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When Americans use the "use violence" argument, your argument doesn't work as a response, I'm afraid.

It is a libertarian tactic of assuming that anything the government does they don't like is use of violence, except for government protection of artificial property rights which is somehow usually magically exempt.
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I think they did not mean to stop using emails in the sense of not using it at all. It is more about making it efficient. Check out the part where they suggest '3 and no more'. Imagine going in endless email loops like Inception :)
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If everyone only worked 25 hours per week, nothing of value would be accomplished.
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(...) and now that we have balanced the defence budget we are able to confidently invest in these kinds of cutting-edge technologies. - The nano helicopter has been developed by Prox Dynamics AS of Norway as part of a £20m contract for 160 units

That's loads of money if they are not much different from toys/hobbyist UAVs. Do you think that those helicopters are just streaming video or is there some kind of software merging it all together into a 3D reconstruction (odometry?)? If not, what can justify this price?
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You may actually be referring to Mayan books instead:…

Oh you're right, that's the one. I knew it was that area & time.
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No this is actually very different. Linus doesn't want breaking API changes to documented behavior, in the Raymond Chen case its not breaking applications that misbehave or abuse undocumented behavior.
I thought old transactions in the block chain were rolled up into a new block and signed. So old transactions do vanish. Am I wrong or right on that one?
It was the Mayan books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
Not to appear a shill for Amazon, but this is one of the things I like about my Kindle. I subscribe to several newspapers via Amazon, and they're pushed out to my Kindle as e-books each morning.

This doesn't solve the problem of URIs or of different layout/content/etc. for web vs e-book, but it does solve the data-container-as-app problem.
We stuck to 37 when I was there, so everyone could take off a little early on a Friday.

I mean officially I was there 37, it was a good week if I was doing real, actual work for 20. Yes, I made up for it by working my tail off when it was needed.

We coders can be absurdly productive for short bursts, or be slow and steady. You can't have massively productive and steady for very long. In your early 20s you have a few years of this, but the more you push it then the more jaded you'll be later.
I was amazed that they managed to do it for as little as £20 million!
Since you mention the FAQ, I just have to mention the FQA: http://www.yosefk.com/c++fqa/templates.html#fqa-35.12

More seriously, the primary use of template is not meta programming, but good old parametric polymorphism (or «genericity»). They are more capable than that, but only by accident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

If you want actual meta programming, look at Haskell combinator libraries, Lisp macros, and external DSLs (in ascending order of "meta").
I'm not crazy about a campaign against one of the remaining bulwarks against an increasingly oligopolistic internet.
Good marketing for them.

I get about 100 emails a week at my work address. 80 of those are internal, and about 30 of those internal messages are 'all staff'. I just set a filter to dump those into a folder and empty it now and again.

The external emails are usually from students asking questions or warning of absence &c. I keep those long enough to log the reason and to reply.

The 50 or so 'real' internal messages seldom go to three messages. If I did not reply to those by email, I'd have to reply on paper memo forms.

Teaching is basically face2face. The admin goes on email.
R&D.

The production cost of the units is likely quite reasonable but the cost of developing and testing the system is what cost ₤20mil.
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Yes they are notorious spammers.
How does this app get around the YouTube license restriction about downloading or caching their videos?
IOS Apps are not allowed to save YouTube videos for offline viewing
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A hobbyist UAV is probably not weather sealed, hardened against interference or heavily tested under battle like conditions. These are assumptions but they'd be my requirements if I was specing this system. They also appear to be an order of magnitude smaller than hobbyist UAVs with video.
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"We overwhelmingly choose to work the greatest number of hours we can sustainably tolerate (somewhere between 40 and 60 hours for most people)"

I'm doing that short-term, directly for cash at the moment. Then I'm going to take a month off.

Most of my working life (12 years so far) has been working at the 37 hour mark, mostly because that's what was asked of me at work. There might have been some benefit in working longer hours voluntarily, but I would not have been directly compensated for them and I have a life to live outside of work.

