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> On one side the company has to operate the network, pay the employees and still generate some profit, so they care about total ROI.

While broadband access via DSL is among the cheapest in France, the historical three physical mobile network owners (SFR, Orange and Bouygues) were (and still are) offering obscure, ridiculously contrived and absurdly priced two year contracts going north of 50€ with 2 hours talk, 1GB data from the phone, unlimited SMS and a free useless option[0], to which you're supposed to add a full 25€ just for tethering. That's after having been struck by justice's mighty hammer for secretly coordinating prices.

Then about a year ago, Free Mobile entered the mobile market in France. For a 20€/mo contract you can bail out of anytime, you get unlimited voice, SMS, MMS and HSPA+ (there's virtually no LTE deployed here yet anyway) usable as tethering or with VoIP, downgraded to slower speed past the 3GB/mo barrier. Basically a "just makes sense" contract from a data and a consumer point of view. Earth shaking prices all the while they're investing in infrastructure to build their own network, while at the same time paying a MVNO deal to Orange as a fallback in not yet covered areas.

Public reaction from the old guard was ranging from outraged ("they'll destroy the whole market! people will lose their work! frogs will pour down the sky!") to shameless excuses ("no, we did not rip you off for years, we promise!") to bewildered ("how the hell can they be so cheap?") to FUD ("you'll see! it's just a marketing ploy to gather critical mass! prices will rise!") to speechless ("").

Curiously, almost 12 month later, all prices have been falling down. The closest to Free right now is Sosh, a MVNO operated by Orange, which started to offer similar contracts. Still subscribable only online (so John Doe really has no clue about it when he goes shopping around the mall, which is what the bulk of customers do) and their marketing used to be misleading in various areas, like they were offering only HSDPA. Just checked and things changed a bit as they now offer 2GB HSDPA for 20€ or 2GB HSPA+ for 25€. Not quite that but getting there.

So well, there's ROI, and there's maximizing profits.

[0]: useless options as in:

- double hours for free between 4PM and 6PM on raising moon days and 2AM to 7AM otherwise.

- TV on the phone, via an app that does not work via WiFi (you know, for authentication), offers limited channels at crap quality and constantly tries to upsell you more channels.

- GPS navigation on the phone, via a disaster of an app. Think Apple Maps is a failure? You ain't seen nothing.

- free youtube and social networks access! OMG lolzor! but through their custom app. With content ads.

- five music tracks per month, for free, WMA DRMized via some proprietary auth+download platform of course. Super useful when you bought an iPhone from them with the same contract.

- football (== soccer) SMS alerts on goals! Yay, like people interested in this are not watching the games live already.
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I came to make a similar comment, and am still reading my way through, but RPS seems to have a bias against updates only for backers.

In my opinion, the games that are still far from being released are doing just fine by not marketing themselves a little too early. If I'm not mistaken, games typically ramp up their marketing efforts much closer to actual release dates than during the development process.

Kickstarter enables a different method of capitalization, sure, but I think the game development process remains consistent as with other types of funding available to developers.
I am currently building a site and this is definitely an experience that I can learn from. I am wondering, why was the homepage not being cached?
I will also add classless and a scathing condemnation of nations declining moral standard.
I think a real artist is required for the authentic effect. I asked for the original and was firmly told that it goes into their archives.
I need it to recognize languages in some other way than searching for strings. I search for "java library" and it brings me everything from PHP to NodeJS.
There was an article posted here a while ago that made the case that Lisp is so powerful that it makes it feasible to do much more yourself rather than relying on libraries, and thus it attracts a higher level of hacker that wants to do things their own way and is more intolerant of compromises made in the name of standardization. Sort of the opposite of the lowest common denominator approach of successful enterprise languages like Java. The failure to thrive of Common Lisp is strong evidence of the worse-is-better phenomenon.
>> So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article.

The article is hosted on macobserver.com, which explains why it has 'Mac' in the title. Also, looking at the article itself it is clearly intended for casual/non-geek computer users. Seeing that OS X + Windows probably cover ~99% of this group, and the calender is not on windows (I suppose), it's not that strange that the article refers to Macs either.
I understand what you are saying.

I do agree that Chef [and RightScale? Never used it) makes it easy to spawn new instances and through load balancing average your load.

I was talking in term of tradeoff in the first few weeks of a new service with a MVP. Obviously, you re-assess your need before you get to 100k user, and probably uses something else than EC-2.

In any case, both ideas are equally good. I don't claim better knowledge in any way.
Semi-unrelated, but I really enjoyed the mobile optimized version of quartz. Intuitive nav header based on scroll gesture & pull to refresh and get a new article were a nice touch.
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It's not a theory, it's a fact that people vote aspirationally.
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He's getting into the business of destroying lives. I don't think it's lawyers that will end him.
As of 2 hours - none.
> shouldn't we focus on finding those making porn, actively abusing kids, rather than those distributing it?

