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I've enjoyed my fair share of anime, and there are some criminally underrated TV series and movies that should be mandatory viewing for American audiences.

That being said, once the new car smell wore off, I saw that Japanese animation has its highs and lows, just like American productions. Many shows suffer from the same horrible cliches and stale, one-dimensional characters that appear to be copy-pasted from story to story, and eventually you start to notice the same formulas behind some of those intricate plots.

Ultimately, I'm saying that one shouldn't confuse originality with unfamiliarity. As a Westerner, Japanese animation was unfamiliar and amazing. Once it became familiar, much of it became less than amazing, but the good stuff was still just as good.

One final thought is to point out the obvious target audience age difference. Probably due in large part to Disney's influence, Westerners have long associated animation with children, and this makes it an apples-oranges debate. If you challenge me to find an American cartoon with as much depth as Cowboy Bebop, I probably can't. On the flip side, you probably can't find a live-action Japanese show with as much depth as The Wire.
See, that's why I end up using these libraries. If I found myself doing the three statements for creating a div in your parent's comment, I'd pull that out into a function that does it, then I'd start finding other things to pull out as well, then I'd think "surely somebody has made a library that has these things pulled out nicely", and I'd find one of these libraries. Since I know that would happen, I just start with a library from the beginning.

But I suppose I'd love one that is thinner, like your "very thin wrapper", if anybody has pointers.
Yeah, I like Republic, they've got a 'refund your unused data' feature in beta, too, and it should make their service cheaper than this offering, though I don't know if they offer an automatic Wifi VPN tunnel.
For those who don't want to read the FAQ or find the video incredibly unhelpful [1]:

a. It only supports the Nexus 6 out of the gate.

b. It automatically switches you to the "fastest" network available. Partners out of the gate are Sprint and T-mobile. Sounds like it prefers Wifi, then 4G LTE, and then degrades down to 3G or 2G.

c. Pricing is $20 for unlimited talk (domestic) and text (domestic and international) and wi-fi tethering. Data is $10 per Gig. (Plus taxes, etc.) No support for unlimited data. they also refund you all the unlimited data at the end of the month.

d. No annual contract required.

e. Supports calls over wi-fi.

Coverage map here: https://fi.google.com/coverage

[1] Not even sure why they made a video, it doesn't explain a thing...

Edit: clarified domestic talk pricing, and refunding data.
This plan actually makes no sense. Overage charges are the same rate ($10 / GB), so why am I buying a "plan" at all? Why don't they just charge $10 * x gigs / month instead of all this buying / refunding business?
It's speeding up development lately, 1.8 came out rather fast but it seems like the Django team likes to have ~1 year development cycle.
Peaceful walk in favor Net Neutrality
I'm pretty sure 3 in the UK has a package where you don't pay anything extra for roaming (http://www.three.co.uk/Support/Roaming_and_International).
CP is revolutionizing how we advertise
> They also produce binaries which don't necessarily require a runtime to be available on every server

Just like Java[0]. It is just a matter of choosing the right compiler for the use case at hand.

[0] - http://www.excelsiorjet.com/ (one from many vendors)
Yeah, since Google is just buying service from the others, they probably don't have much room.
> Why wouldn't someone choose the t-mobile unlimited plan vs this one?

The "compelling" feature is the support for multiple carriers (T-Mobile and Sprint) without having to do some zany dual-SIM setup or somesuch.

To me, though, that's barely any consolation for the lack of an unlimited plan, which is a deal-breaker, and which is why - no matter how "good" Verizon and AT&T (for example) advertise themselves to be - I'll never switch back to them until they provide an unlimited data plan. T-Mobile's unlimited plan (and even its non-unlimited plans) are a way better deal, since you're never charged overages (unlike with Sprint's non-unlimited plans, all of AT&T and Verizon's plans, and - now - Google Fi).
Not so nitpicky! I had the same feeling and wondered for a moment, "was life expectancy then just 33 years? Did I misread?"
You should be patient and kind with everyone. Although, patient and kind does not included adding untested code to production to "fix" something late on a Sunday night. Insisting on proper deployment almost always makes developers[1] irritable. It also prevents http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautiona...

