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Sublime is more or less in the same state it was for a long time now. Closed source and with a single developer that hardly qualifies as active. Combined with a Forum of intense fanboys and some kind of "salesperson" - both with no connection to reality. There were two (?) recent updates, but not significant and already there were talks about Sublime 4 being a thing. Version 3 was already mainly a number change, as will 4 be with the obvious money grab. So there's just hoping for a wonder to happen.

There's obviously something wrong with the dev, be it loss of motivation or whatever could strike a single human being. That's pretty much expected and the reason this Project needs to be open sourced or stand on more stable foundation (more devs). They need to understand that a closed source editor without active development is a death sentence. People are hesitant to use it because of its unknown future, which hurts the userbase and the ecosystem (packages etc).

Which is a shame, because Sublime could easily be the best editor IMO. Emacs is primitive, as is Vim to a lesser extend. Atom, while interesting and with potential, is unusably slow. Sublime is modern, blazingly fast, is reasonably customizable, has intuitive controls and could be the unchallenged #1 if the dev just got some sense
FWIW, I am surprised to discover that I am having this argument with someone whose work I've read and admire.
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Also consider how thick the crystal on a watch is vs how thick the glass on a phone is.

Personally, I'd rather have "the new iPhone 6: exactly as thick as the last one, but now it lasts 2 days on a charge"
From the site you linked: "Rates of inflation are calculated using the current Consumer Price Index"

The CPI presents several problems when used to measure inflation: http://goo.gl/Ywh3T9

Members of the Bretton Woods system "were required to establish a parity of their national currencies in terms of the reserve currency" (that's the US Dollar) and "to bolster faith in the dollar, the U.S. agreed separately to link the dollar to gold at the rate of $35 per ounce of gold".

When Bretton Woods ended, so did the 1 Ounce of Gold <-> $35 USD promise, and Nixon in 1971 said "I am now a Keynesian in economics".
Oh okay cool. That's a different demo. The old one was Operation Tradewinds or something.
I don't think it's a viable business model. The margins on a 50-in-1 kit are huge, because it's really just a handful of cheap components, a box, and a manual, which is a sunk cost after you've paid the author and printed it.

Classes are a whole other thing. You need to market them hard, you need repeat business, and if you're not running them every day you're spending a lot on retail space for a limited return.

Also, Internet tutorials. And limited interest in most of the world.

Unless you can supplement classes with a stream of high margin sales, they're not going to keep you afloat for long.
I've actually been working on a side project related to this since about 2006.

Currently I have a working email-based proxy server, with Browse (HTML to email), Translate, Base64 Download, and Base64 upload.

I send the URL in the email's subject line, and Google App Engine fetches the page and replies to the sender. Base64 uploading is sent via POST to a PHP script on an OpenShift web server.

Email to SMS is also possible via gmail2sms (their blogspot is in Russian, but it's legit, I promise). That uses Google App Engine to copy emails to Google Calendar, which sends SMS event notifications for free. You need to authenticate your number first though.

I'm still missing some features though. Originally my purpose was to use SIP (e.g. Jajah, Voipcheap: Betamax services) to dual-dial a payphone and another phone number for a 5 minute free trial call. I almost got that working in early 2013, but ended up being banned by most Betamax services.

The other is how to initiate communications. I found a hack that allows me to send email for free while on prepaid 3G roaming with zero balance. There was another hack before that allowed me to receive email as well, but the website's format changed and it's no longer working. Also, most people just want me to have a "normal" local phone number instead of using my Google Voice SMS-to-email.

I've learned a lot about web technology through this ongoing project, though. Now I can code PHP and Python, browse using Elinks, script using Expect, and more.

On a meta-level though: is it worth it?
Internet access is basically used for just a few purposes:
- Information recall (Wikipedia)
- Maps (Google Maps)
- Communication (Email, Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc)
- News

The first two can be completely offline using Wiki2Touch (7.5GB text only Wikipedia) and Galileo (1 GB map of Taiwan). It's only communication and news that change often, so I need to access them.

I can get news through FM radio (does anyone still use that? I'm pleased to have it on my Sony MW600 Bluetooth remote).

Facebook and Twitter have email APIs. Skype doesn't. WeChat, WhatsApp, KakaoTalk, QQ, LINE, and all those other chat apps are terrible for their lack of standard APIs. Why can't we all just use instant messaging that's compatible with email or Jabber? For the same reason, these apps aren't available on my Raspberry Pi.

The Cosmos Browser's SMS gateway doesn't provide communication links, just HTTP GETs of static pages. Pages that I can save offline beforehand.

Congratulations to the developers for some impressive coding, but I can't yet find a killer app for this.
And we should all switch to simple email instead of those pesky chat apps.

