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There are other, more subtle, sleazy things in that ad. Microsoft seems to choose how many places to display after decimal points in a "convenient" way.

Large batter life is good, so Microsoft displays "9.5" for its product, but "10" (not "10.0") for the iPad, making it less visually obvious (same number of digits) that the iPad is better.

Small weight is good, so Microsoft displays "1.3" for its product (not "1.30"), but "1.44" for the iPad, making the Microsoft number seem more favorable (one less digit) than it really is.

Of course, numbers are numbers and anyone that is even half-way thinking realizes that 9.5 and 10 are virtually the same (within 5%), and 1.3 and 1.44 are virtually the same (within 10%), but altering the number of digits probably does have some psychological impact on people that aren't really thinking.
If you get a server/VPS at e.g. 1&1, Hetzner or basically any other place, you won’t have any problems sending mail. Those are usually priced from ~10€/month, so it shouldn’t be much of a problem.

Just make sure not to run an open relay, but that is rather trivial.
For your purposes, something like Notational Velocity or nvAlt on a Mac, Resoph Notes on Windows, or PlainText on iOS might be much better products. They use SimpleNote or Dropbox for cloud storage and synching across devices.
The theoretical answer is because SQLite is not the right tool for the sort of things Wordpress does. SQLite supports more concurrency than one might expect from an embedded db - it's still an embedded db, though. Writing, for instance involves a database-global lock.

The practical answer is - Wordpress is written in a MySQL-specific way. It doesn't officially support, say, Postgres or Oracle either.
It is my understanding that Safari is a bit behind on the WebGL front. Could you try it with Chrome ?
It is sobering to realize there are some things I'll never understand. But it's OK. Ignorance let's us have more fun speculating. I was wondering, are two entangled particles actually the same particle, where one or both "took a time machine" to get to the other place?
To clarify, it's not the best choice for serving applications where Apache works as anything but a proxy.

For what's best, take your pick of any framework that entirely decouples the application directory structure from the routes and keeps the logic for it all completely internalized. All logic for how URI's are handled should be within the application configuration or code. Something written in the target language will probably provide far more benefits than whatever is lost through Apache.

Whether Apache is in the path to your application is irrelevant, whether Apache does anything except note that a request should be handled by another application and hand the entire request off without change is not.
Actually, you're reiterating what the author said about having a designated work space. You're saying it has to be outside, but I would like to hear some evidence or rationale behind the advice. Both you and the author realize that if you mix workspace with home life, you're going to have a tough time.
Fair enough. What would be nice would be if there was an easier way of making the behavior optional, besides:

A. making the user right-click and select from a context-menu

B. making the user remember (or not) to ctrl+click / middle-click

C. putting the infamous Here Is A Link (open in new tab) parenthetical thing next to the link.
Re Airbnb.

> Thus was born a multi-billion-dollar business that is one of the most meaningful new start-ups to emerge in the past decade.

This seems a bit over hyped plus vrbo.com and friends have been around for a while.
Or copy an existing business and apply it to the same industry in a different country. No reason, say, Appointment Reminder wouldn't work just as well in Germany.
Generally the application itself. Listening on an http port or a unix socket is pretty easy in most modern languages. Then use a normal HTTP server like apache to listen to incoming connections and proxy them on to whatever port on localhost your application is listening to.
Nuclear power generates a large amount of waste heat - which, in turn, acidifies local waterways. Nuclear power, even with subsidies, to be profitable/feasible, requires a very large amount of fresh water (or de-salinated sea water).

It's actually a bigger problem than whey - there's no market to absorbe the waste output.
This isn't tragedy of the commons; it's false advertising. No one should be advertising unlimited Internet, as there is no such thing, never has been, and probably never will be. But bandwidth providers want to suck people in and claim they have to offer unlimited Internet to compete.
In the mid 1980's, I heard that story about Subway. Which as a business strategy makes even more sense - offering a clear alternative to a market with a high demand.
Before legal zoom, and even after it, those things were available in hard copy volumes of model contracts, wills, etc. complete with instructions and optional sections for different uses. The online services streamlined the UX a bit, but it's simply not the case that prior to them all of those documents were prepared individually by professionals. And I suspect that both the books and the online services displaced people doing their own documents without professional assistance as much as taking business from pros.
I agree with your main point that this is a no brainer. I also think that the "wielder" is part of the problem. However, I don't understand your point about "wielder vs tool". This is something i have heard a lot of pro-gun people say over and over again. However, that point only makes sense if guns are a general purpose tool (such as a 3d printer or a computer), but they are not. Guns are tools only used for killing. IMO, when it comes to civilian use, they are at best used to fulfill an antiquated hobby and at worst used to kill people.