1) I have more years as a developer than system admin (11 vs 7 and 5 as something I'm still not sure).
It lets you impose a upper limit of how much you want to spend (I think)
Their having a wide variety of closely integrated managed services is precisely what made them so successful, IMO.

Want static file store on Digital Ocean? You'll probably wind up using S3. Want a load balancer? Have to build one yourself with HAProxy (and deal with failover somehow). Want a managed database, queueing service, etc.? Nope.
As a hiring manager, it's very easy to filter these people out at the interview stage.

Being a system administrator requires a very specific personality type that has little to do with experience and more to do with attitude and critical thinking.

Sadly, people are right that startups are skipping past admins, thinking they're not needed anymore. Then later they need to hire one to clean up the giant mess.
Why would they charge extra for tethering?

Is that a thing in some countries?
Any news about escape analysis for gccgo?
Facebook Hello app
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Crashlytics as part of Twitter's Fabric.io suite is awesome. It's our goto for simple things like monitoring crashes/errors, DAU/WAU/MAU and associated ratios across our apps.

It also knocks TestFlight right out of the water for beta testing.
First of all WiFi calling is still a specialty thing requiring custom firmware (see: you cannot BYOD on Republic Wireless)

Second of all the N6 is one of the few phones with dual GSM and CDMA radios, and T-Mobile/Sprint are GSM/CDMA, respectively.
There are probably many unpublished (prototype, development version) apps.
The term seems to be mainly linked to news outlets, but I for some reason find it maddening.

Brits, at least some that I know, like to point out the particularities of American English (and I would admit I love the English English pronunciation of "aluminium"), but I want to stab somebody when I hear the world "fondleslab" or boffin.
Doing stuff like this helps Google perpetuate their reputation as a company that's doing "cool things that matter" despite the fact that, financially, they're just a big internet ads company. By doing these types of things Google has developed has such a good employment brand that they can get as many CMU CS Masters and Harvard MBAs as they want. They don't need 53,000 of the best and brightest people on earth working on AdWords, so letting some of these people loose on other markets kinda makes sense. Better to let them do it under google's umbrella than someone else's. And besides, they might actually succeed!
I have very recently switched from 'startupping' (bootstrapping for over 5 years) to doing more contracting and consulting.

There is 200 million Euro of government subsidies (+ private capital) going out to startups in my (rural!) area and I'm taking everybody in. It's crazy right now.
An Open Letter to Owen Van Natta
Teaching Programming: You're Doing It Wrong
People think they don't want to pay by the megabyte, so they're calling it something else. Also the plan provides a cap so that you know you're not going to pay more than $X per month without going to some app and adjusting something.
There's a perception that raising money is "easy" in the current climate. The reality though is that it's simply not that easy and that there most certainly isn't many founders coasting on beaches.
I know a lot of entrepreneurs and founders here in SF/Bay, and every one of them is working much more than 9-5 5 days a week. And none of them got a "free ride" from an investor - but rather went through the slog of building product / traction to raise every penny. Sure, there's more capital floating around - but there's a lot more competition too.
It's a thing in the US, because "computer data" is better and more expensive than "phone data".
But I want my email and push notifications to happen the background without paying extra. Unless it's been a while, then I probably am willing to pay extra. Seems awfully tricky.
Product synergies only becomes an antitrust problem when the company has a monopoly position.
Agreed. Most of my usage is in cities where both Sprint and T-mobile have great coverage. Lack of unlimited is a deal-breaker (or at least higher data tiers)
> While both rural and city racoons readily approached familiar containers, they dealt differently with unfamiliar ones. Where rural raccoons took a long time to approach novel containers, city raccoons would attack them the moment she turned her back.

I wonder if part of this could be due to differences between city and rural attitudes toward killing cute animals?

