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I think he means being able to pick and choose exactly what part of libraries one would need; with something like jquery most sites are only using a fraction of jquery methods
I seem to be giving up on modern technology after being totally enveloped in it for the past decade. Fountain pen, vinyl, feature phone, automatic watch etc.

Maybe it's a side effect of the recession, maybe I don't like what the internet/technology is becoming, but I'm realising that these older products are in many ways better.

A watch that doesn't run on a battery and is a work of art; an album that's collectable and real; a phone that lasts weeks on the same charge; a pen that feels more like I'm using some sort of artistic tool and so on.
As usual, it's an enumeration of things that have nothing to do with your phone.

The author paints a picture of a life of serendipity, surprise, getting lost in a quaint cobblestone village, giggling with strangers, discovering a hidden coffee shop, like your life suddenly becomes a romantic comedy on the streets of Prague because your smartphone has been keeping you from bumping into Hugh Grant.

Transcend your phone.
Streetview drive around. It looked pretty bleak last time I gave this a shot.
Optimized version:

1. Ask a lot of people who fund questionable, unproven businesses what they'll pay for.

2. Promise to fulfill their requests.

3. Take their money.

4. Follow through on your promise like an honorable member of society. (optional)
Unfortunately voice quality is almost entirely a function of the network you're on, which is obviously outside the phone's control. Regardless of how awesome the phone is, call quality will be terrible if it can only suck bits through a straw one at a time.
Cool trick, but why not just use 64 bit?
I honestly don't like articles like these anymore. It's pretty much the same things regurgitated over and over, and typically comes off as holier-than-thou, at least a big portion of the time. Especially once you meet someone like this in person. By "someone like this", I don't mean your grandparents (or parents?) or relatives living out in the woods...

Being poor is about the only good reason, and another $10 - $30 a month wouldn't really break the bank for most people...

If you can't keep a smartphone for ideological reasons, that has nearly nothing to do with the phone, and almost everything to do with you and your personality.

Someone mentioned "owning" their dumb phone as a pro. Pretty sure I own my smartphones. All of them that I've ever had have been mine. I can do whatever I want with it, no questions asked. I don't even have to pay for it if I don't feel like it, with no repercussions other than having my service turned off and a credit ding, just like any other phone. Technologically, I own it even more, as I can do much more with a smartphone in regards to customization than I can with a dumb phone.
So you make decision after decision based on what the company needs, instead of what the user needs, and this is where you end up.

I agree with the other comment: Ballmer isn't paid nine gazillion bucks to do what "everybody else" would do in his place.
Isn't this is project an effort to make that somewhere else.
Just because you phone does email, instant messaging, facebook, twitter, or whatever, you are not required to use them. You can even go out and let the phone home if you want.
Too bad they essentially closed their doors, the Peek was great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peek_%28mobile_Internet_device...
I also disagree that all that stuff should be obvious to everybody.

It doesn't. But not everybody publishes something in journals. When you do, you have a responsibility to know your subject.

They are thinking about it not as a random mutation but as an intentional genetic program which just makes much more sense.

This actually makes little sense to me. The replication machinery and programming is deeply established, not a random mutation. The mutation is in the genes that regulate the system. The inappropriate execution of the replication is the key and that's well established to arise from mutational changes in regulatory elements.
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Honest question: how you do you prevent your pseudo-science detector from succumbing to confirmation bias? I'm willing to wager that if you gathered up every single so-called crackpot on the planet and looked at their ideas in 50 years, there's at least a single person that will have turned out to be right.

Love the quote, by the way.
Microsoft is relevant because of Windows. Windows is relevant because of its market share. Fragmenting the market, for them, is suicide.
Obviously you'd call them over Skype. If you called them, which you wouldn't because free consumer services don't provide support. They probably view the PSTN as a legacy system.
As opposed to a Surface?!
Crude at $106/barrel, Detroit declares Chapter 9 bankruptcy, DOW 15.5K, and...

whitey on da moon!
dead? the last trunk build is today!
I wonder how it would distinguish between the many dialects in use in the US. Granted, a lot of the adult population does use ASL [1], but lots of times children grow up using one of the Signed English[2] variants, which vary from state to state.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Language

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_Exact_English

[Edit: links]
Don't thing your phone is not spying on you just because you can't program it. A dumb phone is still a computer, it just lacks a touchscreen and a different OS.
So um..... call me ignorant, but how is this any different from:

person 1:

screen -t "foo"

person 2:

ssh person1@blahblah.com
screen -x "foo"

??
Odd. I always assumed that cancer was a natural part of a living organism, and that what got disrupted was the "cancer suppression mechanism" (not a technical term). The fact that cancer evolves anew in every patient seems very... improbable.
How does this case differ from Snowden's situation?

