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Most microcontrollers have extremely low power sleep states, maintaining interrupts on external inputs often only draws the smallest amounts of power. When you're designing for low power electronics like this you often run into the problem of the self discharge of the battery completely dwarfing any consumption your microcontroller has. I'm reasonably confident they chose a lithium AAA simply because they have very low self discharge, and a AAA over something like a coin cell due to the rather enormous amount of power needed to transmit 802.11.

I get the feeling that this device is pretty tentative for Amazon, they haven't gone to huge lengths to keep the price of the build down. In particular there's also a connector on the bottom right of the PCB that looks a lot like it could be for a small screen or some other peripheral.
Progressive enhancement work well for simple stuff. Like progressively enhancing a form post, or a "like" button which just sends an Ajax request. But as the complexity grows, progressive enhancement doesn't really scale and you end up with two separate versions of your site/app.

I agree that Javascript only apps are often less usable, because the devs making them aren't testing enough on different browsers and devices. But the trend of the "Javascript only" approach is certainly driven by more than just frontend devs that want to use shiny new things (even if that is a factor as well).
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I too worked for AOL at one time, after they bought Netscape who happened to be my employer at the time. I very quickly took a severance option they were offering. There were also plenty of developers that fell under the iPlanet umbrella working for Sun/Netscape that later felt the axe.

Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.
1200+ euro per month was the figure for the USA, not for Netherlands ;)
I would argue that the really necessary evolution is often in implementation facilities, rather than core language constructs. C++ has evolved more than most, but people who don't choose C++ do it mostly because of other considerations. You could have the most functional C++ version ever, and still people would not use it for simple web apps.
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Mh, I agree there should a mention of Ubuntu. As I'm not involved with the ... mh, let's say "marketing" / PR side of elementary, I can only guess, but most likely it wasn't considered an information a potential (target) user of elementary needs (I don't agree with this, I'm a technical guy, but I'm not elementary's target audience either). The main page does mention "Open Source" and "Linux" in big letters. It's at the bottom though.
4G is generally available in rural areas?
You can probably disable them from the child lock section, which just outright hides the app.
Surely one can already download the "base system" from the Ubuntu website?
Hmm, I think your boxes can be still pretty transparent in that case - if anything more so, as you've got single-bash files versus perhaps directories and directories of content?

In most organizations, all those Dockerfiles should be yours, and in source control.

Relying on the blobs from others shouldn't be neccessary for most applications. Yes - in large organizations, a management problem probably does arise, but I think if you find copy/paste rising up you have to push that down into the base image, basically?

I don't think a configuration API helps to be honest - what you would do is turn them all into a "greatest common divisor" type scenario, where as they feel different because they were trying to be different.

I think you're best solved by organizationally mandating one of them within your company, as painful as that may be.
What a strange way to interpret this. Not sure if humor or genuine bitter pessimism.

In either case volvo seems to have a genuine interest in cyclist safety. They have another system in their cars that will automatically brake if a collision is imminent with a cyclist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/volvo-business...
Everyone is saying that Javascript is the world's most popular language, or at least soon will be.

That saddens me as I do not care for it at all. It's not like I can't learn how to code in JS, but to do so I find quite unrewarding.

I don't see 3D printing being commercially interesting for at least another few years. For anything you really seriously want a custom-made part for, you'd want a metal part made by an experienced machinist with a CNC mill. I expect 3D printers will get there someday but not soon.

Drones, quite likely there are many uses for them other than snapping pictures of white house lawn.

Bitcoin, maybe. In the long run, definitely. There is a specific limit to how many bitcoins can ever be mined. At the same time, more merchants are accepting them. Without a doubt, the dollar price of a coin will increase. I do not know yet - I haven't really checked - whether i'd expect bitcoin to do better than what I could do by investing in stocks, bonds or commodities, but in the long run I expect they would do better.
Where? By warrant? Personal or work? Link?
It is sometimes hard to justify a dependency - many of toolz/fn.py/funcy functions are not hard to write manually.

The great thing about toolz is its https://github.com/pytoolz/cytoolz counterpart which provides an optimized implementation of toolz. It is useful when you have a bottleneck in Python code - e.g. run several functions (functoolz.juxt), merge dictionaries (dicttooz.merge), etc. With cytoolz the code becomes prettier and faster, not only prettier, so it is easier for cytoolz to sneak in.
I don't think it's wrong to "ask" for money, but it does seem wrong to state that paying $0 is "cheating the system". The implication is that if you choose to pay $0, you're doing something devious or unethical.
It's not the first, yes, but in my opinion they're the best at it. Either way, it doesn't hurt having more than one organization working on good Linux UX.
> A plain HTML site is accessible, and will be accessible in a 1000 years. A site depending on (external) JavaScript sources will force John Titor to travel back in time to find version 1.x of jQuery.

