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I'm Russian and will argue that most of the eastern Europe has very similar culture. Just because you rotate your head to say yes and nod to say no, does not make it vastly culturally different. The culture curtain ends somewhere around Czech Republic. Yes, I am even willing to say Ukraine is about 99% culturally similar, and that should stand for something since many know how much Russians despise being associated with Ukraine.
What evidence do you have for that allegation? Regardless, your tone isn't even remotely constructive; you should back that off a bit.
Your comment doesn't make much sense, to me. It's obvious that they've thought about adding search to their client. What about it not being in, at launch, makes you think that it'll be slow? Why is it not worth discussing the mail client? We have a basic web app that we built at work that stores information about tasks that our automated applications perform, so that we can monitor them as they run. We added full text search to it almost six months after building it, and search was a complete after-thought. We chose elastic search and store about 12 million records in a small cluster. We add maybe several thousand per day, on a busy day. This is not a large amount of records, from what I've seen of other clusters. We easily average less than 200ms response times of search queries across all documents, while testing it with about 100 queries per second. I don't know whether or not you consider this fast or slow, but it's pretty snappy, in my opinion. So search doesn't seem all that mystical and complicated to me, but maybe our scenario just makes it appear that way.
I do.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

That says nothing about being american, or a citizen, or the distance between the people involved.
It just says something that should be common sense - people have a right to be protected against unnecessary search and seizure.
+1 for Blue Nile. I couldn't think of a way to figure out her ring size while maintaining the element of surprise, so their free resizing was really useful (they send you a sizing kit with every order). The overall price was also very competitive.
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> China is agreed by both the PRC and the RoC to include Taiwan -- they just disagree over who is the legitimate government

This is the historical position of the Taiwanese government, but it's decreasingly true amongst the Taiwanese people, so to some degree it's already an anachronism. Many actual Taiwanese don't self-identify as "Chinese" at all (while obviously recognizing the common heritage).

However, given the common tendency to use "Chinese" to refer to the greater cultural sphere, there can some confusion...

[I make this mistake routinely talking to people from Taiwan, saying something like "blah blah because you're Chinese" to which they immediately reply "No, no, I'm Taiwanese" (and this is generally amongst the politically apathetic young).]
One of irks I have with "slight visual cues and subtle animations" is that they assume all users will give the same amount of attention and have the same reasoning process as the designer does. They then call the design "obvious", as if that is an objective quality---but even a short conversation (or usability study) with a sample of their users will tell them it's anything but.
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This article has a bit more detail about the procedure itself; it mentions the flight attendants assisting, but no nurse:

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199...
Thanks for showing us. While my father can fix / build nearly anything, I overspecialized in computers and electronics, so I know almost nothing about cars. I've been looking for a way to remedy this and your site looks perfect.
they do them some times, think eurovision, or the (IIRC) french-german production of the borgias' story.

And I must have a seen a thousand things co-produced by Canal+.

Anyway, I really miss jeux sans frontieres :(
Are you familiar with the wu mao dang (五毛党 or 50 cent party)?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Mao_Dang

Anyways, just one of the strange things about living in China, but they are mostly harmless and uninfluential on English boards (now on Chinese boards...).
Hmm…not really sure how I feel about this article.

It's using existing gestures and having them carry out different functions that is unique to the app.

It's like keyboard shortcuts - every program's usage will be different minus a few key ones. Or video games, some buttons do what you expect but some will depend on what the game's design is. Of course there will be some tour or tutorial - how else are we supposed to learn about them?

Double tapping the Home Button on iPhone < How did we learn about this? Double tap? There's no visual queue on the hardware that we can double tap. Did Apple fail?

I kinda get what the author is trying to say but he also kind of miss the point of walkthroughs and tour completely.
There's no reason mobile phones with GPS-only chipsets can't be sold in Russia -- they just get hit with ~25% import duties that phones with GLONASS-supporting chipsets don't have.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if China does something similar with Beidou and mobile phones sold in China.
"Just tapping on the camera icon makes the screen jump, briefly revealing the camera UI behind the lock screen. This combined with the ridges above and below the camera tells the user to slide the lock screen up."

