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Ahh, you mean literally embedded (perfectly legitimate use of the word). I associate it with DSPs and extremely low power chips where something like ruby is an absurdity. ARM is a great target for it, though.
Tablet is primarily a media consumption device.

So - reading/learning. That can be productive.

I also reply to emails and schedule calendar events from it. As soon as I need to edit documents, manage servers, or write code - I move to a laptop or desktop, it's just more comfortable.

P.S. wrote this on my iPad
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

Apocryphal? From http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/strongest-reason-pe...: "This quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson."
Would you apply that same logic to a strategic nuclear weapon? If not, where is the dividing line between a nuke and an AR-15, and who and what determines it?
I would imagine one of the weaknesses of this kind of schedule is the variations that occur when you have an evening function that you just need to go to, ie., birthday party of your best friend. And what happens when you have a few evening functions you need to go to in a week? I would imagine that would mess up one's rhythm. Sure, you could try to get back to your schedule with diligence and effort, but I can't imagine it's that simple. Over time, that might become draining. But it seems like you get so much stuff done from midnight to 8am, maybe it's worth skipping the evening functions altogether or if you need to go just re-adjusting to your schedule (even being a bit groggy) because of the huge productivity gains you're seeing.

One of the interesting things from the blog post was how it's easier to concentrate when the Internet slows down. I find that 9am to 5pm on weekdays there's just so much content being published everywhere, and so much of that content is interesting, that I find myself easily distracted during the day. I've had to hack my own system of focused goals, pomodoro work sessions, and other homemade hacks to get the productivity I need during the day. So, I can totally see how someone can get tons of stuff done during the middle of the night while everyone else is sleeping.

Btw, Kevin - how long have you been doing this schedule?
> All of these ignore the fact that functions are not simply declared once in Javascript and then used later, like in C. It's a dynamic language with first-class functions and function literals. You could assign to a variable in this case, but that's needlessly restricting:
>
> asyncFunc(function cb(result) { print(result); });

The assignment itself is an expression too, that returns the assigned value - the function in that case. You can just do that:

var cb;
asyncFunc(cb = function(result) { print(result); })

I would agree that having to declare the variable separately is a bit annoying, but I'm mostly writing CoffeeScript which doesn't require you to explicitly declare variables, so it doesn't really bother me.

Other than hoisting and leaking memory, nameless function expressions can be used to anything that can be done with named functions.
I agree that there hasn't been a precedent for mass murderers circumventing locks, but that's partly due to the fact that mass murders typically occur in public, where doors are kept unlocked for the most part.

Some lock circumvention techniques take almost no skill, and no time at all. I've seen cipher locks that cost thousands circumvented by lightly tapping the housing with a rubber mallet or sticking a paperclip through a gap near the LED to create a short. I've seen people open locks with a piece of toilet paper or a key that was milled using a photograph taken of a key-chain on someone's belt from across a parking-lot.
Well in America the word Reservation was used for land set aside for Native tribes long before the idea of a "nature' reserve ever sprang up. That's why we typically use refuge for what you would call a reservation.

The only reason the word reservation has a positive connotation to you is because of what it colloquially refers to in your country. It's base definition is really anything that's been reserved for a specific purpose, doesn't have to be for wildlife preservation.

I doubt whoever named this facility back during WWII-era was attempting to soften up the image of it. Given that it was part of the Manhattan Project they probably didn't even think the general public would be aware of it.
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It's more targeted at a specific niche, the far end of the static website -> web application spectrum. So it's not a large audience, but for its target audience it does it exceptionally well.
Everybody should (and probably already does) know that the United States was essentially formed out of that exact type of rebellion. The arms that won us the war of Independence were all provided by private citizens, just as the cannons were, the ships that formed our navy, etc. If we hadn't had private weapons, we wouldn't have had anywhere remotely enough arms to have won the war.

Do US Americans really think it would have been terrible if the British Empire had remained in control and their country turned out like Canada, Australia or New Zealand?
Plenty of nature and pretty birds--the need to secure Hanford kept the area undeveloped.
Neither is very palatable.

