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This. The great thing about JS, and time has proved this, is just how powerful a concept it was from the start and just how misunderstood it was. Just because people misused the flexibility of the language does not make it a bad one.

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html

As the JS engines in browsers have got better and more "real developers" have come on board the wild west is no longer so wild. The problem I found before was that front-end developers would code JS but they had no formal education in programming, so they couldn't grasp those OO concepts. If you look at some of the libraries and JS code out there now you'd be amazed at the standard of code. Most of it far beyond me now, I haven't coded in JS in some time.
> I don't see why 8 million people should make better decisions than 80 or 800 million people.

With a smaller group that is local to one another, they're more likely to share interests and understand one another. Communication is faster and clearer among the electorate and between the electorate and the elected.
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So session cookies now never expire?

CHANGED
Resetting Firefox no longer clears your browsing session
Can someone explain what this does? I wasn't able to discern it from the website.
Yes, well, that logic is certainly clear and valid if you actually believe that we can't beat the Darwinian process at its own game.

The fallacy, of course, is that yes we can, and in fact, that's exactly what we've been doing with these whole "civilization" and "culture" things since day 1.
Google Now sounds like something that would indeed work a lot better on a smartwatch than it works now in a semi-hidden screen on your phone. Adding it as a lockscreen widget sort of helps, but you still have to dig up your phone and activate the screen to see the next bus departure or the status of your flight.

Together with notifications it could easily be a big enough reason for getting a smartwatch, sort of Google Glass on your wrist.
I did not suggest the size of any given update, or the schedule they are released at was evidence of stagnation. The fact that firefox is the problem browser now instead of IE is what I pointed to. It is nearly 2014. Firefox still doesn't have html 5 form elements even. Remember making internal use sites and telling people "we're not supporting IE, use firefox"? Now we're doing "we're not supporting firefox, use chrome or IE or your phone".
I've tried code school, codecademy, and treehouse, myself (never really got into Lynda.com, seemed like the quality was too varied).

I like the treehosue approach - videos plus quizzes plus exercises plus projects - but I do think it's aimed mainly at beginners (which is probably why it felt goofy to you, because they're trying to make it approachable for people who aren't yet comfortable with technology).

I do wish there was a resource out there like Treehouse for learning more advanced topics.
I think the stub is for an improved experience for the average user with slow internet access. You're likelier to download and run a 1MB file and then wait for the install to finish, than you are to wait for a 25MB file to finish downloading in the first place.

(I wonder if they push the stub so as to collect more (system) information without having to say that it's Firefox itself that's collecting that information.)
Yet in practice, I never had any trouble getting products repaired for free after 23 months or something along those lines.
It may be that the burden of proof is on the buyer after six months, but in reality no company (except maybe Apple) really makes a fuss about it.
Burden of proof is one thing, but as an EU citizen I expect my electronic devices to work at least two years. If a company were to argue that I have to proof a defect is really their fault after just a year, I would definitely never buy from them again.
> Obvious to you, and me for that matter, but obviously not obvious to everyone or this sub-thread would not exist.

Why sacrifice conciseness to try and alleviate every misunderstanding? Language is not a perfect communication tool - you'll talk yourself dizzy trying to catch every edge case and possible interpretation.

> Every one in this threat seems to be well enough versed on English that a specific language barrier isn't an issue, but there are probably people for whom English is a third or forth language: the chance of them seeing as obvious everything that we pick out as obvious is going to be lower than for those with more practise at the language.

Great! So we're doing them a great service by giving them practice in reading context.

> It is not about conviction, it is about accurately displaying the source and potential veracity of the information being presented.

Why? This isn't an academic discussion. If it looks like you're presenting something as a fact and I think you're full of shit, I'll ask for a clarification. Much like the poster did with the "[citation needed]". The OP's message remains easy to read, and the sub-poster got the clarification they were looking for.

> I couch my opinions so it doesn't look like I'm stating a commonly known fact instead of something I've supposed. Of course where I'm pretty damn sure what I'm stating is verifiable fact I'll not bother adding the extra words, but if you always assume you are correct and write in a style that suggests such, then you may be one of those people!
Adding a few extra words to tell the reader this extra information about the (potential) quality of the information you are about to impart is useful IMO. Be as fine grained as you like too: somewhere between "I think that" and "I know" is "It is my understanding that..." and so on.

You're sacrificing conciseness for a very weak attempt at clarity. It's incredibly tedious to read someone's opinion piece that says "It's my opinion that vaccines are dangerous. I think that X. I believe that Y. I am of the opinion that Z." It makes your message incredibly boring and unpersuasive.

