All of the examples are basically differently-styled variations of "clicking on X adds/removes class Y on element Z". Is this all it can do? Would have liked to see some slightly more varied use cases.
When you decentralise something, you tend to take away moderation and curation, which keep the general quality of offerings above a certain bar. I'd be curious what the author of this project suggests in this regard, or what measures he has put in place to mitigate the degradation of quality that can come from not having any kind of moderation or curation.
Rubbish. Write a thin abstraction layer between your app and the Chain API and should you wish to switch in the future, change the implementation of the abstraction layer to point at your bitcoind server or something else.
The difference here is that with Bitcoin, it is impossible for any centralized service to monopolize the space or take away a user's power to manage their own money. Unlike banks and so forth, if you want to make a transaction or take the reins on the management of your own finances, you can, and nothing and nobody can stop you, nor can they take your money from you.
Introducing new paradigms are not always as simple as changing the playing field in one step. These centralized services are a good thing. They introduce to the playing field an entry point for the layperson who doesn't want to deal with the headaches, learning curve and stresses of doing things themselves. When they feel a burning need to take the reins, they will be able to, and will take the time to learn how, and no bank or government will be able to stop them.
I'd be quite curious how the AdSense revenue has dropped off since 2006, as the platform has evolved a lot since then, not to mention people have had a long time to get used text-based contextual advertising.
I find it extremely frustrating how many services (Microsoft included!!) won't allow me to use spaces in my passwords. Why on earth do they care which characters I choose for my passwords? So much for "correct horse battery staple"...
Agreed, I'm just trying to say that the apparent "exception" quoted by the parent, while seeming to contradict Betteridge's Law, actually doesn't really contradict the law when you attempt to interpret the spirit of the law without getting into semantics.
If you pick apart the intent of the law, rather than getting caught up in literal semantics, you'll see that the law is suggesting that when a headline asks a question intending to cast doubt or contradiction on some accepted fact, paradigm or otherwise, that the doubt itself can be called into question because if were based on any solid evidence, then it would not be presented as a question but rather as a statement of fact. Hence it still applies to your example without contradicting the intent of the law; in your case "yes" is the correct answer.
Agreed, TypeScript is great, but the compiler is excruciatingly slow. I have to segment my app into multiple sub-build areas and only build a subset at a time, which is annoying because I frequently end up making small changes outside of that subset of code. My app is only around 25000 lines of code and a full compilation still takes around 50-60 seconds which, in a JavaScript workflow, is a lot of friction.
I actually find brainstorming a great way to refine existing ideas I've come up with but for which I don't have a clear picture of the details. Granted, it's something I'll do by myself and come back to it over time until I feel like I finally have clarity of purpose and implementation, but it is still a case of sitting there just dumping out a huge bullet point list of ideas and refinements as I think about the idea. Not only that, but often it also helps me expand the idea in directions I hadn't thought of, and sometimes pivot the idea into something even better.
I think you'll find a large proportion of people who have ordered the dev kit have done so just for a taste of what's to come. And I'm sure OculusVR don't mind at all because the sales generate additional revenue and PR without all of the responsibility that comes with shipping a consumer product.
I have a feeling that Sony will do quite the opposite. They're already using an LCD display, which Oculus has moved away from because the pixel refresh rate is too slow. If Sony are already showing a lack of understanding in one area, it's quite possible that they'll be neglecting other areas that Oculus have been putting a lot of R&D time into. I think what's likely is that someone high up in Sony knows about Oculus and commanded his minions to "make us something like what Oculus is doing". There is no doubt in my mind that it'll fall short in numerous areas.
"beautiful" and "responsive" have become two of the biggest "buzzword bingo" words of the web these last few years. So many people telling you that their stuff is beautiful that the word starts to lose value.
So by your reasoning, Federal Express is also a branch of government? From Wikipedia: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA [the Federal Tort Claims Act], but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."
It would be so great if there were a remotely-operated "punch" button aimed at reporters writing blatantly incorrect information about topics they can't be bothered to research or understand properly. I, for one, would be dishing out a fair amount of black eyes, particularly in the Bitcoin space. That is all.
Now that Glenn Greenwald has pretty much only himself to answer to, it'll be interesting to see what he publishes that he might not have, had he stayed at The Guardian. I'm a little concerned that his domain name firstlook.org is hosted through GoDaddy. Anything particularly damning could have authorities asking GoDaddy to take his domain from him, and the fact that his servers are hosted in California provides a second potential point of government interference.
How is he a money transmitter? His business is buying a product (Starbucks gift cards) and paying for them with Bitcoin. By your definition, a used car dealership that buys cars from the public and pays for them with cash is also a money transmitter.
You will note of course that their legs are significantly different to ours. They're much shorter, they're less optimally-shaped for full upright standing (when do you ever see monkeys, apes, gorillas, etc standing tall like a human?), and their feet are differently-shaped. I think the comparison is flawed.
The old start menu may not be perfect but the new start screen is definitely a step backwards. Over the life of a Windows installation, many, many programs tend to be installed, and almost every single one of them dumps a bunch of icons onto the start screen, which quickly kills its utility for visually identifying an application and launching it. After a while there is so much crap that the only way I ultimately launch anything is by typing to search. At least the old start menu had the concept of hierarchy, which meant I could identify a single start folder for an application, rather than having to wade through the vomit of 3-6 secondary icons that every installer also feels the need to dump on the start screen.
My thoughts exactly. After seeing the names it generated, along with the the addresses and so forth, I immediately started looking for the link to buy or download the code, database or whatever was on offer. To my disappointment, there was nothing available.
I think you're missing the obvious: "passive" and "income". Passive income is income you earn passively, and in the context of the opening topic, it generally refers to something you've created yourself (whether the product, the system that sells it, or both), which is earning you money with a relatively low amount of ongoing work.
I find the focus on the word "code" (Re/code, The Code Conference) weird considering the fairly distinct meaning of the word "code" in the software industry. Their blog and conference is not about code or coding, but about tech in general. It would have been just as valid to use the word "robots" and then also blog about software, genetics and so forth. Weird.
As with WoW, Ultima Online and various other MMO's, unauthorized servers tend to be written from scratch using an analysis of incoming and outgoing client/server traffic. Nobody would expect Square Enix to release their server software, just simply to disable the DRM so that others can play the game and attempt to write their own server software if they choose.
There will always be a market for altcoins alongside Bitcoin because (a) they can remain completely anonymous and (b) pure cryptocurrency exchanges that do not engage in trades for fiat currency provide an indirect avenue for trading in and out of official fiat currencies, via Bitcoin. With KYC and AML attaching themselves heavily to most Bitcoin exchange services, people will trade into or out of Bitcoin non-anonymously, and they'll trade their Bitcoins anonymously for another cryptocurrency. Those cryptocurrencies will then by used for illegal purposes and it'll be very difficult to prevent that value from being laundered back into legitimate currency because the exchange between different cryptocurrencies can't be effectively policed, especially once distributed exchanges get off the ground. In my mind, because of this, the whole field of KYC/AML restrictions being forced onto Bitcoin will ultimately fail or at least be extremely easy to circumvent, as long as altcoins exist.
Fantastic book. C++ but you can use SharpDX for your C# development, which complies reasonably closely with the standard DirectX APIs. There are numerous websites/articles only a Google search away to fill in any gaps if/when you get stuck. This is the approach I've been taking. http://nathanridley.com if you're interested.