False dichotomy.

Regardless on how you stand on distributing child pornography, a person actively distributing it from their connection and a person allowing others to route CP via their connection are logically equivalent in my opinion.
man calendar says its month/day... http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/cgi-bin/www/unix_help/man-cgi?calend... oh, you mean the adventure took place over more than one calendar year, and so without the years, the high bit of the ordering is lost, and the dates wrap around.
What's funny is that they put this project on their IdeaStorm website when they started it a few months ago, to get feedback from Linux devs. Almost all of the higher ranking suggestions were about the need for a higher screen resolution, and still they went for 1366x768...
A tank's weight is proportional to volume, not surface area, assuming equal pressure and material strength.

The weight of a full tank, yes.

The weight of an empty tank, no. An empty tank is mostly a shell, and the size of that shell corresponds to area.

Also, you often can't just simply stretch tanks - you need to increase thrust. Otherwise your payload drops because of lower T/W and more gravity losses in early flight.

I am assuming that Elon Musk's 5-10% estimate takes things like this into account.

Incidentally "early flight" in this case is very early. At the ground, oxygen levels are a bit over 20%. But as you go up, oxygen drops off faster than nitrogen, so oxygen intake falls off slower than drag. At some point you'll gain nothing. I do not know what that point is, but the oxygen/nitrogen level is part of why it is most efficient for commercial airlines to fly at around 9 km high. So it is really just a few km that you get a potential benefit. But your top speed at that moment is a pretty small fraction of what you need to get to orbit.
Should law enforcement just say "Oh, you have an open Wifi hotspot/you're running a Tor exit node, I guess this is a dead end, thanks for your time"? Investigating (including seizing equipment) to determine whether the traffic in question actually came from the Tor network seems like a reasonable idea. Otherwise, anyone running an exit node would have a blank check to do whatever they'd like and simply claim it was just traffic they were passing through.

I know that people like to pretend otherwise, but as long as there are crossover points between the Tor network and the public internet, there will be non-anonymous people in the real world who will have to deal with things like this. "I'm running a Tor exit node" is not (and should not be) a magical pass that makes you immune to any kind of investigation.
I think he was saying the coup mentality is a destructive trait. Instead of focusing on what he is good at, masterminding, he was focusing on how to undermine the guy who assumed charge. By definition that's counter-productive. It's difficult to earn your (potentially invaluable) spot in the group when you "don't play nice with others".
Try restarting the router
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This is called insurance. Who wants to start a company insuring internet users against civil and criminal penalties?

EDIT: ok, it's almost insurance.
This guy is a scumbag.
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I just picked up a laptop for a relative that both had trackpad issues, lacked touchscreen support, and even had fn-keys that didn't work (you know, for controlling brightness and volume and such on the laptop) under Linux. And it was a pretty mainstream ASUS with Intel.
It's all about the semantic. As a client I like to know if a method is purely functional or if it's going to have side-effects because I care to know if the operation is going to be re-entrant or not. Also methods with side-effects have performance implications if they use I/O. The semantic should be used to convey that message.

Obviously if my future spam checker is going to be introducing a side effect (eg: Akismet) I am going to refactor my code a no longer user a class method. In any case I don't see how it would "resists future refactoring". Grepping for UserContentSpamChecker is not exactly rocket science.
That's not always a driver issue. The software must support anything your trying to do. Things like two finger scroll work just fine, however things like pinch to zoom , maybe not.
I was using bootstrap on the site before. I kept tweaking it and realised I had to do a lot of tweaks to get it to a state I need. So I removed it in favour of custom design.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll style up the pricing page soon.
Media made from victimizing children is not "free speech" in my book.
there is an interesting startup idea - small freelance jobs. I work full time but would like to pickup an interesting side project here or there that could be done late at night on my own without the hassle of odesk or whatnot. I have no work for you but you hit on an interesting concept, freelance jobs for under $1000 maybe? Just a thought.
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I'll bite. Please tell me which laptops have fully supported graphics cards, including dynamic switching between integrated and discreet without reboot.
As long as they don't start creating a Dell Linux distribution with their own set of "experience enhancers".
My mother-in-law would love this.
Is there a way, she could get a pre-filled email each time that she could just edit and then send off?

She sends just a few invoices at the end of each month, but each month she has to be reminded what to do.
Your project is much simpler, so hopefully she'll find it easier to remember what to do.
This is not a valid argument. Anything can be used for evil, but that doesn't mean we should avoid or outlaw everything.

