amurmann

Knowing nothing about aviation, I find air planes with one engine very scary. Even when I am not traveling in it, since I don't want one to fall on me either. So I am glad we probably won't see millions of these "flying cars" being sold. If I imagine to have one of these fall off the sky as often as I see broken down cars on the side of the freeway...

What I find appalling about the Zynga, the Facebook and the Groupon IPO is that people at the top who actually are responsible for the mess can cash out early whereas people at the bottom who have to rely on people at the top who already cashed out themselves. CEOs and founders should have to wait longest to sell their stock. This would protect not only employees who get stock, but also investors who bought stock early on. There would be much higher incentive to build an actually working company instead of having a scammy IPO followed by a quick cash out. It's one thing if a company fails and everyone loses. It's another if everyone loses, but people who are most responsible get many millions.

Well that's not true for everyone. I live in a nice loft in the Dogpatch and have a nice BayView. I would never trait that for a shitty Victorian. I would be happy if 90% of victorians were to be torn down to build some nice bright lofts with up-to-date amenities. That being said. There is A LOT of construction happening in the Mission Bay and Dogpatch area.

I would argue that this is actually an advantage of story points. You don't know who will be working on it at estimation time. But a 2-pointer should take any developer about twice as long as it would take the same developer to do a 1-pointer. If you have many super fast, very senior developers you get more points done and have a higher velocity. That's where the speed will be reflected and you can see how much your team can get doen in one iteration. This allows you to plan your iteration without having to care who works on any given story.

Apparently the White House petition page uses Mongo and has no dedicated 500 side. I am sure the tax payer paid many millions for this

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MongoCursorException: couldn't determine master in MongoCollection->findOne() (line 22 of /mnt/codebase/petition-release-2012-07-11/sites/all/modules/contrib/mongodb/mongodb_cache/mongodb_cache.inc)."

Totally agree. CSS has media queries for that: http://blog.iwalt.com/2010/06/targeting-the-iphone-4-retina-...

Same here. I find it absolutely astonishing that they don't tell you how to get it. I had no idea how to get this. It wasn't even clear to me if this was an Android app or a web page. Especially from just looking at the pictures and without watching the video (which I am usually reluctant to do).

I wonder if they assumed it would be obvious to everyone or just didn't car.

Is that distinction into two parts, how you are seeing the world, or are you quoting the Chinese government? If it's your view, can you please elaborate, why you see this as the way to spli up the world, rather than let's say "the world is split up into EMEA, Americas and Asia, to give another arbitrary split.

As to the features Apple announced: There are multiple parts that play into this: First the completely different character set, which requires it's own input system and secondly that the Chinese government try's to cut foreign Internet services off and encourages local solutions it can control/manipulate. Those two issues require to address this market separately. Similar things, however might be true for other markets as well (maybe for different root causes) like let's say in Japan or North Korea. However, these markets aren't big enough to warrant effort on this scale. So I see this as a bad indicator to substantiate separating the world this way. If there was higher monetary value for Apple in this, weight see theworldseparated into Butan andtherest, with the same argument.

So you think that if you write everything from scratch it won't have any flaws? Of course it will have flaws, you just won't know about it.

I think we did not see new Mac Pros and new iMacs because Apple wants to update them to use a retina display as well. I think it's more likely that Apple expects the displays to be available soon than that Apple doesn't care about these lines anymore. If Apple wants to update the big screens, it will need to update the iMac and the Thunderbolt displays at the same time. Since the MacPro should be able to use the Thunderbolt retina display, it probably should be updated at the same time. I might be wrong that it's the screens they are waiting for, maybe it's the graphics cards, but I am sure all those product lines will be updated at the same time and they all will get Retina and probably within the next 6 months.

There already are laws against identity theft, so we don't need another one that has the convenient side effect of adding more ways to cut free speech. This law might be used in rare cases like this, but probably more often to shut up negative opinions about policy and large companies.

Now that you pointed this out, I notice similarities in writing style to the first chapter of American Psycho.

Can you explain why you think this is crap? Don't you think it's important that attnion is brought to every human rights violation everywhere?

With the same logic the US human rights report should not contain anything about other countries that respect human rights better than th US. That would lead to the exclusion of most other western countries from the report.

Everyone should be allowed to point out everyone else's human rights violations. Sadly most western countries are not gonna confront the US on this because they don't want to harm relations.

Can anyone say how this compares to mediaelementjs? They seem to be very similar. I liked mediaelement.js, but ran into massive problems when using it in a colorbox under IE8.

Wouldn't jkl; be even better for that? (not saying that hjkl isn't a huge step up form the arrow keys)

I find it very depressing that the US space program now has come down to have to produce ads like this...

