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I actually thought it odd that they would cite iTunes as a feature that Android users would want.

iTunes on Windows is one of the worst pieces of software by a major company...ever. If I want to buy music or video I can do it through Amazon, and I have vastly more trust for Amazon's pricing structures. (Remember the anti-trust suit that Apple lost? The one that found them guilty of artificially keeping eBook prices high? And now we have Amazon fighting with another publisher to get them to agree to lower eBook prices...)
Yes, in the same way a good fiction story is. "Wouldn't it be nice if life were so simple as I'm about to describe?"

But this doesn't present itself as a fiction, this presents itself as true, when it's clearly the case that the author has no idea if it's true or not, having not done the requisite legwork to verify.
By definition, they are uncivilized savages. They are born not knowing how to behave in a civilized way. They also act like it too, from time to time.

Note that I explicitly and carefully said: "Unreasonable savagery can not be made civilized through reasonable discussion." The only reason that children can be taught to be civilized is because they do have some faculties of reason, and those abilities get stronger with age and appropriate training. When they are young, children learn best by imitation. So, of course, if a parent acts like savage, the child will too.

However, what we were talking about was the appropriate response to those times of "unreasonable savagery". So stop being a pedant, and changing the subject. Is a smartphone crippling app an appropriate tool for a parent to use in response to a teenager who is acting like an uncivilized tool? Absolutely. Is your view on children disconnected from reality? Absolutely. Do you also have wacky views on crime and punishment? I'm going to say yes there too.
but look at our personal expense.. how little do we spend on life insurance premium vs. entertainment? That's a reference point for what we would consider as value of protecting a human race wipe out event vs. a messaging app.
You are overthinking this. The post describes loans from family members for about $100 each. I'll support what Patrick said: just make them simple loans, probably not even with interest.

The only other approach I can think of, if the amounts get slightly bigger and the owner really wants to give the family a "share" of the action in case this really takes off, is to issue convertible notes. They are very easy to do in volume. They are effectively loans, but with a conversion clause into equity that can be applied if the company actually takes off.
Is this going to be the same let down that Mailbox for iOS was too?
The bay area has the greatest social mobility in the US: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/
It would almost certainly be quicker to crank out a wooden prototype from a CNC lathe than to print one in plastic. A bat made out of ABS plastic isn't really going to work anyway, so it's not much of a prototype.
Strategy for consumers: Use Instacart until they run out of investors' money or raise their prices. Then use competitor when they are funded and repeat taking advantage of loss making enterprises. Once bubble is popped, go to the store yourself.
You should say "smart phones" instead of "mobile phones". The Nokia 3210, which came out in 1999 and was bought 160 million times, has similar dimensions (same height and smaller width) to the iPhone5, and although it is more than 2x as thick as the iPhone 5, the smallest model was still less than an 7/10 of an inch thick. I would guess that it also has better battery life than any smart phone sold today.
I'm not fond of this "joke app" trend. App developers are now thinking "hey, Yo got $1.5M and a lot of publicity with a stupid app, we can get publicity with a stupid app too!", but they fail to realize that such apps, including Yo, only have 15 minutes of fame in the best case.

In the worst case, you just spend hours, even days, working on a bad joke which no one finds funny.

It's also worth nothing that this submission got flagged off the front page.
Well I suppose when you have fast access to the gods anything is possible.
Genius is in the concordance business. They need to be in the footnote business. Footnotes are vastly more useful because they reside near the location of the principal work.
there are all kinds of cool iOS apps that they cannot run, like iTunes and iMessage

Really? iTunes is cool? I'm yet to see someone who likes it, including my friends who are big time iOS fans.
Awesome podcast!!

There's still a major lack of communication happening.
Not at all, usually what the 'intelligensia' thinks are 'important' industries are not really that important at all.

Things that benefit the common man are usually way better economic bets than lofty ideals.

Getting most of india talking to each other is far more important than a 50 people circling the earth.
Let’s talk about margins
I know consulting companies that bill the customer the hours developers spend getting up to speed with a given technology.

In the cases the customer is not willing to pay, developers get asked to learn off work hours, if they want to stay on the project.
> I don't think anyone has ever managed a huge valuation on being a government contractor.

Lockheed Martin is worth around $52B on the NYSE.
Having kids is optional.

That's a voluntary sacrifice in a way that having a job is very much not. They don't really belong in the same breath.
"The user copies across iOS app binary and system libraries and it's done."

So, the user gets to violate the Apple copyrights. sigh
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Growth Hacking is Bullshit
You can use D without using the GC. I'm not sure why this myth keeps coming up. It's always supported manual memory management. You have to sacrifice some language features that aren't even available in C++ and some parts of the standard library use the GC but that is easy to avoid with yesterday's 2.066 release and the @nogc attribute. 2.067 should also have a lot of the standard library switched to using lazy algorithms where possible which means the caller gets to determine the allocation strategy (and can often avoid allocation entirely).

void main() @nogc { /* ... */ } // this program doesn't use the GC
"After all, the worst case is that we’ll go back to doing the same thing I did when Rewinery went under — running out to the store."