MyApp.president = Ember.Object.create(({fullName: (function() {return this.get('firstName')+' '+this.get('lastName');}).property('firstName', 'lastName')}));

MyApp.president = Ember.Object.create fullName: (-> @get('firstName') + ' ' + @get('lastName') ).property('firstName', 'lastName')
That doesn't really matter though, since the goal is 100% coverage. I mean, technically, the NBN was 'useful' even when it just covered the couple of test-run blocks (one ended about 500m from me...).

I've been a city boy all my life, but we really need to stop treating regional and rural Australia as second-class citizens when it comes to these kinds of things.

The other thing you point out is interesting - the urbanisation rate of Australia. It's in the top 5 'big' countries, sitting at 90% - above France at 85%, and the US/UK at 80%. It kinda goes against the mythical image we have of ourselves, the rugged outback-seeker. Sod the wide brown land, give us tarmac!
I use my iPad to read scientific papers as part of my Masters thesis. Saves me a lot of time and headache with regards to printing, and keeps my computers free for taking notes and looking up related research. Definitely a productive use.
Where is the terse, elegant version of this.
> Just because my screen is 2560px wide doesn't mean I want to use it all for your site

Yet this is what you're telling your browser by maximising the window NSEW, and the site obeys it, which is good. The point of so much real estate and a windowing system is not to have it end up empty, unless asked to. I hate it when sites make undue assumptions and reimplement in-browser window management. My browser is not my OS.
I use it to play games on airplane rides and to jerk off in bed when a laptop would be inconvenient. Other than that, I'm also at a loss of what to do with it.
I was wondering about this. Evidently the more random, the more accurate. Wacky!
Right, but think about the mechanics of this.

Shooter has his gun(s) out, he approaches door, he now has to holster gun, get out bump key, focus on and fiddle with door, and once it's unlocked, open up the door, unholster his weapon, and then enter the door.

How many times do you think the shooter is going to expose himself like that? Does that feed into the fantasy of stalking people through the hallways shooting them?
If you understand hoisting as a characteristic of JavaScript, its behavior is very predictable, and thus, hardly broken -- merely tricky if you've yet to encounter a hoisting-related issue.

That said, I find almost any issue with writing JavaScript can be easily mitigated by utilizing JSHint, and you get the added benefit of sticking with the base language, which is better because if you're writing raw JS everyday, your skills are more transferable than if you're writing CS every day if only for the fact that you can still write JS in a CS-only stack, but you can't write CS in a JS-only stack.
It's not a conspiracy. It is the stated goal of politicians who are currently in office. I think the strong language of the parent is throwing you off what he actually said.

Feinstein in her own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffI-tWh37UY
Send an email to the erroneous email address you sent to originally. Say that you are recalling the previous email, that the email was sent in error and ask the recipient to keep the contents confidential, delete the email and any copies of the information contained in the email.

Word it nicely but firmly.

I am NOT a lawyer, ...
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Is there some way to activate this option? Sometimes it seems my voice input is bottlenecked by the connection when I'm driving in a low-coverage area.
Question: Was gevent, used by hiredis, using select or kqueue? IIRC gevent will default to select on OSX. kqueue could be faster.

Also, both kqueue and select were slightly buggy in OSX: http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod#OS_X_AN...

Not sure if that's still the case.

Would be interesting to see how these benchmark on a Linux or FreeBSD machine.
As a person who has had an iPad since the first generation (and at times used it as the only device in my apartment), I still think Steve Jobs' 2003 characterization is correct: it is a great device for rich guys who can afford a third computer.
I was really disappointed with 280 North and their lack of transparency regarding Atlas. I was a beta customer and they kept promising an update on the Motorola situation. Nothing but silence.
Those are still public places (if by "school" you mean "university"), even if they are privately owned. Also, with a sufficiently rigorous check required to get a concealed carry permit, what is there to worry about?
I'm uncertain of why anybody would do this to their life.

You lay out some advantages:

1) The rest of the internet is "asleep", there's not much content being generated and so you are less distracted.

2) You get the gym to yourself.

3) No alarm clock

Admittedly, all three are good things. But, I'm uncertain if it's a good trade off. I mean, I'd go crazy if I did what you do on a daily basis. For one, going to sleep at 5pm would completely cut me off from any after-work/school social aspect of my life. It just seems silly to do that just for the ability to make it easier for yourself to work at night. I for one, find it much better to just not mess around on HN/Facebook all day and just do what I have to do (use SelfControl). Just do it. My gym is very empty early, at about 8am, infact thinging about it now, your sleep timetable doesn't help you have an empty gym. Most people get up that early anyway for work.

