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I do remember the small Nokia phones. They enabled to make me custom ringtones from sounds of the keypad. It was great. But everything passes, so did Nokia. It isn't literally ceasing to exist, but close enough. Long live Nokia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase#Yeast_and...

If you manage to increase the concentration of alcohol in your stomach to levels when ADH2 kicks in (and keep sugar concentration low), it might work. But where is the fun in drinking without getting drunk?!
Ludum Dare is about to start
I can't tell if that was sincere or sarcastic.
Habitable exoplanets are bad news for humanity
While that looks ridiculous at first glance, one of the important things about the HTML5 spec was reverse-engineering to describe what the browsers are actually doing. I'd be more worried if it says "the latest stable SQLite", but referring to a frozen version is only being honest about expectations.

I believe SQLite caused issues with MS, but Mozilla was more philosophically opposed to SQL as being legacy tech. Which is understandable but unfortunate when the standard had momentum and SQL is so well-understood.
So... what's the battery life like?
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Except a nokia 3210. I still have mine and it works fine even if it is repurposed as a cheap GSM alarm for a summer cottage out in the nowhere. All you need is a bit of wire, soldering iron and a magnet circuit breaker
> Google has almost 50,000 employees. Not all of them are intelligent, well-adjusted people.

Their responses to you that I have seen show no indication of underlying issues. Indeed they almost all seem to indict you as being overly obsessed with showing your infallibility with regards to you leaving Google. This conversation has started off in a similar manner.

> "Blacklisted" implies inability to get jobs, and it hasn't been nearly that bad for me because I'm ostensibly good at what I do. I've just had to deal with annoyances, like inappropriate questions on job interviews.

This is incredibly vague and you use it to imply that Google employees have emailed potential employers of yours and 'poisoned the well'. Lets make this clear. Have you collected any tortious intereference settlements against Google relating to potential employers you have interviewed for?

> The original purpose of shared blacklists was to shut out union risks

That is utterly irrelevant. This is not about union problems in any way, this is about a different illegal agreement.

> I'd like to fix technology. That's an agenda. What's wrong with having "an agenda"

This is pretty deliberately obtuse, you know exactly what I am stating, that you appear to have an anti-Google agenda in your comments, regardless of the actual topic of discussion.
This sounds very similar to the stories of micro-isv's that came about by doing a solo business and learning the business side of tech. Inspiring
Since it's a pretty audacious headline especially heading into the weekend, here's a /r/homebrewing thread discussing the article:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/23wbeo/jim_koch...

It may also be that he just paces better and has a higher tolerance than most. There can also be other "side effects" of downing 1 serving of yeast + yogurt per beer you plan to have so perhaps that helps limit his intake as well (if he sticks to the pre-plan), heck pre-planning probably helps more than anything.
Because as someone who is very sensitive to alcohol, I have spent my adult life resisting pressure to drink more. I often end up with 2 day hangovers, because yet again I have allowed someone to convince me that one more drink won't hurt. If this works I will be using it...
Anyone know if this would apply to liquor as well?
There are occasions where you want to get drunk and other occasions where you want others to be drunk. Especially when you are a lightweight and have to go out with people from the office etc. Lots of opportunities there.
Bees understand abstract relations without brain areas thought necessary.
Reader and Blogger integration weren't the biggest failings of G+, but tying those particular products into the service could have helped it along. In particular, giving easier ways to follow specific items or topics of interest (via Reader) and allowing for more expressive and focused content (via Blogger).

Truth is, G+ was mis-architected from the ground up, starting with Circles. Numerous abortive directions were taken (anyone remember "sparks"?).

The real blunders, though, were in utterly mismanaging and misunderstanding what real community is, and how it is formed and fostered. Real Names, Nymwars, the War on Words, and the YouTube Anschluss were all massive (and entirely avoidable) blunders.

