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I didn't read anything new there, except maybe the mention of ASM.js.

JS is a fine language, but I've run into problems where I wished I had just a little more structure. I've started to turn to Dart, and I hope it catches on. My servers are usually in Go because that's what it was designed for.

So to answer your question, I think it was a giant wast of 15 paragraphs. No new information, no new analysis, just the same old complaining.
"drop" you an email? what does that mean? do you mean "send"?
I'm surprised facebook hasn't decided to go all the way and have a person audit every single app that tries to access FB data.
It would be kind of hard to call it an "Open Graph" if it were that closed.
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Where did I comment on or compare the acceptability of either? GGP mentioned the hypothetical outrage that would occur if WoW was unavailable for a week: well, surprise, it actually did fail, repeatedly, and not just for a week—but for weeks on end—during its launch. And just like SimCity, there was a large amount of justified outrage. It's simply historical context: we don't need to imagine the so-called "shitshow" because it actually happened.
> ...giant waste of 15 paragraphs of my time?

Pretty much.
Regardless of your opinion of his personal hygiene, even with BSD-style you are not free to do as you wish. That's why there is a license and not just a renunciation of copyright.

All the GPL asks is that if you distribute the code, you offer the source under the same terms that it came to you. Is that so wrong?
I would be proud of their efforts to push back against an increasingly Orwellian government.
One thing I really like for productivity is getting deep into the mindset of anyone that excels.

I skateboard for exercise and one of my favorite skaters is Andrew Reynolds. His mentality when skating is second to none. He'll land an absolutely insane trick (at age 33), and then do it over..and over..and over again until it is absolutely perfect.

Toe touches the ground slightly? Do over. Arms were kind of weird? Do over. Hammering it into the ground until it's a thing of beauty.

This is what I take into my approach to productivity. Being effective is difficult, especially if the task you're doing is difficult. You have to just hammer away at it and iteratively get 1% better every time you take a swing.

In productivity, it's constantly holding yourself to a higher standard than you previously did. Great, pomodoro technique is working for you and you can go 4x25 blocks? Trend towards the positive always, and you'll eventually end up far, far ahead of other's around you...even other "productive" people.
You know what killed uber for me? Car2Go. That's what these drivers should be worried about.

Wait until it's in SF. This company is going to change the world, even before the driving part is automated.
Here's something I've noticed about looking back at predictions of the future: They're all wrong, but some people are bound and determined to claim some of them are more-or-less accurate even if it means twisting the author's words beyond all reason. Therefore, someone who predicted a home news service based around everyone having a Telex terminal in their home will be hailed as predicting the Internet.

It's something that always happens. I don't know why.
Yes, and they understand 3 stars is a decent review.
I was replying to yesbabyyes's comment and I get -3 points? Jesus...
> It's also interesting how pessimistic the authors were about things like pollution (smog, ozone layer), traffic, and water supply.

I'm always amused at how many people in the 1970s were predicting global famine to hit the far-future world of a decade ago. Food lines and meat rationing and everything else in NYC, 2001.

Instead, we got an epidemic of Type II diabetes. So it goes.
The sad thing is, Zynga knows how to run a game as a service. They have the engineering down to a science, and a launch like this would never happen for them. For starters, they would have done continuous internal beta testing, had a soft launch that would have caught these issues, and have actually engineered their cloud servers to scale, rather than act like individual WOW shards. Actual WOW shards are run across on multiple scalable servers, I should add. Blizzard also knows what they are doing.
I've heard the argument, more than once, that the best thing the DOJ could have done for MS would have been to break it up.

They had several very competitive components.

A lot of subsequent innovation seems to have become mired in a morass of bureaucracy and chair throwing.
The plight of pretty much all mobile app developers.
> We thought of calling it SimCityVille, but that just didn't
have the same ring to it.

Amusingly, EA also has SimCity Social, a Facebook game, launched last June. It doesn't have server problems.
I am reaching my 40's and sometimes I find the following issues:

- People get amazed at Go compile speeds, when Modula-2 and Mac/Turbo Pascal compilers were already doing that in the mid-80's

- People are talking about live coding and REPL, when it was already possible in the early 80's within Smalltalk and Lisp environments

- Some assume C is the only way to write operating system kernels, when there was a time operating systems were made using different system programming languages and C was just UNIX's language

- ...

This is why I think young generations need to learn about old technology.
No, the FDA makes food safer than supplements are.

