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For BB7 or BB10? I've always heard the former is a nightmare but not so much the latter...
Even their security should be questioned:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/bb10_dated_crypto/
vagrant-windows is not working at all on OS X at the moment.
https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows/issues/177

Near as I can tell the issue has to do with the WinRM gem, which I'd debug myself, but looking at the source and what it does, I am woefully unequipped to debug that issue without spending a lot of time that I should be spending on other work. I'm simply too far removed from the Windows world to even know where to begin.
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Same here, I was using 10.04 LTS till the end of support and then move to Arch, best decision ever.
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Mattt Thompson expands on the topic, and suggests this and similar technologies will be a game changer for privacy and security, including impositions by governments and ISPs: https://gist.github.com/mattt/9836041#file-multipeer-connect...
Or, if you want a proof with fewer words,
http://isomorphismes.tumblr.com/image/790452593
The TV series 'Black Mirror' had an episode that reminded me of Her. Black Mirror - Series 2 - Episode 1 - 'Be Right Back' presents a woman in a relationship with an android. Very interesting.
http://vimeo.com/61215171 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes#S...
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That ended up being sort-of debunked.

LCDs use about the same amount of energy to display blacks as they do whites.

Although there are energy savings with CRTs and OLED (don't most android phones use OLED? so that might be the new point of savings)
> If I recall correctly, Sony's first flash-memory music players tried to force you to use ATRAC instead of MP3.

Yeah, and they were even claiming "MP3 compatible" which was blatantly false advertising since you had to convert your tracks to ATRAC with Sonicstage before you could transfer your MP3 on your device. My ass still hurts. Sony, never again.
finally! looks great and I hope sony doesn't mess this up.

and please make a external monitor version! preferably 24" so I can have a secondary monitor dedicated to word-processing.

even though refresh times might be slow for anything else having an e-paper external monitor for word-processing would make total sense from an ergonomics perspective. a lot of people spend many hours a day writing/editing text and e-paper is much more eye-friendly.
"We didn't think we were what YC was looking for..."

I'm so glad you took the time to apply! Your idea was slightly different back then, but I remember how impressive you were during the YC interview. As you said in your application:

Among the members of the founding team we have domain
expertise in recruiting; in content creation and promotion;
and in directly engaging with women ages 20-­35. What's
more, we've been working in this specific field (job
opportunities and career advice for professional women)
for the last year, and the response from women has been
unbelievable. Our user testimonials sometimes verge on
the fanatical.

We could tell when we met you that you really understood the business you were in. You were exactly what YC looks for.
The "point" of Jolla isn't to run Android apps. That's a feature. The point is to have a great mobile Linux device running native (!Java) code and a beautiful UI and a small but great community of passionate users, devs and the company.
How could there possibly be "no" to this from the Fed. Govt? If you don't need to print, then don't print. If you print, then print in a way that saves ink / toner. Why not? How could the Federal Government possibly object? It's a "Yes And" solution (to use Improv Comedy lingo). If you need to print, do it in a way that saves money. There's no reason not to.
>Meanwhile, fast food workers, carpenters, and garbage collectors are completely irreplaceable.

How so? Automation in the food industry is going to be huge. It is starting behind the scenes, with automated meat cutting and such. But it will obviously come to McDonald's too. Teenagers that don't care provide much worse service and food than robots. And they are more expensive. It is a no-brainer to replace them.
In 2013 (or 2012, not sure anymore), they made more money off their financial services than all of their combined product lines. That says how much Sony sucks at making products nowadays.
> The internet burst the bubble that news agencies possessed editorial integrity, and that has cost them business.

That's a nice explanation and particularly common since the 2000s, but the problem with it is that the decline in perception of most mainstream news sources (particularly newspapers) and the resulting decline in the industry was already widely discussed before the internet, as anything other than ARPANET, existed, and certainly before it was a major factor in public perception of the news.
"I remember the same things being said about Mozilla/Gecko back in '99."

Except nobody ever said that back in 99.
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It does if everyone else is telling you that you're abnormal (and need to be 'fixed'). That was the point of using those examples.

That's why I used the word 'inherently'. People telling you you're abnormal is not inherent to those conditions.

Only if society has defined as valuable the ability to do only one thing, without distraction, for whatever period of time. Therefore, anyone who cannot do this must be 'broken' somehow.

ADHD doesn't interfere with your life because other people are making fun of the fact you can't sit still. It interferes with your life because it's very difficult to be productive in any way if you can't concentrate for whatever period of time and being productive is what's valuable to society.

