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Might I know the reason for the DownVote ? I just presented my observation , if you disagree then please by all means let us have a gentleman's discussion.
This is basically the coolest thing I've ever been a part of, and I can't believe it's only been one week out of 12. What an amazing experience.
Dropped my Lumia 928 about 4 feet onto granite tile face first last week. Not a scratch on it
This is a fascinating breakdown. Quite a few people have covered this ground before, but I've rarely seen the raw statistics of the game explored in such depth. (Most commentaries I've seen, for example, start and stop at the probabilities of landing on any given space, perhaps coupling those with the expected ROI of improvements on X or Y properties. But those are only some of the factors in play, and you do a nice job going beyond them).

Apropos of nothing, there's a really entertaining documentary called "Under the Boardwalk" that sort of flew under the radar last year. It's about the history of the game, and the national championships (yes, apparently there are Monopoly players who take themselves as seriously as chess masters).
Congrats Simon and Natalie!
Congratulations Simon and Nat - sorry to lose you from London but SF will be a fantastic move. All the best.
The interesting question is to turn this point on its head.

The conventional wisdom (before 9/11) was it was "too risky" to fight back against hostage takers on an airplane. That bit of social engineering led to a huge force multiplier when trained pilots turned civivian aircraft into cruise missles.

So, the origins of 9/11 have to do with mis-understanding the real risks we face. The opposite of ignorance is education, however. Its not per-se a totalalitarian police state. Which is where we seemed to have ended up.
That was fun! I got 300. I only speak English fluently, although I've studied French and German. However, I am very interested in phonetics and have read up on the sound systems of lots of languages and that helped a lot. Thanks, I plan to play it again.
Well you could start with RFC 1591 which indicates that Country Code TLDs are associated with countries.

If I want to sell fish to the United Kingdom I could register fish.co.uk . If I wanted to sell to France it could be fish.fr (or poissons.fr). India, fish.in (I'm not going to guess that the translation).

You may decide that you want to grab an Indian address because it looks nice but that doesn't stop it being a technically not a correct usage. If you accept the existence of ccTLDs (and they do exist) then you have to accept that inherent to their existence is an association with a country.

Non-geographic TLDs exist. They may not look nice, but they exist for a particular reason (cases where geography isn't relevant).

I know people are doing their best to dilute the naming conventions for aesthetic reasons, but it doesn't change the facts of the matter. If someone wants to register a Skill Swap for use in India they're SOL.

EDIT:

Yes, afandian.com is mine. My presence on the web has nothing much to do with my geographic location (unlike my imaginary fish shop). And .com is non-geographic, so surely that's the right choice on geographic grounds?

As for whether or not I'm a commercial entity, that's a fair question on technical grounds. But I think most people understand that .com has become the general purpose domain (I'm not an ORG or a NET or a GOV). The .co.uk domain is equally 'commercial'.
Amazon's 'Kindle MatchBook' bundles physical books with a copy for your Kindle
"Some merchants are even declining to accept non chip-and-pin cards (not sure if is legal though)."

If you travel to Sweden, you can't even use credit cards that are non chip-and-pin. I even went to one store that refused to accept cash: you had to use a chip-enabled credit card.

In Australia, NFC wireless transactions (Visa PayWave / Mastercard Paypass) are gaining traction for purchases under $100. It's very convenient & usually fast.
I don't see how (a) one example of stupidity is representative for the populace at large and (b) how this particular example is relevant at all.

If one person is ignorant in one domain, that doesn't mean that person doesn't excel in another domain. Stupidity is relative.

E.g. my father can't use a computer and thinks his computer is broken whenever he has minor problems with it. On the other hand he has a perfect track record in managing government institutions and the family's business and he's also extremely good at handling money and being a cheap bastard. He never learned to use a computer simply because he can delegate such tasks to his subordinates (or me).

And yet you've placed him in the bucket of people with more money than brains, simply because somebody on this planet sold his computer because it was virused.
IT consultancy worth over 3 Million dollars? I must be doing mine wrong.
> There are other options, like Aquamacs, which are supposed to make Emacs more "Mac-like", but they're problematic in the long run because they're set up so differently from standard Emacs that it's difficult to use the Emacs manual or follow along with tutorials.

Having used emacs on linux, windows and now mac I disagree with this - though aquamacs introduces some (annoying, to me) functionality, you can simply turn these off and it works just like emacs in any other environment.

I have found aquamacs works better with ansi-term + with full-screen functionality than vanilla emacs, and I use both these functions enough to not want to go back.
Just a few days ago there was talk around here about Elop being in the short list for Microsoft CEO. Does this make that more or less likely?
>...so how did she learn it in the first place?

