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I think you are saying that access to some sites is blocked? That is not the case (for most). I see that internet.org is now accessible only from Reliance network. But it won't end nicely for internet.org.

I am yet to see a website being blocked because the site didn't pay for the "privilege" to be accessible. I am just seeing some sites becoming exclusive (to their own detriment) and some sites being provided for free. I don't see a problem here.

The ones trying to be exclusive will fall hard face first. The ones not being provided for free will not be affected. People will continue to pay for internet access, they are not going to limit themselves to 32 websites. It might be helpful for those unprivileged Indians who can not afford an internet connection though.

I would love to see the peering style take off too :)
Complexity is a good word to generalize. I think there are a lot of specific reasons for these BS jobs. It is much easier for a manager to report that he has increased productivity in his division 10%. Rather than report that he has fired 40% of his employees because they were not really doing anything useful. In the first situation the manager is going to get a pat on the back for improvements. In the second situation his managers are going to want to know how this waste of resources was happening in the first place. Also the manager could be looking at a demotion since he isn't responsible for as many people any more.
You are confused. While having mobile-friendly web sites is beneficial to Google in many ways, I'm sure, you are arguing that it is the only benefit of having a mobile-friendly web site which is false. I am positive, from your own personal experience and mine, that you will not continue viewing any web site that is difficult to read or navigate on your mobile device. I am positive that any site that is not mobile-friendly has far more dropouts than one that does.

Mobile viewing has become a huge part of any web site's visitors. To ignore their ability to view your page is a word that might get me downvoted.

To post in search results that a site is mobile-friendly is an aid to the searcher because they know they won't be wasting their time trying to view non-friendly sites. It is helpful.
Is the merchant established in India?
Assuming this to be the case, and assuming Fox31 aren't lying when they say they made FOI requests regarding this, shouldn't someone have approached Fox31 and said "Hey, this is a sensitive operation underway right now. Please keep quiet for a bit, we'll keep you updated."?

I'm not sure how the police / FBI usually handle press intervention, but I'm sure it must have happened before.

EDIT: Splelign
You can't just buy gas in a can here in Portugal either, and the same is true in other European countries and in Brazil. You need to have a certified recipient, due to safety concerns related to spills and gases that might leak.

What's annoying is that stations often don't sell them, so you need to carry one in your car.
I agree with you that a typical 3mm/5mm LED will not be effective. There are some very high power LEDs nowadays, and I've just tried a 2003-vintage IR spotlight, made from four large LEDs, against the cheap cameras around the house. All of those are completely washed out by it. A nicer camera, which has an IR filter, is unfazed.
The important thing to remember - and that the CADT development model forgets - is that most new ideas are bad.

I recall the hilarity when GNOME 3, after claiming "no no we're making it tablet-friendly!" was busted clearly not actually having a tablet amongst any of their developers ... because it was literally impossible to get out of the screensaver using the on-screen keyboard. http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3017371&cid=4083522... Their claims of developing for tablet users were literally delusional.

"You misunderstand. Our goal is to make computers easier to use, not to make them more useful." http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/we-open-in-well-...
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Why is 0^0 defined to be 1, when 0^n == 0??
I don't know if it could or couldn't be done well in RPython, but one application of Truffle that shows off how well it generalises to other languages is a C interpreter. We use it to interpret Ruby C extensions.
This is the single reason why I refuse to buy anything but MacBooks. I suggest you give them a try, because this problem is eliminated on the Apple ecosystem.
Thanks very much! Is there anything you'd like to see in a blog post or to get working in JRuby+Truffle?
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You might want to take a look at the link. It is not waht you are assuming.
> People win by making "cool" apps (Uber for X) whereas technical hacks are totally ignored.

I think a hack is worthless if you can't get regular people interested in it, so technical hacks are rightly failing. If you ever start doing indie app dev you'll learn the same thing. It's easy to write esoteric technical tools and apps targeted at developers. It's difficult to write something that will achieve mass adoption and actually get a lot of usage. The latter has a lot more impact on the world as well.

Even in industry the strong preference is for solutions that string two APIs together as you say, rather than difficult technical solutions like you seem to be advocating. Software Engineering advocates using libraries and services over writing more code because it improves various metrics like maintenance, enhancement, defects, etc..
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Didn't even notice that, I've an an blocker on - the id of the element is "shamelessmoneygrab". Hmm.
I think that belorn is trying to imply 'airtel's charging of VOIP calls' here
But ChromeOs is based on Linux kernel no? So the Chromebook natively supports Linux I think.
There was discussion on Slashdot yesterday about the Thinkpad X1 Carbon:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/03/14/1454240/tested-l...
I'm 33. I graduated from highschool in 2000. Back then we had something called 'LAN parties' which were off-campus adhoc gatherings of nerds who would haul their desktop PCs around and setup a temporary LAN using physical ethernet cables (ever heard of coax?). The ones I went to took place in the food court of the local mall on the first Friday of every month and were advertised in the back of a magazine called "2600 the hacker quarterly".

