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I don't feel the same way as the person you are responding to, but I can empathize with his position. I left my religion of 29 years, and in the process I shattered connections with almost everybody in my life. They always try to bring up the religion and my beliefs, and I always cast aside the opportunity to try to convince them.

It isn't that I'm hostile or smug to them or their beliefs...it is just that arguing with them using reason and logic is so tiresome because we aren't arguing using the same language. We might as well be talking in Latin and Arabic.
I hate Infographics and I hate "Why you should" posts even more.
For those interested, here's some background on the pronunciation book side of the story:

http://77days.wikia.com/wiki/Pronunciation_Book_Conspiracy_W...
The date on this appears wrong - I think they mean yesterday, Sep 23. I must be one of the 1.5% affected - my gmail messages arrived 5 hours late.
It is highly unlikely to see any updated displays (I suppose you are thinking at something like a retina 27" display) this year. The update of the iMac suggests that the display is not ready yet for a major change.
Over time, I have come to feel this git workflow is more of an attempt to coerce git into a workflow that is familiar to users coming from subversion, rather than learning and understanding git's strengths. A corollary problems is that it mixes development workflow with release management - two disparate concerns that should be handled separately.

After a couple years of using this model, I have done away with using a develop or release branches whatsoever. Develop everything in feature branches, based on either the most recent production tag or the master branch, depending on if it is a hotfix or if it is new development work. A lot of people do not seem to understand you can just checkout a tag, so you do not need to keep a number of hotfix branches around for in-house repositories.

Now, it would be nice to develop a better tagging strategy for rolling updates to a web application, but, for the time being, simply using a stage and production tag work well enough. This is certainly suboptimal and can cause problems, and I cannot recommend doing so. Instead, use production and stage tags with either sane version numbers or simple timestamps. It would be best to only promote from staging to production, but that is not exactly necessary. Most of my thoughts on the release management side of things comes from Alex at The Daily WTF [1].

1. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Release-Management-Done-Righ...
Merge multiple lines (two blocks) in Vim - daft punk style
Do they mean 'Why we hate infographics in presentations?'

I find a good infographic is great for syntopical study. As they say, a simple chart is good for a single point. But what if I want to look at the relationships between those single points? Do I flip between slides rapidly to find the connection? Do I open up multiple 'simple charts' and arrange them on my screen to study? (which I can't do right now as I'm on an iPad).

I say use the right tool for the job...
The key observation is that the airport is built on credit (by the government, not the airline, using bonds), and the airplanes are usually either bought on credit or leased (in which case they are built by the airline on credit).

It's an illustration of why banks and bank debt are so important in our economy! This capital-intensive sort of business doesn't happen by an entrepreneur writing a $1 billion check from funds he has on hand.
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Who still upgrades their own machine?

I like to tinker with hardware a little, which is why every 3 years or so I put my own home server together even though I could probably buy a cheaper ready-made solution.

In the days of my old Apple Powerbook I've pretty much replaced everything from memory, harddisk to optical drive, even though the latter definitely wasn't made to be upgraded by end-uses.

But in the last 10 years I've never had to upgrade any hardware, not even the stuff I've put together myself. The days where upgrading was a natural part of the lifecycle of a computer are in the past.

Storage and memory has become cheaper so computers are well equipped from the start, and the need for rapid upgrades in order to be able to use the latest software is no longer an issue except in very small niches.
Yeah that happens on both sides of some scientific debates these days. Ones that usually effect all of us, such as GMO or climate chance. I bet the guys over in doing astrophysics are very thankful no one is getting the pitch forks out because of dark matter claims. We'll work through it, as we always do. In the meantime we'll have to try and focus on thoughtful and healthy debate.
Many of the complaints around these iOS 7 screenshots revolve around HOW WILL I EVER KNOW "< BACK" IS A BUTTON!?!?!?!

There are many valid complaints that may annoy designers and may initially confuse people, but in reality in really shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to get oriented with even the most confusing UI changes.
I would like some clarification, to me it seems very obvious that this Elop's tenure at Nokia accomplished exactly what it was intended to accomplish, and further it seems clear that the Board of Directors were in line with this plan.

What exactly is the benefit of this plan for the Board of Directors? Is it literally the assumption that they were paid far in excess of the money they (I assumed) lost due to the stock tanking.

And finally in a well run market, what is supposed to keep this kind of thing from happening? It seems like having the Board of Directors essentially scuttle a company for their own payoffs is not in the markets best interest, so i assume some mechanism is in place to try to reduce the likelihood of this occurrance.
People throw around "attacking a straw man" far too much, but it would be completely appropriate in the grandparent post.
Everything is confusing if you pretend to be a user.