Edit: back on main topic, if only mpaa and riaa would admit the same thing about their struggle against the bits.
I'd wager that many of these errors predate many of the commenters on this site. X is pretty old.
SAT Scores
If I get accepted into YCombinator, do my SAT scores matter for schools like MIT and Stanford
I don't read Gruber. So not sure if that was a compliment or not!
And how many shady merchants have I not had to chargeback to because they are deterred?

Also I'm not in the US, I get the impression that I'm much better protected by consumer law here in the UK.
Later on, the say mmapped I/O is always disabled on OpenBSD because of a buggy unified buffer cache.
original article is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4191
Really neat, but the dependency on Backbone is going to get in the way of adoption.
Testing void methods with mockito
Switching currencies and devaluing causes a lot of pain and hardship, especially since capital quickly flees the country to avoid the devaluation. This usually necessitates capital controls, and leads to a lot of short term chaos.

Greece would likely prefer to avoid this pain, stay in the Euro, and escape the crisis through fiscal stimulus paid for by the EU, similar to how the US Federal Government provides fiscal stimulus and transfer payments to State Governments.
How did you embed your templates into the binary?
Angular renders the most used parts of JQuery useless, if you use Angular the "right" way. If we do consider it, two of the most used parts of JQuery are $.ajax and querying the DOM.

Because angular already provides you $http and $resource which are more than capable of doing everything that $.ajax does - $.ajax and all its variant that JQuery brings in become redundant.

Because of the way Angular is and because of its philosophy of directives - You generally dont need to query the DOM at all most of the time ( like 90% of the time ). For the rest of the 10% of the time when you do need to query the DOM, you only need to go one step below a directives element (direct children). If you are doing anything more complex, then you are doing something wrong again. For this basic case, Angular already provides you JQLite which is capable of doing the querying for simple scenarios like this.

About the helper functions that JQuery provides - angular too provides quite a few helpers - and they are sufficient for like 95% of the cases. For other stuff you might want to consider underscore.

So, why do you need to include JQuery?
This is the scientific community making sure to say "we want you in Science, don't give up!"
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there were quite a lot BMW/Audi/Merc competitive commercials in the US market. to name a few:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohEkWMkbsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auEdEYY3ao4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTyVL9TQmA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWh6sSl_5Is
The reason Diesel hasn't caught on with the eco-crowd is pretty simple: particulate.
I don't know the details, but Kim dotcom is claiming he has a patent on two factor authentication.
Wow, suitably impressed. I wonder if they got inspiration from marijuana growers...always see busts in the news involving shipping containers.
Apple releases ad for Google Glass
My best understanding is that in general, issues related purely to quantum entanglement are entirely unrelated to causality. As noted in the article, even the "spooky action at a distance" that made Einstein so uncomfortable cannot be used to transmit information faster than light. I haven't checked the math, but I assume that the same sort of properties mean that this system couldn't be used to transmit information into the past.

So issues of causality don't really arise: this is just a neat demonstration that the weird correlations implied by quantum mechanics can be separated in a "direction" that hadn't been tested before. (That is, there's definitely time passing in this system and there is definitely entanglement between objects existing at different times, but there's also no real tension between those facts.)
Hopefully, you'll enjoy what you do, because otherwise it will be difficult to motivate yourself. I started travelling while also working remotely but gave up the work, because I didn't enjoy it and I didn't find the motivation to do it, considering that I also wanted to go out and walk around the places where I was.

Also, as someone mentioned, it's better if you stay longer in one place. That way, you have time to see stuff and also to work.

Good luck!
> the recent storm of Go articles

Maybe an insider could shed some light on this campaign. Does Google marketing dedicate people to cater for social networking sites and news aggregators? How is the 'storm' organized? Obviously, many startups try to spread the word through 'cheap' channels. Only few are really successful.
I like the concept and was going to star it until I read one of the dependencies is Backbone. Otherwise, there are many other libraries that only require one dependency.

https://github.com/EragonJ/Trip.js
https://github.com/usablica/intro.js
https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour

Definitely dig the look and feel of this though.
I was not aware trial accounts are restricted, and I can't find any info online about it, so...

