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Apple's adapter is not an company independent standard used by every other phone manufacturer in the EU.

People I talk to may not care about MicroUSB connectors specifically, but they do care about being able to use anyone's phone charger if their phone runs out of power. For that microUSB chargers are more common.

And they're cheaper. MicroUSB cables are €3 + shipping (so €8 if you buy them individually, cheaper if you buy a few). Apple chargers are €20.

Personally, the unreliability and expense of Apple's chargers were one of the reasons I stopped using Apple devices (though not the primary one, that honour goes to iTunes). The microUSB chargers weren't any more reliable, but they were a lot cheaper.
Javascript is a tool. The fact that it runs in a browser and on a server means that communication between the client and the server in a Javascript-based web application becomes a lot simpler. If you know how to use the tool, it will serve you well.

You can find things to gripe about in every language you'll ever work with. Javascript is available. Use it and contribute to it's community, or don't. Griping is not contributing. It doesn't solve any problems.

If you think Javascript could use improvement, write a library to help solve a specific problem or contact emca and report your problem/issue/idea-for-improvement.

Basically just stop complaining and start working. If you are of the opinion that Javascript is a horrible language that is bound to make your project un-maintainable and disgusting regardless of your expertise then choose a different language.

Off to write come C :)
I have no problem with people voting "no" with their money. I just don't want any regulation crap to ban those who want to vote "yes" from doing so.
I didn't like the constants solution for nulls. Why not use a Maybe monad? I'm surprised that you didn't considering your claimed language experience.

I guess I just don't agree with your fundamental position on this. That writing yet more code to workaround a bad language is in anyway a long-term solution. At some point you'll want to bring more devs onto your team and then you'll need to explain all this technical debt and hacks to them. Not good.

I still believe you're missing the point of the original article you were refuting. It's not about being able to workaround something. It's about not needing to workaround flaws in the language in the first place. That's what defines a good language.

Further reading for you (unordered):

1. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/05/the-best-code-is-no...

2. "The line of code you don’t write is the line of code you never have to debug." -- Steve Jobs

3. Mythical Man Month (a book)
Meh. The government already knows I use Facebook. Facebook can extrapolate anything about me using the information it already has, including, I imagine, my driver's license number and social security number.

I really don't care at this point. I'm too deeply connected now to retract any of it.
> We're talking about programming errors. Are you suggesting the solution to human error is to just not make errors??

Not at all, I'm simply suggesting that people take care to acknowledge and operate within the rules of the language. If you're making changes to a function signature in JS without assessing the impact for code elsewhere, then you're doing a bad job - and that's all there is to it. JS allows you to do something which when ignored or fucked up, results in problems. This is not a JSism - this is just the way things work. Every language has 'features' like this. If you don't know what you're doing, then stop doing it. "A bad workman blames his tools" and all that jazz.

> Note, of course, that wrong arguments will frequently not arise from a function call you just wrote -- but from changes in the code.

So JS has a (potentially) higher maintenance cost. This doesn't mean that JS is badly designed - it's just a trade-off. Some people don't care, others do. Clearly to some people, it's an unacceptable cost - but all that means is that those people have a lower tolerance for that kind of thing than others.

> Say you merge in a trivial merge of some code, which changed a function's signature/parameters. The merge succeeds trivially. Now every single function call is a bug that is not only uncaught by a compiler. It won't even necessarily be caught at runtime. Instead, it may escalate to catastrophic, undefined/unexpected behavior.

This is just a case for good documentation and release notes. Don't merge in changes that you don't understand.
I await the day when this works between the trifecta of print, ebook, and audiobooks. At least this is one step closer.
For all of those debbie downers in the comments: this is a pilot program for many of the publishers (who are obstinate and allergic to innovation); as more people buy the kindle versions of books they've purchased the more open publishers will be to this idea and give Amazon more leeway. I'm honestly surprised Amazon was even able to pull this off.
I hate to sound condescending, but what are experiences with direct democracy?

While I'm American, I've lived for almost a decade in Switzerland which has direct democracy. I've seen it first-hand.

that masses would make rather bad popular decisions

In other words, you don't believe in Democracy. The whole point is that it comes down to the decisions of the people. Representatives were important when voting was a tough logistical problem; that's not the case anymore. Now they're a liability. There are 18 lobbyists for the finance industry per congressman, each representing a large amount of money in case what the people want contradicts what the finance industry wants. And that's just one industry. No wonder Congress currently has an approval rating of 5%. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/09/congress-approval-r...]

