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Well, not everyone at Google is going to get to work on the glasses or the self-driving car. Someone has to work on GMail or Maps - and not the new features but the boring parts like bug fixes. Just like there are pilots on a Navy aircraft carrier, there's also a guy who is spending his 4 years as a janitor.
Stripe support would be awesome
Exactly, for someone like me who doesn't make international trips, the only benefit is not "being in a contract" which gains me practically nothing other than being able to leave on a whim. But to whom would I switch really?

Unlocked phones are a big deal to people in Europe, people who travel internationally a lot and people who just want to have an unlocked phone.

That said, when my contract goes up, I will be getting AT&T to unlock my phone because it makes it easier to sell should I desire.
That's because too many in the US believe that free markets are defined by the lack of regulation rather than by the quality of regulation.
I tend to think you're kind of cherry picking his lyrics to support your point here: 4 lines of Macklemore versus 12 of Nas. There's plenty of internal rhymes and alliteration in:
Rollin' in, hella deep, headin' to the mezzanine,

Dressed in all pink, 'cept my gator shoes, those are green

Draped in a leopard mink, girls standin' next to me

Probably shoulda washed this, smells like R. Kelly's sheets (Piiisssssss)

But shit, it was ninety-nine cents! (Bag it)

Coppin' it, washin' it, 'bout to go and get some compliments

Passin' up on those moccasins someone else's been walkin' in

And honorable mention for this:
Your grammy, your aunty, your momma, your mammy
I’ll take those flannel zebra jammies,

Saying "it's awful because it's not Illmatic" makes no sense; plenty of people would say Illmatic is the best hip-hop album of all time. So not living up to that standard doesn't make it awful.
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It's amazing that the author acts like no one knows that the North Koreans are starving to death, it's in the news all the time.

I would love for things in North Korea to change, but you can't do that without getting rid of their current government. If we tried, we'd end up with a mess much larger than the one we have in the Middle East.

Like North Korea, Iraq was run by a ruthless dictator who enslaved his people and squandered the nation's resources. He raped children, used biological weapons on minorities, tortured and imprisoned millions, and murdered hundreds of thousands. You don't hear about it much on the news, but there are mass graves in Iraq similar to the ones used during the holocaust.

Even though the world knows all of this, the U.S. is still looked at like we are the world's biggest assholes for trying to change things in Iraq.

You might say that's because the Bush administration lied about the evidence. Did Iraq have nuclear weapons? No. Are nuclear weapons the only thing that Qualifies as a weapon of mass destruction? Of course not. The U.S. and over 2'dozen of our allies' intelligence agencies believed that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons before the war started. After the invasion, everyone else pretended that they had always disagreed with us. In reality, Iraq most likely did have biological weapons. After all, it's not that hard to hide/dispose of/ move chemical weapons when you are surrounded by countries that hate the Western world.

You might also say that things went to shit in Iraq, and that we didn't really help. Well you might be right about that. It's pretty heartbreaking to see how fast things got worse after we left. Like a day or so after the last troops moved out, There was a story in the news about 90 children being rounded up in Iraq, who were smashed to death with rocks for wearing jeans and t-shirts.

So that brings us back to North Korea. Yea we could dethrone the false demigod, probably in about 3-6 weeks if we wanted, but without the military support of the entire world, we'd just end up turning North Korea into another hell hole.
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Brilliant guy.
Rap has been politically conscious from pretty much day 1, day 3 at the very latest.
"Go the store and pick up a jug of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen."

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I love the part where the article says, "this wasn't what the DCMA was supposed to do." Is anyone else shocked that intention and expectations change when someone is given enormous power to change the rules? Come on guys! Stop being so gullible!
I think that's just being unreasonably pedantic -- I enjoy the Macklemore song, and couldn't give a darn about the Nas song.
People used to make friends with horses-- and many of those who can afford to still do. But the massive economic incentive to sharing a car will make this not a choice for any but the very wealthy.
Tried "wool t-shirt" http://www.heyhi.com/results/show?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=w... and got one photo of a kid and a link to an Amazon search I already did.

I think there's probably potential here -- but it wasn't useful to me today.
Having done a few projects with full-on mutation testing, I'm a complete convert!
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Definitely. Focus + context is the first technique you should consider using to solve the data visualization problem I described. However, my goal was to explain how to do bounded panning in D3, which is useful when solving other, more complex data visualization problems. To simplify the explanation, I picked a simple problem.

