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So this is pretty interesting to me. When I left Sun in '95 to do a startup (GolfWeb) one of the things we were planning on doing was a custom currency so that you could "subscribe" to the online magazine, and we'd deduct currency out of your subscription for each article you read, and tag it so that you could go back an re-read it whenever you wanted. Then when you currency got low you could 're-subscribe'. We felt it would be cool because you could make it the Golf Magazine you wanted to read rather than what an Editor-in-Chief decided to put in the issue that month. And by looking what articles were driving traffic we could get a feel for our subscriber base.

I ran smack into a giant wall of patents from Digicash and others. I remember saying "Wow, 20 years from now this is going to be something cool."

And here we are. In 2011 a number of David Chaum's patents expired. Of course there are interesting new patents that Amazon just got like this one: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...

But Amazon has been aggressive in their patent defense for years.

Creating their system to be one coin == one cent is also interesting as it effectively kills off the remainder grab [1]. Especially true since the balance apparently combines in your account. Basically you 'top up' with coins when ever you want. So really it has utility of shifting the payment processing charges around. It also touches a grey area of taxation, which is when you buy something for "points" how much tax to do you pay and to whom?

[1] Pre paid phone cards that can't be re-filled would not make a call if you had $1.00 or less on the card so they became worthless with up to a $1 of un-spent value on them. In the large, across all cards, this was hundreds of millions of dollars which accrued to the benefit of the card issuers.
I find that extremely unlikely, because the Ouya is a parasite platform--it exists to suck up ports from other platforms (chiefly Android phones and tablets). This makes it very easy to port away from as well, and I find it much more likely that any game with significant potential is ported away from Ouya as soon as possible to reach a platform with more extant users--removing the drive to purchase an Ouya at all.

It is a problematic situation for Ouya, because they have no compelling reason to stay on the platform once you sniff the slightest success.
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Did you use a + address? That cuts both ways, you know.
Forget about code and Git, Dropbox is not even good for photo sharing.

I went to vacation with a group of people. Everyone had his/her own camera. We decided to make a folder in Dropbox and share it with everyone so we can share our photos and get other people photos.

After a week my photos started to disappear. Why? Because my lady friend didn't like the photo I took from her and deleted it from "her own computer". But it was actually in a shared folder.

I don't know if this "shared folder" concept thing is too complicated or Dropbox can not handle it. Anyway in my experience it did not work.
You are clouding the issue by not talking clearly about it. It’s semantic wankery, nothing more. And it’s irrelevant. Discussions about what words really mean always are.

We can use your weird definition of democracy, of course. That is perfectly acceptable. But you should also be aware that next to no one else is actually using that definition when they say democracy.

What is not possible is to define words in a certain (weird) way and then to infer from that what people are really thinking when they say democracy.

“Progressives” do not mean mob rule or majority rule when they say democracy. That is just absurd. Just because you define that word that way doesn’t mean everyone else is or wants to express what you defined they want to express.

You are just completely and utterly wrong, with a worldview clouded by ideological delusions.

(It really is an aside, but all progressives I know are strongly in favor of strong constitutional protections of rights that cannot be overridden by any majority, they are strongly in favor of a separation of powers and due process. When they say they want more democracy they most certainly don’t mean that they want to make it easier to abolish constitutional rights. You are attacking the most complete strawman ever.)
Indeed there are. People are using Dropbox as one of them.

But saying "why use Git with Dropbox it makes no sense?!" is actually wrong. It makes perfect sense. Git is not centralised. You cannot access your repository from a remote host.

Dropbox as well as Github and a number of alternative service allow that.
that's bullshit
To pick one, we like the fact that MongoDB lets you change your schema and add new fields to your documents without having to worry about migrations or keeping track of schema versions, or any of that.

You could build something like that on top of SQL, but it's nice to have a tool where you don't have.
This is an imap client + local database + web interface to local database
I really think the author really draws the wrong message out of this. It sucks that, because there is really no objective way to determine "merit", your position in the social graph can be more important than your talents in terms of your career. Meaning a person with some amount of social power can affect your career negatively just because they don't like you. That applies to both men and women, and it happens an awful lot to both.

Anyway, there are quite a few advantages to being a woman in Western society. If she really hated this guy, she could have just married him and then took half his stuff.
As a writer more than a developer (LaTeX stuff for my papers and students), I have found this constant syncing more of a hassle than I expected (I have turned Dropbox down and sync by myself, use git etc...).