A large part of it was that Google had a very clear idea of what it wanted, but didn't much care for what its users' interests were. And when the users told them, they basically said "la la la la la, I can't hear you!".

The underlying technology is solid. I wish the sites I use instead of G+ had the clusters, search depth, breadth, and speed, the reliability, and the performance of Google. They don't. But what they've got are much better UI, often other features which exceed G+, and above and beyond all else, VASTLY healthier communities and relations between the sites and those communities.
How to Avoid Loading Indicators
Are you willing to consider (generally well-engineered, object-oriented), and do you have any experience with, PHP? What kind of experience do you have with Javascript?
Safari are finally adding IndexedDB, which means for the first time we have a unified storage interface across all the browsers.

IndexedDB is kinda nasty to work with directly, but there are fairly good libraries on top of it. http://www.taffydb.com/ looks great for complex queries. One I work on http://pouchdb.com provides syncing (also works with WebSQL)

WebSQL is also pretty nasty to work with, hand crafting SQL string in the browser for one just feelds weird, even yesterday I had a bug filed which related to the internal SQLLite implementation (the entire reason WebSQL is a no go is it has one implementation, Richard Hipp would now own web storage)

I havent seen much support from webSQL, even between those of us who actually use it most are just waiting for it to die, indexeddb in safari is that final nail
Work begins on the world's first 3D-printed house
"Pages" were never (and still aren't) communicated well. The name, for starters, sucks.

They seem to have been created for marketing purposes. Using them to topically divide my posts ... never occurred. Literally, until the past day or so.
Microsoft and Amazon Earning Reports: Two Perspectives of the Cloud
Microsoft Absolutely Needs Nokia; Stephen Elops Tells it Like it Is
Thanks for the link. As an aside, I've always found it baffling that G+ URLs are a cryptic as the above, particularly as they are 301'd to be more legible after the fact. e.g. The above link is redirected to https://plus.google.com/+VicGundotra/posts/MFrDF3W4RJL

That page also weighs in at ~12MB.
All new Cerberus app licenses are free until 6am (GMT) 4/26/14
AppCode 3.0 EAP Opens
Wow. Why do I try to make anything original? It looks like there is good money in the clones.
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Removing bad laws and adding good ones aims at the same goal. Surely bad regulation should be removed. It's required, but it's not necessarily sufficient.

Unregulated market usually doesn't work (i.e. it degrades into monopoly which is the opposite of the free market) when competition is way below a healthy level. For example as others pointed above, classifying ISPs as common carriers is an example of good law which should be added.
Dive into Asynchronous Templating (Nunjucks, js templating inspired by jinja2)
I'd love nothing more than to be able to drink without getting drunk. Being able to knock back a bottle of wine with dinner and then a second bottle after dinner without any side effects would be dream come true. I love the pleasurable effects of alcohol as much as the next person, but 4 times out of 5 I'm only after the flavor and being forced to stop drinking something that tastes awesome due to the effect it's about to have on me totally sucks.
That's really interesting... I wouldn't object to starting a blog on the stranger points of financial valuation, but there is no way I would tie my real identity to it.

I want to be able to forget the stuff I do now, in the future.
I find myself in the same situation, the more Google+ leaks out into their other products in an obtrusive way (ie. with "big fanfare") - the less I use those Google services.

I have however not seen many people near me, be so annoyed at this as I am. The most complains I hear about is the YouTube pop-up (that never seem to go away); Calling you out on choosing to use your real name instead of your YouTube-nickname.
In 2004? This kind of bullying is inhuman.

I've experienced a bit of bullying (not cyber) and it really affects you a lot.

I was bullied for 2-3 years and it fundamentally changed me. Before that, I was a friendly, trusting person who wasn't afraid to lead. Now, I'm more on reserved and untrusting side.

I also found my sanctuary on the internet and it helped me recover a lot.