When I first started going to these tons of people there were BBS sysops, others were HAM radio enthusiasts who were learning about microwave packet radio, others were hardware hackers, telephony phreaks, ascii artists, and a few were pro infosec geeks.

Nobody was there because of the idea of "launching a startup" everybody was there because they wanted to learn about the Internet and the emerging technologies associated with it. When I first started going to these meetings in my teens most normal people hadn't even heard of the Internet (aside from AOL), so there definitely wasn't the idea that you're going to get rich just by hacking.

We had a blast just helping each other learn things like BSD sockets, networking, or hardware hacking for the sheer joy of it. Hacking was a FUN HOBBY but not one that would get you chicks or gobs of cash.. it was kind of like ANSI ART, demo scene, or HAM Radio which a lot of us were also interested in. There was absolutely zero pressure to achieve anything other than to have fun by learning.

There was a certain hacker ethos that existed back then which seems to be gone now as geek becomes sheek. You can still get a feel for what it used to be by reading some of the literature.

Here's a couple of books off my shelf from that time period which I highly recommend:

http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Deception-Gang-Ruled-Cyberspac...

http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/00605...
I agree, as an European not used to dealing with them before the Internet, the system is just inane nowadays. "Just give these numbers to each and every merchant you do business with, and trust they won't abuse or leak them. Remember that you have to check each and every transaction to make sure it's not fraudulent, and have fun paying higher prices because merchants get hit with billions in fraud every year".

Our system of direct debit, where the client had (the rules might have changed recently) to authorize each merchant to charge your account, is much saner, even if some providers whine about it.

Protip: if your clients can't be bothered to spend 2 minutes authorizing your charges, you're not providing enough value to them.
What you're talking about regarding work is pretty close to what Marx called alienation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
Actually no, my point was the nature of HIV means that the timeframe of whether or not someone gets infected is somewhat irrelevant.

If someone is engaging in risky sexual behavior, and they will continue to do so, then the 10 year span of whether or not they get HIV may be irrelevant since the disease itself is incurable and ultimately fatal because they will continue to expose themselves to the risk factor until they join the infected population.

It's also highly questionable if it would even control an epidemic in Africa effectively, seeing as how the spread is caused by misinformation in a huge part - a widespread campaign of male circumcision would likely increase the exact behavior which spreads it.
Most professions do do it. CPD it's called, and it's mandatory.

A professional programmer who programs every day is going to spend half an hour every morning getting back into the zone. The same guy working 1 or 2 days a week is going to spend half that time just getting back up to speed on what the other programmers have been doing the other 3 or 4 days he's been away. It just doesn't scale. The 5 day guy is not going to be 5x as productive, but 10-20x.
I agree, the title feels like business-speak, but the true value of the article is the affirmation, through example, that "A great leader ... always makes room for everyone to bring their ideas to the table."
I do it on Firefox. It's just a bookmark, so you only need to synchronize bookmarks.
Happens to me on latest MacBook pro from time to time. Note that it's a touch event rather than a click event, but I like having the touch event set up for any occasions where frequent clicking would be too noisy, for example. I've got used to it so I can avoid it more now but, especially at first, the sudden jumping of a cursor in a text editor whilst programming is very frustrating.
It's not completely clear to me how the build start times were used to calculate uptime. Especially since a popular usecase for Travis/github integration is to trigger a build-upon-PR. If that triggered build fails, the PR is marked as such and normally the content wouldn't get merged. This is designed to prevent the exact problem described, but are these Travis PR-triggered builds filtered out of the uptime input dataset?
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Don't. Use. OwnCloud. We tried rolling it out at a small (80) employee company and it ended up being a nightmare.
Antiwork is a terrible name that just throws people off. Why not self-work? It's the work you give yourself. I get the gist of the article: it's not Work vs Leisure, it's Their Work vs Your Own Work, with Leisure on the side.

Antiwork makes it sound like it's the opposite of work. It's not the opposite of work; it's the opposite of pointless work. If anything needs a new nickname, it's the pointless work. Pseudo-work. And if we're going to be morally superior about one or the other, I think the author makes a good case for celebrating selfwork, not pseudowork. (I don't know who celebrates leisure, it's usually the butt of a joke)
> Interestingly enough where Google shines is finding pages that I sort of know exists.

Well, they are in your browsing history, and Google knows it?
I've asked myself for a long time why Evernote even has users and eventually landed on the conclusion that Evernote is almost like a file system. You can easily create notes, which can contain more or less everything, which is more easy than creating various sorts of files in folders to store your stuff. The "more or less everything" part, is why the whole thing is such a big mess, imho.

