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Audio speedup either generates chipmunk voice or cuts phonemes. Neither is an acceptable substitute, especially if one has hearing or cognitive issues. Even at 2X audio speed, I can still be halfway down a page while you're finishing the first paragraph thanks to an ability to skim information for keywords.

Personality is inescapable in a video presentation where either body or voice is present, unless the body and/or voice are computer generated. We are hard-wired to read body language or interpret inflection, even though we may be completely wrong.

If you're relying on the user having headphones, that's a mistaken assumption. There are any number of reasons that a person may not have headphones at the moment or ever. I have my own office, so I don't need headphones and I don't use them outside of my own home, in general, because I need to be aware of what's happening in the environment.

The UI for online video is pretty uniform across platforms. Yes, it sucks. To get a better UI with an actual, functioning scrub wheel, I would have to load it in Premiere or AfterEffects. However, the problem of chipmunk voice/missing phonemes applies just as much.

Well-written print documents will generally include a summary near the top that can be skimmed for informational cues in seconds. Furthermore, a standard page can be scanned for the same informational cues to localize the information. You cannot say the same about video.

I can't speak specifically to your Udemy class as I haven't taken it. However, printed course material can be re-read, taking in only the chunks that need to be re-read without having to remember a precise timecode and without having to spend much time in the preceding or following material.
Oh -- I forgot to ask an important question: what happens when you compress the PDF? If you can compress the PDF so it more closely equals the word document in size, the practical difference between them sort of evaporates, at least as to storage size.

To me the advantage of a PDF over a Word document is that the former is now open-source. And it is universally regarded as the "correct" format for technical writing.

> ... I might actually share this idea of your of compressing political speeches to identify the uniqueness in what is said in the speech ;-)

The intriguing part is that it's an objective measure, in a field that's called "political science" but isn't remotely scientific. I'd like to see a thorough study comparing political speeches in this easily conducted, almost automatic way.

Another, perhaps more difficult, study would analyze advertising copy for use of words that have no objective meaning, words that appeal only to emotion. My favorite advertising word is "zesty", a frequently-used word with no information content whatever.
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The problem with aircrafts like these is that helium is slowly but surely becoming a scarce resource on Earth. Here's a somewhat related story about scientists speaking out about using it in balloons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19676639

We could always use hydrogen, which is even lighter and therefore more efficient than helium. There's just the problem with it being highly flammable.
Personally I believe the size has little to do with it. The other factors you mentioned are way more important. The regulation has been handled terribly in the US.
Specifically:

"Under the Securities Act of 1933, a company that offers or sells its securities must register the securities with the SEC or find an exemption from the registration requirements."

Edit: Emphasis and point of my statement "exemption" (see below)

http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

Offering securities is a whole different ballgame then becoming an investor, say, in the pizza shop or web startup. As shown by "friends and family" investing situations.

It depends on size.

http://www.sec.gov/answers/regd.htm

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule504.htm

http://www.sec.gov/answers/rule505.htm

Etc.
This idea seemed obvious too me. In fact that's how I've assumed blimps worked since I first heard about them.

How would they descend otherwise, release helium and reload before taking off?
We need more of this. Podcasts and videos don't work well for me at all and there are far too few transcripts around. The notes and context is going above and beyond right now but it really should be the norm as well.
I agree with posts stating that you should read the docs before using a tool you don't know. But I also think that these two really important points should be mentioned in the Getting Started guide, in bold:
- The 32bit 2GB limitation (seriously when I started with MongoDB I wasn't expecting this!)
- The fire-and-forget policy

These are really not points to be discovered in chapter whatever of the docs.
> There is no reason mongo couldn't be clear about this distinction -- say, rename "insert" to "async_insert" and have "insert" be a wrapper around async_insert and getLastError. But instead, it's the user's fault because they didn't read the docs.

Because if you don't read enough of the docs to understand that 'insert' is asynchronous insert, you don't understand MongoDB and haven't done your research.

Why should 'insert' default to synchronous? Why shouldn't we instead have a sync_insert function instead? The only reason is that you're assuming familiarity for people coming from SQL/synchronous-oriented DBMS, but why should they be forced into an awkward design just because it's what people are familiar with from other DBMS?
Because the whole point of NoSQL movement is that you are storing Facebook "like"s and in fact would be glad if some of them get lost.
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Speaking as a web developer I can tell you the days of my "bad" code lasted all of one year as I was learning.

After that, the bad behavoir this article describes that I happened to code is crap I didn't want to do but was forced to in order to satisfy a clients desires.

