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It is too late to change HTTP semantics - HTTP has to be backward compatible and when whole host of REST semantics depends on the verbs, it simply not possible to change that. Changing a standard fundamentally is something impossible - rather create a different standard and move slowly there.
So what you are saying is that through some combination of luck and circumstance, you have never been treated like this?

Good for you. Now stop calling people who have been liars.
It's too bad the original post and no comment links to http://bikeshed.bikeshed.com/. The best kind of right.

NOTE: RELATED: /bikeshed in Google Hangout takes on a similar role.
Summon_process - Python tool for orchestrating processes
In this day and age, drumming off single-sentence dismissals of major languages does not lend one much credibility.

The diversity of programming languages is due in part to the fact that developers enjoy looking at old problems from new angles. Doing so lets us to make creative re-use of libraries and practices that were invented to solve disparate problems, and good things invariably result.

Node.js is a staggering example, but every language you mentioned has its strengths.
> Sorry, I've found that arguments based on actual real problems don't resonate. Pointing out that bees kill more people each year in the US than terrorists

That's because this is a bad argument. Terrorism is about far more than just the number of fatalities.
Historically, the story with visibility on checkins to iOS Safari was not that great.

But yes, for desktop Safari usually one can get some idea by scouring checkin logs.
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I don't find TF2 to be that much different with the Rift. I think it's just too fast paced, so I just end up playing it as normal.
You make it sound worse than it is. Maybe it's just me, but he seemed to have some positive things to say during the actual demo. Just seems slightly staged at the end there is all. As for struggling to use the app, we don't all expect an early prototype + third-party app to have perfect usability.

Of course, this testimonial pales in comparison to, say, the Oculus Rift kickstarter video. But that product was further along at that point, and solving an easier problem.

Edit: Actually, I take that back. I didn't realize this was featured on their home page, which definitely should have a better testimonial. At least it reflects the reality of the tech at this point, setting the right expectations hopefully (in contrast to their main video).
> There's a reason why most systems are implementing this with POST instead of PATCH

You mean reasons like browsers not supporting anything but POST and GET?
To some extent I think we're both saying the same thing. We figured out how to make it happen, but in all this time we couldn't be bothered to make it sustainable. And then it looks like everyone just gave up and said, "Meh, it's too hard"
You don't have to disclose the specific targets you're spying on to publish the relevant court opinions. You can redact the names and still publish what the law is.

And there is a difference between collecting intelligence on foreign governments (which I don't think anyone could ever expect not to happen) and mass data collection. Part of the problem here is that spying on "terrorist" "suspects" is so broad and poorly defined that it could encompass nearly anything and becomes nothing but a convenient fig leaf for mass surveillance.

We lump too many things under the label of terrorism. Someone with the likes of a machete or a hand grenade is distinctly a law enforcement problem rather than a national security problem and cannot justify secret mass surveillance or data collection.

Once you take all of that out and get to the actual national security threats (i.e. nuclear or biological terrorism) you end up with a completely different threat model. More to the point, you need to keep a lot less secret because instances of attempted nuclear terrorism are much more rare. You don't have to classify every court opinion related to some idiot with defective instructions on how to make a pipe bomb just because you have to classify certain methods of preventing nuclear proliferation.
He also describes how to install it manually, so you can do that if you're not comfortable with the other method.

https://sublime.wbond.net/installation#Manual
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Yes

Except for this whole internet thing, which is still a place of punks and troublemakers to them
It's the same kind of beauty you'd find in a well-stated argument.
approaching Poe's Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Nexus 4 binaries have been available for the some time now. I installed using the same couple of weeks ago.
Gitlab - Project management and code hosting application
To be fully honest i have no clue lol. I though you had some type of method and that is why i was like oh damn this will be amazing for my new project :-) Best of luck hope to see MP3 compression soon.
Your point is lost if it's not applicable to a significant majority. If it's only applicable to a minority, then that minority ought to be identified and specially trained, like we do with peanut allergies.
"... earlier and more general lack of any decent understanding of how calculus works at all that was solved by Cauchy, Weierstrass and others. It is their introduction of what the author considers "unnecessary formalism" that made us finally really understand "mathematics of motion" ..."

I don't think so.

99.99% of the mathematics of motion consists of continuous functions with continuous derivatives of all orders. Infinitesimals are just fine for that. I find the epsilon-delta construction (EDC) to be not only inordinately clunky but to provide no insight whatsoever insofar as motion is concerned. From a pedagogical standpoint EDC is roughly the equivalent of tossing a monkey wrench into the smoothly oiled and finely-working innards of the mathematics of motion. The student's mind grinds to a screeching halt as (s)he attempts to come to terms with a new construct that not even a mathematician's mother could love. I consider any praise of the epsilon-delta construction of calculus to be little more than turd-polishing and while it is unfortunately necessary, there is no need to call attention to it more than once. And once pointed out, best forgotten.