It's abysmal, we agree, so why are we so petrified of an alternative that includes working together instead?
If people weren't afraid an IRS agent could come and take away their possessions and if they refused to cooperate a policeman could come and handcuff them, we would see whom most people would agree with. It's like saying "but my wife agrees with me that beating women is okay" all the while knowing you would beat her even more if she disagrees.
Comparative advantage when the commodity is ideas? Intriguing.

How it works for physical good is clear. But how can one society produce one category of ideas cheaply while another produces a different category of ideas cheaply?
Looks like anyone publishing remotely technical topics didn't buy into the program. I've been a prime member since the beginning and during the first few years I was probably buying 2 or more books per week.

9 matches for me, only one that I'd want to have a digital copy of for reference and all offered at a discount as they were already very inexpensive on kindle. None free.

Disappointing. Still love that Amazon is trying to push this, but looks like adoption will be slow.
I don't see why people should not be allowed to figure out what standard is better for them without violence-backed regulations.

If micro-usb is better, then people will buy other products and Apple would have to adjust to that. Either by earning less or by adopting micro usb. What's the problem?
Copying is not wrong, your business model was wrong. Shame on you for causing feelings of shame amongst your users while you try to condition them against what should be an acceptable and moral action: sharing software and sharing their religious texts.

Copyright should be abolished, and this is a moral issue.
I'm an iOS developer among things...

1 iMac for home,
1 MBA for myself,
1 MBP for the wife,
1 iMac at work (primary work machine),
1 Mac Mini as a build machine at work,

I'm planning on buying another mini as an HTPC as well :) Now, go ahead and ask me how many iPad's I have lol
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But if you put those fragments together, you get a phone that looks like a Mondrian.
Pretty much. I spent last year saving for a car and my monthly expenses came to about 6-700 but I live in Austin so ~450 went to rent/utilities/phone plus ~70 for gas/insurance for the car I was borrowing.

Once you've got housing/transportation knocked out to your satisfaction 400 a month is pretty much living like a god damn king.
Many reasons in my opinion (having lived in both countries)

1. Income disparity: Gov. officials are mostly lower middle class even from Indian standards. So they are probably making a few thousands Rupees which is not quite there with the cost of living there specially in cities. Some people however are so rich that they can easily pay the bribe which gets the job done in no time. Again, there are efforts to bridge this gap but not easy for a country of the size of India. In the US, income disparity b/w rich and poor is not that bad (even though it seems like the gap is increasing b/w the so called super rich and rest)

2. Enforcement of law: In India, there is pretty much a law for everything like any other developed country but the enforcement is almost none. So people taking bribes are less scared and more confident that no one is going to do anything. Yes people are trying to fix that but it's a long haul.

3. Resource availability: Most basic resources like cooking gas etc. are a big pain to get. Lot of smaller cities/towns and villages still rely on getting cooking gas cylinders from the vendors etc as one example. There is no integrated pipeline. Thee is a fight for pretty much everything even when you have the money. It is changing as well but not there yet.

4. Mentality: Indians are brought up seeing bribery as part of a life. Most of them don't even realize how bad it is until they get exposed to more developed countries like the US etc. So there is this saying "chalta hai" which literally translates to "it's ok to do this".
You need oxygen to live. I doubt javascript is essential to most the IT 'ecosystem'.
It's working fine for me on the beta channel without any experimental flags enabled.
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My ideal smartwatch would recharge itself from my body heat/movement, be waterproof, have a cell phone/wifi, and best of all be pay-as-you-go. 90% of the time I'd be on wifi so it would be free anyway like T-Mobile. GPS and bluetooth would be nice but not critical.

But just being able to never worry about forgetting it, or having to charge the dang thing, and be able to contact anyone anytime would be very sci fi. And of course the most important feature of all would have to be: disabling it easily to prevent interruption.
Eddie Izzard made the best comparison to help it click: if a resident of Frankfurt were to hear "I am a Frankfurter", it still makes perfect sense, even if it also means "I am a hot dog".
This sounds like a similar argument that was made against tablets a few years ago. Tablets aren't inherently much different than smartphones, but there are some things that just make more sense to do on a tablet.
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Motorola's announcement: http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/goodbye-sticky-h...

HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6634527
I think the best hypothesis for 3 is political corruption - companies in the US can give money to Political Candidates during elections, and elected officials typically don't hurt, and indeed actively and vocally endorse, the interests of their donors - and this is not frowned upon.
I think this is a horrible idea. The average age of R01 has risen to over 40! Why add another 2 years by requiring students to reproduce work that is already published? It adds virtually no value to a graduate degree. The most difficult part of science is creating new hypotheses and designing and executing the experiments to test them. It takes years to learn how to do this as is, without adding on time to use a method you have no interest in, to re-demonstrate an experiment that has already been designed, to test a hypothesis that is already in the literature.
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How did firefox get development stagnate so badly? We have more workarounds and polyfills for dealing with firefox than we do for dealing with IE now, it is ridiculous.
$30/month for cell phone? If you go pre-paid with a provider like ptel, you can easily spend less than that if you're not using too much data or using too many minutes.
I think the interstellar protocols would have to be redesigned around UDP, because a reliable protocol would have too many round-trips and would be intolerably slow.
Franklin or certain (well lots of areas) of Nashville just don't have many available rentals (worth a damn). I had lots of trouble finding anything around $1/sqft/month to rent but buying is around $.5-.75/sqft/month. There's also several private colleges in Nashville so that may contribute to higher rental demand as well.

Now, I didn't do a full ROI on it since I'm not coming from an investment only perspective and there are certainly other factors but I am including taxes and insurance.

You are most certainly correct that buying a house for cash would make sense, but if that seems like a truly viable option for a younger family then you have lost touch with reality in a big way.

Rent's like that don't seem highly unusual either, there's a large swath of people who cannot qualify at the moment but have plenty of monthly cash flow so they are driving rents up. If investors see this and buy in desirable areas, well, that reduces supply as well...

Let's say you can buy a house and pay $1,500/month (all inclusive). As an investor, you've got to factor in maintenance (say $200 a month to account for large ones and if you have the tenants do the lawn care) and, most likely, a 6-8% property management fee (unless you're a big time investor or you treat it like it's your job). So, now you need close to $1,800-850 just to break even, let alone make a profit.

Rent is already 17-20% higher than buying and the investor still needs a profit, depending on the area and demand that can be pretty steep but should be at least 12-15%, so there you go.

EDIT: I should also note that TN is known for it's low COL, I can't imagine this situation gets too much better in more populated areas.
The associative arrays in JS are simpler than objects in Java but the expressiveness means you need to be aware of all the different types of type coercion and how it all interacts at runtime. I don't think this is that difficult but it's no more difficult to lay out your data before runtime. I think this is a wash that goes to the dynamic vs static debate which we all know can be argued about for days.

You're leaving out prototypes which I find much more complicated than Java Classes.
This is genius marketing. I've already seen a bunch of friends go nuts over the idea and I hope those kittens find great homes through the initiative!
I don't think this is shaming. First of all, people who would genuinely feel ashamed if caught in this situation have such a punishing super-ego that they would be extremely unlikely to engage in cheating in the first place. Second, if you really have no money there's nothing to be ashamed of. It's not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, and this service acknowledges that gentlemanly and with style.
Better than JavaScript anyway, pretty much all of them.
Don't make yourself dizzy now.
Thank you for the counter point. It's a lot to take in but will give it some thought.
No less hospitable than JavaScript, which was my point.
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Sitting on a mac right now, with a one button mouse and yep, same exact thing. I was like, what??? OH YEAH!
Interesting that they launched first on Android. I wonder if that's because lab managers are expected to use their own phones, and they'll likely have Androids. Or, maybe labs purchase phones for this purpose, and Androids are cheaper. Or, maybe the dev has an Android phone and that's what he or she knows.
Development isn't stagnant. They have releases on a 6-week schedule now, that's why each update is smaller. Because of the more frequent releases, features get released as soon as they're ready instead of waiting months or years for a "major release" like they used to.
"unsubstantiated statements" you say?

How about "But that's the moral argument and it's a simple one, I don't see government force as illegitimate and therefore I'm fine with taxation, regardless of who is being taxed"?

Basically, you are okay if people who disagree with your opinion can be beaten and their money confiscated. This does not say anything good of you as a fellow human being.
so?

seriously. it does a better job than an old nx mbox, or other technology. i'm not trying to say it's not better, it's just amazing how impatient we've gotten in the last decade, and how much we've bought into "googlethink"
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I have had to re-wite some really shitty python.
Two variable in the same function Index and index.
Go back one item in his posts, to http://delian.io/an-apology-to-president-reif-and-the-mit-co...

"..."

I can't imagine trusting this guy, or anyone willing to work with him, with ... anything, let alone implicit and explicit access to medical information, until he presumably grows up a bit a decade or two from now.
That was regarding the removal of Lessig's post where he copied the information about EU warranty laws.

