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That doesn't make sense, why would the current crops in the ground not be usable? Why would the food in storage right now not be usable?

Saying that 90% of crops would fail is kind of an over statement. Organic farms that don't use fertilisers are quite successful. The issue is planing and sowing, all of which the extra man power can assist with. Instead of a tractor you have people.

All that's needed is a plan, where farmers us the extra labour until machines can be gotten back on line. No need for a lawless society.
Pretty bold - were those listed amongst that Jarvis' abilities? My assistant (Cyman Digital Butler) has a list of example commands you can try, gives an idea of the abilities Cyman has. So you could say "open the ... website" to get the url for example. Although we've got a great community to help, we're in the middle of creating a wiki. Perhaps the Jarvis you're using needs a wiki too.
See /r/askhistorians, for example. Phenomenal moderation.
I believe that was cassandra... latest from netflix on that
http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/07/revisiting-1-million-wri...
I think that is a rather cynical view of advertisers.

Their behavior would be unacceptable in any social relationship. They exist in a space were we largely have to put up with them just because money.

I don't see how you can't not take a cynical view of the people who's primary goal is to manipulate you towards their own ends, just because those ends might once in a while be mutually beneficial.
I'd strongly advise you to check out the Cyman System website. The Cyman Digital Butler has a few video demonstrations, and I built it with Jarvis' personality in mind. Might be what you're looking for?
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After just skimming through the post, I have a question for OP. Why did you create 10 different apps? Why not just one app, that gave the user the ability to enter a channel name and check out all their videos? I think that's better, both in terms of not spamming — for the lack of a better work — the Play Store, as well as UX.

I'm afraid the actions taken by Google in this case can be justified, since publishing 10 apps a day is a dubious figure. However, I'll give it to you, they could've made the regulations regarding this a little more explicit and visible.
That's funny but I associated the title with something completely different than what I read in the article.

When the author starts talking about politics and systems frozen in time I can't help but think about how the real frozen system is our political system.

We get new digital systems almost weekly, that help us do things like monitor peoples activities and map their opinions, but these systems are all being deployed within a political system that has largely remained unchanged for our entire documented history.

The old satirical images of class hierarchies in the shape of pyramids come to mind.
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Was your lack of success partly due to no seeking the knowledge of other or not being give the help?

I would imagine that secretly farmers want other local farmers to not do as well, so that there is less competition for their produce, however you'd know better than me.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Californias
Great, a paywall. Looks like NYTimes has grown up and us plebeians are not allowed to read it anymore.
This is in fact sarcasm, right? Because I would think that following common courtesy and actually paying for the service you are receiving should be enough ;)

The idea that you have to put in effort to be the perfect customer of a service you are paying for is ridiculous.
>1 app, 2 apps, 10 apps? Did it matter either way? I could have posted 50 apps if I wanted

>So I was using the app store as my beta testing platform.

>I was planning on taking all these apps down in a few weeks anyway.

>I thought I could get maybe 20-30 apps suspended without repercussions

>In this age of Google, it’s now “obey or face an instant lifetime ban.” This is progress? What does the future hold if we are forced to strictly obey and understand every legal gotcha in Google’s terms of service? I believe in freedom, not blind obedience. I made some mistakes and would have removed all my apps if I had known the true consequences.

He spammed the Google Play store with multiple unfinished versions of the same applications for "beta testing", received warnings which he chose to ignore and then got banned for his gross abuse of the service.

Instead of "I messed up, here's a warning to others" it's a case of "why don't Google let me mess around with their service as much as I like? This is oppression, this is America goddamnit, where's muh freedom?!?"

Zero sympathy. Well done to Google on taking down one of the many people spamming the Play store with junk.
I use their devices... but my data I own, at least as much as possible. I don't know what I did before ownCloud...
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I made a Cyman Digital Butler which runs on Android devices and on computers through a Chrome app. I feel it's a better Jarvis approximation too. On both of them, Cyman can listen out for whichever nickname you choose. (Of course, the nickname I gave was Jarvis for mine ;) ) I find using the Chrome APIs or Android APIs quite good if you were interested. I haven't really looked at sphinx
I am not terribly sure that these single issue job boards are the best idea ever, or pointless dead ends. The Python job board is a great example - it's been around for years and I always advertised positions I had on it, but for the life of me I cannot think of anyone I know who ever got a job through it.

I think when you are looking, you go to the big sites first and then there is soooo much there then looking in the sensible one issue places seems silly

Then again, one could do a lot worse than provide a job board for every <Lang>.org site out there.

Edit: PS you have hit a quota limit so I can't comment beyond the generic rant above :-)
Sure Google is a private company. Sure this means they have no formal responsibility to this developer. Programmatically, he seems to deserve to be sanctioned: he violated their policies for several weeks with several different apps.

