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This certainly sounds egregious, and it may very well be, but all of the posts I can find on the subject appear to be written with approximately the same tone (one on prwire, which takes any press release folks want to post) and this one from iReport (which is crowdsourced).

I would be interested in reading any sources folks know about about this that are external to the Free Ademo movement.
Every designer has its own design process, specially when it comes to branding design. The price will vary depending on the work required, if you need business cards, branding applications (tshirts, flags, stationary, etc).

Charging you $600 for a 4-5 hour work, its just symbolic. The amount of work put on a logo easily takes a couple days if not weeks to come up with the final design.

For instance, Comedy Central was charged $1MM for their logo redesign and the agency charged them for just "1 hour" of work. This doesnt mean they normally charge $1MM per hour.
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I don't see any evidence the linked article is actually Open Access.

It seems possible that the response just had the wrong link, and they article they are charging for isn't open access. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900210... is clearly Open Access, has a clear mark of that, and has full text available for free.
They did, but you can change the option.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/zainnab/archive/2012/06/14/turn-off-...
That depends greatly on what kind of checking is done on the other side. For example, if they can cross-check your driver's license number with the rest of your info, then making a fake image of an ID that will pass muster will be tough.
I think you're more likely to feel pain with a dull edge, but a sharp edge cuts easier.
Are you sure your blood sugar level really is low (hypoglycaemia), that is, have you had it measured? Idiopathic postprandial syndrome is apparently much more common, presents similar symptoms except blood glucose levels aren't actually especially low and unlike hypoglycaemia, it does not appear to be dangerous (unless you're driving and it interferes with your concentration).

If you suffer from actual hypoglycaemia, I would not recommend leaving it untreated.

In the case of idiopathic postprandial syndrome, episodes seem to be brought on by the steep decline back to normal blood sugar levels, as opposed to actual lack of glucose. What this means is you can avoid the problem by not consuming sugary food and drink in the first place, or combining them with other, non-sugary foods. Basically, don't let your glucose levels get so high in the first place. Fasting for a day shouldn't bring on an episode (although you'll certainly be very hungry!) - eating sugary foods, then fasting, will, however.

Of course, YMMV and I'm not a doctor or even a nutritionist.
Very true, for asemetricaly processing unlike simplex processing. Though for inter device communications for currently technology it could be used to save alot of wire space - especialy between memory and CPU's. When it becomes cost effective to do for things like that today, well that can be a opertunity as the delay is more than accomodated by the slower parts and buffers, just to save the use of parralel wires is worth it and can be faster as less hassels to syncronise channels. Look at disc interfaces over time with SATA replaceing PATA for speed. Just easier to design and process for.
> IMO, a SNES emulator requiring 3GHz means brain-dead implementation, simple as that

No, it means accurate implementation. That doesn't mean accurate gameplay (which many inaccurate emulators achieve), but proper accurate emulation. You should really, really read up on byuu's work; he's probably the best developer in emulation at this point.
Governments take on debt all the time. The US Govt, for example, has balanced the budget only a handful of times in its history. Building better infrastructure that makes NJ more livable is money well spent. Appealing for the future of all the little children isn't a convincing way to make an argument. Btw, the US debt is now at 100% of GDP. I'd say every American kid already has a problem.
I won't pull out the old Dijkstra quote, but I hate screwing around with hardware/os problems. The solutions to those kind of problems is almost never interesting to me. "Oh, foo should have been bar in that config! I'll definitely remember that when a similar problem occurs 5 years from now!"
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Market segmentation. Prepaid plans offer lower-quality handsets, are less flexible, and tend to gouge you if you have high usage.

Ultimately they're deliberately not designed for people who get a lot of use out of their phones, because the point is not to sell them to those people.
My children have been successful with the main thing that I do is to put them to bed at night we talk for about 20-30 minutes about their day, we diagnose any problems that day and come up with solutions they can try. I did this with the kids for many years now they are both old enough and mostly do this on their own.

My daughter (14) has straight A grades at her High School.

My son is at High School but on a 2 year college campus where he takes college classes instead of regular high school classes (he is 16 the website is middlecollege.guhsd.net)
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Not sure how comparable it is to hubot, but for the last couple of months I've been working on a similar project written in Python called gnotty:

https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty

Gnotty is primarily a modern web client for IRC, but also features a framework for creating your own IRC bots that can receive and act on data over HTTP.