Anna, you're brave and strong. Had I been subjected to this level of bullying, I'd have broken down completely.
> At the risk of sounding callous, starting a family before you can afford it is living beyond your means.
I don't live in the US so I don't know if this applies to some contexts within the US, but in other contexts a family (partnership with one or more people and raising children) is sometimes a neccessity for survival: you share food and lodging and save money, a shared income, shared tasks and responsibilities and, in the absence of a retirement plan, your children will help you when you get old or sick. Raising children is a tough job so you had better start young, when you still have the energy to juggle the big amount of work that requires.
I've also noticed sites like TheVerge do native advertising in a way that's very hard to tell until you actually see the article. And I don't think I've seen any "Sponsored" or similar tag anywhere close to the article, which I believe is in Google's policy.

Google itself seems to be doing this, too (not properly labeling ads), while telling everyone else not to do it and penalizing them.
SQLite implements the SQL-92 standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL-92 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite#Features ).

Firefox certainly ships with SQLite and even their IndexedDB implementation is based on top of it internally (the irony): https://plus.google.com/+KevinDangoor/posts/PHqKjkcNbLU

Microsoft has MS Access JetRed, MS Outlook JetBlue and SQL Express SQL Databases that ship already with Windows and/or Office and are SQL-92 compatible. It should be trivial for them to figure out which SQL DB engine would fit best and integrate it in IE 12.
I figure how Elop pitched himself was "Let's try something crazy, and hey, we always have a plan B, I have an in at Microsoft." CEOs may have significant power, but they can't just sell the company with no buy in from major shareholders.
When Google replaced other search engines like Altavista back in the last century, one thing that made it so special was that it was fully automated and didn't seem to favor anyone. Nowadays, post-Panda, things seem to have become a lot more murky, and I am not sure whom to thank for that (overzealous SEO folks perhaps who had tried to game Google's algorithm?). I mean seriously, have you ever received one of those "Please remove the link to our website from your website because the link hurts us" requests? At the same time as this article pointed out the new rules don't seem to apply equally, making things even more murky. Curious where we're heading with that...
What Would Happen If Your App Would Get Featured In The App Store
Fixing old bugs, without the source
>>[NoSQL] are supposed to give more flexibility in the early stages of projects

I agree with what you wrote.

But my point is that _changing_ requirements can screw you, if you find that you _later_ need relational capabilities.
The lawyers, who are fronting the money to pursue this, have to balance risk and reward.

Anything can happen when it's put before a jury, including a deadlock from one recalcitrant juror followed by a retrial. Getting to that point would be insanely expensive, likely years of discovery battles, deposition taking and all that (and Jobs, the apparent ringleader, is of course beyond mortal questioning and judgement).

Then, as noted, an appellate judge (although not necessarily after all the above played out, it's going to be expensive for the companies and they'd pursue it ASAP) could declare this case isn't a proper class action. And there are ways the trial judge could screw up on matters of law and get slapped down by the appellate court ... and that's the infamous 9th Circuit....

Then we get to damages: sure, you can ask for 3 billion, and that it be trebled to 9, but you aren't necessarily going to get that much, and big awards are often substantially decreased upon appeal.
There might be a reason, but it's probably not a good one. These things are chaos-theory-like[1], with the causes so tiny that they're impossible to observe or predict and so may as well be random. It could be as simple as "One day, someone was in a bad mood and took it out on the nearest person unlikely to fight back. They realised that they enjoyed it, and did it again. Others observed and joined in." - by the time it reaches that point, you're already talking about group bullying by multiple people. Knowing the cause, or that there even was a cause, doesn't really help anyone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
> But I seriously cannot believe this if there is not a
> single reason WHY they did such horrible things

So what if there was? Would that make it all better?
How Facebook keeps getting more addictive
I didn't read the whole article but from the first example it's not particular strong. Google discourages widget back-links but that's far from considering it black-hat.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence suggesting that Google treat widget back-links differently depending on who the widget is from.
If you compare it with the expected values if you assume the field is non-sexist, then yes, actually, it is.
Mer (former Meego) is one good thing which came out of Nokia and doesn't depend on it anymore luckily. The rest will be wasted.
I would assume it does, since the focus is on alchohol breakdown and not so much the "other" ingredients
Interesting