It is a pity because I very seldom need git for the things I write (they tend to be quite lienar and versions are not that important, what I really need is syncing, not version control)...

I also want the .tex sources tracked but not the pdfs and certainly not the logs, aux, bbl, and "synctex" files and directories.
So I just saw Lew speak and I wanted to share this awesome anecdote about the origin of the name. Lew was in a meeting with a VC and before the meeting he asked him what the name of the new venture was. Thinking on his feet, he plugged his name into an anagram finder online.

Lew Cirne=New Relic.
Would being a slave in the past be any worse than being a slave today?

Historically, slaves could be (and were) raped or killed by their "owner." When you talk about "slaves" today, are you talking about someone with a low wage? That's not slavery.

Unfortunately, there is still slavery in the 21st century, but that has nothing to do with the people discussed in this article.
I find About.me interesting. It strikes the right balance of being easy to use, useful, and providing value. I certainly could build my own similar profile page, but it would not be nearly as simple. And it's something of a social network, one I could actually see paying (a small fee) for.

As opposed to, say, App.net.
Automatic failover is a pretty big feature though. I wish Postgres had a built-in solution. Sure, I could use Pacemaker but it's no where near as painless.
it is not just problem for developers.
users like me who edit simple text file in vim or write a document in latex usually get a notification of syncing the temporary files. yes i can turn of the notifications, but that is like saying don't look at the issue and it is not there.

the problem is not just that dropbox has not addressed the issue, it is also that they have turned a blind eye to it. there is not indication whether they plan to work on it or not. what's the use of votebox if they do not plan to use it.

btw those are not 22k people, rather 22k votes. there are many people like me who have voted 10-100 times.
Not quite "always".

The N64 particularly was pushing the envelope for consumer hardware at release and both the NES and SNES were quite advanced for their time (though their USA releases lagged quite a bit behind the Japanese/Famicom releases, which means at the time of US release they weren't quite as impressive).

They certainly stopped focusing on advanced hardware (in the raw CPU-power sense) post-N64 though.
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Thats where ionice or, even better, cgroups[1] come in :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroup
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If I weren't an employee, I'd do this. $65k in cash prizes. $10k/month.
How does the faucet know when you're done washing and want to start drying?
May be. Each value in the series is, in binary, all 1s with the quantity of digits equal to the previous value in the series. Someone took a stab at this theory: http://www.mail-archive.com/mersenne@base.com/msg06260.html
Ok got it, sounds pretty cool
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Surely then the third should be: 111110000, not 1111100. Looks like you are two zeroes short of perfect ;)
Out of curiosity, did you guys consider running SQL on MongoDB using Postgres foreign tables? What were the pros and cons of that approach for your use-cases?

(In full disclosure, I wrote mongo_fdw for PostgreSQL.)
Ha!
And combination could be the best.

4-5 years ago in Moscow club OGI had "izba-chital'nia" (this means exactly library, but for sovkhoz-kolkhoz: a house with books for peasants).

Drinks and food were terrible, but books were OK: in several languages, classics and modern writers. I loved this place, although I never tried to work there.
That link is a good example of exactly why we need to push for languages to take concurrency seriously. That's an example of how a haskell user has to deal with the issue when interfacing with a C lib that rolled their own event loop. For most languages people have to deal with that issue all the time, for their own code, entirely in that one language.

I have no idea why you are talking about pixie dust. My point was that explicitly using event loops instead of abstracting it into a green thread library is dumb, and we need to start having higher expectations from languages rather than accepting backwards shit like node. Not "green threads are magic".
Sometimes, as with the Michelson–Morley experiment, a result of "nothing" is absolutely profound and changes the course of science.
Hey! Always cool when the author responds :)

I do agree that PostgreSQL would be nicer for interactive queries. Waiting for a M/R to spin off is a bit of a buzzkill.

With regards to your usecases, what sort of questions have you found yourself answering the most? Do you have analytics applications running off of this?
I agree, at best for game devs the Ouya will be a test market for games before they are ported to other consoles.

The only place it might have an advantage will be for games that allow third party modding. Games with a side market for community DLC could be an interesting idea.
A game jam with a $99 entry fee. Imagine me making a really loud, really dismissive noise for about 3 minutes.

But yeah, that does seem to be their objective. Hopefully they get their stuff together and put out a solid SDK and set of dev tools and simulator (their current release is at least a start).
> I'm guessing some sort of partnership connection, but it's never good if you believe you are receiving unsolicited emails.

