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Same can be said of startups. There are people who get lucky off of an incredibly simple/clever concept that has little actual value (instagram?), while many other teams fail while toiling away on difficult problems that could be world-changing. It's not fair, but it happens, and often.
> Are we still allowed to call Apple a cult? Or are they a full blown religion now?

What was the point of that?
To be fair, the technology doesn't have to be completely safe, it just has to be good enough. It probably is good enough, for those who don't even use a code.
This piece of software looks awesome. Kudos to JetBrains! However, could you guys fix the sluggishness of PyCharm? PyCharm is awesome too, but this problem renders the IDE cumbersome. I run it on a MacBook Pro i7 with 16GB of RAM and a SSD, so it's not my hardware. If you guys take care of that I will certainly keep renewing its yearly subscription.
I answered a similar question on Quora and we came to the same conclusions as @michaelpinto

http://www.quora.com/Licensing/Can-I-use-a-font-that-states-...
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RealWorldTech has a good article here: http://www.realworldtech.com/arm64/ if anyone wants to do a slightly deeper dive into the ARM64 ISA.
X-Plane has a plugin interface that would make this very possible. I've used plugins that show various instruments in different camera angles, so that data is there and can be grabbed. And there is a lot of 3rd-party hardware that simulates and controls various components of the aircraft (like external GPS modules for training). Probably wouldn't be hard to get the data out of the process.
Wouldn't that mean you'd have to give each Pfennig individually? Otherwise, they'd just round the whole sum.
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Bar codes have no intrinsic value. The value is in the promotion. Think of it as a "reimbursement" not for the product, but for the activity of purchasing it.
And now I know about this? I should hit me in the face.
Yes, you would have to go to the bank 50Mi times.

Because if you gave them 2 Pfenning that would still be 0.01€
My story isn't nearly as extreme, but I'm still pretty proud of it.

Three years ago, there was a LivingSocial deal with a headline to the effect of "$10,000 for one night in the SF Fairmont Penthouse Suite." In a moment of "who would buy this?!," I of course read the whole thing, and the offering was impressive -- it included monogrammed Tiffany table settings for 20 or something, and the suite had a helipad accessible via bookcase-door -- but nothing I'd ever spend my money on.

At the bottom of the blurb, LS mentioned an alternative offer -- "$2000 for a night in the Presidential Suite." In reading that, the last bullet point read "plus Fairmont Platinum Status for Life." Now that, I thought, might actually be a good deal.

Fairmont Platinum gives you a night free, 10 nights of suite upgrades, 10 nights of room upgrades, $100 in spa/dining certificates, and a few other things each year. I'm a young guy, so the math is fairly compelling when you add this up over a lifetime. So I redeemed the deal and posted the opportunity on the frequent flyer forums for Fairmont, where many of Fairmont's best customers lurk, and they quickly snapped up dozens of the deals, leading to Fairmont/LivingSocial putting a freeze on it.

Apparently the "for life" bit had been an error, and they meant "for one year." But now they had some of their best customers, people who often earned their Platinum status anyway, encouraging them to honor it. After taking a weekend to think it over, Fairmont decided to honor the deal, and I've been a Fairmont Plat ever since.

I used the actual night in the suite to throw a surprise engagement party, and it was pretty amazing. Since then, my wife and I have stayed in suites on the cheap in Sonoma, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and we actually spent 5 nights in an oceanfront suite on Hawaii for $129/night (the AAA rate for the suite was $1200/night). And we get lots of nice perks along the way.

Like I said, it's no 4MM miles for $4000, but for doing next to no work, it'll be a nice perk that my family and I will hopefully take advantage of for decades to come.
Browsing trails, I see that.

But content? Anyone can make a .net domain and mirror non-US content on it. Does that give DHS/FBI any legal power over said content? Not over the original, at least.
That's a big risk, I'm surprised the company didn't find some loop hole, or simply lose his entry.

There must have been a lot of times during this that he though, "this is never actually going to work".

Fair play to him though.
That may be so, but the only people truly to blame are the airlines who didn't pay proper attention to how they structured these rewards.
In the UK, any promotional 'tokens' like this have to have a monetary value on them - normally it's something like 0.0001p.
IANAL but perhaps this minute monetary value is the legal value (i.e. effectively nothing)?
"bind on equip" and "bind on pickup" are terrible ideas for games like Diablo. Trading with friends, strangers or your own characters is part of the fun.
Oh, you want the president to be able to force an election for congress (and not just his own position)? Sounds dangerous.
I think basing our ideas about incarceration on a Stephen King movie and novella isn't the wisest strategy, any more than using The Silence of the Lambs would be.
The article mentions that he keeps earning more miles by paying attention to every promotion out there, and has over 4 million now. I also wouldn't be going straight from US to Asia; I'd be hopping locations gradually for an extended vacation to get the most out of the miles.
*insert NSA related quip here.
There are multiple ways of writing any equation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-independent_Schr%C3%B6ding...
They updated it to check for a blink, but even the android phones that had a fingerprint scanner a few years ago, and made by the same company Apple later bought, isn't getting any respect so clearly any non-Apple approved security engineering decisions are declasse.
When you get 90x the performance using C rather than PHP, the only thing stopping its use is human resources.
To put it into perspective, you would need 90 PHP servers to do the same work in the same time as a single C server. Any more debate?
You've pretty much described the X-Plane SDK, although it can do a lot more than that.