You have no idea how bad food was prior to the FDA.
Are taxi drivers unionized? If so, what we might be seeing here with Uber is the reason why they are unionized.
It's something akin to the anthropic principle, but for prognostication.
But people's eyesight declines. My dad now puts his 27" iMac at 1024x768 because website font sizes are typically too small for him now.
As I pointed out in my re-write of my original responce, even if Chrome was installed in Program Files, compromising it would still give malware a persistent compromise on the user.

With regards to your OS-level access control, I think we have examples of how to do it without usability problems. For example, in smartphones, when apps get installed they define what permissions they need. If we assume the publisher of an app is not malicous, then their is no need for a typical user to need to know about this, and we can view it as the app saying "these are the things I am going to access, if I try to access anything else, then I have probably been compromised".

The smartphone implementation seems a bit to crude to be very effective in stopping malware, however there is no reason why we should not be able to make a more fine grained system.

For example, in the Linux world, we have apparmor, which does effectively the same, but is much more configurable. Still, this only requires the program to be honest at install time, and to not have write access to the apparmor configuration file; the user does not need to be aware of its existence.

The problem with these systems is that programs need to do things that we do not want malware to be able to do. For example, Chrome has an auto-update feature. If it gets compromised, then the malware can overwrite the executable just as easily (unless the OS enforces code signing). Say that the program wants to be able to create shortcuts on the desktop, and save data to the harddrive. Now, if it gets compromised, the malware can save itself to the harddrive, and create a shortcut on the desktop labeled "Chrome.exe".
Productivity vs. Uncertainty & Apathy
Circular reference. You'll follow links until you die.
PDF version in case anybody wants it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ryv5rp0cw28daf7/ultimate_dropshipp...
You have to think of it like BD. "What's FB going to get from this? What's Twitter going to get from this?"

If you don't have a good answer, don't build on their platform.

We at Vidpresso think we have a pretty good answer... Facebook and Twitter are unlikely to create tools for broadcasters to efficiently show tweets on-air. So we'll do that for them.
Try http://rssident.com

Browsing history and a bunch of other features are still being added to the UI but search already works.
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Just that it used to be that they'd do it because it was cool, and potentially profitable.

Now they'd do things to be profitable first, and cool as a side effect.

It's arguable which iterative path leads to a greater market social and market impact.
"I thought {@} would be a good for an empty set because it arguably looks like the empty set symbol"

I'm just nitpicking but I don't think this is a good justification - If the @ symbol looks like the empty set symbol, then {@} is the set containing the empty set
Not true. In fact, that's a pretty astounding statement.

Executive power has expanded greatly since 9/11. The PATRIOT Act alone vastly expanded law enforcement capabilities. Law enforcement, of course, being of the Executive and including the DOJ. In fact this thread likely wouldn't need to exist if not for the expansion of NSL under the PATRIOT Act. Many of the rights that we ceded as citizens were given over directly to the Executive.

Remember, the Executive branch is more than just the President, but includes all departments under his purview.

I think if there is a myth it is among those who believe that nothing has changed simply because some of these mechanisms (such as NSL and FISA) did exist prior to 9/11. But, in addition to new powers, it is the expansion, interpretation, and application of existing powers that have also represented a large share of the power grab. This started with Bush after 9/11 with his adherence to the theory of the strong unitary executive. This is when we began to see the letters of his attorneys, which re-interpreted existing powers much more broadly and sought to justify unprecedented Executive actions retroactively. That there was never a trial indicates that they were, in fact, successful in their claims to additional power.

Of course one can also point to launching pre-emptive wars as an unprecedented power grab--perhaps of the highest order.

And, essentially, these powers continue to expand under Obama, up to and including the remarkable justification of drone strikes on American citizens.
Try http://rssident.com/mash
'Google Play News': A newspaper section is on its way to the Play Store
Ron Amadeo: "Android Police :: This should be fun! Here's a really early peak at Google's latest content push: it's called "Google Play News," and these bits of News come in "Issues" and "Subscriptions."
Gold is traditionally measured in Troy Ounces. There are exactly 14.58333... troy oz./lb
I don't think it's as prescient as it seems. Imagine someone making the same claim that there would be a diverse range of car types to fit niche needs from the perspective of 1963 to 1988. They'd be just as right. In 1988 people drove sedans, and compact cars, and 2 door sport-coupes, and luxury cars, and pick-up trucks, and vans, and mini-vans, and 4-wheel drive vehicles, and muscle cars, and station wagons, and so forth. The diversity of cars today is hardly greater than it was in 1988.

Also, things like automatic braking and computer optimization of cars were old hat by 1988. Electronic fuel injection was introduced in mass market cars in the '70s and commonplace by the late '80s. And radar based automatic collision avoidance systems were patented back in the mid '70s.
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Wow, if that would have happened to me, i dont think i could ever do serious workout anymore. Are you allowed to still do sports without any risks ? After all suffering sudden cardiac arrest is extremely rare, but in most cases there is some underlying condition which can cause it in very rare cases, like an unnormal sized heart.