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/65338904338/wow-or-from-the-wh...
> this is the way smartphones are going to go.

Sorry but no. I doubt it will ever go further than prototype and wouldn't be surprised if it never reacher working prototype stage.

> The cries of "more battery" for example are just
> a symptom of modularity deficiency

How? Do you think "everything gets its own module" is really more engery efficient than SoC?
rubidium is not listing a thought experiment those are actual expenses not "the cheapest I can possibly find".
That doesn't sound like a very good engineer. I don't want to use a product from an engineer that decides by fiat that it works.
It's not for user friendliness but for inter-operability that we'd change that cable. USB is way less user friendly than the lightning connector.
Sorry you asked for an example which works in a Javascript console, I gave one, if you were trying to make a snarky reply about the state of es6 support in modern browsers then I misread it.
Couldn't have this served its purpose as a simple Greasemonkey script?
We had a discussion a while back on this piece: http://ftp.iza.org/dp5584.pdf titled "The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and
Corruption in the Bureaucracy". It discussed how European communities once under the rule of the Habsburg empire were, many decades later, very much lower-corruption places than very similar places that were not. The paper is relevant to your interests.

"Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have been sharing common formal institutions for a century now. Identifying from individuals living within a restricted band around the former border, we find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously moved borders, geographic and pre-existing differences, and interpersonal trust corroborate a genuine Habsburg effect. "

--

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2618993
I own a 4 bedroom home in Tempe, AZ whose mortgage is $1,084/month. I put 5% down. This property could very easily rent for $1,500-$1,600 + utilities. Granted, its proximity to Arizona State University puts it in a different rental category altogether. If you have the means, buying a house and renting the spare rooms like I do can means you can potentially live completely rent free (each of my rooms goes for $425+utilities).
The aliens haven't found us. I think the best hope of contact is if we develop interstellar travel first and go looking for them. I think the premise of the paper depends on mankind possessing this technology.
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>The fact of the matter is JS can run on more "things" than anything else.

I think you mean more "things that one can superficially observe in a coffeeshop." :)
> If you are lying about who you are, it will take about 10 minutes in photoshop to come up with something that will pass their test.

I wonder if there even is a test. Do they have a file of samples of all possible government-accepted types of ID across the world ?

It'd take me 1 minute in MS Paint because that's what ID cards look like in Belgium. Honest.
Perl! How could you leave that out!
> The find bar is no longer shared between tabs

It was about time!
Sounds like my story... just that I've sold mine for $1k :)
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I'm paraphrasing and probably not being perfectly accurate, but when I took comparative politics in school (only time I studied this), one of the things that came up as factors influencing corruption was quality infrastructure so that citizens can move around without having to involve government (which, in general, is a goal of the American system).
<3 Amazon and this service, but out of dozens of purchased paper books, it only shows 4 as eligible. What's up with that?
David AND Goliath: How a Chinese Company is Beating Apple
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I conjecture the odds that humans will colonize other stars is close to 100% (it's what living things do, expand maximally)

But the odds that we will find an alien species that happens to be on a level of development interesting to either party looks less likely. We don't carry on commerce with chimps or dolphins and they are obviously much closer to us than any alien would be. Of course we may as well look for them, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Also, I enjoy using the word silly at every opportunity.
Bitcoins are reaching lottery-level payoffs. In 5 years, will be see a lot more of these stories?
Haha, are you making a reference to this gem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645 ?
very interesting, didn't know about the 185k. Why fake non-profit? I think the whole thing is quite a mess, and there is very little analysis.
RFCs don't amount to much without adoption. The RFC database is full of protocols with grand designs and seemingly broad applicability. Look at the "Extensible Provisioning Protocol", EPP - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5730 - a protocol "for the provisioning and management of objects stored in a shared central repository." - it reads as a marvelously generic protocol for client-managed key-value data storage - maybe it's suited for caching systems, or cloud BLOB storage, or as an abstraction of dropbox... but in reality it's just the protocol used by internet domain registrars to manage domain name registrations on a registry server - the nichiest of niche applications, yet the subject of a dozen RFCs. It's not going to be picked up and supported by Hadoop or Dropbox or anybody else who needs client managed obect storage, they're going to stick to HTTP REST.

This CBOR format is being proposed by the VPN Consortium - presumably there's some specific VPN interoperability application they have in mind for this. In the meantime, everybody else will continue to use compressed JSON, or protocol buffers, or whatever other standards have good library support and interoperability and - crucially - adoption in their domain.
Radiolab War of the Worlds episode:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91622-war-of-the-worlds/