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I don't understand what you're saying. The reason it is useful to make this distinction, is to explain to people that don't see the distinction (and thus assume that, for example, someone who likes math watches Firefly; or that someone who collects MTG cards will be able to fix their computer), that in fact there is a practical difference between the two categories, and that they should keep them in mind so as to not offend people that aren't both by assuming they have traits of a group they don't.
Glad we could clear up the fundamental disagreement - I found what he said offensive, bigoted, misogynist and hateful to women before ever reading anything else he'd said.
The entire economy can run just fine with 1 infinitely divisible bitcoin in circulation. Any bitcoins held can only have an effect if they are spent.

The buyer who converted his labour into bitcoin has, in effect, provided free labour unless he converts the bitcoin back.
Amazon’s best seller isn’t a Kindle device; it’s a Chromecast
That was likely an homage to the 1984 film The Last Starfighter -- a teenager gets recruited "by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war" via being the top scorer on an arcade game.
I'm sorry, I should have made my point more clear.

The gist of what I'm saying is that if you treat people like machines, they act like machines. If your organization is setup as a strict hierarchy with zero autonomy, it will function as a giant machine, only kept going by the person/people controlling it.

They alternative to this is to maximize autonomy for all your employees. Allow your people to be people. There is an innate human desire to create, to organize, to make an impact, to move from chaos to order--to fight entropy. Harnessing that desire is, in my opinion, the best way to run a company.

I'll give you an example. A McDonald's employee isn't happy with his job, but one day he decides to make the best of it and just do the best job he can. He walks into work intent on making the best damn hamburger he can make. But then he realizes...he can't do that. His job isn't to make the best hamburger he can make, it's to make the exact same hamburger made by every other employee at every other McDonald's. In this case what we've done is to take a human and do our best to turn him into a robot.
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I know I'll get downvoted to hell for this, but the problem with Android can be explained with the well-documented phenomenon called the Paradox of Choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...

Basically, the more choices you have, the less happy you are, regardless of whether you notice it or attribute it to having those choices.
Lavabit reinstates service so users can download emails, change passwords
And replacing it with new skills and new craftsmanship. Let's see one of those fancypants metalworkers even concieve of (let alone build) even the most simple user authentication system!
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No, the simple explanation is backwards compatibility. There was a client-side mitigation to the MtE vulnerability, but it broke some tiny fraction of servers in the wild so it never made it to the stable release of NSS.
Of top tier schools, or who have worked for top tier companies. Remember his goal shifted recently from funding the best ideas to funding the best people and then finding them a good idea.
I've only driven through it but it was quite beautiful if that's any consolation.
You should only report spam that is actually spam.
Sure. I'll load the rendered view of the site I'm working on and flip through tabs on that window. Typically this takes up a whole screen, and It'll resize frequently if I'm working on a responsive site.

Usually the code editor or IDE takes up a full screen, with it's file tree view or whatever even a full screen can be cramped.

The document inspector/developer tools almost dominate the other screen. If you're used to development in that tiny framed view below the browser, do yourself a favor and pull that sucker out; Get a real look at your rendered document and network profile while you're at it.

Any left over space trades between the terminal, gui file transfer, irc, music player (wait let's keep this work related ;), spec documents, email, code references, credentials manager, file management...

I really could load up three more screens just for a normal workflow. I can screenshot if there's interest.
But if they're providing me biased info about a topic I know a lot about, how can I trust them on the topics I know little about?

That's exactly the feeling I have about all non-specialist media. All of it, even NYT, BBC, The Economist, and NPR. I know a lot about a few things, and they never can get the details right, or often even the main points right.

I still consume the stuff - for entertainment, I guess. It's good to keep in mind that it's at best an approximation of the facts.
Why do they bother hauling goods by road if it takes days, and they have railroads and inland waterways?
You don't have to make any of these choices though. I'm not sure why people keep thinking you have to make any choices, other than perhaps which device has the features you want.
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I'm quite surprised Apple hasn't. Their motto seems to be "Apple: Freedom from the tyranny of choice!"
Network effect, why would you store any of your wealth in AT&T's blockchain over a globally distributed one?

And even if a large number of people use AT&T's blockchain, it ceases to belong to them once they sell their coins.
We have some, and will create more. There is no "deserve".

The author seemed to teeter between inspiration and self destructive guilt. I liked the inspirational part.
The problem with the argument is that it conflates choice with consistency. What every mobile vendor including Apple is principally attempting to do is to create a feature which a user will miss if they switch away, and for a lot of people Android wins because choice is a feature you'll lose or restrict on iOS.

