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I don't know what's the correct word for this, and even if it will arrive somewhere.

The only thing I know is that there is a problem local businesses and website providers have. And there isn't an efficient solution yet. I've propose a solution so we can discuss it and see if it makes sense. That's where we are now.

About going international, I'm from Spain, so of course I will be the first one interested in having an international "standard". People are already giving suggestions in github!
Without a doubt, a talented developer. He made some very useful libraries. Sad to learn of his passing...
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And of course he leaves out the far more damning day to day problem with the rMBP right now -- many popular non-Apple programs including Word and Photoshop look worse than they do on a non-retina display. Anandtech has the story http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...
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In terms of technology, they are vastly different. In the sense of discovery, market trials and R&D - the Kinect technology is an evolution of the Wii. If Wii did not introduce motion controls, Kinect would not be available. Period. I can validate this claim by the many quotes Microsoft (J Allard, et al.) spewed to the press about what they thought about motion control in video games at the time. This could have easily been Nintendo's argument had they attempted to derail Kinect.
There is no way the average consumer would prefer this. The experience of using technology is rightfully becoming less and less technical. Making everyone have to insert physical memory to install an operating system when they buy a phone would be a huge step backwards.
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It cost's over 20k to launch a Cubesat it often costs far less than that to build them. Build costs and R&D can be hard to separate, but the replacement costs for many generic satellites are often well below the launch costs.
That looks like a software generator running on Arduino.
Many people are already doing this in their private lives: they use RSS feeds, webpage bookmarks, Instapaper, etc. to consume information when they're ready for it — they "pull" it when they want, rather than have it pushed on them. Pulling information allows them to smooth the flow of information they receive. They get to drink from a water fountain rather than a fire hose.

These services are creating a buffer between the existing push systems and the desired pull system - content is pushed here and cached, then pulled when needed. So the key to this is having a bucket to which you can send everything, and which you can access on demand. For me, my pocket computing device (aka "phone") is my communications bucket.
It's similar in Australia, but Visa and MasterCard debit cards are rapidly becoming far more common (mostly due to the fact that you can use them online, I guess).

Between the fact that those cards can be used without a pin (or even without a signature for purchases under $100), and regular EFTPOS debit cards with a pin can be hijacked by skimmers if you're not careful, I think the best solution is to keep as small an amount of money in those accounts as you can. I rarely have more than $250 in any of my card accessible accounts unless I'm making a large purchase (although annoyingly this isn't much of an option when travelling since you can't rely on having an Internet connection to shift funds).
I think it's pretty safe to say then that the weight just started falling off because you were taking in less calories. That'll happen. I don't think there's any reason to assume that the same thing wouldn't have happened if you had cut out fats or protein instead.
>They use legacy, money, ability about equally as admission standards.

No they don't. Harvard, like just about every university these days, has need-blind admissions.

http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/financial_aid/inde...

As a middle-class high school senior, I would like to point at that Harvard's net price per year for me would be ~$13,000, or roughly half the in-state price of my local state school, the University of Wisconsin (~$24,000). The notion that Harvard favors the rich is BS as far as I can tell. I think it's a bit more likely the rich more consistently pressure and enable their children to prepare.
It sounds like the patent owner took the case personally, made every other juror there fantasize about owning patents and being screwed over, and greed won their opinions at the end of the day.
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I can see that, and that is easier talking from my side of the table. However, someone needs to set changes in motion. Spain is extremely corrupt as well and when we opened up in Ukraine 15 years ago we had to pay the fire men (?) and the taxes guys a few 100 hryvnia every time they came by so they wouldn't actually close the company down. Bribing everyone was required to run anything in Lviv. It's not that bad in PT/ES.

If enough people persist though, changes happen. If no one does it, it stays the same. At least longer. And I know not all think like that; I made great entrepreneur friends in PT who run great companies with great people. They are changing things. And people are listening; we have coffee and beers with the major and university director and so forth because they need their town to change and they want to stimulate this change all they can. A lot of people want this, the fact that some are stuck in their ways has to change. If I can contribute 1 millionth of a % to that, I am happy.
Why would that be a problem? End users already deal with sim cards on a regular basis. With the iphones, end users need to mentally deal with "microSims" vs full size sims used in other phones.

