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In reality, whenever a brand enforces to not allow software that can use the hardware in perfectly normal expedients, it isn't just "protecting" customers from being "fired".
It is simply enabling abusive carrier behaviour and that is a negative when you consider its data pseudo-segmentation those charging practices are built upon.

"Apple enabling features or apps that get you fired won't win them any fans other than hardcore technical folks that want to live on the edge." <- that looks lifted from a 90's hacker movie. You have this passive aggressive streak that cuts your reasoning off just when you would be able to identify a brand/carrier plot to squeeze customers income while the tech could be used without over charging for pseudo differentiated services. But whatever rocks your boat, if you like thinking of it like a big-brand protecting you from the big bad carrier, go ahead. Let a brand that allows for this sort of thing have a free pass, it's your call.
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The sad thing is that Click To Play still breaks websites. I think SoundCloud (Flash) was the one where I gave up last time. I use Safari for day-to-day browsing now and open Chrome when I need to use anything infective (Java, Flash, Facebook, Google, ...).
The "force" upgrade everyone is talking about is an optional thing. You will be able to go into the settings and turn that off (specifically for corporate use).
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CrashPlan. Admittedly I'm more of a developer, but I have installed it on a few consumer PCs to use them as a source and sink of backups.
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Dramatic, and makes broad unsubstantiated claims about API's "in the wild", but the details are right. His most important point that we as API writers can work on is the "discovery" part. Hardly anyone is doing HATEOAS [1]. I think the reason for this is that if you write a public API, you're going to document it well (or nobody will use it), and good documentation kind of alleviates the need for in-service discovery.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
So it looks like you can get a Zenbook Prime that's very similar to the $1099 MacBook Air for $900, but yes, with somewhat better specs.

It looks like a competitive laptop, although I'd have to hold one in my hands to really know. Looking at the pictures I'm guessing that the trackpad would drive me crazy (I don't understand why other manufacturers have so much trouble here, although Vizio seems to have done a nice job with their new line of laptops in this department -- no separate buttons for one). I'd also be trading OS X for Linux (or Windows), would would be a pretty serious compromise for me[0].

Anyway, yes, the mind can justify whatever it wants, but I don't feel like I have to do a lot of work to justify spending an extra $200. That's substantially less than a day's gross pay if you've got a typical US software engineering job.

[0]: I'm no stranger to Linux. I ran it exclusively from 1999-2004, and I have a Linux dev desktop at work. Out of the box I strongly prefer OS X, if for nothing other than the consistency of keybindings across software (including third-party). I could (and have) customized my Linux config to be more consistent, although some things are not easily tweaked.
yep. Ant-protocols have been studied to death. Not sure what is new here.
I completely agree.

As I get older, I find the abstractions to be much more interesting; how does one express a lambda in assembly? Functional programming in general? The simplicity of Python and the beauty of Lisp / Scheme / f# keep me going as a programmer.

I wonder, as assembly languages become more complex and malformed with the introduction of ARM and all of the headaches of custom architectures, if there won't be more people moving to the higher level, just for sanity's sake.
Looking the site quickly, I could not understand the proposal. What's ego-project?
jgc does that: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/04/gaga-1-flight.html
This is an excellent and insightful overview of REST both the good and the bad. It's the Hypermedia API problems that stand out the most to me here. It's definitely the unicorn of the whole thing.
Regarding the leading quote: is there a name for that sort of joke/device? It seems common enough to have a name, but I'm not sure how to google it.
By simply touching an ego-compliant object with any part of your body, you initiate a wireless pairing between the said object and eGo using the Intra-Body communication technology. eGo is a highly secure device you wear that can be produced in any form factor (e.g. watch, belt, jewel,...) All it needs is to be in close proximity to your body.
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Maybe it would be a huge experiment in redundancy fault-tolerant computing.
Perhaps you may find it gross to understand why US has been able to spend well beyond its means - Does dollar denominated trade ring a bell?
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"Don't fail to forget to back up you're databases."
How do these filaments stay stable and not collape under their own gravity due to instabilities? Or, if there is 0 net force causing them to collapse, why doesn't the dark matter drift apart naturally and become less dense and more diffuse over time? Either way, filaments of high density don't seem to be a natural stable state. Can someone explain this?
there isn't one. you pay to play with your information instead of with money, there is no 'play without paying' button, just like there is no 'steal' button in itunes.
To be fair that was pretty much the same thing said about Fermat's Last Hypothesis until Wiles got cheeky in 1994 and made a hundred-page margin.
...This raises questions about that other article that claimed everything had to be specially hardened to withstand radiation, no?

