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True, the ones in the middle really won't be affected by the grid flip. And thanks for reading / scrolling all the way down to the bottom to find out about the grid flip :-)

The best bargain is to get in quick while it's still early days and your app will by displayed for a while longer because I'm sure reaching the $250,000 mark won't happen overnight.

Also, the 'early adopters' will be featured on the hall of fame page here: http://only1414apps.com/hall-of-fame.html

Again, thanks for reading about my post and visiting the site.
I would like to see some information about server load. I want to write something like this, but I don't know if I can host it on a EC2 micro?
when you need to go out, you grab it out of its dock, and all your programs, files and settings are with you, running on their tablet-optimised version.

This was what the future looked like 10 years ago until cloud-provided software and storage became an option. This was the videos Microsoft showed us and it all looked fantastic.

Now I'm wondering why on earth would I lob files manually around? It's as old-fashioned as synching your phone via USB and iTunes. You did that 5 years ago. Not now. It's a stone-age solution created by stone-age approach to computing. We demand better now.

Now I have one Google doc document, which is a live document. It's always the latest version, with all the latest collaborations, and I don't need to bring it with me. That's great. I don't know which documents I'll need. And you can't be realistically expected to bring them all with you always, just to be covered.

The "future" you are painting sounds old fashioned and I don't want it. That is Microsoft's main problem now: Their future insist we should keep things which are obsolete (like local files) at all cost, and they are doing it to attempt to keep the relevance of their OS as it used to be.

In services like Office 365 they are very explicit about not creating a "document", you are creating a ".docx-file". This is 100% orthogonal to the way they tried to do things on the desktop (hide the extensions at all cost, because they were "confusing").

Now they are back-pedalling hard. Now people must know that they are creating a MS Word file. In the cloud. As if that makes sense.

They are either confused, conflicted, panicking, a mix of those, or just appearing to be entirely uncoordinated right now.

Even as a .NET developer I am seriously starting to doubt Microsoft's future, at least as far as client-platforms go.
There will be virtual currency involved. So, when users participate and if they predict correctly they will earn virtual currency.

Most of the events in prediction markets involve something that user already knows what is going to happen.
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Okay, so maybe it's not puppet, but then it's some other language... whatever uses that => construct to do stuff. I assume it's Ruby or something else that's Shiny these days, and that's not anything I normally use. As a result, that part of it was very much based on poking around and trying different things.

So now it's actually three things. One, it's puppet. Two, it's knowing that puppet uses a particular language's pet syntax to convey things. Three, know that syntax and apply fixes to the example until it can be parsed.

I guess if they're looking for someone who's going to power through it no matter what, then it served its purpose.

BTW, awk vs. grep vs. cut? Come on. You can (ab)use all three tools to get exactly the same output. grep takes a lot of stupid showboating, but it can be done.
Because if you are not moving faster than light, the light ray will cross the event horizon before you do.

Eg: The light ray came from the floor 1 foot below the event horizon, and your eyes are 3 feet away from it.
> Unfortunately, the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consumers in the form of overall higher prices.

In Amazon's case it's also possible to argue that the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consumers in the form of overall lower prices.

Customer service policies like this are a significant part of what allowed Amazon to grow to be the company it is today, and Amazon has used that power (some would say abused it), to drive prices lower than they would otherwise have been on many items.

> Especially when that convenience means having an item re-shipped to a different address that I never used before,

I'm personally very glad that they allow this, having had to had a broken Kindle replaced whilst on holiday in a different country.
Vendor diversification? As in Apple has diversified into computers, phones, tablets, TVs, music players, music sales, software sales...? If it's vendor diversification you like, you might want to hope that Microsoft manages to become a player in phones, tablets, etc., too, because otherwise we'll be stuck paying Apple-sized margins on hardware, software, and services.

Of course, my first choice would be to see Linux become a major force on more platforms in a power user (not consumer) form. Watching Apple, Microsoft, and major chunks of Linux in a race to convert all platforms to the "I don't understand folders, I just want my Facebook and buttons to poke to buy my entertainment" market makes me wish for someone to target the power user machines for getting work done market that everyone else is getting out of.
This has had me in hysterics for the last 5 minutes.

We need to build, not destroy!
I vomited a little when I read that :)
Unfortunately no because chances are this open source code is using some parts of the Win32 API that are not supported by WinRT, so you would have to replace the invalid API calls by the new (probably asynchronous) ones... Maybe even completely rewrite the GUI if necessary.
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tosback.com from the EFF used to do this, but it was taken offline a few days ago. I think someone took a look at it after the Facebook user agreement thing and either wanted to upgrade it or noticed some problems.
My Mom's family had a different solution. At 7 o'clock, call. If you let it ring once then it means pick us up now. If you let it ring three times, then pick us up in an hour.

