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wouldn't you have to do that with most of the older solutions as well? flv, mp4, quicktime, ect ect ect. These are not development formats.

Well... actually I have seen quicktime being used in the effects industry from time to time, though you wouldn't actually serve quicktime videos with those settings.
What does this have to do with Shopify?
> So it's extremely unlikely that donating more will outweigh the impact of donating to the right charities.

Sure, but that's orthogonal to the point I was trying to make, which in the context of your comment could be summarized as "I see no reason to believe that charities which benefit from the involvement of the ultra-wealthy are guaranteed to be less effective than those which do not".
See my comment on the parent...having a public IP address does not mean that it's accessible from the internet.
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Will you like their playbook when they turn it back on you once they have a monopoly?
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That's not a catchy headline, that's accurate per the FAA:

> A near midair collision is defined as an incident associated with the operation of an aircraft in which a possibility of collision occurs as a result of proximity of less than 500 feet to another aircraft, or a report is received from a pilot or a flight crew member stating that a collision hazard existed between two or more aircraft.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim/aim0...

At 200 mph, a distance of 100 yards is closed in about a second.
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What I brought with me for 6 months in Southeast Asia. Useful for mobile lifestyle technologists. Feedback welcome and encouraged :)
no kidding. The practicality of this is just non-existent. So you can do many shapes in CSS box-shadow, oh joy.

Show me one instance where this is actually applicable and more semantically appropriate than embedding an SVG and I'll shut up for life.
Can confirm that some drivers are on both networks (Inland Empire). They even offered discount codes from both Lyft and Uber!
What I brought with me for 6 months in Southeast Asia. Useful for mobile lifestyle technologists. Feedback welcome and encouraged :)
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I know I certainly do.

The very things that make me like Racket over other Lisps are also the things that make me like Python over other imperative languages, ie. clear syntax, quick-to-prototype, big standard library, high quality documentation, etc. etc.
And/or you just substitute a NAT that happens to also function like a firewall with a proper firewall. The router could do the same sort of filtering as NAT would entail, but not require a hacky NAT table.
Just a wild guess, grandparent either misspoke or uses the same word to describe cashing and depositing checks.

Either way the intended meaning was clear enough not to warrant a flame.
What a huge valuation! I get that Snapchat has a huge amount of users, but can that really be turned into cash? Snapchat doesn't know much about users (personal interests, personal details etc) so I can't see advertisers being too interested with "targeted" advertising being so current.
Yeah but they did cancel a bunch of rides and that's the upsetting part. Their reasons might have been different than originally assumed but that doesn't change the egregious nature of their tactics.

What it sounds like from the article is that the independent contractors Uber hires are canceling rides whenever they realize that the Lyft driver has already been approached. If they had a policy of never canceling rides I don't think people would be as upset.
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> I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have.

I see them as the "underground." Granted they have gotten a lot of funding, their primary opposition -- taxis -- are firmly entrenched & cities all over the country have considered various legislation to ban/stop them.

In fact, I think it's somewhat silly they're fighting with Lyft. They should be working together to knock back the entrenched players.
On the contrary! I work on the IE team and we're playing along nicely. Google just joined us on the ORTC spec, which Chrome considers to be essentially Web RTC 1.1.

http://www.cnet.com/news/reconciliation-draws-closer-for-sky...

For IE implementation status, follow along here:
http://status.modern.ie/webrtcobjectrtcapi

and check out our ORTC prototype:
http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/obje...
5000 cancelled rides over a year does not mess up a system that reportedly has a millions of trips per year.
Don't know, haven't seen it as often.

Money and existing customers depending on you and you depending on them provides a good motive to not do (1) and to avoid (2).

Also a lot of no-OSS software, especially of the desktop variety, is unpolished and un-finished, usually a moving target, so (1 -- the owners moving on and nobody picking it up) is more damaging for its user compared to some proprietary software being abandoned which he can still use for ages as is.

For example Microsoft is legendary for avoiding (2) at almost all costs, to the point were 20 year old Windows 98 programs still run as is on a modern OS. Heck, people still use VB6 which was superceded like 13 years ago... If you pick a software with a good following, chances are they will continue to support it.
Well that's what their requirements specifically asked for. It is also very telling how few visas in that category they grant.

There aren't "plenty" of O-1 holders period, the fact you claim there are plenty who are unknown is odd. It is a rare visa.
Even with Docker, the upgrade process wasn't that painful. I just used the Dockerfile from here [1] to create a new xxx/rethinkdb:1.14 image, then booted it up and everything worked automagically. I did have to rebuild secondary indexes, but no biggie, it was a simple `rethinkdb index-rebuild -c host:port -r db.table` away (after I upgraded the brew rethinkdb package). Hopefully it will get even better in the future.

