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I think this is a great success for RPi. Demand exceeded expectations. They always said the first batch would be 10,000 in size, and that's been eaten up in minutes (or probably seconds).

I would rather they had a small initial run first, that didn't take so long to get to market, and allowed them to test the waters tentatively. The alternative would have been to take a much larger risk, longer lead time, and bigger upfront cost to make a bigger batch.

We're always advocating that companies should ship small and early and then iterate to refine their product. This is a MVP from them. If I was involved I would be extremely proud and overjoyed at this.

all the complainers should take a step back and relax. What's the worst that has happened because you couldn't get you hands on this just yet? It's not as though you have lost money, missed deadlines, or anything else. Just give the consumerism a rest for a while.

As for RS Components' and Farnell's reputation as businesses...

PS. I did get up at 6am to try and order a board, but wasn't too disappointed when I couldn't get on the RS website. I can wait another month or so.

What is this meant to be? All I see is a link to a page displaying a QR code. What is wrong with just clicking through to a page with the content on it these days?

Also I would recommend going for an IPS monitor if you want to use it vertically, as it has a much wider viewing angle compared to TN monitors.

Maybe VS crashing is the symptom, and you should look for the cause around the fact that your solution has 80,000 files within it?

Agreed. Seen so many of these initiatives come and go at various companies.

The only thing that worked, and people reverted back to wasn't the "sexiest" of solutions - An email list. Data gets pushed to you, you don't have to be logged into a specific application or site to view it.

Setup some tags in the subject header, and some rules to filter on those tags.

Bluetooth to your android phone could be an option?

> Google sounds like an exceptionally disciplined software-engineering company indeed! This to me implies they do NOT need Agile.

This implies discipline and Agile (big 'A') are mutually exclusive. From my experience you have to be very disciplined to do Good Agile (and I have experience of Bad Agile too).

Why do you say that? What's wrong with doing a hobby for more that 2-3 hours a day?

No mention of KhanAcademy under education?

Yes I didn't think Edison the [business] man was so ruthless and underhand. Always viewed him as a genius inventor and all round good egg.

The glare on that 17inch touchscreen was quite bad. I think the angle it's mounted at doesn't help either.

My previous car had automatic keyless entry. If the key is not in the car then an audible beep sounds. Be quite difficult to miss that. I wonder if the above anecdotes are based on after market installations?

Agreed, it looks like a standard 5 seater sedan/saloon. I'm so conditioned to how cars should look, I just cannot figure out how (or where) the two additional seats are placed. I really wish they are successful with this.

I've not come across the article before. The section on coupling tests to implementation I guess is the most pertinent part (http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html#Coupli...).

> Coupling to the implementation also interferes with refactoring, since implementation changes are much more likely to break tests than with classic testing.

Fowler acknowledges two different styles of tests - state/behaviour also can be termed as classic/mockist. He doesn't really advocate one over the other. I do mock when I have to, but only when there is no other way to setup my test. It is certainly not the default. I find that taking this approach does not make my tests brittle, and makes them robust enough to handle the majority of refactoring exercises.

Of course YMMV.

Agreed refactoring method signatures will cause tests to break, but they should be relatively trivial to fix.

Black box tests are not limited to behavioral or system integration testing. you can black box at the unit level. In fact if you are doing proper TDD you will write the tests first, which help to define the interface of the class under test, make sure the test fails to ensure you are testing for something, and then finally write the implementation to make the test pass. Such an approach implies it is black box as you've defined your interface before your implementation.

Remember you are testing what it does, not how it does it.

Sounds like your test were quite brittle, if refactoring application code causes tests to break. A good mental rule I use is: "test the what not the how". It also a good reason to program (and test) to interfaces than to the implementation, although you have to be careful with this as it is all too easy to go OTT in your use of design patterns. You have to know how to strike the right balance.

And you could substitute "Hollywood" for any other industry out there. Isn't this just how the business world rolls?

I think it requires about 5w of power so yes. In fact I'm planning on getting a micro usb solar opwer pack to use with it if I can get my hands on a board.

My colleague just tried it with Tesco Mobile which runs on O2 on his Galaxy S2 and his number was in the header.

Oh and one other major point. when eating with hands you should ALWAYS wash your hands either just before you sit at the table or at the table.

Is the phone call usually that important that you can't wait. Oh and when eating with your hands it's usually with you right hand. Your not meant to use your left as that's for other things (when you go to the restroom).

Here in the UK. You get looks if you go to an Indian restaurant and eat flatbread (Naan) with a knife and fork.

Or if you're not western - washing your hands every time you use the restroom.

It's all about perspective.

Wow! This article is a trending tweet here in the UK.

So this sounds like a double edged problem - 1. The actual cost of producing films, as you've mentioned already does it really have to cost so much? Technology could help with this but I don't think is the only solution. 2. The financing of the movie - what if some kind of mutual fund/investment vehicle was created that only invested in film productions? look to individuals as well as institutions for investors.

Incidentally Francis Ford Coppola's comments quoted below are quite telling. If we are viewing movies as an art form then the cost (and revenue) generated should be a lot lower. If it is viewed as entertainment then it will be run as a business; making money will trump creativity and artistry every time.

How about a way of opening up financing to the public? Ideas get pitched, and the public can invest - kickstarter for movies?

We've had fan-fiction, this would fan-financing.

I'd say it was more inefficiency than freeloading.

That's not a desk, that's a shelf attached to the wall.

"If your head is always in the rushes, you'll never get the opportunity to see the water, until its right upon you."

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> Admit it - you have no evidence other than anecdotes to prove that signs cause material harm

Could you then show some evidence for the below quote? -

> Basically, the economy in that city is worse off overall as a result, and there are fewer jobs to go around.