I think that asking why a programmer knows any piece of knowledge is a very good glimpse into how competent she is. I don't care that somebody likes Git more than SVN but I do care why (on a technical level) somebody likes Git more than SVN.
Well frankly, it seems like Android made the wrong choice. Going completely unresponsive is completely unacceptable.
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"Microsoft will draw upon its overseas cash resources to fund the transaction."

This is an important aspect of the deal - bringing money earned overseas into the US is often costly (taxes, etc.). As a result, US companies often end up with cash sitting overseas with nothing to spend it on, and are hesitant to take the hit that happens when they bring it to the US... so this is a great way for Microsoft to use that money in an effective way.

According to this article, Microsoft has $60 Billion sitting offshore in order to avoid US taxes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/08/01/apple...
So I raised an issue with Surespot, and it is indeed the case that Android uses UTF-8 everywhere by default, independent of locale (much more sensible than Sun's Java!). The code is correct. Nothing to see here, move along.
Makes perfect sense. Congrats.
No, to hold to my definition of Turing completeness would make the term an important theoretical construct, with a lot of ramifications. It would make the statement "X needs Turing completeness" meaningless in a particular, strict sense. I understood what the parent was talking about, speaking loosely, and I originally stated that my post was not meant as criticism.
Works in practice too. Within the same banking institution, I can send money via EFT to a non-related account, and that person can see the funds in their account & withdraw it from an ATM within minutes.
> People were saying this a decade ago about the Xbox remember.

The Xbox was a failure.

The Xbox 360 was better executed than the more ambitious PS3. It succeeded while the PS3 did not do so well, yet the PS3 is far from being a failure.

> Microsoft only decided to compete just over two years ago

You are ignoring the decade+ behind WindowsCE and Windows Mobile. Microsoft has always been a player in this market.
So they say they're great at webdesign, but then they have black text over black / dark backgrounds?
I loved his work. It was about expanding our horizons. But sometimes the narrative would suffer. Why could super-intelligent energy lifeforms not conceive that matter-based creatures were intelligent, but human science fiction writers could imagine that energy-creatures could be? Do 10^17 super-intelligences inside a black hole have no science fiction writers at all among them?
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That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen ... speaking as someone who used to spend hours and hours as a kid in the 1980s in our garage, making prints in our home-made darkroom.

If one is already going to go to the trouble of printing on photographic paper in a darkroom, then why not just go out and get a real enlarger, a real film camera and use real negative film? The quality will be so much better. Also you can buy professional film cameras that used to cost thousands of dollars for peanuts these days. You can send your film out to be developed if you don't want to do that step yourself, e.g indiefilmlab.com or ilfordlab-us.com.

Slightly off topic but I hate to see another lower-quality digital "reinvention" of a highly developed, high quality analog thing again (think audio).
Facebook Vulnerability that Allowed any Photo to be Deleted Earns $12,500 Bounty
It wasn't quite clear to me what he was arguing, but if it was that people should write semantic html and not abuse div and p, I suggest he start with looking at his own website. Or try to make a modern design without said abuse. There's something ironic about a post that says "Think if what you did in HTML really gives the content meaning or if you just painted with tags." and then has this right after its body open tag:

<div id="doc2" class="yui-t6">
<div id="bd">
<div id="yui-main">
<div class="yui-b" id="content"><div id="pad">
And, more importantly, there's only so much RAM one could reasonably acquire. When someone says something in the browser requires Turing completeness, they don't mean they expect users to acquire arbitrary amounts of RAM even at amounts far, far below any theoretical limits.
Never too late. The only problem with writing an OS is that you are exposed to the x86 architecture - which is HORRIFIC, but even something as small as booting to "hello world" gives you a wealth of knowledge about the underlying layers that we take foregranted.
I think that's the "acceptable" end of fragmentation. Of course technology will get better, and old devices will be left behind. It doesn't matter what platform you are on.
I love the idea: put in a few site profiles and it draws relevant info out of them, displays them in an appealing way!

However, when trying this out, it didn't actually work for me. Shyahi (what's up with that name by the way?) does display some basic info about my Github account but the page looks broken and the green status thingy just keeps on spinning.
Cache thrashing
Nokia: a visual history
Motorola and HTC too:

http://fr.slideshare.net/OnDevice/us-uk-device-satisfaction

Slides 6 (for US) and 9 for (UK)
> the enthusiasm at e.g. Samsung for making Windows Phones have gone down quite a bit...

It's probably part of their IP licensing deal about the secret patent list Android violates. They pay less per Android phone if and only if they build Windows Phone devices.
Dont forget, those millions will likely go to some crony who gets to spend all the money on their new yacht.
I used to own a B&W enlarger and made prints from my own negatives. I remember the bulb in the enlarger having significantly more power (photons emitted/sec) than a smart phone display has.

