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Obviously? Like I go outside and there it is— obvious non-terrestrial intelligent life?
For me it obviously does not exist. It may exist somewhere in the galaxy far away. It might not. We don't know. We will never (by never I mean ~1 billion years) know.
I am amazed to see so much wishful thinking and ignorance regarding physics and astrophysics.
I think the market has spoken. The new mobile world is here. Android phone shipments have already passed Windows PC shipments worldwide, and iPhone will also pass Windows this year. If trends continue, iPad passes the PC next year. Most people don't need some other "main" machine.
Hey, there's a monument right on Montgomery & Market in San Francisco celebrating California's achieving statehood in 1850. It reads: "The Unity of Our Empire Hangs on the Decision of This Day".

And here's a graphic from 1898 which proudly shows the US eagle dominating an entire side of the globe, from the Philippines to Puerto Rico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:10kMiles.JPG

I know you mentioned the Phillipines and Puerto Rico already, but what's striking is that you somehow think it doesn't count as a real empire. But there's no inherent reason why the USA should have such a large sphere of influence, other than it can. There's not even any inherent reason why it had to dominate all the land west of the original colonies, wresting it not only from native Americans but other colonial powers.

For most of its history the USA was proud to say it was building an empire and dominating other nations (for their own good, of course!). I'm not sure when this propaganda effort started that there is no American empire -- perhaps the US wanted to assert it was more pro-local-sovereignty than other competing empires, like the USSR.
That article is about a law suit involving motorola; not a license agreement MS has with several companies including Samsung & HTC. What about these other Android companies that have got license agreements with Microsoft? They have never publicly talked about patents covered by the agreement.
We don't have billions of years. We maybe have one billion.
Pre-Columbian culture means the cultures of the peoples indigenous to the Americas prior to European colonization.

Think of cultures like the Sioux, Iriquois, Navajo, Mayans, Incas, Aztec, etc etc.
So you are saying that females are incapable of speaking up for themselves? Perhaps a legion of White Knights should lead the way? Least the feminist movement be lead by a man, if females don't have the resolve to help themselves, then I'd say they can't be helped.

Sure, you may call me naive to suggest the obvious solution, but do you have any evidence that it won't work?
I meant that the Aztecs, Maya, Inca, and other Native Americans are largely irrelevant to how US culture developed (which is I think your point), not that US culture is independent of everything which happened before Europeans came to the US.

"Pre-Columbian American culture" being that of the various Native Americans, not of the world in general pre-Columbus.

(I wish I could s/Colombian/Columbian; so easy to get those confused in various contexts)
I'm not sure what I would use this for, but it is neat.

I would recommend allowing one to set a max height. It's rather impractical to have a 200px tall box turn into an enormous box with 500 lines of CSS.
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Why add the "white"? Because in general, it's true.
Instead of patent trolls we may say patent trolling; apparently large companies such as Apple, are the biggest trolls at the end of the day.
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I doubt that was the point the OP tried to make about being frightened by religious people.
If someone can believe something without proof that was written down 2000 years ago then they can believe almost anything. That's scary to someone who isn't religious. It's just completely alien.

Not trying to step on any toes.
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> Twitter would be wise to not start an evaporative cooling effect.

I think this comment is at least a couple years too late.
Well, it's hard to say. Do you have funding for a year or two?

With the consumer model, acquiring users is easier and monetization is difficult. With an enterprise model, getting users may be easy or difficult (depending on the product and target customers) but at least there is a plan in place for monetization.

However, the focus should first be on building a product which users like. Once you have users, things like funding or enterprise customers will start falling in place for you. So the answer really depends on your target customers, and the length of your runway.
Well I can think of at least two direct democracies: Switzerland and Iceland.
I'm sorry that the absurdity of your implications are not more obvious. I don't have the patience to spell it out for you, maybe someone else does. You're in denial about the reality of the social forces that have created the gender inequality in the tech industry. It's a result of the actions of males, and it makes a lot of intuitive sense to address the problem there.

Do you understand how absurd the position that you've backed yourself into sounds? The people perpetuating the problem shouldn't be part of the solution or discussion? Women should speak up for themselves? Oh really, you mean like the article we're discussing.

Maybe if slaves had just fought harder, right, then we wouldn't have had to help them out?
There's not a lot to discuss here. While I've been almost (but not quite...) an Apple Fanboy for the last decade I do hate what's happening. I'm a mere programmer, and I cannot understand if this could seriously harm Apple lawsuit, but if someone can please tell so!