One way in which it differs:

Robert Seldon Lady is far more likely to get a fair trial in Italy (and far less likely to be subject to solitary confinement, or other forms of torture during a prolonged delay before his trial) than Snowden is in the U.S.
If they could sell them at those prices, because of course resellers would be quite unhappy, I could imagine just about anyone making an effort to integrate them into their workflow.

The surface would no longer be something to work into a routine because it was a big expensive toy but rather a system that has a genuine use case.

Hell, if they could get the worst rt into the ~300$-~350$ range Microsoft could compare an rt to a nexus 7 and that would be their best bet to get the most sales.
That envelope would then be worth ~$3, not ~$2.
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Have you tried MacPorts? I use Linux extensively in the server side but really don't like using it as a development machine. I'm using a rMBP right now.
Phone (and network) support for wideband audio (marketed as HD Audio) improves call quality dramatically.
Ubuntu has been spotty for me. Lots of breaking changes even within releases.

Using openSUSE 12.3 with 3.7.11+ kernel on a Thinkpad T530 (Intel graphics, 9 cell battery) I get 4-12 hours of battery life (depends on usage; coding and work on a dimmer brightness gets me 10-12 hours, watching movies and playing games with the brightness higher up gets me ~4-5 hours).

Newer kernels seem to have regressed as far as power consumption goes, I was trying the 3.10 kernel and getting 2-3 hours of battery life...
Centrifuges don't provide a uniform field. The centrifugal pseudopotential is V(r) ~ Ω^2 / r^2; in effect this means that the pitch near the outside of the centrifuge experiences more "gravity". If you want to study pitch in a uniform gravitational field, you'd either need an absurdly large centrifuge -- the size of the Pentagon -- or a solar sail to Jupiter.

edit: also, the Earth's gravity might become a problem.
Try it now. We just pushed a fix to package control.
Unlike the Surface RT?
You're right, the feedback loop isn't as strong. Basically, I'm hoping the bankruptcy can spur political change. Ideally, after a couple of years of being run by a bankruptcy judge, and residents feeling the sting of things being cut, new blood comes into city management and takes advantage of the stabilized financial position to put the city on a course for the future. I think even if the bankruptcy process can't bind the city government in the future, it does change the political climate. I think it will weaken the public unions, and I think the end of easy money through bond issuances will force greater fiscal discipline.

This might be overly optimistic.
A little late but relevant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQCSis4kKs
Or Longene, the Linux Unified Kernel:

http://www.longene.org/en/index.php

>The Longene is a free, open-source computer operating system kernel project intended to expand the Linux Kernel to be binary-compatible with application software and device drivers not only made for Microsoft Windows but also made for Linux OS. This will enable the Windows application running on the Linux operating system highly effectively.

Not sure how active this project is. The last binary package released was from 2012.
A mobile phone is the one exception for that rule. The clock sets itself up, and it's something you carry around, sometimes to places that don't have other clocks.

But yes, to the people designing every other product: When people want clocks, they go out and buy one.

My kitchen is even worse, because every appliance there use LED displays. They don't just stay there blinking, they also shine.
It succeeded in making a measurement. That was the goal of the experiment, not proving or disproving anything in particular.
I think there is a fundamental difference between the "male gaze" evaluating and "objectifying" females and the "Sauron's eye" of digital surveillance these days. Sure, men may make you uncomfortable, pay you less, and make your overall self-esteem go down, and that's an injustice, but the other knows, or can know, everything about you. Every out-of-line or could-be-racist comment that you have ever made, any weird porn site you accidentally stumbled upon one day, every angry message you have sent to an ex, any "private" confession you have made on the internet, everyone you care about, everything that you like or don't like, your political and religious beliefs, can be pulled from these databases and used against you. And that is something that I don't think the "male gaze" can do.

I will also say that I was not terribly surprised either. Neither were a lot of people. How could anyone believe their Facebook accounts would be kept private after reading Mark Zuckerberg's chat messages with his friends? ("They trust me, dumbfucks"). I don't know how anyone believes what they say on the internet is private or "anonymous", that is just so naive. But that doesn't make it right to allow it to happen if we know about it.
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MP3 player.
Windows 8 Metro Apps on the desktop warned me off ever buying a tablet. The apps feel fisher/price, noddy apps and "good for demos" - not for getting stuff done.
If you don't believe me just start with a fundamental app like email.
Ill wait for you here with a box of tissues...
Regarding the "takeaways" in the article, in what magical world is "provide the investment management platform for the entire crowdfunding economy" not an idea for a product.