It's a few days away from its first public release.
I look at history and see how different administrations react to economic crisis. I see Harding & Coolidge vs Hoover's approach and the 1946 tax cuts as being pretty good guides. I don't see the stimulus spending by a R and a D as doing as much good.
Hey can some one give some pointers where I can find such modules which would send the text message and can be interfaced with an arduino board to build a generic alarm system. I dont have any background in hacking arduino, but it seems for web enabling cool systems( fetch data and send control commands) the following is the easiest route:

sensor + actuator assembly__on__arduino<->sms_module<->AT&T_Jasper like_gateways<->my server

Probably my terminologies are wrong but hope you get the point.
To me, the most valuable resource is time. Sure, the epoxy might be only 5 dollars, but it might take me half a day of valuable weekend time to fix the problem correctly. Or, I could have had paid the plumber and used that same time to doing something more education/interesting.
Do mobile. I'm building apps for clients on my summer break from University and (will be) making decent money (when they pay me)
According to the one other source I found, it wasn't the video which led to the charges.

He recorded a subsequent phone call with the police department without notifying them that the call was being recorded. According to Wikipedia, regarding the recording of telephone conversations, New Hampshire is an 'all parties consent' state, and seemingly by his own admission he broke this law. Thus the calls for jury nullification, to ignore a law which they find unjust.
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What happens if someone hovers or clicks on the image and the underlying JS hasn't loaded yet? Also, how will you show the 'count' of Likes? You may wish to reconsider that approach as it sounds like it adds complexity without really benefiting the end user.

PageSpeed is more than just optimization of JS/HTML. It is also about only sending the data which has changed. And really... why should all developers have to worry about doing that optimization as part of their build step when they can get it for 'free' with services like CloudFlare/PageSpeed? Sure, it isn't for everyone, but I can see it being of value for a lot of different sites out there. I love keeping an open mind on stuff like this.
Didn't you read the part about the prepaid iPhone 4 & 4S on Virgin mobile with unlimited data?
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I don't think it's terrible advice. He's saying that you shouldn't present more information at once than you need to for the task at hand, not that any single task should take 100 steps. It's fine to have 100 screens if they're well-organized; HN probably has hundreds of thousands of screens.
So this is just someone who wants to bet, and nobody has taken it?
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Impossible. Bitcoin cannot outperform gold stock by 100x without having a lot more publicity.

Oh wait-
Quick, call the patent office!
I can't speak for the population at large, but I can say why I will be switching from MetroPCS even though I've been happy with them: coverage. My phone does not work as a phone - at all - within a 10 mile radius of where I now live. I'll be looking into other prepaid options, but nothing looks nearly as promising and I quickly start encroaching on "not actually cheaper" territory. Virgin mobile would be one of the better options, but I refuse to give them any business ever since they screwed up my billing causing me to overdraft, and then refused to cover any of the fees that caused me to incur.
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I'm inclined to agree for a few reasons other than the usual things people cite about Clojure. These are the first to come to mind:

* The property list pattern and inheritance-like behavior are very natural and convenient with maps and records. I think that sort of thing is very helpful with large applications.

* Clojure has the ability to abstract the database (I'm thinking of Korma here) in a way that preserves and works with the relational model more directly than ORM.

Clojure's ability to leverage Java libraries also means you're unlikely to ever get stuck implementing common functionality from scratch[0] when another language would have a library.

[0] I did, however once write a CSV library for Clojure because it seemed easier than using an existing Java library for the subset of functionality I needed or writing a wrapper.
It's sinister that he's using it to argue that access to the Internet needs to be tightly monitored and controlled, especially as we're talking about Russia where (for instance) if people couldn't use the Internet to broadcast messages that were hard to trace we wouldn't have all gthe photographic evidence proving massive ballot-box stuffing and electoral fraud in the last election that we do have.
I thought the main driver for collecting telemetry and having Mars Odyssey (an orbiter) in sight to relay data is due to the earlier loss of Mars Polar Lander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Polar_Lander#Communication...).

The review board analyzing the loss of MPL could not narrow down the cause for certain, although they did identify a most likely cause. It was resolved in the future to have as much data collected as possible so that an unexplained loss could not occur again.

One key ingredient in this is line of sight to a relay orbiter.

But this is not a science driver, it is an engineering driver.
He is not being charged for posting the (mentioned) publicly recorded video of the cop slamming the kids face into the table.

What he is being charged for is calling police officials and others on the phone after this, and recording the conversations without getting the other parties permission to record the phone call... Then posting those recordings online.

This is how 95% of these stories are. Facts are hidden, what happened is misrepresented; stories to fit narratives are made up.