I had always assumed that was the case and the article text was obvious, but if we can launch off the shelf Android devices into space with no problems then why are the other NASA projects utilizing such out of date hardware?
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There's no such thing as "near free". Free is a boolean variable, either it is free or it is not free.

Apple does not distribute any free tools to develop and run software for their systems, period. If you want to be a free hacker, it's Linux or Windows, currently. And as another person responded to you, you cannot use the UI elements via javascript and all. Get some docs, seriously.
It would also be about size. If they can fit 10 satellites in the space used by a typical one it would make launch a lot more cost-effective.
I signed to AngelList: https://angel.co/ , so I recommend to you post your service there too.
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His answers are shallow because they can be. The application was just a formality for the sake of show. He was guaranteed admission based on family connections.
what's crazy is that privacy conscious people still use facebook. if you don't want your personal information posted on the internet, don't post it on the internet.

or, i guess, you could share your personal information with a third, totally unknown and untrusted party, in the hopes that they'll protect you from facebook.
The Django Book, though great, is ridiculously out of date - the print version is written for Django 0.96, the incomplete web version is for Django 1.0, and Django 1.4 was just released.

It's a great resource, and was very useful to myself when learning Django back in the day, but the regular Django docs have far surpassed it on my made up usefulness scale.
It's not $99 to distribute apps. It's $99 for putting software you wrote on any device, including the one you purchased and own. Yes, it may be still less than the cost of dev tools for other archaic platforms but please don't spin this as Apple doing a favor to the community.

The iOs toolchain is business friendly (in that it's great for developers using it to make a living) but its absolutely not hacker friendly or tinkerer friendly in any reasonable way.
Surely the phone is going to be radiation-shielded inside the satellite. I see no critical contraction here...
"Phones were always locked down heavily ?"

Ah, you must not have lived through the PDA-phones age. That's a good 5-10 years even before the iPhone came out.
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Point? Is that rationale supposed to serve as justification for nepotism?

We should be creating institutions that have systems which will not respond to nepotism. Harvard is the precise opposite of this, with nepotism being one of its most sacred causes.
How's the clickpad? How about SSD performance? Does Mint handle the app switching pretty well compared to OSX's Expose/Drag-Drop?

These things in a 2010 MB Air, where you wouldn't expect it, were unparalleled. When I spend 10+hrs a day on a device, I need it to have flawless input devices, and the Apple products seem to deliver the best (OSX req'd for best integration).
Thanks. However, I think betali.st only accepts startups that are for a better word not "complete" i.e. in beta stage. In any event, we did submit and didn't get a response.
You then should have sold your AAPL the day Apple started suing Samsung.

How is the outcome of this particular case affecting your reasoning in any way?
Isn't a patent by its very definition "technical" in nature? Thereby requiring some technical know-how of the patents in question to adequately judge the case?
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It's a chrome extension that lets you save products you like by simply dragging and dropping the product image to a bar that pops up when you start dragging. It's a shopping bag for the entire internet. So far the people that have used it love the way the dragging works unlike the traditional bookmarklet approach. I built it with a good friend and great UX designer @jesseddy.
Well, the particles also have no way to radiate away energy, so the dark matter particles just whisk around each other under the gravitational force.

You can check out something like this on your computer

http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_ch31.html

To see what pure 1/r^2 interactions look like. You can download the simulations from here:

http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-toolkit-40
How pervasive is Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber and Foster the People, Gotye, Fun., etc, etc.

In summary: very.
It can be hard to mix for-profit and non-profit activities.

If everyone on a joint project is in a for-profit mode, competing within the limits of reputation, ethics, and the law to advance their own interests, then people generally figure the dynamic tension balances out. Everyone gets what they need or deserve, or the participants will move along. And, if someone manages to make out with a bit more, well, good for them, everyone was trying for the same.

If the joint project has non-profit characteristics, or some participants are maximizing a cause rather than their own financial interests, then every bit of profit can become suspect. How much is the right amount? Couldn't that be ceded to the cause? At some level there's a 1-for-1 tradeoff of profits-vs-monies-raised. People understand and tolerate that sort of zero-sum division-of-surplus competition in the for-profit realm, but that same dynamic can be toxic to the motivations of those donating effort for a cause/community. ("I donated my time and money so that company X could have a another record quarter?!?")

Those considering a for-profit startup to service non-profit causes/entities should keep this in mind: there may be a rather low cap on how profitable you can become before partners start to suspect your motives and margins.

