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"Look, here's a pretty way to configure git! This can also be done in these 17 other ways, wheeeee! It's 2012 and the top article is how to configure colours in 'git log'"

Seriously, boffins. Stop posting this stuff already. Better techniques are nice, but good only if they're revolutionary (like that Light Table editor). We need more new, ground-breaking stuff and less arrangements of Linus's Lego bricks.

I generally hate Microsoft stuff (including Windows 8), but this is a refreshingly original and good design (personal opinion, of course.) Since Zune and XBox, Microsoft seem to have sharpened their game to the point where they are capable of delivering small, compact, and useful hardware which functions well. Some people mocked the Microsoft Mouse in the initial stages of the presentation, but come to think of it, most people I know prefer Microsoft's ergonomic laptop mice to Apple's Mighty Mouse, which, quite frankly, is rubbish.

Priced at the right point, this could take aim at a number of different devices, which it seems to fit at the smooth spot between:

- Stylus-capable tablets you can actually write on (IBM x series)

- Small media-capable tablets like the iPad/Kindle Fire (for consuming eBooks, media and the Web).

- eBook readers like the standard Kindle. I don't know what digital Ink capable means, but if it goes any way towards making eBooks more readable than they are on the Fire/iPad, consumers will buy this device just so they don't have to buy different things for watching videos and reading books with lesser eyestrain.

I bet that both this and the Lumia and other Windows phones are going to be massive in markets like India, which know Microsoft and Nokia well, and have never seen much of Apple tech.

I was quoting from the iFixit article

"The design may well be comprised of “highly recyclable aluminum and glass” — but my friends in the electronics recycling industry tell me they have no way of recycling aluminum that has glass glued to it like Apple did with both this machine and the recent iPad."

I took this to mean that recycling was essentially impossible (by Apple or anyone else). Perhaps Apple can indeed figure out a recycling strategy. I doubt they will spend any time on it unless prompted by adverse publicity (like this article is generating).

AFAIK Chrome has never detected RSS correctly for me. I assumed this was special to Mozilla, with their "we should probably provide a basic version of everything - newsreader, FTP client, etc., even if it makes the browser a bit more bloated." Bit like emacs.

Chrome is a bit like vi, if you want more stuff, there's probably some sort of extension.

Sorry for the emacs/vi analogies, I'm not trying to flame :)

TL; DR:

Shit happens. Don't use AWS as your only platform, you will get burned sometime. Guaranteed, you will also get burned if you try to host and run your own stuff. How competent you are determines which way you get burned less.

Oh cracking, missed the point completely and is first page on hacker news? My trousers could write more insightful articles.

Point: If you can squeeze a couple more years of service out of an upgradable laptop by maxing out the RAM, you should probably do so since the alternative is, basically throwing it away as landfill (note that the iFixit article said that claims about the body being recyclable were basically bunkum.)

So basically, every time you "never upgraded a laptop anyways, and that's OK", God kills an environmentally friendly kitten. Or something like that.

PROTIP: Tracey Emin is a Professor at the Royal Academy. It's art that a lot of the art world considers "good art".

This Emin person has gained tons of attention by displays so ridiculous that people thought they must be brilliant since no one had thought of doing something so utterly devoid of talent before.

From the Wikipedia article:

"In 1999 she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed — an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and blood-stained underwear."

And engineers are supposed to be the scruffy, smelly disgusting masses of humanity.

Dammit, this is going to lead to a whole new set of questions from confused family members.

"How do I get to Start > Programs > [Some app which was made for usage on Windows XP]? I can't find the Start button, this new Windows is no good. grumble"

I remember reading a wikipedia article on the Bloop about half a year ago, and none of these other unexplained sounds were on it. Seems like NOAA fanboys dug up and wrote the others.

That being said NOAA fanboys are far more preferable to Apple fanboys. :)

cost to invent drugs = identifying compounds (90%, say) + determining manufacturing process (10%)

^ Where are you getting these numbers from? They seem way too simplistic, and your argument essentially falls apart without them.

Real 'invention cost' would be determined by far more factors - cost of raw materials

- labour cost (I bet it's cheaper for pharmaceutical companies to pay workers much lesser in India too.),

- whether your competitors are targeting the same market (if these companies stopped researching said drugs, Cipla would come up with a cheaper way to do the R&D required, and then make a killing, even with their low rates, since they would have cornered the market.)

Plus the goodwill of Govts of developing countries that are offered these medicines at low rates may lead to fruitful collaboration with national research institutes in those countries, thereby lessening the need for enormous profit margins anyway.

As someone said below, the fact that there is more money to be made selling iPads rather than bread does not mean that everyone switches to making iPads.

Bloomberg "learning to code", Obama directing agencies to have an API.

All part of politicians (particularly Democrats) trying to look like they have a clue. Give up already for heavens sake and get back to managing the deficit.

What utter tripe. The author of this article "worked at startups in Boulder, CO and New York, where she worked to develop communities and delight users."

Translate that into English as "has spent her time writing navel-gazing articles like this that are unnecessarily idolised by a ton of adoring fans hanging on to every word."