Don't get me wrong, if you call an on-duty police official at the police station maybe they shouldn't be given/expect privacy, but this story makes it seem that this guy is being charged for posting the mentioned video. Clearly he is not.
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Virgin Media customer support is terrible. You often have to wait over 30 minutes to talk to somebody.

Virgin Media uses the Sprint network. Verizon and Sprint have roaming agreements, but only for contract phones. If you're outside Sprint coverage on a contract you can roam to Verizon, but with Virgin Media you don't roam.
> The controversial felony wiretapping charges journalist and CopBlock.org founder Adam ‘Ademo’ Mueller is facing will go to trial, a situation that has stirred up a hornet’s nest of free speech advocates in New Hampshire.

Not on the topic of the article, but this must be the worst-written sentence I've read in weeks; I had to read it three times before I finally figured out what it meant (a dude is going to trial).
To be fair Virgin started throttling after a couple gigabytes a few months ago, but the throttled speeds are still supposed to be relatively fast (256 kilobit).
Even for accurate SNES emulation implementation, 3GHz (on 3 way OooE CPU with massive SIMD capabilities -e.g. Core2Duo, Core iX, or modern AMD-), is crazy. BTW, my evaluation was based on his article, not on his reputation.
Could you create a communications system with these solid state receivers ? I'm thinking about a communication network with these things? Or is that impossible.
Is that website reliable as an intermediate? Do they intermediate at all? I tried to find out how to bet, and it required me to sign up. And signing up requires entering a credit card? O.o
Yes. It is a two year bet that is one year over today which is how I heard about it here: http://youtu.be/TxC0dIBPzZg
It should be mentioned it's a slightly stretched definition of "unlimited data". From Virgin Mobile [1]:

Once 2.5GB (3.5 if paying for "mobile hotspot") of data is consumed during the monthly cycle, data speeds may be reduced to 256 kbps or below for the rest of that monthly plan cycle.

It was only 200MB last time I looked (although that may not have been with Virgin) which is why I went for a contract plan. Also, outside the iPhone, the selection is really poor.

1) http://www.virginmobileusa.com/cell-phone-plans/beyond-talk-...
So you should just invest $1k in BTC. If it outperforms by 100x, you lose 10k but very likely gain much more, otherwise you get $9k.
Type "groklaw " in Google, the first search match coming up is "groklaw pamela jones". Click on wiki link. So your premise about Groklaw being anonymous is likely false.

I lied, it wasn't 30 seconds research, more like 10 seconds.

If you don't like Groklaw then do your own research. PJ links to the sources in general, allowing you to read the articles and make up your own mind. Or bypass Groklaw and do your own research on the internet.

It is easy to diss a site - where is your proof to back up your concerns?
In Indonesia, prepaid cards (and cellphones) are common. No one use annual/monthly bill except they use the cellphone intensively (so they don't want to get rid with empty balance).

The only reason is with prepaid cards, they can control the balance, losing fear of unexpected high bill.
No, it's not crazy at all. There's a massive amount of synchronization that has to be done between, say, the CPU and PPU. It's not possible to even do per-pixel synchronization right now, which is why line-based sync is in use. Have you read the source? The implementation is brilliant, even if it is "slow".
200MB definitely wouldn't have been Virgin. A few months ago they had truly unlimited data with no throttling. And for a lower price...
You are misusing the term - in rail systems, double-tracked means that the system (or line) has two tracks, typically one for each direction. Their are systems (MTA/NYCT most notably in the USA) that have more than two tracks, although in NY's case, it's to allow local trains and express trains to run on different tracks.

In a single-track system 24/7 operation is not possible:

In double-tracked systems, there are crossovers (typically located near stations, but they can be anywhere) or switches to storage tracks that allow traffic to be routed along single tracks as necessary to allow track segments to be taken out of service.
Interestingly, I believe this is roughly the same size (in LOC) as Eclipse (counting the entire release train), give or take a few million.

I don't have any specific knowledge about VS, but most giant software projects (including Eclipse) with LOC counts in the millions don't exist as singular projects - rather, they are made up of lots of smaller, loosely coupled projects with generally well-defined integration points.

It certainly isn't easy - defining those APIs in a way that their surface area is the correct size is insanely difficult - but it does make managing projects of this size at least manageable.
I do wonder what impact a failed Kickstarter has for venture funded projects like Pixate. Does it kill any chance of future funding by proving that customers aren't that willing to pay?

I ran a Kickstarter for OpenPhoto. But it had a few unique properties, mainly being open source. We raised a modest $25k which paid for my time since I already quit my job to do this. So, I needed the funds to complete the work.