Here's a focus + context example in D3: http://bl.ocks.org/1667367
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The cynic in me says this will get co-opted by advertising in a wink. Imagine the Nike swoosh floating across the Bay Bridge.
So if I go to the euroko 2012 in Berlin, pay 50 euros and no hotel, airline etc. and get to see speakers and attendees from all over the world, including Yukihiro Matsumoto for the keynote, that doesn't count as a conference because it's local and organized by a crew of volunteers that don't need to reek in hefty profits?
It has to wrap around at some point.
I support the monoculture. We wouldn't need vendor prefixes if everyone just ran WebKit to render HTML and CSS. It's free and open source. MS can take the engine now and call it IE 12. New HTML and CSS features would be supported more quickly when everyone is working on the same rendering engine.
The theory is that the top N exchanges would be taken out in a simultaneous raid (and the US can reach many jurisdictions, just ask Kim Dotcom) and the remaining tiny exchanges would either voluntarily shut down to avoid prosecution or would collapse under the volume. If the raid was on a Friday people would be unable to transfer money into exchanges until Monday, giving time for the price to drop.
Meanwhile calling people assholes and declaring that the reason is "in [their] personality" based on what they may have considered saying, that's perfectly ok?

Have you really never made a comment without fully thinking out the ramifications, without missing some of the consequences, or just simply without really thinking period? People say shitty things sometimes, but labeling them as an asshole for all time based on that is patently ridiculous.
Isn't the modern equivalent JSON over a REST API?
So I see your update, but what exactly drove you to take the side of the critic before evaluating the criticism?
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Clearly you don't know the law, and what's even worse your logic is broken. I give up.
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That's actually where I stopped reading and switched over to these comments. It seems obvious to me that according to "conventional thought" without the exchanges bitcoins would lose all value. Without the exchanges, you can only use bitcoins for a few things, mostly drugs and online services (hosting, usenet, vpn, etc). The thing is, these services will stop accepting bitcoins, because the operators will no longer be able to convert them into USD. Until you can buy food and gas and pay your bills with bitcoins, their value will rely on the existence of some kind of btc/"real currency" exchange.
I certainly didn't have a prescription. As best as I can tell, the linked article above states the FDA wants manufacturers to voluntarily label their products as prescription-only, which will presumably reduce indiscriminate selling and use of such antibiotics. They threaten a mandatory change in regulations if the problem remains.

I know antibiotics are a public health problem, but I'd personally be pissed if I needed to pay extra for the drugs and a vet's involvement for such a simple thing. We're talking $6 or so for the meds I mentioned earlier. How much does the average farm vet house call cost? Beats me, but I'm not anxious to find out, and it might be better to put down an animal than shoulder such expense.

The FDA (or maybe that would be the USDA?) would be better off to simply ban sale of animal products with any measurable trace of antibiotics. Period. That would certainly cause a major upset in the industry as we know it, but the living conditions of commercially-raised meat animals is appalling and could use the change.
> I've thought of the gas station metaphor: "Imagine owning a car and legally not being able to fill your tank with gasoline from any vendor you chose."

That's misleading. It's more like: "Imagine if Shell sold you a car at 1/3 of retail and being legally not allowed to refill it at any gas station you choose."

You're leaving an important part of the equation out by ignoring the subsidy, and potentially making people think it's illegal to move phones you buy unlocked for full price between carriers.

In my experience, ordinary people respond quite strongly to the idea that if I'm they're getting a discount on something, there might be strings attached. They don't see anything wrong with it generally.
I didn't say that find couldn't ignore source control directories or find only specific file types. However, ack does that far better as it has a better semantic awareness of both concepts.

I don't have to worry about updating my find command lines to account for new types of source code or source control folders in unfamiliar programs, I need only ensure that ack is kept up-to-date.
2 weeks? I thought I should be proud of 25h of battery life. Incredible how energy efficient those old bricks are compared to modern smartphones, which even have a better battery.
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Not impossible, but also most sensible people won't think "some people on YouTube seem to think this works, so I'll do that" any more than they'll go to Yahoo Answers to find out the proper approach... there's just so much obvious foolishness on display.
If it was fantastic fun, they wouldn't need to pay people to do it :-)

From 15+ years working in IT in Investment Banks, I would say that the culture and ethos varies greatly from team to team, even inside the same bank.

If you don't like the team you're in, try networking internally to see what other opportunities there are. Also, if you get the team to adopt some best practises, then you get something good to talk about at appraisal and bonus time.
Headphones go a long way, but according the to artist it was recorded and mixed in a 500 sqft studio they built. Looks like acoustic foam on the walls, a decent mic, monitors, protools, used rack equipment, etc. Probably close to $5k, but nothing compared to a big label studio.

