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It was so original.

I can't believe anyone contests this.

I remember seeing an iPhone for the first time. Compared to all other phones it was 10 years ahead in vision. All other phones were suddenly ludicrously laid out, with stupid designs. Even the settings section for the iPhone blew every single other phone in existence out of the water. Something that simple, that essential, had been revolutionised by this thoughtful new way at looking at phone interfaces.

Android, on that very day, looked like every other phone. 10 years behind, old, tired, pathetic, no vision what so ever.

In less than 6 months the android team lifted every single iPhone design element, added very little of their own and unveiled what is possibly one of the biggest design rip-offs in tech history.

I can understand why Jobs was pissed.
OS X comes with an obsolete version of Ruby which almost nobody uses.

The latest version of OS X comes with Ruby 2.0, which is hardly obsolete, and that or Ruby 1.8.7 (from earlier OS X) is totally fine for learning to use Ruby, which is how this thread started.

Claiming you need to start to learn by installing xCode or the tools is false - there is lots more to ruby than installing rvm, rails and sql gems etc. Beginners could go a long way without requiring non-native gems, and by the time they get to that stage, installing Ruby 2.0 should be a breeze, whatever route you choose.

Probably over 95% of mac users would never use the compiler, so I see why they left it out. Installing it is really very easy anyway, command line or with xcode.
Just bought Bee (to track github issues). That's a pretty convincing video you have there!
Haha nice :) Well they're welcome to buy the glasses at our website! Currently our marketing is focused on direct-to-consumer, for recording (1) exciting action footage which people love to watch and (2) personal nostalgic moments such as Christmastime with family
A short story about mass surveillance
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Netflix already serve their content from servers colo'd at ISPs. Big FreeBSD boxes.
There's an even worse kind of architecture astronaut, almost the opposite of this article. It's the architects who don't even know about encapsulation, loose coupling/tight cohesion or even not to duplicate data anywhere without rules for resolving mismatches.

They've never written a line of code and yet somehow are dictating spaghetti enterprise architecture. Their business requirements are things like "must comply with all applicable standards" (isn't it your job to at least work out which ones, or are you above that?) and they never actually stop to think whether any of this will actually work.

I'll take a language hipster and a clueless business user who just wants it done any day.
Interesting. Jeff Jarvis, who's also generally quite gung-ho on Google (and Glass early adopter) seems to have also seen the bloom go off the rose:

"I just called Google begging to get out of +Google Glass." (Feb 4, 2014)

https://plus.google.com/105076678694475690385/posts/4hWFG7XY...
How I hack email – Craig Kerstiens
This is just a question of styling. You can set the margin for p elements on your own css ;)
On the other hand, you are most welcome to Pakistan :) I assure you things are more sane here contrary to what you usually hear on TV.
According to Wikipedia the cost of electricity from modern nuclear stations is roughly comparable with sources like coal - which surprised me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

What I don't know is how much of the cost of nuclear power is the much higher level of safety precautions they need.

I haven't seen any projected costs for DEMO which might well be the first fusion power plant (DEMO is the proposed successor to ITER):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO
> If the tool is just bad then there is no good reason to deal with the community.

Python is not that bad and while I, like Armin, have been moving slowly away from it due to a number of reasons, it is still one of the most versatile tools in my toolbelt.
Pipe some Shakespearean soliloquies or portions of Milton into this and tell me how is the result supposed to be an improvement.
See this: https://web.archive.org/web/20100614055220/http://chromium.h...

I'm not sure what's changed since then, but it's worth considering.
Content is king? I'm reminded of Dan Cederholm's favourite website [1].

[1] http://simplebits.com/notebook/2013/02/16/food-for-thought/
Yes, they work just as they've always done.
We're talking about this through a non-responsive website laid out with tables, designed with inline styles, with ugly embedded code samples, and "bad" <br> tags. Maybe these aren't the most important things to think about when talking about the usefulness of a website.
Yes, and Shrem and Karpeles are not exactly an asset either to the foundation.
Launching a startup? Market to these guys
I trust it because it's open source, but I don't trust it because it's not regulated in any manner.

I still have to be convinced about bitcoin about a peer reviewed research on the subject.

I'd trust it to make a transaction, but not to keep a wallet with many bitcoin on it.
> What I’ve observed is the opposite—that anonymity facilitates honest discourse, creates a level playing field for ideas to be heard, and enables creativity like none other.

Clearly moot hasn't ever been to /pol/.
I wouldn't say it won't happen, but I don't know how much of #1 impact there will be considering it's already not practical to pull competing cable operator to begin with. (Unlike, mobile carriers, for instance.)

