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The confusion appears to be that there's an English - Germany setting and a German - Germany setting, as you point out in this comment. You have to distinguish between countries and languages when requesting a date format. It's unfortunately just that complicated. Why? Because some people never learn another date style even if they prefer a different language. This isn't as much of a problem when dates are represented in a straightforward way, but some regions are really different and if travelling in a different country, you may want to borrow that country's date formats without changing the rest of your system language. It's equally possible that some date representations don't "translate" and so to properly support all date formats, languages may need to be overridden. I'm not saying it's obvious -- but then country restrictions were always man-made and rarely make sense in the first place. Personally, I blame languages named after countries. ;-)
Don't forget to take into account that grid connected solar houses feed excess power produced into the grid, there's no free about it, these are essentially micro power stations which enhance the grid.
Guys, anyone knows the sense of "measured at a concentration of 297 suns."? is sufficient much less energy to transform the earth in a giant BBQ.
I wish there was a JS-shim that could be used to deliver flexbox (or any cutting edge CSS) to older browsers so I could begin implementing it now instead of waiting some unspecified amount of time before it becomes acceptable.
As one some of whose earliest programming was on a Bendix G-15, I can only say: "We ain't seen nothing yet".
One of the best examples of consultant failure i've ever seen. Clearly an example for

- not enough questions asked
- not listened to the customer

Do not ever start building something or proposing a solution if you don't understand the customers problem deeply enough.
The high res display is a big deal for me.
It was called Pathfinder, and it launched in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(web_site)

It was not sophisticated by today's standards, but it was one of the first real magazine sites on the web. Here are some screenshots.

http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/pathfindermuseum/index.sht...
I found this very difficult to read. The text is too large to fill such a wide section.
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I find that fixed bids they try to take me for a ride, time and materials they are afraid to spend time with me to figure out what they actually want.

I have yet to find a customer unwilling to try to doom their own project or a compensation strategy that reliably prevents it - its just tons of work and communication. Unfortunately I'm just an okay coder and most people seem like they actually want a code talk therapist.
Well to answer that I would need some context. Like :

a) Do I need the cash and is the market quiet at the time?
b) Are there some other opportunities that might result?
c) Is the hourly rate way higher than I could get somewhere else?
d) Is the tedium only short term?
e) Am I gaining some significant skills / experience?
f) Did I give my word to do the job?

If the answer to any of the above is yes, I may well accept the project or continue on with the project, otherwise I would move on.

I remember when I was working in London, I was on the same contract for 2 years. About 9 months out from the end they extended my contract and we were asked to build a prototype of a system that automated a lot of human elements of the original system we built. We built the prototype, and it was very good, but the funding was pulled and most people left the project. By that stage I was about 4 months from my visa running out, and there was no work to do. So I stayed on and did nothing but about 30 minutes of support work per day and the rest of the time worked on pet projects and amused myself. I felt a little bad about it, as I was earning $120/hr, but I may well have been screwed if I tried to find work with only a few months left on my visa.
Actually, the amount of creative work in any medium that existed before the Enlightenment era is pretty thin relative to what came after. And it's not even a drop in the bucked compared to the explosion of material that followed the industrial revolutions on general and the modification of copyrights to make them transferable in particular.

This legal innovation became the bedrock for the massively collaborative forms of media that went on to define the 20th century (newspapers, encyclopedias, literary anthologies, films, broadcasts, video games to name the biggest).

Also, the point of copyright is to resolve a very specific problem, which is reconciling the high capital costs of content creation with the low marginal cost of duplication. Of course, none of the people who casually and dismissively say "just figure out a different model" will be ever be clear about exactly what problem needs solving.

That's because acknowledging the mathematically inevitable failures awaiting any endevor with high R&D costs and low manufacturing and distribution costs make the logic of copyright clear. Either we create legal protections for the business or let it die. Given the extraordinary value offered by intangible goods, advanced economies have made the smart choice of creating legal protections in case where markets left to themselves would leave many of our best and brightest high and dry.
This is in development: https://github.com/doctyper/reflexie
As a software guy who used to work in a factory alongside "actual" mechanical and E&E engineers, I daresay our goals and responsibilities are so similar, that we have every right to call ourselves engineers.
We can't even get Netflix in Australia. And the lawyers and politicians wonder why we Australians pirate the most.
People were mentally comparing it to how the calendar works ("drag and drop") as opposed to the home screen ("hold to enter edit mode so icons wiggle in fear, then drag and drop"). In part this is because we intuitively assume that the only thing we should be able to do with such icons is either click once to select, or hold to drag and drop. It doesn't occur to us that hold might do something else, as in the home screen's swipe, for instance. This makes even less sense when you realize a calendar has many reasons to enable dragging blank space to move around to new dates and times, while a schedule of alarms auto-repeats every 7 days and has no need for horizontal scrolling as a result. It was simply rushed for iPad. Neat idea, needs more work. :)
They would have to be pretty darn cheap to beat out the USB Midi controllers people generally use now with things like Ableton Live, considering you can get something like this now for less than $100 that has the virtue of already being for sale.