Further, trying to turn this into an academic discussion brings into question all the issues academic discussions engender. How reliable is your source? Have you done the appropriate background reading? If you link a study that says "vaccines are bad" but there are 300 other studies that say "vaccines are good", are you really being objective?

And then of course we can get into some really stupid semantic debates, since we're arguing about semantics anyway - what's the cutoff? If I say "the barn is red", do you want spectroscopy results?
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I think you are just reenforcing my point. I really don't care about targeting 'everyone who has a computer'. Really. I mean it.

I want to use technologies that I enjoy, and I can do that so long as enough people use computers that I can deploy those technologies to.

What I don't want is to be forced to use technologies I dislike just because it's where the money is in the industry and the people with power have decided it benefits them to sell devices that only allow software that runs in the javascript sandbox.
Thanks for that. I'm not convinced, it look like they try to correlate energy and lattice structure and then extrapolate from there to dynamic system collapse. Scanning it, I felt like it read like one of those 'autogenerated' papers, which is always a red flag for me.
Distribution today is much easier than it was a decade ago. App Stores and the proliferation of the internet have contributed a lot to this.

I'd hope that distribution comes to matter less and less in the future as we increase our ability to distribute something new.
From what I understand of chaos theory, and from what I'm hearing of recent trends in scientific overreaching and poor peer reviewing, I am inclined to dismiss this paper as yet another overambitious claim to know what can't be known. Divination is the world's oldest and most alluring scam. What makes this different?
The point of my original post was not to say "My way is best, everyone should do what I'm doing".

The point was simply to point out there are perfectly valid alternatives to working 40 hours a week for the vast majority of your life. I meet thousands of people (in life and online) that have no idea you don't actually have to do that if you don't want to.
The guy in the photo in the article has 2 children.

I find it odd that he lives in a hobbit hole, but then travels 4,000 km to avoid winter. Why not just live somewhere more temperate?
One could always maintain a very skeletal Facebook account. No "liked" movies, TV shows, etc., one photo, no bio other than whatever is necessary.

You wouldn't be contributing much to FB's market research efforts, but that's OK; you'll still be able to connect with schoolmates and cousins and get invited to parties.
i've heard of dumpster diving, but honestly i always assumed that was either intended as a joke, or only homeless bums do it. i can't imagine eating out of a dumpster if you have ANY option at all not to. i mean, the smell alone...
Knowing the bitcoin fanboys, I can't really tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
I have no books eligible, what a disappointment. I really hope they can eventually expand the program to every book out there.
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Shame on you for judging. This was their business model. The software didn't exist; open source didn't create it. Wrong or not, there they were, like millions before them, creating value and wanting to be paid for it.

I know you are trolling, but you made it a moral issue not me.
NYC's financial industry pays well for tech jobs, I'd guess more people get a nice 9-5 job with a good salary vs a startup job with a lot of pressure.
FWIW it's generally a time-value/location thing. The longer you own, the more sense owning makes. (This is obvious where there's no longer a mortgage and the only costs are taxes and upkeep.)

Zillow did a neat post on this, including city guidelines and maps:

http://www.zillow.com/blog/research/2012/08/01/rent-vs-buy-w...
It depends on your point of view. Personally I've never been too happy about the state of JS code, so trying something different is absolutely a good thing.

Is Angular the best approach? Is there even such a thing as a best approach? Probably not. Look at the proliferation of server side frameworks. They each have their pros and cons.

I do like that Angular is a real framework, rather than a library that only gets called a framework. It handles all sorts of stuff for you in the same way serverside frameworks tend to do.
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A real estate bubble burst, which we already went through just recently, doesn't affect current homeowners. It only affects those who need to sell at that moment and have been a homeowner for a short while.

I am betting my home will be worth well more than it's worth right now in 3 to 5 years. But, I'm in a coastal city where homes are always in demand.
> The Meetups are of high quality (in general) because there are so many people, but most of the people at <Cool Technology X> meetups don't get to use X in their day jobs.

Clearly you had the misfortune of going to the wrong meetups. I haven't felt that way about any of the Meetups I attend, except for very obscure or emerging technologies (such as Haskell or Go - which I think is true almost everywhere).

> The VC-funded startups are thick on quantity but dogshit (on average) for quality. Most of the talented people move to finance (or leave NYC) after 30 because the startup scene is so awful: most of the founders are well-connected wankbaskets, not real technologists.

