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When Google first announced this project, I thought "Heh, good luck with that." I know they are quite creative and immune to traditional negativity, but having worked to get fiber between buildings and data centers you begin to realize just how deep that rabbit hole goes.

First and foremost we've got Cities, totally strapped for cash and unable to get new taxes through, seeing everything from recyclables you throw out to the tree in your front yard (that they planted) as a potential source of revenue. That does not lead to a lot of concessions, rather that leads to forcing you to re-stripe your handicap spots with the latest shade of blue and paying for an inspection.

Then we've got incumbents, these are the people who by virtue of being first, or formerly part of the bit telephone monopoly, or part of a cable monopoly, have existing infrastructure in the ground and pre-agreed rights of refusal or say over what goes in near, next to, or through their stuff.

Then we've got the 'drillers' the folks with the equipment to lay cable which require various specialize bits, who are the only ones who can get the necessary permits through because they've been doing it for years and they know how to 'work the system'.

One of the only other benefits of Fracking aside from lower natural gas prices, is that a cable installer can now drill a mile horizontally, 500 to 1000' below ground while filling in the drill hole with a concrete and steel 'conduit' path. Still hard to drill straight down from a building's MPOE room to meet that pipe but you can do it from the sidewalk. That is some cool stuff right there.

Amazingly hard to do 'simple' things.
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Sure as hell isn't worth it for Ipad2, IMO. I have both, and actually like the Fire much better. Love my old Macbook Pro, but I didn't drink the coolaid on for the ipad. Now when I fly, the ipad stays home, and my Fire goes with me, neatly tucked inside one of the cargo pockets on my shorts.

The larger issue is though, if Apple is first to market, then they charge typical Apple premium prices. So it doesn't make any difference whether you're buying an Ipad2, 3, or whatever. Just be patient and wait for some other pad to come out which is generally just as functional, but will usually always be cheaper.
Personally I'm not too fussed about the success rate of checking who gets into the UK, while I do care about how long it takes me to get home from abroad, so... don't really mind whether it's good security or not.
Twitter is the Benjamin Button of startups.
Was looking for Australia in particular. I was just searching for it and from the search results I thought they are not providing for Australia just yet but clicked on the link you gave me and seems like they actually do.
I made a mess of it also the first couple tries, but ideas came together much easier this time. You're free and welcome to build on our experience, excited to see and help other people that want to.
Sexual organs != gender. Gender is relevant because of the micro- and macro-level issues the programming community has in regards to letting women be a part of that community. That you get defensive when someone does good work to try and help women be a part of the programming community speaks a lot as to why women don't feel that many spaces are not safe for them in tech.
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You can still do \a b -> case (a,b) of ...
You should stop thinking that c is inadequate and do two things:

1-Automate pointer creation so you don't spend time with them.

2-Automate string creation.

The good thing of programming is that you could automate anything. C# just automates it for you by default, but it is not god either.

In fact for platform independence is one of the worst languages to choose(and windows future looks no brighter than its past with iOS and android). You could use c inside Obj c, on c++, on python and java super easy.

It seems to me that "inadequade" is "I don't know enough about programming, and I only know one (proprietary) language, so I want to only use it"
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> How many members of your community are gay? Have red hair? Are left handed.

The data I've seen suggests that the penetration of these minorities in technology closely tracks their representation in society as a whole. Further, there isn't a history of discrimination against redheads and lefties in open source. Discrimination against gay people is a real problem, though it doesn't seem to have prevented equivalent representation of gay people in tech.

But you could make a similar argument about representation of other minorities -- African Americans, say, or Hispanics, or whatever. And it's true, that's a problem too; we should be working towards diversity of all sorts. It's true that I'm focusing my attention of gender diversity, but I'd love to learn more about efforts towards diversity along other axes. Have any pointers?
You missed a critical requirement; the boss wants it written in C because he will be the one maintaining it. That is not something which should be ignored. The boss isn't learning C# any time soon apparently, so write the damn thing in C as he told you to. You are free to try and convince him that C# is the better choice, but if you fail; suck it up, too bad, do your job.
The point is that it's the company that makes the name not the name that makes the company.

So don't spend too much time finding the right name.