So THAT's how you use the camera when the screen is locked! I couldn't figure out why the screen would just bounce so I always ended up unlocking the phone to get to the camera.
Nobody knows. While they're a similar approach to development, the company, strategy, and goals are different. HP wanted an OS for their smartphones and tablets that would compete with iOS. Firefox is aiming for something more along the lines of an ambitious Linux distribution for the touchscreen era.
You wouldn't believe how many mobile developers I talk to who go on about how easy developing mobile apps using co-opted variants of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is.

They'll eventually talk about some of the problems they encounter, and then I can't believe they actually put up with any of it.

Of course, at this point I usually ask what other languages and environments they've worked with. They usually admit to having only ever done web development. Maybe some PHP, in rare cases. They don't know C++, Java, Objective-C, or even Python.

So I understand why they don't recognize the problems they're facing, due to their ignorance. If only they knew about real programming languages and the tools available for them, I think they'd quickly see how bad of an idea the whole HTML, CSS and JavaScript approach truly is.
I think the point was that Google spend a lot of effort to identify quality content vs. link farms, auto-generated content and low quality adsense-optimized content.
What would apple gain from allowing that. I have a lot of family members that have iDevices and some of them can barely use the the basic featureset that is available on the phones. I also think the bar for a power user is pretty low as I would consider anyone who knows what a browser is and what it does, let alone have the thought "Hmm, I wish I could replace the default browser with Chrome" as a power user. Apple wouldn't have incentive to allow third party replacements anyway, because it would allow users to change the experience of using the device. Letting users do that, while giving expert users a lot of power, raises the complexity of the base device to a level apple doesn’t approve of.
Not for me, I came here to read about big data, the cloud, and investment. Sometimes C++.

This article is Yahoo news worthy. But what amuses me is that people will up vote everything these days.
This is wrong. How the hell did we learn "pinch to zoom" on the iPhone/iPad was a thing? We were shown!

Lots and lots of demos to re-enforce the action and get users accustom to a thing is fine if that experience doesn't frustrate the user and they can get up to speed using the app quickly.

If you are choosing neat new ways of communicating and changing the way the user interacts with the app for the sake of being neat, that is fail. If you violate the users expectations without a damn good reason, that is fail.

A fail is Windows 8 and having users try and figure out how to launch a new application. It takes a keyboard shortcut to open the metro desktop to launch another app. This is not obvious and nor is it reinforced very well. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/new-keyboard-sh...
Magnus Holm did a great job describing this after he fixed the problem in Rack::JSONP. Good reference as well for those interested in the topic:

http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
Calm down. This is actually a fair site, but the standards are high.
Mind posting links to those several outstanding tutorials on the web?
Virtually every jurisdiction in the United States has adopted the National Electrical Code [NFPA 70]. Nearly all construction is governed by the International Building Code or a derivative state code (e.g. the CBC).

What varies are enforcement standards and local conditions. Some local conditions such as earthquakes and hurricanes are environmental. Others such as zoning and other land development regulations are political (and some of the most extreme regulations are private in the form of covenants upon title to the land).

There are sound reasons for regulation and enforcement (and unsound ones as well). Among them are life safety issues. Unlike grid power, solar panels have no disconnect. They remain live while exposed to sunlight. This creates a hazard during fires and similar emergencies. It creates a new class of hazard during electrical repairs and unrelated tasks such as re-roofing or cleaning gutters.

Wealthy and suburban tends to correlate with all construction projects being difficult to permit because such jurisdictions have more vocal and resourceful citizens with a concern for maintaining property values.

If one goes to the sticks, there are still places in the US which don't require a building permit.
Also:

OUYA’s board is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. So, if you’re on a kamikaze mission to ship the first ever game for OUYA and can’t wait to receive your dev unit to begin testing your game’s (or games’) performance, just pick up any Tegra 3 Android tablet… That’ll give you an accurate representation as to how your game will perform on an OUYA.

Taken from http://www.ouya.tv/game-developers-how-to-get-started-on-ouy...
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I think it's just an oddly passive-aggressive writing style. He also keeps talking about services not selling his personal information, implying (I think) that Google does. However, that's of course not true, as it would violate Google's privacy policy and be a moronic business move in general.