I have mild myopia and I don't feel any resentment to my optometrist for labeling me broken. I'm just happy he augmented/fixed me so I can read signs at a distance. And unless/until we have proof that prescribing Adderall is so dangerous that it's not worth the gains, then I don't see a problem treating it the same as contact lenses.

I'm not suggesting that ADHD isn't a problem. Merely that we should exercise some caution before we label some things (people?) as broken, when perhaps they are not.

Well, clearly they thought they were broken somehow when they went to the doctor with concerns about their attention spans, no?
Most American's sign an at-will employment contract, meaning the employer can terminate you without reason whenever they want. Given that, why would you give the company any more loyalty than they are giving you? The only reason I can think of is money. i.e a financial incentive is in place for not leaving. In accountancy for example I know a guy who was given 1 year salary for leaving his company. His domain knowledge being so valuable to a competitor it was better to pay him for a year to sit at home than have him work for them.
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Rule of the news, is there a question mark in the headline title? The answer is always no.
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1852/is-alcoholi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous#Effectiven...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous#Criticism

A Cochrane Review of eight studies, published between 1967 and 2005, measuring the effectiveness of AA, found "no experimental studies unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of AA" in treating alcoholism, based on a meta-analysis of the results of eight trials involving a total of 3,417 individuals. To determine further the effectiveness of AA, the authors suggested that more studies comparing treatment outcomes with control groups were necessary.

One indication AA isn't based in science - it is supposedly a panacea, a cure all for whatever ails you. There is literary HUNDREDS of different twelve step programs, one for everything!

AA is also harmful because it make members say the are "you have hit rock bottom, your life is out of control, you are powerless against your addiction." This is harmful to people who may otherwise seek help for harmful drinking habits that haven't become a full blown addiction yet. It is also very degrading for some people.
What I'm more interested in is: why did this kid get all the press coverage from this suggestion, as opposed to the numerous other people who have suggested it (many if them probably kids too).
Ha, does that keep you up at night? I'm surprised any company, save Apple (for cultural reasons), produces this sort of angst in people. What's your emotional attachment to the long term success of Sony? Where does it come from (serious question)?
Yeah I ended up getting a lot of additional screening when I was a contractor for the TSA, mostly because travel plans were often made at the last minute and I had a lot of one way tickets.
Get help. Don't put it off.
What about pre-install scripts? The problem I've encountered with them is that npm still hasn't installed the dependencies in your package.json, so you can't have any dependencies in your pre-install scripts (at least on first install. on subsequent installs they will work if the modules your script depends on has already been installed).

Also izs' `osenv` module will help you get the home directory cross platform.

var osenv = require("osenv");
var homePath = osenv.home();

https://github.com/isaacs/osenv
How many others of the top destinations from that era are still around?

Look at Lycos. Excite. Altavista. Even the nominal survivors like AOL are largely shadows of their old selves. Frankly, it's fairly impressive that they've held out. Consider their starting point: Just a directory.

The bubble in retrospect makes them look faded and tired, because they're "only" $36bn today. But $36bn is $36bn...

And being "the default homepage" with an audience so much smaller was a much less impressive position to be in than their current reach.
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> and to use the device you have to install a proprietary piece of Windows-only SONY software that might be maintained and updated for a while

Let's not forge the Sony Music CDs which installed a rootkit on your computer to prevent you from trying to copy the CD. Where they went is just unimaginable.

> After I had this experience two or three times I figured I'd stay away from SONY products.

Even if it were not for that experience, the Sony Ebook Readers have been very, very poor and very slow every time I looked at their latest models. Sony is supposed to be a company run by engineers, but seriously I'm wondering if they know their shit.
Honestly though, the only thing that attracts me to Linux in the first place is digging into the source and pulling apart the pieces and putting them back together again, so that I can understand the tools I use more intimately.

To me, distribution projects like Debian, Arch & Gentoo serve as a useful source for complete repositories of working, interoperable packages, moreso than they serve as a convenient provider of a working operating system.

