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Yeah, this comic must have been designed to destroy my pathfinding algorithms.

Can't tell ... if trolling ... or serious.

Even Apple has gotten around to selling a stylu^H^H^H^H^H Pencil for your tablet; Microsoft has been _pushing_ theirs for years, and Samsung uses it as a differentiating factor on their smartphones.

Additionally they could simply blind themselves with the glare from pointing a strong directional LED light towards dense smoke.

I noticed lots of spaces like this in a trip to northern Italy, as well. Buildings push right up to the sidewalk, and surround private courtyards with a single entrance.

Not sure how communal these spaces are, but I presume not all of these blocks of buildings were owned by single families.

This is the only VHS cassette I own -- tracked down just a few short years ago.

Nice pitch, and I'm impressed with what I've skimmed so far (the reddit community for your game is obviously quite active).

I think I may have found a replacement for my long-unquenched Subspace cravings!

Nice link. Makes you wonder what biomimicry might bring to drones in a couple of generations. Maybe in addition to a set of propeller motors, you could have a couple of servos running small deployable "fan-like fins" (or is that fin-like fans?) for fast maneuvering where just changing prop speed won't quite cut it.

I think performance is the reason, but that's only speculation from a long-time JavaScript developer with plenty of in-the-trenches experience on resource-constrained platforms.

The platforms that do not shy away from data and embrace mutability at all times -- I believe those are called databases, and when necessarily distributed for scale, that mutability is the enemy of consistency.

Title needs year!

Are we supposed to bask in your prescience? How has your quest for non-Google services progressed in the near-year since that post?

Has anyone dug up a higher-resolution stream for this?

Admins: Please decorate title with year for posts dredged up from the archives.

This post is from 2005.

Thank you for your detailed and informative response!

> The fastest way to fan out messages efficiently between a group is through one node that is always online.

I am curious to know what you're basing this statement on --"Fast" and "efficient" are not necessarily related.

(For instance, there seems to have been an explosion of decentralized message-queueing mechanisms available for coordinating distributed software systems. A centralized system can suffer from efficiency issues as easily as a decentralized one.)

As a Web developer and Internet Citizen (TM), I can't wait for Facebook to complete their AOL-ification, which will surely include its eventual death spiral.

Rage-deleted my account after getting tired of being constantly presented with reminders of parts of my life that should have been moved-on-from, except Facebook decides what parts of your life you should be seeing.

If Facebook hadn't steamrolled Evite due to the sheer percentage of general population with accounts, I don't think I'd have any regrets whatsoever. People have to go out of their way to invite me to things, which has definitely had an effect on my specific social network.

Also interested in this. Lots of talk on individual components but less out there on wiring up multiple components, some of which may be abstract and do not have a representation in the DOM.

A great article, yes, but old. Title needs "(2014)".

Wish I could delete my comment; fixed for me in the mentioned build (on Yosemite).

This. Easily reproduced and extremely annoying!

This project does sound like it would be a good match for Assembly's platform. Good eye!

Pretty sure this comment flew East of most readers' heads. ;)

Please don't apologize for Zynga. They are the meth dealers in the universe in which Uber are pimps.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

Doesn't Google own Waze[1]?

I'm surprised that you find Google Maps superior after the Waze acquisition; you'd think both products would be approaching a feature-equilibrium by now.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/google-maps-and-waze-...

> booking confirmations, purchase receipts, etc

But these are _exactly_ the things I, the user, want encrypted. I would probably even stop doing business with vendors that did not encrypt their transactional communications with me.

Sure, this is improperly titled -- needs "(2013)" -- but downvote me instead anyway.

It's pretty disappointing to get to the bottom of an article linked from HN only to find that the existing discussion is more than a year old and fairly stale. The HN community as a whole must have decided they agree because old posts get marked as such with their year in the title.

Another article from 2013? Am I in a HN timewarp?

Your recitation of his response does not address the OP's point, and my smarmy comment was downvoted.

So, let's see if we can work up this wishy-washy analogy a bit.

I like to eat food. (I like to use software.)

Much of the food I eat is prepared by vendors who employ 100% documented citizens or immigrants with valid visas. (Much of the software I use is 100% Free.)

Some of the vendors employ undocumented immigrants. (Some of the software I use contains nonFree components.)

My ability to get this food from these vendors depends on a number of other vendors - even a simple sandwich needs bread, meat, vegetables and condiments all sourced from and delivered by companies that may or may not employ undocumented immigrants.

I may purchase a completely prepared meal and eat it at home. (I may install and run boxed software locally on my machine.) I may purchase ingredients and prepare a meal from scratch. (I may obtain source code and locally build software to run on my machine.) I may purchase both raw ingredients and some pre-cooked food to take on a picnic. (Modern software distribution is complex, and "using a website" is a vague reference umbrella.)

In each of these scenarios, to eat my desired meal, I may need to source an ingredient produced by a complex system chain which may or may not have involved undocumented immigrants. Tracking this information down for every ingredient is tedious, but I agree should absolutely be possible.

I could prepare all of my meals myself, in my own kitchen, and source all of the raw ingredients from a small number of vendors whom I trust. I would probably have a limited number of basic ingredients to work with at the beginning. I would probably be able to produce reasonably healthy, functional meals. I would not be able to produce a rich menu that appealed to a variety of tastes, however. (A basic GNU system is pretty functional but you've got to wire up most things yourself.) I would have to work with these vendors frequently and would spend much more time managing the ingredients in my kitchen and preparing meals. I would also likely be limited in what I could produce by my locality and kitchen equipment. (Data must be created locally and hardware must be self-managed.)

I might trust these same vendors to prefabricate side dishes (system libraries) or larger heat-at-home dishes (application source bundles) that I integrate into my day-to-day meals. I may gain some variety because they can prepare dishes that I do not have the skill or kitchen equipment to prepare myself. (The trust that I confer on these vendors for not using undocumented immigrant labor does not prevent me from contracting a case of salmonella. [Heartbleed.])

I can get food in many forms from many varieties of vendors - delivered meals, take-out meals from a restaurant eaten at home, sit-down meals at a restaurant, meals from a food truck eaten on a nearby patio, meals from a food truck eaten at home... (Apps, desktop, websites, servers. Simply browsing the modern web means code runs in response to your every input on hundreds of machines around the globe.)

Sometimes my act of eating employs undocumented immigrants. Crap.

There is evidence for birth-order influence of a fetus' genetic development. [1] When a mother has a male child, subsequent male children may not receive the same developmental antibody responses.

The time we spend gestating has a huge effect on our development and is completely independent of the "momentary genetic dice roll" that happened immediately previous.

[1] Sources referenced in the index of Matt Ridley's 1999 book "Genome": Vines, G (1997). Where did you get your brains? _New Scientist_, 3 May 1997: 34-9; Lefebvre, L., Viville, S., Barton, S. C., Ishino, F., Keverne, E. B. and Surani, M. A. (1998). Abnormal maternal behaviour and growth retardation associated with loss of the imprinted gene Mest. _Nature Genetics_ 20: 163-9.

Downvoted for truthspeaking. Awesome.

Title needs "[2013]" added. This article (and its discussion) is over a year old.

I don't understand the point here either.

The code that generated the resource you're viewing, regardless of script content, may not be Free. The code running the server may not be Free, and that might not be part of the details of the transmission. There is probably plenty of nonFree code in the hardware that got your packets there and back.

How the Hell does Stallman even use the Internet?