No, the worst case is that Rewinery took out your favorite mom and pop shops and now you have to go to walmart to get your second favorite wines.
Yeah, there are some great iOS only apps but those certainly aren't on the list.
Citizen's income is no fantasy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
I work for Businessweek. The article inside agrees with you:

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/218325-arroganc...

(Submission does seem botlike, because what human would link to paywalled Zinio?)
More like MagUNsafe Adapter
I'm not sure why I would want to rent someones name and address. Also, what happens if someone weirdo shows up at their address? Also, cost depends on the part of the world. you could probably find people working with "work from home" blogs to get your site listed in their articles.
Sound Effect Management with an LRU Cache in Java
Yeah, every font I’ve tried on Atom really doesn’t look good compared to ST on my mac. Even with css tweaks for antialiasing.
Perhaps it's actually "Hacker" News.
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Is the Windows-based HP Stream 14 a Chromebook killer?
That's net, not gross. They can afford to cut the item price if they have lower marginal costs (stocking?).
Could you explain what BeehiveFund offers over existing resources, such as Indiegogo?
Yup, that's the model we used.
> They aren't claiming to be Sublime Text

Pretty close, calling your project Lime text is pretty sketchy IMHO.

> it wouldn't make sense to not compare themselves to Sublime Text

But they aren't comparing themselves, that would be a feature page showing how many features they have. Instead they are branding themselves in a very similar way.
I wonder if "3" isn't an unspoken reliance on self-driving cars for true profitability. If you can be the "Amazon" of delivery the day courier costs drop from $20/hour to $.56/mi, there's an awful lot of up-side. Similarly with Uber.
I once heard about an interview with a very dedicated wikipedia volunteer, who spent hours daily on the project. The reporter asked a bit tongue in cheek how he had the time for it, silently implying that he had no life.

The volunteer hesitated a second asked the reporter back: "Did you know that the average person watch TV two hours every day. How do they find time for that?".

I've carried this reply with me since then.
Assuming the local store still exists by then.
My bad. Luckily, that doesn't really affect the regression lines.
"Hacking used to simply mean programming"

Did it though? I thought it referred to finding creative solutions to problems that often incorporated programming. Was anyone really considered to be hacking if they were writing tic tac toe in Basic?
> And 3 is not even a major upgrade from ST2, IMHO.

From a development standpoint it likely was. Doing a plug-in rewrite is a ton of work.
Great write up! I've been working with maps lately and this was a very interesting read.

I've tried the Leaflet SVG layer and it can become quite slow when loaded with thousands of points.

Another approach would be to use a custom SVG layer overlay using CSS Transforms. I've used an SVG overlay with D3 and it was much faster at panning and zooming. It could handle ~30k points (and lots of lines) without a problem on my laptop.

Edit + an example: http://i.imgur.com/ey8YDWJ.jpg
I'd like to also see a comparison with reading vs audiobook, (and maybe vs being read to by a live person). That would also help address their hypothesis about the feedback of the book pages.
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Why would they not?

I doubt SpaceX would care whether the entity was a corp or an individual, but if you have enough money to invest in SpaceX why are you holding it personally instead of via a holding company, etc?
Semicolons ;

It seems to be fashionable recently to omit semicolons from Javascript. For example GitHub (internal) and zepto.js have jumped on the no-semicolon bandwagon, requiring their omission in any code.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/142086/why-th...

OP's guide mentions "Avoid headaches, avoid ASI. Always add semicolons where needed", that's a good advice IMHO.

Edit: I would add: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/142114
@Developers, I'm sorry if I missed it in the article, but can I see the online demo somewhere? I went to your website and maps but still couldn't get to it. Thanks.
The fluctuations will never end unless bitcoin itself ends. Its nature prevents a dampening force like a central bank to control wild price swings.
> If the developer has agreed with Apple to not port the app to Android, it will never be available.

This is not in the developers interests usually. I have heard release exclusives but they all almost have expiration dates.

> Their way gives the power to the user. The user copies across iOS app binary and system libraries and it's done.

While it may empower users, it's not widely practical. (IANAL) You also have a problem that it's near impossible to get the apps off the device (you can download them with iTunes on the desktop though), then you have to decrypt them of their FairPlay encryption, and then transfer them to an Android device without possibly violating several licenses, the DMCA, and few copyrights along the way.

Providing an SDK for developers to cross compile their apps means that the apps are built and optimized specifically for Android when compiled and the distribution is not an issue for the developers because it's just like any other app on Android. It also allows the developer to integrate and provide support for system features specifically on Android.

