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At some techie user group someone had a copy of a pretty brief O'Reilly Rails book. I observed that the book price seemed the same as what O'Reilly charged for "full-length" books.

A friend then said he would be happy to pay even twice as much if the author could have made it half-again as short.

BTW, I could have sworn that quote was from Chekov. Either way, on the money.
If its only taking him 45 minutes he's probably not driving in and parking, he's probably taking mass transit on a system that is quite overloaded. So no, you didn't solve his problem, but nice try.
If anyone feels like making a copycat app over the weekend.

http://www.speakforyourself.org/About_The_App.html
Could you imagine having to pay a compulsory license to use something like Amazon's patented one-click ordering? There's nothing so horribly wrong with the patent model; there's something wrong with the system that decides one-click is worthy of patent protection.
I was all prepared to be angry, but it's actually ok, to be honest. I normally dislike dark themes.
Rails 3.2.6 (and 3.1.6 and 3.0.14) released with security fixes
How much of your advice do you think is applicable to freelancers who moonlight on occasion. Do you think anyone would go for a 'nights and weekends' ( 25 hours ) weekly rate?
Apple products sold in Europe have a base warranty of 2 years. In the US, only 1 year.
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Mid 2010 to the announced next update in late 2013 is 3 and a half years:

mid 2010 - mid 2011 : 1 year

mid 2011 - mid 2012 : 1 year

mid 2012 - mid 2013 : 1 year

mid 2013 - late 2013 : 1/2 year

Hence, my statement "it will be nearly 4 years".
They have a program called Explorers [1] that's been driving a lot of their internship success. It lets interns rotate through different departments, rather than focus on one area.

[1] http://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/internships-explo...
Well, this is embarrassing. Yes, the link is http://kiro.me/blog/nfe_dilemma.html
Totally my bad. It's http://kiro.me/blog/nfe_dilemma.html
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Oh, this post was in reply to the underwater part? Yes, I also think that this one isn't feasible for quite some time. My reply was in response to vacuum tubes over sea level. Right now we can't even have floating tubes anchored to the sea ground yet; storm waves rip every anchor we can build apart (it has been tried for wave power generators).

Vacuum tubes could probably be built deeper down where the waves aren't strong. I actually think that earthquakes wouldn't necessarily be a problem at that level, since everything would have to be quite flexible anyway. In order to elevate security, I could imagine making tube sectors detachable and having safety shutters. This way, if one sector is breached it could be sealed and detached such that it floats to sea level. The train could even be inside if you can control the pressure differences well enough to not kill everyone inside (something that is well understood for jet planes).
Dammit. The link is supposed to be: http://kiro.me/projects/fuse.html
And this is why my statement was "either clueless or is having serious problems maintaining competent hardware engineers", and then proceeded to talk seriously only about the latter case.
Yes, some people do. Not, however, Prentke Romich Company. (Which is perfectly fine of course.)
Although I have my fair share of hesitance at worshiping cloud services, the fact that a service is "cloud" has nothing to do with the quality of its architecture. You can make a crucial architecture mistake designing a fleet of dedicated PHP servers talking to a MySQL cluster just as easily as you can building atop some cloud service.
As I recall, "analysts" were predicting much higher prices for the iPad before it was released. Maybe they'll be wrong again.
"or it's taxpayers through some form of state-sponsored licensing"

Why do you say taxpayers must pay the license fee? A company might be happy to pay a royalty on a patent but as it is now patent law allows a patent holder to prevent anyone from making or using a patented invention - in other words they could sue Maya directly for infringement. Music copyright law, which issues from the exact same clause in the constitution as patent law, provides for a compulsory license of any song. A band knows before hand exactly how much it will cost to "cover" someone's song.

If you are found to be infringing a patent your financial exposure is almost un-bounded. If there were a compulsory license provision in patent law like their is in music copyright, companies would know exactly how much they were risking if found to be infringing a patent
Whoever was speaking at the time (Forstall?) mentioned that they would showcase existing 3rd-party transit apps. Taking a look at the sketchy VTA, BART and CalTrain apps I've tried this is not an adequate replacement. Hopefully there'll be a way to access Google's maps through the web or a Google app.
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I built an app that shows the air pollution levels in Hong Kong based on Western standards, primarily because I couldn't understand the local governments rather lax air quality index. I'll probably never recoup the development costs or even the server expense, but I didn't think it would be right to charge for it. In a heavily polluted place, some folks with asthma and respiratory problems or even young children simply shouldn't go out on certain days.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hong-kong-air-pollution/id504...
If there are no warranty stickers, and you don't make any obvious changes or damage to the machine, you sometimes get away with 'breaking' the warranty. I've had this occur for a laptop that required opening to change the RAM (voiding warranty by all supporting documentation). I restored the original RAM before warranty, and they fixed it all the same.
I really enjoyed Civ2; even once you've figured out how to game the AI (it's predictable hostility and cheating are actually it's biggest weaknesses), there are still challenges, such as limiting yourself to one city (!) or finishing before a certain year.

