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I knew it had to be either kittens or women proffering their cleavage. I guess the second photo on the Internet was the kittens.
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Yes. I thought they'd confirmed that ML killed some machines, not that some machines wouldn't be able to upgrade to ML.
I'm pretty sure that one's not a technology, but just a happy and not very unlikely set of circumstances.
Some people literally live to work and find it difficult to know what to do when they're left to determine what to do for themselves.
That's assuming you live in a place with good public transportation.

A lot of people you wouldn't expect to be able to afford a taxi have to rely on them because they can't afford a car. It's one of the defining things about poverty, you end up spending more money on things than somebody better off because you can't afford the capital outlay to make it cheaper.
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That's precisely my point :-)
If the apps could use the real pixels instead of a "retina 2x" mode, there wouldnt be any problems. Those things are apple-specific implementation details (badly designed imho).
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Nope, we reject your premise. Check out slide 2.
Small requirements are costly.

"Somewhere on this continent sometime this year" has a lot more room for cost savings than "this particular airport within a narrow time range". Likewise any product or service: "we can do something cheap, but to include requirement X is gonna cost you."
My impression is that you're overstating the effects of a 2 month sabbatical.

Much like turning off the TV, I suspect that if you do get a 2 month sabbatical, you'll find out that most of the new developments are overstated and that you'll be able to quickly catch up.
I jump into the Rails (or other Ruby libraries) source for understanding quite often.
This is good advice, but for folks coming from static languages it's really a challenge to figure out how to find stuff. I've resorted to running it all under a debugger and setting breakpoints, just so I can find out which monkey-patch (or non-namespaced, duplicate class) is being called.
That is wrong. Apple doesn’t glue the screen in the Retina MBP to the case. It’s screwed to the case, as you can see here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-Retina-Display-Te...
Is a $100 console with $1-5 games really competing with what will be $400 consoles with $50-60 games?
Well, that's more or less how it works. The vacation bonus of 8% percent of your salary is reserved each month, it's just common to pay out at the start of the summer.

But paying out once a year is the legal minimum, you can agree otherwise. At my previous job, we switched to twice a year at the request of the snowboarders that needed the money for the winter vacation...
Remember SOPA? Why Can't we do KIM?
okay, though I don't usually get into these things, but have people gone nuts .. and can't see the injustice being done to Kim Dotcom? Hearing delayed till 2013? what is this Christmas holidays?

so the big question arises, when we are able to fight SOPA, why can't we fight for Kim, can the internet community .. or rather can WE unite against such atrocity? Of course I don't say Kim is innocent, but between the two, I say I will stick to the rich boy this time..

WHAT SAY YOU?

or are we ready to accept that when such a thing would happen to us, we will somehow get out of it..
There's a reason that joke's about economists and not scientists.
I got a 7 years old desktop which will get updated to Win 8. I would be surprised if i would NOT be able to update....
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Yes but Amazon operates out of a datacenter that will /strive/ to be online for all but a few minutes of each year. Transient machines spread over the internet on home or office PC's /do not/ have the same operational parameter.

At this point I'm somewhat unsure of their actual business model. Are they reselling VPS instances from real providers or are they sourcing computational power from home/office PC's? This seems entirely unclear based on the reactions of this thread and the mostly ambiguous stuff written on their website.

If they are sourcing computational power SETI@home style my question remains, and I encourage it to be upvoted and answered on such a technically competent site such as this. Marketing hype is cool, but I'm still an engineer when it comes to making choices.
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It does, yes. And, to be fair, bundler has caused me a number of headaches over the years.

I guess I'm lucky in that I only need one Ruby; I can't see an easy solution for using more than one at once.
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I sure wish the Apple TV would have apps, but Apple seems totally uninterested in it. So I'll look elsewhere, instead of hoping "this time they'll announce it."
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I'm sorry if my question is naive, but it's been bothering me for a while now: why doesn't anyone consider the lobbying itself to be the root problem? I'm not from the US, so I haven't grown up with that system and to me it sounds like legalized corruption.

The only reason I can come up with for allowing lobbying is the same reason why people want to legalize drugs: illegal corruption would be a lot worse than legalized corruption. Is that it? Or am I missing something?
Another good reason is that it ensures the company can function without an individual for a week or two. This will encourage key people to document their work and share information so the company doesn't suffer when they drop off the grid.
Let me recommend a poem to you. Do not go gentle into that good night, by Dylan Thomas.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175907

Edit: woops, late to the party. That's what I get for leaving a page up for 20 minutes before commenting...
I didn't see the 5x page performance claim, and I've looked for it. Care to point me to it ?
Well spotted. Many businesses fall over by misunderstanding cash flow, especially in the early days when they don't have much incoming cash.

Terms like 'costs' and 'revenue' have no place in cash flow forecasts - it's all about cash in and cash out (including salaries, assuming they're paid). If your product costs are less than revenue, you have margin (sometimes called profit, but that's not quite right either); but if you have to pay lots of costs before you receive revenue, you can hit a cash flow wall no matter how large your margin is.

