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>Would you be happier if they made two versions with no way of changing one into the other?

Yes.

I can't bear the thought of driving around a bigger battery and charging hardware that I cannot use. They have already built it, given it to me and it will cost them close to nothing to activate it but I cannot use it because of their pricing structure and I have to use my own money to transport this hardware that I am not allowed to use. If someone can afford to give me something, they should be able to afford me using it.
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Also, the links are clearly breaking WCAG AA: http://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/
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In case you were wondering how they got that magic number 84,000 gallons, it probably comes from 2,000 barrels (http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=24&t=10), so it's a rather rough estimation (one significant digit, not two).

EDIT: 2,000 barrels instead of 20,000.
The logical business decision seems to be "there was not enough demand for this product, so we are not going to release it, and everyone that ordered one can upgrade or get a refund"

Sure, they lose sales, but at least they are honest. This move is only going to generate huge bad press for being anti-feature dicks.
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Yii makes me feel like I'm programming in something other than PHP. When I need use PHP, Yii is always my choice.
And even when you switch, you realize the new software is just like the old one, just better.

Isn't that exactly what you want when you upgrade?

A friend of mine worked at a Brazilian bank that made the outlandishly stupid decision to base all backend operations on SQL Server. My horror stories are nothing compared to his.

I guess that "horror story" might be:

"Banco Central do Brasil Boosts Performance, Reporting Speeds, and Scalability

“We saw a 30 percent improvement in data warehouse queries using SQL Server 2012 with the xVelocity feature.... that performance will help our financial analysts get risk data to customers faster.” José Cláudio Mendonça de Freitas, Central Bank of Brazil"

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/...

?
"Tesla Motors announced today that sales of its Model S vehicle exceeded the target provided in the mid-February shareholder letter" - So that means they had a great last 6 weeks of the quarter. That means sales actually went up substantially after the NY Times huff foo. That means it made tremendous sense to continually go after the NY Times as it must have been apparent sales were rising on a week over week basis since the story broke?
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> One ton of electronic scrap yields more gold than 17 tons of gold ore.

Holy shit!
They are definitely a handful of people who have over 10k bitcoins, but they're not storing it on an online blockchain.info wallet (which is where that screenshot is from). They're also not showing it on IRC.

That kind of screenshot can easily be produced by changing a little HTML on a 0 balance account.
but it wouldn't have gotten them the same publicity...
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Seriously? You want to start a company under the pretext of making humans' lives better, but only worsen it for them?

I will justify my sentiments:

By worsening, I mean, nothing is terrible in life than knowing there is a solution/cure to your problem, but you have to die just because you can't afford it.

India is a developing country, even something as moderate as $100 is actually a luxury for many people - Remember, we are talking about a country where millions slog their lives to death for $0.01 to $0.5 per hour (even in call centers, etc) and anything between $100-200 is NO JOKE for them.

Just don't put barriers to such things - Everybody has the same blood inside them and has a right to live on this planet irrespective of having enough money or not. You want money? Don't charge the peasants - Charge the R&D departments of the billion dollar companies that want to sponsor you and compete for fame. These peasants are already selling their blood (literally) to make their both ends meet, and this should be the last thing they should die to pay for - Their very own life.
Better Made Up: does all innovation begin as science fiction?
Probably an OK change. The source of the oil isn't the problem as much as the fact that it's leaking, so "Canada" is kind of extraneous.
Doesn't that happen in US, too?
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I'm assuming you think drugs come from the Easter bunny.
Your cheesy neighbor to the east requires (required?) X number of graduate level credits per Y years to renew a state teaching license, along with "most" districts having a tuition reimbursement benefit AND dramatically increased pay per educational level in the union contract. Its possible for a 22 yr old teacher to only have a BA-Ed but its almost impossible for a teacher with more than 5 yrs experience not to have a masters or higher. Usually in a completely useless unrelated topic making it unusual and noteworthy that my high school calc teacher actually got his education doctorate by doing some relatively hard core research into quantitative comparative results of different techniques of teaching kids some small aspect of calc, which he was in fact really good at. Usually completely unrelated in that I had an english lit teacher who had a masters in history and her thesis was some really obscure corner. It turns out that demanding credentials and therefore handing them out like toilet paper doesn't magically make anyone smarter or more effective, but a lot of money is made in the process, so it'll continue and expand until it can't anymore.
I once wrote a post about Apple having more cash than Slovenia's GDP. Without much optimization, no strong backlinks, but with a lot of social virality - the post was on the first page for Google "Apple Slovenia" for at least a year.
Would be nice to see actual the numbers to judge whether the results are statistically significant.