(sorry for my horrible english...)
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It is a very strange story. I'm also quite surprised you didn't know about the two bike valves on a pump! At least it led you meet this cool person.
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It was the valve on the pump. Made for mountain bikes rather than my street bike and it was the first time I had to use it.
I believe GitHub Api has got max request limits, how you are going to handle this?
Its the equvilent of the hillbilly term "thems" in the US of A.
and found that my hand-pump was made for a different valve
than on my tire.

With all handpumps I know, you can unscrew that top part and reverse it, so it fits the two most common kinds of valve (of which I don't know how you call them in English).
I take severe issue with your characterization of my comment as both a unique and knee-jerk opinion. I will even go so far as to say that your comment is needlessly patronizing, and thereby horribly insulting.

In my comments, I describe a specific phenomena that are leading to the problems that I experience: that there is now a fractured community of libraries for what are really two unrelated languages.

As some even-more-specific actual-examples:

1) key libraries such as PIL are not ported, despite your claims regarding the ease

2) of those that are, such as psycopg2, there are often awkward (and I will often claim "broken") semantic changes to the behavior of the API

3) not all libraries actually have maintainers to port the code at all (such as the iPhone PNG transcoder I rely on)

4) finally, there are libraries, even entire frameworks (mod_python), that rely on functionality that is actively being removed with prejudice (in the case of mod_python, for reasons I continue to not understand, despite having read copious e-mail exchanges on the Python mailing list regarding the issues)

(A quick aside, for anyone about to pull a "lol mod_python" on me: mod_python is fundamentally more powerful than the various replacements, something even the primary maintainer of mod_wsgi admits; there is a reason why, despite it having been retired from Apache due to a lack of maintainer, it was still used by Google engineers as the basis of their pywebsocket implementation.)

I will therefore challenge you to put up something behind your insults, and explain what you feel has changed, and how it affects the argument I have made. While it is of academic interest that a few web frameworks now support Python 3, real programs, even real websites, are going to rely on libraries to accomplish their underlying goals.

I will even further challenge you to defend your accusation that my experience is "unique"; I personally find this idea incredible, given that I ask every Python programmer I meet "2 or 3", and not a single person has ever said "3". Yes: if you call out Python 3 in public on a Python 3 release post, a number of people will come out of the woodwork, but in a random sample under more realistic conditions (non-Python developer conferences) the reality seems closer to 0%.
The site looks a bit broken on the iPad

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/388004/flutter_one.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/388004/flutter_two.png
I cannot upvote this enough.

I for one will never buy another iPhone. But I am in a jail cell. How can I leave iOS? My friend tried once and it bit him in the ass. He lost his iPhone (which never had iOS 5 and thus never had iMessage). But at some point between losing his phone and disabling his sim card, the person who stole/had his phone upgraded to iOS 5 and turned on iMessage. So his stolen/lost phone was now taking all his iMessages. My friend then bought a non-Apple phone and NONE of his friends (including me) that were using iPhones were able to text him. We received messages from him, but all our replies were being sent as iMessages to his stolen/lost phone. He had to change his phone number in the end. Who designs this shit?
Very much not true if my experiences of living in Berkeley in the 90's are anything to go by (possibly my definition of "rare" is different since I'm from the UK).

I suspect it depends on who you hang out with :-)
I like this story.

But this part baffles me: he 'wants to be his own man', so he won't work for somebody else. Instead, he doesn't work at all and accepts money from strangers... and somehow that is better and more prideful than working for somebody else?
It is a classic dilemma early stage companies face. I have seen a whole lot of founders stuck with this question. I am not trying to influence your decision here, but the ones that succeeded, did so by having a very clear cut focus. You either build a consumer internet company or an enterprise internet company. Trying to do both at the same time takes your focus away. I'd say stick to one.
What are the odds that such guy would be given a chance to share a piece of himself like he did ? I really don't think the OP was naive. I think there should be more people like him.

Y Combinator gave a chance to people who would never have a chance at seed investors or Angle investors. It appeared that YC found few very valuable gems though. Surprised ? You shouldn't because seed investors and Angel investors have strong bias to what a high potential candidate or project would look like.

I assume we have a similar strong bias regarding homeless, close to consider them as hopeless. Though I believe that there are gems in this group of people as well, that need only to be given a little push and help to shine out.

