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As a US/CA resident, i'm always stunned to see how low operating costs can be in India.
It's interesting, but I use https://bitbucket.org for any private repo that I need to share with other people and github for public code. I can't see anything additional that gitlab offers, maybe I'm wrong?
Just read this, this morning. Excellent Read. The point about these kids having no real specific skill-set when they graduate and just have a general knowledge-base like everyone else graduating in a liberal arts or business degree is a serious dilemma
The article seems to imply that BitCoin would be money under current law and that it is subject to all sorts of transmitter and exchange limitations. That makes me wonder.. why are miles and points programs exempt?

What they deal with seems to have all of the qualities of currency. Ditto: Second Life's Lindens.
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Hi,
I am trying to set up a meeting time and everyone is willing to share their calendar but one service isnt able to accept all of the calendars.

Has anyone solved this problem?
Thanks, I do too! Glad you liked the first series.
And for the record, Linux and the Retina MBPs don't get along.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Linux-and-Apple-Which-Is-t...

(FYI: the Phoronix post has an overlay ad)
I'm very curious: what metric do you use to assess your management-talent as low?

As a programmer, I used to believe I wouldn't be a good manager, but I'm currently making a run at it and it turns out I'm better than I thought I'd be.
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Amway heir Rick DeVos wants to make Grand Rapids, Michigan, a start-up magnet--even if he has to give away $15 million to do it.

And Grand Rapids is a progressive, beautiful city for those who sneer.
I've built moderately sized applications in both angular.js and backbone, backbone is much more pleasant to work with if only for the fact that everything is obvious, even if that requires you to do more development legwork and thinking about your application structure. (this is a feature, not a bug)

Angular.js data bindings are great and things like ng-repeat are neat until you start to step outside of the bounds of the angular garden.

Want to fetch data yourself and not use the angular resource plugin? (The resource plugin restricts the shape of data you can return from your server, i.e. every resource.get() request must only return a single object, if you want to receive an array you need to use .query() ). If you want to use jQuery for ajax, for instance, you lose all data bindings because vanilla javascript doesn't have the angular secret sauce!
edit: angular provides utilities to alleviate this issue, addressed in comment below.

Well that's fine maybe there's an event somewhere you can hook into and trigger off of, right? Try to find this in the docs, I dare you! If this doesn't demonstrate the incidental complexity caused by using a tool like angular, consider the documentation for backbone and angular, or either projects source for that matter. You can read backbone's source in an afternoon, I couldn't say the same for angular (or ember, or knockout). Because of this I can be confident backbone is largely bug free, I absolutely can't say the same about larger projects like angular.

Angular.js is meant to have a low barrier of entry, but because of this the developer interface is a thin facade on top of astonishingly complex internals. Contrast this to backbone which provides a simple and solid base for your application, providing freedom and foundation rather than a cookie cutter solution.

When I consider the trade-offs between client-side tools for structuring applications backbone consistently comes out on top.
Better stated: the Intel graphics driver is part of the Mesa/DRI2 framework. Mesa's core provides the OpenGL front end (API implementation, shader compilers, high level optimizers). Intel provides a low level component that takes that shader stream and turns it into programs and commands for the hardware, which is managed by a DRI driver in the kernel.
It shows that someone cares for android users!
Same, I even take them out and listen how loud they are to not disturb other people (especially in the bus or train).
Sounds like he has the "rage to master" personality trait... very conducive to hardcore training and mastery in something like martial arts or a craft skill, or a discipline... also conducive to addiction or getting "way too into" hedonistic pursuits.

I've got it too, and have made insane/amazing progress and gotten quite good at some skills, crafts, and disciplines in fast time. I've also burned many hours on something like Civilization IV or playing lots of Chess. It's a mixed bag.

I wrote about it here --

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/advice-if-youve-got-the-rag...

Definitely worth reading if you've got the same personality mix.
I'm sure supporters of Bitcoin would (at least in the US) like to argue for Bitcoin being a currency in this case, as it would allow users to record capital gains and losses rather than standard P/L like you'd get from selling rocks. The tax benefits on capital gains are much greater.

edit: This statement is false. Thanks for the clarification, nullc.
It's not a question of law but simply one of power. The USG is sovereign and not subject to any controlling legal authority. And its power, especially in financial matters, is global.

Therefore it can be analyzed as if it were a criminal actor. Does the USG have motive, propensity and opportunity to murder Bitcoin? Sadly, the answers are yes, yes and yes.

Motive and propensity - obvious. Opportunity - USG can't shut down Bitcoin trading, but it can smash the BTC price by destroying the exchangers. If it misses one, everyone who owns BTC and sees it as an investment will rush for that exit. Once it is closed, the price is zero by definition.