I just don't get why you need to change your sleeping habits to something so backward that cuts you off from so many of the social aspects of life that aren't mingled in with work/school.

Not having to use an alarm clock, though, is good.
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DLC (very slow progression otherwise), rewards for sharing, and low budget production.

I prefer the Steam model myself. It fully embraces digital, and there are very steep discounts regularly, but in general the prices remain healthy and once you buy a game it’s yours without BS.
This is timely. My company is building business software, and amazingly, it runs best on a tablet (iPad specifically).

Oh, it's perfectly usable on the desktop, but it's so much more effective on the iPad -- faster, more enjoyable, easier.

I'm still amazed; a month ago, I could have penned the OP's article.
Are you serious?

You really think that the UK, France, Canada, Australia, Sweden etc. etc. are at such a risk of tyranny from their governments that they should expose their children to more random shootings to reduce the risk?
It is not so much about trying to use the tablet for something you already have a device for as it is to figure out what the tablet is good for.
I feel tablets are more a case of "Why do I need a typewriter? I have a word processor." My laptop and phone already do most everything my tablet does, but better.

I gave up on my Nexus 7 after 3 months of trying to like using it. Somehow, every time I went back to my (Android) phone after using the tablet, it just felt 'better' - more responsive, better-designed, more comfortable. Perhaps it's an OS design issue, but I thought Android had been built with tablets in mind after 3.0?

What might get me interested again is when colour, touch-screen e-ink tablets become a reality. Until then, I'm happy with my laptop and phone - I don't need a 'happy medium'.

Just my point of view, of course: I can see that tablets offer a great way into computing for people who are largely information consumers, and for whom a laptop isn't appealing.
The media does tend to sensationalize it, and yes certain people in government exploit it for personal gain.

I look at it this way, just be glad they can sensationalize it, the alternative would be that this is so routine it doesn't make people think.

America does not have a gun problem; it has a cultural problem that many refuse to recognize. The look to ban the tool employed by this culture but not to find how to end this culture. Ever listen to the music on the streets? Ever listen to the talk in a down town truly urban mall area?

We spend more time coddling and telling them its not their fault than focusing on getting them productive and responsible. People who are told over and over they are not responsible tend to become just that.
Got an example where guns which were allowed were then banned by a government which then turned tyrannical?
Just for some context, Ant was originally used just because that was what we were used to in college. Ant is a pretty miserable tool I feel now, and quickly discovered back then (very hard to do anything imperative and writing plugins for new features is no walk in the park either). We later went to rake because (some people forget this now), but you couldn't really use JavaScript on the terminal in any practical way (Rhino was the only real option) -- and had you been able to there certainly did not exist a build system. Rake made the most sense to me back then, and I still really like that build system. Once we had a way to realistically run JS on the terminal (at a decent speed by getting JSC working), we literally did a line by line port of Rake -- so none of the existing build system had to be rebuilt, it just got faster and was able to interact with all the existing libraries for free. The reality of today is that everyone has node.js, if they have any sort of JS environment installed, so that is their desire to move to node.js. Now, I would be of the position of just doing the bare minimum to get the existing build system working on node as opposed to some from-scratch rewrite, but that is their prerogative. Regardless, this was not just moving to what was "hot" at the time.
> More so, the reason that gun rights are so fundamental in the US is that they are intended as a key tool to prevent the establishment of tyranny.

It's unfortunate, but I find few people understand this and it warps the gun ownership/control debates. The people's right to be armed is for one purpose only: to preserve the right to revolution. I think gun rights people like to use anecdotes about stopping home intruders and whatnot -- and that stuff is nice -- but that's all secondary.

> It's easy to write that off as some outlandish idea, or as some preposterous hypothetical but that ignores the lessons of history.

I think this is the major stumbling block when I try to explain why gun rights are important. In our time tyranny seems distant. When it happens, it's somewhere else, somebody else. I've sort of resigned myself to seeing the United States slip into tighter and tighter gun control. Then in November of 2064 or something the president will call off elections and declare himself emperor of the world as all us greybeards hang our heads and say we told you so.
Whenever I see demos like this, I wonder why we don't have full-blown WebGL games out there? What are the limiting factors? Can somebody explain the issues?
I already follow your advice. I never read that stuff. Sometimes I go to Google News, and all I see is Murder, Rape, Shooting etc. Do you really think that's the "news" I'm looking for? Someone please start a news site startup that allows for custom filtering or something.
Yeah, the amazing thing about this gun debate is that, given the drug war, I'm all prepared to punt on prohibition of anything not being worth it...