In cities, we tend to try to deal with a raccoon getting into our stuff by replacing the container with something harder for the raccoon to open, or moving it somewhere else. We try to stop the animal without harming it, even if this inconveniences us. If it is particularly troublesome, we try to trap it without harming it, and relocate it. It takes a lot to get us to go all the way to the kill it option.

In rural areas, we are much more likely to go straight from "there's a raccoon messing with my stuff" to "kill it".
Or just have the icon move slowly, or change from one to the another regularly through the day. That would foil the stickers.
> You would think a computer expressly designed to plug into a TV would have an option for overscan correction, yes? You’d be wrong—the Compute Stick doesn’t support that at all.

I could have sworn that win8.1 has overscan correction. I don't really think that is a failing of the hardware, unless it's a failing in the graphics driver, which I don't think it is but I need to investigate further.

The rest of the review is equally awful.
3 offer the ability to use your allowances in 18 countries at no extra charge:

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home

It's not as many countries, but with 3 you can get unlimited data at a fraction of the cost (I currently pay £15/month with 3 for unlimited data, 5000 3 to 3 minutes, 5000 texts and 2000 minutes to other networks).
Rooted? See this gist: https://gist.github.com/jbinto/8876658

Snag the sqlite db from the device, extract the accounts, then re-enter.
Or better yet: why aren't they offering an unlimited data plan like what T-Mobile and Sprint (Google Fi's "partners") already offer? Why aren't they even at least going with T-Mobile's approach of "throttle the connection once you go past your data cap, but don't charge overages"?

It's like they're taking the best things of both carriers - their unlimited data plans - and pretending those things don't exist, that they're some figment of consumers' imaginations, and instead just taking the AT&T/Verizon approach, but using a soft and squishy dildo instead of a spiked rusty iron dildo to screw us with.
That's not an example of a strongly typed method in Ruby. That's an example of an assertion (most likely implemented in C).

Though in hindsight you're right anyways. Methods define an implicit type for the arguments they operate over. It's just you don't know what it is without reading the whole method. Which I think gets to "expressiveness".
Is $10/GB and $0.2/min normal within the US? I'm not familiar with American (non-roaming) pricing.

For comparison:

In Germany I have an LTE data plan for my tablet where I pay €24.99 for 7.5GB (~$3.57/GB), the lowest plan being €6.99 for 1GB (~$7.50/GB). Unlimited calls in Germany including 1GB data would cost me €19.99/month (~$21.48) at the same provider and unlimited text in Germany would be an additional €4.99/month (~$5.36), otherwise texts are €0.09 each (~$0.10). Many German providers offer pre-paid (or post-paid) plans with €0.09/minute and €0.09/text.

My current plans work out as follows:

Tablet with 7.5GB LTE data plan: €24.99 / ~$26.83 (~$3.57/GB)

Smartphone with 1GB LTE data, 200 minutes and 200 texts: €11.90 / ~$12.87

Overages per minute: €0.09 / ~$0.10

Overages per text: €0.09 / ~$0.10

Overages for data: free (at significantly reduced speed; "high-speed" extra data can be added for €3-9/GB depending on the plan and provider)

The next closest plan for my smartphone would be 1GB LTE data, 400 minutes and 400 texts at €15.90 / ~$17.07, the difference works out to €0.01 (~$0.01) per minute or text.

I'm using my own devices, so the plans don't include the cost of the devices themselves.

My mobile phone bill over the past months mostly ranged from €14-20 and my tablet bill was mostly fixed at €24.99 (turns out 7.5GB is generally sufficient unless I use Netflix outside WiFi a lot).

Also, tethering isn't a problem either, but obviously roaming is excessively expensive even in the EU.
I don't like facebook either, but can't we just not use something without making a huge sensational scene about it?