1: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/dockerfile/rethinkdb/docke...
Did you see a super huge payback on those hours or was it just life force draining from your shell?
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Oh come on.... the on-line rags are awash with stories of Travis Kalanick's abrasive character and less than honourable approach to doing business. It's hardly a secret.
Got it:

Snapchat Fetches $10 Billion Valuation

Kleiner Perkins Investment Gives the Messaging Services a Shot in the Arm

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has agreed to invest in Snapchat Inc., an ephemeral messaging service, at close to a $10 billion valuation, people with knowledge of the matter said.

Snapchat, which has talked to several potential investors in recent months, is in the process of raising a large investment round that would make it one of the most valuable private, tech startups despite virtually no revenue.

The venture-capital firm committed to invest up to $20 million in May, one person added.

At least one strategic investor has also committed to invest in the round, which isn't yet closed, two of the people said.

A spokeswoman for Kleiner Perkins wasn't immediately available for comment. A Snapchat spokeswoman said: "The valuation of our business and our capital requirements are the least exciting aspects of supporting the Snapchat community. We have no further comment at this time."

Snapchat's valuation, at about $2 billion last year, has soared even as the startup lacks a clear business model. Investors see potential to make money from the millions of teenagers and college students on the three-year-old app, a group that is highly coveted by advertisers and increasingly difficult to reach through traditional media like television and magazines.

New capital could help Snapchat gear up for its first foray into advertising, expected later this year. The company has held talks with media companies and advertisers in recent weeks about a new content service called Snapchat Discovery, a person familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month. The service that would let users read daily editions of publications, video clips and ads by holding down a finger on the screen, like they do with photos and other messages on the app before disappearing.
It is also $33. In 2014.
Is there a time table for when meteor will support a relational database?
You don't say it directly, but I'm inferring that you're suggesting Lyft because you disapprove of Uber's tactics as described in the story.

I'd be interested to know what, specifically, you disapprove of. The article sounds to me like one company trying very hard to recruit another's drivers.

What is the alternative? One or both companies refrain from recruiting each others' drivers? Google and Apple (and others) recently got in trouble for doing that sort of thing.
Somebody could make a GoPro mount that attaches to an iPhone, plus an app that records the gyroscope data in sync with the video.
What's the point of writing your own language instead of using an existing one?

What's the point of learning Haskell, if you're never gonna realistically find work with it?

Some things are just fun to do, and stretch the limits of what we can do.

Not everything has to have a real use case "point".
Depends on what you mean by "free market". There's the free market that Adam Smith talked about, and there's the free market that Ayn Rand talked about.
I don't think this app will run on RPi BASIC
Pointer Events is a Candidate Recommendation at the W3C
http://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

It has 2 implementations (Firefox has implemented in a special branch and is working to port it to their main codebase) and a near complete test suite. Thus it's expected to reach the final Recommendation state soon.

So I don't think the standardization status will change Google's opinion here.

(I edit the PE spec and work on IE)
Lyft says that Uber employees have canceled 5000 rides since last October. That's like $100k in lost revenue -- it's nothing. Definitely not some big plan by Uber to undermine Lyft.
you say:

"FFOS is a solution in search of problems, unfortunately those are problems which already have better solutions."

I have to disagree. Firefox OS offers many things that are important and needed right now, lets pick some stuff that is not served elsewhere:

* A platform that is developed in the open and accepts contribution. Firefox OS is the ONLY MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM where all the source code is open including our built-in apps and services. Its not only available but its constructed in public with people being able to contribute and see what is being done.

* A platform that doesn't limit your freedom. You're free to build and distribute your apps without walled gardens. You don't need to pay to place an app on Firefox Marketplace.

* A platform that embraces the web which is one of the major achievements of the internet. Instead of the "you can't do this with HTML5" we're fixing the web platform so that you can have apps that work equally between platforms. It means that apps will be able to work on the web, desktop, mobile regardless of OS as vendors implement the WebAPIs.

* A platform where HTML5 is a first-class citizen.
Lyft has a similar policy re: stars.
You can write your schema in the sql dialect of your choice. No xml required, cept one config file.
So going to get one as my new laptop. Might have to invest in a wheelbarrow though.
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To say nothing of the fact that, because you can embed images in CSS, this sort of thing is only interesting at all if you actually look at the CSS source. It's kind of like someone making scrambled eggs with their hands tied behind their backs. Sure, it's challenging, but why should anybody care?
<google-maps></google-maps>

boom. see more here: http://www.polymer-project.org/components/paper-elements/dem...
5. Uber drivers organizing in chat groups to keep track of Lyft drivers in the area that have already been tapped, to prevent canceled rides.

