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Nokia employee here.

Microsoft doesn't have a choice whether they want to "kill the Nokia brand" (that is, remove it from Lumia handsets). They have to. It's part of the terms of the sale of the Devices division.

It's our brand and we'd like it back.
Let's not forget the 'Live' phase.

Windows Live, Live Calendar, Live Contacts, Live Messenger, Live Photos, Live Mail...
Just tried this in Safari on iOS7. That element enables choosing of a photo.

To access a file from the underlying OS, do you need a jailbroken device?
Cars also inflict many externalities onto others that other forms of transportation do not (pollution, increased travel distance, injuries and deaths, etc.), and yet drivers seem less keen on paying extra to compensate for those costs.
I think that's a bit of an oversimplification. Straightforward reporting is in very good shape right now, particularly due to the effects you mention.

Long form journalism and in-depth reporting is not doing nearly as well, and is not well supported currently.
"convergent platform" is just buzz-speak. What I said before is still true.
I wish someone would pay me money to write about how technology X sucks because I used it 15-20 years ago and it sucked then. I know a lot of tech that sucked 15 years ago, and not having to do anything other than give a vendor buddy free advertising by sticking a quote from them in at the end would free me of the drudgery of having to figure out the current state things.
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> Well, you are aware that the roads were built for cars right?

Yes, but they were also built for bicycles.

> for every driver (who are actually entitled to be on the road in their cars)

Yes, they are so entitled, but so are bicyclists. Motorists are also responsible for other motorists safety.

> And then you've decided to inconvenience every single one of them

When you drive a car, you do this also. I'm assuming you've heard people complaining about traffic. When you're driving, you are traffic.

> I randomly picked my hobby

Why do you consider driving "what they need to be doing" and bicycling a hobby? Both activities are done both as a hobby and of practical necessity.

> In fact, I have a better hobby. It's called "tack throwing".

You've deliberately designed this hobby to be a jerk. Some bicyclists that are jerks also, but mostly they seem to be as jerky as the population at large.
Hang on, you want the people who are currently cycling, to drive cars containing bicycles to where the dedicated lanes are, park these cars, then cycle on, because you think this will stop you being delayed in traffic as much?

Are you this irrational in general, or is it just on this topic?
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electric burners are a hassle

Eh? Since when? Maybe compared to induction, but normal people still have either electric or gas...
We're at the turning point where great journalists are getting pushed out of their careers because jobs are vanishing under their feet. The content model has completely changed, some argue for the better. In the long term I fear the quality of content written will suffer, article accuracy will be reduced and we'll all be reading each others blogs about medicine [insert other topics here] (without ever having studied it or any previous knowledge on the subject). The Internet of "everyone's an expert" overnight is not something I'm looking forward to. Just look at all the overnight social media professionals. Many of these people don't have an understanding of how the Internet (or email) even works but they'll throw down the hot keywords to make themselves sound important; KPI's, User experience, etc etc.

I still feel there's huge opportunity in the learning space for online education. If I was a journalist or writer with specialized knowledge in a certain field, I'd focus my attention to that and bring my friends.
>> almost all of the money is falling out of it.

This always struck me as odd. Writers are clearly aware making money in their industry now is an uphill battle, yet in music (which has the very same environment), people seem to think the industry is thriving.
People are reacting to Apple’s Watch the same way they did to the iPod in 2001
I can absolutely guarantee you that not a single road within 10 miles of my home was built for a horse or carriage and maybe 3% have history back to pre-auto time periods. They were built specifically for automobiles travelling at speed.
iOS doesn't really have a filesystem. You can only store photos and videos, which are accessible via an <input type="file">.
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Most roads in the world were not originally built for cars:

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/04/invention-jaywalking/...
CALEA says you must be able to provide wiretap access if compelled by a lawful order to do so.

It does not say that you must record and archive everything just in case it's ever asked for.
There are plenty of use cases where they make sense, and lots of us have implemented them. This is just a lazy article, undoubtedly so someone could hit a deadline.
First? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_World:

"On July 10, 2013 owner IDG announced that the magazine would cease its 30-year print run. The August 2013 issue was the last printed of PC World magazine, future issues will be digital-only."

(Once) famous earlier examples:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Dobbs: "In January 2009 Jonathan Erickson, the editor-in-chief, announced the magazine would become a section of InformationWeek called Dr Dobb's Report. and a Web site."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(magazine): "Print publication ceased in 1998 and online publication in 2013"
One reason cyclists stay in the middle of the lane is to prevent selfish dangerous drivers from overtaking dangerously.

