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What waste? It's a few wires, a small chip, and probably a non-rechargeable/non-toxic battery that you can throw out in the regular trash.

Hate is also a fairly strong word.
I really, really like this. The decision to use Kickstarter might upset some, but I think it's a pragmatic way of ensuring that talent can focus on it to actually deliver a project to users.

Still, I really hope to see a lot of activity pop-up on GitHub. Community is a bug reason WordPress won over everyone else and while I'm a big fan of opinionated software leadership, I also hope to see more people bring their ideas to the table.

This is a niche for sure, but a niche I happily backed, in part because this looks like something I would really like to use.

The decision to use Node is interesting. Another reason WordPress was so successful is because basically anyone with shared hosting could install it without having to use anything more than an FTP client (and now basically every host has a 1-click install). I'm curious as to the impact this might have on adoption beyond the hosted platform for its targeted user base.

Regardless, I backed and I hope to see this sort of thing succeed, if only because we need more stuff like this in the wild.
This trick only works if there isn't a * / inside a string in commented out code (or there isn't a * / within the commented-out code itself in a language that allows such syntax, e.g. GrOOvy).
I did my bachelors (in India) in the mid-90s, and we all coded this way in our 8085 labs. Many of us even did final-year projects on similar-looking 8085 kits.

Given that such kits are still sold [1] in India, I guess quite a few engineering students still learn to code like that.

My bosses, though, had all worked on punched cards.

[1]: http://www.dynalogindia.com/products/education-solutions/808...
If they have latex support, I'd use it. Until then it's Wordpress for me.
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I disagree, If we are dealing with simple invoices and stuff. Once you start dealing with reports containing charts, it all goes haywire
This is how it is for me, too. I buy fresh vegetables, fresh meat, milk, eggs, bread at a local farm shop and pay cash. I buy other things like pizza, coffee, processed foods at a supermarket and pay with card - and also scan my loyalty card.

I regularly get offers from the supermarket for money off yet more unhealthy food - they are blissfully unaware that I eat quite well in reality!
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If you don't like the law try and overturn it. If you don't think the government is just try and overthrow it. That need not be violent, if you want to go the civil disobedience route, there's some rich history. But it isn't civil disobedience to secretly pirate a computer game (!) while doing everything possible to be avoid being caught and punished.

The law isn't a buffet for you to pick and choose from.
Am I missing something?

Yes: not all copyrighted works are freely available on the Internet. Indeed, it is the ones that are not that are probably the most important to protect in terms of the copyright holder's legal rights, and as a matter of practical reality, putting such things on a publicly available site might substantially reduce their actual value.

That tends to lead into the "so just register it with my central archive instead" argument, which effectively reverses the automatic granting of copyright that has been established for many years now and imposes a potentially expensive burden on exercising your basic legal rights under copyright law.
I had a KIM-1 in the late seventies and for several years I would run into other people who used one, but 1985 seems really late for programming on one of these. For me, the KIM-1 was my first experience with programming and a computer of any sort. It influenced my taste for low-level concepts, not only through x86 assembly programming for graphics in the 90s but much later in the lambda calculus and combinatory logic. I'm tickled that the KIM-1 is seeing such a resurgence of interest.
The app disable feature has been around since 4.0 (ICS). Note that you may need to un-install any updates first, and then you'll be offered the ability to disable the app. That doesn't help the journalist who had a v2.3 phone though.
Actually if I recall, the problem with Tomb Raider was an exceptionally bloated budget and unrealistic expectations. In the first month something like 3.4 million copies sold, but they were expecting closer to 7! A well reviewed game that sells millions of copies was still viewed as a failure because the budget that went into the game was downright crazy and the expectations were simply not in line with reality. If you can sell millions of copies of a title and consider it to be a failure then there are some pretty big problems with your business model.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-09-square-enix-tho...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/123045-Tomb-Raider...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/712...
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one of the good things about a formal CS education (well, mine anyhow) is that they force you to do things like write in assembly. obviously there's far less immediate practical application these days, but the exercise is definitely valuable, and probably not something I would have done voluntarily. Actually, it feels like something I would have thought sounded cool, tried, and then given up on when it got annoying.
Rather embarrassingly, Winer clearly didn't bother to read any of Rand's non-fiction. She more than covers the issue of 'who will plow the snow,' as do other Objectivist (free market, and libertarian) books and writings since.

It's amusing that Winer thinks we'd have a problem with snow plowing, meanwhile he uses the private Internet, which is approximately a million times more complex and difficult to maintain than plowing snow. And this isn't even an optimal private Internet, as the government is currently shielding the telecom monopoly system from competition, and it still works extraordinarily well.