Just one thing set off my pedant alarm: Civ2 didn't come out until 1996. I still remember getting the collector's box with the huge strategy guide ;-)
You would not be required but would have the privilege of licensing Amazon's patent. As it is now Amazon can prevent anyone from duplicating there patent for 20 years.
Yup, that's the one part I disagree with from this article: the ending where he says VC today is inbred.

First off, VC today is by no means doing poorly. IPO's, incubators/accelerators, and the spillover of excitement from SV to NYC/LA/Seattle/Boston is pretty evident that big money goes where it needs to go.

It's more so that there isn't -enough- VC out there today, in my opinion, that's really driving crowdfunding and crowdsourcing. Now that the barrier to entry has dipped so low (technical costs) and the need for innovation is so big, that there just is too much consumer demand to get involved with the game. Up until the JOBS Act, to play ball you had to enter the field as an entrepreneur. No one really takes money anymore from someone who hasn't had skin in the game (whether from a successful startup of failed investment).

I like to think of it as thirsty kids at a summer concert, where VC's were the big scary macho bouncers who threw out water bottles to a select few in the front. Only, now, there's more thirsty people than ever and the concert organizers just brought over a firetruck.
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Not holding my breath. Cash-strapped transit authorities are not going to be able to drive innovation here and losing the integration with maps will mean you'll have to know ahead of time that a transit route is available on your journey.
You are responding to me, the person whose problem you think you solved. I take a bus that costs $98/month. The ferry is over $300 for a monthly pass. If I want to take the ferry tomorrow, with my bike, for example, it'll be about $20 for a daily round trip. My best option would be to taking a folding bike so I can take a train. That would work on nice days.

However, what I'm really asking for is to solve the problem for the millions of commuters. It's crazy that people waste so much time commuting.
I actually wondered the same thing so I came to the comments to try to figure it out. I think it was up voted due to the fact the word bubble was in the title.
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I buy a decent amount of albums, and I do 90% Amazon MP3 and 10% iTunes - Amazon MP3 is consistently $1+ cheaper, which amounts to a free album every 7 or 8, in comparison. iTunes would need some serious deals to beat that.
Wait a fucking second. Did you say theatre exercises?

There's a group of people doing them theatre exercises, they rent a hall down the corridor from me periodically. I've always known there was something really fishy about them. Are you saying they might be scientologists? Becuase that would really fit to the group's MO.
But it's even worse than that. Because it is seemingly unfeasible for the legislative body to write the specifics into laws, they create unelected bureaucracies to implement the specifics of broad reaching policy goals.
The system is still the same. You still need government approval as a Chinese to live in another city. There are many free economic zones where you can almost do anything you want. But the underlining system is still the same.

I am in China right now. I lived in a ghost city just last year.
"Giant Start-up" is an oxymoron.

Giant companies shouldn't pretend to be start-ups or have start-ups cultures.
I live in China. You can search about the hukou and business registration systems online.
I recently started playing Civ V, and was surprised at how the AI approached the first war I had started against me: the AI made a really lucrative offer in exchange for right of passage through my territory, then moved a bunch of units in and declared war on me. After losing the initial wave of units and the second invading wave without any territory changing hands, the AI asked for a cease-fire. When I declined, the AI came back in a few turns and sued for peace, offering me most of his treasury and a few other perks to get me to agree to the cease-fire. I wasn't too impressed by the initial decision to take me on, but the rest of the process seemed quite a bit more complex than anything from previous Civ games.
Sucks that they have to harass their final customers until they get pissed and leave too.
I imagine it was mainly done to stop the spread of rumours, that post's such as Marco Arment's could spark (perhaps already has?): http://www.marco.org/2012/06/11/half-assed-mac-pro
You can only transfer the Priority Date (PD) if you have got your I-140 done with the old company and you maintained the same classification when you filed your new labor certification (LC) with the new company (EB2 -> EB2, EB3 -> EB3 ok, but EB3 -> EB2 not ok).

Your last two sentences are spot on... I am guilty of it too.
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Where are the same places that most everyone gets their data from?
The MacPro hasn't been the flagship product for years
> The people who did really great things in history -- whoever you might choose as your examples -- did they achieve it by being significantly more rational than everyone else? Not really, no.