Most of the horrible decisions that occur in software development are not the fault of a developer - look to their managers or clients for blame. In my case at least I argue quite voraciously to adhere to standards. I almost never win.
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yes. advantage 3... text is still easier for search engines....so it's nicely indexable and as a result, more likely to land up in your search results.
Same. I cut my teeth on PHP but have recently started working in Python and like it.

PHP is nice because you can throw it on any LAMP stack and it's interpreted, but Python runs much smoother for heavy data lifting.
I am sorry but the sole problem here is that the US administration has bought the cable and phone companies line that mergers are necessary and that they need to increase the bills to lay more fiber. In the same time in Europe we had massive government mandated unbundling of the last mile so all the companies actually layed fiber because service quality was the main differentiator. I mean who wants to compete on price in a competitive market.
The part that amuses me is their surprise that Google sees some advantage to transactions.

Journalists (of any kind) want to see things in terms of personality or philosophical conflict, e.g. SQL vs NoSQL. Because it's what their readers understand, and usually, it's all that they understand. They don't seem to consider that people might be making rational choices and difficult tradeoffs.
They use Mongo. http://www.10gen.com/customers/foursquare
Well, it doesn't seem like it's their ambition, but there's no doubt that if Google released all of their in-house data tools, including Spanner, that it would drastically change the market.

We love to see this stuff, though. When we started building our product over three years ago, the idea of a distributed, ACID database was sort of laughed at. (I think the CAP theorem scared a lot of people off from building really useful products.) FoundationDB isn't the same as Spanner, but they share some of the same goals. We see that as a huge validation.

Thanks for the question.
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ahh thanks @russnewcomer will update the update comment on the post.
Exceptions should not be of the form of "replace text with video" but rather "supplement text with video". If nothing else, consider the accessibility aspect of it, let alone those of us who will do better with the text source almost every time.
The actual binary font files have been removed for some reason. Available on an earlier commit:

https://github.com/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/tree/14f25136552ea5...
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This is a nice set of resources. Does anyone know how is behind this initiative in Google?

I am doing my PhD research on the startup ecosystem in Mexico and it would be interested in talking with them about some of my findings.
I disagree that it's an unusual conclusion... it's been my general experience, which is why I brought it up. Tech-savvy people tend to undervalue user interface and holistic design quality and overvalue individual features and overall feature count, in particular features that they're specifically looking for often without fully realizing how that feature fits into the larger picture.

In other words, nerds tend to have tunnel-vision. This isn't surprising, they're usually specialists. I'm just sayin, it doesn't lead to accurate predictions of the larger market.

Furthermore, this fact is valuable in determining your own (perhaps nerdy, myopic, or short-sighted) biases in your own market or business strategy.
Adding /date after time sensitive search terms such as technology news, celebrity names.. Reviews... Etc.. usually provides a richer set of results... The /diy slashtag is also awesome for homeowners trying to avoid all the spam on Google!
I would have used "photograph" if I had meant a literal recording of nature. This reminds me of the conversation between an artist and a critic, who complained about his distorted woman on display. He replied, "madam, that's not a woman, it's a picture of a woman."
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Recommendations according to the number of plays you've had on a track would be great too.
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In the classic "MongoDB is Web Scale", it is recommended to use the "dev null" storage engine for this use case.
Perhaps annoying websites that didn't use real links were more "memorable", because they caused issues and required workarounds. Personally, though, I've seen more of them that I would have liked to.
Apple has also repeatedly said that iOS upgrades have been delayed because of carrier review. Same for Google Nexus updates. We all know the disaster that has been 3rd party Android updates because of vendor and carrier review.
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What about fees and taxes Europeans pay apart from their bill?

I'd also like to see a fairer comparison here. If telecommunications infrastructure in these leading countries was subsidized by tax dollars, as the following article suggests they were, those payments should also be figured into the price of internet. These numbers are harder to get, but you're right that omitting them is disingenuous.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/the-broadband-gap-w...
Possibly a hoax of some sort?
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This is bullshit. One-page JS apps exist because there are a few big advantages to them. There are also disadvantages.

Take my site: https://circleci.com. Doesn't work in IE8 or less, and it has some bugs. But when you click a new page, it happens immediately. Properly immediately.

Inside the app, when you click a new page, it takes 1 AJAX request to load. Not 50 JS/CSS/img assets. No white flash. Just 1 click and it loads instantly.

