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I'm a recent convert to Remember the Milk[0], can't recommend it enough (the apparent stable business model is a plus as well, I recall using them back in the Blackberry era)

[0] http://rememberthemilk.com

Be aware, Noir is deprecated: http://blog.raynes.me/blog/2012/12/13/moving-away-from-noir/

I'm led to believe the issues with Clojure (and other JVM languages) on Android are due to Dalvik not being as friendly to other languages as the Sun JVM. I don't blame Google, but it's unfortunate.

It's never been a secret that Google crawls your data, and it's not hard to find people up in arms about it.

And personally, I'm fine with Google doing so when they're actually doing something for my benefit with it (like Now).

I seem to remember hearing this is based on Quickoffice (which Google acquired)

Office Web actually handles the files server-side, as does Google's own Docs/Drive. This is a purely client-side extension.

The same reasons [0] are why I have a Chromebook. CrOS is limited, sure, but the limits make the thing bloody near invincible (and amazingly productive).

[0] Hangouts are luckily the VoIP of choice for most I work with

I just append ☎ to my signature.

(I know it's a rotary phone. But it existed pre-emoji so renders most anywhere, where U+1F4F1 [📱] doesn't.)

A note: if you're on VZW, their (sadly hideous) Messenger app replicates Voice's cross-device SMS(/MMS!) on your VZ number.

APK size takes a small hit, and there's extra work to bring in Java libraries. That's all I've found. I've actually been using their guides when working on ordinary Java-based Android code; their docs are well-written and their SDK maps nearly 1:1 to Google's (helps here that Java and C# are fairly similar to a degree).

Think how exactly the alerts happen is up to the OEM, beyond 'loud noise'. The iPhone uses something similar to the EBS tone in 1s bursts (it was 1AM when mine fired, so I can't say with certainty if it was the same tone or not). I've heard similar from other Android users, but I've shut off the alerts on all my phones since.

Most current (~2012) cellphones do in the US, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Mobile_Alert_System

(I'm unclear on how these are delivered within the network, seems to be SMS but I can't source that)

I'd argue Excel _is_ a reactive programming environment: just not a conventional one.

They've been known to be using BOSS for a while, see http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

Taking it out of USD and changing the units around (even though it's just dropping a decimal point) mentally disassociates 'Amazon Coins' from USD. Microsoft goes even further on the Xbox, 1 USD (+ local sales tax) buys 80 MSP; so it takes a moment to realize an 800 MSP game is actually $10.

If I had to guess, the fact that HTTP and JSON are CouchDB's native tongue (removing the need for a middleman in front of the DB) was likely a factor.

Insight Cable (recently acquired by TWC, sigh) has been installing a plain modem + cheap Belkin router for years now.

Amusingly, they always set the SSID to 'insight_wifi_XXXX' and their formula for WPA keys is `firstname[0] + lastname + housenumber`.

Dark Ages would imply that progress was set back significantly by some catastrophic event (ie: the fall of Netscape). Renaissance would be a more apt term, given the rapid advances we're going through.

Most of these are bound to a language: choose a language first (and my answer to that question is "whichever one you're happiest working in and can get the job done"), then figure out which backend to use. You can fret over the framework more after you've already built something that works.

I'll take the software bloat over the network bloat from the extra requests sending every keystroke over the wire.

Steam doesn't use bare WebKit but Chromium, presuming they stay up to date (my install registers as Chromium 18, so doubtful) and don't switch, they'll be running Blink instead.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_F...

(Unrelated: their embedded Chromium seems to be hard-coded to Windows-like shortcuts; even in the address bar)

You've got this problem (wether this behavior is an actual problem or a benefit to the user is open for debate) no matter what if you rely on being a default Intent in any way. What do you expect them to do, never update again?

Both are based on id Tech 3 (fka the Quake 3 engine); id didn't touch Direct3D until 4/Doom 3

Why not a JS implementation of a SQL database?

I'm not aware of any similar arguments being tested in court, so this is all conjecture.

That said, barring an explicit definition of 'Internet service' in your service contract, it's commonly understood that requesting a page from example.com, all the data your ISP returns implicitly is sourced from example.com. Introducing your own content in between is therefore fraud, as you've mis-represented the origin of the content.

I believe the owner of an involved web server would have standing as well, not just the users.

"knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period"

Injecting or replacing ads in other people's content on the wire: 'knowingly and with intent to defraud', 'exceeds authorized access', 'furthers the intended fraud'

Ad revenue from doing so: 'obtains anything of value'

Forget copyright infringement: a case could be made that CFAA applies here.

Google pays Mozilla to push Google Search, not to develop a browser (which Google can do just fine on their own). It doesn't really mean much that they're teaming with Samsung for Servo, other than Samsung's taken an interest in using Servo for their own products.

Note it's not mentioned exactly which division of Samsung they're working with; they may want Servo for Tizen, their Smart TVs, to ensure it plays nice with Exynos, or none of the above.

[EDIT: the post explicitly mentions porting Rust and Servo to Android and ARM; which rather strongly suggests the mobile group. Interesting, as FirefoxOS and Tizen are more or less aimed at the same markets]

Developer mode's designed[0] to avoid using it to bypass CrOS's security. The relevant points:

* the 5-minute wipe both hinders access to the owner's data and makes it unlikely the OS can be replaced with a malicious variant without being caught in the act

* the warning screens ensure the owner's aware they're in devmode

* Hiding the Ctrl-D bypass makes it appear the only option is recovery, you won't know about it unless you've enabled devmode yourself.

[0] http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/d...

I'm still perplexed by the Pixel, but I'm in love with my ARM Chromebook as an 'away' computer for it's simplicity. It's not a full PC, but 90% of the time browser + SSH is all I need away from the desk anyway, and it does both very well (not to mention the keyboard and trackpad are far better than most laptops in the $300 range I've used)

Pedantic note: you can tweak the font size for the SSH app from it's options ('right'-click the app, it's not exposed in the UI)

No doubt. But they're likely to get plenty of Teslas on the road in the meantime, which is all they need: awareness that Tesla exists, and (theoretically) satisfied customers.

Presumably Musk is anticipating that most buyers will like the Model S enough to not sell it back; if reality lines up, Tesla comes out far ahead. If not, they're doomed, but this scheme would really only be accelerating their demise in that case.