GrandMasterBirt

Hosts starts the pairing session, tmux will just multiplex the screen, and both edit in vim? Ok interesting. Seems fairly limiting in what you can do though.

Wonder if there will be solutions to us appartmenters. Like an easy to access/pop out battery that can be charged and carried back into the car (oh yea the battery is gigantic) maybe some local fuel stations with the tech some dudes developed to charge the battery in 10 minutes? I mean 100 miles range can probably run me a week using the car but I gotta charge.

Remember: Google does not want click fraud. Yes they share in the revenue, But it is detrimental. The goal of google is: Sell ads, sell the fact that google ads = profit for your site. In reality having insane click fraud is ok, as long as everyone is happy. Obviously people stop doing business with google if click fraud gets rampant.

The only question is: Is most click fraud happening on google, or other advertisers? This could be where google succeeds, "we have 10% of our competitor's click fraud, we are the trusted network"

I think the part connection is just an implementation detail. They can make these guys place something and another robot attaches.

I don't think its just about soccer... Kids can play with this ball during the day, and use it to charge a phone at night. If its incredibly cheap then they can sell to third world countries or perhaps just teach people to make it.

These cases are very tricky. Patents in general are. The question is: Do patents currently assist the small companies fight the big ones OR do they only hinder innovation?

Can I paten a technique for saving people's lives that requires no tools and anyone can learn, but no human being has ever done it before (intentionally)?

The paten question is no triviality and should not be treated as such. Don't think "oh why don't they just revoke it". Perhaps what is wrong with our system is the time given, 7 years in software terms may as well be a lifetime, while 7 years in physical product terms is hardly anything. Thats the problem with our system. And copyright is a whole nothing monster. They mingle often, but are not the same.

Nice. In a way its feels a lot like they are underpaying. Clearly these bugs are worth 2-4 times the amount paid.

RubyMine (Idea) Aptana 3 (Aptana)

RubyMine costs money. The reason my team uses it is for the refactoring tools and autocompletion capabilities. Though they do fight with it more often than not. According to them the refactoring tools makes it worth it.

I like Aptana 3. The problem is that the current version is not that incredible (a few quite annoying bugs), however I am waiting for good refactoring support.

I was going to say: An ideal spacecraft is not one in which everything is perfect, but one in which it gets hit by something unexpected, everything explodes, while all people manage to evacuate to some escape capsules, combine into a giant robot and save the universe (note anything after "combine" is optional as long as all people survive)

Was a fun read. Works well in software development, just know when to draw the line at ensure it works (people might not die due to our failure, unless you are writing pacemaker code)

It works well for static pages. Once you have html injection and such, you need to rerun this code on the new stuff.

Use duckduckgo.com. Its pretty good with excluding spam. And with a new service there is an indicator of how spammy a site is.

While reading it, it read more like Freakanomics than an encyclopedia of "how to lose weight". Its more about heres some cool shit i/we've saw happening, heres what we did, try it out. He never advocates heavy drug use or any of that shit. He even mentions: "Medication = can give you weight loss, but trade off is long term damage to your body"

Now heres one interesting thing... if you think "eat whatever you want and you will lose weight" is bullshit, consider this: I used to love drinking soda. Drank it by the gallons. I stopped due to weight gain. Now I don't crave it, I am mostly repulsed by it, and am quite happy just drinking water, in fact I can drink whatever I want because I want water.

Over time your mindset will change, you simply got used to a lifestyle of excessive eating and thus... "I don't want to give up my donuts in the morning". Just eating fruits daily makes me repulsed by eating processed sweets (donuts and the like) because there is so much more and better flavor out there that is not due to just adding tons of sugar.

There is more at stake. Imagine if shazaam radio got the contract and thus 40 bucks a month lets you listen to unlim shazaam (+ their 2 dollar fee). Whereas a competitor like pandora is not in any way blocked, you just have to pay 10 bucks a month to metropcs and then a whooping 1.3 bucks a month for pandora service. Guess who will win out in the war for the user. Shazaam can suck ass compared to pandora, but other than the fanbois, there will be mostly shazaam subscribers.

Wikileaks is not even in the picture here. This is pure 1st amendment issue. A provider can provide a completely unfair advantage in the "open" market to another company over their competitors. Imagine if television networks could chose to only show republican campaign messages, and ignore all democrat ones. Its the same issue.

Target: Businesses. Your executives can get a tablet. It will run windows so IT can lock it down. It will run ms outlook. It will piss people off after 2 days of using it.

Thats the strategy (xept for the last part).

I can't think of any other rationale that will keep my sanity.

I am not surprised.

When you have a job where the masses cannot achieve it simply by going through school, and finding a worker is very hard as the right one is one in a handfull, and a good worker can save tons of money for companies, or even make companies, or do wonders, I am in no surprise about this.

