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As it stands right now, yes, it is another form of a button. From what I understand though, they're working to get it to the point where it is a reactive interface. The gesture-based technology is in its infancy at the moment, but the push Flutter is making is where I believe interfaces will go.

Still, I find using a hand to stop music a more natural interface than hitting a button or switching to iTunes. It's a start, but definitely not the end goal.
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As you yourself have showed, "homeless person" != "dumb person".

I'm fairly certain a not despreciable amount of homeless people are totally capable of using complex designs.

Not that we should aim to making designs complex, but we shouldn't use "simple enough for the homeless" as a motto either.
> Why would I want a native app when Web apps are so much
> more awesome?

Because web apps are not awesome. Multiple users? Ok, that's a feature, not something very web specific.
Google docs always seem very very brittle to me.
That may be the Messages.app (on iOS and even more on Mac) plan. I sure wish iMessage and BBM were made interoperable via some well-defined bridge standard.
How about for the last two lines:
Me: "Because I may be able to create a market environment where you may be able to profit off this grain in the future. Plus you have nothing to loose."
Them: "Sounds great."
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Not sure if you continued on reading to the part where I propose a bind function that doesn't break dynamic dispatch.

var bind = function (obj, m) {
return function () {
obj[m].apply(obj, Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments));
};
};
> number 4 [US not #1 soon] doesn't seem so certain.

Well, sure, nothing is certain, except that economists are often wrong. I listened recently to some 1998 academic conferences about economy and all the guys did boldly envision a slow steady growth for the next 25 years... Moreover, none of them did say a word about the East-West rebalancing, that is under everyone's pen these days. So let's not listen to them, sure.

But, still, I have the weird feeling that some people like pg and Fred Wilson have a kind of blind spot on China. It is sad because they could have more interesting things to say than economists.

Gosh, these two years money is raining over Beijing start-ups, VCs are praising founders to accept their money, every new things created in the US instantly generates tens of (shanzhai) Chinese copies. One can dismiss Chinese hot start-up temperature as artificial, ungrounded, or not fertile, or whatever, but I wouldn't understand how one could plainly ignore it.
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Larry had actually been the messenger for the first documents in the Barry Bonds perjury case. Larry had been the first member of the public to know about the doping. He told me how reading those documents had ruined baseball for him.

I find this a bit unlikely. Then again, it might explain why he doesn't have a job as a bike messenger any more.
I typed a much longer response, but I realized that the internal contradiction in this argument can be summed up in many fewer words: "...there is a real quid quo pro regarding future contributions which doesn't exist in the GPL. By contributing back you ensure you have access to future patches by other contributors..." <- that is, in fact, a description of the behavior the GPL requires... claiming that it doesn't exist with the GPL thereby is confusing at best. The reason people attempt to avoid the GPL is specifically because they either currently intend to not play "quid pro quo" or because they want to reserve the right to do so in the future.
Oh demo… So it usually goes as this:
great demo, should try -> hey building some PoC is so easy -> hm, how do I get around this corner case -> hm, how do I implement this particular thing -> damn, how do I debug that? -> fuck it, we ar going native.
The biggest problem in our patent system is that obvious ideas get patents. That said, the current criterion that patent examiners use to decide if an idea is obvious is based on prior art. If an idea is clearly useful but no one is using it (or has publicly disclosed it), then it's considered non-obvious.
The story seems to be untrue.. though there were no details of any design principles they talked about..
I think most anti-US sentiment exists (at least, outside the US...) due to actual US actions, mainly actions due to the cold war.

If you go to Africa, >90% of the people love the US, and would consider the US by far the best country in the world. We were never a colonial power there (well, basically), and have done huge amounts of good for them. The exceptions are a few people in Angola (who may feel we betrayed them), Libya (most of whom are now dead), Somalia (well, whatever, I'll accept that), and Egypt (where pan-Arab anti-US sentiments over Israel, also largely due to the cold war, predominate over Africa).

Countries like France, Australia, etc. might dislike the US due to arrogance, but that's more like relatives fighting -- the US and France have a lot in common, and are ultimately allies, and aligned on most issues. It's not open opposition.

