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I live in San Francisco and there is no coverage when walking around the city with T-mobile. Verizon has coverage everywhere.

I'm not even talking about elevators. Just sidewalks of major central pedestrian roads like Bay St and Hyde St.
I also have no coverage in my apartment with them or at work.

Coupled with the cancelation of Cel-Fi, it is impossible to use their service in many densely populated areas.
Now that I've thought about it more, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the response!
You can't imagine BofA buying Countrywide?
To be precise, since the FCC told Big Red to stop back in July 2012.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/07/tethering-apps-must-b...
Can someone help me understand the economics of these incentive plans (where these companies subsidize your early termination fees, etc, to attract customers?)

Is this along the lines of what all these other companies (Amazon, Netflix, etc) are doing where they bring you in at low rates, sell to you at unsustainable prices, and then plan to increase prices over time (or do what they have to do to start turning a profit?)

Or is there a chance that, even after these incentives, prices will remain competitive?
That's actually more like the theory behind guilt-free play. With the Unschedule, you mark any completely unavoidable block of time (meetings, meals, sleep etc). Whenever you happened to have done a half-hour of completely focused work, you mark it. This lets you a) spot patterns in when you work best (e.g. I seem to do my most focused work on a Tuesday morning for no apparent reason), and it gets you thinking "It's 2pm, I have a meeting at 3, I could get this small bit of work done".

I would also recommend Getting Things Done; even if you don't subscribe to the entire method, there are bits that gel quite nicely with the Now Habit; the bit about just starting which this article also touches on falls nicely into place with GTD's "next action" workflow.
Sorry, no, that number was completely pulled out of my ass as a slightly more interesting way of saying that failed attempts to use that phrase are distressingly common. "Peaked my interest" and "peeked my interest" both get millions of hits on Google search. My impression is it's one of the most common English errors you see that doesn't involve pronoun trouble.
At what hotel, in the modern first world, do you not leave a credit card on file to be charged for exactly these kind of things?
The overall idea seems to be that you'll have a lot more free cash flow if you avoid stupid expenses. You'll have a job if you have a skill that can't be outsourced. You don't have to have X million dollars, you need a reasonable income and not to waste it.

So, mostly, reasonable points. Worth taking a minute to think about, since our society pushes us toward wasteful spending (most advertising, many TV shows, other peoples' expectations, and so on).
On the I-5 pacific corridor during our drive last summer from CA->WA and back, I got bupkis coverage for TMobile data in most of northern california and oregon (and call coverage was spotty). However, our Verizon 4G iPad also had weak/no coverage in may of the same places.

However, I would never go back to ATT/VZ absent a major change in their behavior. Happy TMO customer.
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they were basically fined $13B for acquiring WaMu and Bear Sterns in the financial crisis.

Ugh. They were fined for selling bad mortgage bonds. Not for acquiring Bear and WaMu.

It also ends up being closer to $5B due to tax breaks and other incentives, BTW.
I honestly think public libraries should be allowed to use some of their money to advertise and create a brand for themselves. For a lot of people the thing deterring the usage of library is simply the idea that it's unexciting or doesn't offer enough, while usually a coffee shop is pretty much equal or worse. Of course it'll lead to people complaining how their tax money is being used for ads, but it makes libraries reach a larger audience and, in economic terms, improves well-being of more people.
I'd say lower the speed limits. And implement ANPR systems on every straight part of every road, make them enforce those limits in a ruthlessly automated way. That should finally let traffic engineers do some real work optimizing the road network.

And then of course ban non self-driving cars from public roads the moment it becomes feasible.

EDIT: disregard the "lower the speed limits" part. I'm not sure why I wrote it (it was a long and tiring day...). Speed limits are mostly fine, but adherence to them is not. I stand by the rest of the comment.
I think it's fair to say that hyperlinking fails. Sites don't maintaining their structure over time would be the cause of the failure, but the link still doesn't work... Semantics maybe, but eh.

Agreed on having a way to embed documents. Especially in a way that supported some kind of signing. If I could have a reputable third party (web.archive.org or anybody else) sign an embedded snippet of a page and say "Yes, this was actually posted on X website at Y time" that would be fantastic.
All this press is going to do wonders for the 21 million Coinye's I mined last night. (Hopefully...)
It was pizza, man.
Is this with new subscriptions? I don't see this in my AT&T options.
> In the city (Chicago) the service can't be better.

Emphasis mine.

My wife and I got the $30 100 minute/"unlimited" data plan as a stop-gap before leaving the country to move abroad. Before leaving we drove from SC, to MA, to CT, to NY, on over to WI. Unless we were near a major city, our devices were roaming on to AT&T, where we only had 10MB of data to use. The voice coverage was fine while roaming, but since we were using one of the phones as a GPS to navigate, it got annoying at times.