The FB way of solving this is having a "fan page" for each topic

Pages exist in G+ but they're not as popular and not as integrated to the thing
I had a friend who told me that drinking a glass of milk before a night of drinking was the special secret. Either way "drinking all night and not getting drunk" sounds more like a Twilight Zone episode to me. I don't really drink at all, but it sounds like that would be a nightmare.

I'm also wondering about how he deals with the inevitable farts? Yeasts eating sugars = gas which is why beer and everything else is fizzy.
On average a bruteforce attack will find a match halfway through the keyspace, so that would be 2^80 for SHA1... and only 2^64 for Poly1305 and anything else with a 128-bit width (that isn't broken in some other manner.)
From what I have seen and experienced, teens just need to make fun if someone. And usually, they will pick someone who is:

1. Different (out of community, different religion etc.)

2. Not good with words (doesn't reply back)

I was in category 2 and a few bullies always made fun of me because of this. I was called names and humiliated for no reason.

IMHO, they don't need a reason. Just someone to make fun of.
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"There must be a reason" - of course there is. Murders, robberies and other crimes all have reasons.

"They don't just bully a random dude/gal." - of course, the more vulnerable the better!
Maybe it was an execution problem, too, but I think it was mainly a strategic problem - i.e. the leadership didn't want to try and replace Symbian very quickly. They still thought Symbian could be made into an iOS/Android competitor if they just put touch on it. They thought that was the only real problem with Symbian - not having touch. When in fact there are many other major problems with it, such as being very hard to develop for, and having a big problem from an image point of view (nobody thought Symbian could ever be as good as iOS or Android for touch).

Olli just refuses to take responsibility. He kept dismissing both the iPhone and the adoption of Android for its phones for 4 years after the iPhone came out. That's a ridiculous amount of time in today's tech world.

> In the end, timing is all about intuition.

Saying he needed intuition, is like saying any advanced technology is like "magic". He didn't need intuition to "get it". He just needed to understand the disruption innovation theory and to have read Innovator's Dilemma (seriously, how can any CEO ignore the teachings of that book 10 years after it came out? It should be every large company's BIBLE. If they don't really get it, they should be reading it again every single year until they do).
Stuff like this makes me proud that the internet and technology industry can give people a way of taking control of their lives back and finding a purpose and career when others are trying to deny it to them.
>The court got it wrong (from a moral/ethical perspective

Not really. It is far worse IMO to nullify everyone's privacy protections for the sake of a single domestic violence conviction.
Direct link: http://www.davidhunt.ie/piphone-a-raspberry-pi-based-smartph...
Yes, I live here. All prices are per month. If you want to live inside the S-Bahn ring, you will find it difficult nowadays to pay less than 600-700€ a month for a two-bedroom apartment. The low end of €300 is probably only realistic for one-bedroom apartments outside the ring or maybe a two-bedroom apartment in the high-rise buildings in the suburbs.

You can live in Berlin without knowing much German, but services and bureaucracy will be a bit painful. It's not like Scandinavia, where people feel insulted if you ask them if they speak English. Many Germans, even educated ones, are not really confortable speaking English. It's not that they're not willing, many of them actually can't speak it or speak it badly. Of course, everything is easier with younger people.

Average gross salaries for developers range from 45,000€ a year for juniors to 60,000€ for seniors. Expect to earn around 60% to 70% of that after taxes, social security and health insurance.
"Because it is schema less ... you can trivially add new rich schemas" made me lol. Maybe this makes sense to Mongo users, but I have no idea what you mean here and the language you use to describe this feature is, well, contradictory to say the least.
In the UK BT is required by law to provide access to their fibre at a wholesale price to enable competition. At least that is my understanding.