Also, for those whose eyes hurt from the matrix color theme the site uses, you can change the colors by opening up console and running:

document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].setAttribute("style", "color: #333; background-color: #ddd");
It's one thing to try to make people better at their own diet, and another thing to try to make them choose another diet. Not all help is proselytizing. There's a TREMENDOUS difference between "I understand you're a vegan, here's some homemade lentil stew that's better for you than the potato chips you're eating", and "You are a filthy murderer for eating that burger!", or "You're a stupid pansy who needs to eat a burger!"

If you can't understand that distinction...
This paper reads like it was made by the Postmodern Essay Generator...
"Once you get an invitation, you’ll also need a Nexus 6—the first smartphone to work with our network of networks. You can buy one from Project Fi when you sign up or bring one you already use."

=> seriously. its a "Device lockin" instead of "network lockin"
how can one be this wrong? lol
Deep dive into QUANTUM INSERT
Why add all the missing pieces to the other tools (maven, etc) when the OS has the tool (rpm, deb, etc) with all these pieces already?

I think that is the reaction that most people have when they see maven or similar tools.
>When Project Fi automatically connects you to an open Wi-Fi network, we help protect your data by sending it through a secure connection, known as a Virtual Private Network (VPN). This secure connection protects your data from being looked at by other users on the open Wi-Fi network.

https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#wifi-connection-and-calls-2
The little jpeg that could hack your organization
>What makes Google competitive in any industry?

Having a goose who lays golden eggs (search + adsense) to subsidize development?
The typical MVNO model would be for Google to handle all the support. I agree that end-user support does not seem to be one of Google's strengths.
"I get the impression that they are doing this because they believe they are 'right'. That makes some people uncomfortable because we programmers like to discuss everything, and argue, and it's hard to come up against people who have what is close to 'faith' in their own beliefs."

They do not just argue, then invent their own wheels. Go is not special in this sense, just another wheel, whose inventors have a stronger sense of righteousness. And I think it is well grounded.
I'm also using Money Lover everyday. The Budgets and Events features are really powerful.
I'm reasonably certain there isnt - not for the payband offered.
It's not that sysadmins are going to disappear, it's just that with IaaS and the automation tooling that's been developed in the past decade teams don't need to be nearly as large. The role has also changed.

A few people can manage a deployment of a thousand server instances now fairly easily (I've been on teams like that). A decade ago you'd be renting colo space, racking/stacking yourself, managing your networks, swapping dead hardware, and managing all the software that goes on top (I've also been on a team like that). You'd need a large team dedicated to just ops and sysadmining.

Hiring today is different. A sysadmin didn't necessarily need to know how to code beyond some scripting with bash or perl. These days in order to manage the complexity of large cloud systems you probably should be a solid developer in addition to having a deep knowledge of systems. Or if you're a small startup you'll probably have your devs work additionally on your infrastructure or use a PaaS.
To Be Clear, they offer it, but T-Mobile will throttle your speeds after a certain number of megs. Sprint also used to do so, but apparently has stopped doing so due to a need to try to get folks to at least check them out.
Simple UX mistakes to avoid on your blog
Personally? I want ad filter that creates a huge barrier to entry. A barrier that stipulates that an ad must be honest, non deceptive, non invasive, and that the companies behind them arn't using them to mass aggregate users for later sale.

I don't think Ad Block Plus is doing that, to be fair. It IS what I want though.

I'd love to give advertisers a way to be honest.
Sort of related to this post; I recently read Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima [0]. I was not expecting much from the book, but it turned out to be FANTASTIC, would highly recommend if you have any interest in nuclear accidents or nuclear energy in general; I learned a lot from reading it.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/1605986801/

edit: formatting
Yeah. Google's renderer seems to make things a bit lighter, making it really really hard to target a basic width.

Obligatory Raster Tragedy link:
http://www.rastertragedy.com/
Do you care to enlighten us on what niche this device is best for?
The big thing about this from my perspective is that it abolishes roaming. One plan, and you pay the same whether you use it in your home country or anywhere else. I'm not aware that anybody else is offering that, especially not at that price.

