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I thought I agreed with you, because I read this post thinking it was a reply to the recent article about app.net's fee-based service not being inherently superior to twitter's ad-based service. When I read the post it was actually a response to, it does make sense, but it isn't clearly stated.

If I may attempt to restate, the argument is as follows: Ilya wrote an article criticizing those who are reluctant to ask users to plunk down cold hard cash for an actual solution to their problem. This is a legitimate point. However, app.net is a poor example of someone attempting to actually get paying customers because the app.net customers are doing something more similar to donating to a cause they believe in than actually buying a product. The value of this product -- the good feeling of supporting something new and exciting -- will inherently disappear as soon as the product is no longer new and exciting. Additionally, because the product does not yet exist in anything resembling a final form, the customers are able to project their own hopes and dreams for what they would like it to be, rather than what it actually is.

This argument is a lot more than saying nothing. I definitely agree with it. If a reluctance to ask for money in fear of getting shot down because your product isn't any good is the problem, then asking for money to support some product that exists more as dreams than code isn't the solution. The solution is to build something that real people will buy, not because they are your friends, not because they want to be able to say they were an early adopter of something that will become big, but because the product actually provides value to them as it exists today.
this is true... Although the cult of mac article didn't help by saying the screw would lock you out forever.

Without giving it much thought, i assumed that an asymmetric screw implied that it could only be turned one way. Which would lead me to wonder how many other people were deceived by the title.
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This reminds of that board meeting scene in Demolition Man with all the monoliths with screens each projecting a participant's face on them.

It seems interesting but I wonder if people would welcome this. Having an iPad with my boss' face on it rolling behind me at work feels creepy.
Nobody is responsible for other people's children. Not making sure an unaccompanied minor gets to her next flight is not "lack of human decency".
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It's not sexy, it's f'd up when someone annoys you with a Skype-Segway.
i think it's just funny :)
As a kid, I used to make intercontinental flights frequently as an unaccompanied minor ... maybe 6-8 a year between the ages of 8 and 16? Airlines make this all OK by offering an Unaccompanied Minor service where where a member of aircrew is responsible for the kids, the kids need to be deposited (and signed for) at both ends of the flight, etc... In this case, the airline screwed up, but the concept is pretty straight forward...
You can change it via a link at the bottom to http://daringfireball.net/preferences/
There is also a lot of (vocal) people that like to justify their consumer choice with moral argumentation. I guess when it comes to tech choice, tech minded people can't live with the fact that their reasons are mundane (like the screen better, better contract, or much worse the shape is better, your wife would like you to have the same one)

Apple also makes it hard for tech people. It is a consumer oriented brand, choosing them is like drinking a beer with your meal rather than carefully selecting the appropriate wine.
my account is 270 days old, i've 5 points. it's unfortunately not due to a computer/browser session :-(
it's directly run on the google servers.
> Nobody is responsible for other people's children.

He didn't say anybody (other than United) was responsible.

> Not making sure an unaccompanied minor gets to her next flight is not "lack of human decency".

I'd say not helping a fellow human in distress, especially a vulnerable one (such as a child) in a situation where you can help at next to no cost, definitely qualifies for "lack of human decency".
or just use the accelerometer of the ipad. turn yourself and and the ipad to look around the room. Would feel like you were moving a virtual window around. I doubt the robot can react fast enough for it to feel natural though.
Rails and Django: The superior web development frameworks microsoft didn't want you to replace asp.net with, but you did anyway.
"Perl 5 is still what a large portion on what the community uses, so it's not out of date"

Just FYI, Perl 5 have changed a lot the last 10 years..
They lost me at LILO. What year is this, again?

Oh, right. It's 2012 and uucp is still an essential part of Linux and BSD.

Doesn't anyone ever take out the trash?
The author of the blog post seemed to think that United was a terrible airline before this happened.

So your point about unaccompanied minors seems even more valid; who would send a child cross country, and who would do so using a crappy airline?
In Japan you send your 1st grader kids across the city to school by themselves. They take the train by themselves...and they survive well enough.
Is no one here worried about (again!) audio/video codecs and presence implementation? As far as I've read webrtc specs there are no specifics, they've left implementation details in the hands of implementors.

I fear that Microsoft will push something skype-specific, Google (and possibly Mozilla) vp8 and xmpp/jingle, who knows what Apple will do with Safari. And different clients/browsers won't be able to communicate between themselves.
Makes sense - the JVM is fast and stable. It comes with a huge array of tooling and its own built in debugging system. It is well supported and cross platform. Why would you not want to take advantage of all that good stuff?
Used to do it via Qantas as a kid. The staff would watch you like a hawk. They even let you hang with the pilot for a bit.
I think the article nails this on the head, management doesn't care about it's employees, and the employees pass this on to the customer.