I tend to chalk up buggy, quirky work-arounds and long waits for bug fixes in Linux as the price I'm willing to pay to be able to see the source, and receive the software for free. Annoying glitches are something I wouldn't tolerate from Apple or Microsoft, if I'm going to shell out for the high price tags placed on their operating systems.
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The following in response to Facebook’s Newsfeed Redesign:
Why do what makes everyone else do what you want them to do if doing so isn’t right? If we all can determine what’s right and what’s wrong as a community of equals then doing what’s right is a matter of doing what everyone else, for the most part, wants you to do. As is the case with Facebook and most other companies that offer products to consumers, when it comes to offering their product they aren’t exactly equal with the rest of us; because, they have control over the products we so willingly consume; thus, they are faced with the conundrum of what to do about product design and consumer retention. Dustin seems to be saying that Facebook does what makes Facebook users do what Facebook wants its users to do. The numbers that go up and down, it seems, are numbers related to people spending time on other people’s pages rather than just on the news feed. What’s wrong with that?
I think there are two things here.

First is the suspect notion that mere statistics can supplant understanding. It sort of boils down to "with enough data, correlation now equals causation."

But the second I think is AI.

I'm not sure all these systems are truly theory-free. What they are is AI creating its own body of "theory" within its own quite alien "mind." There is understanding here.

I'm not sure how to distinguish the two except to ask whether the data analysis system in question is merely correlating or whether it has induced a model -- a Bayesian model, a trained neural network, any number of other sorts of computer models that can be induced from training data.
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Good luck to you and your wife!
The resolution seems to be about 150DPI. Unfortunately, I've been spoiled by Apple's Retina display :-(

But still: $1100? When an iPad (which can do so much more) is ~$500 ? Once again, Sony seems to be miscalculating.
BB7 & BB10 alike. They are both bad. BB7 is an order of magnitude worse to develop on.

It's not that BB10 is too bad, it's just that when you run into a specific problem, likely nobody else on the internet has run into the same problem.
> It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California. Specifically, if you block a hire based on this kind of policy and the employee loses their job and cannot find work, your company is liable for his wages. As a result, the business relationship with the other company must be extremely important for you to employ any kind of “hands off” policy.

I think this is an interesting aspect about business reasoning that a lot of people don't understand. Even though another comment here points out this isn't correct. If something is illegal and carries a risk of large fines or a large civil judgement, that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it necessarily. It just means that you have to weigh that potential cost against the benefits of doing it. If the benefits are greater, you go ahead and pay the fine or the litigation as a cost of doing business.

You don't change the way companies operate by going on about whether something is right or wrong. You have to introduce a cost larger than any potential benefit. If not hiring person X costs you a couple hundred thousand dollars in a civil judgement, but helps you keep a business partnership that's worth hundreds of millions in revenue, you'd have to be crazy to go ahead and hire someone from a business partner in those circumstances.
The judge in question, William Alsup is the same judge who was presiding over Oracle v Google, ruled that APIs are not patentable and learned Java in the process. He's quite a character.
Well, this is more the problem I have with these arguments than the superweapon bingo thing in the OP. In the kind of feminist/SJ arguments that are gaining currency in the tech world, what's put at the forefront is people's feelings.

People are not robots; their feelings matter. But they're the worst possible route to the truth, and thus to effective action to redress injustices. A nice illustration is provided, in fact, by this little exchange - so the GP feels scared to get involved with debates on the women's question. It's perfectly legitimate to argue that men have more power and are socialised in certain ways, etc; but this man's (if it is a man) emotional response will not take that into account. People are as emotionally traumatised by bad break-ups as they are by amputations. The human emotional response has no sense of perspective, and never will. When we discuss matters such as sexism, we are necessarily discussing the greater public good - which has to be indifferent to such things. (For example, we do not allow the relatives of murder victims to determine the sentence of the perpetrators - for good reason.)

So arguments get personalised - eg, "Julie Ann Horvath is lying" vs "Julie Ann Horvath would not lie about this" - and thus depoliticised.

All this "you can't know what it's like" stuff, if it were followed absolutely, simply makes reasoned argument impossible. Indeed, I can't know what it's like. But if everything is reduced to 'what it's like', then my only possible response is to shut up - or to browbeat an interlocutor into doing so. I cannot convince anyone to have different feelings. I can convince people that their arguments, on the basis of logical consistency or empirical evidence, are erroneous - but only if we can collectively agree to forget about everyone's feelings.

And so you end up in topsy turvy world. A classic example:

> If you have a strong urge to share your opinion, consider where that impulse is coming from.

So now the opinionated are supposed to feel guilty about it! It's utterly bizarre. More people should share their opinions (including racists, sexists and suchlike); they should not shut up on the off-chance it might make people feel better about themselves. Otherwise those opinions will go unchallenged, and fester in the dark.
If by "public" you mean free, correct.