When you sign up for an account, you get 2 chips. One is a sim card for your telephone account, and the other is a microsd card with the OS of choice.
Can you say more about how this will happen? Do you really think the aftermath of this lawsuit will destroy Apple and Google? Who will take over their massive markets?
Yes, humans got to Mars. Just not in person.
> You don't see many new-age programmers learning about low-level details like memory, and i/o.

Is that true? We learn that in first semester, including everything from flip-flops upward to how and why the parts of a CPU function, not matter what you specialize on (medical cs, software engineering, ...). One doesn't pass the first semester without basic understanding of assembly and microcode. People doing technical cs do something more in-depth I think (well, one should at least guess so) and I am not at a renowned university. 345 in the Top 400 ranking done here earlier this year[1].

[1] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/
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size is directly related to performance on the internet and that might be the reason sites not using svg format
I can say html is better than RTF, and I like this syntax more than html. It accepts _style attributes on any tag so I do not encourage command stacking.
The more relevant question is whether you'd be willing to use an image of it in an article about Leonardo?
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The phone manufacturers will be fine. There won't really be any massive damage to their revenue, the only party that will be hurt in the long run is the consumer.
Education is not the problem, it's the solution. Even though there's a lot of brouhaha about educated unemployment, education really pays off in Portugal, compared to countries like Germany and Austria. Studies repeatedly show that the more educated you are (at least below Phd level), the better your life outcomes are, both in terms of years employed and of lifelong earnings.

I agree however that we made the educational mistake of putting all eggs in one basket by declaring university education as the universal goal. Perhaps a dual education model such as the German one would help in that respect.
YAML is the easiest combination of human and machine readable that has been implemented (so far).

http://yaml.org/
There are a few interesting things at work here.

Gittip seems highly popular amongst Python contributors at the moment. The top four, other than the Gittip founder himself, are all primarily Python devs[1] and will make $2,400 per year (~$50 per week) from Gittip if it remains steady.

I wonder if Gittip is more popular within the Python community currently or if this is just a skew in the numbers. I do know that Armin has been encouraging people through Twitter to use Gittip if they feel his work is useful. I'd be interested to see if/when Gittip becomes more popular in other programming circles and what impact that has on payments.

The other thing is that >$2,000 is actually a significant amount of money. It moves past "beer money" to "helps with rent" money and I expect this figure to continue to rise over time, especially for star OSS contributors. On top of that, it's also a form of social validation, especially when it is received when one gives their time freely with no expectation of a return.

Over time I think we'll find Gittip will encourage encourage and enrich the existing open source software model, not destabilise it as some people fear. Imagine if successful start-ups decided to give a few dollars to the creators of the software they use to make money. When your company is pulling in $10k per month, giving $50 per month (~$10 per week) to the creator of [core library] seems obvious and beneficial to both parties.

[1]: jnoller (Python/CPython), kennethreitz (Python Requests/Python for Humans), mitsuhiko (Flask/Jinja2), alex (Django,PyPy,CPython),
That's the first thing that came to mind as I read the article. More info:

http://genius.cat-v.org/erik-naggum/xml-sgml-nml-lisp
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What is the point of this? Obviously, 4000 > 3000 > 2000. Of more interest might be a head-to-head comparison of the performance of these processors under Linux versus Windows.
>I don't think people believe that "realistically" to that afterlife, including religious people. Else they would not be sad at funerals.

No, most probably don't believe believe in the afterlife, but they escape the reality of the situation by pretending, and if you point out that they are pretending, they will actually become more convinced that they truly do believe in an afterlife.

Arguably, though, they would still cry at funerals even if they did really believe, just as you might cry when a friend or family member leaves and you have no idea when you will see them again.

>Actually it's a common theme in philosophy and religion, far for a "silly thing to say".

Religion and philosophy are full of very silly things to say. My point is that there is no basis for the claim that the approach to death is the "ultimate test". "Ultimate" in what sense?

>And people that couldn't accept that cycle made society hell.

Evidence, please.

>Nothing infantile about it.

Roughly everything you said after this sentence is inaccurate, but more importantly it is all completely irrelevant. Whatever guidance religions may provide about morality will not change the fact that they also provide the primary approach to handling death for most of their adherents. And that approach is to hide behind fanciful lies and ridiculous stories built to replace the terrifying realization that your life is finite and can end at any moment, really and forever, with the feel-good belief that when you die, you will get to go and see everyone who died before you and spend eternity with blah blah blah.