In retrospect, BTC will look like a very foolish bubble. In fact it is perfectly sound from an economic perspective, but not from a political perspective - it assumes a basically fair, just and sensible global legal order. Or at least a multipolar one. Closing our eyes and believing these illusions exist is not an effective way to make them exist.

BTC is flourishing. It continues to flourish because DOJ hasn't finished its paperwork yet. If you have some - sell it while you can. A big lump of gold feels nice in the hand.
I've been using Bootstrap more and more for mostly one reason: it's responsive grid. I'm sure there are alternatives, but it required very little effort to find Bootstrap and it does what I need it to do effectively. The other features are a bonus I can choose to use or to leave out.

Most of BS's javascript features need to be loaded separately and if you use LESS, you can scale back a huge chunk of the CSS if you don't plan to use certain CSS features.
Can anybody of your guys test with Ubuntu. The X1 is not out yet in Germany. The windows 7 version should work quite well with Ubuntu, since it's no dedicated graphics card there should not be any problems with Ubuntu.
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Well it is the best thing if you want to play cracked games.
"Miners participate in Bitcoin's distributed transaction-clearing process, competing for the free bitcoins that are awarded at random to one miner every 10 minutes."

Is this even remotely true? I thought they were all basically trying to brute force a valid hash, with no time-based guarantees at all.
Great article! I have a question for you guys. Just today, in the past few hours, we are now featured on the App Store. Since we have made the decision to put an emphasis on that release - how would you go about sustaining the momentum from that channel? http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/14/quilt-launch/
All windows apps look the same. And all Mac Apps. Maybe Bootstrap is the beginning of making all things web look/work/feel similar to on another. Is that terrible?
Not sure where you get your info, but it is flat out wrong. It's not at all uncommon for bicycle commuters to hit an opening door or pulling out car, go over the handlebars, and smack their head on a very hard window or body panel--right where a helmet would protect them.

Ask any ER physician in a city (I know several) about head injuries from bike commuting and they will no doubt have stories.

As for sending the message that biking is dangerous: biking is dangerous. The correct message for kids to learn is that most things in life worth doing are dangerous, and the key to a successful life is learning to properly manage risk. Wearing a helmet is part of properly managing the risk of riding a bike.
What business model would sustain the cots?
Call me snide, but I'm reading this title like, "E-commerce tips from a former Pets.com marketer."
10gen sponsors development of a Drupal module, EntityFieldQuery[1], which aims to improve support for non-SQL databases. Although I'm unfamiliar with Drupal project layouts, I didn't find a reference to the module in the GitHub project, so I don't believe they were using it. That said, there are still challenges to making MongoDB play nicely with Drupal 7, but 10gen is aiming for better integration in version 8 (through the same sponsorship).

1. http://drupal.org/project/efq_views
I'd be hesitant about making "one free private repo" a key part of your marketing. All that does is remind me that https://bitbucket.org/ has unlimited free private repos.

I'm not sure what you mean by "there is no other service offering a free private repository that lets you work with merge requests." What about http://blog.bitbucket.org/2011/06/17/pull-request-revamp/ ?
Looks like an OSS competitor to Github Enterprise.
I recommend you to use Zendesk; http://zendesk.com
Yeah because you don't need to re-fuel, get car insurance, maintain the car etc etc.

Seriously, you're dumb.
Indeed, from the article:

Changes in DTI measures, principally increases in fractional anisotropy (FA), have been observed following training programs as diverse as juggling, meditation, and working memory.
You state things in the present tense:

"In modern publishing, there's no need -- books are printed, one copy at a time, when they are ordered… This change (electronic on-demand publishing) essentially wipes out the traditional publishing model."

This implies that this is the way things are, now, or will be in the very near future, for the majority. And there's no proof that "in modern publishing, books are printed, one copy at a time."
Too bad it's limited to 8GB of RAM.
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I wrote up my experiences on releasing outside of the App Store: http://writing.markchristian.org/2012/03/30/make-your-own-ap...

I use Stripe for payment processing with a custom in-app UI for buying the app. Stripe has been great — they charge 50c+2.9%, so I lose about 44c per copy of DragonDrop sold (versus losing about $1.50 to Apple in the App Store).

I suggest releasing in the App Store if possible, but selling independently, too. The whole thing took about a day to set up and has been totally automatic since then.
Fortune favors the prepared. If he hadn't done the other stuff he wouldn't have been able to make this fortunate event happen, that doesn't mean it wasn't fortunate.
None of this negates the need to wear a helmet.

You, are also dumb.
Was bitgym funded by YC? Really impressed by your business proposition and your bike hack: http://blog.bitgym.com/2012/03/our-first-lean-hypothesis/ After 23 blog posts in 2 years, I'm sure there's more where that came from. Would you mind sharing your backstory here? Or a 1 minute rundown via email aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. I would be honoured to spotlight bitgym in my book: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z A bit of background: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l... Thanks Alex!
There will be priced plans if you host more than 1 private repo.
I've spent a ton of time customizing my Bootstrap-based site, but I didn't use the available tools.

