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> Take a look at prices for electronics in Asia, for example. In the very places where the electronics are made, the retail prices are all significantly higher than those in the US. Samsung and LG TVs cost more in Korea than they do in America. Computers cost more in China than they do in the USA. I frequently found myself waiting until I returned to US soil before I made any big ticket electronic or computer purchases, because the savings were ridiculous.

On this point, it's important to note that the price disparity is largely due to the way items are taxed in Asia. South Korea has both VAT and a luxury item tax; China has a luxury tax on foreign brands. You need only look to Hong Kong, which has the cheapest prices in the world on e.g. Apple products (because you need a microscope to find a tax in Hong Kong) to break down this model. Your main point re: currency manipulation, especially in China, is still valid and important, but this is a bad example.
I'm shocked FB is still trading at P/E = 99. This is pure insanity. It's going to collapse right after the first earning announcement.
The "simple markdown" part of the title did not ruin the surprise?
I had a similar experience with someone in Palo Alto last summer. Good stuff
As I understand it, the problem lies with making the different subsystems interact: Forking itself is reasonably easy using NtCreateProcess(), but the Win32 subsystem won't know how to deal with the forked process and stuff will break, including console output.

I don't see Microsoft adding forking support to the Win32 subsystem any time soon, so you'd end up rewriting Cygwin from scratch by reverse engineering Interix...
A good anecdote re: the value in (not being afraid of) striking up conversations with strangers. I think a lot of people, myself included, have a tendency to shy away from such encounters - ask the right questions, and you can get really interesting stories.

On the other hand, the man's comment about "wanting to be his own man" got me thinking about doing startups for the sake of not working at a large company. While it's probably a nice touch, I think I'm getting more cautious about letting that be a determining factor.
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This is exactly what I was thinking. I was angry for myself that for the first 30 seconds of the conversation I could feel adrenaline pumping and my heart racing.

In regards to your second point, I worried that I saw that same aspect in myself :)
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If it was created as a resource for women, sure. But as the response to a demand by men? No so much.
I really enjoyed the encounter.

It really makes one think about so many things. Who would have thought that a homeless guy would know about Square and even after that, you would be in a conversation with him about interface design.

If that guy has a good understanding of design by chance, I really think that he can actually do well in the industry :) [Just a thought]
This experience really made me step back and think about humanizing design.

It also got me thinking about stereotypes and the way I classify people as I walk down the street.
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This was actually the first thing that occurred to me as we got talking. I then realized it wouldn't really work since he probably doesn't have an active bank account to receive the money.

I'd love the day when there are beggars using Square. It would mean that our designs are simple enough for a homeless person to use!
It's offensive enough to show disrespect towards unethical business practices in which Apple engages (such as abusing patent law for anticompetitive purposes).

> Our choices should always be about how companies treat people

That's correct. That's why companies which promote lock in, stifle innovation with software patents abuse, and etc. cause damage to society. I.e. they treat people badly, for the sake of their profit.
This is a simple misconception: .bind() doesn't affect the original function in any way, it just returns a new function that is bound to the argument. If you just keep in mind that .bind creates functions, as per the method documentation, you won't have any trouble:

Creates a new function that when called, itself calls
this function in the context of the provided `this` value [1]

In the Editable example, the problem is not even bind()'s fault. Even if you used the original, unbound functions for the events, replacing them later wouldn't change the event handlers... what you'd need to respect the prototype chain is to call the object's method inside the handler:

this.$reset.click(function(){
this.reset()
}.bind(this))

//or

var self = this
this.$reset.click(function(){
self.reset()
})

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
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I'm sure he was a really smart guy with an interesting story but you sound a bit naive in believing everything he said i.e. about the Bonds papers and his tours and all of that. Likely a lot of exaggeration, some straight bullshit and a little bit of truth.

Great story though. And kudos to dropping a c-note on him. Giving a lot to them rarely is far better than $2 here and there, which will likely just go to beer or a small meal. $100 they can actually do something important with.
Turns out the author wrote about that problem, too [1].
The advice is mostly on how memorize names when you get introduced personally, but admittedly this is an even more important problem. Recommended read.

[1] http://www.pgbovine.net/on-names.htm
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I am glad you had a positive experience with The Tenderloin. I had quite the opposite experience: I was nearly attacked.

