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There's a huge difference between hands-free and having a passenger, and the statistics show it. Driving with a passenger is safer than driving alone. Driving while talking on your cell phone, even with a hands-free device is much more dangerous.

Nobody knows exactly why, but there are many plausible theories. When you have a passenger, the passenger is generally also paying to the environment -- in essence they're helping you pay attention.
My parents lost a dear friend who was sending a text that took his eyes off the road and resulted in a fatal crash, fortunately only involving his car, but tragic none the less. Put down the phone, nothing is that urgent.
That's tragically funny but it shows another problem with the app store. Years after the app store has been released, Apple hasn't solved a basic need for support and bug tracking. It would be an big help the community (both customer and developer) to give them a transparent and easy way to communicate issues with each other.

Does anyone know if this has been addressed in anyway with Apple saying they are considering it or not?
Yea, anytime I use a regex that isn't immediately obvious I put it in a function called get_<something>. Unfortunately people that write overly complicated and error prone regexes usually don't choose to document them.
No, they happen locally on your phone, at a later time.
The article has been corrected: the IPX code was based on Doom, not Quake.
Article author here.

You're correct; the article should have read "Doom", not "Quake". And further, Doom had not yet been open-sourced. I'm checking with Jesse now but my assumption is that he talked to someone at id and they sent along a snippet of code that showed how to talk to the IPX network driver.

I've made corrections and -- once I've heard back from Jesse -- will include additional details.

Thanks!
I don't consider it a nanny state law. Its not you I want saved from you, its me.

Even with insurance, most people are not prepared (or often required) to bear the full cost of the damage they can cause with their cars. Because they cannot shoulder the responsibility, they should not be allowed to take the risk. They are risking other peoples' property (and lives) for their own stupid behavior. We don't let people drive as fast as they want or ignore stop signs for the same reason.
There's no need to trust a comment, it simply tells you what the author was thinking, as best as s/he could express it. It's less imprecise than no comment at all. Suppose you have a very simple function that does something clear - reading the code you can tell what it does and how. And suppose that function is called from several hundred different contexts in the codebase, but one of those contexts causes an exception in your simple function.

You could "fix" it, with a code change. But what if your fix goes against the assumptions of some other context where the same function is called? A comment that describes what the function "should" do allows you to decide whether changing the function, or its caller, will be more in line with the design of the overall codebase. This is particularly true with mature codebases where thousands of tiny fixes and tweaks have accumulated over time. There's a corpus of learning about why the code ended up that way that even in-depth reading of individual functions might miss.

Tests are good, and to be encouraged. But using tests in place of comments is rather like answering a question with a question. Tests provide confidence, they do not provide understanding.

Of course, you could do an in-depth analysis of every function, in every context it's used, and how it interacts with its callers and callees. While you're doing that, the guys who commented their code will be moving onto the next challenge.
I'm not sure that advising someone to look at a map is much better -- a paper map obscures a lot more of the road, and looking at it to figure out not just where the hell you are but also where you are trying to go seems a bit worse than an on-dash GPS that shows the former, and hopefully has been configured with the latter.
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It's inelastic in the short term, because there are limits to what people can do to change: they aren't necessarily able to immediately dump their existing car and trade up; they still have to commute to work; cargo still has to be transported to its destination; factories will not replace their inefficient equipment overnight. Costs go up but behavior doesn't change, so an increase in energy costs just replaces spending on other goods, hurting the rest of the economy.

Over the longer run, though, if prices have risen significantly and permanently, and that coincides with a point where a consumer decides they need to replace their car, then oil consumption does start becoming more elastic: the consumer is more likely to choose the more fuel efficient vehicle. We've seen some of this in the rise in sales of small vehicles versus trucks and SUVs lately.

This is where building a long-term steady upward price trend is important, versus short-term price shocks, since the former allows the economy to react appropriately by increasing efficiency.
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I don't know about some of those "billion dollar" valuations. But point taken, US is able to churn out very successful tech companies. We're doing something right.
The problem with touchscreens and, specifically, touchscreens in vehicles, is that there is no feedback to let your fingers know when you're actually touching a button and when you are not. No feedback means that I have to take my eyes off the road to look to see if I am tapping the correct area of the screen. As you can imagine, I am a huge fan of "old school" knobs and push-buttons in vehicles precisely for that reason, and the recent trends towards touch-everything drive me crazy.

Back on point towards your comment, maybe "touch" timing wouldn't work. But phones have something in-dash systems don't expose to the end-user: accelerometer. If you could detect a tap from the accelerometer instead of relying on touch, you'd be onto something (of course, you would have to filter out road noise, which is not trivial, but probably doable).
Terrible drivers are terrible at driving while talking on a cell phone. Go figure.
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Unless you want to seem clever and impresse the PHB.

