TwistedWeasel

When (not if) we set foot on Mars, the achievement will be one of humanity. Private company, government, US, China, it doesn't matter. We'll be on Mars, a multi-planetary race. How the accomplishment was funded and by who will not matter (to me, anyway).

Dropbox isn't "entertainment/trivial" stuff for many people. Some depend on it heavily.

$200 Nexus 7 has 8Gb storage, iPad mini base model has 16Gb. I still think $330 is a little high though.

I don't think it's a stretch to say Bill Gates's viewpoint on Windows 8 is somewhat biased.

never say never.

Technology evolves and in time hardware improves to a point where the performance difference between native code and something that runs through an intermediate layer is not noticeable in a user interface (although there will always be a difference, it just wont be be relevant any more).

I haven't really had any problems with my Magsafe 2 connector.

I was upgrading from an older Macbook that used the older T-shaped Magsafe, I never owned any of the L shaped ones.

Change the game design slightly? He claims he wants to walk and jump at the same time, maybe adjust the control scheme to make jumping triggered in a different way.

This bug, in particular is not a an easy thing to work around, I agree and maybe he did try all sorts of things but none of them worked, we don't know.

My point is - in the general case you should not rely on Apple fixing a bug to make your product work correctly.

That makes sense to me, as I read the article it sounded like he was saying that outside iOS he was locked in to Flash in the same way as he is locked in to HTML5 on iOS.

The iOS restriction is very real and enforced, there is nothing forcing people to use Flash for any popular platform.

However if you put it in terms of "if I want to use Flash, I'm forced into Adobe's implementation" then I can see that argument.

FTA: "On the iPhone, you're as locked in with HTML5 as you were with Flash everywhere else before"

In what way has Flash ever been the only way to display web content? This statement is absurd.

So he let this bug sit in his game for two years without thinking of a work around himself?

The situation where any platform owner has a bug that impacts your software you should try as best you can to work around it because you never know if and when it will get fixed.

Microsoft charges OEM's a significant amount of money to use Windows on their hardware, Google gives Android away for free.

So, the Surface is able to undercut the OEM's on price significantly.

Lunch is my quiet time, I don't want to talk work all day long. I may still think about it, or even be working while I eat but I don't need a forced one hour meeting every day to be good at my job.

yeah, the jam build system is a great tool and has been around a long time. Seems like people should do some more research before naming their projects.

If you have a child that you have never found to be frustrating or infuriating then you are a indeed very lucky.

They say people work on what they want but they still advertise for specific jobs (https://github.com/about/jobs), so surely there is some level of direction there. i.e. If you're hired as a Data Miner then you are expected to spend your time mining data, what happens when that engineer decides he wants to work on something else?

When did a small quote from an interview...

"I think that Apple could be just as strong and good and be open, but how can you challenge it when a company is making that much money?" he [Wozniak] said.

turn into "made a public call" for Apple to open up it's platforms?

Yeah, Dan seems like the kind of nice guy you just cant help but like. Seems to me like he's been stabbed in the back on this one.

Shame on Gruber.

That's the big difference I see between Dan Benjamin and Mike Monteiro.

Dan is a professional and has my respect, where as Monteiro makes cheap vulgar jokes. I know which attitude I prefer to support.

Hypercritical is by far my favorite podcast, it took the top spot on my playlists from the Talk Show a long time ago. I get the impression Siracusa does that podcast for fun, not profit and would never ditch Dan like Gruber has.

I'm pretty disappointed with this move. I was getting a little tired of the Talk Show on 5By5 but it was still enjoyable because Dan brought humor and structure to the show.

I remember when Let's Make Mistakes split off and formed a new podcast network it felt odd to me at the time, like they used 5By5 to get some initial audience and then took them for themselves. For some reason it fit with the impression I get that Mike Monteiro is an asshole.

With this move I am done with the Talk Show. I just dont care any more.

I looked into it briefly, right now i'm more focused on getting the charts right. Once I've done that I was going to work on different data transport options.

Last I looked most of the cooler Google charts were Flash based, which was a problem for me at the time as I was looking for something that works on iPad.

From what I can tell this is one of the better HTML5 chart libraries i've seen but in general these days I like to build stuff with d3 instead.

I'm working on something like that but it's very far from ready. I'm interested in any feedback...

http://frasergraham.github.com/live_stats.js/

Exactly, who cares if an icon is based on a dated object if it's understood. All things become dated eventually, especially in the tech world

What's the alternative, pick something abstract that confuses people. That didn't work out so well for the recent GMail redesign.

The idea that people don't know what a cog or a wrench is seems like the author is taking this a step too far. I wouldn't call those things "shrouded in mystery".

Similarly there are still plenty of microphones that look like that, they're professional microphones, not "old fashioned" ones.

I've been learning d3.js myself lately, and i'm very impressed. As it's popularity increases it's worth reading this article from Mike Bostock, the creator of d3 proposing some conventions to follow when building charts with d3...

http://bost.ocks.org/mike/chart/

My favorite book for learning Go (the game)...

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...

I was expecting a book on learning Go, the game. I was disappointed.

I hate it when people name new things with a name that obviously conflicts with something else that's likely to be known and discussed in the same community.

FTA: "The site's first $1m project was Double Fine Adventure"

Double Fine Adventure wasn't the first Kickstarter project to hit $1M, it was the elevation dock a short time earlier.

If i'm using "secure" search, I would expect my queries to not be sent to an analytics system.