Now, that's not to say that the majority of sites like this couldn't be done better. They could, and so could we. We need to sort out our SEO story for a start. But we made a conscious decision to do this because it makes sites fast, and much easier to write.
Couple of reasons why it's more expensive here:
1) Area and population density: Countries like Japan have a small area with a very high population density. This drives, infrastructure costs down and the return on it high because you have a lot of users.

2) Minimum wage in the US: The cost of labor in the US is quite high hence it costs more to build out infrastructure than it does in other countries.
Read the paragraphs above the one I quoted. Like this:

> “The biggest advancement is our buoyancy management system that allows the vehicle to operate autonomously - without the hundreds of people that you saw grabbing the Zeppelin type airships”

or this:

> The system gets around a major drawback of traditional airships [...where] ropes and docking stations are needed on the ground to stop a vessel floating off.
Isn't that called Hacker News?
I don't know anyone, even in HR, who expects a resume to show the whole truth.. But Jesus, are we at a point where we don't expect to only show the truth?

Michael says playing with dates isn't dishonest. Bullshit. It's incredibly easy to "play" with the dates (e.g., lie) to hide the fact you're fired from every job you've ever had within the year and it takes you six months to find new employment.

Half this thread is people saying "Don't lie, because that makes you a liar, and nobody likes liars." and the other half is people saying "Just because I lie on my resume doesn't mean I'm a liar because this one time a company did something bad to me so that makes this unrelated occurrence totally okay."

Like you said: disgusting.
Not quite right. For the UK, £300 million of the licence fee budget (over the next couple of years) will pay for the roll out of high speed internet to rural communities. I doubt the BBC wanted to do it, but it looks like they'll be subsidising ISPs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/19181454
Which part exactly are you contesting?
Worse, it's the necessary tradeoff of one of MongoDB's self-proclaimed benefits (asynchronicity) - it's not an edge case; it's part of the core reasons you'd switch to MongoDB (or at least take into account when making that choice). If that surprises you, it's because you haven't switched for the right reasons or haven't researched enough to know that every benefit has a tradeoff (and to know what those tradeoffs are).

To give an analogy, it'd be as if someone read this post and decided to use a SQL database solely because they care about write-durability... and then complaining when they "suddenly" encounter an error when trying to include an extra field with an INSERT on-the-fly. ('You mean SQL has fixed schemas??')
Good for you, but please understand that there are others who learn much better with a video tutorial.
"Resource rich" tends to lead me to believe that the reason we want to get there is to take the resources. Having a road or having a blimp, either way it's not going to be good.
> you will be beholden to some party for [...] the right to communicate

This is the most poignant insight in the article. For some decades now, it has been accepted--with minimal opposition--that we are beholden to some party (the state) for the right to travel. Then it is not far-fetched to imagine that in some decades, the right to communicate may be popularly regarded as a mere "privilege" which is granted by the generosity of the state. We accept random searches at airports, centralized driver licensing, red light cameras, etc. The legislature already flirts with the digital equivalents of those concepts.
I didn't really like the NewSQL thing either. I initially thought it must have meant transactional DBs with some first class schema-less features like Postgres has. Nope, it's another one of those phrases or ideas that ReadWriteWeb, the source of the linked to NewSQL definition, is trying to turn into a "big idea". They tried that previously with the Internet of Things (still don't know what the hell that is) as well as their own name, when they referred to the Web 2.0/API hype as the Read/Write Web.

I actually like RWW over TC or Mashable but sometimes I have to tune out some of their pompous prognostication.
That isn't official documentation as far as I can tell, though. I don't think I should need to read 5 chapters into a separate book for something so seemingly fundamental.

IMO, this is important enough information that it should be mentioned from the start, but it isn't in the tutorial[1], nor can I find it in the FAQ[2].

[1] http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tutorial
[2] http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/
Found a number of tools that I hadn't heard of before. Love the effort.
You also get into some issues with time off, vacations, etc. But I have no doubt companies (and the naive prospective employees) that have this type of access do that.
It is expensive in the US compared to the other two countries I get sims for, the UK and Australia.

In the UK I can get a sim and monthly plan for my iPhone for around £6, which gives me what I need. In Australia it's about $30 for a month. In the US it was either H2O at $50 a month or StraightTalk from Walmart for $45. I recently moved my girlfriends grandfathered AT&T iPhone plan on to StraightTalk for a saving of about $50 pm. A 2 gig limit on data compared to her grandfathered unlimited, but thats OK.

The US is expensive. No doubt about it.
Most web sites suck - or at least implement one of the flaws described in the article.

But by the standard laid out in the article most smartphones suck, most desktop apps suck, etc.

