I use tmobile's monthly4g plans right now -- 5gb data, no contract plan for $30. I bring my own phone. I'm just using the phone as a SIP client, and it's working out fairly well so far.
I'm guessing you haven't tested it much yet? My senator's office doesn't even allow the call to go through unless the caller presses '1' to speak with someone, but your interface lacks a keypad! Hopefully you guys get it out before the 18th
Aside from kahawe's excellent comment, one doesn't necessarily need figures here. Can't I be a primary source for this? I think anyone who has visited india/china can probably tell you that car owners are definitely upper class.
Simplicity is not so useful in operating systems or filesystems though. There are enough "simple" filesystems out there -- the useful filesystems are the ones that aren't so simple. There's lots of great educational "simple" OSes, but nobody uses them for real work.
It would be massively bad if google were to shutdown -- most people like my mom simply types "yahoo" in her chrome browser, which does a google search for yahoo, then she clicks the first result to go there -- same goes for most people using android phones, typing out ".com" is just extra work people don't do. If search were down for a day, people would just assume their internet is broken, even if they knew about the alternatives.
Not as funny as you might think -- if you own a car in India, you're probably upper class. In India, lots of paid inane chores are common, like carrying one's luggage from the taxi to the airport, even if it's a small backpack.
If you used the ruby 1.9 syntax then it wouldn't be. However, ruby 1.9 still supported the old syntax, so libraries in 1.9 could still be used with 1.8. There wasn't "one right way" to do things in ruby.
Not necessarily great from my perspective -- seems like phone junction boxes are typically exposed to outside elements more often than cable boxes. When I was with sonic, data connection became crap when it rained.
I disagree here based on interacting with someone who owns an ipad v1. When this person tried out my samsung honeycomb tablet, she thought it was slower "computer" that hers, even though she's doesn't know the specs of my "dual-core" honeycomb tablet.
Honestly, I don't think there's that much value in the data. Most of the big social gaming companies probably have most of that data anyway from scraping the social graph -- if money is in the data, they haven't been mining their data properly.
maybe it's not REST's ivory tower definition, but it is most definitely REST style urls the way that everyone else interprets REST. Also, you construct your own urls in backbone, so it's technically adaptable to whatever, but in Backbone.sync, it does the usual REST verbs to http actions.
I think you should visit china sometime. You'll probably realize that the working conditions at Foxconn are like working conditions at Google after visting a few of the smaller crappier factories. My grandfather owned a toy company (they do anything plastic injection molding) and the workers there had 20hr shifts -- although that has probably changed for the better now.
Locals there are probably applying to Foxconn the same way we apply to plush companies like Google/Facebook. And if Foxconn turns them down, they're forced to work at factories with far worser conditions.
Unfortunately Asus has the worst support ever. If anything breaks on that laptop, you're SOL. I would also question Asus's build quality as well. I don't know about that netbook in particular, but their EeePCs aren't very well built.
hopefully they make the DSL similar to matlab. Having worked in matlab & numpy, I can definitely say that having numpy's syntax semi-close to matlab helped a lot when we do ports. It (porting) happens more often than you'd think.
although usually those who own the equipment containing the radioactive material usually have a financial incentive to dispose it properly. The doctors owning the medical device in the Goiania incident were essentially fined to bankruptcy for their mistake.
Probably not at a startup though. People with an expansive skill set like Yegge would be an ideal startup hire. I'm guessing he just likes politics at big companies.
I always hated how weather sites could not just detect my approximate location based off of ip (eg weather.com) and required me to enter in my zip code, google fixed that.