I'm sorry you feel that way. That has not been my experience in the slightest. Perhaps you were in NYC at the wrong time? Things have changed dramatically (for the better) since 2009/2010 or so.
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The US introduced similar regulations for the on-board diagnostics in cars. Every car since 1996 has the same connector.

Do you think the market would have moved car manufacturers in that direction on its own? Of course not.

Things that benefit companies do not always benefit consumers. That's why we apply regulations to them.
> If someone can't plug in a cable in the right way, I seriously doubt they should be using a smart phone in the first place... or any technology more sophisticated than a pointy stick.

Sure, I'll take that bait. There are innumerable disabilities which might mean people have trouble manipulating small objects. That seems like an obvious reason for making it reversible for one. But congratulations for managing to do it half asleep in the dark (anecdotes don't make a convincing argument: I could share several contrary anecdotes myself).

But as for other benefits? There have been USB standards that have been deprecated because they were so fragile (I forget which–Mini?). The Lightning connector is solid, not hollow, and so seems more robust. The Lightning connector is also designed to support much higher power ratings than USB, so can charge devices faster.
There is no particular reason to believe that any alternate system would sustain more than two parties.

Obviously it's possible, as it happens all around the world, but systems of more than two parties are inherently unstable.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
Technically not just a watch might be more accurate since they describe one of its functions as a "GPS sports watch" and sell watch straps for it (as well as bike mounts, armbands, clothing-clips).
> I wonder if they push the stub so as to collect more (system) information without having to say that it's Firefox itself that's collecting that information.

That sounds rather unlikely.
There are a lot of places that after so many foreclosures, people have to rent and that increases demand/prices of renting. I know of many places where it is equivalent or cheaper to pay a mortgage than it is to rent. Right now the biggest thing for my husband and I (no kids) is the downpayment for a house.
ounce.me used to track the pizza value but I don't see it anymore

I guess just move the decimal point 4 places since it was 10k coins and that means the pizza is now worth over $2 Million
I have a lot of BTC lying around somewhere from way, WAY back when BTC was in its infancy. It kills me everyday not knowing how to get it back. I've been through a few computers so far and most of my data is gone.

Anyone know how to retrieve it?
The asus mb168b+ for a portable usb monitor for traveling.
I've purchased at least 50 books from amazon, and I had two match. The Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference and a history book I bought for college in 2007. Woooo...
Not being asian and reading a few years ago that the company started calling itself MOTO for the difficult it is to pronounce the full name with asian phonetics, Ara is a kick in the balls and I feel sorry for them choosing that name.
As someone who has no idea about sales, I did not understand what you do from the tagline

"The human touch of your everyday sales".

However when I scrolled down, I found this

"It performs on-the-fly synchronisation with the biggest CRMs while you can keep focus on clients and don't waste more time with non-revenue activities hereafter."

Now that makes it more clear to me the dummy. How about you use this instead as a summarized tagline ? Something like:

What: "Increase sales and revenue by focussing on clients and not multiple CRM systems"

How: "Manage clients across multiple CRMs in one single aggregated view"....
Should be not too hard to verify.
As a side note we have a "I am a Mozillian, ask me anything" on Reddit in a few hours.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/
Seems fair enough to me, so it's basically the shareware security model where any application that carries malware instantly loses its reputation, even though it is technically able to do so. Interesting to see this carried over to web apps.
Can anyone get to the article?
Great addition, I can finally replace my probabilistic key dumper (lua procedure that grabbed 1k RANDOMKEYs at a time and ran forever).
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Hey John, thanks for the kind words! I just wanted to add one datapoint to back Andy's response: the resource allocation to dotCloud has been the same for the last 6 months, and there is no change planned to that allocation as of today. In other words, if you were satisfied with our service over the last few weeks, you are likely to continue to be satisfied for months to come.

I would worry about an exit strategy too if I were in your shoes - but just know that your trust and success as a customer matters more to us than any bajillion of dollars we would stand to make if we betrayed it.

In fact I'm pretty sure we can "make a bajillion dollars" and continue to earn your trust :)

Thanks for doing business with us John! Docker is in part thanks to you.
If you read the comments in the post, the company employees are saying that the majority of the people in trial week are from out of the area. This changes the story quite a bit.

If I were to offer you a position in a different city, you'd probably want to check out the city first. I offer to pay for your trip and I'll even put you up for a week, and you can even come work with us for a week, and I'll pay you for that too. Sounds great, or at least better than not being paid.

