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I have a Note II. The handwriting recognition is so-so. It would definitely benefit from being tunable (eg, learn to recognize the way I write a lowercase "a").

On the other hand, it's really good to draw with, and I find the pen a superior input device compared to my finger, especially when you don't want to zoom in just to be able to hit a link in a menu.
1. Remarkably, some people are under the (incorrect) impression that they will get a better rate at the bureau de change.

2. Some people like to have local currency before they enter the foreign country so they don't have to rely on finding a reliable local ATM before they can spend cash.
Microsoft Building Own Smartphone Windows Phone 8
Isn't this like an episode of South Park?
Exhaustive family tree for birds shows recent, rapid diversification
Somebody at the Google is certainly watching this thread and cleaning house.
Citing Wikipedia != contributing to discussion.
You'd have the weight of the balloon-like thing that you wrapped it in though.
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Comments first. If the comments are interesting enough, I read the article. I never comment without reading the article.
I find larger form factor's are better when your using your phone as a tablet, but I don't like using larger form factors when making calls. It's easy to solve that problem with a Bluetooth headset, but I prefer having a small phone and a tablet.

That said, 300+ PPI makes a huge difference for cellphones.
A few months ago I got sick of them calling, pressed 1 to talk to someone. And informed them that this was the third time they had called after being asked to stop, I had records, and I would be filing an FCC complaint. The woman got very apologetic and gave me a number I could call to get "permanently taken off their list". I called said number. It was a gay sex hotline. True story.
Since the speed of light doesn't change in real life, and there is no answer at what speed a changing speed of light would propagate in real life, does it really matter how it's implemented in this game? My guess is that they took the easiest route and made it change instantaneously for the whole world.
Premium gas in regular-fuel cars not cleaner, expert says
It was both. The view on depictions of Mohammed differ within Islam. Insulting Mohammed on the other hand, it pretty much universally condemned.
The standard solution (using splat and passing a hash) was close enough to work. It's not named arguments, and it certainly has its pitfalls, but it was close enough for most things. So nobody obviously thought it was important enough to change before now.

There's a lot of languages that don't have named arguments so it's probably not that much of a deal either.
I immediately thought 'space (combat) sim!' when I heard that the engine was open.
eBay is a heavy Java user
Most users don't care if rbenv is better than rvm since they do the same thing, and apparently, at least according to the other poster, rbenv is slow
Actually, yes, people do have to walk on eggshells around here. I am walking on eggshells right now for I can not express myself freely in a forum like this without suffering from social manipulation (downvoting, hellbanning). And this is while adhering to practices such as "no personal insults". In a place like this, you get banned for disagreeing, let alone speaking in an "unapproved" way. This place is hardly an example of civility.

I agree that there is a middle ground - when someone's quality of life is seriously suffering because, for example, someone is shouting abuse at them all day then something must be done. However, taking serious offence at people's ignorant opinions or ways of expression is unwise and in itself ignorant.

I'm anticipating prejudice so I shall address it pre-emptively - I am, in fact, a minority. In many places on this planet, I risk serious injury just for being what I am. People have expressed extremely ignorant opinions about the group I fall under in workplaces. I initially took offence upon hearing what I heard but then I moved past that stage and accepted that one cannot understand something they haven't dealt with directly. They were not trying to be mean, they merely did not understand because of their limited experience. How can I take offence when this is the case?
Hotels will also do this if they know you're from another country. Always checkout in-person at the desk and ask to review the bill before checking out. Make sure the charges are in the local currency.
Let me start off by saying I was originally taking issue with the idea that touch precision is a problem. That it can't work in certain cases and that we'll always need mice. And all that in a complaint that demonstrated a pretty narrow understanding of what has already been done with touch interfaces.

It was never my intention to argue that touch is always the preferable interface for all workloads (something I tried to convey by pointing out how mice will remain relevant for quite some time, due entirely to day-long workloads).