X-Plane is pretty much the ultimate flightsim.

The main challenge is old instruments are "cheap" from ebay but they're not really designed to be precision driven (or even non-precision driven) by a servo or a voltage. Usually something can be hacked up with enough duct tape and patience...
Chris Dodd is going to tell you Google is the devil
He's got an interesting niche - essentially being part of Apple PR machine but on the outside.
He's writing for people who already decided they will stay with Apple to make them feel good about the decision.
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Isn't it against the TOS of youtube ?
Ok thx, i misunderstand PlanetLab, thought it was a company ;)
> your Standard Model

If you don't understand your standard model, it's merely a standard belief.

If you understand it, it can be invalidated and thrown away by the 'magical breakthrough' if it provides evidence.

These things shouldn't be treated as a question of political buy-in into to the model.
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I hate the idea but it's probably because swapping the battery would slow down the race and instead of the usual quick pit stop it might be a 10-15 minute pit stop given the weight of the battery at 400+ lbs.

I wonder if they replaced them with fuel cells, would that be an easier on the swap? Could they then just "fuel up" like a petrol-based vehicle?
Yeah... not so keen on having Google listening in on me all the time. I prefer to pay for my gadgets so I'm the customer.
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> Obama claims his hands are tied but to me that smacks of a lack of resolve

Obama's hands are tied by his masters who haven't given him permission to close Gitmo.

I'm surprized people still think that the POTUS (or indeed any part of the government) has any real power in that country.
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Does Microsoft think this is a selling point to any entity other than US government institutions? Do they not see the irony?

:)
Saw this on Quora and thought it's worth sharing. I've no idea who's behind it.
Outsourcing your own teams means there are no in-house experts to perform the oversight role you've described. Thus the principal-agent is amplified.
That I like reading about technology and business, not feel-good fairy stories that people make up about technology and business and (un-?) intentionally obscure the usually more interesting truth?
Almost everything looks better on my wife's bigger Galaxy Note 2 screen compared to my Galaxy S2 screen. I can see more TODOs in my toodledo.com task manager (my primary usage), you can read more without scrolling in your browser, YouTube videos are a pleasure; it's like you're traveling with a mini-home-theater that can fit in your pocket, and using the stylus to make handwritten notes is actually practical.

I hardly notice the issue of having to use two hands to hold the phone. On the other hand, if you have to look at your phone while walking, which is uncomfortable when using a smaller screen and dangerous (bumping into people; maybe even uncivil towards others, come to think of it), the larger text on a larger screen makes it more comfortable and you get done taking a glance at what you want more quickly.

In the US, unlike here in Hong Kong, there seems to be a stigma attached to holding a large screen phone, almost as if people are extremely worried about looking uncool. In Hong Kong, the recognition of the practical advantages of the larger screen and the shift away from Apple to Android phones was overnight; the pace at which everyone adopted the Galaxy Note 2 (and other Android phones) after the iPhone 5 was fairly dramatic. I wish there were some statistics on this.
If you're building a box and painting it anyway, its cheaper to paint it white and rig up some projectors.

One of those "in my infinite spare time" ideas. Along with skipping the cockpit and interfacing with google streetview. Psuedo-realtime image stitching is a PITA.
apparently, they tried.. :
"I became doubly worried when they failed to send me the miles on time ... saying they had no record of my order! This seems pretty incredible given that I mailed the package registered and someone on their end signed for the package... Thankfully, I made copies of everything, and took photographs just in case. When I sent them proof, they quickly sent me the miles."
I think this guy should apply to YCombinator. In particular, there's a question about the time where you have "hacked" the system, or something to that effect.
IIRC, it was originally devised to fix sites melting down under traffic spikes generated by Slashdot browsing crowd.
I remember getting unlimited texting for $5 a month from Verizon circa 2005, and it was $0.10 per text without the plan. Why are phone plans just getting worse...
So in their minds, 3rd degree relations are "relevant" to an investigation? This sounds like they're just trying to save their asses.