Thinking about it now, Skype gives rings on the caller's side even before it's connected on the receiver's side. In that case, use synchronization. If it takes between 1 and 4 caller rings for the receiver to ring, then a call at 7:00 means "come now" and a call at 7:05 means "come in an hour."
Before i switched to Python as my general purpose language, i used to be a bit of a Perl fanatic.

I've still to come across a language that lets you get your ideas down as quickly. It's full of fantastic time savers, e.g. the for(<>) construct and the format output functionality cover a bunch of common use cases in minimal keystrokes (let me pipe in some data, analyse it, then spit it out in a clean report).

It can hurt readability but for small one offs, it often doesn't matter.
Because I support prosecuting animal poachers, I do not approve of hunting them like animals themselves.
Did get the point of your comment, are you are trying to convey that you have problems with the Perl philosophy- "There is more than one way to do it(TIMTOWTDI)"?
X is time, Y is height. So something like, X time after hitting the jump button, the guy is Y above the ground.

(Or you can pretend that the guy is moving towards the right at constant speed, and jumping, and the points in the graphs are the different positions he'll be at :)

(Edit: I'm not very sure about the pictures to the left though. Maybe higher jumps/longer time or somethingsomething.)
While your point is valid, I didn't expect this to happen with requests. Just two weeks ago, I was telling my colleague that requests is such a nice library, we have nothing to worry about when installing a new version. Simply grab the latest!

Then 1.0 happens. I have now moved requests to the "thoroughly test before upgrade" pile.
As a former PayPal CSR I don't think I was unintelligent, untrained and unhelpful, oh well :)
I can't help feel there are tangential aims for a project like this. Surely part of the reasoning for making an investment in a project like this, is the advancement of the technology involved?

Bearing in mind the premier use for similarly advanced unmanned aircraft, is it too cynical to believe the project might end up advancing military aims?
I use Python in production for text pre-processing and other ETL-related processes, which is part of a larger reinforcement learning approach. Additionally, I use Python to prototype the core ML algorithms, which I sometimes re-implement in C++. However, for many of those algorithms, numpy actually performs identically to BLAS in C++.
I'd say it's still fair to point out that you chose a game where framerate is particularly unimportant to begin with.

Like, you probably would believe the amount of people playing Quake Live at 7 fps.
Has anybody used Binfire or wrike for project management?
If you have used either Binfire or Wrike, please let me know about their weaknesses and strength. If you have used any other project management app which you like, state why.
It is hosted on NodeJitsu (Joyent hardware) a PaaS.
I could still Google it and install it.

Not sure if I should blame Google, Ad Block and similar extensions directly hit Google's lucrative Ads business.
Find the old text somewhere. Get the new text. Copypaste both in a text file. Then use diff or meld or another difftool of your choice to compare the two text files.
The new flickr app (albeit very late) looks a whole lot better proposition then Instagram.

To value Instagram at a billion dollars (well less now I guess because of Facebook's share price) is insane. They have a serious problem with spam - every photo I upload is liked by many getM0refollowers<RandomNumber> and every photo I upload is bombarded with spam comments. They seem incapable of getting a grip on this problem.

The app also has bugs e.g. it says I have X followed but then displays X minus Y when I try to view who they are.

Its popular photos are rubbish - so there is no way to discover interesting photos other than searching for tags you're interested in. Photos with a 1000 likes appeal to the teenage market only i.e. they're not serious photos.

When you follow someone you get very large photos dominating your stream, so I don't follow many people because of this.

I really hope flickr aggresively try and take back this market. Instagram is a neat idea, but has very poor execution.
I remember. I must admit it annoys me sometimes how easily impressed kids are with something like Google. And a lot of it seems to stem from "scale". The web is much larger than in 1995, computers are more powerful, but no web company can take credit for that; they are incidental beneficiaries. All these companies use the large numbers associated with today's web to impress the easily impressed.
Hmmm, anyone any idea what kind of scam they are trying to attempt here?
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Deleting the photos doesn't work even?
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The interesting question is why the constructed languages never gain wider acceptance. The only example of (semi-) constructed language that became first language for a lot of people I can think of is Ivrit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revival_of_the_Hebrew_language
Most of the world didn't start believing in Zero as a number until after the 4th Century AD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number). It didn't seem rational. "How can something be nothing?" And there is the divide by problem you mentioned... Eventually people realized that it was their approach to the problem that was flawed. The world accepted Zero and moved forward as a result.

I believe God is rational and therefore it is right for us to rationally evaluate the claims of gods and their proponents, however, we proceed with humility, because it follows that if God is God, then his ways are higher than ours.

