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Although the rules are complicated, I lived in Japan for awhile, and almost no one Japanese would be offended by a foreigner getting it only mostly right. This is not terribly hard. It suffices for foreigners to observe the basics.

As explained below, Karpeles referred to himself as "ore". "Ore" is mostly used by men, and carries a boastful tone. Moreover, pronouns aren't necessary to make grammatical sentences, e.g. "I went to the bank" = "Ginko ni ikimashita" = "[Bank] [to] [did go]".

The only function of the word "ore" is to emphasize your own high status relative to whomever you're speaking to. In a bar, after a couple of drinks, among equals, it's quite typical for all the men (usually not women) to use "ore". But in a formal business meeting --- this is known to be an absolute no-no by anyone who has formally learned even a small amount of Japanese.

A fairly close analogy in English would be to randomly sprinkle the word "fuck" in your speech.
Yet another piece of technology locked down.

I can use any iPhone, Android or feature phone with bluetooth with my Mercedes right now. It will sync with the phone using bluetooth standards to display call history, place calls, receive calls, play and list music on the device, display and edit my contact book.

But I recently switched from an iPhone to an android phone - so the next Merc I buy presumably will be a huge step back for me in terms of connectivity with my device.
This is posted on our public stats page, which is updated every couple of hours:

https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats

Lifetime, 86% of money pledged has been to funded projects ($859 million as of this writing). Just 12% has been to unsuccessfully funded projects. (The remaining money is currently live and its outcome undetermined.) The degree to which pledges are truly all or nothing has always surprised us. 80% of projects that raise 20% of their goal are eventually funded. It's a highly efficient system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax

It doesn't appear to be a very strong harmonization, but it's an attempt at harmonization: "EU member states are each required to adopt a value added tax that complies with the EU VAT code."
Also as I mainly use Python, it is the preferred way to indent.

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
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> (different colored backs on the iphones)

Don't forget the iMac which came in thirteen different colours, or the iBook G3 with the 5 coloured shells, or the iPod mini, nano and shuffle.
There are directives that attempt to harmonize many of the policies, though not the amounts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#...
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"So basically, it's a browsing, email and games machine. And a crap one at that."

For you. Important distinction, just because you specifically haven't found a use doesn't mean others haven't. I know people who code on them, or do some spreadsheet twiddling, or (yes, slowly) write documents on them. For them a tablet is the right amount of compromises.

A 30 second search on YouTube reveals a plethora of digital artists, another might reveal a similar amount of digital musicians. Your use case isn't their use case.
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"Too bad coal is very very cheap right now."

Bad things are cheap to benefit from only when one is allowed to dump the real costs on others. Real costs were allowed to be dumped aside on others only because there weren't any real alternative solutions for problems at hand. Things change.
I think a more telling number is where the money is. How much does Apple make from iPad sales vs all of the Android tablet profits. How much is spent in the app stores?

As a developer I will stick with iOS until the profits flip.

I couldn't find updated numbers, but in 2012 Apple sold slightly fewer phones, but people still spent 4x as much in the iOS app store.

http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/
Probably not, but they are a big company. They can do both at the same time.
How about "never"?
Many developers are Android first on the markets that cannot afford iOS devices.
It's not offensive, it's just not right for business. Outside of work, men use ore (tough and manly) or boku (boyish and charming) in regular conversation. Some my co-workers even use ore at the office if they're making a joke or something.
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It's http://geocod.io
Isn't it self-evident?)

Having such a bad code in the worst language imaginable that eventually the site has been cracked by Russian punks.

This will be a great case study.
That first paragraph does it for me.

I think my question here would be, why do I want to go search out a bunch of smaller, federated, decentralized app stores, then build trust with each of their managing teams, and trust my payment info and PII with them, when I could go to a curated tech blog/info site and get recommendations, then go to one of the main app stores and buy the app?

I'm not sure that I understand what value a middle-man aggregator of smaller markets will provide that beats such a situation.
> How much does Apple make from iPad sales vs all of the Android tablet profits.

Why should anyone apart from Apple care about this?

Unless ofcourse you're merely interested in finding out if you're getting ripped of and by how much?
The best thing ever!!!. Could be useful to make a alarm app.
No, I don't think any of those things, but you're the second person to get that out of my post, so I apologize for being unclear. First, see my reply to winterswift above (below?).

I think that by having a two tier system, you end up promoting inequality. Consider American healthcare - from my perspective, it's fantastic, with world class doctors, no wait times and modern machines. Certainly better than my experience in Canada! However, this is a system that serves 20% of the population very very well, at the expense of the rest. I just happen to be in that 20%. And because it works well for that group of people - which includes congressmen, senators, celebrities and chief executives - there's not a huge push to fix it.

