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Made me chuckle. Especially "'look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles.'"

Any well-versed programmer will instantly recognize the turtle joke.
Those don't get around the act of killing.
Actually, I'm not sure that it isn't in a farmers own interest to invest in genetically diverse seeds. A farmers lively hood depends on the success of his crops, so diversifying them would make him more resistant to unexpected crop failures.

In this way, we could view diverse seeds as a type of insurance. However if a farmer takes this insurance, even if it is a net positive investment in the long term, he will not be able to sustain himself in the short term.

You typically need large entities (be them public or private) to make this type of long term investment. If it is not innitiated by the government, we might see Monsanto (or other large GM companies) make the investment. Because if one of Monsanto's crops fails catastrophically, they loose alot, however they have the capital to invest in making their crop resistent to mass failure by introducing genetic diversity.

Unfourtuantly companies also tend to focus short term.

If we're lucky, we will see localized mono-culture failures which will incentives all involved to invest in geneticly diverse crops.
I would say the fast food industry is probably more excited. If the costs ever got below current beef prices.
My use-case is as a supplement to a heavier machine for travel. I love my 15" macbook pro, but I got tired of lugging it around Nepal, and I was always worried about it getting stolen or damaged.

I'd love to split my two computing needs:
- 1 machine that's heavy and does everything. Maybe a desktop; maybe a 17" laptop that I only move between work and home.
- 1 machine that's light, disposable, and does 90% of what I need to do. It fits in a traveller's backpack and I'm not heartbroken if it gets destroyed.

Right now I try to meet those needs somewhere in the middle with a medium-weight macbook pro, but it's definitely a compromise. I'd love to have both worlds.
> you are going to be using the volume and channel controls 99% of the time

So by extension we're required to clutter the interface with dedicated buttons that are used 1% or less of the time, just to make sure the user isn't confused? Sounds confusing.
And even worse is removing all buttons, settings and flexibility in the name of "simplicity for consumer users", like seems to be the trend lately.
> Dr. Post, who has conducted some informal taste tests, said that even without any fat, the tissue “tastes reasonably good.”

I feel like the lesson of Tesla is that the way to sell new technology is to make it better than the status quo in some way. "It's reasonably good" will sell to a few environmentally-conscious people, but it's better if something is genuinely appealing in some way other than ethics.

It's easier to sell the carrot than the stick.
Depends what you mean by game programming, really. There's a lot more to learn if you mean writing a game engine from scratch compared to writing mostly gameplay logic on top of an existing engine.

Either way, you can start at any age when learning anything, especially when it's something that is primarily self-taught.

The career aspect is hard to answer. It's probably going to be harder to get an entry level job at a large publisher if you're not a fresh early 20s graduate. Then again, the industry has changed to the point where being a codemonkey at such a company isn't as coveted as it once was. It's all about small, independent companies now and you'd reasonably expect less age barriers.

Look at the engines people are using at the moment, and pick something popular. Unity is the big thing right now and definitely worth looking at from an employability standpoint going forward in the next few years as tons of small start-ups as well as established independent studios are using it. It's built on C++ and uses C#, Javascript and Boo (a Python-esque language) as scripting languages.

Also, as someone with a game development degree, my advice about going to a college is this: don't. It's a waste of time. The one exception being if you're in the US and can get in to DigiPen, as students from there seem to consistently produce interesting, high-quality stuff and do well in the industry. I have no idea if their game-centric courses are focused on programming or not though.
> if it does not enable a graduate to repay their loan

What a weirdly backwards way of phrasing it. Why should anyone take out a loan to get an education? Why would a public university charge tuition? My parents did not take out loans to get college degrees (in California, in the 1960s). But their generation got rich and now doesn't want to pay for the next generation to do the same. Should boomers who attended fully subsidized public education now really be let off the hook with their ridiculous claims that they're some kind of Randian superhero who worked their way up "on their own", and it would be "theft" to ask them to pay taxes so the same system they benefited from can continue?

It's certainly not impossible to do so, if people aren't so stingy. I moved out of the U.S. and now live in a country that has free public education. Not just free, but you get paid to attend university, up through a master's degree. (Not paid a lot, but a modest living stipend.) We have a lower unemployment rate than the U.S. does, too. And better transit and less bureaucratic healthcare.
Well the problem here is that the labor laws strongly favour labor.

This is constant through out the nation due to the current stage of political evolution.

Also my background completely fails at preparing me for my current task set, so I come to this with few a neutral slate. I have no urge to see patterns, if anything I'm pro labor and what I saw left me somewhat disappointed.
Bottleneck, or opportunity?
If you were Apple, how would you fix this?
I've had an S3 (currently an iPhone 5) running both stock TouchWiz and CyanogenMod10.1, which is the closest to stock Android I can get.

