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Founding of the Spacing Guild, though I thought you were right before I got more curious and looked it up.
Re:China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @12:47PM (#13419481)
The Economist is headquartered in London and as the publication's name implies it commonly focusses on the economical impact of any story it reports. They also don't hide the fact that their editorial positions are rooted in classical liberal economics.
Thank you so much for these posts, fpgaminer. They've been extremely helpful to me in framing how these things could be used.

Once upon a time I thought seriously about going in to hardware design. I took a couple different courses in college (over 10 years ago now... sigh) dealing with VHDL and/or verilog and entirely loved it. If not for a chance encounter with web programming during my co-op my career would have been entirely different. With AWS offering this in the cloud if it is not prohibitively expensive I'll be looking in to toying with it and hopefully discovering uses for it in my work.

Re:Daydream – Google VR on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:41PM (#12638095)
If you preordered a Pixel from Google's site you'll receive a promo code for the headset in a few weeks.
> If companies just gave me access to a DRM free .avi/.ogv download for a decent price, I would buy the damn movies.

A million times this. The music industry figured out how to sell DRM free music files years ago and ever since then I haven't pirated a single album. If the video entertainment industry would do the same, my torrenting days would be over.

Re:Changes to Npm's unpublish policy on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:22PM (#11383070)
There are examples within the very article on which you are commenting. I'd start there.
Re:NyaoVim: Web-enhanced Extensible Neovim Front End on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @11:22AM (#11253822)
vim-mode in Atom is like having a Chevy (Atom) and sticking a Ferrari (vim) badge on it.

NyaoVim is more like having a Ferrari (neovim) with an automatic transmission (NyaoVim).

Not a perfect analogy but I think it gets the point across.

Re:The limits of Google’s openness on Thursday August 15, 2013 @07:11PM (#6221178)
What does Google even mean when they say that they want it HTML5? Do they want it as a web app? Running inside a WebBrowser control? Do they just want the video to be an HTML5 video tag? I feel there is some very important piece of information missing from this discussion.