Not to sound completely apathetic, but so what? Most of us aren't building sites that we expect to be around in 10 years, much less 1000 years. The ephemeral nature of what we're building isn't lost on us - we're trading that guaranteed longevity for an improved development process (though some obviously disagree).

Frequently, writing a traditional website with any sort of meaningful UI interactions was/is kind of a mess. Most of us don't write these applications (and you're right, they are applications) because we have any particular affinity for JavaScript, but because it makes the whole process much nicer. It still sucks, it's just nicer.

Sure, progressive enhancement is a thing. And it's a great idea. In practice, top-down directives will probably be something akin to "Sure, do that, but do it on your own time and not at the expense of anything else." The realized benefits are very low (the % of users with JavaScript disabled is incredibly small), and saying something like "our site won't be accessible in 1000 years otherwise" is likely to get you mostly blank stares. It's a pretty big investment with very little benefit to most companies.

Sure, 50 years down the road if these sites still exist they'll probably be nigh-unusable without some sort of "ES6 emulator mode", but so what? I don't think we'll go wanting for any historical artifacts from this time period. If we do, it'll be because future generations have no interest in our generation - not because we didn't produce enough relics.
I wonder if that makes Ariana Huffington richer than her ex-husband. Mike H.: scion of wealthy Texas oil family. Former California representative, failed run for Senate using family money. Came out as gay man after loss and now is an indie film producer. Ariana H.: colorful journalist and political analyst retaining native Greek accent. While married she was a conservative, but became flaming liberal after divorce. Started dot.com news site, sort of the mirror image of conservative Matt Drudge. AOL bought her out a few years ago and she is a significant stock holder.
My point was you don't need to use the tools you use today, except to do the version flip (and probably to deploy the subtrate - unless you are doing a cloud-image solution and not trying to do something on-premise). And this will get better when cloud providers embrace higher level cluster operations more natively.

And build time is the way to go for everything you can push down into build time. There still may be some need for service-discovery type applications.
Religion is a pretense for violence, not the original motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pape#Dying_to_Win

Human power structures are what you should fear. A human in a powerful position will be motivated to silence voices that threaten that power.
While one can develop strange beliefs in fields one knows little about, it does sound like he in particular may have been suffering from Schizophrenia. The inability to function, the depression you describe and (at the risk of courting trouble for criticizing religion) his report of visions and extreme religious convictions are pretty overwhelming indicators.

Mind you, a diagnosis at a distance is obviously tenuous but it's pretty clear his problems we more likely biological than caused by generosity. There are after all hundreds of billionaires who give away vast percentages of their wealth and do not fall into a deathly depression over it.
It's not powered up, though. That's why it lasts so long on one battery. The button wakes it up.
"Those efforts have found surprising receptiveness in a city that has made a point of terrorizing billionaires."

Wait, did they start killing them without a trial just for walking down the street? This surely can't be describing saying mean things about billionaires as "terrorizing".
https://github.com/Suor/funcy is also nice
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Clinton and Bush.
Internationalisation. In the next few years there are going to be a billion or so new internet users who'll want content and eCommerce, but they'll mostly be on low-powered, low-bandwidth smartphones. That particular market is very poorly catered at the moment. There are some players out there, but there's going to be room for a lot more. Essentially the size of the internet user base is going to double.
I think two-sided dice have the wrong behavior: they only roll ones.
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I work for an imaging CRO, so I primarily work on imaging endpoints for clinical trials: hippocampus volume and atrophy, etc.

I've developed multi-atlas methods for segmentation, boundary shift integral (BSI) and Jacobian (TBM) for longitudinal atrophy computation, etc.

What kind of processing do you do? What tools do you use?
Which Clinton was running in 2000?
Surprisingly, I'm not hating it. Considering that the x250 is pretty small, they have less displacement than other keyboards (coming from a T410), but it's full size, the grip is good, and the feedback is better than prior versions. The Trackpoint is laid deeper and lower than the T series, but I adjusted in the day. The click buttons don't protrude as much as older versions and I still haven't adjusted.

There are minor changes in keyboard coming from the T series. Insert has been bound to Fn + End (which is alright; I've never really used it), and the upper row is now Home/End/Delete. It's a different layout but I can't say it's worse. The light from above has been changed to an illuminated keyboard, which I find just as good and pretty spiffy.