Phone metadata collection is illegal in many countries, and can be illegal in US, too. Citzens just need to want it bad enough (even though I still think this ruling of the "secret court" is BS):

http://holt.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...
Yes, well... Funny story, but a slightly mentally unstable guy in Queensland insisted on paying for a bag of mushrooms at his local supermarket mushroom by mushroom. They disallowed it, so he left and entered the store 40 times.

The reason? The scales weren't terribly accurate and rounded down. Each mushroom came to 0.48 cents, which because they rounded down came to nothing. He got a bag of free mushrooms. And a lifetime ban from the store.
DCS series has some support for pit-building, and afaik relatively complete Lua-API. Afaik you should be able to get most of the instruments working.

http://forums.eagle.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=101 here are some examples what the community have built so far.
Have you contacted support? We have a built-in way to gather performance snapshots and try and solve the problem.
Yes, but it's the new hotness :)
If you cannot let the ads run you shouldn't watch the video.

I understand that people hate ads, and that having a method to pay for content would be better than ads, but we don't have that micropayment yet, so we're stuck with ads at the moment.

If you hate ads you should refuse to use any site that displays ads, rather than use the site but block the ads.

If any YouTubers are reading: It'd be great if there was someway to provide feedback on ads. Yes, I realise this would be hell for anyone reading the feedback. But when I go to watch a ten minute video and there's a 4 minute ad, or there's an unskippable 30 second ad that has no interest for me, or there's no way to opt out of future ads from a company that has no interest to me ("Please stop showing me ads from Jakamo").
Orion is an editor. Upsource is mainly a browser. R/W vs R/O.
Cool that Fairmont stuck with the erroneous promise. It would've been easy for them to say no and "well, sue us if you dare!" you, without any significant loss-of-sales effect on the bottom of their end-of-year Excel sheets. Implies some long-term thinking or just plain decency (which I wager are the same thing).
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It takes a lot to hit that RAM barrier on iOS with code. Yes 64-bit code takes up more space than 32-bit code, but the majority of memory is not used for code. It is used for images etc. -- Most apps do not use large amounts of memory for pointer intense structures or contain tens of megabytes of code.

Also, 64-bit addressing may be "meaningless" today if you disregard memory mapping of content (into virtual memory), but , as stated in the review, the 64-bit architecture comes with couple of other improvements including increasing the # registers.
"A stadium is a healthcare institution too"
"A stadium is a healthcare institution too!". With these words Peter Harrach, chairman of the Hungarian Christian Democrats party (KDNP) answered the question why soccer stadiums are financed throughout the whole country, yet they won't finance a healthcare institute for sick children which is at the brink of bankruptcy.

The internationally known Peto institute (see www.peto.hu/en/), founded in 1940 by Andrew Peto is a healthcare institute for children suffering from a damage in the central nervous system which caused motorical disabilities. It was funded by the Peto public foundation and the British government but has later been taken over by a Hungarian insurance company with close connections to the governing party of Hungary. Ever since the takeover the Peto institute struggled with financial challenges and is now about to close its gates due to insolvency because the Hungarian parliament recently voted against the financial injection for the institute.

They rather finance soccer stadia because you know: "A stadium is a healthcare institute too". I wonder how many children with disabilities will be allowed to play soccer in one of the stadia...

The captions in the following picture say: "Viktor (Orban, prime minister) look! Can the Peto institute get money now?"
http://m.cdn.blog.hu/ma/magyarinfo/pet%C5%91i.jpg
There's a new service looking to do something similar to payments on videos.

Like a pay-as-much-as-you-like subscription
https://subbable.com/
I wonder how much having the word "engineer" in the title helped in getting this to the front page...
Obama wanted an open Internet he could spy on. Thanks to NSA, he may get neither
Videos should be so marked so that they can be easily skipped.
It seems like a missed opportunity to push for innovation. Changing tyres on normal cars is also a slow process and back in the earlier days of racing it was as well. Now all four tyres can be changed in just around 2 seconds due to great technological innovations (and training the pit-crew like OL athletes). Developing a system where a battery could be changed quickly would be equally as interesting.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll gather the reports and send them to you guys.
I agree and I bet this website will be shut down soon. YouTube has to make revenue and personally I have no problem "suffering" those ads as long as they're short.
You might be surprised at what WinServer 2012 already supports in that area: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/s...
One's made of wood, the other is made of vapor...

I suspect the long term effect will be much like simulators have displaced some recreational real world flying and training, but not as much as you'd think.
What about RHEL or Fedora?
Much like using Hadoop on 15MB CSV files? :)
I just assume everyone in life has bias and that the links he provides my not make him much money or cover his costs of hosting.