One of the most underrated advancements in mathematics is Descarte's introduction of Cartesian coordinates. The formalization of the calculus, in contrast, was a step backwards in creative terms. Although necessary, it is of interest mostly to pure mathematicians.
The random shutdown and reboot problems are because of the apps which are not yet updated. I think Netflix was one those apps. The GPS problem seems to be fixable with software update. Apparently the problem arises when two or more apps try to use the GPS.
Moment - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.
Since its a first dev version and aimed at simplicity i understand going with Unity first. I am sure they will add other technologies at a later stage.
> the package manager can handle github repos

A package manager with no concept of package versioning, unlike every other major languages' managers.

This is a complete deal breaker for some / many (choose as appropriate).

The idea of "Just track original master or make your own fork if you want a specific version" is insane when all the others seem to be able to do dependency resolution.

> ruby is pretty, eyecandy, bu is like a virgen that cant be touched

Which, even compared to the dismissals of the other languages, makes no sense.
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Obviously, everyone has typos, but this wasn't just a typo (they got the entire paragraph wrong). And it was one of the most important paragraphs in one of the most highly visible documents they've ever released. Can you imagine what would happen to a corporate law firm that, on the eve of signing a billion-dollar real estate deal, accidentally/"accidentally" inserted extra zeroes into every number in the final contract?
Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden
I'll be honest -- when I read the title and the domain I was worried someone submitted a Vooza video out of earnestness.

These videos are hilarious but also useful. Whenever you try out a new pitch (and "pitch" in this sense isn't necessarily related to VC/startupland -- think of it as an answer to "how do you spend your time?") consider these clips.
France, too, is a civil law jurisdiction. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
AFNetworking - A delightful iOS and OS X networking framework
Show HN: A good writer should not pay for his own coffee
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The non Google Wallet images are for those outside the United States.
It looks like USG wants US companies to either run on a cloud that has an NSA backdoor to or to provide a backdoor to their own services.
Three20 -  an Objective-C library for iPhone developers
Yeah, it is about the emotional reaction that causes self-inflicted wounds far greater than the original attack. Which is why I'm talking about finding arguments that are also emotionally compelling.
No, Europe is behind. I know, I work there. Maybe not so much in talent, but in a way to leverage it.

As hard as getting a H1B is, as bad as the SW patents are, it's there that Google, FB, etc grew. And not "in the US" but in tiny patches on the West and East coast.

Don't underestimate the power of vision and drive combined (not forgetting very good sources of financing). Also, Europe (yes, I'm talking about Germany, but this concern others as well) suffers from chronic bureaucracy, while the Europeans are still thinking about something in the US it was already prototyped and generating a revenue. Ireland is the safest from this, but has other issues.
I dont think this is meant to be used 24/7. More like when you want to play a certain game/do a certain thing at home/work and for that usecase i think its ok if it doesnt look totally normal. Id rather compare it to the Oculus Rift than Google Glass in terms of looks.
If its meant as a 24/7 device, i am with you, looks too geeky.
How does "federation" benefit anyone? Is it something you can explain to a layman that they will say "wow, I want that!" Is it even a problem people are even asking to be solved via products?

It's also curious if this was the whole point of the project, why wasn't that done first?
face to face is CP (card present) . it's far less prone to any sort of fraud and IDs can be checked.
Hilarious. This video reminds me of the CollegeHumor parody of startups - http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6507690/hardly-working-sta...

I love all the bland, platitudinal aphorisms and vague "x for y" explanations. It feels like a lot of startups do this without realizing.

They covered the basic buzzword list:

* "disrupt"

* "change the way you interact/think/work"

* "like x for y"

* "pivot"

* "what if you could..."

etc...etc...etc...
Can someone explain the discrepancy between

> I still hear stories of users thinking it's perfectly normal and economic to replace burned out Intel SSDs every 6 to 12 months

and

> How long have you got before the disk is trashed? ... 51 years!
I actually reuse the same code a lot, which is a very nice feature once you get used to it.

I share code between the client and server. For example, I have data type checks where I reuse the same library and the same application specific code on both the client and server.

I expose substantial portions of my server-side code via the command line. I also frequently call shell scripts from node as there are certain things I find easier to write in a shell script.

That said, I don't know if this amount of reuse is typical. And, code reuse is clearly not the only consideration.
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Feels like a tipping point for Nest. Someone like this could be the next Apple.

