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> I was the subject of a thread on /d/

Are you sure that was /d/ and not /prog/? They are a little different in content.
I'm not panacea, but I wonder if a design similar to headsets that drape over/hang from your neck could be used as a (limited) battery pack to Glass and avoid a cable running down to your pocket.

http://i.imgur.com/FPfH9HN.jpg
Somehow that doesn't work this way. In israel monopolies and price gouging of food is pretty common(not 100X, but maybe 2x), and i haven't seen no violent acts.
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A dude gets two headaches and now Google Glass is a health hazard? Hardly a wealth of data points. Maybe it had something to do with being filmed for 8 hours by a Korean documentary crew - that sounds pretty stressful if you're not used to it. This article is typical cnet link bait.
The guy who oversaw the making of the best Android phone for the average person, which could have challenged the iPhone, but apparently failed to realize that it's more important to make it affordable and available internationally than to make it in America and have customizable back covers. His plan was flawed, but well executed, so I guess it makes sense that he's going to be a COO since the COO role is all about execution.
Epiphany's many advantages include:

Epiphany has better video quality, most notably our camera optics are almost incomparably better. The stuff you linked to is all narrow-angle, which makes that video seem like looking through a toilet-paper tube. Whereas Epiphany's field of view is 160 degrees, almost as wide as a GoPro, so it can see everything you see including your hands: https://yougen.tv/video/9b406d41-8e68-43fc-904f-f12ce688f610...

Epiphany has much better frame design & build quality. Our material is TR-90, the highest-end optical plastic for luxury eyewear. We have spring hinges which hold snugly on your face for action cam uses. We also have an adjustable nosepiece to fit everyone's face comfortably.

Epiphany comes with awesome software called YouGen.TV that makes trimming, uploading, and sharing your videos online very straightforward (as few as 2 drag-drops + 1 click, from start to finish).

Epiphany has style - we were featured on the runway at New York Fashion Week http://bestoftheweb.quora.com/Epiphany-Eyewear-smart-glasses...

Epiphany has full support for prescription lenses with the industry-standard bevel.

Epiphany has the very high level of quality control that western consumers expect. Whereas if you've ever tried buying Chinese goods at a very low price there's a good chance that it failed QA and is "B grade" (dead pixels, blurry focus, off-kilter / askew hinges, scratches on the frame, etc).

Epiphany has better audio quality. Our microphone has an excellent signal-to-noise ratio, and we even feature a windscreen foam which filters out wind noise (windscreens are a high-end technique used in music recording studios).
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I've heard the expression (in Spanish), but referring to the particular people living there (and other countries). "America is great, too bad it's full of Americans" (change to any country that you want to mock)
I'm always happy with that because it stops people who pinch my tablet from going on a spending spree :-)
Monopolies? Like there are no Google Play store and Windows Phone store (whatever it is called), nobody else makes smartphones, nobody else sells books and music online?
> We encourage you to review your app concept and evaluate whether you can incorporate additional content and features to provide a more robust user experience.

Easy - just add the ability to issue fart sounds, which has always been enough quality for Apple users.
people are almost always punished for mental problems. once you're inside the system i don't think you can ever get out. i would never recommend anyone voluntarily put themselves into that position.

what's that you say what about your depression? why don't we start looking for the causes of societies mental health problems, instead of paying for remedies
If utility natural monopolies weren't regulated they wouldn't exist because local governments wouldn't allow them to dig up roads to put in their infrastructure.
If you want to sell your apps that large Android playground suddenly shrinks. A lot.
> So I'll start by playing Devil's Advocate very briefly. It's interesting how facts can be shaped with different language ("his only brush with the law"): it appears the restraining order from two years prior related to similar threats to those alleged in the Facebook comments (although in a remarkably different context).

IANAL but I'm reasonably confident that a restraining order he received as a minor would not be admissible as evidence in this case, and thus should be irrelevant to the prosecution.
You'll be wanting WSPs (waste service providers) to lease access to sewage pipes next. Where will it all end?
jpmorgan has an aggressive stance against bitcoin for a while now. I wonder what is behind their continuous negative statements about bitcoin, if you don't like it just don't use it, it's not like we are pushing bitcoins down their throats or stg :)
Actually I have an ever increasing queue of collaboration requests. My reputation is (I am told) as someone who can rigorously get the story from the data, and who can solve problems. The people who don't want the rigour are the people I reject, not the other way around.
I'd rate "being a dumbass insensitive asshat" as "about 20 hours of community service".
The point is that Firefox was supposed to be the browser where you can feel safe. The way they are explaining this new monetization scheme makes me feel that I have to get my guard up.
This is a brilliant article. however, I dont think programming can get you just a "Thank you".it can get you exponential growth in your bank account, it can buy you first class flights around the world, luxury cars and an elegant life style. we are at a stage of human history where it easier than ever to convert knowledge into profit.
»Even after a redesign a few years ago, their pages still use “.asp”, which is basically an extinct platform that almost nobody uses anymore.«