As a German living in the UK i currently juggle two SIM cards, and whenever I fly back home I have to mess with the data flatrate there since it's worth activating the monthly flatrate plan even if I just use it for a day. And then I have to make sure that I don't forget to cancel the flatrate when I leave again. Not to mention that this means I have two phone numbers, and I'm not reachable on at least one of them all the time.
Unintended consequences of a long additional closing period
Cohort analysis of Rust contributors
So has T-Mobile. Any sufficiently fast wifi network becomes a mini network tower. It's a great idea.
My best guess is that these carriers regret offering unlimited data.
I expect that it is prepaid and that they will require you to prepay an amount that matches your typical usage in previous months (based on whatever method of measuring).
What's the main use case for something like RocksDB ? Is it an out-of-process local caching engine (in-memory + unloads to disk if necessary) ? Or is it something different? Can it communicate between nodes? Why would I use it instead of a large dictionary in memory?
Start-Up Blends Old-Fashioned Matchmaking and Algorithms
some of MongoDB's direct competitors do not suffer from these problems and can largely function as drop-in replacements

Which competitors are you referring to? Personally I find the power and flexibility of the MongoDB query language to be a big positive that for many cases outweighs performance and reliability issues. It seems like no other competitors are quite there.
Great chance to come out in support of #NetNeutrality. Do Join us people.
Oh, it's not that bad :) I would call it "very deliberate mode".
Surf's Up Dog, a small company thinking outside the box (www.surfsupdog.com)
Small companies like Surf's Up Dog (www.surfsupdog.com)are thinking outside the box when it comes to promoting their dog leashes. They are sponsoring an athlete in to 2015 Raleigh, NC 1/2 Ironman. 70.3 miles of logo exposure. Many athletes run and bike with their dogs so they are hitting a target audience in addition to the 1000's of people watching the race. What clever ways have you promoted your product or service?
Clojure is simple and Scala is complex.

I dove into Scala before Clojure because lisp was so alien to me. After a couple months of Scala, I still felt like I didn't know where to begin with a blank slate, though I was eventually productive.

When I finally gave Clojure a shot, I was building things my first week. Kinda like my first experience with Ruby.

Clojure felt like a better Ruby to me. The aesthetics that drew me to Ruby were improved in Clojure.

> Is there a reason why Rubists prefer a completely different
> paradigm such as Clojure?

The leap from Ruby to Scala is a larger gulf than Ruby to Clojure, though it's not obvious at a glance.
True except if it's really just 3G that's not enough for some people who like to stream video and audio - ideal bitrates probably can handle it, but not realistically.

That said, anyone streaming Netflix on their LTE connection is going to want unlimited data to start with, so neither is a good bet.
YouTube to the rescue: how it taught us to fix boilers, wash denim
> SimpleDB is deprecated

It actually doesn't appear to be officially deprecated at all, although perhaps it is considered feature complete:

http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/

However, Amazon seems to ignore questions as to its status which tends to make me wary as well.
I'm guessing that you take a lot of things as negative that you probably shouldn't. You might not be getting praise and excitement, but don't mistake that for negativity.

"Company XYZ already does this" isn't negative. It confirms that there's at least some market for the product. Don't let this dissuade you, and don't assume that your potential customers know about Company XYZ—just get working!

"Nobody is going to pay for this" is meaningless from someone who just learned about your product, who isn't in the demographic for it. I think it's ridiculous that people would be willing to spend thousands of dollars for a watch that spends 95% of its life WITHOUT the time on it's face. That doesn't mean it's going to fail—it just means that I'm not the market/demographic—yet.

Just keep doing what you're doing, if you have the stomach for it. If it takes 100 failures to get one success, focus on that success being only 100 failures away.

Really though, once you have a success, it'll starts to make more sense—I promise.
It's still pretty top-of-the line, I love mine. Best Android device in my opinion with the possible exception of the Moto X, which is very similar (just smaller and slower). The longer I have the N6, the more the size is an asset, rather than a liability.