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The Nordics are social democracies. Free market, liberal with a strong emphasis on social care. I'm not quite sure what your point is.

Rasmus Lerdorf has talked about it in other videos but this is one https://youtu.be/iGOAQli7tGc?t=1485

Basically, groups of functions are consistent: string,array etc. Their parameter order was usually based on whatever the underlying C API was.

Where are you getting your 20 year figure from? There's a study which says 10 years but doesn't account for the energy/co2 required to refine oil. EV battery packs can also be recycled as grid storage.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. You don't need to balance the bike when you're stopped - you put your foot on the floor and wait. I know it's different in every country but pedestrians and cyclists frequently wait at lights. Are you more concerned about wasting time by not having right of way or do you find bikes fall over when you stop?

Issues that are probably bigger than "balancing" when you're commuting by bike are: access to safe cycle paths, getting sweaty before work and the weather.

It was also the week that a lot of Finns start their summer holidays so presumably a seasonal expectation as well. I'm sure a weak pound plays a part, but hardly breaking news.

Handling cash isn't free for a merchant. It has to be stored, counted, transported, banked, insured and it's easily stolen. Even though the fees aren't the same cash still has a fee.

I've done this on a small scale for web, never for mobile/apps though. My approach was a git repo containing the main code then a branch for each brand which only had config changes. It works ok but gets difficult to manage once your size grows - it's essentially using git as the build tool.

If I were to do it again I'd likely not use the branches for branding config, but keep them all in one place and use a build tool to make sure the required settings are in place and merged before deployment. As long as you tag your releases you can fix certain clients to certain releases.

Make sure you talk to your clients about what their branding requirements are. Some companies get very very specific about what they 'need' and as soon as you offer the ability to customise something they can get irritated if their brand doesn't look quite right. As others have said make all of these customisations part of a config file and just reference that in your code. Once you start making specific changes for a client your life becomes difficult and you end up managing a specific bunch of code just for them.

You didn't say if the white labeled app would be a public download of it it's intended for company staff. If it's the latter you can probably have a single app that gets configured on the first start up, i.e. it's blank when you open it, sign in and it pulls in the required config and then takes on the customer's brand.

There's also wkhtmltopdf.org as another headless/comand line pdf renderer

I think this is a common path for MBPs of the same age. I've got a 2009 model and upgraded the HD to SSD and memory a couple of times. The processor can feel a little sluggish but it still handles what I need it to. But that's not really special to macs. Hardware just got to the point where it was mostly good enough. Not being able to upgrade the new MBPs does make me think twice. Either I fully load it and pay the premium or risk feeling I need more of XYZ later.

Something I do like about my MBP, even after quite a few years of abuse it still looks in decent shape. The case, screen hinge and keyboard all still feel solid. Which is where lots of other laptops seem to fall apart. Though the battery and trackpad have seen better days. Something nice about macs is they are usually serviceable for quite some time, either via Apple or third parties - I needed a new power adapter recently and could walk into a shop and get a new one there and then. Trying to track down power adapters etc for short lived models from other manufacturers can often be a pain.

All in all I don't think it's anything magic about macs. If you bought a similarly specd and built machine from someone else you'd be in the same position.

In a different location but no that far away sea water was/is being used to cool a data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/02/21/video...

You don't need an invoice for a company expense. How do you think people claim back for things bought in a shop?

I've been using Linode for production machines for about 4 years now and have been very happy with them. The security issues were a concern but appear to be the exception rather than the rule.

I've been using DO recently because I was given some free credit - mainly for testing Ansible. Their pricing is very aggressive and they do have that new fresh out of the box feeling.

I haven't used anything from them in production yet though so can't do a full comparison. Negatives for DO are they don't support private networking in all of their datacenters, they also don't pool bandwidth (as far as I'm aware) between all of your instances, I haven't seen any references to permanent/fixed IP addresses in the DO control panel - they seem to be dynamically assigned on each droplet spin up.

I haven't used DO support but Linode support has always been fast and accurate for me. For me, at the moment, DO isn't offering anything more than Linode so moving sites doesn't make sense in my case (disk IO isn't an issue for me at present).

