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> Nonsense, by that logic your proprietary software is taking away users 'right' to use your proprietary software in an open source context.

Indeed, it is. The difference is that we're not intellectually dishonest about it, and don't try to dress up the mutual exchange of value (user's money for our code) in some sort of ridiculous redefinition of "freedom", and we certainly don't claim to be "more free" than liberally licensed open-source software.
I'm extremely surprised that Google actually added this to Google TV. I figured, at this point, that my 3-year-old Revue box was long-forgotten by Google.

The "play on Google TV" button showed up on both my desktop (in Chrome) and phone (in the YouTube app) some weeks or months ago, I'm not sure. It works just like this Chromecast thing was described -- whatever I was watching on the other device shows up on the TV and playback can be controlled from either side.
A web-wide system isn't feasible. A websites respect for your privacy is an issue of trust and not something you can easily quantify. For example, DuckDuckGo promises not to track you (and I believe they don't) but proving this claim is impossible without access to the server.
You're welcome - let us know what happens after this!
This felt like a Broscience article targeted at Startups instead of bodybuilders.

That's the best way to put it. It would make a great "Startup GQ" or "Startup Vanity Fair" article.

If you're not currently trying to raise a multi-million dollar round: skip this article and keep building good things. It's written for a very narrow group of people going through a very specific point in the startup lifecycle—don't waste your precious waking time reading about or comparing yourself to things not relevant. (The voice of the post makes me feel inadequate for not playing The Game (startup edition) because other people are hustling/cheating/ruining themselves to be hip to the scene and I'm still not an acquihire failed-product millionaire.)

I wanted to like the post, but it comes off as a personal "rich man has to deal with kids, thinks most people aren't being dangerous enough, wants people to risk more of their lives instead of playing it safe." It's about 6500 words of slightly incoherent rambling of personal bro anecdotes after the first three points.
Oh wow, I love that story! Thanks for sharing.
I strongly disagree with procedural code being easier to read and particularly easier to reason about. I haven't run into many (any) problems in the last few years that I thought functional programming didn't bring a lot of value. The code-as-data is kind of an orthogonal issue, most functional languages aren't homoiconic.

Edit: also Clojure isn't pure.
Calling it a "challenge" is charitable. A "challenge" is a complex engineering problem that yields rewards for solving it. What is described in the article is a "roadblock" or "meaningless bullshit"--stuff that doesn't make you better for having dealt with it and stuff you shouldn't have to deal with as an employee.

E.g. if you've got a boss you dumps his or her marital problems on you, dealing with that isn't a "challenge."
Gridpak[1] is a nice Responsive Grid Template builder.

1. http://gridpak.com/
I can not express the validity of this statement enough. I work for one of those software vendors and software as a technology solution is undervalued.
> They designed it without any security.

Is that the only criterion now? You'll only do the ethical thing if someone else remembered to bake in technical safeguards?
You forgot to compare the treatment of the russian speaking people in the baltic states to the treatment of jews in the nazi germany. Both were treated poorly.
Twitter fakes real users’ tweets to promote ad platform
1. Thanks!

2. Not at all - animation is something I need in my day job all the time, and having .animate() saves me so much time. I wasn't sure if I'd get much use out of transitions (I was jealous of ng-animate and wanted to see if I could implement something similar!) but I've found them very useful. Transitions probably need a bit more work though.

3. It just doesn't need any. The amount of code I could save by using a helper library like Underscore wouldn't be worth the potential extra hassle of version headaches etc. Personally I much prefer using 'fire and forget' libraries with no dependencies.
True, I'm sure it still probably applies just to a lesser extent. I just checked and it looks like after the fall it's started to rise again. Edit: Looked again and the fall/rise is pretty much mirroring the Dow and NASDAQ today.
> Only copyleft style licences guarantees this right to end users ...

That's just blatantly false. Distribute your binaries with source. Or distribute them with an offer of source.

There, problem solved. Heck, may your binaries non-redistributable without source.

Either way, users have the option of using/distributing your binaries, or not. You've given them nothing they didn't already have.
Entertaining, including the "assenting scientists" scenes.

The most interesting bit is the need for a long road trip from a good landing site to a good takeoff site. That trip might sound boring at first, but compared to the space flight it would be quite an epic adventure.