Someone might tell them that URLs don't need to point to files and don't necessarily give a clue about the technology underneath. Their server says

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

so they might just use ASP.NET and just have rewriting or routes set up to mimic their old URLs.
I can actually see their point, although yes, they're going about it completely the wrong way.

Bitcoin mining using malicious javascript will cost people a lot of money in power bills if done without permission, and this project has good intentions, but I'd be unsurprised if it has already been forked to run without victims knowing. It's just another form of intrusive advert.
I did some freelance coding over Craigslist, and their account system is optimized for people who run serial ads. To make a new ad is the same, and its kind of a pain, but after that you can repost, cross post, edit, etc. with ease.

I'm not 100% sure I'm remembering this correctly, but I believe it forces you (or at least is very insistent) to register an account after you've made a certain number of posts over a certain period of time.
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w3schools : ugly design using outdated technologies relying on fugly markup. So what? Still handy and easy to use when I want a quick reference to a tag I've forgotten about.
Publishing is easy. It's just a bit easier for the people who are (perhaps unconsciously) cheating. I'm pretty confident my loudly-refuse-to-cheat strategy will prevent me perishing before my time.
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Why is simple pop music popular? It is the same question. The answer: because it makes the consumer feel good.
In my experience, experimentalists tend to dwell on p-values and especially on cutoffs in their molecular experimental data as much as they do in high throughput data.
This headline is sickening. Comal County criminal prosecutors ruined this man's life.
First, the boundary between Linux and the rest of the system is very well-defined. I can run my userspace on top of multiple different kernels, since my userspace is loosely coupled to Linux (yes, there are exceptions, but not so many that it prevents GNU/kfreebsd or GNU/solaris from working, for example). This is not the case with systemd, which over the past several years has been subsuming larger and larger swaths of userspace, introducing all sorts of tight couplings and inter-dependencies that weren't there before.

Second, the pace of innovation in Linux is definitely slower than in userspace, and getting your patches adopted is more difficult relative to most userspace programs (this is the high barrier to entry I spoke of). Your patches either have to get approved by Linus et al., or you have to host them out-of-tree and hope your users know how to apply them and compile the kernel themselves (and if you want to do this for them, you have to do it for every kernel you need to support). If you're lucky, your patches can be isolated into a kernel module, in which case you "only" need to keep it up-to-date with the kernel API (which is a moving target).

Contrast this to working on a program like, say, xinetd. While the option for submitting patches still reduces to "go through the maintainer" or "host them yourself", the "host them yourself" option is much more tenable, since the codebase is smaller, and the "don't break userspace" policy Linus enforces ensures you aren't coupled to a moving-target API. The lower barrier to entry brought on by loose coupling explains why Gentoo can get away with forking udev, but not large swaths of the Linux kernel.

Systemd has the effect of making innovation in the plumbing layer (xinetd, syslog, udev, cron, etc.) a lot like innovation in the Linux kernel. Can you imagine the absurdity of having to maintain a version of xinetd for each separate systemd API change?
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>This convenience is possible because this is hard to abuse. If a malicious person gets access to my computer, the worst thing they can do is order a whole bunch of stuff to my saved address, which I could easily cancel or return.

Based on the number of services who will reset logins given only the last 4 digits of a card, this person is hopelessly misinformed.

Not asking for a password on registration means one needs to be emailed to the user, in plaintext. Given users' habits, a vast majority of them will then not change from that one - a security disaster, and likely to land you on plaintextoffenders.com .

As for this three flows, 1 is someone who wasn't interested, fine - but he advocates spamming people who haven't double opted in, which is just about the worst thing you can do from an email perspective.

Oh, and email click logins are another terrible idea, as intercepting an email then gives account access - even partial access means your security model has failed.

I'd rather have regular password checks with the 3 seconds it takes to input it from KeePass than lose an account or personal details.
The sad bit is that a lot of JS frameworks are trying to patch the many language design and implementation flaws (see wtfjs.com) and limitations. Python can evolve at faster speed and change more drastically, while the next version of JS has been promised since forever due to inefficiency of committee and backwards-compatibility worries.
FYI, at my shop we use Oracle Commerce (ATG) and we've seen Oracle's salespeople pushing Endeca to all current and new customers.

