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American English speaker here.

1. I'd say that the non-phonetic approach allowed this to happen in the first place. In languages where the writing system was pinned to a phonetic system, there is no room for saying something incorrectly. There is room for replacing words and sounds but at least the writing reflects the spoken versions.

2. If you want to go that far, then we ought to just adopt Chinese characters which go a step further and abstract out pronunciation from meaning. That is, it is possible to understand groupings of Chinese characters without even knowing pronunciation. But this system also creates additional problems.

3. I think we have the technology to "bridge" our roots to whatever we create in the future. Today it is actually possible to make something live for eternity thanks to the internet. One good application would be English writing reform if we are to accept that it is the linqua franca.

Consider the possible benefits:

* 2nd language learners will have a much easier learning curve and thus be able to transition from their first language to English more quickly
* World communication would increase--I think this has war-stopping potential (or peace creating potential)
* Translations would hopefully become more accurate (less secondary translation/interpretation needed)--things written in "new" English would be more accessible to a larger audience.
* Areas dominated by native English speakers would open up to a larger audience, thus creating more competition and more contributions by people of other backgrounds other than pure English.

For example, right now we are seeing dominance in technology/internet by English speakers, but why should that remain the case? As such traveling to a non-English speaking country often feels like going back 5-10 years because much of their tech experience is based on companies paying for translations or waiting for local companies to copy the technology.

I actually think we have the capability of making "new English" for both existing native speakers and new speakers. For example for native speakers, we could write an input method that automatically identifies words, spelling, or grammatical structures that have been deprecated and may not be understood by "new English" learners.

We also have the ability to write and document English to new English translations and historical references. There will certainly be some fallout but we currently don't document many language shifts that happen even among smaller populations.

I'm sure many exceptional native English writers and culturally engrained speakers will balk at such an idea. My challenge would be to have them learn Chinese or some other not so closely related foreign language to the same fluency they can speak English in order for them to understand the pain of learning a new and complex language. Of course I am not happy with the loss of culture, but I think for the advancement of the world at large, such a path is inevitable.
When you consider that Microsoft have an (at least small) team dedicated (full time job) to pretty much every area of hardware (e.g. printer team) who are given the active support of the manufacturers, it is indeed pretty impressive that Linux does as good a job as it does. :)
I dunno about criminal, and nokia seems like an incompetent company (the smartphone market was theirs to lose and lose it they did), but I have to stand amazed at a couple players. Elop is returning to microsoft and Mark Penn, strategist from the hillary clinton presidential campaign, will be running marketing. Those two sure have the gift of failing up.
Last year, Microsoft was ordered by the EU to pay Euro 860 million, for breaking promises it made after the 2004 antitrust case. In March of this year, Microsoft was fined another Euro 561 million.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Its as if Ballmer wants to screw things up as much as he can before he leaves. While the behaviour, as you mentioned, is borderline criminal, this only means Microsoft wasting ridiculous amounts of money and time into a mobile platform that not many care for.
What are you talking about? The android userland is not provided by GNU (and is not even GPL to begin with).
Unfortunately you're going to encounter regex a lot in your programming career and this tool won't always be there to save you, so you are going to need to learn regex one way or the other. You might as well get it over with sooner rather than later.

This tool just hindering your progression and yet another abstraction someone has to to learn if they are going to deal with this code. It would make sense if this was a one-off thing and you'd be saving someone the effort of learning some weird protocol or syntax, but since regex is so common and most programmers have just learned to deal with them, you're actually adding more cognitive load, since now they have to know two things instead of one. Imagine coming across this in someone else's code and discovering the regex didn't work as expected. Now I have to debug the regex and figure out whether it's a bug in the tool, or in my regex, etc…
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Sometimes I think these really big acquisitions are based on the "Politician's syllogism":

1. We must do something

2. This is something

3. Therefore, we must do this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
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Just playing around with it now, it's nice how it builds up the regex as you write it, but I did notice that it doesn't differentiate between '.' (match one character of any kind) and '\.' (the character for 'dot')

Hrm, on a closer look, it affects all special characters (like ^ and $) and it does differentiate them, but only by turning them blue - makes it hard to see the change.
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I think Elop's greatest achievement is to sell people the "There is no money in being an Android vendor"-lie. And people are actually buying it.

WP market is much much smaller, so, by becoming a big player in this market, which Nokia achieved in very little time, they became in fact a big player in a market where there really is no money.

Had they instead of this focused on becoming a big player in a market that actually matters, e.g. the Android market, then Nokia may still (or again) be worth a lot. (But then they wouldn't be a cheap take-over target for Microsoft.)