We can have a private Internet and Web, that took hundreds of billions worth of private investment, supports a billion users, IP telephony, streaming video, radically advanced massive scale search systems, and it can run at maximum uptime as a system, meanwhile its speeds increase by a factor of 25 to 50 fold every decade..... but the roads! Oh the roads! Such a complex system to solve. The free market could never solve the issue of roads. Oh geez.

Who plows my driveway? I pay someone to do it. The notion that the free market wouldn't solve snow plowing is pure comedy gold. It'll lead to the iPhone, but snow plowing is tricky!

Who would feed the people if the government didn't do it? Oh. Who would build the cars if the government didn't do it? Oh. Who would fly the planes and build the planes if the government didn't do it? Oh. Who would write the software behind Android or iOS if the government didn't do it? Oh. But plowing snow, yeah, that's a really complex problem to solve in a free market. Truly hilarious.
Computer Engineering still offers this experience. It's the main reason I picked this major when I returned to school after many years as a programmer. Most of the graduates from here go on to software development. The low level experience makes them well suited to work on embedded systems, device drivers, and operating systems.
pretty cool but I clicked the link because the title included node .. why is it included in the title ?
Read the article first. The battery is rechargeable.
Same here I would love to be able to try it on my browser before downloading the app. It looks nice
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Tomb Raider was a 'failure' because Square Enix, in order to have a favourable outlook, had to estimate a huge income on it. Basically they had to inflate their predictions for Tomb Raider and try to hit them, or else admit that their future was bleak, and they would be losing money. Tomb Raider was only a failure because it didn't turn enough profit to save the rest of the company. I think this example has less to do with piracy.
It was late to be programming one but it was (a) what was available where I was and (b) it had good I/O for the interfacing.
I'm trying to think of a good analogy to counter your point of view, but it's such an enormous fallacy that I shouldn't even bother.
Nevertheless, just because you have an aversion to profanity doesn't mean that it is anybody's responsibility to avoid it except your own. Your reaction to profanity is your own issue - it doesn't mean that the speaker is any less intelligent just because you happen to get offended.
T-Mobile's coverage there isn't very good.
Technically true, but they are 100% owned by a non-profit. (Mozilla Foundation owns Mozilla Corporation)
I agree with you that piracy doesn't have to end in bankruptcy, however I don't have any evidence of it besides this survey [1]. Nevertheless, I think that the developer wanted to make a point and hi did it in a very powerful way.

[1] http://goo.gl/vagAt
A survey comissioned by Google for the American Assembly -research center at Columbia University- has been published recenetly where it basically concludes that users who download content from peer to peer sites buy 30% more than the ones who don’t.
I wrote a speed trap application a few years ago and I used this similar structure for speed trap locations. eg

http://www.vroomtrap.com/speed-trap-list/united-states/california/san-francisco/1900-mission-st-san-francisco-ca-94103-usa--VT144-2

While that scheme works well in the US and in English, some other countries/languages can't follow that pattern consistently. You'll also run into name collions that will break your scheme. I had to add a unique ID at the end of every address just to make sure I didn't get address collisions.
The difference that a trailing slash makes on the url - perhaps needs to be put into news.arc
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So is this what geordi la forge saw on star trek next generation?
I actively prefer ads for things I might actually be interested in purchasing. If there were an option to tell advertisers "Please show me more ads about..." I would take that option. whenever I was waffling on some purchase. Most ads suck even so - they don't actually tell me about a new feature or fact that could potentially change or spark a buying decision - but at least it's not a total waste of time.

The only economically productive use-case of marketing is to lead trades to take place that would not have taken place otherwise, or higher-quality trades to take place; which can have its roots in consumer gullibility, but ideally reflects some new company telling me about a relevant product that I didn't know existed. This happens rarely. Having it happen more often sounds like a good idea to me.
It looks good and the execution seems to be well done. What I would really like to see a blogging platform that has a different take on article creation than textarea + publishing.

Blog publishing is also about research, collecting the content and iterating on the article's content until one feels satisfied with the result.
Careful, the website doesn't load properly if the Google Analytics tracks don't fire. Don't always expect that to happen.
My point still stands: to fix this, you have to realize that (a) v could be shared here and (b) that sharing could be a problem. I suspect the first time most newbies get hit with a race condition here they're going to be beyond baffled.
Is this new or undocumented or something? It just looks like a nice feature of Twitter's API, but not specially noteworthy. Care to elaborate?
Was the trade secret "switch to webkit"?
I would say they're overrated by the tech crowd. They cause a lot of support trouble for anyone who provides one.
>I knew there was some criticism of SimCity's simplified tax model in the U.S. some years ago (a simple inverse relationship between tax rates and business growth)

Isn't that pretty much accurate? I'm not aware of any serious theory postulating that raising taxes will have any non-negative effect on economic growth in and of itself.