Why not require something similar?
yeah wow, so deep, steve jobs was amazing, I wish he was still alive today, I light candles for him everyday at my altar.
TLDR; of the thread:

- people who know him personally say he's wasted ALL the time

- mechanism of action is supposed to be ADH that is added to the bakers' yeast

- microbiologists and chemists doubt it's going to work
This is obviously also to annoy hipsters such as mrmondo. ;)
Why? Because they can, and the school environment often actively encourages the kind of power hierarchies that result in this sort of bullying.

See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
The usual thing, and I believe what was done with AdWords, was application-level sharding. This is in effect implementing your own database using MySQL as a glorified key-value store (you will NOT be doing any interesting joins, and you will not have cross-shard transactions unless you do those yourself too), and is thus not really a great argument for relational databases.
there is still transaction in one shard beyond SQL. I believe that ACID is the main benefit comparing with NoSQL store
This is the first I hear of these Sim900 boards. Are there any other boards like it? Possibly 3G compatible models or slimmer versions with just soldering leads instead of jacks? I guess you could easily remove the jacks anyway if you needed to.

Combined with some of the slimmer boards out there (like one of the many old Allwinner sticks or Gumstix), this could actually be used to build a real open source DIY phone platform.
Well, that's why I gave up on CouchDB once I found that I was actually much happier with the hybrid approach of using JSON documents inside a relational structure.
It was said that the video was attained in an illegal way so was inadmissible. Also that the girlfriend in question likely settled for money and wasn't cooperating.
There were other things that google could have done, but I agree not enabling RSS was a poor decision on Google's part.

To understand why RSS was not enabled, we have to look at Larry Page and his rise to CEO. Larry Page became CEO at a time when Facebook was getting lots of attention for what was supposed to be nothing but lots of data. He believed Facebook lacked intelligence to analyze data, but he also envied Facebook's position of harnessing all sorts of data and doing it all without doing a single thing about interoperability.

So he established two trends at Google: kill interoperability and focus on chess pieces that will strengthen Google's position (killing interoperability was one way). RSS went out the window because then people would not join G+. G.Reader went out the window because there was no vision for the data it was gathering and no vision for how you could use it even though it was a major chess piece that Google could have leveraged in multiple ways, nevermind the subscriber base.

I believe for G+ to succeed it had to be 100% opt-in for every single feature that was made available. Btw, I have been forced to join G+ so often that I have dumped participation in nearly everything that requires it from Hangouts to Android App reviews.

Also, there needs to be vision for G+ other than to be a copycat of Facebook. I have thought on multiple occasions that to copy or compete with someone is to shoot yourself in the foot just because the other person also has a shot foot. To really copy someone, you need to copy vision. This way you don't copy flaws too.
When I get notification that one of my friends (who is on Facebook full time) has joined new on Google+ after all these years, that shows that Google+ has failed miserably to reach the mass. I don't use Hangouts these days. Its only Facebook messenger (on Android/desktop).
Finally a good writeup that explains the strange phenomenon of NoSQL. Now, all that's left is to introduce a tax for “drinking the Coolade”.
GNU grep vs git grep vs jrep
> All of our followers seemed to be zombie users with real names, but none of them had a real person behind them.

I can explain this quote with this quote.

> I ended up not believing google+, and not doing any effort to publish anything there.
Conglomerate is not a Keiretsu and a keiretsu is not a conglomerate. Keiretsu is cross-ownership of shares centered around a bank.

If you absolutely must use a Japanese term, go with Zaibatsu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaibatsu
That's the only one I caught while preparing the website.
Funny, but it's an older idea. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats
My approach is to extend OOP concepts with embedded types and have two types of events: PropertyChange and DocumentChange.

Curently in Shape, the public MVVM framework I have, those concepts are only partially developed.

Contact me privately for details.