He was spouting off stuff like "Stupid Americans!" and saying he was not afraid to get sued and that he would just return to his home country. Needless to say, I was pretty terrified. This dude was scary, and my friend (SF local) warned me about The Tenderloin.

Anyhow, I think it's great that you met such a positive and interesting character in one of the most unlikely places.
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Nice idea, but it doesn't stop the blurring.
Never tried that. I will have a go. Thanks for the suggestion.

Unfortunately its very verbose for a simple case which works fine in cmd so I'm not sure that it warrants using that tool
You know, I thought about this throughout the entire encounter. I wasn't sure if I could believe any of his stories. He seemed so genuine and so excited throughout the conversation that I gave him the benefit of the doubt.

In terms of how much money I gave him, I decided that $100 was probably the minimum amount that could actually help him pursue the idea and as a college intern, I'm not sure I could have spared much more!
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JSF appears to be very enterprisey, and not quite what the "popular" web-word views web applications as. If you are moving from PHP to another language because of the "popular" view, the least you could do is pick a framework that won't blow monkey-chunks.

That said, if you're still serious about moving from PHP - which more than gets things done IMO - then I suggest looking at Play Framework[1]. It's pretty awesome, and comes in a Scala version as well.

[1]. http://www.playframework.org/
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> Is it an American company that made it?

No shortage of non-American computer and personal electronics manufacturers I can think of.

> Last I checked he is an American citizen, isn't he?

He wasn't for 95% of his life...
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> Samsung is not excluded from the list and one of the reasons that this thread exist.

I'm not following every single example, but when did Samsung exactly act as patent aggressor? Most cases that come to mind were in defense to others aggressive patent threats (namely Apple's). Apple doesn't hesitate to act as patent aggressor on the other hand. There is a difference between defensive attack, and outright aggression.
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It isn't inherently terrible or good. It just is. We will change, and it will change with us. Your example is poorly chosen though, as the current model of standard parent behavior is to just sit there with a big SLR taking photos of the kid playing with the other parent, or playing alone, since how can you play while you are busy using a camera? Sure you can say people SHOULD be present all the time, but the reality is people want to take pictures of their kids.
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Its not designed to be pretty :) Its not some cocoa jerk fest with 50,000 blog followers masturbating over it. It's an engineering tool. It serves it's purpose and goes home.

Its certainly not slow and not clunky.
Some autocomplete and better error/warning highlighting would surely save people time. I'm not defending codebender, which I've never tried, but the arduino IDE is just barely good enough.
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Yes, this puzzles me too. I would really like to know what motivated the authors to spend quite a lot of time and effort developing this product. Who is the audience and what is the purpose?
I don’t see why 1.0 should necessarily follow 0.9. The whole point of having a dot in there is that we can make a 0.10.

That said, maybe 1.0 is around the corner. But I have not seen much more indication of that than after 0.7 or 0.8.
If you are arguing that you don't have immutability by default across all values, that is a very different point that I think you need to provide more clarity for... I mean, of course you can modify state that has nothing to do with the variables that are marked const "regardless of const": that is sufficiently obvious as to be a useless comment. However, you really can mark values as const in C++ and allow the compiler to verify that you aren't doing anything non-epic to defeat it. Yes: you can still accidentally or purposefully access the memory via a random hand-calculated pointer, but we can actually harden the compiler (not the language: no changes there required) against that as well by just keeping you from using pointer arithmetic (really, that's a feature that tends to only be used in restricted contexts anyway).
I've never had a single crash (of Console2) on my Win7.
I'll happily accept that (it was a while ago).
I think I got it back up? Scaled instantly on heroku :)
Everyone interested in the possibility of alien intelligence should read about the Fermi Paradox:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

It is a collection of theories that try to explain why we haven't been contacted yet by aliens.

There is also a very good book on the subject that elaborates further on the theories of the Fermi paradox. In total there are 50 different theories, from life been too young on the universe and thus we're rather alone, to not be able to communicate because they're using superior technology.
http://www.amazon.com/Universe-Aliens-Everybody-Solutions-Ex...
"If such things existed intelligent life would have used them to reach us."

For what reason would we be a magnet for everything out there to have to come visit us (the assumption being that if they don't visit us it can't be possible because we are somehow too important to ignore)? It's a rather flawed basis for an argument.

