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Joel Spolsky - former Microsoft Product Manager? Yes, it's not particularly surprising that they would use Microsoft Products - their incredible familiarity with the product would offset any downstream licensing costs.

Small business usually get everything for free (or nobody bothers to check in on their licensing status, at the very least, they run on a massive discount using "developer editions").

Very large businesses have so much bureaucratic overhead, that unless their core business is Software/service (I.E. Amazon, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, etc...) - the cost of software licenses is minor, and anything they can save by going with something "Standard and Supported" is worth the offset.

But, anybody interested in trying to run their small-medium business on something like Oracle Enterprise edition on their 16 Core Server will quickly start taking a second look at Postgress/MariaDB once they see what the annual licensing costs for Oracle are. Partitioning and Optimizer are only worth so much...
Actually this is one of the core features of the Ruby CMS I've been working on for the last few years http://spontaneous.io

It's template engine supports two tag types: one that gets run during the publish stage & one that get's run at the request stage.

It can then take an intelligent approach to publishing by having a publish step that renders each page to a static file. It's then trivial to test for the existence of 'run at request' tags and position the generated template accordingly: pure static files get put where a reverse proxy (nginx by preference) can see them, anything with per-request tags gets put in a 'private' directory out of nginx's paths for rendering & delivery by some front-end server.

This has many advantages, including:

- static pages can be served directly by Nginx
- the public facing site runs in a separate process that consumes the generated templates
- the public app (if needed at all) has no admin-centric code so has a smaller (& separate) attack surface
- the publish step can be seen as a form of code generation so you could, in theory, publish a dynamic PHP powered site from this Ruby CMS

I'm also gradually working towards abstracting the template 'filesystem', currently you can render to the disk, redis, memcache or any other key-value store supported by the Moneta gem[1].

For the developer it gives the power of static site generators but provides a simple & usable editing interface for content editors.

[1]: https://github.com/minad/moneta
Ugly? For me it's one of the best designs for a smartwatch (I think Samsung or Sony also have this "band" design), not the big clunky watches that were released this year.
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ALL Developers want to drop support for IE8. Has anyone had fun developing a site for IE8?

Business owners looking to make profit anyway they can DO NOT.

We do A/B testing for very small % gains yet we are ok with delivering a site that wont work in IE8? It is a hard business case to make with clients.

I'm glad the framework is moving forward, we all like playing with new toys, but I hope there is an IE css file that will "fix it enough" to make it work for IE8

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...

Shows 7% for North America IE8
Yeah I know. My meaning was that you could spend thousands (millions?) of dollars designing and manufacturing sporks, or you could just switch utensil as required for free.

Whilst a spork is great for the singular task of "I'm eating minestrone", the benefits of it don't make it worth it having been created.

Much like this project. Why not use your already-good wacom and computer and webcam, which you already have, instead of buying a product which is probably a bit shoddy in at least one of those areas?
You're talking about their business arm as if it were the consumer arm.

To the best of my knowledge, no-one who bought the Zune ended up paying $50k to MS for it.
If you compare it more closely to a Garmin than to a Fitbit, this is reasonable/comparable battery life. A Garmin GPS watch will track 8-15 hours of activity, if you're lucky ... but without GPS and in pure watch mode will last a couple of weeks.

I'd buy this to replace a Fitbit any day of the week.
Then promptly described a rig that no climber would use in their right mind. :-)
yes, actually I always have very low confident about my English as it is my 3rd language. (1.Thai, 2. Japanese) I understood the conversation perfectly though. But the role I interviewed for was totally not match with my experience so I didn't know what to answer to their questions. And yes, I will keep practicing interview.
It would need a radio transmitter for that. GPS is one-way.
I wonder if some day someone would release a watch (or bracelet) that is able to have a sim-card and receive SMS. In a world of pin-code based authorizations and fast-dying-battery smartphones this looks like a thing I would own.
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Scripting languages, usually coupled with shell programming.
PirateBay cofounder found guilty in Danish hacking case
Not relevant to the 3D model, but the text in this article is really difficult to read for me:

http://i.imgur.com/ctPgj2v.png

Chrome 38.0.2125.104 on a mac.
It always annoys me to hear people talking about how slow MySQL is and have to deal with them going about modelling things poorly and sweating a few million row when they don't know how to design indexes properly and don't understand predicate order.. Or correlated sub-queries.