My wife is a speach pathologist. Don't get my wrong I am in no way playing down her job. She had to study for more than I did, and it is no easy task. However now that she has a job, her interview is "when can you start" literally. There are too many jobs for speech pathologists; they are needed everywhere. And too little speech pathologists out there.

So basically when the demand is a lot higher than the supply, that job will be the best one to be in. As many studies and as tons of experience notes it, many programmers can't program. Which means that for the good ones, work is easy to find. The technological boom has just started... what 10 years or so of heavy tech advances that penetrated our culture, and 30 years of just advances? Everyone wants a piece of the pie but as people realize you need the right people.

I remember during the dot com burst, many of my family friends were getting laid off, could not find work. My family was telling me that programming is a dead end job that you DONT want to be in. I stood my ground, and it was worth it. However it is most definitely not for everyone. Those getting fired left and right who cold not get another job, yea they had their 1 year of training in "programming" and could not tell you what a thread is to save their life.

I'm sorry, this is a bit dumb. The senate was not founded because "we cannot trust the people" but because in the senate EACH STATE has equal power, regardless of size, while in the congress each state has power proportinal to the population. This ensures that small states with 0.2% of the population are not entirely ignored in all politial matters because they might literally have the ability to break ties, no more. It might wind up being that ruling NY + NJ + FL + TX + CA would give you enough power to outvote every single other state.

The senate is critical and not to be abolished.

"we have no choice but to back him. That would hold even if we did not agree with the material!"

Reminds me of a Frankin quote: "Sir, I disagree with you, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it."

Atheists: Does not believe in god or gods. Possibly even no belief in the supernatural.

Agnostic: Does not follow any particular religion, does believe in god or gods.

We need tiny spy camera attachments which work on bluetooth with your cellphone. These should be cheap to make (a couple of bucks) and everyone should have one with their phones. This way we can record without police knowing.

Wait, how is this any different than google?

Linux is a bit different than people expect:

To me linux is everything under the hood. The File System, The Kernel, the Open Sourcing of the two, and everything built on top of that.

"I can't stand linux" only tells me that you need to log off from the internet because guess what most is run on.

Android cannot be the new "windows" because alot of decisions leading up to windows in it's current incarnation were driven by the anti-competitive nature of Microsoft. Android takes the best aspects of windows' business strategies and incorporates them in an open environment.

So I guess if you are saying android is the phone to run on a bunch of random hardware which will outsell apple, yes, android is the new windows of cellphones. In the end it's closer to a user-friendly linux.

This article is crap. In the end of the day it is EXACTLY as Al Franklen put it "net neutrality is the 1st amendment issue of our generation." The government sees an oportunity to dub someone/something as "evil" and "anti american" and of course proposes laws that would allow it to police such information. There is no conspiracy. Wikileaks is trying to do good, and naturally once you start going after the alpha dog, he will bite, and one on one you are shit out of luck... going to die.

So they need to create paid versions and you pay for this stuff. A game of the same caliber of angry birds would sell for 20 bucks or so as a computer game. There you go, shell out the money. Oh wait since everyone wants it for free you better be willing to pay something. That something is something people see little value in giving away, but is of high value to advertisers.

Note the word "SUSPECTED". A suspect cannot even be held at a police station for questioning. Big difference between arrested and suspected.

Post 9/11 though the patriot act has done some unholy horrors to our due process.

Incorrect. When someone is ARRESTED for a crime (not suspected) they are imprisoned. If them fleeing is not a problem, they may post bail which is money held for ransom to be returned when you go to court. If you don't go to court there will be a bounty on you.

Long story short, innocent until proven guilty. Not vice versa.

HA! Facebook login required. Screw it.

That says what I wanted in less words. I like it. You probably have good comments.

I believe thats commenting on what your intentions are behind something unclear (or making something that looks wrong look right because of xyz) vs commenting on something that could easily be solved by better naming/conventions.

I feel in all cases of this questions (say RoR vs Ruby) the answer must ALWAYS be "learn the language first, then learn the framework". If you don't you will do the following:

a) Write bad code (you barely know the syntax)

b) Get really confused, and thus either start hating it, or simply not able to take full advantage of the framework.

c) Do roundabout ways to solve a problem when there is a very simple solution, but you not understanding the language still made the mistake.

d) Hit a big brick wall when looking at code others made.

I made this sort of mistake before. It is a bad mistake to make.

However to note: jQuery makes dom manipulation fairly easy. It is in no way a replacement to javascript, only the browser's dom lib calls. You just wind up not writing a bunch of utility functions to handle the different ways to get at the same information in the browser. Plus I like the syntax.