So far, though, I have been quite impressed with Fastmail. (I have an enhanced account.)
It's perfectly fine to be using more than one tool. Starting with Python can be a good idea because of the rapid development and turnaround while experimenting. If Python ends up being fast enough, that's great. But if it doesn't, then it's nice to have this new language which is almost native speed and still fun to write, unlike Java or C++.
It's not a convential shape since it uses gullwing doors.
Cool! Though a bit harsh to have it always disabled on OpenBSD. If you're running only one process or core, you could still benefit from mmaped I/O, couldn't you?
However, they do flat-out lie in the text.

> At the bottom, Microsoft writes, "The ASUS VivoTab Smart is lighter than the iPad, has a bigger touchscreen...". False. It does not have a "bigger touchscreen".
That's what I believe as well.
I was always under the impression that the core Hangouts protocol _was_ the Wave protocol, in which case it's _already_ an open standard. What would be awfully nice is if Google (which is a category mistake - what I really mean is "the Hangouts team") would clarify this, release any updates to the protocol that they've made, and perhaps define something more than the weak API provided for the current Hangouts platform.

In particular, the right test of openness is this: can I build an interoperable client that could participate in a Hangout as a first-class entity?
Yes exactly, that's the goal. Both things you mention (seamless upload/integration of existing libraries and importing your favorite photo apps) are on top of our list.
Seems like you may be over thinking this. When I was in consulting, I didn't waste my time trying to track every 5-minute increment, the amount of effort and distraction that would cause would do more harm to the client (due to productivity loss from tracking) than anything else. Taking a 5-minute coffee break, or chatting with a co-worker for 15 minutes all gets lost in the noise if you are working on a project for multiple hours a day. Your level of focus (which is nearly impossible to quantify) is going to have a bigger impact on your productivity, and hence the value to the client, than almost anything else. So it makes sense that you should look to optimize for focus/productivity, rather than 'time spent sitting in front of computer'.

On a side note, there has been a lot of talk on HN about billing clients in half-day and full-day increments. You should probably look into that. At the consulting job, I basically took the total number of hours a day that I was working, and roughly divided it by the percent of time I spent on each project, which also worked for me (we were required to bill hourly). In the long run, it all tends to even out, and as long as your client is happy with the work, and the costs are in line with their expectations, they will not complain.
And as a bonus you'll get the right answer, unlike with Soulver.
For something you need to hold with both hands(which I assume how you use your iPad), I think the landscape orientation is more natural and comfortable. That's how we hold a book while reading lying down.
The type system in Go is as important as the concurrency system. Sure, Erlang can do concurrency as well as (or better than) Go, but it doesn't have the type safety that Go offers.
I've been using Loom's beta version for about two months now. I have to be honest. At first I didn't completely get it and I didn't use it too much. I thought it was just a photo centric version of Dropbox. And it took me a few more weeks and a few "I wish I could show you this right now" moments until I did get it and started appreciating a few of it's features.

I've been traveling a lot over the years and it is such an uplifting feeling to meet somebody again after some time, to share some "good old times" pictures and reconnect. One of the things about Loom is that it stores a low res. version of your pictures on your phone and allows you to stream full res. in no time, so I have pretty much all my pictures of the last 10 years on my phone. I've also found some really interesting use cases at work lately...
It does not give false information intentionally because they nowhere claim that the images are to scale - it is just your assumption that they should be to scale. Therefore it is (almost surly intentionally) deceiving by exploiting a reasonable assumption. But for me this is as much lying as a price of $9.99 is lying because it is trying to trick the customer into the impression that the price is way below $10.00.

(Almost) every add uses beautiful images, good looking people, nice music and so on just to manipulate you. I don't say that this is a necessarily a good thing, but it is definitely a wrong thing to bash a single add for doing this and behaving as if nobody else does it.

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Because the text 10.1" is wider than 9.7" they could have ended up with similar images by just making them the same height and using the same padding on the left and the right (but they did not - the 10.1" image has more padding than the 9.7" image).
If the coffee shop is full and they are inhibiting other paying customers, they are jerks. If they are disturbing the network, they are jerks.

