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Are you serious? $650 a night to stay in a treehouse with no shower or toilet? It would seem that after Ikea, the swedes think they can sell anything.

Sheer insanity. Mary is a moron and her app users are prime targets for hackers.

Just because the test coverage passes, doesn't mean the code doesn't do something nefarious behind the scenes.

If Mary doesn't review the code before release, she deserves the rapture her customers will bestow upon her when she finds out Josh was paid by a competitor to decimate her business.

It's not that I believe people are inherently evil, I just believe that you need to review every patch to make sure it does what it's supposed to do and no more.

ACTUALLY, in 1961, Leonard Kleinrock of MIT invented the concept of wide area networks in his paper "Information Flow In Large Communication Nets" (1).

After that, in 1964, a RAND employee by the name of Paul Baran wrote a paper entitled "On Distributed Communications Networks"(2), furthering the concepts outlined by Kleinrock.

It wasn't until AFTER Lawrence Roberts, also of MIT, wrote "Towards a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers", that ARPA funded research on the idea.

FINALLY, it was National Physical Laboratory in England that created the first wide-area packet switching network in 1967.

So, NO, the government didn't INVENT the Internet. They built a closed, packet switching network that the public could not access, based on principles and ideas generated at a smattering of schools and PRIVATE COMPANIES.

(1) http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Bib/REPORT/PhD/ (2) http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html

Dallas/Fort Worth has had virtual libraries for years. You can check out ebooks just as you can real books from the physical library, and they maintain a fixed number of licenses. It's using http://www.overdrive.com/ as the basis.

You know, all of these are just glorified shells on top of the command-line tool, dd.

You could just learn dd and save yourself some money.

OMG.. Hilarious.

I suppose everyone's entitled to their opinion. If you want no options, no changes, conformity, and lack of features, then I suggest you scoot yer butt over to the iPhone camp.

Otherwise, how about you just choose a middle-of-the-road android device with no mods, or jailbreak and re-install your own device with vanilla android.

I happen to like my HTC One/X and it's unique user interface. It kicks the crap out of my wife's iPhone 4 in every way possible.

Cheers

Sounds like a rather clever way of getting a bunch of people to enter their itunes login/password as they test this crap out.

You should ask yourself why the developer went AWOL (and no, I am not the developer) (all of these questions are for you, and probably not suitable for discussion here)

Was it you? Are you overbearing? controlling? Did you incessantly email, call, or text them? Did you insult them, perhaps even without knowing it? Did you give them an endless list of requirements? Did you give them a list of bugs without fail cases to reproduce? (Many developers will not debug something without steps to reproduce the issue).

Was the pay sub-par for the work being done? Was there an equity promise that wasn't fulfilled? Was there something on YOUR part that you didn't do that you said you would?

Many developers are introverts and will NOT get in someone's face about things that should have been done. They will just walk away. If you get a good developer, it's going to fall on you, the BOSS, to make sure you follow through on your promises and keep them happy.

Cheers!

I also am a fountain of ideas, and I've found that this is caused by burn out. My solution is to go do something completely different, that you wouldn't normally do, for a week or so.

Many times I've found that new ideas on a new heightened level start flowing due to the distraction.

True. Sometimes they're asleep. :)

For beginners, Python is not what I'd suggest.

I like javascript for beginners.

It's not tightly typed, meaning you can experiment with variables of different types without worrying about what types they currently are. It's very fast, browser based (mostly), and it's really easy to learn.

Additionally, you can learn regular scripting (non procedural), procedural (where you define the functions and call them as needed), and object oriented paradigms (I like Class.js for this).

You can use tools like CodeRun (http://coderun.com/) to write and test code online without needing any OS based tools.

Finally, it's probably the most documented language on the planet because it's so widely used.

While I won't mention the brand (because I happen to like it), I was once told by a similar support rep that they wouldn't honor the warranty after I installed Linux on it.

Yeah.

I took the drive back to Fry's and simply said "it doesn't work on my machine", and they replaced it.

Yes. Thorium is the yummy chocolate and sprinkles donuts version of todays nuclear reactor. All the benefits and almost none of the drawbacks.

Chrome. ALL the HN apps I've found pretty much suck compared to the browser.

I spent just a few minutes in the OpenIndiana code base and found it rife with potential issues. For example, in the hsfs file system, there are no pointer assertions to protect against null pointers:

http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/comm...

lines 158 thru 171... are just one example.

While yes, you could find this anywhere in any code base, we're talking about OpenIndiana. If this kind of issue is present in the file system handler, there's NO way this project is ready for prime time, never mind a production release.

Seriously? AGain!? This is already in the top stories.

Then open an API and let OTHERS do it at their expense...

Total BS Craig... You should be REWARDING innovation, not joining the cadre of douchebag trolls that try to kill it.

If you really want to differentiate yourselves, allow users to post their decks on THEIR web pages instead of forcing users to your site. THIS would be a value many would pay for.

One other thing. I asked my tech-not-so-savvy wife to watch it, and her issue was the frame that said "this deck took 4 days...".

"FOUR DAYS!!!" she cried... forget it. Perhaps you should frame that "frame" better. How long does a deck take to make from start to finish? What's the tech level required?

Ideally, a deck should be able to be made from scratch in minutes.

I have been through a couple of startups, sold one, blah blah blah... It's usually the guy who is labeled "genius" that gets cut first :) Interesting concept, but hardly new... this was what SecondLife looked like 5 years ago.

You don't need a credit score if you can pay 50% down, which you may be able to do if you didn't pay all your money to the credit card companies.

No more or less honest than running TV commercials to get you to buy products during a television show. I presume you have some sort of logarithmic honesty scale by which one can measure their dastardliness? If so, please share.

One does not need a drivers license to drive. One merely needs a vehicle.

The fact that not having a credit card damages your credit score should be enough to make even semi-intelligent people realize that credit score is not a fair and equitable measure of one's ability to pay on time.

Awesome article. Kudos for sticking to your guns, and I hope your revenues skyrocket, even though credit cards are the worst financial decision anyone could ever make. I'd rather YOU make money on their bad decisions than Chase or Citi.

Superconductivity is as near as we can come to cancelling the effect of gravitation, so this is more like anti-magnetism.

A vacuum is still subject to gravitational waves, and we have had no way to test without gravitational waves to date.

Math majors, please correct me if I'm mistaken, but by my calculations, we won't be able to handle C0 speed data in CPUs until we hit 15 Phz (Petahertz) ( or 15,000,000 Ghz ) clock frequencies AND data/memory operations take 1 cycle, assuming 20 nanometer scale.

While we haven't seen the Lorentz factor (1) (mass expends to infinite as speed of light is approached), we're still only 3/15000000 of the way there. If Lorentz was correct (his theory can't be proved until we reach the speed of light or very close to it), then we'll never be able to compute at C0 speed, or even 50% of C0 speed AND convey information.

I suspect he's not, since, as I postulated above, the speed of light is NOT fixed but relative to our inability to measure in field with a refractive index less than 1.

I also believe that the reason we use a refractive index of 1 for a vacuum and not 0 is to allow for the possibility of finding a field with a refractive index of less than 1.

References: (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor

Looks exactly the same to me.

Name.com has a robust API. Godaddy has one through WildWestDomains.com, but Name.com is a better business partner.

Genius idea. Pure genius. Kickstarter has shown that they are less about ingenuity and more about public opinion. I hope your project gets funded 10x.