There, fixed that for you.

You may not agree with the tone of the author but his point (albeit small, repeated and not explained fully) is accurate.
I wrote this in response to the many exercise and diet posts I've been seeing on HN lately. The TL;DR is: if you know how to accomplish some long-term goals, I believe you can use the same techniques to accomplish your other long-term goals.
I hate that. I also hate the the details button for a reminder is a blue "i" with a circle. To me that means Info, not edit or details.
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Could you provide more information about the fine you mention? On the FAQ (http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-noticeofcoverageoptions.htm...) it says there is no fine or penalty for failing to provide a notice.
That's really not true or fair. I'm in the process of giving my ~70 year old mother my old iPhone so I can send her photo messages and such.

The teaching experience I've had running through how to use applications is almost exactly the same as here. (Though I must say that this is on IO6). Simple things like the way you 'Add' or 'Edit' something being inconsistent really do throw her off. I'm sure anyone who has guided very none-technical people through using technology can relate. It's nothing to do with being 'an idiot'.

There are plenty of older people who take a lot longer to pick up technology like this, and it's also worth noting that as a demographic they are often wealthier than their younger counterparts, and a valuable customer segment.
I just looked at Lenovo's site. I see plastic cases with mechanical latches. This is not "comparable build quality".
http://allafrica.com/stories/201309200714.html

>"Heavily armed insurgents laid siege on Benisheik, Kaga Local Government Area on Tuesday evening, killing people and setting buildings ablaze.

They also blocked the Maiduguri-Damaturu highway, three kilometers away from the town, sorting out and slaughtering dozens of travelers.

Apart from the 142 travellers, also killed in the attack were 2 soldiers, 3 policemen and 14 villagers,bringing the total death toll to 161."

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

>"an Islamic jihadist militant terrorist organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria[4] north Cameroon and Niger.[5][6][7][8] It is an Islamist movement which strongly opposes non-Sharia legal systems, and what they deem "Westernization." Founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2001,[9] the organisation seeks to establish sharia law in the country."
Do they not do economy plus (or equivalent)? I mostly fly internationally (not a lot of domestic flying in England) and there's usually the option of spending an extra ~£100 on a LHR-EWR return for extra legroom seats. I couldn't justify the jump to Business/First, but £100 over 15hrs of flying is a no-brainer.
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Finally a post that doesn't just say "iOS7 BAD". Pretty well motivated, and I can agree with it in part. The inconsistencies it shows with the red button are confusing indeed (I just tried it on my iPad, the button in the stopwatch will change state when you begin touching, the one in the timer changes state when you lift your button, which is confusing because it doesn't work as expected).

The one thing I don't agree with is how the writer argues that, because the UI elements like the "+" button are red, it means they might be misinterpreted as performing a negative action. I think it's not a good point because it's easy to tell that red is the accent color of the application (for example the active navbar button is red), and thus it doesn't really play a role in telling the user whether the action is a positive or a negative one. The fact that the big round buttons start as green, and only become red once tapped (along with a change in their label), should make it easy to tell that they're not red because it's the accent color of the app, instead they're red because they perform a destructive action (in this case, resetting the timer). Their label further confirms their purpose.

As a last remark, I don't think that even the least savvy users are to be treated as "dumb". If they care enough, they will figure it out nonetheless. This isn't one of those issues that would make it impossible to use the app. You just need to put a small amount of thought in using it.
Yes, I really really really care about Linux, and started working at a "use the tools of your choice" company, but since I was the only one using linux, and no one was caring about compatibility issues, I had to switch to a Mac. And no, I wasn't having fun, it wasn't my choice. It's a Ruby thing, that love of macs, makes me want to never program ruby again.
With Iceweasel 23.0 looks terrible too. It requieres a lot of effort to read.
Some actually pay the airline to service them, as is the case with some of the Ryanair routes.
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I mean, it's hard to say that getting terminal real estate is any easier than building an airport would be :-)
The link shows purchase price, I like it.

What is fails to show is fuel usage, operating costs, maintenance and all the other things that will bankrupt you if you aren't careful.
Having a computer industry.

