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I just did a quick mortgage affordability calculation and someone who earns at the bottom end of the 5% can only afford a $300,000-400,000 home.

Even where I live, which is very rural with comparatively cheap homes, only gets you a modest sized home. You need at least $500K to even start looking at 3000 sq. feet homes with big garages unless they are complete dives.
False. Media companies do analyze peer-to-peer networks as part of their viewer analytics. See, for example, "Big Champagne."
Very cool use of email style API. Why not have a textbox where people could paste that email if they just wanna download it?
+1 Since I stopped writing C# code in Visual Studio, I software development doesn't make me nearly as angry as I used to be. Now I write Clojure code on OS X, and couldn't be happier.
You need to state how many servers you have and where they are geographically.

Site is friendly but devoid of a technical FAQ

(it's also slightly confusing in that it's not just DNS management you are offering but actual authoritative DNS service)

These are your competitors, at least the commercial ones:

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/hosted-authoritative-...
Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that are used to make stories awesome

This applies tremendously in marketing, and is one of the reasons why marketing speak has to change constantly. Otherwise people start ignoring the cliché ad speak.
A few things:

- Opening a bank account isn't pain and its free. If you do it locally at your bank, you can start using you account right away, you may have to wait a week or so for you credit/debit card and your online-banking pin, since they are send via mail. If you open an account with an online bank. You fill out the form, print it out, sign it, go to the post office with your ID, the post-person will check if your ID matches the form and send it to the bank. Few days later you will get your cards and passwords and are ready to go.

- Yes there are delays between banks. But there are some EU directives on the way, which seek to minimize the delay between banks in all of europe.

- I have no idea what your app is supposed to do. Is it some kind of fancy online-banking interface? With integrated accounting? For multiple accounts? The main-site (holvi.com) doesn't really help me with that.
The original - http://suprb.com/apps/gridalicious/
Others - http://masonry.desandro.com/ , http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
"they're looking for someone to work on a C# to native code compiler"

I wouldn't read too much into that. My guess is they are looking for something easier to work with for device driver developers.
If you can't beat 'em, mock 'em!
This is a hilariously bad analogy, since (through some shocking oversight) lawyers haven't managed to totally screw up the fashion industry yet. I don't have to take your fancy clothes. I can make near-perfect facsimiles and sell them for profit without any regard for anyone's intellectual property. This of course is a disaster for the fashion indust--wait, what's that? The fashion industry is thriving?
> It really is stunning how the hardware just works.

That's been my experience with Linux in the last 3-4 years. Almost everything just works for the "usual" settings. No more futzing with XFree86Conf files... :D
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Personally, I think both sides in this debate are somewhat pathetic.

Content providers are pathetic because they have had all this time to grok that their business model is outdated, and yet they still haven't. What is so freaking hard about distributing movies and TV shows over the Internet?

But people who pirate, and then argue that it's OK because they have a "right" to watch what they want, when they want, are just as pathetic. Lots of people put in lots of work to make that TV show or that movie. If you watch what they make, you have, IMO, a moral obligation to compensate them. The fact that the content providers have a braindead business model does not relieve you of that obligation.

(Btw, I'm well aware that the "content providers" aren't the ones who actually put in all the work to make that movie or that TV show. I think the people who actually do do that--actors, directors, writers, and everyone else who actually does the hard work--are making a huge mistake by hitching their fates to the fates of the media companies. But that still doesn't give me the right to get the product of their hard work for free.)
Thanks, but it's not clear to me that cells die without telomeres or at this Hayflick limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit says they enter senescence. They stop dividing. This seems different than cell death.

That is interesting to me too though. I don't know why cells should stop dividing without telomeres, or with telomeres below a critical length. That suggests to me there is interaction with other cellular machinery at this onset of senescence.
The legal theory here is that he should have common carrier status, like an ISP.

ISPs aren't generally liable for the things that their customers do over their network.
Images for text? No thanks.

I get it. IE is better. Just don't insult designers/developers you're trying to impress by half-assing proper semantics.
We want to understand exactly what you mean. Can you please send a screenshot to feedback@getprismatic.com ?
I don't want to juggle all the driver issues, etc... Hence the vitual machine for Linux amongst all the other guest OSes. Best of all worlds. Plus Linux isn't my primary working OS, I use it for testing and hobby programming.
That's fine. My point was simply that "they won't sell this to me" is an absurd justification for simply taking it.
Half-nailed it.
Is there a location that is good for part time or after hours development? That would be ideal - full time developers looking to do very part time work after hours. I'd be willing to accept a less that a typical freelancer, but still do the work as long as the expectations are within reason, i.e. the work needs will be done later in the evening. Has anyone tried to do that?
Can you be a good geek and a good dad?
If you can't get it at apple.com/itunes, just use Software Update.
The contact email @microsoft.com at the bottom of the page didn't make it obvious to you?
> Furthermore, the reason you hear of child porn rings is because those are what form - people share it with each other in a tit-for-tat sort of way. It absolutely incentivizes the production of more, which means more abused kids.