I emailed Google back and asked them to tell me exactly what I need to change to be compliant with the rules. Is it the icon? The name? The disclaimer? What? Google refused to give me any additional information.

But if his story is true, he makes good faith efforts to be compliant. What, if any, is the social responsibility a company has that owns half the market of mobile development platforms to people that could potentially make a living using their platform? Monopolies/duopolies throw a wrench in the invisible hand, and I'm not sure there's a clear answer.
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I agree with goal , there is always search for blogs ,articles , educational materials, jobs on the facebook provided on relevant groups and communities .
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Hi HN OP here,

For my thesis I'm trying to find out how startups test their web apps during development. Since being fast to market and MVP's are a pretty big thing I'd like to know how this affects testing.

I'm also interested in what your setup looks like, how big your team is and what parts of your application you tend to test (if not everything).

Since you can't really capture everything in a simple survey I'd be interested if we can start a discussion here.

I'm collecting use-cases for testing by looking at how different companies test their web applications, so if you'd like to share some more information about your project, please let me know!

I'm currently adding some unit tests to a Backbone.Marionette application using the Karma test runner and Jasmine, I'm also planning to add some functional tests using CasperJS, what are you up to?
Hi, thanks for your efforts. Is it 64 bit or 32 bit? Can't use 32 bit isos, stuck with 64 bit only UEFI system :(

How about a 64 bit (working :P ) kubuntu-active iso as well?
Yep, check out the Cyman Digital Butler for Android. With the paid version, when you get an incoming text you can set it so he reads out who sent it, then you can say "read message", or "reply" and then your reply. You can also initiate messages, and there are helpful features to help with complex names. Like if you said "my wife is called ...". You could then later say "send a text to my wife". I worked pretty hard on it!
And if your job has been maintenance programming?
The rule is explicit: it's called trademark law. You can't just copy the name and logo of another company, append " TV" and distribute it publicly.

This is an official app of The Verge: http://www.myappwiz.com/home/getapp?platform=Ios&appID=54251...

This is OP's unofficial app: http://www.myappwiz.com/home/getapp?platform=Android&appID=c...

It's pretty clear that this is prone to cause confusion, even with the disclaimer.
> This isn't really the lean process though

That's a bit of a "no true scotsman", isn't it?

Certainly it must be true that encouraging people to belt out a "minimum viable product" results in the launch of something half-baked and unviable at least slightly more often than if the advice hadn't been taken. That doesn't invalidate the lean startup concept, it just illustrates a potential tradeoff... and there's always a tradeoff.
That question is 2 years old, and refers to an "unlimited bandwidth" fair-use policy. DO does not have unmetered bandwidth, so is it still relevant?

Their current policy FAQ says they do not even explicitly forbid Tor exit nodes, although there is a stern warning, so why would they disallow a proxy configuration dedicated solely to your site?
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Well I'm from the UK and I thought the comments were bloody annoying, so...
The only thing I side with him on is this:

"I emailed Google back and asked them to tell me exactly what I need to change to be compliant with the rules. Is it the icon? The name? The disclaimer? What? Google refused to give me any additional information."

If you ask why, you should be told exactly what is wrong. Or better yet, be told exactly what is wrong right away. Obviously packaging other people's content is the issue here, but you should be told exactly what rules are being broken so there's no ambiguity.
What is the relevance of this link, in the context of the discussion about Uber?
...and thus, the natural consequences of walled-garden markets begin to rear their ugly heads.

It was all love and rainbows while the gold rush held it promise of instant richness and fame, wasn't it?
shadeslayer, how about a PPA for testing Plasma 5 in Kubuntu 14.04? I'd love to try it, but rebooting seems a great inconvenience :)
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Your ad exec is about the equivalent of me discussing new libraries / languages / frameworks out of work hours. I never heard anyone ask for that in an interview. I have seen a fair amount of ads asking to see my side projects / github.

I am reluctantly creating a side project at the moment, as I want to get into freelancing, and all my previous work is in house. Even without kids I find it difficult to find enough hours to put into it (trying to use a free hour here and there leads to almost zero productivity, I need a minimum of three at a time).
I made $4,300 on the App Store and it was easy
Good point. I wonder if they meant "we ask you don't run a CDN _service_" rather than just a CDN for your website.