They care so little that they don't even want core pieces of their business done by their own people.

It reminds me of a cable co in canada called Rogers, the entire thing is a bunch of outsourced services glued together with a couple sales people.
Up to 6 hours of battery life does not seem fitting for a new Ultrabook.
thanks for the extensive post and brainstorming ideas! I agree with you that most people learn different ways, and as others have stated, really learning by doing is high up on the list. I like your thoughts of interactivity, because ideally that's what the tutorials would be like - interactive media, but the thing is, like you say this is time consuming, and sadly, I don't have the time to commit that it would take.

One thing I do like about video, at least for programmers, is that - if you're dual wielding with your monitors :), you can watch the code directly, have your own editor open and just code along, while you listen to the expert in his field explain some concepts that might be fuzzy for you.

What I don't like though is reading blog post, because honestly all I ever end up doing is just reading the source code excerpts, and then (if its js, or some smaller lib), I just download the source and read it which renders the point of having a blog post basically null and void.

Finally, your last idea "repurposing content" is great, it'll let me test the idea out :)
Wow, autocorrect (well, Swype, anyhow) really made a mess of my post :P. I only realized this reading it now, after the edit window has passed. I guess that's what I get for writing a post from my phone and not proof-reading it.

So if any phrase doesn't make sense (like "Coming from Jeans..."), it's probably due to Swype. In this case, I had meant to write "Coming from Java...". There are a bunch of odd words like this in the post.
It's not only core libraries, all the available libraries that your project depends upon will one day or the other have to be debugged. I mean I had to debug Hibernate and it was a pain, I can't imagine debugging something written with advanced Scala features that I'm not very confident with.
When I was somewhere around that age, my younger brother and I flew to Spokane from Eugene, changing planes in Portland. Granted, PDX is fairly small, but I distinctly recall them announcing the flight, and someone not coming to get us, which made me nervous. So I took my brother and we went, and everything worked out ok.
I'll second this, in North America everything that is possible to make a child absolutely dependant is done. Parents who try to raise functioning adults are shunned.

There was a national outcry because someone let their 12 year old ride a subway.

You can find most of the roots of helicopter parenting in attachment parenting, the idea that a child should always be touched by their parent until they're about 5.
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I'd be happy to give you feedback.
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Can they include a pleasant "walking" noise (or something more abstract) so that it isn't sneaking up on you all the time? It looks a bit too sneaky in this video.
This is from very long back. In school, I once passed an exam on grace marks given because of my graceful handwriting (this was writing in the 'Devanagari' script, which even naturally allows for more calligraphy than the Roman script).
That's a horrible laptop.
The passengers have nothing to do with it. If a kid is seating next to me in an airplane, I won't engage in conversation with her. How would I even know whether she's accompanied or not? A normal assumption would be that her parents were sitting elsewhere, maybe with another kid.
I fought tooth and nail to not support proper albums for The OpenPhoto Project. After about 6 months I gave in and we implemented a native album API[1] (not something that rides on top of tags).

It's true. The argument that tags do everything that albums do and more is false. Perhaps for an engineer but the brain thinks in terms of albums (or folders for files). Nature or nurture, it doesn't matter. This is not a battle you win with engineering.

[1] https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/issues/124
Very cool. How about a bunch of these located in places like the Louvre, the British Museum, that become available to rent when the museums are closed to physically-present tourists?

The timezones work out great for people in the US, and the museums have nothing to lose since it's all incremental revenue.
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Actually this reminded me of that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon gets paranoid about germs or something and builds a similar device to interact with others. It was also the episode where they bring in Steve Wozniak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1uj9VmCzo
As a non native English speaker, I simply thought that "coming from Jeans" was an expression I didn't know and was about to look for it.
Incorrect. He imposed responsibility on the passengers next to her.

> "I want to know who the the passengers were sitting next to this child were that didn't help her with her transfer."

And, no, you don't know she was in obvious distress, nor do you know the passengers next to her were aware of her problem as they were disembarking.

Not taking the time to help a child to the next gate is normal, any rational actor would expect the airline to take care of it; the fact that they did not does not mean the other passengers lack human decency, what the hell.
To me, 6 hours is pretty good for a laptop running Linux.
I think this point was not well explained, and what she meant was that the doctor was perplexed not by the kid being 1st percentile but at the calm that the parents kept, their seeming acceptance of the situation. Which is also what is implied by the rest of the story.
FPComplete was founded by Aaron Contorer. Bartosz joined later. I believe he joined as an employee, not co-founder.
ugly, and a resolution befitting of the 90s?
yes! awesome snippit :)
My parents sent both me and my sister on planes by ourselves several times when we where kids (in Europe). Now this was a good 25 years ago, but then it seemed like a perfectly normal thing to do and there where often two or three other kids flying unaccompanied and the airlines and great routines for handling it. Basically we'd be assigned a staff member who would follow us from check-in until we where seated on the plane, and then there would be another staff member that met us on the plane when we landed and followed us out to the arrivals hall and made sure we where met by someone.