I'd imagine it's like any other prohibited material or substance; drugs, counterfeit goods, pirated works, etc. Of those implicated, a small minority are involved in production, while the vast majority are simply consumers.

I assume you are willing to at least acknowledge the existence of the latter group; people who simply consume child pornography and play no part in the production, or any sexual abuse of children for that matter.

Do you really think it is appropriate to ruin these peoples' lives — splash their names across the newspapers, lock them in jail, destroy their career, their relationships, make them a social pariah — for mere possession of child pornography? For having a certain sequence of 0s and 1s on their computer?
Not really no. Most of the criticisms that have been levelled against IE are technical in nature and very real (dragging their feet on web standards, breaking their own compatibility guidelines from version to version, etc).

Any piece of PR that has to resort to portraying their opponents as having the IQ of the average YouTube commenter, has automatically lost any credibility. Then to fall back on badly judged kitten memes was just cringe-worthy.

Nobody is disputing that IE has come along way. The issue isn't whether the latest version of the browser is capable, but rather whether we'd want to get back into bed with Microsoft given their past history. And thankfully there is so much choice in the market now, that people can choose not to use browsers for even the seemingly trivial reasons; such as historical prejudice.

Thus as long as there is competition in the market, I'm going to support the platforms that have a history of promoting a free and open web.
I went with Rackspace DNS, which is free and has no limits. There are many, many other options. I think Linode has a similar offering?
It's possible (and fairly easy) to boot linux (at least ubuntu) on my own macbook air 2011. I bet it's doable on any newer mac.
I think both sides are equally bad here.

Bashing MS just for fun isn't very smart (for all their sins, there's a few good things coming out of Redmond - and Microsoft Research is just fantastic for the most part), but Microsoft is just lowering itself to the level of their critics here.

While a large part of the public has a biased opinion of Microsoft, Microsoft also has a biased opinion of their users - otherwise their marketing wouldn't feel so out-of-touch. I don't see any winners here.
As I understand it the problem they're trying to tackle here is the opposite. That is, that some people still give too much of "a damn" about their browser and convince normal users to move away from it.
No, the tense is wrong. I still love to hate IE.
If it was the best browser around by a mile I'll still hate it, but maybe I'll use it. Maybe..
And there was rampant speculation that the GOP fixed the Maine 2012 caucus as well to prevent Ron Paul from winning there:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2847234/posts

http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Governor/Massachus...
In January, Surface with Windows 8 Pro will be available in two versions and pricing will start at $899.

Ouch.
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Not for a laptop. It's right in line with the MacBook Air.
Congrats on launching the book!

The landing page looks really familiar...[1] It's fine, but next time please ask before borrowing my code and designs.

Good luck with the launch. I hope you sell a lot of copies.

-Nathan

[1] http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook
You mean, as opposed to a MacBook air at 999 to 1199? This is a full-fledged laptop running the full version of Windows.
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https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en
Once memory goes to swap you already lost. Personally I rarely configure swap on servers, save the DB. I would reconfigure your services to not grow past physical free memory. After that you are going to have to scale servers horizontally.
You can make your very own Game Of Thrones. Start with finding a writer to make you a script. Good luck.
It seems OOMA already has that Bluetooth to phone integration but yes Magic Jack doesn't .
More detailed comparison is here at : http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/magicjack-vs-...

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Should be interesting. One of the things I've wished for was a tablet that could do both capacitive touch style interactions and more precise Wacom pen/tablet style interactions. Looks like I'll have a chance to play with an implementation of that.

I agree with kimura that its a pretty high price point. Although reserve judgement on whether or not it crosses into the 'too expensive' territory. Its essentially the same machine as a Macbook Air which is $1,199 for a 128G model (vs the Surface Pro 128GB @ $999)
IE hate is well deserved. How many hundreds of thousands or millions of productive hours have been lost due to incompabilities, bugs, etc?