It is the selfish (but smart) thing to do.
They're technically using it for it's purpose, or they can claim they are even if they have a different motive. Stackoverflow allows links in comments and posts and this could be abused.
I've been patiently waiting exactly 12 months for this precise moment.

Here goes nothing...

YOU KNOW I CAN'T GRAB YOUR GHOST CHIPS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsFlVWqWHlA

For a year now, I've been internalizing this really complicated situation in my head.

Wondering why this phrase has stuck with me so very much. Why? What does it all mean?

It all makes perfect sense now.

Pack it up folks. The Internet is over.

Take me now, God. It is done.
As a Cr-48 owner, the thought of buying another one crossed my mind yesterday. I like the hardware affordances so much I replicated them on the high end with Apple products. My daughter uses my Cr-48 now. It almost broke yesterday. During the diagnostic process, I considered just buying another one.

You see, I really liked running Ubuntu on my Cr-48. It pretty well convinced me to get the 4G iPad, just so I could have mobile data on my macbook. So I now carry a 4g iPad and 15" rMBP and gave the Cr-48 to my daughter.

Yesterday, my son dislocated (subluxed?) the Cr-48's screen hinge. Apparently the hinge mounting screws inside the case had worked themselves a bit loose and his action hyperextended the joint so far the plastic pieces of hinge interfered with each other so it wouldn't close. And the hinge was obviously loose. My daughter was hysterical until I took it apart (took about 2 minutes from incident to repair). During those two minutes, I seriously thought about getting another one. Because she loves it sooo much.

So, at least in terms of cheap, energy-efficient, light, mobile laptop, I think there's a market. ChromeOS, I don't know. I'm in the military, so a network-dependent OS is a non-starter for me.

For Christmas, I'm not sure I'm getting the kids any electronics. I'm tempted to get them iPad minis but I don't see them using tablets for anything productive, so an ultrabook makes more sense. But I see no reason to a) buy a laptop for a 7- and 10 year old kids, or b) buy a Chromebook, even at the price, if I'm only going to convert it to Ubuntu. In part because switching the BiOS is one headache more than I care to endure. In part because imposing an unsupported operating system on someone else just seems rude.

In the case of the Asus C7: no way am I buying any more spinning rust hard drives.
The article seems to argue that because there is no perfect solution to spam (i.e. spammers will still want their links on SO even if they are nofollowed), then there is no point in marginally reducing the incentive to spam.
or even better # Match only printable ASCII characters.
I feel the exact same way about Wikipedia.
Buy a wallet with a chain. Problem solved. (I haven't lost or forgotten my wallet or keys in years)
I guess I'm in the minority, but I'm not really buying that this is abusive.

Yes, it would be nice if SO removed the nofollow from known-good posts (which, indeed, it seems they are now doing), but adding nofollow is a pretty simple and reasonable way to make the site a whole lot less attractive to some of the most obnoxious sort of spammers. I would hope nobody is adding links to their SO answers with the expectation of an SEO benefit.
I predict that self-driving cars will take care of this before we come up with another realistic solution.

(Posted from FL, which has no distracted driving state laws)
Why not use a macbook air with ssh? Is it just because these are cheaper?
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That's why I said only "at risk of" and not that it was certain. But, as is the way of the internet, it's not hard to imagine in ten years that the many things you say go into the publisher's set of responsibilities could themselves be dispersed to more than one entity. Publishers previously had an effectively-physical moat around that set of tasks, because they had control over the book and essentially force you to consume all the services from them to get to the physical book. Now they're going to have to ensure they are bringing value throughout the process.

Which in your domain, they probably will. But this is one way of viewing the ever-growing academic revolt against Elsevier. They do a couple of their duties OK, but the whole bundle they are providing is increasingly less compelling vs. what they are trying to charge.
More like very tongue-hanging-out. I agree it's totally tasteless. I'd go so far as to say it's one of the worst product videos I've seen, and I'd bet it's not helping their conversions at all.
Yes, when dealing with RFC's that do.
I love his in depth passion for the quality of his music, though the application UI is suffering from some "programmeritus". Nitpicking: tt should have the song name as its title, "addSome" button should be removed and replaced with drag and drop, you probably don't really need the wave form and the time field looks like and input field. I'm a big fan of foobar for the reason its interface is simple and clean.
That's like saying "I'd buy a Toyota if they'd turn it into a Lexus". Chromebooks aren't intended to compete with Macbooks or Ultrabooks.
Right, it would require the approval of Congress and of the CA legislature to do it.
are you the original author? what url are you using taht shows the null characters?
I wonder if internally, Google has recognized a business value-prop for fighting spam:

One might argue that by combating spam and noisy advertising, Google makes its own advertising less likely to get ignored (lumped in with the spam), and thus higher value.