As applies to your concerns, I was just trying to suggest that workable solutions exist, even if they'll always be less-than-ideal for larger quantities of work.

As to your specific concern, I still think a workable solution may be out there, even if it remains undoubtedly less efficient than a mouse and a larger screen.

e.g.
Wouldn't the sorts of drag and off-axis drag controls that are used for seek in many podcast/audio-player apps [1] address precision-selection in cases where too-much-zoom presents problems, and also obviate the concern about fingers obscuring the wave itself?

[1] click to 'grab' the selection-marker/nubby on the wave/timeline, drag across the x axis to seek and then down on the y axis to control the speed of seek -- typically doing more and more fine-grained seek for a given x-axis drag length, as the finger gets further from the wave/timeline
On Linux, you can just use sigsetjmp(3)/siglongjmp(3), especially since SIGSEGV is thread-directed and not process-directed.
Driverless Cars
"Another reason why Android is losing on the developer front is that development environment setup and usage, even for Java, is worse than Apple's. It's usage of Eclipse is like duct tape and glue."

I think this is mere perception vs reality. Android development environment is far superior to XCode. Using IntelliJ for Android Development is a true pleasure working with Android. I have no problems debugging over USB on my Mac ever.

The game industry is incredibly rigid to any change. Once they've found their horse they will not walk away from it, and show little interest in changing how they approach development ever. This isn't the first time we've seen some long article with game studios wringing their hands over any change.
Yeah that was weird. I found another that still returns 233.000 results for me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wants+to+be+friends%22+%2...

I must have made a typo at "don%27t". I corrected the first query and it now returns 238.000 results for me again.

Perhaps some Blogspot sites got hacked/ their users phished (I noticed suspicious posting activity dating back to November 2011), which would explain how they got access to the emails. Or these accounts are all fake (selling likes) and they use Blogspot to create online persona's and manage their accounts.
Squire: powerful lightweight rich text editor
Why pixels per inch? Why not pixels per centimeter? Isn't metric system the standard? :)
Google Web Toolkit and hundreds of various projects made in Google available on code.google.com.
>If the signature gets tampered with on the server

Sorry, I meant the key. As all the linux distros using PGP signing demonstrate, people don't bother to verify the key, they just accept it blindly and assume everything is cool. Since only 1 out of a million people ask for this, and of those only 1 out of a million would actually go through the correct procedure rather than just grabbing the key from the same place they are grabbing the binaries and not verifying it in any way, it isn't worth the effort. The 0.001% of the 0.001% already have the tools available to verify, it is just a bit of a pain to do. It isn't worth it for the openbsd devs to waste time making it easier for those people who wouldn't verify the key anyways to feel secure when they would be exactly as secure as they are now. That's what I mean by security theatre.
I watched it live and it was very beginner oriented. If you know vim and are decently familiar with ReSharper then this isn't for you.
Well neither mine nor my friend's experience the problems that he was having.
You could accidentally create a patented algorithm in hardware just as easily in hardware. The trick is that you wouldn't be designing an 'MPEG4 hardware decoder', but you'd think 'oh, wavelet compression in an ASIC, how novel'. Then you'd be infringing the patent. It's not an issue of accidentally using, it's more an issue of accidentally developing in parallel.
You seem to assume that the demand (market) is static. My impression is that it is shifting with a growing demand for bigger screens and thus phablets. People have now experienced the problem of browsing the web with 4" screens.

Regarding the screen size problem, my vision is that the communication functionality (I/O) will be taken over by dedicated devices using bluetooth. Such devices could be a watch, light and invisible ear plug, microphone and camera.

The one big block of material doing everything as we have today is just a step in evolution. There is so much open space left to explore and develop...The demand is evolving, and fast.
"digit separators to make for instance binary literals readable 0b1_0010_0010_0000_1000"

Nice. I first saw this in Rust, and it seemed like such an obviously good idea (allowing underscores in numeric literals) that I've wondered why more languages don't do it. Now I'm curious where it originated.
Ruby Basics - Data Types
>(former openbsd user, committer, and book author. no, i don't use it any more.)