What I'd like is an Evernote with less possibilities and perhaps sections in each note. E.g.:
- plain text (or up to Google docs kind of formatting)
- a photo section where I can dump some pics without them showing on ridiculous full screen resolution.
- a URL (which maybe shows a small screenshot of the webpage, or even loads a copy of the text)

To me it's about about storing/remembering stuff I care about in a simple and portable way.
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> Oh and another thing a lot of people don't know: The OS stores Wifi passwords in EFI boot variables. This is used for Internet Recovery. So if your device is stolen or just lent to someone else, consider your Wifi passwords compromised, regardless if the disk was encrypted.

I can't speak for if this is true or not, but I literally yesterday ran Internet Recovery and it didn't remember my wifi password. I had to re-enter it myself.

Little Snitch is a good reverse-firewall which might be preferable to messing around with /etc/hosts for many, especially since it offers active protection.
That only works in situations with a competitive free market without any barriers to entry. So pretty much never
Are the any with the amazing webclipper. I tried onenote but it takes odd images and does not clip out the junk like Evernote. Yes there are standalone clippers but I like having the functionality of evernotes...and the only the reason why I stick with it. The second feature is the screenshot/editor...again greenshot, pickpick are out there but the fact these two features are 'built in' makes Evernote far superior. I would love an open source alternative that integrated both features....
Nitpick: This is NOT true for only normal sequences. See disjunctive sequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence .

pi may contain all numbers as substrings and yet not be normal.
But people won't know there is "full" Internet access, or will be unable to justify the cost versus making do with the "free 38".

At present in the UK my monthly broadband connection costs just over one day of minimum-wage salary. Or nearly a week of groceries. I can see how easily that could be seen as a worthwhile saving for people on low incomes.
To the point where LibreSSL and other OpenBSD sites use Comic Sans in their 'logos'.

Note The OpenBSD Foundation does not ;^).
Sure if you want to do business with Lenovo in light of Superfish.....
if you say so, although we are now at a meta point of debating the value of debate and i'm out.
Spills and gases are not even close to being on their agenda here, they just want to curb vandalism by denying them easy access to gas, for someone who really wants petrol for purposes other than as fuel in vehicles, it isn't that difficult to siphon some out of gas tanks of vehicles. That's how I did it, otherwise I wouldn't ever get to drive that vehicle again.
How do you keep a can in car, if they don't sell it in cans, how do get oil in cans?
I do like the language a lot, maybe I will do that.it just a lot of the people liked it. I'm not the following the coward type. maybe I will master this. it just sometimes it's hard and crazy out there trying to find one for you :)
This is not universally true. In fact, most larger successful projects have a "Benevolent Dictator For Life", either explicitly or implicitly.

Linus has Linus. Python, Guido. Ruby, Matz. And so on.
Recurrent payments make possible softer kinds of frauds where you extract money from people for services they don't need or use only because they forgot they ordered them or can't be bothered to cancel.
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HN looks a bit fuarked on my iPhone now. Could you please change it back to serving the desktop version?
I think what you are objecting to is the scene and the inherent feeling of fakery. I wouldn't be bothered by it too much, I've been in the industry for quite a while and I've seen people come and go. If you truly love this job you'll be here in a decade or more, but only if you love it. The fly-by-nights will have flown.

And just think, they make you look all that much better. For all the hype of this industry we really are a conservative pragmatic bunch. We don't fall for the hype too often.
If you used it before, you would probably be aware of the need to scroll to follow a single headline. What mobile OS/browser are you using?
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I concur, probably that's why they've offered a discount so close to the release!
I really think it's a vile effect. Consensus is the worst thing about democracy, it should not repress minorities or people who don't subscribe to groups. That's what the silent majority is all about. I really believe we should protect individuals, not society or groups of people, who often get taken over by bullies.
If its a fraud its a fraud you can get your money
back. There's a difference between being cheated
and wanting the service & being willing to pay for it.

I might point out on Paypal you get an email every time a charge is done and you can easily cancel any subscription in under a minute quite easily so you wont forget about anything.

Direct Debit (such as that offered by HDFC, Axis, etc)
can also do the same thing, although it is more difficult
to cancel than a credit card would be & less services are available to it.