The big areas which have substantial anti-US sentiment are Islamic or Arab countries (largely due effects of US+Israel and US v USSR, and US actions to secure oil), and Central/South America (where we were colonialists, and where the drug war is causing huge problems). Venezuela is the only new anti-US place there (Cuba is a legacy of communism), and that's mostly due to us being allied with the previous regime and with Chavez's populism -- basically the same as US+Shah leading to US v Iran now).
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This seems like a lot of hostility and resentment for a voluntary, user-generated-content website.
Are there estimates on how much Google and Amazon make on one android device?
Google will probably lose money on every Nexus 7 tablet. I am curious as to how they arrived at the decision to do it. Same with Amazon. Was there any guesses if Amazon's strategy worked or not? How much do they make off of the Android device after they sell it?
Nice, although not very useful - i'd recommend at least having clone URL and view raw option (if possible)
I forgot to mention that it must be REMOTE, as we still don´t have office.
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SqlAlchemy is one of the best SQL abstraction library I've ever used. I loved the programmatical SQL language in python. It is very flexible and allows you to create powerful requests (left joins, ....) in python. A must use if you like python and have to use a RDBMS.
I'm from Europe and even I think this was so badly argued that I doubt your intellectual honesty here.

Afaik about american statistics, the poorer, lower class groups, are more religious -- e.g. "white trash", latinos and black ghetto cultures. So there is no overrepresentation of those, e.g. blacks, in jail...?
Thank you for a good article. Even I learned some new stuff. However, there was a major omission: automatic dependency generation. Every now and then I forget how it's done and try to find a good source on the net, but they're really scarce. On the other hand, there are tons of small "your first makefile" tutorials (this article is better than the average).

Here's my Makefile boilerplate. It build single executable from all .c files in this directory and scans for include file dependencies to properly cause recompilation when a header file is touched.

INCS=-I./
LIBS=-lglfw -lGLEW
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -g -ggdb -W -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS+=$(INCS)
CFLAGS+=-march=native -mno-80387 -mfpmath=sse -O3
SRCS=$(wildcard *.c)
OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o)
DEPS=$(SRCS:.c=.d)
EXECUTABLE=main

.PHONY: all clean
all: $(EXECUTABLE)

$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ $^
%.o: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
%.d: %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM -o $@ $<

-include $(DEPS)

clean:
rm -f $(EXECUTABLE)
rm -f $(OBJS) $(DEPS)

If anyone has a better one (preferably with out-of-source build to put .d and .o files to a better place), please share it.
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I used to be a pretty good GNU Make 'expert'. I must admit that I'm glad that I've been lucky enough to be able to purge this arcane and esoteric knowledge from my head. Long live .PHONY!
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Homeless is not the same as a tramp or culture less... especially in San Francisco !
About lowering prices: Generally a customer can make or cancel a subscription on a moment's notice and still be seen as a good corporate citizen. A business doing so to its customers is not being a good citizen. And taking advantage of a price drop is very similar to a cancel+resubscribe.
At first I was wondering what Facebook has to do with email.

Then I read this:

"alterations that had begun in their contacts and address books outside Facebook -- valid e-mail addresses were being changed for @Facebook without people's awareness"

WTF?! This sounds like the facebook app has access to modify the contents of a phone's address book without direct user action. Is that what's happening here? I just checked all my contacts and everything seems fine (BB7.1)
It's probably not a true story, but a good one. And he said it quite confidently!

He said he stopped being a bike messenger because the fax machine and policy changes around legal documents requiring original signatures
re IronPython/IPython: it's on the list of things i'd like to fund the IPython team to do, though there have been bigger fish to fry during the past year... most recently getting IPython on to Windows Azure & Visual Studio. It shouldn't be too hard given the recent rearchitecture. <disc: me @ msft>
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I get what you are saying, I didn't add this to be taken seriously. I am not bothered if I am taken seriously or not. I had an opinion which I couldn't keep to myself. Upvote / downvote / flag and ban the account. I am not massively bothered.

I do genuinely prefer Python. I picked it up when Django first started making noise and I really enjoyed working with Python (not so much Django). Now I mainly use Python to mess around with PyGame.

Its not a difficult to thing to say. For all of PHP's ease there are little niggles which get you down. Really simple things. Is a function called functionname or function_name. Is it ($needle, $haystack) or ($haystack, $needle).

Python is neater and I like neat.
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I really appreciate that this article talks about using Make in contexts other than just compiling software. I've used it in the past to automate bioinformatics analysis pipelines. Unfortunately, I ultimately found that it did not really have the flexibility that I needed for more complex analyses, because of various limitations such as the inability to handle multiple output files from a single rule. I also couldn't figure out how to do automatic dependency generation in the general case (not just for C files).
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The problem with ideas like this isn't so much a hypothetical situation of what would happen if we decided to burn bridges tomorrow (probably not good.) It's neither about "What would Apple do?" or "How could Google leverage this"... unfortunately the truth is much more mundane.

