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> i can't imagine myself using any Microsoft product if Apple provides it.

I can say that you are in the minority, people use apple now because they are cool and with subsidies cheap. I see a larger amount of android phones now than I did 2 years ago when everyone and their mother had an iPhone and now the Android phones are starting to look cool with there gimmicks like the phone pausing video when you look away.

People bought iPads because they were a cheapish replacement for a computer and they were cool, I think Apple has everyone beat on the tablet market at the moment, while more people might know what a Galaxy S4 is they probably don't know the name of a Tablet that isn't iPad.

But for computers cheap Windows laptops still reign supreme.
It's a little scary just how far this applies.

We're building military 6x6's into motorhomes, and as soon as they meet the requirements for a living space, there's no special regulation.
I am 34, Entrepreneur and Not terrified
Can't wait for 1.2 RC, there is some good stuff in the pipeline.
> When do i file for a patent?

As soon as possible. A basic change in patent law has recently gone into effect, which (at risk of oversimplification) grants a patent to the first person to file, rather than the first person to invent (the old standard).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...

> As far as I know, the idea is unique but I don't know if I have to make it first to patent it or just patent the idea, or is the idea all that matters?

* Ideas can now be patented, so don't wait until you have a working embodiment -- by then, someone else may have patented the idea.

* You need to consult a competent patent attorney, not a public forum.
New Mashable android app to predict what's going viral
RootBSD coming to Europe
Not being funny, but if you are writing a book about someone and intend on comparing them to historical characters, you probably should go through history a bit more generally and find people who genuinely reflects the person you are describing, rather than go and decide that you just want an explorer and then seek one to wedge in.
If you make content accessible for screen readers, you are effectively making content more accessible for search engines as well [0].

high accessibility overlaps heavily with effective white hat SEO. The goal of accessibility is to make web content accessible to as many people as possible, including those who experience that content under technical, physical, or other constraints. It may be useful to think of search engines as users with substantial constraints: they can’t read text in images, can’t interpret JavaScript or applets, and can’t “view” many other kinds of multimedia content. These are the types of problems that accessibility is supposed to solve in the first place.

[0] http://alistapart.com/article/accessibilityseo
Thanks for the reply and update! Also, I just realized you have a link to the source repo, which would answer a few of my questions. If there are certain conditions in which false positives arise frequently from image analysis, perhaps a refinement of the parameters (if photo_taken_during_hazy_night && by satellite_in_position(x,y)_relative_to_viewport, then increase fuzziness_factor) might also cut the noise. From my layman's perspective, the problem seems to be "easy" because of the relative simpleness of the shapes (whitish dots on a dark area) and expected movement patterns...And so the fact that it isn't means that there's other problems (data quality) or a major flaw in (my) assumptions...which is even more interesting.

Conversely, it'd be interesting to set up a measurement-framework to test which conditions are users most likely to report false positives.

Anyway, these are all details that may also have been overlooked by those in the field and that even if they realized it, they don't have a strategy (or see the need) to perform such meta-analysis. Another way that an outsider can bring freshness to a field.
It appears "children" was too specific a choice of word. Perhaps a better fit would have been "simpleton."

The point being that when we engage those of opposite views by dismissing their views out of hand, we usually make ourselves feel righteous in doing so by rationalizing that they are simpletons. They are beneath our level of understanding and any attempt we make to sway them is hopeless.

I don't mean to imply that the author was trying to persuade the opposition's point of view. Rather merely that the introductory paragraph exhibits the hallmarks of a closed mind, and unfortunately one that disingenuously feigns being open. I find that particularly disappointing.

These labels we assign to political points of view are so broad that I find it distracting to dwell too much on historical associations of each word. Historical perspective cannot be dismissed, but if the present and past differ, I'd rather consider the present.

On this subject, what do conservatives think now about women in leadership and management positions? I honestly cannot say with a straight face that modern conservatives think women are incapable of management. In fact I feel perpetuating that myth only serves to diminish whatever progress they have made toward our point of view, as if we're moving the goal posts and sneering at them for even trying. It seems like petty politics and not genuine effort to improve matters.
Offtopic - your username reminds me of a line from the Beverly HillBillies that went something like: "Hi, I'm Jethro Bodine; initials JB. Turn it around, BJ -- Boy Jenius." Ha ha.
I would not. If you're going to watch Gasland, then you also need to read the opposing side. There are some parts of it that are incredibly misleading, such as the tap water on fire.

http://energyindepth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Debunkin...

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/08/01/gasla...