I haven't seen people cycling 6 abreast - I agree that's probably unacceptable and definitely infuriating.
Compulsory Chinese traffic cartoon - http://soimgoingtochina.blogspot.com.au/2007/06/beijing-traf...
I agree, but I think they are writing to their audience.
Indeed, when I first heard of "Healthkit" I misread it as "Heathkit" even though Apple is pretty much the antithesis of Heathkit.
Well, you are aware that the roads were built for cars right?

I suspect the Romans would be very surprised if you could go back and tell them.
I'm very curious to know what they mean when they say the gaps in one of the structures are oriented toward "dusk" and "dawn", as the direction of sun-rise/set varies about about 90 degrees over the course of the year at that latitude (51N).

Given the well-documented astronomical aspects of Stonehenge it wouldn't be a shock if the layout of associated structures also had astronomical significance, but the way it's reported here is more than a little weird.
Support, premium features, trust, and non-North American markets.

I'm a reasonably happy Skype user with numbers in a couple of countries and an active subscription. It'd take a lot to get me to switch - my usecase is more expensive/not possible with hangouts. Not to mention that Google seems to always find a way to fuck things up (I have [had?] Google Voice credit but couldn't get paid calls connected in the past).

Skype works, has customer support (?), can sell me things that I want like phone numbers, SMS messages etc. Skype also has some trust because it's their core business and they can't decide to stop offering telephony services one day.

I'd be surprised if a significant portion of Skype's profit came from US-based national calls; and there's nothing overly compelling here for the rest of the world.

To me, this seems like more of an attack on the telecommunications companies, because customers on wifi aren't going to be using precious minutes any more.
I pay taxes on wars, but would be happy to not have the war if I didn't have to pay those taxes.

Sadly, that's not how taxes work. Each tax isn't "for" something, they all go to into the budget and are used to buy stuff.

Toll roads might be a fair example. Those are mostly closed to bicycles.
I believe Matt Cutts went on sabbatical:
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/on-leave/
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This site is brilliant, and thank you for that link. I followed some of the citations. The video on the site makes it seem like it's an experimental idea, but to be clear, here is this dutch video showing that exact design in use - today - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA

I can only dream of living in a place where I could bike with such safety. I regularly get honked at/shouted at in Philadelphia --- for biking in bike lanes, because, apparently, drivers in Philly believe that it is their sovereign right to drive in green painted bike lanes when they wish to turn right. Maybe I should revise my "move to Canada" life plan, and make it "move to Amsterdam".
Car infrastructure is WAYYYYYY more expensive than bike infrastructure, dude. Even though as a percentage of their funding, more of car infra is paid for by the users, the absolute costs are so enormous that it doesn't matter.

Drivers don't subsidize cyclists, it's the other way around.
I see the same thing you see re. red lights. I don't see it as much with stop signs. The typical car I see has a higher minimum speed when going through a stop sign than the typical bicycle I see.

U.S. law already varies what you can do at a red light based on the maneuverability of the vehicle (buses can't do right-on-red). Maybe at some point we'll see variations specifically for bicycles.
Journalists job is not to know about the thing they are covering; usually they have only slightly more knowledge than the layman; their job is to have relationships with people who can give them information the public doesn't easily have.

These relationships that lead to information becoming available won't and isn't going away, the people doing the reporting (now called bloggers) just aren't getting paid (much) for it. It's now a hobby. And that's ok.

As far as writings from experts; science journals still exist and AFAIK are not hurting or are in danger of being scaled back. Maybe someone with more knowledge can speak on the state of academic journals.
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Apple have been fairly consistent; the 'i' prefix has been synonymous with Apple since the iPod in 2001.

Microsoft chop and change brands all the time, often in ways that are confusing to the consumer and damaging to the business.
They should get lights. You should slow down according to the conditions.

The speed limit is the absolute maximum which you must never exceed. It isn't an SLA.
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Hey, I just stopped by to downvote you.
Put that video on the landing page. It explains the tool pretty well, but the page as it stands now, does not.
I've only used google voice for the incoming calls and voicemail features. Hopefully those don't get lost in the shuffle.
> First, you should inform people as soon as you made up your mind that you were going to fire them. Letting them work (a lot) and just after that letting them go is wrong. Is using them.

You're on very shaky moral ground, and I don't find it persuasive. I don't understand the moral obligation to inform as soon as the decision is made. Employment is a 2 way street. By this logic, employees are "using" their employers if they continue working while hunting for a new job. I don't buy that moral logic.

Moreover, morale is important for both employer and employee. You don't want to keep a disgruntled employee around to sap morale. A significant blow to morale can sink the entire enterprise, multiplying the number of layoffs.

> A simple way to assess that you're up to no good is to see how the employees treat and refer to you after you let them go.