>"Ideally, what I would like (and I think most people would like) is something of the form factor of a MacBook Air (thin and light), that has a detachable touch-screen that can run apps written for iOS or Android, and when the screen is connected to the main body, acts like a fully-functioning laptop."

To make the screen detachable you would need to have everything in the screen section which, as others already pointed out, makes for a awkward weight distribution. Years ago I've seen a laptop with a touch screen where you were able to pivot the screen and close it with the display pointing up. So the laptop was closed, but you were still able to use the touch screen. A MacBook Air with where you can do that and that can run iOS Apps would in my eyes be the perfect solution.

In February 2009, before Wikileaks was well known, I listened to an interview (http://www.kuechenradio.org/wp/?p=366) with the back then German representative of wikileaks. Back then they had the problem that big media didn't care about anything that came out of wikileaks. They thought that part of the reason for the lack of attention was that no publication wanted to use a lot of pages for material that was accessible to their competitors as well. The practices Wikileaks employs today might be against the intended ethos, but have sure shown to be effective and are this way better for the cause.

I wonder how long it will take until it is illegal to have a human driving a car. I am sure self-driving cars will cause much fewer accidents. Even better: once all human-driven cars are gone, traffic can be organized incredibly efficiently, esp in areas without human interference like on Freeways. Cars won't need to stop anymore. Traffic lights could communicate when they will be red or green well in advance and allow cars to slow down or speed up a little. That would greatly increase fuel efficiency and allows prevention of traffic jams.

As a developer and anti-corporatist I think this is a thread to our freedom and will eventually result in the MacAppStore being a giant rip-off for developers. However, as a son of parents who don't understand the difference between their Apple account and their Google account and call him because a webpage tells them that they have a virus and should download some shady program right now, I can appreciate this security measure.

"In particular, it thinks that, with the open access mandate, research institutions will stop subscribing to the journals, and instead decide to wait 12 months to get the research for free."

So? That would be a sign that the value the journal adds by selecting what get's published is apparently not worth the price they are charging. In fact, why wait 12 months? If that leads to journals going out of business, there work wasn't worth the money. Of course there will be a need to organzie journal access, but I am sure that will be figured out super fast and the result will be cheaper and better, than what the Journals are doing right now. After all it's a problem we are solving on the Internet all the time.

That also was the most interesting part of the article for me. I would really like to hear more about that.

This is once again caused by education inflation. It's easier for the HR department to compare formal education than to really look at the applicant. So Master's degree wins over Bachelor's wins over solid vocational training and society carries the cost.

"Microsoft's Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with 40.63%."

"In the US Internet Explorer continues to perform strongly and is maintaining market share at 50.66%"

I am very surprised to see that IE is so much stronger in the US. I always thought IE was strong in Asia and that that lead to its high market share. Does anyone have a theory as to why IE is stronger in the US than in the rest of the world?

Living in SF and paying the super high rent, I think it would make sense. If there was a nice bus with Wifi that allows for a good commute, that might be a good option. I would miss the SF lifestyle however, esp. in Modesto. A lot of the advantage of being here is that you meet a lot of people. However, you might meet a lot of people on the bus... I personally would want the incubator not to be located in Modesto however. Maybe there is some nice little town north along the 101?

It's more of a systemic problem with how democracy (if you want to call it that) works in this country. The costs of running a successful, political campaign are unbelievably high and contributions from corporations and lobby organizations play a major role in it. For all practical purposes, you only get the choice between two huge parties. Not only is a large segment of the population pretty much bound to one party, since they would never ever vote for the other party, but for those people who actually might swing their vote, there are even more issues at hand. Even if you wanted to use corruption as your single decision criterium, the choice would be hard. Both parties managed to stay pretty en par in that and that's all they needed to do. The brain washing that the campaign contributions pay for also work really well. It's astonishing what unimportant tiny events change in the polls before a presidential election. There is a complete decoupling from reality, once the race nears the finish.

If we want a better working system, we need a better democratic process. Sadly the US was a pioneer in that and is still stuck with a system, that was brilliant for its time, but needs updating. We need a system that allows more than two parties to participate and we need better campaign funding regulation.

That's the only way we can permanently stop BS like this

Video game consoles are always sold below production costs and money is made on game sales. Maybe that could have been a viable model for the touch pad. Sell the pad for cheap and make the money with app purchases

Finally we might get smart bots in video games!

I like the idea of having a service like this. However, I am worried about having one centralized service for this kind of thing. Interested parties, like certain government agencies will have a high interest in hacking it. I hope no one who really needs a dead man's switch as an insurance will use this service, if it ever get's big.