They don't give much detail about the return launch, other than it would require so much fuel that it is best to produce it from water in Mars. Given that this is the hardest part of the trip, it is a bit of a disappointment not to see any clear solution for that.
It only requires CPU usage when it's streaming the contents of your screen. For Youtube/Netflix, all it does is tell the key the url of the stream and everything is done either on the key or the server.
It seems that only Nexus devices are getting the update today, and not the Samsung/HTC Play Edition phones. It will be interesting to see when those two devices get the update; in the meantime, not all Play devices are made equal?
We don't have friends; we have frenemies.
In a similar vein, here's a thread of a complete rookie starting from scratch who turned into a fantastic artist by drawing a sketch every day : http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870

I guess this works for learning programming too.
I got a dirt cheap clone (I don't remember how much exactly ) from a Chinese reseller from Amazon UK and the screen was crap ^shudder^ and the touchscreen had a glitch ^double shudder^ but it was Android and it was reasonably quick.

These things you really need to try before you buy.

There's another thread here about the potential slowdown issue. Same'll happen to a Mac or PC I reckon after a while. I've not noticed it. When you think about it Android tablets are pretty new so they haven't been used to their full extent, nor to the end of their lifespan.
Yes, it takes just years of practice to achieve proper indentation, or, you know, one key press in emacs.

I was a TA for an introductory computer class and yes, some people do write clean code within days. There are people who naturally get the how and the why of it.
Nonsense. It's all theater.

Edit: in response to the downvotes. When was the last time anything (large) was defunded by the US congress?

Be realistic. The natural trajectory for a state is to consume and expand until doing so is no longer sustainable.

Fat people like cake. Dogs chase cats. Bears shit in the woods.
If you're just building static website (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), I highly recommend just using S3:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/website-hosti...

Quick guide:

- Create a bucket for each website, named after the domain (e.g. "myproject.mysite.com")

- Turn on static website hosting for the bucket (through the AWS Console)

- Go to your DNS provider and create a "CNAME" record pointing "myproject.mysite.com" to "myproject.mysite.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com" (The AWS Console will give you the exact domain to use here)

- For super-easy deployment, use s3cmd's sync utility (http://s3tools.org/s3cmd-sync) to upload all changed files in your project:

$ s3cmd -v sync ./ s3://myproject.mysite.com/ --acl-public
There is also this direct integration for IntelliJ/WebStorm/PHPStorm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvWftlp7TKY
I'm saying that those emails are automated - triggered upon a series of click events as part of a "customer lifecycle management" plan. They are just written to sound personalized ("I noticed that...") but to me, are no less spammy than anything else.

Funny results of this are the fact that I'll be working on something over the weekend, trigger one of these automated messages, and email a response: "Oh yeah, I had a question, thanks for noticing!" Naturally I don't hear back until some time the following week.

It is always hard getting real feedback about your product. But a message like "Hey, you just joined, and I think you could do a better job with the way you structure your sales data" - because a human had looked at our business, looked at the way we used their product, and spent a moment trying to come up with a way to be helpful - would be way cooler to me than an automated tripwire.

For me, part of the reason the handwritten notes (shifting away from email for a moment) resonate with us is because we feel like an employee of the company - a grateful, hard-working employee - decided to spend their time painstakingly writing me a personalized note. That's why we write cards to our loved ones over the holidays.

But when you can pay someone to do that, then the CEO doesn't care - they're just factoring it into the customer acquisition cost. Which is totally okay. But it is equivalent to saying "I don't mind paying higher prices for Apple products because the unboxing experience is so great."
> You don't actually want that. You just think you do.

No, I pretty sure I want an updated version of it. We don't have any clue where it would have evolved, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple would have kept at it, there would have been a "Final Cut Pro X" moment.

> All those pointer errors you make in your iOS app that generally just result in a crash suddenly result in your server being rooted.

I really don't seem to run into those as much as others, maybe I'm lucky. Between Ruby or Objective-C, I'll take my chances with Objective-C.
Imagine an employee of yours coming to you and telling you what to do. That's what's happening here. The government are supposed to be our employees, not our bosses.

It really bothers me that any company who has private information of mine stored on there servers would "fight" the feds' requests for information, in a way that represents unwarranted search and/or seizure. There shouldn't be a fight at all, but rather a simple refusal. Rights aren't merely written down as a guideline, but that's exactly what they're reduced to when companies and/or citizens decide not to defend them.
Two browsers is more than enough to shift the industry, and there's still nothing stopping you from supporting JS as a legacy compilation target.
So THAT'S what my Sony BR player is doing when the display keeps switching away from AppleTV! Drives me nuts...
+1
ultimatedelman, I've got your point. This kind of "effort" is very rare and in most cases smells like copy-paste from somewhere.