Mind if I ask why? OpenBSD seems to really chase away developers, virtually everyone who was around back when I paid attention is gone now.
That seems to miss that most people aren't using them for media consumption but for note taking (really must get the "can't use tablet type devices for creation" memo out to them, so many people not understanding that).

Phone pads?

Or how about just call them what they are - smartphones. Is the half inch screen size difference between a Note and an S3 really cause for a new class of device?
Agreed, I never comment without reading the article first.
Getting started with Git for the Windows Developer
I can type on my lap with touch cover just fine. Not quite as fast as when on a desk but I think that is true (for me) even with normal laptops. I think it just has to do with the angle that your arms/hands are in.

I was also a little skeptical but I was pleasantly surprised by how natural and easy it felt.
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The Quantum Nature of Deals: Sales Timelines Explained for Geeks
Whatever It Takes: Visualizations in E-mail with d3.js
Exhaustive enumeration in Python
I was thinking that an app where you could take a picture of letterpress screen and it would use that and with some strategy (in terms of defending letters) would be fun project to make. Maybe more than playing the game :)
Not sure about the origin, but Ruby has them too.
The article is from 2003, can someone add this to the title? Mandelbrot died in 2010.
your website fonts dont work in IE9....for a nerdy website you think that usability testing across different browsers would be on your checklist.
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Very interesting, although I dislike the "ice rink" feel. It makes the game very difficult to control. I'm unsure if this is intentional.

A sandbox approach might be good. I found myself wanting to experiment and change the speed of time myself.
I don't understand, sounds interesting but I'm missing a load of context. I think
Perl has had it for awhile, although there were probably languages that had it beforehand (awk or ADA maybe?)
That was in use in some assemblers back in the 80s and probably earlier.
Oddly enough, at 35, I'm very much aware of how much time I have. I have the full-time job, but virtually none of the rest of the time-expenditures that someone my age usually has. It's very much like me at 20.

And yet I'm acutely more aware of my time and how I spend it.
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It's very common in ML languages: SML and Ocaml both support it.
Implementing a Letterpress cheater in Python took me around 10 minutes. Computers are very fast nowadays: https://gist.github.com/3968275

There is no need for a whole game engine if you want nothing more than to know the best possible word to play each turn. It will be enough to win with 99% of people. If you want to win a Letterpress AI tournament, you would of course need to look at alpha-beta and other algorithms.
>There's an even simpler rule: The more convenient currency conversion is, the more you are getting ripped off.

That simply isn't true in my experience. For years, I used a debit card from Nationwide in the UK to withdraw currency all over the world. They used the VISA wholesale rate with no vig added on top and no fees for ATM use. In total, I withdrew probably over ten thousand dollars on that card, and it was one of the most convenient currency conversion systems I have ever used. (The card now carries fees for the service).

On the other hand, going to a high street bureau de change would have been much, much less convenient and would have secured me a worse rate in every case. Traveler's cheques would have been both inordinately expensive and hideously inconvenient. In fact, in the absence of a local bank account in each country I visited, I'm still not aware of cheaper way to convert currency than the system I used.

If you travel a lot and can find a bank or credit union that won't charge you any fees, hidden or otherwise, you get great convenience and an excellent price.
Banks and Financial institutions. Every bank and financial institution that I have worked for in in last 10 years has a projects exclusively in either Java or C# or Cobol( yes Cobol is very much alive and kicking on IBM mainframe ) and some C/C++ . On the other hand, these places do not use Ruby or Python.
I am not an expert on stealth, but AFAIK, being "stealth" is more a marketing term than objectively measurable.

Stealth is not a binary property "either stealth or not stealth", but a relative one "less easy to spot by adversaries who have binoculars, radar, IR, etc".