Edit: Admittedly, these sources suck. Here's a NYTimes article that should hopefully be more palatable:

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/24/24greenwire-groundtr...
A less centralized version of that would just be to make it really frictionless to resell things.
So when I need the drill for once in a year, I pop uberlocalbuy, buy a drill from someone near me and either pick it up or pay for delivery.
After I am done with it, there is an easy way to immediately relist the drill (possibly with an automatically computed depreciation of its value), and then the next person buys it from me.
5 Simple Things You Can Do to Get More Money From the Sale of Your App
This touches on one of the big issues with the agency model, Apple's 30% cut of IAP, and the rule requiring all digital goods purchases go Apple IAP made Apple the only bookstore on apple iDevices, outside the browser.
IMHO, when the iPhone was the leading smartphone in the US, that wasn't a walled garden, that was a market leader leveraging that power to take another market in an anti-competitive way.
I'm not particularly interested in fracking one way or the other, I'm just answering his question.

They apparently don't just use water, like some people might expect they could, because it doesn't work. Many people are concerned about contamination from the fracking fluid, correctly or not.
Yup, that's because the NoFlo way isn't going to be the paradigm-shifting development; it's just graphical sugar on the same old thing.

If it'll ever become big then it'll be more like what Javelin does by adding FRP to Clojure's persistent data structures [1]

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ClojureScript-Javelin
Thanks for bringing this up. I cant speak for everyone else but I can tell you that I didnt always use to be good at test taking. In fact, whenever I get on this topic, I always talk about the story about a time when I moved to a different country in the middle of a school year and I moved there just it time for the comprehensive mid-year test in which I got the lowest test scores of any test in my life. And I mention that because after that, I had a bit of a revelation as far as how to prepare for tests.

I picked up the knack for listening to what teachers emphasized while teaching and correlated that to the home work, drew parallels and 9 times out of 10, most of what they had in common was on the test - so no extra studying needed. It was easier for things like Maths, Physics and Chemistry because you have a formula to use - and all the questions that revolved around these forumlae had keywords as far as what facts you have to use and what you need to find. Once you see the pattern, you can apply the forumula (which you've probably seen at least a dozen times in class and/or homework) at this point and its just applying it.

As far as things like vocabulary or other word definitions go, I've learned how to photographically remember things so I could breeze through a textbook and remember key words and/or key dates and look for those in questions on the test.

I dont mean to say that it is either hard or only gifted people can do it, I think everyone has their own unique learning style and once they figure out what works for them, tests can be easy.
I sort of see CraigsList as a rough version of this already. Buy a coffee table for as long as you want it, then sell it again when done.
An Intro to Node.js
Methane is a natural contaminant of groundwater and is commonplace in water wells. A simple solution is to run the well water into a holding tank; the methane readily comes out of solution.

Venting methane from well water is less a problem than Joe Mulroy's farts at a beer-soused Friday night card game. Either will produce a flare if a match is put to them.
You're missing his point.

Scrap the crowdfunding completely and find SERIOUS (defined as "$1K is nothing") backers for the project -- perhaps a company that wants it.
>"Windows 7 is not a success. It's just a non-failure."

So last I heard there were 630 million licenses of Windows 7 sold. Even at OEM prices, that's 63 billion dollars of revenue. If that's not success, you're probably setting the bar too high.

>"The only reason people use it at all isn't because it's fantastic, but because it's incrementally better than Windows XP without all the garbage Vista foisted on the user."

That's a pretty broad brush you're using there. Really, that's the ONLY reason?

And what's wrong with incrementally better? The iPhone has only been incrementally better since the first version, and that's even more true of the 4s to 5. The iPhone 5 is still a fantastic phone! Amount of change from prior versions is a poor measure of quality.
Criticism is one thing, legislation is another...
Unless I wrote my resume in html and css and hosted it using Github pages, which I did. #winning
It may be a rant, but your anecdotal evidence doesn't prove its point wrong. In fact, a recent influential paper by sociologist Lauren Rivera [1] suggests that cultural "fit" is indeed an important aspect in many hiring decisions.

Rivera finds that interviews are where "fit" is ultimately determined, but résumé screening is a first step: "firms mandated that evaluators assess candidates’ fit along with a variety of technical and communication skills in résumé
screens and first- and second-round job interviews" (p. 1007).

1: http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Dec12ASRFeature.pdf
They might be selling it as a users' benefit, but in the case of the Amazon app, users are at a loss.