The point that I feel is forever-lost on this forum, is that you as a user in your position are statistically unique, there aren't a terrible lot of you versus the great expanse of smart phone users out there. The overwhelming majority of smart phone owners are not interested in any of this in the slightest. Ironically, this is especially even more pronounced on the Android platform due to the penetration tactics that have been engaged(taking the cheap-default-handset crown from Nokia). You see yourself and your peers with the latest Android devices, this creates a false bias that everyone is the same as yourself, but you're actually part of the less than 7% of the Android market that uses the latest Android software. (Many of which can't upgrade even if they wanted to.)

This forum presents a group of like minded users who understand ideas like jailbreaking, follow news releases from Google and other tech companies. (Amongst other tech related discussion.)

However, what this forum seems to forget is that they represent a fringe user of both the internet and of technology as a whole. You may use the technology subjectively better, but even then you're still just a sliver out there.

The bias of being surrounded by people who are technical/brilliant/whatever, whether it's in your technically-minded workplace, your awesome university or the online places you lurk. You are still such a tiny fraction of users. There are more people out there using their smart phones to twitter images of their breakfast than there are forum users here. Even the list of unknown tech start ups dwarfs this forum.

The point I'm making, is that you'll have more effect on people by helping them do something incredibly mundane, than you will influence them to change a behaviour for differences that they truly won't notice.

About the idea: No one is buying an Apple product because they hate Apple. If the sole reason to jail break the device and install a competing fully-fledged browser is to stick it to Apple, or provide an experience that is available on Android - then you're talking to someone who is already an Android customer, or will be very soon. There is a mistaken idea that iPhones are status-quo grudge purchases, far from it, rather they're quite expensive propositions in comparison to the vast array of cheaper Android devices.
I used to write a column called "Ask Mr. Make" for CM Crossroads. I ended up turning it into a self-published book called "GNU Make Unleashed" and it contains lots of information like this (all the way to very advanced topics).

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If you don't like the book format then the original articles (which I cleaned up and improved for the book) are here:

http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/update-list-of-my-gnu-make-artic...

Also, I created a useful 'standard library' of functions for GNU Make which can be found here: http://gmsl.sf.net/
See e.g. the second Chechnya war for a non-US example without much media coverage. The Russian army seems to have used artillery against cities, Syria/Hezbollah style.
We had 0 downtime. The only thing that's screwed up is a read replica of a multi-AZ MySQL on RDS deployment. Amazon did not send any notification. Kinda annoying.
> "He seemed so genuine and so excited throughout the conversation that I gave him the benefit of the doubt."

The bulk of the homeless population is there in large part due to mental health issues. He can very well be genuine but completely off his rocker simultaneously.
Giving a lot to them rarely is far better than $2 here and there, which will likely just go to beer

I beleive it was the late, great, Greg Giraldo who said that beer and drugs are exactly what I would spend my money on so who am I to judge.
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Giving a lot to them rarely is far better than $2 here and there, which will likely just go to beer

I beleive it was the late, great, Greg Giraldo who said that beer and drugs are exactly what I would spend my money on so who am I to judge what they do with the money I give them.
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There are already technologies beyond reverse osmosis in large scale industrial use (and I'm not referring to brine or similar high energy approaches)

Siemens has built a desalination plant in Singapore that works similar to dialysis (mimicking kidneys) and is using a fraction of the energy required for a comparable RO solutions (http://www.desalination.biz/news/print.asp?id=6008).

The key issue with all membrane / filter based desalination solutions still is the lifetime / service requirements of the filters.
I lived in the Tenderloin for 3 months during the past summer, one block from the shelter on Polk st.
I've had conversations with numerous homeless people (while waiting for a bus) and all of them had an interesting story to tell (whether it's true or not, that's another issue).
What really struck me was that every homeless is homeless by his own choice. They have families (which could help them) and money and yet they choose to sleep on the street. I've never had an incident with any of them.