At first blush all but the last Dell treatment are absolutely horrendous to my eye, so I just don't know how to even judge these.
I use punch for this -- it works very well for development, and sometimes can even be used in production as well. In any case, it is just mustache + json hashes.
<https://github.com/laktek/punch>;
To download the videos and the associated material, try coursera-dl:

https://github.com/jplehmann/coursera/
It's important for the Keystone XL alarmists, though.

They want to make sure that Canadian oil is not piped through the USA via this pipeline.
Nothing. Its to do with getting back the millions invested in the R&D. Do you even have the slightest idea how much it costs to develop these drugs? Often the rewards for the actual people who do the R&D are pretty poor.
Thank you very much sir, that was what just I wanted to say. :)
Yeah I will definitely work on this, I apologize for that.
I think that was a joke and I think it went over your head :)

I do know a guy that can solder scary small stuff (SMT, angel hair and other incredible feats of steady handedness) but I think that re-bonding zapped chips is even beyond his soldering capabilities. If only because you first have to get access.

I did once re-solder a pin on a 386 which had broken off and I was pretty proud of that but for the most part once you get to the package boundary it is game over.
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> Even more disturbing is that somebody at Google dreamed this up, and got together a team of engineers to crank this out. And at what cost in labour? 100's of thousands? Don't they have better things to do?

It's an advert to recruit staff. Google wants good staff; that costs money; a good way to attract some staff is to show fun neat projects.
You can also zoom in by double tapping on the map. This gesture usually performs a "centered zoom" meaning that the current center of the screen will remain the center of the screen after the zoom has taken place (unlike when zooming with the pinch gesture).
Ooh, good point. Though one issue I've noticed popping up of late is that people are starting to associate "open source" with "GitHub" instead of with checking whether the source is open or not. So who knows, maybe a GitHub mirror of their own Kiln-hosted source for April Fool's?
Not for long: In the U.S. at least, electronic stability control is now mandatory.
This. If you save all wallet.dat files on any bitcoin clients that you use for transactions, you'll be fine. Don't be scared off by someone using the bitcoin client in a non-standard, unapproved way (and as long as you use the GUI and not the command line interface, you'll not have to worry about that).
I just don't think I did a great job of reading the article. Re-reading it now, it seems that a similar assertion was made that was somehow lost on me.

I think the point of 'use your webserver, not Django' was likely not highlighted enough for my early-morning limited reading comprehension.
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Yeah, I did the same thing in that my first project was a bit overly ambitious! I ended up getting discouraged because I would always pour my programming time into this single project, but I simply didn't know enough in order to design it properly.

I found that by setting it aside and working on something else, I gained new perspectives as to how to approach the problems that I got stuck on with my first project.
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I would love to see more Case Studies on Mobile App Design. For example how big should images within a mobile app be, to increase user engagement. Especially inside a listview bigger images can mean fewer items, but might still increase conversion because it looks more appealing.
If you saw the site before you would agree that Jakob Nielsen is very much in the camp that aesthetics get in the way usability.
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Only in the sense that

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XOR EBP, EBP

is "reference counting".
"This means that the number of future supercontinents will only be limited by the life of our star."

Sort of... though the Earth's oceans will boil away a few billion years before the sun itself goes bust. The plates may still tecton, but it won't be much to look at. :)
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That's a great point, and you could also ask how "public" universities are as well. UC Berkeley now gets about 12% of its budget from the state.

Its a little difficult to make direct comparisons to Stanford, as Stanford's numbers will include a medical research university while Berkeley and UCSF are considered separate campuses, and Med centers have huge budgets. But the state financial support for UC Berkeley has dropped dramatically (around 12%).

It may be different for the smaller state schools that are not research universities. But if you line it up, private and public universities research universities are more similar than different in their sources of funding (grants, private donations, endowment income, etc). The things people believe distinguish these universities from private ones (tuition, state support) are actually a relatively minor part of the budget.
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My student tried to build his own Google Glasses
It's essentially a threaded HTML-box overlay for a certain part of text. I think that's how you would implement such a system, isn't it? Just because RG uses it for explanations doesn't mean that it can't be used for exposition/comments. In fact, I think that when RG blogged on their problems with Heroku, this is the style that they used.
Charge the R&D departments of the billion dollar companies that want to sponsor you and compete for fame.

What companies are those, willing to pay billions for the development of new drugs just for the PR?
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Right, you sandbag and then you look like a hero. That argues it's a good idea, but if anything clarifies how artificial it is.
That is clearer. Thanks. Now, I know that it makes no sense. :)

Classes can and should encapsulate behavior in good OO design. This is why classes can contain methods. I don't know if you think that feature is also "wrong" in an OO language, but without it some of the primary benefits of OO, such as polymorphism, begin to disappear.