Now this is a cut-rate plan that's full of limitations, and we knew that, but still the service we received was much worse than we expected. I'd strongly advise anyone considering T-mobile to check the roaming agreement.
Not to troll, but how is this newsworthy? Everyone knows telecoms blow and offer horseshit-- from CEO to customer. Maybe if good ol' Señior Stevenson said this it'd mean something, but coming from the T-Mob CEO it ain't nothin'

He even goes to create some horeshit when he says "T-Mobile's network is fastest." I call bullshit, and ask "where is it faster, asshat?"

T-Mobile has always had pretty good customer service, but their network isn't nearly as large as other providers...

For those who don't know, providers have different licenses in each area, more licenses = more spectrum = better reception. T-Mobile, in general, as the least amount of spectrum available (by a huge margin). They also operate at a much higher frequency than their competition so their building penetration is worse (especially over 3G/4G).

This same thing goes with network speed; some areas have more spectrum and thus can offer better speeds. Some can't. So any measurement of "we're faster" is very, very geographically specific.

Note: I worked in the wireless industry for 5 years (with a few of those at T-Mobile).
Absolutely. Well said.

To your point that the electoral system doesn't provide "meaningful choices," one suggestion I've always thought was interesting is Jonathan Bernstein's "floors, not ceilings" idea:

> No, the trouble in campaign finance that bothers me the most isn’t corruption, or the massive sums spent on presidential campaigns; it’s the fact that many Senate challengers and most House challengers can’t raise enough to run minimally viable campaigns. The solution to that, in my view is to put a layer of public financing as a floor for all major party congressional nominees, while loosening the rules to make it easier for them to raise larger amounts of money. Floors, not ceilings (plus meaningful disclosure).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/for-f...
Well, to illustrate my point just look at the WebDAV spec vs the HTTP spec. WebDAV shows how you can add more semantics to HTTP response codes.

But when you think about it, for a pure REST API you really only need classic HTTP response codes.

Response codes only make sense in the context of a resource. Once you introduce query strings or start to stretch the meaning of HTTP verbs the abstraction starts to leak.

So when designing an API it's smart to just handle errors at the application level rather than at the protocol level.

Protcol level errors are for things that are outside of the application. An error response with data validation errors should return a 200, for example.
Yup. Personally, as an indie developer who is certainly not massively wealthy, I've submitted a PR to GLFW (my windowing/input system) to support Retina screens on OS X. Of my other open-source dependencies (boost, vorbisfile, logog, physfs, and GLEW), there's just nothing I've needed to patch. Otherwise I would've.

There's nothing under GPL/LGPL I need or particularly want, but I do benefit from BSD-based stuff if only because I can't statically link LGPL stuff and I find the GPL unethical. Of course I'll give back where I change stuff, because I'm not an asshole. But GPL/LGPL ignores reality in too many ways to be viable; I personally like the CDDL quite a bit but nobody uses it.
Why a disaster?
I guess my point is that as projects mature, there are usually fewer serious options on the market, and those options do more, and so it makes sense to capture a lot of the complexity inherent in the problem within those few pieces of software rather than force all users of that software (which are numerous) to deal with it.

Perhaps there are simpler solutions to the problem, but if they make things slower for end-users, that's inconveniencing millions to save effort for dozens, which is not a particularly good trade-off.
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It works the opposite of how you say.

The first rule of being a "respectable" person is that you have to respect other "respectable" people.

For instance, you have to respect Bernard Madoff because Bernard Madoff is respectable.

What this means is you can safely feel out a respectable person to see if he is corruptable or not. If you picked average people, very dangerous things might happen at a 30% or so probability.
I personally like the language, but I've never been one to adjust my vernacular to desires/expectations of others.
>javascript debugging is already a major nightmare since any object can be edited anywhere

No it really cannot, except if it's exported there.
I have been a loyal AT&T customer for over 5 years. Currently I have a Nokia Lumia 920 for a contract that is 1 year old. I am going on a one month vacation out of the country. So I requested AT&T to unlock my phone so I could use it overseas. Customer service said go fill out an online form. A day after filling the form, received email saying I am not eligible for an unlock. Went to the store. Same thing.

Now, I am wondering, is AT&T afraid that I am not going to finish my contract if they unlock the phone? If they think I was lying about the trip abroad, I could show them my tickets. But this kind of behavior just seems outright sadistic.

I just bought an unlocked Nexus 5 to use overseas and I am definitely switching to T-Mobile after I return. Fuck you AT&T.
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I'm not sure it is a cloud issue I think it is creeping regulation (and PR concern) about controversial content being hosted. The copyright lobby has moved the bar and courts are increasingly taking actions over content posted online (although in many cases directly against the poster rather than the host).