Just making sure it's all in there. I'm not a big fan of Uber either but the large-scale stuff (top post here) seems way more important than Uber trying to reach out to each Lyft driver one time and see if they're interested.
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Most designers/developers have a different way of approaching email design. Some write CSS inline, some use an automated tool, some use a WYSIWYG tool, some write their own HTML, some integrate it into the code base themselves, some hand it off to other team members.

I recently shared my own email design workflow [1]. How does this compare to yours?
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I think that was the initial impetus, and is what made English the lingua franca. But now that it is, it has a life of its own where people are using it even for communication entirely between Europeans. If you want to have a site dedicated to Northern European politics, where Dutch, Swedes, Germans, Estonians, and Poles all post, what language is it going to be in? English, of course, even if not a single American or British person ever reads or posts. Why are all the Danish government websites translated to English? Not so Americans can read them, but so people from other European countries can read them, along with recent immigrants (who are mainly Germans, Turks, and Arabs). The EU institutions are moving towards English as the main working language for the same reason, because it's the easiest way for a German and a Swede (say) to communicate; with the French being the main holdouts.

In the Nordic region in particular the huge dissimilarity between Scandinavian languages and Finnish is driving it imo. If the cultural bloc were only Norway/Denmark/Sweden, I think it would settle on a kind of "Scandinavian" (their written forms are mutually intelligible). But that would exclude Finns from the Nordic family, so the working language has to be English, whether it's in formal institutions like the Nordic Council, or informal ones like http://www.reddit.com/r/Nordiccountries. I think this is only going to accelerate, and Americans will gradually become a smaller proportion of English-language online posters than they used to be, as the younger generation of Europeans who are comfortable in English become more present in anglophone contexts. But it'll be a while before there's a real critical mass.
Or rephrased its not possible to implement "working" NAT without a stateful firewall, but the lack of NAT doesn't imply its impossible to deploy a stateful firewall.

(It would be interesting to research where this "can't have a stateful FW without NAT" meme came from. It is VERY popular among everyone but network guys)
Great app.

On a side not it's kind of depressing / scary / crazy that it's now just common place to release these apps for free.

Indie development if not suffocated already on the App Store has little hope competing going forward.
can they get to IPO at even higher valuation? can they get revenue to support that or even higher valuation? both - probably not, and it isn't really important as long as they can get a next, bigger, round of financing at even higher valuation. IPO of 2000 is the C-round of 201x - ie. the time to cash and let the next ones to hold the bug. And it is good as it shows that there is a lot of liquidity out there and it attracts the liquidity into hi-tech thus paying our salaries.
3 year reserved instances are better value than you think
Hm, looks like you are right. At least the new timeline is server-side rendered. I guess they are updating parts of UI to be rendered on the server to be faster.

Interestingly some websites like GitHub are doing the opposite: they are slowly bringing incremental ajax-based transitions to every page, some "real-time" features are implemented with a socket signal refreshing the whole page.

One of the community solutions is "FastRender" package, which is not really about rendering. What it does, it puts most of the initial data into HTML page so you don't need to wait for the websocket connection and the data arriving to render the initial page. Improves the initial page load quite significantly: https://meteorhacks.com/fast-render/
Detected visited links in Chrome on Android (I don't have laptop with me at moment).

Looks like it works for Chrome and IE. See files here:

http://dev.jigawatt.co.uk/dev/linkvisit/
Yep! We're committed to interoperability and compatibility for sure, and that includes implementing Touch Events. But, we don't see that as a blocker for moving the web forward with better models. Table layout was terrible.

For example, we've built better layout APIs (grid, flexbox, etc). Table layout still exists and is probably "here to stay". But we've nearly eradicated it from the modern web and moved the web into the future of responsive design. We can do this with input too.
Theese days?

Let's pretend people didn't ever make contests of do X in assembly|binay|electronics... Or one liners contests, or blanckspace coding sprints.
[1] http://www.leemunroe.com/email-design-workflow/
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It means you should be able to do more from semantic HTML only and CSS only, without mixing up markup and presentation.
Its lots more complicated than ZeroTier would have you believe, especially for Enterprise clients. That can add wrinkles due to VPNs, firewall filtering, non-symmetric packet forwarding. And there's the case of two clients inside the same subnet - to go P2P using the described algorithm requires something called Router Hairpinning which has spotty support.