The risk in this situation isn't just the risk of hiring a new employee being mitigated by the company. It's also the risk of relocating to a new city, combined with taking a new job with a new company, being mitigated by the job seeker. When the company takes away much of that risk by paying for the trip, putting up the worker, and paying for the work being done during that trip, it takes away much of the risk for the job seeker.
> That'll teach me to make assumptions. I assumed Mac since you wrote somewhere that you didn't have the Java web plugin added 1 and 2 and got 4.

I don't have Java web plugin installed even on my Windows machines (indeed, when I provided the link to the rubik's cube page and complained about the java applet, I was on a Windows computer). A lot of people don't have Java webplugins installed these days... seriously, try living life without it, it's great (well, if you can -- I think a lot of people use it for work/school reasons).

It's certainly not as needed as it was some handful of years ago for smooth web browsing. So if you can go without the hassles of having to update it god-knows-how many times, having different versions installed and being a mess on the computer, having yet another thing running in the background, etc... it's great. I really, really don't miss it.
It would be nice if your website provided a bit more information about this service actually works....on a technical level. I mean do you guys provide some kind of virtual credit card number or something? I'd be very interested in a service like SnapCard if I had a meaningful understand of how it works--not just how to use it.
As someone on both coasts often, NYC seems to have many fewer tech events. I might get a hackathon or two a month in NYC, but in SF/SV sometimes there are 7 in a single weekend and it is rare to have a weekend without one. The prizes are much better too. A 5k purse is normal, but they often go up to 40k or even 850k investment for the top two with the upcoming LAUNCH hackathon. The conference situation is the same. You get much bigger, much more frequent, with many more companies in SF/SV. If you are looking to do business development or just find a job, your chances are much better. I'm not saying NYC is bad, it has something. The something it has is just much less than the tech center of the country.
Why Reddit?
The religious debate between people being practical and the various kinds of people who attack them will rage on forever. In most online communities, the haters and purists will typically win arguments, because they generally have more time and patience to argue than the people busy getting things done.

It's basic human nature for us to behave this way. It's tribalism: "it's not how I roll, I don't understand it, therefore I hate it" is pretty natural for us.
Is this a CRM skin for Android? It's not very clear to me. Almost every line is marketing speak.

I think you should get rid of "Inch is here to help you make and live more everyday." and replace it with what the product does.
It also means apple can't control who makes accessories.
In theory they get a big load to buy a house, and pay it off over their lifetime, and about when they finish work or soon after they die, leaving you the house. You either move in or sell it, giving you a lump sum.

Or they don't die, but need expensive medical care. Being able to sell the house to pay those bills is handy.
It is an interesting dilemma really. Should one really try to retain inefficient people as paying customers or will add to customer support and techincal debt later on. Something to think about.
Wow, the way that they display the Twitter quotes in the article is hideous! The icons are huge and distracting, and on top of that they don't seem to understand the basic idea that all close quotes need to match up with an open quote.

'Open Quote Icon'

message

'Close Quote Icon'

-username

'Another Close Quote Icon'
I disagree. Even stars run down, and there's also the issue of drifting debris clouds and various other "Natural Disasters IN SPAAAACE!". Though, yes, admittedly, a star-faring civilization might be developed enough that "moving house" becomes an applicable metaphor: if your old star runs down, just move to a new one that's unoccupied, and since life is rare there will be plenty of those.

Hmmmm... Now I'm imagining a huge set of future Highly Developed Civilizations conducting some kind of scientific conference to share their progress on the matter of the Last Question, since they all realize the bind they're in and would rather work on the problem scientifically now to get increased or unlimited resource sustainability rather than pillage the universe and end up fighting wars with relativistic weaponry in a few billion years.
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I bought an iPhone 5 direct from Apple in Ireland 6 months ago, it had no micro-usb adapter with it. Has it changed since then?
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It will hang like previous versions ? Unhappy with the performance so i shift to chrome.
Interesting food for thought from a seasoned entrepreneur.
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Kids cause damage. They spill on carpets and draw on walls. My biggest reason for me personally, be able to take down walls, paint, dig holes, build XYZ without asking landlords permission.
It would also be an interesting dance to get something like this through CTIA/Carrier certification. Having gone through the early PTCRB certification stages of a module integration (integrated a pre-certified GSM module into an enclosed circuit), I remember vividly the expense, and the fact that any internal hardware changes require recertification. Something like this blurs the lines between "external" and "internal." Here's hoping the CTIA and friends will adapt.
This guy is a huge jackass.

http://delian.io/an-apology-to-president-reif-and-the-mit-co...

I wouldn't have anything to do with him or his company.
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Yeah, that is if you have dial-up. Even the slowest DSL is enough for 768KBps.