It won't look half as cool with your Surface, though.

It might make sense from an industrial standpoint to replace a gazillion of those membrane pads at Micky-D's but as a consumer good? I'm not so sure.
Midnight seems like a logical time to release an announcement. That way, people can talk about it at any point in the day.
The problem is, how much better is it really? The flatness of the cover by its very nature implies awful tactile awareness compared to Cherry MX's or any other such device wholly designed to aid tactile awareness. Looking at the images, I'm guessing I'm about as likely to gain a feel for this device as I am to start reading Braille spontaneously. What is there to give tactile feedback on this thing? Paint!?!? XD Subtle dips in an already subtle material?! I'd rather open a school teaching finger-navigation on felt than develop any application dependent on this. Who is this really a wake-up call to? I'd have to have been using an iPad to transcribe on for the last three years to buy an exclamation that relevant change has occurred. Hardly the thing that will stop the slide of MS, and good riddance. One less platform wholly and utterly founded on proprietary software.
Yes, because there is certainly no way to browse the web via your phone's hotspot! I think this is called shutting the barn door after the horses have fled.
https://github.com/doctyper/reflexie/tree/develop for actual content.
"Google tracks my every move" is more privacy than "Google tracks my every move and lets advertisers know too."
Because Nock is so simple (just a few substitution rules) I wonder if it'd be reasonable to formalize it in a theorem prover like Coq, or Agda to ensure correctness.
You're missing the point. The free part is they're selling back power at retail rates. In net metering if you generate as much power as you use you don't pay any per kWh charges. Where I live the power company is selling power to consumers for about 22 cents per kWh. From normal wholesale vendors it's buying power for somewhere around seven cents, but it's buying buying power from net metering people for 22 cents.

That's where the "using the grid for free" part comes in. People who purchase wholesale-generated power are paying the power company's overhead, whereas the net metering people aren't.
Yes, it's just a common view among US's elites; one poster called her, "Just another populist in South America". There's a context behind this.

The article mentioned, "She was imprisoned and tortured for her role in a guerilla movement opposed to Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s." The US supported the 1964 military coup, which put in place the Nazi-like security state which tortured her. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9t...)

(And there's dissident lit from people who lived through these times, pointing out the domino effect this had for US intervention against other Latin American countries, emboldened by our success against Brazil. http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm)
Can't argue with that. When I watch most video, including YouTube (downloaded with youtube-dl), many streaming or download sites, or MythTV recordings, I tend to speed it up to 130-160% of normal; Netflix is the one and only source of video I can't do that with.
Why hasn't amazon release their own appletv/chromecast?

Makes perfect sense since they have Amazon Instant Video.
unblock-us.com -- all I gotta say.

Well, and moreflicks.com if you want to see how catalogue selection varies by country. (Its search isn't the greatest, but they have the most netflix countries, I've found.)
For country switching netflix, unblock-us.com is awesome. That said, I'm from Canada, YMMV.
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That's an interesting idea, and I think that it reveals an important aspect of the copyright system. If they had to submit an annual fee for each work, it would be a massive number of things to pay a fee for. For example, if Disney wanted to submit their fee for Cars, would they also need to submit a fee for the likeness of each character, i.e. Lightning McQueen, Mater, Doc, Sally, etc. What about the artwork associated with each of the settings?

It's interesting to think that each of these elements is individually protected under copyright laws.
Yeah, there really isn't that much excuse for all those people out there with a 4th generation iPod touch not to upgrade immediately given that Apple licenses Amazon's one-click purchase patent: they are just one button tap away from a 5th generation iPod touch, and then they can use iOS 7... that's pretty lazy ;P.
Iran captured drone by spoofing GPS signal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...
Your comment makes me think - why not allow people to print out the membrane using their own inkjet printer? Some consideration about the material must be made but surely this can be solved.
But the US can't violate your rights unless you're here.
Arguably there's a lot of folks reinventing things poorly in ad-hoc ways, doubtful that will ever change. What's more concerning is the flagrant anti-theory attitude that, at least to me, seems to be on the rise. In the context of discussions around Haskell or Agda it's sadly common to see "mathematical" bandied around as a synonym for "impractical".
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Hm, so I just tried it. I have the latest Mac mini (i5 8GB RAM), and it was slow. Switching between files, highlighting lagged. Typing was stuttery. Next, I couldn't change the font, it was just not selecting. So, looks like cool software, but I went back to Sublime Text 3 with lint extension.
Yes he started a business installing furnaces. He was well respected by the guys who survived in real estate and had no problem finding business. When the war was over he did go back to real estate but never as big as before. He explained that he never would again be comfortable to be so highly leveraged.
The pressure sensitivity of this is cool but lets not get ahead of ourselves with 'true innovation' - this isn't the tactile feedback multi-use touch surface we've been waiting for.