A knife can be used to cut a chicken, it can also be used to kill someone. You would not deny your neighbour when he asks to borrow a knife because "you could kill someone with it".
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Post box number? You can send add it in the address itself. Did you mean that PO number has to have a different style?
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I think we can support censorship of child pornography, and also support protection of anonymity and network neutrality.
Learning related languages does help understand the connections between the languages. To continue your example, "dog" in German is also "Hund".

Etymonline says (of hound): O.E. hund "dog," from P.Gmc. hundas (cf. O.S., O.Fris. hund, O.H.G. hunt, Ger. Hund, O.N. hundr, Goth. hunds), from PIE kuntos, dental enlargement of root kwon- "dog" (see canine). Meaning narrowed 12c. to "dog used for hunting."

Expanding that a bit, it says: Old English hund "dog" from Proto-Germanic hundas (compare to Old Saxon, Old Frisian hung, Old High German hunt, German Hund, Old Norwegian hundr, Gothic funds), from Proto-Indo-European kuntos, dental enlargement of root kwon- "dog" (see canine). Meaning narrowed in the 12th century to "dog used for hunting."

It's actually "dog" which is the strange one out. That site elaborates: O.E. docga, a late, rare word used of a powerful breed of canine. It forced out O.E. hund (the general Germanic and IE word; see canine) by 16c. and subsequently was picked up in many continental languages (cf. Fr. dogue (16c.), Dan. dogge), but the origin remains one of the great mysteries of English etymology.

(It looks like dog was applied to what we now call a mastiff, though I'm not sure.)

Since you know French, it makes sense that you find "dog" to be a normal term - apparently it comes from the English (?!) - while you are less familiar with 'hund' and its variants.
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According the the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS) [1], xNTJs correlate very closely to a type of Temperament called "Rationals" -- which make up about 3% of the population.

I can't remember where I did the reading, but engineering disciplines seem to have an unusually large concentration of them. All of the KTS types break down into two subtypes which are pretty much the difference between the Myers-Briggs E and I extraverts and intraverts.

All of the temperaments have strengths and weaknesses. In the case of an INTJ/Mastermind [2], there's a tendancy to ignore social costs in the pursuit of "getting shit done" (GSD). In some other readings on the type I've found descriptions that basically describe Masterminds as masters of strategy who prefer to sit in the backgroud behind a competent Field Marshall [3]. But when they feel the Field Marshall is no longer competent, the need to GSD can overwhelm them and they will attempt to assume control in order to accomplish the goal. Then once the goal is accomplished, fade into the background behind a new field marshall. Viewed negatively Masterminds are basically coup makers. And that's very rarely something to be desired. I've found that it's usually better to simply change positions and get away from under a poor leader than try and overthrow them. It almost never puts one in a good light.

Of course KTS and MB both have the feel of a kind of tarot card pseudo-science hand waiving. But I've found that none of the other KTS types come as close to matching the internal thought processes I have about my temperment. It's not a perfect descriptor, but it's about 90% on the nose.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_(role_variant)

[3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldmarshal_(role_variant)
I always find it odd that people often tend to focus on pedophiles "getting off" rather than pedophiles hurting children. If we really want to protect children, we'd do well to find harmless ways for pedophiles to get off. It's pretty well established that giving people benign sexual outlets is an effective way to prevent them from seeking harmful ones.

I mean, yeah, don't run a TOR exit node because of the legal risk - that makes sense. Or because you're afraid it makes it easier to hurt kids... well, I don't know if it really does, but at least your heart is in the right place. But what business is it of anyone else who gets off?
Cool stuff ... Simple and useful. Loved it :)
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Your doing it wrong [1] A Single data point does not a result make. Others have had no problems with that exact laptop. For a counter point I could never get the CD-ROM hotplug working on my old dell laptop in windows. Clearly windows doesn't support CD-ROMS.

1. http://www.linlap.com/hp_mini_210
It's the presentation. Flickr has terrible presentation, with tiny thumbnail views and lots of clutter. As a photographer though, the 900 pixel maximum width imposed at 500px.com is unacceptable. As a programmer, Flickr's api allows all kinds of social analytics that I would hate to give up.
It's in everyone's best interest to have fair, just economic systems. Good systems where wealth is more strongly linked to economic output rather than birthrights lead to more prosperity and justice for everyone. Too much wealth inequality hurts growth, and it also creates political inequality that can create a feedback cycle that worsens the problem. Social justice and economic justice are inexorably linked, if one group has all the power, bad things happen.