Entirely too simple. An entirely legitimate difference of opinion can result in a disgruntled employee. Employees can have wildly inaccurate estimates of their own value and productivity. Losing your job almost always feels unfair. Even the most amicable of splits can still result in latent bitterness.

So if a former employee does go on a rampage, it's unreasonable to conclude that his employer was "up to no good".
I see that as a negative. They slapped one of their two popular characters on something as a desperate attempt to lure people in and be like Apple. Google didn't give their thing a personality. Having a personality may be better, but this just seemed kind of sad to me. It make me realize how little Microsoft has that people have positive associations with.

"Come try our new plumbing business! You don't want to? What if we call it Mickey Mouse's Plumbing?"

It's not a bad move. It may even turn out to be a smart one. But it just reminds me of their weak position.

Why not just call it the Halo phone, or release the Master Chief edition.
> Plain Old Javascript Objects objects

Plan on visiting the ATM machine later?
- I have signed contract but without a witness. Is it still valid to go to county court?

Yes.

- I have the access to the server so I'm going to take down the website (I can do other suff as well)

No. Ask lawyer first.

- I'll use my SEO skill so the first result on Google will be "XXX is someone cannot be trusted"

No.

- I have a evidence that he/she was acting in a conflict of interest. I'm gonna email board members and investor.

No.

Later

It seems to turn out that this:

- I have the access to the server so I'm going to take down the website (I can do other suff as well)

... refers to the company's website. Thus stipulated, my "No, talk to a lawyer" is "No, that would be insane; you could end up criminally liable".
I'm not sure what you're referring to. Are you replying to the wrong topic?

I wasn't speaking anything about taxes, just personal opinion on the danger of car-v-biker/pedestrian accidents.
I almost got hit by a drunk driver in Chicago too. Incidentally, this happened right in front of a cop and I don't think that guy is driving anymore.

There seem to be a lot more drunk drivers in Chicago than in New York. Weird.
Maybe you can slow the fuck down and stop acting so entitled, then you won't have near as many troubles.
My crappy addition to clocks: http://myoldclock.appspot.com/

Did it in about 12 hours for a Google I/O competition 3 years ago. It's a countdown clock instead of a normal clock, but similar idea.
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And wear and tear on the road is approximately proportional to weight and speed so bikes make almost no contribution to road wear, which is the primary cost of our road system.
He said in another comment that he believes they should be accorded the same rights as toddlers or the mentally disabled. So in that case, euthanizing them just because "we don't have enough homes" isn't going to be an option.
I never understood the loss of empathy during medical training
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I don't understand this perspective that much. Have you seen how road traffic works internationally, specifically Europe? There are many examples where significant bike traffic can safely share the road with cars. The Netherlands is one of the best examples here.

The issue is that:
1) Road design - many/most cities do not have adequate road engineering to deal with bikes
2) Driver training - Road drivers in the US aren't trained to deal with non-car traffic
3) Weak Bike traffic law enforcement - I don't think that bike negligence is a key cause of accidents but I do agree that police enforcement of traffic laws on cyclists is lax.

So I disagree with the notion that bike traffic needs to have a separate roadway from urban traffic. I think there are plenty of good examples where a sharing system works.
But does it index the results of the search of the index?
Wow, that must be a frustrating 15 seconds.
There is a great blog post by People for Bikes which debunks most of these common myths surrounding biking. http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/bike-myths-debunked
Who drives in New York?
Then you should be in favor of increasing biking infrastructure so that you're much less likely to make a mistake involving a bicyclist. But all the things you've said are equally true about pedestrians, which is a more dangerous, per-mile-travelled, mode of transportation than biking. And bike lanes in NY make pedestrians safer, too.

As a driver, it is your responsibility to manage a two-thousand-pound weapon responsibly. As you have the most power to cause harm, you also have the most responsibility to prevent it. The biggest problem with vehicles in the US is that you're "entitled" to drive without learning how dangerous you are to everyone around you, and how to navigate that danger safely. And when a motorists causes a fatal "accident" (due to texting, medical conditions, etc.), they are almost never at fault, and their driving privilege is rarely revoked. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to...
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About 29,000 people die from air pollution in the UK and about 1 in 4 of those may have been from traffic pollution. But death is cheap and people living longer with worse quality of life with COPD or similar costs money.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/29/diesel-en...
> Make all traffic lanes in city cores bikes only, and make public transit free for everyone.

I was against you until this part. And now I'm totally with you. In the states it's tough though, the public transport system is woefully inadequate to support this idea.
cool challenge, but how do you do less than 5 bezier points for the numeral 8?
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As a cyclist who sees motorists daily, I have yet to see a motorist obey a stop sign.

