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Father: What ... what seems to be the problem.

Son: Death.

Father: Death, well I'm afraid that's a little out of my jurisdiction.

Son: I want more life, fucker.

Don't listen to some EE expert tell you the product can't be developed for less than a million. These guys are used to working at big shops that routinely throw that kind of money into the garbage. This product could have shipped, if only they had run the numbers first.

With a cheaper chip, better project management and using a shop like Proto Labs for tooling they could have made it happen. Resourcefulness, not resources. $99 is pretty aggressive, but it could be done with a slim margin.

Run the numbers first, THEN spend the money.

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Node.js, JavaScript, Python, C. Cryptography, API, frontend.

According to the article Goldman deleted the existing license and replaced it with their own. Probably a violation of most licenses.

Joyent, you so cray. Thanks for reminding us that "Never" and "Lifetime", "100% Uptime Guarantee" and "Fanatical Service" are all bullshit indicators. You've got a good cloud, you don't need to make promises that you can't keep.

Really?

I think you should touch on frequency of updates: how often does Apple release, how often does Google?

Also it's not really fair to expect that every phone is going to run the very latest Android code, especially ice cream sandwich, which expects a forward facing camera, doesn't use the navigation buttons and so forth.

I do agree with the general premise that Android carriers/manufactures tend to release and abandon. They have no interest in updating the OS after the sale, which explains the popularity of Cyanogen.

Sure it's not IRC per se, but it is persistent chat based on topic, much like IRC.

Yeah, also I think that instead of number of casualties the amount of news coverage is the more important factor.

Don't they know it's all about Epic Sax Guy now? http://youtu.be/KHy7DGLTt8g

None of these authors have been published by any respectable publisher. I doubt any are in use as textbooks. The whole premise of this article is flawed.

Based on the type of documents released and the fact that they only released a few email accounts & passwords you can tell that this was not a very sophisticated attack. Probably a brute force attack against the mail server, or passwords gleaned from individual officers rooted home computers.

Obviously that's not the hard part. Building your own Twilio is. I want to depend on multiple service providers, like you can do with Asterisk or FreeSWITCH. When X provider fails use Y provider. When Y provider is cheaper use Y. That's the true power of openness which OpenVBX has a vested interest in not providing.

Whereas Plivo's lowest layer is FreeSWITCH, a pretty solid base. I'm pretty stoked about this, if only the page would come up.

Yeah but it all ties into the Twilio service, so there is definitely space for a fork or for something like Plivo.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dmMi424...

Adam from Mythbusters gives it thumbs up: http://ekstrabladet.dk/flash/filmogtv/tv/article1414320.ece (Danish language article)

If it's really a "top journalism prize" you don't need to call it "top journalism prize". You just call it by name. Like "Pulitzer Prize". Which he deserves.

I love this comment: "UPDATE: The EFF is still unofficially accepting Bitcoins, but their address has changed to: 16g5mes4kW1gpX9Vp1F5VG7HXqN8ySar9EI've just donated a few BTCs to help them protect the freedom of the Internet - please help them too!" Nice one "Rebecca S. Reagan"!

Did you take the time to read the arguments? They cited several books. By the same notability standards you could delete the articles on Ceph and GlusterFS.

Ad hominem or not, my point is that some 20 something year old kid, living at home, suffering from mental issues should not be "the decider". Wikipedia isn't about "the best argument wins" it's about who has the most free time.

This merger is bad news for those of us from the Phoenix metro area. I'd say Verizon and T-mobile are the only two carriers with good coverage and T-Mo is the only carrier that provides a decent service and competes on price.

At least when I switch to Verizon I'll get a new phone!

If you dig a little, the decision to delete the article on MogileFS was made by an editor with "schizoaffective disorder", despite plenty of great argument in favor of keeping the page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Secret

Chrome seems to remember passwords just fine for me on Windows 7. But I don't like the fact that you can't set a master password. Yes, I understand that storing password in the browser is not exactly full of win. So I only use it for non-critical stuff, but I still don't want all that non-critical stuff open to anyone who sits down at my PC. It get's worse if you sync passwords between two devices. When some dude steals your laptop all of a sudden he has easy access to your Facebook, Twitter and HN goodness. Ouch.

The video is excruciating. Make sure you watch it.

Tempe, AZ has an Oakland style PD I guess. After calling them and reporting an assault they asked "what do you want us to do about it?". I want you to do ... your f*ing job!

I purchased the Android app, but I find I just don't use it that much. I'm not even sure that it's that the 'mental model' isn't fleshed out yet, it's just that Google got there first. Search, scan, refine. It's how I think now. Maybe there is a space for Alpha at the end of that sequence.

Although that's not very interesting either. Linus: "What's new?" Linus: "Nothing."

Makes me want to run google searches on all my passwords, just in case...

Comments > the article:

So to avoid these ends, let's avoid these beginnings: avoid multi-threading. Use single-threaded programs, which are easier to design, write, and debug than their shared-memory counterparts. Instead, use multiple processes to extract concurrency from the hardware. Choose a communication medium that works just as well on a single machine as it does between machines, and make sure the individual processes comprising the system are blind to the difference. This way, deployment becomes flexible and scaling becomes simpler. Because communication between processes by necessity has to be explicitly designed and specified, modularity almost happens by itself.

I think the real innovation here is using an inflatable form. This could be cool with a spray on concrete too, like Gancrete: http://www.grancrete.net/videos/index.cfm#