The hardware button didn't make sense to me because it made the back and menu buttons much closer to the edge, which lead to accidental presses of those buttons and there was also less space to hold the phone with. I disabled the hardware buttons and had on-screen buttons like the Nexus 4's. The multitasking button made me much faster at switching apps.

The plastic got greasy fast, that's my major complaint. As for thinness, I found an Otterboxed iPhone 5 easier to hold because of the depth. I don't understand this race to thinness because at some point (we may have already hit it), thinner phones are just harder to hold (my opinion). I also wish that phones could be a bit thicker with a bigger battery.

The notification widget is possibly the dumbest thing Samsung did with TouchWiz. No matter what position you were at in the widget (left, middle, far right, whatever), the widget would start to the right and then scroll back to the furthest left. Not only is this annoying, it was completely unnecessary and happened every single time you pulled down the notification shade.
Stock Android also has this widget, by the way. It's called Quick Settings and has more toggles than Samsung (at least in the S3. haven't played with S4 yet) and is customizable. It was also easily accessible by pulling down on the user-specified part of the screen (may have been CM10.1 specific).

Notifications in stock Android can also be easily swiped away, same as S3. I don't see how anyone can't figure out which ones are swipable or not. Use your phone, swipe, if it doesn't swipe, then it won't swipe in the future. It's usually things like voicemail or persistent processes that you started.

Stock Android should have burst mode as well for the camera.

If some of these features don't exist, I apologize. The Cyanogen team may have implemented some of these features on their own, but even so, I hated TouchWiz with every fiber of my being. A refreshed interface comes along with the release of Android 4.0 and Samsung decides to keep the look dated with a Gingerbread-era settings menu. Or the menu button, which should be extinct by now.

I'm testing iOS right now, but when I come back to Android, it will be either an HTC running CyanogenMod or Nexus phone for me.
Honestly the cure seems worse than the disease here, if what they were saying about Subutex is true (I'd never heard of it before this article). Heroin is horrible stuff that can easily kill you. For that matter so is alcohol. I really don't see the point of cracking down on something that is displacing far more dangerous drugs.
I'm also all for quality and flavour as well. It's like saying that a nespresso machine can't ever beat a professional barista, let alone best barista in the world. But whenever the coffee connoisseurs make their judgement, machines come out as well as, if not ahead of, their human counterparts. And there's no shame in choosing the machine over the human -- a coffee is a coffee is a coffee, no?

But then again, there's really no shame in advocating the preservation of human links in our already heavily mechanised food chains, is there? I mean, what type of world do we want to live in?
Sorry, down-voted by accident. Agree 100%.
The company or companies that make this work commercially will probably have patents out the wazoo. And manufacturers that use their technology will have to pay them license fees, which would probably be included in the price of the product.

It has the potential to be economically much more efficient than growing livestock and massively increase the production of meat. The article doesn't talk much about the potential economic impact, focusing instead on environmental and ethical concerns, but considering the amount of land that is currently devoted to livestock grazing that would be able to be put to other uses when it becomes obsolete...it really is a game-changer that will make the human race much better off.

The people who make it work will deserve the billions they'll earn.
>>those horror stories about people's Google account getting deleted for no good reason are very scary to a startup founder.

Afaik, Google also sells commercial support for email, documents, etc? As a founder, you'd probably want a company email address anyway...

Googlw would hardly dare to delete those company accounts without a court order?
Do you put forward the same argument for diamonds? What about ice made by refrigeration instead of ice cut from a frozen lake? Early man-made versions of these products were inferior, but nowadays we prefer them. Likewise, in-vitro meat is still in its early stages, but it has the potential to taste even better than the most pampered animals today.

Somewhere on this planet exists the tastiest cow. It has just the right combination of genes and environment to make it more mouth-watering to us than any other cow. Unfortunately, we won't know it's the tastiest cow until we kill it and eat it. Then only a few people will be able to enjoy it. Offspring with the same diet would likely taste great, but breeding and changing diet will always be an imprecise way to get tasty cows.

When fully-developed, in-vitro meat technology will give us better control over every aspect of the meat's taste. Nutrients can be delivered in just the right proportions at just the right times. Exercise (or lack of) can be simulated as much as we want. Even the genes in the tissue can be altered to improve the taste and texture. Once the technology gets to that point, there will be no good reason to raise and eat animals.

We can all eat /better/, live /better/ and be /better/ without all the trade-offs if we'll put a little more thought into our lives and a have a little more moderation of consumption. Oh, and waste less.