I think that anyone going down the route of building a PC is going to do additional research and would be happy just to use posting as this as guidelines or starting points.
That's what I used it for! Of course, I never published anything worth getting Slashdotted :)
Doesn't AdBlock already handle YouTube? I haven't seen an ad before video in quite a while.
Mondaine used to make a watch that mimics the Swiss railway movement. Is was called stp2go, it looks like they just re-released it[0]. The old one had problems and would loose time quickly.

[0]http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/07/stop2go-by-mondaine-at-deze...
Are the terms they reduce to constant, i.e. are they the same variables like spin or charge, no matter the problem? I'm not a physicist - not even close - but I do love a good mathematically general abstraction across a problem space.
So we're supposed to use this site to skip YouTube ads, and in exchange we're presented with the website's ads. Right.
Less anecdotally, screen size (along with "perceived value") was the main reason that Samsung phones were given higher user satisfaction ratings than any Apple device in the US earlier this year.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/07/31/samsung-sma...
Useful to know, but it's still an easy and efficient way to reduce load from static elements.
So then you'd have an election, another president and Gitmo would still be open for business.

Or alternatively the legislature would be even more locked up than it has been over the last few years at a time of severe economic hardship, none of Obama's other policies would have got anywhere, and Gitmo would still be open for business.
If you enjoyed the pudding scheme, you'll get a kick out of these related exploits: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/473/l...
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Yes, It does.
The extensive crew training, and having a crew, and having air tools, and having a car that is jacked in a single push motion, all make changing F1 tires easier.

I'm not sure what can be transferred to regular cars? How often do tires need to be changed? (I guess more often if you have snow and ice some times of year?)
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What I will do: Fix every bug/crash and layout issues coming from iOS 7. I can also adjust a few UI elements to make it look better on iOS 7.

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This is great. I can see them going for a revision control system next and build the complete eco system.
Aside from the argument of whether or not to block ads, there are extensions to that, why build a website?

Can this website take a load as big as Youtube's ? I doubt so.
Justice is just a fancy word we use to mask that what we really seek is "eye for an eye" retribution. We can and should attempt to move to a more enlightened view. Society should definitely not be meting out retribution.
I haven't either and was wondering if it was that or Glimmerblocker. If I did see video ads, I'd rather just close the tab than suffer through them.

That is by the way in everyone's best interest, especially the advertisers. Making me watch some ad will only make me dislike your brand.
Seems like this kind of scenario is inevitable. There are also browser extensions for skipping, like Magic Actions for YouTube.

Advertising values are constantly being devalued. It would be nice if there was a way to move beyond advertising on the web as the primary business model. Wikipedia is the only top 10 site on the net that does not rely on advertising.
Agreed. I'm hoping to see that in the Le Mans series as manufacturers bring electric vehicles into the mix. Such as Nissan's entry next year: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/22/nissan_electric_le_m...

They want to compete with petrol cars not only on the track, but also in the pits.

Le Mans is really just one big automotive experiment, with a lot of the technology trickling down to the rest of us. That's why I love it.
This, like most pieces on Medium, is just an extended platitude. Having complete flexibility and ample free time is great. You know what else is great? Stable employment with a benefits. There's a reason that most people continue to operate within the established hierarchy instead of becoming self-employed: companies afford certain things to their employees that freelances do not receive.

Working for yousef can be difficult and fruitless. Working for a company can be more lucrative, more secure, and easier. The latter are worth being bored with your job to many people.
I'm guessing batteries are distributed around the body to balance weight and save space. This means changing the batteries would involve stripping off all kinds of body work. That is risky, because it increases the opportunity for things to not be screwed back properly.
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It's that way in Canada. Both Aeroplan and AirMiles make you pay taxes and fees. Depending on which airports you cross that's probably $50-$75 a head each way.
Honestly, at first this headline made me laugh out loud. Then I chuckled again thinking 'Has MS's PR department completely lost the plot re what is happening nowadays vis a vis the NSA?'

Finally I actually feel a little sad. I used to trust my government (to a certain degree). Now, not in the slightest.
And yet he constantly attacks advertising-based products ... of which his blog is one, though he did try, and fail, to make it subscription only at one point.

If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer!
They wouldn't need to believe he was buying it for just the pudding. They would need to believe that the donated pudding had a certain monetary value, that this guy then donated. And that value would be natural to assess against the cost of acquiring the pudding when the donation was made to someone for the benefit of the food..

That he could extract additional value through the work of removing the bar code does not implicitly reduce the value of the pudding itself.

It is not unusual for it to be possible to extract more value by splitting up a product and selling or taking advantage of parts separately. A lot of businesses are even built on buying lots and separating them to extract value as people are often willing to pay over the odds for a smaller part, or parts of the lots may have been undervalued (as clearly was the case here).