I've yet to know a "partnership connection" email solicited in any way, shape or form, for what it's worth. Even when the partnership is tight (example: I recently received an email from Radiohead's Thom Yorke. I bought In Rainbows when it was released 6 years ago, and the mail got sent to the address I provided back then [my recollection is fuzzy, but it was likely necessary to get a/the download link]. The connection is strong, but I still consider it to be spam.)
When people refer to karma, they don't mean it literally, it's meant more in the sense of "reputation".
It looks like the air blowing in the sink like that could cause germs to fly all over the place.
Using syncing as a developer makes sense to me because syncing or backup is not versioning.

Versioning (using git) is about marking state at a period of time. Such that, in the future, you can go back to that important state, and that state means something.

Backup, syncing, they just solve different problems. They might have backups, but those backups rarely mean something. Other than, "well I thought it worked tuesday".

I see this is as "different by design". I want Dropbox to make the same shit show up everywhere. I want git to manage versions and streams of work, often coordinating with other people. Using the dropbox workflow with other people sucks if people make changes (I have to often ask, "hey wait, what did you do".) Using the git workflow to sync with other devices sucks because I have to remember to tell it what to do.
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You should follow up. I received a shirt and it's really nice.
But when will they release a Dyson wet/dry Bidet?
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Avaya did this and it worked out well for them. Hopefully this will help Dell. They have a good product. Just seems like they've hit a rough patch.
Although I do not like Dell's products or doing business with Dell, I don't hold that against Michael Dell. At the time he said that Apple was not on a course to succeed. It's true that since then they have made several high-risk/high-reward course changes and succeeded, but even with the benefit of hindsight his comment was reasonable.

I certainly wouldn't want to say that shutting down and giving the money back to shareholders was a terrible idea because Apple was going to successfully disrupt several different consumer markets where everyone gave them no chance AND was going to reinvent its own supply chain management.

In hindsight, shutting down and giving money back to investors was probably the second-best outcome after the outcome of performing one of the greatest business comebacks in history. Had they stayed the course and continued to do what they were doing when he said that, they'd have Blackberry'd themselves.

JM2C, obviously, and as an Apple fan I'm delighted they didn't follow that advice, for the same reasons I'm delighted they didn't sell themselves to Sun for $24 a share way back when, even if that was a substantial premium over their $18-or-whatever stock price at the time.
I was at a developer meet the other week and someone from Ouya said they have been giving the XMBC team support and it is apparently working pretty well on the device.
Android games are (so far) touch-oriented, whereas the Ouya has a console controller with analog sticks and triggers, shoulder buttons, d-pad, etc. It may be easy enough to port Android games to the Ouya, but it's also easy to make a game that doesn't port back well.
Cost is a huge issue. My spouse worked with an image processing professor on her master's degree and he was converting his entire group from Matlab to numpy. While academic licenses for Matlab are very cheap, they don't actually allow you to publish research in journals; for that you need a much more expensive class of license.
This is one of those practical inventions that I could see being in everyone's home (and bathroom) in twenty years, with future generations asking: "Did people really use unhygienic towels to dry their hands after washing, grandpa?"
Thank you for the thorough and understandable answer. I realize my question was naive, but I just didn't anticipate that Dell had such a considerably low price-to-assets ratio (okay, I made this ratio up. I'm obviously not a finance guy). I assumed that at least a big part of the buyout would be a premium on top of the revenue-generating assets, and I was wondering what factors might drive that premium up. Your last point seems to answer that question sufficiently.
It's not really about power though, it's more about exclusivity and uniqueness. For example, the Wii wasn't as powerful as the 360 or the PS3, but it had a unique control scheme, and exclusive games that took advantage of it at launch. No other platform offered even a remotely similar gameplay experience at the time. It has been said that some games were only possible on the PS3 (GoW 3). The Xbox 360 is best experienced with Xbox Live, which leaves other console gaming networks in the dust. The upcoming Steam Box will have Steam.

For the Ouya to "smoke" other consoles in sales, it will have to offer something unique, and that looks like a really tall order at this point.
Point taken :), the name is quirky, hard to google, and surely used for other things. The eventual goal, though, is for it to be just 'the openstreetmap editor' with iD being a codename - so the problem will 'go away'.
The only thing Dropbox has over git is the auto-syncing, which will soon no longer be the case (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistan...).

Does Dropbox do merging? Does it track history? Can you run it on server(s) of your choice? Can you setup Dropbox for centralized or distributed operation? Can you inspect the source for security holes? Can you write third party clients, servers, plugins, etc for it?