I wonder by how much this will increase exposure times, and if it works at all...
I agree that the "bridge" should be built to the expected capacity + additional due to uncertainty, but that's a slippery slope and one that this article is trying to address. It's a judgement call on what amount of work is appropriate for what amount of capacity, as adding on more capacity due to uncertainty might delay the product or solution from launching.

It may be more appropriate to properly separate concerns and build a flexible architecture that can be upgraded over time to meet needs as they come, or left as-is if those needs never manifest.
Is Lanyrd leaving London? I didn't see that mentioned anywhere...
You can believe all you want, but please develop code with your head in the present.

What you said is akin to saying: "sure, the code we wrote is slow, but we can fix this with hardware in a month - Moore's Law!". That doesn't help anyone - it's just wishful thinking.

Apply a bit of brain power and make your code simple and straight forward so that your customer doesn't waste time and effort maintaining it (or more likely in the "Rockstar" case, replacing it entirely).
In theory yes but: (Opinion)
This generation was weak on exclusives even the strong titles were franchised and watered down during the cycle - it was combination of prolonged generation and blockbuster effect with insane production values. After all GoW2 was the swan song of the PS2 and arguably the best game for the platform and for some at all. Xbox 1 also had very strong line up in the last two years (Halo 2, NGB, Burnout, Conker). The last two years have been a desolation in the console exclusive worlds - we have some bright spots like The Last of US but it seems it really is the last of them. So I am almost not interested in next gen at all.

But unlike mobile phones and tablets owning more than one living room console makes sense. You don't have cost of switching just cost of entry (buying PS3 allows me to play Uncharted but does not prevent me from cursing xbox for lack of mouse in a shooter). And you could always bring down the cost of the device to as low as needed if you are willing to take the hit.

Right now in US and western europe the only users MS can get must be poached from Apple and Android. That is much harder task.
If they went back and looked at business theory from the 20s and 30s they might have come across a famous phenomenon called the Hawthorne/Observer effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Basically, when employees are being observed (which you could read as under surveillance) their productivity improves.

Rather than suggest we turn into a panopticon loving society, it speaks to me that restaurant owners should in fact be paying more attention to their staff, and creating a workplace where they feel valued. This should improve productivity, and reduce turnover - but maybe my perspective is skewed because of the differences in being a restaurant waiter/ress vs a software dev.

In any case, if you want better profitability then why not incentivise staff? If they have a share of profits, then you can be sure they will be trying to maximise profits - including reducing wastage, up-selling and reporting other members of staff not pulling their weight/stealing.
Except the argument was that the general public aren't fans of Windows phones, to which 20% market share of a few regions was used as a counter argument.

I would tend to think that market share is one indicator of a phone platform's popularity, and while 20% is not bad, it's not an amazing figure either.
I was thinking more in terms of people who want to learn more about Stripe yet do not use Rails and have no immediate need or interest in learning it.

My guess is that an accomplished developer with a few languages under his/her belt might be able to understand and translate aspects of the code. At one point it becomes more opaque and you can't go further without learning Rails. I know nothing about Rails, which means I don't have a real sense of how difficult it might be for someone coming from, say, Python, to read and understand Rails.

Note: This isn't criticism. I am interested in the book but don't work with Rails and don't have the time to dive into learning it. Because of that I am trying to determine if the book would really be useful to me. I am currently working with Python and have good command of probably a dozen or more other languages.
Wow.. cool! I'm excited about this project. Are you looking for help with FOSS things (documentation, bug reports, etc.)?
"Popularity is often reason enough to choose a particular tool"

Widely available, many eyes searching for (and patching) security bugs, many people can understand and debug it, probably the most documentation out there, its the simplest possible overall way to do it, she's not exactly doing anything new, so using a tried and true successful solution is good business and sound engineering practice.

So, the cub scouts are building birdhouses this year, again. Last year we used hammers. I found a nailgun recently invented in the black forest region of Germany which shoots a special birdhouse domain-specific-nail thats a precise metric size specialized for this kind of wood and building birdhouses, unlike local nailguns which use an air compressor or .22 blanks, this one uses compressed unicorn gas, which everyone who's cool knows it doesn't smell, and its brand new and I'm the only guy this side of the pond who knows anything about this new nailgun and the only guy who can use it or maintain it, and it cuts hammering time down from 5 minutes per birdhouse to 5 milliseconds even though theres no business case to care. Oh no wait I'll just bring some hammers again this year. But old fashioned obsolete hammers don't scale to 10B units! Oh that's OK the school gym where we have pack meetings only holds 500 and usually only about 20 scouts show up anyway and the countries population is only 400M, so I'm all good. And given other business constraints the scout pack is permanently constrained to grow slower than I can buy more hammers. Yeah, looks like a job for a hammer, its hammer time... Would I roof a house with a hammer, well no, but I'm not roofing a house so I don't much care.
Yeah, I strongly agree. I never understood why people think Sandberg or Zuckerberg would every be considered by the board. Facebook is such a totally different business to one building software and hardware for operating systems, office tools, web and email platforms, cloud services, systems management, identity management, mobile platforms, gaming platform development, unified communications, collaboration software, CRM, etc. etc. etc. (the list goes on and on).