Also, you clearly live in a very wealthy neighborhood, but many people are struggling. Even if people aren't struggling, the "you can't complain about anything being injust because someone, somewhere is in a more unjust situation" is an absurd line of reasoning.
How about Google Hangouts (comes as a Firefox plugin)?
Really? This surprises me. Do you have any research, evidence, articles to support this?
Thanks for this post, there were some nice tips in there. Although, I do have some nitpicking about your writing style. Maybe it's just me, but I found that your use of "+ve" instead of just saying "positive" and of "&" instead of "and" did not have the intended effect of speeding up reading, quite the reverse actually.
In my experience, the linux kernel handles no swap at all very badly, so you need a small amount.

Increasing the swap, which is the suggested solution, is however, a terrible idea. As soon as you hit high memory usage, your IO load will go through the roof, and everything will grind to a halt.

The solution here is separation of services - i.e. put Solr on a different box, so that if it spirals it doesn't take out other services.

The OOM killer is your friend for recovering from horrible conditions, but as soon as you hit it or swap, somethings gone wrong.
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Yes, the fees for UK universities are higher and this will discourage some people from going to university. But the fee levels are still restricted and do not vary much between universities, and access to student finance is available to everyone, so I don't think the new system will make much difference at all.
I made this with Gmail canned responses in mind. So anyone could save the template and then send an invoice.

Someone else also told me the same thing about being able to receive a pre-filled email and sending it back. I'll look into this one.

Thanks for the feedback.
The price is crazy. I know this one has less ram but it also includes a Windows license in the cost: http://store.vizio.com/ct15a5.html

*edit: plus the vizio TVs are really nice.
Can anyone guess as to how this works? Does the client send javascript directly to the remote browser? I would imagine that the remote browser goes out and fetches it instead. Or might this rely on hosting custom javascript for each of your map-reduce jobs that you want to run?
I was thinking this too. By the way the article reads it has nothing to do with the DRM on the ebook itself. How can the DRM on the ebook be the problem if one cannot download the ebook in the first place?

This is a customer service issue, not a DRM issue.
> The launch hardware costs $1,549

For the same price you can get a MacBook Air with a 1440x900 screen.
Consumers and their whole experience of one are the only data point they use to make decisions after purchases.
Perhaps they're trying not to compete with their OEM partners, but rather trying to set a benchmark to help their OEM partners compete with Apple.
Yeah, exactly. Until this was described to me via the KTS, I never really realized I was doing it. But on internal reflection realized it was a deep and pressing psychological need I had. I've found becoming aware of it has given me the tools to supress it.

I think that this tendency was sub-conciously "read" by others and growing up I rarely found myself in direct leadership roles. But after I started working on that part of myself, I think that vibe started to go away and I find myself in many more leadership roles these days.
The 'mentality' is that if you don't like what the site is doing with data, you should leave the site and not use it.

Do you use Facebook from Europe? If you are not using it, then you are probably not really disagreeing with what the parent said.

I really could have done without the anti-US bigotry here, it is flamebait and not entirely related to the topic
It's not that their other businesses are failing, but pundits are calling this the nail in the coffin in Microsoft's effort of breaking into the mobile market, and in a bigger picture, transitioning some of their aging business/product line to cope with the new consumer market. If you put it that way, then it does seem like a slow and long decline is what awaits Microsoft in the future.
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I have friend here is the US with loads of bandwidth (he has a hosting business) and has talked about running a tor exit node, but fears that he puts his business at risk if he does that.

I'm interested to see why you don't think he'd be breaking any laws.
There was a profile on him a while back, and he came across as the biggest douchebag that ever lived but if he thinks he can get away with basically enabling stalking he's probably going to find out rapidly that he's not as sheltered under the law as he hopes.
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> a person actively distributing it from their connection and a person allowing others to route CP via their connection are logically equivalent

False equivalence.

Someone can simultaneously support anonymous communication without supporting CP (philosophically, if not practically).

They're not specifically allowing distribution of CP, they're allowing distribution of all anonymous communication.
czzarr,

I had the same thing in mind as PaulJoslin. This app might just sound like a feature. So I thought putting in a number isn't good unless I know the usage and what others have in mind.

Thanks for the feedback czzarr and PaulJoslin
I found the desktop version of the site nearly unusable. While I was waiting for the Javascript mess to render the actual content I hit the scroll wheel, the screen flickered a bunch of times, and I ended up one a completely random article somehow. Horrible.

Edit: Scrolling up at the "top" of the page should do nothing, not go to some other page.
Mixminion[1] is the next generation anonymous remailer that was designed to fix some problems with mixmaster. You might want to use that instead, if you can.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion
Perhaps they should cut the price in half.

And double the screen resolution.
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This is the 2nd qz.com link for me today that doesn't work. I just see a spinning circle in the middle of the page.
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