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I'm curious why they didn't qualify the FS700 (considering they include the FS7) or any external recorders. Being able to record straight to a pair of SSD's in an Odyssey would seem preferable to dealing with Sony's bolt-on recorder + proprietary cards.

its confusing at second, third, fourth looks too. I use Fabric and Crashlytics pretty heavily and still end up here a few times a month without thinking.

SoureKit, which seems to drive a lot of the Xcode Swift features, is open source: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/master/tools/SourceKit

I believe when they flipped the switch to default to SMB it was actually to SMB 3 in 10.10.

Anecdotally, I'd always found AFP in the Tiger and Leopard days to be faster than whichever version of SMB support was included at the time. Now I use the default SMB3 and it seems that 802.11ac and gigabit are bottlenecks (of course its 10 years later in the times of SSD's as well)

Taginfo[1] provides statistics on tags in use and there's a huge amount of documentation for tags (differences between tags, how to use them in certain situations, etc) in the wiki.

As an example, the page for highway tags[2] is quite rich.

[1] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway

Interesting news, though I'm curious how many people were using just Cassandra without the additional text search and geospatial functionality provided by Elasticsearch. Would make sense if Amazon was looking into a plugin for CloudSearch as well.

From what I understand, they weren't really pushing to become an Apache project (Tinkerpop did, though). That said, I thought activity was pretty much dead also until I took a look at the 0.9 branch: https://github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/tree/titan09

therealmarv mentioned 1.7.3 (coming in the next few days): https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/5572

Not quite, according to that graphic the moon is nearly 10x further away than the GEO distance

I believe I've read in the past that its a play on "Ad-Hoc".

Yes, also disappointed its not about hockey.

Did PGOpenCL ever get released in any form? I've seen that PDF over and over again, but never any product or code.

I like this strategy a lot.

When you release something that, on day one, already has 'dated' graphics, you don't have to worry about keeping up with the latest graphics cards or poly-counts or anything of the sort. Its just about the game. Like Legos there are countless others, The Game of Life (Milton Bradley, not Conway) has been around since the 1800's. The beauty of this is that you've never completely saturated since kids are coming of age every day and growing into the game.

I honestly don't recall seeing much, if any, evangelism to the extremes of "hey you don't need a relational database anymore" as it relates to Cassandra. Talks I've seen have generally focused on using it as a tool to fit a specific niche/do something that the existing RDBMS wasn't optimal for.

Disclosure: C* User

I read a bunch of your posts the other day when you linked in what IIRC was a thread asking about HN'ers working in non-tech.

Really thoughtful and well-written stuff, thank you for writing.

While not cheap, these likely weren't an extravagant expenditure (probably a few hundred thousand each).

This seems like part of the noise of a company trying many different things and cutting their losses when it makes sense. The only real difference is that we don't see many of these other projects because they can fit in a building

Net Neutrality issues aside (even though they scare me), it bothers me that they'd produce this in English as only 16% of the population speaks English.[0] A tiny percentage of Zambians claim English as their first language, what about the rest of the people who either don't have access to schools (where English is taught[1]) or don't have the level of comprehension required to navigate.

I would venture a guess that by filtering the numbers of English speakers by those who own mobile phones you'd jack up the percentage of English speakers, still.. this feels like it was designed more as a play to drive new users to sites than to genuinely get good information into the hands of those who need it.

Of course, I can't actually find the app anywhere, so if it were to come out that the app actually includes Bemba or Nyanja localizations.. I'd be taking a different tone. (FWIW, Facebook doesn't appear to support either [2])

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Zambia

[2] https://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml

Did that really happen? My iTunes library lived primarily on a Windows box until 2 years ago and the only weirdness I can think of was Apple breaking some of Microsoft's windowing conventions.

To be fair, the MS Office experience on OS X is about the same: pretty normal with some things slightly off.

Republic, Lost[0] is a really good read on this (even if it is by Lessig himself). He lays out how he would see the process working, I believe at the Presidential level. The basic idea is running on a platform that promises change as well as a commitment to step down once said change is accomplished. With the amount of money already wrapped up in politics (especially between two large parties), it strikes me as a tough sales pitch for either party's old guard.

To your point about there not being enough money in politics: I'd agree with you if money existed in a vacuum for its own sake. The question should arguably be is there enough/too much purchasable influence in politics.

[0]http://republic.lessig.org

Beyond carrying weapons or higher-that-prosumer-quality video equipment, they are not all that different. UAS go from the sized aircraft one would typically think of as "military drone" to the small hand-launched aircraft used by people on the ground [0]. Using a submarine<->boat analog I'd argue with as the overall physics and operating principles of the two are hugely different.

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/12/us-military-min...

The problem was traditionally the link between the northbridge (which connects connects the CPU and RAM) and the southbridge (handles peripheral connections like SATA, PCI, PCI-E, etc) components of the motherboard. Intel has now changed their architecture in the last 4 or 5 years to be a single Platform Controller Hub where the CPU provides the functionality previously found in the northbridge chip.

In this particular case, a "faster motherboard" might have helped with pushing updates to the GPU faster, though my guess is that graphics memory becomes the concern with double the resolution (which in turn needs to have updates pushed by the CPU, so it could help anyway)

Even within Beats own line there are the decidedly "lower" and "higher" end models.

The interesting thing, to me, about this is that Beats (the headphone, not the streaming music service) has the high price and is currently high-school chic, but similar things have been said about Apple. In Apple's case they're aided by the product's function being on par with the design.. The Beats stuff seems to consistently fall short of the quality of sound offered by Sennheiser and Sony's stuff.

FWIW, Amazon recently added the ability to load balance across AZ's (Still round-robin though)

git-grep is indescribably awesome. To be fair though, I search github pretty frequently because it means I can search issues also. If issues were git repos themselves it would be a different ballgame.

I think randomly added 'meow' and other animal noises would be pretty funny. Might actually be a disincentive to paying for those who can laugh a little

PostGIS is awesome... the geometry functions built into vanilla Postgres provide an interesting set of functionality that almost no one seems to know about. points, boxes, circles, intersection/distance/etc functions. Really cool stuff!

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-geometric...

Unfortunately, the non-smart choices pretty much leave you with tv's that have a real lack of connectivity since they appear to be the 'lower end' now.

Or there's always the paid Canonical support. But the thought of David Cameron hunched over a laptop having some tea and getting assistance from lazer420 in saving the NHS from the next heartbleed is priceless.

+1, its the most horrible form of advertising.

And also, yes.. it checks headers (just threw up an Express project and got this: http://i.imgur.com/xpyfv0C.png)

I'd find this to be the most likely scenario, have met lots of Microsoft employees and a surprising number of them were on board with open source + acknowledging mistakes. I'd love to think that it wasn't his performance that drove Ballmer out so much as his mismatch for the actual corporate culture of those beneath him.

Give it 5 years and agents will start calling those cube farms a "Retro and Quirky work environment"