I feel strongly a few of these Internet enabled devices will pave the way for a new industry. Imagine Nest being purchased by every household (like the iPod) and then moving on to other products.

At some point it feels like they could charge a subscription. Would you take a free device and pay them 10$ of your 30$/month savings?
Thats the right way of thinking about it but its not really feasible for consumers.

"Oh hey, this Laptop has a SSD drive which is super fast. You will have to replace it every year though and if you dont have a backup strategy you might lose all you data. Did i mention they are quite expensive ?"
Yeah, I know what hyperbole means. The problem is your comment was not even in the correct direction. Hyperbole is overstating a truth, not strongly stating something false.

And, this guy is a Googler? Who knew? You know your argument is weak when your best responses are "look it up in a dictionary," and "you work for the same company hur hur."
Droid Life says[1] razor is the "product name" and flo the "device name". I guess that means flo refers to the hardware and razor the software.

[1]: http://www.droid-life.com/2013/08/09/new-nexus-7-razor-facto...
LWN covered contributor license agreements several times. The FSF at least says the code will always remain free software.

http://lwn.net/Articles/529522/

> Secondly, the consumer would rather software with stability and functionality rather than visible source code

Err, you are agreeing with one of my points. However this is not good for consumers in the long term since they will be restricted by whatever the producers of binary blobs and closed drivers decide to do. For example if the vendor decides not to support particular architectures, or update with kernel changes then tough luck.

> And just because you say Ubuntu isn't GNU/Linux

I was responding to the OP equating Ubuntu with Linux - ie supporting the Edge is supporting Linux. If for example Canonical said they would make sure the hardware was open/free, or at the very least that any rights Canonical negotiates for binary blobs and drivers would apply equally to the whole Linux community then that would be a good start. Heck many argue that binary blobs are drivers are violations of the GPL.

> The amount of misinformation

I would love to correct factual errors. What are they?

> .. bias in your post ..

I was responding to OPs claims that supporting the Edge is supporting Linux, and implied that we all should do so. Supporting the Edge is supporting Canonical and only indirectly Linux. The reasons I gave are why I don't support Edge, and implicitly what Canonical could do to get my support. Everyone is free to make their own mind up, and hopefully I've provided some reasons from the dissenters.
> Since pure code has no dealings with the outside world, and the data it works with is never modified, the kinds of nasty surprise in which one piece of code invisibly corrupts data used by another are very rare.

If you're trying to sell me on Haskell, right there you just made me think "uh, ok, guys, but my code does not live in an ivory tower, and very much needs to deal with the real world, messy data, users, and so on".

I realize that Haskell can handle that, too, but in terms of copy writing, it leaves something to be desired.

They subsequently go on to write much more interesting reasons why you might consider Haskell, including examples of companies using it in the real world, but they should not lead with talk of 'purity'.
You don't have to disclose the specific targets you're spying on to publish the relevant court opinions. You can redact the names and still publish what the law is.

If you have to redact all the of the relevant facts, then any statement of the law is meaningless because it's unclear what sort of fact pattern it should be applied to. I realize this seems abstruse, but the fact pattern is very important in common law judgments. You can't just say 'the law is X' and have it be portable to any other case. The opinion would read something like: 'HELD: the government may xxxxxxx xxxxx when xxxxx xxxx xxx in a xxxxx and xxxxxx.' Read some judicial opinions in normal cases and then imagine how little sense they'd make if the facts were matters of national security and couldn't be published. For that matter it's quite hard for a lot of people to understand the law in many regular criminal cases where all the details are available.

Someone with the likes of a machete or a hand grenade is distinctly a law enforcement problem rather than a national security problem and cannot justify secret mass surveillance or data collection.

9/11 only involved boxcutters, but I'd say that it presented a rather significant national security problem when those turned out to be sufficient to hijack planes and fly them into high-value targets. There's an assumption in some corners that since we're now more aware of the risks, no hijacking can ever work again, but that's not the case.

You're also ignoring the fact that many kinds of low-level terrorist activity aren't open to direct investigation by law enforcement. For example, suppose you pick up signals about a plot involving Mr X, who has not yet arrived in the US but whose phone number you have managed to identify. If he's in a country that's friendly to the US you might be able to get their law enforcement people to investigate him, but if not then it's logical to monitor who he communicates with for prophylactic purposes.
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> an understanding thereof might be of relevance to someone entering into a loan agreement which they probably, if they really understood it, were not going to be able to repay...

Oh, it's relevant. It's sort of like how being able to load and fire a gun is relevant to the decision whether or not to commit suicide. Sure, it can modify one of the many, many details, but some people just make a noose and hang themselves.