I agree that a lot of time has been wasted by Android vendors on differentiation for differentiations sake. It's easier to superficially fuck with the UI than actually create a useful features.

I'm a great believer in Loss Aversion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion) and Hotelling's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law) when it comes to device preferences.

These days I don't think many people are arguing that the iOS UI is significantly better than stock Android, Android has closed the gap or jumped beyond iOS depending on your personal preferences (Hotelling's law). Then consider how many people won't even consider iPhones because the screen size is too small (loss aversion).
To me this is a good sign. Not every small town needs to exist. Historically there were reasons for them - agriculture I guess. But now they often serve no purpose except to house the old people who have trouble leaving. The fact is the world doesn't need as many farmers as it used to so these places are better off left to disappear. It might feel sad if your hometown is lost but it's only physical things whose usefulness has passed.
No.

Millions of details need to be sorted out before even beginning to draft legislation. One must be insane to think this could "just work" and promote innovation. Try running an airport. This would be orders of magnitude more complicated. Not unfeasible, but please be patient and methodical.

How long until the drone owners start selling not ads, but data collection/reconnaissance services to corporations/governments...?
Anyone know how these type of "logistics" companies are planning on solving the last 10 feet problem.

I.e. where does the drone land? How does the recipient pick up their package? What if you live in an apartment, how do you get your pie?

This make me think drone delivery is probably waaay more valuable in suburbia than a city setting. Delivery in the suburbia seems costlier currently (larger distances, lower densities so less stops per route, etc) and drones are well suited to deliver to a nice big front/back yard.

In cities - I don't see how they'll deliver pizzas, but maybe non-perishables can be deposited into receptacles on rooftops or street corners and picked up asynchronously.
I spent two years living in a variety of cities eastern Ukraine (Donetsk, Kharkov, Makyevka, Gorlovka), and what I saw there wasn't too far removed from what is described in the article. As I read the article, with the exception of the 14-year-old Gypsy wedding, I found myself saying "Oh yeah, I remember that." I would argue that what was described wasn't so much a story of a dying and decaying Russia, as it is some aspects of Russian/former-Soviet culture, especially in small cities or villages.
I still think that's goal-oriented, or at the very least a hybrid approach. I wonder if the better term might be "objectives," e.g. each day, I have an objective to fix at least X bugs and make Y commits. But then that seems to increase the relative danger of encouraging yourself to do more make-work just to reach some slated goal at the end of the day.

That does give me some insight. To translate this to a habit-oriented system, you could improve or streamline your commit process, reorganize things to deal more readily with possible distractions (or deal with distractions in a single chunk of the day, such as the morning, to leave more time available for coding in the afternoon), and work on honing your habits. By doing so, getting certain goals done each day--and increasing the number of goals reached--would be a side effect of improved habits.

I guess I've been stumped because I'm looking at it from the wrong perspective (and I'm not especially prone to insight). Dumping goals entirely and focusing on the tools and techniques to get there seems more pertinent than establishing some baseline to work toward for a tangible reward. In some ways, it's like the football team example: If the team focuses on improving their fitness and practice habits (making progression itself a habit, such as the mile run by 5 seconds every few days), their competitiveness will improve as a consequence and become more predictable.
is this the future of logistics?
That quiet was ruined long ago when they started allowing automobiles into residential areas.
I get 1.7 to 2 times as many neurons as elephants, a little more for whales, and they don't seem even half as intelligent. Homo floresiensis had a brain considered small for a chimpanzee and was capable of making tools and lighting fires and very likely language. Meanwhile neanderthals had even bigger brains than us. The number of neurons alone isn't responsible for intelligence.

Even if it was, that doesn't explain how intelligence works or what the hell the brain is actually doing.
That's the big issue though; most people who like to write about how Android isn't good for some rather stupid reason probably haven't really given enough thought to ... anything.

What confuses me most is that it looks like most of the author's income comes from an Android SMS replacement application.
Actually he has been in Brazil many times, and I personally saw Jon and Dilma on the same room, although they don't talked to each other. Also Maddog gave speeches witnessed by close advisors.of Dilma, and witnessed by Brazil Government RD company, in fact the government itself frequently.invites Maddog here. So what you are saying is very insulting, Maddog has been trying to convince our government to adopt FOSS even if it ignores Cauã since 2008

EDIT: above post before its own editing was only the part inside quotes.
There have been a few Western photographers of renown who have treated Russia as a subject.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/nov/27/bruce-g...

2. https://www.lensculture.com/articles/simon-roberts-motherlan...

3. http://englishrussia.com/

[1] Bruce Gilden

[2] Simon Roberts
> On the other hand I think Android is a just a confusing mess to use, and I say this as someone who is fairly familiar with its innards and has been hired to write Android firmware code.