Peter
> It's easy to drive people apart in the name of some ideal. It takes actual leadership to drive otherwise separate people together to actually accomplish something.

Right there is the crux of the matter. RMS is only focused on the ideal. To him, "accomplishing something" is only relevant when the accomplishment is free software that can't be locked away in proprietary codebases.

Viewed through that lens, his actions and beliefs have been remarkably consistent for the past 30 years.

He really grates on people who don't share his idealism, and he's looked up to by people who do. He can be quite polarizing, to say the least.
The source code is Keen Dreams (episode "3.5"), not episode 1.
When I was a child my parents both worked full time jobs and could not afford a day care service. They left me, a 7 year old, at the local Radio Shack because it was a place that kept my attention for hours while they worked.

When the first Tandy's started coming in I would spend a lot of time learning how they worked and how to program them to do things. Customers took notice of this young kid and his abilities and wanted it for themselves and their family. Over time the staff recognized the amount of sales I was generating and provided my Mom my "referral cut".

From that early exposure I may not have had otherwise, computers and technology went on to shape my life and are core to the successes I've enjoyed over the years.

While I can't speak to Radio Shacks business models, I am thankful for the shelter and education that one store and their staff provided me.
It seems that quote is missing now. She might have corrected it. Good job!
Well, it can if you use the GPL on the sum product. :-)

Still, I'm not really sure that it's very ironic, since his main beef is companies taking open source code and delivering closed source proprietary binaries to their end users. The whole GNU philosophy is about being guaranteeing that end users (or agents acting on behalf of end users) can always have source code with their binaries. BSD doesn't give you that guarantee. GPL does.
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Remind me again how the GPL preserves my freedom.
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Hi Dang - we informed our network that we had listed for feedback on Hacker News. If someone have been overly enthutiastic I apologise. Our intention was to get as much feedback as possible. Not to break the rules.

Still hoping for some feedback to learn from. Thanks :-)
FYI, the new iPhone 6 plus is thinner and has longer battery life than the 5S.

Apple says the 6 plus gets 12 hours internet usage compared to the 10 hours on iPhone 5S
The cheap 349 USD versions will not have sapphire glass, just the premium watches. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch#Collection_comparis...

So be prepared to spend 1000+ USD if you want sapphire glass. Apple's days of pandering to peasants are over, it seems.
I have always looked upon these kinds of projects with interest until it comes to the packaging.

Let us say I create a really super-duper ruby qtbindings application. Is there any way for me to easily package it as a .msi / .dmg / .deb for distribution?

I have messed around with ocra, monkeybars etc and they have never worked or require arcane and undocumented hacks.

Packaging for distribution is the biggest challenge for desktop ruby apps I think.
The first batch of reviews are starting to come in and saying the 6+ actually does last around 2 days under normal usage.
> For anything safety critical, C in particular still has a vice-like stranglehold in many industries (e.g. automobile)

Which is kind of ironic, given its well known foot-shooting abilities.
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Don't want to come over as a nitpicker, but the correct term here would probably be a 'cat-and-mouse game'.
Tradestop is what you're thinking of.
> FYI, the new iPhone 6 plus is thinner and has longer battery life than the 5S.

Could it have something to do with the two of three dimensions expanding considerably?
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Who are considered the best designers in Silicon Valley? Pretty simple question, just looking for a list.

Hope to model my work off theirs. And potentially bother them for feedback one day since they're close to home.
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I use https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap with a dedicated GMail account. I read my news on any desktop or mobile with a choice of clients (GMail on Android or web works great, although I usually end up reading most of it on iOS or Apple Mail).
Oh I'm not pretending it's not. Just making the observation. Also, the battery was increased beyond the power needed for the extra display.
I recently had a similar situation at the Gare du Nord station in Paris. We were trying to purchase tickets for the train when this guy comes along and forcefully takes over the machine saying it doesn't take credit cards (which we knew it did because we've used them before). He changed the language back to French and proceeded to buy the cheapest metro ticket available then asked us to give him cash based on the more expensive distance we actually wanted to go. Luckily, we didn't have any cash, he even offered to accept pounds or dollars! Eventually after skulking off we went back to the machine and worked it out. If we had taken his tickets we likely would have been picked up by one of the frequent ticket inspections and given a hefty fine.
iPod Nano is the device you're thinking of.

The iPod Nano with a particular after-market watch band was quite popular at the time.
Could you use some form of public/private key combination to prove that you have a ticket to something without actually giving away a digital ticket?
Why not start with Hemlock or CLIMacs atop a CLIM implementation, or take the (MIT-licensed) ZWEI codebase and bring that forward? Is there really all that much in GNU emacs that is really widely used?
1910 on the first try.
2614 on the second.
Can't get past 2741.