The new trackpad feels, to me, perfectly sized very usable, and a decent replacement for the trackpoint if you're just browsing the web and not typing.

I bought a refurbished machine that has the HD IPS touchscreen, and it's been nice. It responds very well to touch and is much brighter than I would ever need. Certainly the touch functionality is not something you use every day, but for some occasions it's useful, and I'm already looking at some alternative skins in some DJing software to work from there in some situations and replace an external controller with just an additional sound card.

As a person that's been lugging around a T series on his backpack practically every day for the past 10 years, the lighter weight is a very welcome addition, the processor performance is satisfying, and the screen very readable despite the compromise in space. I'm really enjoying the lower weight and I personally think it's a gorgeous machine. I think there's less visible external parts and reminds me more of the first Thinkpads, with a very minimalist blocky feel.

My only critiques are that I wish it had an additional USB port (it has 2; 3 would be really nice), that the trackpoint were laid a couple millimeters higher (I know it's impossible because there's barely any room for the screen, but a man can dream), that modern software was better with HiDPI displays, and that the aspect ratio were taller, but the tradeoffs are easily justify the lighter weight, extra comfort, and screen quality, without sacrificing the input methods, which are the real reason why I buy and have used Thinkpads for the past 18 years. I'm a strong believer that Thinkpad + Trackpoint + Vim is the most productive input method for coding man has ever invented, and no trackpad will ever be a satisfactory replacement.
I think the trend of "turning a primarily content-based site into a dynamic app", and indeed most of what has been referred to as "Web progress", "moving the Web forward", etc. comes from the desire of content producers to obtain and maintain more control over their content. Look at how browsers have evolved to de-emphasise features which give the user control while adding those that are author-targeted.

We're moving from browsers being viewers for simple HTML documents (which can be copied, shared, and linked via simple means), to a platform for running complex applications written in JavaScript which often render data retrieved in proprietary formats from proprietary APIs. The "open by default" nature of plain HTML has become the "closed by default" of the data processed by web apps, much like with many native apps. Native app platforms (e.g. mobile) are also gradually becoming more "closed by default"; I'm not sure if that's a related trend.

Google can say more sternly that using JavaScript can have ugly consequences for user experience and accessibility, but they are swimming upstream: The web seems to be moving on to fancy new technologies regardless of what their SEO says.

Part of the reason is because Google themselves are doing this in many of their products... some of their employees probably disagree with "JS everything", but they're in the minority.
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I imagine that if one would thoroughly internalize the belief that we're driven by purely rational, mechanistic forces, diving head-first into irrationality in an attempt to search for (or somehow invent) freedom and meaning, would be the only rational thing to do.

His case is discussed in the BBC documentary series "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Adam Curtis, which is very much worth seeing. It's wide-ranging and opinionated in a way that invites criticism, but always fascinating and I think a point of view worth considering, especially for technologists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...
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To me, the choice to use off the shelf hardware reflects Amazon's dedication to lean values. In this sense, they're doing the absolute minimum (using off-the-shelf hardware instead of spending 2 years spinning their own SoC) to verify that their product (on-demand household commodity ordering) is actually something people want. Makes a lot more sense in terms of turnaround time and money - if the idea proves valuable, they can start expending the effort to reduce costs through SoC development.

As the top commenter pointed out, though, I don't think they would really need to spend the time recouping those margins - since all the brands signed up for this service are big-name brands owned by Proctor and Gamble, it could indicate a relationship wherein P&G helps them absorb some of the costs of the hardware in exchange for what is effectively marketing.
Major benefits like health and child care are tied to government rather than employment. Therefore you don't have to play games with 2nd careers and minimum hours.
Probably a good idea for US to consider.
Religion is not simply another excuse it can also be a big motivational factor. It is too easy to just say "religion has nothing to do with it" or "it could have been any other religion".

If you look at the islamic doctrine and also the islamic history you will see that already Muhammad had critics of him and his religion be killed.
That's mainstream islamic knowledge and doctrine and in the islamic world people wouldn't even be ashamed to admit that as it is normal ("divine") law for them.
In the non-muslim world of course muslims don't go advertising about those part of their religion because they know that those parts aren't accepted and seen as something normal/positive.
It's then easier to say "but your religion was bad too" - but that's just a "And you are lynching negroes" kind of argument.
We don't need those kind of arguments we need a discussion for example why somebody who led his critics be killed should be seen as a role model.
> Yes, exactly, you're misusing the word by widening its definition unnaturally.

Unnaturally? As in, unreasonably wide definition by most people's standard?