And as for Y Combinator, people would consider it all normal and obvious afterward if someone does it for them too.

My impression is that it was a kind of surprise for the OP to discover that he had a bias regarding such kind of homeless guy.

BTW a bike shop looks like a good long term investment considering the energy crisis. In Greece, a business that is very flourishing in this strong crisis period is selling wool ! In Italy they raised gasoline tax so that a litter cost 2€ (because of debt)! We'll all reach that point soon or later. Beside, real lean startup founders ride bikes !
Words fail me.
hope they make it available for CloudFlare Pro accounts too.. wait to go cloudflare ..
I believe I explained that: because this isn't a static system, and I thereby need to continue to have access to new libraries that work with new external systems. As for your second sentence, that was needlessly insulting.
I didn't know about this! This is was my first-ever hand-pump
I agree with that basically. I've spent the last 10 years kinda being a "fixer" but mostly a network engineer. I haven't had time for any certs, I'm too busy working... When I have time for certs, who knows what'll be going on.
Yeah, it sounds like I was out of the loop with these reversible hand pumps. Things you learn from homeless people!
I know Google loses money due to patent royalties paid to MSFT every time an Android phone gets activated, not sure about tablets. I suspect the investment in time and resources hasn't paid off yet.
> Want to learn about the world? Dont travel! Learn a language.

I read that to mean "Learn English", which makes sense, but is not very helpful to an American because only learning English as a second language gives the advantages you described.

I totally understand your point, but coming from the other side as an American, what language should we learn?

Disclaimer: my kids will be learning Mandarin Chinese.
Would love to see some real world figures on the difference in page loads. Intuitively it feels like a lot of overhead outside of the packets being saved between the host server and cloud flare.
Its very interesting.

I recently read an article about a game (i think it was realm of the mad gods), where the developers of the game initially priced some items cheaper, but got more expensive as you purchased more (i recall it was chests that allow you to store extra items). Buying 1 is say, $1, and 2 is $2, but buying 4 is $5 (this is to encourage casuals to buy 1, but extract more out of the hardcore players).

This lead to quite a backlash - so they changed the wording, such that buying the 1st one is still $1, but it was made clear that it was discounted X% from the 'real' price. This simple change, stopped almost all backlash.

So it is basically a psycological phenomenon. Its a similar thing to what this TED video had to say about how people estimate and make decisions http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.ht...
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I actually found an interesting use case with Twitter a little over a week ago when Pier 29 in San Francisco was caught on fire. I initially heard about it on Twitter from one of my friends. I instantly searched for "Pier 29" and found a plethora of relevant images and links as the story was developing.

Sure, searching Google News or going on the /r/sanfrancisco subreddit might've given similar results, but there was an intense amount of content developing in real-time. I was able to see images of the fire from different angles and perspectives and I felt that this was a strong feature that Twitter has. I personally think that Twitter's business model _relies_ on having a large userbase. Using Facebook would be fine with a small userbase, but Twitter's model is much different.
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That never happens. In fact its the opposite. In India we have a huge problem of dowry and post marriage gifts and perks which the girls need to get from their parents and give it to their husbands side.
Well he never really asked for money and I didn't give him a chance to refuse it :)
>Modern phones could re-route the data to save money but the receiving phone might still use the old protocol.

The iPhone messages app does exactly that. It first tries to send the message via Apple, with fallback to SMS if either the remote phone isn't an iPhone or if it can't establish a connection to it immediately.
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In a way, that is amazing. Truly.
By far my favorite comment so far. Thanks for that chmike!
It wasn't that hard, really. Originally we wanted to use Firefox's and Chrome's native javascript APIs, but they aren't stable yet, we had to do double the work and even then we could only target two of the major browsers. So what we do is run a Java Applet which communicates with our Javascript and gives us access to the serial ports.
I is not capital of i in Turkish. Instead, İ is capital of i and I is capital of ı. They are two different letters.
Considering that some of the most common libraries aren't on Python 3, I'd hardly call Python 2 "legacy".

Until the libraries you need at least support Python 3, it's not worth even starting to move across.
I'll put him through the design loop @Square :P
I guess the plural in some languages is used to address royalty. And about the usage of "they", I tend to use it, and the only thing that I find a bit strange is sentences like: "If a user needs something, they have to do something." Note "needs" and "have" for the same subject, where usually they are either needs+has or need+have.
I take severe issue with your characterization of my comment as both a unique and knee-jerk opinion. I will even go so far as to say that your comment is needlessly patronizing, and thereby horribly insulting.