When I'm stopped, I have to wave cars through when it's their turn to go because they don't understand how stop signs work. (Or assume I'm not really stopped, more likely. Stop signs are a disaster.)
Exactly. Even if it was more, the article seems to be extremely eager to blame reddit with excessive maliciousness just cause reddit deleted the subreddit after 6 days and not immediately. Any regular site member knows that any subreddit that violates the rules is given one and only one warning. Once TheFappening released all pics of all celebs on the first day, nobody was sure that one of them was a minor. A day later reddit gave the warning, and all of the minor celebrity's pics were "more or less" removed. Aside from the minor's nudes thing, so far the reason for which the subreddit was banned aren't part of reddit's policies, which is probably why they decided to let it run until they started having legal issues. What here is so malicious that it suddenly makes reddit worthy of an article-full of criticism on a major tech magazine? I don't know.
Or "Visual", even though none of the products are actually any more visual than their competition.
Studies show similar rates of law-breaking for cyclists and drivers. This is obviously more problematic for drivers, since they're the ones operating multi-ton vehicles at high speeds. After all, a cyclist breaking the laws in the way you describe is probably putting only himself at risk.
> Global variables reside on the global object, which can grow dynamically.

But it the example you give there's only one single variable.

> Global properties can also be deleted at any time.

Also doesn't happen in your example.

> Accessing a property which doesn't exist should throw an exception.

I agree.

> Properties could also be getter functions, which would then result in a function call for every property read.

But they aren't in your example.

And all these aspects result in proportional increase in the resulting code, not in some unexpected complexity.

> If someone knows of a way to get allocation statistics

Run a Perl script (or Python script or do it by hand) that adds an increment of global nAllocations variable in front of any statement where you do a "new" of something. (If the most of the allocations are implicit, this counting maybe has to be added to the runtime of D, if it already doesn't exist. At least the runtime is open source, AFAIK). Run the program. Print that number. My guess is that it must be an order of 6 digits (millions) for the performance you measure. Which doesn't seem to be necessary to process 60000 evaluations of a single variable if more arrays of fixed sized things could be used in the process. I know for you it's "doctor, it hurts me when I press me here" "well don't do that" moment, but really, that's how it is. A lot of small objects allocated separately makes a lot of work for a GC and it's so in every language. The question is if the language provides you the possibility to do it more effectively. It does: structs and arrays.

Yes, my bias is a bias of a C programmer, but there's a reason why good written C code is fast: the number of allocations is small, the most of stuff is preallocated before it's used. D lets you do the same.

Note: changing the memory representation of the "objects" you use doesn't suggest you have to change your existing algorithms. It's just how the stuff is stored in memory. The changes to your code then aren't fundamentally significant, but you'll certainly get the initial speedup you need.
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Possible, but not useful.

Consider a shaped piece of glass. It "calculates" something about how a light-input bounces, is diffused, makes interference patterns, etc. It leverages natural laws directly and quickly, literally at the speed of light. Perhaps with the right shape and the right light-beam, we can answer questions that matter to us.

Now imagine a programmed version, where all those calculations that "just happen because the universe works that way" have to be done by a CPU crunching numbers. (Ultimately relying on its own set of natural laws.) The second case is going to be much slower.

Another analogy might be a bunch of gear-based clockmakers who want to use electronic circuits instead... A gear-based simulation of electrons doesn't really help them.
> You've deliberately designed this hobby to be a jerk. Some bicyclists that are jerks also, but mostly they seem to be as jerky as the population at large.

Don't make fun of my hobby! Tack fields were made for tack throwing, bikes should get off the trail if they don't want flat tires.

So long as I'm left in piece to throw my tacks on the tack field I won't be a jerk. It's all these bike riders running over my tacks and ruining my hobby that makes me so irritable.

edit go ahead and downvote, I have karma to burn. It hurts to see an equivalent situation tossed back at you doesn't it. Go ahead, take out your feelings with the downvote button.
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"Well, you are aware that the roads were built for cars right?"

Unless you're referring only to freeways, that's a nice bit of revisionism. Especially in any city older than 100 years, the streets were built to carry trolleys, horses, carriages, omnibuses, and a variety of vehicles just as slow as bicycles. And cycles continue to be legal to ride on those roads. So you're managing to be both historically and legally wrong.

"I'm going to go out to my local bike trails and ... throw handfuls of thumbtacks in front of all the bikers"

I'd like to see how that works out for you.
Thank you. That's exactly the point. Most people see something similar at their own job. Why is it a stretch of imagination to think, that other departments are in the same position as yours?