For once, the headline is perfect: true in every respect and descriptive of the article.
i mean i'm sold on the concept, just weirded out that it's allowed by facebook.
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"special terms for himself" is different treatment. As far as I can work out he is taking the buyout as a shareholder and then reinvesting the cash into the buyout deal, but the small print is not public.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but STM doesn't help you if your operations include side effects outside of STM (writing to disk, a database, the network)--exactly what async operations are usually used for. Aren't you back to locking at that point?
If you're talking about those pop-ups users get on new versions our Pro version can turn those off: http://ninite.com/help/features/disableautoupdate.html
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The HEPA filter would prevent germs from being sucked in and blown onto your hands. I guess there might be issues with germs in the sink becoming aerosolized, but if the sink basin was designed properly it could become a sort of funnel so that the "dirty" air could be sucked away, separated from waste water and maybe filtered before being released back into the bathroom.
Spam really doesnt bother me that much. My co-founder also received an unsolicited email too. We both clicked unsubscribe on each of ours and both received the same original email about 15 minutes later.
an app marketplace is not simply about package managers. Its about an ecosystem that allows developers to develop high quality apps. Additionally its about payment systems, etc - but tgats not relevant fof this discussion.

I'm finding it hard to believe that you can woo quality desktop app developers using javascript.
I don't understand what the problem is?

It is a shared folder. If someone deletes something, it is deleted everywhere. That isn't a bug, that is the purpose of Dropbox.
I actually prototyped our PostgreSQL solution using mongo_fdw (Incidentally, I throw together Debian packaging here, if you're interested: https://github.com/nelhage/mongo_fdw).

Our experience was that mongo_fdw doesn't (yet?) give postgres enough information and knobs to plan JOINs efficiently, which is one of the things we wanted. I got a decent amount of leverage out of using mongo_fdw and then cloning to native tables using SELECT INTO, though :)
I've noticed where they were going with their strategy a while ago. They're basically trying to cut the price in half or so for the next model, every 3 years. This worked perfectly considering they were a start-up and could only build a few one of them at first, and then as they become more demanded, they can build more.

We'll see a $30,000 model from them in 2015, and then a sub $20,000 model by 2018, with reasonable mileage. By then the country should also be covered with their solar-powered superchargers, that charge the cars for free. All of these factors should help them, and EV's in general, to become mainstream by 2020.

In regards to the author's last statement, when Tesla started pushing for Tesla Roadster I also thought they would eventually become the "GM of the new electric car industry". Tesla is the Apple of EV's, and GM is Nokia. And both incumbents were gigantic at first in their own markets, compared to the new entrants, but that quickly changed in a few years.
It's not like we made all that much at sphere. Beats a kick in the ass tho, but none of us got rich.
Git is as centralized as you want it to be; look up "bare repos" sometime.
Calm down. I'm not disagreeing with you.

What I'm saying is that you claimed Iran used to be a much better place before the US interfered and supported that by showing a photo from 1979. I just thought that was an odd way to support your claim since the photo is from a time when the US-supported Shah was in power. I take that as evidence that things were pretty good under the US-supported Shah.
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doesnt work in-stream for me (in facebook). link opens a new window which redirects to a facebook app where the canvas is the 'main' ribbot page (not my product).
I think he means games being ported to another controller based platform like the Xbox.

If you are an indie dev who releases a game for the Ouya and gets some respectable sales you are quickly going to do the math on how many more sales you would get from a Xbox/PS version. As a result consumers are more likely to think "Oh, an Ouya game. I'll just wait 3 months for it to show up on Xbox".
Wow, this is amazing! I always wanted to contribute to the OSM project, specially because my area (Sacramento) isn't that well mapped, but I found the tools to be cumbersome and difficult to use. This changes the game.
And Tony stayed at AOL for something close to two years.
They still owe me gift cards for referrals. Though I did get two t-shirts from them. (which were quite nice!)
or livescript if you want haskell-like style [http://gkz.github.com/LiveScript/]

it's a coffeescript descendant rather than a haskell->js compiler, but it has a very pleasing haskell/ml surface.
I've never tried this feature as it requires location services, but doesn't Instapaper offer exactly that? Location-based automatic downloading of new articles?
(I wrote MoSQL)

I actually played with mongo_fdw. At this point, it's a really cute hack, and useful for some things, but it doesn't give Postgres enough information and knobs to really let the query planner work effectively, so it ends up being really slow for complex things. I do love the concept, though.