All the other design decisions are not regretable within the context of a computer industry, since they just promote more invoicing. On the contrary, the best thing you can do, is to create more such design decision, so you can charge customers more: to implement those design decisions, to reimplement them in a different language for a different platform, to reimplement them when the new extended version of the design decision becomes necessary, and so on. If you make a good design decision, you're set for life.
I'm actually surprised that there's so little visual consistency there... this stuff usually would be handled by reusable widgets - which, of course, gives you consistency for free.

Still, people bag on Apple's design problems because Apple's stuff often feels almost perfect. I tried out a BB Q10 the other day and I couldn't even figure out how the heck you get to the home screen. I got stuck in the voice-search app and couldn't figure out how to back out. That's one of those "I'd give it a detailed critique but where the heck do I even begin" moments.
Stuff like this should only be on a .gov website and nobody in their right mind should enter in employee information into a random third party website run out of India by a single dude with a hotmail email address for a whois record. Nice try.
working full time job, don't really have any great idea. fear of failure and over thinking leads to paralysis.
Amazing because the iMessage protocol is surprisingly complicated and seemed to be almost unintelligible to anyone outside of Apple:

http://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage
So how can I differentiate between the worthless and non-worthless reviews?
People are working on this. See for instance Aktiv Demokrati in Sweden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktiv_Demokrati

The basic idea is that each person has a vote, and all matters should be resolved by a public vote. Since not everybody may have time and resources to vote responsibly in every matter, the vote can be delegated to someone else. It is easy to imagine how every person could delegate his or her vote to different people in different matters.

Going down this road, sometime you have to consider the question of actual motions and matters to vote upon. Who drafts these? Well, it should be the people who suggests questions to vote upon, and the people who decides which questions are most important -- by voting on them.

Then, the people should discuss the matter. Each person can voice their opinion, but also vote on the opinions of others. After a good discussion, with many arguments back and forth, it is time to vote.

But, alas! The matter has already been resolved. The most popular arguments have surfaced to the top, with the corresponding caveats and so on. This discussion is the perfect basis for drafting whatever law or resolving whatever matter was under question.

Now, this all sounds very similar to Reddit, or Hacker News. Basically, this is how the political process would work. Note that not all of what I have discussed here is a part of Aktiv Demokrati or their system. It's more of a summary of my own thoughts on the matter.
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Quite. Political problems are really just engineering problems in disguise.
Carmack's a legend - he's done good things (which I can't talk about) for the WebGL community too, ask Tojiro next time you visit a conference.

Weird Quake/Doom crossover: Doom had 'rocket jumps' (pushing yourself further off a cliff via smashing a rocket into the wall) - one was required for the E3 secret level.

Doom also had accidental wall riding but only when you were headed north. :^)
Apple definitely removed as many affordances as possible with each screen, almost to the extreme. Now, have I figured out how each screen works? Yes. Do I think the UI would be improved with a few more visual hints (button backgrounds, consistent color choice for actions)? Yes.

iOS 7 is such a large reset from previous iOS versions, and I would expect to see this new design language evolve over future releases. The best comparison I read: think of the changes between OS9 and OSX.
It seemed like a slick new iteration of Gopher with the capability of inline images (that no one really had yet)
I generally ask people to all use the same tools so that they can interract on each other's machine, and so that the code is all looking the same (unless someone is trying a new tool, of course). Development is about collaboration and thinking, it's not about typing fast or other time sensitive things.
But i explain all this at the interview, so that candidates can determine themselve before accepting a job.
Switching to linux would emcompass convincing the whole team.
Not strange at all if you know a little economics--actually it's encouraging. In an efficient market with perfect competition, economic profit (i.e. profit after opportunity cost) will be 0.
> So small in fact that it isn't worth Apple's time to design a computer specifically catered to them.

Apple never appreciated it when other companies treated them in the same manner.
Looks like a market opportunity for quickly-reconfigurable seats.
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Perhaps the board was unable to attract a quality CEO because it was generally accepted that the downfall of Nokia (a la RIM) was unavoidable, so they attempted to make it attractive? i mean i dont really understand it just trying to come up with a logical rational
You mean Thomas Paine. See also The Declaration of Independence for a great example (which Paine very much inspired).
I have the same setup with an external Thunderbolt SSD (from LaCie). I'm aware of the following downsides:

* The only Thunderbolt port on my 2011 iMac is occupied.

* I can accidentally remove my system disk if I'm clumsy (and crash my system).

* I can't hide the disk and can see it if I stand beside the desk.