Honestly, I think it's great if the author wants to sing the praises of some new products or services he found to replace his old ones, but that's not really how this read. It had this awkward tone of thinly veiled innuendo, without really saying anything. If the author found new services he thinks are better, I'd find it much more helpful as a reader if he actually expound on what makes the new choices so good.
He's a fucking lair what constructive tone you want me to use.
I think it depends a lot on the stage a company is at, their goals, and the types of people visiting the site. For us (Glider), being pre-product, most site visitors are potential investors and potential employees. So a hiring CTA makes some sense.
No european will include Russia in Europe. Except, of course, the important matters like gas, football and Eurovision. Same for Israel.
It doesn't really matter.

I switched for a little while and ran into all sorts of path issues. As I was working through my issues, I noticed there seemed to be a lot of attitude around it and what I thought was unwarranted criticism of rvm. Soured me, and I haven't bothered with it since.

I'm sure it works great for some people though.
It just sounds so anachronistic. IBM hasn't been really involved in PCs for over 15 years.
When the Chinese government is frivolous with blocking access to websites and services, it's not a huge leap to worry they may be frivolous in denying access to other services they provide. Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre? Maybe we'll bump down the resolution in that area to make protests more difficult.

Not saying they're going to do it, but just the smallest uncertainty means you'd rather trust one of the 3 other competitors in the area.

edit: I wonder if putting keywords on this page will get them denied access to these comments 六四事件 天安門廣場抗議 天安門事件
Buy a wreck and take it to pieces and try to understand it. Then just sell it for scrap and recoup most of your money. You could even sell the parts individually and make some profit. Then try a project car - I'm surprised more hackers aren't into cars really. Sadly I'm in an apartment at the moment without the space.
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Perhaps, though I know Oxford also has home delivery so it's not just London. I've not understood how Oxford could have it but San Francisco doesn't.
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FYI, all the amendments meant to "fix" FISA on privacy issues were rejected. The one from Rand Paul that required a warrant for all spying and data requests on American citizens, just like currently a warrant is required for snail mail and phone call spying - was rejected 79-12. America - the land of the free.
Nothing wrong with being bold and trying new ideas but obvious is only really qualifiable via user testing. It's simple thing to do to see if your product is actually usable.

My method is to get 3 random craigslist people and pay them $50 bucks to play with the app for an hour. Record them struggling and have them talk through their thoughts and how they use your app. You will learn more from that experience than anything else.
That was the unstated thesis of my comment.
Petty much all web technologies appear to be made of twine and duck tape. It's so sad that this is in many cases the best we have.
Yeah, I felt lucky getting the domain. But then I also loved FixingACar.com as well.
It's real. Though I'm not sure how to prove it to you in a way you would believe. Want to see a screenshot of my Gumroad account showing $75,000 in book sales? Oh wait, I've already included that in my posts.
Yup, search is a solid winner.
One more thing that really bugs me about JSON is that it doesn't support Infinity, -Infinity and NaN. Python's JSON library does, which leads to some interesting breakages.

Sure, for NaN you can use null, but for Infinity, you have to use really large/small numbers, which can also lead to other problems.
This is the first time I've seen someone suggest split testing the ads that run on their own site. Are there any particular resources that you would recommend for this?
Hormones are the primary basis for most major life decisions. We are animals, not machines. They're not "good" if followed in isolation to memory or reason. But neither is reason good in isolation.
Perhaps more pervasive and despairingly problematic is number representation. JSON only, per specification, supports arbitrary precision numeric representation. However, Javascript is -- also per specification (as I understand it) -- entirely floating point. That makes working with money in Javascript somewhat hazardous. While there are various arbitrary precision libraries out there for Javascript to assuage this, the problem is most JSON-parsing routines will always force one through a floating point conversion anyway, so a loss of precision is more or less inevitable.

While swiftly coercing raw off-the-wire number representations to one's arbitrary precision library of choice can avoid most cases of noticeable accumulated error, it is irksome that the only way everyone seems to get by is by cross their fingers that any loss in precision caused by "JSON.parse" is meaningless to their application.

Or, the problem can be soundly avoided by using strings in the JSON payload, which is lame but effective and probably one's best practical choice. It is clearly an example of corruption spreading from Javascript to an otherwise reasonable feature of the data representation format JSON.
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Even if my particular examples are specific to myself, the point remains intact and true of the larger population.

But really, India not being 'Asian' despite being in Asia is a readily observable American phenomenon. If you haven't noticed that, you either have not spent much time in America, or are deluding yourself.

And can you really deny that Egypt is treated differently in popular culture than what is commonly referred to as "Africa"? Do you actually disagree that this is the case, or are you just being a curmudgeon because I dared speak without first securing a sociology degree and perform a study?