Why? Because like most programmers, I build things incrementally. The first iteration looked like a typical Bootstrap site until I started to replace default components, such as the navbar, fonts, and buttons.

Overall, I'm not very impressed with customization tools, and I'm sure real designers would be even less apt to use them since it's easier to write some extra CSS.
Eh, I think 8GB RAM for a laptop is pretty damn good. It's an ultrabook, not a server replacement!
Er. Something doesn't have to be a _currency_ to report capital gains on them!

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p550/ch04.html#en_US_2011_pu...

"For the most part, everything you own and use for personal purposes, pleasure, or investment is a capital asset. Some examples are: [...] Any property you own is a capital asset, except the following noncapital assets."
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Heroku has replied..

> Cache utilization talks about the working set size, yes.

>

> The database size typically means just the result of

> pg_database_size() on your database (you can use the

> current_database() function as a shortcut). Note that this

> does include dead tuple bloat that is regularly cleaned

> up by Postgres autovacuum, so it's more of an estimate than

> a hard number.
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> Trying to load JavaScript dynamically is a good idea but a lot of the time, it’s not worth the effort if you can keep your JavaScript to a sensible size and load it all at once. This also helps with consequent page visits being fast.

As long as we're talking client-side, I couldn't agree more. It seems no matter how much I try to make things "easier" with YUI Loader or some clever AMD + loader solution, it always turns out to be a headache.
How do you prevent HTML and JS code from getting copied - obsfuscation may not help much. The standard had it coming.
IIRC if you use Emscripten to compile Bullet instead of using Mandreel (the closed-source compiler they used), it's faster in FF than Chrome. Probably explains the choice of a closed source tool there.
I'm not much of a movie person, but I agree with what was said earlier about it not being clear how everything works.

For example, I click on rankings and have no clue how the rankings are determined. I click on a movie and I'm not sure what the additional features of OnLify are, so I'm not compelled to sign-up.

For something like this, I think integrating Facebook/Twitter is a good way of sharing because people can share their recommendations for movies via their own personal networks. However, be careful not to spam people.

Making it clear what OnLify does and how it does it would help a lot. Hope this helps!
I have Ubuntu with my X1 (less than a year old but not carbon). While it works great from a drivers standpoint, the trackpad is extremely messed up. My only dislike for the laptop is the poor trackpad. Other than that it's solid.
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The "diffuculty" of solving the hash is automatically adjusted by the network so that, on average, 6 blocks are discovered every hour.

edited for clarity.
Seems needless, as though it is easy and obvious to discount all technical knowledge because of an association with a once-popular, now-declined site that failed for reasons precious few to do with their technology or ability as developers.
Asus Zenbook Primes seem to be a very high quality Ultrabook series as well (be wary of the differences between 32VD/32A and 31 models)

Also, the Zenbook Primes mostly have 1920x1080 resolutions. While the X1 Carbon was upgraded from a pitiful 1366x768 to a 1600x900 resolution, it's a shame they are still a bit backwards on that. I'm wondering what people think on the 1600x900 vs. 1920x1080 issue and how much of a difference it makes.
Maybe he wants some constructive criticism?

But does he get that a) people are short on time, b) if your code looks/feels like it's too much work to review, the reviewers may procrastinate, and c) no one is actually obligated to accept your unsolicited contribution?

I feel like, pre-Github, this anger would be happen of the course of a few e-mails on a mailing list, and then instantly put in check by a more mature person. There would be no misconceptions in your feelings toward the project, and vice versa -- you could either take it or leave it.

Now, it just builds and festers, until it comes out in a blog post, where probably zero of the original parties even see the concern.

Can we bring back mailing list flames?
So because Digg ultimately got sold it automatically means the dev's didn't know what they were doing? You are correct, you are snide.
Here is the package being opened:

http://www.tv2.no/nyheter/innenriks/pakken-er-aapnet-oj-oj-o...
The network modifies the difficulty of finding a block, to keep the average time close to 10 minutes. Right now it's 2,190,866 times as hard as when the network launched.

eta: Each block is based on the "winner" of the previous block. So you can't skip ahead, because you can't know the "winner" of the current block. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Block_chain
You have to understand that certain applications are prone to be "cloned" - there is 7B people on the planet and there is big chance if something is successful and can be easily cloned WILL BE cloned.

It really does not matter if it is Chinese or not. If your thing is REALLY successful then Samwer brothers will clone it.
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Its true and actually the best concise summary of bitcoin mining I have read. All miners are in a race to find the valid hash for the block they are working on. The first miner to find the hash wins the block and gets 50 coins. The system as a whole notes how long its taking miners to find the hash and adjusts the difficulty of the winning hash based on this speed. So in actually blocks are won in a little less or a little more than 10 minutes and the system adjust to keep the time as close as possible to 10 minutes.
That makes me wonder.. why are miles and points programs exempt?