With Nokias connection to telcoms, they could have easily achieved a big chunk of the android market share.
Actually I wouldn't totally agree to that. Some things will have to change. Now that Nokia is not a separate entity but a part of microsoft, it will have to fit within the microsoft way of doing things. This could probably mean more restrictions on whatever Nokia would have done as a separate entity.
Still you are not writing a program though. Sure you are using algorithms, data structures but it is not a program. You are writing a helloworld.py while the real program is /usr/bin/python. I don't think you could a text file program unless it actually runs. Thus, not a programmer. If I write some code on paper, is it a program too?

Difference is just a word, I believe main issue is despising scripting languages.
I love this. Virtually irrefutable evidence of insider trading, and everyone goes "meh".
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You have my support! I read a blogpost showing off your RegExpBuilder and I got inspired to create something similiar (as a chance to improve my regex and coding skills)in C#, although I have some things I would love to do differently than how your lib does it.

Thank you for a great library, after I have reached stable with this C# port, i'd like to create a TypeScript version.
I hope you do not have anything against me writing spinnofs? :)
If you think this gonna bring better phones, with better OSs, you're wrong. Look back into the history of these companies.
Funniest thing is the assumption that anybody else has "logical" reasons for their habits. The Amish have an actual decision making procedure, the rest of us just flock to every shiny thing.
You have to disable the Secure Boot protection before you can run KeyTool - from the article:

Traverse the BIOS settings and find the place where UEFI boot mode is specified, and turn it the “Secure Boot” option OFF."
Why wouldn't you write an intermediate language? Just a preprocessor for keywords and labels would do, I think.
how about: http://elementaryos.org/
very plesant to use and in active development
Looks awesome, exactly what I need for one of my projects. Great :-)
This is good point.

I'm sure that Samsung and others soon abandon Windows in Smartphone and Windows phone will be MS only.

MS must start sinking enormous amounts of cash if it wants to become big player. It can do it, but if the strategy fails, MS will take big hit.
Samsung now rates higher than iPhone for user satisfaction:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2422525,00.asp

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9241257/Samsung_smart...
ClearOS is a good choice if you're looking for something like that - all users are stored in a central LDAP database which everything else authenticates against, and it has a nice webui.
Ah, I'll be gone in January =S
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Yes, there's a permission to install apps silently (android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES), but this isn't a permission that can be granted to a third party app. Other bundled app stores can if they're signed appropriately, or if the device is rooted.
Got to 1200, but am still surprised how easily Portoguese can be mistaken for a slavonic language. And the Bosnian/Croatian samples are really not that easy to distinguish. It would really be cool if the scores somehow reflected this, maybe depending on your native language... not sure what a good scoring system would be here.
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I did not know that fact. thanks. Selling to Adobe resulted in the demise of every Macromedia products.There is nothing left from Macromedia in Adobe, Nokia products will meet the same fate.
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Hackintosh is fine as secondary/backup computer. I built one after I had to send my Air for repairs.

But there will always be little issues. For example you can't install OS X Mavericks just yet. Being a developer this bugs me very much because I would very much like to try the new APIs.
As I stated in the post I also have a MacBook Air that still functions perfectly for development work. I would never recommend a Hackintosh as a developers sole computer. I also mention that I pursued this route because my gaming pc needs a refresh cpu/mb wise and this can be easily converted by dropping in my existing high end GFX card.

You are right about one thing though, it is a cautionary tale. I wrote it because I didn't see enough showing the pain involved.
> There are two systems at work here, the credit system and the ATM system. The latter uses a PIN (no chip, so basically online verification) but the primary difference is related to chargebacks and fraud. Like in the UK, in a PIN system if I know your PIN and get your card I can loot your account and you are SOL. In the US a credit card transaction with a signature but no PIN means that the merchant is on the hook for fraud. If I get your card number and go on a spending spree you are not going to take a hit for any of the charges, the merchants are.

That is absolutely true. However thanks to chip, cards cannot be copied or forged. Therefore merchants are paying lower commissions on debit/credit card payments as there are fewer fraudulent transactions. Some merchants are even declining to accept non chip-and-pin cards (not sure if is legal though).
It's what they call, wait, what was it, yeah, fun.
I came to the same conclusion.

Now I'm expecting someone to make a parser/interpreter and a Sol Lewitt image encoding format using the genetic algorythm that turn images into semi transparent polygons :).
Been there, haha.

