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If you want to make photography fun again - buy a cheap film camera and some B&W film. I sold off all my digital equipment about 3 years ago and never looked back. I found that digital absolutely KILLED my creativity and the post processing sucked the life out of me. There is nothing in the world like shooting with confidence (and not relying on the LCD screen on the back of your camera) and the smell of darkroom chemicals. Trust me - it's better than drugs.
This is just a clever ploy to get the most promising start-ups locked in before they realize they're paying through the nose for a commodity.

And don't forget that it's credits not money.

You can't take this and spend it at leaseweb or digitalocean if that's your preferred way of solving things, nor will they pay you to dis-entangle from the lock-in once you want to move.
That is hard to say, but the article gives part of an possible answer.

It is obviously not enough to simply say "we don't read it". It thereby follows that it it not ok to not have a channel of communication. This implies that emails who are sent to the support address must have the option to be responded to - if they are important enough. Because if they are all just never answered, this is the same as not having a communication channel in the first place.

My guess is that it has to be a ranking based on importance. Of course it is necessary to answer each one, like "How do I find the google website". But it might be that - in germany - things like having an account closed people relied upon in good faith and than not responding to inquiries why is problematic, given that this can high and monetary personal consequences (violation of customer protection laws, to which all of this is referring - and yes, this is not fully dependent on whether they pay. Imagine important document stored only there - maybe created there, so it is not totally not understandable not having a backup already - and then lost, thus causing a million dollar company to fail. I'm exaggerating, but stuff like that).

Further, having an available contact channel is necessary to be able to submit legal documents, though I expect that Google has another avenue for that already.
No, they just wanted to make a knee jerk anti-regulation sentiment.
And the most likely one (at least imo) would be to spread his ideas as far as possible. A book is a great medium to reach people who wouldn't otherwise actively seek out information outside of their current scope, by making a stack of physical objects appear in their field of vision and inviting them to take notice.
Can you add them?
It's moving the other way that will get you.

And that will likely wipe out any savings and then some.
How do image hosting websites stop illegal images from being uploaded?
How do image sharing websites such as imgur, photobucket and imgFap keep out illegal images?

Do they have a team of moderators keeping an eye on things or is there some type of algorithm they use to detect the images?
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The FSF has also made a statement regarding the new iPhone launch:
https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement-...
Much than the negligible effort they do now?

Taking serious inquires seriously?

Not everything is a black/white situation.
Shooting digital is MANY more times complicated and cumbersome than shooting film - this is a common misconception of those who have never shot film. It's infinitely more simple and "zen-like".
Thinking about this, I wonder: has anyone tried to systematically measure "eccentricity" vs. scientific productivity?

Also, I wonder if there a risk that this characterization just perpetuates the pointy-egghead stereotype - that good scientists don't have social skills? The discussion of "holistic" evaluation in Steven Pinker's recent essay on Harvard admission comes to mind [1].

Perhaps the funding agencies need a separate, high-prestige "individual contributor" track similar to corporate Principal Engineer or fellowship tracks, to allow non-political but brilliant scientists to work hands-on and avoid the grant scramble?

HHMI tries to provide something like this already, giving longer grants to early-career faculty to reduce grant pressure, and I guess NSF and NIH have also been trying to do this with CAREER awards and New Innovator grants...

[1] Very interesting piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8277941
Seriously, this was a cringe-worthy read.
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"By law, NSLs can request only non-content information, for example, transactional records and phone numbers dialed." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

Executive orders are also subject to law. An executive order would not have made Nixon's wiretaps legal, for example.
Google created "Chrome Apps" for the exact purpose of filling the "gap to native", i.e. making web apps offline-capable, with device APIs, etc. Now they're embracing Android apps. What does this tell us about Google's priorities (wrt open web vs Android silo)?
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> Feedback very welcome.

Negative feedback is being pruned and buried.
The idea here is to stay within what the court documents actually say otherwise this is just fantasy. The document does not define that every user has to be answered. In fact it makes it explicit that not an answer is a kind of answer too but that categoric rejection of the possibility of such an answer for technical reasons is not good enough.

In other words: If you have a business address then you should at least look at / read your mail. Responding is optional.
I feel like when people write this they completely forget what life was like in college.

It's true that ever since the newspaper we've had trouble interacting with each other in certain contexts. Why does that difficulty seem to dramatically increase post-college?

Sure, when I was in college tons of people including myself used their phone in public. But there was a corresponding amount of more or less random and constant public interaction.