Because the miles and points are non-transferable and not exchangeable for cash.
Thanks for the clarification, I thought the hash difficulty was updated much less frequently. The word "random" is still very misleading, as your chances would still be determined by your mining power.
Thank you for the advice about the marketing message. Any idea's about a better point?

I wasn't aware that Bitbucket also offered merge requests, I've remove that sentence. Thank you for the correction.
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You raise valid points about Angular's complexity and lack of documentation.

This is why I also mentioned knockout.js

Knockout is more explicit than Angular, it's well documented, and the tutorials are just amazing.

I used to be in the "dynamic" crowd, but now I'm starting to lean towards the "explicit is better than implicit" philosophy, so I'm somewhat torn between Angular and Knockout. I'm choosing angular - like you said - for the low barrier of entry but if it turns out to be complicated I will probably switch to Knockout.js

However, I don't see any reason why I should use Backbone. What exactly does it provide? I don't see it providing anything useful to me.
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point taken and I whole-heartedly agree. But I wish the programmers could take that one extra step (those 10-30 extra minutes) and make it unique.
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A recent article here elaborated on this: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/134760-pc-obsolescence-... (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4412905)
Nice informative post. I also read your post, "How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA". How is this legal? And how/who do you pay taxes?
The definition of 'valid' is adapted by the system so that on a long term average the rate of new solutions is one per ten minutes.

(The mental model of 'brute force a valid hash' is often unhelpful. Most people think of "given Y find a specific X such that H(X)=Y", Bitcoin is more like "Given P,B,T find any X,Y such that H(Time||P||H(B||X)||Y)<T")
Actually its not legal in the US, as part of the original Federation of states and later under 31 U.S.C Sec 5103 the United States has held that it is not legal to conduct business within the United States with any currency other than US Dollars. When pressed, the rationale generally relies on protecting consumers from fraud, and preventing money laundering and other financial crimes. Back in the mid 70's, growing up in Las Vegas, I got to experience this first hand when the Treasury Department swooped in and put a stop to people using Casino chips [1] as a casual currency.

However, given the way that Bitcoin works, I really wonder if governments do want to shut it down. This may be controversial but it seems with the blockchains the psuedo anonymity of bit coin that the transaction history (if its used primarily for crime) is creating something of a map of nodes as to who the 'big' guys are and who the 'little' guys are. This isn't an 'id' based strategy more along the lines of 'where has this bitcoin been' and then tracing all of them to see how they flow. If all you do is download transaction blocks once a day and note which coins have transacted, then compare that with the coins you find in the wallet of the guy you just arrested, it might leak more data than you would hope. Pure speculation though, based on how current law enforcement identifies criminals by watching bank balances change.

[1] They had great properties, you could take them into any casino and get their face value in dollars.
Every client that I've ever worked with has asked for a huge degree of customizability: drag-n-drop widgets, WYSIWYG content editing, themes, etc.; invariably, none of it ever gets used.
Or you could just use BitBucket.
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I was simply summarizing. Here are your exact words:

"3. The problem is that the remaining 20% can take you at your word, demand a refund, explain that the book was lost in a fire, and succeed in wiping out your profit.

4. Worse, someone might say your claim moved your book from the category of an ordinary caveat-emptor purchase, to a guarantee of success, and demand consequential damages. Very bad, and you made it possible."

With your bulleted list you suggested that 20% of people would take advantage of a return policy (obliterating your presumed 20% profit margin), and on top of that, you might get sued.

If that's not "folly" by your definition, what is?

But because you cried foul, let me be explicit, step by step, with what you "actually" said:

#3. Where's your experience, evidence, or data to suggest that a 20% return rate is common or likely -- even with a results guarantee?

#4. Please provide credible examples of an (e)book author or video course producer being sued for damages above and beyond their refunded money-back guarantee, based on the premise of results promised not being delivered. (Other reasons for lawsuits wouldn't count.)

If you have evidence, I'd really love to see it, because it impacts my business.
As long as it doesn't spew clouds of blue smoke every time you slightly press on the gas pedal. Those cars should be violently scrapped with prejudice! (and all diesel trucks too actually...)
The driver just delivers Nespresso capsules - you can only order them from Nespresso directly online (at least in the UK). Otherwise, you can pick them up from a handful of dedicated Nespresso retail outlets around the UK - where I am presuming you could drop off recycling.
Good point about combining Bitbucket and Github. The interesting thing is that Gitlab is build on open source software so it is easy to transition to your own host when you need custom functionality. But I'm open to suggestions how to formulate that.