The problem can be somewhat avoided if there's a large competitive market for the services with understood prevailing rates. In such a case, each side can take a more arm's-length/take-it-or-leave-it attitude towards the other, trusting the market prices as roughly 'fair'. (The non-profit doesn't mind paying a provider with competitive rates; the for-profit provider could easily serve other for-profit or non-profit buyers with the same capacity.) This didn't seem to be the case for Palotta Teamworks' fundraising projects: each party seemed completely dependent on the other, making the entire profit-margin-vs-program-revenue pie-splitting open to review and mutual suspicion.
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heh, I believe you meant raise a toast to Neil. But that said, you're absolutely right, it could have been one of many other people. But having been that guy, I don't know that evoke else would have sacrificed so much, purposefully, as to not taint what he accomplished with the shortcomings and shortsightedness of man. It's bern said in documentaries that his willingness to be an icon was intentional. And as much as I value that, you're right. The way to do so is to remember what he was a symbol of.
> If you had the option of buying an iPhone with a 4.65 inch, high resolution screen that still managed to be comfortable to use with 1 hand, would you still prefer the smaller version?

> If so, your choice would be a personal preference that has nothing to do with functionality...

Really? Would you say the same thing to someone buying a small car over an SUV? That the SUV is always a better ride, the only reason you would ever want something smaller is "personal preference"?

I doubt it. We can all see the benefits in a small sleek car over a clunky SUV but even though the benefits of a smaller phone are basically the same, they're lost on us. More efficient on fuel, more compact and easy to wield, speedier, sportier, overall a much nicer product.

Bigger wheels and a bigger car don't make a better drive. Likewise a bigger frame and bigger screen don't necessarily make for a better phone experience, unless that's what you're looking for.
I found the cheat sheet annoying. Doing all requests over GET is not acceptable, especially deletes. The jury is still out on GET/POST vs GET/POST/PUT/DELETE. I don't see any problem with file extensions. After all, that's how the web has worked from the very beginning. Hard to do discovery without any guidance on format. Version numbers are not very RESTful and I don't care for them. Spend a little extra design energy to avoid the need for versioning. Static URLs are sort of necessary absent better discovery mechanisms. He skips the notion of returning a resource address as a "Location" upon creation.
In service discovery is just convenient. With SOAP libraries, using a web service is as easy as 2-3 lines of code. The library handles loading the wsdl file, generating functions with appropriate parameters, sending requests and parsing response and exception handling. Without this ability, it's a lot more code.

It's not necessarily harder, but it's more code nevertheless.
Right but if we can just simply "radiation-sheild" off the shelf devices, why didn't we do that instead of custom building a robot made of specifically radiation hardened parts that are also much more expensive?

Why was the most important consideration by far for the processor in the previous NASA project was designed from the ground up to be radiation-hardned, but yet we can launch this no problem?

I just don't get it. I also don't appreciate the downvotes. I'm not trolling or looking to start an argument. I don't have dog in this race, I'm genuinely confused.
Apple holds on to ideas until it declares yesterday's crown jewel garbage.

Remember the funeral of classic Mac OS?

All will be dead in time.
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>look for locally-owned independent gyms

This isn't good advice. The locally owned ones are often even more desperate and willing to go the extra mile to defraud you. The idea that small businesses are more honest than big ones is a complete myth. Most of the time it is the reverse: big corporations have more to lose.
Arbitration can occur at any time during a dispute/lawsuit, sometimes ordered by a judge, or agreed to by the parties in their own settlement negotiations.
> GWB's yale record and application would be good.

They're available, as were Gore's and Kerry's (both worse that W's) and McCain's. Bill Clinton's don't seem to be, but Hillary's are.

I think that Romney's are as well.
I thought he was talking about an Evil Dead affinity VISA card and I immediately knew I needed one.
> That, in a nutshell, is why scientists won't release ALL the code -- even the hard drive itself is not the whole story; the scientist still needs to be available to explain it and navigate over the red herrings.

If said scientist can't do that, how does anyone know what was actually run?
I know this is sort of a joke, but the Nexus S shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it's been updated to Android 4.1 Jellybean as of July 20th.
It needs a way to browse submissions without registering (unless that's waiting for traction).
Click To Play breaks whenever a 1px Flash embed is used - you can't click what you can't see. I generally whitelist sites I trust (YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps, ETrade etc.) and never have to click on Flash from those sites. Other sites show me Click To Play and 90% of the time, it's ads I want to ignore or the single video link I want to click.
Actually, a lot of smaller things that go up just go into reboot cycles when they detect that kind of error.

Because at the end of the day, "Radiation hardening" just means, "Less likely to experience one of these errors but oh hey a solar flare is inc..." Satellites just sort of float until their orbit decays, they are de-orbited, or they are lost.