You know how misguided parents sometimes tell their kids, when a dog has to be euthanized, that they are taking him to a "new home" where he will "play in the yard every day with all of the other dogs"? That's exactly how most religious people approach death, except in their case it is self deception rather than lying to a kid.

And if that's how they want to cope with it, that's fine. But don't try to tell me that it's "sophisticated".
Honestly, the numbers for several of us (myself included) have well surpassed funding our beers with friends. Which is amazing, a little bit scary, and incredible. Unfortunately that leaves me in this awkward position where it's not enough to replace my day job, but it's a large enough sum of money that I want to do something with it, specifically something related to my open source work. If people are willing to try to fund my work, they should get their money's worth, even if it's not my full time job. For now what I'm considering doing is trying to use those funds to travel to various conferences I wouldn't ordinarily make it to.

But I'm interested in hearing what people "tipping" think. What do you guys want me (us) to do with this money until it's a full time salary?
Some of that energy turns into heat every time the photons hit something, but heat is a mix of kinetic energy and light so you do get a fraction of that light bouncing around indefinitely, it's just not in the visible spectrum.

Think of it like dropping a ball an a hard vs soft surface. In both cases things bounce. Even on a hard floor the ball stops bouncing after a while, and in both cases the ball / floor / air get's get's warmer from the balls energy.
First of all, No GPL violation here. The BIOS rom is licensed under LGPL, as long as you do not build it in the executable, you are not violating anything. Users can replace this component freely.

The disk image is formatted with "/S" option. I am not sure if that counts as shipping DOS.
I'm not sure who this is aimed at, open source software developers seem to fall into two major categories:

- employees at a company working on or using specific open-source software

- passionate individuals (sometimes small groups, usually after an original author gets a following)

The former are already paid, and the latter aren't in it for the money. The psychology of money is such that when you introduce money into the equation it becomes a "job", and people treat it as such. e.g. Would you help a friend move house for free? Yes. What if they paid you $3? No...?

Who is this product for, and how will it avoid this paradox of getting more out of people for "free" ?
Most phone users never see their sim card. It's installed for them, and they never have occasion to take it out. Having something removable that's put in by the provider, as phone sims usually are, could be fine, but it's not so different from how things are now. The number of people who will want to switch OS on the same phone is probably quite small.

I'd bet most people don't even think about the existence of an OS. The software is just part of the thing they bought.
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I stand corrected. The device is more of a physical/hardware token generator than a phone or computer in that it's stand-alone. Phones with radios permanently switched off or computers without network access are probably as secure.
This. That said, since the OP is already a developer I would think he has sufficient base to dive into a RoR project should he desire.

Perhaps if his domain were radically different (say, embedded systems) he would need to explore the fundamentals of web application architecture before putting together a rails app.

That said, I still remain on team "learn the fundamentals", and have yet to find a truly compelling reason to take the "grok as you go" approach. Maybe I'm just stubborn.
This – in some form – is probably a good idea. Recently, I've worked on a few Business Improvement Area projects and one of the hassels for BIAs is keeping up-to-date information for each business (i.e., hours of operation, services, description, etc). So, this type of implementation would be great.

I think what I really get from this is that each business needs some form of public API.
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The difference is normal users are able to use this more easily when used as a markup language. People use parenthesis all the time as a delimiter for their ideas (they do this sometimes). So telling them to {i do this sometimes}, isn't much of a stretch when they want to change tones or context of what they say. If you know html, this is pretty much the same thing but with {tag content} instead of {tag}content{/tag}. Not a lot of memorization involved and if I allow any tag then it's the same set of html tags plus the syntax transformations I've added. There is no source. It's not quite finished, and even so, the source is in erlang. Not the most common of languages.
Very well written, honest and so true, I can relate so much, reminds me of this excellent post: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-y...
An article by Cal Newport goes into depth on when "just get started" makes sense, and when it's a bad idea: http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/blog/getting-started-is...
In US courts, you can't ordinarily introduce new evidence on appeal. You can argue that the trial court made errors in applying the law, but if those errors involved excluding evidence, the most you can expect out of that is another trial. (And even that's pretty rare; if they were counting on being able to do that, it's a hell of a gamble.)
ah, i forgot about bigrams - that's a really great idea. I wonder if it's packing a huge machine learning library though... wouldn't that take a ton of space? I saw in another comment that it takes a while to start up - maybe that's why
ChuckMcM made a post recently that was the most profound thing I've ever read on HN. I'm going to post the link here so you can shower Internet Points on him:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425364
I was very happy to see Armin's weekly go over $50. Those are some premium beers, and lots of friends to drink them with right there.