The open source non 'pro' version? http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/

The spam that's being referred to is link spam i.e buying large numbers of links, comment spam etc in order to boost the target domain's search rankings. There's no one tool that will give you an exact answer regarding the domains penalty status. Putting the domain in something like ahrefs.com and looking at the linking domains and the anchor text section should give you a flavour though. If it's using spammy links you'll see things like lots of links in (poor quality) comments coming into the domain, links from unrelated or poor quality sites, lots of links targeting a specific phrase. If you see any links targeting pharmaceuticals or gambling that's usually a bad sign. Obviously you have to use your judgement when looking at these kind of reports - no one tool will be seeing the same dataset that google sees so it's possible it's missed a lot of links also legitimate sites suffer from scraping and apear on spammy sites so you have to look at the link profile as a whole rather than the odd bad link.

Is it also stealing people's local wallets too?

Perhaps they were comfortable with WP, perhaps they didn't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, perhaps they didn't want to have to support a massive body of code.

This has a far better explanation of what the engine is about: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112

There's also a documentary on the developers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_a21fPkYM

The term subsidized, to me, seems misleading. On a contract you're usually buying the phone on credit and paying it off in your monthly contract charges. I wish there were more transparency in contract pricing. Ie. this is the cost of the phone this is the, data, voice etc. Then you could compare deals fairly. The sim only and pay as you go at least give you a chance to see what you're paying for the voice/data/texts without the phone cost.

If you're on a 2 year $100/month contract probably $30 a month goes to repay they phone cost the rest for the service insurance etc. If you don't upgrade straight away or get a big discount at the end of the contract you're effectively giving your mobile operator a massive profit jump.

There's a mirror of it here for UK readers:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/9cac8469-887f-40fd-9401...

I haven't tried it so these comments are just about the sales pitch:

Have you talked to potential customers? What do your potential customers want, what needs aren't being matched by someone else?

Your opening sounds empty to me. Your product doesn't look like every other CRM tool, it doesn't look like peoplesoft, salesforce, sugarcrm. To me it looks a bit out of date. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I've worked with plenty of people that feel far more comfortable with something "more traditional". I would go with an opening selling the straight forward to the point nature of the product.

Personally I prefer to see the price/buying options before I click a buy now button.

You are selling a CRM product but your first screen shot is of a task list with personal items on it. Loose weight etc. As a customer this doesn't shout this software will help me manage customers and make more money.

The description on the customers screenshot is incorrect.

It looks like this is a product for a single person/freelancer as it doesn't allow sharing of data. That's going to limit your audience.

Personally I'd sell/develop the customer management/communication features more - how is it easy to keep trac of conversations, does it hook into email can I merge my calendar? I'd consider a mobile version for people visting clients on site.

Cloud is a marketing term and is pretty worthless. Most of the time cloud = some datacenter, datacenter usually = rented space in someone else's datacenter or a VM. Cloud does not automatically mean better, faster, safer. You can build an app to be more resilient but you dont get that for free just because there's cloud in the title.

The author seems to think there's a magic cloud switch that makes your app work in multiple datacenters all at once. Apparently virtualisation makes that easy. VMs are going to keep you data in sync? They're going to fail over perfectly in all conditions? They're going to make sure data is routed to the best zone?

wordpress.com also sell extras (storage, domain name etc), they also host premium blogs for a fee.

Weren't they going to use user locations in their traffic update service?

Was it just rumour that Nokia (presumably Navteq) were going to be suppling maps to the Kindle Fire? Is that underpinning the new API?

I agree. When I first thought about watching the Olympics online I was just expecting to see a version of iplayer with the usual BBC1 and 2 coverage. What they pulled off was incredible. The people behind it should be very proud for actually delivering something that pushes beyond just replicating the TV experience.

My only issue was with Flash. I'm not into bashing Flash just for the sake of it, but my only frustrations were caused by Flash just not living up to the rest of the delivery experience. I think it was the hardware acceleration issue that is already mentioned in their FAQ. Geting the video to play was sometimes a case of throw a 6 to start.

It may not matter at all. Then again it could be an indication that a large group of people with excellent ideas are not joining or progressing in an industry.

Are startups predominantly run by white males or are they just the one's on the speakers circuit?

Let's just hope Apple haven't patented smartphones in space already.

If you enter the site via a google search you don't get the paywall just do a search for the title: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Facebook+ventures+into+onl...

Ah the irony. Filtering the Internet but you can buy porn through the same companies eg Sky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_channels_on_Sky:_Adult