Afterall, what is the difference between serving assets out of your webserver
not to sound like a n00b, but what is Genius in your context?
What collyw said. And most people prefer to use their own installation of Perl (see perlbrew) instead of the system Perl for development. The same seems to go for other scripting environments.
Hi everyone, in case you try and have a look I'm just sorting out some quota issues. Hopefully I can get the site up ASAP. Keep checking back! Jon

Edit: quota issues sorted now.
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Getting banned from publishing apps to the Play Store is reasonable and proportional. Getting banned from all Google services whether related or not seems a bit much imho.
This also contains an example .sh script that automates the download, verify, and execution workflow for PHPUnit -- I recommend verifying the key through independent channels because I could easily have placed my own public key there instead of the PHPUnit author's key.
If we could achieve a negative energy/temperature state couldn't we use that to harness zero point energy? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
What this shows is how anti-user closed app eco-systems are. Some users probably found his app very useful but can't use it because lawyers.
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If I understand correctly, it's like saying a car has negative speed because it's going backwards. If you accelerate it forwards you actually reduce its speed towards 0, but that does not mean that the car is more immobile at -5km/h than at 0km/h.

It's just a matter of convention, a negative temperature just means that the temperature gets closer to 0 as you add energy. Did I get that correctly?
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Quotes from the article:

"I emailed Google back and asked them to tell me exactly what I need to change to be compliant with the rules. Is it the icon? The name? The disclaimer? What? Google refused to give me any additional information. So, I just left the app in the suspended state and never attempted to update it since I really didn’t know what I needed to change"

"Why didn’t you give the apps a different name?

Well since Google was silent about the exact reason for suspension, I didn’t know what I needed to do. Was it the app name? Probably, but I didn’t know for sure."

If Google does not inform you in detail that it was the trademark that was violated, they have no right to ban you on that reason.
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There's a fundamental difference between reselling CDN services, and running a caching web proxy as part of your own infrastructure for your own use.
I'm interested in real examples of dependency injection being useful outside of hooking up testing objects. Anyone got any links to interesting examples?
The only thing that seems odd here is that Google appear to be proactively defending other companies' trademarks. Shouldn't the Khan Academy or Vice have been the ones to send the takedown notices? Or perhaps they did behind the scenes and this manifested itself in the app bans.
Here's a copy of the app information, copied by some app discovering site: http://www.myappwiz.com/home/getapp?platform=Android&appID=c...
Oh, I don't know. To say that the article ever seemed to be going anywhere is to give it more credit than is warranted. At best, I could make an argument for royalism out of it, but in fairness I can do that with almost anything.
Cool! thanks for clarifying things up.
"fails to explain" is a bit harsh. It's a cheat sheet for people who already know about layout thrashing.
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I liked the Catalyst tutorials and general documentation. But Catalyst is not Dancer, which is like chewing air to learn. :-)

When I read up a little on Mojolicious to have an opinion a couple of years ago, it seemed more complex than Catalyst?

I'll put my JavaScript hobby aside and look at it again. Any good links? [Except the one posted by walterbell at http://blogs.perl.org/users/joel_berger/mojolicious/ Grumble, that was already on my reading list.]
Martini (https://github.com/go-martini/martini) uses DI for everything. I's supposed to be freaking slow though. But it might not be a real world problem.
"This is exactly what it is limiting the lifespan of Facebook"

Facebook has over a billion users and has been around for ten years. No other social network can claim both of those things. Don't know if it qualifies as an example of a "limited lifespan"
I think he means Genius the company (formerly RapGenius) which annotates the web. (http://genius.com/)
Tl;dr recommendation systems, digital records, all combine to highlight inconsistencies between our past behaviour and current behaviour, this forcing us to never change for fear of being labelled a Hypocrite.

This is extrapolating out of technical realm and not passing through culture before making a conclusion. Just as today's 30 year old will be far more forgiving of an employee with photos online of their drunken 20's than pre-Facebook 30 year olds, we will find our cultural norms changing as more and more of us find privacy has vanished.

The issue is not can the technology be used in this way, but will those using it that way be labelled "normal", "annoying moralists" or "unclean and untouchable".

Technology always leads us to new crises - but we should manage them with an eye on the value that can be wrought. Technology that monitors my heartbeat and liver function I like. Technology that monitors my political views I want to be wrapped in social and legal constraints.
You'd have the same problem if you were on the open web and the company sent a DMCA takedown request to your hosting company.
"Google could have, and still could block my gmail"

They have a different revenue generation business model for gmail.

My son's account was blocked, couldn't figure out why, and they wouldn't say. I suspect some kind of data mining thing where watching more than 5000 blitzwinger videos on youtube "proves" you're a kid or a teen. He does like his video games...

He falls into that gap between being old enough to have an account per google's rules, but young enough to not have his own credit card or a drivers license (they'd accept a scanned copy of his DL, but he's not 16 yet) so the only option to reinstate his account was to get Dad (me) to charge 50 cents on his CC to "prove" he's of legal age.

