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This is one of the things I remember reading recently that got me really excited about 3D printing. Along with all the cool uses for consumers, it could be revolutionary for space travel. For instance, if a screw(/driver) was missing in space, they could in theory "just print one out."

> Was it just too expensive? That's possible, especially if these negotiations happened during the time Google massively raised the prices on its API

I think the figure was that Apple had $117bn or so IN CASH at the end of Q2. Whatever it was, money cannot have been the issue here. (Also, consider the cost of developing the new Maps.app in-house. Huge.)

Is it just me… or does this not look like it would "feel native" at all, from watching the video? (especially on iOS).

Not to deprecate the (I'm sure fast-maturing and ever-improving) work of the developer, but the lag and disconnect between its UI and the native UI just makes this completely not "native-feeling".

The video is also on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOvgfbBFZxk&feature=youtu...

Would definitely recommend… I was at the talk yesterday, very clever stuff.

It was indeed labelled as an "advanced talk" at EuroPython (I was at it yesterday).

> For an understanding of how limited international data links were as recently as the early 1990s, one of the key public data links between the US and Europe at the time was a 9660 baud link according to a dated, but fascinating, compendium of networking at the time

I, for one, would be fascinated to see this.

Would be great if there were support for more Regex types. All those supported by grep (ie. BRE, PRE, PCRE) seem fairly essential – and being a Python guy, Python would be nice too (which are PCRE-ish).

Nice work, though.

Reading this, it seems to imply that key exchange in TLS is an insecure process. This is not the case. Several (secure) key exchange mechanisms may be used, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch...

An article about what I assume to be a FB killer that requires a FB login. Yep.

Edit: Oh, and it also has a grammatical error in the subhead ("it's"). moves on

So… what are you proposing? We go back to the web as it was in 1995?

Nice work, but a magazine, really? Does seem a little 1996. (This is not a commentary on the content of said magazine at all)

Relevance: I, Pencil http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil

Seems to me a little investigation into the (many) ways rsyslog can be configured is in order here. It can be relatively simply configured to ship logs asynchronously, and reliably, to a remote log server, and buffer them on disk / in memory in the event the remote server is down. This is what we're doing, and it works very well.

http://rsyslog.com/doc/queues.html

http://rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html

(This isn't, however, to say the documentation on this stuff is easy to find / understand. The rsyslog documentation is definitely not the best.)

I've used this extensively before; brilliant little service, but I've recently started using the "REST Console" Chrome extension, which is bloody brilliant:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cokgbflfommojglbmb...

Well… Nokia kinda is. Check out the S40 Asha phones Nokia released today. (Though maybe they class as smartphones too?)

I agree. Posting links to Twitter is one thing, having discussions in Facebook comments with your friends quite another.

Two words: Turing test.

Note: Firefox 10 is still at least 12 weeks out: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases#Firefox_10

This a dreadful comparison. There is nothing to show depth of field; there's no comparison between performance in low-light and harsh-light conditions; no comparison between flashes. All-in-all, pretty useless.

It did for me. It required me to verify my Google password just to get to the Chrome Store. It does often.

There's also another version of it on http://charmseven.com/

<meta property="og:description" content="A ducati-inspired HTML5 experiment. For a fun time, try it on a retina display (pinch to open and close)."/>

I don't think this could be more wrong. Apple is not a company that makes jewellery; it's a company that makes the world's most intuitive technology.

Whether their phones are considered "bling" or not is immaterial. Apple's marketing strategy is a bit different to that: producing products that people want to buy not just because they're fashionable, but because they're the best in the world, and they help their users do more than improve their street-cred.

Siri is a massive step in the right direction (if it works as well as they say it does). The author is correct in that natural language interfaces have sucked bigtime, but I can't think of a company better positioned to restore confidence in it.

Maybe I'm missing something here… but is there a particular reason that you built your service atop what you admit yourselves to be a crap platform, other than "nobody else is doing it"?

Seems to me there's a reason nobody else was doing it.

I really don't see that this is a good idea. Icons are by definition graphical, they aren't textual. I can see the draw of having vector icons; but we have other technologies for that.

I know people are probably going to tell me an "SVG sprite" isn't possible, but I still maintain that abusing fonts and text like this is a bad idea, even if it does bag you cool CSS3 animations.

I may be misunderstanding the spec, but it looks like you have to be able to set element attributes for this approach to work, which I'm fairly certain you can't set with CSS. And I guess even if you can use JS to set the attributes, there's no way to set them on a pseudo-element anyway.

+1 on Jinja2. It's brilliant.

I'd be intereted to hear how it differs from Zepto (http://zeptojs.com/)

By comparison, Chromium (Chrome) has 28,299 open bugs.