Belief in God (and Zero) makes the most sense to me, even with my unanswered questions.
No assassins creed? These games pale in comparison! Haha
It's because you're searching for 'Apps' and not 'Extensions'. Change the filter at the top to what you're looking for and you will find what you're looking for.
Its definitely one of those interesting sites that pops up every so often, more fun when people are just playing around with it.

During the time playing with you ended up going from newbie-ooh break stuff/fight to - hey it looks like someone is trying to build something, hmm hey we can help.

At which point you realize that all the blocks couldn't possibly fix perfectly, and a new comer enters the room and his/her cycle begins anew.
Because it's not an app but an extension.
$5million is a tiny amount of money and is unlikely to advance the state of the art in military drone technology.

Other people in the thread have mentioned the stuff involved in the predator drones.

Google may get some nice aerial photography for Maps; or they may get some limited research for unmanned vehicles.

> I can't help feel there are tangential aims for a project like this.

Even if there are, well, it's not a bad thing.
R is (according to that study) 500x slower than C. But let's say that we have a language that is just 10x slower than medium-optimized C. In that case, a 100sec. program run spends 78sec. in that language and 22sec. in that compute kernel.

Now imagine that you speed up the language by 2x but have to forego the use of efficient C code. Now, the program would spend 39sec. outside the "kernel" stuff and 110sec. in the stuff that used to be a C library but had to be reimplemented.

Then again, even if you consider a "one language" design such as Cython (where you can write code that's between Python and C, both convenience-wise and performance-wise), performance-sensitive code looks markedly different than straighforwardly writing down a program.

This is why the "two language" design survives, even while you see very usable work in pure-C++ or even pure-Java.
Flickr never locks you out of access to your photos, per se.

The only difference is that your photostream is limited to 200 photos. Every other way that photos are accessed continues to work - whether you've embedded them on blogs, other people favorited them, etc.

There are 3rd party tools to export your photos from Flickr via the API. Flickr hasn't written their own exporter (they probably should) but exporting apps aren't blocked.
No it just searches for Apps by default: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search-extensions/adblock
Why do you need this certification? There are already things like the acid tests to test your browser. Are you really going to make your browser choice based on a certification? It's already generally known which browser supports which standard how good without certification so you can base your choice on it already, because there aren't that many browsers out there.
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Here is another article covering a good deal of detail about Perl in its first 25 years, Its a great read: http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/12/the-first-twenty-five...
I don't really know what Instagram is really worth, but it might have been worth a billion dollars to Facebook to keep Instagram away from Twitter. Twitter + Instagram is starting to look like a viable Facebook competitor.

Although we know now that Twitter is choosing to become a walled garden with a very limited kind of service, a year ago it seemed possible for them to become a sort of internet infrastructure.
1/ MIRROR’S EDGE

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On why it’s a favourit:

Wow, very exciting and different game by DICE. Mirror’s Edge is best explained as a first person freerunning game. You elegantly weave your way through the cityscape at great hight. The game can be very frustrating when trying to set a perfect time or parcour, but the feeling when this is accomplished is great. Not for casual gamers, but great for anybody that wants a special, challenging yet rewarding experience!

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2812
2/ OKAMIDEN
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On why it’s a favourit:

Beautiful, lovely, artsy and fun adventure game for Nintendo’s DS. Great use of touchscreen. Remake (with some changes) from Playstation/Wii originals, so don’t expect a world of difference. Game is a lot like Zelda games - discovery, adventure and solving basic puzzles. Very worthwhile for anyone that enjoys the Zelda franchise.

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2804
3/ KINGDOM OF AMALUR: RECKONING

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On why it’s a favourit:

This is easily the best RPG I’ve played in years. It feels like a more up to date version of World of Warcraft, but then without the MMO stuff. It appeals to me a lot more than a game like Skyrim. The combat in KoA:R is not unlike God of War, making it one of the strong points of this game. What could be improved is the variety in opponents, which is rather repetitive. But other than that great game that anybody interested in light RPG’s should check out.

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2787
4/ L.A. NOIRE

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On why it’s a favourit:

This is a game unlike any I’ve played before or after. You’re a detective that needs to solve cases to progress. Solving cases involves interrogations (catch lies based on facial expressions and evidence), cases, an occasional fight/shoot out and lots of looking for clues. Truly different and a great experience. Warning not for “casual gamers”

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2793
5/ LIMBO

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On why it’s a favourit:

Basic platform puzzler, closest to art a game can come, simple but great design & gameplay, deep perfection, not for casual/call of duty gamers. A lot of trial and error (and potentially frustrating at points).