There are ways around all that, and Sococo supports them all. (Caveat: I work at Sococo).
Any chance the talk will be streamed or recorded?
For context, $10B valuation would make Snapchat as valuable as AirBnB, Dropbox, Two Pinterest, (rumour) SpaceX.

Do we know anything about the current growth of Snapchat? I thought the hype was over... turn out I'm probably wrong.
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This is interesting and the way I picture it, it must be very complicated.

Let's say you save the url and the selector, and scrap it periodically over time, how do you handle HTML change over time ? or does it simply stop tracking the page in that case ?
When you use Firefox to do a Google search, Mozilla makes money. If FxOS can take 1% of the smartphone market that may give ~$1M of incremental revenue from search alone.
I use it to pay my dogwalker/dogsitter. It was so much easier than leaving cash on the table or trying to futz around with Paypal. She's not that technologically savvy, so needing only her email address was great. I've also used it to pay friends back for my half of dinner and bills.
The direction of the velocity vectors matter a bit. You mean the min impact time is about a second. Obviously impact time is infinite if the paths don't converge.
I find it really, really hard to give a crap about the poor ickle businesses in this case, because you're not going to trip over these laws unless you're going out of your way to do something sneaky.

If you enter into it with good faith, i.e. be as forthright as possible with your customer, you won't end up in a situation where these laws will ever apply to you.

The people that will have a massive "cognitive load" are those who see the regulations as barriers and impediments to be worked around.

Things such as "Don't insert shit into your customer's cart that they didn't explicitly and knowingly request" is one example of the regulation, and is dead simple to both comprehend and implement. The intent and practical application of this particular piece of this particular regulation is crystal clear, and will only be muddied by people who like to rules lawyer terms like "explicitly and knowingly request". I know what it means. You know what it means. Every person with a functioning set of brain cells knows what it means. Shady companies will have a hard time with this.
I have always wondered how the number of users turns into a dollar amount, especially when what you said is true about the lack of personal details.

Maybe the valuation is based on the number of ransom-able pics in their database. :)
The whole point is that you're using one element on your HTML code.
assuming that because some women were carrying bags that means they're just "den moms" or "booth babes" seems to be the sexist move here..
Thanks; changed from http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-acquires-video-and-spe....
BS Clickbait headline.

Here's the gist: Uber and Lyft each try to recruit from each other. Canceling rides does not seem to be about disrupting their service. Disruption may happen as a side effect to their recruiting efforts, but that's not the point. And if you ask Uber, they tell you Lyft is doing this all right back to them.

Sure, it's an unsavory practice. But sabotage? C'mon....
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Yes, but Textmate 2, after all this time, has less options and is slower than ST2, much less ST3.
I've used this a while back and I can tell that if you need a database migration tool this one should be on the top of the list.
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FYI, you don't need to rebuild the indexes. You can continue running your app and the old index protocol will work seamlessly. It helps to rebuild when you upgrade in case you start using new functionality (so the indexes get computed correctly), but running an old system would work fine.

EDIT: note that you won't necessarily be able to run with indexes from multiple versions back. We'll almost certainly prune the backwards compatibility code to only a few releases to keep the codebase clean and nimble, and to keep difficult to diagnose bugs to a minimum. But it's still a very convenient feature release-to-release, as you can upgrade, and then rebuild indexes at your convenience.
You're using CSS. That's the point. Many people still think CSS is still stuck in 2003. It's still limited, but it's come a long way... Heck, with just CSS you can have a webpage react to your turning off the lights on your phone.
"As easy as a Word doc" is misleading then. Editing CSS and JS isn't as easy as Word, even if it's considered a feature and a convenience.

I do think it's a good, catchy phrase, but it isn't necessarily hitting your target market.

Are you pretty similar to a hosted Jekyll service, then?
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Every company is, to some extent, an underdog against governments.

They may have more money than taxis, but taxis often have entire local agencies dedicated to their industry. It's extremely difficult to break that sort of captured regulatory structure. The ICC for example was chartered in 1887 to regulate railroads, and was not dissolved until 1995!
I may be off base here, but I think the distinction is between number of degrees of freedom (what you describe) and density of bits of information. Bekenstein's result showed that the information in a black hole is proportional to its surface area, not its volume. This seems unintuitive in the sense that if you, e.g., stuff more ram chips into a box, its information content seems to increase as a function of volume; the disparity lies in the fact that bits in ram are not as densely packed as in a black hole.

EDIT: misspelled Bekenstein