I own a Surface (journalist freebie hand-me-down), and after playing with it extensively I've determined Surface's only real contribution to society is as a physical manifestation of Microsoft's inability to commit to design decisions. Should it run classic UI or Metro? Should it to run ARM or x86 apps? Should it have a keyboard or a blade? Microsoft's answer to all of these is YES, and that means NO polish and NO market share.

This blade is another example of not committing - are there any launch partners where you can use this with any software you want? Doesn't look like it. So we're to expect musicians are going to drop the music software they've been using for years for a cut-down v1 Microsoft remix app? If not, then who's it for? The uber casual remixer who.. probably already owns an ipad? Pick a market, guys.

I feel bad for the undoubtedly smart folks who put together the blade and the remix app, but who are stuck working on a crappy platform. Building an array of 1000 pressure-sensitive sensors into a touch surface is cool (I'm impressed w new blade touch architecture), but its also something that a committed hacker could do. And after doing it, they'd have as much market share and software partners as Microsoft does with this blade on Surface. So... I wouldn't call it 'true innovation'. Lets leave that distinction to groundbreaking research projects or highly polished new-ish ideas that finally go big.
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True, but nobody will loan money to a country that is not fiscally responsible (i.e., able to pay it back). A country that must be fiscally responsible to finance its wars will not semi-permanently invade multiple foreign countries.

The US gets out of this by being able to do quantitative easing.
Am i drunk.. or thumbs up to jetbrains for this easter egg 
Check the snake twice :) haha

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/whatsnew/index.html
Since you're asking... Had I updated to iOS 7, every single animation on my phone would have become jaggy, and the camera would just take forever (instead of current 15 seconds) to load.

Oh wait, my iPhone 35s doesn't support iOS 7 at all (for these reasons). But I know people with iPhone 4 who don't upgrade because iOS 7 lags too much even on iPhone 4.

Of course we gotta update our devices once in a while, but for those of us who don't live in the US and buy them unsubsidized, it costs some money. All I'm saying is, there are some reasons people won't upgrade right away even if they'd hell like to. Whether to support them for a while is up to you of course.

edit: and there's this iPod Touch thing of course.
Where did you get those numbers? http://www1.salary.com/Emergency-Medical-Technician-Salary.h...
I've read the cargo cult essay. Would you say that based on their actual performance, you would place the aviation industry or the FAA in that category? If so, could you point to other, more successful industries?

I suggested getting a PPL to get rid of all those annoyances that commercial air transport impose on you to reduce their risk. There is even an experimental airplane category if you want to err on the risky side.

I agree that it has to be approached analytically, but since you can't prove a negative, in the end you have to make a risk assessment. I certainly don't agree with all of them, but there have been enough examples of fatal accidents when the FAA didn't do their job, that I'm happy that they are taking their time to, guess what, do the analytical work, before changing a regulation. As opposed to acting on a gut feeling about what would be safe.
If you read the comments on the report (and specifically Jing's comments, who works for Adobe), you'll notice that they imply it will never be solved ever.

The bug report was written a few days after the release of the player that contained the crippling. Note that we had to find out through other ways than a changelog in Flash what was wrong. The Adobe worker said they had to disable JIT compilation because of a security issue and didn't have the time to fix it before the release.

A month after the bug report was created, he implied through asking for votes and by apparently talking to management, that he'll try to get it fixed in a future release. We waited another month and now he closed the bug, added "NeverFix", and gave alternatives that are a joke.

If that isn't a NeverFix, I don't know what is. If you know have inside information on this, please do share.
> (or even big private companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc.)

Or IBM, or everyone's favourite, Tesla.

A similar argument always crops up with people always looking at how much technology came out of war-time efforts. The opportunity costs are huge.
Well played, JetBrains. :)
No, they declare wars with no termination condition that can lead to nothing but self-sacrifice of American lives and dollars while accomplishing no legitimate objective whatsoever.