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2794
6/ MAFIA II

On why it’s a favourit:

Great sequel positioned in the mafia world. It’s as if you play in your own gangster movie, strong story combined with strong gameplay. A lot of focus on shoot outs and driving (incl. car chases). Will keep you tied to your screen for a good amount of tense hours.

http://www.favour.it/favourits/view/2788
And I only use 1 drone, which I think is somewhat equal to an amazon micro
I think it's just the usual screw-up - people frequently try to submit something via the bookmarklet, get it wrong, and submit the bookmarklet itself instead.

Flag it and move on.
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C# and the entire .NET ecosystem isn't as popular as Rails in start-ups.

However, in the world of enterprise development for corporate clients you won't see much Rails development. It is all .NET and Java.
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It's like trying to build a tower with my daughter, anything over 2 must be destroyed!
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1. Yes 2. I also don't like that their naming convention doesn't reflect functionality. How would you assign carp, cluck, croak and confess functions?
The same is about to happen in my country, India. Over here also corruption is rampant and the laws are lax.
I have stopped shopping from Super markets unless the item is not available anywhere else. I guess that is the only solution the public has at its hand and can be easily implemented.
Harsh sentences don't "set an example" and deter crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence_(legal)#Effectivene...
remember this is a game. gravity is only one of the forces present.
One tv isn't all that much to pay for a customer's loyalty on a site where he might potentially do all his shopping for the next 50 years.
Thanks! And good idea. I'll work on something like that, maybe tonight.
Coincidentally done 3 minutes after the account was created, and with no user info? I don't think it was a screw-up. And yes, flagged.
Would be a good start for a next selection. Very mainstream though...
I'd be curious to see these old wm rendered using a modern graphic stack. With a little bit of anti-aliasing and some tweaking it could be beautiful.
Its quite possible to build a drone using off the shelf parts that can stay up for a few hours, at least. The rcgroups.com forums are full of such things, and whats interesting is that the pace of drone technology is really represented in such forums as rcgroups.com .. I myself have the parts available to build a flying spy platform that I could field over my lake and surrounding orchard for probably a few hours. Its not that far-fetched, and frankly with all the extraordinary designs for micro foam builds available on the Internet, I'd be surprised if African nations don't suddenly find themselves inundated with drone tech from the slums. They've got all the old CD-ROM drives they need to boot up a small fleet, anyway ..
Cool selection!
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This is welcome from Google, as focused aid of this sort can often have an outsize effect, but we must be careful to avoid believing this can solve the problem.

For one, sophisticated UAVs that are much more capable than those the WWF is getting are already being used to combat rhino poaching. SANParks, the state agency responsible for South Africa's state-run national parks, has deployed the Seeker II military-spec UAV[0], ground radar, thermal imagers, cameras and dedicated teams of heavily armed rangers in the Kruger National Park, one of Africa's largest wildlife reserves. All anti-poaching resources have been placed under the command of Major General Johan Jooste, a highly-regarded retired military commander and a rewards program giving approximately US$ 10 000 to anybody whose tip-off results in the arrest of a poacher and about US$ 100 000 for a tip-off leading to the arrest of the head of a poaching syndicate has been created. At the same time the South African Army has deployed units in both the border patrol and anti-poaching role in certain parks.

These measures are all helping, but it's important to understand just what an impossible task this is. SANParks's 19 national parks alone cover 37 000 km², that's larger than Belgium, Israel, Lebanon and most US states. Moreover those 19 parks are dispersed across South Africa's 1.2 million km² and many of them are on the border of neighbouring countries from which many of these poachers come. It also doesn't include the hundreds of private wildlife reserves across the country which have been badly hit by rhino poaching. As the US has discovered on its southern border with Mexico, trying to prevent small bands of people from crossing a border this large is impossible even with UAVs, manned aircraft and massive resources.

So technology alone is not going to solve this, though it and other measures are hopefully going to help reduce the rate at which rhinos are being killed. The only long-term solution is to somehow stop the demand for rhino horn from Asia and thus remove the profit motive for poaching rhinos in the first place.

[0] The Seeker II is a 9-12 hour endurance UAV with all the standard surveillance gear such as FLIR cameras that is being provided free of charge by Denel, a South African arms manufacturer. The intention is to supplement that with a longer-ranged model, the Seeker 400, sometime next year. At the same time they're finalising development of a much smaller UAV, the Hungwe, that can be deployed by ranger teams for short-range surveillance.
Her ruling apparently was that there was no misconduct. Normally when there is jury misconduct a mistrial is declared, no matter who picked the jury.

Jury misconduct has nothing to do with who picked them but everything with having a fair trial.

So for Judge Koh to declare that there was no jury misconduct here means that she's essentially saying that she did her job well by not declaring a mistrial. But with the statements made by some of the jurors it is not all that evident that there was no jury misconduct and it should (imo) have been another judge to confirm that, not judge Koh.
Stop destroying everything, you bastards! Some of us are trying to build!