Until right now I never even reflected over that anyone would find this strange or abnormal.
you can just dangle the robot up a wall, and they can't follow you. Can't do that with a human...
would be better if it's controlled by google glasses
No developer will use a screen with only 756 pixels in height.
PHP is fine and dandy for Wordpress sites but to think that Facebook got this far on it is nothing short of amazing.

If this article proves true it'll be a good move for them.
This means Stripe is coming to Canada very soon. I'm ecstatic!
See http://lisperator.net/slip/ ;-)
This makes it seem more reasonable to me. If you drop the kid off at a secure area of the airport, they are accompanied to the plane and accompanied again as soon as they get off the plane until a relative (or someone prearranged) collects them there is little that could go wrong. Obviously, as the article proves, their is still a risk that the airline screws up which I'm not sure I'd be comfortable taking but I can see why many other people would be. Explained like this it seems like sending a child across the world alone would be safer than sending them on a 30 minute bus ride downtown alone.
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I would expect to see coverage of one of the RHEL based distributions in an article like this, CentOS say as it is popular on servers.

Some may be aiming at some kind of certification, or may be looking to add Linux admin skills to their CVs.
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Or at least virtual security guards in museums if they decide they don't like visitors at late hours.
I flew on U.S. Airways a few weeks back. Lining up to board the plane, a passenger noticed someone left a purse at the gate. A passenger said to the U.S. Airways attendent, "Do you think it makes sense to announce to the gate and the plane that someone left a purse? Maybe someone will come and pick it up." The attendent shrugged his shoulders and kind of said, "meh, not my problem."
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The author did all that work as a joke? I hardly think so.

I looked at the source code. It's 5,575 lines of original C code. (I excluded the AES encryption, bzip2, Reed-Solomon, and CRC16 source code from my count.)

I imagine that he wrote the words "open source joke" as a defense mechanism against people who would mock his efforts with lines like "please tell me this is a troll", "that is completely unnecessary", and "an incredibly silly idea".

Lots of people make self-effacing remarks when they introduce a work that they know will draw criticism: "It's just a first draft, it needs a lot more work." "I hacked it up during lunch [when it really took two weeks]." Etc.
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So long as your kid can handle him/herself for a few hours, what's the big deal? I believe parents are allowed to go through security to meet their kid at the gate, so really all the kid has to do is board, entertain him/herself, and deboard.

As to why, specifically? Well, suppose you split custody of a kid with your ex-spouse, and you live in L.A. while ex-spouse lives in New York. Or, suppose your parents want your kid to visit, but you live in L.A. while your parents live in New York, and you can't take time off from work (or you want your parents to get a little time to monopolize the kid).
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There is no way for a child to become self-reliant if it's overprotected. I had a 40 min bus and tram ride every day to school when I was 7 years old.

Good article on the topic http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/raising-suc...
A fisheye lens mounted on the ipad might help there. It's just about high enough res that you might get away with rectifying the image to get rid of the distortion at the human end.
Alternatively, an intended sympathetic comment is reinterpreted as exactly this in the parent's mind. Sometimes what we mean is not what is conveyed.
It has to be a coincidence, but it kind of looks like they updated the logo for Windows 8.
Well you can, but it's not very polite.
Will Facebook contribute to Quercus, or doing their own thing? http://quercus.caucho.com/
Source? Or anything to show that this should be trusted?

And even if the post is correct and they actually are testing out an run-php-on-the-jvm solution, it's not the same as moving all their stuff onto it.
And the problem is that sometimes, if they're successfully, they are acquired and they shutdown their services :)
> ...their interest in implementing PHP using invoke-dynamic on the JVM

This is very interesting.

> The main seismic event will be nothing less than the complete removal of interpretors from main stream general purpose programming.

This is hyperbolic drivel.
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The point that it's glossy is a far bigger problem for me.
If you did not use it over a longer time, how did it pay for itself? Did you shut off some major power consumers in your household after you look at it once?
My experience with United/U.S. Airways/American has been, shit to say the least. I'm astounded by how generally large North American carriers pale compared to either small companies like Westjet and Porter, or large Asian airlines like Singapore and Emirates.
My ThinkPad X220 has the same resolution (1366*768 - not sure where you got 756 from), and so did my ThinkPad L512 before it. I honestly don't mind it at all. Maybe I'm weird or something.
In flights I've been on with obvious unaccompanied children, someone from the flight crew tells the child to stay in his/her seat until everyone else has gotten off the aircraft.
Can you please provide links on how SSL can be compromised?
"Plenty of indigenous peoples around the world are/were quite happy with "having enough"."