One thing I didn't noticed until I moved out is that Tenderloin really teaches you to be humble.
I would recommend anyone considering to start the next (insert buzzword here) startup to spend a month living in Tenderloin. You'll learn a lot about real-life problems, not just 1st world problems.
Pretty cool tech. I guess this can work in parallel with SPDY too. The Internet is evolving a lot lately.
> we can travel at 0.1c easily

Can we? I mean as humans, not just some spacecraft.
We can also sustain closed ecosystem for three generations? Last I heard an attempt to do that on Earth failed.
This article takes a too simplistic view of real world deployments on AWS, and attempts to sum it up with 5 bullet points. Yes, I know the title is a "rough" guide, but why not go into more depth and acknowledge that there's more diversity in terms of deployment models out there? The other option would have been to keep it very high level and not talk about specific tools.

E.g. Use Route 53? Isn't that hosted on Amazon itself? Why create another point of failure?

MongoDB - How many big sites on the cloud use it as their primary database?

The only takeaway for me was the last paragraph - "In conclusion, you probably used a single zone because it’s easy (hey - so do we for now!). There will come a point where the pain of getting shouted at by your boss, client or customers outweighs learning how to get your app setup properly yourself."
What about their husbands? Don't they care about their father-in-law?
So pretty much the most Christian developed country in the world is free of what you term 'Pre-Columbian' culture?

Christianity is a fusion of Greek, Roman and Jewish thought.

The founding fathers of the US were profoundly Christian. Their politics of the day was largely what made sense to ex-British subjects. The revolution of 1688 affects the US vastly.

US political systems were created built on thousands of years of European History. Prior to 1492 US history is European History.

The US has altered and changed the ideals and beliefs that the people who founded it started with but it was not a Blank Slate.

Just because Jerusalem and Rome are not in Ohio it doesn't mean they affect the US any less than they do Sweden.
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I've used gmsl in the past. It's good stuff.
> What? The benefit is not saved lines

Not sure what you're talking about. When somebody talks about "boilerplate", it's very much about the number of (setup/redundant) expressions/tokens having to be used to do something.

> Please show an example of how this is saving lines in a way that's not comprable to simply doing multiple assigns on one line (ie: destroying readability).

I would suggest actually reading my comment, that may give you a hint as to what I'm comparing and let you understand on your own how different it is.
> doesn't really describe the phenomena, as anyone who
> spent more than 30 minutes on the subject would know.

It actually does.
The RT version reminds me of the PC Junior, with its chiclet keyboard, and has no legacy apps. You're right about the Pro version, but it seems to me that's designed for people who need a laptop. Those people will buy a laptop.
That's uninformed and goofy.
i see that as the way of the future. Aka, collaboration. Subjects these days are way to difficult to really master anyhting multi-disiplinary.
Just start using "she" instead of he.
I'd also bet that Ariel did pretty well after the top gear review of the Atom.
Why is it only enterprise or consumer internet story?
What happens when you push to heroku?
The TL is terrifying when there's no one else around except some ne'er-do-wells. Anything goes in that situation. Where it's busy it's usually just unpleasant, running the Tenderloin gauntlet of a million aromas (the more belligerent cousin of the Mission gauntlet of a thousand aromas).

During the day time I'd be more concerned about stepping in human excrement or rivers of piss. In fact, walking to the BART tonight from the Tenderloin I dodged 3 piles of human shit and near-missed another.

The Tenderloin and Twitterloin are blights on this fair city, and its toxic presence is oppressively pervasive if you spend any amount of time downtown (or even further out, like Hayes Valley and the Castro). It's a startling example of complete public policy failure at all levels of government.
the fact that many Americans are so religious is just utterly strange, and somewhat frightening
Why?

Speaking as somebody from the UK I can guess one reason. In this country, and the other European countries I've visited, religious views are generally part of people's private, rather than public, lives. I no idea of the religious views of most of my friends. It's not part of the public persona of whether somebody is "good" or not. Their actions define that.

So in this context the only people who are public and outspoken in their religious views tend to be the extreme ends of the religious spectrum. Either in viewpoint (the gays are evil nutjobs) or because their religion encourages them to get out there and convert folk.

These tend to be folk that you don't want to hang out with - whether you are religious or not.

It one of those odd internal dials that I have to turn in my mental model when I visit the US - that people within the "normal" range of religious views will come up to you and talk religion.

Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more

References? By that logic more secular countries and areas would have higher crime/drug rates and lower volunteer rates... and the opposite seems to be true if anything. In the US anyway the percentage of atheists in prison is way lower than the percentage in the general population.. but maybe that meets atheists tend to be smarter criminals :-)
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The most unbelievable part of your story: you didn't know how to use your own bike pump! From your description it sounds like a pretty common design.