Look, I'm not saying that jenniferDewalt is a fraud (and I'm not calling shenanigans), but she must keep in mind that some people will say that her work is just a copycat and she must deal with it.

IMHO, she did a very good job! I really liked it.
Yes, we've lost everything encrypted with single DES, PPTP, SSL less than 1024 (?) bit keys, Debian Etch, and so on.

But on the other hand: Snowden was successfully able to evade Boundless Informant and conduct a confidential conversation with Greenwald and Laura Poitras (certainly already an active surveillance target for her film of William Binney).

So the crypto wars are not yet lost.
Regardless of the link-bait headline, I submitted this article because I thought it gave a satisfactory high-level overview of LLVM.
We need a lot of people in the streets protesting

Telephone is fine for now.

As it is, the politicians will play their standard game of waiting out the uproar.

It's not merely an "uproar" when there is a bill to be voted on. Call your reps:

http://www.house.gov/representatives/#byState
It's not limited to browsers, here is the sdk: https://developers.google.com/cast/

AFAICT you push your application to the key, Android/iOS/Chrome can be used to interact with it.
Function-wise two cables would be the better design. On my TV this dongle would probably interfere with cables in the ports next to it. In this picture you can imagine the problem if there was another HDMI port right above the one it's plugged into, https://lh6.ggpht.com/jbhD_qpdQkLDEk4Y6PV9E2vBWM7__xjVzE18_J...
Every artist I've met and respected has been very dedicated to their craft and efforts to make many things right in every one of their many, many works. If you go to a college like DigiPen or Fullsail, or any of the other gaming arts/engineering institutes, you'd see a similar workload, maybe even higher.
You are right with respect to the Google-sold devices. Unfortunately, these are only a minority - and this step will make it significantly harder to root devices made by Samsung, HTC, Sony and all the others...
This story indeed is very inspiring. I'm a business major turned front-end designer. I worked as a financial analyst for a semi-conductor company for two years and realized I want a career that fosters my creative side. Working with Excel, though I got very good at it :P, all day long made my day very dull and monotonous. I got my husband to teach me how to code (he's a CS major, working as a product manager for a SF company). Now I am fairly proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, HTML, and Javascript. Then I made a Python program which analyzes the proper excess inventory to keep for the semiconductor company I worked for, which got me a lot of recognition (the program was prob elementary level and messy but got a credit for being a financial analyst that can code). I quit my day job and I'm working on my startup, for which I'm doing all the front end coding and some of back-end coding as well. Also relocating to SF to pursue this new found passion. I wish the best of luck to Jennifer and other people like her.
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The scenario that Google presented was users doing stuff on their phones/tablets and then saying to themselves, "Hey, let's play this on the big TV screen." That's a different use case to Google TV/Xbox/PS4 etc.

They made a lot of the fact that, with Chromecast, your phone/tablet works as a TV remote.

Also, people who are already familiar with their phones/tablets don't have to learn a new UI etc.

And it doesn't have to deliver a lot of value to justify $35....
You sure it's not just for firmware updates? The GameStick (http://gamestick.tv) is powered purely via HDMI.
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Interesting, I didn't realize Julia had that. Fwiw, many Lisp systems also have this available: if you (disassemble 'foo) in SBCL, it'll show you the asm the function compiled to.
And yet again I say, Chrome is the new IE.

This functionality has nothing to do with a browser.
I have heard similar theories for this. It's also consistent with the 10,000 hours rule. Sometimes you have to do to learn and improve. The improvement is certainly evident here.
Why would I care if it's portable or not? I've never understood the mentality of "but it's not portable". If something isn't not portable, you put #+ and #- on top of it. I'd rather go for "straight-forward and performant" than for some abstract code transformations to make it runnable on platforms that almost nobody uses to the detriment of everyone else.

LLVM is the lowest common denominator. I'm really not fond of lowest common denominators. (Not to mention the fact that it's bloatware in the first place - it's about twice the size of my favourite compiler, and that's before you add the actual language you're trying to compile.)
It is a mix of many things, a good team is a prerequisite for building a successful business.
You need a good idea / product / service, a good implementation, communication, money, contacts, attention, and many more.
But all this things have one thing in common: hard work of the founder(s).

We can always speculate why one business fail and another win, i think it depend only on the founder and their decisions (right time, right place).
You know, I was having this problem on my GN for a long time. I was convinced I was experiencing the storage deterioration problem. My GN is rooted and I've been running custom ROMs for a long time, keeping them up to date as time went on, and performance was fine. I was running JDX [1], and was happy with it... but as time went on, the device got slower, and all indications to me were that it was the storage deterioration problem. But then I switched to a more basic ROM [2], and now my GN is running perfect. Google Now is so much faster, switching apps is smooth, etc. etc. A world of difference. This post is now coming off as an ad for this ROM that I'm using... but I just wanted to share my experience. If you're looking into buying a new phone because of the slowness, trying out this ROM might be a last ditch effort to give your GN some new life.