The same goes for education. I can more than afford to send my kids to private schools, and honestly, probably will. Small classrooms, modern materials, great teachers. It's a system that I'll be very well served by. Yet the American public education system is largely failing, but this failure does not affect the most powerful people, there's not a huge push to fix it either. Indeed, they benefit from it - their children have a competitive advantage by having fewer people well educated (although I don't claim there's a conspiracy here, just that the value of good education is so much more).

Part of it is that I don't think that money is the main issue - there's a ton of money in the education system, it just goes to the wrong people. And if someone is required to pay money into a system that doesn't affect them, why do they care what the results are and how well the money is spent?

So my only claim is that we should consider that for major public services (health, education, safety), that allowing two tiers can cause major divergences that cause long term negative consequences, and that we should seriously think about this.
I still blame Google for that. They made an absolutely terrible strategic error early on by saying developers don't need to make tablet apps" - because phone apps can just "scale up". At the time they were using the same flawed Microsoft philosophy of "one app everywhere".

That put off developers from making tablet apps, for a long, long time. And because of that it also had the side effect of affecting Android tablet sales, which in turn gave Android developers even fewer reasons to make tablet apps for Android.

I mean, can you believe it that only late last year Google decided to show users "tablet apps" by default when using a tablet? They finally did something to encourage developers to optimize their apps for tablets.

But I don't think it's enough. Normally, I don't think Google should've done this, but they are so late in the tablet app game now, that I think they should start forcing developers to optimize their apps for tablets, too, or have their apps kicked out of the store within a year.

I think it's a very reasonable time-frame, and it's not like they have to rewrite their apps from scratch to do it. If they did that, I think within 6 months we'd see Android tablet apps for everything.

Something else that I'd like them to do: kick out apps from the "Featured" or "Editor's Choice" that don't adhere to the Android style guidelines. You'd think that Google would want at least the hand-picked apps to be "made for Android", no? Do that, and watch how the top popular apps scramble to adhere to Google's standards.
The way it did in 1956, when it suppressed the Hungarian revolution, or 1968 when it put down the Prague Spring?
Thank you. The only times I hate driving are long road trips and at night in the rain.
Same for his PHP examples. He seems to have picked notably horrible examples for the languages he doesn't really like.
90% of them do, I think. It's just within the tech echo chamber where you have to pick a side, and fight to the bloody death.
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> Why didn't App.net beat Twitter?

Because App.net cost money ($50 per head/year iirc) and twitter despite being a closed service was free (as in beer).

App.net didn't have a chance.
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The reason is brutally simple: software wasn’t portable!

Uhh, CP/M? More gibberish from ESR.
Legal contracts can't require or safeguard criminal behavior.

Although it never hurts to involve a lawyer, instead of relying on your own amateur interpretation of the contract and the law.
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"but why do you think planes and other complex machinery have stuck with physical controls?"

Mainly because of technology. But more modern systems are doing away with this.

" For operating complex vehicles/apparatus, you just cannot do better than tangible controls."

You're not controlling the vehicle.

" Knobs, switches, sliders can be operated without looking at them while giving rich tactile feedback, they have no modes = 0 risk for confusion, you know where they're going to be located on your dashboard regardless of what you're doing, etc."

Physical controls in airplanes have caused confusion. Wrong switches have been activated by mistake several times (either because someone bumped into them, or switched the one next to the one intended)
LINQ is a tool, and a great one. But just as you need to understand malloc when writing C, you need to understand the basics of LINQ to use it in production. The main problems I've come across are all failure to understand delayed evaluation. Maybe I'm not using it in a complex way, but as soon as it start to feel too complex, LINQ is not the way to go.

I agree that it can be difficult to debug - that's why it should be kept simple. Personally, I love that LINQ enables me to think of my data in terms of sets and operations on them, rather how to execute the operations on the data.
That analogy would work better if the cheap Androids sold software, too. And were nice to use with those apps.

But maybe ads to people without money will be enough to finance software? I think before that happens, good cheap screens (maybe not IPS) and lowering electronic prices will push the prices for usable xPAd down anyway -- what seems to happen for phones now. Then everything in the xPad market changes (just don't ask me how).
I don't think you would be breaking and NDA... I am an NDA is not a cover for criminal activities...
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When I read "Nothing to Hide - Game inspired by..." I was hoping the next couple of words were a little bit more x-rated.
Well imo the latest OSX versions share some code between OSX and iOS, the App Store could be seen as another sign on the road to a more closed consumer system.
Honestly - nothing... I think having a template (beyond perhaps styling and branding which most companies have already defined) for a presentation of any kind seems wrong. Any presentation, whether it is a pitch or a technical seminar, should reflect the person giving the presentation. Their vision, personality and expertise should be projected and to do that you need the presentation to be truly unique. A good presentation isn't defined by a bunch of slides or a specific format. Sorry to be so negative, but I am the sort of person that would happily pay a few dollars for some things I felt had good value and saved me some time, but a presentation slide deck isn't one of them.