I know this is the privilege of the skilled European tech-worker, and thank god I am one.
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Nothing can justify it. The MOD's procurement system is a massive fucking hole that tax payers pour money into and get very little out of in return.
You can see transition to post-labor world in observing growth of the labor force paid with tax money (lots of them doing unnecessary or things harmful to others), growth of prison population (these are the people who are provided for because they couldn't get jobs), increase in percentage of people working in services, increase in number of lawyers...

We are moving away from doing anything useful and we are now even running out of excuses that could entitle us to getting some money to provide for ourselves.
Not at all!

If 500 Startups funds a company ($50,000) to join the accelerator, it will charge fees to help cover the costs of running the accelerator office space.
I know it's not answering your actual point, but I'll answer your specific questions. No, it can't record audio, or make phone calls on your behalf -- both require specific permissions that aren't listed here. It can't access your contacts at all, either, as that requires a specific permission.

Pictures are stored on the SD card, so the app could read all your pictures, upload them, then delete them. Newer devices have more internal storage, so hopefully applications will gradually move away from using this permission. Apparently, the next version of Android will introduce a new permission for reading the SD card too -- at present, any application may read from the SD card.

"Read[ing] all my personal data" depends on what you count as personal data -- security-sensitive info should not be on the SD card (things like phone number (although the phone state and identity permission gives access to this), contacts, account details), but anything that is on the SD card may be read by any application. That means pictures and music, at least.

I wonder if it might be useful to always list all of the common permissions, to make it easier to see which ones an application doesn't have. I've installed enough Android apps to have a reasonable idea of what's available (and by extension, what any given app can't do) but it's reasonable to assume I'm in a small minority.
The whole tone of this content-free article is semi-paranoid - insinuating, without openly saying, that this guy is a martyr, murdered by "the man".

This is the latest in a stream of pointless links about Aaron, intended to gain cheap karma points. Shame we can't vote this garbage down.
The great philanthropic era was a result of the robber barons. The idea that we might enter a new era of such figures is only a sign of the grossly disproportionate wealth scales that damage our societies.

It is a despotic idea that society must endure the deprivations of these individuals or corporation only to be rewarded with narrow visions of a better future world through the myopic eyes of the DuPont's, Gates', or Carnegie's of the world. These "great" men robbed, captured, or monopolized vast tracts of our communal resources in their acquisition of said wealth
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It's just a matter of time until Apple kills this app. Not even web browsers are allowed to save downloaded YouTube videos for offline use (http://www.icab.de/blog/2013/01/26/app-reviews-are-unpredict...).
So I'm wondering, If humans can create things that did not exist (computers, mobile phones, cars) etc, to solve problems they had, will it be too far fetched to assume that we were also created by someone/something more intelligent to do something?
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This is a different behavior entirely. In the "couch potato" case people are just spending all day watching whatever is on, which might become a fundamental feature of their life. In the "netflix enthusiast" case people are spending chunks of free time consuming entire TV series, and often it's a thing that they'll do occasionally instead of continuously. This has very different consequences in the impact such behaviors have on someone's life.
Are there any high profile women in this industry who haven't been treated like shit in some way such as this? What a nasty bunch of people we are. Are we (developers) the douchey 80s guy of the 21st century?
I found the opposite; Meditations felt like immediate practical wisdom, Letters from a Stoic I struggled to keep reading.

Also: if you're going to take self-help advice from anyone, might as well be the World's Most Important Man (at time of writing).
So apparently, she is a web designer (or a web design agency owner), but it takes an effort to find a link to an actual portfolio. There is the Resources page but it's full of her own photos from every angle. The About page is too full of important aspects of her professional background including how she takes her coffee (apparently 3rd most frequently asked question).