I elaborated on this a while back.

http://000fff.org/whats-in-a-name-tips-for-naming-your-start...
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Looks nice! Somehow we've been thinking about similar things — https://www.sharingstate.com/office/News
These guys are going to make a real splash! I went to EDC in Vegas this year and used an App just like this. Kind of a hassle though because I had to DL it to my phone and then delete it later. Web apps would have made a lot more sense. I was also able to make an app (a beautiful one by the way) in about 5 minutes! I had some fun exploring the possibilities beyond those 5 minutes, though ;-)
There is no objective system that can deliver guarantees about subjective quality.
The screens without ads are neither "empty" nor "dull". They show pictures of authors, and have since the very first Kindle.

I do agree with the parent though, ads on the screen don't bother me at all.
"A few months ago, we started developing an app to control an in-house developed test equipment and record a set of measurements. It should have a simple UI, and would likely require threads due to the continuous recording that must take place.
. . .
Our boss . . . has mandated that we develop this application in ANSI C.
. . .
I actually tried that approach for a while. . . . After a few days, I scrapped the entire thing and started anew using C#. Our boss has already seen the program running and he likes the way it works, but he doesn't know that it's written in another language."

I'd have my resume up to date if I were you. Your technical arguments are irrelevant at this point -- you spent a significant amount of time deliberately ignoring the clear instructions of your manager and, apparently, not communicating with him. I would fire you on the spot regardless of the quality of your solution.
Thanks! There were other ways of achieving this, but I went for a solution that didn't require installing apps, learning APIs, creating accounts, etc.
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The author doesn't seem to know what he wants. He complains about ePub using technology that is fourteen years old (which works fine) and then touts a 'no frills PDF' as the solution for a linear fiction novel. A novel doesn't need anything fancier than a 14 year old technology - it's paper version has been using (roughly) the same technology for ~500 years.

He also complains about Apple's App Store and its regional scope and then lump that in with eBooks too. Most ebook sellers don't care where you are buying from, as long as they get paid. I can buy a Kindle book from any Amazon domain and it works on my Kindle fine. Amazon doesn't care about this, Apple is imposing an artificial barrier on his ebooks.
That's awesome. Thank you for the response.

You really need to put "GDB debugging" front and center in the sales copy instead of buried in http://outbreak.co/galago#coding That's going to be the major deciding feature for someone looking to choose between Teensy 3.0 and the Galago. I know which one I'm choosing for my next project. :)
As an MIT grad, and a PhD, I must say.. you've nailed it. Bravo
Wouldn´t it make more sense to build it in Brazil given the potential market?
I don't know that #1 was a mistake. When getting into any new field, it is very hard to tell what is important and what isn't, what is a solution to the problem and what isn't. If you are in school, sure they'll guide you, but if you are self-learning, there is no really good filter. So learn about everything. Take a breadth-first approach. Some of the specifics you learn will be wrong, useless, or otherwise inappropriate. However, getting an understanding as to why they aren't relevant is in fact learning the field.

The more information about a topic you have in your head, the more likely you are to see the connections between subfields, how various bits are important and unique or just ho-hum standard implementations.

I regularly see people in some niche area say "look we have found this amazing new way to handle the data-flood", only to tell them they have reinvented NoSQL or a message queue, or a technique for dealing with matrices that the image processing or simulation folks have been doing for years (and all of them poorly, making recognizable mistakes). A breadth-first overview has much advantage.
Your example is quite telling. Catting a file may be 'useless' in a pure functional sense, but the command has extremely small overhead and aids readability, as you can read the input/output flow from left to right. This is consistent with the rest of the pipeline.

It's also easier to change the first command in the pipeline without having to step over the input argument, again more consistent with the rest of the pipeline.

To avoid the cat, one can write

< file program1 | program2

but in practice, cat adds no noticeable overhead.

As for regexes, I personally find using POSIX regular expressions to be a bit like using vi after becoming familiar with vim. You can get by, but it's crap and there's a reason why people came up with something better. Of course, using complicated features of any language or toolkit without understanding how they work is dumb, but that's not a reason to go back to the 1980s.
One thing that might help is to have an option for Foreman to only manage the apps that are in at least one app group.

In other words, if I don't put terminal into an app group, it doesn't get closed, etc.
{put [role => "admin"] in $account}

Does this mean you have all your view logic inside the templates?
Or, as humans would say that, the cutoff could be the youngest of leaders.

However, that really doesn't answer the problem when you don't define what a leader is. If it's the highest amount of Karma past 7 days, then the youngest leader could even be a day old user. Please respond with solutions, not http wrappers.
Making the claim that everything is objectively worse, back in my day everything was golden, get off my lawn, &c. seems to be easier than introspection for a lot of people. We are not impartial observers, nor are we immutable—we tend to forget that.
This is no fetish.