Where it breaks down is once you account for what the tax dollars buy. If government takes $5000 from you but provides $6000-equivalent worth of health services (which it may be able to do through economies of scale or reduced transaction costs or solving a collective action problem etc.) then you have a net gain of $1000 rather than a net loss of $5000.

Imagine bifurcating the result: In one scenario, your country is the beneficiary of the efforts of a large international charity, you get $6000/citizen worth of health services without collecting any tax dollars from your population. Second, your country collects $5000 in taxes from each citizen and then sets the money on fire, or gifts the money to an international banking cartel in exchange for nothing whatsoever. Does anyone care to argue that the second could somehow be preferable to the first?

Which brings it back to the conservative position, which is that governments through incompetence or corruption will tend to convert $5000 of tax revenue to something less than $5000 worth of services to the population, resulting in a net loss to the economy and the country's people.

What so happens to be true as a factual matter is that a) governments can strike the balance in either direction depending on how well they're managed, but b) that the larger a government is, the more likely it is to allocate resources inefficiently, because as size increases economies of scale reach diminishing returns while the attention of legislators and their ability to perform due diligence is spread ever thinner over an expanding scope of government projects, leaving more opportunities for mistakes and corruption.

I always thought it would be an interesting experiment to eliminate 90% of federal spending but not lower federal taxes whatsoever, just give the money to the states whose residents paid the taxes, with no strings attached (i.e. the feds serving only to enforce uniform taxation and inhibit jurisdiction shopping), and letting the states individually decide how to spend the money. You can imagine a significant reduction in corruption: California residents would no longer be paying a pro rata share of the cost of boondoggles in Massachusetts (or vice versa), and Massachusetts residents may decide they don't want them either if they have to pay the entire cost out of their own pockets.
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Well that at least shows the pirate was willing to part with some cash to buy the product. I know games are incredibly expensive to produce, but perhaps cheap sales at volume could bring in more cash than a few sales at a higher price point. Especially if you have DLC available to cater to players who're willing to pay a little more. I guess that's dancing on the edge of a free-to-play model though, which seems to be widely despised...
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You still haven't proven that they are in fact common. You haven't proven, for example, that you're a good developer or a good designer. But I could certainly believe that there are lots of people who are mediocre in lots of things at once.
This feature is nothing special, is it?
I've used the alternative method of editing system.sb - because I'm not scared of editing system files, heh.

To test whether you have the problem, open the Console (under Others in launchpad) and search for the string "mdworker".
DUPE ARTICLE! DUPE ARTICLE! OMG GUYS IT'S A DUPE!

I just migrated here from Slashdot; am I doing it right? :p
I know you're mostly talking about cheap phones, but I'm still going to quibble with the other half of your "subsidized/cheap smartphones" point. Subsidised phones are much less common in developing countries because the credit system is less developed. Even where they do exist, they're structured as "buy the phone for $x then get $x/24 off your bill each month for 2 years" rather than the "get the phone now and pay it off over the contract period" system in the EU/US, so they're not a way of getting a phone you couldn't afford to buy outright.
The town I grew up in had a Something St that at the top of the hill changed to a different street. A street also called Something St. Both have the same postcode. There are many duplicate house numbers.

I think they were originally separate unjoined streets. But a road was built up the hill, joining them together. I guess people couldn't agree on who should have their houses renumbered.

If manually specifying the address you probably have enough wiggle room to specify which 10 Something St you mean. I've encountered systems online that will try to normalize and correct street addresses to an official format... I could imagine that these would cause problems.

(And don't confuse those addresses with the 10 New Something St, or 10 Something Rd, both of which are only a few hundred meters away.)
I think the community position is clear - violating copyright for personal, non public, non profit purposes is OK. Exploiting others work for commercial gain without permission and compensation not OK. What's so hard about that?

Well, it substantially reduces the value of copyright for a start.

Of course the community tends to favour such a position if you look at some sort of general average. The average person probably doesn't work in a creative industry where IP is how you pay the rent, so if copyright isn't effective it's nothing but upside for them, but the average person also doesn't care about redistributing works for profit, so they don't mind rules that restrict those who would.