Keep in mind, this is your argument: if more people in the world understood sums and compounding processes, this would have prevented the subprime mortgage crisis and thus the many deaths that were inspired by the resultant fallout. There is no possibility that anything else caused the crisis, and no possibility that anyone is at fault for these deaths other than parents and teachers.

This claim, if true, actually absolves the lenders that you talk about below, because they can be held responsible only for their own understanding of sums and compounding processes.

Amusingly, if you accept your argument, you can also make an interesting inverse version. The fact that lenders understood sums and compounding processes led to their employment at unscrupulous institutions which then mandated their sign-off on high-risk mortgages, which then caused the deaths of all those people.

Math, apparently, kills.
One of the goals of the Mormon Church is to teach people "what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come" [Introduction, The Book of Mormon]. I think a lot of people miss one of the two sides of the coin. That peace I feel is what motivated me to give up two years of my life as a missionary. Not because I wanted a reward after this life, but because there is nothing more valuable than that peace. It's the same peace I feel in my family, with my wife and children. I feel it in my personal relationship with God. It's a common thread through everything good in my life.

That's why I believe and live my life this way. Not for an eternal reward, but for the day to day.

That's why I, along with many others in the Mormon Church, feel that there is no better way we could spend our time than inviting others to feel the same peace.

As far as religion appealing only to those who sinned, a frequently quoted phrase in the Mormon church is that our mission is to "make a bad person good and a good person better". Nobody is perfect, and it is my personal conviction that religion, the Mormon faith in particular, is the best (not the only) way for someone to better themselves.

This is my personal belief and I realize it is not shared by most people. I share it with you not with the intention to preach or incite guilt, but to clarify and explain why we feel so strongly about our beliefs. I'm more than happy to answer any questions via email (in my profile).
Yeah, he probably doesn't understand the difference between kW vs. kWh, but it's not necessary to figure out how much money you've saved.
I don't think he's referring to RAM disk software drivers as RAM SSD's because he says:

> where as long as enterprise users remember to replace their batteries periodically...
Knock on wood :-)
It seems like a noble move but as a german i know these companies pretty well and i am very sure they only do this to stop german users wandering off to non-german email providers like gmail. Its still a good thing of course, but dont think they do this because they feel its the right thing todo.

Heck, if they could they would even charge extra for it.
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How about writing it in Perl and using CPAN instead of npm then? There are tons of modules in CPAN.
But since Perl is not cool any more, there's always Python and pip.
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I find the logically sound version of the infinitesimals approach to be much more difficult to understand than the approach using limits. For example, you have to introduce hyperreals to make it work (most common approach):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
Thank god! My account expired right before the outage and I've been waiting to try out iOS7!
This is my feeling as well. The console shenanigans feel odd to me simply because it feels like it should already be there. There is a coolness to it, though, since it clearly demonstrates how effectively the interface can be modded from just a "simple" command.

No doubt there are perfectly reasonable business explanations for why Sublime doesn't ship with it, but I wouldn't consider upgrading from 2 until 3 was supported.

Anecdote on why the console code is bad and good: by coincidence this afternoon I decided to try ST3, and before using it spent about an hour trying to get Package Control working via the git repo route [1] (Sublime was already inside a local repo, so I had to RTFM git submodule stuff to appease the git_binary error); that went... poorly. I [ab]use Git's functionality, but don't grok it's inner workings well enough to feel like I can use submodules without contaminating the super repo, and eventually gave up when I accidentally came across the page that has the new command [2]. Bam it's working without trouble (after modifying it for the corporate proxy). Like magic it just worked, which was awesome, but silly that something so useful would have any barrier to entry at all.

TL;DR: Package Control is an essential element of the joy of Sublime Text, so it's a little mystifying why it's not just built in.

[1] I can't find the page at the moment. Hopefully I haven't simply hallucinated it somehow.
[2] https://sublime.wbond.net/installation
I for one am hoping this will finally bring the death of Facebook, too, at least in Germany and Europe.
Presumptuous. We may as well tell the author of this slam that his mother, daughter, wife, sister, best friend, butcher, and dentist are all embarrassed for him.
2 plus years ago there may have been merit to your implicit assumption that JavaScript is limited to front-end developers.

However, today there is more diversity in the JavaScript developer community. For example, Yehuda Katz is both a server-side (Rails) team member and client-side (JQuery, Ember) developer. Also, system engineers have begun working in JS. The Meteor team is a good example of system engineers working on JS.
Write endurance is very real.

http://www.ssdaddict.com/ss/Endurance_cr_20130122.png

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...
"Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland." (The internet is uncharted waters for all of us) -- Chancellor Merkel to Obama 2013-6-19
The book I linked to uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_infinitesimal_analysis (a quite different approach). I haven't studied nonstandard analysis.