Obviously this is a simplistic perspective, but perhaps there's some version of it that makes Google more incentivized to fight spam than Apple might be. Apple is incentivized by a "what makes for the best user experience" which has a more nebulous set of criteria.
Those are not troops. Are Americans working or visiting, say, New Zealand to be considered an occupying force?
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Absolutely not. These "restrictive" vehicle systems are horrible, for the simple fact that they don't distinguish between driver and passenger. Being in some more modern vehicles which do exactly as you say is infuriating when you have to ask your passenger -- instead of pulling up the GPS turn-by-turn on the large in-dash screen -- to instead pull out the iPhone 5 because the nav won't let you set a waypoint while you're in "drive".

Artificially restricting controls only results in a user bypassing those controls in some way, which could do more harm than good (e.g. forcing you use your phone instead).
As the article mentions; at a certain reputation level StackExchange users are granted a followed link in their profile. Similar metrics could be applied to questions and answers with the "nofollow" being removed from highly rated user content which is unlikely to be spam.

Still a hard problem but author reputation and question/answer votes give a good set of data from which we might identify links to sources which deserve attribution.
"it would seem that if you removed the nofollows, it would open up the site to all kinds of abuse"

That's why the author of the article suggested that they remove "nofollow" for users who have an established reputation, like SlashDot does. That algorithm would seem to be very easy to implement.
all that would do is to enable the attacker to double-spend their own btc. Not much else.
LaunchRock needs better compliance with CAN SPAM, perhaps double opt-in integration with a email marketing platform like MailChimp, AWeber, et. al. It should also have an option for unsubscribing, even with the automatically generated email. And at least a basic privacy policy integration that complies with Google AdWords.. because traffic doesn't just magically appear on your launch page.
As much as I enjoyed "The Man In The High Castle", I'd completely forgotten that tidbit. It was intended as a serious suggestion (albeit one that needs a good deal of thinking through).
I think the point is myopic. Human moderators will eventually clean up spam, but Google is freakishly fast at indexing things like StackOverflow. Omitting rel=nofollow would mean that SO ends up lending linkjuice to spammers at least some of the time, thereby providing spammers with incentive to relentless spam even if their spam is cleaned up by humans.

My general rule of thumb is "any content that comes from untrusted users gets a nofollow stamp". It's "XSS prevention" for your pagerank.
The writer of said script needing rehabilitation probably doesn't have that much insight. Just try to tell me what you were trying to get done and that will be enough.

The worst case is when the original author never really had it clear in his/her mind what exactly that compound regex was trying to accomplish. They just kind of bodged and hacked till the usual input stream started coming out right. Trying to write a clear comment on the purpose of the regex helps with that too.
Okay, but that 11% figure is mostly because of your traditional bank, which charges for deposits (wtf?)

Lets say I want to $100 to a friend in Mexico:

* My bank doesn't charge me for deposits. (still $100 USD)
* Coinbase charges 1% to convert my USD to BTC (converted 8.947 BTC at 11.05usd per btc)
* Sending that to someone else costs almost nothing (8.947 BTC).
* The person receiving is not charged anything, unless they want to convert to another currency (e.g. pesos)

In this scenario, there is certainly slippage / costs, but it still beats MoneyGram, WesternUnion, Xoom, etc in terms of cost to send money from country to country.
Are you using Google+ for something other than what it is intended for?
Lately I've been using Google+ for personal bookmarking (private posts). I reserved couple of Circles, one for Read Later, one for General links and I use bookmarklet to add links quickly. Google+'s search feature is pretty good so I add tag-words or two in each post and all seems to work great so far.

How about you? Have you found Google+ to do something other than it is intended for?
Of course this depends on your definition of "nanny state".

Here my definition is: laws that cover specific behaviour otherwise already covered by law.

I'm no lawyer but can I imagine it has all kinds of fancy things written about it in Latin.

Maybe

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_specialis_derogat_legi_general...

or

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejusdem_generis
"Pick up the phone and let the car drive."

Actually, it will not be an option. Once it is possible, it will be mandatory.
They're made out of gold/silver, and have an associated BTC value.
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The [[:print:]] will match any printable characters like åä, while the [ -~] will not.