Linkbait article is linkbait.
And/or because people move on, forget about things.
Immediately came here to be snarky and see if anyone else had noticed. I see someone beat me to it. Damn, haha.
Maybe try and contribute to an open source project? Find some bugs and create fixes, I'm sure it will look good on your resume and you'll be helping out the community at the same time :)
My smart phone's battery lasts for more than a week if I don't connect to a data network, and it's in the low end of battery sizes out there.
Because the hardware is attractive, it's well supported and the OS is decent, and it still runs all the open source stuff they like, as well as proprietary stuff they like.

I personally run SUSE on a Thinkpad, I prefer Linux to OSX and Windows, and love Thinkpad hardware (the keyboard is the best I've ever used). I can however understand why Apple stuff is attractive.

I've also heard that Linux is easier than OSX when it comes to installing languages, tools, etc..., but OSX is easier when it comes to things like Skype, Office, and of course proprietary software. I've found using Linux full time to be painless and enjoyable though.
Check out Zareason - the prices are pretty reasonable. I like buying from them because they've vetted every part of the hardware to make sure that any distro you want will work on it, and they'll find you the packages to install if the weird one you chose doesn't have them.

I actually do the reverse - buy a Zareason and install Windows on it for freelance projects that I need Windows to maintain, because I know that after the maintenance window has ended on those, I can throw Debian on it without issues.
I'm wasn't _fighting_ for anything - I'm sure there are others.

I just bought the best machine for my money. The machine that would allow me to do my job better. I don't care at all about free philosophy and other things of that nature in software.
I've often wondered why I keep bumping into Hugh Grant.

(I keep the dumb phone for the low cost and, so help me, flip phones still make me feel like Captain Kirk asking to be beamed up.)
Curious: what problems in the GNU userland utilities do the BSD utilities address? (not saying that there aren't any, just that I don't use the BSD stuff any more enough to know -- e.g., it's been about 20 years since I was using "Ultrix" and the like)
Don't the 32bit and 64bit versions cost the same amount? I'm not sure why this would make MS angry.
You know what I miss? Landlines. For a lot of reasons, probably most of them nostalgia.. still, when I'm rich I will only be reachable by landline or letter, that's kind of my goal in life.
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You'd think we'd get used to the heat eventually, but it just keeps on being miserable...
Why is there a 32bit variant of win8? Are there people who actually use win8 on non-64bit systems?
In C++, << has higher precedence than &&, so in effect what is being done is

(cout << 1) && 2;

...which is not an error, since the result of operator<< is an std::ostream, which is convertible to bool. Therefore operator&&(bool, bool) is invoked but the result is, of course, discarded.

Disambiguating the expression with parentheses should output 1 in every case.
http://example.com/story/
http://example.com/story/
http://example.com/story/?s=hn

HN will identify the second URL as a duplicate of the first URL. However it will allow the third URL through. In a perfect world HN would check if the submissions provided a canonical url and use the canonical url for deduplication.

I have seen an increasing number of people using the $x=yz trick to get past the duplicate detector lately. For instance:

http://www.restorethefourth.net/?s=hn thepumpkin1979 15 days ago 350+ points
http://www.restorethefourth.net/ 15 days ago iProject 2 points

NB: This is merely an example. I do not mean to single thepumpkin1979 out. That is just the first username that I could recall that has multiple ?s=hn in their 30 most recent submissions.
Sometimed I wish I still had a dumb phone. I used to charge my phone once or twice a week, when it was just a basic GSM phone with voice and SMS. Now I have to charge my iPhone pretty much every night. I could probably get away with charging it every 1.5-2 days though running out of battery on the second day could be rather inconvenient. The biggest challenge is when I'm away from electricity for a few days. The irony is that I sometimes have to keep my phone switched off when I'm away on camping trips, so I end up being less connected than in the past.
> This brings to mind an unrelated product design gripe of mine. Two things that I hate about my kitchen are the clock on my microwave and the clock on my stovetop. I've got a perfectly serviceable clock on the wall in my kitchen; I neither need nor want clocks on those displays.

I love them. Well except that they get out of sync, much to my dismay!

I haven't hung a clock on the wall in years.

Likewise I use my cellphone for time.

Why shouldn't I take advantage of the tech that is around me? Know what else I love? That microwaves have a timer feature! It is amazing, I burn so much less food now. And the granularity is second based rather than the "plus or minus a minute" of the old egg timers.
The sad thing is there is no 32-bit server version of Windows 7 or later so these patches are your only option if you want to enable this.
Great product from an amazing team! Best wishes, you guys.
"Never heard of such a problem on an iPad."

My iPad has now reached the point where, if I don't carefully set it into Airplane mode, Battery drains in 24 hours, even when asleep. I don't know if it's my mail client, or a background task being woke up by a geofence, or one of the GPS/WiFi radios - but I can't reliably leave it sitting around for several days anymore.