There is obviously an increased risk if many layers claim the right to interfere. E.g. SAAS operated on Heroku running on Amazon gives at least three parties ability to interfere (or just have downtime/issues).

In this case however there was only one party Digital Ocean who operate the data centre and provided the service so I'm not sure it matters that they are a 'cloud' service rather than offering traditional hosting or a colocation service. That said I think that DO got this decision badly wrong.
I actually found it refreshing, especially that remark about how much the mobile telecom industry blows.
I'll just leave this here...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...
(One of the greatest introductions and walkthroughs of Haskell I have ever watched, taught by Erik Meijer)

I have actually watched every lecture (even the parts with stuff I "knew") and thoroughly enjoyed it. If an entire course was taught like those lectures were, I think you could teach someone a pretty darn good grasp of haskell pretty quickly (I am of course ignoring the part where you learn really basic fundamentals like bits/bytes, data types, references/pointers, etc)
Add the $450 extra you pay for the unlocked iphone and it's closer to $90 a month. I pay $55-60 a month for AT&T (including a $12 discount thru my employer).

Don't get me wrong AT&T sucks and T-Mobile is doing a lot of consumer friendly things but the gap betewen them simply isn't as large as is being presented.
I worked for JPM for a little over 3 years and this quote is bang on. I was in the custodial bank and we rarely spoke with the IB guys.
Until about 2 years ago they were completely different LOBs, with separate executive teams. Org-chart wise, the only guy tying the businesses together at the top was Dimon.
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What would happen? Most likely, chaos would ensue.
Like many people, I have a few early memories (3.5, 4 yrs old).

But I can't stop wondering - do I really remember them, or do I only remember remembering them?

I mean, is it a "direct" memory? Or is it an act of recollecting a previous recollection of it?

Like, I remembered what I did at 4 when I was 6, fine. And then, if I happened to remember it still when I was 8, I actually remembered how I recalled the event being 6.

This is (I believe) how distortions gradually crawl in. And I believe it persists in adult life as well; every refreshing of a memory is actually rewriting it, thus damaging it in a way
Coinye already launched "due to legal pressure"? Didn't see mention of it in the article.

http://coinyeco.in/
He needs to stand out from the noise. Don't confuse the persona he's articulating with the person.

He's doing a damn fine job, for what it's worth.
I am not an industry expert, but it seems like a lifetime value play: even if a customer only stays with T-Mobile for one contract term @ 2 years, and assume the cost per month is $50, the total value gained would be the 24 * $50 = $1,200. No matter how much it costs for early termination of another contract, there's no way it matches $1,200 (or maybe for a VERY VERY select set of customers.)

Then, assuming people warm up to T-Mobile and say "hey - this is a good company!" , then you lock them in longer.

The cost of paying for an early termination fee could be considered equivalent to a Marketing and/or Distribution fixed cost.
True, but now threads are involved. Which is totally fine and might be preferable depending on the use case. But for I/O specifically, utilizing select/poll/etc is usually faster, less memory overhead, and you don't need to add the complexity of threads. Like everything it depends on the use case. In my experience, threads are preferable when the API server does a lot of CPU work. But for I/O, select/poll/etc is usually preferable. It just depends.

Node (and Javascript) is definitely missing proper support for threads which is a negative.
Haha no worries.

Yea it does sound like you are doing a bunch of work arounds, I can now appreciate the development time for this. However, the clean design hides all these hacks :) I assume you had tried the youtube IFrame API etc in the background page etc? But I guess if you were to use that then the elements on the youtube player are there and you don't really need it.

That weighting feature for the radio is gold - its kept me listening since I installed it! I had not thought of that when developing my app (https://github.com/viperfx/ng-juketube), I just used the mix's. I have been using your extension since I installed it, I might have to use this and not my own app :) or improve my one.

One bug I did notice is that videos tend to overlap, what I mean by this is that some videos seem to be smaller so you can see the previous video paused or stopped in the background and the current video playing over it - you notice it because the current video is somehow smaller.

I look forward to the updates.
Where is this free LTE tethering? Have been told it still requires the extra monthly fee.
>Fixed fines are silly, make it a percentage of revenue or profit. Give them a real incentive to change.

What do you think Google's claimed revenue/profit in France would be, in that case?
Looks like the videos are locked by region. How do I get around this? Are the videos hosted somewhere else?
We moved when I was three (42 years ago) and I have some memories or what I think are memories of just vagueness of being in the living room looking at the sun shining through the thin white curtains.

I remember the first year or two of school so that would be around age six. I remember suddenly realizing how to tell time, hands not digital, then looking up and the class was empty I was concentrating so hard I didn't realize everyone left.