As long as the developers submit themselves to Apple's authority, Apple and its related products could offer superior service. Most developers are still accepting the "Apple way", even in cases where it hurts their own business proposition. The reason Apple has such a strong supplier power is that they have a very strong market share. However, Apple's arrogance will one day contribute to their downfall. Developers choose to develop first and foremost for the platform that offers the greatest benefits; as Apple's market shares are falling, the userbase is less of a reason to choose to develop for Apple first. Also, because alternatives are strengthening on various fronts, developers will be less likely to swallow Apple's authoritative terms if those terms hurt their own business model - even if that means offering a suboptimal service to Apple's customers.
>To begin with, the vertical depth separation between drinking water aquifers and reservoir targets for gas production is several thousand feet of impermeable rock. Any interchange between the two, if it were possible, would have happened already in geologic time, measured in tens of millions of years, not in recent history

It is true that drink wells are ~100 feet and these fracking wells are thousands of feet deep but I'm not sure that completely rules out the possibility of gas escaping a well and making it into drinking water.
> Windows 7 and 8 were the first mobile OS that didn't completely rip off Apple

Is everyone here too young to remember Palm, Windows CE, Pocket PC, et al?

We need new terminology for describing the transition that occurred once we had pervasive smartphones with built-in app stores, because it's nonsensical to claim that "mobile" didn't exist before that.
It says a lot about their attitude, but I wouldn't say Apple's strategy is 100% predicated on switching costs. Not even close. They entered the phone market as an underdog, for one thing.

As for attitude though, it does perfectly capture what they consider "superior", i.e. stuff Apple does (platform-mediated payments), not necessarily stuff that benefits users (portability).
iOS and Android are largely for consumer devices, .Net is largely used in the enterprise for B2B products that consumers never see. .Net and Java dominate the enterprise market. Apples and oranges.
Emotions. The bridge to your customers
It's harmful in the sense that it's flammable also.
> To begin with, the vertical depth separation between drinking water aquifers and reservoir targets for gas production is several thousand feet of impermeable rock.

Impermeable except for, you know, the several thousand foot long shafts that are drilled through that rock in the process of fraking.
Search: You've been doing it all wrong.
Does searching in Japanese return different results than searching in English? Is it possible to find free movies without entering shady sites like Vodly? Could searching Craigslist suck any less? Yes.
Unfortunately putting a try/catch around a 3p lib doesn't actually capture exceptions generated by those libs (unless they occur before any async operations, which I would say is the exception rather than the rule).

You're right that you have to manage exceptions, which is difficult. The biggest problem I've had with Node is the runtime exceptions that crash the entire process because they go uncaught. To deal with that, I have the server automatically restart on failure - far from an ideal scenario of error recovery (and what I think you're referring to when you talk about sacrificing error safety).
Hi everybody, this is quite a monster of a release: 378 commits by 40 different people :)

Here's the full release pull request if you're interested: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/pull/1628
Barnacleware.
It also fails to explain parallel construction. Every time the NSA tries to defend itself with these ridiculous claims made to earn PR brownie points, you can point at parallel construction to show that they are full of it.
A thing is worth exactly what another is willing to pay for it.

The author's work may very well not be worth sharing on GitHub - it may be worth much more than "free".
Hm. Do you really want to do that on your own? You'd have to find the ToS, document ToS changes, analyse the ToS, etc.

We're trying to do that already at http://tosdr.org, please join in (http://github.com/tosdr) and http://tosback.org

Edit: Hm I thought 5apps supported https already, i guess i was wrong
Robots building robots
I'd love for someone to auto-tune and mix Qashoush's song up. I'd love to see something like that go viral.
> Aside from the odd "Apple has better hardware" bit (they use the same binned devices that other OEMs like Dell do, so not sure where that comes from)

Apple pushed IPS screens when PC OEMs were happy with the lowest quality TFT panels available. For years Apple insisted on having a proper GPU in their machines, until Intel finally was able to offer a competitive IGP. And finally Apple also moved forward with SSDs early on.

Add on top of that, Apple's laptops look good. Asus is one of the few PC OEMs making laptops that are even within striking distance of Apple, but their distribution and advertising is abysmal. Asus's best ultrabook was exclusively available from Amazon for the longest time! And then their model numbers are so confusing I knew what I wanted to buy but I couldn't figure out exactly what magic combination of model numbers equated to the machine that I desired.

Every PC Laptop out there has "something" missing from it. Then there is the terrible buying experience, pretty much the only sane way to buy a Dell or an HP machine is to find a magic sales link that takes you to the site which will now show you the real price of the laptop, rather than the rather insane price that is shown by default.

> Buy a pure Windows device and you'll be pestered endlessly for Skydrive, Hotmail, Bing, photo backups

Really? Pestered? I signed into my MS account and my Skydrive files are synced down, but aside from that, I've had no other notifications or requests on either of my Win8 machines. Granted these are both raw Win8 installs.
A few internet-years ago the same was said about having a blog. And then there was a tidal wave of low SNR blogs created by developers employed by offshoring companies looking for an edge. If this article gets traction - github will likely see the same. Be careful what you wish for.

To be honest, from my own modest mountaintop of being 35, (gainfully employed and programming since 14 somewhere in the depths of your typical enterprise) I suddenly find myself repeating the words of others from long ago when I first started in the field (though now I can relate) - look at this as yet another fad: same as those blogs, same as the linkedins and twitters...