[1] - http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28677-rom-jdx-v143-formerly-jelly...
[2] - http://rootzwiki.com/topic/36706-romaosp42271213-shiny-ota-l...

(both those links are specifically for the Verizon GN. If you have a different one, you'd have to look for different builds.)
10 hours a day, 7 days a week, for almost 6 months

While it is far from a definitive diagnosis, it isn't 'normal'.

Without a doubt it is ambitious, and her progress thus far impressive!

If only we all had 10 hours a day for a full 6 month period to spend pursuing ambitious goals ...
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Just bought two - one for each TV in my house. I already have tons of media-streamer devices (TLBB XBMC, Pivos DS, Roku, etc) but they should be nifty.
Yeah, the video in the carousel has a brief fine print message that says the "power adapter is required (not shown). "
I think the core issue behind this is the complexity of managing SSH keys across your infrastructure. Have a look at https://bastio.com

JackDB: I like that the service keeps an audit trail on database transactions transparently, it is a big thing for companies that have to be compliant to a set of standards (i.e., health sector, financial sector, etc.) Good job!
for the Nexus 7 launch Canada is only a few weeks behind the US

"Only"? In comparison, Apple ships to a large number of nations simultaneously. I got my iPad shipped (from China, which is also where those Nexus 7s are coming from) the same day that US buyers got theirs shipped.

Such is how international companies usually operate.

I like Google the company, but they are incredibly provincial and out of step when it comes to these things. If they lack manpower to do international releases, perhaps they should hire the appropriate people instead of constantly treating the rest of the world as an afterthought.
I do the tethering thing with the Galaxy Nexus. There really is no need for a dedicated modem in the tablet, at least not in my case.

I think one reason consumers prefer devices with their own modems is (intentional?) UI friction which makes "tethering" less convenient. In stock Android you cannot configure a device such that it will "use wireless if available, tether if not," which is what you really want to happen. It is possible to achieve something like this with third party apps, however.
Fantastic app. Routinely a reference point for me when I am talking about excellent free software. Wish there was something nearly as good for OS X but almost everything on Mac is terrible and costs good money.
The Apple Remote app is a decent, but not great, alternative to the Apple TV remote.
No it isn't; if you can't get Microsoft and Apple on board, it won't shift. It'll take more than Mozilla and Google cooperating to replace JS.
I didn't understand the exchange with all the deleted messages. Nor did I care to.

So instead of a specific person's name I deliberately put the word 'hug' inside the [[hug brackets]] so that anyone who knew deep down that they deserved one would receive it.
Yes, but the comment I was responding to was specifically about the Chromecast vs Apple TV - while we use ours a lot, it certainly has a far from perfect interface. I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wasn't on the Apple ecosystem already, and would be using the Remote app on their phone/iPad to type search queries rather than up up down down left right left righting for minutes at a time.
The Check Now button in About Phone seems to be something of a placebo button, as well. In the past I've got around this by going to Settings->Apps->Google Services and clearing the cache and killing the process. That will force an actual check by pressing the Check Now button.

Of course, if your phone isn't scheduled to receive it yet then you'll still come up bupkis, like I have thus far.
This is the role of configuration management software. Applications should not have hardcoded passwords and all decent configuration management systems allow for controlling access.
White House complains: "This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process."

Ironic.
>> Send it to the email account that will be protected by two-factor authentication using the key, and it won't really matter.

> Unless, of course, the email is intercepted in transit.

> If your email is being sent in the clear, it doesn't matter whether or not you use SSL and/or two-factor authentication to connect to your server - the email has been compromised long before.

This isn't really as big of an issue as people make it out to be. TLS is fairly prevalent for MTAs.

Anyway, I assumed this was describing a scenario where a sysadmin/IT guy sends a QR code to another employee, in which case it is all internal.
My understanding of the US political process is based off what I have learned from TV and the news, but even if it passed the House and Senate, the President can still veto this bill, right? So, since we already know the President supports this cause, and it is his last term, the chances of this becoming law are nil.
Also doing it out of a paid-for shared workspace. I mean, I love the stuff she's doing, it makes sense that she'd be able to do it working full time, but she must be independently wealthy to be able to afford it.
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