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It's kind of ridiculous that they don't tell you how you can get this font. There's no download or buy button

Major strategic blunder: the whole world was updating their proprietary map data for them, but they failed to engineer the process to be spam-proof. Now they've had to stop accepting contributions as a result. Many contributors are likely to switch to updating someone else's map data, and Google risks no longer having the most up-to-date maps of the entire planet. Larry Page needs to kick some ass.

I assume the side-by-side view is rendered from the raw file with comments inline? Is this using some kind of comment markup language?

Where can I find out more about cool ways to render comments like this?

Because if you give someone a URL to C code and they run it, you have effective gotten them to remotely execute your code ;-)

If a cyclist invested the weekly time he spent shaving his legs in extra training instead, would he be better off?

This is especially useful during the World Cup, when you quickly glance at bits of many games and are unfamiliar with the teams and colours and flags

Why put the scores on top of each other? The team on the left should be on the left, and the team on the right on the right. Many channels use this left-right layout, but they fail to swap it around at half-time, when the teams change sides!

2nd coolest thing I ever saw, just behind Psy's Gangnam Style :-)

Maybe if you want to sell commodity stuff (furniture or cars or beer), but not for innovation. How many ground-breaking tech things have emerged from Africa? Very few. And that's unlikely to change any time soon.

Interesting conjecture. I would like to see if there's any hard data to support that.

> The world is full of examples of people who work heroically only to meet chronic failure.

I'll bet that a large percentage of those people worked in Africa

FYI: I've lived in San Francisco for 1.5 months, and I've met plenty people who have lived and worked abroad.

I'm not sure what your point is.

Exactly! You're more likely to fail for reasons beyond your control (like no electricity, bad Internet) in African than in San Francisco.

But those things ARE actually under your control. Just move to San Francisco :-)

Remember that immigration effort is once-off, and the payoff is life-long.

You've found an excuse to give up on your dreams, have you?

I genuinely wish those who "feel for Africa" the best of luck in their endeavors to improve it. I'm just not one of them. I urge anyone who thinks they feel this obligation to carefully consider it: is it genuine, or is it just an excuse to stay in your comfort zone?

I was born in Africa and I'm trying to get out right now. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. I didn't get as good a deal in the birthplace lottery as Steve Jobs and others born in Silicon Valley, but I'll be damned if I'll use that as an excuse for a life of mediocrity.

Frankly, if the factors you describe are really what's stopping you from reaching your goals, you're likely to fail anyway.

Get out of Africa. Africa will steal your life.

If you choose to stay in Africa and have your potential limited by silly things like bad Internet and no electricity, then make that choice consciously, and for good reasons, like wanting to be near family. If you stay because you feel some deeper connection to Africa because you were born there, get over it. Get out of your comfort zone, live your own life. Consider carefully the costs of maintaining that irrational connection. Personally, I think it's a cop out, an excuse to be mediocre. It's a global world, stop thinking locally.

What would Elon Musk have achieved had he stayed in Africa? Substantially less. Get yourself into an environment that is supportive of your dreams and goals, not one that works against you.

Me too. Suffered a mild heart attack :-)

I'd love to know if the partition was completely wiped as you describe. It's a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.0.4. It's the /data partition on the internal storage, I think.

How would I find out?

It was an Android "Settings > Reset", not from within the app

Doesn't work for Bitcoin Wallet on Android :-(

I lost some Bitcoins on an old phone that used Bitcoin Wallet (https://github.com/schildbach/bitcoin-wallet) by doing "Settings > Reset".

I tried using this app to find them by dumping the /data partition, but no luck. Apparently it uses a different wallet format:

The wallet file format is not compatible to wallet.dat (Satoshi client). Rather, it uses a custom protobuf format which should be compatible between clients using bitcoinj.

Any ideas on how to find such coins?

Ctrl+ doesn't fix leading (spacing between lines).

Is it really that hard to make sure you understand a comment before posting a frivolous reply?

@pg: Your blog would be MUCH more readable if you made this change:

<font size="4" face="verdana" style="line-height: 2em">

Right now, a great sadness comes over me when I think about reading one of your articles :-)

There's a lot wrong with the US, but this kind of thinking is exactly what's right with it