I had one client who re-sold physical products. They were paid by the buyer on 14 day terms, and had to pay their provider on 30 day terms - so they actually got paid two weeks before they had to pay for the product. Margin was low - but cash flow was ridiculously positive.
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I really didn't want to put caps into a headline ;)
You are right of course. But it seems I am not able to edit it anymore.
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I'd say six years of OS upgrades before being EOLed is a pretty good deal. That said, my primary machine at home is an 07 Macbook so I have a little bit of envy going on.
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The company (Genia Photonics) is a Canadian startup that builds lasers. They appear to specialize in picosecond length laser pulses for a variety of imaging and sensing needs. They've published some papers/articles on their technology in biomedical imaging contexts. Link to one at the bottom. The point is that it doesn't look like some company 'inventing' some BS and pulling one on the DHS. Maybe.

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/boe/abstract.cfm?uri=boe-2-5-1...
I think open source has changed a bit with the rise of the GitHub era. IMHO, I think @mikeal did a good post regarding this change "Apache considered harmful" http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful....

Even in the old days, it's easier to fork than work with upstream. I think these days it's just easier share those forks with services like GitHub. It should help spread ideas and improved solutions IMHO so downstream consumers actually benefit.

In Twitter's case, they are planning to do what works for them at the moment: "While we initially focused on the challenging goal of making Memcached work extremely well within the Twitter infrastructure, we look forward to sharing our code and ideas with the Memcached community in the long term."
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Well that's huge news for them, I'm sure they knew this would be the outcome though. :)
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"The web, back in ’92 and ’93, was exclusively used by physicists."

Kind of misleading without qualification, if you ask me. Web, perhaps. But images were flying around all over online communities by this time.

There were plenty of non-physicists on Usenet, Compuserv BBS etc., university systems, The Well and ECHO and MUDs for a number of years before the web launched in 1992.

Many of these folks were quite familiar with telnet-ing in and transferring images via gopher etc (or even CompuServ etc software) before the web itself launched.
Yeah, looks like Textmate is simply running the UTF-8 algorithm over UTF-16 code units, so each surrogate is being turned into a single UTF-8 code unit (which decodes to an invalid character).

It turns out that this is such a common mistake that there's even a name for this encoding, CESU-8: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CESU-8
That title is really confusing. Samsung is not guaranteeing no one will update to Android 4.0?
I think that's what has left a lot of Windows Phone users completely surprised. Buy a top end Windows Phone right now and it won't work with WP8 in 5 months.

That said, I have an HTC Titan and don't really care.

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That was the part of the article that confused me. The point of the $7500 is to __actually spend it on the vacation__. How are you going to spend $7500 sitting around your house for 2 weeks? Seems to go against the spirit of what he wants his employees to do. Maybe I'm a jerk but I don't believe you can really get the same 'disconnect/refresh/recharge' effect from sitting at home with your phone turned off as you can from flying to a far away place and experiencing a new environment.
The thing is, the vast majority of this isn't needed by most applications. For instance, in a database, all they need is to encode and decode strings properly when going to or coming from external sources. That's all that is being asked for here; that when MySQL says "UTF-8", they really mean "UTF-8", not some broken subset of it.
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Sadly before I even opened the article, I knew this was going to be the result of the lack of a proper healthcare system in the US. :(
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Only using 2.2 APIs at this stage would only hurt the development of your app. Targeting 4.1 and using the support package gives you full access to Fragments and Loaders while still supporting the older SDK versions.
"Medicine" is not a singular entity sitting in a dark lair cackling to itself, its a wide variety of people and institutions that all have their own ideals and motives. Most are in it for the money, but to a somewhat lesser degree than in other industries.

What thinking of "Medicine" as a singular entity blinds you to is that while not curing people might result in more money for medicine as a whole, a cure for cancer would certainly make a whole lot of money or whatever entity came up with it. They'd have to choose the good of their industry over their own good and the good of their patients to a degree I would find incredible to do otherwise.
You might like http://spacemonkey.com (when it becomes available). Client-side encryption, 60x faster upload, 10x more space.
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Where do you get that Dutch immigration barriers are lower ?
In my experience, that is not particularly the case.
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To rephrase how I understand your comment, an email sitting in your inbox would just be a link to a glorified webpage hosted on Amazon's servers, where everyone can click through to that.

That's a pretty interesting idea. Emails from, for example, Amazon are pretty much just HTML files being sent to each user already. Obviously you would be able to customize the links sent as emails so each user can see the information they want being pulled from the database so it looks functionally like an email right now. Seems like it would be a nice bandwidth-saving protocol. It would also get around the issue of email storage and file attachment limits. It would offload the cost of receiving a message away from Google or the user and shift that burden back to the sender. Someone could easily tell how effective their newsletter is because it would count as a page view. The page could even be opened "within" Gmail as an iframe (or whatever people are using these days).
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The profits for a drug to cure every kind of cancer would be astronomical. You seem to have the assumption that when cancer is killed it cannot return. But, it can. Mutations happen often and because of this, cancer would happen often. Cancer kills people. You do not want your customers to die. It would be more profitable to release a cure and have people take it whenever cancer is found because it is certain to return.