And then I listen to your average pro-gun advocate. Holy shit. Ok, I want everyone except for the average pro-gun advocate to be able to buy a gun.
iPad for my old parents has been a tremendous benefit. They are not very technology oriented. I remember pulling my hair when they had a PC and they'd call me so often for every little pop-up window that was different from their usual workflow. For example, system updates and all that crap.

However, with iPad they learnt things much more quickly than the PC. The things they do on the iPad does not involve a lot. They are just content consumers who do not want their computer to be in their way. The mobility of a tablet means that when my Dad has back aches he can just lie down on a bed and read form his iPad.

about 4 years ago when I thought I'll first buy them a computer so that they'd be able to do some video conferencing with the family, I actually took them to Microcenter, just to show them the variety. To my surprise, my Mom 'assumed' that the computer will respond by her touching the monitor to click on an icon (she had seen people playing with iPhones).

On the other hand, for me iPad hasn't got a lot of value at this point. I do not play games. I am a programmer who is constantly on a computer and when I am not on a computer, I am on my iPhone. But that does not mean I fail to see how cool a computer that can be carried in your hands is for others.
The Play Store says the app has 10,000 - 50,000 installs.
and ~200 million gun owners

Where are you getting this number from? 200 million gun owners means that nearly 2 in 3 US citizens owns a gun which doesn't sound close to correct.

http://rense.com/general62/gns.htm says 80 million gun owners.

http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp says 70-80 million adult gun owners.

I can't find any better numbers, but 80 million sounds more reasonable.

(still an order of magnitude more than police/military, but not 66% of American citizens).
I have always wondered if crimes are getting more violent or if the amount of coverage we give the violent ones has increased. The closest I will get to the news is the Daily Show, because at least they poke fun at the American media for how ridiculous they can be.
Having an arsenal of guns isn't going to stop a tyrant from bombing you to the stone age, or crushing you with tanks. See Syria.
It is an iPad mini
It is much, much harder to kill people with forks, knives, bats, and pans than it is with a gun. (I'm less certain about cars, but they have substantial non-murdering use).
Not if it's tattooed in reverse and you close your eyes in the light. Just sayin ;)
There have been artists who produce the majority of their work on a tablet PC for years. They aren't as thin or as light as an iPad, and none of them have been perfect, but they are incredibly well-suited for drawing.

I just hope that Microsoft's efforts eventually cause Apple to implement a Wacom digitizer into the iPad.
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SMS will never take off. Why would anyone fiddle with a tiny keyboard when they could just use the same phone to call someone?
RTFM. This is not what this file is for.
upvote if you like it, downvote if you don't like it. simple?
Doesn't the sales numbers basically debunk this notion? The iPad is a mass-market device, and the cheapest computer Apple sells.
How many lives do guns save? Do you actually know they save more then they cost?

Requiring nations without guns to be 'violence free', dismissing the intermediate 'significantly less violent', is an argument by a lazy or dishonest thinker that can only see black and white.
Unless you are able to exist on < 8 hrs of sleep, how is this practical? Sleeping at 7PM every day?
Does anyone here really believe that when your life is imminent danger that you are better off with a cell phone in your hand calling the police and waiting for them to arrive to save your life than you are with a gun in your hand using everything you possibly can to protect yourself and your family?

In the UK, yes we really believe this.
1. Traveling abroad 2. Streaming to television (never sure if this will work right before its bought, however) 3. Casual gameplay 4. Leisure reading

Not sure if any of that warrants a purchase but they are valid use cases for me.
As someone making his full time income from game development for the past several years, the common wisdom among developers is that there's a handful of commercially successful games on XBLIG (which is not the same as the much more successful XBLA) & that you can pretty much discount that as a profitable option if you intend on making a commercial indie game.

It is simply a lot harder to make money on XBLIG than on Steam/app store/play market.
I've never been to IO - but have been wondering - does it seem like a significant number of people disappear after collecting the free gear?