I'd like to volunteer that I, though not having contributed to any open source projects, nor published any of the code that I have worked on (it obviously being proprietary to the company I work for), nor having any interest to blog my many unremarkable opinions along with already overbearing gaggle of "experts" - still, am not entirely uninterested and apathetic towards programming, nor devoid of useful engineering skill and reliable experience accumulated over lengthy career. But you won't believe me.
Hmmm...

You attempted to reach tosdr.org, but instead you actually reached a server identifying itself as *.5apps.com. This may be caused by a misconfiguration on the server or by something more serious. An attacker on your network could be trying to get you to visit a fake (and potentially harmful) version of tosdr.org.
We need to create better filters for the flood of junk content online
Excellent post that captures my feelings precisely. I worked for a MS "partner" whose product integrated with BizTalk (I know, right?) A big part of our strategy was trying to keep MS from locking us out once we became successful. Eventually we got bought out and the product was killed.

Around 2000, Linux was on the scene and like a lot of people I got the hell out of the MS ecosystem and never looked back.
You could try doing the Matasano crypto challenges which don't require any previous crypto knowledge and are a hands-on way of learning it.

There's also a MOOC on Coursera by Dan Boneh that is all about cryptography. Next session starts on September 9th.
The current business models of transportation startups like Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and Car2Go are merely a stepping stone to something much greater. It's only a matter of time before self-driving car technology is developed enough to be deployed widely. It seems clear to me that Google's investment in Uber is their way to guarantee access to a large fleet of vehicles and an established brand. The next 10-15 years are going to be very interesting :)
> Today’s web programmers grapple with problems that people in the early days never had to deal with. They’re building complex UIs, juggling a bunch of APIs, and running multiple processes at the same time. All of these tasks require mastering the flow of data between application components in real-time, something which even the most advanced developers struggle with.

No. The problem is not moving data around. The biggest problem on web development is the drive from the industry to shoe-horne applications on top of platforms that weren't meant for it.
Reducing Brazil's success to external factors and natural resources would be doing a great disservice to many of the other internal factors that have greatly aided the economic success since the implementation of the Plano Real. What has happened in Brazil is far more complex than what you can see happening from outside.

In fact, Brazil is surprisingly well-insulated from the rest of the world economically. After many years of horrible financial crisis, it's adopted very conservative and heavily regulated banking practices. It's got an astronomically high risk-free rate making the cost of capital high enough to discourage reckless borrowing domestically. Even borrowing cheap money internationally was shown to be risky after the exchange rates changed sharply around 2000 causing the "órphãos do cambio". Most economic success has been captured by those with access to cheap money through family and friends. Our "Rockefellers" and "Mellons" got a lot richer because they had access to enough cheap capital to go after opportunities that few others could meaning that there was little to no competition in many major industries. The Bolsa Familiar did a lot to stimulate economic activity that more equitably spread across the society (it's an interesting analog to the notion of a universal livable wage and the rest of the World should take some time to study it's impact at both the macro and microeconomic level". We're also fairly well insulated trade wise from the rest of the world by our own incompetence at the governmental level. Brazil has been remarkably short-sized when it comes to essential infrastructure. Most big projects are poorly planned if at all. We lack decent shipping infrastructure internally and our ports and airports leave a lot to be desired. We could probably have done even better if we actually had the infrastructure internally to move more of our natural resources abroad.

All in all, Brazil in the last 20 years is a country capitalizing on a lot of its potential that it couldn't capitalize on prior to the Plano Real. All the external trade like iron ore and agriculture largely served as a buffers from instabilities as we developed lots of industries internally.
Apple is a hardware as software company. Google is an advertising company. Apple wants the dollars in your pocket, Google wants your eyes. Discussing things in terms of open, closed access to competitors platforms etc is missing the point of each company.
Well said. I am 100% with you on this. At the time of the internet bubble MSFT share was around $60 and it been more than 13 years now and still no luck as far as shares are concern. I guess the best Microsoft product so far is XBOX/XBOX360. Windows was suppose to be huge but I guess gone are those days.
To be clear, I fine with their attempt to make any product they intend to make. I'm very skeptical about it due to the fact that it's been tried a lot, but hey, their money, their choice, maybe they'll make it stick, maybe they'll make a niche market work (LabVIEW, etc), who knows. It's the rhetoric I'm objecting to. Which bodes poorly, IMHO; if they really believe this gibberish then it's more likely they'll make some very bad business decisions, such as resisting finding a good niche in favor of trying to take over too much stuff. There's a lot of prior art to learn from here, and if they've learned as little of it as that marketing spiel implies, their odds of success are very, very low.