But web sites, like smartphones and apps, aren't built by a single amorphous group of people called "developers". No, no, no, the development process is defined by executives, marketers, IT, designers and yes developers. Saying "Do Web Developers Ever Learn?" is misleading. It's like placing the blame on the engineering staff at Nokia for creating sub-par phones - when there's plenty of blame to place on Nokia's executive management.

A broken and stupid product is evidence of a broken and stupid company culture. Bad developers can be replaced. But a broken culture can force good developers to do bad things.
There is also a video accompanying the article which shows a BBC reporter interviewing an engineer at the hangar. In the video one can clearly see that at least some rather large airship is well under construction (it's 90m x 27m x 30m, l x w x h). It's frame seems to be finished, and parts of the hull are installed too.
> T-Mobile is retooling their network to give HSPA+ speeds to iPhone users. This should be done by the end of the year.

According to the t-mobile reps I spoke to, their refarming project will only be finished in a few cities by the end of 2012 (LA allegedly included, although in the past t-mobile reps also promised this would be done by September so YMMV). The nationwide project will take all of 2013, so don't hold your breath. I'm about 30 days away from dumping them and going with Straight Talk.
I can get 1000 minutes 1000 texts and 1gb for 7.50€ in Austria with each additional gb costing 5€. This is without a phone of course.
Pretty much par for the course of releasing any Windows app. :)

But a good overview none the less.
There's probably no difference technically, but you don't see people using that term much. For example, in this thread we see people saying Android is open, instead of AOSP is open.

Perhaps increasing the usage of the AOSP term will suffice.
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This is some horrible stuff, and there's very little one can do about it really. Quite saddening.

And if only it was just that... There's a talk about different initiative, WhiteIT which tries to enforce internet censorship in Europe:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2011/28c3-4700-en-what_i...
I think it's BBM for iPhone users ;)
But ultimately why believe him instead of some other scientist? Because his book is thicker? I also noticed that he had a bit of a tummy when I saw a YouTube video of him.

I've read another thick book advocating plant based diets and metaanalyzing lots of studies, The China Study. GC,BC is a bit thicker, though.
Lots of big sites roll their own solutions for this problem. Often there will even be multiple in-house technologies with different characteristics. Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook for sure.
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As all of the youtube comments point out, the drops are clearly biased towards the iPhone for example, the galaxy lands screen side down while the iPhone lands on its side.
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> How would they descend otherwise, release helium and reload before taking off?

Too wasteful, and uneconomic. The way they control their buoyancy is by compressing the helium to reduce buoyancy, then later releasing it from a special storage tank to increase buoyancy. BTW this is how submarines control their buoyancy -- they displace water with air in set-aside volumes made available for this purpose, which increases the craft's overall buoyancy. Then, when they want to descend, they recompress the air and allow water back into the set-aside areas.
SCTP? That's awesome, I happened to have written an SCTP implementation for my BSc final project and it's a great protocol that makes in-order-delivery optional so it's a great replacement for UDP.

edit: I hadn't heard of WebRTC at all, it looks like a dream come true, not only does it offer SCTP, it offers P2P in the browser, which I believe is going to enable Web 3.0 (yes I'll go there). Sadly they haven't even begun on implementing the Data Channels yet, which is the SCTP part of the spec.
Unfortunately, Engadget makes the headline sound like Microsoft was deliberately wasting power rather than making an economic decision to overcome a ridiculous policy. NYT's headline is no better.

If the state is going to fine them for not using enough electricity and fine them more than the cost of using that amount of electricity, it only makes sense to burn the CPUs and air con for a while. Yeah it sucks that they're wasting power and having a larger impact on the environment. But that's the fault of the power company imposing a minimum power consumption.
Not even an FAQ. The interface itself could use some redesigning to make these things more obvious.

Assuming this is to be used by non-techies, no one is going to know what or even where an 'iTunes XML file' is. A "What's this?" link next to the upload button with some sort of tool tip or modal showing where the file can be found will go a long way. I didn't find the "Trouble finding your library?" link at the bottom until after writing this comment.

I was also confused about entering an email. From what it looks like, I either upload my XML file or I enter my email to sign up for updates. It needs to be more clear that it's all one inclusive form. (Or even better, don't require an email. Revisiting beathound.com in a reasonable amount of time should preserve your session and give you a scanning update along with the option to sign up for future alerts.)
There's no plan on that page under $50/month. And the $50/month plan (which I currently have) includes first 100 MB (!) at 4G, after which the data is at 2G.
You might be on the AT&T cell network, but you're being proxied onto StraightTalk's gateway to get out onto the Internet. And that's the part which sucks. :)