Also consider if you pay cash/neft/rtgs/paytm for 12 months
upfront instead of every 1 month recurring for a subscription service. Its
going to be harder to get that back (and perhaps
not possible) if you decide to cancel halfway
than it would be with a credit card/paypal.
Dentistry is not a bullshit job. It's not even an edge case.
Normality is not necessary. Counter-counter example is the digits of pi in groups of 1, 2, 3... with strings of zeros in between:

3.0140015900026530000....

this number is obviously nor normal since 0 occurs with greater frequency than any other digit. But if pi is normal, then this sequence contains all finite sequences too.
i think the alarm bells are a little unfounded. The internet.org initiative is to connect people who are not in the internet grid. Take a moment and think about who those people are. Do they use Saas, would they care to read a critically analyzed piece written by a journalist?
The ones taking Saas subscriptions, writing/reading blogs are already connected and in the internet ambit.
I cant clearly see the relation between Reliance Jio and India's growth. And moreover, the idea of giving free internet will not be sustaiable.
Hope it makes sense.
What I'd like:

Something wiki like that works good with snippets (e.g. show all snippets with a particular tag on one page relatively compact, not just a list of wikipages where you have to click at each one). TiddlyWiki comes closest from all I've seen so far.

Good way of inserting/attaching random files.

quick way to add stuff to tags/categories (hierarchical tags maybe?)
Well yeah, that's why the role of democracy is to work towards the mutual interests of individuals...
I think this is good. Actually if I don't remember wrong this kind of 0 plan is already available if Finland for Facebook on at least one operator. As far as I can see there are no downsides. Access to listed sites can save lives.
I'm sure google has their own version of Superfish in there, waiting to be found!
I only ever use private browsing mode. Firefox delete my history, cookies and cache every time I close my browser.

So unless Google have started to do browser fingerprinting, which I don't think they have, that shouldn't be the answer. At some level I believe that Google is just better at understanding my request, regardless of how poorly I formulated it, while DuckDuckGo just returns pages where some of the word match. Given that I don't know how any of the two search engines work I may be completely of.
Also see: http://longnow.org/about/ which aims to fix Y10K/YAK/YXK but unfortunately not Y100K/Y64K/YCK (yet anyway).
IMO the idea of a mobile site is a good one but right now the font sizes are definitely too large for comfortable reading (esp in landscape orientation) where before they were way too small.
> If you can't dazzle them with data, baffle them with bullsh*t, am I right?

Given that your reply contained no data, you tell me.

> Life was better when I at least HAD a crummy job, grumble!

That very much depends on what they do instead.

Plenty of people enjoy gardening who don't get paid to do it now. Plenty of people enjoy making things, craft, art, writing, furniture making, these are largely leisure activities now. Forms of education for themselves and others going to the library, or the park, reading. Working on yourself physically. Cooking. Consumption of media. Volunteering.

The idea that someone would rather do busywork than those things is silly, I think. But if, in that future, we still base our judgement of people's moral worth, by whether they have a crummy job, then I think the lack of crummy jobs becomes an issue.

The future you outline is coming, in some form or another (at least the work part, the 500yr lifespan less certainly). The question is, in that world, do we want to keep tying people's worth to their ability to find drudgery work? Do we want to keep going with a society that would concentrate even more wealth in the hands of those who control the capital, with no meaningful ability for anyone else to raise themselves out of their 'lower-class' status. It is hard to see how a plutocratic capitalism is going to work then. So I think we need more of this debate now, not less.

The solution being brought to the table, a small step in the grand scheme, but a necessary one, is to stop the rhetoric that work of any kind is inherently virtuous, and to stop the rhetoric that work is the way to gain one's success.
Your emotions seem to be getting the best of you. If anything, this shows they care about mobile experience as much as desktop one.

And yes, they need to ensure their source of income because.... wait for it.... they're a business!

I'm dumbfounded at how many people think that the world is just supposed to run for free?! So employees shouldn't get paid?!
This is just not true. Take the new startups offering 4 day work weeks as an example. They feel they are even more productive than their 5day counterparts. The problem in your reasoning is that people gain efficiency when they have time to relax and enjoy themselves. You wouldn't want a dentist that works 10 hours 7 days a week would you? So there must be a threshold here.
>this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen

Lol obligatory XKCD!

http://xkcd.com/1497/
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Waterfall is a straw man. Waterfall and agile are two possibilities within business-driven engineering (a euphemism for "you just code what we tell you to do, we make the decisions").

I don't think Scrum is that terrible for junior engineers, but it provides no exit. It's the terminal juniorness of it that has me bothered. I'm 31 years old and have been programming for almost a decade and I'm too old to work on "user stories". No, I don't mean "because of age, I'm too good to work on it" because that would be bullshit; if it needs to be done and I'm the best person to do it, then I'm not "too good" to work on anything. I mean that, at age 31, if all I have to show for my time is a disjointed collection of "user stories", no one will take me seriously.

If you're any good, programming evolves into an R&D job after 5 years: exploring new technologies, testing new architectures, building whole products and company-wide initiatives. Ideologies like Scrum are trying to take that away from us. They probably provide some useful structure for junior programmers, but they're alienating to senior talent.