My next oldest and clearest memories are when we went on a trip to the US and Ontario when I was seven. I remember that year because it's when Elvis died and we got lost in Niagara Falls, NY in a rundown neighbourhood seeing a man in curlers and a kid hiding in a garbage can.
Yeah and you can also go to starbucks, pay £1.50 for a coffee and pee outside of the toilet.

I don't know, is your argument against this cafe that some people are cunts? Well, they are.
Does the library sell good coffee and tea...

Starbucks doesn't sell good coffee and tea and yet they are packed. It must be something else.
Braintree. Being able to change soft descriptors was useful to us, because we sell merchandise (eyewear) on behalf of different brands. I believe they gave us a better rate. (interchange + basis points, rather than percentage + basis points.)

Because we have these different brands for which we do eyewewar, we found that they had slightly better dashboard and reporting tools. There were also differences in being able to do do "authorizations" separately from "settlements" but I think both now support that process fairly well.

It was also nice that Braintree was able to boast of many established companies, which we already use and trust, for payments. One thing I've learned is to always ask for references!

Between the two, both have a great API. Things have probably changed with Stripe in the intervening year too. Stripe was certainly hungrier - they did a better job returning our calls, understanding our business, etc - but the former ended up having a better rate and the feature set we needed at the time.

But I'm always re-evaluating (fortunately - or maybe unfortunately - if another processor is better for some reason, then given our volume, it is usually worth it for us to switch.) So this is why these kinds of features are exciting to me!
I never did bring it to the attention of anyone who could have done anything. :/ It was fixed a year after it started happening and a couple of months after I performed that diagnostic work.
Frankly, I'm not sure why Google puts up with France's shit anyway. I would have thrown my hands up with that news snippet thing and simply stopped using the news snippets or listing those news sites in France. After those sites saw a massive drop in traffic, I'm sure they'd leave Google alone. For a little while, at least.
But why would you want that? Why wouldn't you want to use a system that can get you to your destination much faster, cheaper and safer[0], only because you want to experience the "fun" of being in a traffic jam?

[0] - self-driving cars constantly talking with each other could drive much closer to each other than current "safe distance", much faster, while utilizing aerodynamic effects to conserve fuel, and that system would still in principle be safer than human drivers.
From the OP [Bauer and Larkina, the authors http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/bauer/lab/people.h... incidentally]

>Another important finding was that the style mothers used when chatting with their 3-year-olds was associated with the level of remembering by those children later on. Specifically, mothers who used more "deflections", such as "Tell me more" and "What happened?" tended to have children who subsequently recalled more details of their earlier memories. //

It only mentions mothers. Suggesting either fathers were scientifically accounted for - the only way would appear to be by using subjects without contact with their father [or similar figure]. Or, that children chatting with fathers doesn't elicit the same response in recall and this was measured as insignificant and hence discounted.

The assumption that [all] children only chat over memories with mothers would be a rather massive flaw in a scientific analysis. [Yes there are of course other influences, primarily siblings I imagine, that are also unaccounted for].

Even if we assume that father's are absent during the events that are later recalled then interactions with father's could be more important. In that assumed environment mothers [or other carers] being present don't have to have details recalled to them; but I'm heading off-piste there.

The specification of it being "mothers" not "parents" or "primary care-givers" - assuming scientific rigour - must be important.

A quick search [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%28Bauer+PJ[Author]...] against Bauer PJ shows 10 papers on childhood memory which in abstract appear to all refer solely to maternal influence; though without reading the papers (I don't have access) or discussing them with the authors one can't really draw further conclusions. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%28Bauer+PJ[Author]... returns no results.

[Interesting, this relates http://www.psychology.emory.edu/cognition/fivush/lab/FivushL...]
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That's kinda Legere's schtick. He's abrasive and trollish and it's really pretty hilarious to watch, because he has a lot of fun at AT&T's expense.
Conversely, I spent two weeks driving an RV from Chicago to Burning Man (where I had coverage on the playa), and then back to Chicago through Yellowstone. Yes, I had a roaming data cap, but it was higher than yours since I'm on the unlimited $50 voice/text/data plan (I believe I get 100MB/month of roaming data).

I can't really complain when my wife was sending MMS pics back home of Burning Man from inside our RV. That's coverage.
This is (or was) available to anyone signing up online (I bought my Nexus 4 from the Play store and then signed up for it about a year ago).
The basically got fined for not doing the SEC's job.

No, that's not what they were fined for. They were fined for not doing their job, according to the Bank Secrecy Act. Which they agreed to comply with when they decided to become a bank.

You might want to read a couple of news articles about the case, before pulling "facts" out of the air like this.
You didn't mention that all the "cool R&D shit" didn't work very well, and were considered inferior to competitors at that time.
> And, people just can't or won't believe me.

You need this: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/