But what if there's plenty of seating, and they're working off of their own internet? Are they still jerks?
Glassmap Relay Technology Proof of Concept
It depends how you define "bigger". There is arguably some good-faith definition of "bigger" for which it's true. (like diagonal measurement)
As another Googler, I mostly agree with you, but I also sympathize with the product and engineering teams.

They keep seeing very popular apps and messaging products that are completely proprietary and locked in, and that are able to move and innovate fast because they either don't have to conform to an existing standard, or worry about publishing and support whatever internal protocol they do use.

Sure Hangouts could publish their protocol like Wave did, but Wave was a complex mess of different protocol formats and transports and publishing that as a "standard" was way premature. Who knows how good the current Hangout protocols are, or how well they might play with real standards like WebRTC. It's probably too early for them

I remain optimistic that these things can be standardized in the future.
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> 10. Try to limit yourself to using jqLite that Angular comes with rather than full jQuery. This isn't really possibly with any reasonable part of Bootstrap however;

unless you are coding all your js widgets from scratch that's not an option , and there is 0 reason to do it. jquery plugins are easy to integrate with angularjs directives , why not use them?

i used taginput, transit, autocomplete, masonry and bootstrap widgets to code this app : http://markme.alwaysdata.net/ ,are you really suggesting people should not use jquery? non sense. Angularjs is made to be used with jquery. Angulajs doesnt provide widgets , jquery + 10000 of plugins do .
One thing to ponder about single user apps running on Oracle: many environments won't let the developer manhandle the database, so now they need to divert or hire a dedicated DBA person to configure and do the dB stuff. SQLite literally makes this entire problem go away.
I think if you look at the origin of the word commute you will find that it did actually emerge from the trip between suburbs and the city and hence a walk to work in the morning is not in the 'traditional' sense.
And no one has mentioned the second, more obvious "lie" that jumped right out.

It says the iPad doesn't have Office. Well, that's because Microsoft hasn't released a version of Office for iOS.

I don't know the right word for it, but that's not honest either.
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You seem desperate to find reasons to dislike G+, so I'll help you out:

https://plus.google.com/communities/101451257802046158545
Some of my best code was written after basically abandoning the problem for a day.

Of course, the problem wasn't really abandoned -- I was thinking about how to solve it the whole time. But I wasn't writing any code.

Forcing yourself to write isn't necessarily best.
Why did no one confront the individual?

I find it seriously backwards that no one had the spine to walk up to the person, talk with him about courtesy, cultural norms, and basically use "implied shame" to do the rest. If the behavior continued, a more direct approach "I saw you take the sodas last night" could also suffice.

I mean, why would putting a suitcase full of sodas == sabotaging product? It's pathological behavior in the over-abundance environment, but seriously?

Is Redmond a foreign country or something?
The bigger issue here is that Google is integrating everything into G+. They are moving away from being a search engine, towards being a social network with better search capabilities than Facebook. The problem is that the average Google users (read, non hacker, and generally not computer smart) does not understand the changes. They just go to Google to learn about a new chicken recipe, or what side-effects does Singulair has. They don't go there to socialize. And Google is forcing this into everybody. Which is a significant deal, because for a lot of people out there ( a lot) Google is the internet. Just like AOL was in the 90's, Google is now. They are diluting their brand, and going in every direction. Before you say anything else, I use google products. I like Google. I remember their old nerdy logo. I loved how they took on the old search engines of yore, and beat them at their own game. But it has reached a point where Google is now a faceless corporation simply driven to profit. All of their actions point to that. They seem to no longer really care about the users. Just like IBM, MS, and all the old tech giants. Management has taken over. The true hacker spirit seems to not be found anymore.
Correct, V8 compiles Javascript directly to machine code in a JIT fashion; there is no intermediate instruction set or bytecode. https://developers.google.com/v8/design?hl=es-ES#mach_code

So in that sense, yeah, V8 is not really a VM but just a JIT compiler/interpreter.
Thanks for the chuckle ;-)
He's infinitely more tolerable than a typical Apple fan. I would treat it as a compliment.
I don't think this is organized by Google. I think it's just a natural consequence of more people checking out and using Go for production work.

For what it's worth, outside of the FAQ, I don't think golang.org even mentions Google. In general, Go is kept very distinct from Google, so it wouldn't make much sense for Google to embark on a Go marketing campaign.