To me, this suggests that the problem has little to do with phones or newspapers or watches and everything to do with the design of a city. College campuses are human-scale; modern cities are not. College students are encouraged to room together and give up materialistic wealth; college graduates and working professionals are encouraged to spend as much of their net worth as they can on procuring their own private abode. College students can walk mostly anywhere they need to go; working professionals usually drive in armored vehicles for a significant portion of the day and often find that virtually nothing useful is in walking distance of their residence except other residences that they aren't allowed to approach without good reason.
i was scared to even breach this topic but I agree here too.

the tone in my original post would have been very different if I could install an old version of iOS on my iPhone. strange you can't, no?
I can only speak for DC -- but it is the exact same here. I have seen fervent defenses about why cyclists shouldn't have to follow traffic rules as well (better visibility, mobility, etc) -- but all those arguments apply equally to motorcycles, and inversely to large trucks... I am not sure we want 5+ rules of the road...
"I don't regret the other iPhone 5's because they actually don't exist."
Except that they do exist (i.e. iPhone 5C). Perhaps you didn't face this dilemma with the 5S vs. 5C because it was clear which one was seen as the "best". It's the status symbol aspect.

Phablets are a niche market, if you have never wanted a phablet then the 6+ is not for you. The flagship model is the 6.

As for the features you'll be missing out on, do you have the same feelings about the superior features you can find on non-Apple phones? PureView from Nokia is far superior to Apple cameras, you can find Android phones with far better batteries, etc... Why is it only an issue with Apple? Again, I suspect, it's the status symbol aspect.
I always like seeing and doing curl foo.sh / sudo bash foo.sh
I haven't looked into Doom's code very much, but based on playing the game it seems that hit detection is done in 2d. If you are shooting a target above you there is no visual indication that you are aiming higher. You can shoot at a wall and still hit an enemy above you who you cannot currently see.
Control, yes.

Lack of garbage collector ? There is a garbage collector in the standard library : http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/gc/

It gives you even more control I would say as you can choose when/if to use a garbage collector. Which is not always a bad idea (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263811)
This is how capitalism works, survival of the fittest. If someone comes along that allows the drivers to make more money, prudent drivers will likely switch to that service.

It is a no brainer.
In Europe there are few places where knowing how to drive is necessary unless you need it for work or have specific hobbies / needs. Most people still learn to drive quite young, but many don't. I'm 39 and have still not bothered getting a drivers license because I've never felt a need for a car.
Very insteresting, but...

The backend takes the url, gets the HTML source of the website, minifies it, gets rid of the css, javascript, and images, GZIP compresses it, encodes it in Base64, and sends the data as a series of SMS's.

This is yet another interesting idea that will get screwed up in practice because of massive overreliance on JavaScript in modern web development. This is why developers should do progressive enhancement. There are a lot of thing that are possible with declarative markup that are not possible or not safely feasible with imperative code, which generates things on the fly.
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Yes, we're moving more and more into what Verner Vinge coined as "software archeology". Instead of writing you you're finding code that does what you need.
He probably believes that Samsung, Nokia, HTC, Sony, etc are American...

Heck, half of the iPhone is based on Samsung parts and other stuff created by Chinese etc manufacturers (talking about out-sourced parts, not the mere assembly).
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Uh oh, is it nostalgia time already?

What I mainly remember is two things: suddenly everyone had to do client-side form checking to prevent people from typing dashes in a phone number field, and everyone tried to imitate Java without actually using Java. It seems like any way you could enhance a page by combining mouseover events, gifs and loading content dynamically you would throw into a page, even if it made the user experience a total mess. Which of course never happens today.

My favorite memory is helping to write some of the first "griefers" using JS. If you were unlucky enough to stumble onto our page you had a window literally jumping around your screen with pop-ups til the end of time. There was no way to exit the browser until you'd clicked it all and it'd never end. Just getting your mouse near the 'X' would make the window jump around again. Of course, that was a mild annoyance compared to loading fonts and images so big they'd consume all the available RAM and make the machine fall over from swapping in about 15 seconds.
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Well you could explain them in terms of category theory as an endofunctor T: C -> C, together with two natural transformations eta : 1 -> T and mu : T^2 -> T, that satisfy a number of axioms. The Haskell definition encodes a special case, where the underlying "category" is "Hask", whose objects are Haskell types and morphisms are Haskell terms. Of course this is strictly speaking not a category, but it is close enough.