If someone has the means and intent to attack you, by all means, a preemptive attack is a good means of defense.

Attack and defense are not fundamentally different. Force is force. The question is who initiated it or threatened to initiate it. That is the bad guy.
Completely agree with this. In a live environment (loud, dark, time sensitive) I've found using a iPad to control music much harder than using a standard computer keyboard, even with the iPad's simple controls.
I'm not too familiar with the landscape but I'm seeing some IPOs valued at $3-4b from companies that are generating about $100m in revenues. 5 years ago those same companies would be a <$1b acquisition.
Well...his crime actually was that he intentionally accessed data he knew he should not have been accessing. That is a crime. Thus he was found guilty. I'm not sure why this is so hard to reconcile or is being purposefully ignored just because this crime is one of many that involves a computer.
While you're considering alternatives, what would the massive wealth dedicated to the DOD have done in the hands of NASA and private non-military researchers?
I would love it if there were a whole category of games like Riven.
The most interesting feature is Kindle Mayday. It connects you with a support technician -- live. I wonder how that will work out.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57604502-93/amazon-adds-may...
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depends what kind of integration you're thinking of, I guess?

I assume you know of the 'External Build System' project-level support.

from a quick search: http://meandmark.com/blog/2011/10/using-makefiles-in-xcode-4...
A couple points:

1) It's not like the Soviet Union was a terrible hellhole for research. It had impressive research output for decades.

2) That's almost beside the point, however. Let's take it as a given that more good research, whatever that is, is a worthy goal for a society, and that the market under-invests in it in favor of short term profits. It's obviously not a binary of either 100% government funding or 100% private; it's not even really a one-dimensional continuum, because for the large capital expenditures typically involved in research, the government always has a heavy involvement, either in tax breaks or grants or collaboration. The question is, how do we allocate money to produce the best research? It's undoubtedly at some value that's somewhere between 0% and 100%.

3) There's a whole lot of money floating around now that makes endeavors like SpaceX practicable. That wasn't the case in, say, the Sixties. Even if the arguments for government spending on research were weak now, they'd be stronger in the 1960's, particularly for things like space exploration that required substantial concentrations of capital.
Wouldn't help for prices moved by news, like this.
You should definitely check out Gone Home then.
What were some of those shady tactics?
You missed "If you removed the dates from this story.." in the parent comment.
>> In theory, the trading reaction should have begun in New York several milliseconds before it began in Chicago, because information takes several more milliseconds to travel the longer distance.

Just curious, how much difference could this "several milliseconds" have made?
It would be awesome if the 'keyboard' could be combined with an e-ink screen that overlaid it. That way, the touchpad could be reconfigured on the fly depending upon the app that you are using.
Sure it does. It says that mjd is on HN, and reading this article's comments at least enough to post this, and that he has a sense of humor.

I'm sure if someone so desired, they could ask a specific question regarding the story either in reply to the root comment or as a root comment and expect it may be seen by the author, and possibly get a reply.
I guess they are using it for caching non-static content.
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Well it is really just semantics, so there is no right or wrong, and anyone can define what particular words mean to them.

But there are a couple of things that make me personally think software engineering is a misnomer.

Firstly, traditional engineering disciplines are generally pretty black and white. It is applied maths and science. If you build a bridge, you can use physics and maths to pretty much prove that it will handle a particular weight/load and so forth. Software development is rarely like that, and even if you are writing software for an engineer and therefore you could argue that you can prove the calculations the system is generating, it is really the problem domain that is engineering but the way the software is put together is not so easy to prove.

Secondly, I think the term actually does us a disservice. Software development requires intuition, craftsmanship, pragmatism, determination, adaptability, artistry. It also often requires understanding human nature, empathy for users, being able to learn and understand endless problem domains, an eye for the aesthetic. All of these things aren't generally required for traditional engineering disciplines.
Most of today's airplanes were designed in the 70s at a time when the only small electronic devices were wristwatches and calculators. They've added shielding afterwards, but an airplane needs antennas and has to receive RF signals, so there will always be a possibility of interference. I exactly the same way that there will always be the possibility if a security hole in a computer connected to the internet, unless you mathematically prove every piece of code.
I wonder what would happen if "profit margin fixing" was allowed.
Would you like some blackberry keyboards for your iphone, sir?
I think the quality of the other responses to the parent indicates exactly how likely that is. A whole subtree full of gray comments.

Maybe I'm just getting old.
If it is truly art then it doesn't make much sense why he is trying so damn hard to make it practical.