I am 30 years old and generally pretty fit, but 2 months ago i fainted early in the morning. I was a bit sick, did work out the day before, had a really bad sleep with alot of sweating and felt totally devastated in the morning. Still (for whatever reason) i didnt drink anything and took my girlfriend to work and on the way back i was feeling extremely uncomfortable, got out of the car and blacked out.
I woke up seconds later realizing i had fallen onto the street and had blasting back pains...
Something like this happening was a total shock to me, i never had problems in this regard. Went to the hospital and a cardiologist and got everything checked and they said that all is totally fine, it was most probably a combination of dehydration+sickness+bad sleep etc.

But still, in the weeks after it i felt some strange anxiety and checked my pulse alot, which i have never done before. I am still nervous when working out even if i havent had any problems since then, but it still makes me feel uneasy for some reason.

Given that, if i would have suffered the same fate as this guy, i am sure i would have some serious anxiety issues.

Good story mate, inspiring that you are so uninspired by it!
Other features I wish Android's security model has are 'soft permissions', and 'pseudo permissions'.

Soft permissions would be where an app can function without permission, but has feature(s) that require it. For example, if I install a game, I should be able to play it without giving it internet access. However, if they want to have a online high-score system they must require that I give them internet access in order to install the app;

Pseudo permissions would be where the app thinks it has permission to use something, but it is really receiving bogus data. For example, say an app 'requires' access to my phones GPS system (when such access is not critical to the function of the app), it would appear to the app that it has access, but the data it receives would not corralate to the actually data.

I think I recall seeing a project to implement both of these features in Android, but I do not recall what it is called.
One man can believe that he lives in utopia, and another think himself in a dystopia, and both be right.
From the article:

> Plus, MessageMe actually doesn’t rely on Facebook for most of its growth. It instead uses the address book, which is the same method that other big messaging apps like WhatsApp and Line have used.

Facebook integration looks like an important feature that the app had, but not a completely critical one.
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I think the chilling thing is that, right or wrong, many people believe the JD thinks it ought to have those kinds of powers. Any move it shows that looks like they are trying to actually grab it ("You aren't allowed to contest an NSL that way.") makes people uncomfortable.

I do agree that the system, so far, is working as designed, and it is just appearances that are causing discomfort.
Flexibility is not the opposite of scalability. Maybe he means writing hacks, but then you have problems after 200 of code already. If he means dynamic typing and lambdas, that doesn't prevent Python from being scalable.
Startup or big corp.

The equivalent of Typescript is Google Closure not Dart. Dart could kill JavaScript one day, but that doesn't seem to be the topic here.

What does the author try to communicate here?
Yes. ebiester even spelled it out:

> I am more than willing to pay. I just want to pay one person for everything. I want that integration. I want webmail. I want to be able to access it from my phone without issue.

I'm in the same boat - currently looking for somewhere to move stuff to. I'm giving atmail.com serious consideration for mail/calendar/contacts, as the first is reasonably easy and the latter two _seem_ to be working on desktop, android, and ipad. They don't do XMPP though, so I need to figure out a solution for that.
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>When it comes to demanding multimedia applications, companies still turn to Flash for performance.

Huh?
you need 12 5 star rides to make up for 1 one star and get above 4.7. If your average is say 4.8 (you get 4 or 3 stars every now and then because people assume it's "average"), when you get a 1 star review, you need 37 "normal" rides to make up for it and come back to 4.7. This is pretty insane IMO
A bad article with a wonderful writing prompt.

We've long passed the point where JS is considered foundational technology, with near-universal adoption. It's hard to understate what that level of standardization can do for the whole software ecosystem, since - in tandem with the push for better browsers - it's allowing a whole new round of innovation to take place.
There ought to be some objectivity to it, no?
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Yeah, Credo is sort of a bizarre little company. They created a Super PAC to oppose tea party candidates and to support public financing of campaigns, i.e., outlawing Super PACs (they were a total anomaly in this regard). In 2011, they received one of those so called "national security letters" and just completely stonewalled the FBI. Thank god for this one activist mobile carrier or this case would've probably never happened.
Check out the "iOS apprentice" tutorials. I think they cost about $30, but it walks you through building 4 non-trivial apps with full source code. It also targets iOS 5 and 6, so most of the cool new features (automatic memory management anyone?) are covered.
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Just one suggestion. The page should scroll automatically so that the focus area is completely visible.
> Let's assume mailbox.app utterly dominates the (iphone?) market.