That's funny, because my grandma uses Android just fine, even though she had never touched a computer in her life before using Android. Being "familiar with its innards" and having written Android firmware doesn't give you very good insight into how average users interact with the device.
They've also released code to generate an arbitrarily large number of colliding keys for MurmurHash2 and CityHash64, and one to recover the secret key of Python's randomized hash function. At some point here you're doing cryptography whether you want to or not -- and most of these randomized hash functions are just lousy cryptography.
I believe "geek" typically describes someone obsessed with a particular topic and/or with media/games/tech/some-corner-of-popular culture. Conversely, "nerd" typically describes someone obsessed with a particular academic topic and/or with learning in general. It's a significant difference.

Though not typical, it's also worthwhile to remove the "socially awkward" connotations of the use of "nerd" and "geek" terms and ascribe those to "dork" instead. Many self-described geeks and/or nerds don't consider themselves socially handicapped and it's deleterious to society to muddle academic engagement with social impairment.
One of my favorite quotes from growing up was from my martial arts class, we had this trainer who would come over a couple of times a year from Israel - and during one session where we were doing particularly interesting movement, he said: "These movements open up dormant brain circuitry" -- it was a statement that always stood out to me.
And last century isn't that long ago...
Chromecast has some issues - an occasional glitch in sending Youtube videos. But nothing that isn't fixed by a quick refresh of a page.

Overall I've been very happy with it, for Netflix and Youtube it's very convenient. Tabcast less so.

Now also Hulu on board.

This article gives me hope that Amazon will add their streaming video to it as well.
I had the opportunity to meet Venezuela's pre-Chavez Minister of Education at a conference in the US around ten years ago. We had a very interesting conversation. The man was almost in tears as he described how his country was being destroyed from the inside by Chaves and his socialist/communist ideology. It goes without saying that he made a huge impression on me.
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Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?
I had the same issue learning directives. In particular, I had a hard time getting "container" directives working right with isolated scope. I've come up with a rule of thumb: if this directive is a small, self-contained widget, opt for isolated scope. If not, keep it simple and either not create any scope (for really basic wrapper directives), or create a new scope using the scope prototype chain.

But I still have a ton to learn, so I'm not sure that's the best approach.
As a Brazilian national I wholehearted agree with this. It is very easy for a develop world country reporter to inform the world on our seemingly barbarous-like ways.

As in the case of Brazil, this has been a problem for generations, like our authorities do not live in Brazil or only come for the world cup and carnaval.

The picture is much dire, its part of the culture, we are raised to think this way. Someone applies for a job in the police not because they seek order but because they know the corruption behind it can put their family in a better spot.

You can find examples of this in any 'developing' country.
>> I don't know what it would ever mean to deserve the wealth and privilege that I have now. I want to do everything in my power to make sure that the injustices that have built history are righted.

Perhaps... to be a responsible custodian to what we've inherited, to not abuse it, to be conscious about how immensely fortunate we are, and above all, to share it with others around us.
But we're not comparing with the rest of the world.
Or assassinating opponents, locking up dissenters, bashing (figuratively and literally) gays and generally using state force to break human rights.
How is this at all annoyance with a younger generation? There's a lot of knowledge, such as of music, that's only passed on through oral or hands-on teaching. This knowledge lives on by mere virtue of the continued survival of the people who know it.

If enough of these kinds of "masters" die, some if not most of that knowledge will be lost forever.
Plus, if it goes fast enough, the only risky part would be right when it comes home.
Just to point out few facts: New York City isn't a capital of anything, nor is San Francisco. VCs are in the South Bay, not in San Francisco.
Google is soon going to pay you to track your mobile app usage
Leo, The Homeless Coder, Was Arrested This Morning
That's hilarious, it's a major feature I want from a blog and I came to the comments to advocate. It's one of the best things about Drupal, for instance.

I want a frozen codebase that only worries about critical security updates.

In the real world, you will break your site by adding new plugins every few months. The site will break. I get a stable codebase and I sit on it.

Development causes bugs! Milestone releases are what I want.

> In the real world, people need compatibility more than they need whatever cleanup you're able to do by breaking compatibility.

Here's the thing: if you're a user that needs compatibility don't upgrade! (not an option with most blogs) If you're always adding new functionality and plugins to your blog, things will break. If your business needs constant new web technology updates, use a real CMS and fix them when they break. They will break, they always break.
Well said.

