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One factor seems to be the vertical integration. It seems like these days there are a bunch of large companies succeeding by having the users of the hardware involved tightly with the the designers of that hardware. Tesla is definitely doing it. I think Google is doing it with machine learning. And Apple has definitely been doing it with their phones and tablets. The feedback loop is tight, valuable, and beneficial. No need to make big compromises for backward compatibility, either, just update the software.

Check out meteorjs. Javascript has a huge amount of buzz and usage these days, and meteorjs is a fairly simple fully integrated environment that allows you to do just about anything. I don't use it - I have been developing software since the early 90s and I am currently working in RoR. But when I want to play around, it's in meteorjs. In my opinion, too many teams are using an environment that is too complex, ensuring that nothing is predictable.

It seems to me that we have been doing this more and more as memory has gotten bigger and bigger, we care more and more about performance, and more and more people are writing more and more code that will be used for shorter and shorter times under tighter and tighter deadlines.

This model doesn't seem to consider risk. If you finance 75% of your home value, your equity is 4x as volatile as the market.

Not sure why anyone would think it was a bad thing to make a watch lighter and stronger.

I was interested in NoSQL. Went to a Mongo pres. Both examples would have been easier and faster in SQL. Even the SQL I used 20 years ago. I asked for an example that would show performance advantage. I got a tired vague statement about the vague performance advantage. Seems like snake oil to me.

Is there anything like this for ruby?

They allow some small number of articles for each browser before putting up the wall. And I think you can defeat it by removing your cookies. I think that qualifies it for free linkage.

I think the fault is in the whole idea of giving reduced sentence for confessing. I understand that a confession is easier and there should be some incentive to make one, but it seems like the police coerce defendants into making confessions by threatening the longer sentence if there is no confession. While this may result in true confessions sometimes, it also inevitably results in some false confessions. It is just too easy for a prosecutor to make their evidence sound very strong in the absence of a judge and jury to scare the defendant into a confession.

Um... That graph goes up to 600. Kind of an epic fail when it is an article about the fastest computers in the world.

I will keep using wget.

IMO, the issue is that real security is inconvenient, and my email is just not that secret.

I have a great deal of respect for Hawking, but... Lately it seems like he has said a couple of crazy things. We (as in most humans) are NOT going to get off the earth. Earth will always be the best chance for a planet for humans. Let's take care of it. And AI is NOT anywhere near becoming really intelligent. Anyone who has interacted with Siri knows that she has no real understanding. And the Google car and other autonomous driving systems are already safer and probably better for traffic than almost all drivers, but they still, and will most likely for a long time, need a human driver to take over under circumstances that actually require thought. AI is advancing, but it has always advanced slower than predicted. A lot slower than predicted. And while there are signs that AI will continue to be more and more useful as time goes on, and in some circumstances like recognizing driving, captchas and playing chess and jeopardy it will outperform humans in simple tests, it is not anywhere near, nor will it be for a long time, outperform the human brain in a general way. And certainly it is NOT similar to an alien (as in from outer space, not from another country on earth) civilization.

I'm guessing cheap disks.

Isn't this the same as the rumor mill?

That's a very venerable program.

As many have said, this happens often in the stock market. And in other markets. All of these numbers are just numbers on paper, not actual cash in someone's pocket. This is one of the ways Mitt made so much money - buying companies for less than what he could make by selling the pieces or repackaging the whole.

I guess the ethos OS will not support any windows less than 1280 px wide.

Sure, the panel is getting cheaper. But transportation, installation, and land are not. It is still likely that panels will be more cost effective than more complicated, expensive installations, but probably either oriented to the sun at noon, and make sure there are as many as possible in that orientation in the space available. And anyway, it would just be half a pyramid. no point in orienting them to the north in the northern hemisphere or to the south in the southern hemisphere.

I'm digging hub! Thanks for the link to the cheat sheet.

Yes. And that is one big reason why a corporation is not a person.

I find it hard to tell what will happen with Bitcoin tomorrow, much less in 5 months... I am under the impression that there's a decent chance that by August, the Bitcoin story will be a great story to write a novel about. I guess there is also the chance that it will evolve and achieve some level of legitimacy. But for that to happen, a lot needs to happen between now and then, and I find it hard to believe that a book announced now will include that part of the story.

I used O'Reilly books extensively 10-25 years ago, but I have found them (and pretty much all other printed technical books) out of date too quickly in the last 5-10 years for them to be useful for technical stuff, and Bitcoin is evolving faster than even most things in the tech world.

To me, this is one of those hypothetical possible eventualities that I don't pay much attention to. It's very likely that for the foreseeable future, printing shoes will be more expensive and result in lower quality shoes than the manufacturing process. Sure, some people will want to imagine their own shoe styles, but most won't want expensive low quality shoes.

Just spent way too long a time drooling over that Dell 31.5 inch 4K monitor!

My dad used to love that screen saver. And then I worked in the building that was formerly occupied by Berkeley Systems (the company behind the flying toasters...)

Why does it look like 5 = 6?

Ever since I took Discrete Math in College, I have thought it would be a great way to introduce school kids to Math.

Looks like they don't have any aftermarket plans... I have a belkin hands free unit, and a home made bracket for my phone. Works pretty well. Is quite versatile. And I still have use of my regular old radio, which will play NPR or various music at the touch of a button, without using my data or having to tell anyone what I am listening to. My daughters can hook their phones and other devices up by aux cable or the belkin, and they each have a favorite station on the radio. Sure, this system looks pretty slick, but I have a more functional setup for free.

iOS, Android, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS... Seems like perhaps a lot of people are trying to get VC funding on the back of iOS success, no?

If you are someone who actually likes to have some control over what is happenning on your computer, and if you want to have some organization when you are dealing with a list of things that is pretty long - hundreds/thousands or more items - then pagination is useful. And continuous scroll is tempting/seductive, but ultimately flawed.