I understand that she is the brand and she's probably doing more public speaking than HTML coding, but I find this sort of "I am the only girl in web design, totally braving it" blatant self-promotion to be very off-putting. It feels calculated and manipulative.
I was going to develop an app based on google search API but with those restrictions it's impossible to do anything serious...
A related area is focusing on key objectives and tasks each day. Some of our https://weekdone.com/ weekly planning & status reporting service users have allow people to list 3-5 key goals per week and do things only if they match those 3-5 goals. Having tried that myself with our team as well, it's hard as hell. You always end up doing something from your 20-50 small todo list items, not the 5 big things.
but the question becomes: what is the best way to favor immutability [..]

To which my answer would be: it doesn't matter, as long as you consider it and try to apply/enforce it wherever it makes sense.

I have found that age matters very little with regard to
someone's ability to write code. [..]

I was thinking of their greater (life) experience; in my experience they tend to be more nuanced and open to different ways of doing things, which makes for nicer, constructive, conversation.
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Brilliant if you can do this, our company could never enforce this. Email is the last line in defence in a "he said, she said" situation where we need proof of changes in a project.

Picking up the phone is great and making notes but notes are not proof that something has changed. I ask all clients to confirm a phone conversation in email
I used to read The Verge and i don't think I've ever seen many articles or reviews related to Microsoft shown in good light, for example even when most other sites reported Gmail active sync support being dropped as a bad move, The Verge reported that as Microsoft not supporting open standards (which was true) and in the review of the Nokia Lumia 920 the camera was rated the same as an iPad camera with the reasoning that the quality was not needed and cameras like the iPhone's were what customers really wanted

tl;dr they never jump on MS bandwagons
I agree, all the stuff I read it's like going back a century, we are supposed to be on the vanguard of a brave new world, not re-hashing the same dumb ass attitude that has contaminated the past decades. Grow up, get on and be nice.
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This is what Spotify and others like them need to do, too - try to take away artists from the labels. But I think Spotify already signed a non-competing contract with the labels.
The article mentions Yammer: we’ve had good success with both that and Campfire as a way for increasing internal communication but keeping it ambient rather than directed.
I wish I just got about 100 emails a week; I'm about twice that on average. Some of that is unavoidable -- I deal with our US office a lot, so email is often easier because it's asynchronous.

What really upsets me is when people sitting in the same open-plan as me will email things to me rather than handing them to me, or turning and saying, ``Could you please take a look at this?''

Where I work now, and a couple places I've worked in the past, email have become the go-to `solution' to the `problem' of covering your arse. Almost nobody will do anything now without first getting an email instructing them to do so -- even if it's already been discussed at length. They `need' it so they have a paper-trail in case something goes belly-up.

These problems are more cultural than technological, but email has really enabled them to flourish in a way that paper memos didn't.
I don't get why people suggest the use of EOM and NTTR (btw, why is it not spelled NNTR? That would be far more logical to me. anyways..). If there is a clear sign that the sender wants me to reply (such as a question, or a request for feedback etc) then I reply. Otherwise I read the email and archive it. I guess what I mean is, EOM/NTTR should be obvious from the content.
I don't see how criticising the formatting of the content without discussing the content adds anything. Was there a point you wanted to make ?
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It's not hard at all. You go to the about page (http://www.sazzy.co.uk/about/), look at the text where it says "Sarah is the owner of design studio You Know Who", you then click through to the company page (http://www.youknowwhodesign.com/) and click on Portfolio.
That's because it's her personal site, a place people often promote their own personal brand/speaking/photos/achievements/etc. Click on her company name to be taken to http://www.youknowwhodesign.com/ which is a more typical portfolio/agency site.
They seem like they're actually a pretty good outfit, but Dave McClure is known for communications chock full of explitives. I don't have problems with those words - they're pretty effective when used in the right way - but they kind of lose their meaning when used in those quantities.