A much better fit would be someone from Oracle or IBM. Or even someone from a large enterprise systems company with deep software background (e.g. someone from SAP, Cisco, CA).
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And did that invasion change anything? Were the Taliban or al Qaeda eliminated by that invasion? Did you notice that the exact same justification was used to attack neighboring Iraq?

Sorry, but I happen to have lived through that year and the years following, and I know that given an America that lived up to its own hype, an invasion was easily avoidable. It's just that such an America doesn't exist. Too bad for us all.
I built a very similar system using the "confirmed working" parts listed in the buyer's guide at http://tonymacx86.com

To those poo-pooing the hackintosh, my experience was quite different this time around from when I had OS X running on a netbook a few years back.

I already had a monitor, PSU, video card and ram, so the money investment for me was fairly small when compared to builing a system from scratch.

It took one evening to put everything together and install the OS, I followed the instructions there and have done several system updates without new problems coming up. I had to mess around a bit with kernel extensions to get my Radeon card put out 2560x1440 properly, but my problems were solved in under an hour. I've had strange problems connecting to my wireless printer, but I solved them by plugging it in and forgetting about it.

I've used it as a development machine w/ xcode and have not had any problems there.

All that said, I would NEVER use this as my only mac. I'm careful about keeping work backed up and off the machine in the event that something strange comes up, so there is that added overhead, but for any data/files you care about this should be done anyway.
Had everything correct until a guru meditation popped up. I think most Dutch people should score very high on this.
I see this as a 3D optimisation problem.

1st dimension: power of the tool

2nd dimension: ecosystem of the tool (developers/libraries/support/etc)

3rd dimension: developer's ability to use the tool (time to learn, current ability, etc)

If you think on factors going from 0 to 10, MySql could be [4, 7, 8] and Postgres could be [7, 7, 4] for that developer.

Of course the 3rd factor depends on the developer (and on the time available), for example I know Go is very powerful, but I wouldn't use it, unless the available options for me are not good enough for a given problem (so the time to learn compensates for the loss that using other technologies would incur)
Hey! I wrote a kernel in Highschool too, after being inspired by Linus' "Just For Fun". Amazing experience, although mine was in C and nowhere near as complete as yours. Well done!
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I'll always be an Android user, but even I admit the current Windows Phone UI is cleaner, looks better, and is easier to use. I don't have stats, but I can certainly throw my anecdotes in that people I see get them are happy with the UI and OS, although the don't have the level of apps the other platforms have.
After about a year developing a love/hate relationship with Vim I've finally had enough. After reading this post I think I'm ready to make the switch. Very good writing. Thanks for posting it.
Well, no. A group of armed criminals is clearly not the only way to enforce that. For it's immoral to provide anything, including life/property protection, via use of force (taxation), and artificial monopoly isn't such a good thing, either.

Private protection is certainly possible and is definitely more moral than sovereign monopolist protection provided through means of aggression. See http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freed...
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Here's how I read your comment: why do we worry so much about making things maintainable - why don't we just make things maintainable? Building a system out of small modules is what makes it maintainable.
Well, from a business standpoint, there are a lot of companies planning to piggyback off of Android to launch their own OS platforms. These competitors represent a real threat to the Android platform. When Google was all alone in the smartphone OS space (chief competitors being BBOS and iOS, which aren't licensed to 3rd party manufacturers) they didn't have to worry about competing for the attentions of manufacturers... companies got to choose between Android or making Symbian featurephones. So it was easy for Google to be generous with the source.

Now that Google has to worry about de-Google'd Android products, they need to keep more of their work for themselves.
I really liked how the US responded in Afghanistan in September-November 2001: sending in CIA and special operations forces to ally with anti-AQ and anti-Taliban forces, on a hundreds of millions of dollars total budget. That had almost all of the upside and virtually none of the downside of a big invasion.
In the Eventbrite notice - http://blog.eventbrite.com/eventbrite-acquires-eventioz-and-... - it says the Lanyrd team will be moving over to San Francisco to join the main Eventbrite engineers.

It'll be a shame to lose them to the States again.
How long did this take?
What would you estimate your C++ proficiency was when you wrote it?
Do they say where the number comes from in the video? I couldn't find any source.