In mathematics monads usually arise as adjunctions between two functors, for example beginning with a set of elements, you can consider the free monoid generated by it and forget the group structure, this gives you a much larger set. If you did this operation on a set of characters, you would get the set of all strings of those characters, eta would in this case be the operation that given a character in the character set gives you the corresponding string of length one and mu would concatenate two strings.
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I'm german, i read the ruling, here's details picked out of the document while reading through it. Feel free to ask if there's something that could be double-checked for.

- The suing party is a german group whose officially recognized reason for existence is to protect customer rights.

- If Google doesn't fix this, up to 250k€ per instance of violation (sadly not clarified what instance means), or jail up to 6 months (sic) or jail up to 6 months. (Unclear how that is supposed to be done.)

- Google has to pay 200€ + 5% interest, starting on 13.12.2013. (I don't know over which timeframe this interest accrues.)

- Google has to pay all process costs, as it's the losing party.

- Google offers services which it runs as a business, either by reserving the right to use customer data in a business manner (hangouts, docs, calendar) or by advertising (search, do note that TV broadcasting for example is a business with customers too).

- Google is required to make it possible to reach individual personal contact with a human employee at Google.

- The court recognizes and has discussed with Google that the problems of scale here are very real, but still insists on the fact that the current solution is not acceptable.

- The court even offers suggestions, such as providing multiple email adresses in the impressum to aid in channeling.

- Crucial to the court is that pointing at an online form is not enough, especially since the pointing is done at a maze of help pages which may, or may not, lead to an online form.

- The court recognizes that the law does not specify how the company has to communicate once person-to-person communication is established.

- The court recognizes that "not answering" is also a valid reaction, if and when a human employee has read/heard the request; BUT ONLY IF that kind of answer is not the rule.

- The court recognizes that efficient communication is not done by answering quickly, but by answering in a reasonable time frame and with detail according to the reasonable expectations of a user. (Thus implying that users may have unreasonable expectations which need not be fulfilled.)

- The court also recognizes that not all emails need to be read. The problem is that none are read. Google may filter and channel emails as it likes, as long as the system's goal is explicitly to enable communication via email; not as it currently is, to deny communication.
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The download page only has links to a broken FTP server, try the sourceforge repository at http://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/
Yes, it has more links, I realize, but this still doesn't mean it wouldn't work. Give it a shot and report back. (Hah.)
But then they have $100/month to pay for the plan?
It's not like subsidized phone plans in the US are cheap.
the WWW is of the last 3 decades and now powers a substantial amount of the world economy in one way or another

But it didn't happen here. Great invention and then nothing. Even something as simple as Geocities took off in the US.

And TomTom is like 1/60th of Google. This whole company exemplifying European IT success is a side gig for Google.

In GDP per hour worked the US also trumps pretty much every European country. Europe as a whole doesn't come close, not to mention ahead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...
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You may be right, I can't recall whether the hit detection cares about height, but Doom does at least some slope calculation to display the bullet-hits-wall animation at the correct height. If you look at rockets and plasma, these projectiles will also move in a slope. So if you're rocketing someone high on a ledge, it won't show you a rocket hitting the wall at eye level... even though such a rocket (if you fired it while not lined up with the target) could possibly damage the target. That may have changed with some later versions. At least some source ports change it.

In any case, heretic and hexen actually let you look up and down. Crispy Doom (among others) have backported this feature and hook it with mouse aim.

Try shotgunning someone high up and far far away. Either there's a distance limit to auto aim, or it's just really damn picky about how perfectly you're lined up. Most of your shots will hit the wall below him.. it can be frustrating.
That's (2006).
The Economist have an interesting article regarding Germanys "Googlephobia". I'm not sure I completely agree with the article, but it is an interesting take.

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21615588-why-online-g...
Well, that criticism extends to all programming languages named after letters of the alphabet, metal oxides, musical notation, famous mathematicians, places, or just generic English words.
Yeah, Arrows is my "next thing".
The article expresses surprise that traffic is diverted to IP addresses in Google's IP block. Could nefarious types be using BGP to temporarily take over a small block of IP addresses here, as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263391 ?
Depends on the cryptocurrency, he used bitcoin in his follow up to my comment. CPU mining of bitcoin is horrendous (you can get a cheap USB stick that can mine as much as an expensive i7 processor) but other cryptocurrencies were specifically designed to make the gap between GPU and CPU mining much smaller and make ASICs not economically viable.
Very nicely done! The problem is Steve Jobs is dead. NO ONE ELSE could have delivered that pitch. Anyone trying would have been reaching. Only Federighi could even try. Perhaps even Jobs would have had difficulty. You see Apple is a different company. There is a desperation around it now, being a behemoth that needs to run at full tilt to stay exactly where they are. Earlier they were a tiny David constantly taking on Goliath. It takes something special for that desperation not to show.
XKCD for that: http://xkcd.com/303/ ;-)
It's definitely a success, but:

* Its success would not save Microsoft if Windows and Office usage sharply declines

* Nor would its failure ever break Microsoft

* ...both of which resulting from the market being not very large by Microsoft's standards

* I'm not so sure about this last one, but a competitor could come out with new exciting hardware at any moment (a recent example is VR headsets) and then gamers would flock to the new platforms and so would game developers. Since people care less about old titles, the barrier to entry is not nearly as high as in the Windows or Office cases.

That said, my case is shaky enough, and I wager that you could find counter-examples that would make the Xbox omission tiny in comparison :) I just had this thought and was surprised by how many companies sorta fit the pattern.
They don't. Recommended reading: DMCA safe harbor provision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A... and related. In other words, things get taken down by nastygrams from lawyers, not by algorithm.

Note that images may be "illegal" for approximately ten bazillion different reasons, and most of those reasons can't be determined algorithmically - from copyright infringement to pornography (famously defined as "I know it when I see it").
> I doubt they would have heard of the VCs out here

Then those VCs should write to CloudPlatformStartups@google.com and get themselves added to the list.
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I've been kicking around the idea of canceling my Internet connection at home. The primary reason is to have a "disconnected" place where I'm not distracted by devices. I'm hoping that I'll get more reading and relaxing done.

Crazy or stupid?
This is why I like 'head'/'hd' and 'tail'/'tl' from ML/Haskell family more than Lisp/Scheme family's car/cdr.
Linux just has more filesystems, and sadly a lot of them have various flaws. I'm surprised when people are surprised that Linux isn't some completely superior technical marvel. BSD and Unix systems have been more advanced for decades..

Everyone on Linux still uses tar for god's sake, even though zip can use the same compression algorithms people use on tarballs, and zip actually stores an index of its files rather than 'cat'ing each record on top of the next like an append-only tape archive. (Obviously there are better formats than 'zip' for any platform, but it's just strange that nobody has moved away from tar)
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I've seen a lot of people making this point about lack of focus wrt the watch, but I don't understand it. There is only one Apple watch, with no variation in storage or other internals. Like the iphone it comes in three finishes, in this case steel, aluminum, and gold.

The straps have zero functionality other than aesthetics, and the mechanism for easily swapping them is brilliant. Watches are jewelry. People who wear them usually own more than one and wear different ones based on the rest of their outfit. The Apple watch is more a more useful device if you wear it every day, and making multiple styles of watch bands makes it easier and more natural to do this. One watch for every occasion.
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In my opinion, I think it was too early for Apple to release a watch.

They should have waited until there was more of a breakthrough in battery storage (to make it far slimmer) and also the ability to give it some little bit of extra power capacity through heat off of one's wrist along with an ability to grab solar energy combined off the watch face.

Also, it really, really needed to be able to work standalone without a tether to the iPhone, IMO.

This was just too soon. The battery technology isn't there quite yet. This didn't blow my mind in practicality and usability, it just looks like another vanity watch someone wears in a vapid attempt to impress others.

I'm underwhelmed.
It's the evil you know vs taking a chance on the unknown. Plus the short-term thinking that plagues most people.

This is why most companies fail eventually. Hiring and promoting based on relationships instead of skills. You can grow a relationship. But a bad employee will never get any better. Especially if you bump him up to management.
That was well-said. I felt a little envious reading his update ("must be nice!"). :)
"so they have to make sure it's not being squandered"

Because, of course, no VC-backed company EVER wastes any money.
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Ahhh now MS's $2B buyout makes more sense!
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Am I the only one that is rubbed the wrong way by this "recurring revenue" phrase? It seems like a fancy way saying, "I wish I was rich." Why not just say that?
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I don't know, next to paying $35/mo for a cheapo cell with unlimited texts and a USB gateway to SMS, you're saying that for moderate users they would need to pay about $9/year to get their internet access on top of that.

Seems reasonable to think that you might pay $5-9/mo on a budget for a limited access to internet such as this; now it sounds like potentially economically viable to even have an employee or two after paying for all the texts.
Soo the rockets fired by Hamas into Israel are ... imaginary? fabricated? - I'm not there so I haven't seen them with my own eyes, but to classify the conflict as just "Israeli aggression" seems inaccurate given what I see and read in the news.

Update: Agree with smcl, disengaging ;)