But more generally, I tip because you and people like you empower me. You don't tell me what to do with your software, I make it work for me however I can.

I can't see why this sentiment can't work the other way around. In fact, getting you to more conferences sounds great – much better than what I'd be able to come up with myself, and suggest.

Which is sort of the way it works with the software you people are making. :D
Hmmm....

Yes the range is better than other electric cars but half the article is about range anxiety. Maybe not the best link title.
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This is the equivalent of a border skirmish to Apple. It has a little more impact on Samsung, but certainly not enough to do any permanent damage. That's why all companies involved persist. Do you really think that if this were some kind of existential threat they wouldn't settle?
They do allow code generation, and that's precisely the problem. You end up with these ridiculously bloated files, most of the code of which hasn't ever even been looked at by a human.

But generating getters and setters based on fields is putting the cart before the horse. You're right, it is very important for your classes to have a stable, clean public API that's distinct from the private implementation. But if that public API is intended to expose data at the field level, then just expose the fields without confusing the issue. If you don't want to expose the fields, then don't.

Having private-but-not-really fields with a lot of auto-generated getters and setters doesn't help you provide a clean, small API: instead, it bloats the public API. Also, it obfuscates what's actually happening... is a getter just a simple data value, or is it doing a bunch of complicated shit behind the scenes? And if it is doing a bunch of complicated shit, just make it a regular method on the public API, not a getter that's logically tied to a field that the client knows is there.

TL;DR: Fields are fields, methods are methods, auto-generating getters/setters blurs the line in unhelpful ways.
Boom, there we go - that's the term I was looking for. Awesome!
This is naive, this won't hurt much the big guys. It will only hurt small startups trying to enter the market. Samsung, Google and Apple can afford this fight. Google already paid over $10b for motorola and is already using that to sue Apple. They'll keep doing that until Apple is cornered to cross license its patents. Just like Apple and Microsoft did. Eventually, Apple, Google and Samsung will have cross licensed patents and will stop suing each other. Life will go on.

But small startups who can't afford the dozens of billions of dollars these companies are spending to keep Apple off. Those are the ones who will be hurt. Next time an innovative startups tries to disrupt anything Apple is doing. They'll be put out of business because they use pinch to zoom. And this trial has set precedence in Apple's favor. This result is terrible for any small app developer. You should be worried about them, not Apple or Google.
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You're distributing files copyrighted by Microsoft, namely msdos.sys, io.sys and possibly command.com (IIRC you could override it by setting the SHELL environment variable in config.sys).

They may be small, but they since pack the core functionality of MS-DOS, I don't know if a fair use defense would fly...

You should also distribute the source of the BIOS with the app (because Apple is the distributor, not you).

Otherwise, very cool project. Is your x86 emulator available somewhere? What will differentiate it from DOSBox?
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these torrent sites seem to have a business model that makes them money, even a profit. what prevents larger media companies from adopting this proven(?) business model?
If you do not consider the Wii a success then I wonder what it takes to reach that level for you. Everything I've read was that Nintendo made money on each Wii sold since day one. According to Wikipedia the Wii has outsold both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 by a significant margin. I would also say that most likely Nintendo has never made that much money from third-party games (I'm sure there are exceptions), for them the money is in their first-party games on their hardware. Regardless of your personal feelings towards the console itself, saying it isn't a success seems just wrong.
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Some days ago I posted this link: http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html These word sum it up for me:

"In making this statement about their awareness of past work, I am not criticizing Westerman, the iPhone, or Apple. It is simply good practice and good scholarship to know the literature and do one's homework when embarking on a new product. What I am pointing out, however, is that "new" technologies - like multi-touch - do not grow out of a vacuum. While marketing tends to like the "great invention" story, real innovation rarely works that way. In short, the evolution of multi-touch is a text-book example of what I call "the long-nose of innovation.""

The link also provides a nice overview of the history of touch.
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