So, now I get into the game of "Disable Location Services for All applications, Disable Notification Services for All Applications, Turn off all Radios - NOW, turn on a small handful of services, and observe for a week - if everything looks good, turn on some more - keep doing so until the battery starts draining in 24 hours, and then try and identify the errant applications"

My #1 gripe about the iPad continues to be battery draining because of background tasks. If I could only "Force" the iPad into NO MULTITASKING, Single Damn Application at a time and NOTHING else mode, Don't Check Email, Don't Check GPS, Don't play music, Don't Download - I'd be happy. The only reliable way I've found of guranteeing this is to power it down - but it takes a long time (90+ seconds) to power it up each time I want to use it, which kind of detracts from the device...

So, no - iPad is not perfect. I would say 50% of my time this trip, when I went to use it, battery was completely dead so I ended up with my MacBook Air sitting on my chest to do reading.
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I don't see cloud editors replacing native ones for quite some time. Maybe WebVim and WebEmacs will supplant them one day, but programmers are married to their text editors.
We also like to work when we don't have Internet access.

In the mean time, I think we should use the best of both worlds.
I think it is used on Clover Trail tablets (with 32-bit EFI!), as one example.
It is not difficult to find a phone that fulfils those requirements. Nokia 301 sells for <$100 and makes phone calls.
I've been getting 9 hours on the Zareason Ultralap running LMDE.
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I feel like 10.04 was a real high point -- I was running it the desktop for a long while, and the netbook edition was great on smaller screens. The netbook shell was a one off, it only was 10.04, and I think it's nearly impossible to install now. Unity was a descendent of it, but (IMHO) going the wrong way.
Anyone rmember WABI that Sun did long ago (I have a Linux version floating around somewhere). Although it was Win 3.x only, it did a decent job at the time.
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Ya I like that it would be code that would be used and scrutinized.
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Quite right, my mistake. The point still stands, though, as Windows (the dominant OS by a huge margin) has no stable releases of the base MPlayer app, so there's no one version people can grab. Whereas VLC runs quite well on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Foundation has been my favorite over bootstrap for quite some time. Looks like the bootstrap guys are falling behind.
There are a bunch of them on Windows, too. It's hard to keep track of them all.
The post was closed because it is obviously off-topic as stated in the FAQ. We've recently implemented a substantial overhaul of the closing mechanisms, and so you'll see on that question (http://stackoverflow.com/q/2380148) that there is now a close reason that is very specific:

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The question is still there and is still helpful to anyone who happens to land on it from some search; it just cant' be contributed to anymore unless the question is edited to raise its quality and the community reopens it (it doesn't take a diamond-mod to reopen). I can't tell that it was ever deleted, although it could be that a status change was backfilled after the flags updates.
MIT must've done something really embarrassingly awful to want to suppress this.
... not even mentioning STLport.

http://www.stlport.org/news.html

Apache project looks like "me too" one.
Sorry about this. We are still figuring some of this stuff out - you will need a modern phone with a decent camera at the very least.
I don't mind the dupes when they are spaced out by months or more. The instances that bother me are times when a user appends $x=y to a URL to get best the detector on a regular basis. For instance:

http://www.restorethefourth.net/?s=hn 15.000 days ago thepumpkin1979 350+ points
http://www.restorethefourth.net/ 15.001 days ago iProject 2 points

This means that pumpkin submitted the bare URL saw that someone else submitted it and then appended s=hn and resubmitted the URL to get past the dupe detector for fun and karma.

pg needs to figure out how to embed ColinWright into the duplication detection process, nothing gets by him.
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Yea, I think the licensing mechanism was used for this limit just because it was convenient to do so.
Thanks!! One of the most rewarding experiences I had was watching children at one of our recent workshops - when they first see what is going on their faces light up and it is amazing to watch.
I'm eagerly awaiting that report too. Hal Abelson is a very respected professor, one of the good guys, and he's put his reputation on the line writing this report. I sure hope he's got the freedom to make it honest.
Haha, if only!
I thought the purpose of having a 'dumb' phone would be to simplify things, not carry around multiple gadgets!

Also, taking a photo with an iPhone is very quick. Press home button, swipe up and you're ready to go. Arguably faster than a lot of pocket cameras (plus, are you really going to carry a pocket camera with you everywhere you go???).
Yeah, it is freaking amazing and the first paragraph blew me away.. I'm hoping we can keep it up over the next few weeks.
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http://www.phildub.com/ has a resume that looks like amazon and a link at the top with the story.
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And are, in turn, doing something embarrassingly awful by moving to suppress this.

(IMHO, of course).
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