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These are all great suggestions, because it's very often (always) that management assumes they know what your software does given the output.

Too bad nobody cares what you think.

The telecoms

and I don't bother to use such sites. I think I can pass up this content.

So, do you own your apartment or are you cool paying out your deposit for a wardrobe door?

"Useful" for somebody, sure. I don't think that fact has any use for the pubic.

Those are not the kind of customers you want, long term.

>fairly puzzling

Apple and telecom? I think the picture is pretty clear.

End customers don't care about your CEO's speaking ability.

Another far-out option is building a solution not dependent on the carriers, which have already captured the IP space. There is no more internet, it's all just "telecom" now. That's the first mistake people make when starting an "internet" business. Business is reliant on communication and your communication is reliant on telecom. It's pretty much the same landscape as before the internet existed.

I don't have any of these problems with 4chan because I block most of their JS and I don't accept 3rd party cookies, and I definitely don't let any Google APIs run on my local machine. Google's APIs are for Google's hardware, which my hardware is not a subset of.

Why would I do that? Why don't you got commit yourself some mturk workers instead.

I find it interesting that this is the only tablet that hits the 300dpi threshold, and the next Kindle White is supposed to meet this as well. 300dpi is of course the resolution of most print magazines. The implication is obvious, but what isn't is why Apple declined to participate in this race.

Complexity can signify a complex problem on a simple domain, or a simple problem in a complex domain. You simplify one place, you're just pushing the complexity somewhere else.

Now I just have to trust their hashing algorithm..

So who is the authority about correct unicode implementations, exactly? And how to different languages with different use cases and power conform to such a standard? Why doesn't this authority extend over language implementations? Because they know what they are doing, and understand the domain, unlike the author of this article.

Look, I'm all for open standards, but saying that standards are required to be adhered to at the programming language level is just ignorance of the real world. The point of a standard isn't to dictate how data is architectured internally, it's to facilitate interoperability of systems at their endpoints. If you want interoperability of programmers, than make your own conforming language and get programmers to adopt it the right way, by competing in the market of ideas.

There is no idea here other than the writer's unjustified expectation that he should just know how every language handles Unicode because??? Because Unicode is a standard? No.. that doesn't make sense at all. Mixing contexts to make the point here means there is no ground for his argument to stand on.

He's innovating.

It's just another example of people abusing their power. Got name brand recognition? Use it to stick it to your workers. Prettying it up with bright primary colors and photoshop fades all you want, we can still see the reality behind the flowery show.

I would like to believe that this guy enjoyed his job and it was a fair relationship. But that just doesn't ring as true. He's deluded himself into believing that he's working for a greater cause, the people who like Penny Arcade. It's not really a noble cause though is it?

If you think about it though, you're absolutely right. Not killing me is just something you should do by default. I shouldn't have to pay you to do that. If I do pay to not kill me, does that mean you can justify killing me if I stop paying you? After all, you're desperate and hungry.

Oh wait, what if you waste your stipend on drugs or "loose it" or someone steals it from you because you weren't being responsible with what was basically free money? Do you get more money to waste, or do you get to kill me now for food?

I already have a sandbox, it's called a computer.

Now, look over here! When I substitute this context with that, ka-pow! now it's an array of characters!

Big deal. I don't understand what the point of this article is when it shows the shortcomings of half a dozen different string implementations in random languages. Yes, if you don't understand the language, then your assumptions about how it works may be wrong. Big surprise, that doesn't mean every string implementation needs to conform to your expectations...

I think just a little research on the company sponsoring the event would have been good enough for me to know better.

>many different systems.

Sure, for varying values of "works" and "different" and "no install step".

I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that a DOS executable from the 90's will run on more machines in the world than this demo, given "platforms" similarly to what this demo takes as a given.

You know, until it isn't.

http://4closurefraud.org/2010/07/20/bank-of-america-confisca...

Don't forget about the "Quantified Self" marketing push, and of course every device syncs only to your mobile device via bluetooth. No PC required (or supported), because then you might not let us harvest all your data invisibly through our app!

I remember seeing this run smoothly on a P2 after a very small executable download in late 90's. How far we've come in a big, stupid circle back where we started.

Now instead of a small executable, we need a large executable to sit on top of a large API on top of the CPU before even touching the GPU, and a network connection to download all the dependant APIs and libraries every time the page is loaded.

The only impressive thing about this demo is how many YCombinator readers are impressed with blinkenlights

Black water already exists so your nightmare scenario is about one contract away.

Strange, All I see is more ads for 23andme.com and a lame attempt to scare me into using it.

for some reason, the third page has most of the content.

How does booting Linux from a live CD make your packets invulnerable to sniffing? Also, that's not a real solution, even if it did work.