Obviously, I'm just speaking out from my experience, but how common it is that certain region is served by multiple cable operators? (And that you get to choose from?)
This is a link to an article dated July 2013.
The mining was opt-in. Maybe derivatives of Tidbit could be a problem, but there's no evidence at all that Tidbit itself could be a problem.
Sarcastic comment about 'massively multiplayer' and the server crash.
Make it live on the web. Better yet, make it live on a device. Two buttons, button presses are valid only once a day, LED confirmation, USB read-out. Make the case beautiful, done. Standard AAA Battery will live for years, data can be written to flash.
Frankly, my moral and ethical code is quite different to what is legal.

"State money transmission laws" belong to a set of legal rules that I don't care about as long as nobody gets harmed (physically or w.r.t. his property).

Also, one person being arrested doesn't imply that he has done something bad (unfortunately). These days there are even people that did something bad and wander freely the earth.

Please base you story on immoral or unethical behavior and not on infringement of arbitrary laws. I have no problem with trusting your judgement but I do know that I don't trust your lawmaker.
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I think deceiving Apple is the very worst idea ever. If they catch you cheating, your app will be booted from the app store - and rightly so.
Are you saying it is not possible to both be good at programming and have a good understanding of the business?
Of course there are compromises, but when you know both domains you make better compromises and trade-offs.
The reason I force myself to learn Python is because it is everywhere. My stepson is learning it at school. A lot of machine learning is done in python. If I want to learn machine learning it makes sense to know python so I can follow along. Python is just everywhere..

I do struggle with it though, because it is so bland.
Students in my place usually end up going through all the content in http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/book.html

In terms fo projects etc. there are about 4 or 5 assignments that range from spam detection, to parameter setting optimisation.
Revenue Diversification the Mozilla Way
I'd like to get one of these stickers. Can you send them by mail or something?
Yesterday, at Bitcoin Berlin, the Global Bitcoin Alliance was announced. It is an umbrella organization for national Bitcoin associations. This bottom-up approach sounds much more promising to me than the top-down attempt of the Foundation at creating local chapters.
I'd prefer the lot-more security that using https would provide. I cannot believe that Amazon is served almost entirely over plain-text http, with only the initial log-in done over https. At least that's on the various European versions of the site, perhaps the US one is more secure (I doubt it).

Fortunately you get prompted regularly to enter the password again - presumably renewing the cookie/session - if you want to access more private stuff. So a MITM would have to be listening all the time to view your purchases, etc. and there's no way to change an address without entering the password (I think). But still.. haven't they heard of firesheep?
Google is already positioning similarly with YouTube, Google Fiber, and plays for wireless service here and in floating balloons around the planet.

Tripilolopopy
Americans sure love their monopolies.
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A duopoly might help in America but for the rest of us (at least where I'm from) competition is working fine. I can choose between around 5 different providers for internet and/or TV with prices starting at as little as $35 per month for unlimited internet at around 20mbps download speed. I can also choose online between Netflix, Amazon/LoveFilm, free demand services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD, and paid on demand services that come with certain TV packages (SKY on demand). In the UK competition in this space has never looked better in my opinion. It always amazes me that America, the champion of the free market, has such a fucked up telecoms (and by extension TV) industry.
Clean, concise, no dependencies, straightforward to use, what's not to like.
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It's designed to be out of your way, when you get a message for example it plays a soft chime that you can hear but nothing pops up. For something to come up you either have to tap it or tilt your head to see what the notification is. With your phone you'd have to take it out, unlock, open the app that made the noise, and put it away. The interface is quite streamlined since it is intended for quick notifications. Of course anything that notifies you of something could be distracting but since it only does so for high priority emails and in a way that's easy to ignore I don't think it is. In your case though, if you specifically don't want anything to interrupt you while coding then I'd just say don't use it while doing that? My personal style while coding is more event based (short time intervals per-task), I regularly pop between different projects and try to keep everything busy all at once (e.g., cluster going full tilt, 3d printer chugging away, teams tasked with work). Glass works well for me, I can triage emails by lifting my head up when I hear the chime without moving my hands from the keyboard while typing. Everyone has their own personal style that fits with the type of work they do and how they like doing it.
Requirement of email is even more annoying.
You don't necessarily need to cater to their whims.
I know it's just one example but I had a long back and forth with them over the course of 2 months, over an app that they claimed offered not enough features. Many emails, phone calls, and replies later, I still wasn't gonna bloat the app just to get it through. I appealed to the review board as a last step. It took them 2 weeks to review my appeal and they finally let the app in as is.