So part of the gmail business model is to hold kids (teens) accounts hostage with a threat of permanent deletion until Dad pays 50 cents. I'm not annoyed at the 50 cents, gmail is worth a large multiple of that. I am annoyed that at a random time long after BAU was initiated, they felt like charging us for fun.

It is possible the gmail biz model of randomly applied fees could be applied to play store / wallet accounts.

Not sure if OP would have flown off into as much of a rage for a $50 reinstatement fee, or if he'd be like me, pissed off at the "business agreement" being unilaterally rewritten at a later date. Either way, the gmail biz model does appear to be superior to the play/wallet/app store biz model, at least GOOG would get some revenue, however little.

I assume based on evidence Google dropped the "don't be evil" motto a long time ago.
/me aerospike employee here - we did a live demo of running aerospike server on AWS EC2 during the fifth elephant last weekend at bangalore. The demo had 1M TPS and latency for 80/20 load (80% read, 20% write) was <1ms for >99.8% of queries.

This demo was done on 4 r3.4xlarge nodes - We did earlier runs on r3.2xl as well with similar results.

https://twitter.com/anshprat/status/492971667493122048

I didnt do a latency screenshot grab but those who saw the demo can comment..
Summary: No sympathy for the blog author, but its still terrifying how broad Google's ban-hammer can be if you run afoul of them.
So banning him from using Google Wallet to BUY anything ever again is a proportional response? O.o
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The question is, was the punishment proportional to the crime?

The 'whine' was about being banned for life because of novice mistakes made without bad faith. How is one supposed to learn the ropes? It's like learning to drive in a country where driving schools didn't exist and the full extent of traffic laws applied to you. How possibly could the author learn what he was doing wrong?
I wouldn't call the OP blameless but there is a lesson here: it is dangerous for a professional software developer to become too invested in one technology or platform, especially with a capricious corporate overlord behind it.
Mentioning that venue B is screwed up, is hardly proof that that venue A being screwed up, is a good thing.
If you ever find yourself making this argument:

I didn’t think they would mind, I thought I was doing them a favor. Pointing people to their great content. It’s free advertising

then stop. Other people don't want your "free" advertising.
Why not just one app, that gave the user the ability to enter a channel name and check out all their videos?

According to the article, that's what he was working on after releasing the 10 apps.

However, I'll give it to you, they could've made the regulations regarding this a little more explicit and visible.

It's called trademark law. It's very explicit that you can't copy the logo and name of another company.
oh ok thanks, I thought that, but I was also thinking maybe it was some tech stack like a docker container for a moment.
My understanding of the article, in the Japanese case, is not that the club requires or expects this sort of thing. This is a cruise for the "lucky" golfers friends and family and is more a societal expectation for whatever reason.
Mojolicious is best Perl web micro framework, remember that the Author also started catalyst. Dancer is similar but I don't like dsl. Mojo is very fast, powerful and expressive with a lor of features, mature and more perlish. Try Mojolicious::Lite, there is no other web Framework that can write an app in a single,file.
You discount 'this is our man, I can feel it, make those inconclusive tests conclusive so the bad man doesnt get away with rape and murder'. This happens very often.
It's an unfortunately common idea that copyright violation is sometimes okay because it amounts to "free advertising" for the organisation whose content you're co-opting. I was disappointed to see that argument made here.
Wasn't the idea that prediction of the future constrains what can be done and may ultimately lead to stagnation part of the original Dune novels?
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Well, it was certainly quite short; I'll give it that, at least.
Good. I wish all the people developing crappy and useless apps, flooding the place, would get banned. You publish 10 different apps where the only thing that changes is the youtube channel, and claim you were beta testing? I hope Apple and Microsoft ban you as well.
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He wants to know the difference between an app and the web: see Chubby Checker settlement.
I understand that an app is content wrapped around a concept.
It is common sense not to use a known name unless you are asking for trouble.
I could make a news app. Do I want to name it CNN?
No, unless I am authorized to use that name.
It is naive to think you can use just any name, even if you meant good. You are looking for trouble.
Next time call it something else. The video app. Learn by Watching...I mean you couldn't come up with another name?
Now I'm waiting for aphyr to test aerospike under cluster partition :-)
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I guess I should have been clearer - I mean examples where you actually want different dependencies for the same application.

All uses of DI that I have seen have a single configuration that basically never changes. The DI is used for hooking up test objects, but not for reconfiguring the production app.
Technically it's a very nice idea. I'd love to, say, funnel my younger son into the Schoolhouse Rock channel without him going off and watching teenagers swear at Angry Birds.

But he completely botched the execution.
Yes, and they have been for a long time, although probably not as high-temperature as you're imagining. Wikipedia has an uncited claim that the high-temperature label applies to anything over 30K, which is still extremely cold.
"Nope, up to you."

Not really worth being annoyed about.