And that is predicated upon the idea that somehow engaging with bits and bytes can be detached from the emotional, political, cultural, and historical.
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Because law enforcement will tell you that they have better things to do than retrieve your cellphone. Sometimes they'll do it if you hand the perp to them on a silver platter -- it's happened with some phones and bike thefts.
Surely yes, but they probably don't want to go through the trouble of tracking them down one by one- and doing so on a continuing, never-ending basis.
It's just a post on his personal website. He's not forcing you to read it. You're the one turning it into "noise". You're the one letting it make you unproductive. It's not his job to be your nanny, frankly.
Are you sure there's no security issues introduced since those plugins were last updated?
Two NASA experts consider the reality of ‘Gravity’s dangers
I will do a more comprehensive study soon, but my comments about politburo members (especially late soviet ones) was meant to preempt such points as yours. If you look at the billionaires from other countries, it is also as diverse if not more so than the US. In fact it makes some sense (to me at least) that a survey of any extreme outlier populations should show such diversity, it is rather the opposite (a homogeneity) that is interesting...
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This is only tangentially related to the article, but 507 Mechanical Movements is available as a website: http://507movements.com/ Some of the movements have been animated as well.
The MOM craft will cary thermal infrared imaging
spectrometer to map Mars’ surface composition and
mineralogy. These findings — coupled with the information
gleaned from the NASA’s Curiosity Rover — will give us a
better understanding of Mars’ surface, in preparation for
the first human visitors to the Red Planet.

So serious question: why do we keep only planning on missions to Mars? It seems like setting up a permanent moonbase would be a very prudent goal to work on at the same time that we are looking to head to mars.
I really hope Zookal have their safety measures sorted out. All it takes is one drone to run out of juice carrying a thick stack of physics textbooks and crash into a pram. Then the party's over for everyone.

Seriously though, how are the flightpaths going to be managed once multiple services start flying drones? Centralized proximity detection service based on GPS? (Hmm startup idea anyone...)
GE's Radical Software Helps Jet Engines Fix Themselves
If only there was some other way to transfer information, I just can't think of any... oh well.
The stock market has performed better than real estate over the same 4 generations.
I grew up in Appalachia, and have spent a lot of time there.

I'd love to have you show me where there are towns without electricity, ambulance access, running water, easily accessible paved roads, hospitals within easy driving distance, broadband access, etc.

Even the smallest of towns I can name in Appalachia, have such things.

In fact, I grew up in an exceptionally poor part of Appalachia, with 15% to 20% unemployment at a time when the nation had 5% unemployment. Technically I grew up quite poor, and we had all the modern conveniences everybody else in America took for granted in the 1970s or 1980s.

Incomes have doubled since then, and are roughly three times that of the average wage in Russia, much less the average wage in the dilapidated Russia (probably 8 to 10 times higher than that).

I don't think you've actually spent much time in Appalachia. It's not a bustling and booming metro, obviously, but it's not even remotely comparable to what this article describes in Russia.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it very difficult to understand how your comment relates to the article.

maddog mentioned Chavez and the cuban embargo in order to illustrate a point, which is completely valid: Brazil and any other sovereign nation (excluding the USA... maybe) should be wary about using closed source software and computers made in a foreign country. You can never completely trust them; but there exist alternatives which you can implement right now.

Sorry if you had bad experiences in Venezuela, but you don't need to freak out and start a commie witch-hunt any time Chavez is mentioned. And I live Argentina, so I also have experience with enduring populist governments; but this article isn't about them, at all.
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I just flat out don't understand it -- I back up stuff a lot less important than things that provide me income. How hard is it to attach a copy to an email draft when you're done?
Freedoms 2 and 3 seem to be necessary for when you find errors in the software (in particular, bugs that cause security vulnerabilities).
Yes, in the USA, it is considered normal to take showers daily, at least with the middle class, and quite weird to not do so, to the point of being a major social impediment ("hey hippie, take a bath!").
There is nothing really that novel about this story to anybody who knows anything about Russian history. Rural Russians have been saying "God is too high and the Tsar is too far away" for centuries now. A strong central government that cares little for the provinces is the status quo that has been maintained despite a variety of different political systems. Unlike the US, which has had powerful agrarian political parties that were fiercely suspicious of a strong central government since at least Jefferson, Russian serfs and the overall "agricultural class" have never had any significant political power (factory workers and other lower-class city dwellers were the prime force behind communism while the serfs were mostly an afterthought).

I don't know if anyone can make any sort of objective claims as to whether the highly centralized Russian power structure is any better or worse than a more evenly distributed one. Yes people in small towns live without infrastructure, but they also choose to live there, often for the "clean air" as the article notes. I'm sure there are many American individualists out there that would love to be able to disappear into an unregulated wilderness, mostly free of government scrutiny and yet be like 4 hours away from the capitol.