Here is a trick. It is very easy to rememeber up to 6 spots, but over that becomes hard. Split the numbers into groups and remember the patterns for each one and where the transition to the next group happens.
Not sure why I'm being downvoted, but it's one of the few multisig web wallets available. It's not the same as other sites.
But SparkFun doesn't own and operate any purely retail stores, do they? They package many of their products for retail in e.g. RadioShacks, but that's very different from actually being a chain of retail stores.
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AmigaOS have some interesting different things.
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Really? My iPhone 5 is covered in tiny scratches, and I feel like I've made a real effort to keep it away from keys and change. No major structural damage, just lots of little scratches.
Very interesting about the density and energy impacts on sapphire vs glass. In a watch context (where the chance of dropping is less than the chance of scratching the face) the use of sapphire presents some additional challenges for battery life. If the Apple Watch intends to use sapphire, this might play into some of the rumours that release has been delayed because of battery life concerns.
I totally would accept iPhone 6 as thick as 3GS with 3x or even 4x battery life and flat back panel. This one with 1800 mAh battery? Not in the 2014.
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The Android toolchain is also significantly less developer-friendly than the corresponding iOS toolchain.

Plug in an iPhone, and (after jumping through the byzantine code-signing system) you'll be able to deploy development code to it (from an OSX environment). If your app runs on one iPhone, it probably runs well on another, barring some screen geometry concerns.

Plug in an Android device, and you might need to search around to find a manufacturer-specific toolset, and/or navigate secret menus to enable debugging (like "click this menu item that doesn't look like a button seven times"). You might also have to worry about ancient devices that can't be updated to a modern Android version, and have egregious platform bugs. Comparatively, it's a mess.
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That depends on normal usage. Also, if this is correct, then putting bigger battery would still gain more days, only it would be 3 or 4 days, which would be great.
Looks cool, but what is this "printing" and "CD-ROM" it is talking about?
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> I am skeptical of the table you show from computerworld.com, but it is top /approvals/ not applications. Which points to the endemic issue even more of IT consulting firms doing the spray-and-pray approach of making a billion applications. But even then, facebook being #25 means nothing - they account for approx 1% or less of all applications, even when you count approvals only.

As I said, however, I don't believe that the data shows how many H-1B contractors are be working at Facebook. I rechecked and the LCAs posted online only seem to list the employer and the city in which the employee will work. If they are contracted out, the company to which they are contracted is not shown. In any case, my problem with Zuckerberg is not the number of H-1Bs that he's hiring. It's that he's using the phony issue of a shortage in STEM skills to push for a higher cap. The great majority of commentaries at http://econdataus.com/skillsgap.html , including an editorial by Paul Krugman, suggest that the STEM skills gap is a myth. On that topic, an interesting article was just posted at http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/09/15/stem-gradu... .

> And again, 31 to 35 is not the young part of the software engineer group. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc have a HUGE presence in college career fairs, especially in top schools, where they poach 22 year old new graduates. That's the young end of the market likely to be willing to work for cheap, not the 30 year olds.

30-year old H-1B visa workers are beholden to the companies for which they work. This is one reason that companies like them. Also, I saw another part of that problem when I was working for a company that had to move out of Silicon Valley. They took just about all of their H-1B folks with them but laid off most of their employees who were citizens. Now, I didn't really mind myself since I wasn't planning on moving with them anyhow. But I believe that they kept their H-1B employees partially to be "nice", because the H-1B visas would be in jeopardy if their jobs ended. It made it more clear to me that, if you have two tiers of employees where one tier is beholden and the other is not, it will negatively affect all employees.

> PUMS is an interesting source for this - I think recently Web Developers are being classified separately in NAICS - have you accounted for that?

Yes, I added a list of the job classifications, including Web Developers, at http://econdataus.com/h1bage.htm . As you can see, they are included in the "All Computer Workers and Management" numbers. By the way, I did a quick check and there were 3,485 Web Developers in Silicon Valley in 2013 versus 62,600 Software Developers, Applications and System Software. In any event, the graphs show that the hiring of H-1Bs is much higher in Silicon Valley making the bias toward youth especially severe. I wrote a letter about the problem here to my representative and posted it at http://econdataus.com/h1bletter.htm . If you have any comments on that, feel free to share them.
My own experience with the iphone 5 has been pretty good as far as durability is concerned. I live dangerously i guess... in that i never really saw the point in buying a super thin phone then throwing a thick case on it, so I have no case.