A personal presentation / slide critique and suggestions for improvements I would maybe pay for if I felt it was a really important presentation, but I don't know if that is a viable business either.
Please tell me if this girl is hot or not? :)
Hmm. Ford is signed on for future models. Does that mean they're abandoning the much-maligned MyFord Touch?
I wonder: would playing Papers, Please for 8 hours a day for a couple of years (while getting paid for it) be an enjoyable experience? :p
There's also a tool named q to query text files: https://github.com/harelba/q
"watch out" is kind of an overstatement though. As soon as I read "hold up your id" to confirm it's you it was immediately clear it was a scam.

Companies you do business with do not ask for your personal information - since you already gave it!

Your ISP isn't going to call you and say, "Say Mr. X to confirm your identitity give us your social security number and your credit card number + ccv code".
Why do I have to wait for the girl to finish blowing her bubbles before I can sign up ?

It doesn't tell me anything about the product.
I have only played with it a little, but so far - it's like OCaml, with a "MS Approved" badge.
I have met at lest a couple of very sharp folks who came out of VT. One recent graduate, the son of an acquaintance immediately started working on air control simulation software.
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This is definitely a cultural difference.

In many countries in Europe driving a car is considered a pleasure and a skill.

Driving manual vs. automatic is considered the same as playing a guitar vs. playing Guitar Hero.
Citation needed. If you are that kind of guy, you can easily pirate on any platform, iOS included.

Personally, despite you just needing to install an APK, I don't know a single Android-user running anything not installed from the Play store.

Obviously the XDA crowd is different, but they are a clear minority, and I know almost nobody IRL who goes that route.
One advantage it does have is apps can auto update and extend themselves. Eg, wordpress makes extending it with 3rd party plugins extremely painless from a user perspective.

As for not being able to access a array directly from a function which returns the array. It's just syntactical sugar. Yes long over due syntactical sugar however.
Despite falling market share, iPad outsold next 4+ tablet makers combined
There were loud reports of them venting steam from the containment into the atmosphere, so yes, they lost containment. As I understand it, none of the fuel is exposed directly to the environment, the problems have all been with the cooling water (which is still a big deal, but at least there is more hope of improving that situation than if the fuel had somehow dispersed).
Thanks for the reply. So, is there no way of speeding it up without moving away from HTML?

Is the html generated from JS? or is it static? would that make it faster? (newb questions)

Thanks!
"(the average here in the Netherlands is 3%)"
Only if you include the large number of (very) small businesses that fail, because most of those still have a substantial sum to pay to taxes, usually already-withheld income taxes and VAT.

For a case the size of Mt.Gox the average is higher. Remember DSB Bank? They even got above 100%, just took a long time to sort it all out.
Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME. For a couple of years I ran it with Unity out of the box, but then one day it crashed so badly I could not use the system at all, then I switched to GNOME and never turned back since then. Of course, you have to stop by gnome extensions website and tweak your UI a bit to smooth the rough edges found in default mode.
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What we have here is one person who can't write write right.
My concern is that there's a roof slope pointing at a wall of the house, rather than away. That's just asking for trouble.
Once you change keybindings, all documentation you find online doesn't apply anymore. Emacs has a large and active community, which I consider one of its main advantages that I don't want to lose.

That being said, Emacs has already forced me to re-learn basic things like copy/paste and search/replace. I don't want to question my workflow on such a low level in 2014, when there is much higher-level IDE stuff to learn (code completion engines, refactoring, "jump to definition"). Alas, such features are not language-agnostic, they are tricky to set up and not standardized.

I find discussions about keybindings quite derailing from the higher-level discussions we should be having instead.
I built an app using Storyboard last year, I'd do it again but only if the app was reasonably simple in scope. I think we ended up with about 20+ screens, and at that stage there was too much going on for it to be easy to work with.

Plus on a 13" laptop on the move? Oof, hard to deal with. Only really could work with them easily on a larger monitor.
It's still there. It didn't disappear.
The big winners are insurance companies and reinsurance syndicates. When a car wrecks, there will be digital records of where the drivers were and what distractions they had leading up to the incident. Likewise when product liability is alleged against automakers.