When I made music with a friend and we were mastering the stuff we recorded, we always ended up with a too high loudness, but it really felt like the "quality" was getting better when doing this. Only when we listened to the stuff at home again in comparsion to professional mixed music, we recognized our false assumptions.
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"not that bad" doesnt mean it's good when compared with the competition , "not that bad" is not enough today. A mobile OS must be excellent , not good , to compete. That's the problem of WP Os, it is just "not that bad"
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Wait, their shit is together? I don't really think so. Their mobile situation is zombie-ish, they still haven't really done much on the web, and as far as I have heard nobody is using their cloud services. How is their shit together?
I don't know a lot about Stripe, but I have been using Paypal to accept payments for work (I'm a web developer) from the US (I live in Ireland). Would Stripe be a viable alternative to this approach (I'm not fully comfortable with Paypal)? Stripe seems to be aimed moreso at transaction based payments (shops etc.)
I guess it would depend on who you are securing the information from, Skype being an obvious example of a formerly secure service that is now owned by Microsoft.
It's not worth zero.
There were acquisition talks in June 2013 which fell through because the price wasn't right. Elop just had to bide his time. http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2013/06/failed-microsoft-nokia-...
I wonder how surveillance changes creativity?
Icon Slate is pretty good too. Mac only.

http://www.kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate
>Apple already lost to Android. Last count, Android had 80% of the market.

Yes. The low-margin 80% of the market that makes few profits. Apple makes as much revenue/profits from it's 20% share as the rest of the 80% Android OEMS combined (namely, Samsung).

>There is zero chance of that changing anytime soon.

That's great, because who would really want the 80%, low margin market segment?

If it'll play like the PC Market (where Apple makes more money that the rest 4 top PC makers), then Android will be like Windows all over again. Dell, anyone?
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The entire point of Android and its associated hardware, and similar environments, is to eliminate as much hardware as possible -- virtualize everything. Products such as that linked here are meant to exploit public confusion about the relationship between hardware and software.

"Wow, finally -- a product that does away with keyboard, mouse, styli, and a dozen other technological crutches. It's about time! ... Wait, what? A gadget that hangs off your Android device and does exactly what a virtual button does? Can I ask a question? Why?"
Can we stop with the stripe adverts please? It's getting irritating. I'll have to start posting links to Paypal and Sagepay each day to balance it out.
Yet Microsoft makes money on Android and Google doesn't make money on WP :).
Fiercely debated by whom? I routinely set up machines with multiple 10GigE cards, each requiring 8x PCIe to function properly. 4K uncompressed RGB 10 bits video is 1,3 GB/s (2D, 24 fps; 3D and 48 FPS would demand 5 GB/s), this just doesn't go smoothly through a 10Gb/s link. I think this is quite typical of professional workstation work (vs something you could work on a laptop).
Which shows how backwards the platform is.
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You created an account just to post that? Really.

I can understand that american citizens might be annoyed, but for people like me, who lives in Europe, it's nice to keep track of their progress.
7.2 Billion USD for Nokia sounds like a much better deal to me than 12.5 B for Motorola. Kudos to MSFT on finally making that move!
I really don't understand this point of view, that techies don't enjoy playing with tech, so therefore any such personal work done should be compared to your hourly consulting rate. Some people get a lot of entertainment out of making hybrid systems work.
I think WP8 is excellent, I meant that it is not as bad as he seems to think it is. Its also not all doom and gloom for WP, my employee (a large multinational company, thousands of employees) is switching all its employee phones from Blackberry to WP8. Even if its consumer market isn't that big you have to remember that a lot of the business world runs on Microsoft's software and it all ties together very nicely with Windows Phone.
As that article points out, the Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Foundation and therefore shares its public benefit purpose.
Looks interesting, but how does this compare to services like Klout, Peerreach, Peerindex, Kred etc.? At first sight it looks like a sort of reputation score like the other services.
How about:
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he chose to spend 4 full working days to build a computer

Interesting that you count build time against his billable hours, but not resale time for the canned system. Selling something does not take a negligible amount of time or effort.
Because they don't. At a division level people know what they're doing and have more well defined goals at least, but that only helps so much.
I've never had a "real" reason to use OS X over anything else, only convenience (numerical programming in Python, works pretty much everywhere, slightly easier on Linux in fact) - Thus, if I were in this situation I'd hack together a cheap Linux box (of which I have...three lying around the flat now, including old laptops) and work on that for a few months while waiting for a new release (more likely, saving up for the new release.)

That said, if I had to work on OS X, hackintosh would probably have appealed to me (if I was spending my own money on the hardware and needed a good GPU.) Thanks for thoroughly disabusing me of this preference!
How can I fix my sleep schedule?
I am a young, independent developer who recently took the plunge to work almost full-time on a startup idea (I worked remotely as a consultant before this).