For our current project we went with ElasticSearch and we're quite happy. One of the contributing factors was that one of our most experienced guys was unable to get the damn thing installed, even with the help of one Endeca consultant.
That is called duopoly, and is less bad than a monopoly.
Disagree. A mediocre tool with a great community can let you get stuff done quicker and better than a good tool with a poor community.
>If OP shared what caused him to think this thought perhaps a good conversation would happen.

Regardless of whether what is proposed is a false dichotomy, I think the post The Recovering Programmer [1] offers some explanation for what motivates the author of this blog, as does Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology [2].

The key quote from the latter would be

>Slowly, not in a grand epiphany, I realized that there was something missing from the discussions in [comp.lang.forth]. There was talk of tiny Forths, of redesigning control structures, of ways of getting by with fewer features, and of course endless philosophical debates, but no one was actually doing anything with the language, at least nothing that was in line with all the excitement about the language itself.

I understand the whole series as intended to correct the reader's not caring enough about their problem domain (or, in the worst case, not having a problem domain at all). As such, it may overemphasize the importance of the problem domain to the exclusion of everything else for pedagogical reasons.

[1] http://prog21.dadgum.com/56.html

[2] http://prog21.dadgum.com/128.html
One of the benefits of working with government agencies is they can pull strings that make regulators look the other way. This is a clear monopoly position, and it's being ignored. That's no accident.
C# is quite a functional language now (monads, lambdas, anonymous types etc.). C# is probably the next closest thing to Scala.
What strikes me most about both Ian's history and Armin's is "Starting again". Rewrites, starting over having learnt more the first time. Yet the idea of that happening in a commercial setting is ludicrous for almost every company I have known. Yet perhaps look at Apple's development of the iPhone - a constant set of retries trying to get past a single Jobs.

It might be important to remember ...
Amazon already have a film-on-demand service called LOVEFiLM.com.
The root of the problem is inability to pin pubkey directly to a DNS record which is changeable only by the owner of the private key. If there was a single place where any client can check which PK owns which name and trust derived SSL certificates from there, then the end user UI would be simpler and safer altogether.

Suggestion: a protocol to register names on Bitcoin blockchain. You can securely transfer ownership of a name, securely associate more metadata with it etc. Every client can independently check if a given certificate for a given domain name is issued by a proper owner, not by one of opaque organizations that you just have to trust.

Today personal computers are bundled with hundreds of root certificates. If one is compromised by FBI or Mossad, they can impersonate FB or Google no problem. DNS records can be taken from you and/or censored, DNS servers spoofed etc.

Combining SSL with decentralized DNS-on-blockchain is just so logical. BTW, Namecoin is not the best attempt because it requires separate blockchain. People want one, the most powerful, most robust blockchain and we should pin all our metadata right there. The real problem is how to organize socially, how to agree that this particular protocol with that distribution of names is The Name System, while all others are cheap clones.
The whole concept needs work. You compare each day to the previous one, but the app doesn't know by how much. Which leads to ludicrous results when applied to real life situations. For example you got fired, or your girlfriend left you, or your friend/relative died. What a terrible day! But then over the course of several days you slowly get over it, so your mood rises up until you reach the original level. But what does the graph show? That you're feeling much better after the traumatic event! What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, eh? The model is just plain wrong.
I haven't tested the app (I'd actually like to), so I don't know how far they went with the web view approach. I could imagine that the graph feels pretty static, and taking a native approach and spent some more effort on a playful experience could already solve the rejection. No need for made up features.

Keep it simple! That seems the magic of the app.
I think it's mostly targeted for iOS users, as there's no normal way to store a map locally.

I agree about the paid advert though, hehe!
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> That said - the only way natural monopolies do not become abusive natural monopolies is thru intense and careful regulation - mostly by setting a fixed rate of return for the infrastructure, and then building rates from that.

Or better yet, having the natural monopoly infrastructure, narrowly defined, run by local government and rented out at standard rates to all private service providers.... You know, have the city run roads, not taxi cabs.

The same thing could be done here regarding the internet component. City and local governments could set up last mile infrastructure and rent out access to these lines to ISP's....
I feel like I don't care he died anymore

I hope you are just angry that he committed suicide, and don't actually mean that. If you do mean that, you shouldn't be surprised that he killed himself. Suicidal people tend to look frantically for any reason they can find to not carry through with it. This kind of cold, judgmental attitude shown by a loved one at the wrong time can be the final straw.
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Of course they have, they would have to do a lot of work with their new URLs to be even close to as successful as they were before.