This is the black box with access to your contacts and browsing history plus the ability to push Taco Bell ads directly to drivers. How much are your iMessage history and watering hole checkins and groundspeed worth to your insurer? Did you consider your insurer passing the cost of their access back to you with markup?
Yelling "government" when we can't find an obvious solution to a complex problem is a childish habit that everyone seriously needs to break.

In this case there is even plenty of evidence that it won't work: Government regulated banks have simply discovered less obvious means to run off with the plunder.

What we really need is strong stance from the bitcoin foundation against any service that offers to hold user's wallet keys.
Anyone here things that combining siri and apple maps to get advices while driving is a recipe for disaster ?
And a promise library: https://github.com/kriskowal/q
I get the opposite impression. Because the iPad doesn't have access to the harddrive it's hard to use it outside of silo-ed app experiences. I have a catalog of cbr/cbz comic books and it's simple too much work to get them on the iPad. On the Nexus 7 I simple copy them over the network using File Explorer.
What we really need is a strong stance from the bitcoin foundation condemning any services that offers to hold user's wallet keys for them.
My 2002 Toyota Corolla might (does) have relatively few options for what you can adjust, but it certainly doesn't have cycling buttons requiring you to look at a tiny digital display. It doesn't have a display at all. The buttons are all labeled with what they do. The climate control is dials. Want to warm the passenger side a bit? Your option is to warm the whole car. Set the temperature dial to warm and the mode dial to (most likely) floor.

Your pre-1990 estimate is way, way, embarrassingly off, at best.
The navigation bar is the most interesting part I think:

- Store

- iPod + iTunes

- .Mac

- Quicktime

.Mac and Quicktime were actually two of the most prominently featured products on Apple.com. Wow. iPod and iTunes have stuck around but are now treated separately probably due to the variety of content available on iTunes (apps, books, movies, games).

I find it strange that Mac's aren't featured on the 2004 navigation bar. Instead it's OS X.
The attacks you describe have not been demonstrated. A CAN-ID attack requires that you'd get access to the bus from a programmable device that isn't firewalled from the bus, which doesn't exist. Malicious packages are also filtered out. Packet filters are tested exhaustively (which is possible because CAN isn't too complex). There is a router between the busses, but that is tested exhaustively as well before production. (Again, relying on personal information by a VW engineer. I hope he had no reason to make up stuff.)
In that case they lost because their conceptual model was so complex that even a reasonably technical user trying to sign up would give up trying to get an account, trying to figure out what a "hub" was and how you would get one.

And I mean that on top of network effect. And the fact that it was mismanaged. And that it was mostly vapour-ware.

It hardly had a chance.
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Many VPS type things have ended up on blacklists; they're increasingly seen as just another version of consumer-level dynamic IP space, like dialup or cablemodem IP ranges.

Amazon's solution has been to provide an outgoing email-relay service, SES, that people can use instead of sending email directly from AWS IP addresses. Sort of the cloud version of relaying mail through your ISP's SMTP server rather than mailing directly. SES makes an effort to keep down outgoing spam, so it stays a "clean" outgoing mail route: http://aws.amazon.com/ses/
Given a direct link to a file, you're free to deal with it however you like. You don't actually have to wget it to your ~/Downloads/ if you don't like.

Regardless of what the user interface is going to look like on your end, you're still getting the same bytes and playing them the same way. There are two types of video: video you play back and video you play back. For both, you need to download (or "stream" if you're hip) these bytes.
Have you ever seem a simple Prolog program solving the 'four coloring problem'? Try programming that in anything else. Prolog or something similar like Lisp with pattern matching is the tool of choice for speech recognition programs. Why these tools get dismissed in a world of tablet devices using Siri or Google is beyond me.
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NYC also has some of the best public schools in America, or anywhere. There is some saying to the effect that if the Bronx High School of Science were a country, it would rank very high on the list of countries for the science Nobels.

In general, I wonder how strong the correlation is between availability of private schools and disfunction in the public schools: low, I suspect. The Washington, DC, area has three very strong school districts: Montgomery and Howard Counties in Maryland, Fairfax County in Virginia. And there are four pretty fair public magnet high schools in Washington, DC. Yet side by side with excellent public schools there are private schools. And though I don't know this, I suspect that in places where the public schools are uniformly bad (not this neighborhood or that, but whole counties), the private schools aren't much better.
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so is driving wheel and brakes
Happy rollback when it breaks ;)
So you're the authority over what's "garbage" and what's permissible on YouTube? Must be a fun job.
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