colin_jack

The bit about app store search is so true, in general I feel the app store could get a lot more money out of me if they improved the search functionality and added more linking between apps.

"Also in the video, the woman accelerates away from a motorbike then loses him when she decides to carry on through a pedestrianised area at I guess 30kmh. WTF?"

To be fair the guy on the real motorbike did shake his head at that point, presumably thinking "what a loon".

Exactly, and the fact they've continued publishing despite the DA-notice [1][2] is sign enough that they are in no way interested in rolling over.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m... [2] http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/guardian-g8-spying-rev...

Yeah that's started to irritate me too.

Yeah that always bugs me too.

Interesting as always but I do wish Greenwald would write shorter more targeted articles.

Looks the same guy was the producer for this game the more recent War Z [1]. Its also interesting that War Z also faced accusations around misleading customers [2] and [3].

[1] http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/08/the-war-z-review

[2] http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/19/the-war-z-apologi...

[3] http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-war-z/1226980p1.html

They hardly covered it on the news/radio broadcasts I saw, also worth noting that although the BBC Website did have some articles about it they weren't prominent on the main news page at all.

Worst thing is that there is so little discussion/coverage of this in the UK.

Other than the Guardian the G20, GCHQ, NSA findings have hardly been covered. I'm most surprised by the BBC, even if they did get a DA-notice I would have expected them to be somewhat impartial.

Its a pity that those who want to get the NSA and GCHQ revelations out of the news are succeeding and it make me wonder about these sorts of pieces. Defending Greenwald/Snowden has merit but it shouldn't be swamping the more valuable NSA/GCHQ content as much as it has.

People interested in this might also want to read the Guardians latest GCHQ revelations. Worryingly they seem to have been gathering more data and there is an interesting section on NSA involvement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926608

I found this fascinating, if the BBC really are complying then they go even further down my list of viable news sources...leaving them right above the Daily Mail in fact.

In terms of the public it will probably be forgotten quickly, politicians probably wont be so forgiving.

Not sure, I wouldn't be surprised if other regions now take action to stop this happening again. I'm not sure what sort of bureaucratic solution the EU will come up with but I'm hoping they're annoyed enough to do something.

Ahh makes sense, sorry I presumed he meant in terms of a more repressive approach to communication.

I can't see why any governments would be happy with the US monitoring their citizens communication. If the US laws don't change I'd imagine you will find a lot of alternative services having to appear pretty quickly.

"even though it will probably end badly for Russia, to the point where they become more like China"

Not sure what you mean by this.

As a European I'm pretty uncomfortable with the idea of a foreign government being able to snoop on my internet communications and I'm hoping European leaders take a stand on this. I don't see that leading any where bad though.

"The EU's new proposed data-protection regime makes it clear that companies, such as US internet firms, providing services to people in Europe would be bound by the obligations of European law"

Good.

Good point, and you don't even need to be very imaginative about the future, imagine Google Glass but with the government quietly able to pull down what you are or were seeing.

One thing we know for sure is the truth of what they have been doing will leak out.

Yup, and they are quite correct to point it out.

I'm not sure everyone is asking for that. I think it would seriously water down the courses in terms of discussions in the forums, sharing online (study room, hangouts), in terms of the quizzes and assignments.

The only thing I'd like is the more intense 6 week courses split over say 10 weeks. Other than that I think they are taking the right approach.

Same for me.

I also find the assignments/exercises on the courses are first class and that's where a lot of the learning comes in especially when backed up by discussion forum activity from other students. Watching the videos on their own doesn't really appeal to me.

Bingo.

The only things I'd like from Coursera courses are:

* more that take 8-10 weeks rather than 6 weeks

* if the CS course happens to use a particular language then make it incredibly easy to get setup and provide downloadable structure for any assignments (the scala coursera course has that nailed)

* better estimates for # hours a week

In general thought the synchronous approach works perfectly for me and is the big reason I haven't yet felt the need to do any Udacity courses.

You could be right but I'm not sure I've heard it discussed much in a British setting.

In fairness you don't hear many dongle/large feet type jokes but I think that's because they are crude, not really funny, and not really suitable for a professional environment.

Having said that I don't think I've ever heard anyone linking them directly to sexism.

Makes perfect sense ta. Yeah it was a conversation I didn't necessarily want to have either but I was interested enough to give it a shot. Thanks again.

This has confused me. As a European the idea that making dongle jokes is specifically sexist or worse harassment seems a bit odd.

Its childish, its in bad taste, and not very funny. Its also against pycon rules so they got their wrists slapped like naughty children which is all fine.

However the idea it was anything more serious is kinda confusing to me.

For me there is a big difference, I prefer the focused 6 or 10 week approach taken by Coursera. Forces me to really keep on top of things week upon week, learning what I need to before completing whatever assignment they provide.

Guess it depends what you are in it for though.

Also, I like the look of that Middle Ages course. Ta for the link.

Its ancient and these days massively underpowered but i could sit and do sid by side operations in cloud 9 and the laptop would always complete noticably faster. For example i would be debuggin and i would ask to go to hte next step and in the laptop it was immediate, on the chromebook i might wait a second.

Very very odd and very unexpected but it made cloud9 totally unusable for me. Chromeos is also horrible for nearly everything else i do, even reading pdfs, so i cannot think of any reason to shell out for another machine with it installed.

Not sure i would call them developer tools since you cant write code in them.