This is a nice sentiment, but I don't think any civilization has voluntarily reduced its resource usage or consumption. The people working on in-vitro meat want to solve the same problem as you, but they're being pragmatic about it.
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As long as you make sure that the mode vim is in the user's locus of attention. Typically, a user is more focused on the actual text they are trying to edit and thus the vim mode falls out of their locus of attention.

So it's not just about displaying what mode the system is in but also making sure that the user is always aware of the mode. It's this mismatch that make modal interfaces bad.

Edit: Parent has since deleted their comment. It used to say something along the lines of:

> So if I make vim always display the mode its in, does that make it modeless?
First off Occupy Wall street was in the short term moderately successful considering it's ambiguous goals and moderate funding.(1) What 'killed' it the fact it lasted for months and people just started ignoring it. The simple truth is sitting around in parks is something homeless people do and as a protest it's just inflectional. As to dogs, well people with guns and riot gear showed up and said leave and don't come back, there is only so much you can occupy at that point. You can come back, but so do the people with guns and after a while that process will break most people.

(1) There are some pieces of legislation that where influenced by the occupy movement. But, it the impact was more a demonstration of an actual grass roots organisation demonstrating that people where unhappy. A few of of those organisations are still around they just don't get the same sort of press.

Anyway, compared to the environmental movement (aka stop killing people) or the civil rights movement saying bankers are fucking us over only get's so much play.

PS: Also, there where a lot of parks being occupied. However, the one in New York had a lot of symbolic value.
Apple Maps may be terrible, but I've had some really bad times with Google Maps as well... it has many a time sent me to a location that doesn't exist anymore, or was wrong.
Well, there are a few exceptions. I did. The tiny amount I use my cellphone I can't really justify a data plan.
In that case, we should ban alcohol and tobacco as well.
Okay, thanks for your comment bud. :)

I see a huge flaw in your understanding of Fries. You mentioned Xcode and Objective C in your comment but the whole point of Fries is to prototype Android apps on HTML, CSS, and JS.

Fries aims to make creating Android apps/prototypes easier. If that doesn't apply to people who finds that doing it on Eclipse UI Builder is much easier then Fries isn't for them.

If that doesn't answer your questions, hit me up with another comment. :)

Cheers!
This is actually an exciting and much needed development for the meat industry to be honest. Everyone is quite content eating highly processed to the point they're questionably even meat products like salami already and the effects of farming cattle for meat like horrible conditions for the animals, high costs of feeding the cattle, transportation and the environmentally damaging effects of said practices.

I wouldn't have a problem eating manufactured meat if it looked the same and tasted the same, if not better (which what seems to be promised). I already eat Spam and salami, what's one more processed product in my food arsenal?
Fixed elements on a web page are my biggest pet-peeve. Just eats away at the precious vertical space on my monitor.
> I don't know what actual article you are referring to, other than the one at the link posted.

I do:
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21577373-india-will-s...
I understand that. My point was more with the fair treatment of animals and respect for animal life, rather than the killing of animals.
Well, you are growing muscle cells and killing them... but it is a step forward.
Yeah, but Tesla didn't invent the first electric vehicle. As he said, it's a proof of concept. Besides, the taste is probably less of a concern than the price tag at this point.
mm I take your point but I would quote sewards "higher law" and the UNHCR as overriding Jim crow laws
It's actually much harder to monetize mobile web than to monetize in-app.
Re: downvotes

Haha, I guess whatever the hell I drove on today is not a road because I am in Africa and Africa has no roads.
On the other hand, I frequently learn of store or restaurant closures through Google Maps. Their data often seems fresher than my firsthand knowledge.
the biggest problem with this is that it will end up with high-fructose corn syrup. just like everything else we eat...
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Apple maps had many problems but its been a while since I saw one. Looks like they have improved it to a good enough level. I have no doubt there are still problems but at this point the game is more about vertical integration as well.
It wasn't one space that was lost, it was hundreds of spaces all across the US, and hundreds more across the world.

What occupiers have to deal with isn't "dogs and firehoses," but an extremely well equipped paramilitary force.

Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QngE6kKk8Lg

Now imagine how difficult it is to wake up every morning and throw yourself into that all over again, particularly once you've been dispersed and have lost the tactical advantage of being garrisoned together in one space. The most hardcore people I know became afraid to go back into that, as were veterans of war.

It is inevitable that the moment ruptured (as it was for the globalization, biotech, and war moments before this). However, I think this Zizek speech at OWS captures the value of that inevitability really well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu9BWlcRwPQ
Figure out how much money bad map data costs the company, then figure out how much money it takes to license good map data (clearly this exists somewhere). If licensing costs hurt more than bad maps, then continue with the current product and make slow improvements. Otherwise get out the checkbook.
I've had this discussion with a few vego's. My wife doesn't eat meat because she doesn't like animal suffering or confinement, so she would happily eat lab-grown meat. Yet her sister is disgusted by the texture/taste of meat on top of the suffering/confinement aspect, so the lab-grown meat only removes half of her aversion.