That said, PostgreSQL is pretty fantastic software too.
The Internet is running in debug mode
Nice! I really like how smooth it is to walk around in high resolution images (3D model)! :)
Task Manager Template in ASP.NET MVC5
Trying this, seeing a LOT of '[virtm] libvirt: XML-RPC error : Cannot recv data: ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused: Connection reset by peer'

This is because I don't use port 22 for SSH.
Can I fix this easily?
I think you misunderstood the point. He is saying there is a lot of room for invention in 3D printing technology with large margins for improvement.
A separate machine/VM is better from an availability perspective.
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Even if this particular entity doesn't make it, the people involved will have learned things that will be useful for future firms. It's not just financial capital that needs to be efficiently allocated.
The idea you can magically "generate" consciousness by running an algorithm is really silly superstition.
Affordable is the problem I have with the current 3D printing culture. It seems kind of senseless for everyone to have a prototyping machine at your home (although a fun hobby).

I would much rather have the most accurate reproduction of material qualities and form. I can now produce industry level magazines and milled metal parts by having them produced on a high end machine somewhere, it does not need to be in my basement.

That's the real empowering point for me. Industrial level quality obtainable by a single user from home.
It's not as if MS started working on this after Apple announced the Apple Watch ... both products have been in development for quite a while prior to that.
I'd like to point out that REST is not something built on top of the Web, it's actually the architectural style on which the Web is based (even though this style has been defined years after the Web was invented). You can have a resource model for your domain and build your own custom RESTful protocol on top of raw TCP/UDP and pick a binary encoding for data transfer.
>I can imagine everyone and everything else doing the same - behaving, absent awareness.

In which case you are reasoning in error: people's behavior depends on their subjective experience quite a lot of the time. You simply couldn't get the same behaviors without the experiences.
Yeah, the author calls to re-invent ASN.1, BSON and MessagePack. Something one
could expect from a guy that mainly knows Java: lack of experience and
knowledge about what is already there. Also lack of understanding why the heck
all the protocols are text-based.
Just like in the case of Trello if you already have the experience you can probably save money if you use what you already know how to use. In almost all other cases open source stacks are cheaper.

Stackoverflow and Trello are always held up as the shining examples of how the Microsoft stack is able to hold its own. That's great, I even know people that insist on running their web servers on Apple hardware. Whatever floats your boat. But if you're running a competitive business, if you're going to be using a lot of CPUs and if you will eventually (or already) be faced with lean and mean competition then you are probably better off on an open stack.

Try to imagine Google, Amazon, Ebay, DropBox or AirBnB on the Microsoft platform. And note that two of the above are re-selling their linux based platforms to other users at a profit.

Btw stackoverflow uses plenty of CentOS, I guess licensing from RedHat was too expensive?
Looks like a neat concept of something that Apple will commercialise in 3 years
This is really cool technology, I felt like i really was walking into a building I had never seen before.
The only good use-case I know for AWS and it's ilk is if you need a 10,000 node cluster for a few hours to do some heavily compute intensive work which does not require a very large amount of data to be imported and exported afterwards. This is a pretty limited number of use cases but for those situations it absolutely rocks. Anything else I'd run the numbers very carefully.
I think will.i.am actually released something this...

> Puls will require its own SIM card and mobile connection, but can completely replace a phone...

http://www.dezeen.com/2014/10/20/will-i-am-zaha-hadid-puls-s...
But I think this makes it more difficult for the device to succeed. The market for simple fitbit-style pedometers is fairly small, so the market for more expensive devices must be even smaller?
I'm not talking about their consumer arm at all. No idea where the Zune came from, I was talking about their $50K credits for using their cloud platform.
"Only available in the US" - unless you arrange for a friend in the States to get one for you ship it to you.

However, it looks like the accompanying Windows Phone Microsoft Health app is not available if you're outside of the US. (not sure if this also applies to the Android and iPhone apps as well)

Workaround anyone?
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APK for android.
I actually see this as a great fitness tracker (that is why I might buy it) but I don't see it as a smart watch (and I'm not complaining about that).

In order to be a smart watch it would need to do more "smart" things such as showing notifications, interacting with third-party apps, etc. If you have a Windows Phone you can talk to cortana so it's the closest thing to a smart phone you can get on that OS, but still it's clearly not as powerful as what Android Wear and probably Apple Watch can do.
Damn! You China.
Knowing minor differences is likely to be unimportant. This really only matters if an attacker is able to generate a key with almost the same fingerprint. AFAIK, there is no way to do this. I do agree though that the string of emoji is still hard to memorize.
Couldn't you just look up at the sky to answer this question?
After a lost decade of misplaced vitriol directed at relational models and SQL, I'm personally heartened to see a trend back to human readable query languages over rpc as an interface, sensible representation of information in relational form suitable for ad hoc queries/discovery versus complex implementation-dependent deep hierarchy spaghetti.
It's meant as a shorthand for "hex-encoded bytes".
> A separate machine/VM is better from an availability perspective.