You really want some data? The entire concept of "Middle East" is a pretty decent example of how Americans generalize at a finer grain than "continent". Go do a google news search for "Middle East". Count the results, enjoy your precious data.

Would you also demand data of someone who said that Americans think the sky is blue?
This isn't exactly a useful comment. I use both Rails and Sinatra frameworks (and some others) depending on the task. Under no circumstances would I blindly use one over the other without first considering the problem I'm trying to solve.
Too bad most of the RSS readers on iOS just plug in to Google Reader for feed management. Somehow they went from manual RSS to manual + Google Reader to Google Reader exclusive.
soon, but if you're eager I can individually show it to you :)
there's sinatra and padrino for the pick-and-choose way. rails expresses the philosophy that it's more productive to pick a stack and stick to it, and then let the ecosystem optimise itself against that stack. it's true that the ruby webdev community has tended to coalesce around rails rather than sinatra, but that's because the rails community has solved a lot of genuine real-world problems that keep cropping up in its target space and has been able to write them as libraries that will work with anyone's rails setup.
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Don't worry, it's not a really good 'hint'. I've seen people take the hint as shake the phone to reveal camera, instead of touch + hold + slide up.
Sadly the HTML rendering was fairly dreadful but it did at least have the images in the correct order. It retained no placement, and each page is very different in layout. My early thought was to have perhaps 4 layouts which I could manually assign each page to. (eg. large central image, 2-large images, etc.)
"Mystery Meat Navigation" is a very good description of what makes Windows 8 a frustrating first time experience, is the synopsis of all the complaints about it, and is why Windows 8 is going to be a slow sell for the first 6-12 months.

After 3-5 hours, Windows 8 is surprisingly decent, but the first hour is a super frustrating adventure of swiping and gesturing with the hope you can get back to the home screen.
Most of amazon's business is profitable last I checked. The losses come from write downs and investments, but they aren't strictly operating in the red. The business they've built right now is sustainable just as it is.
Good article, though I think you should differentiate between types of 'walkthroughs.' I think the point is that you want the users to start using the application as quickly as possible without being hindered by a walkthrough. On the other hand it is important to teach users to use your application... and constraining yourself to commonly used functionality is dangerous. I find that it works very well to 'show' users by helping them do tasks right away (a walkthrough) instead of 'telling' them how to use the application and then leaving them to remember it (also a walkthrough).
How well do you know your friends?
If Python's JSON library accepts Infinity by default, that's a bug and should be reported.
I would argue RSS was neglected by Twitter doing certain things better, things that the average user cares about
The authors website has a rather unusual button [ Gui work | blog ]. I thought Gui was selected, but it's actually blog. If I would've used an iphone I would've seen things differently. The point is that some things are intuitive only if you're familiar with the system in the first place.
This article explains it:

http://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-is-talking-about-how...

Basically, you can't just clone something an expect to succeed automatically. In fact, historically the vast majority of clones have failed to beat the "original". You'd think Facebook would've learned this by now. They tried to build a clone in 10 days, just like they tried to build a "Circles" thing like Google+ had when it came out, and thought that's all they needed to stop people from joining Google+. But it had no effect on Google+, and Poke had no effect on Snapchat either. If anything, all these articles mentioning Snapchat together with Poke may have helped it rise in ranks. I think it was #6 before, and now it's #3.
It's so hacky that it's almost certainly a competitive disadvantage.

Converting to markdown is a bit of an overstatement - it only handles the limited content that I encountered in this book.

- H1 heading -> ##

- Strip P tags and add newlines

- Replace 'See SHEET \d+' with [[Article:\d]]
This guy actually has done something really cool, if he is the guy: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/. I've been learning Scala all the time, I remember I have read a lot of stuff written by this guy. I think he is now probably very twisted and having a hard time in China, he had to fake a smile while working with Chinese, but posting all kinds of negative news against China to express how he hates this country.
> Make the pages editable by trusted individuals

Way too much work

> Why stop at cars?

You'd need some content to begin with. He was lucky to have a friend who gave him permission to use the book. Other material might not be so easy to get.

> Put in some clever links to amazon etc

Great idea. Done tastefully, it would not be intrusive like an ad, but a useful tool for the reader who would need this kind of book.