Our communications out don't speed up getting to them because their ability to get to us has. There is no reason to assume anyone knows we exist yet.
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I've been biking through the Tenderloin for the last couple of weeks since I started at Square. I've always been really scared as I bike through and have had a decent number of people yell at me. This was quite the opposite of that :)
It's difficult to observe someone talking to Siri. I believe Apple preemptively realised that people wouldn't like to talk aloud to their phones in public (and in the process revealing their personal requirements/plans to anyone in ear shot). The much better method of using Siri in public is with the handset against the ear.

In public it's much easier, more accurate and far less obvious to use this other method of activating Siri: When the screen is on, picking up the phone and putting the handset to ones ear will activate Siri, but far more discretely that the usual full volume activation. Any casual observer won't even realise that the user is engaging Siri, let alone talking to a robot.

This is also part of the problem with the "accuracy" studies of Siri in public places. It's just non sensical to be shouting at your phone over street noise, of course the accuracy is decreasing in this environment. Not even the users voice is the same in this environment. However when using the handset to the ear method: the accuracy remains acceptably high, and no one has to look silly publicly announcing their dinner plans.
As a hacker, I got very quickly frustrated with the Arduino IDE and I wanted to use what I always use: vim and :make. I found that the new "ino" commmand line tool (http://inotool.org/) was the easiest to set up. I added arduino syntax highlighting and a few helpful keybindings for a comfortable hacking experience.

Question to Codebender authors: how did you get access to the serial port from the browser?
This is my first official blog post. I'd love to hear people's thoughts on the subject of user interfaces and human-computer interaction!
The one thing I keep noticing while traveling outside America is how few Americans actually travel. I have encountered tons of Europeans/Australians but don't really come across that many Americans.
"Negatived"? Is "negative" a verb in legal language?
I gathered it's mostly OK during the day. We were (stupidly) walking around at 2am after a night out.

Tourists. ;)
sounds to me like they were trying to feed the hungry. i suppose it all comes down to your perspective.
I simply cannot agree with you on this one; in my book, it is not in any way a perfectly sensible decision to make a browser that a ton of people were still using entirely crash when webpages using the library were opened.

The project I was working on was the kind of thing that probably had just a couple hundred people (if that, maybe even less) visit it during our testing period, and I got multiple reports of that crash.

If you want to popup a dialog box on these devices that says "I'm sorry, you are not supported" that's fine, but if it isn't even being on a browser like that, then no: it becomes entirely correct to point out that it was never actually good at handling cross-browser compatibility issues.
Python 2 is starting to smell very "legacy" and stuff that isn't moving to Python 3 is starting to look less relevant.
Kinect has been on the market for nearly 2 years, and Leap[1] is the real thing for computers. The article sounds a bit awkward since it doesn't even mention them. Flutter has the advantage of not requiring extra hardware, but as a technology it is way more primitive and brittle.

[1] http://leapmotion.com/
This is how your comment reads to me: Misogyny is totally cool and you should never do anything to change it, not even write a harmless and polite blogpost. No, see, that's bitching. Mentioning a very clear and obvious problem is totally not cool.
I'm also surprised to know that UK--the country that once sent missionaries across the globe is non-Christian now.
Indeed. It turns out that technology can and will be used for evil as well as good! Who would have thought?
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I don't understand your comment. There's nothing enterprisey about it.
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This rather confused me. Even more so because some of the details seem to being live edited.

A cycle courier for legal documents that gets to read the documents.
He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said commanded) yet doesn't get on with computers yet even though he is homeless he knows about the square product, and also having never worked in design knows about Dieter Rams, someone with almost no designers I've ever met have ever heard of.

Just a weird story over all.
Isn't your example of flutter.io - holding up a hand for the music to stop - simply another form of button?

Shouldn't a reactive interface stop the music when it sees you raise the phone to your ear?
About the wording, I actually had a friend in the Navy who reached out and told me to change the verb. I wouldn't have posted it if I didn't think it was a strange experience to have!
I still cannot see why would I want it. Sometimes, yes. But always on—what for? To see google ads?
I wouldn't bother with a bitcoin startup, but for a real ecash startup, US for technology development, and then Hong Kong or maybe Singapore for server ops, deployment, and financial backing of currency issues.