You mentioned that changing your lifestyle has made you healthier, but that has been mentioned to me by my doctor every time I visit! Eat healthy, get plenty of rest, and exercise. We have heard this many times before. This is not some magical secret to a healthy life. Many people simply do not possess the willpower to do it. There are companies that profit from unhealthy choices because our bodies crave those unhealthy choices, but it does not mean there is some conspiracy by scientists to prevent drugs from reaching the market that can cure cancer.

The cure would be more profitable because over a long enough time line, cancer returns. People that get cancer are often predisposed to getting it in the first place.
Actually they have to do the compression on the mobile clients before uploading, otherwise it will take forever and cost a real fortunate on the mobile data usage.
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Toronto is a latin city? Do you mean Montreal?
... or you could just use sloccount.

http://www.dwheeler.com/sloccount/
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Some of best advice I've used is to quit reading that isn't tied to solving the next problem or two I'm working on.

How many articles that we read and bookmark do we ever go back to?

Until I started using Diigo and actively annotating each link to create a searchable feed based on my links... not quite sure how else anyone gets value of an article if they can't action it in the short term and have to come back to read it anyways.

Being in a state of 'building', we can look at the front page of hn and see what % of that on average could be a fit to help solve problems, maybe a different 15-20% for everyone? Now, which percentage of the 15-20% will hit what you're facing right now?

Even engaging this discussion wasn't one that solved a problem for making or saving money, or towards a startup. Why am I responding? Reinforcing my belief that I know the difference between reading something that truly helps me be productive in the now.

I like learning random things like anyone, but I find for me it's best done like an exercise, controlled, scheduled, focussed.
Methinks there's a big difference between private crime and public corruption.

Besides, Britain is not falling apart because of the Barclays scandal, and unlike Greece, it isn't the entire country that is in on the scam.
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Consumers want what Apple tell them to want.

Consumers need for those things to be resaleable and repairable if they want the human race to efficienlty use the resources available on the planet.

Apple don't care about all that they want to remove the ability to even refer to anything other than the latest bit of worker-exploiting high-fashion shiny-shiny that they insist you must have to be fulfilled.
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I have a brand new MBP (Retina) and I won't be upgrading to ML anytime soon (even though I get a free copy). I'm still bitter at the Lion upgrade process. It was a nightmare for me. And at that time I considered Lion to be Apple's trash OS. It's gotten better, After like 8 major updates. :)

Hell I tried to downgrade to SL, but that's not possible due to drivers.

Lesson learned. Also,I'm STILL being forced to download the OS from the App Store. I wouldn't mind that so much if the Store didn't have performance issues.
Yes, lack of SNI support in some browsers could pose a problem in wide adaptation if it keeps SSL mandatory.
I don't think it's contempt. It may appear to be contempt in the eyes of large customers, but from Apple's perspective they want to make the best products they can. If that is counter to the way the EPEAT guidelines operate, but they can offer equal or superior environmental impact and produce the products they want, isn't that ok?

Honest question: Are you not able to compare the EPEAT guidelines with what Apple currently does? They provide details on all of the things you mentioned - hazardous materials, energy efficiency, etc. It seems like they should still stand up to EPEAT, despite the recycling bit, considering that they offer recycling of their products. http://www.apple.com/environment/
With this type behavior I'm really happy to only spend money in OEM hardware and be able to select what OS to install and when to upgrade.
If you're just going to send plain HTML over the wire, why are you going to even bother thinking at the level of abstraction that most developers (well, at least me) tend to think of when "developing an API"? I'll give you that it's a loose notion, but there's another issue. If you're building a non-trivial web application, how does sending HTML as a media type help you to decouple your data from the DOM? I believe the answer is that it doesn't. You could make the argument that decoupling becomes less of a necessity when you are providing more "fine-grained" access by controlling exactly what HTML is generated from the server at each endpoint. I say it could be argued, but I wouldn't argue it.
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The scary thing about China is that it has a huge asset bubble, and when those pop you can have long-term pain. For instance that is what happened with Japan in the 80s. (Or us in 2008, though our relative bubble was smaller.)

The doubly scary thing is that this could come at a point where we have so much that is so fragile in the global economy. Obviously we have the slow-moving European debt crisis. We have the Chinese bubble. We have a plethora of distressed debtors in the USA combined with a slowing economy. If all the dominos remain standing, we're fine. If they start to fall, how many will fall?

See http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-26/markets/31402... and http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2011/11/30/wh... for a couple of random takes comparing China today to Japan.
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That's an important piece of context, thank you for pointing it out. Engineering decisions occur in a cultural context of mere humans making decisions, and we do well to remember that.
... or cloc: http://cloc.sourceforge.net/