How so? A separate machine is one more thing that can fail and since it isn't web facing it won't help with availability if the other one fails. And if it is a VM they will both go down if the underlying hardware fails.
Hey, you seem to know to be an enthusiast about fitness tracking, can you give me a quick advice?

I want a fitness tracker, but I don't want the display. I want it to be lightweight and comfortable to wear, ideally wrapping around my wrist. Sweat-proof. Pedometer, accelerometer, and have decent sleep tracking. A killer feature for me for me would be measuring jumps, as in rope jumps.

Does something resembling this exist somewhere?
I like the fact that it frames the term "innovative" in a space where maybe very few expect it. My first intuition was toward some fancy tech or smart materials.
I was surprised to find out innovative for them means tackling mundane and trivial big problems in cheaper and more effective way: like more fine tuned crops for the type of land or milk jug.
I love this guy!
While the escaping issues you mention are super nasty, those are from the JSON Pointer specification, which JSON Patch merely uses.
I couldn't help but notice that it doesn't let you zoom in on the "dollhouse" view, i.e. the one actually showing the 3D model. No way to see how these models look up close.

This'll work great for navigating buildings—I can imagine it being a hit with real-estate sites—but the hiding of detail in the 3D view suggests the tech wouldn't work as well for other applications, like VR. (I'd love to be wrong here, though!)
Almostness reduces the brute-forcing effort. It's not something to be hand-waved, programming to bruteforce just until it's "good enough" is easy. Once somebody learns that he doesn't have to carefully check the signature he won't check at all. The goal is to have as little to check as reasonable, but to check thoroughly.
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Emacs: Down the Rabbit Hole
Thanks for the info. Seems it was bought system, single titled axis, and the tilt could be changed manually for winter vs summer?

Those large-area single-post setups do look unsuitable for windy regions.

My static solar panels do follow a rough sine shape through the day. Clear sunny mornings or evenings I get very little power - 2 sin(0) is still zero [a], whilst generating surplus power at midday is not much use to me. I think [b] additional panels sited e.g. SE and SW might save me more money than additional panels facing south, as then supply would tend to match my demand better.

[a] I still get the 10% or so from atmospherically scattered sunlight.

[b] As you can see, I don't really know. e.g. how much extra atmospheric absorption is there near sunrise/sunset on average etc.
I think it does show notifications.
Why not create curved panels then? It's the best of both worlds.

Not sure if it's feasible, technically.
There are times I wish I could leave GPS tracking on all the time, with a simple way to add markers either now or later, and with the ability to share the data with any app I want. There are times I just want to hop on my bike and ride without doing some dance with a finicky GPS app that I have to remember to stop at the end (and hope it doesn't crash during my ride).
>> "but I don't see it as a smart watch"

Neither does MS. I read an interview with one of the product leads on The Verge and he said it is not a smart watch. He envisions you continue wearing your watch on one are and this primarily as a fitness tracker and productivity device on the other.
There's nothing fundamental we're missing: the reality beneath our intuitive understanding of personal identity and continuity is just a lot messier than our intuitions allow for. Nondiverging copies are, in some sense, the same person, but they're also completely useless: the instant you "wake them up", they diverge and become different people. Destructive "moving" preserves personal identity, but is goddamn creepy because it provides no way for the "moved" person to verify that they remain the same before-and-after. The "continuous stream of consciousness" model is intuitive and lets us detect when something in our heads changes (you can feel yourself going from "sober" to "drunk" while awake in a very different way than if I just injected you with booze while you slept... For Science, of course).
So, in your opinion, scientists are not allowed to discuss theories when they try to investigate the so far unknown? As opposed to regurgitating well-supported knowledge or - in your case - mere phrases?
I'd rule out Erlang, if they wanted a functional language they'd probably go with F#, seeing how this is MS.

I don't think this is enough info, even for an educated guess. What they're describing (single threaded/callbacks) could even be C/libevent, no?

Edit: Also,

> Every microsecond of CPU time is accounted for and justified!

...for me, this rules out any kind of VM contained language
You can call it photogrammetry, it uses both 2d imagery and 3d depth data from depth sensors (think Microsoft Kinect or Google Tango) to make the 3d model. The viewer limits your movement when you are inside to be able to project panorama images onto the model, so you get the image quality of 2d images while you're still in a 3d model. 3d scanning tech just isn't good enough yet that you would be happy with how it looked up close if you are trying to sell a house, for instance.

