy a 64GB iPad. :)
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I listen to electrohouse everyday. I'm not that into dubstep and I tend to not like it outside of coding, but it puts you into the zone pretty quickly, kind of like if the techno rythm stopped you from thinking normally.

For those interested, many of the mixes can be downloaded for free out there. I found :

http://soundcloud.com/tsnm all the TSNM no excuses mix, the 100 download limit is quickly maxed out on those though

http://radio.lazy-rich.com/ the Lazy Rich Show

http://xo.am/electro/di/ Ben XO Xpression
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I can't downvote yet, but upvoting something because I was trying to scroll irks me.
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Updates are the more frustrating aspect of this situation. Sure, get a zetabyte storage card for future Apple formats--that won't fix the fact that a user may need to download dozens of megabytes of unused data for every update
This is the company that simply yanked out floppy drives when they decided they were no longer necessary, so it's probably not a priority at all. It doesn't directly cause breakage, and a few years down the line, Retina will be everywhere.
Why does zoom not work on that site?
I read on my iPod almost everyday and never had this problem. Maybe you dont zoom enough?
Also check out Maven. Java, IDE (eclipse/intelliJ), and maven will give your productivity a turbo boost.
It might not be possible, but I would love to see this website scaling so fast it would become the place for cat pictures, hence forcing all social media back to doing some public good.
Would have liked a bit more information about Padrino and what makes it unique or modern. The rest of the article is rather obvious to me.
No, although other things being equal it seems more likely that someone would switch in that direction if their current personal convictions were aligned with B.

His posting to CNET is worth reading too: http://news.cnet.com/8618-31921_3-57404804.html?assetTypeId=...
I have been considering making the same leap.

For me it's about forcing some boredom into your life. With the Internet and TV I feel hyper stimulated all the time. To find entertainment I merely collapse into my chair, click a few buttons, and begin passively consuming.

Without something neurotically occupying my attention (ie internet) I quickly become bored. When bored I then proceed to think through everything I could possibly do, prioritize the ideas, and choose one to act upon. Even if I end up watching a television show the important thing is that I chose to watch that specific show rather than passively accepting whatever was being played at the time. I have not had TV in a long time, so that's not a problem, but whenever I've momentarily had no internet I find I eat better, exercise more, have a cleaner house, and knock more things off of my to do lists.

It's not that I want to go without internet, it's just that I do not want the internet at home. I've been without it before and really enjoyed the experience, now I just have to make the leap of canceling internet completely.
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I know they're adding Vegas soon, but adding NYC would be absolutely killer. I would sign up immediately for LA-Vegas-NYC.
From what I've noticed, you only get it for the comments on articles since you passed the threshold. You're unable to downvote old comments.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/arvindguptatoys?feature=watch
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/toys.html
"Amazing Astronomy"
"Pumps from the Dump"
"Math Magic"
"Paper Fun"
"Tipping Toppling Toys"
"Motor and Generator"
"Electricity and Magnetism"
"Newton Unplugged"
"Fun with Pressure"
"Fun with Light"
"Toys from Trash"
"Simple Sounds"
"Strong Structures"
"Flying Toys"
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/films.html
about Arvind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Gupta
Opera on Android (and maybe iOS) has this awesome feature where if links are close together it will zoom in so you can select the right one.
Actually, I think your "solution" was both flippant and ill-thought out.

"Just read a book" isn't a solution at all. It doesn't work, and it displays willful ignorance of how willpower works.

I'm glad to see you have now responded with some more nuanced notions, but your arrogant "duh, he's doing it wrong" tone still grates. In particular, you assume that he couldn't possibly have thought about the issues you raise. Maybe if you started with the assumption that he has considered them you'd get someplace more interesting.
18 wheeler's do significantly more damage than cars or bridges to road surfaces. I could go into it, but I don't think you want to hear that the average 18 wheeler does more than 2k a month in damage to road surfaces. (It's vary weight and speed dependent, but when you look at the average it's well over 2k a month. http://archive.gao.gov/f0302/109884.pdf basically road damage from one 18-wheeler is equivalent to 9600 cars.)