Akamai is cadillac of the CDN world so more like Apples and Organic Gourmet Apples.
Huh, their careers page has several "jobs" available for people to write articles for them... unpaid. You know, the old "it's good exposure" bait for people who don't know any better.
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Well, Sony used to make cool products (the first Walkmans were cool. Even the first Playstation was cool. The Sony Trinitron TVs were fantastic. The Sony VAIO line of PCs were hotter than Macs back in 2000...) - but that time is long gone. Maybe it's nostalgia?
They want smart people and those smart people tend to go to good schools and get hired by Google, McK, Bain, etc.
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Why doesn't someone make an open source printer?
This title is terrible, but it might be the content too. Local teen has one weird trick! The big bad government hates him!
I quote their homepage ,lead paragraph:

>Navigate effortlessly with the gesture-based user
>interface and load the phone with top Android™ apps.

There is your point?
My instinct is to side with the Threes devs on this, but someone has to say it: It sounds like they spent a year on the cute little faces. Original Tetris didn't do that. Also, I'm pretty sure Tetris was cloned immediately, at least privately, by pretty much any programmer with spare time who played it (because it's fun and easy to implement, like the Threes mechanic).

Is it a good thing that Threes is so hard it's like pushing a rock uphill, until you inevitably can't keep it up and it comes crashing down on you? If someone invented the 15 Puzzle today (the one where you slide the tiles around in a 4x4 grid), for example, but dressed it up and tweaked it so you couldn't beat it, people would probably start having fun with the possible version on the side.
From what I remember from the old API site, it is information freshness.
I wasn't disagreeing with your vision, but rather with your dismissal of UIs as "amateur work".

And I'm not even a experience designer :)
There's clearly a lot of power to do a lot of neat stuff, plus some really brilliant features for businesses trying to create their own apps (like importing graphics from PowerPoint).

But I'm most curious to see how it will support building little CRUD apps that so many businesses could use to smooth their workflows. How will the data validation and forms stuff work? I see they mention key-value sync—can you get the data out for analysis in other products?

Regardless, I'm thrilled. I wish more software was available to let people solve their own problems with computers, rather than looking for an app-for-that.
Well IBM, Ford, Coca Cola, and Kodak helped the Nazi's so hopefully you're boycotting them too.
They were already using a 1/4 inch steel plate as an underbody shield but it wasn't strong enough to prevent piercing and fires in certain situations.

Apparently the people at Tesla calculated that the cost of adding these plates was worth the benefit of improved consumer protection and good publicity.

Weight is not an issue for this part because it actually helps further lower the cars center of gravity.

I wish my car had a titanium underbody, that would simply be badass.
It seems at first that this would have little application in a digital format. On the other hand, maybe there is some anti-aliasing benefit.
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I could be wrong but I think the excellent Command-C[1] app is using this technology.

[1] http://danilo.to/command-c
I'd love to see data on this. I've long been of the impression that the world of high-profile backed startups is an after school club for top-tier universities, and that if you didn't go to one of these schools you're very unlikely to get in. I bet Y-combinator has some good statistics.

Next question is: if that's true, is it because these schools are better or is it due to social network effects and branding?
Is there any reason you didn't switch to Xubuntu? That's what I did, and it was a very easy adjustment. No Unity, and no (to my knowledge) spyware.
I guess that calling it a strawman is kind of a stretch to begin with. My point is that his reasoning somewhat embodies the same phenomenon that he is criticizing.
Many people I know have replaced their drug addiction with a religion addiction and have become intolerable to be around. My brother in law is the worst.
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I have always wondered what those were. Always thought they were ugly. Surely these only apply to certain types of printing. Why are they still shipped with fonts?
> I find that more and more often I think of something, then search on the internet, and if I see that someone somewhere has done anything similar, I abandon the project immediately. After all, it's been done, so what's the point?

Or you learn how much progress has been made on the subject you're researching and, standing on the shoulders of giants, make new independent discoveries based on what has already been found.

It's not the Internet's fault if most people don't have the right mindset for research.
I almost pulled the Trigger on a Surface Pro 2. The big problem for me,[1] is that the 16:9 aspect ratio is annoying for reading documents. A 12" 4:3 device would be a lot better. I'm very curious to see what MS has in store for this fall. A native Metro version of Word launching with Surface Pro 3 might seal the deal.

[1] Well the big problem is that the UI is an abomination, with the clunky obsolete desktop married to the slick, intuitive Metro interface. Having to flip between the two just to use Word is a sick joke.
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