No biggies in other words. Very happy with the setup.
You and me both. I'm thinking of doing my masters in wound healing and skin infections using bacteriophages. I WANT this technology.
I loved the post but I agree that the energy infographic was a bad example to use because it's one of my favourite infographics. I have referred to versions of it often and find it very good at expressing some of the points I want to study or talk about.
I knew somebody had been paying Elop to sacrifice Nokia for the (apparently slight) benefit of Windows Mobile, but I had reckoned it was M$: they could have just "forgotten" to take him off the payroll. Very strange behavior from the Nokia board of directors.
> Pretending that it is tied to religion is just weakly hidden fear-of-the-other.

The killers are quoting from religious text and openly declare they are fighting a religious war.

If there were only one or two people doing this, you could claim they were mentally ill, but you have thousands of people doing this, all over the world.

You can't tar everybody with the same brush, but it's obvious that religion is part of the problem.
This is really cool!

When I first got my hands on some raspi / arduino hardware it seemed to open up a lot of doors, creatively. When you mostly work with software it's pretty amazing to make something you can touch.

My guess is that for some attendees this will be the push they needed to try hardware hacking for themselves.
California was an island only a few hundred years ago, not millions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:California_island_Vinckebo...

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

:)
His work was indeed without profit. As the former non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme, how could he possible earn any profit from doing that.

Lets also eliminate the difference between infringement, and fraud. Next time apple sues someone that infringe on their swipe to unlock patent, they should add a fraud case to it. How dare those phones deceive users with Apple's gesture!
That's an unfair comparison. It should be with XBox Live [1] and PlayStation Network [2]

* Steam - ~60 million users
* XBox Live - 46 million users as of February 2013
* PlayStation Network - +100 million

although PSN includes PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita handhelds so the number of PS3 users is probably similar to XBox given the number of consoles sold.

Also, the Steam page you referenced says: "Steam has an estimated 50–70% share of the digital distribution market for downloadable PC video games"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Live
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_Network
I was trying to make a point that I summarized in the ending paragraph. I'm sorry you thought it was a straw man. My main point, if I can drill it further home, is not to attack anyone in debate and instead use empathy to lead to a dialogue. For instance, say you meet someone that is against vaccines because of their supposed link to autism. Would it be better to talk to them rationally about the subject, figuring out why there is a lack of trust, while sticking to the facts, or is it better to call them out in public in a retort that makes them look childish? If you want to be right then by all means, do the public retort. But if you want to convince them, then address them directly and stick to science.
In order to start bruteforcing the PIN using the current method, you need to get code running on the device before iOS has finished booting, which means a custom ramdisk.

Only pre-A5 CPUs are vulnerable to the boot-ROM exploit which allows a custom ramdisk to be uploaded.

The exploit is called "limera1n" or the "A4 boot-ROM exploit" if you're interested in learning more.
What's the battery life like? Shit isn't it?
He is talking about the Chromebook Pixel. :)
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perhaps he meant "fantastic" as in "Imaginative or fanciful; remote from reality". As in, whoever thought of that law must be having the best dealer connections.
We built lower Manhattan as part of the demo data used to wow investors and test the rendering tech.

We were hoping that most of the licensing fees would pour the other way: Macdonalds, Gas Stations etc. Our artists mocked loads of those up to show how pretty we could make them.

(and we were sure loads of kids would enjoy smashing them up with toy tanks)
To opt-out I had to unregister my devices from my Apple Account, and at start this did not worked because I had an iMessage client in my MBA, even if it was configured to just receive iMessage targeting my email address. A Nightmare.
That's why I quoted "configuration hassle"
This is nice.
Feature request: Add a safe-search setting.
So I have this question that's been eating at me for a few days, and I can't find anybody who knows the answer and is willing to talk about it.

When I find myself wanting to write Mac (as opposed to say iPad) software, it is not always but usually because having a hardware keyboard is important to whatever software I want to write, and of course all Macs have hardware keyboards. There are other reasons, like better interoperability with other desktop software, but these seem to shrink each year.

But it occurs to me that with iPads outselling Macs at a ratio higher than 4-to-1, it seems at least plausible to me that either there are, or could be in the forseeable future, more iPad users with hardware keyboards than Mac users. So if you are trying to target people who use a keyboard, the iPad could be a better bet.

I can't find any numbers so I don't know if we are there already or if we are a long ways off. But this line of inquiry has really caused me to question whether the iPad makes more sense than the Mac for a lot of projects that I have formerly just assumed would be a better fit for a desktop form factor.
I'd be curious to hear why you make a distinction between leaking for the public interest and leaking because of a disagreement with an organization's politics? Presumably most people hold their political views because they believe they believe those views are in the best public interest?