Seems like sort of a minor detail though if they do a good job otherwise.
Not sure why this being downvoted. Provably friendly strong AI is actually sth that researcher care about, yet it is difficult to do because "friendly" has to be defined.
Speaking as somewhat of an introvert I find having to conduct a real-time telephone conversation hugely more disrupting to my "coding flow" than reading or responding to email/IM/IRC. Perhaps this no-email idea works in an office where part of people's job is to be sort of extrovert (i.e. recruitment agents), but in an office with (dare I say it) a more cerebral atmosphere I can't see it going down well. It sounds like the pet project of some extrovert management person, and because they instinctively place huge value on real-time communication with fleshy mouth parts, and their inbox is overflowing, they think everyone else is in the same boat. Not convinced.

Besides, perhaps the most annoying thing a recruitment agency can ever do is leave you a long rambling answer phone message with their phone number at the end. You end up having to listen to the damn thing multiple times to copy down the number and phone them back at your expense. Just email me, I'll get right back to you if I'm interested.
I am not convinced that her motives for posting this are genuine. This sort of deeply personal story has no business of being attached to the Resources and the FAQ pages on how to get her speak at your event.
You miss one thing, though: the block chain has real costs. If you want another block chain for the document timestamping, for instance, then you'll have to convince people to mine that block chain. Inevitably, it'll be just another currency not very different from Bitcoin. And since both have almost the same objective properties and Bitcoin is already more valuable, nobody will spend CPU on your currency. So you'll end up using the Bitcoin block chain anyway.

This is exactly what is happening to Namecoin: initially, it was just another blockchain, but very soon people realized that nobody is willing to spend any CPU/GPU time on Namecoin if Bitcoin is worth more (no matter how much more). So Namecoin guys proposed "merged mining", which is just a fancy way to reuse proof-of-work done on Bitcoin block chain without asking people to devote any resources specifically to Namecoin.
You mean one of the least confrontational bulwarks.

They do have a point that email does afford a bit of anonymity (I think the operative word should be "buffer" though), but in terms of spam, the walled gardens are still a little behind in that aspect.

I'm not sure their approach is really any better. If anything Skype may be a more appropriate substitute. During my time as a CS agent, I found that people are less likely to be an ass when they're faced with a human being than a script-reading voice.
sounds interesting... i give it at least a try.

f* the download restriction...there are tons of apps out there with this function, and i guess google has to put these lines in there rules.
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They aren't signed in with "pre-breach passwords". They are signed in with OAuth tokens.

Not tying the authentication of third-party apps to passwords but instead to OAuth tokens is sensible precisely because of security failures like this.
I have a feeling that we're still just scraping the surface of drones-as-military-equipment. They are being used now in very remote parts of a remote (and relatively small by global standard) war.

The future is scary.
Pretty sure sazzy.co.uk is a personal site about Sarah, the person. Work is all at http://www.youknowwhodesign.com
Everyone is too polite or concerned with HN decorum to say so but you're a fucking asshole.
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I'm not sure bitcoin ever needs to be anything more than a medium of exchange

My sentiments exactly. The other stuff will sort itself out. (Historical example: GUI client in codebase!) IMHO what integrators really need is a fixed target, and what they have now is spiralling complexity and ill-defined scope... ie. very suboptimal.
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So you are looking at a personal blog (at least, that is what it looks like me), that is also used as a personal site for speaking gigs (press images, bio, et al).

You are not willing to follow the link to her agency, to look for a portfolio there, but you have the "right", quite passive-aggressively, to criticize her in a way, that makes her look not like the victim, she is in the told story, but that it is all her own fault?

cynism on

You feel manipulated, so you are the victim now. If a woman describes her experience with something like this, somehow you become the victim?

OK, sorry, but I really do not get this. I really try to understand it - but maybe I am not intelligent enough. Please try to explain. I really would love to understand your worldview...

cynism off
What are you talking about?

Why wouldn't her motives be genuine? What evidence do you have to suggest it's anything other than that?

She's posted to her PERSONAL blog. How is that "attached" to the Resources and FAQ pages on her site?
Seriously. I roll my eyes at some of the white-knighting that goes when a woman is slighted on the Internet but holy crap I get nervous for my girlfriend who's a talented programmer and about to graduate with a CS degree. Is this kind of bullshit in store for her? Sheesh.