In my comments, I describe a specific phenomena that are leading to the problems that I experience: that there is now a fractured community of libraries for what are really two unrelated languages.

As some even-more-specific actual-examples:

1) key libraries such as PIL are not ported, despite your claims regarding the ease

2) of those that are, such as psycopg2, there are often awkward (and I will often claim "broken") semantic changes to the behavior of the API

3) not all libraries actually have maintainers to port the code at all (such as the iPhone PNG transcoder I rely on)

4) finally, there are libraries, even entire frameworks (mod_python), that rely on functionality that is actively being removed with prejudice (in the case of mod_python, for reasons I continue to not understand, despite having read copious e-mail exchanges on the Python mailing list regarding the issues)

(A quick aside, for anyone about to pull a "lol mod_python" on me: mod_python is fundamentally more powerful than the various replacements, something even the primary maintainer of mod_wsgi admits; there is a reason why, despite it having been retired from Apache due to a lack of maintainer, it was still used by Google engineers as the basis of their pywebsocket implementation.)

I will therefore challenge you to put up something behind your insults, and explain what you feel has changed, and how it affects the argument I have made. While it is of academic interest that a few web frameworks now support Python 3, real programs, even real websites, are going to rely on libraries to accomplish their underlying goals.

I will even further challenge you to defend your accusation that my experience is "unique"; I personally find this idea incredible, given that I ask every Python programmer I meet "2 or 3", and not a single person has ever said "3". Yes: if you call out Python 3 in public on a Python 3 release post, a number of people will come out of the woodwork, but in a more random sample under more realistic conditions (non-Python developer conferences) the reality seems closer to 0%. Hell, even the comments I've made on this thread have been upvoted quite a bit (+22 on my root argument).
It's kind of hard not to bash PHP for crap like this.

Yes, the PHP ecosystem is friendly, easy, cheap, etc. etc.

But as a programming language per se... Come on, PHP.
I'm looking forward to the tenth birthday of this bug... Only 24 days to go !
I'm from the UK. Something I remember from a road trip I took in the 90's across the US was, on multiple occasions, being told that I was "brave" or "courageous" when it came up in conversation that I was an atheist (technical agnostic, working atheist if you want to be picky :-)

This was from religious and non-religious folk. Nobody was mean about it to my face - but it felt like people expected bad things to happen because of it.
I love how Polish law deals with this situation - software is algorithms and algorithms are math and math isn't patentable :)
But the icon is meant to display AWS status, not the customer's. Friday's outage did warrant a red icon - unreachable instances, corrupted EBS volumes, failed API calls.
There are issues preventing women from working. One direct problem is Indian households have always had a women as 'home makers'. So you have to fight a lot of cultural inertia.

There are also security issues. Indian cities haven't been very safe for women especially for women working at night. Crimes against women are common. Also there lack of affordable places like creche's and day care centers for kids preventing women from working post maternity. Most working women quit jobs for this very reason alone.

Secondly, even if women work. The situation in India is worse enough to make them spend that money on their own selves and their families, than their parents.

But I agree, with you that women must be encouraged to work more.
It is likely no one who regularly commits to PHP is effected by this issue and it requires non trivial changes to the way PHP works to fix.

Granted given the usual pragmatism of PHP someone should have just hacked something in by now.
If understand this correctly:

1. You install "Railgun" on your publishing web server

2. It pushes deltas of your webpage to CloudFlare

3. Who then update their cache of your webpage across their CDN.

It seems as though folk are starting to see that in most environments caching ought to be driven by POSTs, not GETs + timeouts.
Delta encoding for HTTP has been proposed since 2002[0], but seems to have been lukewarmly received.

A fully server-side solution will probably bypass most problem cases, but might solve some, so I hope CloudFlare looks into contributing to a distributed standard solution.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229
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"You either build a consumer internet company or an enterprise internet company." This is true, and thus responses from current layer of mentors/experts tend to tilt towards it. But what about companies like Paypal or Dropbox who have done/are doing both consumers and enterprise face simultaneously? Like I am sure that ours is a consumer app with an enterprise use-case - so why shouldn't I be pushing it as a complete thing, and not just a consumer app? I have this karma thing going on in my mind.
I was going to do something very similar to this, so thanks for saving me the effort! :)

I already built a couple Github jQuery widgets that people in this thread might also find relevant:
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