That being said, Microsoft is full of talented people and they do create some fantastic products. IE is slowly getting to a more respectable point and hating on it so harshly seems juvenile.
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For a good personal friend, yes, that works. What if it was just a chance meeting? You can try calling a year later, but in my experience people won't make time for someone they barely remember.
I agree, but there's one difference I see here. The general public still has a greater expectation that a 25 year old with a Master's degree from an Ivy League institution will be knowledgeable than a 20 year old who reads two dozen blogs and keeps up with the tweets.

So yes, you can create any favorable/unfavorable comparison you want with the words by adding "passion" before the comma. But there are some instances where people still need this reminder.

Just recently, a recruiter wrote that a CS degree from Brown would count for a lot more than one from UIUC or U Tex. I was personally sort of shocked by this, because I thought that it was widely understood that the rigor and quality of CS programs at these universities was very high (absolutely nothing against Brown, which has great students, I was just sort of amazed that a recruiter would discount degrees from two "top 10" programs simply because, as large state schools, they're easier to "get into"... yeah, and anyone can "get into" basic training in the marines, it's getting through that's the tough part). So I'd say "a student who has excelled in a highly rigorous CS program is better prepared than an indifferent student from an elite college."

See, I just did it. But is this as vacuous as any statement you can construct using this trick/tactic?

I will say one thing - you've added something to my "alert phrases." You're entirely right that people do abuse this rhetorical trick, so I'll be on the lookout for it. However, I wouldn't dismiss these sorts of comparisons outright, they can be meaningful.
Well ... go on authorities. These pirate parties need votes. They are only at 5-6% now. Let's ensure that they can get at least 20% on the next elections.
I wish that graph was extending over more than a day. At first glance I thought "Oh, something sure was making the people use the internet before it was shut down" but then I realised it was just a normal work day curve starting in the night.
Exactly. I currently buy books on my kindle and use Calibre with plugins to strip the DRM on import. Before I had a kindle, I would use iTunes to purchase books and use Requiem to strip DRM from them.

I don't go to the extreme of converting to plain text. Epub is a zipped collection of html. There should be tools to extract data from those for a very long time into the future.
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> If they were going to rebuild it from the ground up anyway, would it really have killed them to just use Webkit?

First thing, Microsoft isn't willing to use an LGPL-licensed project. Perhaps if it was permissively-licensed, they've used BSD code before, but even so very unlikely.

Second, browsers are a crucial part of an OS. Microsoft wants to own their browser in the sense of not depending on an external development community to drive it. Microsoft has the resources to do so, so it does make sense.

Finally, even if they had used WebKit, it would have been bad for everyone but WebKit users. WebKit is already too dominant on mobile, sites only work on it, and that is a huge problem for the web. Yes, it's ironic given that IE was the previous dominant implementation. But still, we need diversity in the browser market to keep the web open, even if that diversity comes from Microsoft with it's sordid history.
I think they priced themselves out of the market.
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Well, it's a full-fledged laptop that has no keyboard. A keyboard will cost you more- a type cover is about $149, right?
But the reality is it's much more realistic to adjust your wants to your present circumstances than adjust your circumstances to your wants.

I'm not saying you shouldn't strive to improve your situation, just that adopting the stoical attitude of appreciating what you have will result in better outcomes for most people.
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There were many factors that led to this decision. I described the primary factor in my posting: I've been at this job for sixteen years at the same company, I am turning 40, and it is very common for people at that age to want to make a change.

I assure you that "how C# is treated" was in no way a factor; C# is treated extremely well at Microsoft. Moreover, think it through: I would not have taken a job that continues to improve the broader C# ecosystem if I thought that the .NET platform was some kind of dead end. It is vital.
Everyone seems really blown away by the pricing and I'm not sure why. This isn't an iPad, it houses a fully functional operating system that lets you run existing Windows 7 desktop applications.

In a use-case scenario I see it being more similar to a laptop than to the iPad. If I can run Visual Studio on it and it handles all my existing Windows 7 applications correctly, I'd consider purchasing it. I don't look at it like it's a tablet I'm going to be installing a Scrabble App on, though.
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I did notice, but didn't care enough about karaoke to look it up ;)

It's all great that Microsoft is trying to push the web forward again, they used to before IE6, but I'm not sure I like this new direction. WebGL, WebRTC and other APIs being pushed by every other major browser vendor looks much more promising and useful. Karaoke isn't making the web more practical, although it's a nice feature for entertainment.
What market, though? This isn't an iPad, it's a full machine. Agree that they're not doing a great job of communicating that, though. Calling them both Surface may have been a bad move.
Why would you not have much faith in static analysis? Have you changed your mind on this?
With our start-up, the right priority for development was simultaneous mobile and web development. This stack has proven to be the right answer for us. The Parse iOS and Javascript jumpstarted our client developers, ember.js gives us a wickedly responsive web app, and node.js allows us to late bind many of our architecture decisions by optionally hosting core JS on the server or browser. We're happy with the trade-offs that led us to choose this stack.
No one is going to pay Mac hardware prices for a piece of Windows hardware, at least not out of the gate.