The key IMO to all of this is separating out software development from server operations from financially backing a currency from applications of the system from auditors from users. Banks suck at software development; developers suck at finance. By separating the concerns, you can do regulatory arbitrage as well as focus on your strengths. (this isn't my idea; I think Ian Grigg of Systemics came up with it in the early 1990s, if not earlier). Fully separate arms-length entities, different people, not the e-gold "offshore, really" approach. You could create a fully anonymous bearer blinded token infrastructure as software, and then have servers for it, where some of the currencies were entirely non-financial and thus non-regulated (distributed locking mechanism for distributed software systems, resource allocation, anti-spam credibility systems, game currencies), and others which were financial currencies issued by real, established financial institutions with KYC (a dollar currency, shares, futures, ...). Same software, so the developers have no legal risks themselves.

Luxembourg also works, if you have $3-5mm or so to meet the requirements to issue (at least, that's what it would have cost in the late 1990s when I last looked; you need some connections, but they come with having money and hiring people from the industry). Switzerland and possibly Liechtenstein may work. I'd skip dodgy ee or south pacific places (e.g. Vanuatu, Narau) since correspondent banking relationships would be trivial to sever.

If you were totally focused on gambling ("gaming"), some crown colonies (IoM, Gibraltar) might work, or Panama.

You could do it in the USA if you met KYC and also treated it as a commodities trading system, regulated under CFTC. You can become a CFTC exchange (like Chicago) for $5-10mm. I'd probably actually do the operations for that in Chicago just to be totally known to all the local regulators, although NYC or SF would also be possible.

The thing I absolutely wouldn't do is try to run a payment system which is at all anonymous in the US, and if I did a payment system in the US, it would meet all KYC and MTB requirements. That puts your capitalization required at a few million dollars more than otherwise, but it's not a big deal.
I don't see how this has anything to do with misogyny? Perhaps you mean something else, like stereotyping.
He has every right to be annoyed that you turn this into the female's problem by saying they should just speak up for themselves. You're either incredibly naive or incredibly in denial.
Are you implying that you buy your food from the farmers or are you're telling me that the food industry/retailers can't estimate the consumer demand and make contracts/futures on that ? And how exactly do futures not change the price swings from year to year ?
This patent claims priority from a provisional application in 2008, which could be filed as much as a year after first publication of the idea. Also, the last paragraph of the Background section traditionally explains the problem the invention is addressing. In this case, it reads,

"One significant obstacle to vectorizing loops in program code in existing systems is dependencies between iterations of the loop. For example, loop-carried data dependencies and memory-address aliasing are two such dependencies. These dependencies can be identified by a compiler during the compiler's static analysis of program code, but they cannot be completely resolved until runtime data is available. Thus, because the compiler cannot conclusively determine that runtime dependencies will not be encountered, the compiler cannot vectorize the loop. Hence, because existing systems require that the compiler determine the extent of available parallelism during compilation, relatively little code can be vectorized."

So the claim here is that this problem can't be solved just by the compiler, and wasn't solved by any existing systems at the time of the application.
Fair point about the Kinect. I was gearing this article towards tasks typically done on a computer. Granted the Windows Kinect SDK will allow for similar functionality once developers get on board. It should be interesting to compare the two. In comparing Flutter to the Kinect on XBOX, I've found Flutter to be more accurate, but of course it's more limited.

Hadn't heard about Leapmotion until now, thanks!
It doesn't make any difference. It required 3.5 as win7 shipped with that framework. You may actually have 3.5 installed already. Check for the following dir: c:\windows\Microsoft.net\framework\v3.5

If it's there you have it already.
For the majority of tasks it's fast enough. There are a few edge cases though.
I fail to read it as "A computer should appear on everybody's face".
I actually have the same feeling as the previous poster. I'd buy/kickstart his stats book in a heartbeat. I don't think Lisp users would be "better" at teaching stats in some objective sense, but many of them (not all) have a certain turn of mind which looks like "clarity" through my subjective lens.

It is probably like Michael Spivak writing _Physics for Mathematicians_, because he didn't understand physics books written by physics people. PDF where he explains his troubles with elementary physics: (http://www.math.uga.edu/~shifrin/Spivak_physics.pdf)