Observational bias. Rationality of thought process in non-technical situations is rarely externalized; unless you talk of scientists, you're highly unlikely to remark on how highly rational he is being. In fact, the only way I can come up with to make such a statement fit in literary fashion is when you're making a quip on someone:

"It was highly rational of Nixon to start the Vietnam War."
Wow, I just saw your awesome response! FWIW, I too work at foursquare and sit next to Neil (nsanch). Feel free to verify by asking him!

I reiterate: /troll
> I don't "assume", I induce. See Newton's rules of reasoning. Pay particular attention to Rule IV.

u so smaht
countries that are under the umbrella of the United States and have highly developed economies don't go to war against each other

Except in the case of the Falklands War. And the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor (Iraq was a US ally at the time). And the Turkish/Greek air battles over the Aegean Sea (eg, Turkish & Greek F-16's dogfighting and crashing into each other in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%E2%80%93Turkish_relations...).

I agree with your general principle though.
Just translate that from corp speak into normal human language: "At this point, years into the social phenomenon, I can't imagine what the heck we were even trying to accomplish with this."
Apple doesn't obstruct her from using Android.

Again, I vote that the app stays up. But you are being silly by portraying Apple as evil.
Can't emphasize enough: it is remarkable for Sweden to hand real power over to individual citizens. Totally wonderful. While she is acting like a git, she is also not the polished PR machine that most countries feel the need to use to present themselves. Humor or not, her words are real.

I really, really applaud Sweden and would love to see something similar in the States. I have no doubt that the USA version would put the spotlight on some really horrible sentiments - but again, that is what is real. It's just like Borat, highlighting whitewashed racism that is ever-present in the US. In the end, it's a very good thing to just be honest.
You can use Google Maps via Safari. I've used it before for bike directions as that was never supported on the Google Maps app on the iPhone.
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No surprise. The one-model-to-rule-them-all will over-fit.
Not really, though. I love my Air (a LOT), but the ergonomics are so different from my iPad that I can't even compare the two.
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I think Ping was too specific.

When we've already built up 99% of the infrastructure required to share anything we want (e.g. messages, photos, videos, links, entire pages on Facebook), it's very hard to see the point of a service that specializes in sharing exactly one thing.

The timing was also horrible. Some of the technologies currently available for sharing are 5 or 10 years old or more, so what the heck was supposed to be revolutionary about Ping? It needed to arrive before there was Facebook or Twitter.
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I'm trying to follow.

So you are saying that with the following scenario:

1. +3000 at P100 or +4000 at P80

2. -3000 at P100 or -4000 at P80

Depending on the context, the answer is basically universally different if you say "1 then 2" as opposed to "just 1" or "just 2"?
Hipmunk doesn't seem to list AirAsia, Tiger Air, perhaps not Garuda.

I figured the original comment here was stating that there are airlines that aren't listed. (Kayak lists AirAsia and Garuda at least though.)

For one comparison that hurts:

http://www.kayak.com/#/flights/BKK-MES/2012-07-08/2012-07-11...

vs:

http://www.hipmunk.com/#!BKK.MES,Jul08.Jul11&3-1

(Although clearly if one were actually going to Sumatra, one would stay for more than 3 days...)

But you don't need to do something exotic like Bangkok <-> Sumatra to see a disparity. Even Bangkok <-> Singapore or Kuala Lumpur show problems.
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Are you going back up the iTunes computer too? Restoring backups relies on various moving parts. It's never a simple matter when operating systems and hardware keep moving forward. I'm not saying there's a better solution here, just saying it's non-trivial and fragile.
Man, that's a long and contrived justification for what amounts to a pile of bullshit.

We have seen very elaborate post-mortems from google, facebook, twitter, and no least from Amazon themselves (you know, the playground that heroku builds their sandcastles in).

The aforementioned companies had no problem explaining their respective issues in plain language that every engineer did understand.

Heroku doesn't even try to explain themselves. They just throw around fantasy words without real explanations, seemingly overwhelmed by their own awesomeness (in a failure report, no less).

As an engineer I feel insulted by this pamphlet. All I can gather from it is that they screwed up and apparently somehow related to their request-routing layer. Thanks, we knew as much before reading that text.

I still have no idea what actually went wrong and how they intend to prevent it in the future. But I'll certainly advise people to avoid a company that babbles about "control rods" when their software screws up.
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Regarding "chords following em": Since all of the songs were transposed to the key of C, em == iii, am == vi, and F == IV. Really what the post says is IV and vi follow iii most often in popular songs.
I think you need to clarify some things.

Do you mean 'rock songs' as in Jimmy Preston's Rock the Joint? Or do you mean 'rock songs' as in rhythm and blues/'black music'/music made by black people? If you mean--well, there is no other way of putting this--music that white musicians were playing that was influenced by R&B/gospel/etc., there aren't only simple songs, as can be heard in Preston's music and many other songs that had added arrangements. Even Little Richard.