I'm considering running a second Kickstarter for a set of large features to the product. Thankfully, I'm not in a position where I need VC funds so shooting myself in the foot there doesn't matter.

Also, I'd be Kickstarting for features that aren't already planned in the main roadmap (which I'm going to rely on for revenue). If the Kickstarter fails then those features don't get added in but the product still remains viable without losing face.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-phot...
Having built a few highly trafficked sites (in Airline, Education and Events Ticketing) I think that ticketing is actually pretty easy. Making something that is usable & simple is still hard work. But the actual processes behind tickets is fairly straightforward.

I've built a system for the planning and seating of VIP hospitality packages that has been used for Beijing & London as well as the last Rugby World cup. Admittedly my ticket app is only for a select group of clients & users, so I haven't needed to scale anywhere near to the same degree as LOCOG, but I have done so with other sites in the past and the scaling techniques are the same.

That said, with the benefit of hindsight, I think the ideal way to have done ticket resale, would have been for people to register interest in events, possibly taking payment information in advance. Any inventory released back to LOCOG could have then been randomly offered to people who'd registered interest. There would be some element of first-in first served, but you're always going to get that with oversubscribed events.
He admitted to copying it. The reason he did so was because he intended to (and later did) contribute the code to Oracle's OpenJDK. He wanted to write it as if it was part of that package, and as such it would re-use the original version of that code. So he went "out of his way" to help Oracle and this is how they've repaid him.

I understand that the circumstances of an ex-employee contributing to an open source codebase and wanting to do things right by not unnecessarily duplicating code might be too much for your average jury, but it should be made clear to those who can understand that this is utterly appalling behaviour by Oracle, rather than a case of a sloppy Google employee getting away with a small amount of IP theft.
That would be interesting but anecdotal. It wouldn't establish credibility of the advice one way or the other. Similar to survivorship bias examples. Most famous example I can think of is the 37Signals guys. DHH has talked about how he wasn't exactly burning the midnight oil when he built Basecamp, but instead did it part-time. That worked for him but may not for others.

Beyond that, it depends on what you value in life. The commenter probably doesn't care about being the richest guy in the cemetery while someone else may be obsessed with keeping score. Not saying one way is better than another - to each his own.
Here are some nice pictures, including testing the radar descent measurement system from a helicopter, testing the parachute in the largest wind tunnel in the world, and testing various assemblies in a large thermal/vacuum chamber:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/curiosity-just-da...

Worth a look, I promise. You get a sense of all the work to assemble a piece of hardware with this size and complexity.
yes, there is!
Jurisdiction is an issue - what if the attacker is from outside the USA (especially those countries w/o an extradition treaty)?

ID is not a panacea, especially in this case. Apple is probably best to roll out some form of multi-factor auth.
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From an ethical viewpoint, what you're saying is true. Indeed, even from a mathematical viewpoint, what you're saying is true. But these are not the only valid viewpoints to look at games with.

What you're talking about is what distinguishes a good game from a bad game, an ethical game from an unethical game, an interesting game from an uninteresting game, and so on. You do not, in fact, distinguish a game from a not-game.

Would you call drinking games a kind of game? Dear Esther? Sim City? This is rhetorical; you probably wouldn't. But other people would, and there's no clear reason why they're wrong.
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That would be awesome! Sadly Long Bets makes you donate the winnings to charity to avoid prosecution as an illegal gambling site. Now if you happened to own a charity...
Hmm, that may be true. There are certainly a lot of recent locked handsets one can only buy in a post-paid package in the US. In my experience, however, post-paid overage rates can be quite substantial too (plus any so-called "cramming"). Some of the carriers have been pushing prepaid unlimited plans (some including data, throttled after certain thresholds of course) at pretty attractive price points (usually advertised in terms of a price inclusive of all taxes and fees unlike post-paid). It has worked out well for me so far (crossing fingers). There is also the phenomenon where in Asian and European countries people pay the full unsubsidized cost of the latest and greatest phone AND for a post-paid plan. Just curious, what other inflexibilities have you encountered?
I would add that often it is effective to write a reply immediately (ie get it out of your headspace)...but save it in your drafts folder, and send it only the next morning.

This way you avoid much of the 'email ping pong' which is a real time-sink.
You can't take money out of the website after you win it. You have to donate it.
I think the problem is not that the point was unreasonable, but that he was basically being paid by tobacco companies to promote it, and he didn't disclose this.
Didn't you read the part about them not being marketed and the iPhone not even being available until a few months ago?