For as long as I remember, I have been a night owl. While living alone without a forced work schedule, I gradually became more used to working during night hours. I assumed it was due to my living situation -- without any distractions, it's easier to enter a flow, skip meals, and stay up until you complete your tasks or run out of steam. So, I moved in with roommates - a group of friends who all work normal hours, in-office.

I have a girlfriend, dog, hobbies, etc. -- things you assume would help enforce some regularity. Regardless, I fail to stick to a regular schedule. I know this is aggravated by my medication (I take stimulants for ADHD), but I know it should still be possible to work regular hours. I feel my late bedtimes are more a result of fear that I will not succeed, or a strong drive to accomplish something that day.

Lately, I have yearned to approach each day with a steady calm -- I dream of having a clear set of goals that I want to complete, working relentlessly, and concluding the evening with content. Perhaps I need a change of scenery in the daylight hours -- a coworking space, coffee shops, something other than the house. It's too easy to blame procrastination on your surroundings.

And so I ask - have any of you dealt with similar issues, how did you overcome them, and what do you suggest I try?

I know a lifestyle change is in order, and I fear I will never be able to maintain a professional lifestyle (as an entrepreneur, or employee) without taking care of myself first.
This can change with the open web as software and services are moving to webapps and apis, BUT asically , Linux lacks of attractive software ,services and business providing services , for the public and businesses. And no , Open Office is not a replacement for MS office, nor Gimp can replace Photoshop for professionals.

Linux is not hard to learn, has great guis and works on most of the hardware.

There is potential but all the services are not there yet. Android is valuable because of all the service intergration it offers, not because it is *nix based , same with IOS.
I'm an EU citizen and it seems a bit annoying to me, too. Clearly I'm in the minority (the upvotes are against me), but if I wanted to keep track of their progress I could just as well follow their blog or Twitter.
But they can escalade into stuff like
https://github.com/evilstreak/markdown-js/blob/master/lib/ma...
Im not sure why its better for Nokia to be under MS than working with MS.

It seems to be a great move for MS if anything. That'd be fine if it wasn't a move that was planned by planting a CEO with a plan to decimate the company until MS could buy it. It might be legal but it's certainly not moral.
It's a long time ago now, but IIRC the grant was something like £2200/year. I worked about 10 hours a week at £3/hr on top of that.
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Maybe you can look at it this way: if you take your original post and re-write it so that it doesn't contain the words "legal" or "moral" or reference any abstract principles other than the interests of the powerful, you'll have the same argument you are making, except it will come across as absurd:

> Since at the most base level the use of force is necessary to [exert force], bombing is its own justification [for using force]. We're making a [use of force] that says [we are using force]....

The words "legal" and "international law" make your argument sound more reasonable, but only because the reader assumes they mean something like a codification of moral or social principles.

My goal is not trying to be argumentative. It's that I'm reflexively pacifist and deeply skeptical of arguments which seek to justify violence, especially when made from a position of relative power or hypocrisy, and in a way which glosses over the moral problems in killing people.
"Maybe it's because I'm old (41, ..."

with 41 you are certainly NOT old! You just started to be very experienced. You comment and your annoyance about this "news" proves it. And I totally agree with you.

Her facebook friends are a sufficient audience to say a "well done".
It's one of the greatest industrial designs, with thought of tons of details, very solid (and expensive to perform) unibody construction from a block of aluminum, and several Apple-only or Apple-makes-better things thrown in, from the hi-dpi display (that's better than anything hi-dpi on comparable price laptops) to the mag-safe adaptors, to thunderbolt, to the multi-touch glass trackpad, to the magnetic lid etc.

It's not about custom CPUs or GPUs.
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A little suggestion. Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages are too similar to differentiate for non native speakers.
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian.
Basically, the division is more political than linguistical.
The notion that Nokia was about to jump-ship or simply go under is certainly plausible. Another possibility is that MS wanted to start using Nokia's resources for their other hardware projects and it was going to be awkward slicing off teams from Nokia and having them start working under a MS department. MS might not be selling as much hardware as Apple, but their XBox line is the current king of consoles. With a new console-war brewing, MS is probably desperate for any edge they can get over Sony. Who knows? Nokia might just have something that can help.
1150 on my second try (thanks ridiculously multicultural upbringing), great game!

I got a few immediate repeats of the same language; maybe preventing those would be a good idea?
Come on, MEGA is not about secure storage but about Dotcom being able to tell any copyright enforcement party that he can't tell whether bits he store are illegal or not (and thus keep his business running).