Because of that, one can call almost any design stealthy. If this radiates, say, half of what their previous generation did, I would call it stealth, even if it is not the best in the world.

Also, any fighter will produce lots of heat that it will have to radiate somewhere (eventually), so if you place your IR detector in the right spot, it will light up. That makes it a bit of an arms race. For example, radiating all heat upwards will do wonders, as long as your adversary doesn't have anything higher up looking in your direction. Once they do, you will have to find some other approach.
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Exactly, my parents are in their 60's and both retired and are having a bloody great time. Golf, fast cars, lots of holidays, they're loving it.
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I think I saw it first in Perl.
I thought this was going to be an article about avoiding card cloning in foreign ATM machines from the title.
Dear Xantide,
I previously posted as	schizoBrother
which you can find as I just did. I have not posted before on any other subject and created a new profile for privacy.

I am just trying to avoid others having the problems my family.
Is it for yourself, or another you are asking?
Not sure of the origin either, but Ada has had that since 1983.
While I agree that a bad programmer will write bad code in any language -and visa versa- my point was that PHP doesn't enforce good practices thus allowing many less experienced developers to accidentally fall into easily avoided pitfalls (lets be honest, having to === to force type matching is just plain dumb). So by the time you've properly hardened your code, it's anything but pseudo-English - which was my point (ie programming languages are not similar to human languages).
What's even more troublesome than being a diversity/affirmative action hire is when you aren't one and other people assume you were one. When a group is artificially bumped up in the rankings (or is perceived to have been), everyone assumes they are not as skilled as they really are.
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The leaf has an EPA-rated range of 73mi.
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With the supporting link broken I see no reason to believe the assertion that you'll pay more using a credit card.

I've been using credit cards for three years, never paid more than I would have without them, and on one occasion having a large credit limit got me out of a rather tight spot (fraud on my main current account). Not to mention the building a credit rating thing that the writer refers to.
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At most places I've worked, if my assigned work contributed $x to the bottom line, the side problems I chose to work on contributed $10x-$20x. There are so many high-leverage problems out there that it's frankly ridiculous.
Look at the link/article first. If I'm interested in the topic I'll read comments.

I read both the main page and occasionally switch to new topics only.

That's about it...
> I think you dismiss styluses too quickly here.

No, he doesn't.

> You can be much more precise with a stylus than with a mouse.

Not with a touchscreen stylus, you can't. Touchscreens actually have a considerably lower hardware resolution than the screen itself.

> That's why Wacom tablets are so popular.

Completely different technology.

> Am I missing something here? How is a touchpad more accurate than touching a screen?

By having it input movement (at a configurable granularity) rather than position. That makes it a completely different input method.
When did the term "nonce" start being used in web application development to refer to a token that expires after a period of time instead of being a true one-time use number/token?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Could someone point out examples of visualizations that make a big difference. I've spent quite a bit of time creating maps and graphs for corporate bigwigs and it always just seems like eye candy. It seems like a list with percentages, instead of fancy graphs, is often just as good and way cheaper.

Aside: I understand trends like stock value over time can be useful to see in a chart, but often times other charts seem unnecessary to me.
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agree - with the note, I found typing much better than using the stylus - however, for quick drawing such as network diagrams, topology, etc it is perfect.

although - I would like some nice apps to go along with it.
I wondered: could we perhaps get PhantomJS to run our data
visualization on the server, capture the rendered output,
and then assemble an email with light HTML, CSS, and
rendered images?

This server side rendering technique is a quite powerful one. I've used it in a couple of projects and expect to see it used more often as people incorporate it into their tool kits.
And yet Zeppelins still fly.
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Any physical machine cannot be Turing complete because it has a finite amount of RAM.
Thanks! I'll check it out. And i generally agree with your last statement, so by no means do i wish for an island completely ruled by scientists, but I think it would be neat to have a country/city state type thing incredibly renowned by their scientific breakthroughs.