> They don't need to be commercially viable because they're a research project.

It's not that it's not commercially viable but that highly impractical. It's will be hard to distribute and make very accessible and usable for users.
I worked on code that was NSF funded and only most of the source was ever released, it had to do with using code that we were permitted to use for research purposes but not release and some patents.
Perhaps, but the USD has a relatively strong history of stability. Not a word I'd ever associate with Bitcoin (or really any cryptocurrency) at any point since its launch.
Tennis, Unlike Baseball, Has No Set Way for Keeping Score
Having the "greatest" value in a set of really small values doesn't mean much.
Given Ecuador's financial situation, this seems like a plan to print money to pay bills, and make that "virtual" money to saving on printing :-)
I see your point about the compound noun, but is there something in between when we care more about size than color? I'm thinking of a phrase like "we all went fishing and caught little fish, except for John who caught a black-striped big fish". Does this sound natural to anyone else?
https://seatgeek.com/senators-at-flyers-tickets/4-11-2015-ph...
I'm very grateful to the authors of es6-module-transpiler - we've been using it in production for some time. But I ended up writing Esperanto anyway because the recent versions of es6-module-transpiler don't do one-to-one input-output mapping; instead it tries to resolve your entire dependency graph. We found that meant you can't use it with e.g. AMD modules in a separate vendor/ folder.

I've written some more about why to use Esperanto instead of the alternatives here: https://github.com/Rich-Harris/esperanto#why-not-use-existin...

Esperanto will have plugins for those build tools soon! Oh, and I second your recommendation for the Sublime JavaScriptNext package.
Atom might not be up to Sublime Text levels of quality, but I find it much nicer than the defaults gedit and kate.
See the following example for why that is excluded.

public string Foo { get { return ""; } }

private void DoBar(ref string input) { input = "123"; }

public void Main() { DoBar(ref Foo); }

Typically C# points you towards using a different methodology than ref/out parameters. But I do agree it is annoying when you want to use them.
The unstraightening thing is actually because of the construction of the bones. The bones bend a little, just a little, more than straight and there is a muscle that can pull on the other side. This locks legs in place when straightened, but still maintains a spring-like mechanism protecting the weak points in the bone structure (because it's not actually straight, it makes an angle).

A baby is actually too weak to hold himself up. I'm not saying that that's the only problem, but his muscles are certainly not capable of holding his body off the ground the first 2-3 months. That's why it's important to put them on their belly (but not leave them like that for more than 30 minutes or so), and ideally try to help them crawl, roll and walk, even when they can't. They'll love standing up, and hanging from the side of the cot. Plus they'll love the attention.

And don't worry about babies and young kids falling over. Their skeleton can actually absorb more force than yours can (because it isn't nearly as rigid as yours, which probably also means it's much harder to walk with). In addition to that, they weigh less, and F=ma, so they can easily survive drops that would kill or severely injure an adult.
Looks like they recently changed the name to Cycada.
An interview with the Bruce Lee of Presentation Design
I think this makes the most sense. The robot car is driving along at a certain speed V along a certain path P with path options A,B,C. The car has a reaction time of T, a resolving distance D, and a hazard confidence H. These are the robot car's motion constraints for that moment in time, the options available to the car are a function of these constraints. The robot car should never ever be intentionally operating in a state where solving for the constraints means the available option of one death or another.

In the case of a child and a narrow tunnel:

-As you enter the narrowing path P (without even considering the child at this point), your path options are reduced to 0. You cannot consider the option of a change in path any more, unless you consider death by wall an option. (reverse would first require a change in V)

-The car can see and resolve objects and environment up to distance D, and should be designed to be able to stop within that distance. If it can't stop within its resolution envelope, that is bad design. Unless the child pops up from behind a boulder when the car is 10 feet from the tunnel entrance, the car should detect the child from a long way off. That scenario, however, is like someone jumping in front of a train.

-The route chosen by the robot car should have a hazard level associated with it. The robot car's hazard confidence will be affected by its current position along a route and proximity to route hazards, by its proximity to other car's traveling in the same direction, and detection of other hazard signals.

-Given all the constraints, and since only speed V can change, the robot should not be operating at a speed where it has an OPTION of killing the child or the car occupants.

TLDR: Drive slow approaching a narrow road, otherwise you give yourself no options.
I bet it looks brilliant in Lynx
The Rosetta stone for this stuff for people more familiar with dynamic languages like Ruby and Python than with Java and C++:

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/
When 'Right-Sizing' Vacant Properties Goes Wrong
> You are overthinking this. The post describes loans from family members for about $100 each.