It's absolutely fundamental to keep the same URLs when you are trying to beat the absolutely best at SEO (They are beating people like MDN, made by freaking Mozilla, after all)
"On December 3, 2009, ECMA-262 5th edition was published."

"ECMAScript Harmony ... with a target release date of December 2014"

Yeah, the world is moving... So damn fast! Only takes 6+ years to release a new version of language.
to be fair, the main selling point of mongodb is that developers can access it more easily. i haven't really touched mongodb in over a year and then only for playing, but have you tried the elasticsearch filter query syntax? have you compared mongodbs syntax?

also, i have the exact opposite nitpick. people want to use it to do everything, mail indexers, file system indexers. what's the matter with web developer folks? why is it that when the next database comes around they want to use it for everything?
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Nobody owns Bitcoin. So I guess anybody could create an organization like that. Then it depends on how much influence you can gather.
For example I think in Germany there are organizations who represent IT freelancers (or businesses, not sure). Their opinions are completely opposite to mine (supporting Copyright, Google taxes and what not), but if somebody wants the opinion of "the IT industry", they tend to go to those organizations. Who else would they go to? They presumably have authority by having some amount of members.
I don't even know how to respond if you don't understand the difference between making a joking threat while on stage at a comedy club, and making one when stepping onto a plane.

While there are obviously differences, I think the joke is fine in both contexts. I think part of the problem is that you are talking about a "joking threat". The point is, the way most people express those jokes, they are clearly not a threat.

Joking about terrorists at airports should be a common thing because it's a natural human reaction to the excesses of airport security. They treat you like a terrorist, so many people joke that they really are terrorists. There's always a big wink-wink that is implied. It is really very sad that so many people feel threatened into restricting their totally harmless and healthy human instincts.

Perhaps part of the reason we're having this discussion at all is that the original story is about a comment on the internet, and it is well known that subtle communicative clues do not convey well over the internet.

So when we evaluate jokes like "Hey, I'm packing a bomb into my suitcase now", I would argue that there is (or should be) no difference between doing that on stage vs. doing that in real life, but there may be a difference when you post it online. Putting a ;-) might be a good idea...
8 hours a day? If I had a pair, I'd wear them 16-18h / day.
These are all ideas which would cover maybe 80% of use cases, but severely annoy the remaining 20%. Is that a good idea?
This is very much in line with my own thinking.

Wireless (cellular/radio/tv/...) affords some competition.

Wired (power/water/sewage/copper/fiber) affords little last-mile competition it seems like. Unless municipalities made a real effort to make adding wire a simple proposition which does appear to happen in some places (Scandinavia springs to mind for some reason).

These are real issues that keep cropping up and it would be nice to do some actual social and economic simulations and historical analysis to see which models benefit whom.

The classic blunder in my neck of the woods was the British Rail privatization fiasco. Network Rail owned the tracks which suddenly ceased seeing any innovation and funding (so no high-speed-rail like practically everywhere else on the European continent). Train providers get their own non-overlapping corridors just like cable providers in the USA. Don't know if there is a limit to the train provider's size though. Same happened with water. Please correct me if I am wrong or painting this in too negative a light.
«Flanary believes it's paramount that if someone is
criminally charged on the basis of his words, a jury needs
to see all the words.»

Wait, but shouldn't the case be that noone can be charged on the basis of his words?
wrt. 422MJ->3MJ, xenon flash lamp pumping

As it was already mentioned in the threads like this before, the NIF was built using the technology that was available in those years of the past when NIF was planned and started. Flash lamp pumped lasers are bigger, more expensive and much less efficient, i.e. mere few percents efficiency at best vs. tens of percent efficiency of modern laser diode pumped IR lasers. (Even with such improvement though, i still think laser driven fusion is inferior to many other forms of inertial confinement and much less probable to result in system-level break-even. My personal favorite, Sandia Z-machine is on the scale of 15% efficiency of generating X-ray pulse, and schemes like deep plasma focus or polywell by-pass the energy to radiation conversion stage all together and thus avoid related losses.)
Maybe there are partly so popular because they are not trying to be perfect? When documenting things it is not just what you include, it is also what you leave out. Sometimes you want to full syntax for some specific SQL statement, sometimes you just want a few quick examples of the alter table and then figure out the rest yourself.

For example two approaches for documenting the HTML table tag:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ta...

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp