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Clarification: the engineers on the AMS team played a critical role.

I was the person that actually managed the binary size task force and proved that it was a business problem in the first place. Not all management didn’t care about AMS :)

The Amsterdam team 100% played a critical role in solving the issue (at least until apple bumped the limit). No way we would have stayed under it without you all.

Because Apple would not have approved it.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

That's not true at all. You can use dynamic libraries; Swift modules produce .framework packages, which are dynamically linked.

A fun challenge is to try to write a quine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)] in an OISC.

Whoops! You're right.

I think the beard test is for OS developers.

The base price is susceptible to surge, the safe rides fee is not.

Late reply, but still.

Interesting. I'd never heard of this, but it makes sense. Whereabouts did you go to school?

If you have a Netgear WNDR3700v2 or a WNDR3800, check out Cerowrt [1]. The latest stable build, 3.7.5-2, has been exceptionally stable for me, and fast. I would highly recommend it.

1. http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt

How does this prove it is a bubble? If anything, isn't this evidence for the opposite? I expected the price to drop dramatically after the Silk Road shutdown.

He "sold his business in Indonesia."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5im2jwahdq...

This definitely is a problem in Obj-C. Using GCD and callbacks is usually easier to understand than delegates and manual thread management, but it's still not great. I would love to see something like async/await in Obj-C. There are some great ideas on how to get something similar in this blogpost, but none that I would use in production code unfortunately: http://overooped.com/post/41803252527/methods-of-concurrency

He should add Subleq or some other OISC! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer

Why wouldn't the same happen when we talk about other forms of prejudice, e.g., racism?

I have an iPhone 5 with 8GB free space and am experiencing lag and low frame rates quite a bit.

I like Sorcery. https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery It calls itself magical, but it is very easy to wrap your head around and override default behaviors if needed.

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This was submitted four months ago. See the previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627

It's all about the benjamins.

The author mentions Quora and Pocket as the only examples of hybrid apps he knows of. What about the LinkedIn app? I always thought that was a good example of a well-done hybrid app.

Neither does a very good job if a good UX is a concern. I haven't encountered any PhoneGap apps that feel native.

Hmm. It's tough to say. I see what you mean now. Food is one thing, because it doesn't carry the negative stigma that drug use does here. The US is also extremely friendly towards obesity, from what I see. Obese people do not undergo anywhere near the same amount of humiliation as they would elsewhere. You're completely right though that the food culture in the US is one of absurd excess. I'm just not sure that excess would carry over to drugs.

Re: cigarettes, they're actually smoked much less than in Europe, despite being cheaper and having less graphic warnings. Alcohol is certainly consumed differently as well, but most people grow up and stop binge drinking past a certain age.

I don't really know about the cigarette smuggling you're talking about, so I won't comment on that. If you can point me to an article about it, I'd be interested to read more. I do find it hard to believe that it's had the same effect on communities as drug trafficking in Northern Mexico.

The issue is less about whether people like El Chapo will profit on drugs and more about the 50,000 people murdered due to illegal trafficking. People might smuggle cigarettes, but they don't usually murder to do so.

I also think people would be much more willing to tax drugs than food. The reason food is not taxed more heavily is because of industrial heavyweights lobbying congress extensively. There is relatively little money spent in pro-legalization lobbying.

Furthermore, drug legalization in Portugal has made it easier to treat users of particularly dangerous drugs (such as heroin) and has in fact reduced use. Portugal might not have the same drug culture as the US, but it's still a promising result.

Looks awesome. Wish I could afford it.

Here's an idea, maybe someone could tell me if it's feasible. One of the annoying things about electric cars is the relatively long charge time, which, for day trips, is solved by charging at home overnight. However, a mistake such as forgetting to plug in one night could have dire results the next day. What about having a charging pad for people with garages? When they get home they park the car where the pad is and it starts charging automatically over the air. What are the disadvantages? Efficiency? Price?