My point is that the reviewers are human and don't necessarily have the best judgement. If you think you have a strong case, you should appeal to the board. They do give it a fair trial.
That would destroy the effects life video-logging will have on social interaction.

I look forward to what happens to cultures when it is impossible to be an asshole without ending up on Youtube -- especially violent crime will be impossible, when a large portion (10%+) of the population have logging of what they see.

(It would also need fast uploads, preferably triggered by e.g. pulse increase if not exercising, so criminals can't just destroy the logging mechanism.)

Disclaimer: I don't know if I will like or approve of the effects, just that it is an interesting thought experiment. There are lots of benefits/disadvantages. For positive ones, think Russian car cameras and meteorites; catching one-in-a-billion events. For negative ones, consider when someone is very stressed out because of a loved one's death.

Edit: Thanks eterm, but effects on culture are certainly way too complex to predict.
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And how would this 'FU ComcastWarner' work in America? Anywhere you live you only have the choice of paying your cable provider, your telephone carrier or your wireless carrier for internet.
- DSL infrastructure hasn't evolved in a decade or more. You're lucky to get mid-single digit megabits/sec. I had 0.7 mpbs offered to me in Mountain View by at&t.
- Cable is the only speedy one, but they can price gouge you, limit the amount of traffic (see Comcast) and decide who to prioritize
- Wireless is getting faster, but is severely limited in transfer packages. You'd be paying an arm and leg just to get a few Gigabytes in total per month.

So tell me - how does this 'FU ComcastWarner' gonna work? Move to the one or two towns that have alternative internet (e.g. Fibre)?
Don't we tend to discuss a lot about semantics and words?

"Don't think like a programmer, think like a developer"

"Learn to code, not to program"

Most of the cases we have words that mean basically the same, and we almost randomly say, more or less, that X means "a good Y".
The Google ad happened to match my preferences, sure. I would've noticed more if the default was different.

But just because I live with ads doesn't mean I like it. I'd much rather pay Google a flat fee for all of their services for the assurance that I will never see an ad and my data is not used for their mining.
Certainly. Exploitation is taking advantage of the other party's lack of options – which results in its lack of bargaining power – for an unfair distribution, in this case the workers get far below their contribution, even when adjusting for the capitalist's risk. The meager payment ensures the workers will never have options.

The theoretical economic model for this case is the dictator game[1]. In the dictator game, one player receives an amount of money, and he has to offer the second player a portion of it. If the second player rejects the offer, neither gets any money. Often, the only distribution accepted will be 50% or close to it, but when a rich person plays a very poor person, the rich person knows that the poor player will take any offer rather than go home empty-handed. That's exploitation.

Now, a misguided free-market advocate, not familiar with both theory and practice might say that the islanders do have bargaining power, as they can invite another employer to their island in exchange for a loaf of bread plus a burger per day. But, of course, this can't happen, as the second capitalist knows the first will retaliate on their own islands. This is a digression, but in fact, in a saturated market, the best strategy for competitors of roughly equal size (even quite far from equal) is almost never to compete, certainly not on price. Lowering prices is not an option as your competitor has the resources to do the same, which will result in the same market distribution, only with all competitors worse off. Again, this is supported both by theory and practice.

FYI, a lot of the regulation in the US government came as a result of the US economy under the rule of the robber barons a little over one hundred years ago. Similar to the island story, some employers would pay their employees not in US dollars, but in their own currency, which the workers could only use in stores owned by the employer ("the company store").

Of course, the situation in Silicon Valley is not that of full blown exploitation, since startup founders are not without options. Still, large tech companies benefit from the lottery model, as they profit more from it than from large research departments; the founders, on the other hand, get an unfair share of the cake. In this case, the large companies are not exploiting the entrepreneurs lack of options, but are simply taking advantage of their psychological preference for the lottery. There is more to that, as all parties know that if the lottery were to go away (say VC money stops), and everyone would have to work for the large companies, salaries would drop (that's a sort of a sword those companies hold over the workers should anyone decide to rebel). We don't even need to speculate, as we know that large SV employers already colluded to lower salaries.
To be fair, it was designed many years ago. The code samples are written ages ago. But regardless, sometimes, they are almost like an instant test bed for trying out some quick things.

Not as useful as MDN, but w3school had served its purpose.

Side note: has w3school ever been hacked given it being a high-profile website?
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Technically speaking, the persons and/or organizations that develop the major Bitcoin softwares own Bitcoin though. It is much like the ownership of World Wide Web: nobody owns WWW in the traditional sense, but the browser vendors and (sometimes) web developers can acts as the owner of WWW in the limited but profound way. That's why the independent implementation and verification is important even when everything is open, and Bitcoin is no exception. (Not that the OP is correct about its claim though.)
The more secure sync was apparently too hard to use for non-experts.