You wouldn't do this for a spy satellite you need to send you images of the sky in realtime for end-of-the-world missile guidance, but for something that's doing science missions it's probably way more important to make something light and cheap that a russian mission can drop out the back of its launch.
And that why its so important that you can not sell and change the ownership, control of a community driven software project. So the community is sure that not one person can sell the projects efforts from all community members. MySQL could be sold bcs it was controlled by one person same as with Linux, Drupal,... and in contrary to ie examples like Joomla that set up a legal entity to secure Joomla for a l l community members.. http://opensourcematters.org/index.php See and learn from Joomla how they structure their real open source project where all members are guaranteed part of ownership, development and engagement of the project. Start with the legal part to secure your open source project for ever!
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Surely this argument implies you should be a larger fan of linuxes and BSDs? (And of things like Mozilla's mobile platform.)
A good scientific model makes novel predictions (bonus points if unexpected), then we later confirm them through experiment. For example, Einstein's theory of relativity is continually tested in novel ways -- predictions are made using the mathematics then confirmed via experiment.

The challenge means that current computational neuroscience models by and large are mainly descriptions of the data we've gathered and seldom are able to extrapolate beyond that. Somewhat embarrassingly, perhaps the field's biggest success in achieving a deeper understanding is what bootstrapped it 60 years ago -- the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Admittedly, neuroscience is extremely challenging and our experimental techniques are still relatively primitive. However, having testable, predictive models is essential to moving the field forward.
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Annoying or not, its a fairly accurate description of the state of APIs. I agree about the all GET setup, although I've never actually seen that in the wild (seems pretty dangerous). I personally have no problem with using POST for all endpoints with side effects, though opinions certainly differ there.
> I'm suggesting that they could only hire 10X programmers and pay them 2X more.

Why do you think that Google/Apple/Facebook don't pay 10X programmers >2X more?

In my experience, admittedly at other companies, the 10X programmers do make a lot more. Yet there's still more work and more money to spend. What should they do with that work and money?

You're making a lot of claims about salary structures. Where are you getting your information?

What software engineering organizations do you have experience with?

I ask because I'm beginning to suspect that your actual knowledge in this area is even less than that of the typical Harvard Business Review author....
Full disclosure: I'm a vegetarian. Another bonus of this choice is health. My wife and I made it through various third world countries without food poisoning as the travelers around us fell Ill. It could be coincidence, but considering that it was the only dietary difference, I doubt it. Well cooked vegetables only. It's worth considering when food safety is an issue.
I'm not convinced. Shielding against cosmic rays would require very heavy, thick lead walls to get any significant protection.
I wonder how the recently-acquired Samsung mindshare will affect this particular iPhone's sales. I imagine the die hard fans will purchase the latest version with an increased sense that Apple is the righteous"original" and the best way to spend money on a phone, like always, while there will be a minority who have taken a look at the Samsung Galaxy S2 or even the S3 and would actually pause to do a side-by-side comparison. I hope that the latter category of consumer increases and dents iPhone sales.
Windows hacker? Finding information about system internels is more often then not an easter egg hunt on google.
Do you really think that selling licensing is the only financial benefit to a legal monopoly?
This will not work - Check my solution below :)

document.getElementsByTagName returns a DOM Node List and it does not have forEach method according to the DOM spec. DOm Nodes, Elements and Node Lists and Node Maps do not follow the javascript spec (ECMAScript) hence do not share methdos and properties. A Dom Node List does not have the methods of the javascript array. That is because DOM Node List does not inherit from the Array.prototype, because it is not javascript - it has its own spec that exactly determines what methods and properties it should have. The implementation in the browser happens to be accessible through javascript but that does not mean that the DOM is part of javascript. That is why wrapper libraries like jQuery or other abstractions are necessary to make the DOM much more accessible from a JS perspective. BTW that is why many people confuse DOM with javascript and then get frustrated which is understandable.
Thank you for writing that. I've been struggling with this for quite a while and your pointers can help me be someone more clever than a brute-force code-monkey. :)
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Maybe in this case it's cheaper to just send them up and measure it directly? It won't survive much TID, either, but with such a short mission and such cheap hardware, hopefully none of that matters.
What about the intensive questioning on how you get protein. I do t think I've every asked anyone anything like this. Is there anything more boring?
In the iOS app, you can change the order by tapping 'edit' and then by drag and drop. The 'edit' button usually works if you tap and cancel the '+' button first.
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I also thought of Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" http://youtu.be/s1u7A3sEnPY
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