This makes me think you are referring to only R&B and gospel (which white musicians named 'rock 'n' roll'). If this is the case, this type of music wasn't exactly popular in the way we think of popular music nowadays, not until white musicians 'appropriated' it.

As you can see, there is some incompatibility with what you're saying. 'Popular songs' did not only consist of rock 'n' roll songs, even though rock 'n' roll was considered popular music in the 50s. I mean, Jo Stafford made so-called traditional pop music, and they weren't exactly simple. If you read about late 70s British 'rock', you'd remember that 'rock 'n' roll' was a dirty word associated with the lower classes, drugs, and misfits, which was not necessarily part of popular music. Unless you mean popular music as opposed to 'classical music' (not the 'classical' from the period within 'classical music', mind you).

I don't want to get into a whole Beatles debate, but Beatles took from many styles and genres. So it isn't exactly fair to compare them to typical rock 'n' roll music, which they themselves started playing and were being trained to play initially.
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Ita.lc is simple photo uploader. Using Heroku, Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3. Mobile Safari of iOS6 support to photo upload, so you're able to upload photo to Ita.lc from mobile safari.
Don't Apple devices have locked bootloaders? I think it's a little disingenuous to say that Apple doesn't obstruct her from using Android when they have gone to a lot of trouble to ensure you can't run Android on an iPad. (Not to say you can't, but Apple has intentionally put up barriers to prevent it.)
All of the digital wallet start ups.
Microsoft intern here in week three of my 12 week internship. I'll say this: the longer I'm here, the more excited I am about being a part of Microsoft.
> The idea that we need patents to foster innovation is a self-serving lie. Most of human progress -- everything that got us to where we are now -- happens faster the more copying everyone does.

This completely misunderstands the historical reason for patents. Patents do not stifle copying: they encourage copying by transforming a permanent monopoly of secrets into a temporary monopoly of open information.

Patents were created to break the back of trade guilds. Trade guilds were organizations whose primary job was to protect (often on pain of death) trade secrets such as how to create gunpowder or how to mix a crucial sealant for a boat. Trade guilds completely stifled the advancement of technology. Patents broke them by offering a government-guaranteed but temporary legal monopoly instead of a permanent monopoly which required constant vigilance.

Trade guilds and jealously (and dangerously) guarded secrets still exist in certain trades not protected by patents. Most famously, candy-makers are notoriously vicious in protecting their secrets: indeed, Roald Dahl novelized this fact.

And we have the same situation now, don't kid yourself. If patents were to disappear tomorrow, we'd see the elimination of new generic drugs, industrial companies permanently hiding assembly secrets, and an awful lot more security through obscurity in software -- NOT good.

China's copying is not happening despite the patent system, but rather because of it. Because patents make secrets open, Chinese companies can see them and copy them (illegally). Without the patent system, companies would be extremely secretive about their processes and China would be still be in the dark ages.

[btw, if we're talking about copy cultures, the most famous one by far is Japan, which has been a copy culture for over 2000 years]
I can't see this in the article (or the original) but I wonder why they haven't developed sign language as a tool? It seems to me as though if someone can learn to use an app to produce speech they could learn at least some modified form of sign language.
Even better, good call.
Yes, you can use Windows Explorer in the desktop.
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Ask HN: How a Brazilian can get a internship in an american startup?
I'm an undergraduate student of computer engineer, and would like to spend the first semester of 2013 working for a startup in the US.
What kind of Visa do I need to get? Do I need a job offer prior to going and look for a job? And, what skills do I have to have?
The performance of all these stocks would seem to be a huge argument against the idea that we're in a bubble, a favorite topic around these parts. Bubbles don't look like this.
if we can't get our shit together to connect SF to LA with what amounts to 40-years-old-bullet train technology, what makes this people think they can get this crazy stuff done between NY and LA?

sounds a lot like my research group meetings. Lots of fascinating stuff. Zero chance of ever making it out of the lab in the near future.
I'm not debating what they do or where their name comes from. You suggested they needed to be renamed (presumably because they imply they test intelligence). They are (or were) named appropriately.
You are correct. I guess I was just concerned that declaring that working on a project for any amount of time, no matter how small, precludes work on anything else for the rest of the day sounds a bit too inflexible, bordering on incompetent. Your comments indicate that you are not actually this inflexible with good clients, to the contrary you are generous with small amounts of time, so I'm not sure why you'd want to tell them you are 'unable' to work on more than one project per day ever; it seems like you're selling your abilities short. Basically I agree but I'd phrase it in terms of efficiency and ROI: the value delivered in X amount of time plummets when you have to context switch. Anyway thanks for the sound advice!