Whether making law on the basis of the self interest of the largest single group within society is a good idea is an entirely different question. It's probably the strictly democratic thing to do, but remember the old joke about democracy being two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
The app itself is developed with nodejs.
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I'm assuming this is how those "This has been Tweeted x times" buttons work. Also, it is not on the Twitter API 1.1 documentation, so this is almost definitely undocumented.
Ironically, that's the exact opposite to the way it works in my company.

We use various automated techniques to pick up mistakes and use code review to ensure style is consistent.

Everyone in the company should be able to parse any piece of code without individual styles disrupting that.

The only tension occurs around the weighty question of line length - coding standard says 76 chars max, I say that's what the IDE's for.
I don't think that counts as either "ghetto source control" or "abuse" and I'd be interested to find out why you feel this way.

I mean, if you're talking about basic C, this (_DEBUG) is actually built-in to most systems from the get-go, for exactly this purpose. "Abuse?"
There is a difference between offering a challenge and letting players get completely stuck. There is an optimum (the mythical "flow").
Stuff takes time to make, and time costs money unless you are independently wealthy or have a trust fund.

This looks gorgeous, but many of these features are non-trivial to implement.
Interesting that the claim is "took trade secrets to Mozilla" when apparently Mozilla wants to have nothing to do with that Junior prototype.
The aerospace industry is a license to print money for any vendor involved.
(I hope this doesn't sound like I'm being negative, I'm just thinking out loud)

The video specifically mentions being targeted at users, not developers and taking a look at the kickstarter page, this feels less like an open source project and more like a startup that plans to open source it's core software.

There's certainly a focus on selling it as a complete, ready to go package, tightly wrapped and best served with their hosting service, with the people living inside the ecosystem (Users, themers, etc) being the first class citizen here. It almost feels closer to Tumblr (minus social) than Wordpress.

Even the "How does it work?" section seems to be written for someone who will build themes and plugins, specifically mentioning what the MIT licence means for theme developers.

I'm really interested to see how this plays out, and if successful what the community will look like. It feels like a pretty unique setup. Or maybe I'm reading into it too much. : )
There's a glut of these devices on the market right now, someone must have accidentally added a zero to the order (there was a similar rationale for the Android phones included in EW a while back). Amazon used to have the Overdrive Pro for $100-250, and it was new a couple years ago.

Recently[1], there have been promotions for 500MB/mo free data, if you buy the hotspot for $50. One catch is they tack on $1/mo if you don't use it at all. Apparently the hardware is horrible, with crazy overheating problems; best usage practice is just to remove the battery and run from USB. You can get them attached to all sorts of carriers, but this one is Sprint; I figured it was worth a try.

[1] http://www.freedompop.com -- beware affiliate links
The worse for me is when I correctly fill in the captcha, but incorrectly filled in another field, and I have to solve that damned captcha again. I can't think of a good reason why you would not remember that the user did correctly solve the captcha and not present it again.
There is no payment. Funding is for development, the software is free.
There's always a freedom/stability trade-off. One thing I discovered with my own startup attempt, and also by watching others, is that being completely out there on your own can be a real pain in the butt. You have to hustle, and you have to spend a lot of time doing things you don't enjoy doing that are done for you in a larger employer.

I might do the independent thing again, but I'm going to be a lot more careful and deliberate about it. I've decided that the "throw yourself to the wind and then buckle down" model romanticized in startup cowboy culture is questionable. This time I'm being a spreadsheet nazi, and with my own finances as well as the venture's, and I'm making much more pessimistic assumptions about uptake. I'm also going for something where I can bill customers directly, not something that requires B2B selling. The latter is really hard to do for a little guy. B2B could come later if the product is successful in the open product market.
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What does that have to do with anything? They already admitted the switch to Chrome in past announcements.
If your thesis about current "VC-istan" is correct, it could help explain their flat results for the last decade and counting.
Totally indisputable in the year 2000.

But less and less true everyday.

Today, we have Steam, the Indie Bundles, etc.
I don't know enough about the feature to say if it is applicable directly, but Android uses uid/gid to create sandboxes on a per-publisher basis, so that installed apps do not have access to other publishers' apps' files.

This can be used in two ways: Application security, in general, would benefit from this practice, and if you are creating a Linux that can be both a traditional "desktop Linux" as well as running the Android environment, this is a useful feature for enabling Android app security to remain secure, which it wouldn't if you did user namespace separation merely by convention.
Holy crap. I'm the annoying chubby suit bringing in all the Java, Rails, and ecommerce people.

Small world.
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If you actually commit this code to a repository I later encounter, I will find you.