At some point, a threshold is crossed where a device becomes uncomfortable to hold and interface with. This threshold is different for every situation, but there is a sweet spot where most people think it's easy to interface with (which is why desktop mice are only so small and so big). Many folks think an iPad is fine for reading books, while others require a Kindle, and yet others eschew anything but paperback books.

Weight, dimensions and feel are part of the usability. If you think UX is a fetish, you're ignoring how Apple got to be the biggest market cap company in the world.
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ESR argues that CC-NC is problematic because commercial activity is hard to define in strict terms. I agree with this premise, though CC licensing is hardly the only case where we're facing the problem of defining where commercial activity starts.

That said, for many authors the choice won't be between CC BY-NC and the more permissive CC BY, it's between CC BY-NC and a non-copyleft license. So we might just end up with less content under a free license. I'm not sure if conceptual purity is worth it.
Good info without quackery but why do you call the title element "meta title"?
I agree. The copy comes off as authentic and in a way is refreshing to see. It's just a dude who made an app and is having some fun with it. Good on him.
It took about a day to do it, I guess around 8 or so hours. I'm using Ruby on Rails(pretty much just for the free hosting on heroku). The majority of the work is in Javascript.
The problem is - should we follow this argument all the way? Do you precisely work out the proportion of people of every conceivable group in every team, and cause a fuss when it isn't right? If you don't, what is the reason for that? Why worry about some groups, but not others.

I genuinely think the main reason that people worry about gender, over any other groups, is that it's normally so clear what group people are a member of. And that's not a sound reason to do anything.

I also genuinely think that some men cause a fuss about proportion of women in tech groups, simply because they'd like to meet and be able to hit on more women.
> To play devil's advocate, how much innovation is needed for toothpaste?

Having the market structured such that innovation is rewarded might not be important in toothpaste, but it's really important in technology. Commoditization can kill innovation in a technology market, which is exactly what happened with PCs once Windows reached monopoly market share.
I guess it is. Not for everybody though.

I've played a bit with the initial Fire tablet and I was really surprised with overall UX. Some Chinese "noname" tablets felt like a better option than "this".

Apple has really high standards in producing their products and user experience from store to watching a movie on iPad.
Amazon is good at providing services, but they fail at the overall UX. Maybe that's going to change, maybe HD 8.9 is a huge step forward(i just don't know yet). But for me, the overall experience really matter much more than a price badge on a box.
IMHO.
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Thanks. Given the different platform setups and the fact that this is just a Rails app, I couldn't think of a better way to maintain the simple copy/paste setup without resorting to | sh or a separate install script.
It doesn't happen often, but I disagree with you on this, Thomas.

OP said, "Would love feedback" and king_magic gave it to him.

When someone posts their app here for feedback, we should be ruthless. Nothing, not even the smallest nit, should be safe from scrutiny. Let OP decide how important that feedback is to him, but we should not be holding back how we really feel.

This reminds me of a phenomenon from my fraternity days, when we voted on prospective members. It worked like this: 1. Positive comments. 2. Negative comments. 3. Secret vote. Prospects were often blackballed even though there were no negative comments, and people bitched about that. So what happened as soon as someone made a negative comment? 1. Everyone jumped all over him. 2. Someone would inevitably say, "That's why there are never any negative comments."

If someone asks for feedback, we should fire away. Better they hear it from us than their prospects out there in the real world.

This applies to all apps, even free ones. Remember, it's not "Practice makes perfect," but "Perfect practice makes perfect". king_magic may have done OP a much bigger favor than any of us can see right now.
When did 8.9 = 9.7? Is the writer using republican arithmatic?
And the answer is yes, it's worth 200 more for the apps alone. The nexus 7 hardware is nice, android tablet apps are horrible. But then again, if all you knew was android then it would be OK.
It is one of the worst languages to choose for platform independence, is it? Strange. My application running on Windows (Desktop and Metro), OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, and the PS Vita seems not to have gotten the memo.

And as it happens, I used it not because I'm not able to write C or C++, but because doing so is a waste of effort better suited to doing other tasks.
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EFF has previously examined silk and concluded, "We are generally satisfied with the privacy design of Silk, and happy that the end user has control over whether to use cloud acceleration..."

https://www.eff.org/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%80%99s-new-b...

I don't think showing sites that are trending in aggregate changes anything. This seems like a nonstory.
I don't own a company (yet). But if I were asked, I would probably say "Not enough, that's why I keep working."