[ http://blog.kexp.org/2012/07/19/macklemore-ryan-lewis-releas... ]
We actually do support Stripe! Sorry for the confusion, we only put the top 14 services we're integrated with on our homepage; the rest you can find on our tour page. Let us know if you have any other questions!
Unlocking has never been illegal in the UK. Unlocking a phone may be a breach of your network contract, but that's never been enforced and is almost certainly unenforcable. It's illegal to unblock a handset, but that's a different matter - IMEI blocking is an anti-theft measure that stops a phone from being used on any network.
Don't forget: There's more than one way to finance your startup
If a program is nontrivial to learn and use (as the sed examples shown in mrb's post illustrate) then a good solution is to make a better, more easily usable tool tan sed.

As for editors - there is a niche for emacs and there is a niche for notepad. If a program is weaker on some aspects but clearly superior in another aspect, then it has a valid niche and making it really is the 'right thing to do'. Usability/discoverability is a very important aspect of software, and sed is a bit lacking there.
Having a project is not having a self-driving car. How many miles of fully autonomous driving on public roads do each of those companies have?
You're assuming the way Firefox renders if the "correct" implementation. This is like old IE developers complaining about their site "breaking" on Firefox.
Reread what I wrote. I have been moded down enough for giving my opinion about why this additional shell command can makes people angry. There are perhaps many young developers here that are fed-up listening to old ones telling them to learn basic unix way. I can understand them, but this is not a sufficient reason to reinvent the wheel without improvements, or to negate the obvious.
No. The rap industry especially especially embraced blogs long before Macklemore got his number 1 hit. In fact, now it's become routine for major labels and artists to seed music and do releases through blogs. These same blogs push unsigned hype and labels respond by signing these artists for a major debut.

Drake is probably made the best use of the internet and blog to grow his stock and ignite a bidding war among majors. Many people speculated that he could remain independent and still be successful. He opted to sign to a major and he's now a superstar. The relationship between artists and labels has shifted for a long time.

From what I know, Macklemore made use of the internet in a way that's more or less routine nowadays. I'm not going to take away from him hitting #1, but the dynamics between a label and artists have been different for a long time
The point is that spotify practically doesn't pay artists.
Legitimate complaints are not usually extremely emotional. I still think the odds are better than 50% that a very angry-acting person is overreacting. It's obviously not always right or always wrong but I really don't think it's close to 50%.

Whether it is polite to tell someone they are overreacting is a completely different issue.

Also if someone is reacting to faults in society.. they may be right but why are they getting angry now, specifically? They might be 'overreacting' to a current event which is equivalent to reacting to something they experienced at a different time instead. Is that legitimate? Well, sometimes. The answer isn't always clear. But that's not an excuse to go '50/50'.
If only the North Koreans could read about life in 2004 Darfur and then travel back in time to escape the division of the Korean peninsula in 1953.
This is a regulation, though. A regulation on consumers. Anything that restricts freedom and choice is a regulation.
Hmm, as a recruiter who looks at hundreds of resumes a day, this kind of non-standard resume really annoys me. Just tell me who you are and what you do. Do so clearly and succinctly.
He definitely said that in the later tweets. Maybe you're right - its definitely less of an apology than his comments merited.
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I don't work for them, or am associated with them in anyway other than being a customer, but I did get an unlock through them: http://applenberry.com/

Was flawless, though I did have to buy a nano sim from T-Mobile to make it all happen.

I spend about half the year in Vietnam. My first trip there, I had a locked iPhone and had to use a Gevey Ultra-Sim to get my phone to work on Viettel. It worked OK, but just OK. Had to fiddle with it a lot.

I've unlocked an iPhone 4s and an iPhone 5 with them.
Better than... ? Why even put that. Macklemore is the amazing, no need to act like your opinion of music is better. If you want some amazing and positive lyricists check out Little Brother, Blu & Exile, Louis Logic and Brother Ali as well.
Right, I think the point is that your immune system doesn't know that and will attack them.
My view is that requiring the user _not_ to unlock the phone is a perfectly reasonable element of the agreement between the user and the phone provider. It's all about what both sides are getting -- and it's certainly true that you are not getting an unrestricted device. But, I would dare say that everyone has a certain price at which they would find a restricted device to be worthwhile. So, the qualitative aspects of such a transaction are absolutely fine and it's perfectly reasonable for the law to uphold that.
Personally, I think he should add some one-star reviews -- nothing so serious as an ex-girlfriend please, but something perhaps from a drive-by troll, or someone who's clearly mixing him up with a completely different product, or someone who took a dislike because of something completely innocuous.

Also, see: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/one-sta...
This is the way to go. It took me a while to realize that "normal" people don't really care about visual appeal as long as you're solving their problem and making them money.