Unless the device is amazing, it's just too much.
Focusing on creating the single page app and forgetting the pretty factor really was a key to increased retention. I feel like that was a huge learning for us. Form follows function.
It's morally wrong to not sell you something?
>Is it reasonable for the police to investigate an exit node operator for traffic coming from his node, even if they know he's an exit node operator?

Realistically, no. It's a fishing expedition -- it's like raiding the phone company's offices when someone has used a prepaid burner phone because they have the ability to spoof the IP address or phone number of any of their unidentifiable customers. There is no more reason to suspect that the exit node operator is at fault than any other ISP. Especially given the amount of harassment these raids cause for the victims -- can you reasonably state that the police should be able to enter a telco hotel and shut down and confiscate all of the equipment because not all of the traffic passing through it can be traced to an identifiable source? If not then what makes this different?

>I'm not aware of a good solution that avoids inconveniencing exit node operators without giving them some kind of blanket immunity to investigation that goes beyond just relayed traffic.

The solution is to rely on less disruptive investigative means until sufficient evidence is available to determine whether the exit node operator is the likely source of the traffic. For example, get a warrant and wiretap their phone and email and see if they're trafficking in illicit materials through those channels. Have an undercover cop chat them up and set up a sting if they're doing something illegal. Standard police work.
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I know where you are coming from. But on paper, Asians include people from Indian subcontinent etc. See this wp link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_Americans
It's competing with laptops, not tablets. If the price didn't kill it vs. tablets, the thickness and fans would. Terrible choice against the iPad, but potentially the right one vs. a MacBook Air.
Better in most ways. The $999 Surface Pro has the same specs as the $1,200 MBA, only high resolution, lighter, and with a touch screen.
I wonder what proportion of Tor is used for legal purposes? I personally hold an extremely low estimate for that figure.
That's great to know; I just haven't used the new keyboards so a direct comparison wouldn't have helped me much. The last laptop keyboard I've really liked was the Thinkpad T43 (I might be off by one or two on the model number), but it died a long time ago.
But people are going to compare it to an iPad or other Windows notebooks (in the ~600 range) rather than an ultrabook, I think.
Man this thing is cool, I want it just for the digitizer and the resolution.
>and play no part in the production, or any sexual abuse of children for that matter.

Their demand of it CAUSES IT TO BE MADE.

Jesus, I've never seen so much bending overbackwards over CP. Hey guys, we still have the first amendment and SCOTUS always rule sensibly on speech issues. No one is going to start a police state over CP enforcement. The slippery slope doesn't always happen, in fact, its rare that it does.
Agreed. But making the point that offering an alternative to piracy (a real alternative... the point is simplicity) will solve part of the problem and is good business sense. But it's change, so it's scary.

People waving fistfuls of cash in your face isn't a bad problem to have.

And, no, that won't stop piracy. Some people just don't want to pay for something if they can get it for free. But those people are not taking dollars away from your income statement: they never would have bought in the first place.
No offense but you're reading waaay more into it than what they wrote. "Difference in strategic position" doesn't equate to "dead language that no one uses" and a question into the departure of a high-profile MS exec doesn't rise to the level of moon landing lunacy. Unless you have some sort of inside knowledge about what the parent comment to yours actually meant I can only assume that this discussion in general is hitting too close to home for complete objectivity on your part.

I also don't think that being signed up for a site for a longer duration of time inherently gives you any right to speak for the entire site, even in a conversation with one of relatively less "seniority" on the site (whatever that even means). It's nice that you clarified what you meant by "us" but that wasn't being debated and it didn't add to any points you've made.
But one can "blame them for trying" because they know, as you pointed out, "likely they won't find the actual perv".

Many police use Tor on a day-to-day basis in their investigations. It's just as useful for the police to need anonymity as it is anyone else. Tor provides an easy-to-use system to identify the exit nodes.

Ignorance of the reality is no excuse.
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I used to love IE simply for OnMouseEnter and OnMouseOut... made JS dragging techniques super easy, compared to other browsers, but still couldn't use it cause they were the only ones so, pfft. I stood by them till Chrome came out. I preferred Microsofts decisions of how the web should be rendered over w3c.
So internet explorer is good because it is the best browser on a platform (xbox360) that didn't have a browser before and where it doesn't have any competition because there are no other browsers?