I took a business class by the SBA, and while I forgot some of the finer details, the picture was: you shouldn't tell people how much profit you make.
It works here because we only care whether two bits of data are equal -- and a hash function had better preserve that relationship!
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Is your privacy risk through these particular ads really worth $200? In other words, do you think your information would add $200 to the bottomline of Amazon (or whoever is placing those ads)?
"while I'm not the best, I'm usually the best available" love this perspective. gonna keep it in mind
Yes, we should allow male only events.

Why not?

Or do you mean should we prevent women turning up? No we should not allow events that prevent women turning up. But if an event happens to have no women turn up, then so the fuck what?

Are you going to challenge woman-kind why they aren't going? Why would one woman know why every other woman didn't want to attend?
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Monopolies != commodities.

I suppose there are corner cases where they could be, but they're two rather different things.
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Well, you need to know what is out there, and what is possible. So at least skim over some of the technologies. You could waste a lot of time if you didn't know say, Sass, existed.

There's also a timing problem. If you invest now, and learn technology T, then when you are in the middle of developing a project, the marginal cost of using T is very low. But if you are up to your neck in a project, and then need to take a week off to learn T, you are not likely to do so.

Personally, when re-starting my tech career I wish I had learned Java (or any JVM language) over PHP, PostgreSQL over MySQL, and Dojo over JQuery.
Yeah, but perhaps your boss knows something you don't, perhaps he has some amount of wisdom gained through experience that you don't.
Excellent site! Very clean looking and I'm sure it will prove useful, even though there are other methods of doing this. I love that you let us text just "1h20m" and the like. I will be showing this to many of my friends.
It's technical name is 'Meta Title', which helps disguising it from an article's on-page title, which is actually an H1 or H2 tag. Often, please think the meta title is what appears in big letters at the top of an article. While they are often the same, they're set in ways and just wanted to make the distinction.
If I am able to produce much more content on iPad compared to the Kindle Fire HD, then I would answer "yes".
This is really about asymmetric competition. @asymco does a great job analyzing this; that Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, while competitors have fundamentally different business models.

Even if these companies had similar business models to Apple, they would be insane to try to complete with Apple on Apple's terms. This is why Microsoft is not really becoming a hardware company[1] and why Amazon is focusing on 'services' (what I call 'experiences')[2].

[1] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/07/25/a-mouse-and-keyboard-don...

[2] http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/06/07/wanna-compete-with-apple...
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Is this your site? The search page prints PHP code at the top, just so you know.
Full disclosure: I wrote the opinion piece.
Also, it's possible the concept of 'trending now' may not impact user privacy - the whole point of Silk is that pages are partly pre-rendered on Amazon's servers, so it could be implemented as simply as seeing which parts of the cache are being hit frequently.

I don't really know much about how Silk is actually implemented, but it seems like all we know so far is that they're doing at least as much tracking as your ISP already is (and frankly, I find that much more concerning).
I get defensive, if you want to call it that, because I think any attempt to specially encourage one involuntary group is patronising. If a individual woman doesn't want to attend then that's her business. You can't ask woman-kind why none of their group aren't attending because she has nothing to do with the rest of her group.

It's also the grouping that confuses me. You want more women in the community, and so you are encouraging someone to join your community based on an entirely irrelevant property. You only want them because of their gender. You look at them, and see a woman - just that one property. It's objectification, de-humanisation.
This has always bothered me: What use are stereo speakers, when the speakers are closer together than your ears?

The same feature is advertised on a lot of phones too, and I just don't get it. Who cares if two speakers half an inch apart are stereo, they're so close together they're always going to sound mono anyways.
You need to be convinced that a designer is needed in order to pay for it, and you may not need one: If you trust that your product is designed not according to the convenience of the underlying technology (and the computation device) but to match the goals of the [put your target audience here] #1 user Jane (age 21, last year in college, started thinking about her finances, has classes all day, needs to straighten up GPA before graduation, good at math and office software, shares apartment with 2 other people, uses to phone for IM and instagram), and #2 user Hillary (age 58, manager in a paper company, both kids graduated from college, has meetings throughout the week, 5 weeks vacation, heavily depends on her phone for calendar and email).
Aren't some programming celebrities more like rock stars than they are like an average programmer?

They (can) demand high pay.
They tour events and people come to see them.
They get press coverage.
People are excite to download their latest code.
They do creative work and are opinionated about it.

That's not to say that all programmers should try to. E rock stars or that you should put that in a job listing, but there are people in the tech community that have a life more like that of a rock star than that of your average employed programmer.