Start with something like Zurb or Bootstrap and fix their problem -- it's very likely already heads and shoulders above their hacked up Excel solution. If you're finding you're hitting this problem a lot, make friends with designers that you can share the love with.
That's fine, but saying "this code makes my eyes bleed" is very obviously meant to demean the human being who wrote the code, not the code itself.
If a patient has a functioning immune system, it generally isn't necessary for antibiotics to clear the whole infection, especially if they're not in the hospital. The course will cull the infection long enough for the patient's body to acquire a sufficient degree of adaptive immunity to heal themselves completely. In some cases (tuberculosis), a typical patient's immune system can't be counted on to win, so cocktails are the norm. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is not new; as Wiki notes, the genes are "ancient", and simply become more prevalent when antibiotics are used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis_management#The_sta...

"The frequency of spontaneous mutations that confer resistance to an individual drug are well known: 1 in 10^7 for EMB, 1 in 10^8 for STM and INH, and 1 in 10^10 for RMP."

So resistance is basically everywhere -- it becomes deadly when it is concentrated.
And I can't believe people honestly told Google to dump the project and "focus". Oh Wall Street... They worry about tomorrow's profits, but Google is thinking about next year's profit.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Your post contradicted itself. You literally said "I don't use ack because it is find+grep, I use it because it is find+grep". I am simply pointing this out.
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Few days ago I was talking with a very top dermatologist in Houston, TX (he’s treating my mother for skin cancer) and he has an idea (and has applied for a patent) for a mobile app that would be very valuable for dermatologists treating skin cancer patients as well as for patients themselves.

Essentially once you have a skin cancer mole and that area has been removed, you need to go and see a doctor periodically (every 3 months initially, then 6 months then a year) and a doctor will take a picture of all the moles all over your body, mark it on a “human body map”, compare it with how the mole previously looked and decide if the mole is potentially dangerous and if so send it to biopsy.

The idea is to write a mobile app that will organize that whole process for dermatologists and help them save time. Moreover, potentially a much bigger market can be skin cancer patients i.e. they can take pictures of their moles themselves and software can “compare” the picture with previous versions of that mole picture and advise the patient to go to see a doctor if something has changed abnormally.

If you are a developer who would like to work on such an app or are an investor who would like to invest in such an opportunity please send an email to skincancerstartup@gmail.com.
Racism is not against someone. It just is.
>>For example, Verizon's iPhone 5 comes out of the box already unlocked, and AT&T will unlock a phone once it is out of contract.

Can someone explain to me why AT&T is allowed to unlock phones if unlocking phones is illegal?
OK, I'll grant that on a few songs the guy is practically preaching, but if you're getting that out of Thrift Shop I really think you need to turn the sensitivity meter way down. Other than the $50-for-a-T-shirt line, this song could just as easily be a mockery of thrift shops as a sincere ode to them.

IMO that's what great about the song... thrifting is a complex balance between "value" on the one hand and straight-up "cheapness" on the other and he walks the line the whole song with one funny zinger after another. The touch of sincerity at the end ensures that we know it's not just typical rapper "I'm richer than you" mockery and we close it out with a little fun. In this song, I just don't know what you're seeing.
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This surprises anyone? As far as the FSF (or at least Stallman, which for all practical purposes is the same thing) is concerned, LibreCAD and FreeCAD are in the wrong here — for using one of the FSF's own licenses.

Stallman is a zealot, and this is what zealots do.
> I tend to think you're kind of cherry picking his lyrics to support your point here: 4 lines of Macklemore versus 12 of Nas.

I initilly had just 6 Nas lines (which were comparable in number of words to Macklemore's 4). Regarding cherry picking, I honestly picked 4 random lines. I don't have the time to do a full statistical analysis, although that would be really interesting.

> Saying "it's awful because it's not Illmatic" makes no sense; plenty of people would say Illmatic is the best hip-hop album of all time. So not living up to that standard doesn't make it awful.

Fair enough. In my defense, I did upgrade from "awful" to "average".
In most of the developed world, it's either illegal to sell a network-locked phone, or there's a legal requirement for networks to provide an unlock code at the end of your contract. Locking is generally seen as fundamentally anti-competitive and permissible only under strict restrictions, in order to maintain the economic viability of handset subsidies.

It's entirely reasonable that if your phone is discounted as part of a contract, you should be obliged to complete the contracted term or pay an early termination fee in order to keep the handset. What's not reasonable is the idea that the subsidy arrangement gives a network complete control over your device in perpetuity. Either the device is rented to you by the network, in which case they are responsible for it, or it's sold to you at a discounted price and is yours so long as you finish paying for it.
> I paid for the phone. I own it. I can do whatever I bloody please with it.

But you didn't pay for it. You paid for part of it. The phone provider paid for the other part of it. In exchange for the use of something you didn't completely pay for, you agree to certain conditions.