Speaking of polymorphism, how do you propose that would be achieved under the constraints you would impose? Prior to editing the parent, you had written that you prefer something like:

Connection conn = Connection( params )

instead of

Connection conn = new ConnectionManager().getConnection( params )

In that case, how would you propose that the former code (i.e. your preferred approach) instantiate the appropriate Connection subclass? There wasn't even a new operator or valid construction syntax in your preferred approach, so perhaps you recognized this limitation and were suggesting some magic would occur.

Before editing, you also said not to "get you started on statics". So, without statics, you couldn't even do something like Connection.getInstance(params) to allow the Connection class to determine which subclass to create. So, the calling code would have to be aware of which subclass to instantiate, which would be simply awful.

Perhaps this is why you edited your comment.

But leaving your edits aside, you still seem to think of objects as only data or structs with no behaviors, which is an extremely limiting constraint on OO design. In fact, it would eliminate so many benefits of OO programming that it wouldn't be OO at all.
Yes, all the time. A good example is claritin. IIRC when the patents for claritin expired, the drug makers patented the metabolite, which they called clarinex. Then they declared that all generic versions of claritin were illegal, because they become clarinex in the body when swallowed.
Diet is a huge factor in quality and longevity in life. "Good" food is a lot more expensive than processed horse muck. So even there a financial divide exists. Unless we want to lean over to a more socialist way, that sort of divide will always exist. Poor people will usually die before richer people, mostly its down to food and water and sanitation, even fitness. I'd rather get those things right first, then worry about funky cancer drugs. Might need less cancer drugs if these things were addressed. Might need less drugs in general.
At a certain point, bigger won't be better, right? What's the maximum effective size? When an image is so big it just takes over your screen?
You mean 2,000 barrels = 84,000 gallons.
Hey thanks for that link, I learned a few nuggets in there ;)
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The cases presented don't give much evidence for the impact of bigger images on conversion rates. Only the first case seems to be a direct comparison of images of different sizes. In the two others, the copy and design in general have changed significantly as well. In the second case, the image on the page is actually the same size, the button has been resized.

In general, though, I do completely agree with the article that the only way to find out what works is to test, test, test.
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It's also not a very good idea for performance. V8 optimizer will bail as soon as you do anything to arguments other then using an indexed access.
Usually, I want to make the name of my interface the cleanest possible name. In that case, my interface would be named "Widget". Then, if it makes sense, I might have a partial implementation that works for many cases - I would probably call that WidgetBase. Actual implementations of the widget would try to have a name related to what makes them different than the others - maybe Button, TextBox, etc. Those implementations might inherit from WidgetBase if it makes sense, or just implement the interface. At any rate, WidgetBase is only ever referenced by subclasses - the users of the widget code would either depend on "Button" or "TextBox" specficially, or the "Widget" interface for more generic handling. WidgetBase is really just there for convenience, and you could remove it if it turns out not to be as useful as you thought.
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Man, as much as I like the idea of Android, the SDK trips me up so often!
Yeah, I'm trying to build something like that right now. Nice to know others have similar ideas.
It's spilling into the lake now, so it's probably and ok change.
What's ironic in the video is the guy's neighborhood. Notice the lack of sidewalks and large SUVs in the driveways. Just saying...
What do the credit cards work with?
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>But that is like claiming nobody wants gay marriage because look how loud those Westboro people are screaming.

That analogy would only be accurate if those Westboro people were in the majority.

>Why does it matter that the naysayers say nay?

I'm not sure how to answer this, given the context. I simply pointed out that I don't think the idea that there's a lot of interest in haskell here is accurate, and cited all the uninformed crap spewed about haskell all the time as evidence.
A link to a portfolio site would go a long ways.
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if all you meant was text-overlay, then yes. in fact, lot's of sites do this.
I remember when Mozilla "Firebird" had to change its name to Firefox because the RDBMS guys strongly objected. At the time, I had never heard of the database project. Nine years later, I'm still not familiar with it. Is it widely used? What's keeping it from being as well known as MySQL or PostgreSQL?
9 years ago some designers/developers even tried a nice update on it: http://www.designbyfire.com/?p=4
The problem is that the original title reads as if the spill isn't ongoing
Speculation based on first-order observations. That may not be slightly off-topic, but it's completely different from second-order politically-motivated speculation about my observations. coldtea used my comment as his soapbox even though he didn't have the first clue what he was talking about. I should also point out that since he responded to me I couldn't downvote him.

The thing I found particularly irritating is that hellbanning someone can not make you a psychopath in the way that wishing rape and death upon people does (because that is what I observed). I don't need people assuming I'm some kind of male-guilt feminist crusader just because I'm not a member all-manners-are-just-a-form-of-political-correctness-because-social-skills-are-beneath-me set.
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How are mutable arrays implemented in Haskell?