Australis is a matter of taste, I personally like it.

They're trying to not drive users away, but you and I are a tiny minority.
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Sometimes - not always. Especially if it's not merely mediocre, but outright bad as postulated. (I don't think Python is bad, but I don't have the experience with it to judge either.)

All the community in the world is unlikely to make up for tools that I have to reverse engineer from disassembly to file proper bug reports against (too frequently necessary to even figure out if it's their bug or mine in the first place), or create workarounds for.

If a tool is good, I'm probably not turning to the community much in the first place: It's all right there in the docs or obvious by design, right? (If the answer is no, is it actually a good tool?)
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Stone Cold, presumably.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Stone-Cold-Truth-WWE/dp/1476751684
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I'm not an expert, but I think what you describe is exactly what happened with telephone service in the United States (i.e, the breakup of Ma Bell, etc.)
WTF?

Is this another http://www.zombo.com
Have there been many cases of this? I mean, I know people who can't wear 3D glasses for long, people who can't stay in front of a computer screen for very long and so on. So is it a problem with the technology?

On an unrelated note: Does anybody know when Glass will be available in other countries? I've been interested in obtaining a pair for a while but I'm not sure how to go about it.
They look like amazing glasses! I find the disconnect between 8 hours of video storage, but only 1 to 2 hours of battery life, disappointing.

I might be more inclined to purchase this as a toy and see what kind of cool stuff I can use it for, if I didn't have to worry about stopping what I was doing to recharge it.

I look forward to seeing the advancements your company makes over the next couple of years.
You're veering way off-topic. I'm not making the case that Jobs had no mission in life.

Rather, Mr. Andreessen specifically selected that quote as an example of a "mission".

OK, so let's just say that was a bad example--and one that happened to undermine the very point he was trying to make.
Should be what percentage of revenue should go on pay.

Profit is what is left once all costs have been taken from revenue.
I presume you mean Google - were they close partners? I admit I wasn't following Apple (at all) before iPhone.
It's a salami, in a plam...its all quite straight forward really. :)
No, at the hotels, you have to wait until you attempt to check in before they discriminate against you.

http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/2/article_13302.php

http://www.queerty.com/gay-couple-told-theres-no-room-at-the...

http://www.advocate.com/news/2007/03/30/gay-couple-turned-aw...
"Show HN: Today I want to create a meme" ;-)
So why not educate users instead? Especially with the NSA/GCHQ spying still so recent.

Firefox is already a power user's browser - the masses who just want a dumb facebook/youtube/twitter/gmail terminal mostly use chrome and will continue to do so, unaware and unconcerned with customisation and privacy issues (my parents use chrome, and didn't have any addons installed at one point (they now have adblock)). Firefox will never even catch up to where chrome is today in market share, let alone pass it, and I'm fine with that, as it's a browser for power users - customisable, privacy-respecting and more 'traditional' by giving users actual control over their experience and options to customise functionality and looks.

To use beer as an analogy, Chrome is {Budweiser/PBR/Coors/Miller/etc}; Firefox is a craft beer. Yes, it's nicer, but not as accessible, and the majority of people neither know nor care as it's not their market.
Ok, possibly. But even then, I hope I am not the only one to have noticed a trend where many people in the tech community declare themselves "humbled" or display some humility in one form or another.

So, Ian Bicking aside, I think it is an interesting topic. Some notes:

- Like real generosity do not display itself, real humility hides itself. Or should.

- Humility (or some expressions of it) can be seen as a Middle-age Christian value. Jesus-Christ himself was all but humble, but in European Middle-Ages and after, there was a few movements trying to show unlimited submission to God's will, and humility was proposed as a core value.

- While I understand the pro-humility trend is a counterweight of the arrogance, which is quite annoying too, I think best would be to display none of them. In fact it means displaying less of the self, and more of interesting content. I think Peter Norvig's articles are good examples of writings letting the self in the back shade, which by ricochet raises curiosity and interest in the author's self. I think many other authors are also good examples.
Another reason to put the sticker on there is to spread awareness and end the stigma. Some people think that mental illness isn't a real illness. But if you have something wrong with your lungs, you go to a lung doctor; so if you have something wrong with your head/mind, you should go to a mind doctor.
Just rape him already and let him go.
Your mistake was making an iOS app. Experiments must be done on a platform that allows users to install apps themselves, like Android.
This talk/interview of Keith Rabois is great when it comes to talking about what a COO does: http://firstround.com/article/Keith-Rabois-on-the-role-of-a-...