Ultimately comes down to the individual's motive for being a vegetarian, which varies.
But most of the profit in smartphones is made on the higher end. And those users do use apps, i think.
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Wait, isn't vim built entirely on the concept of modes?
Have you considered just keeping some fraction of your assets in cash (CD, money market account, treasury bonds)?

If you have 50% of your money in a Treasury and 50% in S&P, then when the market loses half its value, you only lose 25% of your money. But when the market goes up, you get a smaller gain.

> I don't do my own amateur lawyering, so why would I do my own money management?

An actual lawyer will generally be much better at lawyering than someone without training. Financial professionals probably aren't going to do much better than someone without training.

And then there are rampant perverse incentives in this industry, i.e. financial professionals are too often paid when they sell you financial products you don't need, and aren't paid based on your portfolio's performance.
There's also the "Target Retirement" family of funds. I'm currently in the 2050 fund, VFIFX.
Going cold turkey on alcohol is extraordinarily dangerous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

However I am not familiar with opiate withdrawal killing people without other medical things going on.
Fewer physical buttons doesn't make the interface less confusing. If a button does 5 different things, it becomes more confusing, because a given button is really 5 actions that you have to understand when they apply before using that button. Consider dedicated picture-in-picture controls as opposed to trying to reuse other buttons to do something different to control PiP. If you aren't using it, you just tune those buttons out. If you are, it's easier to use.
Roger Williams was also exiled from the other Puritans in Massachusetts (5 years after arriving in Boston). Not implying that was related to his colorful usage of the English Language, but marginalizing the influence he had on the Puritan culture of the New England region. Can't really say he represents all Puritans and is just one example of those that ended up settling in Rhode Island. He also became a Calvanist/Baptist following his exile to Rhode Island after disagreements with the Puritans in Massachusetts, so he was not exactly a Puritan for long after settling in the New World. I know I'm reaching with this statement, but I would say he probably had a slight contempt for what was considered "normal" or "acceptable" by others at the time as well so cursing would fit his personality.
That sounds like the path of artificial sweeteners. If history is any guide, there will also be a backlash where its artificial nature will be equated with poison for your body.
The fact that I'm a Linux user makes me irrelevant because of the low market share? Tell that to Valve.
As someone who doesn't eat meat for health reasons, I couldn't be more put off by this.
I know this sounds repulsive, but I think a good shortcut to lab grown meat would be similar to KFC's urban myth of "headless organisms fed by tubes" [1].

If you give it a bit of thought, it might be more ethical raising brainless and senseless organisms for human consumption. It also solves many sanitary problems in farms (antibiotics, crowded living conditions) and it allows us to give pasture lands back to nature.

Assuming that such meat was demonstrably safer for humans to consume, why would we choose to keep eating "nature's animals"? It's taboo what keeps us from doing this.

http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/kfc.asp
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Horrible in comparison to what; Google, another competitor or what you imagine they should be like? Most people think Google's maps and data are better but would you say Apple's are horrible by comparison?

None of the examples seem "horrible" to me. It looks like they're just wrong. Maybe it's because I remember using paper maps but Apple's, Google's etc. seem pretty amazing to me.
If you want to hear that story (x4), attend our "founder stories" panel at the startup conference in two weeks (May 30, Redwood City). I believe it's at 9:30am.
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They could start relying more on OpenStreetMaps which seems to be somewhat better or they could at least fix the things people report. I have reported dozens of issues (starting from the first developer beta of iOS 6) and not one of them have been fixed. Meanwhile on Google Maps: places that change location or name are updated within a week.
Where would these slowdowns be coming from? The only part I can think of would be landing zones, otherwise you have so much more space to fly in than you do with roads that it's inconceivable that there would be jams, unless you artificially limited flight paths to very narrow "roads" in the sky. And it's trivial to widen those in the case of congestion, in any case.
It wasn't displacing heroin. Heroin didn't make a resurgence. Krododil did, but its use was not nearly as prevalent as the use of Subutex was. The point is that the society got a lot safer and more productive after the Subutex problem was fixed.
Read performance compared to a lot of other offerings is a significant issue.

However, one of the biggest issue is the entire sharding design that is incredibly delicate and wouldn't pass even the most basic high availability requirements. I could go into a lot of detail about why it's bad but it would take too long.

After that, it's the hardcoded limitations that prevent true multi-datacentre sharding, the previously mentioned CPU issues with mongos, broken replica selection, inability to control primary/replica setting manually, etc.

The list is virtually endless.
Eagerly anticipating the Aspartame of meat. 2 pounds of bacon, 0 calories.