I've dropped my phone numerous times, but I have dropped it twice onto concrete, once with considerable force. So far, no cracks! Just one data point, but also demonstrating that what we have now isn't terrible.
Quote: "My immediate thought is that financial professionals could audit the value of past "pure science" and measure ROI"

Wait -- the return on investment of "pure science"? That's a contradiction in terms. Pure science shouldn't be evaluated that way -- only applied science has anything resembling a return on investment.

I suspect the correspondent doesn't understand what pure science means.

Obviously I could quote examples in which pure science has shaped the modern world -- quantum and relativity theories, evolution, cosmology -- but that misses the point that pure science shouldn't have to show a return to justify itself.
Submarine PR is always news. It's not always 'manufactured'. It's just happens to be coverage that subtly puts the client in a better light.
why?

What problem does this solve that hasn't been solved many times already?
from the github readme "It's a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak." 5 billion per sec?! i think that include frontend and backend like ads, analytics etc.
Only the cost reason makes sense to me. Surely the other reasons (such as transmitivity of Saphire) would have been investigated before putting down .5 billion dollars on the counter. The cost, on the other hand, can be passed down to the consumer, when in leading position.
Yes -- a scheme like this is used to prove the origin of a digitally signed email without revealing the sender's private key. So there's a model for this functionality.
I belive that AmigaOS was based on microkernel ideas. Not pure, but very near. And it was working very well. My Amiga 1200 boot ups much more faster that Windows or Linux in my moderm quad core machine
surprised not to see nimrod get a mention. it definitely seems like it would fit well into the lean language compiling to bare metal roundup.
Merchants are already de facto liable for fraudulent charges.
OP and author here. Over time, you'll get better. A lot.

8 spots is okay for me now, used to be next to impossible at first.
In college my friends and I got so into Stunts that we developed an entirely new way of playing the game. We would make a simple track in the corner, but that wasn't the "real" track. The real track was off to the side, and we would race it for speed, but the difference was we used broken and illogical track pieces. So you might be sideways in a tunnel and have it directly transition into a banked ramp, so you would need to plan for that.

We also utilized bugs as part of the required strategy. There were a LOT of bugs, and eventually you bump into some of them, like when you hit a corner and the car careens into the sky for 500 feet (sometimes even landing safely). I made one track that used every bug we knew - you start off driving over water (which you can do at an angle if you are facing the map border fence) then launch off a ramp that is impossible to reach the other side - although if you hit the broken edge of the bridge you MIGHT warp through to the other side. It was awesome.
Several people have mentioned gaming, but it's more than just an outlet.

People spend a lot more time indoors due to video games and the internet. Fewer interactions mean less random third party crime. Also, credit cards credit / debit cards reduced the amount of cash people walk around with at the same time stuff became less valuable. So there is just less money to be made robbing people / houses.
Fry's has a decent component selection depending on the exact store, but nothing in the Bay Area I've seen compared to HSC in Santa Clara; it's a huge warehouse full of everything from aisles of reels of surface-mount components to shelves and shelves of used test equipment.
This seems to be some kind of AppStore error. This page [1] is already gone ( so I'm posting cached version ), but if you check out the comments they suggest that something bad happened and this is really an accident.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1SaVkmz...
I would be absurdly happy to find a phone like a Note 3/4 that's 2x as thick and has 2-3x as much battery. Not that the Note has poor battery life (it easily last a full 12-16 hours of pretty heavy usage).

I really don't care much about thinness in phones, but I do care about having a forever battery and I'd happily trade 3mm of pocket space for it.
As for hard-to-recreate benefits, Seattle could be another option (multiple ski resorts around, couple of >= 11k mountains nearby).
This is cool, hat tilt to creator(s).

Suggestion;
I use 3D models almost everyday for mechanical engineering projects and here is a challenge that, perhaps the Yobi3D creators could address:

When I work on an engineering project, I source parts from all sorts of different suppliers depending on price, reputation and previous relationships.

In order to quote well on a project we generally model as much as possible in 3D beforehand. However, this can get expensive as a huge chunk of my time is taken up finding 3D files of supplier's components (generally hidden on some obscure part of their website) and converting those files to a format we can use.

Would it not be possible to scrape (I don't know the terminology - I'm not a codey person) the web and find any kind of 3D files distributed freely on supplier's websites, download these files to a central repository, automatically convert them into a range of usable formats, auto generate an image (like, it appears, Yobi3D has done) and auto generate some meta-data (if none exists) from the page/site the 3D file was found on?

I could then go on a site like Yobi3D, search a supplier's name or a particular product's name, and have the file well presented, easily found, in a format I can use, on a robust and reliable website.

I'd pay good money for this service if it was done well and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
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