There are two reasons I would potentially want Dropbox on my phone. 1: For photos. 2: I need to email someone a file on the run. If the app that I'm using for email plays nicely with Dropbox, this is suddenly much easier. At least that's the main benefit I've thought of, and it strikes me as pretty powerful.

As far as a big player cloning an app to take out a dominating startup, can't you argue that's what Microsoft, Apple, Google are trying against Dropbox now?

> I expect the next moves to be either developing or acquiring media sharing (photos, videos, etc) apps

It's not too big of a secret that they're doing this...check out their New Grad job description.
Try http://rssident.com

I built it for many of the reasons you stated. I also wanted to be able to do specific kinds of search (All craigslist telecommute Java jobs in the US -- http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=telecommute).

It still needs a lot of work but I plan to keep it relatively simple and useful.
Mainstream? Isn't Quora still mostly US tech crowd. It's very little known and used in Europe outside startup/investor community.
I really hate to expose my naivete by asking this but its mention in the article forces my hand: Who the hell is writing web apps with millions of lines of JS?
It is often related to hypertrophy of the heart muscle, at least this is a common cause in the sudden death of young athletes.
That baby may be actually cured because treatment may have started before the virus could establish a reservoir.

The older people have just had their infection knocked down to a very low level. In theory you can be cured if you're treated as soon as you're exposed to the virus, but it's very, very rare that people know they've been exposed.
That's unfortunate. Some (non-teenage) people actually use it. Case in point, I'm aware of a rabbi in NY who uses it to answer questions from his congregants [1].

[1] - http://www.formspring.me/rabbiblake
I posted all my source code -- 139,000 lines on my website.
I wrote a program to convert it to pretty HTML with links.

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I assume they're theoretically counting node.js backend stuff. At least I hope so.
Freaking scary, makes one think twice to work out alone at home or going for a run in the woods alone...
There are probably all sorts of viruses that can cause cancer. But that's not the same thing as actual infectious cancer cells.
You can certainly be cured of cancer. The problem is there isn't really any way to know for sure.
Relevant to what, exactly?

The funniest thing I find about programming today are all the people who think this is some sort of fashion show.

You sound ageist.
Games. HTML5 + js still loses to AS3/Flash
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It seems the least accurate parts of predictions like these are always the parts that would require billions in infrastructure changes or new construction. We simply don't build stuff that fast anymore or have the drive to pay for it. Metro Rail is the only large scale, new infrastructure project I can think of in LA over that time, but it's still based on old technologies used in other cities for decades.
I wonder why. Is ad revenue shrinking? Or it just seemed like a good idea at that time?
Interesting / Llamas are members of the camel (camelid) family
Or perhaps they were abused as children. Or know someone who was. Or they were afraid of all the big adults when they were children. Or. Or. Or.

There's lots of other possibilities.
Why would you post this? Of course that is what they mean
This is mostly just "truthy." In reality, federal surveillance was dramatically higher during the Cold War (modulo improved technology), and the idea of the strong unitary executive dates to the founding of the republic. Stuff that you claim is "unprecedented" is anything but. The concept of "preemptive war" has no real distinguishing characteristic in an American history full of military interventions absent direct attack.

There is nothing "remarkable" about the justifications for drone strikes against ostensible American citizens who have taken up arms against the U.S. and are not on U.S. soil. Skirting along a murky and untested line? Sure, but not "remarkable." There is no consensus among legal scholars on the issue, and it is not without precedent (there are records, of various reliability, of Americans who fought for the Nazis and were killed in the war).
If it wasn't for the Green Revolution in the 70's, then global famine would have been a very real possibility. Shows to tell you that one can't use past trends to predict the future.

more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
> It seems the least accurate parts of predictions like these are always the parts that would require billions in infrastructure changes or new construction.

There are also the predictions that are never made because they would require "billions in infrastructure changes or new construction", like the Internet, which no one predicted.
Dropbox's goal seems to be killing the local filesystem on iOS. Email, being a big part of using an iPhone and the associated file-transfering, is their one big problem; you can't attach things to emails from dropbox, or save them to it from the default app. Here, they get a high-quality email app for their users, and it gives them the opportunity to do things like send attachments as links to dropbox files (great for lock-in), and give users a positive brand experience, to prevent the commoditization of the space.
Academics were looking at the global population growth curve and extrapolating. They rightly predicted that exponential growth couldn't go on forever, so they predicted disaster. But they weren't willing or able to predict the degree to which the 1st world would be able to insulate itself from the population and food dynamics of the 3rd.

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