Don't know Photoscan or 123D catch enough to comment spesifically, but in general many other 3d companies focus on scanning small objects or features, while we do large buildings/indoor spaces/rooms better (faster/better quality/cheaper/more convenient) than anyone else I've seen :)
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> But then again, 99% of my interaction with maintaining and adding content to the Internet Archive, I do through the API, and specifically through a python command-line interface we've had a developer working on for over a year

Although completely understandable, this goes against the principle of "eating your own dog food". If more people used the stuff they created, especially the power-user type of features, I suspect software would be orders of magnitude better in general.
IMO, Facebook will be another Myspace eventually.
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Barometer can be useful to accelerate a GPS fix or to have some sort of weather forecast. But for altitude, once GPS is fixed, you have reliable enough altitude, hence it wouldn't be that useful.
Vim is user friendly. It's just picky about its friends.
As much as I agree with you the same thing is often said about weather apps. However the really accurate ones (e.g. Dark Sky) that can predict to the minute and give intensity are really useful. For example I was able to plan my lunch break using it yesterday so I was out of the office in the 30 mins of dry weather between rain showers. The the UV sensor you could probably work out what strength suncream you need and if people apply the correct strength maybe in the long term skin cancer rates will fall. Small change in behaviour due to better information, big improvement for society.
@blumkvist.

I own and use Argus (on the Iphone), FitBit and a Garmin Forerunner and in that order. The way I "teach" Argus is to first create a sample set of data and add it as an "new" exercise. In your case, I would count the number of jumps you do in a minute, obtain the calories burned online, and feed both into Argus. With Garmin afaik you cannot do that. FitBit has a funky "Steps climbed". I don't know what to make of the number it shows.
i'm just not going to watch videos there. i have other places i'm watching videos.
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Looks very cool, but can't get the demo to work at all.

On iPad it said "upgrade to iOS8", on W7/FF33 it said "Oops, something went wrong", on W8.1/FF33 it went all the way through the loading and then got stuck with just one pixel in the progress bar left to go. :-|
Big names mean nothing. You are not Google, they have very different requirements to you and their scale is much larger than your startup will ever be.

Microsoft aren't stupid - the costs they charge for Azure are largely competitive, and the benefits it provides are tangible.

Picking what technology will run your business is something that really needs to be done on a case by case basis, based on your knowledge and your business. Certainly I don't think it's desirable to make a permanent choice when you are still a startup.

Of course you'd use CentOS, unless you had need of the specific features that licensing it gave you.
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Memory effect was mostly folklore, and, regardless, was only specific to one very specific type of nickel-cadmium battery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_effect

"True memory effect is specific to sintered-plate nickel-cadmium cells, and is exceedingly difficult to reproduce, especially in lower ampere-hour cells. In one particular test program designed to induce the effect, none was found after more than 700 precisely-controlled charge/discharge cycles"
Don't be a dick. These guys are legitimate scientists writing about a new mental model for quantum mechanics, and it's interesting.

I don't know how else you expect the field to evolve…
I think you partly nailed it with I am experiencing existence. We experience the process of experiencing. Then I think you're wrong when you say consciousness can't be measured. It probably can.

What we have here is a system receiving inputs, observing how it reorganises itself under these inputs and influencing this reorganisation based on the results of previous experiences. For sure we can measure that a system doesn't merely learn but influences its own learning process depending on previous learning experiences. This may be what allows us to project knowledge from a domain to another, and what allows us to produce artificial knowledge by learning from others. We produce arbitrary connections through memory / continuity of experience and communication. This would provide a basis and a reason for language and societies.

What we miss here is a self-sense, and Koch hints at it IMHO. Integration may be key. I'd say dependency to make it clearer, state dependency. Two linked states where one reflects exactly the value or the other could effectively be labeled as one. They would feel as one, too. What I define as "me" is what has direct influence on me and what I have direct influence on. There isn't a clear boundary though. This definition still has a problem as we define me as what is related to me, so maybe a better definition could be found by taking it by the other end and defining as feeling like an individual "me" every intergrated conscious instance significantly disconnected from the others. A fragmented big abstract me, for short.

If we define consciousness this way it exists in the positivist framework (which satisfies me a lot) and yet it can exist in more exotic frameworks too, like the ones where one can experience that everything ultimately depends on everything when seen under the right scale, and that the sense of self can be extended to everything.

I'm still unable to devise a clear experiment to prove consciousness defined this way though, maybe because I'm plain wrong and it's impossible !
Bug in the Pentium FPU (1994)
The dollhouse view is actually a low detail version of the 3d model, with low resolution textures, it's just really not meant for a close inspection :) Load time and performance has been high priority for us, particularly because we also support mobile devices. We might do something like streaming in higher quality mesh/textures in the future, and allow closer inspection.

As for VR... we're playing around with it a whole lot, and it actually looks really great! Hopefully it'll get in front of more people somehow soon.
>because the government thought they had to keep taps on far left student organisations.

That's a perfectly sensible thing to do. I would do the same thing. Any enlightened person would do it.