It seems that there are quite a few people who are hung up on actions having to be selfless when it comes to motivation, rather than just having to do with outcome. And they don't like the idea of actions having selfish motivations: they think that even if you do a lot of good for other people, if you do it because it makes you feel good, then it is tainted by that kind of selfish motivation. It doesn't really "count", and you're not really a good person. Maybe people don't like the idea of selfish motivations. Or maybe they are of what seems to be a majority view, that feelings and motivations are fickle and can change without much rhyme or reason. And in that case, basing your actions on what you feel like doing seems more unpredictable and less controllable rather than basing it on some kind of ethical reasoning + self discipline to live up to some kind of moral integrity inspired by that reasoning.

And I agree with them that it's selfish. But not that it taints the good outcome.

> Which you're aware of, so the question becomes: why? Who knows, you might find out that the reason could be ascribed to "selfishness" in a much more narrow (and appropriate) way.

I don't get what you're saying here.
Providing services to the next billion internet users sounds like a big opportunity. I wonder if the solutions will be similar to what worked in the developing world or entirely new.
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Guess it is meant to say write. I cringed reading that.
Their respective headquarters are also right down the road from each other.
One of my favorite experiences as far as museums are concerned!

For anyone who might visit: be sure to take the (free) tour. My guide was actually one of the conservators(?) who, among other things, had traveled to inspect found/bought paintings for the museum. She was incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about Van Gogh, which made the whole experience even better.
In Apple's most recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook used the term "switchers" five times (a record!), and indicated that Apple is targeting further down the market — into traditional Android territory — than it ever has before.

Interesting, as this is something that is new to Apple. They've always been content to live at the top end of the market, selling quality (but expensive and high-margin) hardware. Are they risking their position as a status symbol of sorts? Once I'm no longer making a fashion statement by owning an iPhone, why would I pay a premium for one?
I think he is referring to Verizon. Now that they are part of the Verizon family AOL can get you online via, fiber, cable or dialup.
I guess you mean Hillary for the Senate
We'll see a Verizon Disrupt soon
This has been reduced to 2 years.
Your comment reminded me the scene from Kingdom of Heaven where religion is discussed:

I put no stock in Religion. By the word of religion, I've seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the "Will of God". I've seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves. And goodness - what God desires - [pointing at his head then heart] is here and here. And what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man, [smiles] or not.
This is grossly irresponsible on Oracle's part. I cannot fathom what they hoped to gain by releasing a product they never even intended to patch.

I don't use it myself so I wouldn't have standing, but I can readily see lawsuits resulting from this.
Ok thank you for making this clear. Doing it with bug bounties makes sense to me.
> The purpose of America is not to make cops' jobs as easy as possible

Why not make cops jobs as easy as possible?
Hi Dan,

I didn't do too much research to be honest. As a beginner, in-app purchasing looked a bit daunting, so I decided to start simple with an up-front cost. I chose the Tier 2 price so I can run promos to the Tier 1 ($0.99) price from time to time.

Down the track I might look at making it free with in-app purchase or something though.
Gotta love old people adverse to change, or thinking they still need to pay for email.
I've never seen anything like that in the U.S.
> I fail to see how religion will ever help guide the human race to a better place.

Then you fail to see any progress the US has made in the world at large in the past 200 years. The US was founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic.

http://www.godandculture.com/blog/ravi-zacharias-on-a-mormon...

> Organized religion scares and saddens me.

I know you didn't say you were atheist, but just so we're clear: atheism is a religion as well.

http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/10/atheism-is-a-religion
JS is a bad example because people who do that are preferring inheritance to composition, which is absurd.

In the case of C, yes you can do that, and where performance is critical you might prefer to do it, but it's obviously not going to be your first choice if you have any sense.
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Other places might not favor the armed conflict metaphor quite so much though.
> They will never, ever do a deal that they aren't completely happy with

There was an episode of This American Life about car dealerships that everyone here should really listen to [1].

In that episode they did close deals where they were losing money, but hoping it would make them meet their monthly sales goal (set by the supplier), which would result in a bonus that would put them in the black.

[1] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/513/1...
There is no on one side "good religions" and on the other side "bad religions".

But not all religious doctrine is equally toxic.

It is rather a combination of social and economics factors (education, poverty, exposure to other cultures, frustration, feeling of injustice (real or imagined), corruption, etc)

But ideology is part of the package. Totalitarianism has to be opposed, whether its doctrine is based on religion (eg Salafism) or secular concepts (eg Nazism).
Or you know, why not a phone application that would order the same thing with a single tap.