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> Dieter Rams complained that the word “design” was ruined by the fashion industry and marketing. They sell products as “designer products” that aren’t necessarily good representations of good design. He suggested that we be called “Gestalt Engineers” - Gestalt is the German word for "form" or "shape".

Loved this line and the term "gestalt engineer".

So it's as if @nytimes also had @nytimes_broadcast and you could subscribe to get push notifications for latter's tweets.

To credit the original author, Github profile pages have evolved a lot since this project was created (~3 years ago) and much of what you see now is likely influenced by projects like this.

Node.js bindings (compatible with levelup) have already been released by rvagg: https://npmjs.org/package/rocksdb

Yes, in the U.S you can charge credit cards without a PIN for whatever amount you want. Yes, it's silly.

That seems to be their secret sauce. It's not NFC as that would not be compatible with existing mag-stripe readers. It has to be some method of emitting magnetic fluctuation.

The module system is indeed one of the best things about Node. I'm not sure it fits well into all languages and their ecosystems, but it's certainly interesting to try. For another example, here is an implementation for C: https://github.com/substack/dotc.

> A simple schedule for Philips Hue, so you can f.lux your house

You can pair your Philips Hue bulbs with f.lux! This is awesome! This kind of thing is very helpful for people who sleep odd hours or just have trouble going to sleep and waking up. Has anyone tried this or knows how it works?

> In one case, they said, Ulbricht paid $80,000 in bitcoins to have a former website employee tortured and killed after he was arrested. But according to prosecutors, the anonymity of Silk Road backfired on Ulbricht after he asked a purported drug smuggler to carry out the hit.

The smuggler was actually an undercover agent, the government said - the same agent who had arrested the employee.

Are there more details about this previous arrest?

Maybe he can find a firm that takes bitcons.

I guess Facebook wants Open Graph (and their other APIs) to eventually be the primary backend for apps. Makes sense.

The post doesn't mention the benchmark submitted to Top500 was with an array of ~1100 CC2 instances. (I think.)

This device looks great! The software looks like it could use some work, though. Does anyone know if the data is exportable?

The package name (nodejs-git 20110613-1) confused me. I assumed it was a snapshot from 2011-06-13, but after looking at the PKGBUILD file I see that it is cloning the github repo. My mistake.

> For example, if I try Node.js, I do not want the version of last year, but the latest.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=nodejs&d...

That is not a very impressive list.

> synch is not the killer feature it once was

I disagree. Mobile connectivity is going to continue being spotty for the foreseeable future and Couch's "store locally, sync whenever" paradigm is perfect for any application that needs to remain functional when not connected.

Pair it up with a Raspberry Pi! (raspberrypi.org)

This is big news. It confirms suspicions that the Stuxnet attack on Iran was not going to be a one-time thing. We now know that at least one group has already been running these types of attacks and surveillance all over the world for the past two years (with much more likely planned). In the coming years, this kind of thing is going to be the norm for nations and other organizations with the resources.