This kind of 'reasoning' makes my blood boil. I've told this story a million times, but here it goes again: I was once in Puno in Peru, at the shore of lake Titicaca. It's a famous tourist attraction, where 'indigenous' (I loathe that word) people used to live on floating 'islands' made out of reed. The story that is portrayed to the tourists is that they still do; as happens with many of that sort of travels, I was surrounded by obnoxious 'embrace other cultures' idiots who were saying how great it was that these people still lived like they used to, and how much better it would be if we (= in the West) would also do so, and how 'authentic' it all was.

Well, we were on the first boat of the day, and along with us rode a bunch of 'indigenous' people with reed skirts who had missed their boat to the island 45 minutes earlier, because they were living in Puno in a proper house where their kids could play soccer and where they didn't have to fear at night that the very house they and their children were sleeping in would sink from right under them. While a bunch of rich white assholes (disclaimer: I'm white and by most global standards fairly rich, I guess, although I think that most of the time I'm not an asshole) were proclaiming how 'authentic' living on a reed boat was, these people who were actually living that life decided that they would get out of it as soon as they could.
As I said only yesterday[1] there is no solid evidence that this is happening.

None.

This is, at best, a tertiary source.

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4374216
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Striped decks make for a better pick-up line.
It does look terrible. Why do people upvote submissions like this?
The current HTML/CSS of HN acts as an API for third-party services and apps that depend on HN's data. If you change this API, you break all these services.

So in my opinion, it's not worth the change.
Next to paper or parchment (mentioned below), there is a technique, that uses microform. Here in Germany a lot of long-term archival work is done with this material. The information is scanned and "printed" on microfiches. In one image, there can be stored a lot (i think up to 16) pages and a lot of images are on one roll of film. Then these rolls are transferred into special containers and put in an old mine in the German "Black Forest".

There are to date more than 28.000 kilometers of microfilm with round about 850.000.000 images. They estimate, that even in 500 years there will be no information loss on these images.

German Link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarastollen
It looks exactly like the favicon in use prior to 2009. Except with a bit of color change.

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-05-30-n48.html
For reference, this is the scene: http://ispr.info/files/2011/07/DemolitionMan.jpg
Oh, I imagine that makes the post difficult to read. Or maybe it just makes me look crazy :/.

A couple of other ones: "naked right into Python" is actually "baked right into Python" and "not just posts of the language" should have been "not just parts of the language".

The natural problem with Swype is that essentially all of your typos come out as perfectly spelled words. You always get a correct word from the dictionary, it just might not be the word you wanted. I really love using it, but I have to remind myself to double check anything I write with it.
Based on what we've seen from Facebook, Twitter, Google etc they will likely do it on their own.

As we've seen with the various Memcache and MySQL implementations often tradeoffs are made in favour of performance and scalability.
Sure, but other windows ultrabooks will do 8 to 11 hours of battery life. Unless I really want Linux, or don't need battery life, there is no reason to buy this. Even the MBP has slightly better battery life.
I'm astounded at how terrible United Airlines is, and seemingly always has been. How have they been able to get away with such terrible customer service for so long?

In 1995 I flew with my brother and mother to America from Australia, a 12 hour flight. I was 5 years old and my older brother was 7. They knew our ages, and had seated us with 1 seat at the back of the plane, and 2 near the front. My mother was pretty frustrated. Was she supposed to sit up the front by herself and leave us two at the other end of the plane? Or sit with one of us and leave the other by themselves?

I recently took a very similar flight at the end of last year. I was flying by myself, but sure enough, once the bulk of the passengers had boarded the plane, an attendent over the loudspeaker told us that they were aware that family members had been separated due to seating arrangements and they ask that we please just sit in those seats for take-off and rearrange ourselves once we were in the air. I couldn't believe that after 16 years they were still having the same problems.
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The touchpad is in completely the wrong place! They centered it in the laptop body, instead of putting it where it belongs for a touch typist, centered under the B key.
I'm loving my ThinkPad X60s which would be about the same size and runs Linux perfectly (even if it does ship with a "built for Windows" sticker).
Sadly that resolution is all too common in this decade.
Yep, the key is speed, hence why I said "flick". Next time you're in a meeting keep track of how many times you look at someone and back in less than a second.

But we have to go through this step before we can advance the technology, so I'm all for these style of robots.