I used this once as another safeguard against pushing binary data into the database. It was a poor system to begin with where you even have that possibility... and it happened at least once before the fix and my safeguard was in place.
It would be trivial to play a tick sound once the finger has been released from the screen.
Sites with high pagerank that allow user submitted links are few and far between. If they didn't put nofollow (at least for new accounts), SO is popular enough that it would have to deal with targeted spam attacks aimed specifically at them. That is a sucky problem to deal with.
Yes, using a 3rd party service such as Coinbase.com.
How about app developers add a menu/settings item entitled something like "Find a bug?" that links to or facilitates the developer's own bug tracker?
Charging developers is probably going to result in the opposite of what you want: notifying the user of something useful probably monetizes far less than the spammy notifications instead.

Apple just needs to get a grip and start swinging banhammers, like Facebook did with Zynga. Put troublesome apps in a probation period, where notification strings end up going through an approval process. And punish developers by holding subsequent apps up in the review process.
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I'm not attacking you personally, sorry if it comes across that way but it is not my intention.

No I don't believe Tesla will start moving goods... but until we get near to that point then I don't believe just targeting consumers will have much impact. If they want some immediate impact then people should stop driving arounf in 4 litre V8 SUVs just to drop their kids off to school. But I can see the other comment on this, no need to go back in to this.

I am not American, and so I think we share different views on this, you viewing internally will see this much more different than me externally. Personally I don't care what happens to the US market or economy. There will be some knock on effect for the rest of the world in the short term but then things will just move on. Very true that no sane country will limit their oil usage, but soon they may well be left with no other choice. So better to be prepared now and find alternative sources of energy now.
I replied to your post, although if your bank takes 10% off the top to begin with, the issue isn't with bitcoins, it's your bank's deposit fee.
While payment via smartphone is certainly compelling, I carry many other things in my wallet:
- Driver's license
- Insurance (car/medical/dental) cards
- Auto club membership card

I'm not sure I want to have separate apps for these. Things like gift cards to restaurants (which I also carry around) could easily be replaced w/ an app, but there's something mildly compelling about a non-smart identifier for things like insurance / ID.
What happens when a less established user edits the post of a more established one ( and maybe also vice versa)
But again: the people who have the time and ability to do that are not the target market.
If there's a link in a stackoverflow answer of mine, it's there because there's really good information at the end of the link. That's the sort of information Google & Bing use to make their searches useful, it's the sort of information I want Google et al to know.
And there is no way to turn these off. The app just has to schedule them while its running.
Eh, if I want to gamble, I'll go to a casino. I pay my employees in Euros, that's what I want revenue in. I even want it exchanged from dollars, so I get X Euros every time.

The autosell feature means I can add Bitcoin as a payment method with no hassle, I'm enjoying it greatly.
Cool idea. However, after reading the website, I realized I don't get why this is limited to wallets. Think about other things people lose on a regular basis. For example, why not make this thing key-chain friendly? Should be pretty easy to do by adding a hole on the device.

Also, I would recommend removing the "TrackR" text from the device. Otherwise, it will be the first thing a thief gets rid of once they have your wallet. On the other hand, if you try to make it look as inconspicuous as possible, it is less likely to attract unwanted attention.

Another crazy idea: offer an option to have it sewn into the wallet so that it A) is hidden and B) cannot slide off by accident.
I'm not going to advertize it that much (because I don't want to support people that way yet) but all the code behind teamchat.net is freely available on github.
People still use Opera?
Would a simple "stop showing me these" on each notification work?
I don't understand, what is not usable about being about do to this:

requests.get('news.ycombinator.com', sourceip='1.2.3.4')
If the interview also gets pushed back, then that's 3 more days to work on our product... assuming we get in that is.

Good Luck Everyone
But SO knows which users are trusted, and which aren't. So why is it adding rel=nofollow to trusted users?
Thank you for that. You have no idea how annoying it is to port perl scripts from ASCII to EBCDIC when they do that kind of thing.
You may like Microsoft's approach http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/06/27/impr...
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Google is by far the best "comment"
If you ping me on twitter I'll make sure you're prioritized. We are obviously wanted teams to try this to tell us what is good and what isn't. So if you're a team we want you basically.
I convinced my mother, a small business owner, to read partway through it. Explaining security concerns vis à vis their systems has become increasingly easy. (She doesn't know all the details, but gets better than ever that she/they need to pay close and timely attention to these things -- and contract/hire competent people to manage them.)
I'm confident that stackoverflow already utilizes voting ring detection logic. High karma on SO is quite valuable, I'm sure there are many that have already tried to game the system, people who are probably a lot better at evading the voting ring detection than the average spammer...
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Bitcoins will only be valuable insofar as they can be converted to tax-driven or commodity currencies.
Very cool stuff. I always wanted to pick up PIC embedded programming, but always had too many other things in Python to play with. Now it seems I wouldn't have to learn a new language. I wonder how well this stacks up with hand written PIC code.

What's the coolest thing you've done with a PIC?
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