Anyway, I responded to someone making a very specific claim about federal spending so I responded to that, state spending is a far more complex issue so here are some numbers:

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/mf.pdf

Do you really think Alaska magically get's by on 8 cents a gallon or are the diverting funds for somewhere else to pay for roads? They don't have a sales tax so the math is easy on that one.

But, now let's look at Wyoming it has a nice 4% general tax on everything and charges 14 cents a gallon for gas. Let's say gas is around 3.25 a gallon before taxes and at 4% would wait for it be 13 cents. Do you think that single extra cent is going to pay to maintain all their roads? Because if the tax was 12 cents a gallon clearly they would be subsidizing that relative to you buying say cheeseburgers and they don't exactly have a lot of toll roads. Then again, if they spent close to the same percentage on road maintenance as people did on gas then the numbers would work out just fine. But wait for it, they don't.
the complete opposite of the "do one thing and do it well" philosophy.

This is like saying subprocess is a mess because it does more than just call system(). It does one thing: logging, and it does it well.

There are plenty of good reasons why your program shouldn't concern itself with the delivery of logging messages beyond sending them to stderr.

So who, outside my program, am I to give information about which messages should go to syslog, which to stderr, and which sent to a remote logserver? You're advocating the use of dumb pipes and message parsing for something that can be perfectly well done in-process, where all the state is available.
It's cultural. There's only so much Apple's customer service culture can do to overcome the customer service culture in a country, when the staffing of the company sources people locally who have different ideas of what constitutes customer service.

The US has great customer service and of companies operating in the US, Apple is the cream of the crop. So it's effectively the creme de la creme in the US. Customer service in southeast Asian countries is largely crap across the board (I lived in China for 1.5 years and I'm speaking from experience).

One of the cultural phenomena that backfires customer service-wise is the collectivistic culture versus individualistic culture. Business people see customers as a collective and not a group of individuals. In this environment, no matter how good Apple's policies are, the judgement of whether or not your case/issue will be judged on a case by case basis and deemed worthy of meriting a replacement is going to break down because the people you ultimately deal with don't see or treat you as an individual or your case as unique.

There are benefits of collectivistic cultures, but customer service isn't one of them.
Which news aggregator do you use?
> The absence of such makes us the laughingstock of Europe and Asia.

Please. The geography of the US compared to these Europe & Asia projects are so radically different, the reason high-speed rail hasn't been a priority is because it isn't as viable here. Rail fares are more expensive than flights [1], and a trip from SF<->LA would take anywhere from 2-3 times as long. No thanks.

I've traveled by air and rail around Europe, and I greatly prefer flying. Cheaper, and faster. The only people laughing at us are the americans who think a rail infrastructure is something to be jealous of.

[1] http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/11/despite-rising-price...
This is one of the reasons I roll my eyes whenever my fellow Americans tell me that the United States school system is doing just fine. People in the United States are all too insulated from the reality of people in many other countries having to learn everything we do, including literacy in a native language, to make a living, AND having to learn English to a good standard of literacy besides. Yes, people in other countries often take university-level classes in a variety of subjects with the same English-language textbooks used by American students at the best American universities. (There is, of course, a thriving business in those countries of cram books of those subjects and digests of those textbooks in the local language, and also many excellent textbooks in the local language in many countries.) Moreover, a lot of people in a lot of parts of the world converse in their parents in some historically traditional language of their country, but do business and make jokes with business colleagues in conversational English.

I'm an American who spent several years of my life learning Chinese, among other languages, and who has lived in non-English-speaking places for about six years of my life and worked for quite a few years in the United States in translation and interpreting. It never stops amazing me how much people in much of the rest of the world just roll up their sleeves and learn English, after learning two or more other languages beforehand, to pursue their personal goals.