What he (?) says now is that it's just family members. If it works --- or if he needs more capital than he can raise from just family --- he's likely to want to expand its use. That can lead to major legal trouble. Moreover, others might read his idea and want to do something similar.
Your comment is so out of line. You are still wealthier than him by vast amounts. So no matter what you think he sounds like. You can still benefit from his advice.
Or how about developer maturity? Looking back at some of the projects I worked on when I was just starting out as a professional developer, I can tell you without a doubt that I introduced technical debt. It wasn't because of time pressures, I had plenty of time, it was simply because I was so green that I didn't know any better.

For example, I built a distributed video transcoding system a few years back, and for the use case at the time it worked great. But let's say people want a new video format? That's a large rewrite. Want to add more servers into the worker pool? That's a large rewrite (the code was written to assume a 1:1 ratio of certain servers, which was dumb).

Basically anything that you might want to change was made harder by the code that I wrote to get the job done initially. Over the years you start to recognize that, and write your code a little smarter and more change tolerant (hopefully introducing less technical debt).
FYI, unlike most new HTML5 standards which were discussed in the WHATWG list and added to the standard based on developers' needs, "HTML5" DnD is a standardization of the bizarre implementation of Drag and Drop used by some web pages after Microsoft introduced as part of Internet Explorer 5 in 1999. Don't expect it to be a sane foundation for what you want to do.
I have to disagree. It doesn't take prescience to build solid architectures. It takes skills.

Prescience (understanding your future requirements) can help dictate what your priorities are as a business, what features and flexibility to deliver today, but it has little to do with architectural soundness, which is simply a property of a system (independent of and not relative to the future).

This is my point -- to argue that a architectural sound choice is too expensive today is right only if the right skills aren't present. This is a problem for our industry to solve.
London among Europe’s least ‘liveable’ cities
The best spot to ask is probably Stack Overflow.
Lawdingo's second web commercial
JavaEE 8 MVC proposal
I have read this, and my question is, what kind of activities does Seneca consider NOT wasting time?
I stand corrected - I am from the midwest and didn't realize SF was so much higher than the US average in terms of socio-economic mobility.
Maps of the Roman Empire
I've used `pdftocairo -svg` (it's part of the Poppler[0] utilities) to do this in the past, but Cairo insists on converting all of the text to shapes. (They are/were planning to fix that, so maybe it's already fixed.) You've got all of the text there, so you're a step closer to what I wanted, but I noticed that the spaces are all missing. I'm actually pretty impressed that SVG can render properly without the spaces for the text.

[0] http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
Can I ask a really silly question? Why do updates matter unless there are either serious bugs or glaring missing features? If a tool is relatively bug-free and has a plugin ecosystem which handles added functionality, why does the state of the core program matter all that much?
> Always add semicolons where needed

Perhaps overly pedantic, but this seems a little...vague.
As far as I understand, those delivery services still do all their shopping locally, to avoid renting warehouses and dealing with suppliers. So basically - a courier gets the order, goes to a nearest shop, buys all grocery, and delivers it. If anything, the local shops win in this scenario.
Plus it'd be extremely stupid to give someone who is learning basic coordination control over a force that can severely damage things, including him/herself. Not because of potential defects in the exoskeleton, mind you, but because the baby will simply use it to do random things, like punch himself in the face, or scratch, or ... If you give him a tool that makes punching himself in the face fatal, ... well ...

We all know what inevitably happens if you give a 1 year old a stick. Giving them a powerful robot ... just don't.

Just don't.
I think 'crowd-sourcing' carries over well enough across the niche you're exploring conceptualizing. Your thread caught my eye though because my colleagues and I are trying to build momentum behind 'Humanitarian Crowdfunding' and folks are mulling it over too. To a degree, it can't hurt to try building something around your term or else around a platform name and pitch using 'sourcing' but emphasizing your sub-niche. Just a thought...
It's an interesting question. I would argue that it isn't about the U.S. government's stability, but more about the confidence that you can use a dollar to buy x. And I don't think its a binary decision like the dollar will ultimately not be able to purchase x. Instead it will be how many dollars it takes to buy x and if the number of dollars increases rapidly, you get a sudden erosion of confidence.
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Wow, that got flagged off the front page fast.
Looks like a Carambola2 (19€).
http://8devices.com/carambola-2

Same amount of RAM and flash, but different SOC.
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See http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/142114
http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog/javascript_semicolons
On the flipside, if you are not using inheritance then you could have solved the same problem with abstract data types. The only big problem is that in C++ the method call syntax is much more convenient to use: foo.frob() vs Foo::frob(foo). IMO, the correct way to fix this is by adding syntax sugar to the language, not by making methods non virtual by default.
Wouldn't mass adoption help? If the market capitalization was for example 10,000 times the current one, it seems to me it would be quite hard to move the market as much as it happened in the past.
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